Let's tax bread. And sugar. And books. And trips. And cars. And computers. And drinks. And smokes. And CD's. And profits. And losses. And houses. And gas. And clothes. And jewelry. And business.
Let's tax life. And honor. And Commitment. And betrayal. And health. And happiness. And sadness. And depression. And intent. And thoughts. And air. And the sun. And the sky. And death.
"The studios will come around to the superior format," Peterson said. "Capacity and picture quality are directly related."
Blu-Ray can go up to 50gb while HD-DVD can go upto 30gb, if I understand correctly. But Blu-Ray is going to be more expensive. Honestly, though, if Blu-Ray is the only format, I'm sure the price will fall like a rock.
If they don't work this out, everyone is going to consider the new formats analogous to Laserdisc when they all had VHS. In other words, a format for crazy videophiles that's too expensive for the common man.
"However, other supercomputers can do things Blue Gene cannot, such as produce 3-D simulations of nuclear explosions, Hirschfeld said."
They state that Blue Gene L has 16,000 processors, but it's a prototype for the real deal which is going to have 130,000 processors. So, how in god's name could a computer with that much power not be able to simulate a nuclear explosion? Is it just that it would do it too slowly to be useful?
"The new system is notable because it packs its computing power much more densely than other large-scale computing systems. BlueGene/L is one-hundredth the physical size of the Earth Simulator and consumes one twenty-eighth the power per computation, the company said."
1/100th the size and 1/28th the power. Now if that isn't a beautiful thing, I don't know what is.
Maybe it'll grow on me, maybe it won't, but at the moment, right now without any thinking on a purely emotional level, I think it's an incredibly stupid logo.
How much do you download? I certainly don't use only 3mb a day. I figure I download 5-7 gigs a month. Is that a lot more than the Cable company expects me to?
The fact of the matter is that $5 per computer per month ain't that bad as long as you're sharing with a roommate or someone. $50/ month sucks, so I split it with three people. Works out to about $17/month each, which is totally worth it. If I actually paid the additional $10, it would be $20/month for each of us. Of course, when I was living at home and we had 3 computers, the additional $10 would be a deal breaker. In a single family household, not everyone is downloading the same amount. Why download the same 500mb file on all three computers when you can just send it over the network much faster after downloading it once?
Now, sharing your connection with the entire apartment complex.... that's probably not helping the situation.
I can see it now... a normal 1 page article broken up into 5 pages. They already do it now, but if they got paid by the page... well, there's just going to be a lot of unnecessary pages..
Plus, I look at about 200 pages a day. That's $60 per month. That's ridiculous..
I have to say, hate the price, but it looks damn cool. Love the firewire aspect. And it's so damn small. Honestly, Archos was probably the closest thing to portable player before this. And even that was too big. The Nomad Jukebox was hardly something I'd call portable.
Is it overpriced? I really don't think so. I can't afford it, but it isn't overpriced. If you watch the quicktime movies on the apple.com site, you'll notice people handling the ipod in their hands. It looks as small as my Nomad II. So it's as small as my Nomad II, has 10 hours of battery life, has extremely fast transfer, and looks so damn cool. $399. You're paying a premium for size. Hopefully Creative will look at this and innovate. It's really, really sad that no one has done this already. When the hell is the PC world going to have Firewire standard?
I can't believe you don't want a portable player that's actually portable. Almost all portable players have problems. CD's are way to big, cassette tapes suck, Minidiscs have too many moving parts, aren't 100% digital, don't interface with computers, etc., and Harddrive players are too big (Nomad) and even the smaller ones aren't durable enough to jog with. I guess you could, but honestly, I'd think bouncing a harddrive up and down isn't a good idea. And mp3 players require constant downloading.
These dataplay discs seem pretty cool, but I'd love mini-DVDR. To be portable, it's gotta be small.
I think everyone wants a format that holds 500 megs or more, is rewriteable, cheap, small, durable, unprotected, and can playback MP3s. CD's are almost perfect, except that they aren't small. How much do mini-CD's hold? I think an ideal format will be mini-DVDR, if those even exist.
Actually, ATRAC sounds great in the current players. Using double-blind (double-deaf?) sound tests, most of the time listeners could not even tell the difference. And the compression is far less than MP3.
Check out this website to find information about audio quality.
http://www.minidisc.org/near_cd.html
Of course it's a pro minidisc site, but I think that if you look for reviews on Minidisc audio quality from users, you'll find that the majority of people find it to be excellent and definetly better than MP3. Of course, the main problem is that you can't digitally transfer or make exact copies of minidiscs digitally. Everything is recorded in realtime, or you have to buy a special deck that records CD's 4x faster, so if you have a big MP3 collection (and who doesn't these days), the ideal solution is probably something closer to a Nomad Jukebox or Archos MP3 player.
I'm wondering why more people aren't using Harddrive devices as DAT recorders. I know that the Creative Nomad is a consumer device, but it's able to record uncompressed audio for 6 hours, I think at 16bit 48khz. My figures might be off and no doubt that there are some features missing from the unit, but you'd think there would be a professional device out there using Laptop harddrives to record in the field or at concerts.
Plus, you'd be able to transfer to your computer through either a USB or perhaps a Firewire port so that there would be no loss of quality. And I bet they could shrink the size so that it would be smaller than a Nomad.
But if you're using Minidisc, I'd think upgrading to a Nomad would be a good idea. Cheap, as portable as a CD player, 100% digital and 100% uncompressed. Has anyone tried this?
I find it annoying that you think that just because a person is "artsy" that he doesn't know which computer is best for him/her. The reason Apple sells computers to these folks, (the people who write your books and movies, and design your graphics and webpages) is because they know that there time is better spent being creative and not dealing with upgrades and diagnostics and all the things Windows and Linux users have to deal with. Just because people are "artsy" doesn't mean that they're stupid.
Well, just throwing my 2 cents in. I've had a 75gig 75gxp since they were introduced and I've never had a problem. I wonder if these complaints are a little overhyped. I did have a Western Digital 30gig drive that failed, and the RMA failed, and the 2nd RMA failed, and I sold the 3rd RMA on Ebay. Ever since then, I've never had full confidence in harddrives, even though that was the only one that gave be continuous problems.
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Let's tax bread. And sugar. And books. And trips. And cars. And computers. And drinks. And smokes. And CD's. And profits. And losses. And houses. And gas. And clothes. And jewelry. And business.
Let's tax life. And honor. And Commitment. And betrayal. And health. And happiness. And sadness. And depression. And intent. And thoughts. And air. And the sun. And the sky. And death.
Let's bloody tax everything!!
"The studios will come around to the superior format," Peterson said. "Capacity and picture quality are directly related."
Blu-Ray can go up to 50gb while HD-DVD can go upto 30gb, if I understand correctly. But Blu-Ray is going to be more expensive. Honestly, though, if Blu-Ray is the only format, I'm sure the price will fall like a rock.
If they don't work this out, everyone is going to consider the new formats analogous to Laserdisc when they all had VHS. In other words, a format for crazy videophiles that's too expensive for the common man.
From AP article:
"However, other supercomputers can do things Blue Gene cannot, such as produce 3-D simulations of nuclear explosions, Hirschfeld said."
They state that Blue Gene L has 16,000 processors, but it's a prototype for the real deal which is going to have 130,000 processors. So, how in god's name could a computer with that much power not be able to simulate a nuclear explosion? Is it just that it would do it too slowly to be useful?
From the NYTime article:
"The new system is notable because it packs its computing power much more densely than other large-scale computing systems. BlueGene/L is one-hundredth the physical size of the Earth Simulator and consumes one twenty-eighth the power per computation, the company said."
1/100th the size and 1/28th the power. Now if that isn't a beautiful thing, I don't know what is.
Maybe it'll grow on me, maybe it won't, but at the moment, right now without any thinking on a purely emotional level, I think it's an incredibly stupid logo.
Is this true? Is there a confirmation story on the net somewhere?
Well, there goes that surprise from tomorrow's show.
How much do you download? I certainly don't use only 3mb a day. I figure I download 5-7 gigs a month. Is that a lot more than the Cable company expects me to?
The fact of the matter is that $5 per computer per month ain't that bad as long as you're sharing with a roommate or someone. $50/ month sucks, so I split it with three people. Works out to about $17/month each, which is totally worth it. If I actually paid the additional $10, it would be $20/month for each of us. Of course, when I was living at home and we had 3 computers, the additional $10 would be a deal breaker. In a single family household, not everyone is downloading the same amount. Why download the same 500mb file on all three computers when you can just send it over the network much faster after downloading it once?
Now, sharing your connection with the entire apartment complex.... that's probably not helping the situation.
I can see it now... a normal 1 page article broken up into 5 pages. They already do it now, but if they got paid by the page... well, there's just going to be a lot of unnecessary pages..
Plus, I look at about 200 pages a day. That's $60 per month. That's ridiculous..
Is this device firmware upgradeable?
I have to say, hate the price, but it looks damn cool. Love the firewire aspect. And it's so damn small. Honestly, Archos was probably the closest thing to portable player before this. And even that was too big. The Nomad Jukebox was hardly something I'd call portable.
Is it overpriced? I really don't think so. I can't afford it, but it isn't overpriced. If you watch the quicktime movies on the apple.com site, you'll notice people handling the ipod in their hands. It looks as small as my Nomad II. So it's as small as my Nomad II, has 10 hours of battery life, has extremely fast transfer, and looks so damn cool. $399. You're paying a premium for size. Hopefully Creative will look at this and innovate. It's really, really sad that no one has done this already. When the hell is the PC world going to have Firewire standard?
I can't believe you don't want a portable player that's actually portable. Almost all portable players have problems. CD's are way to big, cassette tapes suck, Minidiscs have too many moving parts, aren't 100% digital, don't interface with computers, etc., and Harddrive players are too big (Nomad) and even the smaller ones aren't durable enough to jog with. I guess you could, but honestly, I'd think bouncing a harddrive up and down isn't a good idea. And mp3 players require constant downloading.
These dataplay discs seem pretty cool, but I'd love mini-DVDR. To be portable, it's gotta be small.
I think everyone wants a format that holds 500 megs or more, is rewriteable, cheap, small, durable, unprotected, and can playback MP3s. CD's are almost perfect, except that they aren't small. How much do mini-CD's hold? I think an ideal format will be mini-DVDR, if those even exist.
Actually, ATRAC sounds great in the current players. Using double-blind (double-deaf?) sound tests, most of the time listeners could not even tell the difference. And the compression is far less than MP3.
Check out this website to find information about audio quality.
http://www.minidisc.org/near_cd.html
Of course it's a pro minidisc site, but I think that if you look for reviews on Minidisc audio quality from users, you'll find that the majority of people find it to be excellent and definetly better than MP3. Of course, the main problem is that you can't digitally transfer or make exact copies of minidiscs digitally. Everything is recorded in realtime, or you have to buy a special deck that records CD's 4x faster, so if you have a big MP3 collection (and who doesn't these days), the ideal solution is probably something closer to a Nomad Jukebox or Archos MP3 player.
I'm wondering why more people aren't using Harddrive devices as DAT recorders. I know that the Creative Nomad is a consumer device, but it's able to record uncompressed audio for 6 hours, I think at 16bit 48khz. My figures might be off and no doubt that there are some features missing from the unit, but you'd think there would be a professional device out there using Laptop harddrives to record in the field or at concerts.
Plus, you'd be able to transfer to your computer through either a USB or perhaps a Firewire port so that there would be no loss of quality. And I bet they could shrink the size so that it would be smaller than a Nomad.
But if you're using Minidisc, I'd think upgrading to a Nomad would be a good idea. Cheap, as portable as a CD player, 100% digital and 100% uncompressed. Has anyone tried this?
I find it annoying that you think that just because a person is "artsy" that he doesn't know which computer is best for him/her. The reason Apple sells computers to these folks, (the people who write your books and movies, and design your graphics and webpages) is because they know that there time is better spent being creative and not dealing with upgrades and diagnostics and all the things Windows and Linux users have to deal with. Just because people are "artsy" doesn't mean that they're stupid.
Well, just throwing my 2 cents in. I've had a 75gig 75gxp since they were introduced and I've never had a problem. I wonder if these complaints are a little overhyped. I did have a Western Digital 30gig drive that failed, and the RMA failed, and the 2nd RMA failed, and I sold the 3rd RMA on Ebay. Ever since then, I've never had full confidence in harddrives, even though that was the only one that gave be continuous problems.