> Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in
But where can I get the source code of the plugin itself? (I mean, not the rendering engine for this plugin, but the IE plugin part that glues it to IE) Can't find it in the Google Code page.
Flash is a cross-platform virtual machine platform just like.NET, though.NET has only Mono as an incomplete non-Windows platform implementation. So yes, the analogy holds water.
> increase Blu-ray market share to 50% of all movie discs by the end of the year.
Don't trust a sloppy blog like the TFA. The source article at Digitimes says the 50% refers to the share of devices, not movie discs. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080407PD201.html
>Sony looks to 50% global market share for its Blu-ray products in 2008
>Don't be fooled by the article however, Microsoft still has the mindshare of future consumers - > they're the cool company that brought us the Xbox, Xbox Live, and the Halo franchise... > In another 20 years, wouldn't you want to buy technology from the guys who brought you all > the great memories from your childhood??
Actually Xbox 360 is a hot piece of gadget rather than cool... Don't you know the infamous RROD (Red Ring of Death)? It sure has been traumatizing many young kids, much more than Blue Screen of Death could in the past.
While most replies seem to go around just "young kids tend to jump on new things" "parallelism has been here for years in inherently parallelizable tasks such as server or graphics", I managed to read TFA, and voila...
>my Threading Building Blocks (TBB) book, sold more copies in Japan in Japanese >in a few weeks than in the first few months worldwide in the English vesion >(in fact - it sold out in Japan - surprising the publisher!)
>contributors and users of the TBB open source project are worldwide, but with >some particularly outstanding users and contributors in Russia
So basically the author didn't know there are already a vast number of programmers outside of the US. This is not surprising, China has already 5x more people than the US. It seems he thought all of software are developed in the US when there are counterexamples such as the Linux kernel and Ruby.
Though nobody will care about the dead format anyway, the official name of Toshiba's HD format is "HD DVD", not "HD-DVD".
As for the transfer of semiconductor plants, it was decided well before the Warner switch. I wonder why this kind of conspiracy stories continue even though you can search Google and know it's false speculation by the TFA immediately.
I researched value propositions of these consoles before, PS3's online multiplayer is free while XBL costs $50 for a year. So in 3 years ownership of 360 it costs you more than PS3.
the entire point of your speculation relies on a big "if" that is not at all apparent, in other words if things go with the current configuration that Disney is Blu-ray exclusive, then Blu-ray is on the winner's road. Is it what you want to express?
By the way 51GB HD DVD is vaporware, no HD DVD players currently on the market can play it. I'm surprised someone takes it seriously more than the paper spec on a standard doc annex.
>The GGW-H20L is the first Blu-ray Disc burner to support 6X speed for writing to BD-R. >That's up from 4X on the GGW-H10N, and up from 2X on the early Blu-ray Disc burners > from Plextor, Sony, and Pioneer. In the PC World Test Center's evaluation, the > drive's performance reflected its boosted specs even on slower speed-rated media. >(According to media manufacturers, 4X media first ships at the end of 2007; > 6X media won't come until the first quarter of 2008.)
How long have you been living in Japan exactly? Your description sounds pretty dated, almost like 10 years ago. Have you heard about companies such as Rakuten? Amazon is pretty big in Japan too. Even elementary school students are blogging today.
>Let me get this straight. Their console is doing worse than both of their competitors, >and they're going to catch up by removing features that consumers want?
"Let me get this straight. GameCube is doing worse than both of their competitors, and they're going to catch up by making it less powerful than consumers want?"
It appears you're not a typical consumer as Wii is selling like hotcakes...
>So basically Sony is a company that will straight out lie to you to get you to buy their products.
Your comment has got me assured, as they are saying "the 40GB ver without backward compat will be the only ver available in EU!", another new high-end PS3 with backward compatibility will be released later. Likewise, when they say "We'll have no price drop whatsoever!" there'll be a price drop. Pretty easy, eh?
Their gaming division needs every cent to get out of the red. If you bundle it with Halo 3 those who purchase such packs won't buy a copy of Halo 3. A simple math. What they want people buy is this overpriced pack with bargain-bin games + Halo 3.
Would you care to explain again how HD-DVD is more accessible to the average consumer? I'm not into anime or that sick tentacle porn so I could care less about movies from other regions.
Since the US the region code for the US and Japan is the same those who have American players can watch and collect BD discs for "anime or that sick tentacle porn" to your heart's content.
Windows Vista is a client OS and even the Chinese know desktop Linux is dead (please don't mod this as troll k thx!).
To be fair, the multilingualization in Vista is done by MUI so you can turn your English Vista into the Chinese version fairly easily. But the packaging and shipping cost really doesn't make sense, they could release the Chinese Vista only in a downloadable version via network.
The distribution and packaging cost should be bigger for the Chinese version. Microsoft should have terminated the development of the Simplified Chinese version of Vista.
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> Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in
But where can I get the source code of the plugin itself? (I mean, not the rendering engine for this plugin, but the IE plugin part that glues it to IE)
Can't find it in the Google Code page.
But I'm not sure how "No interpreted code may be downloaded" can become "no other rendering engines". Can someone elaborate?
Microsoft Windows is a Free Software.
Flash is a cross-platform virtual machine platform just like .NET, though .NET has only Mono as an incomplete non-Windows platform implementation. So yes, the analogy holds water.
Just a correction :) The 40GB unit only lacks PS2 BC and 2 USB ports, other features are the same. And it consumes less watts.
Yeah, and that unhappy marriage gave birth to that unhappy format which eventually lost, HD DVD... oh wait.
> increase Blu-ray market share to 50% of all movie discs by the end of the year.
Don't trust a sloppy blog like the TFA.
The source article at Digitimes says the 50% refers to the share of devices, not movie discs.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080407PD201.html
>Sony looks to 50% global market share for its Blu-ray products in 2008
>Don't be fooled by the article however, Microsoft still has the mindshare of future consumers -
> they're the cool company that brought us the Xbox, Xbox Live, and the Halo franchise...
> In another 20 years, wouldn't you want to buy technology from the guys who brought you all
> the great memories from your childhood??
Actually Xbox 360 is a hot piece of gadget rather than cool...
Don't you know the infamous RROD (Red Ring of Death)?
It sure has been traumatizing many young kids, much more than Blue Screen of Death could in the past.
Yeah, 360 doesn't have a DVD drive... oh wait.
While most replies seem to go around just "young kids tend to jump on new things" "parallelism has been here for years in inherently parallelizable tasks such as server or graphics", I managed to read TFA, and voila...
>my Threading Building Blocks (TBB) book, sold more copies in Japan in Japanese
>in a few weeks than in the first few months worldwide in the English vesion
>(in fact - it sold out in Japan - surprising the publisher!)
>contributors and users of the TBB open source project are worldwide, but with
>some particularly outstanding users and contributors in Russia
So basically the author didn't know there are already a vast number of programmers outside of the US. This is not surprising, China has already 5x more people than the US. It seems he thought all of software are developed in the US when there are counterexamples such as the Linux kernel and Ruby.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Sony doesn't have to do that since no Sony Pictures movies are encoded in VC-1.
Though nobody will care about the dead format anyway, the official name of Toshiba's HD format is "HD DVD", not "HD-DVD".
As for the transfer of semiconductor plants, it was decided well before the Warner switch. I wonder why this kind of conspiracy stories continue even though you can search Google and know it's false speculation by the TFA immediately.
Have you tried the 40GB PS3? It has 65nm Cell and already much cooler than 60GB/20GB.
It will soon be out of print just like what happened to Paramount's Blu-ray software when it switched to HD DVD.
I researched value propositions of these consoles before, PS3's online multiplayer is free while XBL costs $50 for a year. So in 3 years ownership of 360 it costs you more than PS3.
the entire point of your speculation relies on a big "if" that is not at all apparent, in other words if things go with the current configuration that Disney is Blu-ray exclusive, then Blu-ray is on the winner's road. Is it what you want to express?
By the way 51GB HD DVD is vaporware, no HD DVD players currently on the market can play it. I'm surprised someone takes it seriously more than the paper spec on a standard doc annex.
The fastest is at 6x though there are no 6x media right now.
These days most of new desktop BD drive products are 4x at $500.
LG GGW-H20L Blu-ray Drive/HD DVD Reader
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140332/article.html
>The GGW-H20L is the first Blu-ray Disc burner to support 6X speed for writing to BD-R.
>That's up from 4X on the GGW-H10N, and up from 2X on the early Blu-ray Disc burners
> from Plextor, Sony, and Pioneer. In the PC World Test Center's evaluation, the
> drive's performance reflected its boosted specs even on slower speed-rated media.
>(According to media manufacturers, 4X media first ships at the end of 2007;
> 6X media won't come until the first quarter of 2008.)
I think it's based on the retailer sell-thru data collected by the third-party research firm (Nielsen Videoscan).
How long have you been living in Japan exactly? Your description sounds pretty dated, almost like 10 years ago. Have you heard about companies such as Rakuten? Amazon is pretty big in Japan too. Even elementary school students are blogging today.
>Let me get this straight. Their console is doing worse than both of their competitors,
>and they're going to catch up by removing features that consumers want?
"Let me get this straight. GameCube is doing worse than both of their competitors, and they're going to catch up
by making it less powerful than consumers want?"
It appears you're not a typical consumer as Wii is selling like hotcakes...
>So basically Sony is a company that will straight out lie to you to get you to buy their products.
Your comment has got me assured, as they are saying "the 40GB ver without backward compat will be the only ver available in EU!", another new high-end PS3 with backward compatibility will be released later.
Likewise, when they say "We'll have no price drop whatsoever!" there'll be a price drop. Pretty easy, eh?
Their gaming division needs every cent to get out of the red.
If you bundle it with Halo 3 those who purchase such packs won't buy a copy of Halo 3. A simple math. What they want people buy is this overpriced pack with bargain-bin games + Halo 3.
Would you care to explain again how HD-DVD is more accessible to the average consumer? I'm not into anime or that sick tentacle porn so I could care less about movies from other regions.
Since the US the region code for the US and Japan is the same those who have American players can watch and collect BD discs for "anime or that sick tentacle porn" to your heart's content.
Windows Vista is a client OS and even the Chinese know desktop Linux is dead (please don't mod this as troll k thx!).
To be fair, the multilingualization in Vista is done by MUI so you can turn your English Vista into the Chinese version fairly easily. But the packaging and shipping cost really doesn't make sense, they could release the Chinese Vista only in a downloadable version via network.
The distribution and packaging cost should be bigger for the Chinese version. Microsoft should have terminated the development of the Simplified Chinese version of Vista.