Well true enough. But again the purpose of the article was to look at low end processors. I don't think the c variant of the P4 is a low end processor. As you can see, they only included processors in the same price range, keeping only one of the P4 for comparisons.
Well too bad you are living in UK, well known for his train system:)
More seriously, though, i disagree with you to some extent, having taken both the plane and the train extensively.
Waiting for another train or plane is exactly the same thing. They can be both delayed very easily by technical problems, weather problems, and strike (only if you are in France of course, by the way i am French).
But when i look at the trip Paris-London, i prefer taking the train. You have quite a big number of trains leaving everyday to London. The overall trip is around 2-3 hours depending on stop. But the big plus is you leave in the center of Paris, you arrive in the center of London. Now when you look at the plane, you would be better off if you arrive at least one hour before (probably more as they get anal with security). Then you have 45 mn plane and you have to wait for your case, etc... But since the airports are far from the center, you can add easily 45 mn both ways to get from the airport to the center.
Annoying !!! I prefer moving more freely in the train and then to arrive directly in London, than having to take the plane.
In Europe, people pay a small yearly fee for media already. They pay a fee for access to public service television. I see a parallel here... I am going to speak for France, since it is where i am living. Yes, we pay for our public television. However, it doesn't make the programming any better. It just allows us to have less advertisement on those channels not to have better programming.
This kind of response is what I want: a blanket scheme where you can choose to pay (to a trusted government entity (1)) a blanket fee, in exchange for the right to download any works for personal noncommercial use during a specific time period. Needless to say, the fee needs to be reasonable. I believe $100-$200 per year is in the appropriate range. I am not sure here that it is what is going to happen. Every time the movie and disc industry has been complaining we have been getting mandatory fees. In France, we pay a tax on those blank cds, and yet the industry is pushing to increase it and is pushing to get a law where they could legally put a protection on all the cds they are selling. A recent ruling showed that since the disc was not working on an autoradio, the disc was defective. So now the industry wants this law. I think that since we are already paying for that tax we should be getting some price drop or even better free songs. In the end, i would like to see that, but it is very unlikely to happen since they want twice your money. I am afraid it is getting ridiculous even in Europe. After all, now a good number of our cds are copy protected (not it stops the people from downloading them though). While i have the technical knowledge to bypass it, i refuse to buy a cd which i cannot transform "easily" in OGG or MP3 on my hard drive. I just have a computer to play cds, and i suspect it is a growing case among geeks and a larger part of the younger population.
Do we really care on how the box crashed ? Don't get me wrong here, i am no Microsoft apologist, but they can be multiple reasons for servers to crashs without looking at flaws in the operating system.
Of course, if it had been a Microsoft Server, they would be no reason to find why it crashed:) Pelops
You could be right, and i am actually convinced that you are right to some extent.
I am a fan of books, i have a huge library, where i store all my books. I have no intention to change throw it away, or convert it later with some eInk. But, i will definitely have an eBook for things that is nice to read but absolutely worthless to keep. Newspaper, magazine, you are right. I think there will be books too; i can all too well imagine seeing all those Startrek books, put-your-favorite-series book produced on eBooks. Like a lot of books, they are a waste of paper, good that we can actually get rid of the paper. (sorry:p ).
Like i said before, i don't like electronical documentations, and i can see how having a eBook could replace some electronical documentation in a much more efficient way. I agree that browsing a book would be more difficult, but again, we are all accustomed to some action. Think about the previous generations struggling with computers, VCR, and so on. It is really a matter of habits. There is always inertia on every and each new technological advance.
Then you can always consider to whom it is going to be available. The first eBook reader won't come cheap (check the current price) and not everybody are going to be able to buy it. Same thing for poor country. It is a more traditional dilemna about who can offer the technology.
So you are right, it is not going to be adopted right away. No it won't replace completely a book (well i can see very well somehow the analogy between hard cover, and the rest), but will it die without being followed ? i don't think so. I may be over optimistic:) , but i hope not, as the advantages can be big.
What you are saying is true, and yet you seem to forget something. Those corporations are already complaining about Internet for high profiles book sales. Harry Potter was found on the Internet shortly after it was released. The case with Adobe eBook software is proof that the editors have already that in mind.
Yes, you can self publish. Getting retail exposure is something else. But again i don't see what this has to do with the technology itself. Whether you are considering paper, or eBook, you won't get through the big corporations. The only thing of concern is DRM, but again, look at what's happening on "non digital" (read CDs, DVDs as opposed to MP3,.TXT) where you can buy DVDs that self-destruct. They are also porting the DRM to that kind of support. I can see that very easily ported to books. I think it might be even easier for books.
Again, sources for abuse are everywhere. We have to be vigilant about what we buy, lobby through our money, and possibly other way.
Remember, technology is neutral. It is what you do with the technology that can be bad.
I really think those kind of technologies are going to be replacing paper during the next 20 years. It is really a market to invest in.
The advantages are pretty big compared to electronical displays and paper. It is "permanent" (eInk) like paper (read no battery to keep it displayed), and uses very little electricity to change actually the content of the paper. But in the same time, we can change the content very easily. So far the eBooks were bulky, and inefficient. The new eBooks would be terribly efficient compared to those one.
In the end, you have a nice book that can contain lot of books. It is really great. I will finally have those CS books on paper instead of my monitor.
Oh well, i guess we will be ridiculours one more time with this! But again, i guess it won't be the first time!
It is the second time the French academy (not the french government by the way) does such a thing. A few years ago, they banned the use of e-mail for the word mél. Well, the answer to this at the time was well pretty cold, as it was ridiculous. But apparently having realized they were not ridiculous enough, they decided to take the Quebec word (a bit less ridiculous and yet). Well, i guess they will in a few years change again to e-mail.
Never fear the power of being ridiculous of the French Academy!!!!! Pelops
I agree with you here. They can increase the quality as much they want, it is not going to stop piracy. People are willing anyway to compress through codec like DivX and to lose some quality to watch the movie Now we have to think about what kind of TV we will need to profit from this format. Currently, you can increase music quality on a cd, but you will be limited by your audio equipment. Plus even with a very high audio equipment, most people won't see the difference with a normal audio cd. I fear that the main thing will be happening with the video. What would be interested is to increase the number of "fps" for a movie to have a clearer picture. But again we reach the limitations of our current tv system. Read you will have to change everything to profit from this, and even if the quality is higher, a lot of people in the end won't see any difference. Now consider what they are planning to do : Changing the compression. Well sounds like they want to change the protection scheme in order to prevent copying. Just a matter of time before it gets cracked. Plus i am not sure that i will be willing to buy another DVD-HD to replace my current one and with something which won't be backwards compatible Anyway an another great attempt to get more money from us under false pretext. With some some luck, i will be able to watch my zone 1 and zone 2 DVD with their new player (I like dreaming.
Well nothing new here, such a channel now exists on satellite for more than 6 years
The channel started as C: and was proposing download through the satellite, and were proposing some anime series, like Evangelion, Lodoss and some series like Red Dwarf. There were no real show on games itself.
What happened after was that Infogrammes came into the company and transformed into a real game news channel, now called Gameone. They still shows some anime, shows some clip of videogames with either game music or some chosen. Most of those clips are pretty good. They are also shows now which talks about some Internet Website games, etc... But the focus is also on anime, Comics, Movies. Well far more than just videogames, and more related to the videogames culture and what is close to it.
By the way, Anime is far more known in France and for a much longer time than it is in the us and the exposure is way bigger
Slashdot Mirror
Well, at least, you are thinking about supporting Mandrake. :)
Yes, it is not free to support them. Did you expect it to be free ??
Pelops
Yes you are right! :)
It is better to slashdot the mirror and then the main site when the mirror is dead
Pelops
Well true enough. But again the purpose of the article was to look at low end processors. I don't think the c variant of the P4 is a low end processor. As you can see, they only included processors in the same price range, keeping only one of the P4 for comparisons.
Pelops
Well too bad you are living in UK, well known for his train system :)
More seriously, though, i disagree with you to some extent, having taken both the plane and the train extensively.
Waiting for another train or plane is exactly the same thing. They can be both delayed very easily by technical problems, weather problems, and strike (only if you are in France of course, by the way i am French).
But when i look at the trip Paris-London, i prefer taking the train. You have quite a big number of trains leaving everyday to London. The overall trip is around 2-3 hours depending on stop. But the big plus is you leave in the center of Paris, you arrive in the center of London.
Now when you look at the plane, you would be better off if you arrive at least one hour before (probably more as they get anal with security). Then you have 45 mn plane and you have to wait for your case, etc... But since the airports are far from the center, you can add easily 45 mn both ways to get from the airport to the center.
Annoying !!! I prefer moving more freely in the train and then to arrive directly in London, than having to take the plane.
Pelops
In Europe, people pay a small yearly fee for media already. They pay a fee for access to public service television. I see a parallel here...
I am going to speak for France, since it is where i am living. Yes, we pay for our public television. However, it doesn't make the programming any better. It just allows us to have less advertisement on those channels not to have better programming.
This kind of response is what I want: a blanket scheme where you can choose to pay (to a trusted government entity (1)) a blanket fee, in exchange for the right to download any works for personal noncommercial use during a specific time period. Needless to say, the fee needs to be reasonable. I believe $100-$200 per year is in the appropriate range.
I am not sure here that it is what is going to happen. Every time the movie and disc industry has been complaining we have been getting mandatory fees. In France, we pay a tax on those blank cds, and yet the industry is pushing to increase it and is pushing to get a law where they could legally put a protection on all the cds they are selling. A recent ruling showed that since the disc was not working on an autoradio, the disc was defective. So now the industry wants this law. I think that since we are already paying for that tax we should be getting some price drop or even better free songs.
In the end, i would like to see that, but it is very unlikely to happen since they want twice your money. I am afraid it is getting ridiculous even in Europe. After all, now a good number of our cds are copy protected (not it stops the people from downloading them though). While i have the technical knowledge to bypass it, i refuse to buy a cd which i cannot transform "easily" in OGG or MP3 on my hard drive. I just have a computer to play cds, and i suspect it is a growing case among geeks and a larger part of the younger population.
Pelops
Do we really care on how the box crashed ? Don't get me wrong here, i am no Microsoft apologist, but they can be multiple reasons for servers to crashs without looking at flaws in the operating system.
Of course, if it had been a Microsoft Server, they would be no reason to find why it crashed
Pelops
You could be right, and i am actually convinced that you are right to some extent.
I am a fan of books, i have a huge library, where i store all my books. I have no intention to change throw it away, or convert it later with some eInk. But, i will definitely have an eBook for things that is nice to read but absolutely worthless to keep. Newspaper, magazine, you are right. I think there will be books too; i can all too well imagine seeing all those Startrek books, put-your-favorite-series book produced on eBooks. Like a lot of books, they are a waste of paper, good that we can actually get rid of the paper. (sorry
Like i said before, i don't like electronical documentations, and i can see how having a eBook could replace some electronical documentation in a much more efficient way. I agree that browsing a book would be more difficult, but again, we are all accustomed to some action. Think about the previous generations struggling with computers, VCR, and so on. It is really a matter of habits. There is always inertia on every and each new technological advance.
Then you can always consider to whom it is going to be available. The first eBook reader won't come cheap (check the current price) and not everybody are going to be able to buy it. Same thing for poor country. It is a more traditional dilemna about who can offer the technology.
So you are right, it is not going to be adopted right away. No it won't replace completely a book (well i can see very well somehow the analogy between hard cover, and the rest), but will it die without being followed ? i don't think so. I may be over optimistic
What you are saying is true, and yet you seem to forget something. Those corporations are already complaining about Internet for high profiles book sales. Harry Potter was found on the Internet shortly after it was released. The case with Adobe eBook software is proof that the editors have already that in mind.
Yes, you can self publish. Getting retail exposure is something else. But again i don't see what this has to do with the technology itself. Whether you are considering paper, or eBook, you won't get through the big corporations. The only thing of concern is DRM, but again, look at what's happening on "non digital" (read CDs, DVDs as opposed to MP3,
Again, sources for abuse are everywhere. We have to be vigilant about what we buy, lobby through our money, and possibly other way.
Remember, technology is neutral. It is what you do with the technology that can be bad.
I really think those kind of technologies are going to be replacing paper during the next 20 years. It is really a market to invest in.
The advantages are pretty big compared to electronical displays and paper. It is "permanent" (eInk) like paper (read no battery to keep it displayed), and uses very little electricity to change actually the content of the paper. But in the same time, we can change the content very easily. So far the eBooks were bulky, and inefficient. The new eBooks would be terribly efficient compared to those one.
In the end, you have a nice book that can contain lot of books. It is really great. I will finally have those CS books on paper instead of my monitor.
On behalf of many people, i can only congratulate you on the choice you made to sue someone.
Suing a 12 year old girl, and a 9 year boy, paying for Kazaa is by far the best choice you could make.
Thank you again for helping us to fight yourself!
Pelops
Easy, because it is the same industry trying to get money from both angle !!
Such an easy answer!
Apparently, it seems that some people are actually working.
Life can be sometimes scary. I will head back to bed so i won't be traumatized any more minute.
Pelops
Oh well, i guess we will be ridiculours one more time with this! But again, i guess it won't be the first time!
It is the second time the French academy (not the french government by the way) does such a thing. A few years ago, they banned the use of e-mail for the word mél. Well, the answer to this at the time was well pretty cold, as it was ridiculous. But apparently having realized they were not ridiculous enough, they decided to take the Quebec word (a bit less ridiculous and yet). Well, i guess they will in a few years change again to e-mail.
Never fear the power of being ridiculous of the French Academy!!!!!
Pelops
Well i think i will wait that the 2 others movies will be released to have a nice box with all three together.
No need to buy something now, when we know they will do a nice collector edition later.
Pelops
I agree with you here. They can increase the quality as much they want, it is not going to stop piracy. People are willing anyway to compress through codec like DivX and to lose some quality to watch the movie
Now we have to think about what kind of TV we will need to profit from this format. Currently, you can increase music quality on a cd, but you will be limited by your audio equipment. Plus even with a very high audio equipment, most people won't see the difference with a normal audio cd. I fear that the main thing will be happening with the video.
What would be interested is to increase the number of "fps" for a movie to have a clearer picture. But again we reach the limitations of our current tv system. Read you will have to change everything to profit from this, and even if the quality is higher, a lot of people in the end won't see any difference.
Now consider what they are planning to do : Changing the compression. Well sounds like they want to change the protection scheme in order to prevent copying. Just a matter of time before it gets cracked. Plus i am not sure that i will be willing to buy another DVD-HD to replace my current one and with something which won't be backwards compatible
Anyway an another great attempt to get more money from us under false pretext.
With some some luck, i will be able to watch my zone 1 and zone 2 DVD with their new player (I like dreaming.
Pelops
Well nothing new here, such a channel now exists on satellite for more than 6 years
The channel started as C: and was proposing download through the satellite, and were proposing some anime series, like Evangelion, Lodoss and some series like Red Dwarf. There were no real show on games itself.
What happened after was that Infogrammes came into the company and transformed into a real game news channel, now called Gameone. They still shows some anime, shows some clip of videogames with either game music or some chosen. Most of those clips are pretty good. They are also shows now which talks about some Internet Website games, etc... But the focus is also on anime, Comics, Movies. Well far more than just videogames, and more related to the videogames culture and what is close to it.
By the way, Anime is far more known in France and for a much longer time than it is in the us and the exposure is way bigger
Pelops