1) Name book after existing, small time website 2) Create small copywrite-related controversy over said site 3) Get small site url posted on Slashdot. 4) Reduce small website to smouldering ruin 5) Offer to accept smouldering ruin as "donation."
The memory on your video card is NOT going towards the framebuffer, but is local storage for texture data that the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on the card needs to render the scene. While the finished image may only need a few megabytes to display, the actual data required to generate that picture is becoming more and more complex. A single wall texture, uncompressed, can take up tens of megabytes.
That's why 512 MB is required for higher resolution graphics. Not because 1600x1200x32 won't fit, but because the data required to generate that image won't.
Lets get one thing straight. If the whole "Pay-per-song" thing had never taken off, the portable MP3 player would still be a niche market. The whole reason the iPod became such a huge success was that the distribution model made it easy to (legally) get the content without all that technical CD-Ripping voodoo.
What we need is a way to purchase, download, and synch up Books as easy as it is songs. While there will be a hundred different opinions on how this could be done, the bottom line is that a flat.TXT is as boring as a 64kbps MP3 and noone is going to pay $24.95 for it. Maybe a "Dollar Per Chapter" or "per 50 pages" model with illustrated-PDF style downloads. Don't like the book? Don't download the rest! Want to share a chapter of a book you're still reading with a friend? Transfer your ownership of that chapter to someone else, with a negligable (.15) fee for the CPU cycles.
The bottom line is, the most amazing ebook reader in the world won't sell ebooks. There has to be an easy, cool -- dare I say, "Sexy" -- way of getting the content to the customer, at a reasonable price.
Is it just me, or has Toms Hardware turned into "Press Release Central?" All of their latest articles read like they were copy-and-pasted right out of an AP announcement or C-Net review. I haven't seen any hint of their old skeptical, insightful commentary in months. It was a change that happened first over at Sharkyextreme, but is creeping slowly across the independent review landscape.
With titans of industry, Sony and Nintendo, facing off in the next few months over the handheld and portable gaming market, I'm shocked to see one feature that would be a huge selling point to the adult gaming community.
Non-Volatile Memory.
If I'm playing a game on the train, for example, and I'm at my stop between save points, I lose all my progress. I should be able to shut the lid, turn the power off, and instantly pick back up whenever I feel like it. Games developed for the Palm Pilot get this perfectly -- I can hit the power button halfway through a game of Bejeweled, and pick up *exactly* where I was before hours (or days!) later. I can even change the game, then reload Bejeweled and STILL BE AT THE SAME POINT.
Why is this so difficult for handheld gaming devices to do? It's surely got to be one of the greatest overlooked features of all time.
I had a teacher that demanded your final report to be exactly fiteen pages, single sided, 12 point Times font with one inch margins, in an Acco binder. As long as you got those right, you were good for at least a C.
To be honest, I don't think he ever even read the damn things. He did point out every single person who got it wrong, though.
My love affair with my Apple//c came to an abrupt halt when I picked up my first 286 for fifty bucks. My first act was to swap out the Herucles Monochrome video card to my first Trident VGA card; I then installed the Wolfenstein 3D demo onto the 20mb Hard disk -- imagine, no more floppy swapping! -- and watched it run in all it's 256 color glory. It wasn't long before I was hooked on the miracles of x86; I soon upgraded to a 386, and with a copy of Turbo Pascal (and Doom) came the end of any hope of me being a Mac Fanatic.
Don't give them any ideas! Microsoft, sensing any validity at all to this patent, can just purchase the company and it's IP, then turn around and use it against Apple and the rest of the "Infringers".
What a waste of cash! Just get some brainwashed spy to activate the ancient alient relics that will replenish the atmosphere for the entire planet in less time then it takes to asphyxiate. That's much more efficient.
Is it prudent to be offering extra money to spend on space when so much money is going to killing resistance fighters, terrorists and occasional Iraqi civilians?
Nah Gonna Do It. Wouldn't be Prudent, at this Juncture.
Actually, the best analogy would be if you saw a news report saying "An automobile manufacturer warns that one of it's late-model vehicles might have a defect." It specifies neither which manufacturer, which vehicle, or even which part is affected. Now, when an Explorer blows a tire and kills a little league team, who's at fault?
blogs are software systems that allow you to easily post a series of documents to your website over time. Many people use blogs to display daily thoughts, rants, news stories, or pictures. If you run a blog, your readers can return to your site regularly to see the new content that you have posted. Before blogs came along, maintaining a website (and updating it regularly) was a relatively tedious process. Some might call blogging a social revolution---even if you do not buy the hype, you must admit that blogs are causing quite a stir.
kast is similar to a blogging system in that you can use it to regularly "post" new content to a group of readers. Of course, a blog, like any website, has limited bandwidth. Thus, the kinds of content you can post to a blog are usually limited to text and pictures, especially for popular blogs that are read by many people. By leveraging the distribution power of konspire2b, you can use kast to post files of any size to essentially as many readers as you want.
on your blog, you might have a "picture of the day". On your konspire2b channel, you can have a "movie trailer of the day" or even a "gnu/linux distribution of the day". Bandwidth limitations are essentially taken out of the equation.
and, thanks to kast's web-based user interface, you can use HTML comments to describe each broadcast and link back to relevant information on the web. In fact, the layout of kast's "received folder" interface almost looks like a blog.
That sounds an awful lot like fixing the inherent problem with RSS!
I'm pretty sure you meant nextag, which bills itself as a "real time price comparison engine". You'll also notice that on the same results, you'll get ads for Ebay, Amazon, PriceScan, StreetPrices, MySimon, and Pricegrabber.
Worse yet are the links to generic hosting sites, which do nothing but maintain lists of keywords that all redirect you to the same site. Usually, these links will ultimately land you on Ebay.
It's things like this that, if left unchecked, will ultimately spell the end of Google. I mean, what's the use of a search engine that just takes you to Ebay?
I don't know why everyone has such a cow about this. The majority paying fees to subsidize minority projects is nothing new -- I used the example of a ten member photography club getting fifteen thousand dollars worth of equipment, or a 250 member ethnic club holding a huge banquet once a year. While these sorts of activites usually have their own fundraisers, as school-sponsored activites they're entitled to a piece of that "government cheese" that's paid for by every student.
If every student chose explicitly wheir every dollar they contributed went, schools would be forced to maintain terabytes of porn and old anime. Diversity in campus activities is more important than the mob desire for badly drawn nekkid catgirls.
One of the interesting thing about University life is that it very much is like a miniature country. Only instead of paying taxes, you pay tuitions and "activity fees". Although you may not enojy the direct results of these fees, it balances itself out. When that photography club with fifteen members gets ten thousand dollars worth of equipment, it's fair. When the [insert random ethnicity] club has it's annual party, it's fair.
When 90% of the students receive a service that would otherwise put the school in jeopardy of being targeted as a lawsuit, it's fair. You can't argue where your money is being spent as whatever activity interests you is receiving unbalanced subsidies as well.
No, sadly, I live in NYC, where they arrest the homeless for drinking in the same area that the Mayor had a fundraiser, complete with wine and champaigne, just a week before. While the bums have a bone to pick on the fairness of it, neither one should have the right to disobey the law. The only difference is who it is enforced on, and that I care very much about.
I don't know about you, but my parents wouldn't let me just go copying CDs for friends and neighboors just because I have a CD-Burner. They would feel that nice Mr. Jones next door should probably buy his own copy if he wants to listen to it.
Unless you're referring to an old bearded man that lives above the clouds and (once upon a time)set foliage on fire and wrote a bunch of things on rocks--I prefer my government to create a system of law above any stories men in funny hats tell them.
Actions that are specificly forbidden by law aren't rights. Rights are actions that protected or otherwise unhindered by the laws of our society.
The right to free speech is protected by the constitution. The right to drink beer anywhere you want isn't, so you can drink it at home but not at the park or on the beach or in your car.
The right to listen to a CD is granted by the purchase of a license. The right to make a hundred copies on any media and hand them out to your neighboors is strictly prohibited.
Or, it means that they're willing to extend a compromise to those who want to legally excersize their fair-use rights but prevent those who would engage in "unauthorized duplication with intent to redistribute."
An article on cnn.com is reporting something similar in the works for the "Next-generation" video discs. The amazing part about their article is how it specificly mentions Disney as part of the alliance. Granted, it looks all encumbered with DRM (here called the Advanced Access Content System)-- but this is a far-cry better than their attempts to push disposable and subscription-based media (DIVX).
So, does this mean we're winning? Or just that we're not losing.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Name book after existing, small time website
2) Create small copywrite-related controversy over said site
3) Get small site url posted on Slashdot.
4) Reduce small website to smouldering ruin
5) Offer to accept smouldering ruin as "donation."
The memory on your video card is NOT going towards the framebuffer, but is local storage for texture data that the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on the card needs to render the scene. While the finished image may only need a few megabytes to display, the actual data required to generate that picture is becoming more and more complex. A single wall texture, uncompressed, can take up tens of megabytes.
That's why 512 MB is required for higher resolution graphics. Not because 1600x1200x32 won't fit, but because the data required to generate that image won't.
Lets get one thing straight. If the whole "Pay-per-song" thing had never taken off, the portable MP3 player would still be a niche market. The whole reason the iPod became such a huge success was that the distribution model made it easy to (legally) get the content without all that technical CD-Ripping voodoo.
.TXT is as boring as a 64kbps MP3 and noone is going to pay $24.95 for it. Maybe a "Dollar Per Chapter" or "per 50 pages" model with illustrated-PDF style downloads. Don't like the book? Don't download the rest! Want to share a chapter of a book you're still reading with a friend? Transfer your ownership of that chapter to someone else, with a negligable (.15) fee for the CPU cycles.
What we need is a way to purchase, download, and synch up Books as easy as it is songs. While there will be a hundred different opinions on how this could be done, the bottom line is that a flat
The bottom line is, the most amazing ebook reader in the world won't sell ebooks. There has to be an easy, cool -- dare I say, "Sexy" -- way of getting the content to the customer, at a reasonable price.
Is it just me, or has Toms Hardware turned into "Press Release Central?" All of their latest articles read like they were copy-and-pasted right out of an AP announcement or C-Net review. I haven't seen any hint of their old skeptical, insightful commentary in months. It was a change that happened first over at Sharkyextreme, but is creeping slowly across the independent review landscape.
With titans of industry, Sony and Nintendo, facing off in the next few months over the handheld and portable gaming market, I'm shocked to see one feature that would be a huge selling point to the adult gaming community.
Non-Volatile Memory.
If I'm playing a game on the train, for example, and I'm at my stop between save points, I lose all my progress. I should be able to shut the lid, turn the power off, and instantly pick back up whenever I feel like it. Games developed for the Palm Pilot get this perfectly -- I can hit the power button halfway through a game of Bejeweled, and pick up *exactly* where I was before hours (or days!) later. I can even change the game, then reload Bejeweled and STILL BE AT THE SAME POINT.
Why is this so difficult for handheld gaming devices to do? It's surely got to be one of the greatest overlooked features of all time.
True Story.
I had a teacher that demanded your final report to be exactly fiteen pages, single sided, 12 point Times font with one inch margins, in an Acco binder. As long as you got those right, you were good for at least a C.
To be honest, I don't think he ever even read the damn things. He did point out every single person who got it wrong, though.
My love affair with my Apple //c came to an abrupt halt when I picked up my first 286 for fifty bucks. My first act was to swap out the Herucles Monochrome video card to my first Trident VGA card; I then installed the Wolfenstein 3D demo onto the 20mb Hard disk -- imagine, no more floppy swapping! -- and watched it run in all it's 256 color glory. It wasn't long before I was hooked on the miracles of x86; I soon upgraded to a 386, and with a copy of Turbo Pascal (and Doom) came the end of any hope of me being a Mac Fanatic.
True story.
Don't give them any ideas! Microsoft, sensing any validity at all to this patent, can just purchase the company and it's IP, then turn around and use it against Apple and the rest of the "Infringers".
What a waste of cash! Just get some brainwashed spy to activate the ancient alient relics that will replenish the atmosphere for the entire planet in less time then it takes to asphyxiate. That's much more efficient.
Is it prudent to be offering extra money to spend on space when so much money is going to killing resistance fighters, terrorists and occasional Iraqi civilians?
/DanaCarvey
Nah Gonna Do It. Wouldn't be Prudent, at this Juncture.
Actually, the best analogy would be if you saw a news report saying "An automobile manufacturer warns that one of it's late-model vehicles might have a defect." It specifies neither which manufacturer, which vehicle, or even which part is affected. Now, when an Explorer blows a tire and kills a little league team, who's at fault?
To quote their webpage:
a blog with unlimited bandwidth
blogs are software systems that allow you to easily post a series of documents to your website over time. Many people use blogs to display daily thoughts, rants, news stories, or pictures. If you run a blog, your readers can return to your site regularly to see the new content that you have posted. Before blogs came along, maintaining a website (and updating it regularly) was a relatively tedious process. Some might call blogging a social revolution---even if you do not buy the hype, you must admit that blogs are causing quite a stir.
kast is similar to a blogging system in that you can use it to regularly "post" new content to a group of readers. Of course, a blog, like any website, has limited bandwidth. Thus, the kinds of content you can post to a blog are usually limited to text and pictures, especially for popular blogs that are read by many people. By leveraging the distribution power of konspire2b, you can use kast to post files of any size to essentially as many readers as you want.
on your blog, you might have a "picture of the day". On your konspire2b channel, you can have a "movie trailer of the day" or even a "gnu/linux distribution of the day". Bandwidth limitations are essentially taken out of the equation.
and, thanks to kast's web-based user interface, you can use HTML comments to describe each broadcast and link back to relevant information on the web. In fact, the layout of kast's "received folder" interface almost looks like a blog.
That sounds an awful lot like fixing the inherent problem with RSS!
I'm pretty sure you meant nextag, which bills itself as a "real time price comparison engine". You'll also notice that on the same results, you'll get ads for Ebay, Amazon, PriceScan, StreetPrices, MySimon, and Pricegrabber.
Worse yet are the links to generic hosting sites, which do nothing but maintain lists of keywords that all redirect you to the same site. Usually, these links will ultimately land you on Ebay.
It's things like this that, if left unchecked, will ultimately spell the end of Google. I mean, what's the use of a search engine that just takes you to Ebay?
I don't know why everyone has such a cow about this. The majority paying fees to subsidize minority projects is nothing new -- I used the example of a ten member photography club getting fifteen thousand dollars worth of equipment, or a 250 member ethnic club holding a huge banquet once a year. While these sorts of activites usually have their own fundraisers, as school-sponsored activites they're entitled to a piece of that "government cheese" that's paid for by every student.
If every student chose explicitly wheir every dollar they contributed went, schools would be forced to maintain terabytes of porn and old anime. Diversity in campus activities is more important than the mob desire for badly drawn nekkid catgirls.
In other words, they won?
One of the interesting thing about University life is that it very much is like a miniature country. Only instead of paying taxes, you pay tuitions and "activity fees". Although you may not enojy the direct results of these fees, it balances itself out. When that photography club with fifteen members gets ten thousand dollars worth of equipment, it's fair. When the [insert random ethnicity] club has it's annual party, it's fair.
When 90% of the students receive a service that would otherwise put the school in jeopardy of being targeted as a lawsuit, it's fair. You can't argue where your money is being spent as whatever activity interests you is receiving unbalanced subsidies as well.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's not like the guy had a movie named after him or anything.
the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs?
You have to admit, though, that the electronic voice box of his still speaks with more emotion then Kerry.
Naaah, I would have just told Floyd to take out the demon for me.
No, sadly, I live in NYC, where they arrest the homeless for drinking in the same area that the Mayor had a fundraiser, complete with wine and champaigne, just a week before. While the bums have a bone to pick on the fairness of it, neither one should have the right to disobey the law. The only difference is who it is enforced on, and that I care very much about.
"endowed by their Creator"
I don't know about you, but my parents wouldn't let me just go copying CDs for friends and neighboors just because I have a CD-Burner. They would feel that nice Mr. Jones next door should probably buy his own copy if he wants to listen to it.
Unless you're referring to an old bearded man that lives above the clouds and (once upon a time)set foliage on fire and wrote a bunch of things on rocks--I prefer my government to create a system of law above any stories men in funny hats tell them.
Actions that are specificly forbidden by law aren't rights. Rights are actions that protected or otherwise unhindered by the laws of our society.
The right to free speech is protected by the constitution. The right to drink beer anywhere you want isn't, so you can drink it at home but not at the park or on the beach or in your car.
The right to listen to a CD is granted by the purchase of a license. The right to make a hundred copies on any media and hand them out to your neighboors is strictly prohibited.
Theft or not, it's still not a right.
Or, it means that they're willing to extend a compromise to those who want to legally excersize their fair-use rights but prevent those who would engage in "unauthorized duplication with intent to redistribute."
An article on cnn.com is reporting something similar in the works for the "Next-generation" video discs. The amazing part about their article is how it specificly mentions Disney as part of the alliance. Granted, it looks all encumbered with DRM (here called the Advanced Access Content System)-- but this is a far-cry better than their attempts to push disposable and subscription-based media (DIVX).
So, does this mean we're winning? Or just that we're not losing.