What the lawsuit boils down to is an equivalent to "Damn, I just bought a CD and I can't play it in my cassette based walkman."
The whole lawsuit is bogus. At least with iTunes the user has the option of burning to CD to play the tunes in a portable CD player.
It isn't as if Apple has a monopoly in the music arena - online music sales aren't that massive in comparison to normal CD sales, and there are dozens of competing online music stores. The fact that Apple's store is so popular is also partly due to the fact that the DRM on Apple's music is much less severe than on other music stores (Sony's for example).
Also, people can buy non-Apple hardware to listen to iTunes purchased music. HP sell a player. Soon Motorola will be selling an iTunes compatible mobile phone (if rumours are to be believed).
If anything comes out of this lawsuit, it will merely be that Apple cannot refuse to not license its DRM/format to another company, if another company wants its players to play iTunes AAC files. Even better would be to make Fairplay fully open, but hey, it's Apples thing, and they can do what they want with it.
In the end though, you do agree to certain things when you buy from iTMS. It is more of a companion to the iPod than the iPod is a companion to iTMS. Like... a CD store is used by people with CD players, you don't buy CDs then complain when they don't work in your 8 track or whatever...
Well, resolution doesn't have to be related to space, it can be related to time. If this display has a response time of 25us instead of 25ms, you can use the display for high frame rate video, or to reduce flicker, or simply to have a very crisp display with no fading - good for games!
OLEDs have a lifespan of between 10000 and 50000 hours at the moment, I think it is the blue that has the lowest lifespan. Of course, the lifespans are a lot better than they were a couple of years ago!
Hopefully the shorter lives will be offset by the display being so much cheaper. Anyway, for computer displays most people would want to update the display after 5-7 years anyway, regardless of actual lifespan! 10000 hours is 3 years at 10 hours a day, or 6 years at 5 hours a day.
Well, at least short term fixes (1920 is really 2020, and the like) were. The difficulties were having little time to fix the problem, and database/system downtime. It was also a good time to upgrade old systems I suppose however.
Hopefully 38 years of software creation will mean that unix timestamps will not be an issue in 2038 - of course by then *everything* will be computerised - the government has to have a way to control the population and enforce anti-terrorist-curfew and everything. So it is extremely urgent that things are done right now so that you don't find yourself in a cold, locked-up, powerless house one day in 2038 with no means of escape.
Also, of course, a lot of things don't rely on the date, and wouldn't care if it was 1975 or 2025. It is only software that uses dates in its control process that is in real danger. How many nuclear power stations have (if (date 70) { meltdown(NO_ALARMS); } anyway?
Of course, the human race will end up enslaved to computers, and when something kills of the computers we'll be helpless.
That's a bloody good idea. I wonder if Apple have thought of it (they are known for this type of idea) or if they are just making a pretty and cheap computer.
Well, if this is marketed as a computer (media box) to manage your iPod music and photos seamlessly (the ideal iPod companion), then it would need enough HD space - I don't think they'll go the 40GB mark with 60GB iPods on the market (and 80GB hard drives not being much more expensive than 40GB ones). I don't think that 256MB of RAM will matter so much however if that use only runs iPhoto and iTunes, with the odd IM and web browsing session. Hopefully it'll have a Firewire port in an easy to access location.
Sure, it isn't $299 Dell trash, but this will be a very nice box.
I am willing to bet that it will be roughly the same size as a DVD player. The styling will be very nice too, wonder if it'll be iPod white, or iPod mini coloured aluminium. Connect this to your HDTV, Plasma or normal monitor and you've got a cheap stylish brand-name computer / media box.
Hopefully it'll come with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse, for living room application, and won't just be a standard computer box. Having a VIVO option, or at least some form of "plug in" TV tuner option would be very nice for a low-end media box. Sadly I've not heard any rumours of Apple creating anything software wise for this application, so I'm putting this at 5% likelihood for 2005.
I'll wait to buy one though, I'll want to get Tiger with it instead of paying for the upgrade cost. Hopefully the integrated video will be good enough (here's hoping for a 6200TC at least, but that's PCIe so unlikely. Probably a shitty FX5200 again, argh).
That's Intel's Vanderpool technology, will be available in 2005 probably.
Xen is a very nice solution, at the moment it is nice for free software due to requiring a port for it, but as you mention that will go away with virtualisation hardware.
The iPod mini has been out for nearly a year now, and this product has just been launched. To think that Apple won't up the iPod mini's capacity to 5GB soon to ensure they don't fall behind the other players on the market would be stupid.
Fact is, even if the H10 is price reduced to $299 in the US, it will still be $50 more than the iPod mini. That'll reduce its possible market share, assuming that there are people out there that like the styling (as the iPod mini's styling isn't for everyone).
It wins by having an FM radio integrated however, which is a nice feature to have, and not an expensive one either.
12 hours vs. 8 hours isn't really an issue. Maybe Apple's 5GB update will up the battery life as well, who knows? Maybe Apple know that 8 hours is enough for 98% of the market!
It is nice having a colour display, but I'd rather have the easier to use interface. The iPod's interface is good and proven. The screen is larger. These are important things in a small portable music player. I would like to see the iPod have a crisper display maybe, not a standard backlit one. I suppose that'll happen when these displays are at a competitive price.
Plasmas are nice for moving images, although the resolutions don't typically match HDTV resolutions at the moment, and low-end plasmas basically suck for resolution (480P). LCD TV displays are often made now in HDTV compatible resolutions (1280x720, 1920x1080) which automatically makes them a better choice, until plasma displays also come with decent resolution at a comparable price. I'm not saying that there aren't cheap plasmas that have HDTV native resolutions of course, just that the majority of cheap 42" plasmas have 480 lines of resolution *still*.
The sensible person, of course, will wait 3 years and then pick up whatever is the best techology then, for a much nicer price. Of course, I did promise myself my next TV would be at least 40" on the diagonal, and plasmas are much better at these sizes than LCD TVs which generally top out at 30" for a lot of money.
I like this idea. I like the idea that I'll be able to burn a CD, flip it over and burn a nice label, albeit in monochrome. It isn't exactly an amazing idea, coat the disc in an ink that reacts to the laser light in a CDR drive.
I don't have an inkjet printer, I don't care about having full colour labels either. But it is nice if it looks neater than a CD/DVD pen in my handwriting.
For a couple of cents per disc, it is fine. Especially on DVD media and next generation media, and decent current media.
30 minutes to download 1 GB of data from (or do you mean onto?) a flash device?
Riiiighhht.
That's... 0.5MB/s transfer. You're using a USB1 port on a USB1 hub shared with another device or two aren't you? Or an old flash device that doesn't support USB2.
Maybe you're using Bluetooth to a mobile device - that'd fit in with your bandwidth figures.
Oh, and whilst I'm at it, ignoring the near complete lack of punctuation in your post, it is: HOUR OFF GByte COMPLETELY PREFER
you've got a fucking "New Tab" button on the tab bar, it's as wide as the unused space on the tab bar, and you have to double click it instead of single click. Otherwise, take the minute to install the tab extension that adds it...
PCIe is point to point as well, but works on having a lot of very fast serialised channels rather than one wide slower parallel channel (32-bits wide with AGP).
So you create a northbridge with 16 PCIe channels, and connect them to a single slot for a PCIe x16 graphics card, or you can split them into two x8 channels for two devices.
AGP v3 actually supports having multiple AGP slots in a system.
SLI is not Scan Line Interleaving in the modern nVidia sense. Instead each card renders half the scene (by processing load, not half the screen, the difference is calculated by the drivers), and the slave card sends its rendered half to the other card to merge and output.
SLI should be fully supported by nVidias drivers. Gigabyte won't have to do a think, SLI is an nVidia feature. Even the Linux drivers should support it, as nVidia has a common core for the drivers.
Gigabyte? They're one of the big four motherboard manufacturers these days.
There's no inter-card SLI connector however, as that is used up between the two GPUs.
Whilst you could have two of these cards in your computer, they wouldn't operate together like SLI. Well, not until nVidia puts TWO SLI ports on each GPU, so you could connect them in a ring or something. You're currently stuck you having two cards to increase the number of monitors you can attach to your system.
Ah yeah, good point! I should have thought about that. I did think about it reducing the pin-count (well, the ball grid count or whatever) on the GPU. Also smaller graphics cards will be possible. And good for laptops.
On the other hand, I think the suggested punishments are too harsh and not sensible.
You send people to prison for committing bad crimes. Crimes so bad, that you'll risk exposing them to other bad people (and picking up stuff) to keep them out of society.
Maybe fine a *shop* for selling mature video games to a minor, but not the person serving.
I think it should be handled the same way as movies myself. They all come under the title 'Entertainment'.
He seeks to impose legislation that will prohibit the distribution, sale, rental and availability of mature video games to children younger than 18. Breaking of this law would be punishable by up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine.
Err, seems perfectly reasonable to me. It isn't a ban on violent video games, it is merely preventing mature games being played by immature people, much as movie classification works.
Mature / Adult content should only be viewed/played by mature adults, of which 18 is the standard age.
But surely the US already has game ratings, and the problem is purely down to enforcement of the ratings, and thus having more explicit laws will do nothing to prevent the current problem.
This card will probably end up being the number one card for OEMs to use in their not-shit systems. Hardly a 'moronic' target market for nVidia.
Yes, having only 16/32 or 64 MB of graphics memory on a card is cheaper than having 128 or 256 MB of graphics memory on the card.
Also nVidia is forcing the sellers to write how much local memory there is on the card on the packaging.
I think that anyone getting a low-end computer with this card will be happy with the gaming performance. Then again, I read the reviews, and you clearly did not. Also it is a nice cheap card for Linux users to purchase, given the nice nVidia Linux drivers.
I have one reservation. How much is the cost of 32MB of 350MHz DDR memory on a 64-bit bus (5.6GB/s), compared to 128MB of slower (e.g., 200MHz) DDR memory on a 128-bit bus (6.4GB/s)?
AGP texturing sucked because AGP->System transfers were abysmally slow. PCIe doesn't have this problem. Hence it works well on modern games. It also seems to be more advanced than mere AGP texturing.
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What the lawsuit boils down to is an equivalent to "Damn, I just bought a CD and I can't play it in my cassette based walkman."
... a CD store is used by people with CD players, you don't buy CDs then complain when they don't work in your 8 track or whatever...
The whole lawsuit is bogus. At least with iTunes the user has the option of burning to CD to play the tunes in a portable CD player.
It isn't as if Apple has a monopoly in the music arena - online music sales aren't that massive in comparison to normal CD sales, and there are dozens of competing online music stores. The fact that Apple's store is so popular is also partly due to the fact that the DRM on Apple's music is much less severe than on other music stores (Sony's for example).
Also, people can buy non-Apple hardware to listen to iTunes purchased music. HP sell a player. Soon Motorola will be selling an iTunes compatible mobile phone (if rumours are to be believed).
If anything comes out of this lawsuit, it will merely be that Apple cannot refuse to not license its DRM/format to another company, if another company wants its players to play iTunes AAC files. Even better would be to make Fairplay fully open, but hey, it's Apples thing, and they can do what they want with it.
In the end though, you do agree to certain things when you buy from iTMS. It is more of a companion to the iPod than the iPod is a companion to iTMS. Like
Well, resolution doesn't have to be related to space, it can be related to time. If this display has a response time of 25us instead of 25ms, you can use the display for high frame rate video, or to reduce flicker, or simply to have a very crisp display with no fading - good for games!
OLEDs have a lifespan of between 10000 and 50000 hours at the moment, I think it is the blue that has the lowest lifespan. Of course, the lifespans are a lot better than they were a couple of years ago!
Hopefully the shorter lives will be offset by the display being so much cheaper. Anyway, for computer displays most people would want to update the display after 5-7 years anyway, regardless of actual lifespan! 10000 hours is 3 years at 10 hours a day, or 6 years at 5 hours a day.
That's 6.22m subpixels really. 1920x1080 display, 3 subpixels (RGB) per pixel = 6220800 subpixels, or 2073600 full pixels.
Still, I would like this display, especially if it was cheap and suitable for computer work as well as video work.
Well, at least short term fixes (1920 is really 2020, and the like) were. The difficulties were having little time to fix the problem, and database/system downtime. It was also a good time to upgrade old systems I suppose however.
Hopefully 38 years of software creation will mean that unix timestamps will not be an issue in 2038 - of course by then *everything* will be computerised - the government has to have a way to control the population and enforce anti-terrorist-curfew and everything. So it is extremely urgent that things are done right now so that you don't find yourself in a cold, locked-up, powerless house one day in 2038 with no means of escape.
Also, of course, a lot of things don't rely on the date, and wouldn't care if it was 1975 or 2025. It is only software that uses dates in its control process that is in real danger. How many nuclear power stations have (if (date 70) { meltdown(NO_ALARMS); } anyway?
Of course, the human race will end up enslaved to computers, and when something kills of the computers we'll be helpless.
That's a bloody good idea. I wonder if Apple have thought of it (they are known for this type of idea) or if they are just making a pretty and cheap computer.
Well, if this is marketed as a computer (media box) to manage your iPod music and photos seamlessly (the ideal iPod companion), then it would need enough HD space - I don't think they'll go the 40GB mark with 60GB iPods on the market (and 80GB hard drives not being much more expensive than 40GB ones). I don't think that 256MB of RAM will matter so much however if that use only runs iPhoto and iTunes, with the odd IM and web browsing session. Hopefully it'll have a Firewire port in an easy to access location.
Sure, it isn't $299 Dell trash, but this will be a very nice box.
I am willing to bet that it will be roughly the same size as a DVD player. The styling will be very nice too, wonder if it'll be iPod white, or iPod mini coloured aluminium. Connect this to your HDTV, Plasma or normal monitor and you've got a cheap stylish brand-name computer / media box.
Hopefully it'll come with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse, for living room application, and won't just be a standard computer box. Having a VIVO option, or at least some form of "plug in" TV tuner option would be very nice for a low-end media box. Sadly I've not heard any rumours of Apple creating anything software wise for this application, so I'm putting this at 5% likelihood for 2005.
I'll wait to buy one though, I'll want to get Tiger with it instead of paying for the upgrade cost. Hopefully the integrated video will be good enough (here's hoping for a 6200TC at least, but that's PCIe so unlikely. Probably a shitty FX5200 again, argh).
That's Intel's Vanderpool technology, will be available in 2005 probably.
Xen is a very nice solution, at the moment it is nice for free software due to requiring a port for it, but as you mention that will go away with virtualisation hardware.
Ah, I had a Tomy Caveman when I was young. It rocked totally.
http://www.miniarcade.com/tomy/caveman.htm
I had a fair few on that top 100 list as well, eep.
The iPod mini has been out for nearly a year now, and this product has just been launched. To think that Apple won't up the iPod mini's capacity to 5GB soon to ensure they don't fall behind the other players on the market would be stupid.
Fact is, even if the H10 is price reduced to $299 in the US, it will still be $50 more than the iPod mini. That'll reduce its possible market share, assuming that there are people out there that like the styling (as the iPod mini's styling isn't for everyone).
It wins by having an FM radio integrated however, which is a nice feature to have, and not an expensive one either.
12 hours vs. 8 hours isn't really an issue. Maybe Apple's 5GB update will up the battery life as well, who knows? Maybe Apple know that 8 hours is enough for 98% of the market!
It is nice having a colour display, but I'd rather have the easier to use interface. The iPod's interface is good and proven. The screen is larger. These are important things in a small portable music player. I would like to see the iPod have a crisper display maybe, not a standard backlit one. I suppose that'll happen when these displays are at a competitive price.
Plasmas are nice for moving images, although the resolutions don't typically match HDTV resolutions at the moment, and low-end plasmas basically suck for resolution (480P). LCD TV displays are often made now in HDTV compatible resolutions (1280x720, 1920x1080) which automatically makes them a better choice, until plasma displays also come with decent resolution at a comparable price. I'm not saying that there aren't cheap plasmas that have HDTV native resolutions of course, just that the majority of cheap 42" plasmas have 480 lines of resolution *still*.
The sensible person, of course, will wait 3 years and then pick up whatever is the best techology then, for a much nicer price. Of course, I did promise myself my next TV would be at least 40" on the diagonal, and plasmas are much better at these sizes than LCD TVs which generally top out at 30" for a lot of money.
I like this idea. I like the idea that I'll be able to burn a CD, flip it over and burn a nice label, albeit in monochrome. It isn't exactly an amazing idea, coat the disc in an ink that reacts to the laser light in a CDR drive.
I don't have an inkjet printer, I don't care about having full colour labels either. But it is nice if it looks neater than a CD/DVD pen in my handwriting.
For a couple of cents per disc, it is fine. Especially on DVD media and next generation media, and decent current media.
30 minutes to download 1 GB of data from (or do you mean onto?) a flash device?
... 0.5MB/s transfer. You're using a USB1 port on a USB1 hub shared with another device or two aren't you? Or an old flash device that doesn't support USB2.
Riiiighhht.
That's
Maybe you're using Bluetooth to a mobile device - that'd fit in with your bandwidth figures.
Oh, and whilst I'm at it, ignoring the near complete lack of punctuation in your post, it is: HOUR OFF GByte COMPLETELY PREFER
you've got a fucking "New Tab" button on the tab bar, it's as wide as the unused space on the tab bar, and you have to double click it instead of single click. Otherwise, take the minute to install the tab extension that adds it ...
Sheesh, troll or what?
Double click an unused space in the tab bar.
Sheesh.
PCIe is point to point as well, but works on having a lot of very fast serialised channels rather than one wide slower parallel channel (32-bits wide with AGP).
So you create a northbridge with 16 PCIe channels, and connect them to a single slot for a PCIe x16 graphics card, or you can split them into two x8 channels for two devices.
AGP v3 actually supports having multiple AGP slots in a system.
SLI is not Scan Line Interleaving in the modern nVidia sense. Instead each card renders half the scene (by processing load, not half the screen, the difference is calculated by the drivers), and the slave card sends its rendered half to the other card to merge and output.
SLI should be fully supported by nVidias drivers. Gigabyte won't have to do a think, SLI is an nVidia feature. Even the Linux drivers should support it, as nVidia has a common core for the drivers.
Gigabyte? They're one of the big four motherboard manufacturers these days.
There's no inter-card SLI connector however, as that is used up between the two GPUs.
Whilst you could have two of these cards in your computer, they wouldn't operate together like SLI. Well, not until nVidia puts TWO SLI ports on each GPU, so you could connect them in a ring or something. You're currently stuck you having two cards to increase the number of monitors you can attach to your system.
I agree, but not about a PCI-Express switch. Most likely 8 PCIe channels go to one GPU, and the other 8 to the other.
What I want on the card is TWO DVI outputs though. And possibly another two available on the other GPU via a cable when not in SLI mode.
Ah yeah, good point! I should have thought about that. I did think about it reducing the pin-count (well, the ball grid count or whatever) on the GPU. Also smaller graphics cards will be possible. And good for laptops.
On the other hand, I think the suggested punishments are too harsh and not sensible.
You send people to prison for committing bad crimes. Crimes so bad, that you'll risk exposing them to other bad people (and picking up stuff) to keep them out of society.
Maybe fine a *shop* for selling mature video games to a minor, but not the person serving.
I think it should be handled the same way as movies myself. They all come under the title 'Entertainment'.
This card will probably end up being the number one card for OEMs to use in their not-shit systems. Hardly a 'moronic' target market for nVidia.
Yes, having only 16/32 or 64 MB of graphics memory on a card is cheaper than having 128 or 256 MB of graphics memory on the card.
Also nVidia is forcing the sellers to write how much local memory there is on the card on the packaging.
I think that anyone getting a low-end computer with this card will be happy with the gaming performance. Then again, I read the reviews, and you clearly did not. Also it is a nice cheap card for Linux users to purchase, given the nice nVidia Linux drivers.
I have one reservation. How much is the cost of 32MB of 350MHz DDR memory on a 64-bit bus (5.6GB/s), compared to 128MB of slower (e.g., 200MHz) DDR memory on a 128-bit bus (6.4GB/s)?
AGP texturing sucked because AGP->System transfers were abysmally slow. PCIe doesn't have this problem. Hence it works well on modern games.
It also seems to be more advanced than mere AGP texturing.