The big fear that I have with HD-DVD is that Toshiba announced over 2 years ago a triple-layer HD-DVD disc to compete with Blu-Ray's higher capacity. Aren't most of today's players only capable of playing dual-layer HD-DVDs? Are all of today's HD-DVD players heading for the scrap heap?
All HDDVD players can handle discs with 3 layers, but currently that standard is for 2 HDDVD layers and 1 SDDVD layer, so you could have a one-sided combo discs. However, 3-layer discs presumably cost a lot more than 'flipper' combo discs (which have IIRC 2 HDDVD layers on one side and 2 SDDVD layers on the other) and a single-layer DVD won't be feature complete with the regular dual-layer DVD, which is why there are hardly any one-sided combo discs out there.
What Toshiba is doing (and what HDDVD owners are worried about) is creating a standard to let that third layer be another HDDVD layer, instead of an SDDVD. The question is whether a firmware update is all that's necessary or whether players have 'hardcoded' the presumption that a third layer will always be a SDDVD.
Problem is, comrade, there won't be anything to buy.
You're probably too young to remember the Soviet toilet paper lines? Granted, Soviet toilet paper _was_ pretty damn durable, if there was any left after waiting in line for 8 hours..
And yeah, if you want durable, you have to pay for it.. My Benz is going on 410,000 miles and it's still going strong.. It was about $70k.... in 1987. Why do modern Benzes suck? You can thank Lexus and the other Japanese luxobrands. Cost is no longer not an object:(
I have a 15" widescreen off my old G4 Powerbook, and I've been meaning to turn it into a picture frame (build a wooden "frame" case with mini-itx and LVDS out), but I am lazy as fuck so it sits in my electronic gear pit...
Heh, bought the shop manuals for my Merc 300SDL on CDROM from eBay for $20... And the online communities for Merc DIY are pretty awesome (shout out to MercedesShopForum)..
Comes in handy when diagnosing problems before bringing it into the shop, and I even managed to hack my turbo back to life (a bit of vacuum line to the wastegate IIRC) and repair a snapped vacuum line to the fuel cutoff (which prevented the car from stopping: for gas-powered cars you worry about starting the motor, for diesels you worry about _stopping_ it..)
Now if only the later model cars' electronic bits were better documented and more accessible, like OBD-II or VW's VAG-COM.. Here's hoping the CANBUS stuff in newer BMW bikes is hackable!
C'mon guys, the game is a hit, you can admit it now...
_Bioshock_ isn't just some dumb shooter.
I understand you needed to tell your moneymen and mucketymucks it was so you would get funded, but the cat's been out of the barn for ages. Just come on out and say it. Gloat a little, even. It'll make you feel better.
Gotta wonder if the dearth of games would have been quite as bad had Sony just thrown subsidy money around like Microsoft has? $599 was a retarded launch price, they should have launched $399 for the 60gb version.
Presumably the botched launch caused game makers to put the (already hard-to-code) PS3 ports and projects on the back burner, and with Wii going gangbusters moving stuff back up front may take even longer.
... When something bad (aka grant-worthy) happens, it's time to run around like headless chickens blaming Man, but when something good happens, it's a "random variation"?
What the real pity is, is that these people were the ones who made it so incredibly difficult (litigation and monetarily) to build a new power plant. Back when opposing nuclear power was the cool thing to do, they lobbied and pushed for increasingly ludicrous laws and fees to try to stymy the growth of nuclear power. I'm sure they had good intentions, but this is just a classic example of a bunch of people latching on to a flawed idea, and then doing a ton of harm with it.
And _THIS_ is why I don't take AGW seriously. The science may or may not be supportive of it, but the environuts are such shrill loudmouth dicks that I'll drive an even bigger SUV just to spite them.
However, the resistance comes from the external world. At this point in our culture, it's simply unacceptable for a female to be pasty and geeky. They face enormous discrimination and social resistance in general than they gain as a benefit by being more accepted in the IT industry.
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor.
You think it might have been easier to just submit the papers under different names?
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The big fear that I have with HD-DVD is that Toshiba announced over 2 years ago a triple-layer HD-DVD disc to compete with Blu-Ray's higher capacity. Aren't most of today's players only capable of playing dual-layer HD-DVDs? Are all of today's HD-DVD players heading for the scrap heap?
All HDDVD players can handle discs with 3 layers, but currently that standard is for 2 HDDVD layers and 1 SDDVD layer, so you could have a one-sided combo discs. However, 3-layer discs presumably cost a lot more than 'flipper' combo discs (which have IIRC 2 HDDVD layers on one side and 2 SDDVD layers on the other) and a single-layer DVD won't be feature complete with the regular dual-layer DVD, which is why there are hardly any one-sided combo discs out there.
What Toshiba is doing (and what HDDVD owners are worried about) is creating a standard to let that third layer be another HDDVD layer, instead of an SDDVD. The question is whether a firmware update is all that's necessary or whether players have 'hardcoded' the presumption that a third layer will always be a SDDVD.
I'm hoping it is a firmware patch, obviously.
then count the number of Blu-Ray (Bright Blue case) vs HD-DVD Cases (horrible brown looking cases) on the shelf
Hmm, in the US HDDVD cases are a nice ruby red.. Perhaps it's the damp?
I bought a Sony TV and a PS3. Went to look for a new movie to pick up and they were $29.99 across the board for blu ray and hd-dvd.
B&M is for losers and the impatient. There's tons of HD discs available for $19.95 on amazon, and there's probably similar deals on other sites.
In fact, recently there have been sales as low as $15 for catalog titles.
Your point?
Or are you just dumbtificating socialistically like some addled collegetard?
Problem is, comrade, there won't be anything to buy.
:(
You're probably too young to remember the Soviet toilet paper lines? Granted, Soviet toilet paper _was_ pretty damn durable, if there was any left after waiting in line for 8 hours..
And yeah, if you want durable, you have to pay for it.. My Benz is going on 410,000 miles and it's still going strong.. It was about $70k.... in 1987. Why do modern Benzes suck? You can thank Lexus and the other Japanese luxobrands. Cost is no longer not an object
I have a 15" widescreen off my old G4 Powerbook, and I've been meaning to turn it into a picture frame (build a wooden "frame" case with mini-itx and LVDS out), but I am lazy as fuck so it sits in my electronic gear pit...
Maybe someday I won't suck...
Heh, bought the shop manuals for my Merc 300SDL on CDROM from eBay for $20... And the online communities for Merc DIY are pretty awesome (shout out to MercedesShopForum)..
Comes in handy when diagnosing problems before bringing it into the shop, and I even managed to hack my turbo back to life (a bit of vacuum line to the wastegate IIRC) and repair a snapped vacuum line to the fuel cutoff (which prevented the car from stopping: for gas-powered cars you worry about starting the motor, for diesels you worry about _stopping_ it..)
Now if only the later model cars' electronic bits were better documented and more accessible, like OBD-II or VW's VAG-COM.. Here's hoping the CANBUS stuff in newer BMW bikes is hackable!
Forget 32-bit, 8-bit rules!
I wonder if there'll be a port of OpenTTD? Any chance the necessary Transport Tycoon Deluxe assets to get it working might be donated to OLPC users?
:p)
(Still want OpenTTD for Nokia S60e3
Realtime RPG?
At least compared to iD's stuff or the Unreal franchise it is.
Not saying I didn't have a ton of fun in UT2004 multiplayer, but story it is not.
C'mon guys, the game is a hit, you can admit it now...
_Bioshock_ isn't just some dumb shooter.
I understand you needed to tell your moneymen and mucketymucks it was so you would get funded, but the cat's been out of the barn for ages. Just come on out and say it. Gloat a little, even. It'll make you feel better.
_Mass Effect_ and _Bioshock_, and probably _Fable 2_.
Thank you for playing! Enjoy your lifetime supply of troll foodz!!!
Keep the channnge...
Thank you!
Anyone write a raytracing engine for PS3 that takes advantage of all those SPEs?
.... Unless they're _your_ ends. In which case, slander and attention-whore away. I mean, it's all for the good of the proletariat, yes?
Gotta wonder if the dearth of games would have been quite as bad had Sony just thrown subsidy money around like Microsoft has? $599 was a retarded launch price, they should have launched $399 for the 60gb version.
Presumably the botched launch caused game makers to put the (already hard-to-code) PS3 ports and projects on the back burner, and with Wii going gangbusters moving stuff back up front may take even longer.
... Seems to be a good-enough way to do things, as long as folks can install self-signed apps (with appropriate warnings and caveats and whatnot) .
... When something bad (aka grant-worthy) happens, it's time to run around like headless chickens blaming Man, but when something good happens, it's a "random variation"?
Meh.
Interesting, is this new device a 3xDVD recorder?
Oh get over yourself. What are you, some Brit in University? Insufferable.
What the real pity is, is that these people were the ones who made it so incredibly difficult (litigation and monetarily) to build a new power plant. Back when opposing nuclear power was the cool thing to do, they lobbied and pushed for increasingly ludicrous laws and fees to try to stymy the growth of nuclear power. I'm sure they had good intentions, but this is just a classic example of a bunch of people latching on to a flawed idea, and then doing a ton of harm with it.
And _THIS_ is why I don't take AGW seriously. The science may or may not be supportive of it, but the environuts are such shrill loudmouth dicks that I'll drive an even bigger SUV just to spite them.
Intelligence and Wisdom are separate stats in Dungeons and Dragons for a reason, and this is it.
However, the resistance comes from the external world. At this point in our culture, it's simply unacceptable for a female to be pasty and geeky. They face enormous discrimination and social resistance in general than they gain as a benefit by being more accepted in the IT industry.
And this is our fault how?
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor.
You think it might have been easier to just submit the papers under different names?
... Always nice to see Canadians pumping money into the Buffalo-area economy...