Let's see... 42 Million transistors in the Pentium 4, for example. 1 milliamp PER transistor... That works out to 42000 amps for a 210 GHz CPU... Piping hot! Did they mean Microamps (that would put you at 42 Amps - high, but possible, especially at a low voltage)?
I couldn't wait, so I picked up a Japanese unit a couple months ago. Other than the irritation associated with using a reflective LCD (at least until someone releases light for it), it's AWESOME. The batteries lasted longer than it took for me to finish Super Mario, which was impressive. F-Zero is fun, but a little tough. I haven't put in a whole lot of hours with it because I haven't built up enough skill to open the more interesting tracks.
I just got Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 yesterday, and I haven't been able to atop playing it. Other than getting used to the isometric view, the game plays like a dream. The animation is super-smooth, and the game has most of the tracks found in the Dreamcast version (not all of them, though:( )
I asked about what security measures we were planning to implement, and was told:
"ReplayTV will use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology as well as password protection. This will ensure that only the person who has the password will be able to set the recordings using MyReplayTV.com."
As for user privacy, please see:
http://www.replaytv.com/custome r/productprivacy.htm
Basically, your PERSONAL information, including viewing statistics will not be sold to anyone without your prior consent (although, I think if I was offered the option of becoming a Neilsen viewer, I might take it - get better shows on the air). AGGREGATE viewing statistics may be sold to third parties, but your PERSONAL viewing habits and demographic information is safe.
-David
-Hardware Design Engineer
-ReplayTV, Inc.
Are there any musicians here such jerks that they only want people to listen to their music if they can pay for it? This is what the record companies are saying (along with a whole host of unconstitional things).
If that is the case, then not only do I have zero respect for you as an artist, but you deserve whatever piracy befalls you.
We live in a culture of affluent debt and spiraling pyramid schemes of unimagined scale. Our 401K system has been descibed as "The pyramid scheme that doesn't collapse." We finance even the DOWNPAYMENTS on our houses.
It is not surprising that tech is moving to a centralized model. Just as renting, leasing, and contracting give the (sometimes valid) illusion of freedom and mobility, so do the new content distribution models. Convenience has become our new favorite form of empowerment.
All these things ARE empowering under the right circumstances. When there are lots of jobs, and the economy is doing well, this means rapid upward-mobility for workers, and the ability to purchase items based on that upward-mobility. As for software/content, when there is competition for the consumer, the consumer benefits from all this new convience. He/she never has to worry about upgrading their software, as apps are pulled down from a central server. Music is accessible from anywhere, and if you wish to BUY physical objects, it's only OneClick (tm) away.
However, there's a dark side to both of these forms of fluidity. When the "new" economy tanks, employment-at-will becomes much less attractive. Things like job security, rent control, social security and welfare start to seem much more sensible. Having all your life's savings tied up in a mutual fund starts to seem a bit riskier.
Similarly, convenience in the world of bits starts to lose its appeal when competition is stifled, and the number of producers shrinks. All of a sudden, you can't view something you bought. Or maybe you become forced to pay a subscription fee for something you don't need updated. Or maybe you give up your privacy because the alternative is prohibitively expensive or inconvenient. Or maybe you give up your fair-use rights to all media because the 5 companies at the top have decided they don't want you to share "content."
In fact, the very word "content" really sums up our rent-not-own culture. Not "art," or "ideas." CONTENT. Nothing designed to have any lasting value - just stuff to fill a hole in a marketing plan until the next fad rolls around.
If you want to support streaming over FireWire in any kind of retail consumer electronics environment, you have to abide by an amazing amount of rules, and pay a huge number of fees in order to become DTLA compliant. Without DTLA-compliant hard drives, there wasn't much Replay could do...
They're only going to track people who are ALREADY NIELSON VIEWERS. Replay isn't harvesting customer information, NIELSON is. That's their JOB! People need to read a little before they freak out. And GOD FORBID companies might show you advertising for something you might actually WANT TO SEE! That's worse than HITLER!
Every experience I've ever had with Vulture Capitalists has been a bad one. All this talk about NDAs is a joke - try to keep a secret in the Valley and you'll see what I mean. These guys sit around with their buddies in Palo Alto and tell each other everything. It's a rich boys club that is only interested in making the VCs rich.
Once they give you money, here's how it goes:
1. They require a majority of votes on the board. There's no way around this if you want the money. They usually achieve this by kicking one of the founders off the board. At this point it really isn't your company anymore, as VCs vote in a well-orchestrated block.
3. They then start lurching the company around, changing directions each time they think they can sell the company to one of their buddies. You'll be stuck trying to BS your employees over and over, convincing them that each misstep is really part of some well-thought-out plan.
4. When they can't sell the company, they start cutting costs. They start with the little stuff, and work their way to the engineers. And if you had any engineers on the BOARD, they'll get kicked off right away.
This is about the time that I left my last company.
Investment bankers are a little easier to deal with, but they are all inside traders anyway (seriously), and I wouldn't trust them too much either.
If there's ANY way you can do it alone, or with money from friends, you should do it that way.
And NDA or no NDA, once you talk to VCs, you might as well consider your idea public, so you better patent or copyright your invention if you want to make money on it.
Every experience I've ever had with Vulture Capitalists has been a bad one. All this talk about NDAs is a joke - try to keep a secret in the Valley and you'll see what I mean. These guys sit around with their buddies in Palo Alto and tell each other everything. It's a rich boys club that is only interested in making the VCs rich.
Once they give you money, here's how it goes:
1. They make sure to fire, or at least kick off the board, at least one of the founders.
2. They require a majority of votes on the board. There's no way around this if you want the money. At this point it really isn't your company anymore.
3. They then start lurching the company around, changing directions each time they think they can sell the company to one of their buddies. You'll be stuck trying to BS your employees over and over, convincing them that each misstep is really part of some well-thought-out plan.
4. Then they start cutting costs. They start with the little stuff, and work their way to the engineers. And if you had any engineers on the BOARD, they'll get kicked off right away.
This is about the time that I left my last company.
Investment bankers are a little easier to deal with, but they are all inside traders anyway (seriously), and I wouldn't trust them too much either.
If there's ANY way you can do it alone, or with money from friends, you should do it that way.
And NDA or no NDA, once you talk to VCs, you might as well consider your idea public, so you better patent or copyright your invention if you want to make money on it.
I loved the Diamond Age right up until the "Drummers" started getting involved. Snow Crash, too, descended into metaphysical silliness at the end, to a lesser degree. The two BEST books of his I've read are Cryptonomicom (I LOVE this book) and Interface (under the name Steven Bury). Read Interface ASAP! It's a political sci-fi thriller with some really cool ideas.
Kind of doubt that will happen. I did some of the hardware design on the Aero 8000, and it contains a companion chip from Eclipse (my old company) for which too much IP is involved to release any useful specs (like register addresses, functions). All drivers were given to CPQ as binaries. The companion chip handles PS2, serial, PCMCIA, CF, and I think IrDA. If you want to ask them about this, go to Eclipse's website Don't blame me, I'm just a hardware guy. Now I'm working at Hitachi, and I believe someone has ported Linux to our SH4 development system, so just wait for a product based around that to come out. ps: The Aero 8000 has no USB
There are AT commands to do all this stuff, if you want to roll your own software. You'd have to do the system side (sound, etc) yourself. Rockwell (now Conexant) supports this through the use of what they call "business audio," which uses half-duplex digital PCM audio data from your computer (over the serial port/ISA slot). They also have an analog path to and from the chip, but that would be trickier, as unless you have a speakerphone version, the mic from your PC is probably not hooked up to your modem. Here's a few Rockwell (they're the MOST comman modem chipset manufacturer) AT commands (including fax and CLID)to get you started:
7.5 CALLER ID COMMANDS #CID=0 Disable Caller ID. #CID=1 Enable Caller ID with formatted presentation. #CID=2 Enable Caller ID with unformatted presentation. 7.6 FAX CLASS 1 COMMANDS +FCLASS=n Service class. +FAE=n Data/fax auto answer +FRH=n Receive data with HDLC framing. +FRM=n Receive data. +FRS=n Receive silence. +FTH=n Transmit data with HDLC framing. +FTM=n Transmit data. +FTS=n Stop transmission and wait. 7.7 FAX CLASS 2 COMMANDS +FCLASS=n Service class. +FAA=n Adaptive answer. +FAXERR Fax error value. +FBOR Phase C data bit order. +FBUF? Buffer size (read only). +FCFR Indicate confirmation to receive. +FCLASS= Service class. +FCON Facsimile connection response. +FCIG Set the polled station identification. +FCIG: Report the polled station identification. +FCR Capability to receive. +FCR= Capability to receive. +FCSI: Report the called station ID. +FDCC= DCE capabilities parameters. +FDCS: Report current session. +FDCS= Current session results. +FDIS: Report remote capabilities. +FDIS= Current sessions parameters. +FDR Begin or continue phase C receive data. +FDT= Data transmission. +FDTC: Report the polled station capabilities. +FET: Post page message response. +FET=N Transmit page punctuation. +FHNG Call termination with status. +FK Session termination. +FLID= Local ID string. +FLPL Document for polling. +FMDL? Identify model. +FMFR? Identify manufacturer. +FPHCTO Phase C time out. +FPOLL Indicates polling request. +FPTS: Page transfer status. +FPTS= Page transfer status. +FREV? Identify revision. +FSPL Enable polling +FTSI: Report the transmit station ID. 7.8 VOICE COMMANDS #BDR Select baud rate (turn off autobaud). #CLS Select data, fax, or voice. #MDL? Identify model. #MFR? Identify manufacturer. #REV? Identify revision level. #TL Audio output transmit level. #VBQ? Query buffer size. #VBS Bits per sample. #VBT Beep tone timer. #VCI? Identify compression method. #VGT Set playback volume in the command state. #VLS Voice line select. #VRA Ringback goes away timer (originate). #VRN Ringback never came timer (originate). #VRX Voice receive mode. #VSD Enable silence deletion (no function, command response only). #VSK Buffer skid setting. #VSP Silence detection period (voice receive). #VSR Sampling rate selection. #VSS Silence detection tuner (voice receive). #VTD DTMF/tone reporting. #VTM Enable timing mark placement. #VTS Generate tone signals. #VTX Voice transmit mode. 7.9 VOICEVIEW COMMANDS +FCLASS=n Service class -SVV Originate VoiceView data mode -SAC Accept data mode request -SIP Initialize VoiceView parameters -SIC Reset capabilities data to default setting -SSQ Initiate capabilities query -SDA Originate modem data mode -SFX Originate FAX data mode -SMT Mute telephone -SDS Disable switchhook status monitoring -SQR Capabilities query response control -SCD Capabilities data -SER? Error status (read only) -DTP VoiceView transmission speed -SSR Start sequence response control +FLO Flow control select +FPR Serial port rate control -SSV VoiceView data mode start sequence event -SFA Facsimile data node start sequence event -SMD Modem data mode start sequence event -SRA Receive ADSI response event -SRQ Receive capabilities query event -SRC: Receive capabilities information event -STO Talk-off event 7.10 DSVD COMMANDS -SSE=1 Enable DSVD -SSE=0 Disable DSVD
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To me, it seems like this is just a way for Apple to get free beta testers who are smarter than the average mac user.
Remember when we were all were stoked (or at least I was) when companies started releasing beta software for us to try out. Now Apple does this, and EVEN with the source code, and people get pissed?
I get the arguments about those people who want to possibly write their own code and don't want their license revoked, but for me (a hardware guy, and Apple USER), I'm just hoping people will help Apple make their OS better. I'm not really hoping for YET ANOTHER OS OS. We have Linux, which is probably a lot less spaghetti-ish than any Apple code. In fact, there are TWO flavors of Linux on the PPC.
I think the code will be useful even if just to help me figure out what went wrong when my mac crashed for the 10th timt of the day.
Dude. I got pricing at the Embedded Systems Conference around 50 bucks per display from Colorado Microdisplay. What the fuck is this 2500 bucks crap? Is the extra 2400 bucks for the "helmet?" Someone needs to undercut these guys, and FAST. (oh yeah - for pics, check out http://www.virtualvision.com/Products.htm)
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Let's see... 42 Million transistors in the Pentium 4, for example. 1 milliamp PER transistor... That works out to 42000 amps for a 210 GHz CPU... Piping hot! Did they mean Microamps (that would put you at 42 Amps - high, but possible, especially at a low voltage)?
Blockbuster is already partnering with some big pipe providers to have its own brand of VOD.
I couldn't wait, so I picked up a Japanese unit a couple months ago. Other than the irritation associated with using a reflective LCD (at least until someone releases light for it), it's AWESOME. The batteries lasted longer than it took for me to finish Super Mario, which was impressive. F-Zero is fun, but a little tough. I haven't put in a whole lot of hours with it because I haven't built up enough skill to open the more interesting tracks.
:( )
I just got Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 yesterday, and I haven't been able to atop playing it. Other than getting used to the isometric view, the game plays like a dream. The animation is super-smooth, and the game has most of the tracks found in the Dreamcast version (not all of them, though
We pay for guaranteed 384Kbps. We seem to get around 1Mbit, though, most of the time.
I asked about what security measures we were planning to implement, and was told: "ReplayTV will use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology as well as password protection. This will ensure that only the person who has the password will be able to set the recordings using MyReplayTV.com." As for user privacy, please see: http://www.replaytv.com/custome r/productprivacy.htm Basically, your PERSONAL information, including viewing statistics will not be sold to anyone without your prior consent (although, I think if I was offered the option of becoming a Neilsen viewer, I might take it - get better shows on the air). AGGREGATE viewing statistics may be sold to third parties, but your PERSONAL viewing habits and demographic information is safe. -David -Hardware Design Engineer -ReplayTV, Inc.
Are there any musicians here such jerks that they only want people to listen to their music if they can pay for it? This is what the record companies are saying (along with a whole host of unconstitional things).
If that is the case, then not only do I have zero respect for you as an artist, but you deserve whatever piracy befalls you.
It is not surprising that tech is moving to a centralized model. Just as renting, leasing, and contracting give the (sometimes valid) illusion of freedom and mobility, so do the new content distribution models. Convenience has become our new favorite form of empowerment.
All these things ARE empowering under the right circumstances. When there are lots of jobs, and the economy is doing well, this means rapid upward-mobility for workers, and the ability to purchase items based on that upward-mobility. As for software/content, when there is competition for the consumer, the consumer benefits from all this new convience. He/she never has to worry about upgrading their software, as apps are pulled down from a central server. Music is accessible from anywhere, and if you wish to BUY physical objects, it's only OneClick (tm) away.
However, there's a dark side to both of these forms of fluidity. When the "new" economy tanks, employment-at-will becomes much less attractive. Things like job security, rent control, social security and welfare start to seem much more sensible. Having all your life's savings tied up in a mutual fund starts to seem a bit riskier.
Similarly, convenience in the world of bits starts to lose its appeal when competition is stifled, and the number of producers shrinks. All of a sudden, you can't view something you bought. Or maybe you become forced to pay a subscription fee for something you don't need updated. Or maybe you give up your privacy because the alternative is prohibitively expensive or inconvenient. Or maybe you give up your fair-use rights to all media because the 5 companies at the top have decided they don't want you to share "content."
In fact, the very word "content" really sums up our rent-not-own culture. Not "art," or "ideas." CONTENT. Nothing designed to have any lasting value - just stuff to fill a hole in a marketing plan until the next fad rolls around.
Are you content with "content"?
If you want to support streaming over FireWire in any kind of retail consumer electronics environment, you have to abide by an amazing amount of rules, and pay a huge number of fees in order to become DTLA compliant. Without DTLA-compliant hard drives, there wasn't much Replay could do...
They're only going to track people who are ALREADY NIELSON VIEWERS. Replay isn't harvesting customer information, NIELSON is. That's their JOB! People need to read a little before they freak out. And GOD FORBID companies might show you advertising for something you might actually WANT TO SEE! That's worse than HITLER!
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Every experience I've ever had with Vulture Capitalists has been a bad one. All this talk about NDAs is a joke - try to keep a secret in the Valley and you'll see what I mean. These guys sit around with their buddies in Palo Alto and tell each other everything. It's a rich boys club that is only interested in making the VCs rich.
Once they give you money, here's how it goes:
1. They require a majority of votes on the board. There's no way around this if you want the money. They usually achieve this by kicking one of the founders off the board. At this point it really isn't your company anymore, as VCs vote in a well-orchestrated block.
3. They then start lurching the company around, changing directions each time they think they can sell the company to one of their buddies. You'll be stuck trying to BS your employees over and over, convincing them that each misstep is really part of some well-thought-out plan.
4. When they can't sell the company, they start cutting costs. They start with the little stuff, and work their way to the engineers. And if you had any engineers on the BOARD, they'll get kicked off right away.
This is about the time that I left my last company.
Investment bankers are a little easier to deal with, but they are all inside traders anyway (seriously), and I wouldn't trust them too much either.
If there's ANY way you can do it alone, or with money from friends, you should do it that way.
And NDA or no NDA, once you talk to VCs, you might as well consider your idea public, so you better patent or copyright your invention if you want to make money on it.
Every experience I've ever had with Vulture Capitalists has been a bad one. All this talk about NDAs is a joke - try to keep a secret in the Valley and you'll see what I mean. These guys sit around with their buddies in Palo Alto and tell each other everything. It's a rich boys club that is only interested in making the VCs rich.
Once they give you money, here's how it goes:
1. They make sure to fire, or at least kick off the board, at least one of the founders.
2. They require a majority of votes on the board. There's no way around this if you want the money. At this point it really isn't your company anymore.
3. They then start lurching the company around, changing directions each time they think they can sell the company to one of their buddies. You'll be stuck trying to BS your employees over and over, convincing them that each misstep is really part of some well-thought-out plan.
4. Then they start cutting costs. They start with the little stuff, and work their way to the engineers. And if you had any engineers on the BOARD, they'll get kicked off right away.
This is about the time that I left my last company.
Investment bankers are a little easier to deal with, but they are all inside traders anyway (seriously), and I wouldn't trust them too much either.
If there's ANY way you can do it alone, or with money from friends, you should do it that way.
And NDA or no NDA, once you talk to VCs, you might as well consider your idea public, so you better patent or copyright your invention if you want to make money on it.
I loved the Diamond Age right up until the "Drummers" started getting involved. Snow Crash, too, descended into metaphysical silliness at the end, to a lesser degree. The two BEST books of his I've read are Cryptonomicom (I LOVE this book) and Interface (under the name Steven Bury). Read Interface ASAP! It's a political sci-fi thriller with some really cool ideas.
Kind of doubt that will happen. I did some of the hardware design on the Aero 8000, and it contains a companion chip from Eclipse (my old company) for which too much IP is involved to release any useful specs (like register addresses, functions). All drivers were given to CPQ as binaries. The companion chip handles PS2, serial, PCMCIA, CF, and I think IrDA. If you want to ask them about this, go to Eclipse's website Don't blame me, I'm just a hardware guy. Now I'm working at Hitachi, and I believe someone has ported Linux to our SH4 development system, so just wait for a product based around that to come out. ps: The Aero 8000 has no USB
There are AT commands to do all this stuff, if you want to roll your own software. You'd have to do the system side (sound, etc) yourself. Rockwell (now Conexant) supports this through the use of what they call "business audio," which uses half-duplex digital PCM audio data from your computer (over the serial port/ISA slot). They also have an analog path to and from the chip, but that would be trickier, as unless you have a speakerphone version, the mic from your PC is probably not hooked up to your modem. Here's a few Rockwell (they're the MOST comman modem chipset manufacturer) AT commands (including fax and CLID)to get you started:
7.5 CALLER ID COMMANDS
#CID=0 Disable Caller ID.
#CID=1 Enable Caller ID with formatted presentation.
#CID=2 Enable Caller ID with unformatted presentation.
7.6 FAX CLASS 1 COMMANDS
+FCLASS=n Service class.
+FAE=n Data/fax auto answer
+FRH=n Receive data with HDLC framing.
+FRM=n Receive data.
+FRS=n Receive silence.
+FTH=n Transmit data with HDLC framing.
+FTM=n Transmit data.
+FTS=n Stop transmission and wait.
7.7 FAX CLASS 2 COMMANDS
+FCLASS=n Service class.
+FAA=n Adaptive answer.
+FAXERR Fax error value.
+FBOR Phase C data bit order.
+FBUF? Buffer size (read only).
+FCFR Indicate confirmation to receive.
+FCLASS= Service class.
+FCON Facsimile connection response.
+FCIG Set the polled station identification.
+FCIG: Report the polled station identification.
+FCR Capability to receive.
+FCR= Capability to receive.
+FCSI: Report the called station ID.
+FDCC= DCE capabilities parameters.
+FDCS: Report current session.
+FDCS= Current session results.
+FDIS: Report remote capabilities.
+FDIS= Current sessions parameters.
+FDR Begin or continue phase C receive data.
+FDT= Data transmission.
+FDTC: Report the polled station capabilities.
+FET: Post page message response.
+FET=N Transmit page punctuation.
+FHNG Call termination with status.
+FK Session termination.
+FLID= Local ID string.
+FLPL Document for polling.
+FMDL? Identify model.
+FMFR? Identify manufacturer.
+FPHCTO Phase C time out.
+FPOLL Indicates polling request.
+FPTS: Page transfer status.
+FPTS= Page transfer status.
+FREV? Identify revision.
+FSPL Enable polling
+FTSI: Report the transmit station ID.
7.8 VOICE COMMANDS
#BDR Select baud rate (turn off autobaud).
#CLS Select data, fax, or voice.
#MDL? Identify model.
#MFR? Identify manufacturer.
#REV? Identify revision level.
#TL Audio output transmit level.
#VBQ? Query buffer size.
#VBS Bits per sample.
#VBT Beep tone timer.
#VCI? Identify compression method.
#VGT Set playback volume in the command state.
#VLS Voice line select.
#VRA Ringback goes away timer (originate).
#VRN Ringback never came timer (originate).
#VRX Voice receive mode.
#VSD Enable silence deletion (no function, command response only).
#VSK Buffer skid setting.
#VSP Silence detection period (voice receive).
#VSR Sampling rate selection.
#VSS Silence detection tuner (voice receive).
#VTD DTMF/tone reporting.
#VTM Enable timing mark placement.
#VTS Generate tone signals.
#VTX Voice transmit mode.
7.9 VOICEVIEW COMMANDS
+FCLASS=n Service class
-SVV Originate VoiceView data mode
-SAC Accept data mode request
-SIP Initialize VoiceView parameters
-SIC Reset capabilities data to default setting
-SSQ Initiate capabilities query
-SDA Originate modem data mode
-SFX Originate FAX data mode
-SMT Mute telephone
-SDS Disable switchhook status monitoring
-SQR Capabilities query response control
-SCD Capabilities data
-SER? Error status (read only)
-DTP VoiceView transmission speed
-SSR Start sequence response control
+FLO Flow control select
+FPR Serial port rate control
-SSV VoiceView data mode start sequence event
-SFA Facsimile data node start sequence event
-SMD Modem data mode start sequence event
-SRA Receive ADSI response event
-SRQ Receive capabilities query event
-SRC: Receive capabilities information event
-STO Talk-off event
7.10 DSVD COMMANDS
-SSE=1 Enable DSVD
-SSE=0 Disable DSVD
To me, it seems like this is just a way for Apple to get free beta testers who are smarter than the average mac user.
Remember when we were all were stoked (or at least I was) when companies started releasing beta software for us to try out. Now Apple does this, and EVEN with the source code, and people get pissed?
I get the arguments about those people who want to possibly write their own code and don't want their license revoked, but for me (a hardware guy, and Apple USER), I'm just hoping people will help Apple make their OS better. I'm not really hoping for YET ANOTHER OS OS. We have Linux, which is probably a lot less spaghetti-ish than any Apple code. In fact, there are TWO flavors of Linux on the PPC.
I think the code will be useful even if just to help me figure out what went wrong when my mac crashed for the 10th timt of the day.
Dude. I got pricing at the Embedded Systems Conference around 50 bucks per display from Colorado Microdisplay. What the fuck is this 2500 bucks crap? Is the extra 2400 bucks for the "helmet?" Someone needs to undercut these guys, and FAST. (oh yeah - for pics, check out http://www.virtualvision.com/Products.htm)
You guys missed the coolest part about the story:
"You might also notice that Be, Inc. has Voodoo2 powered Glide drawing in a Window."
Uh... Isn't that the SHIT? Voodoo power for your 3D apps? See what I'm saying?
-David