If the RIAA could have a live concert transmitted to holodecks all over the world where they would profit off the tickets, then they could drop the price of CD's because they would have already made their money, just like the MPAA.
Here's a question to wrap your brain around... It has been proven with atomic clocks that people on a space craft orbiting the earth at high speed experience a slightly different timeline than people on earth. In other words, the clock went at a different speed (slower) on the ship because they were traveling faster, proving Einstein's theories, at least partially.
So what happens if you are on a different planet that orbits at a different speed and travels around the sun at a different speed?
Would this also make everything go haywire once we get the technology to venture out of the solar system, since we will be traveling very very quickly to another star system, and then when we slow down to get there, maybe 5 years passed on earth and only 4 on the shuttle?
I would assume that you would turn it off at the office or wherever you ride the thing to... You wouldn't want the batteries draining the whole time you're there trying to hold itself up...
Wasn't there something like this involved with those skateboards in Back to the Future? Once this technology advances enough, why not just build it right into the shuttle? Then we have no need for the huge launcher...
I agree... I have nothing against computer animated movies. As a matter of fact I really enjoyed Shrek. But as for action movies, I'd much rather see real stuff being blown up. Now I realise a lot of the "real" stuff may be CG anyway, but I just think it makes it more enjoyable all the way around. Plus I can't see myself getting all worked up about animated characters anyway. I feel much more connected in movies where I can relate to the characters, and that requires them to be human IMHO.
Now this just made me consider something. Is it really neccesarry to "install" games on your PC? You know that the games on the X-Box are going to be just as complex, if not in gameplay at least in code. So why do we have to go through DLL hell on our PC's and take up a gig of HD space for one game?
All of you out there that don't break the copy protection on your games have to keep the media in the tray anyway, so why not just put the CD/DVD in the tray and have it AutoLoad? Bang, no problems. And I don't have to buy a bigger hard drive!
And yes, I realize you would still use some space for game saves, new levels, etc... But that's not the point.
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I loved the SNES when it came out... If I remember right, I had it hooked up right next to my commodore 64! The SNES looked very good next to the old C64.
It looks as though the sensors merely sense muscle movement in your hands. So it really wouldn't matter where your hands are, as long as you're making the correct fingerstrokes.
Wouldn't a file size of 1 PentaByte be kind of useless? I mean - it seems like that one file would be like a partition of it's own, inside that file you would have to have logical breaks to make it searchable kind of like seperate files... Just an idea.
Trying to wrap my head around that big of a file...
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So it sounds like we need holodecks.
If the RIAA could have a live concert transmitted to holodecks all over the world where they would profit off the tickets, then they could drop the price of CD's because they would have already made their money, just like the MPAA.
hmmmm...
Here's a question to wrap your brain around... It has been proven with atomic clocks that people on a space craft orbiting the earth at high speed experience a slightly different timeline than people on earth. In other words, the clock went at a different speed (slower) on the ship because they were traveling faster, proving Einstein's theories, at least partially.
So what happens if you are on a different planet that orbits at a different speed and travels around the sun at a different speed?
Would this also make everything go haywire once we get the technology to venture out of the solar system, since we will be traveling very very quickly to another star system, and then when we slow down to get there, maybe 5 years passed on earth and only 4 on the shuttle?
Just wondering...
I would assume that you would turn it off at the office or wherever you ride the thing to... You wouldn't want the batteries draining the whole time you're there trying to hold itself up...
Just my $.02
Just in case anyone wanted a link to the people that created this...
Let's see if that technology saves them from a good old fashioned slashdotting.
After you've put in the code, and the DVD starts playing, you can take out the code via the menu system.
I believe it is located in the menu system under an icon labeled parental control. Then just change it to the "off" level.
'If you expected TiVo to adjust for the last-minute changes of the networks in real time'
Actually TiVo can do this with over the air bumps from the networks. Too bad the networks hate the idea of TiVo and won't go along with it...
Wasn't there something like this involved with those skateboards in Back to the Future? Once this technology advances enough, why not just build it right into the shuttle? Then we have no need for the huge launcher...
>>request removal of any link to our website
Yeah. Then you say "no".
IANAL but I don't think they can really enforce this... Anyone have any test cases or examples?
Yeah the last reason anyone puts up a website is because they want traffic to it. What were they thinking?
I agree... I have nothing against computer animated movies. As a matter of fact I really enjoyed Shrek. But as for action movies, I'd much rather see real stuff being blown up. Now I realise a lot of the "real" stuff may be CG anyway, but I just think it makes it more enjoyable all the way around. Plus I can't see myself getting all worked up about animated characters anyway. I feel much more connected in movies where I can relate to the characters, and that requires them to be human IMHO.
Just my $.02
Microsoft is a business. They want to make money. I think this is a smart business decision...
Now this just made me consider something. Is it really neccesarry to "install" games on your PC? You know that the games on the X-Box are going to be just as complex, if not in gameplay at least in code. So why do we have to go through DLL hell on our PC's and take up a gig of HD space for one game?
All of you out there that don't break the copy protection on your games have to keep the media in the tray anyway, so why not just put the CD/DVD in the tray and have it AutoLoad? Bang, no problems. And I don't have to buy a bigger hard drive!
And yes, I realize you would still use some space for game saves, new levels, etc... But that's not the point.
I loved the SNES when it came out... If I remember right, I had it hooked up right next to my commodore 64! The SNES looked very good next to the old C64.
It looks as though the sensors merely sense muscle movement in your hands. So it really wouldn't matter where your hands are, as long as you're making the correct fingerstrokes.
Wouldn't a file size of 1 PentaByte be kind of useless? I mean - it seems like that one file would be like a partition of it's own, inside that file you would have to have logical breaks to make it searchable kind of like seperate files... Just an idea.
Trying to wrap my head around that big of a file...
I say create an AI, then let it figure out how to play chess. That's the only fair way to do it - that's what humans have to do.