Why does a laptop need 64-bits? Are you addressing more than 4GB memory? I haven't seen a laptop yet that can support more physical memory than 32-bit chips can address, nor can I see someone doing heavily scientific work on a laptop as they tend to have slower, smaller hard drives. Extended memory and scientific precision are the only valid reasons I can think of needing 64-bit architecture, neither of which apply directly to laptops.
Music Matters. If you doubt it for an instant, try a frenzied, frustrating commute or a long, lonely drive without the companionship of your favorite artist's voice. Go for a morning run without the heart-pumping energy of a pace-setting song. Imagine a memory empty of the artists that have become cultural icons. They unite millions in a single image of common understanding. Without Elvis, our collective image of the '50s would simply be teens screaming at an empty stage. Without the Beatles, Abbey Road would be just another pedestrian crossing on a back street in London. In these moments and so many more "moments so integral to our lives they go unseen and under-appreciated" music matters. That's why the RIAA devotes itself to making music matter to more people than ever before.
On behalf of its member companies, the RIAA works to protect the value of music. Of course, music isn't the only part of our lives that deserves more appreciation than it sometimes gets. The people of music do, too. Technology initiatives of record companies and policy initiatives coordinated by the RIAA are working toward a seamless, interconnected world for music fans.
So they basically admit it. The RIAA keeps working to ensure the price of music is inflated. They pretty much admit people don't think their product is worth as much as they say it is, hence the need to "proctect its value". What's funny is their website has nothing to do with music. None, whatsoever. There are no links on it to ways to get legit music, it is all propoganda about why we need to reinforce their tired and non-functional business model. I also noticed their only feedback link is to their webmaster (poor guy). Are they afraid of the feedback people would give them? If anyone has an email address I could use to let them know how retarded they are, I'd appreciate it.
What if there is an asteroid about to hir Earth and the governement knows this and planned a "drill" to evacuate people underground that really isn't a drill. It would save people not on the list from trying to get there:)
"and who the fuck needs to wear camo on a raid of a server room anyway?"
No kidding. Much more effective camo in that terrain would be a Sun microsystems hat and a half-life 2 t-shirt. And don't forget the sweat pants! He'd be nearly invisible!
Technically, I think we were trespassing. There weren't any fences or signs, but we were certainly on their property. I'm fairly sure they didn't know we were there, and they were collecting the runoff, not just letting it flow into the river.
I am from Glenview, Illinois, where Kraft has their HQ. They have a nice R&D plant right in the middle of town, and one time, when I was growing up (I was maybe 11 or 12), my friends and I took a little hike through the wooded area behind it. There was a large storm drain coming out of the plant that led into the North Branch of the Chicago River. What startled my friends and me was the presence of a few guys in biohazard suits scribbing the walls of it off with a high-pressure hose of some kind. Whatever the secret ingredient is for their cream cheese, I hope it doesn't produce whatever they were scrubbing down!
As far as color clarity, Apple does a good job providing easy to use control panels for calibrating the display in software. ColorSync, for the most part, works very well at providing consistent color across computers. The same cannot be said for Windows, which is why Adobe ships Photoshop for windows with a seperate color calibration program.
Games, on the other hand, don't really need to be 100% accurate color wise in order to be played perfectly. That is why the Mac has the stigma of being better for graphics, because you can bet that any work you do in any program on a Mac will look the same on anyone's mac, or when output to paper or video.
Are we surprised that the guy selling the chips to be implanted is suggesting we use them? SHOCK! I bet he heard how there were millions of aliens here in the USA and thought, "boy, how about we chip them with my product! I'd make a fortune!" I bet a lot of companies have solutions for the immigration problem that involve buying their product. Way to catch on a buzzword, buddy!
Looks to be the same to me, save a smaller harder to read font. A lot of other entries looked a lot more pleasant (no, I didn't submit, so I'm not bitter). I know Taco wanted the site to be different yet the same, but I think this is far too much on the "same" path. Not all change is bad, Taco.
They made the comparison, not me. I have a gaming PC connected to my 50" DLP, the same TV I'll have the PS3 connected to should it come down in price a notch. I also want to make sure BlueRay doesn't end up shutting appliances off in your house that play un-DRMed stuff, while slapping your friends around for being in the room with music on without paying.
Since there are no benchmarks for either of them, isn't that a bit soon to say that? "Our unreleased product is 40% faster than your unreleased product?" Come on now!
There's a bit more design elements going into a PS3 than just the raw pixel pushing. I still don't see many FPS games on a PC that can do let 4 players play on the same computer screen.
You can also look at it this way. Legitimate companies would not tarnish their name by mercilessly spamming people. They have working opt-in/opt-out mechanics and play by all the rules. By having these people pay a fee to stay in the rules, you can bet that gives you an incentive to ensure you have on your list only people who really want to get your messages. Sending to people who don't want it will cost them money, so they keep their lists clean.
Also, right now there is sure to be a good deal of media attention about it, and companies might hitch a ride on the PR wagon by saying they are "Goodmail Certified". If it does catch on, they can further bask in being "the first".
I do think there is a good chance this will fail miserably, either by low adoption or greed by upping rates, etc.
A boss I once had while working on a NSF grant funded project a handfull of years ago held a meeting his first week on the job. This is his actual quote: "I'm not very good at searching the internet, can one of you put it on a CD for me?" Followed by everyone else in the meeting promptly walking out of the room shaking our heads.
This project was a highschool biology series of CD-ROMs, which used html/javascript on a CD (worked in all browsers, all platforms). It was a great project, except that moron gave away "samples" to so many schools the market dried up, as well as feature creep which prevented him from ever declaring the CDs gold. I suspect this project is led by this moron (or a cloned similar PHB model), and will never come to fruition.
Moral of the story is, don't let a project director hire one of his "soccer buddies" to lead a project just because his friend is unemployed. We all became that way (except for the stupid PHB who still works for the university but hasn't had a raise in 5 years... it is nearly impossible to be fired from a public university).
Could these particles having mass explain the "missing matter" that scientists formerly attributed to dark matter? I wonder what other particles are there taking up space that we never thought had mass, either.
In theory, if it is decoupled, you could run multiple versions of IE on the same machine to test compatibility. This will save QA departments from having to use virtual machines or seperate machines to test each version of IE. Granted, if IE stuck to standards, you wouldn't have to test in every browser known to man, but at least this is a compromise.
Sony will start selling 25GB BD-RE and BD-R discs in April for $20 and $25 respectively and 50GB capacity versions of the same discs later in the year for $48 and $60 respectively.
I think the bigger question is (at least according to the article snippit here) why are the write-once versions more expensive than the rewritable ones? That does not make any sense whatsoever. CD-RWs are more expensive than CD-Rs, and DVD-RWs are more expensive than DVD-Rs. That has to be a mistake by submitter, no?
I wonder how they have the drives partitioned. I assume there are seperate partitions for windows and mac, as windows won't install on HFS+ and mac won't boot on NTFS. Can each OS access the drive of the other OS? You might as well get 2 computers to network together if you can't share documents saved in either OS.
Very true. I think they could get away with advertising HDPC compatible even if it didn't have DVI, because HDCP will be used in the future (if the *IAAs get their way) to connect everything, including those shiney new Blueray DVD drives, HDDVD, etc. If your video card doesn't support HDPC, even with a VGA adaptor, you won't be able to decode the video on the disc.
In this case, however, it sounds like the decoder functions are disabled at the chip level somehow. If a ROM flash fixes it, no harm done, only a bit of bad PR turned into good PR when the fix comes out. This does sound a bit worse though.
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Why does a laptop need 64-bits? Are you addressing more than 4GB memory? I haven't seen a laptop yet that can support more physical memory than 32-bit chips can address, nor can I see someone doing heavily scientific work on a laptop as they tend to have slower, smaller hard drives. Extended memory and scientific precision are the only valid reasons I can think of needing 64-bit architecture, neither of which apply directly to laptops.
Really? I wouldn't put it past any US politician to eat their own young if it would further their political career.
On behalf of its member companies, the RIAA works to protect the value of music. Of course, music isn't the only part of our lives that deserves more appreciation than it sometimes gets. The people of music do, too. Technology initiatives of record companies and policy initiatives coordinated by the RIAA are working toward a seamless, interconnected world for music fans.
From http://www.riaa.com/issues/default.asp
So they basically admit it. The RIAA keeps working to ensure the price of music is inflated. They pretty much admit people don't think their product is worth as much as they say it is, hence the need to "proctect its value". What's funny is their website has nothing to do with music. None, whatsoever. There are no links on it to ways to get legit music, it is all propoganda about why we need to reinforce their tired and non-functional business model. I also noticed their only feedback link is to their webmaster (poor guy). Are they afraid of the feedback people would give them? If anyone has an email address I could use to let them know how retarded they are, I'd appreciate it.
Ok, conspiracy theory over!
No kidding. Much more effective camo in that terrain would be a Sun microsystems hat and a half-life 2 t-shirt. And don't forget the sweat pants! He'd be nearly invisible!
Technically, I think we were trespassing. There weren't any fences or signs, but we were certainly on their property. I'm fairly sure they didn't know we were there, and they were collecting the runoff, not just letting it flow into the river.
I am from Glenview, Illinois, where Kraft has their HQ. They have a nice R&D plant right in the middle of town, and one time, when I was growing up (I was maybe 11 or 12), my friends and I took a little hike through the wooded area behind it. There was a large storm drain coming out of the plant that led into the North Branch of the Chicago River. What startled my friends and me was the presence of a few guys in biohazard suits scribbing the walls of it off with a high-pressure hose of some kind. Whatever the secret ingredient is for their cream cheese, I hope it doesn't produce whatever they were scrubbing down!
Games, on the other hand, don't really need to be 100% accurate color wise in order to be played perfectly. That is why the Mac has the stigma of being better for graphics, because you can bet that any work you do in any program on a Mac will look the same on anyone's mac, or when output to paper or video.
Are we surprised that the guy selling the chips to be implanted is suggesting we use them? SHOCK! I bet he heard how there were millions of aliens here in the USA and thought, "boy, how about we chip them with my product! I'd make a fortune!" I bet a lot of companies have solutions for the immigration problem that involve buying their product. Way to catch on a buzzword, buddy!
Punctuation, motherfucker! Do you use it?
Looks to be the same to me, save a smaller harder to read font. A lot of other entries looked a lot more pleasant (no, I didn't submit, so I'm not bitter). I know Taco wanted the site to be different yet the same, but I think this is far too much on the "same" path. Not all change is bad, Taco.
That's exactly what I was getting at. There's more than just pixel pushing.
They made the comparison, not me. I have a gaming PC connected to my 50" DLP, the same TV I'll have the PS3 connected to should it come down in price a notch. I also want to make sure BlueRay doesn't end up shutting appliances off in your house that play un-DRMed stuff, while slapping your friends around for being in the room with music on without paying.
There's a bit more design elements going into a PS3 than just the raw pixel pushing. I still don't see many FPS games on a PC that can do let 4 players play on the same computer screen.
I don't see it listed in the release notes, but does it finally support SATA NCQ?
Also, right now there is sure to be a good deal of media attention about it, and companies might hitch a ride on the PR wagon by saying they are "Goodmail Certified". If it does catch on, they can further bask in being "the first".
I do think there is a good chance this will fail miserably, either by low adoption or greed by upping rates, etc.
This project was a highschool biology series of CD-ROMs, which used html/javascript on a CD (worked in all browsers, all platforms). It was a great project, except that moron gave away "samples" to so many schools the market dried up, as well as feature creep which prevented him from ever declaring the CDs gold. I suspect this project is led by this moron (or a cloned similar PHB model), and will never come to fruition.
Moral of the story is, don't let a project director hire one of his "soccer buddies" to lead a project just because his friend is unemployed. We all became that way (except for the stupid PHB who still works for the university but hasn't had a raise in 5 years... it is nearly impossible to be fired from a public university).
Could these particles having mass explain the "missing matter" that scientists formerly attributed to dark matter? I wonder what other particles are there taking up space that we never thought had mass, either.
In theory, if it is decoupled, you could run multiple versions of IE on the same machine to test compatibility. This will save QA departments from having to use virtual machines or seperate machines to test each version of IE. Granted, if IE stuck to standards, you wouldn't have to test in every browser known to man, but at least this is a compromise.
I'm still waiting for Earth life to survive in Washington, DC.
I think the bigger question is (at least according to the article snippit here) why are the write-once versions more expensive than the rewritable ones? That does not make any sense whatsoever. CD-RWs are more expensive than CD-Rs, and DVD-RWs are more expensive than DVD-Rs. That has to be a mistake by submitter, no?
I wonder how they have the drives partitioned. I assume there are seperate partitions for windows and mac, as windows won't install on HFS+ and mac won't boot on NTFS. Can each OS access the drive of the other OS? You might as well get 2 computers to network together if you can't share documents saved in either OS.
3 lbs full or empty? I'm guessing methanol isn't massless.
In this case, however, it sounds like the decoder functions are disabled at the chip level somehow. If a ROM flash fixes it, no harm done, only a bit of bad PR turned into good PR when the fix comes out. This does sound a bit worse though.
My chip's cores go to 11. Take that.