Actually, if you read the article, it gave a few uses of it, suck as putting a serial number imprinted directly on the CD media iteself instead of worring about the ink on the label fading (some ink-jet inks fade BADLY). It is very rare that recording artists fill up an entire 74 minute CD with music, so I can see them being very interested in playing with the T@2 feature to personalize their stuff. If you are an artist trying to get started, it may be something that will catch people's eye, as it is very unique and I'm sure many people have not seen anything like that before. Music artists LOVE to push the limits of art and technology. Hell, the first hybrid cd-rom I ever had was a Primus album (tales from the punchbowl) that had a data session with a macromedia director made application.
My question is, if you gave a CD with this on it to a fabrication facility for distrobution, would they be able to reproduce that with the stamping hardware?
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The rumor I hear and believe is that iTunes 4 goes to a plugin architecture for sound formats and ogg support is in. I hopefully assume that means ogg in the ipod at the same time. Sometime next year. I can wait to re-rip my aluminized polycarbonate music ownership tokens until then.
What i think is more likely is that they will use the built-in encoding libraries of QuickTime. There is an Ogg library already for QuickTime on sourceforge here. If they make iTunes use the QuickTime interface like so many other apps do, then you could import many more file types, complete with plug-in architecture.
I use a 1400 MHz machine at home with 1024 MB of RAM, 3 hard drives, and a reasonably good videocard. I made the transition from Windows to Linux this year, and I was surprised to find that if you have the right hardware- there are games to be played. There are even plenty of good 3D games. My computer is by no means top-of-the-line anymore, but it will still run all current Linux games at good speeds.
I don't mean to sound like a troll here, but I am still using a 450MHz G4 with a flashed Asus GeForce2 MX 64MB vid card, and I haven't found a game yet that my computer can't run very well (until Doom 3 that is!). It's a 3+ year old machine and it still works like a charm. Seriously, you have a 1.4GHz machine, I'd hope it could still play games, even in Linux.
If they think they can safely parachute land a bus full of people, why can't they put safety parachutes on airliners? I understand airliners are much bigger, but the technology must be there. Isn't the cost worth it?
Does this really surprise anyone? They keep making games more realistic every day, and I don't know if you've looked around you, but you're surrounded by ads. Billboards, bus stops, signs, windows... ads on them all. Hell, even the air can be filled with them (blimps and banner planes). It was only a matter of time before our simulated reality products simulated that aspect too. Hell, games have had ads in them for ages, just usually for simulated products. Now they are just getting realistic enough to reproduce the exact ads specified by the advertisers. Also the turnaround time in making games these days is getting smaller and more manageable to fit in advertising trends. Hopefully they won't be too intrusive in the future, and will only stick to passive advertising. If they start putting commercials in my games between levels, I swear I will never buy again.
you could multiply the numbery of fps by using a prism and having a different ccd for each color (i think some digicams do this already). Or have a rotating mirror that reflects the image to a different ccd for each frame for a cycle of, say 10, and that should get you another 10x capture speed, roughly. Is that even possible? It sounds easy enough. A mirror that rotates in circles isn't too much wear, 15k rpm is easy with a good bearing.
Doesn't save the bandwidth, though. 600MB/sec seems reasonable with an expensive disk array. Or heck, even get gobs of RAM (it's cheap too!)
seeing as this is a science and technology related site, I figured I'd try to relate my questions to this topic. Ok, so here goes.
What do you feel are the most important inventions/advancements in food preparation/service technology in the last 25 years, and which do you use the most in your cooking (i've seen you use just about anything not nailed down on Good Eats!).
What areas of food perparation/service do you feel can still be benefited more by future technology?
I know that's technically two questions, but they're kinda related. Also, thanks for having such a great show, I have learned a lot from you, and look forward to reading your book!
Hi, remember paper? Remember that it can be stored for very long periods of time without much degredation. And remember that there is something called a safe deposit box at banks? You lock up the documentation for your discovery, then when it is "time" to release it, open it up again. Problem solved. Worst case scenario, you are not around anymore, just bury the key into this wacky invention called a "time capsule".
I'm sure there are enough unsold original Xboxes in the channel to allow all the mod chips to be sold, if people want them. All this would mean to the mod chip people is that they now (or will, once this one gets cracked too) have two products to sell instead of one. Seems like a good deal to me. I really doubt the mod chip companies are gonna just toss the old chips, it's not like M$ is gonna force people to return their first gen boxes because of their hardware oversight.
For me (don't know if it is randomly inserted ad or not...) the CNN article about this bill here had a very large nicely placed ad for Philips DVD-RW drives that simply stated, in big letters, "Burn your own DVD's!". I laughed...
...is MTV Music Generator for PlayStation and PS2. It is really easy and fun to assemble scores using the built-in sound logic on the consoles. It is very flexible and very addictive. You can even make a video to go with it. I like it.
Does that make anyone else think of a gay pride parade slogan? I'm not homophobic, just stating what popped into my mind! I do think it is a pretty good idea, as long as MS doesn't force them to use their new 802.11b secuirty implementations they claim they are releasing later this year... Although I doubt this will succede. A lot of people have interference problems in their own home, let alone cross-country. Anyone care to come up with an estimate on how many base stations would be needed to cover all the US? I bet it's a lot!
There is some information lacking in people's comment's i've noticed. First of all, the lower quality setting is compatible with Toast VCD, as it captures at 320 x 240 resolution. This stores about an hour of video on one CD. The unit also has a higher quality setting which they say is "double" the resoultion of the regular video. I assume they mean 640 x 480, which is really 4x resolution, but we'll see. From what i've seen on screen captures of the quality, looks pretty decent. And this unit is different than a regular capture card because it has a cable ready coaxial connector, not just composite and s-video (although it has those too). So, whereas with a standard vid cap card, you'd ned a vcr to tune the stations, this one just hooks up to the wall jack. Seems like a pretty good solution to me!
I personally like The Crystal Method (more the older stuff), Orbital, Juno Reactor, and Hallucinogen. They seem to reflect the sounds most new electronic music listeners like. You'll probably recognize many Orbital songs, as they have been featured in many movies, such as Hackers, the Saint, Spawn, and many more. Crystal Method is also commonly heard in popular sources, such as in Automobile ads (unfortunately!).
I could have sworn there was already an article on/. several monts ago about this change (can't find the story now though...), as it has been in the media player EULA for a while now. I may just be on crack though.
I'd like to see these figures crossreferenced to the amount of alcohol consumed in the same locations. Scottland? France? Italy? They all like to drink, now don't they. Hmmmm... must be something in alcohol;)
Why did they make it like C? You'd think they'd base it on a more object-oriented language like Java. I'm guessing when you are designing 3d worlds (or objects) being able to create objects with their own private methods and properties would be a lot better. Until I actually see the language syntax, I'll pass judgement, but for now... C? Come on... I've used C, Perl, Java, VB, C++ and a few others, and C is the last one I'd choose to base a new language's syntax on, if I had a chance.
There are hundreds of comments posted on/. every time some think tank, goverment sheep, or microsoft sponsored clone writes some desparaging article about open-source software, and that's all good, you all make wonderful points. However, sitting at your computer bitching to this site won't ever do much good, as I'm fairly certain all those clones, sheep, and "thinkers" will never hear a word of it.
If you have something to say, why not start a petition? Why not write a well-written (as opposed to the one above) article and try to have a newspaper or respected journal publish it? Write your congressman (as I have done) and explain in a well-thought-out manner the points and counter points of why open source software is essential in maintaining the rate of innovation in the computer industry.
I'm not complaining, or trying to be a troll, but even if you copied and pasted some of these very good comments that appear here into an e-mail to some of the powers that be, it would do far more good, and would probably make you feel much better about your day as well.
If they were really concerned with driving down costs for customers and saving themselves money, they would adopt a standard size ink cartridge that fits all their printers. Epson is nutorious for this. They have as many sizes and shapes of ink carts. as they have printers. Actually, they have even more, since most require a color and a black. It makes no sense to me. They could cut their costs dramatically if they only went through the effort of coming up with a standard size cartridge. Using Epson as an example, their printers all can be grouped into catagories, either they are 720x720 dpi, 1440x720dpi or 2880x720 dpi. Why do they need to change the shape of the cartridge for every printer? Wouldn't it be much cheaper to only have to produce a few standard sizes instead of as many different ones as they have printers?
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My question is, if you gave a CD with this on it to a fabrication facility for distrobution, would they be able to reproduce that with the stamping hardware?
What i think is more likely is that they will use the built-in encoding libraries of QuickTime. There is an Ogg library already for QuickTime on sourceforge here. If they make iTunes use the QuickTime interface like so many other apps do, then you could import many more file types, complete with plug-in architecture.
I don't mean to sound like a troll here, but I am still using a 450MHz G4 with a flashed Asus GeForce2 MX 64MB vid card, and I haven't found a game yet that my computer can't run very well (until Doom 3 that is!). It's a 3+ year old machine and it still works like a charm. Seriously, you have a 1.4GHz machine, I'd hope it could still play games, even in Linux.
If they think they can safely parachute land a bus full of people, why can't they put safety parachutes on airliners? I understand airliners are much bigger, but the technology must be there. Isn't the cost worth it?
Just my 2 cents.
you could multiply the numbery of fps by using a prism and having a different ccd for each color (i think some digicams do this already). Or have a rotating mirror that reflects the image to a different ccd for each frame for a cycle of, say 10, and that should get you another 10x capture speed, roughly. Is that even possible? It sounds easy enough. A mirror that rotates in circles isn't too much wear, 15k rpm is easy with a good bearing.
Doesn't save the bandwidth, though. 600MB/sec seems reasonable with an expensive disk array. Or heck, even get gobs of RAM (it's cheap too!)
I never said this was gonna be cheap.
seeing as this is a science and technology related site, I figured I'd try to relate my questions to this topic. Ok, so here goes.
I know that's technically two questions, but they're kinda related. Also, thanks for having such a great show, I have learned a lot from you, and look forward to reading your book!
Hi, remember paper? Remember that it can be stored for very long periods of time without much degredation. And remember that there is something called a safe deposit box at banks? You lock up the documentation for your discovery, then when it is "time" to release it, open it up again. Problem solved. Worst case scenario, you are not around anymore, just bury the key into this wacky invention called a "time capsule".
I'm sure there are enough unsold original Xboxes in the channel to allow all the mod chips to be sold, if people want them. All this would mean to the mod chip people is that they now (or will, once this one gets cracked too) have two products to sell instead of one. Seems like a good deal to me. I really doubt the mod chip companies are gonna just toss the old chips, it's not like M$ is gonna force people to return their first gen boxes because of their hardware oversight.
For me (don't know if it is randomly inserted ad or not...) the CNN article about this bill here had a very large nicely placed ad for Philips DVD-RW drives that simply stated, in big letters, "Burn your own DVD's!". I laughed...
...is MTV Music Generator for PlayStation and PS2. It is really easy and fun to assemble scores using the built-in sound logic on the consoles. It is very flexible and very addictive. You can even make a video to go with it. I like it.
Does that make anyone else think of a gay pride parade slogan? I'm not homophobic, just stating what popped into my mind! I do think it is a pretty good idea, as long as MS doesn't force them to use their new 802.11b secuirty implementations they claim they are releasing later this year... Although I doubt this will succede. A lot of people have interference problems in their own home, let alone cross-country. Anyone care to come up with an estimate on how many base stations would be needed to cover all the US? I bet it's a lot!
I got most of my info from this link: http://www.macintoshdigitalhub.com/reviews/eyetv/i ndex.html. Hope this helps clear stuff up!
Just my 2 cents.
I could have sworn there was already an article on /. several monts ago about this change (can't find the story now though...), as it has been in the media player EULA for a while now. I may just be on crack though.
I'd like to see these figures crossreferenced to the amount of alcohol consumed in the same locations. Scottland? France? Italy? They all like to drink, now don't they. Hmmmm... must be something in alcohol ;)
I've heard that it takes an ungodly long time to burn a full dvd-r. I think it would be better to wait until they are up to more like 12x DVD.
Was that the robot was heard yelling, "NEED INPUT!" all the way to the parking lot. It was also apprehended by Steve Guttenberg.
Why did they make it like C? You'd think they'd base it on a more object-oriented language like Java. I'm guessing when you are designing 3d worlds (or objects) being able to create objects with their own private methods and properties would be a lot better. Until I actually see the language syntax, I'll pass judgement, but for now... C? Come on... I've used C, Perl, Java, VB, C++ and a few others, and C is the last one I'd choose to base a new language's syntax on, if I had a chance.
If you have something to say, why not start a petition? Why not write a well-written (as opposed to the one above) article and try to have a newspaper or respected journal publish it? Write your congressman (as I have done) and explain in a well-thought-out manner the points and counter points of why open source software is essential in maintaining the rate of innovation in the computer industry.
I'm not complaining, or trying to be a troll, but even if you copied and pasted some of these very good comments that appear here into an e-mail to some of the powers that be, it would do far more good, and would probably make you feel much better about your day as well.
Just my $0.02.
is that as far as memory goes, 640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Curious if Linux users can get it to work! Post here if you do.
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If they were really concerned with driving down costs for customers and saving themselves money, they would adopt a standard size ink cartridge that fits all their printers. Epson is nutorious for this. They have as many sizes and shapes of ink carts. as they have printers. Actually, they have even more, since most require a color and a black. It makes no sense to me. They could cut their costs dramatically if they only went through the effort of coming up with a standard size cartridge. Using Epson as an example, their printers all can be grouped into catagories, either they are 720x720 dpi, 1440x720dpi or 2880x720 dpi. Why do they need to change the shape of the cartridge for every printer? Wouldn't it be much cheaper to only have to produce a few standard sizes instead of as many different ones as they have printers?