Glass computers? Cerial boxes with video? Floaty holograms?
Asside from display technology, the only diffrence between the computers they had and the ones we have is that you could hook psychics up to their computers and see the future.
Since he basically said that he feels bad hearing is a reasonable price to pay for toppling the recording industry. And that any problems could be averted by some simple hacks without increasing filesize.
The article is an interesting read, but there seems to be one major flaw. If loud noises cause resonance, then there will still be something for our ears to filter out while listening to MP3 music.
It says, basically "Listening to music with lots of information removed may be bad for your brain's neural filtering hardware. But on the other hand, it also hurts the music industry, which is good since CDs are over-priced."
so they don't need to make things all that 'cool'. Planes can stay in service for decades, and american companies can't afford new, super-huge jets anyway.
Nintendo has been around for over 100 years, and Sony has been around for at least 50. And, while Nintendo is mostly games only, Sony has a lot to fall back on... Sony even made the Tape recorder Nixon used to erase the Watergate tapes:P. I'm sure Sony will be around for another 20 years, and I'm willing to bet Nintendo will be as well.
In fact, if Nintendo really needed the money, they could use the installments as collateral for a loan, and get quite a bit more then 3 billion dollars.
I guess you can't expect most people nowadays to 'get' it, but come on, I'm sure most people on slashdot know the difference between the 'web' and the 'internet'. When something is web enabled that means you can access and control it using a web browser over HTTP. (although I suppose most browsers can use FTP these days).
Wow, I've never heard of FTP being used as a control protocol. Sure, HTTP might have been a bit much (although I doubt it. people have run webservers computers the size of matchheads. Even HTTP over a serial connection on an apple2). Why not use straight telnet with no options?
And I wonder how this control works, do you CD into a spesifc cordinate of space to examine? Can you DIR the stars it can see to find which ones to look more closely at, and then GET the acual data?
Don't act like apple is some kind champion of open standards or something, they've been trying to cram QuickTime down everyone throats for years... and while the format itself may be open, some of the codecs are not (Sorensen Anyone?).
A lot of my dislike of QuickTime has to do with their shitty, buggy, windows viewer program (after all this time it still can't do full screen, wtf!?). But in all seriousness I know my life would be a lot nicer if everyone used truly open, independent file formats and codecs.
Apple is just as guilty of playing the proprietary crap game in terms of video as Microsoft, if not more so.
I distinctly remember news articals from the early 90s discussing the SNES-CD, and they said it would be called the PlayStation.
As far as copyright.gov goes, well.
1) it's not a copyright, it's a trademark.
2) The deal was made in Japan, not the US.
3) Trademark law is a bit diffrent, in that you can start using a term, and trademark it later. As long as you've been 'trading' under that name, you get protection. So even with out legal ownership nintendo could still have a case.
And lets not forget 4) Slashdot is not a bullshit free site.
Anyway, the artical is total crap for reasons other people mentioned, but so is your post. Your history is warped, and so is your understanding of Intelectual Property.
Seriously, the stories in most commic books are extreemly trite. If they cost 10 They might be worth it. 1/3rd the price of a move for 1/20th the entertainment isn't much of a deal... especialy when most of the stories are lower quality then free entertanment on the boob toob.
Yeah, I never really looked at the supposed literary greats of the comic world... but there the price diferential is even greater. I could pay $8 for a Gibson (for example) novel that would take me 18 hours to get through, or $3 for a comic that would take 10 minutes if you were lucky...
I used to love comic books, video games, and TV. I still enjoy video games once in a while, but my desire for all three of those things has really gone down. I now find Comic books way overpriced for 3 or 4 minutes of plesure, and TV just knaws at my brain.
People really do grow out of things, but it's not like throwing more blood into a video game is going to make me want to play it more. The only stuff that kind of thing apeals to are 12-15 year old boys.
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Glass computers? Cerial boxes with video? Floaty holograms?
Asside from display technology, the only diffrence between the computers they had and the ones we have is that you could hook psychics up to their computers and see the future.
I don't think we have that yet..
All of those things simply downsample, while psychoacoustic compresses things that are not audible due to the minds built-in filtering.
What this guy is saying is that that filtering out all the stuff that our brains would filter out will result in a degredation of those filters.
Since he basically said that he feels bad hearing is a reasonable price to pay for toppling the recording industry. And that any problems could be averted by some simple hacks without increasing filesize.
The article is an interesting read, but there seems to be one major flaw. If loud noises cause resonance, then there will still be something for our ears to filter out while listening to MP3 music.
Even a Janitor there would be like an expert on what is or is not quackery.
It says, basically "Listening to music with lots of information removed may be bad for your brain's neural filtering hardware. But on the other hand, it also hurts the music industry, which is good since CDs are over-priced."
Uncheck the 'rate pages' box right above the links.
so they don't need to make things all that 'cool'. Planes can stay in service for decades, and american companies can't afford new, super-huge jets anyway.
Come on, it would take two seconds to use google. Nissan's domain is nissan-usa.com, They have it all their advertizements.
This guy has had that domain while Nissan was still called 'datsun'.
Nintendo has been around for over 100 years, and Sony has been around for at least 50. And, while Nintendo is mostly games only, Sony has a lot to fall back on... Sony even made the Tape recorder Nixon used to erase the Watergate tapes :P. I'm sure Sony will be around for another 20 years, and I'm willing to bet Nintendo will be as well.
In fact, if Nintendo really needed the money, they could use the installments as collateral for a loan, and get quite a bit more then 3 billion dollars.
You have the soviet russia thing way off.
A better joke would be "In soviet russia, satallite FTPs into you!"
I guess you can't expect most people nowadays to 'get' it, but come on, I'm sure most people on slashdot know the difference between the 'web' and the 'internet'. When something is web enabled that means you can access and control it using a web browser over HTTP. (although I suppose most browsers can use FTP these days).
There are computers worth more then $15m hooked up to the internet, I'm sure.
No no no. They'll be sending DIP, the digital interstellar plasmotromiter.
Wow, I've never heard of FTP being used as a control protocol. Sure, HTTP might have been a bit much (although I doubt it. people have run webservers computers the size of matchheads. Even HTTP over a serial connection on an apple2). Why not use straight telnet with no options?
And I wonder how this control works, do you CD into a spesifc cordinate of space to examine? Can you DIR the stars it can see to find which ones to look more closely at, and then GET the acual data?
Hrm, actualy that would be kind of cool.
Really? Then what does Ctrl+F do?
Not a thing.
It really matters a lot to me that felt that way.
Oh wait, no it dosn't.
Don't act like apple is some kind champion of open standards or something, they've been trying to cram QuickTime down everyone throats for years... and while the format itself may be open, some of the codecs are not (Sorensen Anyone?).
A lot of my dislike of QuickTime has to do with their shitty, buggy, windows viewer program (after all this time it still can't do full screen, wtf!?). But in all seriousness I know my life would be a lot nicer if everyone used truly open, independent file formats and codecs.
Apple is just as guilty of playing the proprietary crap game in terms of video as Microsoft, if not more so.
Don't you think the trademark of relevence would have been filed in japan, not the US?
I distinctly remember news articals from the early 90s discussing the SNES-CD, and they said it would be called the PlayStation.
As far as copyright.gov goes, well.
1) it's not a copyright, it's a trademark.
2) The deal was made in Japan, not the US.
3) Trademark law is a bit diffrent, in that you can start using a term, and trademark it later. As long as you've been 'trading' under that name, you get protection. So even with out legal ownership nintendo could still have a case.
And lets not forget 4) Slashdot is not a bullshit free site.
Anyway, the artical is total crap for reasons other people mentioned, but so is your post. Your history is warped, and so is your understanding of Intelectual Property.
Seriously, the stories in most commic books are extreemly trite. If they cost 10 They might be worth it. 1/3rd the price of a move for 1/20th the entertainment isn't much of a deal... especialy when most of the stories are lower quality then free entertanment on the boob toob.
Yeah, I never really looked at the supposed literary greats of the comic world... but there the price diferential is even greater. I could pay $8 for a Gibson (for example) novel that would take me 18 hours to get through, or $3 for a comic that would take 10 minutes if you were lucky...
I used to love comic books, video games, and TV. I still enjoy video games once in a while, but my desire for all three of those things has really gone down. I now find Comic books way overpriced for 3 or 4 minutes of plesure, and TV just knaws at my brain.
People really do grow out of things, but it's not like throwing more blood into a video game is going to make me want to play it more. The only stuff that kind of thing apeals to are 12-15 year old boys.
The artical you're talking about was on slashdot just one day ago. And no one is going to do any coaxing.
In any event, nintendo has been trying to change their demographics for a while, but they havn't been able to.
What about the playstation 5!!!
:P)
(it has a trinary processor
No amount of filtering can make slashdot look good.