When launching a new movie streaming service, don't bother unless you start with..say..100,000 movies. 500 movies is laughable, risible, ridiculous.
Just saying, Technology has advanced, no reason why all movies in existence can't be hosted in HD in h.264 format on the cloud by the studios, and provided to partners such as vodswede.
That's assuming you actually want to compete with unauthorized copies. Maybe this is just to tell judges there are legal alternatives or something. It just seems too pathetic to mean anything else.
Money for the millions of miles of fiber, millions of industrial grade cisco or juniper routers, millions of cell towers, etc. etc. Not raw materials, but finished materials that are quite expensive.
And we also have to add in the money for the regular maintenance and necessary upgrades of this infrastructure.
What's with all the discrimination against easter european nations? They're just as european as the rest of them. Hell, poland is even part of the E.U nowadays. Is russia supposed to be in asia or something?
To accompany this ability to intelligently divide up the graphics workload, Lucid is offering up scaling between GPUs of any KIND within a brand (only ATI with ATI, NVIDIA with NVIDIA) and the ability to load balance GPUs based on performance and other criteria.
So what is the deal? Is it cross-brand or not?
Also, they are only planning to launch their chipset on one motherboard with one manufacturer. It all sounds like a short-lived gimmick to me.
Sony doesn't have Amazon's catalog and their software and net-fu are inferior.
The kindle will be buried either by either:
1- revolutionary advances in battery technology that'll make netbooks and tablets into book readers
2- Or by a company that has UI know-how, enough money and savvy to build a triple-A network and a willingness to lose money to gain a foothold on the market. (IE: Microsoft)
Or we both understand it and I'm making a self-deprecating joke based on the original "there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't".
I am thus implying that I tried to mimic it and got it wrong, since hexadecimal can only contain letters up to F.
Obviously, since I had to explain this, it means my joke failed:/
It was fine not to have internet guardrails at the edge of the internet when only a handful of people used the newly-built tubes a few decades ago. Furthermore the packets were shot at fairly slow speed from those old dialup modems.
Nowadays, everybody is on the internet, shooting packets at blazing internet broadband speed, We're talking whole megahertzs of packets. Without guardrails, a collision could easily cause a gigantic internet explosion, wiping out much of virtual porn sites on the internet sidewalks.
This is exactly what I've been thinking ever since I moved to the U.S . All those small print, multipage contracts written in legalese that everyone is supposed to read and understand are an absurdity. You need them to rent a house, buy a car, get insurance, enroll in school, install software, using websites, ad nauseam...
The problem is that the world is so complex nowadays, what with technology and global trade, that the amount of laws required seems to greatly surpass the memorization capabilities of any human (or even lawyer) in any country. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if so many laws are passed daily that it is simply impossible to keep up. Not enough hours in the day.
So, what is the solution? Is there a solution? I don't think so. We're pretty much stuck with the current system which relies on faith, trust, common sense and dumb luck. All of which fail at some point or another, making the whole lot of us into criminals. Thus the whole "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" argument is wrong and, in fact, can be evil.
I think the reason why we are taught the way you describe is a question of cost. We are like geese being force-fed the concentrated intellectual achievements of other people. There is not enough time to allow people to forage on their own and get a taste of what the quest for knowledge is really like.
It requires less teachers and less time to mass-educate people that way. Whether this makes up for the shortcomings of this method is tough to say.
The whole concept is laughable. Realtime HD compression and streaming? Low enough latencies to make it work?
It's simply *impossible* for the foreseeable future. The only games this would be good for are slow and graphically simple casual puzzle games and the experience would still be significantly worse than what's available today. Worse than even the free flash games a la popcap that everyone who has a computer can play.
This is just a scheme to defraud gullible investors. Period.
As much as I dislike recurring fees, I have to admit that in this particular case, you get what you pay for. Xbox Live is way, way, WAY better than Sony's crappy online offering. I should know, I own all 3 consoles and I only play online on the 360, because it's actually an enjoyable experience. Sony and Nintendo both completely screwed the pooch on online functionality and while nintendo (more than) made up for it with innovative controls and low initial price, the PS3's trump cards (best theoretical performance and BluRay) just aren't enough to offset all they did wrong. And boy, did they do a lot of things wrong. (crappy update mechanism requiring too much user interaction, mandatory installation for games are just the tip of the iceberg)
The landline monopoly, Ittisalat Al Maghrib, which is also the only land-based broadband provider (DSL) does not look kindly on VOIP resellers. There are some underground VOIP resellers but they get shut down and arrested if they are caught.
This doesn't stop the well-off people to have a secondary vonage (or similar) landline for calling abroad but it does discourage any competition on the local level.
I own a first gen kindle and an iPhone and this is a very nice gift from Amazon. A free app that allows me to keep reading my e-books when I'm bored and don't have my kindle handy. What's not to like?
It's not often that I say this about a huge corporation but Kudos to Amazon for thinking about the consumer and providing more convenience as opposed to the Riaa/Mpaa.
Now, if only they would get that stupid DRM off their ebooks and slash their (inflated) prices, I'd have nothing left to complain about.
I, for one, applaud this action from Glaxo. Sure, they might have been dragged into showing a modicum of heart kicking and screaming by several governments over the years, but this remains a positive step towards a better world.
And at the end of the day, It's all anyone can ask for. Right?
Check out the X-25M. I predict at least one of your storage drives will be SSD within 365 days and all new systems, desktops and laptops will carry them within 3 with seek/read/write speeds that will put to shame today's top of the line 15RPM SCSI drives.
Now, all that remains is replacing Optical drives with new flash-based floppys (or USB keys) and the era of non-solid state devices in the computer will have ended.
Saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it" is a surefire sign of a weak argument.
Until now, no serious operating system has mandated what is, at best, crippleware sucking part of your resources and limiting your ability to copy bits. This is anathema to what computers and networks are about and is an ugly thing to do. It is also disrespectful to its consumers who clearly don't want this "feature".
Apple is not innocent either, the new macs now support DRM at the displayport level.( see http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/11/18.9.shtml/. But the offense, while minor, will force the strongheaded consumer to break the law by dabbling in sometimes-illegal warez ever-available.
Linux is free by default. the user chooses whether to install drm plugins. The best option yet, though outweighed for many by the relatively poor user interface and the lack of support for many commercial applications (GAMES!!!). Virtualization within linux could end up boosting it and helping making it a dashboard ontop of which different OSes are running in their little virtual hardware. Who knows when it'll happen...
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Hi there movie industry,
When launching a new movie streaming service, don't bother unless you start with..say..100,000 movies. 500 movies is laughable, risible, ridiculous.
Just saying, Technology has advanced, no reason why all movies in existence can't be hosted in HD in h.264 format on the cloud by the studios, and provided to partners such as vodswede.
That's assuming you actually want to compete with unauthorized copies. Maybe this is just to tell judges there are legal alternatives or something. It just seems too pathetic to mean anything else.
Good luck to you, MPAA.
Yo I'm really glad for you and imma let you finish, but your links have the least screenshots of all time, of all time!
Dvorak is an idiot, trying to get publicity for his stupid views. Windows 7 is good.
Money for the millions of miles of fiber, millions of industrial grade cisco or juniper routers, millions of cell towers, etc. etc. Not raw materials, but finished materials that are quite expensive.
And we also have to add in the money for the regular maintenance and necessary upgrades of this infrastructure.
As an african, this sounds quite plausible to me. There certainly needs to be a bigger slice of the population in the middle class.
Another fact is that there is simply not enough money in the world to pay for all the infrastructure in all the countries.
What's with all the discrimination against easter european nations? They're just as european as the rest of them. Hell, poland is even part of the E.U nowadays. Is russia supposed to be in asia or something?
DAMN YOU AND YOUR OFFENSIVE STORIES!
From TFA (emphasis mine):
To accompany this ability to intelligently divide up the graphics workload, Lucid is offering up scaling between GPUs of any KIND within a brand (only ATI with ATI, NVIDIA with NVIDIA) and the ability to load balance GPUs based on performance and other criteria.
So what is the deal? Is it cross-brand or not?
Also, they are only planning to launch their chipset on one motherboard with one manufacturer. It all sounds like a short-lived gimmick to me.
The people responsible for combofix have done the lot of us a great big favor. Combofix saved my ass a couple of times.
And that is why IE8 has the best battery life - the IE version of the Flash player is hardware accelerated.
That's the first I hear of this. Cite?
Sony doesn't have Amazon's catalog and their software and net-fu are inferior.
The kindle will be buried either by either:
1- revolutionary advances in battery technology that'll make netbooks and tablets into book readers
2- Or by a company that has UI know-how, enough money and savvy to build a triple-A network and a willingness to lose money to gain a foothold on the market. (IE: Microsoft)
Or we both understand it and I'm making a self-deprecating joke based on the original "there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't".
I am thus implying that I tried to mimic it and got it wrong, since hexadecimal can only contain letters up to F.
Obviously, since I had to explain this, it means my joke failed :/
It was fine not to have internet guardrails at the edge of the internet when only a handful of people used the newly-built tubes a few decades ago. Furthermore the packets were shot at fairly slow speed from those old dialup modems.
Nowadays, everybody is on the internet, shooting packets at blazing internet broadband speed, We're talking whole megahertzs of packets. Without guardrails, a collision could easily cause a gigantic internet explosion, wiping out much of virtual porn sites on the internet sidewalks.
This is exactly what I've been thinking ever since I moved to the U.S . All those small print, multipage contracts written in legalese that everyone is supposed to read and understand are an absurdity. You need them to rent a house, buy a car, get insurance, enroll in school, install software, using websites, ad nauseam...
The problem is that the world is so complex nowadays, what with technology and global trade, that the amount of laws required seems to greatly surpass the memorization capabilities of any human (or even lawyer) in any country. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if so many laws are passed daily that it is simply impossible to keep up. Not enough hours in the day.
So, what is the solution? Is there a solution? I don't think so. We're pretty much stuck with the current system which relies on faith, trust, common sense and dumb luck. All of which fail at some point or another, making the whole lot of us into criminals. Thus the whole "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" argument is wrong and, in fact, can be evil.
Absurd eh?
What else did you expect from socialists.
I think the reason why we are taught the way you describe is a question of cost. We are like geese being force-fed the concentrated intellectual achievements of other people. There is not enough time to allow people to forage on their own and get a taste of what the quest for knowledge is really like.
It requires less teachers and less time to mass-educate people that way. Whether this makes up for the shortcomings of this method is tough to say.
Great vehicle concept, looks fun and runs on electricity. I hope it takes off and prices come down so I can afford one.
The whole concept is laughable. Realtime HD compression and streaming? Low enough latencies to make it work?
It's simply *impossible* for the foreseeable future. The only games this would be good for are slow and graphically simple casual puzzle games and the experience would still be significantly worse than what's available today. Worse than even the free flash games a la popcap that everyone who has a computer can play.
This is just a scheme to defraud gullible investors. Period.
As much as I dislike recurring fees, I have to admit that in this particular case, you get what you pay for. Xbox Live is way, way, WAY better than Sony's crappy online offering. I should know, I own all 3 consoles and I only play online on the 360, because it's actually an enjoyable experience. Sony and Nintendo both completely screwed the pooch on online functionality and while nintendo (more than) made up for it with innovative controls and low initial price, the PS3's trump cards (best theoretical performance and BluRay) just aren't enough to offset all they did wrong. And boy, did they do a lot of things wrong. (crappy update mechanism requiring too much user interaction, mandatory installation for games are just the tip of the iceberg)
The landline monopoly, Ittisalat Al Maghrib, which is also the only land-based broadband provider (DSL) does not look kindly on VOIP resellers. There are some underground VOIP resellers but they get shut down and arrested if they are caught.
This doesn't stop the well-off people to have a secondary vonage (or similar) landline for calling abroad but it does discourage any competition on the local level.
You, sir, are a rare visionary. Such a simple and elegant solution! It seems obvious in retrospect.
Genius! Pure genius!
I own a first gen kindle and an iPhone and this is a very nice gift from Amazon. A free app that allows me to keep reading my e-books when I'm bored and don't have my kindle handy. What's not to like?
It's not often that I say this about a huge corporation but Kudos to Amazon for thinking about the consumer and providing more convenience as opposed to the Riaa/Mpaa.
Now, if only they would get that stupid DRM off their ebooks and slash their (inflated) prices, I'd have nothing left to complain about.
I, for one, applaud this action from Glaxo. Sure, they might have been dragged into showing a modicum of heart kicking and screaming by several governments over the years, but this remains a positive step towards a better world.
And at the end of the day, It's all anyone can ask for. Right?
Your opinion may vary.
Thanks for the link dude. It's a good read. The stuff that makes Ars Technica great.
Check out the X-25M. I predict at least one of your storage drives will be SSD within 365 days and all new systems, desktops and laptops will carry them within 3 with seek/read/write speeds that will put to shame today's top of the line 15RPM SCSI drives.
Now, all that remains is replacing Optical drives with new flash-based floppys (or USB keys) and the era of non-solid state devices in the computer will have ended.
Good riddance.
Saying "if you don't like it, don't buy it" is a surefire sign of a weak argument.
Until now, no serious operating system has mandated what is, at best, crippleware sucking part of your resources and limiting your ability to copy bits. This is anathema to what computers and networks are about and is an ugly thing to do. It is also disrespectful to its consumers who clearly don't want this "feature".
Apple is not innocent either, the new macs now support DRM at the displayport level.( see http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/11/18.9.shtml/. But the offense, while minor, will force the strongheaded consumer to break the law by dabbling in sometimes-illegal warez ever-available.
Linux is free by default. the user chooses whether to install drm plugins. The best option yet, though outweighed for many by the relatively poor user interface and the lack of support for many commercial applications (GAMES!!!). Virtualization within linux could end up boosting it and helping making it a dashboard ontop of which different OSes are running in their little virtual hardware. Who knows when it'll happen...