This is a happy moment for me, but I can't really think of any games currently on Xbox that would translate very well into an arcade experience. Maybe Panzer Dragoon, the platformers, and a few racing games that, while I don't personally find them all that interesting, tend to be popular in arcades. Is this just a continuation of this article involving Sega though? Or maybe they're just going to use MAME! Realistically, without Sega's support, what would Microsoft have to offer for the arcade world?
Best outcome? It's expedited demise
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The best outcome of the Columbia tragedy would be for NASA to get entirely out of the suborbital and orbital business altogether. As a pure launch vehichle, the Space Shuttle was not all that efficient, especially when considering the turnaround time involved. Handing over (what should be) relatively simple tasks to the private sector, would save millions of dollars of pork and mismanagement, thereby freeing said missions from a needless government bureaucracy and private sector 'contractors-for-life'. For it to remain viable, NASA needs to focus on extra-terran missions, both robotic and manned, if it wishes to remain a worthy vassal of the United States taxpayer.
For that matter, even lunar missions would be a better use of money than testing the effects of near zero gravity on ants.
"Once the regulatory uncertainty is removed, I strongly believe investors will once again look at the VoIP industry as the hot space to invest in and encourage innovation in."
Is there any reason to believe the VoIP will flourish with regulation, let alone reason to believe that it will flourish without it? The telephone industry is an institution in the US. (Try living for a month without phone access). It seems to me that for VoIP to work en masse, it will have to be somewhat backward compatible with the current system.
In short, I can see how VoIP would be cool if it worked completely free of the current phone networks, but I don't see it as practicle. In regards to this issue, I can see why it could argue that it should be regulation free, but on the other hand, I just don't foresee a market large enough to justify regulation for it. If I'm missing something, please feel free to enlighten me.
Just by looking at the headline, I am reminded of the episode of the Simpsons, Deep Space Homer, where Homer went into space as an 'average-naut', and ultimately caused the mission to be a failure, including setting ruffled potato chips loose throughout the '0g' environment and setting free a colony of ants in an ant farm int he process eating the floating chips.
Maybe I just watch too much TV. Now where did I put that issue of Time with the inanimate carbon rod's picture on it?
Adverse effects like small markets being able to get their local 3-5 stations over satellite? Adverse effects like a somewhat faster satellite internet connection? Adverse effects like nation-wide pricing?
Silly me, I must need to check the definition of adverse.
The reason the action block is being removed is that Cartoon Network found that a large number of kids were watching the block. The purpose of 'Adult Swim' was to have animated programming on the air that was aimed at adults. The ratings they were getting said that a lot larger block of kids were watching the Saturday night programming, thus the change to the 'school night' lineup. Granted, they have those unnecessarily long warning, but they have to show this because otherwise stupid parents would complain (and probably did anyway), and because Cartoon Network is still filed under a kids programming station.
The purpose of Adult Swim is to help Cartoon Network transition from kid's programming to an over-all entertainment network. The expansion of the Adult Swim franchise should be seen as a good thing, especially seeing that Futurama will be added to the weekly block. I think there's a lot more of us that will appreciate Futurama having a regular home than those who cared about the animes listed above.
I know I'll sure enjoy seeing Futurama every weeknight, and as long as the Sunday block is left alone, I'll be alright. The real issue with the new schedule that I have is whether Space Ghost is still on the Sunday block or not.
That means we'll probably have to wait yet another year for the MacGyver Reunion Special, or the Richard Dean Anderson E! True Hollywood Story.
Oh well, I guess there's always of catching him on the old reruns of General Hospital on Soap Network.
...that true genius is recognized by the masses until the genius has passed this plain. While the books are genius, if you ask Joe Blow on the street if he knows what H2G2 is, he'd probably think you're on crack.
The real problem, as stated elsewhere, will be the end product. The thousand monkeys in LALA land have been known to ruin pretty much everything once they get their hairy hackneyed hands on books. Let's hope the BBC or Adams' estate insure that we get something that would have made him proud. If 'Salmon of Doubt' is any indication, it should be at the very least, quite acceptable.
How soon until Microsoft convinces their cellular 'interests' to support a forthcoming scaled-down/scalable version of Direct3D for embedded and mobile devices? What would be even better? How about a 3D version of.NET! I can see the headlines now, "Now you can use your 'MS Office 3D.NET.11 for Workgroups' applications on your cell phone while you're driving down the highway in your SUV!"
How could they use a previous score written for a different cut of the film? This version contains 1300 feet of film that hasn't been in any version of the film since since the original German release. This cut, at 147 minutes, is only six minutes shorter than the original, but far shorter than director's 210 minute cut, which is apparently lost forever. More information can be found at the Digital Bits, and from the restorer's site, and Kino's site, the company releasing the DVD of this version.
My cross country coach in high school always said that McDonalds was the problem with the distance program at our high school. Perhaps a bit simplistic, but I tend to think that our culture in general tends to lend itself to be against such thing as having a large quantity (and high quality) of high speed marathon and long distance runners. Match that with the low profit margins of becoming a 'professional' runner, and there's little motivation for most people to try. Granted, there are many exceptions to this rule, but none have consistantly broken through to dominate the distance races. I somehow doubt that any technology will overcome a culture's (in this case, the United States) general mentality, no matter how motivated the individuals may be.
From the doucment: "Topics to be addressed at the workshop include:
[rtrif] The effectiveness of efforts to pursue technical standards or solutions that are designed to provide a more predictable and secure environment for digital transmission of copyright material;"
Let's see, so far the efforts that content providers have created to secure content include: Macrovision - prevents authorized and unauthorized copying of video content, also adds signal detioration--status: hardware cracks exist, may be negated by content providers abandoning it due to its inability to do anything of value CSS - DVD's digital protection--status: cracked by Norwegian linux users SDMI - Watermaking/digital music protection--status: cracked by a professor, stalled in deployment by its creators 'secure' cds - prevents pcs from ripping cds, causes macs to expolode--status: cracked, felt tip marker
[rtrif] Major obstacles facing an open commercial exchange of digital content;
The industry itself seems to be the major obstacle.
[rtrif] What a future framework for success might entail;
A lessening of the current insane and ridicuously long copyright laws in the United States; abolition of the music industry in its current form Or, value added content, or value priced content using a working protection scheme
[rtrif] Current consumer attitude towards online entertainment.
Their first project is to create a virtual dictionary and spell checker so that the Slashdot editors make sure that their posts to the front page are spelled properly. As an added bonus, it'll even check grammar! Unfortunately, the scientists aren't sure if there's enough bandwidth available yet to correct all the mistakes.
Microsoft has spent over $500 million on advertising for Xbox in the United States alone. The United States has an estimated population of 278,058,900. Which means Microsoft is spending about $1.80 per citizen to promote the Xbox.
Microsoft plans on spending $750 million on advertising for Microsoft in China. China has an estimated population of 1,273,111,300. Microsoft therefore is spending about $0.59 per citizen on advertising in China.
Granted, the demographics for each group are vastly smaller than the overall population, and the dollar, in spite of its recent downturn, still can buy a lot more in China than it can in the US. But this still seems disproportionate, especially considering China has the potential to become the world's largest technology market.
Note: All currency was figured using US dollars. Population statistics gathered from City Population.
Prior to September 11th, 2001, it was inconceivable that anyone would be capable of using airplanes as guided missiles and then fly them into buildings. Look where we are now.
I already have file-served tv
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It's called usenet. In the alt.binaries hierachy, many popular shows are already being distributed in this manner(albeit without consent of the respective programs' creators or distributors). While I'm not able to get a program produced by my local public television affiliate or from the local university channel unless I capture it myself, quite a number of programs are available-- some even before they are on your local affiliates. I remember how cool it was to be able to watch Fox's '24' in widescreen, since the local affiliate doesn't have hdtv yet. (For that matter, neither do I).
Something smells like NERD around here....
*checks armpits for odor*
Oh crap, it's just me!
*droooool*
But seriously, after all the pounds that Shatner put on during the series, I'd be worried that the chair has already developed its own ass groove that, while priceless in trek history, just would not work well with my own ass.
when I forgot to pay the gas bill. Those were some really cold showers.
[Serious note: The power plant that we get the juice from uses coal, and I don't own a car, so I truly was off of oil.]
It wouldn't be surprising if LUCass decides to redo the original trilogy.... again. It'd mean more green in his pockets. Consider:
A New Hope (or just Star Wars as it was called back then), had a re-release in theaters just after it's original run.
All three of the original films were re-released as 'special' editions in 1997, supposedly to hype the forthcoming prequel trilogy.
The number of VHS incarnations of the original trilogy: There were the original releases, all with different box covers. There was the black box THX classic version. There was the Gold box Special Edition (and silver box for wide screen). There was the Special Edition White box (and it's wide screen cousin), which contained Episode 2 film. The black box and gold box also had official laserdisc releases(the originals may have as well, I'm not aware of them though).
On top of just the film releases, there's the countless action figures, Expanded Universe books(and audio books), lunchboxes, comic books, sound tracks, costumes, high dollar collectibles, and everyone's favorite, the Jar-Jar shaped eraser.
The almighty dollar was the Phantom Menace behind episode one, but e2 suffers from Lucas' loss of touch with this nice little thing called story-telling.
We should have seen the loss of ability coming, especially with some of the changes made in the 'special' editions of the original trilogy, the most glaring in A New Hope. (The worst being the infamous 'Greedo shooting first' fiasco, and the totally unnecessary addition of Boba Fett to the film). Many people say Lucas has fallen in love with special effects, I think he's fallen in love with greed.
Does anyone know if his illness was the reason he wasn't included in the Futurama season finale with the remainder of the living crew of the Enterprise(more accurately, the surviving cast of Star Trek), or did he not want to participate in the project?
I think a large part of Futurama's problems with Fox(and many of the othershows listed in the discussion above) are a failing in the manner in which the Nielsen ratings are done. How many people on slashdot even KNOW a person who is a nielsen 'household', let alone are a nielsen voter?
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So I guess that arcades and arcade machines aren't dead after all?
This is a happy moment for me, but I can't really think of any games currently on Xbox that would translate very well into an arcade experience. Maybe Panzer Dragoon, the platformers, and a few racing games that, while I don't personally find them all that interesting, tend to be popular in arcades. Is this just a continuation of this article involving Sega though? Or maybe they're just going to use MAME! Realistically, without Sega's support, what would Microsoft have to offer for the arcade world?
The best outcome of the Columbia tragedy would be for NASA to get entirely out of the suborbital and orbital business altogether. As a pure launch vehichle, the Space Shuttle was not all that efficient, especially when considering the turnaround time involved. Handing over (what should be) relatively simple tasks to the private sector, would save millions of dollars of pork and mismanagement, thereby freeing said missions from a needless government bureaucracy and private sector 'contractors-for-life'. For it to remain viable, NASA needs to focus on extra-terran missions, both robotic and manned, if it wishes to remain a worthy vassal of the United States taxpayer.
For that matter, even lunar missions would be a better use of money than testing the effects of near zero gravity on ants.
Is there any reason to believe the VoIP will flourish with regulation, let alone reason to believe that it will flourish without it? The telephone industry is an institution in the US. (Try living for a month without phone access). It seems to me that for VoIP to work en masse, it will have to be somewhat backward compatible with the current system.
In short, I can see how VoIP would be cool if it worked completely free of the current phone networks, but I don't see it as practicle. In regards to this issue, I can see why it could argue that it should be regulation free, but on the other hand, I just don't foresee a market large enough to justify regulation for it. If I'm missing something, please feel free to enlighten me.
So that's what people did before they had television and the internet to occupy themselves with!
Just by looking at the headline, I am reminded of the episode of the Simpsons, Deep Space Homer, where Homer went into space as an 'average-naut', and ultimately caused the mission to be a failure, including setting ruffled potato chips loose throughout the '0g' environment and setting free a colony of ants in an ant farm int he process eating the floating chips.
Maybe I just watch too much TV. Now where did I put that issue of Time with the inanimate carbon rod's picture on it?
...but production was halted by industrial action.
What exactly does 'industrial action' mean?
Adverse effects like small markets being able to get their local 3-5 stations over satellite? Adverse effects like a somewhat faster satellite internet connection? Adverse effects like nation-wide pricing? Silly me, I must need to check the definition of adverse.
The reason the action block is being removed is that Cartoon Network found that a large number of kids were watching the block. The purpose of 'Adult Swim' was to have animated programming on the air that was aimed at adults. The ratings they were getting said that a lot larger block of kids were watching the Saturday night programming, thus the change to the 'school night' lineup. Granted, they have those unnecessarily long warning, but they have to show this because otherwise stupid parents would complain (and probably did anyway), and because Cartoon Network is still filed under a kids programming station.
The purpose of Adult Swim is to help Cartoon Network transition from kid's programming to an over-all entertainment network. The expansion of the Adult Swim franchise should be seen as a good thing, especially seeing that Futurama will be added to the weekly block. I think there's a lot more of us that will appreciate Futurama having a regular home than those who cared about the animes listed above.
I know I'll sure enjoy seeing Futurama every weeknight, and as long as the Sunday block is left alone, I'll be alright. The real issue with the new schedule that I have is whether Space Ghost is still on the Sunday block or not.
That means we'll probably have to wait yet another year for the MacGyver Reunion Special, or the Richard Dean Anderson E! True Hollywood Story. Oh well, I guess there's always of catching him on the old reruns of General Hospital on Soap Network.
...that true genius is recognized by the masses until the genius has passed this plain. While the books are genius, if you ask Joe Blow on the street if he knows what H2G2 is, he'd probably think you're on crack. The real problem, as stated elsewhere, will be the end product. The thousand monkeys in LALA land have been known to ruin pretty much everything once they get their hairy hackneyed hands on books. Let's hope the BBC or Adams' estate insure that we get something that would have made him proud. If 'Salmon of Doubt' is any indication, it should be at the very least, quite acceptable.
Shouldn't this have been filed into the "from the 'coming as no surprise to anyone' department"?
and I just burnt Debian isos two days ago! Guess I just spent a dollar on some fancy looking coasters.
How soon until Microsoft convinces their cellular 'interests' to support a forthcoming scaled-down/scalable version of Direct3D for embedded and mobile devices? What would be even better? How about a 3D version of .NET! I can see the headlines now, "Now you can use your 'MS Office 3D.NET.11 for Workgroups' applications on your cell phone while you're driving down the highway in your SUV!"
How could they use a previous score written for a different cut of the film? This version contains 1300 feet of film that hasn't been in any version of the film since since the original German release. This cut, at 147 minutes, is only six minutes shorter than the original, but far shorter than director's 210 minute cut, which is apparently lost forever. More information can be found at the Digital Bits, and from the restorer's site, and Kino's site, the company releasing the DVD of this version.
My cross country coach in high school always said that McDonalds was the problem with the distance program at our high school. Perhaps a bit simplistic, but I tend to think that our culture in general tends to lend itself to be against such thing as having a large quantity (and high quality) of high speed marathon and long distance runners. Match that with the low profit margins of becoming a 'professional' runner, and there's little motivation for most people to try. Granted, there are many exceptions to this rule, but none have consistantly broken through to dominate the distance races. I somehow doubt that any technology will overcome a culture's (in this case, the United States) general mentality, no matter how motivated the individuals may be.
From the doucment:
"Topics to be addressed at the workshop include:
[rtrif] The effectiveness of efforts to pursue technical standards or solutions that are designed to provide a more predictable and secure environment for digital transmission of copyright material;"
Let's see, so far the efforts that content providers have created to secure content include:
Macrovision - prevents authorized and unauthorized copying of video content, also adds signal detioration--status: hardware cracks exist, may be negated by content providers abandoning it due to its inability to do anything of value
CSS - DVD's digital protection--status: cracked by Norwegian linux users
SDMI - Watermaking/digital music protection--status: cracked by a professor, stalled in deployment by its creators
'secure' cds - prevents pcs from ripping cds, causes macs to expolode--status: cracked, felt tip marker
[rtrif] Major obstacles facing an open commercial exchange of digital content;
The industry itself seems to be the major obstacle.
[rtrif] What a future framework for success might entail;
A lessening of the current insane and ridicuously long copyright laws in the United States; abolition of the music industry in its current form
Or, value added content, or value priced content using a working protection scheme
[rtrif] Current consumer attitude towards online entertainment.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Their first project is to create a virtual dictionary and spell checker so that the Slashdot editors make sure that their posts to the front page are spelled properly. As an added bonus, it'll even check grammar! Unfortunately, the scientists aren't sure if there's enough bandwidth available yet to correct all the mistakes.
Microsoft has spent over $500 million on advertising for Xbox in the United States alone. The United States has an estimated population of 278,058,900. Which means Microsoft is spending about $1.80 per citizen to promote the Xbox.
Microsoft plans on spending $750 million on advertising for Microsoft in China. China has an estimated population of 1,273,111,300. Microsoft therefore is spending about $0.59 per citizen on advertising in China.
Granted, the demographics for each group are vastly smaller than the overall population, and the dollar, in spite of its recent downturn, still can buy a lot more in China than it can in the US. But this still seems disproportionate, especially considering China has the potential to become the world's largest technology market.
Note: All currency was figured using US dollars. Population statistics gathered from City Population.
Prior to September 11th, 2001, it was inconceivable that anyone would be capable of using airplanes as guided missiles and then fly them into buildings. Look where we are now.
It's called usenet. In the alt.binaries hierachy, many popular shows are already being distributed in this manner(albeit without consent of the respective programs' creators or distributors). While I'm not able to get a program produced by my local public television affiliate or from the local university channel unless I capture it myself, quite a number of programs are available-- some even before they are on your local affiliates. I remember how cool it was to be able to watch Fox's '24' in widescreen, since the local affiliate doesn't have hdtv yet. (For that matter, neither do I).
Something smells like NERD around here.... *checks armpits for odor* Oh crap, it's just me! *droooool* But seriously, after all the pounds that Shatner put on during the series, I'd be worried that the chair has already developed its own ass groove that, while priceless in trek history, just would not work well with my own ass.
when I forgot to pay the gas bill. Those were some really cold showers. [Serious note: The power plant that we get the juice from uses coal, and I don't own a car, so I truly was off of oil.]
It wouldn't be surprising if LUCass decides to redo the original trilogy.... again. It'd mean more green in his pockets. Consider: A New Hope (or just Star Wars as it was called back then), had a re-release in theaters just after it's original run. All three of the original films were re-released as 'special' editions in 1997, supposedly to hype the forthcoming prequel trilogy. The number of VHS incarnations of the original trilogy: There were the original releases, all with different box covers. There was the black box THX classic version. There was the Gold box Special Edition (and silver box for wide screen). There was the Special Edition White box (and it's wide screen cousin), which contained Episode 2 film. The black box and gold box also had official laserdisc releases(the originals may have as well, I'm not aware of them though). On top of just the film releases, there's the countless action figures, Expanded Universe books(and audio books), lunchboxes, comic books, sound tracks, costumes, high dollar collectibles, and everyone's favorite, the Jar-Jar shaped eraser. The almighty dollar was the Phantom Menace behind episode one, but e2 suffers from Lucas' loss of touch with this nice little thing called story-telling. We should have seen the loss of ability coming, especially with some of the changes made in the 'special' editions of the original trilogy, the most glaring in A New Hope. (The worst being the infamous 'Greedo shooting first' fiasco, and the totally unnecessary addition of Boba Fett to the film). Many people say Lucas has fallen in love with special effects, I think he's fallen in love with greed.
Does anyone know if his illness was the reason he wasn't included in the Futurama season finale with the remainder of the living crew of the Enterprise(more accurately, the surviving cast of Star Trek), or did he not want to participate in the project?
I think a large part of Futurama's problems with Fox(and many of the other shows listed in the discussion above) are a failing in the manner in which the Nielsen ratings are done. How many people on slashdot even KNOW a person who is a nielsen 'household', let alone are a nielsen voter?