why are they marketing it as a tv? who the hell cares about about have 1M:1 contrast when watching a 80s rerun? they should be marketing it as an awesome desktop publishing and imaging monitor for PCs and Macs, or perhaps studio monitor. i'm just happy they are finally coming out with something that actually may have better image quality than my 22" CRT, looks like i could be upgrading in 2 years or so:)
So true, the only thing all of this security does is raise our taxes and wait times, and (I didn't know this was possible) make air travel an even more annoying experience. Anyone who thinks it will stop another attack is kidding themselves. Slash TSA by 80%, and military spending by 90%, then we actually may be able to save social security, remove the deficit, and restore what is left of our crumbling economy. It will NEVER happen though, all of the morons won't have their ILLUSION of safety.
I admit after looking at the picture I didn't even bother reading the article. My only thought was a futureweapons episode where the host put his entire body in the line of fire of a huge machine which sounds very similiar, hey look at that, its on youtube...
So true, if it wasn't for AMD we would be using Pentium X 15Ghz cpus right now, that would probably consume 1000W, and be about as half as fast as a core 2 quad.
You hear about people surviving the wild for days or weeks with little or no food and water, and these people are hiking or walking, and in very hot or cold climates. So how is that only after 3 days someone who is just sitting there using almost no muscles can die in such a short time? Are they so malnurished that any day without food and water is death? Is their brain using so much energy gaming it starves their body?
In the future every device will be part of a wireless mesh network, both acting as a server and client, make it 802 compliant and you have an awesome platform. There is a chicken and egg problem though, enough users need to have devices in order for the network to work, and most people won't want the device unless there are enough to support a reliable network. Piggy backing onto current cell and wireless networks is the way to solve this, relying on them when you don't have enough nodes to connect to, when the device market reaches critical mass, then everything is using the mesh network, cameras, printers, phones, pdas, laptops, gps, computers, cars, packages, to name a few.
Imagine taking a picture on vacation, then sending it to print on your moms printer in another state a few seconds after it was taken, or taking pictures then having them automatically uploaded to your flicker account and stored on on your personal computer. Once everything is networked it will change how we do and store a lot of things. Mobile devices won't need mass storage, you can stream video and audio from your personal server from home.
The only people not on the mesh will be people in rural areas and will need to rely on a wireless service. This will be a great period for the internet as no company or government will be a gatekeeper, only content and consumption will matter.
Apple and AT&T have undoubtably already discussed what they would do if this happened, as it undoubtably would, Apple will probably have to pay a fine to AT&T as per contract, or attempt to fix the issue. Most likely though neither side will care much as the majority of users will simply switch to AT&T rather than trying to install an unlocking utility, as this is Apple's whole mantra and reason people buy Apple products, they would much rather pay for convienence and an easy to use device than having to hack, adjust, and tweak it.
Although their current idea doesn't sound terribly annoying (a small overlay at the bottom), a much better solution would be to just add text ads around the video. Forced ads don't gel with youtubes philosiphy of watching your choice of stuff in your free time, it would better match the sites flow if you were able to view ads at your choice as well, which text ads to the side would allow.
Do you honestly believe Paramount would change their entire HD strategy for a measly 100M when the company grossed 1.2 BILLION in the last 8 months? It doesn't make any sense.
Awesome link, I found this one to be especially interesting:
Scaling Problems
It's an old movie gimmick; a misguided scientist, radioactive fallout, pollution, or some other folly of mankind abnormally shrinks or expands someone or some creature. While we must admit to being entertained by such gimmicks, the physics are another matter.
Let's start with the density problem. Ordinary matter is mostly empty space, and so it is conceivable that an object could be shrunk or expanded by somehow adjusting the amount of empty space inside it. Unfortunately, this would leave the weight exactly the same.
Expanded objects or persons would have such low densities that they would be blown away in the wind like big balloons. Tiny people would suddenly exert huge pressures under their little feet since the area of their feet would be miniscule but their weight the same.
For instance, a normal-sized person exerts a pressure of about 2 pounds per square inch with their feet when they are standing on both feet. If their weight stayed the same and they were shrunk by a factor of 100, a six foot tall person would now be about 0.72 inches tall. Their foot pressure, however, would rise by a factor of 10,000 or in other words become 20,000 psi.
Such a person would instantly sink if they stepped on mud. The pressure under their feet would exceed the compressive strength of concrete (typically 3000 to 4000 psi) and would likely mar the surface of sidewalks.
the downfall of every id game isn't art, graphics, or design, but the fact the basic game play is rudimentary at best, some love their games because of this, but most wish for more. hopefully they will at least abandon the door/key game play element in every one of their games since keen, jesus, unlimited time and budget, come up with something new!
So true, the problem isn't that they are IP free, its that they are IP free in an IP controlled world. If everyone was IP free then no art form would be motivated by money or greed, and all artforms would reach an era of pureness never before seen except perhaps in the Renaissance period, its hard to imagine the creations and beauty we could create with all of the new technologies developed since paint and sculpture.
Since they are IP free in an IP controlled world though their modern day art and culture is in the toilet as anyone with any ability will move to another area to survive.
and since the labels own the radios, mtv, vh1, and most record stores, this won't change much. it is by far the best idea for music that i have seen in a while.
Jesus people, I guess it's time to waste a billion dollars making sure all of our bridges our safe, or the terrorists have won. Honestly though, it is sad that innocent people died, but come on, what is the death toll, like 5-20. Everyones attention, money, and time would be much better spent fighting more important problems, like cancer and heart disease. Anything more than having a few engineers look into some old bridges they built is overkill. Are there not laws requiring continual safety reviews of major public structures already?
it's still a turd. the problem plaguing windows is they don't ever fix the core problems completely, instead they half ass it and throw on 50 new tools or band aids to help you detect or prevent the problem, just fix the issue and you wont need more tools.
cpus are fast enough these days, they need to finally just go to a whole new root archeticture, and emulate everything that is old. the major problem with this is they will add in a slew of DRM and bullshit that no one needs, it will only make things slower and harder to use, so i guess i would just rather have xp.
$10/month from the cable company and you're done
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Why on earth would you buy a Tivo when you can rent a HD DVR for $10 from your cable company which is cheaper than the required Tivo subscription! Not to mention you have to buy a $300 - $600 box from Tivo. Until they have free subscriptions they aren't going to get any market share. Sure their software and hardware are both better, but the cable company DVR works just fine.
someone please save us from the airline industry. it has turned into a giant pain in the ass that pretty much no one enjoys using. its pretty sad when a 1 hour flight takes over 4 hours from entering the airport to getting your luggage at your destination. security is the biggest joke, if anyone actually thinks we are safe you are deluding yourself, all of the checks are a waste of time and money, if hijackers really wanted to take down a whole fleet of planes they could on a whim. people need to stop living in fear and letting it rule their lives.
so what can replace the airline industry, i don't know, but i want it now more than ever.
The main difference are the write/read cycles the drives can take, SSDs have built in algorithms to evenly spread the writes out over the disk over time, which greatly increases the life of the disk, granted you could probably do this in software, but its another thing to deal with. Standard CF/SD memory can only take a few hundred thousand cycles, which as a system disk is gone in a very short time.
So a CF/SD SSD would work and be cheaper, but would probably not last very long, and be slower.
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why are they marketing it as a tv? who the hell cares about about have 1M:1 contrast when watching a 80s rerun? they should be marketing it as an awesome desktop publishing and imaging monitor for PCs and Macs, or perhaps studio monitor. i'm just happy they are finally coming out with something that actually may have better image quality than my 22" CRT, looks like i could be upgrading in 2 years or so :)
you have cell phone access? just get a data plan, then use your phone to use as a high speed modem.
So true, the only thing all of this security does is raise our taxes and wait times, and (I didn't know this was possible) make air travel an even more annoying experience. Anyone who thinks it will stop another attack is kidding themselves. Slash TSA by 80%, and military spending by 90%, then we actually may be able to save social security, remove the deficit, and restore what is left of our crumbling economy. It will NEVER happen though, all of the morons won't have their ILLUSION of safety.
I admit after looking at the picture I didn't even bother reading the article. My only thought was a futureweapons episode where the host put his entire body in the line of fire of a huge machine which sounds very similiar, hey look at that, its on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_1KKtmh1L4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak2j9x9Ts_k
So true, if it wasn't for AMD we would be using Pentium X 15Ghz cpus right now, that would probably consume 1000W, and be about as half as fast as a core 2 quad.
You hear about people surviving the wild for days or weeks with little or no food and water, and these people are hiking or walking, and in very hot or cold climates. So how is that only after 3 days someone who is just sitting there using almost no muscles can die in such a short time? Are they so malnurished that any day without food and water is death? Is their brain using so much energy gaming it starves their body?
In the future every device will be part of a wireless mesh network, both acting as a server and client, make it 802 compliant and you have an awesome platform. There is a chicken and egg problem though, enough users need to have devices in order for the network to work, and most people won't want the device unless there are enough to support a reliable network. Piggy backing onto current cell and wireless networks is the way to solve this, relying on them when you don't have enough nodes to connect to, when the device market reaches critical mass, then everything is using the mesh network, cameras, printers, phones, pdas, laptops, gps, computers, cars, packages, to name a few.
Imagine taking a picture on vacation, then sending it to print on your moms printer in another state a few seconds after it was taken, or taking pictures then having them automatically uploaded to your flicker account and stored on on your personal computer. Once everything is networked it will change how we do and store a lot of things. Mobile devices won't need mass storage, you can stream video and audio from your personal server from home.
The only people not on the mesh will be people in rural areas and will need to rely on a wireless service. This will be a great period for the internet as no company or government will be a gatekeeper, only content and consumption will matter.
Even so, they should still allow people in other states to buy them.
Apple and AT&T have undoubtably already discussed what they would do if this happened, as it undoubtably would, Apple will probably have to pay a fine to AT&T as per contract, or attempt to fix the issue. Most likely though neither side will care much as the majority of users will simply switch to AT&T rather than trying to install an unlocking utility, as this is Apple's whole mantra and reason people buy Apple products, they would much rather pay for convienence and an easy to use device than having to hack, adjust, and tweak it.
More like Puff Daddy will have to somehow "get by" with only 13 Bentleys instead of 14.
Although their current idea doesn't sound terribly annoying (a small overlay at the bottom), a much better solution would be to just add text ads around the video. Forced ads don't gel with youtubes philosiphy of watching your choice of stuff in your free time, it would better match the sites flow if you were able to view ads at your choice as well, which text ads to the side would allow.
"The auction will be expensive, last year's auction for a much-less-attractive slice of spectrum netted the US Treasury $13.9 billion" - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070720-goog le-announces-intent-to-bid-on-700mhz-spectrum-auct ion-if.html
This spectrum will probably go for 20 - 30 billion. How much cash does Google have?
Do you honestly believe Paramount would change their entire HD strategy for a measly 100M when the company grossed 1.2 BILLION in the last 8 months? It doesn't make any sense.
Paramount is the biggest studio of 2007 with 18% market share.
January 1-August 19, 2007
Overall Gross: $6.585 billion
Rank Distributor Market
Share Total
Gross* Movies
Tracked 2007
Movies**
1 Paramount 18.1% $1,189.5 15 11
2 Warner Bros. 14.8% $974.8 23 13
3 Buena Vista 14.1% $930.6 16 8
4 Sony / Columbia 14.0% $924.6 19 16
5 Universal 11.3% $745.0 13 11
6 20th Century Fox 10.9% $719.9 17 9
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/
with the release of Open Office, there is simply no reason to buy office anymore, it will work just fine for most people.
Awesome link, I found this one to be especially interesting:
Scaling Problems
It's an old movie gimmick; a misguided scientist, radioactive fallout, pollution, or some other folly of mankind abnormally shrinks or expands someone or some creature. While we must admit to being entertained by such gimmicks, the physics are another matter.
Let's start with the density problem. Ordinary matter is mostly empty space, and so it is conceivable that an object could be shrunk or expanded by somehow adjusting the amount of empty space inside it. Unfortunately, this would leave the weight exactly the same.
Expanded objects or persons would have such low densities that they would be blown away in the wind like big balloons. Tiny people would suddenly exert huge pressures under their little feet since the area of their feet would be miniscule but their weight the same.
For instance, a normal-sized person exerts a pressure of about 2 pounds per square inch with their feet when they are standing on both feet. If their weight stayed the same and they were shrunk by a factor of 100, a six foot tall person would now be about 0.72 inches tall. Their foot pressure, however, would rise by a factor of 10,000 or in other words become 20,000 psi.
Such a person would instantly sink if they stepped on mud. The pressure under their feet would exceed the compressive strength of concrete (typically 3000 to 4000 psi) and would likely mar the surface of sidewalks.
the downfall of every id game isn't art, graphics, or design, but the fact the basic game play is rudimentary at best, some love their games because of this, but most wish for more. hopefully they will at least abandon the door/key game play element in every one of their games since keen, jesus, unlimited time and budget, come up with something new!
So true, the problem isn't that they are IP free, its that they are IP free in an IP controlled world. If everyone was IP free then no art form would be motivated by money or greed, and all artforms would reach an era of pureness never before seen except perhaps in the Renaissance period, its hard to imagine the creations and beauty we could create with all of the new technologies developed since paint and sculpture.
Since they are IP free in an IP controlled world though their modern day art and culture is in the toilet as anyone with any ability will move to another area to survive.
Very ironic.
and since the labels own the radios, mtv, vh1, and most record stores, this won't change much. it is by far the best idea for music that i have seen in a while.
first invisibility and now levitation, man these guys are on a roll, next up has to be teleportation...
Jesus people, I guess it's time to waste a billion dollars making sure all of our bridges our safe, or the terrorists have won. Honestly though, it is sad that innocent people died, but come on, what is the death toll, like 5-20. Everyones attention, money, and time would be much better spent fighting more important problems, like cancer and heart disease. Anything more than having a few engineers look into some old bridges they built is overkill. Are there not laws requiring continual safety reviews of major public structures already?
it's still a turd. the problem plaguing windows is they don't ever fix the core problems completely, instead they half ass it and throw on 50 new tools or band aids to help you detect or prevent the problem, just fix the issue and you wont need more tools.
cpus are fast enough these days, they need to finally just go to a whole new root archeticture, and emulate everything that is old. the major problem with this is they will add in a slew of DRM and bullshit that no one needs, it will only make things slower and harder to use, so i guess i would just rather have xp.
Why on earth would you buy a Tivo when you can rent a HD DVR for $10 from your cable company which is cheaper than the required Tivo subscription! Not to mention you have to buy a $300 - $600 box from Tivo. Until they have free subscriptions they aren't going to get any market share. Sure their software and hardware are both better, but the cable company DVR works just fine.
someone please save us from the airline industry. it has turned into a giant pain in the ass that pretty much no one enjoys using. its pretty sad when a 1 hour flight takes over 4 hours from entering the airport to getting your luggage at your destination. security is the biggest joke, if anyone actually thinks we are safe you are deluding yourself, all of the checks are a waste of time and money, if hijackers really wanted to take down a whole fleet of planes they could on a whim. people need to stop living in fear and letting it rule their lives.
so what can replace the airline industry, i don't know, but i want it now more than ever.
The main difference are the write/read cycles the drives can take, SSDs have built in algorithms to evenly spread the writes out over the disk over time, which greatly increases the life of the disk, granted you could probably do this in software, but its another thing to deal with. Standard CF/SD memory can only take a few hundred thousand cycles, which as a system disk is gone in a very short time.
So a CF/SD SSD would work and be cheaper, but would probably not last very long, and be slower.