The thing I don't understand is why doesn't a big name artist say fuck you to their studio and go out on their own. U2, Madonna, Britney, etc could all do it. Start your own site selling non DRM lossless songs, do individual deals for CD distribution, run a few commercials.
1) Buy a hardware firewall, they are like $20 bucks these days 2) Buy a USB flash or hard disk and setup an automatic backup to it of their files every day 3) Ensure automatic updates are on and working 4) Disable automatic preview in Outlook or upgrade to Outlook 2003+
Optional: 1) Disable windows firewall and install ZoneAlarm and AdAware 2) Block myspace.com with host file 3) Create user limited account and make them use it, although this is probably going to cause you more headaches than its worth since you can't install anything.
Unless you have unkown people with physical access to your computer, logging off isn't really going to do anything.
It's stupid, right now its getting dark at 6:00pm, its about damn 'time' they did this. They should make the change 2 hours as well. 90% of the population is no longer farmers, damn it takes the gov a lot of time to catch up.
"If [Steve] Jobs adds an Apple logo to the PS3, I think users will say it can be sold at $2,000. However it's not possible for the PlayStation brand. That is the difference in the computer world between the PlayStation brand and the Apple brand." Ken Kutaragi, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO & President
and watch your CD sales fall to 0 faster than you can say "more profits for us". everyone wins. - consumers get what they want more easily - lables make more money as no more CDs are printed - consumers probably buy more as more money goes to artists and labels (rather than best buy) and its much easier to purchase online
Basing your lifes work and new company on an obscure quote from 4 years ago seems a bit niave. If we held all companies responsible for promises from their CEOs no company would ever stand up to it.
If Apple wants to DRM their music that is their choice. If people want to buy DRM music that is their choice. No one is forcing you to buy iPods, iTunes, or CDs, if you don't like it, don't buy it. Just because it's socially acceptable to hack DRM doesn't mean its legal or right.
No one is forcing you to buy movies, if you don't like how they are distributed or how much they charge, then don't buy any. Instead of bitching start your own movie studio and sell your movies for $1 each, chances are you are not going to last long.
Yes solar power could work, but why would they chose that when it is roughly 10-20x the cost of buying from the grid. I would be very surprised if they would want to tackle their own power generation needs on top of all of the unexplored complexity of a new propulsion technology. Why make the project more difficult than it needs to be?
I was thinking rocket burning would be more efficient than grid electricity because in a grid you are burning a fuel just like in a rocket, moving a turbine, converting it to electricity, transmitting that electricity, then converting it back to some kind of force, magnetic in this case. Directly burning the fuel would be more efficient I would think, you may be right though.
Do you really want to be responsible for providing and maintaining your own power? I can barely handle all of my electronics some days. Keep your life simple, buy from the power company.
The time at which it will be unquestionably profitable for an average joe to produce his own power the utility companies will not be far behind in exploiting those same technologies on a mass scale, making your investment most likely a waste of time and money.
Unless you are creating your own power for an environmental reason, I would guess its pretty pointless.
The energy required would not be the same as another poster pointed out, as 90% of the energy used in a rocket launch is getting the fuel up there to launch the payload. 99% less fuel to carry = a lot less energy required.
Also, I have no idea what the efficiency of rocket fuel burning is, but I doubt propelling the payload by magnetic means, running off the power grid, is going to be more efficient than directly burning rocket fuel.
It will show whatever the developer wants it to show. In case you don't have the 360 version, there are absolutely no visual settings to tweak. Most likely you won't be able to put the PS3 and 360 in a side to side comparison because there will be small differences in configuration.
Besides, you don't even need a top of the line computer to surpass both the 360 and PS3 in terms of visual quality and computational power, sure it costs you more, but the system is also infinetly more expandable and upgradable with both hardware and software.
"If Nintendo sells that many systems on the first day, and they turn a profit on every system sold"
All signs point to Nintendo making a huge profit on each Wii, I wouldn't be surpised with a sub $100 manufacturing cost of the Wii. All of the controllers included probably adds another $50 or so.
1) Nintendos long track record and massive experience with console manufacturing 2) Highly available and proven components, DVD, 802.11, flash memory, SD memory, USB 2.0 3) Dialed back CPU and GPU specs.
I guess you never owned a NES, those things would stop reading cartridges after a few years, or sometimes even months. Half of the game was knowing how to blow on the metal pins on the cartridge, and slide it in just right so the game could actually be read.
"Why do we not have a problem with our printers being this high def, but we cannot imagine our displays being this high def?"
A very simple reason, distance. When was the last time you looked at your photo album from 10-50 feet away? Or how about watching your 50" TV or 30' cinema screen from 2 feet away?
"Already hundreds of thousands of early adopters have been burned because the so called "image constraint" or "down-rezzing" token will reduce their picture quality on most major HD media even though they were promised full resolution."
FUD
90% of TVs that don't support HDMI use a cablecard type system, so at most the user may have to buy a new cablecard with an HDMI port for a few hundred bucks. besides, no broadcaster in their right mind will be enabling DRM on their signial anytime soon, they would by cutting 50% of their HDTV viewers, only when HDMI HDTVs are a big presence in the market will HDMI and all its DRM goodness will flow.
Almost every one of their 'counter points' is just a canned fanboy response that doesn't make much sense. After reading this article I actually have less faith in the PS3 succeeding.
"Much as the inclusion of the DVD format may have pushed many gamers over the edge to purchase the PS2 ("Hey mom, it can play movies too!"), if Blu-Ray ends up edging-out the HD-DVD format, it's another quality that'll make the system more versatile, which is never a bad thing."
Comparing the DVD/PS2 upgrade to BlueRay/PS3 is completely different. DVD was a proven technology, provided MANY immediate consumer benefits (no rewinding, much higher resolution, much better sound, no media degridation, smaller format), and had no competing technology.
Sony really should of delayed BluRay, only around 10-20% of US households have a HDTV and even less care about HD gaming. With the advent of DVRs and media streaming just around the corner, I wouldn't be surprised if both HDDVD and BlueRay never take off. Media streaming provides the next immediate consumer benefit (no media to physically move around).
Sony putting BluRay in the PS3 will probably turn out to be the worst decision ever made in the companies history.
"Graphics card, driver and monitor have to be HDCP compatible"
FALSE. They ONLY have to be HDCP compatible if the HD movie requires it. I read as of now there are no HD movies on HD-DVD or Bluray which require HDCP compatiblity, I think this was in a recent Sound and Vision Magazine article or perhaps somewhere on CNET.
Why would hackers not simply spoof the RF fingerprint. Some ideas come to mind. 1) dynamic adjust the outgoing signal digitally to imitate the fingerprint 2) add interference around the transmitter so the signal looks the same 3) use specialized analog electronics to imitate the fingerprint
"Executives at Wal-Mart are already imagining a day when the shelf space for lightbulbs is cut by 30% or 40%."
It's sad that Wal-Mart shelf space is the driving force behind their 'green' campaign. Another recent one that comes to mind is the downsizing of video game boxes.
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The thing I don't understand is why doesn't a big name artist say fuck you to their studio and go out on their own. U2, Madonna, Britney, etc could all do it. Start your own site selling non DRM lossless songs, do individual deals for CD distribution, run a few commercials.
In order of importance
1) Buy a hardware firewall, they are like $20 bucks these days
2) Buy a USB flash or hard disk and setup an automatic backup to it of their files every day
3) Ensure automatic updates are on and working
4) Disable automatic preview in Outlook or upgrade to Outlook 2003+
Optional:
1) Disable windows firewall and install ZoneAlarm and AdAware
2) Block myspace.com with host file
3) Create user limited account and make them use it, although this is probably going to cause you more headaches than its worth since you can't install anything.
Unless you have unkown people with physical access to your computer, logging off isn't really going to do anything.
It's stupid, right now its getting dark at 6:00pm, its about damn 'time' they did this. They should make the change 2 hours as well. 90% of the population is no longer farmers, damn it takes the gov a lot of time to catch up.
The weirdest quote from the article...
"If [Steve] Jobs adds an Apple logo to the PS3, I think users will say it can be sold at $2,000. However it's not possible for the PlayStation brand. That is the difference in the computer world between the PlayStation brand and the Apple brand."
Ken Kutaragi, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO & President
Imagine how much you would get with a 1 Billion dollar X Prize, we would be on Mars probably. NASAs time has passed, time to can everyone and move on.
and watch your CD sales fall to 0 faster than you can say "more profits for us". everyone wins.
- consumers get what they want more easily
- lables make more money as no more CDs are printed
- consumers probably buy more as more money goes to artists and labels (rather than best buy) and its much easier to purchase online
Basing your lifes work and new company on an obscure quote from 4 years ago seems a bit niave. If we held all companies responsible for promises from their CEOs no company would ever stand up to it.
If Apple wants to DRM their music that is their choice. If people want to buy DRM music that is their choice. No one is forcing you to buy iPods, iTunes, or CDs, if you don't like it, don't buy it. Just because it's socially acceptable to hack DRM doesn't mean its legal or right.
No one is forcing you to buy movies, if you don't like how they are distributed or how much they charge, then don't buy any. Instead of bitching start your own movie studio and sell your movies for $1 each, chances are you are not going to last long.
Yes solar power could work, but why would they chose that when it is roughly 10-20x the cost of buying from the grid. I would be very surprised if they would want to tackle their own power generation needs on top of all of the unexplored complexity of a new propulsion technology. Why make the project more difficult than it needs to be?
I was thinking rocket burning would be more efficient than grid electricity because in a grid you are burning a fuel just like in a rocket, moving a turbine, converting it to electricity, transmitting that electricity, then converting it back to some kind of force, magnetic in this case. Directly burning the fuel would be more efficient I would think, you may be right though.
Do you really want to be responsible for providing and maintaining your own power? I can barely handle all of my electronics some days. Keep your life simple, buy from the power company.
The time at which it will be unquestionably profitable for an average joe to produce his own power the utility companies will not be far behind in exploiting those same technologies on a mass scale, making your investment most likely a waste of time and money.
Unless you are creating your own power for an environmental reason, I would guess its pretty pointless.
The energy required would not be the same as another poster pointed out, as 90% of the energy used in a rocket launch is getting the fuel up there to launch the payload. 99% less fuel to carry = a lot less energy required.
Also, I have no idea what the efficiency of rocket fuel burning is, but I doubt propelling the payload by magnetic means, running off the power grid, is going to be more efficient than directly burning rocket fuel.
just because our transmission technology goes light speed doesn't mean a faster transmission method doesn't exist.
It will show whatever the developer wants it to show. In case you don't have the 360 version, there are absolutely no visual settings to tweak. Most likely you won't be able to put the PS3 and 360 in a side to side comparison because there will be small differences in configuration.
Besides, you don't even need a top of the line computer to surpass both the 360 and PS3 in terms of visual quality and computational power, sure it costs you more, but the system is also infinetly more expandable and upgradable with both hardware and software.
"If Nintendo sells that many systems on the first day, and they turn a profit on every system sold"
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All signs point to Nintendo making a huge profit on each Wii, I wouldn't be surpised with a sub $100 manufacturing cost of the Wii. All of the controllers included probably adds another $50 or so.
1) Nintendos long track record and massive experience with console manufacturing
2) Highly available and proven components, DVD, 802.11, flash memory, SD memory, USB 2.0
3) Dialed back CPU and GPU specs.
specs:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6146540/index.ht
I guess you never owned a NES, those things would stop reading cartridges after a few years, or sometimes even months. Half of the game was knowing how to blow on the metal pins on the cartridge, and slide it in just right so the game could actually be read.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7vdcjsgG2bU
How cool will it be when you turn your laptop on and it sounds like a jet engine starting up!
Why would you want to do this rather than using wind power and ocean currents?
well, go with dialup and either a LOS system or SAT. both are going to suck and thats the price you pay for living off the grid.
"Why do we not have a problem with our printers being this high def, but we cannot imagine our displays being this high def?"
A very simple reason, distance. When was the last time you looked at your photo album from 10-50 feet away? Or how about watching your 50" TV or 30' cinema screen from 2 feet away?
"Already hundreds of thousands of early adopters have been burned because the so called "image constraint" or "down-rezzing" token will reduce their picture quality on most major HD media even though they were promised full resolution."
FUD
90% of TVs that don't support HDMI use a cablecard type system, so at most the user may have to buy a new cablecard with an HDMI port for a few hundred bucks. besides, no broadcaster in their right mind will be enabling DRM on their signial anytime soon, they would by cutting 50% of their HDTV viewers, only when HDMI HDTVs are a big presence in the market will HDMI and all its DRM goodness will flow.
Almost every one of their 'counter points' is just a canned fanboy response that doesn't make much sense. After reading this article I actually have less faith in the PS3 succeeding.
"Much as the inclusion of the DVD format may have pushed many gamers over the edge to purchase the PS2 ("Hey mom, it can play movies too!"), if Blu-Ray ends up edging-out the HD-DVD format, it's another quality that'll make the system more versatile, which is never a bad thing."
Comparing the DVD/PS2 upgrade to BlueRay/PS3 is completely different. DVD was a proven technology, provided MANY immediate consumer benefits (no rewinding, much higher resolution, much better sound, no media degridation, smaller format), and had no competing technology.
Sony really should of delayed BluRay, only around 10-20% of US households have a HDTV and even less care about HD gaming. With the advent of DVRs and media streaming just around the corner, I wouldn't be surprised if both HDDVD and BlueRay never take off. Media streaming provides the next immediate consumer benefit (no media to physically move around).
Sony putting BluRay in the PS3 will probably turn out to be the worst decision ever made in the companies history.
"Graphics card, driver and monitor have to be HDCP compatible"
FALSE. They ONLY have to be HDCP compatible if the HD movie requires it. I read as of now there are no HD movies on HD-DVD or Bluray which require HDCP compatiblity, I think this was in a recent Sound and Vision Magazine article or perhaps somewhere on CNET.
Why would hackers not simply spoof the RF fingerprint. Some ideas come to mind. 1) dynamic adjust the outgoing signal digitally to imitate the fingerprint 2) add interference around the transmitter so the signal looks the same 3) use specialized analog electronics to imitate the fingerprint
"Executives at Wal-Mart are already imagining a day when the shelf space for lightbulbs is cut by 30% or 40%."
It's sad that Wal-Mart shelf space is the driving force behind their 'green' campaign. Another recent one that comes to mind is the downsizing of video game boxes.