I'm not sure this is entirely a bad thing. Making it so hard to use a communication protocol doesn't really sound like a good business plan. Also, if history teaches us anything, it is that proprietary technology usually dosen't survive it's introduction into industry(right?), heck if Windows only ran on a specific hardware it would never have risen to power. I guess what I am trying to get at is if new "M$ Secret Technology" is any good, then "the industry"(and I use that term loosely) will adopt a similar, but better, more open alternative (I hope).
Actually i see more potential having both the console game and the pc version. While Halo is currently limited to 16 people 4 xboxes * 4 players/box, the pc version could support more. But i think the biggest factor could be in the growth of online servers that support both console and pc games.
Its not that records were un-available. Historical records are available, although in rare instances. This period is know as the Dark ages because people at the time after the fall of the Roman Empire, for one reason or another, simply ignored all the recorded accomplishments of the Romans, and earlier Greeks.
My only reference is my Western Civ. Professor Dr. King.
Now a little later around 1200 the forgotten knowledge and accomplishments of the Romans and Greeks was rediscovered during the renaissance.
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Where do they get these acronyms, i mean do they sit down and think of a cool name and then make it fit. Why put Multimedia in there its just goofy.
-despite popular belief, apparently BIOS stands for Built in Operating System:Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash,:) (its a good book despite that, read it)
What comes first the Acronym or the Name??
Hardware virtual machine, doesnt that defeat the purpose. I mean wasn't the whole concept developed so that the sofware could be MACHINE INDEPENDANT.
It seems to me that the only application of such a piece of hardware was when you want to use code written in a certain language exclusively , like that semi-new Sharp pda with a linux based Java VM.
It seems to me that, while I am embarrassed to say that I only own 2 cd's(dont really have a reason why, im 21 its not like i didt have time), that people who actually buy cd's now, either are *real* fans of the artists and like to have *real* copies of their(the artists') work as proof.
The same would go for the purchase of DVD's (Lately it seems that the tv news world is finally catching on to movie piracy. ireallywouldlikeALLtheIndianaJonesMoviesonDVD!!) And also books for that matter. Every William Gibson novel ever concieved(iassume) is available in some electronic form on the net for free courtesy of some cyborgloving netfanatic, so unless you are anti-ebook or have a paper fetish you could have all the books for free( i would have bought them in e-format if i could).
So to actually *own* a copy of any artistic work, it seems to me, is more of a statement of preference by the owner than merely a means of obtaining a copy of the work.
what could make the toothbrush cool is
a sonic toothbrush that uses your favorite mp3, and plays through you head line a "bone phone" type device
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I'm not sure this is entirely a bad thing.
Making it so hard to use a communication protocol doesn't really sound like a good business plan. Also, if history teaches us anything, it is that proprietary technology usually dosen't survive it's introduction into industry(right?), heck if Windows only ran on a specific hardware it would never have risen to power.
I guess what I am trying to get at is if new "M$ Secret Technology" is any good, then "the industry"(and I use that term loosely) will adopt a similar, but better, more open alternative (I hope).
hmmm... submit his research using the "unbreakable encryption"; ever read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown?
Um, last time i checked, fruits make you go. What kind of fruit are you eating? (ketchup on fries doesn't count)
Actually i see more potential having both the console game and the pc version. While Halo is currently limited to 16 people 4 xboxes * 4 players/box, the pc version could support more. But i think the biggest factor could be in the growth of online servers that support both console and pc games.
Its not that records were un-available. Historical records are available, although in rare instances. This period is know as the Dark ages because people at the time after the fall of the Roman Empire, for one reason or another, simply ignored all the recorded accomplishments of the Romans, and earlier Greeks.
My only reference is my Western Civ. Professor Dr. King.
Now a little later around 1200 the forgotten knowledge and accomplishments of the Romans and Greeks was rediscovered during the renaissance.
According to my friend Vern at A&M, you seem to learn more Computer Science in the upper level math courses than in CS!
W W C D What Would Carmack Do?? if opengl went closed?? ifeartheworst
Where do they get these acronyms, i mean do they sit down and think of a cool name and then make it fit. Why put Multimedia in there its just goofy. -despite popular belief, apparently BIOS stands for Built in Operating System :Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, :) (its a good book despite that, read it)
What comes first the Acronym or the Name??
he mentioned osX in the article (itwasalink)
Hardware virtual machine, doesnt that defeat the purpose. I mean wasn't the whole concept developed so that the sofware could be MACHINE INDEPENDANT.
It seems to me that the only application of such a piece of hardware was when you want to use code written in a certain language exclusively , like that semi-new Sharp pda with a linux based Java VM.
Think of all that wasted bandwith transmitting tv signals. Slashdot p2pTV would take out the entire web. .... the slashvision effect?
It seems to me that, while I am embarrassed to say that I only own 2 cd's(dont really have a reason why, im 21 its not like i didt have time), that people who actually buy cd's now, either are *real* fans of the artists and like to have *real* copies of their(the artists') work as proof.
The same would go for the purchase of DVD's (Lately it seems that the tv news world is finally catching on to movie piracy. ireallywouldlikeALLtheIndianaJonesMoviesonDVD!!) And also books for that matter. Every William Gibson novel ever concieved(iassume) is available in some electronic form on the net for free courtesy of some cyborgloving netfanatic, so unless you are anti-ebook or have a paper fetish you could have all the books for free( i would have bought them in e-format if i could).
So to actually *own* a copy of any artistic work, it seems to me, is more of a statement of preference by the owner than merely a means of obtaining a copy of the work.
Does anyone see this trend continuing?(ithinkso)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011031200447/www.rock etguy.com/toys/light_chaser.html
what could make the toothbrush cool is a sonic toothbrush that uses your favorite mp3, and plays through you head line a "bone phone" type device 42 5F 4B