Seconded, I was just coming to post the same thing. The 2 crusader games remain almost my only reasons for firing up DOSbox. They were excellent, but a bit clunky-feeling now.
Whomever said that HDTV will be the standard for the next 50 years is exagerating a wee bit. Think about the internet connection you (might have) had 20 years ago. If you were BBSing it in 1985, it was probably with a 300 baud modem. The speed with which we can get home internet access today is exponentially faster than back then.
It really isn't a difficult stretch to extrapolate another 20 years in the future. I wouldn't at all be surprised if we have multi-terabyte-speed pipes in our homes in 2025.
The cost of storage per megabyte is dropping everyday. Computational power continues to increase. The speed available to customers for home internet access is increasing every few months. The spread of TVRs are slowly but surely eroding the control TV broadcasters had over us with the scheduling of our favourite TV shows. Bit Torrent will only continue to increase in use and, with each successive version, will only become faster and more efficient. All these factors point to a future where ALL media is online. Everything. Every last b-movie and celebrity Christmas album. The whole shebang.
I, for one, am quite stoked.
The two examples you gave do not represent what's happening here. Photocopying a textbook and taping a song off the radio are both means of copying an analog source to an analog destination. Both copies will most likely be of low to average quality, with a large reduction in quality after each successive copy.
Copying things in the digital age (of which we are now a part) is a little different. How many photocopies could you make of photocopies before it's just illegible? How many copies of that song off the radio could you make before the tape is just full of static? Well that drawback doesn't exist with MP3s and MPEG4s. The file can be copied thousands, millions of times with no loss of quality.
So for you to jump to the conclusion that DRM has "nothing" to do with piracy is a little short-sighted.
I figured the "winamp is dead" story was bogus. As far as I know, winamp is one of the most popular media players, if not the most popular and well known mp3 players. There's that, and shoutcast seems to be doing relatively well. Why would Nullsoft turn around and kill it?
The Nullsoft guys seem like great programmers... I'm sure if Nullsoft (as we know it) closed down, they'd reassemble in one form or another and release a new mp3 player on their own. Then AOL would be kicking themselves.
"Are we supposed to believe with that long for evolutionary divergence, just because it "looks similar" to modern honeybees, that it had to have had the same sort of physiological characteristics?"
Well, yes. 65 million years is a VERY long time to go without evolving much, if at all. Their whole argument is that if the asteroid impact was as devastating a event as we think it is, the bees in this area would have ALL DIED. All of them, gone and extinct. The climate would have dropped very quickly, over weeks, and the bees would not have been able to adapt that quickly, they would have all just died out. But instead they seem to have survived and, potentially, flourished.
If you actually read the ZDNET article, they state:
"UDSL provides a middle ground (between ADSL and VDSL), according to Chow. Because the technology is compatible with both ADSL and VDSL standards, it adheres to requirements of both technologies. For example, at distances greater than 1 kilometer, it provides an ADSL-like service with ADSL data rates. But at shorter distances, it can provide VDSL-like service with data rates that match or exceed VDSL. In some instances, Chow claims, a UDSL service could provide up to 200mbps of bandwidth. This is four times as much bandwidth as is currently available through VDSL services."
So basically 200mbps is probably only attainable under an incredibly small percentage of installations where the variables are all basically perfect.
"Effective the Semantic Web is the Web as we know it put into database form and with added metadata"
I've read this sentence over a couple times and it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Effective what?
Or is this even possible? Could they just throw all the articles into a big zip file and release them for download? It would be a shame for them all to be lost, especially some of their articles on PHP and MySQL. Those helped a lot back when I was first learning.
I honestly hope that iQue doesn't actually look like that, it's bigger than the original Xbox controller!! There is no way that the average hand will be able to hold that thing, and certainly not the average Chinese or Japanese hand.
The current GameCube controller is a nice size, and the wireless controller is pushing it a bit. This thing just looks way too big for comfort.
I find it quite odd that this is only spec'd to work on a PC with windows considering how many musicians and professionals use Macs. I can't remember how many articles I've read recently talking about how many musicians have migrated to PowerBooks to do all their editing and creative work on the road.
Are we supposed to believe that a 13-year old girl actually SAID that?!? I know 30-year olds who don't talk like that. Those "testimonials" by his niece and nephew read like a script of Dawson's Creek. It's almost laughable.
The whole story was written from the beginning as a trilogy, so the 2nd part was the setup for the huge war. So whether it's an all-out action movie or not, it's exactly what the brothers intended it to be from the start.
I was under the impression that HDTV was much higher than 1280x1024. Closer actually to ~1920x1280 (or something along those lines)
And how exactly will this work with ANY monitor? I have a VGA monitor in my basement that I'd be very surprised to see display 1280x1024 with the aid of this device
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Seconded, I was just coming to post the same thing. The 2 crusader games remain almost my only reasons for firing up DOSbox. They were excellent, but a bit clunky-feeling now.
Whomever said that HDTV will be the standard for the next 50 years is exagerating a wee bit. Think about the internet connection you (might have) had 20 years ago. If you were BBSing it in 1985, it was probably with a 300 baud modem. The speed with which we can get home internet access today is exponentially faster than back then. It really isn't a difficult stretch to extrapolate another 20 years in the future. I wouldn't at all be surprised if we have multi-terabyte-speed pipes in our homes in 2025. The cost of storage per megabyte is dropping everyday. Computational power continues to increase. The speed available to customers for home internet access is increasing every few months. The spread of TVRs are slowly but surely eroding the control TV broadcasters had over us with the scheduling of our favourite TV shows. Bit Torrent will only continue to increase in use and, with each successive version, will only become faster and more efficient. All these factors point to a future where ALL media is online. Everything. Every last b-movie and celebrity Christmas album. The whole shebang. I, for one, am quite stoked.
The two examples you gave do not represent what's happening here. Photocopying a textbook and taping a song off the radio are both means of copying an analog source to an analog destination. Both copies will most likely be of low to average quality, with a large reduction in quality after each successive copy. Copying things in the digital age (of which we are now a part) is a little different. How many photocopies could you make of photocopies before it's just illegible? How many copies of that song off the radio could you make before the tape is just full of static? Well that drawback doesn't exist with MP3s and MPEG4s. The file can be copied thousands, millions of times with no loss of quality. So for you to jump to the conclusion that DRM has "nothing" to do with piracy is a little short-sighted.
Is to turn off "Open 'Safe' downloads" in Safari's Options.
It's just common sense anyways
"Can we blog without legal repercussions?" If you can do it without divulging illegal information, go for it.
Linky no worky
Get with the times and ditch Real video.
... that you chose "Titanic Director" to describe James Cameron. I think that's technically an insult.
I would have used "Abyss Director" or "Aliens Director" or "Terminator 1/2 Director" or...
You get the idea.
I figured the "winamp is dead" story was bogus. As far as I know, winamp is one of the most popular media players, if not the most popular and well known mp3 players. There's that, and shoutcast seems to be doing relatively well. Why would Nullsoft turn around and kill it? The Nullsoft guys seem like great programmers... I'm sure if Nullsoft (as we know it) closed down, they'd reassemble in one form or another and release a new mp3 player on their own. Then AOL would be kicking themselves.
"Are we supposed to believe with that long for evolutionary divergence, just because it "looks similar" to modern honeybees, that it had to have had the same sort of physiological characteristics?" Well, yes. 65 million years is a VERY long time to go without evolving much, if at all. Their whole argument is that if the asteroid impact was as devastating a event as we think it is, the bees in this area would have ALL DIED. All of them, gone and extinct. The climate would have dropped very quickly, over weeks, and the bees would not have been able to adapt that quickly, they would have all just died out. But instead they seem to have survived and, potentially, flourished.
World leaders are used to being insulted and questioned, it comes with the territory of the job.
But insulting people who are down on their luck (like this guy who just got canned) is really considered in bad taste.
There's no doubt that this guy is a douchebag.
You can't do real work on a Mac
How many devices could be controlled by a Beowulf cluster of these?
If you actually read the ZDNET article, they state:
"UDSL provides a middle ground (between ADSL and VDSL), according to Chow. Because the technology is compatible with both ADSL and VDSL standards, it adheres to requirements of both technologies. For example, at distances greater than 1 kilometer, it provides an ADSL-like service with ADSL data rates. But at shorter distances, it can provide VDSL-like service with data rates that match or exceed VDSL. In some instances, Chow claims, a UDSL service could provide up to 200mbps of bandwidth. This is four times as much bandwidth as is currently available through VDSL services."
So basically 200mbps is probably only attainable under an incredibly small percentage of installations where the variables are all basically perfect.
Come on now, if we're really tipping our hat to The Muppet Show, let's do it right...
Blimps... In... Spaaaaaaaaace!
"Effective the Semantic Web is the Web as we know it put into database form and with added metadata" I've read this sentence over a couple times and it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Effective what?
how does your suggestion have anything to do with recycling old LCDs? you clod
Or is this even possible? Could they just throw all the articles into a big zip file and release them for download?
It would be a shame for them all to be lost, especially some of their articles on PHP and MySQL. Those helped a lot back when I was first learning.
Guess it's time to start using mlMac and Poisoned on my Mac
No... just time to get a Mac and forget all about Microsoft's DRM push
I honestly hope that iQue doesn't actually look like that, it's bigger than the original Xbox controller!! There is no way that the average hand will be able to hold that thing, and certainly not the average Chinese or Japanese hand.
The current GameCube controller is a nice size, and the wireless controller is pushing it a bit. This thing just looks way too big for comfort.
I find it quite odd that this is only spec'd to work on a PC with windows considering how many musicians and professionals use Macs. I can't remember how many articles I've read recently talking about how many musicians have migrated to PowerBooks to do all their editing and creative work on the road.
Are we supposed to believe that a 13-year old girl actually SAID that?!? I know 30-year olds who don't talk like that. Those "testimonials" by his niece and nephew read like a script of Dawson's Creek. It's almost laughable.
The whole story was written from the beginning as a trilogy, so the 2nd part was the setup for the huge war. So whether it's an all-out action movie or not, it's exactly what the brothers intended it to be from the start.
I was under the impression that HDTV was much higher than 1280x1024. Closer actually to ~1920x1280 (or something along those lines) And how exactly will this work with ANY monitor? I have a VGA monitor in my basement that I'd be very surprised to see display 1280x1024 with the aid of this device