Why are we even bothering with a new format when 97% of the people out there don't use the full capabilities of the existing format.
How many people really out the longing for better than DVD resolution and are willing to pay for it.
The only obvious reason to push this new-and-improved DVD is to try for a whole new round of DRM lock-in. Since they lost the CCS battle, they'll start over with DVD-HD. Feh.
.... how you suggest that one. Or your character may lose all his nookie points.
What!?!? So talking to me is so hard......
You may not wanna go there.
Secondly, todays educational institutions (most of them anyway) are cheap shams of what they once were. Going to university used to mean a period of hardship and disconnection from your old life where you were shaped into a person who cherished academics, tradition, service, honor and culture.
Now, it's the place you go to party for 4 years so you can put something "totally rad" on your resume. These institutions are letting the students down, and in turn, the students are letting the institutions down, and the whole mess is sinking into the sewer.
No big surprise, undergraduate studies is such a low priority at most instutions that it's now just a burden they have to carry in order to fund the real work. i.e. research and graduate studies. (leaving $$$ sports out of the equation for the moment)
I can hear the response now, "Ah! But the $$$ from that research helps all the students!", bull. That money goes striaght into whatever labor/equipment it was meant to buy, in order to facilitate the research. Whatvever resources may be left over will amost certainly be strictly for the use of research faculity or graduate students (working for said faculity).
The dirty work of educating the unwashed undergraduate masses falls to lower ranked profs or GAs. Those really expierenced professors who do want to "just teach" are marginalized out to smaller schools or satellite campuses.
The expectations of students/parents is that educating students is the highest priority. The reality is that schools judge each other on research and published works, not quality of education.
Having said that, the job they have would be a lot eaiser if our primary education system wasn't a complete failure.
I remember the first PC version. It actually ran on GEOS and came with the core GEOS files so it could run like a standalone app. There was also a Tandy specifc serivce called PC-link (ran on Deskmate). I think PC-link got rolled into AOL eventually.
I don't recall it ever being mac only, but I didn't have a mac, so I wouldn't have. Makes sense that it would be, seeing as how being gui based was a departure from other services.
Somewhere I may still have an old compuserve brochure full of pictures of modern systems like ataris and c64s and trs-80s. Blazin at 1200 BPS!
I use mine a good bit. Basic text entry and word processing, emails, light web browsing, and the traditional PDA functions.
Plus it doubles as an mp3 player and voice recorder. Basiclly I use it when and where I don't want to lug around all the stuff that goes with my laptop. I can fit the unit and keyboard in a large coat pocket, along with my cell if I need net access. Look at the Dana, basically a palm os based laptop. For some people, that would do everything they need a laptop for. For many others, it would be woefully inadequate.
It all really depends on what you would do in a mobile setting and if you can tolerate the smaller screens.
may be, I can't really recall clearly what the earliest browsers in there looked like. I believe I was not on aol at the time they first brought out web browsing. I left sometime shortly after the had just tied thier email into the intenet. I seem to remember Gopher being an option, good times...good times....
And it doesn't really matter wither way, it is highly unlikely that any change in our buying habits will be enough to stop these companies from doing exactly what they want to do.
There will always be a steady stream of customers who will never consider the politics of the industry, and are quite unlikely to try to save the buck or two at the used shop.
Really the only reason I hardly ever buy a new CD is that there is very little coming out that I am interested in.
Supporting an indie label/artist may make some statement, but the volume is so low compared to the national "sanitized for your protection" outlets, that it would take a major nationwide hit to make them notice. And even then, the band would besigned by a major/ the small label would be bought or lawyered away.
It's not like the polls were useful for any good purpose anyway.
Most are skewed by design anyway, so what's the problem?
All polls have done for us is replace a republic with a flaky democracy by proxy where decisions are made by strategests based on the latest data and not by representatives.
The day that takes hold is the day I find a new platform, it's not like x86 is the only game in town.
Heck, older SGI Octanes are going for peanuts (comapared to thier original price) on ebay, and they are mostly upgradeable to current spec. And Apple is over there just drooling for my cash.
There really shouldn't be that much going on in BIOS, that's what the whole B part means, ya know.
Only a tiny fraction has a TV high end enough to take advantage of current DVDs (progrsssive scan). How many people out there are gonna drop the cash for 1. a HDTV 2. a DVD2 player 3. A new moive collection.
It's like SACD, I' sure you can tell the differnce if you really try (on better speakers than most people have), but the advantge is so negligable that it's not worth buying for the 80%+ of people who aren't shopping on the uber high end area.
Makes me miss Laserdisc; it had near DVD quality, there was no menu/preview crap on most of them, no copyguard/region code/player restriction crap.
DVD is good quality, but we've lost so much control due to the "unprecidented (sp?) co-operation" between the studios and the engineers.
Right-on, the whole reason this HDTV is being forced is so that the FCC can re-sell the analog spectrum for big bucks. The congressmen have already bought thier third houses with the money.. er I mean.. allocated the funds, so they aren't about to let anything like common sense stop them now.
How long will it take for GM to claim that the Onstar devices are licensed, not sold?
Either way, a big part of onstar is the live operator service for emergencies, how do you replace that?
Yeah, baby! 4k of ram goodness. With all upperase letters on that TV resolution.
The manual had a pretty decent intro to BASIC. The "chicklet" keyboard didnt catch on, though. (thank God)
It may be in their interest to open what they can of the drivers (may be hard to separate without breaking things though). They would get the benefit of OSS, but even better if someone does copy thier code it could work for their advantage.
NV would probably have some black box people checking every competitors driver revision. As soon as the code turns up elsewhere Nvidia can engage them in a nice big IP case and bolster their standing while putting a strain on the infringers. (insert evil laugh)
All kidding aside, secrecy has been ingrained in that business for so long that it will take some time for OSS to really get worked into the mindset. This wouldn't be such a problem if all the players would act a little more ethically, maybe some of the new entries to the market can set an example.
Are you suggesting that they violate thier licenses and agreements by open sourceing software that they don't have the legal right to do? (portions of the drivers are licensed from others)
And even if they could legally realease the code, it would not be in thier best interest to do so. PC hardware is a dirty business and any one of thier competitors would outright copy their best stuff in a heartbeat if they can get away with it.
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How many people really out the longing for better than DVD resolution and are willing to pay for it.
The only obvious reason to push this new-and-improved DVD is to try for a whole new round of DRM lock-in. Since they lost the CCS battle, they'll start over with DVD-HD. Feh..... how you suggest that one. Or your character may lose all his nookie points. What!?!? So talking to me is so hard...... You may not wanna go there.
Since when did anyone have a "right" to not being darwined out of the marketplace.
Feh.Secondly, todays educational institutions (most of them anyway) are cheap shams of what they once were. Going to university used to mean a period of hardship and disconnection from your old life where you were shaped into a person who cherished academics, tradition, service, honor and culture.
Now, it's the place you go to party for 4 years so you can put something "totally rad" on your resume. These institutions are letting the students down, and in turn, the students are letting the institutions down, and the whole mess is sinking into the sewer.
No big surprise, undergraduate studies is such a low priority at most instutions that it's now just a burden they have to carry in order to fund the real work. i.e. research and graduate studies. (leaving $$$ sports out of the equation for the moment)
I can hear the response now, "Ah! But the $$$ from that research helps all the students!", bull. That money goes striaght into whatever labor/equipment it was meant to buy, in order to facilitate the research. Whatvever resources may be left over will amost certainly be strictly for the use of research faculity or graduate students (working for said faculity).
The dirty work of educating the unwashed undergraduate masses falls to lower ranked profs or GAs. Those really expierenced professors who do want to "just teach" are marginalized out to smaller schools or satellite campuses.
The expectations of students/parents is that educating students is the highest priority. The reality is that schools judge each other on research and published works, not quality of education.
Having said that, the job they have would be a lot eaiser if our primary education system wasn't a complete failure.I don't recall it ever being mac only, but I didn't have a mac, so I wouldn't have. Makes sense that it would be, seeing as how being gui based was a departure from other services.
Somewhere I may still have an old compuserve brochure full of pictures of modern systems like ataris and c64s and trs-80s. Blazin at 1200 BPS!Plus it doubles as an mp3 player and voice recorder. Basiclly I use it when and where I don't want to lug around all the stuff that goes with my laptop. I can fit the unit and keyboard in a large coat pocket, along with my cell if I need net access. Look at the Dana, basically a palm os based laptop. For some people, that would do everything they need a laptop for. For many others, it would be woefully inadequate.
It all really depends on what you would do in a mobile setting and if you can tolerate the smaller screens.may be, I can't really recall clearly what the earliest browsers in there looked like. I believe I was not on aol at the time they first brought out web browsing. I left sometime shortly after the had just tied thier email into the intenet. I seem to remember Gopher being an option, good times...good times....
MS made it real easy to slap your own interface onto IE.
But will they? Legal FUD, no matter how false, could hurt thier IPO plans.
If thats the case, then it's a good thing. What gets me is when people change things solely to break others nonstandard code.
Maybe, but everything is working now, and there's no reason to change it other than breaking these "broken" programs.
There will always be a steady stream of customers who will never consider the politics of the industry, and are quite unlikely to try to save the buck or two at the used shop.
Really the only reason I hardly ever buy a new CD is that there is very little coming out that I am interested in.Supporting an indie label/artist may make some statement, but the volume is so low compared to the national "sanitized for your protection" outlets, that it would take a major nationwide hit to make them notice. And even then, the band would besigned by a major/ the small label would be bought or lawyered away.
That way you can actually pay for your goods, yet still not give a red cent of your money to the label.
The band/artist does not get any either, but that's no different than buying new anyway.This is, of course, assuming that your goal is to not reward the RIAA, yet still buy music honestly.
Most are skewed by design anyway, so what's the problem?
All polls have done for us is replace a republic with a flaky democracy by proxy where decisions are made by strategests based on the latest data and not by representatives.Heck, older SGI Octanes are going for peanuts (comapared to thier original price) on ebay, and they are mostly upgradeable to current spec. And Apple is over there just drooling for my cash.
There really shouldn't be that much going on in BIOS, that's what the whole B part means, ya know.8m should be plenty, since you're using it as mostly framebuffer.
Progress is not necessarly positive, ya know.
Anybody got the lowdown on this?
It's like SACD, I' sure you can tell the differnce if you really try (on better speakers than most people have), but the advantge is so negligable that it's not worth buying for the 80%+ of people who aren't shopping on the uber high end area.
Makes me miss Laserdisc; it had near DVD quality, there was no menu/preview crap on most of them, no copyguard/region code/player restriction crap.DVD is good quality, but we've lost so much control due to the "unprecidented (sp?) co-operation" between the studios and the engineers.
Crabby holidays everyone!
How long will it take for GM to claim that the Onstar devices are licensed, not sold? Either way, a big part of onstar is the live operator service for emergencies, how do you replace that?
Yeah, baby! 4k of ram goodness. With all upperase letters on that TV resolution. The manual had a pretty decent intro to BASIC. The "chicklet" keyboard didnt catch on, though. (thank God)
NV would probably have some black box people checking every competitors driver revision. As soon as the code turns up elsewhere Nvidia can engage them in a nice big IP case and bolster their standing while putting a strain on the infringers. (insert evil laugh)
All kidding aside, secrecy has been ingrained in that business for so long that it will take some time for OSS to really get worked into the mindset. This wouldn't be such a problem if all the players would act a little more ethically, maybe some of the new entries to the market can set an example.People, engineers included, learn from mistakes. Maybe it will show that somtimes it is worth taking a risk.
Or maybe it will be a big expensive hunk of charcoal, but either way I'm sure they will learn something valueable from doing this.And even if they could legally realease the code, it would not be in thier best interest to do so. PC hardware is a dirty business and any one of thier competitors would outright copy their best stuff in a heartbeat if they can get away with it.