So what, with 72x more data, you can afford to put 36x more information on the disc twice. The point is that it's now 1/2 the size...
I also don't see you arguing against your hard drive becoming more and more dense. The same problem exists there. But you don't handle the platter of the hard drive directly as you do with a disc. Apples and oranges.
Just use multiple lasers to read the data, that should be able to correct for many scratches, and movie/music data is less critical than computer data, error correction is built in, and a good CD/DVD player should be able to either find, extrapolate, or simply skip over the data that's missing without us noticing unless it gets really severe. Good point for movies. Also, the increased data used to display each frame would mean that even if a given amount of data is lost to a scratch and ignored, the actually amount of frames would be less (MB to MB). For critical data, redunancy would be required.
It seems that the more data that you throw onto a 5" disc the less resilience to scratches there are. I understand that a lot of these discs will use redundancy to counteract the increased sensitivity to scratches. I would assume that would cut into the amount of data that can be stored on the disc. Am I wrong in assuming that being that the discs are 72x the capacity of a CD ROM that the information density is 72X more. If the discs have 72x the amount of information in a given area, wouldn't the disc be 72x more susceptible to scratches. I've noticed this when comparing CD to DVD's.
All I can say about the COD expansion is WOW. Very cool. I'm a little concerned about the tanks and other vechiles in the multiplayer. Lot of TK'ing via running people over in the game from my experiences. Something they will hopefully patch.
Bang on. That is exactly my worry here is that with a lot of the clubs in Vancouver the problem-types might be coming in the back door. Club bouncer / owner might have trouble telling Mr. Biker that he needs to be ID'd at the front door.
While I agree with you (or I guess George Miller), I don't think that you would need to memorize all the bits. I would guess (hope) that it is somewhat geographically consistent being that most Toronto addresses would share a number of the same characters. For example, all Toronto addresses might be 8CNB5 xxxxx. So you would only need to learn the xxxxx part if you use the 8CNB5 part a lot (like you probably would for an address within your own city). Moving to a new address within Toronto (from Toronto) would mean you would need to learn 5-7 more characters. Probably easier than learning postal code, street address, apt#, correct street spelling...
To be fair, the Real model allows for more browsing than the Apple model. Your comparing apples to oranges here (oooh, I kill me...)
Apple cost 100*0.99=$99.00 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 90 that you downloaded but maybe didn't like...)
Real cost $10.00 + 0$ for 100 songs listened to + $7.90 for the ones you liked = $17.90
The models are quite different. One with the emphasis on getting songs you know the other on browsing for songs you might not know. Of course, the usefulness of being able to browse the library is highly dependant on the quality of each library.
Isn't Apple going to suffer the same problem that the industry has where people's systems are good enough for the apps they are using? Consider that Apple seems to be targetting the end-user arena, are users gonna care if they can run Itunes in 1 second instead of 4?
How many people are choosing PC over MAC based on top-end speed?
I would suspect that price is the biggest determining factor for most users. The addition of $x,000 for that big of a speed jump will not intice many new "switchers".
Not that I am predicting the end of Apple but this news should be taken in context.
I remember they put that Wired issue in the local stores in Vancouver. They put a sticker over the offending information that said "Banned in Canada" which funny enough peeled right off. (the details were pretty mundance - that the guys wife had been offered a deal to testify against him)
The funniest thing was the other much bigger sticker on the front cover that said something to the effect that some of the information in the issues was banned in Canada. Great marketing.
Take the same situation but you have a gun. Does he? Who wins? Your seated in a car compared to him standing near your car. Is your gun dash mounted? Probably in a holster. You go for your gun and he goes for his. Who wins? Maybe next time it's not a carjacker but an employee that's heading to work and noticed a part of your car is dragging. Again, not saying that gun control would change anything but you have to realize that carrying a gun for protection can significantly raise the level of violence in any confrontation.
I think that the whole gun issue comes down to why people own guns. There has been a lot of talk about the gun ownership ratios in Canada compared to the US (being that they are similiar). The difference is why we (I'm Canadian) own guns. There is a pervasive American attitude that gun ownership is for protection of home and family. In Canada, we tend to buy guns for sport or vermin control.
If I understand correctly, fair use allows you to format shift from one media type to another for your personal use. If you want to shift formats from CD to mp3 and you can't due to copy protection, isn't downloading that mp3 off p2p legal in that instance. You own a "license" to the music that you are downloading by virtue of purchasing the CD. Is there a distinction between personally created format-shifts and someone else's format-shift?
To me, restricting the ability to format shift infringes on fair-use. I don't remember the specific warnings but I know MAME games have a warning that you can only use ROM images for games that you actually own the ROM to. This is a similar situation (to the CD protection) where most people with these machines couldn't extract the ROM data themselves (I am sure that it's relatively difficult). Would the relative widespread availability of these ROMs be more because of the fair-use "loop-hole" or because the ROM copyright holders are long gone and/or not-interested enough to go after these people?
Could the RIAA accidentally end up legitimizing P2P filesharing such as Kazaa by doing this? Especially if they take this "it ain't broken" standpoint / not labelling as copy-protected.
It seems to me the best anti-piracy measure would is the cd-key check to a central server AND a low price.
With a low enough price on games, it would not be worth the trouble to download/rip games, piss about with cracked servers for authenication (or whatever you do to beat cd-key checks), and the lack of the feeling of general lawfullness of actually purchasing things from a store.
I think it will the protection will only be in the inner lining. Your phone transmitting to the big tower down the street; not the little tower you pee with.;>
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So what, with 72x more data, you can afford to put 36x more information on the disc twice.
The point is that it's now 1/2 the size...
I also don't see you arguing against your hard drive becoming more and more dense. The same problem exists there.
But you don't handle the platter of the hard drive directly as you do with a disc. Apples and oranges.
Just use multiple lasers to read the data, that should be able to correct for many scratches, and movie/music data is less critical than computer data, error correction is built in, and a good CD/DVD player should be able to either find, extrapolate, or simply skip over the data that's missing without us noticing unless it gets really severe.
Good point for movies. Also, the increased data used to display each frame would mean that even if a given amount of data is lost to a scratch and ignored, the actually amount of frames would be less (MB to MB). For critical data, redunancy would be required.
It seems that the more data that you throw onto a 5" disc the less resilience to scratches there are. I understand that a lot of these discs will use redundancy to counteract the increased sensitivity to scratches. I would assume that would cut into the amount of data that can be stored on the disc. Am I wrong in assuming that being that the discs are 72x the capacity of a CD ROM that the information density is 72X more. If the discs have 72x the amount of information in a given area, wouldn't the disc be 72x more susceptible to scratches. I've noticed this when comparing CD to DVD's.
So why dump the cartridges?
All I can say about the COD expansion is WOW. Very cool. I'm a little concerned about the tanks and other vechiles in the multiplayer. Lot of TK'ing via running people over in the game from my experiences. Something they will hopefully patch.
"Nyy lbhe onfr..." was all they received. Their best attempts to decrypt the message were unsuccessful.
I might be wrong but I don't think it's "RAM". I believe this is prerecorded media like DVD from blockbuster.
In other news: Just checking with iTMS and it seems they have added a few new songs:
Go check - they are really there...
...your not looking hard enough...
... really ....
Bang on. That is exactly my worry here is that with a lot of the clubs in Vancouver the problem-types might be coming in the back door. Club bouncer / owner might have trouble telling Mr. Biker that he needs to be ID'd at the front door.
They are talking about (dance) clubs that tend to have line ups anyways. The pub-type bars won't require this.
While I agree with you (or I guess George Miller), I don't think that you would need to memorize all the bits. I would guess (hope) that it is somewhat geographically consistent being that most Toronto addresses would share a number of the same characters. For example, all Toronto addresses might be 8CNB5 xxxxx. So you would only need to learn the xxxxx part if you use the 8CNB5 part a lot (like you probably would for an address within your own city). Moving to a new address within Toronto (from Toronto) would mean you would need to learn 5-7 more characters. Probably easier than learning postal code, street address, apt#, correct street spelling...
To be fair, the Real model allows for more browsing than the Apple model. Your comparing apples to oranges here (oooh, I kill me...)
Apple cost 100*0.99=$99.00 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 90 that you downloaded but maybe didn't like...)
Real cost $10.00 + 0$ for 100 songs listened to + $7.90 for the ones you liked = $17.90
The models are quite different. One with the emphasis on getting songs you know the other on browsing for songs you might not know. Of course, the usefulness of being able to browse the library is highly dependant on the quality of each library.
Actually it is good that they are doing this. If this is the US telling the world that they are right, well good for them. They are right.
I noticed that Canada is supporting them on this. This makes up for us not supporting the war, right? (looks sheepishly south across the border...)
It kinda looks like a PDA done with the interface of Blades of Steel (circa 1991).
Isn't Apple going to suffer the same problem that the industry has where people's systems are good enough for the apps they are using? Consider that Apple seems to be targetting the end-user arena, are users gonna care if they can run Itunes in 1 second instead of 4?
How many people are choosing PC over MAC based on top-end speed?
I would suspect that price is the biggest determining factor for most users. The addition of $x,000 for that big of a speed jump will not intice many new "switchers".
Not that I am predicting the end of Apple but this news should be taken in context.
Someone do a Turing test on this... What the hell are you talking about???
I remember they put that Wired issue in the local stores in Vancouver. They put a sticker over the offending information that said "Banned in Canada" which funny enough peeled right off. (the details were pretty mundance - that the guys wife had been offered a deal to testify against him)
The funniest thing was the other much bigger sticker on the front cover that said something to the effect that some of the information in the issues was banned in Canada. Great marketing.
Take the same situation but you have a gun. Does he? Who wins? Your seated in a car compared to him standing near your car. Is your gun dash mounted? Probably in a holster. You go for your gun and he goes for his. Who wins? Maybe next time it's not a carjacker but an employee that's heading to work and noticed a part of your car is dragging. Again, not saying that gun control would change anything but you have to realize that carrying a gun for protection can significantly raise the level of violence in any confrontation.
I think that the whole gun issue comes down to why people own guns. There has been a lot of talk about the gun ownership ratios in Canada compared to the US (being that they are similiar). The difference is why we (I'm Canadian) own guns. There is a pervasive American attitude that gun ownership is for protection of home and family. In Canada, we tend to buy guns for sport or vermin control.
If I understand correctly, fair use allows you to format shift from one media type to another for your personal use. If you want to shift formats from CD to mp3 and you can't due to copy protection, isn't downloading that mp3 off p2p legal in that instance. You own a "license" to the music that you are downloading by virtue of purchasing the CD. Is there a distinction between personally created format-shifts and someone else's format-shift?
To me, restricting the ability to format shift infringes on fair-use. I don't remember the specific warnings but I know MAME games have a warning that you can only use ROM images for games that you actually own the ROM to. This is a similar situation (to the CD protection) where most people with these machines couldn't extract the ROM data themselves (I am sure that it's relatively difficult). Would the relative widespread availability of these ROMs be more because of the fair-use "loop-hole" or because the ROM copyright holders are long gone and/or not-interested enough to go after these people?
Could the RIAA accidentally end up legitimizing P2P filesharing such as Kazaa by doing this? Especially if they take this "it ain't broken" standpoint / not labelling as copy-protected.
It seems to me the best anti-piracy measure would is the cd-key check to a central server AND a low price.
With a low enough price on games, it would not be worth the trouble to download/rip games, piss about with cracked servers for authenication (or whatever you do to beat cd-key checks), and the lack of the feeling of general lawfullness of actually purchasing things from a store.
I think it will the protection will only be in the inner lining. Your phone transmitting to the big tower down the street; not the little tower you pee with. ;>
FROM: +614042511111
Did checking this SMS message while you were driving cause you to have an accident. We are offering 30% off autobody work at Spackle Kings Autobody. Plus you get some free DHEA and a university degree with every fender straightening.