It's not "compressed" but it's still digitally encoded. iTunes are at low quality now because they don't want people maxing out their monthly bandwidth allotment downloading music, and they don't want to completely fill up people's hard drives with their music collection either. Plus, you don't want to have to re-encode all your music to put it on your MP3 player. However, going to digital downloads is the only way to move beyond CD quality sound. There have been a couple competitors to CDs including DVD-Audio and the Super Audio CD. These never caught on because you had to buy all new devices to play them on. However, with digital downloads, any device should be able to play any file with any quality level, provided it has the processing power. So you could have 192 kHz/24-bit audio track similar to DVD audio, without having to go out and buy all new devices. First we need digital downloads to become mainstream, then we need to up the quality.
Yeah, but it doesn't work (at least for me) because all that stuff you get is still in digital form. You can't page through the lyrics, or hand it to your friend in the same room so he can look at the lyrics. You still have to be huddled around this computer. Which nobody really wants to do in a group. And if I was alone at my computer, I'd probably just google some new images/videos from their latest concert if I wanted to look at images, instead of looking at the same images/videos over and over again. And lyrics are easy enough to come by. With real programs like Amarok, it can bring in that stuff automatically, so it's not even an issue.
While it isn't for 3 or 4 year olds, it is watched by many "kids". I watched it in it's first season, and I was 9 then. If 9 isn't a child, then I don't know what is.
Well, the real accepted way is to do a "Flush tables with readlock" which will purge out all data to the disk, and lock all tables for writing. You then do a filesystem snapshop, and then you release the lock. You get a short interruption, of a few seconds when you cannot write to the tables, but not long enough for anything to timeout, with sane timeouts.
The thing is, it would only work for games that are supposed to be happening in the present, and in a non-fictional place on eart. Any game based on the past, or based on the future, or based in a fictional place would not benefit from real ads. So games like GTA, or some F1 Racing game might benefit, but games like Starcraft or Wolfenstein would not.
I don't think it would have to be that high. If it was $5, you would have to pay $5 for each app name you wanted to reserve. No money could be generated from the app, all you have is a name. So maybe you could buy up 10 or 20, but you really are wasting your money if you don't intend to keep a lot of app names reserved, without actually releasing applications with those names. Contrast this with domain names, where you pay a small fee, but you can actually put up a site with ads and make some money.
Very true. If you asked most people about scripting and word processing, they would probably think you were talking about movie or play scripts, and would have no idea what scripting was in reference to computers, or programming inside a word processor.
A better idea than a VM would be a similar thing to their search applicance. Take a box, (or 2 or 3 for load and redundancy) and shove them in your datacenter, and you automatically have an inhouse solution that just works.
I think that if they offered a free version, with very few features, they could corner the market. Almost everyone wants MS Office compatibility. So why not give them that, in a cut down version. Give them basic formatting, tables, images, fonts, that kind of stuff, but take out change tracking, macros, and all the other advanced features that most home users don't care about, and they could have something. Basically Wordpad with tables and spell check. That's all most people need.
The friend code system is only used if you want to specifically play against your friends. For MarioKart, you can play randomly against anyone in the world, no friend code neceessary. The system is only neutered in the sense that there is no voice chat. However, based on the kind of chat that goes on for XBox 360, I would have to call that a feature.
However, none of those other architectures were very popular, because they lacked applications. I don't even think I've seen a 128 bit processor. I can't imagine Microsoft would target a market so small, than many don't even know it exists.
Does any legitimate bank even send email? As far as I'm aware, in Canada, none of the major banks will ever send you an email. The message is, we will never send you an email. Once banks start sending legitimate mail, it gets hard to discern was is legitimate and what isn't. So it's just best to assume that every email from any bank is illegitimate. The only thing close to a bank that I've ever received email from is PayPal. Which is probably their major downfall. Because that's the only way for them to communicate with their customers, they have to use email. Personally, I think PayPal would be the one company who would really benefit from pushing PGP email, as they really need to be able to send email, and verify that it is indeed them sending it.
Unless they try to use MSN Messenger. I locked down my activex and scripting functionality for IE, and installed a Javascript debugger. I get no end to the messages from MSN Messenger, because it is trying to run some script, or display some active x control, or run some buggy javascript, because it's trying to use IE to do so.
There are many ways to download things off the internet without a browser. Take FTP for example. or iTunes. Neither is what I would call a browser. Sure iTunes has some browser aspects, but it isn't a browser. It wouldn't take much for MS to program an app that would be able to download the browser of your choice over the internet. Also, you state that "That Microsoft couldn't offer browsers which they didn't own", which is true, but you forgot a few words. Those words are "without the permission of the companies that do own them". I'm sure that Mozilla, Opera et al would love the opportunity to have their browsers in the list of available browsers with a fresh install of windows. Just educating people that there is a choice to be made is half the battle.
Also, most large organisms including humans and cows, contain more bacteria cells than human (or cow) cells. Bacteria by itself isn't bad. There are a few bad ones to watch out for. In any burger, there's probably more bacterial cells than cow cells. However the bacterial cells are smaller, and make up less of the weight, but there are still quite a lot of them.
Then you would end up like the guy at my university who presented a sock puppet as his art portfolio. Tell a good enough story about any piece of "art" and you can get in.
I've always thought that the US was quite weird with all the requirements for getting into a good school. From what I see on TV, there's Interviews, essay writing, and doing well on the SATs. Plus they look at things like extra curricular activities, along with a host of other things, like what school your parents went to. In Canada, it all seems much simpler. You apply to whatever schools you want to, and based on your highschool marks, they decide if you get in. There's an application board that handles the applications, and keeps track of exactly what a particular mark from a particular high school means, because, let's face it, not all schools are the same in how difficult they mark. I never had to write and essay, never had to have an interview. And this was for engineering at a very good university. Some schools (like Waterloo) have optional tests you can take in math and physics, and if you do really well, it's basically a ticket in, but it is in no way required that you take them. Also visual arts programs require you to submit a portfolio. I guess they want to make sure you have some artistic talent. Other than that, I think that's the only examples of actual work provided to get into university in Canada. I don't know why the US makes it such a hassle.
Wow, you need to learn how to read. I specifically stated
The other option is shopping online, where they deliver it via courier. That takes even longer.
Also, I wasn't aware the PSP was the actual device doing the downloading. I would have thought that a PC would download it, save it to a file, and then you would load the device on the PSP later, via a USB cable or something like that. It says on the wikipedia, that the PSP Go can download games on a windows machine using Media Go. It's not clear that you have to have the PSP connected while it downloads. It would seem to me like you don't need it connected.
I'll concede the point about not being able to resell games. However, I've never resold a game in my life, although I have bought quite a few used ones. If they can bring down the prices on older games fast enough to match the price that would have been available used, then this system could really work out well. I think it's really too early to tell how well this will work.
I find that more often then not, when people get blue screens or frequent crashes, that it's due to a bad RAM chip. I think it's kind of a bad thing that most motherboards don't really test the RAM when you book up. Usually running the real RAM test will pick up on most memory errors. You don't even need to run memtest. Sure you save a few seconds on boot up, but it's often better to know there is a problem with your memory then go on for months thinking there is some other problem.
I'm not sure that's so much of a problem. Currently to get games, I have to drive to the store, look on the shelf to find the game, find out they don't have the game, go to another store, and then buy the game, and then drive home. Even if they do have the game at the first store, it still takes probably at least 1/2 an hour to buy a game, depending on how far you live from the store. The other option is shopping online, where they deliver it via courier. That takes even longer. Being able to just do a couple clicks, and go and do something that I want to do, like play other games, while the game downloads, at any time of the day, when it's convenient, not just when some store is open, is definitely a lot more enjoyable than having to go to a physical store and buy a game.
With that in mind, I have to recommend Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Great book, and aimed at the highschool level. Great thing about it is that all the technology in the book is completely available, albeit a little reworked. One of the main goals of this sci-fi book is to make a sci-fi novel where the technology wasn't completely fake. He did a really good job. Also a great book because it's available for free in electronic for if your school can't afford hard copies.
Could this be used as a defense? I mean, if you were taken to court, and called up their sales representatives, and got 3 different answers on 3 different occasions, couldn't you then state that since they as Microsoft can't even tell you how to properly license the product, that you shouldn't be able to figure it out either. I mean, if Microsoft says that you aren't licensing it properly, the should be able to tell you what the correct licenses are. If they can't tell you that, then what are they really suing you for?
I don't see the problem, it's a picture of an apple. It would be hard not to make it look like another apple. They actually left out the bite mark, so as to make it actually quite a bit different. At least as different as possible, while still being an apple.
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It's not "compressed" but it's still digitally encoded. iTunes are at low quality now because they don't want people maxing out their monthly bandwidth allotment downloading music, and they don't want to completely fill up people's hard drives with their music collection either. Plus, you don't want to have to re-encode all your music to put it on your MP3 player. However, going to digital downloads is the only way to move beyond CD quality sound. There have been a couple competitors to CDs including DVD-Audio and the Super Audio CD. These never caught on because you had to buy all new devices to play them on. However, with digital downloads, any device should be able to play any file with any quality level, provided it has the processing power. So you could have 192 kHz/24-bit audio track similar to DVD audio, without having to go out and buy all new devices. First we need digital downloads to become mainstream, then we need to up the quality.
Yeah, but it doesn't work (at least for me) because all that stuff you get is still in digital form. You can't page through the lyrics, or hand it to your friend in the same room so he can look at the lyrics. You still have to be huddled around this computer. Which nobody really wants to do in a group. And if I was alone at my computer, I'd probably just google some new images/videos from their latest concert if I wanted to look at images, instead of looking at the same images/videos over and over again. And lyrics are easy enough to come by. With real programs like Amarok, it can bring in that stuff automatically, so it's not even an issue.
While it isn't for 3 or 4 year olds, it is watched by many "kids". I watched it in it's first season, and I was 9 then. If 9 isn't a child, then I don't know what is.
Well, the real accepted way is to do a "Flush tables with readlock" which will purge out all data to the disk, and lock all tables for writing. You then do a filesystem snapshop, and then you release the lock. You get a short interruption, of a few seconds when you cannot write to the tables, but not long enough for anything to timeout, with sane timeouts.
The thing is, it would only work for games that are supposed to be happening in the present, and in a non-fictional place on eart. Any game based on the past, or based on the future, or based in a fictional place would not benefit from real ads. So games like GTA, or some F1 Racing game might benefit, but games like Starcraft or Wolfenstein would not.
I don't think it would have to be that high. If it was $5, you would have to pay $5 for each app name you wanted to reserve. No money could be generated from the app, all you have is a name. So maybe you could buy up 10 or 20, but you really are wasting your money if you don't intend to keep a lot of app names reserved, without actually releasing applications with those names. Contrast this with domain names, where you pay a small fee, but you can actually put up a site with ads and make some money.
Very true. If you asked most people about scripting and word processing, they would probably think you were talking about movie or play scripts, and would have no idea what scripting was in reference to computers, or programming inside a word processor.
A better idea than a VM would be a similar thing to their search applicance. Take a box, (or 2 or 3 for load and redundancy) and shove them in your datacenter, and you automatically have an inhouse solution that just works.
I think that if they offered a free version, with very few features, they could corner the market. Almost everyone wants MS Office compatibility. So why not give them that, in a cut down version. Give them basic formatting, tables, images, fonts, that kind of stuff, but take out change tracking, macros, and all the other advanced features that most home users don't care about, and they could have something. Basically Wordpad with tables and spell check. That's all most people need.
The friend code system is only used if you want to specifically play against your friends. For MarioKart, you can play randomly against anyone in the world, no friend code neceessary. The system is only neutered in the sense that there is no voice chat. However, based on the kind of chat that goes on for XBox 360, I would have to call that a feature.
yes, but until it lets you navigate to an arbitrary web address, I would have to say that it still isn't a browser.
Why not target the Wii then. It is the most popular, and it has a PowerPC CPU, just like the xBox 360.
However, none of those other architectures were very popular, because they lacked applications. I don't even think I've seen a 128 bit processor. I can't imagine Microsoft would target a market so small, than many don't even know it exists.
Does any legitimate bank even send email? As far as I'm aware, in Canada, none of the major banks will ever send you an email. The message is, we will never send you an email. Once banks start sending legitimate mail, it gets hard to discern was is legitimate and what isn't. So it's just best to assume that every email from any bank is illegitimate. The only thing close to a bank that I've ever received email from is PayPal. Which is probably their major downfall. Because that's the only way for them to communicate with their customers, they have to use email. Personally, I think PayPal would be the one company who would really benefit from pushing PGP email, as they really need to be able to send email, and verify that it is indeed them sending it.
Unless they try to use MSN Messenger. I locked down my activex and scripting functionality for IE, and installed a Javascript debugger. I get no end to the messages from MSN Messenger, because it is trying to run some script, or display some active x control, or run some buggy javascript, because it's trying to use IE to do so.
There are many ways to download things off the internet without a browser. Take FTP for example. or iTunes. Neither is what I would call a browser. Sure iTunes has some browser aspects, but it isn't a browser. It wouldn't take much for MS to program an app that would be able to download the browser of your choice over the internet. Also, you state that "That Microsoft couldn't offer browsers which they didn't own", which is true, but you forgot a few words. Those words are "without the permission of the companies that do own them". I'm sure that Mozilla, Opera et al would love the opportunity to have their browsers in the list of available browsers with a fresh install of windows. Just educating people that there is a choice to be made is half the battle.
Also, most large organisms including humans and cows, contain more bacteria cells than human (or cow) cells. Bacteria by itself isn't bad. There are a few bad ones to watch out for. In any burger, there's probably more bacterial cells than cow cells. However the bacterial cells are smaller, and make up less of the weight, but there are still quite a lot of them.
Then you would end up like the guy at my university who presented a sock puppet as his art portfolio. Tell a good enough story about any piece of "art" and you can get in.
I've always thought that the US was quite weird with all the requirements for getting into a good school. From what I see on TV, there's Interviews, essay writing, and doing well on the SATs. Plus they look at things like extra curricular activities, along with a host of other things, like what school your parents went to. In Canada, it all seems much simpler. You apply to whatever schools you want to, and based on your highschool marks, they decide if you get in. There's an application board that handles the applications, and keeps track of exactly what a particular mark from a particular high school means, because, let's face it, not all schools are the same in how difficult they mark. I never had to write and essay, never had to have an interview. And this was for engineering at a very good university. Some schools (like Waterloo) have optional tests you can take in math and physics, and if you do really well, it's basically a ticket in, but it is in no way required that you take them. Also visual arts programs require you to submit a portfolio. I guess they want to make sure you have some artistic talent. Other than that, I think that's the only examples of actual work provided to get into university in Canada. I don't know why the US makes it such a hassle.
Also, I wasn't aware the PSP was the actual device doing the downloading. I would have thought that a PC would download it, save it to a file, and then you would load the device on the PSP later, via a USB cable or something like that. It says on the wikipedia, that the PSP Go can download games on a windows machine using Media Go. It's not clear that you have to have the PSP connected while it downloads. It would seem to me like you don't need it connected.
I'll concede the point about not being able to resell games. However, I've never resold a game in my life, although I have bought quite a few used ones. If they can bring down the prices on older games fast enough to match the price that would have been available used, then this system could really work out well. I think it's really too early to tell how well this will work.
I find that more often then not, when people get blue screens or frequent crashes, that it's due to a bad RAM chip. I think it's kind of a bad thing that most motherboards don't really test the RAM when you book up. Usually running the real RAM test will pick up on most memory errors. You don't even need to run memtest. Sure you save a few seconds on boot up, but it's often better to know there is a problem with your memory then go on for months thinking there is some other problem.
I'm not sure that's so much of a problem. Currently to get games, I have to drive to the store, look on the shelf to find the game, find out they don't have the game, go to another store, and then buy the game, and then drive home. Even if they do have the game at the first store, it still takes probably at least 1/2 an hour to buy a game, depending on how far you live from the store. The other option is shopping online, where they deliver it via courier. That takes even longer. Being able to just do a couple clicks, and go and do something that I want to do, like play other games, while the game downloads, at any time of the day, when it's convenient, not just when some store is open, is definitely a lot more enjoyable than having to go to a physical store and buy a game.
With that in mind, I have to recommend Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Great book, and aimed at the highschool level. Great thing about it is that all the technology in the book is completely available, albeit a little reworked. One of the main goals of this sci-fi book is to make a sci-fi novel where the technology wasn't completely fake. He did a really good job. Also a great book because it's available for free in electronic for if your school can't afford hard copies.
Could this be used as a defense? I mean, if you were taken to court, and called up their sales representatives, and got 3 different answers on 3 different occasions, couldn't you then state that since they as Microsoft can't even tell you how to properly license the product, that you shouldn't be able to figure it out either. I mean, if Microsoft says that you aren't licensing it properly, the should be able to tell you what the correct licenses are. If they can't tell you that, then what are they really suing you for?
I don't see the problem, it's a picture of an apple. It would be hard not to make it look like another apple. They actually left out the bite mark, so as to make it actually quite a bit different. At least as different as possible, while still being an apple.