They really did need better marketing. My boss, who is a fairly technological guy, thought that HDDVD wasn't full high def, or that it couldn't hold as much data as BluRay. Apparently having DVD in it's name meant it was the same old technology, but bumped up just a bit. I corrected him, but it just goes to show you. HDDVD really does need to do some marketing. That's what it all comes down to in the end. Who markets their product better. Not necessary which product is actually better.
But the DS has an extremely small screen. So either there's going to be major problems selecting individual units, or you're not going to get as wide of a view as you did on the PC. Unless there was some functionality for zooming in and out. I could see it working ok, but it wouldn't be quite as good as it would be on the computer.
Who cares what the wires are made of. It's a digital signal. As long as the signal gets from A to B, then you have no problems. It's not like analog with variable levels of degredation based on how much interference there is.
But it's only perjury if you know you are lying. Maybe the lawyer was just dumb, or had been brainwashed by all the Sony execs to believe that making a copy of one's own CDs is stealing
How do you ensure the boot code hasn't been tampered with, and is actually booting your own code, and not some other code. Also, If you thought the voting process was slow before, just imagine the line-ups this would cause, as well as the blank stares when you try to explain it to the voters.
Having an older system really shouldn't affect the stability of the system. Perhaps some of your RAM is dying. You should run a memory test. Apart from that, it may be some buggy drivers, but it probably has nothing to do with the Athlon 2000+. I have a Celeron 1.5 with 512 MB of RAM. Vista is extremely stable. Although it's unbelievably slow. Which is why I run Mandriva. Of course, the wife refuses to use Linux, Although all she does (web, watch videos, msn) can be done just fine on Linux.
Or so that any polling station could compile their own version of the code, with minor changes, and load it on the voting machines so that they can mess with the results. I would trust electronic voting, if you could provide a way for each and every voter walking up to the machine to prove the the machine was indeed running the correct software.
My country uses paper ballots that are marked by pen, and optically scanned by the human eye. I don't see any reason why we need machines at all. Votes are counted so fast. That they had to make a law that results couldn't be reported before all polling stations were closed, because they believed the people on the west coast were being influence by the results from the east coast.
Why not just use paper? Any use of computers means that nobody can verify what software is actually running when they walk up to the machine on election day. There is no problem with paper and pen, and hand counting. It is completely verifiable, completely transparent, and with people watching the polling stations, ballot boxes, and counting, is actually quite hard to cheat the system. It's also very hard to do cheating en masse. Sure you could stuff a couple ballot boxes, but it is very hard to stuff all the ballots across the country.
In Canada, disabled may get somebody to help them. Almost all polling stations have level access (so wheelchairs can access them). There are also mobile polling stations for those who are unable to travel to their polling station. I understand how a computer might help some disabled people, but it would probably be better if it was just used to mark a ballot which would be the same as those marked in pen by the non-disabled voters. Then they could all be counted by hand.
Price is still a consideration if you're going low-end. I got an Acer Laptop for $450 at a back-to-school sale. It's low end, but has no problem running Mandriva + Compiz Fusion without any slowdowns. There is no Mac laptop in this range. Just for the record, it's a Celeron 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Intel 950 GMA and 80 GB hard drive. Like I said, low end, but it does everything I need it to do (web browsing, php web development, OpenOffice, GIMP, GnuCash) and is plenty responsive.
Your time only needs to be worthless if you consider it not interesting to go through the set up process. If you think of the Linux set up process as a learning experience, and actually enjoy all the new things your learn, than that time is not wasted. It only detracts from one of your other hobbies. Which you probably wouldn't get paid for anyway.
DVDFab for ripping + Handbrake for encoding solved my issues. In theory you could use Handbrake for the whole process, but 98% of DVDs use weird protection methods like bad sectors or invalid ifo files, that it takes a program like DVDFab to rip them properly. So, with 2 programs, you get a simple to use ripper+encoder that works as good as you could ever hope for. There's a lot of crap out there, and finding the right programs is hard, but once you find the right apps, everything is easy. There's lots of photo editing programs out there, just because somebody hasn't found photoshop yet, doesn't mean a good solution doesn't exist.
GPG relies on the fact that only you have your private key. Once your private key is compromised, it completely breaks down. DRM doesn't work, and will never work, because the attacker and the receiver are the same person. You'll always be able to grab the key out of memory, or hook up some mod chip to the computer/console/whatever to bypass the DRM, or dump the memory contents.
They don't do dynamic IP addresses because they don't have enough addresses. They do it for stopping you from running a server on your home computer. Sure you can still run a server, but it's harder to run one when your IP address keeps changing.
Well then why do we need lengthy prison sentences for drug use. Just make it so that drug related health problems are not covered. Then for those who commit other crimes while on drugs, well, we got laws against other crimes anyway. This would make it so that people who can handle casual drug use not be punished for other people inabilities to handle their drug use.
How well does a keyboard like that work for touch typing? I usually rest my fingers on the keys. How would this device tell the difference between resting your fingers on the table, and actually pressing a key? Also, what happens when you press a key that is obstructed from it's field of view. I often hit the left alt key by sliding my thumb under my palm to press it with the side of my thumb. Also, the lack of any tactile feedback would be terrible.
I was born in 1980. And I just tried Master Blaster 10 minutes ago on the emulator to see what all the fuss was about. Wow, that is probably one of the last games I would want for the Wii. I would not spend $5 on that game. Possibly $0.05, but not $5. I could probably think of about 100 other games that I'd like to have rather than that.
So go out and buy a $50 DVD player. You'll get much better DVD player abilities out of any cheap dvd player over any console. I get that the Wii is kind of a special case in that it has a the ability to point at the screen, but still I think it would be quite lacking as a DVD player. While the Wii would probably fair better than a PS3 or XBox360, it still wouldn't be great. My DVD remote has about 100 buttons. I'm not sure how you'd mimic all those buttons with just the Wiimote. I can see why they wouldn't include a DVD player on the Wii. They wanted to keep the price down. And almost everybody has a DVD player already. No point in adding (dvd license + software dev costs) to the cost of every console, just for the 0.25% of people who would buy the Wii, yet wouldn't already have a DVD player.
Why does the Wii need DVD playback? Everybody already has a DVD player by their TV. What they really need is the ability to play Divx, H.264, AAC, MP3s, and all the other popular formats from an SMB share.
It's so much easier to play these games on a TV, without getting an extra computer, just for your TV. I would gladly pay $5-$10 for the quality of play offered by the Wii. Here's some of the advantages. Displays perfectly on your TV without messing with driver settings. Games list can be navigated with the Wiimote. The controls are much more responsive than any emulator I've ever played.
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Save your money, and just download HD Rips, or watch HD on demand with your cable company.
They really did need better marketing. My boss, who is a fairly technological guy, thought that HDDVD wasn't full high def, or that it couldn't hold as much data as BluRay. Apparently having DVD in it's name meant it was the same old technology, but bumped up just a bit. I corrected him, but it just goes to show you. HDDVD really does need to do some marketing. That's what it all comes down to in the end. Who markets their product better. Not necessary which product is actually better.
But the DS has an extremely small screen. So either there's going to be major problems selecting individual units, or you're not going to get as wide of a view as you did on the PC. Unless there was some functionality for zooming in and out. I could see it working ok, but it wouldn't be quite as good as it would be on the computer.
Who cares what the wires are made of. It's a digital signal. As long as the signal gets from A to B, then you have no problems. It's not like analog with variable levels of degredation based on how much interference there is.
But it's only perjury if you know you are lying. Maybe the lawyer was just dumb, or had been brainwashed by all the Sony execs to believe that making a copy of one's own CDs is stealing
How do you ensure the boot code hasn't been tampered with, and is actually booting your own code, and not some other code. Also, If you thought the voting process was slow before, just imagine the line-ups this would cause, as well as the blank stares when you try to explain it to the voters.
Having an older system really shouldn't affect the stability of the system. Perhaps some of your RAM is dying. You should run a memory test. Apart from that, it may be some buggy drivers, but it probably has nothing to do with the Athlon 2000+. I have a Celeron 1.5 with 512 MB of RAM. Vista is extremely stable. Although it's unbelievably slow. Which is why I run Mandriva. Of course, the wife refuses to use Linux, Although all she does (web, watch videos, msn) can be done just fine on Linux.
Or so that any polling station could compile their own version of the code, with minor changes, and load it on the voting machines so that they can mess with the results. I would trust electronic voting, if you could provide a way for each and every voter walking up to the machine to prove the the machine was indeed running the correct software.
My country uses paper ballots that are marked by pen, and optically scanned by the human eye. I don't see any reason why we need machines at all. Votes are counted so fast. That they had to make a law that results couldn't be reported before all polling stations were closed, because they believed the people on the west coast were being influence by the results from the east coast.
Why not just use paper? Any use of computers means that nobody can verify what software is actually running when they walk up to the machine on election day. There is no problem with paper and pen, and hand counting. It is completely verifiable, completely transparent, and with people watching the polling stations, ballot boxes, and counting, is actually quite hard to cheat the system. It's also very hard to do cheating en masse. Sure you could stuff a couple ballot boxes, but it is very hard to stuff all the ballots across the country.
In Canada, disabled may get somebody to help them. Almost all polling stations have level access (so wheelchairs can access them). There are also mobile polling stations for those who are unable to travel to their polling station. I understand how a computer might help some disabled people, but it would probably be better if it was just used to mark a ballot which would be the same as those marked in pen by the non-disabled voters. Then they could all be counted by hand.
Price is still a consideration if you're going low-end. I got an Acer Laptop for $450 at a back-to-school sale. It's low end, but has no problem running Mandriva + Compiz Fusion without any slowdowns. There is no Mac laptop in this range. Just for the record, it's a Celeron 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Intel 950 GMA and 80 GB hard drive. Like I said, low end, but it does everything I need it to do (web browsing, php web development, OpenOffice, GIMP, GnuCash) and is plenty responsive.
Your time only needs to be worthless if you consider it not interesting to go through the set up process. If you think of the Linux set up process as a learning experience, and actually enjoy all the new things your learn, than that time is not wasted. It only detracts from one of your other hobbies. Which you probably wouldn't get paid for anyway.
DVDFab for ripping + Handbrake for encoding solved my issues. In theory you could use Handbrake for the whole process, but 98% of DVDs use weird protection methods like bad sectors or invalid ifo files, that it takes a program like DVDFab to rip them properly. So, with 2 programs, you get a simple to use ripper+encoder that works as good as you could ever hope for. There's a lot of crap out there, and finding the right programs is hard, but once you find the right apps, everything is easy. There's lots of photo editing programs out there, just because somebody hasn't found photoshop yet, doesn't mean a good solution doesn't exist.
GPG relies on the fact that only you have your private key. Once your private key is compromised, it completely breaks down. DRM doesn't work, and will never work, because the attacker and the receiver are the same person. You'll always be able to grab the key out of memory, or hook up some mod chip to the computer/console/whatever to bypass the DRM, or dump the memory contents.
With everybody and their brother having a router in their house, how much can they really rely on not everybody being connected at the same time.
They don't do dynamic IP addresses because they don't have enough addresses. They do it for stopping you from running a server on your home computer. Sure you can still run a server, but it's harder to run one when your IP address keeps changing.
Well then why do we need lengthy prison sentences for drug use. Just make it so that drug related health problems are not covered. Then for those who commit other crimes while on drugs, well, we got laws against other crimes anyway. This would make it so that people who can handle casual drug use not be punished for other people inabilities to handle their drug use.
It also doesn't seem that much smaller than those foldable laptop style keyboards. What advantages would it have over that?
How well does a keyboard like that work for touch typing? I usually rest my fingers on the keys. How would this device tell the difference between resting your fingers on the table, and actually pressing a key? Also, what happens when you press a key that is obstructed from it's field of view. I often hit the left alt key by sliding my thumb under my palm to press it with the side of my thumb. Also, the lack of any tactile feedback would be terrible.
I was born in 1980. And I just tried Master Blaster 10 minutes ago on the emulator to see what all the fuss was about. Wow, that is probably one of the last games I would want for the Wii. I would not spend $5 on that game. Possibly $0.05, but not $5. I could probably think of about 100 other games that I'd like to have rather than that.
And you probably still wouldn't get blaster master, because nobody has ever heard of that game.
So go out and buy a $50 DVD player. You'll get much better DVD player abilities out of any cheap dvd player over any console. I get that the Wii is kind of a special case in that it has a the ability to point at the screen, but still I think it would be quite lacking as a DVD player. While the Wii would probably fair better than a PS3 or XBox360, it still wouldn't be great. My DVD remote has about 100 buttons. I'm not sure how you'd mimic all those buttons with just the Wiimote. I can see why they wouldn't include a DVD player on the Wii. They wanted to keep the price down. And almost everybody has a DVD player already. No point in adding (dvd license + software dev costs) to the cost of every console, just for the 0.25% of people who would buy the Wii, yet wouldn't already have a DVD player.
Why does the Wii need DVD playback? Everybody already has a DVD player by their TV. What they really need is the ability to play Divx, H.264, AAC, MP3s, and all the other popular formats from an SMB share.
It's so much easier to play these games on a TV, without getting an extra computer, just for your TV. I would gladly pay $5-$10 for the quality of play offered by the Wii. Here's some of the advantages. Displays perfectly on your TV without messing with driver settings. Games list can be navigated with the Wiimote. The controls are much more responsive than any emulator I've ever played.