People buy things other than computer components online.
Newegg or googlegear are fine for electronics, I use them too and dont bother with pricewatch searches anymore..
But what if you want a baby crib, a waffle iron, a pair of boot cut jeans and alligator boots to go with them, a unicicle, or a chia pet?
Right now I know many regular folks who buy online through Amazon, you can find practically anything. You're really buying from partners (Toys R Us, Office Depot, Etc), but Amazon makes a convenient portal to do so.
That's what these folks all want. For people like my mother to just instinctively go to "msn.com", like she does Amazon now, when she's christmas shopping for the grandkids.
The FCC has a mandate, and a responsibility to enforce a minimum standard of decency on PUBLIC AIRWAVES. VHF, UHF, FM and AM.
So long as they aren't regulating Cable, Satellite, or the Net - which a consumer chooses to bring into their home - it's fine.
There's a situation now with the networks trying to compete with the likes of HBO or Comedy Central, and seeing how far they can push it.
The reaction to the superbowl stunt shows that the folks are simply sick of it.
I'm as profane as anyone, and enjoy South Park and fart jokes, etc.. But it doesn't belong on the public spectrum, they're for everybody.
I enjoy Howard Sterns show from time to time. I hope he's successful on Sirius or other payed service. He does not belong on the public dial.
It isn't censorship. It's regulating the use of a public resource, which is their job. You can't swear and flash your tits on a public station any more than you can in a public park.
RAW 12-bit (which the 1Ds captures) is a lossless representation of a bitmap with 24 or 32 bit color. RAW is the raw data from the CCDs of the camera itself, with a much higher color range. They capture 12bit Bayer patern, IIRC.
The RAW files are saved, to be converted into CMYK for printing, not RGB colorspace that PNG, JPEG and other monitor-centric display technologies use. The JPEGs are merely for previewing on a monitor.
RAW and JPEG are captured because that's the two formats the cameras they use spit out.
Why would they need Dual G5s or Photoshop? The most they do to the photos is crop them. Hell, photoshop shouldn't even be in a real journalists office.
Show me what happened, not an artists conception of what happened.
And how much equipment do you need to bring onsite to snap shots of a bunch of meatheads chasing a ball around?
Free downloads make so much more sense for a band trying to reach a wider audience.
Most people will only pay for music that's already "made it". They like that song thats always on the radio, "who are those guys? Im gonna get that CD."
If they want to buy, and the artists want to sell, so be it.
The RIAA members are publicly traded companies. They cant just piss away money on a whim without a stockholder revolt. The only reason they'd buy out other labels would be because it's good business. The indies provide ~nil competition to them, anyways.
Your conspiracy theories are not based in reality.
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A trip to Best Buy shows me there are at least as many HDTVs out on the showroom floor as there are regular TVs, if not more. The gap in pricing is still a little too wide for my taste, but that's bound to drop.
Cable and satellite are pushing HDTV hard. Regular non-techie folks are all abuzz about how good the superbowl looked on their friends new HDTV plasma.
This wont be the year that HDTV becomes ubiquitous, but it's going to grow more this year than it has in the last decade.
I'd compare it to color tv.. Black and white sets hung around for decades.. Things move faster now, prices drop faster, but it'll be the same way.
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I wont buy any more home electronics that require a monthly/bimontly/annual fee to operate.
I don't need TV listings, cable provides them for free. I dont need the box to pick shows for me, or judge me because my wife uses it to watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I just want something to usurp the VCR, with it's mangled tapes and hideos tracking knob.
Besides a home-rolled PVR, which I currently use, there are a slew of such devices on the horizon. Everyone and their uncle is making a MediaPC with PVR functionality. There'll be PVR functionality in XBox2, and likely the PS3 and GameCube Jr.
I hope Tivo dies, and I hope the industry learns from it. I want to buy a device, and be able to use it as often as I want without any further fees.
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Everyone I know says "record" or "tape", whether they mean VCR, PVR, hiring a court stenographer and sketch artist, or using a handycam.
Maybe because "Tivo" is a lame verb.
Tivo, and everyone else who comes up with a brilliant new way to send me a bill every month can jump straight up my ass. I know when ATHF is on, and I'll "tape" it myself.
Ohmigoodness they aren't practicing the gospel according to RMS!
This isn't linux or the HURD. This is stuff developed with taxpayer dollars. All the bits and bobs written for various agencies stuck in one pile. Under MA law, taxpayer dollars can not be used for corporate R&D.
This isn't incompatible with the GPL, the GPL is incompatible with this. Doesn't stop them from using linux, but it does prevent them from contributing to it.
Without the gameboy series, Nintendo would never have been able to tread water with the N64 against the playstation.
They'd still exist, just like Sega still exists, as a software publisher only.
Gameboy's competitors tried to outdo it spec-wise, and priced themselves right out of the competition. There were some good products, GameGear with its full color screen almost a decade before GBC - and SMS compatible.. The Sega Nomad, a handheld Genesis.. Atari Lynx... They all cost way too much.
NeoGeo Pocket could have made inroads, it was reasonably priced for it's feature set, but SNK was already on it's knees and didn't have what it took to weather the storm. Poor SNK. If only they'd entered the console market earlier with a *reasonably priced* Neo Geo system, things just may have turned out different for the industry.
XBox is doing what it's supposed to do. Grow the Microsoft brand. It was never supposed to be profitable, it's successors will be. They will, in time, displace Sony from the console market.
The Playstation wasn't profitable for a long time. They took a bath on it. Yet it had the desired effect, it knocked Nintendo, Sega, Atari, 3DO, etc right off of the map.
MSFT is moving in a direction that changes the whole idea of a game console. I predict a whole line of compatible set-top devices with different features sets. A DVD-gaming-internet jukebox with DVR, one without, one that just plays games, one that streams on-demand video, etc, etc.. I see them licensing third party vendors to produce compatible hardware.. I see a future where almost every TV has a box underneath it with the Microsoft logo on it somewhere.
Apple as a manufacturer of PC's most likely will. At least as they exist now.
Everythings wrong with their current business strategy. Expensive machines, limited upgrade potential, vendor lock in, increasing lack of third party interest.
So a top of the line dual G5 mac is really cool today. What about next year? Can you upgrade the CPU on a mac? You could upgrade an intel/amd proc for about a quarter the cost of the machine, motherboard and cpu.
OS/X is nice, but not nice enough. Apple has turned to the iPod, if not as a source of revenue, but as a source of hype. Noone out on the street is talking about the G5 or OS/X. They are talking about the iPod and iTunes.
Personally, I'd love to see Apple open up the platform to third party hardware vendors. I'd switch if I could "roll my own" mac, pick up a decent motherboard from Gigabyte, hell maybe even a G5 clone from AMD, etc..
I'm not going to pay for a fancy shmancy brushed aluminum case or color matched mouse. Maybe I would, if I knew that the next machine I put together can reuse the case.
It'll probably happen one day. Hopefully by the time it does OS/X isn't some obscure relic in the industry, and there's enough interest that vendors actually produce compatible products.
The Amiga should have put Commodore on top of the industry, it didn't.. Apple should, and no doubt is, gleaning whatever lessons they can from that.
You could in Canada, at least a few years ago when I still lived there.. At Pearson you could wait at the gate for domestic flights, or walk someone to the gate..
You cant go through US Customs (which is in Toronto, and is US Soil so if you got weed on you dont go in there unless you want a bus ride to buffalo)..
Last summer I flew home for a week, and on the flight back, I had to walk through 5 security checkpoints, down this long long long hall - a 20 minute hike - to Terminal Z, which in all my days never knew existed. It was because I was flying into Reagan National Airport in D.C.
Only those on the plane were allowed down there, and once you got to the terminal you couldnt leave.. There were multiple checkpoints.. One did shoes, one did carry on baggage, etc, etc..
It was a major pain in the ass. Flying from BWI to Toronto is a 10 hour ordeal now. It only took me 8 hours to drive it, and I got to sit in a comfy seat and listen to tunes (plus driving through PA in the summer is pretty cool)..
Anyways. Im stoned and chattering. Nice talking to you, BBS!
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Your PC with graphics that "blow away" the ps2 was only $65, including the game?
People buy things other than computer components online.
Newegg or googlegear are fine for electronics, I use them too and dont bother with pricewatch searches anymore..
But what if you want a baby crib, a waffle iron, a pair of boot cut jeans and alligator boots to go with them, a unicicle, or a chia pet?
Right now I know many regular folks who buy online through Amazon, you can find practically anything. You're really buying from partners (Toys R Us, Office Depot, Etc), but Amazon makes a convenient portal to do so.
That's what these folks all want. For people like my mother to just instinctively go to "msn.com", like she does Amazon now, when she's christmas shopping for the grandkids.
How complicated can you make a browser?
I mean, tabbed browsing is cool, I've gotten used to it. But stuff like mouse gestures, voice recognition, etc, all just seems like fluff.
One could have mapped spoken keywords to mouse/keyboard actions already if this is what they wanted.
It's a hard arena to innovate in. This just seems kind of silly.
What's next, support for force feedback chairs that scroll the browser based on which ass cheek I'm clenching?
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and buy a laptop.
Sheesh. Compare Circuit City, Best Buy and CompUSA, and buy the best deal.
I would be there right now if you had. Now it's too late. By the time I drove down it'd be over.
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Oh, bullshit. He's trying to pretend it's all about him to get attention. His show is tame compared to the rest of the field, he's become irrelevant.
There are plenty of folks with the same "political content" of stern, without the fart jokes and ubiquitous use of words like 'nigger'.
He can move his act to cable or satellite radio. He'd get kicked out of a public park acting like that, why should he be on public airwaves?
The FCC has a mandate, and a responsibility to enforce a minimum standard of decency on PUBLIC AIRWAVES. VHF, UHF, FM and AM.
So long as they aren't regulating Cable, Satellite, or the Net - which a consumer chooses to bring into their home - it's fine.
There's a situation now with the networks trying to compete with the likes of HBO or Comedy Central, and seeing how far they can push it.
The reaction to the superbowl stunt shows that the folks are simply sick of it.
I'm as profane as anyone, and enjoy South Park and fart jokes, etc.. But it doesn't belong on the public spectrum, they're for everybody.
I enjoy Howard Sterns show from time to time. I hope he's successful on Sirius or other payed service. He does not belong on the public dial.
It isn't censorship. It's regulating the use of a public resource, which is their job. You can't swear and flash your tits on a public station any more than you can in a public park.
RAW 12-bit (which the 1Ds captures) is a lossless representation of a bitmap with 24 or 32 bit color. RAW is the raw data from the CCDs of the camera itself, with a much higher color range. They capture 12bit Bayer patern, IIRC.
The RAW files are saved, to be converted into CMYK for printing, not RGB colorspace that PNG, JPEG and other monitor-centric display technologies use. The JPEGs are merely for previewing on a monitor.
RAW and JPEG are captured because that's the two formats the cameras they use spit out.
More details here.
Why would they need Dual G5s or Photoshop? The most they do to the photos is crop them. Hell, photoshop shouldn't even be in a real journalists office.
Show me what happened, not an artists conception of what happened.
And how much equipment do you need to bring onsite to snap shots of a bunch of meatheads chasing a ball around?
Seriously, get over it.
Free downloads make so much more sense for a band trying to reach a wider audience.
Most people will only pay for music that's already "made it". They like that song thats always on the radio, "who are those guys? Im gonna get that CD."
If they want to buy, and the artists want to sell, so be it.
The RIAA members are publicly traded companies. They cant just piss away money on a whim without a stockholder revolt. The only reason they'd buy out other labels would be because it's good business. The indies provide ~nil competition to them, anyways.
Your conspiracy theories are not based in reality.
A trip to Best Buy shows me there are at least as many HDTVs out on the showroom floor as there are regular TVs, if not more. The gap in pricing is still a little too wide for my taste, but that's bound to drop.
Cable and satellite are pushing HDTV hard. Regular non-techie folks are all abuzz about how good the superbowl looked on their friends new HDTV plasma.
This wont be the year that HDTV becomes ubiquitous, but it's going to grow more this year than it has in the last decade.
I'd compare it to color tv.. Black and white sets hung around for decades.. Things move faster now, prices drop faster, but it'll be the same way.
I wont buy any more home electronics that require a monthly/bimontly/annual fee to operate.
I don't need TV listings, cable provides them for free. I dont need the box to pick shows for me, or judge me because my wife uses it to watch Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I just want something to usurp the VCR, with it's mangled tapes and hideos tracking knob.
Besides a home-rolled PVR, which I currently use, there are a slew of such devices on the horizon. Everyone and their uncle is making a MediaPC with PVR functionality. There'll be PVR functionality in XBox2, and likely the PS3 and GameCube Jr.
I hope Tivo dies, and I hope the industry learns from it. I want to buy a device, and be able to use it as often as I want without any further fees.
Everyone I know says "record" or "tape", whether they mean VCR, PVR, hiring a court stenographer and sketch artist, or using a handycam.
Maybe because "Tivo" is a lame verb.
Tivo, and everyone else who comes up with a brilliant new way to send me a bill every month can jump straight up my ass. I know when ATHF is on, and I'll "tape" it myself.
Ohmigoodness they aren't practicing the gospel according to RMS!
This isn't linux or the HURD. This is stuff developed with taxpayer dollars. All the bits and bobs written for various agencies stuck in one pile. Under MA law, taxpayer dollars can not be used for corporate R&D.
This isn't incompatible with the GPL, the GPL is incompatible with this. Doesn't stop them from using linux, but it does prevent them from contributing to it.
And how much taxpayer money will get pissed away maintaining this OSS repository?
Gay marraige and "medicinal" marijuana.
Without the gameboy series, Nintendo would never have been able to tread water with the N64 against the playstation.
They'd still exist, just like Sega still exists, as a software publisher only.
Gameboy's competitors tried to outdo it spec-wise, and priced themselves right out of the competition. There were some good products, GameGear with its full color screen almost a decade before GBC - and SMS compatible.. The Sega Nomad, a handheld Genesis.. Atari Lynx... They all cost way too much.
NeoGeo Pocket could have made inroads, it was reasonably priced for it's feature set, but SNK was already on it's knees and didn't have what it took to weather the storm. Poor SNK. If only they'd entered the console market earlier with a *reasonably priced* Neo Geo system, things just may have turned out different for the industry.
XBox is doing what it's supposed to do. Grow the Microsoft brand. It was never supposed to be profitable, it's successors will be. They will, in time, displace Sony from the console market.
The Playstation wasn't profitable for a long time. They took a bath on it. Yet it had the desired effect, it knocked Nintendo, Sega, Atari, 3DO, etc right off of the map.
MSFT is moving in a direction that changes the whole idea of a game console. I predict a whole line of compatible set-top devices with different features sets. A DVD-gaming-internet jukebox with DVR, one without, one that just plays games, one that streams on-demand video, etc, etc.. I see them licensing third party vendors to produce compatible hardware.. I see a future where almost every TV has a box underneath it with the Microsoft logo on it somewhere.
Apple as a company will probably never go away.
Apple as a manufacturer of PC's most likely will. At least as they exist now.
Everythings wrong with their current business strategy. Expensive machines, limited upgrade potential, vendor lock in, increasing lack of third party interest.
So a top of the line dual G5 mac is really cool today. What about next year? Can you upgrade the CPU on a mac? You could upgrade an intel/amd proc for about a quarter the cost of the machine, motherboard and cpu.
OS/X is nice, but not nice enough. Apple has turned to the iPod, if not as a source of revenue, but as a source of hype. Noone out on the street is talking about the G5 or OS/X. They are talking about the iPod and iTunes.
Personally, I'd love to see Apple open up the platform to third party hardware vendors. I'd switch if I could "roll my own" mac, pick up a decent motherboard from Gigabyte, hell maybe even a G5 clone from AMD, etc..
I'm not going to pay for a fancy shmancy brushed aluminum case or color matched mouse. Maybe I would, if I knew that the next machine I put together can reuse the case.
It'll probably happen one day. Hopefully by the time it does OS/X isn't some obscure relic in the industry, and there's enough interest that vendors actually produce compatible products.
The Amiga should have put Commodore on top of the industry, it didn't.. Apple should, and no doubt is, gleaning whatever lessons they can from that.
why should you not leave ssh up? it insecure or something?
It's certainly front page news if there's a non-exploitable flaw in Windows for which a patch has been released.
cvs, make and build sure.. But when it's click windows update, somehow it's some monumental task thats just the worst thing imaginable.
You can't in the states anymore..
You could in Canada, at least a few years ago when I still lived there.. At Pearson you could wait at the gate for domestic flights, or walk someone to the gate..
You cant go through US Customs (which is in Toronto, and is US Soil so if you got weed on you dont go in there unless you want a bus ride to buffalo)..
Last summer I flew home for a week, and on the flight back, I had to walk through 5 security checkpoints, down this long long long hall - a 20 minute hike - to Terminal Z, which in all my days never knew existed. It was because I was flying into Reagan National Airport in D.C.
Only those on the plane were allowed down there, and once you got to the terminal you couldnt leave.. There were multiple checkpoints.. One did shoes, one did carry on baggage, etc, etc..
It was a major pain in the ass. Flying from BWI to Toronto is a 10 hour ordeal now. It only took me 8 hours to drive it, and I got to sit in a comfy seat and listen to tunes (plus driving through PA in the summer is pretty cool)..
Anyways. Im stoned and chattering. Nice talking to you, BBS!
I would see a dozen or so shooting stars over the course of a few hours on a clear night.
Why would it be any different on mars?
You should see a lot more, even, no light pollution or pesky patches of water vapor to block them out.