Honestly, though, I doubt internet TV will ever become mainstream. That is, unless Internet TV means that you can get your TV over FiOS and choose which channels you want instead of how big of a bundle you're willing to pay for. Why? Because I don't ever see media center computers becoming mainstream.
What is so hard about connecting a digital coax or TOS-link cable?
HDMI allows you to have a higher bit-rate audio stream. With TOS-link, you can't even have 5 uncompressed channels, only 2. Where are the 6 other uncompressed channels going to come from for people with 7.1 systems?
making more money doesn't entitle you to start charging more money for no real reason.
No, but throughout the majority of the world (even China is adopting it), supply and demand does. If the demand for ebay's services increases, why shouldn't they be able to match demand with an increase in price?
I've got a brilliant idea: let us choose which boxes we want.
Here's a better one:
Let us choose which software we want as well. I'm sure they'd gain a lot of goodwill and credit amongst customers if they allowed us to use MythTV with a cable card and 2-way communication with said cable card.
I continually got BSOD's for a while because apparently Windows XP didn't get along so well with my SATA controller's drivers until Intel issued a patch. Actually, it was pretty random between getting a BSOD or the damn thing instantly powering off. Choose your poison, but none of this has happened for me when running Linux, and the only thing while running Linux that has caused instability for me has been video drivers.
Basically, the story is pretty much the same, just that the narrator isn't being or shown to be constantly harassed. Particularly interesting to me was the facsimile that the FBI obtained that read (timestamp ~31:47) Item A: Make Money Item J: Make Money Item K: Make More Money Item L: Make other people produce so as to produce money
Also of interest is the geography of how money was/is transferred (38:07) Religeous Research Foundation (Chartered in Liberia) to Clearwater, Florida to an account in Toronto, Canada to Luxembourg to Liechtenstein
Apparently the accounts in the last two places amassed over $200mil. Also, the heiarchy of all of the associated groups, organizations, and corporations leads to a for-profit corporation.
Hell, the entire 'surge' is based around the idea of sacrificing more Americans to save more Iraqis
Sure, that's probably one of the reasons why the administration wants to have a new surge of troops. Others are to quell the rising amounts of violence and set an example that America won't accept looking like it lost and is retreating. The actual result of such a surge, though, is most likely going to be a rise in violence. When we phased out of Vietnam, we experienced the bloodiest time of that war.
I couldn't find anything that said which cards they were targeting here. Is it anything =Radeon 7500? =9200? All Radeons? How about FireGL's? Granted, I'll be happy if they release code for anything, but nothing's actually going to help me out unless it's code for newer cards since the computer I'm using has PCIe and not AGP.
Telecommuting supplements working at the office, not replaces it. People still want/need that face-to-face contact. There have been plenty of stories posted about how telecommuting can really put you on the slow-track for promotions and also reduces the opportunities when you accedentally come across a gold-mine of an idea thru means of mis-communication.
Are they going to do anything useful, like, say, actually boost milage? Or are they going to continue what they've been doing and just increase horsepower and torque?
The thing is, if they drop prices by $100, then they hit a new section of the market for new units, which means even more games and movies are sold. It's expected that they lose money on the units initially and for a while; where they make up for it is with the games, and since Sony helped develope BluRay, movies as well (although this wouldn't be reflected in SCEA's financial statements, it'd definately help out Sony Pictures' statements.) People are also forgetting that all of the components should be cheaper now than they were when the thing first launched. I'd be willing to wager that the hard drives they're using don't cost as much as they first did, nor does the cell processor.
On a side-note, has anyone else noticed the lack of advertising for the PS3 lately? I don't know how reporters come up with how much each unit costs Sony, but if any of it includes advertising, I'm sure that portion has shrunk to next-to-nothing for the units now.
Let's take any random end-user. Now out of the total population of end-users, how many know how to code? How many have the time to learn how to code? Very little, and not many more. Now let's say you have the option between using 3 operating systems: Windows, Mac, and *NIX/BSD. If neither operating system has a feature that you suddenly desire and you are already using one, let's say Windows, is it your fault if that feature doesn't exist? Hardly. It's only your fault if you switch from one place to another when the feature doesn't exist in either place and then refuse to do anything about it other than bitch. If OSX10.5 doesn't have some feature that you needed after you started using OSX10.4, it's only your fault if you switch to 10.5. It's not your fault if you stay with 10.4. Likewise, it's not your fault if Windows Vista doesn't have drivers for some piece of hardware, but it is your fault if you switch from XP to Vista when XP did everything you needed/desired other than the specific driver support.
I understand why they wish to compare it to Firefox, but there are other browsers out there. Now, I'm not saying that they should go and compare it to Links, Lynx, or Netscape, but how about another browser like Opera?
...and that's if Dell actually goes out on an advertising blitz and informs people of this. Otherwise it'll go the way of their e-series, where it makes its way to some hidden page that can't be found unless you spend a significant amount of time searching for it.
With the exception of the military and possibly NASA, it'll be lagging behind the front-runners and get the technology a few years after it's tested and more polished than when it first comes out. It'll also probably experience fewer problems than companies that jump from one new technology to the next as soon as they're introduced. Governments have been keeping up with technology for the past few thousands of years. Sure, it wasn't always electronics, but you think that they had the technology to build medieval castles back in 500 A.D.?
Let's see, we have here a company who the US Government broke up some few decades ago because it was a monopoly, which has hence re-merged to form the same monopoly in the Red Corner. In the Blue Corner, we have a company who the US Government has been calling a monopoly for over 10 years and has (with albeit pathetic means) attempted to break up said monopoly into several other companies. It's like Terminator 1 vs Terminator 2, but only Terminator 2 won this time....
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Six ways to create proper spread sheets!
Step 1: Color-code
Step 2: Reference other cells for static numbers in functions
???
Profit!
...Web2.0 will take over the world!
Honestly, though, I doubt internet TV will ever become mainstream. That is, unless Internet TV means that you can get your TV over FiOS and choose which channels you want instead of how big of a bundle you're willing to pay for. Why? Because I don't ever see media center computers becoming mainstream.
HDMI allows you to have a higher bit-rate audio stream. With TOS-link, you can't even have 5 uncompressed channels, only 2. Where are the 6 other uncompressed channels going to come from for people with 7.1 systems?
Um, you mean like browser.cache.disk.capacity in about:config? Or if you're überanal, browser.cache.memory.enable?
Old news, guys. Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeros
No, but throughout the majority of the world (even China is adopting it), supply and demand does. If the demand for ebay's services increases, why shouldn't they be able to match demand with an increase in price?
I've got a brilliant idea: let us choose which boxes we want. Here's a better one: Let us choose which software we want as well. I'm sure they'd gain a lot of goodwill and credit amongst customers if they allowed us to use MythTV with a cable card and 2-way communication with said cable card.
I continually got BSOD's for a while because apparently Windows XP didn't get along so well with my SATA controller's drivers until Intel issued a patch. Actually, it was pretty random between getting a BSOD or the damn thing instantly powering off. Choose your poison, but none of this has happened for me when running Linux, and the only thing while running Linux that has caused instability for me has been video drivers.
To watch an episode of Panorama from 1987 about Scientology, go to http://www.torrentreactor.to/torrents/view_433614/ BBC_World_News_Panorama_Scientology
Basically, the story is pretty much the same, just that the narrator isn't being or shown to be constantly harassed. Particularly interesting to me was the facsimile that the FBI obtained that read (timestamp ~31:47)
Item A: Make Money
Item J: Make Money
Item K: Make More Money
Item L: Make other people produce so as to produce money
Also of interest is the geography of how money was/is transferred (38:07)
Religeous Research Foundation (Chartered in Liberia)
to Clearwater, Florida
to an account in Toronto, Canada
to Luxembourg
to Liechtenstein
Apparently the accounts in the last two places amassed over $200mil. Also, the heiarchy of all of the associated groups, organizations, and corporations leads to a for-profit corporation.
You know, those lights will stop flashing if you turn the monitors off as well....
Sure, that's probably one of the reasons why the administration wants to have a new surge of troops. Others are to quell the rising amounts of violence and set an example that America won't accept looking like it lost and is retreating. The actual result of such a surge, though, is most likely going to be a rise in violence. When we phased out of Vietnam, we experienced the bloodiest time of that war.
I couldn't find anything that said which cards they were targeting here. Is it anything =Radeon 7500? =9200? All Radeons? How about FireGL's? Granted, I'll be happy if they release code for anything, but nothing's actually going to help me out unless it's code for newer cards since the computer I'm using has PCIe and not AGP.
Telecommuting supplements working at the office, not replaces it. People still want/need that face-to-face contact. There have been plenty of stories posted about how telecommuting can really put you on the slow-track for promotions and also reduces the opportunities when you accedentally come across a gold-mine of an idea thru means of mis-communication.
Are they going to do anything useful, like, say, actually boost milage? Or are they going to continue what they've been doing and just increase horsepower and torque?
Please, somebody tell me they've seen it. A parody of StarWars Ep. 1 with the SouthPark clan?
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=9141
Yah? How about "Ja," "Yea," or "Yeah"? But Yah? Dictionary.com defines as "an exclamation of impatience or derision."
Ingorance is Strength
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Sincerely,
Winston Smith
The thing is, if they drop prices by $100, then they hit a new section of the market for new units, which means even more games and movies are sold. It's expected that they lose money on the units initially and for a while; where they make up for it is with the games, and since Sony helped develope BluRay, movies as well (although this wouldn't be reflected in SCEA's financial statements, it'd definately help out Sony Pictures' statements.) People are also forgetting that all of the components should be cheaper now than they were when the thing first launched. I'd be willing to wager that the hard drives they're using don't cost as much as they first did, nor does the cell processor.
On a side-note, has anyone else noticed the lack of advertising for the PS3 lately? I don't know how reporters come up with how much each unit costs Sony, but if any of it includes advertising, I'm sure that portion has shrunk to next-to-nothing for the units now.
Let's take any random end-user. Now out of the total population of end-users, how many know how to code? How many have the time to learn how to code? Very little, and not many more. Now let's say you have the option between using 3 operating systems: Windows, Mac, and *NIX/BSD. If neither operating system has a feature that you suddenly desire and you are already using one, let's say Windows, is it your fault if that feature doesn't exist? Hardly. It's only your fault if you switch from one place to another when the feature doesn't exist in either place and then refuse to do anything about it other than bitch. If OSX10.5 doesn't have some feature that you needed after you started using OSX10.4, it's only your fault if you switch to 10.5. It's not your fault if you stay with 10.4. Likewise, it's not your fault if Windows Vista doesn't have drivers for some piece of hardware, but it is your fault if you switch from XP to Vista when XP did everything you needed/desired other than the specific driver support.
Nothing like a game that tells you how to get off a desert island, than a game where you have to get off a desert island.
I understand why they wish to compare it to Firefox, but there are other browsers out there. Now, I'm not saying that they should go and compare it to Links, Lynx, or Netscape, but how about another browser like Opera?
the carvings are actually coded for a specific question. Their translation is as follows:
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...and that's if Dell actually goes out on an advertising blitz and informs people of this. Otherwise it'll go the way of their e-series, where it makes its way to some hidden page that can't be found unless you spend a significant amount of time searching for it.
With the exception of the military and possibly NASA, it'll be lagging behind the front-runners and get the technology a few years after it's tested and more polished than when it first comes out. It'll also probably experience fewer problems than companies that jump from one new technology to the next as soon as they're introduced. Governments have been keeping up with technology for the past few thousands of years. Sure, it wasn't always electronics, but you think that they had the technology to build medieval castles back in 500 A.D.?
Let's see, we have here a company who the US Government broke up some few decades ago because it was a monopoly, which has hence re-merged to form the same monopoly in the Red Corner. In the Blue Corner, we have a company who the US Government has been calling a monopoly for over 10 years and has (with albeit pathetic means) attempted to break up said monopoly into several other companies. It's like Terminator 1 vs Terminator 2, but only Terminator 2 won this time....