This is not shocking due to some basic differencews between the US and South Korea.
1)The South Korean government is encouraging technological growth, while the US is still realing from P2P networks and people exercising free speach.
2)South Korea is relatively new, like Europe and Japan, South Korea recently (relativel) rebuilt its industrial base. The US has NEVER had a serious conflict close enough to home to neccesatate major rebuilding. This means that our stuff is old compared to theirs.
So you see, it is not only explainable, it is logical that South Korea would lead the US, and the rest of the world, in the people having cool toys and making cool tech toys.
What version of windows could possibly run on a 166mhz RISC processor? Surely the Japanese would want to use a better, more stable OS, too? *cough* OpenBSD, OS X, anything not windows *cough*
Try an Apple box. The new iMac has no fan, or if you don't want a monitor, get a used G4 cube. Decent power and no fan. People seem to ignore Apple's quiet computers and focus on their new windtunnel towers.
The aurthor of the letter reprinted in the article forgot something:
The people in power wish to stay in power and they do that by bending to the will of the people that fund them (RIAA, MPAA, Disney, the like). The government does not serve the people anymore, if it ever did, It serves the businesses, the people who make the "campaign contributions," the holders of the intelectual property.
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
If we don't let the public use this, everyone we don't want to have it will get it eventually. There wont be a user base to be framiliar with to help the government in finding the weaknesses. It is the same with cryptography software. Those who want it really bad can write their own or violate an EULA. The law abiding public is shut off from protecting their own things when terrorists and organized crime still can.
This PC is pretty cool, but it doesn't have much kick and it can't run my favorite GUI wrapper for OpenBSD. I love enviromentally friendly stuff, but I'm not interested in sacraficing the power I need (read: nead as in I don't need an SUV, a huge house, but I do need a potent computer). Still very good for your e-mail and word prossesor type.
Finally, someone figured out that:
1) Cost to profuce cd's is probably less than $1/CD including case and linear notes, excluding production costs.
2)The cost of CD's, with everyone making substantial profit could be $3.50
3)The only way for the prices to be so artificially high was for price fixing.
I know I would buy more music if it came at a reasonable price.
Maybe someone in the software industry will realize that: more people will buy this if we only charge $20 for it!
Another crop of mp3 players does not make me excited. Especially the Yepp, which is basically an ugly iPod, it probably has a larger diplacement, too.
Also, the author of the article seems to beleive that USB 2.0 frequently reaches it's theoretical maximum performace and fails to mention that, despite its lower theoretical max, firewire commonly outperforms USB 2.0.
Exactly! The mac version of Diablo II (yeah, you heard me) runs terribly! Even with all the effects turned off and the resolution at a paltry 640x480, I still can't get more than 10 fps and mostly it is at something like 3 unless i run it in a window. In a window it runs about average. On the other hand, Max Payne, and Warcraft III run really well, and use a LOT more eye candy. It just goes to show you what a shoddy porting job can do to even a mostly sprite based game (BTW i have a G4 w/ GeForce 2 MX 200, 384 MB RAM)
I think it's excellent that Apple isn't afraid to talk about the technology they use. If Microsoft talked about the crud they put into their OS, people would be able to make WINE a good alternative
I think on a megabyte to megabyte basis, RAM is far cheaper than VRAM. This has a high coolness factor, but a very low usefulness factor. Unless all your memory slots are broken (like the ones in my old mothrboard)
actually. you dont need electricity for the NaCl to turn into Na+ Cl-. In fact, salt water does kill bacteria. I think the electricity just makes it run faster.
WRONG:.RTF is a standard, very few people use it..ISO is a standard, but there are many others. and there are many standards that Microsoft chooses to simply ignore
I do agree on that it would have gained more market acceptance if it had been just one format
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This is not shocking due to some basic differencews between the US and South Korea.
1)The South Korean government is encouraging technological growth, while the US is still realing from P2P networks and people exercising free speach.
2)South Korea is relatively new, like Europe and Japan, South Korea recently (relativel) rebuilt its industrial base. The US has NEVER had a serious conflict close enough to home to neccesatate major rebuilding. This means that our stuff is old compared to theirs.
So you see, it is not only explainable, it is logical that South Korea would lead the US, and the rest of the world, in the people having cool toys and making cool tech toys.
What version of windows could possibly run on a 166mhz RISC processor? Surely the Japanese would want to use a better, more stable OS, too? *cough* OpenBSD, OS X, anything not windows *cough*
Try an Apple box. The new iMac has no fan, or if you don't want a monitor, get a used G4 cube. Decent power and no fan. People seem to ignore Apple's quiet computers and focus on their new windtunnel towers.
The aurthor of the letter reprinted in the article forgot something:
The people in power wish to stay in power and they do that by bending to the will of the people that fund them (RIAA, MPAA, Disney, the like). The government does not serve the people anymore, if it ever did, It serves the businesses, the people who make the "campaign contributions," the holders of the intelectual property.
This is good because acording to George W. Bush the Oil companies just can't seem to get enough oil. Now they more efficiently rape the envirement.
Going through Aladdin's web site requires you to fill out a short (marketing) form before downloading Expander.
I always lie anyway. If they want to know who I am, they can offer me a high-quality product.
from the article (yes I read it)
The big question, though, is whether they should be allowed to enter the commercial domain, where they could be used by organised crime and terrorism to thwart eavesdropping by police.
If we don't let the public use this, everyone we don't want to have it will get it eventually. There wont be a user base to be framiliar with to help the government in finding the weaknesses. It is the same with cryptography software. Those who want it really bad can write their own or violate an EULA. The law abiding public is shut off from protecting their own things when terrorists and organized crime still can.
This PC is pretty cool, but it doesn't have much kick and it can't run my favorite GUI wrapper for OpenBSD. I love enviromentally friendly stuff, but I'm not interested in sacraficing the power I need (read: nead as in I don't need an SUV, a huge house, but I do need a potent computer). Still very good for your e-mail and word prossesor type.
Finally, someone figured out that:
1) Cost to profuce cd's is probably less than $1/CD including case and linear notes, excluding production costs.
2)The cost of CD's, with everyone making substantial profit could be $3.50
3)The only way for the prices to be so artificially high was for price fixing.
I know I would buy more music if it came at a reasonable price.
Maybe someone in the software industry will realize that: more people will buy this if we only charge $20 for it!
They didn't seem to make too much of a fuss when people successfully plugged them into their Windoze boxes, but will Apple get angry at this?
Probably not, Apple seems to be pretty nice about people messing with their stuff.
I don't think they're paid.
Not to troll, but:
Another crop of mp3 players does not make me excited. Especially the Yepp, which is basically an ugly iPod, it probably has a larger diplacement, too.
Also, the author of the article seems to beleive that USB 2.0 frequently reaches it's theoretical maximum performace and fails to mention that, despite its lower theoretical max, firewire commonly outperforms USB 2.0.
What is he DOING none of little gnomes the man hired are grounded. I have burned a motherboard by shocking. Please be caeful!
Exactly! The mac version of Diablo II (yeah, you heard me) runs terribly! Even with all the effects turned off and the resolution at a paltry 640x480, I still can't get more than 10 fps and mostly it is at something like 3 unless i run it in a window. In a window it runs about average. On the other hand, Max Payne, and Warcraft III run really well, and use a LOT more eye candy. It just goes to show you what a shoddy porting job can do to even a mostly sprite based game (BTW i have a G4 w/ GeForce 2 MX 200, 384 MB RAM)
I think it's excellent that Apple isn't afraid to talk about the technology they use. If Microsoft talked about the crud they put into their OS, people would be able to make WINE a good alternative
I think on a megabyte to megabyte basis, RAM is far cheaper than VRAM. This has a high coolness factor, but a very low usefulness factor. Unless all your memory slots are broken (like the ones in my old mothrboard)
troll? I'm sorry, but just because someone differs in their opinion doesn't mean that they are a troll!
actually. you dont need electricity for the NaCl to turn into Na+ Cl-. In fact, salt water does kill bacteria. I think the electricity just makes it run faster.
Many people may find it squeemish to have an organ of a pig in their bodies, but it is a good alternative to death.
it ain't a standard unless everyone's using it
.RTF is a standard, very few people use it. .ISO is a standard, but there are many others. and there are many standards that Microsoft chooses to simply ignore
WRONG:
I do agree on that it would have gained more market acceptance if it had been just one format
I think the real benifit of this is that older DVD burners will come down in price, perhaps so I can afford one
put 500 pills on a SINGLE cd and one pill on a floppy for when cd's stop working