When he finishes the map it will already be outdated and no representative of the truth. However, this is not a real issue.. one day (or ten hours) is better than anything else
The key to "mass media success" right now is not the quality of the music, and not even the money needed to produce the thousands of cd copies (even if CD's were made out of gold).
The difficulty of low-budget music is that they dont have the millions that bigg companies spend in promotion and publicity of the bands. That is what makes most of the crap bands famous, rich and successful after all. The problem right now, is that these companies are spending big amounts of millions in promotion, and they want their money back with it surplus.
These people think that music will continue its 'logical progression' of Vinyl-->Casettes-->CDs-->Something_cool_and_small. The point they dont get is that music doesnt need an unique media to be stored anymore.
The concept of music has jumped the physical barrier of having to be stored in one determined medium. Now the medium is no longer important as it can and should be distributed to all types of medium without restrictions. How this affects artists rights, it is the same old debate...
...but my common sense suggests me that I dont think it will actually work good even for people with good hearing.
However, in case it did, the bad hearing of one ear wirll very probably affect the result. We get three dimensional images because we have two eyes and our brain compares the differences in the images seen by each of the eyes. The same way our brain locates the origin of a sound, by comparing the differences heard by both ears. If one of the ear has a listening problem, lets say it perceives the sound lower than the the other ear, maybe boosting the power and giving more volume to the sound which should be heard by that ear might work. I dont know if these might affect the listening of the 'good' ear, howwver. Nevertheless, if this should work there will probably be a way of 'cancelling' the unwanted power in the 'good' ear, but i dont think any normal company whould care about that.
This fits nicely to the idea that it might actually be a "handheld Ique" (however you spell that). An Ique with a little LCD screen might be a handheld powerful enough to actually connect it to a Screen and have a full-sized screen console when you want it. This could be nice, if I didn't have already my N64 somewhere in a box and were a few years younger.
Now that the story has hit the mass media (come on, Slashdot _IS_ a Mass Media) I am sure people around the world will imitate and create their own tilings all over the world. At least I have considered the idea, I am sure other will not just consider it but actually do it.
I suppose that's why electricians and people who work with electrical lines, usually work with one hand behind themselves. Then, if you use a VAIO, keep one hand behind yourself while using it. Therefore all of this must be a strategy to introduce the japanese one thumb keyboard into the world market!:o
Today it is more likely that the third that don't play games are the geeks and not the others. The same way, nowadays it seems that the real freaks are those who dont appear freaks.
I ask my self if the creator actually uses his own WM 100% of the time. Not that is is bad, actually it is quite good if you are looking for something straight forward... but I feel like if it is missing something.
I've heard too many stupid things been done by the RIIA. Though they seem quite stupid, i dont actually think they really do some of them. This sounds to me to be more likely anyone but the RIAA itself. IMHO.
At the moment of entrance in the atmosphere it travels around Mach20... or 20 times the speed of sound. I hope they had any emergency systems prepared, but I sadly think that at that speed there can hardly be any way of surviving.:(
Why so little comments? It has been posted for a while and less than 60 comments. More recent news are in the 200 range... It is a very interresting story, i think.
There have been Nicotine-Free patches long way ago! And havent seen any slashdot notice for it... There must be some amish undercover behind the Slashdot admins...
Any relationship with the flying exoskeleton also sold at ebay? Are all thie flying vehicles prototypes ending at ebay? Is no one succeeding to end in a real shop?
This device is great! It's not excesively expensive and the most important thing, it is the first and by the moment the _ONLY_ divx home player available.
However, there will be many models coming soon this upcoming years. Just to take note, Texas Instruments, Philips, and Equator Technologies have DivX certification, which means they will hopefully release soon their own players.
When Philips has his own DivX player in the shops, dont wait until Sony, Samsung, Jvc, etc etc etc have their own! Its the mp3 player story repeated. The following model will be better than the precedeeing, as is usual in this market. We are witnessing an important act here.
By the way... what will sony do? Their hardware department WILL NEED to sell DivX players to stay in market, however their content department (Movies, music and so) will clearly see the proliferation of DivX players as a threat. Interresting.
for further information on the different Divx Certifications take a look here: DivX certification [divxnetworks.com]
I think that the comment could lead to some misunderstanding. There is truly a Divx SDK for gamecube however, the use of it is not for gamecube users to burn and watch their own dowloaded divx files in your gamecube (as the Kiss player does). Several people have told me this would be possible to do with the gamecube, but as can be read in the official announcement this is not the real fact. It is known that Gamecube uses miniDVDs which have less capacity that normal dvds, still enough for actual games. By compressing games video files with divx, the game developers will save large amounts of space and still be able to deliver high quality video.
This device is great! It's not excesively expensive and the most important thing, it is the first and by the moment the _ONLY_ divx home player available.
However, there will be many models coming soon this upcoming years. Just to take note, Texas Instruments, Philips, and Equator Technologies have DivX certification, which means they will hopefully release soon their own players.
When Philips has his own DivX player in the shops, dont wait until Sony, Samsung, Jvc, etc etc etc have their own! Its the mp3 player story repeated. The following model will be better than the precedeeing, as is usual in this market. We are witnessing an important act here.
By the way... what will sony do? Their hardware department WILL NEED to sell DivX players to stay in market, however their content department (Movies, music and so) will clearly see the proliferation of DivX players as a threat. Interresting.
for further information on the different Divx Certifications take a look here: DivX certification
Slashdot Mirror
This smells like the dot com bubble is getting bigger again. Will this time also burst?
because it is a joke, isn't it?
When he finishes the map it will already be outdated and no representative of the truth. However, this is not a real issue.. one day (or ten hours) is better than anything else
The key to "mass media success" right now is not the quality of the music, and not even the money needed to produce the thousands of cd copies (even if CD's were made out of gold). The difficulty of low-budget music is that they dont have the millions that bigg companies spend in promotion and publicity of the bands. That is what makes most of the crap bands famous, rich and successful after all. The problem right now, is that these companies are spending big amounts of millions in promotion, and they want their money back with it surplus.
These people think that music will continue its 'logical progression' of Vinyl-->Casettes-->CDs-->Something_cool_and_small. The point they dont get is that music doesnt need an unique media to be stored anymore.
The concept of music has jumped the physical barrier of having to be stored in one determined medium. Now the medium is no longer important as it can and should be distributed to all types of medium without restrictions. How this affects artists rights, it is the same old debate...
...but my common sense suggests me that I dont think it will actually work good even for people with good hearing.
However, in case it did, the bad hearing of one ear wirll very probably affect the result. We get three dimensional images because we have two eyes and our brain compares the differences in the images seen by each of the eyes. The same way our brain locates the origin of a sound, by comparing the differences heard by both ears. If one of the ear has a listening problem, lets say it perceives the sound lower than the the other ear, maybe boosting the power and giving more volume to the sound which should be heard by that ear might work. I dont know if these might affect the listening of the 'good' ear, howwver. Nevertheless, if this should work there will probably be a way of 'cancelling' the unwanted power in the 'good' ear, but i dont think any normal company whould care about that.
This fits nicely to the idea that it might actually be a "handheld Ique" (however you spell that). An Ique with a little LCD screen might be a handheld powerful enough to actually connect it to a Screen and have a full-sized screen console when you want it. This could be nice, if I didn't have already my N64 somewhere in a box and were a few years younger.
Or is it the end of the beginning?
Now that the story has hit the mass media (come on, Slashdot _IS_ a Mass Media) I am sure people around the world will imitate and create their own tilings all over the world. At least I have considered the idea, I am sure other will not just consider it but actually do it.
At last you got your article in the frontpage...
Haven't you ever been asked the same question over and over again, or simply "where can i download XXXx V3.0" ?
If I can, I usually help, but if I am busy my answer is: "just google it"
and whats that for us who dont understand 'pound notation' ?
I suppose that's why electricians and people who work with electrical lines, usually work with one hand behind themselves. Then, if you use a VAIO, keep one hand behind yourself while using it. Therefore all of this must be a strategy to introduce the japanese one thumb keyboard into the world market! :o
Today it is more likely that the third that don't play games are the geeks and not the others. The same way, nowadays it seems that the real freaks are those who dont appear freaks.
I ask my self if the creator actually uses his own WM 100% of the time. Not that is is bad, actually it is quite good if you are looking for something straight forward... but I feel like if it is missing something.
I've heard too many stupid things been done by the RIIA. Though they seem quite stupid, i dont actually think they really do some of them. This sounds to me to be more likely anyone but the RIAA itself. IMHO.
Whoa.. I read twice the artice. I must be really stupid.. but whoa! what the hell the article says?!? xD ;)
At the moment of entrance in the atmosphere it travels around Mach20... or 20 times the speed of sound. I hope they had any emergency systems prepared, but I sadly think that at that speed there can hardly be any way of surviving. :(
Why so little comments? It has been posted for a while and less than 60 comments. More recent news are in the 200 range... It is a very interresting story, i think.
There have been Nicotine-Free patches long way ago! And havent seen any slashdot notice for it... There must be some amish undercover behind the Slashdot admins...
Unices plural for unix?
Any relationship with the flying exoskeleton also sold at ebay? Are all thie flying vehicles prototypes ending at ebay? Is no one succeeding to end in a real shop?
This device is great! It's not excesively expensive and the most important thing, it is the first and by the moment the _ONLY_ divx home player available. However, there will be many models coming soon this upcoming years. Just to take note, Texas Instruments, Philips, and Equator Technologies have DivX certification, which means they will hopefully release soon their own players. When Philips has his own DivX player in the shops, dont wait until Sony, Samsung, Jvc, etc etc etc have their own! Its the mp3 player story repeated. The following model will be better than the precedeeing, as is usual in this market. We are witnessing an important act here. By the way... what will sony do? Their hardware department WILL NEED to sell DivX players to stay in market, however their content department (Movies, music and so) will clearly see the proliferation of DivX players as a threat. Interresting. for further information on the different Divx Certifications take a look here: DivX certification [divxnetworks.com]
I think that the comment could lead to some misunderstanding. There is truly a Divx SDK for gamecube however, the use of it is not for gamecube users to burn and watch their own dowloaded divx files in your gamecube (as the Kiss player does). Several people have told me this would be possible to do with the gamecube, but as can be read in the official announcement this is not the real fact. It is known that Gamecube uses miniDVDs which have less capacity that normal dvds, still enough for actual games. By compressing games video files with divx, the game developers will save large amounts of space and still be able to deliver high quality video.
However, there will be many models coming soon this upcoming years. Just to take note, Texas Instruments, Philips, and Equator Technologies have DivX certification, which means they will hopefully release soon their own players.
When Philips has his own DivX player in the shops, dont wait until Sony, Samsung, Jvc, etc etc etc have their own! Its the mp3 player story repeated. The following model will be better than the precedeeing, as is usual in this market. We are witnessing an important act here.
By the way... what will sony do? Their hardware department WILL NEED to sell DivX players to stay in market, however their content department (Movies, music and so) will clearly see the proliferation of DivX players as a threat. Interresting.
for further information on the different Divx Certifications take a look here: DivX certification