How did I contradict myself? I said that I wished AMD could keep up with Intel.. translation: I wish AMD was shipping a 3Ghz chip. Then I say that not many apps use dual cpu's effectively. The two comments had nothing to do with each other. Dual processors are great for some things. Having a pair of 3Ghz would be better than what I have now for sure. If AMD shipped a 3Ghz processor, my next machine would most likely be a single processor machine rather than a dually.
I really wish that AMD could keep up with Intel. I have two dual processor machines and they run at 3.2G's but I don't think they would fare all that well against a single processor machine running at 3.06G since not everything can use both and it doesn't seem like all that much uses both effectively.
It's too bad that Intel charges so much for their chips.. and this thing being the hottest thing at the moment... or when it's actually in stores.. going to be a while before I can get one. Damn.
I wasn't aiming my comment at you. I was merely upset that most of the interviews I read include a lot of dribble that is just common sense. I understood why you posted it in your message and that made perfect sense. I just thought that the person who had made the comments could have left out telling us that the cost would come down if and when the media is mass produced.
The cost of the dvd's that we use now has come down quite a bit since the initial release. The cost of everything associated with dvd's has come down.. except for commercially released dvd movies. Those will only go up as they add more features and screw us more and more.
Does mplayer allow you to watch encrypted movies without breaking the law? Are you therefore suggesting that I should break the law???
So if you want to get technical and stay within the law, there is such thing as "non-fast-forwardable" content on dvd's. While I'm aware that mod-chips exist for the dvd players that I own, and that I can use various software applications on my computers to view the dvd's in any manner I choose, I was talking about the movie studios attempting to force us to watch previews, copyright notices, etc.
I stand corrected. I keep thinking (like an idiot) that it was one of the new ones but it's been around since all or most of the country extensions were created.
Why do people state the obvious? Doesn't the cost of EVERYTHING come down when it's mass produced? Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
So the big question is, what company is going to be the first to market with this new media? If they can get the cost of the laser down to $100, they should be able to sell burners for this media for around a grand and make a killing. Just think of all the warez pirates out there. Since they obviously aren't spending any money they have on software, they have more for hardware and can easily afford a drive that can burn 87 gigs.
And what will come next? Development efforts will continue on this and the process will be refined so that even more data will fit on the same disc.
non-fast-forwardable crap really pissed me off. It's bad enough that I have to watch it the first time I pop the movie in but if I switch dvd's, I have to watch it everytime I put it in. And I have several collections of tv shows (mostly British comedy of course) that I like to watch once in a while. I watch an episode or two, put in a movie, later I watch another episode or two. But each time I have to sit through 90 seconds of warnings about everything under the freakin sun.
I wouldn't mind 4 hours of previews on the new format that I could watch when I want. Previews are good, when you CHOOSE to watch them. I like to watch a preview before I see a movie so I have an idea if I'll like it or not but forcing us to watch previews is like going to a car dealer to get an oil change an being forced to take a test drive or two or three before getting the service work that you need done.
I think it would be a great use of this technology to pack on more "special features" as well as both full-screen and wide-screen. I myself have a 36" tv and I primarily watch dvd's on it. I do subscribe to cable (why? I don't know. I never watch cable), but dvd's are what I do with my free time when I don't want to use my brain much. I love movies, plain and simple. If you ever have a chance to look at the same movie playing in wide-screen on one tv and full-screen on another, both standard tv's, you will see a huge difference.
You don't need a wide-screen tv see the difference. (But it does help)
.us has been available for how long? I started using the internet quite a while before.us was around and.com was the best option at the time. I agree that there are better options now but for most people it's a hassle to switch over to the new extensions. I for one wouldn't do it unless I had to. Just because the personal domains I have are well known by friends and family and have been up for a couple of years (well, up and down... depending on whether I was coherent when I made changes).
Then I need an mp3 player for my car that can use this type of media. My entire music collection on one disc. All those thousands of dollars on one disc. Hmm... would seem like such a waste at that point.
Think of the uses for this though. Being able to back up all of my servers to a single disc without compressing anything. That would be a great time saver. And then there are the not-so-legal-but-who-cares-we're-all-going-to-die- eventually-anyway uses... like storing all the episodes of shows that aren't released on dvd in the US (Family Guy for one).
But how much would they cost per disc and how much for the burner? While dvd burners are getting pretty cheap now, the media still isn't as cheap as I would like it.
In theory yes, in reality no. The.com extension became the standard and is used for a lot of non-commercial sites. The extensions that are more appropriate for some things are relatively new. Keep in mind that we started with only 3 extensions. com, net, and org. If you were just a person wanting to do a site about yourself, which one was appropriate? Most people chose.com if it was avail.
If you want to cause inconvenience to the fewest number of people, you should force the lesser star to change his name.
Who cares how many people are inconvenienced? I don't think that should be part of this equation at all. So I have to do a little bit of research to find the site I'm looking for rather than just typing in the name?? Oh no! The insanity of it all. Come on people. This happens all the time. You type in a name and bam, it something entirely different. Sometimes it's a porn site.. sometimes it's a really good porn site... and you forget what you were trying to go to originally and 5 hours later you look up at the clock and wonder where the day went...
But seriously, it must come down to whoever got it first, gets to keep it. If your at a party and there is a keg, and there is a long line in front of the keg, when you get up there, the keg may be empty. If the part is at your house, do you get to take someone elses beer from them? No. You weren't the first in line. By the time you got there the keg was empty. Your SOL. It's all about being first.
If your legal name from birth conflicts with a companies name, I think it should be left to "first come, first served" reasoning. I don't think that either has more right to the domain name than the other. Whoever got it first should be able to keep it, unless the sole purpose that the person who has it has it, is to exploit the name. By that I mean if your name is Nissan and you get the domain name, and then you decide to start selling cars, or car accessories to profit off of the name that is usually associated with another company, that should not be allowed. If on the other hand your name is Nissan and you have a site that shows pictures of your wife, kids, and your dog, then that should be perfectly legal. You have as much right to the domain name as anyone else because:
a) it's your legal (from birth) name b) your not trying to profit off of the name c) you registered the name first
I think it's Nissan's (the company) fault for not registering the name first. Now they are left out in the cold. Too bad, so sad. Better luck next time.
So you think this is an ultimatem? Open up your source or we will switch to Linux?
I think it would be great if the end result of this was the Taiwanese government deciding to switch to Linux. The money they would save on future licenses could be better spent on furthering development of the tools that they need, if they aren't already available to them with Linux, and since the underlying code is open source, that problem is eliminated. Seems like a win-win situation for the Taiwanese government and Linux users world wide.
I don't think this will happen though. More likely MS will do the minimum that it needs to do to keep Taiwan happy. The source code will never be open, but they may add some features or create a firewall that will fill the need. They may even end up profiting off of this. They can tell Taiwan that they will do it for Taiwan, instead of the Taiwanese government using it's own programmers whom would not be familiar with the source code. Who better to modify Windows than the people that work on Windows day in and day out?
Maybe someone high up in the Linux community should step up and make an offer to the Taiwanese government. Maybe make them a package deal that would include training their IT people on how to properly install, configure, and maintain Linux as well as training some of them to be able to teach others how to use the new software.
I'm surprised they even bothered asking. What motivation does MS have to disclose their source code? None. Why take the risk of leaks to the general public? Why take the risk of even more lawsuits (this time with definitive proof that code was stolen) from angry competitors?
Maybe a long time from now all software will be open source and the world will be a better place but until that happens, MS has too much to lose and nothing to gain from this.
This sounds like a great idea. I've done something similar using model rockets but had pretty lousy results. With model rockets there is exhaust vapors that you have to contend with and since the camera was aimed down the tube, most of the picture was blurry/smokey. I have two kites and I could mount a camera on either one pretty easy as they both have strong frames.. the only problem is that I've no success getting them to fly. Either it hasn't been windy enough or I'm doing something wrong.
I used to fly kites a lot as a kid (was also when I did the model rocket photography) and never had a problem but now that I have these so called stunt kites, all that I'm ever able to do is a nose dive.
The more I think about this, the more I like the idea though. If I get a better kite (that's a lot easier to fly and requires less wind), and I use a small wireless camera transmitting to my laptop, I wonder what kind of images I could get... could be quite impressive.
How come all of the good ideas involving the outdoors seem to come around when the rainy season hits? I live in Seattle and the rainy season is upon us... I'll have to wait until the beach has some people worth photographing and then I'll give this a try. What's a very cheap wireless camera that can survive slamming into the ground repeatedly when the kite crashes? Any ideas?
My DSL is a real bitch to setup under Linux. I have Earthlink service and it works pretty good now that I have a router that stores my login info and handles the connection for me. I have all of my computers running through that and it all works just fine. Prior to purchasing that routere, I had a hard time getting it to connect using WinPoet which is what Earthlink told me I needed to use. They also said that they would not/could not support Linux. They also are not very happy that I have a router since I don't pay for their "home networking" option but so far they have let me slide on that one.
I have wanted to switch to AT&T cable modem for quite some time now because my DSL likes to die on me when I'm in the middle of important work but I'm stuck in a service agreement for another 6 months so that can't happen. I'm wondering how the prices will change once the merger/acquistion is finalized. Maybe this won't be such a bad thing (I think it will, but maybe we'll get lucky)
Maybe once they have merged, they can eliminate a lot of duplications and dramatically cut costs, passing the savings on to the customers... oh, damn, did I just say that? Ha! I need to lay off the crack.
Most likely they will lay off a lot of their employees, cut costs dramatically and pocket the resulting increase in profits while claiming higher operating costs and jacking up the prices.
What's the deal? They won't let a good merger through (the sat tv companies) but they'll let this happen? For the people, by the people?? What a load of crap.
I think the laws need to be changes so that when two companies want to merge, or a large company wants to buy another large company, it has to come to a vote by the people. We all know how much fun national elections are and that would be the only way to really do what the people want. Obviously right now money talks and whoever is willing or able to pay off a few key officials (or maybe a lot of key officials), can merge to their hearts content... consumers be damned.
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This is just a guess but my thinking is that since only certain parts were restricted, maybe these parts were already under some other license that the MAME people did not at the time of deciding on a license have control over.
I never knew this was a problem to begind with...
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It was my understanding that the main licensing problem was with the ROM's and not the MAME software. How does one go about getting a license to a ROM? If you could find the an actual cartridge for the game you wanted to play (if it was on a cartridge to begin with), would that give you the right to play it on your computer? I guess it would. Owning it in cartridge form should allow you to play it however you damn well please as long as you aren't making copies and all that other stuff.
But what if you can't find the cartridge or what if it was never on a cartridge? Some ROM's came from consoles right? So how would you license one of those? I think there needs to be a consolidated effort to petition the companies who own the rights to the games in question and beg/plead/threaten/nag/etc until they release their games under the GPL or some other license that would allow us to play them without having to keep an eye out for "the man".
I've read all about Lindows and I don't see what the big deal is. I have Windows XP running on my laptop and Mandrake on my desktop machines. If I want or need to use Windows. If I wanted to use OS X, I would buy a Mac. I use Linux because I like Linux and I want it to be Linux... I don't want it to be just like Windows. BTW, the only reason my laptop is running XP is because I just got it and haven't had time to nuke the hard drive and install a real OS.
On a different note, I don't think the tablet pc idea is going to go very far. While I do think they will exist for quite some time, and will most likely pick up some initial steam, how useful are they long term compared to laptop computers? We can all think of a few uses where they would be better but overall, which one is going to be more useful? My laptop does everything I want it to do. I can think of a few situations where I would love to have a handheld, but not enough use to warrant actually purchasing one. A tablet pc is somewhere in the middle of the two. Two large to be as portable as I would like, and not as useful as the laptop I already have.
How many people that have laptops now are going to buy one of these? I don't think very many people will convert unless they were ready to buy a new one anyway. How many people are in the market for a laptop right now and will get one of these instead? I think most people that will buy one will get it because it's "cool". That's the main reason I bought a laptop. Sure it makes life easier and more convenient but I got by fine for years without one.
But if I did buy one.. and yo never know, I may get one eventually, I will deffinitely run Mandrake on it as I think Lindows is only good for people who can't decide which one they want, aren't ready to take the plunge, or want to ease into useing Linux.
No need for neon inside your case kiddies, the nuclear power source glows in the dark. And if you want to kick it up a notch, try our brand new nuclear powered monitors... true glowing beauty that you have to see to... hey... my face hurts... my whole body... feels like it's on fire... what's going on... ahh.. the burning.....ahhh!!!!
All the cool stuff is for Mac.
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Damn. I use to be a Mac nut but I finally went to the dark side.. then I switched to Linux but anyway, now that I don't have access to a Macintosh anymore, I keep reading about all of this cool stuff you can do on Macs. Granted even if I had a Mac, I probably couldn't afford to get the cool stuff but at least then my dreams would be a bit more realistic.
This Eye thing seems pretty cool. I've really been wanting something that would allow me to easily record video and then edit it. It would just be stupid silly stuff like me sticking a picture of my head into a still of some episode of Seinfield or something but it would still be fun.
Are there any plans to make a version of this for PC's or is there something similar already avail for PC's?
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How did I contradict myself? I said that I wished AMD could keep up with Intel.. translation: I wish AMD was shipping a 3Ghz chip. Then I say that not many apps use dual cpu's effectively. The two comments had nothing to do with each other. Dual processors are great for some things. Having a pair of 3Ghz would be better than what I have now for sure. If AMD shipped a 3Ghz processor, my next machine would most likely be a single processor machine rather than a dually.
Beowulf cluster of these?!?!?!? Or hell, even a quad setup would be nice.
It's too bad that Intel charges so much for their chips.. and this thing being the hottest thing at the moment... or when it's actually in stores.. going to be a while before I can get one. Damn.
The cost of the dvd's that we use now has come down quite a bit since the initial release. The cost of everything associated with dvd's has come down.. except for commercially released dvd movies. Those will only go up as they add more features and screw us more and more.
So if you want to get technical and stay within the law, there is such thing as "non-fast-forwardable" content on dvd's. While I'm aware that mod-chips exist for the dvd players that I own, and that I can use various software applications on my computers to view the dvd's in any manner I choose, I was talking about the movie studios attempting to force us to watch previews, copyright notices, etc.
My bad.
Why do people state the obvious? Doesn't the cost of EVERYTHING come down when it's mass produced? Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
So the big question is, what company is going to be the first to market with this new media? If they can get the cost of the laser down to $100, they should be able to sell burners for this media for around a grand and make a killing. Just think of all the warez pirates out there. Since they obviously aren't spending any money they have on software, they have more for hardware and can easily afford a drive that can burn 87 gigs.
And what will come next? Development efforts will continue on this and the process will be refined so that even more data will fit on the same disc.
I wouldn't mind 4 hours of previews on the new format that I could watch when I want. Previews are good, when you CHOOSE to watch them. I like to watch a preview before I see a movie so I have an idea if I'll like it or not but forcing us to watch previews is like going to a car dealer to get an oil change an being forced to take a test drive or two or three before getting the service work that you need done.
You don't need a wide-screen tv see the difference. (But it does help)
You will be happy to know that today,
I wrote into law legislation that will ban the RIAA forever.
The bombing will start in 5 minutes." - Former President Ronal Reagan
speaking on behalf of the US Air Force in response to the RIAA saying no.
Think of the uses for this though. Being able to back up all of my servers to a single disc without compressing anything. That would be a great time saver. And then there are the not-so-legal-but-who-cares-we're-all-going-to-die- eventually-anyway uses... like storing all the episodes of shows that aren't released on dvd in the US (Family Guy for one).
But how much would they cost per disc and how much for the burner? While dvd burners are getting pretty cheap now, the media still isn't as cheap as I would like it.
In theory yes, in reality no. The .com extension became the standard and is used for a lot of non-commercial sites. The extensions that are more appropriate for some things are relatively new. Keep in mind that we started with only 3 extensions. com, net, and org. If you were just a person wanting to do a site about yourself, which one was appropriate? Most people chose .com if it was avail.
Who cares how many people are inconvenienced? I don't think that should be part of this equation at all. So I have to do a little bit of research to find the site I'm looking for rather than just typing in the name?? Oh no! The insanity of it all. Come on people. This happens all the time. You type in a name and bam, it something entirely different. Sometimes it's a porn site.. sometimes it's a really good porn site... and you forget what you were trying to go to originally and 5 hours later you look up at the clock and wonder where the day went...
But seriously, it must come down to whoever got it first, gets to keep it. If your at a party and there is a keg, and there is a long line in front of the keg, when you get up there, the keg may be empty. If the part is at your house, do you get to take someone elses beer from them? No. You weren't the first in line. By the time you got there the keg was empty. Your SOL. It's all about being first.
a) it's your legal (from birth) name
b) your not trying to profit off of the name
c) you registered the name first
I think it's Nissan's (the company) fault for not registering the name first. Now they are left out in the cold. Too bad, so sad. Better luck next time.
I think it would be great if the end result of this was the Taiwanese government deciding to switch to Linux. The money they would save on future licenses could be better spent on furthering development of the tools that they need, if they aren't already available to them with Linux, and since the underlying code is open source, that problem is eliminated. Seems like a win-win situation for the Taiwanese government and Linux users world wide.
I don't think this will happen though. More likely MS will do the minimum that it needs to do to keep Taiwan happy. The source code will never be open, but they may add some features or create a firewall that will fill the need. They may even end up profiting off of this. They can tell Taiwan that they will do it for Taiwan, instead of the Taiwanese government using it's own programmers whom would not be familiar with the source code. Who better to modify Windows than the people that work on Windows day in and day out?
Maybe someone high up in the Linux community should step up and make an offer to the Taiwanese government. Maybe make them a package deal that would include training their IT people on how to properly install, configure, and maintain Linux as well as training some of them to be able to teach others how to use the new software.
Maybe a long time from now all software will be open source and the world will be a better place but until that happens, MS has too much to lose and nothing to gain from this.
I used to fly kites a lot as a kid (was also when I did the model rocket photography) and never had a problem but now that I have these so called stunt kites, all that I'm ever able to do is a nose dive.
The more I think about this, the more I like the idea though. If I get a better kite (that's a lot easier to fly and requires less wind), and I use a small wireless camera transmitting to my laptop, I wonder what kind of images I could get... could be quite impressive.
How come all of the good ideas involving the outdoors seem to come around when the rainy season hits? I live in Seattle and the rainy season is upon us... I'll have to wait until the beach has some people worth photographing and then I'll give this a try. What's a very cheap wireless camera that can survive slamming into the ground repeatedly when the kite crashes? Any ideas?
I have wanted to switch to AT&T cable modem for quite some time now because my DSL likes to die on me when I'm in the middle of important work but I'm stuck in a service agreement for another 6 months so that can't happen. I'm wondering how the prices will change once the merger/acquistion is finalized. Maybe this won't be such a bad thing (I think it will, but maybe we'll get lucky)
Maybe once they have merged, they can eliminate a lot of duplications and dramatically cut costs, passing the savings on to the customers... oh, damn, did I just say that? Ha! I need to lay off the crack.
Most likely they will lay off a lot of their employees, cut costs dramatically and pocket the resulting increase in profits while claiming higher operating costs and jacking up the prices.
I think the laws need to be changes so that when two companies want to merge, or a large company wants to buy another large company, it has to come to a vote by the people. We all know how much fun national elections are and that would be the only way to really do what the people want. Obviously right now money talks and whoever is willing or able to pay off a few key officials (or maybe a lot of key officials), can merge to their hearts content... consumers be damned.
This is just a guess but my thinking is that since only certain parts were restricted, maybe these parts were already under some other license that the MAME people did not at the time of deciding on a license have control over.
But what if you can't find the cartridge or what if it was never on a cartridge? Some ROM's came from consoles right? So how would you license one of those? I think there needs to be a consolidated effort to petition the companies who own the rights to the games in question and beg/plead/threaten/nag/etc until they release their games under the GPL or some other license that would allow us to play them without having to keep an eye out for "the man".
On a different note, I don't think the tablet pc idea is going to go very far. While I do think they will exist for quite some time, and will most likely pick up some initial steam, how useful are they long term compared to laptop computers? We can all think of a few uses where they would be better but overall, which one is going to be more useful? My laptop does everything I want it to do. I can think of a few situations where I would love to have a handheld, but not enough use to warrant actually purchasing one. A tablet pc is somewhere in the middle of the two. Two large to be as portable as I would like, and not as useful as the laptop I already have.
How many people that have laptops now are going to buy one of these? I don't think very many people will convert unless they were ready to buy a new one anyway. How many people are in the market for a laptop right now and will get one of these instead? I think most people that will buy one will get it because it's "cool". That's the main reason I bought a laptop. Sure it makes life easier and more convenient but I got by fine for years without one.
But if I did buy one.. and yo never know, I may get one eventually, I will deffinitely run Mandrake on it as I think Lindows is only good for people who can't decide which one they want, aren't ready to take the plunge, or want to ease into useing Linux.
No need for neon inside your case kiddies, the nuclear power source glows in the dark. And if you want to kick it up a notch, try our brand new nuclear powered monitors... true glowing beauty that you have to see to... hey... my face hurts... my whole body... feels like it's on fire... what's going on... ahh.. the burning.....ahhh!!!!
This Eye thing seems pretty cool. I've really been wanting something that would allow me to easily record video and then edit it. It would just be stupid silly stuff like me sticking a picture of my head into a still of some episode of Seinfield or something but it would still be fun.
Are there any plans to make a version of this for PC's or is there something similar already avail for PC's?