In fact, Xbox even lets you download the content again to a different Xbox (the license you get for a purchase allows playback by anyone on the original console, and playback by the purchasing gamertag on ANY console).
You can even transfer all your purchased rights to a different Xbox if you choose and then download the content to that box (or just plug the old hard drive into it)... limited to once a year, intended for rare circumstances - but clearly they grok that you need a way to keep your rights if your box breaks.
The ONLY thing they don't allow this for is movie RENTALS. Because, well, it's a rental - you download it, you watch it, you're done with it.
See my other post about my story and my friends. We both were told we would have down syndrome kids, though he was basically told it was a guarantee, not us.
Turns out none of it was true. He has two healthy kids with no health symptoms and I have 3 great kids with no health symptoms.
Needs more science. Triple-Screen or Amnio? Triple-Screen (the first pass) does not tell you with certainty - it gives you a statistical result that you can use to decide if you want to do Amnio (which tells you with certainty. triple-screen is non-invasive. amnio carries a risk of miscarriage - a needle through the mother and through the placenta wall - you'd know it if you did it).
Sorry if your medical practitioner didn't provide you with complete information but "none of it was true" sounds more like you didn't understand what was done - unless you're asserting you had an amnio that told you your child would have down syndrome and it was wrong (highly unlikely.)
You know... false statements by "anonymous" aren't credible and consequently hold little weight as "libel/slander". Seriously, do you think that the news media is going to pick up on an anonymous post from myspace about a celebrity and present it as news/fact during prime time? No, they're going to ignore it since it has no credible source. Better that people get comfortable with the idea that anonymous statements have no credibility on their own - they may make you think, they make make you research, they may lead you to discover a credible source - but that's not libel/slander.
Their cash reserves are shinking because they decided to start paying dividends with a timetable for explicitly draining a significant chunk of the bankroll - believing it to be better to pay back their investors than to hold on to gobs of cash that they were not using (other than for investing purposes, which basically meant that at some level they were acting as a fund, and that is not the business they want to be in.)
How on earth is this any different from social security numbers in the US anyway? They have at least those bits of data and most likely far, far more associated with them. Ok, there's a few citizens in this country who don't have one - but they can't work legally, can't get a credit card, have a hard time opening a bank account (in most places, you can argue this with the bank - if they aren't lending you anything they don't really need it - but they expect it and you're not going to have an easy time.) Basically - if you live on the streets maybe you can't be identified. Good luck buying or renting a place to sleep without having an SSN (or valid alien number, but this article is about citizens so we can leave that out of it.)
I want to - if only for the bandwidth improvements both up and down.
Unfortunately where I am it seems that Verizon FiOS is filtering out port 80 - Comcast (my current provider) is not. This is something of a deal-breaker - and leaves me baffled... why is Verizon offering me 15up/15down service and then telling me "absolutely no servers"? What on earth is that upstream bandwidth for? No commercial servers, ok. No unreasonable use of the upstream pipe at full capacity 24/7, ok. Telling me I can't run my freakin' family web site that a few people look at each week when I'm paying for 15mb up - WTF?
If anything, Windows NT was spawned from Microsoft's OS/2. IBM was effectively rebranding OS/2 prior to the split and only began to develop "IBM's OS/2" after Microsoft and IBM parted ways.
And if we're going to do things like they do in some other countries (as some posters have recommended), let's fine the eligible voters who don't vote (like they do in Australia).
I don't really want people who are too lazy or disinterested to vote to be voting. It just adds noise and the majority of these people will simply vote for the candidate whose name they've heard the most.
Windows will warn you if you yank the drive without telling it to disconnect the drive precisely for this reason.
I've used USB drives on Windows for years and I've never seen such a warning. It might warn you if you pulled it during a file copy (I've never done that, obviously it sounds like a bad idea) but certainly not if you wait for the copy to complete.
In fact, it would be really cool if it popped up an alert if you pulled the drive while it was still writing to the effect of "oh no! plug it back in and I'll finish the operation so you'll have a coherent filesystem" (hopefully something worded more professional and less techy)
The IOs don't block if you call them async. But then you are responsible for checking the results (or waiting for the async callback) and not closing the copy window until you get confirmation that the operation completed. blocking/non-blocking is a seperate issue from caching.
Of course it doesn't hurt games, neither would it hurt games to double the memory - but there's a balance between features and price. Based on the fact that the two most successful 'next-gen' consoles (360 and Wii in whatever order you choose) do not support an HD format I would say that the price was more important for consumers than 9gb vs. 50gb discs. Sure, this will change in time - when the processor is fast enough to render everything at 1080p or higher and people use higher res textures as a result - in some future generation a 9gb disc will be totally unacceptable - but that time is not here yet (and when it is those 50gb media drives will be far cheaper than they are now).
It was a risk Sony took because the potential reward for them was huge (owning the standard movie format going forward). The reward for Microsoft was far smaller; sure, HD-DVD is a bit more Microsoft-friendy, but it's not *their* format, in fact their codecs are in both formats anyway. Some have argued that Microsoft only cared that the war drug on long enough for the download market to make it irrelevant. I tend to think that they are right, though it would have helped if they could have drug it out another year.
Toshiba should have demanded that the 360 carry an HD-DVD drive standard. The addon carries extra bulk, and if you combine that with the cost of the 360, you might as well have just bought a PS3 instead.
How would they demand that? Microsoft simply does not care about HD-DVD enough to risk tanking it's game console like Sony did (by forcing the price up for something that doesn't actually help games).
EZ-Pass is a business. If they have too many illegitemate transactions it cuts down their profits, so they are motivated to build a secure system. The government has no such motivation because they are not accountable for the results (are they really going to take the blame when a terrorist uses eavesdropped passport information to get through a border undetected?).
That, and the fact that at the end of the day EZ-Pass gives you nothing more than an account number that can be used to go through tolls, and if they start seeing unreasonable and out of place toll activity on an account they'll just shut down the account and contact the owner like a credit card company does - it's not your identity being stolen.
How bad is your network connection? I watch SD (DVD quality) movies off Xbox and rarely have to wait more than a minute or two before I can watch them. HD is another matter - it's typically a 30-45 min wait before I can start playing them (it tells you when enough is downloaded that you can watch it start to finish without running out of buffer). If anything the 1-2 min wait on SD content is a software issue where they are being overly cautious - because the content is coming down far faster than the playback rate.
Fwiw - SD in this case is about 3-4 mbit (VC1), HD is about 10-12mbit.
The majority of iPods sold are nanos. ~4-8GB a piece, no where near enough space to store $40,000 of music at any normal (~128k at the low end) bit rate. Regardiess, you can also fill a Zune (or pretty much any non-iPod music device) for something more like $15/mo. It would take 222 years to spend $40,000 at that rate.
Not that I would ever be a customer unless the price is right (it won't be) and they serve up 720p h.264 files at at least 4mbit. (they won't do that either)
Why not? XBox has been doing this for over a year (720p at something like 12mbit) - it's VC1, but obviously Apple's format of choice would be H.264 for the same scenario. This isn't exactly revolutionary - it's not even new. Amazon has online movies, xbox has them, movielink has them, cinemanow has them... so Apple's joining the game too. Apart from a great marketing department and a device monopoly that they can leverage, what's so special?
But I must offer one small correction, the US is not a democracy -- it's a "democratic republic", a form of representative government which incorporates some features of a democracy.
Actually, the US is a "constitutional republic" - we have a constitution which defines hard boundaries, we have representatives (who represent the public - i.e. republic). Most if not all subregions hold democratic elections to elect their representatives. This is not actually required in the original constitution (later ammendments define who can vote very widely, certainly this was not the case when this country was founded.)
So, if there is a speed limit, there must be a heat limit as well.
As I understand it heat is entropic (disorganized) movement. A car moving at 100mph does not inherently have any more "heat" than one standing still (ignoring issues like the engine producing heat or friction with the air). Physical movement is energy and can be converted into heat (can become disorganized). Heat cannot be directly converted into movement. Only a gradient of differing levels of heat can be used to produce energy, and only because the entropy in one space spreads into another until all space is equally random (which, taken out to some time in the distant future, is I believe what "heat death of the univers" means).
Copyright infringement isn't "stealing". One important distinction is that when something is stolen, the person or organization from which it is stolen is deprived of an object of value. When copyright infringement occurs, whoever owned the relevant intellectual property rights is not deprived of anything except possibly for potential income. And the statistics on downloading vs. legal sales (which basically show that the former doesn't do much if anything to actually decrease the latter) seem to demonstrate that the potential income in question would only rarely, in the absence of infringement, translate into actual income.
The vast majority of people who don't believe that downloading a movie off of BitTorrent is immoral will almost certainly tell you that shoplifting is immoral. And the above-mentioned difference is a large part of the reason for that.
It's kind of scarry to see this attitude (IP = imaginary) coming from american students. Forget right and wrong for a moment and think about survival and self-interest. Apparently these students don't realize that the country they live in has no other real 'industry' anymore. We have offshored a the vast majority of production, and we are in the process of offshoring services (call centers, more to come). Sure, there will always be some level of 'physical' work needed - but it has dwindled, and our economy exists now primarily based on the concent of intellectual property - because it's the main thing we produce in this country. Without it the US economy would fall apart. Those of you not from the US may chose to dismiss this out of hand, but it is also true for many other 'first world' nations to varynig degrees. It's one thing for chinese companies to ignore intellectual property and sell iPod clones in China. If we toss out the concept of IP in the US and they can sell those clones back to the US (and other first world nations that currently respect IP) then Apple goes out of business. I'm talking about exact iPod clones made by the same plants making them for Apple, if you're truely throwing out IP let's even put the apple brand on them and the Apple phone support number while we're at it - it's not "real" property, right? The same applies to many companies whose primary creations are intellectual.
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In fact, Xbox even lets you download the content again to a different Xbox (the license you get for a purchase allows playback by anyone on the original console, and playback by the purchasing gamertag on ANY console).
You can even transfer all your purchased rights to a different Xbox if you choose and then download the content to that box (or just plug the old hard drive into it) ... limited to once a year, intended for rare circumstances - but clearly they grok that you need a way to keep your rights if your box breaks.
The ONLY thing they don't allow this for is movie RENTALS. Because, well, it's a rental - you download it, you watch it, you're done with it.
Needs more science. Triple-Screen or Amnio? Triple-Screen (the first pass) does not tell you with certainty - it gives you a statistical result that you can use to decide if you want to do Amnio (which tells you with certainty. triple-screen is non-invasive. amnio carries a risk of miscarriage - a needle through the mother and through the placenta wall - you'd know it if you did it).
Sorry if your medical practitioner didn't provide you with complete information but "none of it was true" sounds more like you didn't understand what was done - unless you're asserting you had an amnio that told you your child would have down syndrome and it was wrong (highly unlikely.)
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/prenataltesting/tripletest.html
You are assuming that it can actually display "black" and "white" and I assure you it can not.
You know
Their cash reserves are shinking because they decided to start paying dividends with a timetable for explicitly draining a significant chunk of the bankroll - believing it to be better to pay back their investors than to hold on to gobs of cash that they were not using (other than for investing purposes, which basically meant that at some level they were acting as a fund, and that is not the business they want to be in.)
How on earth is this any different from social security numbers in the US anyway? They have at least those bits of data and most likely far, far more associated with them. Ok, there's a few citizens in this country who don't have one - but they can't work legally, can't get a credit card, have a hard time opening a bank account (in most places, you can argue this with the bank - if they aren't lending you anything they don't really need it - but they expect it and you're not going to have an easy time.) Basically - if you live on the streets maybe you can't be identified. Good luck buying or renting a place to sleep without having an SSN (or valid alien number, but this article is about citizens so we can leave that out of it.)
Well, apparently you can't store it.
Wait, when did comcast get to decide what I can have on my computer?
As an American it is my duty to watch the super bowl commercials. On Youtube.
... When is that? What sport is that? I just know it's a source of funny commercials that should show up sometime in February.
As for the event itself
I want to - if only for the bandwidth improvements both up and down.
... why is Verizon offering me 15up/15down service and then telling me "absolutely no servers"? What on earth is that upstream bandwidth for? No commercial servers, ok. No unreasonable use of the upstream pipe at full capacity 24/7, ok. Telling me I can't run my freakin' family web site that a few people look at each week when I'm paying for 15mb up - WTF?
Unfortunately where I am it seems that Verizon FiOS is filtering out port 80 - Comcast (my current provider) is not. This is something of a deal-breaker - and leaves me baffled
Makes you wonder if someone's amazon.com product ratings need to be
If that's all they can manage on a 3.2Ghz "monster"
If anything, Windows NT was spawned from Microsoft's OS/2. IBM was effectively rebranding OS/2 prior to the split and only began to develop "IBM's OS/2" after Microsoft and IBM parted ways.
I don't really want people who are too lazy or disinterested to vote to be voting. It just adds noise and the majority of these people will simply vote for the candidate whose name they've heard the most.
I've used USB drives on Windows for years and I've never seen such a warning. It might warn you if you pulled it during a file copy (I've never done that, obviously it sounds like a bad idea) but certainly not if you wait for the copy to complete.
In fact, it would be really cool if it popped up an alert if you pulled the drive while it was still writing to the effect of "oh no! plug it back in and I'll finish the operation so you'll have a coherent filesystem" (hopefully something worded more professional and less techy)
The IOs don't block if you call them async. But then you are responsible for checking the results (or waiting for the async callback) and not closing the copy window until you get confirmation that the operation completed. blocking/non-blocking is a seperate issue from caching.
Of course it doesn't hurt games, neither would it hurt games to double the memory - but there's a balance between features and price. Based on the fact that the two most successful 'next-gen' consoles (360 and Wii in whatever order you choose) do not support an HD format I would say that the price was more important for consumers than 9gb vs. 50gb discs. Sure, this will change in time - when the processor is fast enough to render everything at 1080p or higher and people use higher res textures as a result - in some future generation a 9gb disc will be totally unacceptable - but that time is not here yet (and when it is those 50gb media drives will be far cheaper than they are now).
It was a risk Sony took because the potential reward for them was huge (owning the standard movie format going forward). The reward for Microsoft was far smaller; sure, HD-DVD is a bit more Microsoft-friendy, but it's not *their* format, in fact their codecs are in both formats anyway. Some have argued that Microsoft only cared that the war drug on long enough for the download market to make it irrelevant. I tend to think that they are right, though it would have helped if they could have drug it out another year.
How would they demand that? Microsoft simply does not care about HD-DVD enough to risk tanking it's game console like Sony did (by forcing the price up for something that doesn't actually help games).
That, and the fact that at the end of the day EZ-Pass gives you nothing more than an account number that can be used to go through tolls, and if they start seeing unreasonable and out of place toll activity on an account they'll just shut down the account and contact the owner like a credit card company does - it's not your identity being stolen.
How bad is your network connection? I watch SD (DVD quality) movies off Xbox and rarely have to wait more than a minute or two before I can watch them. HD is another matter - it's typically a 30-45 min wait before I can start playing them (it tells you when enough is downloaded that you can watch it start to finish without running out of buffer). If anything the 1-2 min wait on SD content is a software issue where they are being overly cautious - because the content is coming down far faster than the playback rate.
Fwiw - SD in this case is about 3-4 mbit (VC1), HD is about 10-12mbit.
Comcast, typical cable modem connection AFAIK.
The majority of iPods sold are nanos. ~4-8GB a piece, no where near enough space to store $40,000 of music at any normal (~128k at the low end) bit rate. Regardiess, you can also fill a Zune (or pretty much any non-iPod music device) for something more like $15/mo. It would take 222 years to spend $40,000 at that rate.
Why not? XBox has been doing this for over a year (720p at something like 12mbit) - it's VC1, but obviously Apple's format of choice would be H.264 for the same scenario. This isn't exactly revolutionary - it's not even new. Amazon has online movies, xbox has them, movielink has them, cinemanow has them
I think this is basically the same thing that has been used on good watches for a long time:
http://www.europastar.com/europastar/watch_tech/watchcrystals.jsp
Actually, the US is a "constitutional republic" - we have a constitution which defines hard boundaries, we have representatives (who represent the public - i.e. republic). Most if not all subregions hold democratic elections to elect their representatives. This is not actually required in the original constitution (later ammendments define who can vote very widely, certainly this was not the case when this country was founded.)
As I understand it heat is entropic (disorganized) movement. A car moving at 100mph does not inherently have any more "heat" than one standing still (ignoring issues like the engine producing heat or friction with the air). Physical movement is energy and can be converted into heat (can become disorganized). Heat cannot be directly converted into movement. Only a gradient of differing levels of heat can be used to produce energy, and only because the entropy in one space spreads into another until all space is equally random (which, taken out to some time in the distant future, is I believe what "heat death of the univers" means).
It's kind of scarry to see this attitude (IP = imaginary) coming from american students. Forget right and wrong for a moment and think about survival and self-interest. Apparently these students don't realize that the country they live in has no other real 'industry' anymore. We have offshored a the vast majority of production, and we are in the process of offshoring services (call centers, more to come). Sure, there will always be some level of 'physical' work needed - but it has dwindled, and our economy exists now primarily based on the concent of intellectual property - because it's the main thing we produce in this country. Without it the US economy would fall apart. Those of you not from the US may chose to dismiss this out of hand, but it is also true for many other 'first world' nations to varynig degrees. It's one thing for chinese companies to ignore intellectual property and sell iPod clones in China. If we toss out the concept of IP in the US and they can sell those clones back to the US (and other first world nations that currently respect IP) then Apple goes out of business. I'm talking about exact iPod clones made by the same plants making them for Apple, if you're truely throwing out IP let's even put the apple brand on them and the Apple phone support number while we're at it - it's not "real" property, right? The same applies to many companies whose primary creations are intellectual.