Its identical for me, same counts for movies, games, music, etc... The only exception being that I'm not buying movies in HD. I'm happy with DVD for mat and my old skool 4:3 TV. I'm watching HD on my PC though - mostly through Hulu.
I can't see spending near CD prices to get MP3 quality music. Sound-wise they seem similar enough, but I'd prefer to have the uncompressed version that you can get from a disc. I also have issue with DRM and the RIAA lawsuits. Both have had a significantly negative impact on my willingness to spend on music.
While you play the role of the optimist, I'll play the pessimist. I've played Quake 1 on the iPhone. It's beautiful for a 13 year old game and plays well. But it has one big problem - you have to rub your thumbs all over the display to move around. Bad guys like to hang out under your thumbs. This just doesn't work well in practice. And the accelerometer has limited use for games. There's no tactile feedback from the display, so you have to watch the placement of your thumbs in order to keep things in control. The iPhone would only be game worthy if it had some sort of docking cradle with analog sticks and buttons.
Some games will work on the iPhone, but for the majority my Nintendo DS is still going to be the first thing that I reach for.
Precisely what a Dell Latitude C800 had become when it was sat on and cracked. A vertical row of keys had also failed in the accidental landing of the cheeks. The previous owner was going to toss it since the cost to replace the display and keyboard was more justified in a new notebook. I hooked a KVM up to it in case I can't SSH into the thing. But it's been the perfect little server. It's hard to beat the benefits of a UPS, low energy consumption and good powered device.
That's exactly my question. The only feelings here are organic contact, and not emotions. This could merely be the crabs survival instinct, a reaction to the environment. The soft squishy parts of a crab are tasty and the crab knows it because they're cannibals. They've only proven that the crab gets the heck out of a shell when there's something weird going on inside that shell.
They should flip this test on its head and see if crabs can feel pleasure. Try this experiment; give them a little back rub and see if they come back to you. Or maybe they twitch a leg when you find their tickle spot. See if crabs prefer Nintendo Wii over Microsoft Xbox 360. Just try something outside their normal routines of eating and trying not to be eaten would be a nice start.
Sitting here at my desktop, monitor out of arms reach, I can't help but think that Touch is a useless feature. I'm not going to be swayed to Touch as a feature until I can make use of it. Perhaps if I was a notebook user I'd reconsider my enthusiasm. But that said, I think there's a way that they can attract desktop users...
Some company needs to completely replace the 10-key pad on a desktop keyboard with a touch screen. It should be the same size as the 10-key pad or larger, and feature a 10-key on/off switch. In the 'on' mode, you would use it as a normal 10-key. In the 'off' mode, it would give the user a touch device which could manipulate the images on the monitor. The user might see a selection box on-screen targeting the area of the pad that is available. Touch gestures would allow manipulation of the desktop. Of course a mouse would still be used for most point and click interactions. It probably should use OLED for high angle visibility and should have soft ridges for tactile feedback when you enable 10-key.
"Charles Carmichael always comes quickly." or something like that..:)
("Chuck" TV Show reference to a recent episode.)
I'm not a fan of teaser announcements either. When ever big university is behind the news, I always have to wait 3+ years before the tech comes out. But by then it's under a new name and I've found something similar and just as good. The time to market is sometimes just too slow for these wondrous breakthroughs.
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My sentiments exactly. If a Nexus 7000 (15 terabits per second) switch and an ASR-9000 (6.4 terabits per second) router aren't large enough to do Google's job, then they're ahead of the market and have special/specific needs.
They're building the space shuttle equivalent in transportation. While the rest of us are getting along fine with passenger jets.
Gen Con is a Gaming Convention held in North America and Europe. They host the events and bring in exhibitors. In some cases it's a chance for the public to meet people in the game industry.
I've never been to one of these. I tend to miss the dates when I'm interested and not have the money when I'm informed of the events.
Not really, using today's beefy servers, they go into thermal shutdown at 85F!
Using yesterday's beefy servers, I've seen rooms go to 115F without A/C. It kills UPS batteries at that temp. And hard drives don't run so well either. My guess is that Intel is only measuring CPU reliability and neglecting every other component in the server room.
I agree with the person who said elsewhere that NAT solves this problem much more neatly than IPv6. How many routable addresses do you really need, even at the biggest companies? It surely can't be that many (1000, tops?), and for the rest, you can use the 10.0.0.0 block, and use NAT. I can't imagine that having 16 million addresses for your internal network wouldn't be sufficient.
That's what I feel is the important take away from this. the big Telcom guys might need it, but little ole me on this desktop in my house can care less. My ISP might need my router to be IPv6 compatible so they can interface with many more clients. Maybe my Cel Phone will need it in the future? But from behind a router, I'm always going to run IPV4 inside my networks because they're easier to understand and IPv6 doesn't give me any additional benefit when my 10.6 network is "all that I'll ever need." Right?
Not that balancing difficulty between instruments wouldn't be nice. (Actually, it would be wonderful if the drummer gets to dump the kick drum on a easy difficulty setting.) But the difficulty between songs can be silly. In some songs I get 100% on a hard difficulty setting and other songs I cannot pass on medium difficulty. This makes the longer song sets frustrating to the point where I want to turn off the game and play some Halo instead.
Yes. Followed by a chorus of "honk, honk, honk" and "errr, EEEE, errr, EEEE, pew, pew, pew, whooOOP, whooOOP, anh, anh, anh, anh." Its noting that you can dance to, but exciting all the same.
This would be a great fit for my son's bicycle tires and his bouncy balls that we keep buying him. I can't think of many other applications, but I'm sure they are out there. This looks like it has solid potential.
I still agree with the original post, with the exit of HD-DVD the real war is about standard definition DVD vs. Blu-Ray High Definition BR-DVD. But I can't discount your observations reflecting that a majority of consumers feel no need to replace their DVD library with any form of high definition media. With a lack of appreciable enhancements and higher prices, BR-DVD stands little chance at succession over DVD.
Perhaps this new war can be likened to VHS vs. Super VHS (which was a technology enhancement that also stalled in terms of adoption.) I'm one for sitting back and letting Sony decide how they want to approach this war. But I must admit that with the high potentials for consumer hostile DRM, I'm likely to sit on this fence until the next big things comes along.
..It's unfortunate that the much hyped Black Mesa: Source is unavailable to enter this contest. Early screen shots have it looking so nice that it's almost a crime that this should be a Mod to Half-Life 2: Source. This should have been a project taken under by Valve, and completed with-in a shorter time frame.
I have confidence that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had all ready patented this since his catch phrase was "Do you smell what the rock is cookin'?" Yeah, he was brewing a big batch of fear. The kind that made wrestlers cry out for mommy with the full drama of a pre-school aged child. It's been done Pentagon. Move along. There's nothing to see here.
Yes! This was one of the first sound tracks that I can recall playing outside of the game.
Also, I must drop a mention towards the heavy metal riff's from the NEC TurboCD awesome Lords of Thunder soundtrack. And who can forget the jazzy tracks from Neo-Geo's Viewpoint?!
When I vote, I have to "fit in" with a majority of the voters in order to get my change made. If my drop in the bucket falls on the other side, say such as a vote for Al Gore, then I am stuck with the decision others had made for 4 years. It's a fair process, but the Electoral College is also a detracting factor. At the point when my vote counts is diminished, frustration sets in. All said, I'd take the money because it is tangible.
I must have missed the latest Episode of 007, because I'm certain that he would have a device just like this!
Personally, I'd really like to see something like this with ground take-off capable and 3+ hr endurance. But I can see this as a success story and not just a cool blip on the radar like hover scooters or Segway's.
Well, the 28B would buy them a frequency. But they'd still need to put towers out there to feed the network. I'd suppose that the towers run between $50k - $100K for each site and $500/month to lease the land. And I'd guess that they'd need 1 tower for each 1K of populous. All of my guesses there...
So I can see that they would cover the cost of the frequency with your numbers. The bulk of the infrastructure investment could come from licenses to cell manufacturers, customers, and advertisers and pay off the second year.
Putting all the guesses together, I think that this could be quite profitable after two years. And at 5 years, they would need to do in infrastructure refresh / planned maintenance probably at $100K for each tower site. But the numbers could work very well in the public's favor at lowering the cost of service.
However it falls, I'm all for cheaper cellular service. I think the average $49 + dry humping (tax & fee's) is ludicrous. Perhaps I don't have $49+ worth of words to say, but I still won't sign a contract for ~$600 a year. I'd rather have a new laptop each year, thanks.
For Great Justice! As if I don't get enough Spam in my email, I can now get Spam in my games. That's marketing for ya. If advertisers can't feed it down out TV sets and email accounts, they're going to get us in our games.
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Its identical for me, same counts for movies, games, music, etc... The only exception being that I'm not buying movies in HD. I'm happy with DVD for mat and my old skool 4:3 TV. I'm watching HD on my PC though - mostly through Hulu.
I can't see spending near CD prices to get MP3 quality music. Sound-wise they seem similar enough, but I'd prefer to have the uncompressed version that you can get from a disc. I also have issue with DRM and the RIAA lawsuits. Both have had a significantly negative impact on my willingness to spend on music.
While you play the role of the optimist, I'll play the pessimist. I've played Quake 1 on the iPhone. It's beautiful for a 13 year old game and plays well. But it has one big problem - you have to rub your thumbs all over the display to move around. Bad guys like to hang out under your thumbs. This just doesn't work well in practice. And the accelerometer has limited use for games. There's no tactile feedback from the display, so you have to watch the placement of your thumbs in order to keep things in control. The iPhone would only be game worthy if it had some sort of docking cradle with analog sticks and buttons.
Some games will work on the iPhone, but for the majority my Nintendo DS is still going to be the first thing that I reach for.
They make great video remixes from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA
-Check out Steve Porter's version ;D
Precisely what a Dell Latitude C800 had become when it was sat on and cracked. A vertical row of keys had also failed in the accidental landing of the cheeks. The previous owner was going to toss it since the cost to replace the display and keyboard was more justified in a new notebook. I hooked a KVM up to it in case I can't SSH into the thing. But it's been the perfect little server. It's hard to beat the benefits of a UPS, low energy consumption and good powered device.
That's exactly my question. The only feelings here are organic contact, and not emotions. This could merely be the crabs survival instinct, a reaction to the environment. The soft squishy parts of a crab are tasty and the crab knows it because they're cannibals. They've only proven that the crab gets the heck out of a shell when there's something weird going on inside that shell.
They should flip this test on its head and see if crabs can feel pleasure. Try this experiment; give them a little back rub and see if they come back to you. Or maybe they twitch a leg when you find their tickle spot. See if crabs prefer Nintendo Wii over Microsoft Xbox 360. Just try something outside their normal routines of eating and trying not to be eaten would be a nice start.
Sitting here at my desktop, monitor out of arms reach, I can't help but think that Touch is a useless feature. I'm not going to be swayed to Touch as a feature until I can make use of it. Perhaps if I was a notebook user I'd reconsider my enthusiasm. But that said, I think there's a way that they can attract desktop users...
Some company needs to completely replace the 10-key pad on a desktop keyboard with a touch screen. It should be the same size as the 10-key pad or larger, and feature a 10-key on/off switch. In the 'on' mode, you would use it as a normal 10-key. In the 'off' mode, it would give the user a touch device which could manipulate the images on the monitor. The user might see a selection box on-screen targeting the area of the pad that is available. Touch gestures would allow manipulation of the desktop. Of course a mouse would still be used for most point and click interactions. It probably should use OLED for high angle visibility and should have soft ridges for tactile feedback when you enable 10-key.
"Charles Carmichael always comes quickly." or something like that.. :)
("Chuck" TV Show reference to a recent episode.)
I'm not a fan of teaser announcements either. When ever big university is behind the news, I always have to wait 3+ years before the tech comes out. But by then it's under a new name and I've found something similar and just as good. The time to market is sometimes just too slow for these wondrous breakthroughs.
Nintendo Revolution FTW!
My sentiments exactly. If a Nexus 7000 (15 terabits per second) switch and an ASR-9000 (6.4 terabits per second) router aren't large enough to do Google's job, then they're ahead of the market and have special/specific needs.
They're building the space shuttle equivalent in transportation. While the rest of us are getting along fine with passenger jets.
There, that might help...
Gen Con is a Gaming Convention held in North America and Europe. They host the events and bring in exhibitors. In some cases it's a chance for the public to meet people in the game industry.
I've never been to one of these. I tend to miss the dates when I'm interested and not have the money when I'm informed of the events.
Not really, using today's beefy servers, they go into thermal shutdown at 85F!
Using yesterday's beefy servers, I've seen rooms go to 115F without A/C. It kills UPS batteries at that temp. And hard drives don't run so well either. My guess is that Intel is only measuring CPU reliability and neglecting every other component in the server room.
I agree with the person who said elsewhere that NAT solves this problem much more neatly than IPv6. How many routable addresses do you really need, even at the biggest companies? It surely can't be that many (1000, tops?), and for the rest, you can use the 10.0.0.0 block, and use NAT. I can't imagine that having 16 million addresses for your internal network wouldn't be sufficient.
That's what I feel is the important take away from this. the big Telcom guys might need it, but little ole me on this desktop in my house can care less. My ISP might need my router to be IPv6 compatible so they can interface with many more clients. Maybe my Cel Phone will need it in the future? But from behind a router, I'm always going to run IPV4 inside my networks because they're easier to understand and IPv6 doesn't give me any additional benefit when my 10.6 network is "all that I'll ever need." Right?
Your math co would still be good, but your turbo switch will need to be set to off.
How about balancing difficulty between songs?!
Not that balancing difficulty between instruments wouldn't be nice. (Actually, it would be wonderful if the drummer gets to dump the kick drum on a easy difficulty setting.) But the difficulty between songs can be silly. In some songs I get 100% on a hard difficulty setting and other songs I cannot pass on medium difficulty. This makes the longer song sets frustrating to the point where I want to turn off the game and play some Halo instead.
Yes. Followed by a chorus of "honk, honk, honk" and "errr, EEEE, errr, EEEE, pew, pew, pew, whooOOP, whooOOP, anh, anh, anh, anh." Its noting that you can dance to, but exciting all the same.
This would be a great fit for my son's bicycle tires and his bouncy balls that we keep buying him. I can't think of many other applications, but I'm sure they are out there. This looks like it has solid potential.
I still agree with the original post, with the exit of HD-DVD the real war is about standard definition DVD vs. Blu-Ray High Definition BR-DVD. But I can't discount your observations reflecting that a majority of consumers feel no need to replace their DVD library with any form of high definition media. With a lack of appreciable enhancements and higher prices, BR-DVD stands little chance at succession over DVD.
Perhaps this new war can be likened to VHS vs. Super VHS (which was a technology enhancement that also stalled in terms of adoption.) I'm one for sitting back and letting Sony decide how they want to approach this war. But I must admit that with the high potentials for consumer hostile DRM, I'm likely to sit on this fence until the next big things comes along.
..It's unfortunate that the much hyped Black Mesa: Source is unavailable to enter this contest. Early screen shots have it looking so nice that it's almost a crime that this should be a Mod to Half-Life 2: Source. This should have been a project taken under by Valve, and completed with-in a shorter time frame.
I have confidence that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had all ready patented this since his catch phrase was "Do you smell what the rock is cookin'?" Yeah, he was brewing a big batch of fear. The kind that made wrestlers cry out for mommy with the full drama of a pre-school aged child. It's been done Pentagon. Move along. There's nothing to see here.
Yes! This was one of the first sound tracks that I can recall playing outside of the game.
Also, I must drop a mention towards the heavy metal riff's from the NEC TurboCD awesome Lords of Thunder soundtrack. And who can forget the jazzy tracks from Neo-Geo's Viewpoint?!
When I vote, I have to "fit in" with a majority of the voters in order to get my change made. If my drop in the bucket falls on the other side, say such as a vote for Al Gore, then I am stuck with the decision others had made for 4 years. It's a fair process, but the Electoral College is also a detracting factor. At the point when my vote counts is diminished, frustration sets in. All said, I'd take the money because it is tangible.
Hmmm, is this far enough?
I must have missed the latest Episode of 007, because I'm certain that he would have a device just like this!
Personally, I'd really like to see something like this with ground take-off capable and 3+ hr endurance. But I can see this as a success story and not just a cool blip on the radar like hover scooters or Segway's.
Well, the 28B would buy them a frequency. But they'd still need to put towers out there to feed the network. I'd suppose that the towers run between $50k - $100K for each site and $500/month to lease the land. And I'd guess that they'd need 1 tower for each 1K of populous. All of my guesses there...
So I can see that they would cover the cost of the frequency with your numbers. The bulk of the infrastructure investment could come from licenses to cell manufacturers, customers, and advertisers and pay off the second year.
Putting all the guesses together, I think that this could be quite profitable after two years. And at 5 years, they would need to do in infrastructure refresh / planned maintenance probably at $100K for each tower site. But the numbers could work very well in the public's favor at lowering the cost of service.
However it falls, I'm all for cheaper cellular service. I think the average $49 + dry humping (tax & fee's) is ludicrous. Perhaps I don't have $49+ worth of words to say, but I still won't sign a contract for ~$600 a year. I'd rather have a new laptop each year, thanks.
For Great Justice! As if I don't get enough Spam in my email, I can now get Spam in my games. That's marketing for ya. If advertisers can't feed it down out TV sets and email accounts, they're going to get us in our games.