For a 128kbps MP3, my Pentium 75, or am486-133 were at 80-90% CPU. Most 486's (and at-the-time-current MP3 software/OSes) couldn't play a 128kbps MP3 at full quality without jittering.
How quickly people started using the MP3 format? MP3 was invented in 1991. It wasn't "widely used" (depending on your definition of wide usage) until after the release of Napster in 1999.
I'd say MP3 took a long time to catch on.
Not that I'm blaming that lag on it's name... I'd say the format had to wait for commodoty computer hardware, and consumer knowledge to catch up with it. But still, this doesn't apply to the point you're trying to make.
I think it will have a lot more to do with publicity than with the name itself. And the name "HD-DVD" is a good start, but it's not enough. If Blu-Ray makes a bigger splash on TV, in the newspapers, online, etc, then it could win.
It's also possible that having a name tied into an existing standard (namely DVD in this case) could have a negative effect, especially if Blu-Ray (or its supports) spin things that way. ("Why would you want to stick with something as old as DVDs when Blu-Ray is all-new, all-improved?")
I cheered at the end of Texas Chainsaw massacre because that meant the movie was almost over and I could get on to something more interesting. Maybe I'm too much of a geek. *shrug*
The article says that women are more "casual" players. I know a lot of women who play games, but are perceived neither as lazy nor nerds. They just play different games. The Sims comes to mind. As do "trinket" games like solitaire, mah-jongg, and tetris.
Maybe women aren't involved in game development because these games they play don't require much developing. Most of them (with the exception of The Sims) can be made in a highschool visual basic class.
*choke*
Notepad has serious file size limitations... A text editor isn't anby good if it can't allocate enough memory to open the.c files I'm working on!
The ultimate goal of science should be a complete, rigorous explanation of the natural world to the exclusion of supernatural phenomena.
This is a rediculous statement. The purpose of science should be to find the truth--whether that includes "supernatural phenomena" or not cannot be a foregone conlcusion for any _truely_ scientific search for truth.
That would be like somebody 100 years ago saying "The ultimate goal of science should be a complete, rigorous explanation of the natural world with the exclusion of the theory of relativity."
If scientific exploration is limited to our currently understood views of the world, and physical laws, then it's not science any more.
Until science _disproves_ something, that thing should not be discounted as a possibility. That includes God, goblins, and pink dinosaurs under the ocean floor.
Having said that, that doesn't mean we need to _assume_ these things exist, either. It simply means that an open mind, even to possibilities we may personally consider to be impossibilities, is necessary if the results we're going to get are to be unbiased.
There are so many scientific breakthroughs that we've seen throughout history that would never have been reached if they had been approached with your attitude--from flight, to electric light, to the theory of relativity, to space travel, to the "supernatural" time travel theory used by the time machine I used I used to get here to leave this post.
I won't buy a Dell because of it's lack of support for AMD. It's not that I truely hate Intel or anything, it's simply that I prefer AMD. My employer even offers something like a 12% discount, and 12-month payroll deduction for purchases from Dell. Even so, the only thing I would probably buy from Dell would be a flatscreen monitor, or one of their PDAs, simply because I don't want to spend my "hard earned money" on a PC or laptop on anything but an AMD.
Most consumers probably don't care what brand CPU they have. I've even been known to tell some people that Intel would be better for them. So I know _my_ shopping habits, nor those of like-minded "techno-geeks", will effect the entire market trend of a company like Dell. But I suppose it could be one factor.
The K6 is not comparable to a P54C. The K6 was MMX Capable, making it more comparable to a P55C, which was not released until a full 2 years after the P75.
The Pentium 75 was released (according to Wikipedia) in Oct of 1994. The K6-166 was not released until April of 1997. Granted, in that day AMD was behind Intel... But even a direct Intel/Intel comparison (which would be a more accurate apples-to-apples comparison with my modern day AMD-AMD comparison) would still put a full 2-years between the CPU revisions.
The big boosts in CPU performance now come in the form of extra cores rather than extra "Mhz." The Athlon 2400+ to Athlon 64 x2 3200+ upgrade I made recently is quite comparable to the Pentium 75 to K6-166 Upgrade I made many years ago, even tho the "Mhz" of the chips are practically identical.
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But isn't it a bit oxymoronic, and perhaps counter-productive, to do open source work behind closed doors?
For a 128kbps MP3, my Pentium 75, or am486-133 were at 80-90% CPU. Most 486's (and at-the-time-current MP3 software/OSes) couldn't play a 128kbps MP3 at full quality without jittering.
I'd say MP3 took a long time to catch on.
Not that I'm blaming that lag on it's name... I'd say the format had to wait for commodoty computer hardware, and consumer knowledge to catch up with it. But still, this doesn't apply to the point you're trying to make.
It's also possible that having a name tied into an existing standard (namely DVD in this case) could have a negative effect, especially if Blu-Ray (or its supports) spin things that way. ("Why would you want to stick with something as old as DVDs when Blu-Ray is all-new, all-improved?")
And how about a google interface to your brain? GoogleBrain, which helps you retrieve that phone number you got last night when you were drunk..
oooh. gotcha. my bad!
D:\> c:
C:\> cd d:\foo
C:\> d:
D:\FOO\>
Heck if I'm actually gonna boot DOS 6.x to find out if I'm right, tho...
I cheered at the end of Texas Chainsaw massacre because that meant the movie was almost over and I could get on to something more interesting. Maybe I'm too much of a geek. *shrug*
Nah, it won't be usable until Linux for Workgroups 3.11
The article says that women are more "casual" players. I know a lot of women who play games, but are perceived neither as lazy nor nerds. They just play different games. The Sims comes to mind. As do "trinket" games like solitaire, mah-jongg, and tetris. Maybe women aren't involved in game development because these games they play don't require much developing. Most of them (with the exception of The Sims) can be made in a highschool visual basic class.
... for very large values of "1".
When will MIT modify this technology to filter all the spam from my mailbox?
*choke* Notepad has serious file size limitations... A text editor isn't anby good if it can't allocate enough memory to open the .c files I'm working on!
When has Microsoft ever delevered a product "as promised"?
The ultimate goal of science should be a complete, rigorous explanation of the natural world to the exclusion of supernatural phenomena.
This is a rediculous statement. The purpose of science should be to find the truth--whether that includes "supernatural phenomena" or not cannot be a foregone conlcusion for any _truely_ scientific search for truth.
That would be like somebody 100 years ago saying "The ultimate goal of science should be a complete, rigorous explanation of the natural world with the exclusion of the theory of relativity."
If scientific exploration is limited to our currently understood views of the world, and physical laws, then it's not science any more.
Until science _disproves_ something, that thing should not be discounted as a possibility. That includes God, goblins, and pink dinosaurs under the ocean floor.
Having said that, that doesn't mean we need to _assume_ these things exist, either. It simply means that an open mind, even to possibilities we may personally consider to be impossibilities, is necessary if the results we're going to get are to be unbiased.
There are so many scientific breakthroughs that we've seen throughout history that would never have been reached if they had been approached with your attitude--from flight, to electric light, to the theory of relativity, to space travel, to the "supernatural" time travel theory used by the time machine I used I used to get here to leave this post.
Sounds like the rebirth of Schoolhouse Rock.
I want a test to tell me my sight's bandwidth... or the bandwidth of my ears. Can I ask my doctor for a visual bus upgrade?
Most consumers probably don't care what brand CPU they have. I've even been known to tell some people that Intel would be better for them. So I know _my_ shopping habits, nor those of like-minded "techno-geeks", will effect the entire market trend of a company like Dell. But I suppose it could be one factor.
The K6 is not comparable to a P54C. The K6 was MMX Capable, making it more comparable to a P55C, which was not released until a full 2 years after the P75. The Pentium 75 was released (according to Wikipedia) in Oct of 1994. The K6-166 was not released until April of 1997. Granted, in that day AMD was behind Intel... But even a direct Intel/Intel comparison (which would be a more accurate apples-to-apples comparison with my modern day AMD-AMD comparison) would still put a full 2-years between the CPU revisions.
The big boosts in CPU performance now come in the form of extra cores rather than extra "Mhz." The Athlon 2400+ to Athlon 64 x2 3200+ upgrade I made recently is quite comparable to the Pentium 75 to K6-166 Upgrade I made many years ago, even tho the "Mhz" of the chips are practically identical.
It is illegal to advertise tobbacco prodcuts on television in the U.S. It has been since 1965.
Just tell everyone it's because you're a Sherlock Holmes fan, and that will make it better... (we'll believe you)
Just remember... your wif^H^H^Hcomputer always does _exactly_ what you tell it to do...