Absolutely. I knew DVD was going to catch on as soon as all the movie companies got behind it. That was when I got a player. VHS was dead from that moment.
I agree with most of what you say - I just think that VHS as a medium for
buying movies on died a long time ago, but in many UK homes still use them. In fact there seem to be a fair number of movies still available in shops here. Why?
In the UK Tivo never really take off (well they stopped selling new ones) and what kept VHS players alive here was that they were the only mass-market item (partly due to the fact people already had them and had just figured out how to record with them) with the ability to record TV programs of the box.
We are only now just getting DVD recorders at the sub 100 pound mark. So to make permanent recordings of broadcast programs whilst shelling out less that 100 pounds
most people are either going to stick with a DVD recorder (or get the Sky+ box I think that has that capability). Its cost and ease for the non-techy consumer.
I am tempted to try and skip the format war and see what new formats are being suggested in another five years. I base this on the assumption that for any movie *not* to be released on DVD format over the next few years would be commercial suicide for the studio. I know I'm going to have a DVD player over the next 5 years otherwise thats a hundred or so films I already own that I won't be able to watch. I also know that the DVD disc version of a movie will be cheaper to buy than a new format version. Unless someone wants to give me a lot of money I'm unlikely to have a HDTV or a PS3 over that period. As you say, a good quality interpolation algorithm in the box makes something good enough to watch.
I guess there also needs to be the must-have content (like Matrix was for the DVD and Brothers In Arms was for the CD). If the LOTR trilogy was coming out *now* that would have been ideal for the high-quality camps.
This is the first time I've bought a Nintendo console in any shape or form, but it has brought a smile to my face with the feeling of frontier games - trying out the waters with new ideas (though some of the best games also are quite 'traditional'). My fave though is a Japanese import.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrums were at the same time (1982) as the BBC and kicked off the idea of a computer in the UK home to me. If my experiences are reflective of the wider picture, The BBC Micros were more about school use - but at home a Speccy was the thing to have - mainly as it was cheaper and seemed to have better games.
The article seems to imply that they aren't used for fighting. In water you'd only get one chance to spear something so they'd have to be pretty nimble to be able to do that - something narwhals aren't. Though ice breaking would be a good and evolutionary important use of it - the nerves themselves don't come out on the surfce, but in grooves.
I bought Darwinia as a download.....I *WOULD NOT* have bought it if it had been a distibuted via Steam. Before I play Half Life 2 I end up disconnecting from the internet to play the game (which takes ages to boot up on my PC anyway) to stop it doing what it does. On the plus side Introversion may get more people buying the game (and kudos to them for writing something great and different), but the gaming community it seems only put up with Steam because Half-Life 2 was such a great game, but for an unknown indie game there's gonna have to be some *great* word of mouth stuff going on.
My point is, Nestle has long been your chocolate overlord - the Microsoft or Google of chocolate, especially European chocolate.
Well Microsoft are much better than Nestle. At least Bill Gates gives money to aid malaria research rather than killing and impeding the development children for profit through increased sales of powdered milk.
Can't you sue for the product not technically being an audio CD in the first place? Maybe I'm mistaken (and if I am I'd like to know) but an audio CD meets certain standards detailed in the Red Book that anything with DRM in fails to meet. So some shop is bound to advertise Sony CDs as audio CD's ergo that retailer can be sued perhaps?
Malaria vaccine possible within six years
11:18 31 October 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Shaoni Bhattacharya
A malaria vaccine could be available within 6 years if new trials of the most promising candidate prove successful, say experts.
Malaria vaccine research received a $107.6 million injection of funds on Monday, part of a $258.3 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the study of malaria and its treatment.
The cash boost will accelerate the development of an effective vaccine, says Melinda Moree, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI). The anticipated date for a vaccine could be as early as 2011. At one point what the world considered to be fairly unattainable is actually coming along quite rapidly, she told reporters. It is absolutely possible to make a vaccine against malaria."
MVI will work with GlaxoSmithKline on the most promising vaccine candidate yet, called RTS,S, which, in trial in Mozambique, cut the rate of severe malaria in children aged 1 to 4 by 58%. This was the first time that a malaria vaccine candidate had shown protection against severe disease in children.
The new series of planned trials will examine whether the vaccine is safe and effective when given to infants alongside other childhood vaccines. Research will then proceed to a phase III trial to permit licensing. The trials, to be conducted in locations across Africa, will have about 17,000 subjects.
Talkie Toaster was a toaster from Crapola Inc with inbuilt AI that tried to destroy humans with its inane pursuit of its ultimate reason for being 'I toast therefore I am'. From Red Dwarf.
You miss the point - these screener DVDS are *very* limited in number - they are DVDs sent off to the people who vote in the Oscars. Each of these is then watermarked with the name of the person who recieves the DVD for reviewing. Then if copies do surface then Disney can analyse the footage, say - it is you who has copied it! and maybe sue the dude to whom the DVD was provided to and at least not give them anymore.
Disney have now gone a step further by saying it will only play on one range of DVD players. This is probably because the last time they caught someone for bottlegging stuff, the actor Carmine Caridi had 'lent' the DVDs to a friend who he thought was just a film buff.
Looking it up on the web the whole story has a tragic end for the pirate involved.
So, yeah they can be copied and distributed. But it makes it too traceable, too much hassle and a recipient has too much to loose, to make the whole thing worthwhile.
One option could be to have the UI and many operations could be done in Java....that way the user has the choice of a matching desktop version or the web-based version with the same code base. The main difference would be one of File I/O.
Minus side is you loose the light-weightness of Ajax.
The new controller can be fitted into a Wavebird like shell, so you will be able to play more traditional style controller (eg Gamecube games) with the new controller in tis shell. So you won't have as many buttons as on other platform controllers still, but the porting process won't be as difficult as it would be without the shell.
Well I've got Windows and Linux partitions on my PC - the big bane is which do I use for my POP3 account email? Now I have the potential (after some configuration) to use the same client and run it from both OSeseses.(I hope!)
It might also be nice to be able to stick it on a USB key as well.
If it was going to take off as a standard approach to trigonometry the there's a lot of follow up stuff in engineering and physics where the traditions would have to be redefined and textbooks re-written. eg angular momentum, theory underlying fourier transforms, forces etc.
It may be better but the world has been using this system for a while and its pointless teaching a new format of trig if people who *are* going to have to use it only have to relearn the current conventional system because thats how its always been done in the field of application.
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Absolutely. I knew DVD was going to catch on as soon as all the movie companies got behind it. That was when I got a player. VHS was dead from that moment.
I agree with most of what you say - I just think that VHS as a medium for buying movies on died a long time ago, but in many UK homes still use them. In fact there seem to be a fair number of movies still available in shops here. Why?
In the UK Tivo never really take off (well they stopped selling new ones) and what kept VHS players alive here was that they were the only mass-market item (partly due to the fact people already had them and had just figured out how to record with them) with the ability to record TV programs of the box.
We are only now just getting DVD recorders at the sub 100 pound mark. So to make permanent recordings of broadcast programs whilst shelling out less that 100 pounds most people are either going to stick with a DVD recorder (or get the Sky+ box I think that has that capability). Its cost and ease for the non-techy consumer.
I am tempted to try and skip the format war and see what new formats are being suggested in another five years. I base this on the assumption that for any movie *not* to be released on DVD format over the next few years would be commercial suicide for the studio. I know I'm going to have a DVD player over the next 5 years otherwise thats a hundred or so films I already own that I won't be able to watch. I also know that the DVD disc version of a movie will be cheaper to buy than a new format version. Unless someone wants to give me a lot of money I'm unlikely to have a HDTV or a PS3 over that period. As you say, a good quality interpolation algorithm in the box makes something good enough to watch.
I guess there also needs to be the must-have content (like Matrix was for the DVD and Brothers In Arms was for the CD). If the LOTR trilogy was coming out *now* that would have been ideal for the high-quality camps.
Of course japanese play US games.
And a certain type of surging.
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I think they're all there, but you have to count them.
This is the first time I've bought a Nintendo console in any shape or form, but it has brought a smile to my face with the feeling of frontier games - trying out the waters with new ideas (though some of the best games also are quite 'traditional'). My fave though is a Japanese import.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrums were at the same time (1982) as the BBC and kicked off the idea of a computer in the UK home to me. If my experiences are reflective of the wider picture, The BBC Micros were more about school use - but at home a Speccy was the thing to have - mainly as it was cheaper and seemed to have better games.
The article seems to imply that they aren't used for fighting. In water you'd only get one chance to spear something so they'd have to be pretty nimble to be able to do that - something narwhals aren't. Though ice breaking would be a good and evolutionary important use of it - the nerves themselves don't come out on the surfce, but in grooves.
I bought Darwinia as a download.....I *WOULD NOT* have bought it if it had been a distibuted via Steam. Before I play Half Life 2 I end up disconnecting from the internet to play the game (which takes ages to boot up on my PC anyway) to stop it doing what it does. On the plus side Introversion may get more people buying the game (and kudos to them for writing something great and different), but the gaming community it seems only put up with Steam because Half-Life 2 was such a great game, but for an unknown indie game there's gonna have to be some *great* word of mouth stuff going on.
I usually shake my fist about halfway down to the ground.
My point is, Nestle has long been your chocolate overlord - the Microsoft or Google of chocolate, especially European chocolate.
Well Microsoft are much better than Nestle. At least Bill Gates gives money to aid malaria research rather than killing and impeding the development children for profit through increased sales of powdered milk.
Can't you sue for the product not technically being an audio CD in the first place? Maybe I'm mistaken (and if I am I'd like to know) but an audio CD meets certain standards detailed in the Red Book that anything with DRM in fails to meet. So some shop is bound to advertise Sony CDs as audio CD's ergo that retailer can be sued perhaps?
Malaria vaccine possible within six years
11:18 31 October 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Shaoni Bhattacharya
A malaria vaccine could be available within 6 years if new trials of the most promising candidate prove successful, say experts.
Malaria vaccine research received a $107.6 million injection of funds on Monday, part of a $258.3 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the study of malaria and its treatment.
The cash boost will accelerate the development of an effective vaccine, says Melinda Moree, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI). The anticipated date for a vaccine could be as early as 2011. At one point what the world considered to be fairly unattainable is actually coming along quite rapidly, she told reporters. It is absolutely possible to make a vaccine against malaria."
MVI will work with GlaxoSmithKline on the most promising vaccine candidate yet, called RTS,S, which, in trial in Mozambique, cut the rate of severe malaria in children aged 1 to 4 by 58%. This was the first time that a malaria vaccine candidate had shown protection against severe disease in children.
The new series of planned trials will examine whether the vaccine is safe and effective when given to infants alongside other childhood vaccines. Research will then proceed to a phase III trial to permit licensing. The trials, to be conducted in locations across Africa, will have about 17,000 subjects.
more at the url above.
Talkie Toaster was a toaster from Crapola Inc with inbuilt AI that tried to destroy humans with its inane pursuit of its ultimate reason for being 'I toast therefore I am'. From Red Dwarf.
You miss the point - these screener DVDS are *very* limited in number - they are DVDs sent off to the people who vote in the Oscars. Each of these is then watermarked with the name of the person who recieves the DVD for reviewing. Then if copies do surface then Disney can analyse the footage, say - it is you who has copied it! and maybe sue the dude to whom the DVD was provided to and at least not give them anymore.
Disney have now gone a step further by saying it will only play on one range of DVD players. This is probably because the last time they caught someone for bottlegging stuff, the actor Carmine Caridi had 'lent' the DVDs to a friend who he thought was just a film buff.
Looking it up on the web the whole story has a tragic end for the pirate involved.
So, yeah they can be copied and distributed. But it makes it too traceable, too much hassle and a recipient has too much to loose, to make the whole thing worthwhile.
Does it come with a music system thats iPod nano ready?
I had it down as Blakes 7.
Let this be a lesson - Keep your badgers away from beans!!!
Nah, that requires too much effort. It is much easier to find someone whos name is tied to the code.
That'll teach those coders to put their names at the top of files.
From dsupdate.net....
-Using a Wi-fi router, of which Buffalo's AOSS and NEC's Raku Raku Musen Start were given particular mention.
-Using a special USB dongle that simply plugs in to the USB port of a online-enabled computer.
-Using a Nintendo wireless access point, with up to 1000 planned for installation in Japanese. game stores.
-Using a FreeSpot access point of which 3000 currently are setup throughout Japan.
One option could be to have the UI and many operations could be done in Java....that way the user has the choice of a matching desktop version or the web-based version with the same code base. The main difference would be one of File I/O.
Minus side is you loose the light-weightness of Ajax.
Could be...but only if it uses something the Big N hasn't patented, and I'm sure they've got defensive patents in place.
Meanwhile, the retail chain EBGames has announced that it has presold it's allotment of 360 consoles.
Should they not have been allocated more than 360 consoles? I'd have expected MS to plan on selling more than 7 per state.
The new controller can be fitted into a Wavebird like shell, so you will be able to play more traditional style controller (eg Gamecube games) with the new controller in tis shell. So you won't have as many buttons as on other platform controllers still, but the porting process won't be as difficult as it would be without the shell.
Well I've got Windows and Linux partitions on my PC - the big bane is which do I use for my POP3 account email? Now I have the potential (after some configuration) to use the same client and run it from both OSeseses.(I hope!)
It might also be nice to be able to stick it on a USB key as well.
If it was going to take off as a standard approach to trigonometry the there's a lot of follow up stuff in engineering and physics where the traditions would have to be redefined and textbooks re-written. eg angular momentum, theory underlying fourier transforms, forces etc.
It may be better but the world has been using this system for a while and its pointless teaching a new format of trig if people who *are* going to have to use it only have to relearn the current conventional system because thats how its always been done in the field of application.