I personally witnessed $300 million of VC money come to naught. And our product worked. Even a good idea which is completely implemented is no guarantee of success. If giving money out based on slideware alone is alive and well, then the bubble never really burst.
-C
I was assuming it was more narrow band interference. But given that several classes of devices are affected, it must be wider. The other thing this article seems to be is heavy into blaming the military. How about blaming the car manufacturers for producing an unreliable technology with no backups and depending on the military to only occasionally encroach on these frequencies?
-C
"But unlike other more powerful radio signals, keyless entry remotes are not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. They are allowed to operate on frequencies used by licensed customers as long as their signals are sufficiently weak and don't interfere with others. But because of this outlaw status, their own signals can be jeopardized."
Tough. Get licensed, or have a working backup system that doesn't depend on radio. I honestly don't see the issue here. The situation isn't likely to change, so the unlicensed folk will have to work around it. Use spread-spectrum at low power or frequency hopping to get around this.
-C
Who is providing the capital for these ventures? There are already 3 major players in this market, which by all accounts is declining pending the release of the next generation. It seems sheer lunacy to bank on a 4th player, even in the hopes of capturing a minor part of the market. Plus, it appears that their release (if it ever happens) will coincide with Xbox 2, PS3, etc. That competition is impossibly stiff.
I'm not saying everyone should stay home and never challenge MS, Nintendo and Sony, but you'd better be damned innovative and have some serious marketing tricks and partnerships up your sleeve. I don't think, gee we can play PC games on a TV is going to cut it..
And all this is assuming they actually build the thing.
I didn't suggest there was no improvement to any video cards. The ORIGINAL POST said that there was a 15% across the board (all video cards) improvement, which must have come from the first line of the changlog for 1.2, which if you READ it states: 15% increase in run speed. The original post was then corrected, making my comment look out of place.
If you read the anandtech article, you'll see that there is some improvement on Nvidia boards (which support SM 3.0) though it varies between none and 15-20% depending on the level, and none on ATI boards which do not support SM3.0. I never meant to suggest otherwise.
This is the sort of thing that will peck away at the music behemoth. However, only certain bands will be able to do this contractually. I wouldn't expect any big names (not that TMBG is not a household name) to follow suit any time soon, but maybe in a few years if a few of the independent bands succeed with this things will change.
The market has a finite size and each television viewer has a finite set of interests and viewing time. It's only reasonable that given a certain minimum viewership to maintain a TV channel, there may not be a market for the smallest niche content. You will likely only see one "Food" network for a long time for instance. The broader the topic, the more widely sustainable competition becomes, since broader channels tend to appeal to, well, more viewers.
The more practical limit is bandwidth. For satellites, there's only so much data that the transponders can transmit. The more channels they add, the higher the compression ratio for MPEG they end up using and the more customers complain about bad quality. For myself, I'd rather see fewer channels in higher quality than a channel devoted to ever conceivable subject that at least 5 people want to watch.
I can imagine these things pointed at
movie screens by bored teens.
Or spot advertisements aimed at all sorts of surfaces-- building walls, bald peoples heads.
How long before someone aims a multi-megawatt
laser projector at the moon to sell us coke c2?
The 15% speed boost is in "run" speed, i.e.
the speed with which your character places
one foot in front of another while fleeing
drooling monsters, not a 15% FPS boost on
your video card. The poster is confusicated.
So I guess you've never heard of Securerom (TM)
or Safedisk (TM)? The game industry is just
as annoying with it's copy protection schemes.
Sometimes even more so, since the ever-changing
landscape of "protection software" is increasingly
incompatible with DVD drives and older CD drives.
Plus you can't return software once you've opened it, so if it don't work, you are SOL, or you
buy another 50-100 dollar CD drive in the hopes it will work. And why do the games developers bother?
NOCD patches are up pretty fast these days.
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If only we could harness this power of nitpicking for good instead of evil! -C
I personally witnessed $300 million of VC money come to naught. And our product worked. Even a good idea which is completely implemented is no guarantee of success. If giving money out based on slideware alone is alive and well, then the bubble never really burst. -C
I was assuming it was more narrow band interference. But given that several classes of devices are affected, it must be wider. The other thing this article seems to be is heavy into blaming the military. How about blaming the car manufacturers for producing an unreliable technology with no backups and depending on the military to only occasionally encroach on these frequencies? -C
"But unlike other more powerful radio signals, keyless entry remotes are not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. They are allowed to operate on frequencies used by licensed customers as long as their signals are sufficiently weak and don't interfere with others. But because of this outlaw status, their own signals can be jeopardized." Tough. Get licensed, or have a working backup system that doesn't depend on radio. I honestly don't see the issue here. The situation isn't likely to change, so the unlicensed folk will have to work around it. Use spread-spectrum at low power or frequency hopping to get around this. -C
Who is providing the capital for these ventures? There are already 3 major players in this market, which by all accounts is declining pending the release of the next generation. It seems sheer lunacy to bank on a 4th player, even in the hopes of capturing a minor part of the market. Plus, it appears that their release (if it ever happens) will coincide with Xbox 2, PS3, etc. That competition is impossibly stiff. I'm not saying everyone should stay home and never challenge MS, Nintendo and Sony, but you'd better be damned innovative and have some serious marketing tricks and partnerships up your sleeve. I don't think, gee we can play PC games on a TV is going to cut it.. And all this is assuming they actually build the thing.
I didn't suggest there was no improvement to any video cards. The ORIGINAL POST said that there was a 15% across the board (all video cards) improvement, which must have come from the first line of the changlog for 1.2, which if you READ it states: 15% increase in run speed. The original post was then corrected, making my comment look out of place. If you read the anandtech article, you'll see that there is some improvement on Nvidia boards (which support SM 3.0) though it varies between none and 15-20% depending on the level, and none on ATI boards which do not support SM3.0. I never meant to suggest otherwise.
This is the sort of thing that will peck away at the music behemoth. However, only certain bands will be able to do this contractually. I wouldn't expect any big names (not that TMBG is not a household name) to follow suit any time soon, but maybe in a few years if a few of the independent bands succeed with this things will change.
The market has a finite size and each television viewer has a finite set of interests and viewing time. It's only reasonable that given a certain minimum viewership to maintain a TV channel, there may not be a market for the smallest niche content. You will likely only see one "Food" network for a long time for instance. The broader the topic, the more widely sustainable competition becomes, since broader channels tend to appeal to, well, more viewers. The more practical limit is bandwidth. For satellites, there's only so much data that the transponders can transmit. The more channels they add, the higher the compression ratio for MPEG they end up using and the more customers complain about bad quality. For myself, I'd rather see fewer channels in higher quality than a channel devoted to ever conceivable subject that at least 5 people want to watch.
I can imagine these things pointed at movie screens by bored teens. Or spot advertisements aimed at all sorts of surfaces-- building walls, bald peoples heads. How long before someone aims a multi-megawatt laser projector at the moon to sell us coke c2?
Thanks for playing.
I'll download this as soon as my mouse stops snapping at my like an alligator.
Thanks guys.
the Department of Homeland Security advises citizens to stop using walls.
The 15% speed boost is in "run" speed, i.e. the speed with which your character places one foot in front of another while fleeing drooling monsters, not a 15% FPS boost on your video card. The poster is confusicated.
Clearly its just trying to pad its resume now that the axe has fallen. -C
PCI super duper eXtra Special.
They aren't using AGP. If you'd read the article, you'd know that ;)
So I guess you've never heard of Securerom (TM) or Safedisk (TM)? The game industry is just as annoying with it's copy protection schemes. Sometimes even more so, since the ever-changing landscape of "protection software" is increasingly incompatible with DVD drives and older CD drives. Plus you can't return software once you've opened it, so if it don't work, you are SOL, or you buy another 50-100 dollar CD drive in the hopes it will work. And why do the games developers bother? NOCD patches are up pretty fast these days.
Gamestop and eb games are different corporations.
Check their stock symbols.
-C