I am already over half a Terabyte and I know many others who are over the terabyte mark. I want a box that can store my entire DVD collection uncompressed for easy navigation. A terabyte sits in the neighborhood of 200-250 movies. To build the ultimate movie jukebox i need more like 10 terabytes.
My fear would be that the proprietary controller would go bad and then you would lose all the data you had stored. I bought a sancube that was a raid array in a box and lost data when it went down. They repaired it but that took two weeks. Those were two weeks I didn't have. When I got it back I removed any data that was still useful removed the drives and threw away the box. I just couldnt risk any more problems.
I think Sci-Fi writers are often correct. They just get it off by a couple decades. The real question is are the Sci-Fi writers predicting the future or are scientists researching to fulfill the writers fantasy?
I think if the implants improved to the level for use in video games they would be banned just like performance enhancing drugs like steroids are in sports.
Although the immediate uses are for para/quadrapalegics and the like this will eventually work into a much better user interface for the average joe. Imagine being able to type by just thinking the words. Much better than speech recognition. Eventually, you will control the computer screen in your contact lense with the implants in your brain. Wireless communication is done silently with a computer synthesising the words you think in your own voice. The productivity these types of devices can eventually create is amazing.
Actually i used to view television primarily for the news. Now what would have taken me four hours channel surfing for relevant news i can easily get in an hour on the net freeing up 3 hours for social activities.
Thats the reason I don't buy an apple. I would never buy a Dell or a Sony I will also never buy an Apple. There is a good chance I would buy the Apple OS if they made it Hardware independent. I like Apples OS just the Hardware is hugely overpriced for me. I can build twice the machine for the price if i DIM.
I actually do believe in "screwing the artist" as you put it. Not that I don't believe the artist deserve to be remunerated but I think they should receive money from live performances and merchandising. I believe that artists should be part of the working class like everyone else. The RIAA is no longer needed in my belief. I have a huge collection of music much of it gotten in ways that some might not approve of but I also attended more than 100 concerts last year. I paid thousands of dollars for music that actually went directly to the artists. I wouldn't have gone to many of the shows had it not been for.mp3's i had listened to earlier. I believe they need a whole different business artist that attempts to provide a living for many artists as opposed to riches for a few. Just my two cents.
It is the general practice of the more prominent piracy groups to remove these markings before release. All pirates know that these markings exist and it doesn't make sense to shut down future outlets. If the source gets caught then that means the source dries up. The pirates work very hard at keeping there sources anonymous. This goes for the markings in theatres as well. It is not difficult to remove the offending frames. My guess is that this was released by someone in the middle not really involved in wholesale piracy. I would be curious to see what copy of this movie they are talking about because every major piracy ring has already released it's own copy.
RTFA he did open source it. According to his statements anyone is able to use it and do with it what they please. He is only saying that in the twelve years since he has been developing the program no one has come forward or shown an interest in helping.
I have thought about owning an apple but it is exactly because of the lack of software that i don't. Currently installed on my machine, Cubase SX, Macromedia MX, Adobe CS, Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, 3d Studiomax 6, Toon Boom Studio, Toonz, Cinemacraft Encoder, and a host of other tools. I like my computer to be able to do everything. While some of these programs work on a mac others do not and it is for the small programs designed by small program houses that dont have the resources to develop for mac that I own a pc. I run a Mandrake box for media because i can and when Linux has more available industry standard software packages I will completely abandon my windows box.
Not to be a troll but Macintosh are not more expensive because they use the best parts. I remember when they released there top of the line mac with the Geforce 4 MX which isnt really a Geforce 4. I at the time built a computer with a Geforce Ti 4600 which was the top of the line graphics card at the time and my machine came in at about $1,000 less than the mac that i also purchased. The $1,000 less included the Klipsch promedia speakers and the Sound Blaster Audigy Pro and a TV tuner and 240 gigs of hard drive. I'm willing to call the processors a wash but as for as other components go my pc was leaps and bounds above the mac. The only place the mac competed was with the Super Drive. Macs have always used substandard ram, video card and sound. I have purchased 100's of each and while mac will compete with Dells on the price factor it can in no way compete with a good homebuilt rig.
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The main societal taboos of today are pretty simple, Pedaophilia, Polygamy, Cannibalism, Genocide, Expansionism, Nuclear War and Nuclear Weapons, Rape, Racism, Incest, Fratricide and Bigotry. There were times and places in society when all of the above were considered normal and good. You can actually find examples of most of these in the bible and many are examples of things that the religious at the time considered good. This is not a rant about religion as I am very religious but a stance against moral exactitude. Cultures change therefore it makes sense to reason things out for yourself. If you follow blindly the masses than you are just as guilty as the masses that followed Hitler. If Hitler had won it would be all of his enemies who are now viewed as evil.
Madonna already fought this battle. It wasn't in Nebraska but I'm sure it would have a chance of winning there as well. Basically, she claimed that men can walk around topless so it is sexist to say women can't. Also in New York the same battle was fought and it is now legal to go on the subway topless.
I don;t think it really matters which is faster. I buy pc's so I can tinker and have control over my system. People buy Mac's so they can have a good product that does the job that Jobs says it can do. I couldn't stand a Mac because I'm stuck with it. By the same token I couldn't stand a Dell. I nuild my own machine because it's a hobby of sorts. I can install Linux or Longhorn I decide. With a Mac it's more of a utility. Any just my two cents.
I'm getting sick of all the environmental doomsaying. First we killed the dinosaurs and then the cave man. Then the dodo bird then the ice-age that we were instrumental in causing. Then We diverted that asteroid into Texas or wherever. And we keep making these volcanoes erupt and we just caused an earthquake in Cali. And I'm sick and tired of all those human caused sunspots screwing up my sattelite. Damn you dirty humans.
It was interesting to note that some scientists took offense to the rebuttal that SA made of his book. The rebuttals called into question the statistics of respected scientists. Apparently the rebutting scientists didn't research there rebuttals very well.
Did you RTFA/B? He is echoing your point although not how you would think. He argues that the money spent on the environment would be better spent on poverty. So in actuality he is arguing that we should save starving people before before putting a park in your neighborhood. Who is the greedy one now?
Give me a break. Until you stop driving a car or riding a bike or shopping at a supermarket or using city water or using electricity or living in a house or wearing clothing or using platics or using AC or heating or basically using any of the benefits of modern society than STFU.
"Science shall avoid to deliver to the people what they want to listen to."
This is a joke. Science should not avoid to tell the people what they want to hear. It is the job of scientists to tell the truth regardless of whether or not people want to hear it. It is also the job of the scientist to tell the truth and state the facts even if it equals decreased funding. On either side of the argument this is the real problem.
You need to read the book. He is not arguing that global warming is not occuring. He is also not arguing that people are not causing global warming. He argues that instead of spending trillions of dollars trying to change policies that money would be better spent helping the poor and other such goals and allowing natural progression of technology to take care of the global warming problem that is only going to raise the temperature 1.5 degrees celsius in the next one hundred years if we make no improvements. I can easily see how his arguments make sense seeing the technological changes that have occured in the past 100 years and the rate at which that progress keeps on increasing.
I looked at my music download folder today. 5,000 tracks in one month yikes. It's like music crack. 130 tracks is one nights downloads. Until itunes offers non DRM'd music at a cost of 2 cents per song i'm not buying.
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I am not impressed as well by CGI. FF was good when the characters were motionless but when they moved it still broke down. Ah well give it ten years.
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I am already over half a Terabyte and I know many others who are over the terabyte mark. I want a box that can store my entire DVD collection uncompressed for easy navigation. A terabyte sits in the neighborhood of 200-250 movies. To build the ultimate movie jukebox i need more like 10 terabytes.
My fear would be that the proprietary controller would go bad and then you would lose all the data you had stored. I bought a sancube that was a raid array in a box and lost data when it went down. They repaired it but that took two weeks. Those were two weeks I didn't have. When I got it back I removed any data that was still useful removed the drives and threw away the box. I just couldnt risk any more problems.
I think Sci-Fi writers are often correct. They just get it off by a couple decades. The real question is are the Sci-Fi writers predicting the future or are scientists researching to fulfill the writers fantasy?
I think if the implants improved to the level for use in video games they would be banned just like performance enhancing drugs like steroids are in sports.
Although the immediate uses are for para/quadrapalegics and the like this will eventually work into a much better user interface for the average joe. Imagine being able to type by just thinking the words. Much better than speech recognition. Eventually, you will control the computer screen in your contact lense with the implants in your brain. Wireless communication is done silently with a computer synthesising the words you think in your own voice. The productivity these types of devices can eventually create is amazing.
Actually i used to view television primarily for the news. Now what would have taken me four hours channel surfing for relevant news i can easily get in an hour on the net freeing up 3 hours for social activities.
Thats the reason I don't buy an apple. I would never buy a Dell or a Sony I will also never buy an Apple. There is a good chance I would buy the Apple OS if they made it Hardware independent. I like Apples OS just the Hardware is hugely overpriced for me. I can build twice the machine for the price if i DIM.
I actually do believe in "screwing the artist" as you put it. Not that I don't believe the artist deserve to be remunerated but I think they should receive money from live performances and merchandising. I believe that artists should be part of the working class like everyone else. The RIAA is no longer needed in my belief. I have a huge collection of music much of it gotten in ways that some might not approve of but I also attended more than 100 concerts last year. I paid thousands of dollars for music that actually went directly to the artists. I wouldn't have gone to many of the shows had it not been for .mp3's i had listened to earlier. I believe they need a whole different business artist that attempts to provide a living for many artists as opposed to riches for a few. Just my two cents.
It is the general practice of the more prominent piracy groups to remove these markings before release. All pirates know that these markings exist and it doesn't make sense to shut down future outlets. If the source gets caught then that means the source dries up. The pirates work very hard at keeping there sources anonymous. This goes for the markings in theatres as well. It is not difficult to remove the offending frames. My guess is that this was released by someone in the middle not really involved in wholesale piracy. I would be curious to see what copy of this movie they are talking about because every major piracy ring has already released it's own copy.
RTFA he did open source it. According to his statements anyone is able to use it and do with it what they please. He is only saying that in the twelve years since he has been developing the program no one has come forward or shown an interest in helping.
I have thought about owning an apple but it is exactly because of the lack of software that i don't. Currently installed on my machine, Cubase SX, Macromedia MX, Adobe CS, Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, 3d Studiomax 6, Toon Boom Studio, Toonz, Cinemacraft Encoder, and a host of other tools. I like my computer to be able to do everything. While some of these programs work on a mac others do not and it is for the small programs designed by small program houses that dont have the resources to develop for mac that I own a pc. I run a Mandrake box for media because i can and when Linux has more available industry standard software packages I will completely abandon my windows box.
Not to be a troll but Macintosh are not more expensive because they use the best parts. I remember when they released there top of the line mac with the Geforce 4 MX which isnt really a Geforce 4. I at the time built a computer with a Geforce Ti 4600 which was the top of the line graphics card at the time and my machine came in at about $1,000 less than the mac that i also purchased. The $1,000 less included the Klipsch promedia speakers and the Sound Blaster Audigy Pro and a TV tuner and 240 gigs of hard drive. I'm willing to call the processors a wash but as for as other components go my pc was leaps and bounds above the mac. The only place the mac competed was with the Super Drive. Macs have always used substandard ram, video card and sound. I have purchased 100's of each and while mac will compete with Dells on the price factor it can in no way compete with a good homebuilt rig.
The main societal taboos of today are pretty simple, Pedaophilia, Polygamy, Cannibalism, Genocide, Expansionism, Nuclear War and Nuclear Weapons, Rape, Racism, Incest, Fratricide and Bigotry. There were times and places in society when all of the above were considered normal and good. You can actually find examples of most of these in the bible and many are examples of things that the religious at the time considered good. This is not a rant about religion as I am very religious but a stance against moral exactitude. Cultures change therefore it makes sense to reason things out for yourself. If you follow blindly the masses than you are just as guilty as the masses that followed Hitler. If Hitler had won it would be all of his enemies who are now viewed as evil.
The neat thing about P2P is that you can get music from way before 5 years ago. Have you completed your Django Reinhardt collection yet?
Madonna already fought this battle. It wasn't in Nebraska but I'm sure it would have a chance of winning there as well. Basically, she claimed that men can walk around topless so it is sexist to say women can't. Also in New York the same battle was fought and it is now legal to go on the subway topless.
I don;t think it really matters which is faster. I buy pc's so I can tinker and have control over my system. People buy Mac's so they can have a good product that does the job that Jobs says it can do. I couldn't stand a Mac because I'm stuck with it. By the same token I couldn't stand a Dell. I nuild my own machine because it's a hobby of sorts. I can install Linux or Longhorn I decide. With a Mac it's more of a utility. Any just my two cents.
I'm getting sick of all the environmental doomsaying. First we killed the dinosaurs and then the cave man. Then the dodo bird then the ice-age that we were instrumental in causing. Then We diverted that asteroid into Texas or wherever. And we keep making these volcanoes erupt and we just caused an earthquake in Cali. And I'm sick and tired of all those human caused sunspots screwing up my sattelite. Damn you dirty humans.
It was interesting to note that some scientists took offense to the rebuttal that SA made of his book. The rebuttals called into question the statistics of respected scientists. Apparently the rebutting scientists didn't research there rebuttals very well.
Did you RTFA/B? He is echoing your point although not how you would think. He argues that the money spent on the environment would be better spent on poverty. So in actuality he is arguing that we should save starving people before before putting a park in your neighborhood. Who is the greedy one now?
Give me a break. Until you stop driving a car or riding a bike or shopping at a supermarket or using city water or using electricity or living in a house or wearing clothing or using platics or using AC or heating or basically using any of the benefits of modern society than STFU.
"Science shall avoid to deliver to the people what they want to listen to." This is a joke. Science should not avoid to tell the people what they want to hear. It is the job of scientists to tell the truth regardless of whether or not people want to hear it. It is also the job of the scientist to tell the truth and state the facts even if it equals decreased funding. On either side of the argument this is the real problem.
You need to read the book. He is not arguing that global warming is not occuring. He is also not arguing that people are not causing global warming. He argues that instead of spending trillions of dollars trying to change policies that money would be better spent helping the poor and other such goals and allowing natural progression of technology to take care of the global warming problem that is only going to raise the temperature 1.5 degrees celsius in the next one hundred years if we make no improvements. I can easily see how his arguments make sense seeing the technological changes that have occured in the past 100 years and the rate at which that progress keeps on increasing.
In the last year a few i have enjoyed; "Cidade de Deus" "Carandiru" "Lisbela e o Prisoneiro"
I looked at my music download folder today. 5,000 tracks in one month yikes. It's like music crack. 130 tracks is one nights downloads. Until itunes offers non DRM'd music at a cost of 2 cents per song i'm not buying.
I am not impressed as well by CGI. FF was good when the characters were motionless but when they moved it still broke down. Ah well give it ten years.