Well exactly. Perhaps I was a little rash to call it a downside. I can see the war that results in the death of publishers being a lot more bloody that the death of the record producers.
To clean my disks I rub them on my t-shirt. Seems to work fine and I have yet to damage a disk. The only thing I check is to make sure I avoid rubbing it on a print - I don't want to damage the t-shirt after all.
This guy is using the wrong hole for speech. Quick someone tell him before he makes a total tit of himself. Whoops too late.
I have plenty of burnt CR-Rs that are way over 2 years old and going strong. I admit most of them are in boxes in a cupboard but I've yet to find one that has failed.
As an example of how tough burnt cds are I am sort of running an experiment. We held a christmas party in 2003 and I wanted some music to play on the DVD so I grabbed a
Reading is bed will never be the same again:o). I can't believe how long these devices have taken to be developed as I feel the potential market is huge. Perhaps the problem is simply that it is a huge shift in thinking. It's the first time that paper really will become some what redundant. I'm not saying we won't need paper but if these devices became ubiquitous and with a decent display (which I think would be needed for them to become ubiquitous) I could easily see paper useage dropping dramatically.
I, for one, look forward to the day when 1000 page books weigh as much as a paper back and I don't have to struggle with forcing open a book that has printing running to within 3mm of the spine.
In fact the only downside I can envisage is that it will put publishers out of business because it will become trivial to self publish. I realize that you could self publish in electronic format already but sticking a PDF on a website is different to producing a book.
I agree that it seems strange that they don't make it easy for their server class products to have things like IE and WMP removed. This would seem like a logical frist step to secure the box even if the simplistic less code == less potential security holes view is taken.
Desktop machines are a different kettle of fish though. A desktop machine without a web browser and media player would be partially crippled. I admit that they aren't _needed_ to use a desktop machine but then you don't _need_ a radio in your car either. If MS are going to bundle a half way decent one of each with the OS great (although for the record I use neither).
I admit I have never used Ubuntu but I have used Debian for many years and guessed it was roughly the same. From the ubuntu site
When you finish your Ubuntu installation your system is immediately usable. You have a full set of business productivity applications, internet applications, drawing and graphics applications, and games. That one CD gives you a very good desktop environment out of the box, with many applications for business, home and personal computer users installed by default.
Does Windows now come with all those application in all those domains installed by default?
Valid reasons that I can think of to care might include: security threat and disk space issues.
The potential security implications of having IE intergrated so closely with the OS could be a genuine worry for a small number of people but then why are those people using Windows anyway?
Disk space can't be considered a real worry now with 100GB+ disks being common. It might be a problem if you want to stick Windows on that old 200MB drive you have lying around but that would put you in a tiny minority.
The section about it being devoid of useful applications makes my blood boil. Windows is an operating system which allows you to run applications. It is not necessarly something that has to come shipped with a million and one applications. Perhaps we have become complacent because every Linux distro comes shipped with a ton of applications. It would be simple enough to make a Linux distribution that has a similar number of default installed applications as Windows.
The other problem with this statement is the way everyone cries foul when Microsoft default installs an app with Windows and then complains that a Windows default install doesn't have any applications. Make up your mind! You can't have it both ways.
I suppose the kernel has got to feature in the list because without it a lot of other projects are fairly pointless. I like NetBeans (although it's giving me grief today). Amarok is pretty good (but is let down by the poor state of sound on Linux). KMail is very nice especially as part of Kontact. Synaptic is a very nice project that seems to be coming along well.
Your argument, while good, only fits a small number of cases where the fake could actually hurt someone. I fail to see how a memory stick can blow up and hurt someone.
A much better reason to discourage this type of piracy is simply because margins are already tight in the electronics world without forcing the few players that exist to fight for their money with people ripping them off. There are areas where I feel pirates play an important roll. Music, movie and clothes production spring to mind. Production costs for these items has drop substantially in recent years but prices haven't generally followed. The pirates are showing the consumers that prices need not be as high as they are paying. I admit that pirates don't have associated development costs and therefore will always be able to sell for less but when you see a pirated copy of a movie for free and the real thing costs £16 ($30) you have to ask where the money is going.
The only down side of this is that it will require you to build a small power station in your back garden to cope with the load. The amount of power this beast we require will make baby Jesus cry!
I wonder if you can throttle it back so that it is only using one GPU when it's only rendering normal 2D desktops?
Well first I would question where that data comes from (as I suspect it is Microsoft or one of it's paid lackys) and secondly I would question what that growth really is. My guess would be that the majority of the "growth" falls into one of two categories. Either it's companies upgrading machines from previous versions of Windows (not converting *nix machines to Windows) or new machines being installed as part of the over all growth in computer use.
If I was running Microsoft I would be looking a little closer to home for my biggest threat. They have the market sewn up but they are still losing corporate customers hand over fist (dispite what they tell us it is obvious people are dropping Windows for *nix).
The problem is not other companies it's that they have grown complacent because of their success. Whether they will be able to turn it around I don't know but going head to head with IBM isn't the solution to their problem. They need to decide what they are going to be doing 20 years from now and head for that.
At the moment they seem to be heading towards content provision, games production, console production, OS production, Office Suite production and about a million other things. Perhaps they can pull it off and excel in all areas. I don't think so though and it's going to be an expensive lesson for them.
I can't believe they have taken this long to get the next generation of this out. I really thought someone would pip them to the post and grab the market from them. The original mind storm kit was very impressive but it quickly had the smell of death around it. If it wasn't so damn expensive (and I didn't have plenty of other things to do) I would probably get one of these kits. I would like to see an advanced version that was a slave to a CPU rich device as well. Now that would be cool.
Nope, I'm in the UK. I hadn't realized that Civ4 shipped on DVD (I was looking at buying it the other day as well). Yes there are a few games that ship on DVD but compared to the number that ship on CD it's tiny. Even when it does ship on DVD I'll bet that it only uses around half the space available. That then brings us round to my original question: what needs all this extra space? If most games now fit easily into 4GB why do we need 40 or more?
I'm not trying to say 4GB should be enough for anyone forever, that would be stupid, but I can't help feeling that they are trying to whip up support (again) for something that really isn't in demand. It's like bigger hard drives. At around 120GB I just gave up caring because I have never managed to fill a 120 GB drive on a personal machine (on a server it's a different matter).
"Consumers are driving demand for interactive gaming and entertainment applications that require enormous storage capacity,"
Eh? What is this guy going on about? The number of pieces of media, excluding films, that come in DVD format is tiny. I admit that I haven't bought many games recently but I don't own a single one in DVD format and I don't remember seeing any that did. As for music - well enough said. So I ask you: what are there entertainment applications (not it's plural) that require massive storage?
The other thing I have a problem with is the way they bang on about perfecting the media before it hits the market. Isn't that what's supposed to happen anyway? Perhaps we have all just become used to things not working for the first couple of releases.
I would put good money on these researchers getting the nobel prize at some point in the future if they can pull this off. It'll be interesting to see how this develops. Hopefully that it will eventually be fairly easy to make materials with negative refractive indexes.
Someone bulding a next gen dvd player out of parts and breaking at least some of the DRM that way. As I understand it some information will be contained in tracks that can't be read by the player (well they can but you can't see the result of that read). Surely a home built player could just be made to read that info. Now I realize that building a DVD player is not a trivial task but most of the parts are already available. In fact surely all you would really need to build is a new control board just without all the DRM. The read head, trays, drive motors etc etc are already and waiting.
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The Stardust@Home Project where you can pre-register and find out more.
Well exactly. Perhaps I was a little rash to call it a downside. I can see the war that results in the death of publishers being a lot more bloody that the death of the record producers.
To clean my disks I rub them on my t-shirt. Seems to work fine and I have yet to damage a disk. The only thing I check is to make sure I avoid rubbing it on a print - I don't want to damage the t-shirt after all.
This guy is using the wrong hole for speech. Quick someone tell him before he makes a total tit of himself. Whoops too late.
I have plenty of burnt CR-Rs that are way over 2 years old and going strong. I admit most of them are in boxes in a cupboard but I've yet to find one that has failed.
As an example of how tough burnt cds are I am sort of running an experiment. We held a christmas party in 2003 and I wanted some music to play on the DVD so I grabbed a
...think of the mice!
Reading is bed will never be the same again :o). I can't believe how long these devices have taken to be developed as I feel the potential market is huge. Perhaps the problem is simply that it is a huge shift in thinking. It's the first time that paper really will become some what redundant. I'm not saying we won't need paper but if these devices became ubiquitous and with a decent display (which I think would be needed for them to become ubiquitous) I could easily see paper useage dropping dramatically.
I, for one, look forward to the day when 1000 page books weigh as much as a paper back and I don't have to struggle with forcing open a book that has printing running to within 3mm of the spine.
In fact the only downside I can envisage is that it will put publishers out of business because it will become trivial to self publish. I realize that you could self publish in electronic format already but sticking a PDF on a website is different to producing a book.
I agree that it seems strange that they don't make it easy for their server class products to have things like IE and WMP removed. This would seem like a logical frist step to secure the box even if the simplistic less code == less potential security holes view is taken.
Desktop machines are a different kettle of fish though. A desktop machine without a web browser and media player would be partially crippled. I admit that they aren't _needed_ to use a desktop machine but then you don't _need_ a radio in your car either. If MS are going to bundle a half way decent one of each with the OS great (although for the record I use neither).
I admit I have never used Ubuntu but I have used Debian for many years and guessed it was roughly the same. From the ubuntu site
When you finish your Ubuntu installation your system is immediately usable. You have a full set of business productivity applications, internet applications, drawing and graphics applications, and games. That one CD gives you a very good desktop environment out of the box, with many applications for business, home and personal computer users installed by default.
Does Windows now come with all those application in all those domains installed by default?
But why do you really care at all?
Valid reasons that I can think of to care might include: security threat and disk space issues.
The potential security implications of having IE intergrated so closely with the OS could be a genuine worry for a small number of people but then why are those people using Windows anyway?
Disk space can't be considered a real worry now with 100GB+ disks being common. It might be a problem if you want to stick Windows on that old 200MB drive you have lying around but that would put you in a tiny minority.
The section about it being devoid of useful applications makes my blood boil. Windows is an operating system which allows you to run applications. It is not necessarly something that has to come shipped with a million and one applications. Perhaps we have become complacent because every Linux distro comes shipped with a ton of applications. It would be simple enough to make a Linux distribution that has a similar number of default installed applications as Windows.
The other problem with this statement is the way everyone cries foul when Microsoft default installs an app with Windows and then complains that a Windows default install doesn't have any applications. Make up your mind! You can't have it both ways.
Some that aren't in the list but I use regularly.
I suppose the kernel has got to feature in the list because without it a lot of other projects are fairly pointless. I like NetBeans (although it's giving me grief today). Amarok is pretty good (but is let down by the poor state of sound on Linux). KMail is very nice especially as part of Kontact. Synaptic is a very nice project that seems to be coming along well.
Slashdot of course :o)
Your argument, while good, only fits a small number of cases where the fake could actually hurt someone. I fail to see how a memory stick can blow up and hurt someone.
A much better reason to discourage this type of piracy is simply because margins are already tight in the electronics world without forcing the few players that exist to fight for their money with people ripping them off. There are areas where I feel pirates play an important roll. Music, movie and clothes production spring to mind. Production costs for these items has drop substantially in recent years but prices haven't generally followed. The pirates are showing the consumers that prices need not be as high as they are paying. I admit that pirates don't have associated development costs and therefore will always be able to sell for less but when you see a pirated copy of a movie for free and the real thing costs £16 ($30) you have to ask where the money is going.
The only down side of this is that it will require you to build a small power station in your back garden to cope with the load. The amount of power this beast we require will make baby Jesus cry!
I wonder if you can throttle it back so that it is only using one GPU when it's only rendering normal 2D desktops?
Well first I would question where that data comes from (as I suspect it is Microsoft or one of it's paid lackys) and secondly I would question what that growth really is. My guess would be that the majority of the "growth" falls into one of two categories. Either it's companies upgrading machines from previous versions of Windows (not converting *nix machines to Windows) or new machines being installed as part of the over all growth in computer use.
gotten comfortable with winning by throwing money and unrelated market share at a problem
Don't forget a few chairs were thrown at problems as well.
If I was running Microsoft I would be looking a little closer to home for my biggest threat. They have the market sewn up but they are still losing corporate customers hand over fist (dispite what they tell us it is obvious people are dropping Windows for *nix).
The problem is not other companies it's that they have grown complacent because of their success. Whether they will be able to turn it around I don't know but going head to head with IBM isn't the solution to their problem. They need to decide what they are going to be doing 20 years from now and head for that.
At the moment they seem to be heading towards content provision, games production, console production, OS production, Office Suite production and about a million other things. Perhaps they can pull it off and excel in all areas. I don't think so though and it's going to be an expensive lesson for them.
... I can't find a company that want's me to take part in channel stuffing? What a great deal...
I can't believe they have taken this long to get the next generation of this out. I really thought someone would pip them to the post and grab the market from them. The original mind storm kit was very impressive but it quickly had the smell of death around it. If it wasn't so damn expensive (and I didn't have plenty of other things to do) I would probably get one of these kits. I would like to see an advanced version that was a slave to a CPU rich device as well. Now that would be cool.
I didn't really have Pluto on my "must visit" list anyway but with that announcement it's certainly never going to be on it.
Damn the Plutorians and their cold world.
Nope, I'm in the UK. I hadn't realized that Civ4 shipped on DVD (I was looking at buying it the other day as well). Yes there are a few games that ship on DVD but compared to the number that ship on CD it's tiny. Even when it does ship on DVD I'll bet that it only uses around half the space available. That then brings us round to my original question: what needs all this extra space? If most games now fit easily into 4GB why do we need 40 or more?
I'm not trying to say 4GB should be enough for anyone forever, that would be stupid, but I can't help feeling that they are trying to whip up support (again) for something that really isn't in demand. It's like bigger hard drives. At around 120GB I just gave up caring because I have never managed to fill a 120 GB drive on a personal machine (on a server it's a different matter).
"Consumers are driving demand for interactive gaming and entertainment applications that require enormous storage capacity,"
Eh? What is this guy going on about? The number of pieces of media, excluding films, that come in DVD format is tiny. I admit that I haven't bought many games recently but I don't own a single one in DVD format and I don't remember seeing any that did. As for music - well enough said. So I ask you: what are there entertainment applications (not it's plural) that require massive storage?
The other thing I have a problem with is the way they bang on about perfecting the media before it hits the market. Isn't that what's supposed to happen anyway? Perhaps we have all just become used to things not working for the first couple of releases.
I would put good money on these researchers getting the nobel prize at some point in the future if they can pull this off. It'll be interesting to see how this develops. Hopefully that it will eventually be fairly easy to make materials with negative refractive indexes.
...in real life, on a sunny day with a following wind, it should achieve about 2KB a second and cost about 2K$ a second. Where can I get one?
Someone bulding a next gen dvd player out of parts and breaking at least some of the DRM that way. As I understand it some information will be contained in tracks that can't be read by the player (well they can but you can't see the result of that read). Surely a home built player could just be made to read that info. Now I realize that building a DVD player is not a trivial task but most of the parts are already available. In fact surely all you would really need to build is a new control board just without all the DRM. The read head, trays, drive motors etc etc are already and waiting.