You don't need to record at 200 MB/sec. All you need to do is advance your player one frame at a time and dump a SINGLE frame at a time onto your harddrive. No serious money needed. Write a macro to advance frames and boom, you have an uncompressed video on your $80 hard drive ready to be compressed.
tagged this story "beefbeef". And damnit, that's good enough to qualify for copyright protection. Beefbeef (TM) is noew the sole property of TACNailed! Eat it!
That list is a laughable attempt at averting anti-competition lawsuits.
I'm sure the combined user base of that list is less than, say, 5% of PayPal's. Sure eBay allows them, but who the hell cares if nobody uses any of them?
That's not to say eBay was wrong for _temporarily_ not allowing Google payments, but come on now.
Bloomberg's point is that the government has a duty to provide funding for things such as stem cell research, as such research has a direct positive effect on the public. We shouldn't NEED some old rich white guy to do what our goverment should be doing.
When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists,
I said nothing; afterall, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
It is a big deal.
Every video they released of DNF so far has been awesome. Therefore we have good reason to believe the final product will be awesome as well.
Patience, patience.
There's a good (fiction) book called "Link" by Walt Becker that deals with the discovery of evidence of a new species.
Summary from Amazon:
Paleoanthropologist Samantha Colby and her team have discovered a skeleton of humanoid but not human origin in West Africa. In addition, they found an artifact composed of metal not found on Earth. Samantha asks her former lover, renegade scientist Jack Austin, to assist her in solving the mystery. Austin has long proposed the interaction of extraterrestrials with early man, but he has been the laughing stock of the scientific community. As they unravel the mystery, their journey takes them from Central Africa to the Andes and what they discover might kill the laughter in the throats of Jack's detractors.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380731614/qid=11 43397139/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1883774-52033 25?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
As a gamer and amateur game developer, it's to my advantage that MS has moved in this direction. This may put pressure on the PC retail industry to stop using shitty integrated graphics for game developers and the PC game industry to deal with.
From: http://www.firingsquad.com/features/epic_games_rei n_interview/
FiringSquad: What is Epic's feeling about PC game hardware and how will the Unreal engine be part of that?
Mark Rein: I wish I could report only good news but that's not the case. [...] Unfortunately the bad side is getting really bad. It is getting harder and harder for the average consumer to buy a computer with a decent graphics chips in it. When I go to major electronics retailers I see that most of the machines being sold are using Intel Integrated graphics - including the vast majority of laptops. Some of the desktop machines don't even have slots for discrete graphics cards which I find personally offensive. Laptops of course are mostly not upgradable so a bad laptop is a bad laptop forever and considering how many people are replacing desktop with laptops this is especially worrisome. It is really sad when you see the moniker "media" or "entertainment" attached to something with Intel Integrated graphics in it. I question the logic of developing dual-core CPUs and saddling them with ultra-low-end graphics especially considering that one of the big benefits of Windows Vista will be a hugely improved graphical user interface that will help improve productivity. There are some seriously expensive desktops and laptops with crappy graphics chips in them - these aren't just the low-priced machines either. Intel salespeople are probably patting themselves on the back for these design wins but the truth is the more successful they are with this strategy the faster they could be killing off the PC games market and nobody has the balls to stand up and cry foul because Intel is so powerful.
If people take those machines home and try to play recent PC games on them they're going to have a horrible experience and possibly give up on PC gaming altogether. Users aren't educated in this area but when their new $1,500 PC says "no" to a decent PC game they're going to just assume the PC games market had passed them by. This is sad because the difference in cost the PC manufacturer to put in a decent graphics chip isn't very much.
This story reminds me of the book "The Watchers" by Dean Koontz. There's no cybernetic implants but instead it's genetic engineering that creates a dog that (predictably) goes heywire. Good book for anyone interested in that kind of science fiction, pacticularly if you like dogs, as there's a good counterpart to the bad dog.
Nevertheless, having competition in a foreign country may lead to financing for domestic initiatives from the US government. Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate.
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You don't need to record at 200 MB/sec. All you need to do is advance your player one frame at a time and dump a SINGLE frame at a time onto your harddrive. No serious money needed. Write a macro to advance frames and boom, you have an uncompressed video on your $80 hard drive ready to be compressed.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
That would be pointless. They'll just use other types of hard drive technology.
tagged this story "beefbeef". And damnit, that's good enough to qualify for copyright protection. Beefbeef (TM) is noew the sole property of TACNailed! Eat it!
Buyer beware: That's a IDE (rather than SATA) controller card.
That list is a laughable attempt at averting anti-competition lawsuits. I'm sure the combined user base of that list is less than, say, 5% of PayPal's. Sure eBay allows them, but who the hell cares if nobody uses any of them? That's not to say eBay was wrong for _temporarily_ not allowing Google payments, but come on now.
I'm sure Cisco will be happy to help them out. Again.
A: There are 4000 people running this country.
Bloomberg's point is that the government has a duty to provide funding for things such as stem cell research, as such research has a direct positive effect on the public. We shouldn't NEED some old rich white guy to do what our goverment should be doing.
I bet the Chinese government still gets him cheap hookers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_P eople's_Republic_of_China/
When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist. When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat. When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; afterall, I was not a trade unionist. When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew. When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest. It is a big deal.
My bet is they're praying rather than immunizing.
I'm still sore from years of Microsoft's chincy 2MB email accounts. I think that's reason enough not to buy into any storage solution they offer.
Every video they released of DNF so far has been awesome. Therefore we have good reason to believe the final product will be awesome as well. Patience, patience.
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Good job. You're heading in the right direction.
Sign me up!
Good for him. This can only mean good things for New Orleans, and may keep the ball rolling for other municipal wi-fi projects.
OK, Mr. Stephenson, you got us. April fools. For a second there I thought you were serious.
There's a good (fiction) book called "Link" by Walt Becker that deals with the discovery of evidence of a new species. Summary from Amazon: Paleoanthropologist Samantha Colby and her team have discovered a skeleton of humanoid but not human origin in West Africa. In addition, they found an artifact composed of metal not found on Earth. Samantha asks her former lover, renegade scientist Jack Austin, to assist her in solving the mystery. Austin has long proposed the interaction of extraterrestrials with early man, but he has been the laughing stock of the scientific community. As they unravel the mystery, their journey takes them from Central Africa to the Andes and what they discover might kill the laughter in the throats of Jack's detractors. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380731614/qid=11 43397139/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1883774-52033 25?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Who's the fool that tagged this 'overkill'?
As a gamer and amateur game developer, it's to my advantage that MS has moved in this direction. This may put pressure on the PC retail industry to stop using shitty integrated graphics for game developers and the PC game industry to deal with. From: http://www.firingsquad.com/features/epic_games_rei n_interview/
FiringSquad: What is Epic's feeling about PC game hardware and how will the Unreal engine be part of that?
Mark Rein: I wish I could report only good news but that's not the case. [...] Unfortunately the bad side is getting really bad. It is getting harder and harder for the average consumer to buy a computer with a decent graphics chips in it. When I go to major electronics retailers I see that most of the machines being sold are using Intel Integrated graphics - including the vast majority of laptops. Some of the desktop machines don't even have slots for discrete graphics cards which I find personally offensive. Laptops of course are mostly not upgradable so a bad laptop is a bad laptop forever and considering how many people are replacing desktop with laptops this is especially worrisome. It is really sad when you see the moniker "media" or "entertainment" attached to something with Intel Integrated graphics in it. I question the logic of developing dual-core CPUs and saddling them with ultra-low-end graphics especially considering that one of the big benefits of Windows Vista will be a hugely improved graphical user interface that will help improve productivity. There are some seriously expensive desktops and laptops with crappy graphics chips in them - these aren't just the low-priced machines either. Intel salespeople are probably patting themselves on the back for these design wins but the truth is the more successful they are with this strategy the faster they could be killing off the PC games market and nobody has the balls to stand up and cry foul because Intel is so powerful.
If people take those machines home and try to play recent PC games on them they're going to have a horrible experience and possibly give up on PC gaming altogether. Users aren't educated in this area but when their new $1,500 PC says "no" to a decent PC game they're going to just assume the PC games market had passed them by. This is sad because the difference in cost the PC manufacturer to put in a decent graphics chip isn't very much.
I'm sure you can share your reliable source on that 10,000 writes number with us. That number is an order of magnitude less that what I have heard.
This story reminds me of the book "The Watchers" by Dean Koontz. There's no cybernetic implants but instead it's genetic engineering that creates a dog that (predictably) goes heywire. Good book for anyone interested in that kind of science fiction, pacticularly if you like dogs, as there's a good counterpart to the bad dog.
Nevertheless, having competition in a foreign country may lead to financing for domestic initiatives from the US government. Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate.