It has seemed pretty clear to me that Blue-ray will win, because thanks to the PS3, it defeats the chicken-and-egg problem of any new media, which is that no one will spend hundreds of dollars on a player for a new format when there are no movies, and no studio will produce movies if no players exist. Because the PS3 will put millions of blueray players in homes, compared with the meagre amount of early-adopters who will have hddvd players, studios will by neccessity go with blueray.
You don't seem to have a very good grasp on how this system works. The money that you pay each month to the cable company goes to the cable company in return for offering the service—not to the stations. The stations, meanwhile, make (nearly) all their money on advertising. Thus the amount of ads has nothing to do with your cable bill.
Don't know if this is standard procedure, but I was pretty annoyed when, while installing the new version, there were no less then three attempts to integrate yahoo into my computer. Can't these portals release software without trying to take over your computer?
No. You evidently didn't read google's page on this, which states:
We won't share your telephone number with anyone, including the advertiser. When you're connected with the advertiser, your number is blocked so the advertiser can't see it. In addition, we'll delete the number from our servers after a short period of time.
Nextel HASN'T leased anything to anyone. From TFA: Nextel serves as the coordinator, planning, paying for and overseeing the work. Other carriers have the right to buy in and to strike agreements to reimburse Nextel and pay annual fees to BART. There's a big difference therebecause: at present, the only carrier is Nextel, and there's no mention that they've done any integration with another carrier yet. (Presumably it'll just be a tower sharing kind of arrangement).
Yes they have. You just have to read further down the article:
Five of the Bay Area's six wireless companies have signed up to use the system, Rae said, and the sixth is in negotiations. The arrangement will generate hundreds of thousands of dollars, and eventually millions, for BART.
The title field in the submission form is limited to a very small number of characters. I couldn't think of a way to phrase it to make it more clear that this is cell service.
You concede that evolution has some holes. Pray tell, what are these? It's a very simple theory, and if it has holes its pretty worthless. There has been absolutely no evidence that has shown it to be false (and no, "but the Bible says its true" doesn't count). Gaps in the fossil record (which are generally cited as failures of evolution) are to be expected, and given the extremely rare circumstances in which fossils are formed, to be expected. Some lack of evidence is not evidence against.
Probably the confusion arose because the ahem person who wrote the summary only has seen the atrocious movie which unfortunately shares the same name (though not much else) with the venerable book. At the end of said movie it is implied that the "end" of the universe is a spatial reference, as opposed to temporal. Not that that really excuses it.
The point of betas of mmorpgs is advertising. Nothing more, nothing less. It is very difficult to actually test the games, let alone have your suggestions heard in the environment set up by the game companies. They serve the same purpose as game demos released a few weeks before the release of a prominent single player game, which is to drive excitement and anticipation of the final product.
I am part of a beta testing group for Activision, which stays together from game to game, and is a smaller, more intimate group. We are able to actually test and improve games (we have worked on COD, COD:UO, RTW, THUG 2, and many others published by the company), but in the environment produced by mmorpg companies this is not the goal.
Yeah, that'll work briliantly. Because the pirates would never think of instead sharing a dvd rip, now would they?
The point is, any copyright method they try will only work against normal people. Crackers will find a way around them. Said crackers then upload the uncracked version to a torrent network, average people download it. They would have to make it absolutely impossible for anybody to get a undrmed copy of it, which is impossible, in order for any type of copy protection scheme to work.
Plus, I imagine that adding those markers to the movies would take a long time and be a very heavy cpu load.
The correct way to implement this would be to not let people keep their reciepts. You would vote, it would add your vote to a databse, and then print out a verfication slip. You then look at it, and verify that it is correct, and then you drop it in a lock box, which is then kept for a recount.
You misunderstand the question. The point is that he is automatically assigning labels to emails that are sent from mailing lists. In GMail, when you apply a label to a message it is viewable in it's own "folder." His problem was that he didn't want these messages cluttering his inbox.
I would disagree with you. In America, the government just better at it, more subtle. Sure nobody's going to put you in jail for dissenting because they know that you don't matter. At all. What does matter, however, is television news, which is controlled much tighter. This is an effective stragegy, as your post illustrates. Because they don't do it in the public's eye, it's very easy to say that, as you did, everything is free, merely because they don't break down people's doors. However, the result is the same.
Another neat thought while we're indulging ourselves. What if some games allowed you to use two controllers in conjunction with each other? Imagine dual wields pistols, or knives, or even, saw a bow an arrow: you'd aim with one controller and pull back on the string with the other. This could truly open up the video game industry to a whole host of intuitive controls.
Or it could not. Of coursem, how intuitive the controls are are due to the interface design of the game. So let's just hope that game developers are able to exloit this to its fullest potential.
Well, they seem to have just discribed the panacea of display and interface technologies. While a true 3d display probably could be made in the next 15 years, allowing users to physically interact with 3d objects without a huge haptics setup would be considerably more difficult, probably requiring some sort of interaction with the brain, making it think that those areas are solid. Smell doesn't seem nearly so difficult (there are already devices that will allow you to produce smells digitally), and not nearly as useful.
So basically they said that, yeah, we'd like to make a super futuristic display device and have it ready in 15 years. Meanwhile there has been really no progress in any of these fronts. Pretty much all 3d displays are just stereoscopy, and nothing terribly interesting seems to have happened with haptics in the last five years.
So yeah, that'd be nice, but you have to have some of the building blocks before you can make the grand vision.
Now hardware manufacturers need to not only to make this backhole for their us customers, but also create another version for the rest of the world. Someone I don't think European govts. will much like Uncle Sam being able to spy on them.
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It has seemed pretty clear to me that Blue-ray will win, because thanks to the PS3, it defeats the chicken-and-egg problem of any new media, which is that no one will spend hundreds of dollars on a player for a new format when there are no movies, and no studio will produce movies if no players exist. Because the PS3 will put millions of blueray players in homes, compared with the meagre amount of early-adopters who will have hddvd players, studios will by neccessity go with blueray.
You don't seem to have a very good grasp on how this system works. The money that you pay each month to the cable company goes to the cable company in return for offering the service—not to the stations. The stations, meanwhile, make (nearly) all their money on advertising. Thus the amount of ads has nothing to do with your cable bill.
Don't know if this is standard procedure, but I was pretty annoyed when, while installing the new version, there were no less then three attempts to integrate yahoo into my computer. Can't these portals release software without trying to take over your computer?
Uh...no. And I quote:
Chronic Logic give away four full versions of any Chronic Logic game to the winners.
Apparently you didn't read that paragraph very carefully.
Along similar lines, intel has announced the opening of Fab 28 in Israel, which will be used for making processors at a 45nm scale.
No. You evidently didn't read google's page on this, which states:
We won't share your telephone number with anyone, including the advertiser. When you're connected with the advertiser, your number is blocked so the advertiser can't see it. In addition, we'll delete the number from our servers after a short period of time.
Nextel HASN'T leased anything to anyone. From TFA: Nextel serves as the coordinator, planning, paying for and overseeing the work. Other carriers have the right to buy in and to strike agreements to reimburse Nextel and pay annual fees to BART. There's a big difference therebecause: at present, the only carrier is Nextel, and there's no mention that they've done any integration with another carrier yet. (Presumably it'll just be a tower sharing kind of arrangement).
Yes they have. You just have to read further down the article:
Five of the Bay Area's six wireless companies have signed up to use the system, Rae said, and the sixth is in negotiations. The arrangement will generate hundreds of thousands of dollars, and eventually millions, for BART.
The title field in the submission form is limited to a very small number of characters. I couldn't think of a way to phrase it to make it more clear that this is cell service.
You concede that evolution has some holes. Pray tell, what are these? It's a very simple theory, and if it has holes its pretty worthless. There has been absolutely no evidence that has shown it to be false (and no, "but the Bible says its true" doesn't count). Gaps in the fossil record (which are generally cited as failures of evolution) are to be expected, and given the extremely rare circumstances in which fossils are formed, to be expected. Some lack of evidence is not evidence against.
Probably the confusion arose because the ahem person who wrote the summary only has seen the atrocious movie which unfortunately shares the same name (though not much else) with the venerable book. At the end of said movie it is implied that the "end" of the universe is a spatial reference, as opposed to temporal. Not that that really excuses it.
The point of betas of mmorpgs is advertising. Nothing more, nothing less. It is very difficult to actually test the games, let alone have your suggestions heard in the environment set up by the game companies. They serve the same purpose as game demos released a few weeks before the release of a prominent single player game, which is to drive excitement and anticipation of the final product. I am part of a beta testing group for Activision, which stays together from game to game, and is a smaller, more intimate group. We are able to actually test and improve games (we have worked on COD, COD:UO, RTW, THUG 2, and many others published by the company), but in the environment produced by mmorpg companies this is not the goal.
The suggestion is that Dell is inflating the price to satify Microsoft.
Yeah, that'll work briliantly. Because the pirates would never think of instead sharing a dvd rip, now would they?
The point is, any copyright method they try will only work against normal people. Crackers will find a way around them. Said crackers then upload the uncracked version to a torrent network, average people download it. They would have to make it absolutely impossible for anybody to get a undrmed copy of it, which is impossible, in order for any type of copy protection scheme to work.
Plus, I imagine that adding those markers to the movies would take a long time and be a very heavy cpu load.
The correct way to implement this would be to not let people keep their reciepts. You would vote, it would add your vote to a databse, and then print out a verfication slip. You then look at it, and verify that it is correct, and then you drop it in a lock box, which is then kept for a recount.
You misunderstand the question. The point is that he is automatically assigning labels to emails that are sent from mailing lists. In GMail, when you apply a label to a message it is viewable in it's own "folder." His problem was that he didn't want these messages cluttering his inbox.
A good way to do it is to have google also archive the emails when they're received. Thus they're not cluttering up your inbox.
I would disagree with you. In America, the government just better at it, more subtle. Sure nobody's going to put you in jail for dissenting because they know that you don't matter. At all. What does matter, however, is television news, which is controlled much tighter. This is an effective stragegy, as your post illustrates. Because they don't do it in the public's eye, it's very easy to say that, as you did, everything is free, merely because they don't break down people's doors. However, the result is the same.
I've long held that someone accused by the RIAA should countersue for libel, for the RIAA calling them pirates.
Another neat thought while we're indulging ourselves. What if some games allowed you to use two controllers in conjunction with each other? Imagine dual wields pistols, or knives, or even, saw a bow an arrow: you'd aim with one controller and pull back on the string with the other. This could truly open up the video game industry to a whole host of intuitive controls.
Or it could not. Of coursem, how intuitive the controls are are due to the interface design of the game. So let's just hope that game developers are able to exloit this to its fullest potential.
Well, they seem to have just discribed the panacea of display and interface technologies. While a true 3d display probably could be made in the next 15 years, allowing users to physically interact with 3d objects without a huge haptics setup would be considerably more difficult, probably requiring some sort of interaction with the brain, making it think that those areas are solid. Smell doesn't seem nearly so difficult (there are already devices that will allow you to produce smells digitally), and not nearly as useful.
So basically they said that, yeah, we'd like to make a super futuristic display device and have it ready in 15 years. Meanwhile there has been really no progress in any of these fronts. Pretty much all 3d displays are just stereoscopy, and nothing terribly interesting seems to have happened with haptics in the last five years.
So yeah, that'd be nice, but you have to have some of the building blocks before you can make the grand vision.
Now hardware manufacturers need to not only to make this backhole for their us customers, but also create another version for the rest of the world. Someone I don't think European govts. will much like Uncle Sam being able to spy on them.
This is a dupe. This was reported several months ago here.
It's a from a very, very long song written by Arlo Guthrey, the son of Woody Guthrey. It's called Alice's Resturant.
(I know this has been said before, but nobody seems to hear it) Yeah, because that strategy worked wonders for sega with the dreamcast.
Ummm, this may seem overly simple, but what about, Linus Torvalds? You know, that Finnish guy who wrote some software?