Launching probes is one thing. Sending a team of astronauts into space to perform experiments and deliver people and hardware to and from ISS is something else entirely.
Private industry has a long way to go before it even matches what NASA has been doing for 25 years with the aging vehicle that they're trying moving past.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I think there's a big difference between:
1) Sending someone on a sub-orbital flight at 62 miles altitude and;
2) Bringing several working payloads into space, docking with a space station at 236 miles altitude, and performing orbital repairs on satellites at 355 miles altitude.
It's not like NASA is so incompetent that some private firm is beating them at this whole space thing.
Because the account information is intellectual property owned by Blizzard as well. Distributing an unauthorized copy of the account information is just as disallowed by eBay's policy.
Putting the account information doesn't make it suddenly physical property instead of intellectual property any more than sending it via email or a piece of paper does.
The vast majority of the ones that responded did so within 10 minutes. Now, it's rare to get an email from a server that is not "trusted" so there are no delays.
It sounds like a function called MailHurdle that's built into Mirapoint email filters.
It works wonderfully. We've been using for about a year at my organization. It works by initially rejecting all incoming mail from unknown servers. If the server is legit, it will retry the email, and on that retry, MailHurdle will allow the mail through.
It instantly eliminated well over half of our incoming spam. Very clever technique, and it certainly works.
OK, think for a minute about the bandwidth Microsoft must have available to handle the release of a major Service Pack for Windows.
Also, Microsoft had to deal with a huge rush of giant downloads when they made the release candidates for Vista freely downloadable from their website. Thousands of thousands of people were simultaneously downloading at high speed.
In 5 years, I'd think that 2TB drives will be on the small side and cost about $60.
In mid 2002, 100GB drives had just started to become popular, and 160GB drives were just coming out. Now, 5 years later, we're looking at about a 5x increase since then for the same price point.
The level of creativity involved in directly copying Apple's icons and widgets is significant. The type of person who would do this needs to be protected from big corporations.
My cable connection is about to get doubled from 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps. Right now, my connection is generally saturated 24/7, pegged at 4.7 Mbps down from Newshosting.. and I live in a densely populated college town. Your cable company sucks if you can't maintain >1 Mbps on a 6 Mbps connection all the time.
1 megabit per second is about the bitrate of your average CD-sized DivX file. Certainly nowhere near DivX quality, but better than other streaming video.
2 expansion slots, one of which is PCI-E, and an XpressCard slot for Bluetooth and 802.11whatever. Designed for lower power apps.
Sounds like a scaled down version of mATX. mATX boards are big enough for 4+ expansion slots.. this makes it a bit smaller by getting rid of some traditional slots and adding an XpressCard slot.
Bottom line is that Gears of War was the best selling game of December, at 815,000 copies. It was #3 for the year with 1.8 million sales (following Madden 07 for the PS2 @ 2.8 million and New Super Mario Bros for the DS at 2 million).
It was #5 for all titles in December (the "All Titles" category lumps all versions of a single game together.. for instance, Madden 07 sales include sales on the PS2, PS3, 360, XBox, etc).
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They used "strangling" in the same sentence, so it's OK.
There are no music players that say "iPod" on the front of them :)
What does that have to do with Oblivion on the PS3 getting an extra year of optimization over the 360?
They've had over a year to tweak it for the PS3.
What did you expect?
Launching probes is one thing. Sending a team of astronauts into space to perform experiments and deliver people and hardware to and from ISS is something else entirely.
Private industry has a long way to go before it even matches what NASA has been doing for 25 years with the aging vehicle that they're trying moving past.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I think there's a big difference between:
1) Sending someone on a sub-orbital flight at 62 miles altitude and;
2) Bringing several working payloads into space, docking with a space station at 236 miles altitude, and performing orbital repairs on satellites at 355 miles altitude.
It's not like NASA is so incompetent that some private firm is beating them at this whole space thing.
On any decent HDTV, HD programming is *significantly* better than DVD. The difference is night and day.
Because the account information is intellectual property owned by Blizzard as well. Distributing an unauthorized copy of the account information is just as disallowed by eBay's policy.
Putting the account information doesn't make it suddenly physical property instead of intellectual property any more than sending it via email or a piece of paper does.
You must be the owner of the intellectual property *if you are selling intellectual property*.
If you're selling a physical item, you must be the owner of the physical item.
You don't own your WoW character. You own your CDs. You can sell your CDs but not your WoW character.
Done.
It only does it once *per server*.
The vast majority of the ones that responded did so within 10 minutes. Now, it's rare to get an email from a server that is not "trusted" so there are no delays.
Well those products cannot make it to "engineering sample" unless they have funding.
How do you propose they get it?
"Yes, sir, this probably won't work. If it does it probably won't be any better than what we have now. But give us tons of money to find out!"
It sounds like a function called MailHurdle that's built into Mirapoint email filters.
It works wonderfully. We've been using for about a year at my organization. It works by initially rejecting all incoming mail from unknown servers. If the server is legit, it will retry the email, and on that retry, MailHurdle will allow the mail through.
It instantly eliminated well over half of our incoming spam. Very clever technique, and it certainly works.
OK, think for a minute about the bandwidth Microsoft must have available to handle the release of a major Service Pack for Windows.
Also, Microsoft had to deal with a huge rush of giant downloads when they made the release candidates for Vista freely downloadable from their website. Thousands of thousands of people were simultaneously downloading at high speed.
In 5 years, I'd think that 2TB drives will be on the small side and cost about $60.
In mid 2002, 100GB drives had just started to become popular, and 160GB drives were just coming out. Now, 5 years later, we're looking at about a 5x increase since then for the same price point.
There are currently 154 HD DVD titles in stock, ready to ship at Amazon.
If you buy 100 HD DVDs you will have spent upwards of $2000.
With 500GB of storage costing $150 or less, 2TB of storage space will set you back $600.
I agree.
The level of creativity involved in directly copying Apple's icons and widgets is significant. The type of person who would do this needs to be protected from big corporations.
Xvid files are indeed around 400MB/hour. That's 114KBps.. but 910Kbps.
1Mb/s is 450MB/hour.
So the quality should be comparable to standard Xvid.
This is low quality compared to DVD. 1Mbps Xvid is quite far down the totem pole from 4-5Mbps DVD.
Big B means bytes, and a byte is 8 little b's (bits).
Man, DVD quality video plus audio will saturate my 5Mbps cable connection.
What's the bitrate of that streamable 1080p? Where can I find it?
That sucks.
My cable connection is about to get doubled from 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps. Right now, my connection is generally saturated 24/7, pegged at 4.7 Mbps down from Newshosting.. and I live in a densely populated college town. Your cable company sucks if you can't maintain >1 Mbps on a 6 Mbps connection all the time.
Decent DVD video is over 4 megabits per second.
1 megabit per second is about the bitrate of your average CD-sized DivX file. Certainly nowhere near DivX quality, but better than other streaming video.
2 expansion slots, one of which is PCI-E, and an XpressCard slot for Bluetooth and 802.11whatever. Designed for lower power apps.
Sounds like a scaled down version of mATX. mATX boards are big enough for 4+ expansion slots.. this makes it a bit smaller by getting rid of some traditional slots and adding an XpressCard slot.
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Bottom line is that Gears of War was the best selling game of December, at 815,000 copies. It was #3 for the year with 1.8 million sales (following Madden 07 for the PS2 @ 2.8 million and New Super Mario Bros for the DS at 2 million).
It was #5 for all titles in December (the "All Titles" category lumps all versions of a single game together.. for instance, Madden 07 sales include sales on the PS2, PS3, 360, XBox, etc).
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That's actually quite an interesting theory.
Because it's also an iPod. The thing can play movies and TV shows. There's no reason not to put a hard drive in it and have it replace your 80GB iPod.
5GB is not a lot of music. Neither is the 8GB on my Nano. 80GB is (currently) plenty.