Make players that cost $100 and make the disc premium $1-2 more than standard DVDs ($15 for a new release DVD during the first week of sale at Walmart!) and you can even sell it during the recession.
BluRay was never optimised for this case from what I can see. DVD, like CDs, seemed to be designed from the start to produce very cheap players. And on a mainstream TV you can see the difference between DVD and VHS. BluRay seemed to be aimed at the ultra high end market from the start. If you're spending a couple of thousand dollars on your TV, you're not going to worry about an extra few hundred on the player. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it ends up like LaserDisc, especially if the economy goes into recession or even depression.
Someone I knew deleted the O/S from firmware on all the routers. The O/S was running happily in memory until he got fired and the network was running for several weeks after he was canned.
That seems incredibly illegal to me. He's lucky he didn't get sued.
I've used Unix in various flavors for over 20 years (It's kind of like kissing my sister, I don't like it much, but it doesn't scare me.) I have also developed apps for Windows. Some of which likely run on your electric utilities dispatch and trading floors. (Only the Access components should scare you, I tried to kill/replace them but they were too entrenched and useful for a few.)
Though I'll admit that I'd feel much better about the project if they accomplished something large but nevertheless more modest, like say a suspension bridge using nanotubes. Though since steel cable serves perfectly well for that and will presumably be cheaper even when we can make suspension-bridge length nano-cables, that would be nothing but a feel-good exercise for people like me rather than a practical application.
What about a super strong wire to stretch across roads to behead terrorists when they try to escape on motor cycles.
The orginal reason MP3 was more widely supported was because you could use a cheap slow/low power microcontroller and and a move most of the decoding into hardware. The hardware codecs all support MP3 and none of them support vorbis. If you use an expensive/high power enough microcontroller you can do any codec in software. But its one of these situations where the needs of the many (cheap player/long battery life) outweigh the needs of the few (support for fringe codecs).
They _really_ screwed up and posted the journalist's email address for the byline, so thousands of picky slashdotters can politely point out the difference between copyright and copy protection...
He has stepped into a nest of pedants. Either that or he's starting a business targetted at them and wants to collect email addresses.
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage From Courage to Liberty From Liberty to Abundance From Abundance to Selfishness From Selfishness to Complacency From Complacency to Apathy From Apathy to Dependency From Dependency back into Bondage
I don't really see that any of these are inevitable, particularly the first one or the last three. If look at the end of Athens it was eventually taken over by a foreign tyrant, not destroyed by apathy.
Yeah, they should mention that it doesn't work on the Gnogg (formerly GnoggPod) either, since that only supports OggVorbis stored on foot diameter spools of one inch tapes.
If the media weren't so biased, every new format would mention that it can't be used with the Gnogg.
The problem is that these files ended up in the master copy. Of course they should have diffed that against a know good Microsoft RTM disk in this case to make sure that the only changes were intentional ones, so yeah someone low level is going to get fired.
He's a bit wild eyed, but there is some truth in what he says.
I actually prefer some of the spoofs of wikipedia to the real thing these days. Wikipedia admins take themselves way to seriously as guardians of the Absolute Truth. I've read some painfully biased articles on Wikipedia, and it's pretty clear looking at the history that any attempt to edit them would result in a ban. Now the spoof sites exist to attack every idea, and that makes them less likely to withold bad news about the 'good guys'.
Of course, any attempt to mention these sites on Wikipedia means an instant ban.
Are we allowed to chuckle at the drift away from Wikipedia's original, relatively anarchist philosophy?
I've always found anarchists to be a bit naive about the way the world works. Historically the state of anarchy in countries has been the excuse some 'strong leader' needed to take over, or have turned into mob rule or domination by an abusive oligarchy.
If you look at the founders of the US, the reason for all the rules and checks and balances was to try to stop this happening. They, quite rightly, knew that 'mere democracy' was a dangerous thing.
They might give the kid a partial immunity deal if he gives up someone in office or the Obama campaign.
It's been reported that his father is an ultra-liberal Democrat in state office - who does have some serious connections with the Obama campaign.
IF (big "if") there is any link to any campaign, then we have almost the exact same thing as Watergate going on here. This would then be the first "-gate" scandal since the original that actually deserves the name.
Can anyone say "what did they know and when did they know it?"
I hope they threaten this guy with serious jailtime and he implicates the Obama campaign in return for immunity.
Even on services that don't you can always one of the questions that allow a string and set it to some long string of capital and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation chars.
One of my Dads physicist friends said of Hawking "he's never done enough original work to justify his reputation. He's just a populariser of other people's work. People only worship him because he looks like Davros".
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
What I like about this story is a tribute to John Harrison, one of the many smart people that Newton tried to destroy professionally.
Hawking who has Newton's job at Cambridge and wrote a great essay about Newton's nastiness
So in an odd sort of way he's apologising to Harrison for being screwed by a previous Lucasian Professor. It's like the Vatican apologising to Galileo.
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He would have got sue, just executed.
I didn't say which country did I...
Well, sabotage away then.
Make players that cost $100 and make the disc premium $1-2 more than standard DVDs ($15 for a new release DVD during the first week of sale at Walmart!) and you can even sell it during the recession.
BluRay was never optimised for this case from what I can see. DVD, like CDs, seemed to be designed from the start to produce very cheap players. And on a mainstream TV you can see the difference between DVD and VHS. BluRay seemed to be aimed at the ultra high end market from the start. If you're spending a couple of thousand dollars on your TV, you're not going to worry about an extra few hundred on the player. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it ends up like LaserDisc, especially if the economy goes into recession or even depression.
Someone I knew deleted the O/S from firmware on all the routers. The O/S was running happily in memory until he got fired and the network was running for several weeks after he was canned.
That seems incredibly illegal to me. He's lucky he didn't get sued.
I've used Unix in various flavors for over 20 years (It's kind of like kissing my sister, I don't like it much, but it doesn't scare me.) I have also developed apps for Windows. Some of which likely run on your electric utilities dispatch and trading floors. (Only the Access components should scare you, I tried to kill/replace them but they were too entrenched and useful for a few.)
This post is the reason the managers hate us.
You should mention this at interviews.
You are the first person to understand my user name.
Though I'll admit that I'd feel much better about the project if they accomplished something large but nevertheless more modest, like say a suspension bridge using nanotubes. Though since steel cable serves perfectly well for that and will presumably be cheaper even when we can make suspension-bridge length nano-cables, that would be nothing but a feel-good exercise for people like me rather than a practical application.
What about a super strong wire to stretch across roads to behead terrorists when they try to escape on motor cycles.
They used to include USD conversions but now the numbers take up too much space.
You have been trolled by /.
You must be ne[checks ID]. Oh nothing.
Hell, I use it only for the spam. That MI5Victim bloke is the highlight of USENET!
I this news guess that means Comcast is working for MI5 too.
The orginal reason MP3 was more widely supported was because you could use a cheap slow/low power microcontroller and and a move most of the decoding into hardware. The hardware codecs all support MP3 and none of them support vorbis. If you use an expensive/high power enough microcontroller you can do any codec in software. But its one of these situations where the needs of the many (cheap player/long battery life) outweigh the needs of the few (support for fringe codecs).
Sick of this nonsense, meaning your 2GB memory is actually only 1.8GB plus some non removable crap, and not one but 2 drive letters to deal with :-(
If you're of the crap I think you're thinking of it is removable -
http://www.u3.com/uninstall/
They _really_ screwed up and posted the journalist's email address for the byline, so thousands of picky slashdotters can politely point out the difference between copyright and copy protection...
He has stepped into a nest of pedants. Either that or he's starting a business targetted at them and wants to collect email addresses.
Smaller size ? smaller than CD means no packaging, no physical album art, easier to lose...
You could sell them with a small plastic microscope like device to view the album art and lyrics.
From your link
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage
From Courage to Liberty
From Liberty to Abundance
From Abundance to Selfishness
From Selfishness to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependency
From Dependency back into Bondage
I don't really see that any of these are inevitable, particularly the first one or the last three. If look at the end of Athens it was eventually taken over by a foreign tyrant, not destroyed by apathy.
Yeah, they should mention that it doesn't work on the Gnogg (formerly GnoggPod) either, since that only supports OggVorbis stored on foot diameter spools of one inch tapes.
If the media weren't so biased, every new format would mention that it can't be used with the Gnogg.
So the purpose of the state is... to prevent the formation of states?
If you actually look at history, you'll find that despotic states most frequently arise not from anarchy but from disorganization.
No the purpose of Democratic Republics like the US is to stop despotism.
The problem is that these files ended up in the master copy. Of course they should have diffed that against a know good Microsoft RTM disk in this case to make sure that the only changes were intentional ones, so yeah someone low level is going to get fired.
He's a bit wild eyed, but there is some truth in what he says.
I actually prefer some of the spoofs of wikipedia to the real thing these days. Wikipedia admins take themselves way to seriously as guardians of the Absolute Truth. I've read some painfully biased articles on Wikipedia, and it's pretty clear looking at the history that any attempt to edit them would result in a ban. Now the spoof sites exist to attack every idea, and that makes them less likely to withold bad news about the 'good guys'.
Of course, any attempt to mention these sites on Wikipedia means an instant ban.
Are we allowed to chuckle at the drift away from Wikipedia's original, relatively anarchist philosophy?
I've always found anarchists to be a bit naive about the way the world works. Historically the state of anarchy in countries has been the excuse some 'strong leader' needed to take over, or have turned into mob rule or domination by an abusive oligarchy.
If you look at the founders of the US, the reason for all the rules and checks and balances was to try to stop this happening. They, quite rightly, knew that 'mere democracy' was a dangerous thing.
Yeah, the OP really got pwned.
They might give the kid a partial immunity deal if he gives up someone in office or the Obama campaign.
It's been reported that his father is an ultra-liberal Democrat in state office - who does have some serious connections with the Obama campaign.
IF (big "if") there is any link to any campaign, then we have almost the exact same thing as Watergate going on here. This would then be the first "-gate" scandal since the original that actually deserves the name.
Can anyone say "what did they know and when did they know it?"
I hope they threaten this guy with serious jailtime and he implicates the Obama campaign in return for immunity.
Yeah, just like the punishment to the Watergate burglars was the same as that meted out to regular burglars.
Fact is bugging your political opponents is Serious Business legally.
Even on services that don't you can always one of the questions that allow a string and set it to some long string of capital and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation chars.
E.g place of birth
N3ArAlph@C3ntur1!
One of my Dads physicist friends said of Hawking "he's never done enough original work to justify his reputation. He's just a populariser of other people's work. People only worship him because he looks like Davros".
Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
What I like about this story is a tribute to John Harrison, one of the many smart people that Newton tried to destroy professionally.
Hawking who has Newton's job at Cambridge and wrote a great essay about Newton's nastiness
http://www.bluekaffee.com/topicview.php?post=1628670
So in an odd sort of way he's apologising to Harrison for being screwed by a previous Lucasian Professor. It's like the Vatican apologising to Galileo.