Totally agree that music industry is just plain greedy. I bet nobody will give a **** about cutting big-name artists profit 90% or even more. But I do care about the prospect of indie music because if the method in downloading music free is as easy as (or easier than) the legal way, these indie musicians will have to live hand-to-mouth.
Don't tell me about getting a decent living off doing gigs. Indie artists could drive during day, doing show by night, day after day and still only be able to afford to have big mac meals.
Without proper way to protect the artists right, it is destroying creativity because they couldn't afford it.
Does it need to be directional? Or else someone will need to stick very many of them to cover all angles. BTW, does digital camera / video cam always uses an infra-red beam?
Dole out couple millions (not even pocket change) to UC Berkeley (or whatever good school) to keep handful of 'research' students alive and code for the prototype. In one year, release beta and open source it. By the second year, you've probably got an OS as robust (not compatibility) as Vista.
For myself, I'm pretty much a PC gamer. It's odd and I don't know when I started but now I prefer keyboard/mouse.
When I was young I had an Apple IIe but I drooled over a Nintendo which I never got. Now it's the reverse. Somehow I despise console and just do PC gaming.
Didn't we talk about it for the last 10-15 years? *Yawn* Until it is so significant that water permanently encroached dry grounds, who/government will notice or care? In where I live, this summer is frigging cold compare to last few years!!
It seems to me we've reached a functional plateau with regards to the "output" we receive from video games, the video and the audio. Sure, the graphics continue to improve, but better graphics aren't really going to change the gameplay experience that much. Also, the addition of sheer processing power isn't going to add much to the equation either, aside from perhaps slightly better bot AI and more complex simulations.
I think the experience will be totally different if the graphics are as real as we see in real world, and if the AI are as intelligent as human. We have tremedous progress but we're no where near it.
I agree that the interface is something that needs big change to improve the gaming experience. However, making a d-pad wireless and break em into two pieces doesn't sound like a 'shift' to me. What I really want is affordable panoramic 3D display where player can actually interact with the environment (similar to virtual golf). I was at an SGI facility watching a demo of stereoscopic projection display. The image is vivid and stunning yet coarse and simple (and cost SGI $$). I'll drooling if one day we'll have such capability on desktop at very high resolution...
Dude, maybe you don't get it, or I just explained it badly (I think I need to retake ENG 101). I do have a lot of sympathy for the callers and that's why I suggest not to 'abuse' them with personal questions.
Dude, talking about twisted priorities. Take a look at these figures:
Chinese space exploration budget: ~US$2B
NASA budget: ~US$16B
China population: 1300M
US population: 295M
1 Chinese Citizen's Share: US$1.54
1 US Citizen's Share: US$54.24
1:35
China GDP per capita: US$5600
US GDP per capita: US$40100
1:7
China GDP: 7.26T
US GDP: 11.75T
"Obsolete equipments"? Have you worked in the NASA building rockets and spyed in the Chinese space agency? When Chinese goverment got something working it's ALWAYS because of a draconian government (so is when something goes terribly wrong). Dude, US government is taking effectively 5 times more than the chinese government for your space program.
"...Mars shot and be done with"? Not before the Republican wins again and they boost the budget by 10 times, not counting the additional number of years.
"a draconian government mandate at the back of its ten millions of poor destitute citizenry". In US, we have Bush and 37M people in poverty.
This sounds all interested or even fun to read it, but I don't think this is fair to the telemarketer (caller). A lot of the questions are personal... you may argue that's exactly what they're trying to do. But look, these are just low life people who's trying to make a buck or two. Some may even broke down and quit and lost their last source of income.
May be the questions can be directed at the telemarketing company (or his/her manager) instead? Like, "In a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 as totally agree, how would you rate the statement 'your boss is an a-hole'?".
Metaslash, an Alaska-based company introduces the BasMonitor, a LCD-based monitor system that will only light up high grey-shade pixels on the display. The intend is to train user to eventually be able to utilize a computer without looking at the monitor.
The grey-shade will dynamically adjusted between 250-255 depending on how frequent the user look at the monitor using a built-in web-cam and fuzzy logic-programmed FPGA using LOGO emulation.
According to Bill, the manager who's piloting the trial use, "BasMonitors allow developers to read marketing collaterals as spec. without looking at the monitor. Not only it improves efficiency, it will dramatically cut cost in future need of monitor purchase. We are also planning to buy one BasMonitor for the testing department in which they'll use it on a rotational basis. Imagine streamlining the entire company by only purchasing one monitor!"
Mind that I don't mean to troll. Being in some administrative role, it's always the dilemma of writing down some rules/regulations or be more flexible. If you have rules, people will refer these as redtap, BS, bureaucracies. When somebody breaks the norm, or so something silly, people will yell and holla wtf, and the culprit will ask "where's the rule?"
Honestly I never figure this one out myself. I think rules are for idiots. According to Dogbert, we're all idiots at times. Aren't we?
What you didn't realize is that the USB 'key' actually plugs into a USB extension cable, in which is connected to the 'brain' of the car - Windows Vista (duh!).
Compare and contrast with, say, the RIAA, who flatly deny that you buy music, rather "a license to listen", and run the upgrade treadmill - buy on vinyl, buy on cassette, buy on CD, buy on DVD-A, buy online - but tie it up in DRM so you'll still have to pay for a copy for the office and your car too.
Sure I agree I should only have to pay once for the right to use it and not tied up by the medium. But unless some genius comes up with a way that will prevent 'illegal use' - ie even if MPAA makes available a movie for download and however many times/ways they copy it for $1/movie, this dude can turn around and put it up P2P and MPAA will only take $1. The world needs a way to do this fairly between producer/consumer and currently I don't see any good way other than yell and holla everytime MPAA/RIAA pops up here.
computer science program should not be about specific platform/language. Having a com sci degree means that one can pick up the 7 feet manual and get their hands dirty.
Why? As if it is not noisy, hot or big enough? If it is about speed, FLASH will do that trick. Yeah it's much smaller but now it's drastically cheaper than few years ago and I think laptop use requires mobility than storage space.
I've spent much more time enjoy reading movie reviews on rottentomatoes than watch the actual movie at theatre. For the last five years I go the theatre once (at most twice in a odd year) every year.
I don't think it's right to judge those people being stupid, that they are more willing to work for free drink than the additional pay. If the workers are happier getting free drink that are taken care by the company, so be it. It's not only about the monetary value of the drinks they're getting.
At the end, the workers are happier and it's good for the company and the employee. What does that has to do with stupidity?
Note: I don't download their shite either. If it isn't on the radio.. I just won't hear it.
If it's not on the radio, you won't hear it? That makes the recording company wins too! Because the radio plays exactly those shite!
What for? Opera is still a tiny download (smaller than Firefox), and most features are hidden and/or deactivated by default anyway. The only time you'll notice the BT support is if you want to download something through BT, in which case... Well, you get the idea.
I don't know about you but I thought most/.ers on the entire argument about Windoze/IE is on a philosophical stance: thou cannot bundle unrelated software to the main software intended. Based on your statement one could say that the only time user will notice IE is if one click on an http link or that damned evil icon. If one have a copy of the Firefox/Opera then he's not notice a thing about IE either.
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Is that possible? The chase for lower voltage -> less heat -> speed up the clock?
Don't tell me about getting a decent living off doing gigs. Indie artists could drive during day, doing show by night, day after day and still only be able to afford to have big mac meals.
Without proper way to protect the artists right, it is destroying creativity because they couldn't afford it.
Does it need to be directional? Or else someone will need to stick very many of them to cover all angles. BTW, does digital camera / video cam always uses an infra-red beam?
Well... some people just never get it.
When I was young I had an Apple IIe but I drooled over a Nintendo which I never got. Now it's the reverse. Somehow I despise console and just do PC gaming.
Didn't we talk about it for the last 10-15 years? *Yawn* Until it is so significant that water permanently encroached dry grounds, who/government will notice or care? In where I live, this summer is frigging cold compare to last few years!!
It seems to me we've reached a functional plateau with regards to the "output" we receive from video games, the video and the audio. Sure, the graphics continue to improve, but better graphics aren't really going to change the gameplay experience that much. Also, the addition of sheer processing power isn't going to add much to the equation either, aside from perhaps slightly better bot AI and more complex simulations.
I think the experience will be totally different if the graphics are as real as we see in real world, and if the AI are as intelligent as human. We have tremedous progress but we're no where near it.
I agree that the interface is something that needs big change to improve the gaming experience. However, making a d-pad wireless and break em into two pieces doesn't sound like a 'shift' to me. What I really want is affordable panoramic 3D display where player can actually interact with the environment (similar to virtual golf). I was at an SGI facility watching a demo of stereoscopic projection display. The image is vivid and stunning yet coarse and simple (and cost SGI $$). I'll drooling if one day we'll have such capability on desktop at very high resolution...
and a ssh session to the earth simulator.
Dude, maybe you don't get it, or I just explained it badly (I think I need to retake ENG 101). I do have a lot of sympathy for the callers and that's why I suggest not to 'abuse' them with personal questions.
Chinese space exploration budget: ~US$2B
NASA budget: ~US$16B
China population: 1300M
US population: 295M
1 Chinese Citizen's Share: US$1.54
1 US Citizen's Share: US$54.24
1:35
China GDP per capita: US$5600
US GDP per capita: US$40100
1:7
China GDP: 7.26T
US GDP: 11.75T
"Obsolete equipments"? Have you worked in the NASA building rockets and spyed in the Chinese space agency? When Chinese goverment got something working it's ALWAYS because of a draconian government (so is when something goes terribly wrong). Dude, US government is taking effectively 5 times more than the chinese government for your space program.
"...Mars shot and be done with"? Not before the Republican wins again and they boost the budget by 10 times, not counting the additional number of years.
"a draconian government mandate at the back of its ten millions of poor destitute citizenry". In US, we have Bush and 37M people in poverty.
May be the questions can be directed at the telemarketing company (or his/her manager) instead? Like, "In a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 as totally agree, how would you rate the statement 'your boss is an a-hole'?".
The grey-shade will dynamically adjusted between 250-255 depending on how frequent the user look at the monitor using a built-in web-cam and fuzzy logic-programmed FPGA using LOGO emulation.
According to Bill, the manager who's piloting the trial use, "BasMonitors allow developers to read marketing collaterals as spec. without looking at the monitor. Not only it improves efficiency, it will dramatically cut cost in future need of monitor purchase. We are also planning to buy one BasMonitor for the testing department in which they'll use it on a rotational basis. Imagine streamlining the entire company by only purchasing one monitor!"
Honestly I never figure this one out myself. I think rules are for idiots. According to Dogbert, we're all idiots at times. Aren't we?
What you didn't realize is that the USB 'key' actually plugs into a USB extension cable, in which is connected to the 'brain' of the car - Windows Vista (duh!).
Sure I agree I should only have to pay once for the right to use it and not tied up by the medium. But unless some genius comes up with a way that will prevent 'illegal use' - ie even if MPAA makes available a movie for download and however many times/ways they copy it for $1/movie, this dude can turn around and put it up P2P and MPAA will only take $1. The world needs a way to do this fairly between producer/consumer and currently I don't see any good way other than yell and holla everytime MPAA/RIAA pops up here.
computer science program should not be about specific platform/language. Having a com sci degree means that one can pick up the 7 feet manual and get their hands dirty.
Why? As if it is not noisy, hot or big enough? If it is about speed, FLASH will do that trick. Yeah it's much smaller but now it's drastically cheaper than few years ago and I think laptop use requires mobility than storage space.
Yeah both dudes did it the illegal way, but once again, it proves that spamming works!
I've spent much more time enjoy reading movie reviews on rottentomatoes than watch the actual movie at theatre. For the last five years I go the theatre once (at most twice in a odd year) every year.
I don't think it's right to judge those people being stupid, that they are more willing to work for free drink than the additional pay. If the workers are happier getting free drink that are taken care by the company, so be it. It's not only about the monetary value of the drinks they're getting. At the end, the workers are happier and it's good for the company and the employee. What does that has to do with stupidity?
...we can have legal users register with the government for legal use, and leave the illegal users to conduct their business underground!!
Note: I don't download their shite either. If it isn't on the radio.. I just won't hear it. If it's not on the radio, you won't hear it? That makes the recording company wins too! Because the radio plays exactly those shite!
Buy any of the product above and receive the package "operate a nuclear power plant a day" free!
Can I get cash instead of the vacation package if I win?
I don't know about you but I thought most /.ers on the entire argument about Windoze/IE is on a philosophical stance: thou cannot bundle unrelated software to the main software intended. Based on your statement one could say that the only time user will notice IE is if one click on an http link or that damned evil icon. If one have a copy of the Firefox/Opera then he's not notice a thing about IE either.