I have to second the motion. There is something to be said for letting something go out with a bang. It had it's run, and while we might have wished it was longer, it is done. Dragging it on has nowhere to go but down.
Most of the time when human cloning is talked about in a serious way, what is really being discussed is cloaned organs. Now, you never hear that in the news because someone making a copy of their speen is less newsworthy than some mad scientist trying to copy whole people. Almost all of the serious reserch is geared towards specific parts, ont whole people.
I don't know. I think building all those country acreages helps combat global warming. After all, it doesn't take many city drivers who are unused to the country running over stray cows to make a measurable difference in methane output.
How about the same thing? I live in Montreal, so the music scene is great. When there is a good band playing in the pubs and bars that cater to that croud, the age range is from 18 to ancient. And the bands are always happy to help you spend money on them.
I think you may have forgotten to carry a 1 in that math. Assuming that you get roughly 1 minute of music per MB, which can go up or down depending on compression, but is an OK average for quick and dirty math. 160 GB * 1024 = 163840 minutes of music = 2730 hours of music = 113.75 days of music. Nonstop.
I don't know about that. All three of those fall into a pretty narrow genre of comedy show. Could you really see someone pitching an animated show done in the style of Friends or the X-Files to any of the networks? And I mean that as a show designed to run in prime time, not Saturday morning or right after school hours.
Yeah, but I doubt that there are more than one or two businesses out there running machines with those specs. Imagine being the IT department deciding if they should upgrade the OS on 2000 beige boxes that have P4s and 1 GB of RAM or less.
There will be a tipping point eventually. 'Eventually' might be another 10 years, but it will happen. However, I doubt that the tipping point will be recognizable until two or three years after the fact.
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The Today Show hasn't been updated since the 1st because that was the last episode broadcast before the writers strike. It will be happening to more and more shows as the backlog of taped episodes runs out.
Here are my guesses. That is all they are because much of this was standardized by the time I even know it existed. I think it has a lot to do with the time it got started.
PDF would have had strikes against it due to the overhead. When the standards were established it would have still been Acrobat 4 and 5, which had big overhead at the time. Also, the community has always had a Linux and Mac component. Acrobat has not always been available for all.
Tiff is just a brutal format. Its compatibility between programs can be a little sketchy. Also, I do not believe that it allows for multiple image dimensions within the same file. Also does not allow attachment of txt or nfo files for metadata purposes. Also, many platforms do not include software to display tiff files by default. Where as with the rar and zip files, if you don't have a specific reader you can always just expand them and use the jpgs.
Marvel, and comics in general, have a problem here. It is the same problem that the other entertainment industries are facing. Scanned comics are already a reality online. They are on the torrent sites right beside the music and movies.
However, one thing that makes digital comics a little different from other media is that the community has had to create their own file formats, standards and viewing software. While the means to play movies and music files have been built in for as long as they have been technically possible, there is no long standing computer format designed to show a series of pictures. So, the community has created their own standards in using re-named zip and rar files and viewing applications created to display them.
So, now Marvel is trying to get into the digital market. They have a problem here though. The market already has some well defined segments. The first is the people who already read comics on the computer. This is going to be a hard segment to win over. Not only do they have their own practises and conventions, but their selection is up to date and in-depth. 99.9% of the (surviving) comics ever produced by Marvel or DC are available, from WWII right up to the new releases each Wednesday. Trying to compete with this using not simply a limited, protected format but one that is incomparable will be vary hard.
The next market segment is comic fans who do no already download. This is going to be a small market. It is limited to those who are not digitally inclined and thus poor targets for any digital service, or who have chosen not to download for various reasons.
The final market available are people who are not currently into comics. Unfortunately for Marvel, traditionally when launching a new service the smallest returns are going to come from outside the established fanbase. And those who become interested are likely to divert to the 'pirate' comics scene if only to avoid having all the surprises spoiled six months before they can read them.
Is this worth doing? Absolutely. I suspect that it won't take much interest for Marvel to at least break even. Costs on this have to be minimal, and much of it can be written off as basic archiving work that is necessary anyways or possibly already done for other projects in the past. It is also good to see them start to look at new distribution channels. As an industry, they have been fossilized for the past 20 years.
Still, you would think that after a watching each other, one of the various entertainment industries would work with, or at least follow, the communities when it came to digital media.
In other words, every time a computer in England or Germany needs to talk to one in China, India or Japan, it gets run through hardware in the United States, right?
By the time the technology is in place to seriously compromise the add revenues of traditional broadcast, the same technology will be in place to (potentially) replace it. For every house with a TiVo or Media Centre in place to skip commercials there is one more house to sell direct downloads to. Right now? No. Soon? Sooner than many expect.
Well, as of January, Apple claims to have sold over 50 million episodes of various series through iTunes. The framework is there, and so is the proof of concept. Give it a couple years.
Besides, as far as I can tell, the demo model for games seems to work. At the very least, someone thinks it does. Many new games release a demo before launch. WoW has frequent 14 day trial periods. One of the most popular features on XBox live are demo downloads. So, the people with the money seem to think it works.
Things will shift, but there is too much potential money in mass entertainment for it to disappear. Even if the monetary return per eyeball watching drops, anything that can convince several million people to tune in, or whatever the future equivalent, will be worth cash to someone.
My guess? Direct downloads supported by 'channels' that serve up the first few episodes of random series to get people interested. Different series will aim at very niche markets. You really don't need a very large percentage of the population to support a TV series. Roughly 200,000 people (which is nothing when your potential audience is everyone worldwide) paying up $2-$3 (aka pocket change) per episode and you have a reliable budget of a half million per. You can make some damn fine television for $500,000 an episode.
I have to agree that there are a lot of bias on display in the review. On the other hand, he is aware of, and upfront about, all of them. And does a good job explaining why he is biased one way or another. Also does a good job giving enough of a look that you can make some determinations yourself. I have a lot of respect for that. It makes for a stronger review.
As I understand it, part of why everyone is so excited about e-paper is that the image remains on the page when the power is no longer being applied. So, the fail-proof way around ANY e-paper DRM is just take out the batteries before you photocopy/scan it.
Well, it appears that Slashdot will not post the character for Mu. So, the first ATX in my above post was supposed to be uATX (with a Mu in front). AKA microATX.
We are starting to see this on ATX boards where space is more of a premium. Lots of boards with just DVI/HDMI ports, no VGA. Seen a bunch without any IDE ports, and few come with more than 1 any more. Saw my first board the other day missing the PS2 mouse port. Still a PS2 keyboard port though for emergency/recovery purposes. Give it a little longer and it will start filtering into the standard ATX boards.
Well, as far as I can tell, these types of methods don't do much to reduce the size of the storms. They simply nudge it a little on the theory that a small shove early on means missing a city by 50 km later on.
And as far as I understand, hurricanes and related storms gain energy while over water and really only start dissipating it over land. So, even if they could keep it circling in the Atlantic, the danger would be that the storm keeps growing and growing. Besides, there is so much shipping in the Atlantic that it would be imposable to keep it off the trade routes.
Yeah, there is a reason that it will be a cold day in hell before someone like this would be willing to go on the The Daily Show. It is really sad when the 'reporter' with the fewest constraints and greatest record of calling bullshit is on a comedy network.
I think this thread is somewhat unintentionally misleading. What is presented here is not THE control scheme for Smash Brothers. It is one of four options available to players. http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/various01.html So, you can use the Wii Remote. Or the Remote+Nunchuck. Or the Classic controller. Or the Gamecube controller. Some are obviously more ideal than others. The one that is being focused on here, the Wii Remote by itself, is obviously the most limited of the four to design for. I suspect that few people will play with just this, but I think it is neat that they have built in the option.
I do believe that this invention is known as an Archimede's Screw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_screw The fact that it is named after a dead Greek should tell you how well known the principles of it are.
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I have to second the motion. There is something to be said for letting something go out with a bang. It had it's run, and while we might have wished it was longer, it is done. Dragging it on has nowhere to go but down.
I think any open public trial would be a step up.
Most of the time when human cloning is talked about in a serious way, what is really being discussed is cloaned organs. Now, you never hear that in the news because someone making a copy of their speen is less newsworthy than some mad scientist trying to copy whole people. Almost all of the serious reserch is geared towards specific parts, ont whole people.
I don't know. I think building all those country acreages helps combat global warming. After all, it doesn't take many city drivers who are unused to the country running over stray cows to make a measurable difference in methane output.
I think that this proves the GPs point more than anything. As long as a format provides tangible benefits it will be accepted to some extent.
How about the same thing? I live in Montreal, so the music scene is great. When there is a good band playing in the pubs and bars that cater to that croud, the age range is from 18 to ancient. And the bands are always happy to help you spend money on them.
I think you may have forgotten to carry a 1 in that math.
Assuming that you get roughly 1 minute of music per MB, which can go up or down depending on compression, but is an OK average for quick and dirty math.
160 GB * 1024
= 163840 minutes of music
= 2730 hours of music
= 113.75 days of music. Nonstop.
That's roughly 4 months.
I don't know about that. All three of those fall into a pretty narrow genre of comedy show. Could you really see someone pitching an animated show done in the style of Friends or the X-Files to any of the networks? And I mean that as a show designed to run in prime time, not Saturday morning or right after school hours.
Yeah, but I doubt that there are more than one or two businesses out there running machines with those specs. Imagine being the IT department deciding if they should upgrade the OS on 2000 beige boxes that have P4s and 1 GB of RAM or less.
There will be a tipping point eventually. 'Eventually' might be another 10 years, but it will happen. However, I doubt that the tipping point will be recognizable until two or three years after the fact.
The Today Show hasn't been updated since the 1st because that was the last episode broadcast before the writers strike. It will be happening to more and more shows as the backlog of taped episodes runs out.
Here are my guesses. That is all they are because much of this was standardized by the time I even know it existed. I think it has a lot to do with the time it got started.
PDF would have had strikes against it due to the overhead. When the standards were established it would have still been Acrobat 4 and 5, which had big overhead at the time. Also, the community has always had a Linux and Mac component. Acrobat has not always been available for all.
Tiff is just a brutal format. Its compatibility between programs can be a little sketchy. Also, I do not believe that it allows for multiple image dimensions within the same file. Also does not allow attachment of txt or nfo files for metadata purposes. Also, many platforms do not include software to display tiff files by default. Where as with the rar and zip files, if you don't have a specific reader you can always just expand them and use the jpgs.
So, those are my best guesses.
Marvel, and comics in general, have a problem here. It is the same problem that the other entertainment industries are facing. Scanned comics are already a reality online. They are on the torrent sites right beside the music and movies.
However, one thing that makes digital comics a little different from other media is that the community has had to create their own file formats, standards and viewing software. While the means to play movies and music files have been built in for as long as they have been technically possible, there is no long standing computer format designed to show a series of pictures. So, the community has created their own standards in using re-named zip and rar files and viewing applications created to display them.
So, now Marvel is trying to get into the digital market. They have a problem here though. The market already has some well defined segments. The first is the people who already read comics on the computer. This is going to be a hard segment to win over. Not only do they have their own practises and conventions, but their selection is up to date and in-depth. 99.9% of the (surviving) comics ever produced by Marvel or DC are available, from WWII right up to the new releases each Wednesday. Trying to compete with this using not simply a limited, protected format but one that is incomparable will be vary hard.
The next market segment is comic fans who do no already download. This is going to be a small market. It is limited to those who are not digitally inclined and thus poor targets for any digital service, or who have chosen not to download for various reasons.
The final market available are people who are not currently into comics. Unfortunately for Marvel, traditionally when launching a new service the smallest returns are going to come from outside the established fanbase. And those who become interested are likely to divert to the 'pirate' comics scene if only to avoid having all the surprises spoiled six months before they can read them.
Is this worth doing? Absolutely. I suspect that it won't take much interest for Marvel to at least break even. Costs on this have to be minimal, and much of it can be written off as basic archiving work that is necessary anyways or possibly already done for other projects in the past. It is also good to see them start to look at new distribution channels. As an industry, they have been fossilized for the past 20 years.
Still, you would think that after a watching each other, one of the various entertainment industries would work with, or at least follow, the communities when it came to digital media.
In other words, every time a computer in England or Germany needs to talk to one in China, India or Japan, it gets run through hardware in the United States, right?
By the time the technology is in place to seriously compromise the add revenues of traditional broadcast, the same technology will be in place to (potentially) replace it. For every house with a TiVo or Media Centre in place to skip commercials there is one more house to sell direct downloads to. Right now? No. Soon? Sooner than many expect.
Well, as of January, Apple claims to have sold over 50 million episodes of various series through iTunes. The framework is there, and so is the proof of concept. Give it a couple years.
Besides, as far as I can tell, the demo model for games seems to work. At the very least, someone thinks it does. Many new games release a demo before launch. WoW has frequent 14 day trial periods. One of the most popular features on XBox live are demo downloads. So, the people with the money seem to think it works.
Things will shift, but there is too much potential money in mass entertainment for it to disappear. Even if the monetary return per eyeball watching drops, anything that can convince several million people to tune in, or whatever the future equivalent, will be worth cash to someone.
My guess? Direct downloads supported by 'channels' that serve up the first few episodes of random series to get people interested. Different series will aim at very niche markets. You really don't need a very large percentage of the population to support a TV series. Roughly 200,000 people (which is nothing when your potential audience is everyone worldwide) paying up $2-$3 (aka pocket change) per episode and you have a reliable budget of a half million per. You can make some damn fine television for $500,000 an episode.
I have to agree that there are a lot of bias on display in the review. On the other hand, he is aware of, and upfront about, all of them. And does a good job explaining why he is biased one way or another. Also does a good job giving enough of a look that you can make some determinations yourself. I have a lot of respect for that. It makes for a stronger review.
As I understand it, part of why everyone is so excited about e-paper is that the image remains on the page when the power is no longer being applied. So, the fail-proof way around ANY e-paper DRM is just take out the batteries before you photocopy/scan it.
Well, it appears that Slashdot will not post the character for Mu. So, the first ATX in my above post was supposed to be uATX (with a Mu in front). AKA microATX.
We are starting to see this on ATX boards where space is more of a premium. Lots of boards with just DVI/HDMI ports, no VGA. Seen a bunch without any IDE ports, and few come with more than 1 any more. Saw my first board the other day missing the PS2 mouse port. Still a PS2 keyboard port though for emergency/recovery purposes. Give it a little longer and it will start filtering into the standard ATX boards.
Well, as far as I can tell, these types of methods don't do much to reduce the size of the storms. They simply nudge it a little on the theory that a small shove early on means missing a city by 50 km later on.
And as far as I understand, hurricanes and related storms gain energy while over water and really only start dissipating it over land. So, even if they could keep it circling in the Atlantic, the danger would be that the storm keeps growing and growing. Besides, there is so much shipping in the Atlantic that it would be imposable to keep it off the trade routes.
Yeah, there is a reason that it will be a cold day in hell before someone like this would be willing to go on the The Daily Show. It is really sad when the 'reporter' with the fewest constraints and greatest record of calling bullshit is on a comedy network.
I think this thread is somewhat unintentionally misleading. What is presented here is not THE control scheme for Smash Brothers. It is one of four options available to players.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/various01.html
So, you can use the Wii Remote. Or the Remote+Nunchuck. Or the Classic controller. Or the Gamecube controller. Some are obviously more ideal than others. The one that is being focused on here, the Wii Remote by itself, is obviously the most limited of the four to design for. I suspect that few people will play with just this, but I think it is neat that they have built in the option.
I do believe that this invention is known as an Archimede's Screw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_screw
The fact that it is named after a dead Greek should tell you how well known the principles of it are.