but what I don't get is why is this something pertaining only to tapes. if i had a hdd robot, an optical disc robot, or a flash memory robot (i know only of the optical disc robot existing, not sure about the others, but i don't see what's stopping them from doing that if they really want to automate the barcoding), i can just as easily barcode them.
the other disadvantages were technical disadvantages, while the barcoding is definitely a disadvantage that could definitely change. invest some money, make your own hdd or dvd robot, and barcoding comes with it. it's not something the hdd itself has that's preventing the barcoding from happening is what i'm getting at.
I agree with most of what you said, but don't understand why the point of adding the bardcode bit at the end was for. I mean it's not like you can't put barcodes on hdds to be scanned.
However, this introduces a different problem. 500GBs will one day reach that pricing, no doubt about that. But when it does, tape will be even cheaper and probably more dense.
What will eventually replace tape is not hdds, but either flash memory or optical discs. Flash and optical disc both have a speed advantage (especially for seeking) above tape and they're rather durable from being "thrown across the room". They both weigh less than tape and can definitely be inserted/removed in bulk with software. Barcode is once again something I'm not too sure why it was listed because it seems anything can have a barcode, but with optical discs nowadays, it seems you can print your own labels within the drive itself.
The only disadvantage optical discs and flash memory have at the moment is capacity. With Blu-Ray at ~50GB and flash memory capping around ~8GB, it's nowhere close to the 500GB you speak of, however, the chances of optical discs and flash memory catching up and surpassing tape within a few years is not something hard to imagine.
They're planning on opening fedex packages up which they believe to contain DVDs without any other reason to suspect that illegal copies of a DVD is being mailed? I feel that's kind of wrong, for someone to go through my mail or packages just because I ordered some DVDs online (maybe even foreign DVDs I can't get in the states).
Doesn't the law require them to actually have a high probability of some offence before they're allowed to open packages to check its contents.
I was thinking about the same thing. The information that would need to change are the following:
Name Phone Email Address
Some information is obviously changable. Provide a different email address (tons of free ones and you can probably find one that'll forward to your existing account).
Phone number isn't that hard either. You wouldn't want to give employers your cell phone # anyway, but there's plenty of free voicemail online service which also provide a number. http://www.ipkall.com/ is one that I use for VoIP and if I don't answer, it emails me a wav file of the message received. After you confirmed you want to speak them, you can then update them with your real cell phone # or home #.
Address is a bit hard, but if you're willing to shell out a few bucks a month, you can open a P.O. box at your local Post Office or even at your regular UPS Store.
The name is always the tricky one. I would say if you could, give them a nickname. or a few typos in your name might help.
because of the fact they claim for $4/mo, it'll work with Skype and Skype definitely doesn't use SIP and I don't think anyone's figured out how to connect to Skype peers with exsiting SIP clients.
Another thing is there's a lot of hardware out there right now that supports SIP and allows you to use a regular phone for VoIP, so I'm curious if AOL's service will require you to be strapped to your computer or purchase their proprietary hardware (i.e. Skype) or would they actually be "nice" and use a well-supported protocol like SIP.
Deleting won't help at this point. It's gotten to the point where it needs a format and a clean install.
Meanwhile we can decide which websites are no longer needed and don't bother reinstalling them, because they're crap anyways and takes up space and hard to remove.
If you are upgrading an existing sustem to run IE7, your IE6 settings will be imported, and if you happen to have set the rarely touched AutoSearch feature to something other than Microsoft's service, why, IE7 inherits the heathen setting without complaint.
In Léon (or The Professional), when Jean Reno teaches Natalie Portman how to be a hitman, he started training her as a sniper because that gave her the most distance between your target and herself. However, as she got better, the distance slowly got shorter and shorter, until one of the scenes when Jean came out of the shadows with a knife to the neck of his target.
I know movies don't really hold any universal truth, but there just might be something to that. When you're far away, there are a lot more factors in play due to the distance. The closer you are, the more gauranteed kill you have (if you're skilled enough).
I mean if you're going to say gun replaced swords, might as well say rocket launchers replaced guns.
It just sounds weird that customers are paying. I mean if I set up a 800 #, it means I'm footing the charge for each incoming call.
If the ISP creates virtual numbers at a call center/carrier (or whatever they called it), the ISP should be footing the bill that connects where the virtual number is routed from.
if ISPs don't want to foot the bill and want customers to instead, the isp should then tell the users the real phone number to call instead of the virtual number.
[user]=====[virtual #]=====[where isp is located]
the point of virtual numbers is so that people calling that number will be a local call. if you're telling me the ISP is already paying for the connect between virtual # and themselves, then I don't relly see where the problem lies.
If they're only paying some sort of setup fee and montly service charge, then it's the center managing virtual #s that is missing the big picture. as I gave the example above, 800 #s work the same way. users dial a number knowing it's toll free and the call center managing that # will reroute it to the correct place and the person/company that owns that 800# is the one that foots the bill.
Although, how does this technology help? I mean, cameras can be hidden in anything nowadays. Being able to hide cameras in TVs in my opinion won't make much of a difference.
That's exactly the thinking the RIAA and the MPAA want you to believe.
Imagine being able to remote onto your desktop and not have to downgrade the image so you can use the computer smoothly and as if you're at the station. Imagine real time HDTV TV broadcasting over the internet. Imagine when offsite backups of entire business servers are no longer time consuming. Imagine full featured applications delivered over the web: email, office, media players
Those are just a hint of what can be done with extra bandwidth. Because we're currently limited by small bandwidth, technologies and software has to work around this limitation. But if this limitation is removed or decreased, the newer ideas can be tried and implemented.
not sure when you last checked the price of a Dell 20.1" LCD, but it's currently $431 on Dell.com, so compared to Asus' $400 19" LCD, the Dell s defintely a better deal in my opinion.
That's why flexible time work schedules have a great benefit. Come before and after traffic and leave before or after traffic. I remember when times I had to drive into our out of the city during rush hours and what usually took 20mins would be increased to over an hour.
First the bad news. The touch-sensitive buttons are not sensitive enough, and if you change adjustments often, they are a problem. And why did Asus have to use the glare-filter technology? We know it's a general trend, but consider this: Sony, who first developed this technology, doesn't even dare offer it on its own top-of-the-line products. The same monitor without the filter would perform much better.
The selling price, around $400, is far from excessive for a monitor of this quality. The finish is exceptional. It's probably the best-looking monitor available on the market today. And beyond the good looks, the picture is very sharp and the colors are very good in video games. In itself, the PW191 is a good product, but it's obvious that the panel was poorly chosen. It's slower than its competitors, yet doesn't solve the video-noise problems that plague them. We're waiting for the 20" version in the hope that these problems will be taken care of.
For $400, wouldn't the Dell 20.1" LCD be a better pick given the higher resolution and larger screen? Plus I've heard that the 20.1" is a superb monitor. I personally own a Dell 24" LCD and love it. Plus with the panel having problems, why are they ranking this as the 'best' LCD they've seen.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but space on both iPods would steadily increase.
The ability to play video also give them the bigger iPods some marketplace. Currently you can even hook your video iPod into a TV with a regular camcorder cable that splits into composite red, white, and yellow. If the iPod Nano does one day support video, it still has the disadvantage of having a smaller screensize.
Music data might not explode, but imagine the iPod having the capabilities of playing hdtv quality back on your TV (assuming that'll happen one day), your storage space in your iPod would need to be humongous.
Until the day when both 1.5" hdds reach very close to the maximum storage capacity as 2.5" hdds, you'll still see the bigger iPods being created.
Well, if you wanna say copy, Google entered the search realm by copying AltaVista, MSN and Yahoo! but what they did differently was make it better. Would you say Google copied Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps? You can call it copy, you can call it trying to improve, it's the same thing. Microsoft may have enter the mapping business, but I personally like their mapping service better than Google's, although I wish it would work correctly with Firefox.
I'm not exactly sure Google has a search result page that uses Ajax so you never have to click on next page... similar to how live.com currently functions.
This really isn't about copying, it's about taking what works and improving it or taking something inefficient and making it more efficient.
These genres are still great heaps of fun, depending on how the gameplay actually turns out. Recent ones I agree Spore looks amazing. Civilization games are getting better for each release.
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but what I don't get is why is this something pertaining only to tapes. if i had a hdd robot, an optical disc robot, or a flash memory robot (i know only of the optical disc robot existing, not sure about the others, but i don't see what's stopping them from doing that if they really want to automate the barcoding), i can just as easily barcode them.
the other disadvantages were technical disadvantages, while the barcoding is definitely a disadvantage that could definitely change. invest some money, make your own hdd or dvd robot, and barcoding comes with it. it's not something the hdd itself has that's preventing the barcoding from happening is what i'm getting at.
I agree with most of what you said, but don't understand why the point of adding the bardcode bit at the end was for. I mean it's not like you can't put barcodes on hdds to be scanned.
However, this introduces a different problem. 500GBs will one day reach that pricing, no doubt about that. But when it does, tape will be even cheaper and probably more dense.
What will eventually replace tape is not hdds, but either flash memory or optical discs. Flash and optical disc both have a speed advantage (especially for seeking) above tape and they're rather durable from being "thrown across the room". They both weigh less than tape and can definitely be inserted/removed in bulk with software. Barcode is once again something I'm not too sure why it was listed because it seems anything can have a barcode, but with optical discs nowadays, it seems you can print your own labels within the drive itself.
The only disadvantage optical discs and flash memory have at the moment is capacity. With Blu-Ray at ~50GB and flash memory capping around ~8GB, it's nowhere close to the 500GB you speak of, however, the chances of optical discs and flash memory catching up and surpassing tape within a few years is not something hard to imagine.
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same with the download link and the disccusion. only thing you really see are the "here's the link to download" and a bunch of comments.
interesting... i never noticed that. is it new?
They're planning on opening fedex packages up which they believe to contain DVDs without any other reason to suspect that illegal copies of a DVD is being mailed? I feel that's kind of wrong, for someone to go through my mail or packages just because I ordered some DVDs online (maybe even foreign DVDs I can't get in the states).
Doesn't the law require them to actually have a high probability of some offence before they're allowed to open packages to check its contents.
here's engadget's link: http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/08/engadget-and-jo ystiqs-live-coverage-of-sonys-playstation-3-e3-ev/
I was thinking about the same thing. The information that would need to change are the following:
Name
Phone
Email
Address
Some information is obviously changable. Provide a different email address (tons of free ones and you can probably find one that'll forward to your existing account).
Phone number isn't that hard either. You wouldn't want to give employers your cell phone # anyway, but there's plenty of free voicemail online service which also provide a number. http://www.ipkall.com/ is one that I use for VoIP and if I don't answer, it emails me a wav file of the message received. After you confirmed you want to speak them, you can then update them with your real cell phone # or home #.
Address is a bit hard, but if you're willing to shell out a few bucks a month, you can open a P.O. box at your local Post Office or even at your regular UPS Store.
The name is always the tricky one. I would say if you could, give them a nickname. or a few typos in your name might help.
because of the fact they claim for $4/mo, it'll work with Skype and Skype definitely doesn't use SIP and I don't think anyone's figured out how to connect to Skype peers with exsiting SIP clients.
Another thing is there's a lot of hardware out there right now that supports SIP and allows you to use a regular phone for VoIP, so I'm curious if AOL's service will require you to be strapped to your computer or purchase their proprietary hardware (i.e. Skype) or would they actually be "nice" and use a well-supported protocol like SIP.
Deleting won't help at this point. It's gotten to the point where it needs a format and a clean install.
Meanwhile we can decide which websites are no longer needed and don't bother reinstalling them, because they're crap anyways and takes up space and hard to remove.
Think's there's any possibility that they'll use the SIP protocol?
from Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060501-6716 .html
If you are upgrading an existing sustem to run IE7, your IE6 settings will be imported, and if you happen to have set the rarely touched AutoSearch feature to something other than Microsoft's service, why, IE7 inherits the heathen setting without complaint.
In Léon (or The Professional), when Jean Reno teaches Natalie Portman how to be a hitman, he started training her as a sniper because that gave her the most distance between your target and herself. However, as she got better, the distance slowly got shorter and shorter, until one of the scenes when Jean came out of the shadows with a knife to the neck of his target.
I know movies don't really hold any universal truth, but there just might be something to that. When you're far away, there are a lot more factors in play due to the distance. The closer you are, the more gauranteed kill you have (if you're skilled enough).
I mean if you're going to say gun replaced swords, might as well say rocket launchers replaced guns.
It just sounds weird that customers are paying. I mean if I set up a 800 #, it means I'm footing the charge for each incoming call.
If the ISP creates virtual numbers at a call center/carrier (or whatever they called it), the ISP should be footing the bill that connects where the virtual number is routed from.
if ISPs don't want to foot the bill and want customers to instead, the isp should then tell the users the real phone number to call instead of the virtual number.
[user]=====[virtual #]=====[where isp is located]
the point of virtual numbers is so that people calling that number will be a local call. if you're telling me the ISP is already paying for the connect between virtual # and themselves, then I don't relly see where the problem lies.
If they're only paying some sort of setup fee and montly service charge, then it's the center managing virtual #s that is missing the big picture. as I gave the example above, 800 #s work the same way. users dial a number knowing it's toll free and the call center managing that # will reroute it to the correct place and the person/company that owns that 800# is the one that foots the bill.
of course after the 3Q earnings report and having missed their target, they are now down 6% aftermarket (-$1.66)
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/042706-micr
Although, how does this technology help? I mean, cameras can be hidden in anything nowadays. Being able to hide cameras in TVs in my opinion won't make much of a difference.
That's exactly the thinking the RIAA and the MPAA want you to believe.
Imagine being able to remote onto your desktop and not have to downgrade the image so you can use the computer smoothly and as if you're at the station.
Imagine real time HDTV TV broadcasting over the internet.
Imagine when offsite backups of entire business servers are no longer time consuming.
Imagine full featured applications delivered over the web: email, office, media players
Those are just a hint of what can be done with extra bandwidth. Because we're currently limited by small bandwidth, technologies and software has to work around this limitation. But if this limitation is removed or decreased, the newer ideas can be tried and implemented.
There's also rules on top of that where you can find which character to capitalize and where to add symbols and spaces.
not sure when you last checked the price of a Dell 20.1" LCD, but it's currently $431 on Dell.com, so compared to Asus' $400 19" LCD, the Dell s defintely a better deal in my opinion.
That's why flexible time work schedules have a great benefit. Come before and after traffic and leave before or after traffic. I remember when times I had to drive into our out of the city during rush hours and what usually took 20mins would be increased to over an hour.
For $400, wouldn't the Dell 20.1" LCD be a better pick given the higher resolution and larger screen? Plus I've heard that the 20.1" is a superb monitor. I personally own a Dell 24" LCD and love it. Plus with the panel having problems, why are they ranking this as the 'best' LCD they've seen.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but space on both iPods would steadily increase.
The ability to play video also give them the bigger iPods some marketplace. Currently you can even hook your video iPod into a TV with a regular camcorder cable that splits into composite red, white, and yellow. If the iPod Nano does one day support video, it still has the disadvantage of having a smaller screensize.
Music data might not explode, but imagine the iPod having the capabilities of playing hdtv quality back on your TV (assuming that'll happen one day), your storage space in your iPod would need to be humongous.
Until the day when both 1.5" hdds reach very close to the maximum storage capacity as 2.5" hdds, you'll still see the bigger iPods being created.
the summary already says it all. here's the direct link to the gallery: http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/netflix/fram eset.exclude.html
Well, if you wanna say copy, Google entered the search realm by copying AltaVista, MSN and Yahoo! but what they did differently was make it better. Would you say Google copied Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps? You can call it copy, you can call it trying to improve, it's the same thing. Microsoft may have enter the mapping business, but I personally like their mapping service better than Google's, although I wish it would work correctly with Firefox.
I'm not exactly sure Google has a search result page that uses Ajax so you never have to click on next page... similar to how live.com currently functions.
This really isn't about copying, it's about taking what works and improving it or taking something inefficient and making it more efficient.
Other genres created by non-Japanese that I could think of include:
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RTS (WarCraft, C&C) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy#T
Sim games (like SimCity, SimTower, etc)
FPS (Wolfenstein 3D and Doom) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter
These genres are still great heaps of fun, depending on how the gameplay actually turns out. Recent ones I agree Spore looks amazing. Civilization games are getting better for each release.