Photoshop? CS5 is current at version 12.0.3. Plus, Photoshop only started to become amazing at version 7 or so.
Windows 7? Though it's actually version 6.1.
Microsoft Word? Currently at version 14.0. Word only started to become great with Word 95 which was version 7.0.
Google Chrome? They are at version 9 in stable and 11 in development. Personally I think Chrome only started becoming great and a real competitor at version 5 or 6. and on.
I don't think it's that easy. I have never seen someone successfully crack most PC games' multiplayer. The server simply disconnects you if you don't send them a serial that exists in their database of sold serials.
Though this system would be more similar to Steam or WoW. You have a gamer account that you add your keys to and then the system allows that account to play.
With how popular WoW and Steam are, nobody yet has managed to crack them to be able to connect and play on the real severs with other legitimate WoW and Steam players without a real serial key attached to their account.
If the mass of PC hackers can't do it on one of the most popular PC games and platforms then I don't see this happening on a game console.
Though Vinyl often does sound better, but not because it's vinyl.
Vinyl typically uses a different mastering of the audio with much less dynamic range compression and thus sounds much more dynamic. If they would simply put these "better" masterings on CDs or in digital downloads more people would be willing to switch from vinyl.
Or perhaps a better solution. Since its digital why not offer both masterings so the user can choose the sound they like more. Though I can't believe anyone would knowingly choose the dynamic range compressed copies given the choice.
When I flip bits in the audio stream or use a program other than EAC to rip my CDs (WMP, iTunes) I often hear small pops or cracks in the audio. Much like the pops of vinyl. If it's a digital copy, I would rather not have these small but often noticeable imperfections.
Yes, not everyone has the gear to hear these but some do and some really enjoy the music enough and care enough to not want these glitches.
I'm only 22 and I prefer CDs at this point because they are Lossless and DRM-free. Though if digital distribution can provide me with lossless and DRM-free tracks I would not have a problem using that method.
Though I usually buy used CDs off places like Amazon for about $5 a disk so I also believe digital distribution needs to be cheaper as well as better quality if I am to start using it.
The plastic really is a waste seeing as I generally rip that CD to my server once and then never use the physical disk again.
Exactly, I have a 25' HDMI cable running from my PC in my bedroom to my Denon receiver in my living room. Then another 20' HDMI cable running from my receiver to my projector. Also have a 30' USB cable running from my PC to a hub under my couch where I connect various peripherals as well as my wireless mouse/keyboard receiver.
Even when I don't close the door to my bedroom I can't hear it anymore.
Cost of High-speed 22GA HDMI cable is only a dollar a foot on Monoprice.
I play PC games in my living room on my TV from 14' away on the couch. Though my "TV" is a 1080p projector at 136" so I have no problem reading text in my PC games at 1080p resolution from 14" and they do look vastly better than 720p console games.
50ms? When I ping my desktop from my laptop over WiFi the results says 1ms.
If you use a regular USB mouse, then the polling rate is 125hz or 8ms of input lag. The fastest 1000hz mice are 1ms then. Your video card is also set to render 3 frames ahead by default which can be between 0-50ms there (this can be set to 0 though). And finally, unless you are using a CRT, your LCD probably adds somewhere between 5-50ms of framebuffer input lag.
I really don't see how 1ms of wireless lag will be noticeable.
What about remembering one base password and also making up your own mental hash function to use to hash your base password and the url of the website you are logging into. you only need to remember 2 things. Your base password and how to alter it per website. This way you have unlimited unique passwords for now and for forever.
I have been using Google Voice for nearly a year without a phone, it's called Gizmo5. Check out SIP and you will understand the real benefit to Google Voice and why you don't actually need a real phone or any minutes to make and receiver unlimited calls.
I use GV Mobile+ or the Google Voice Webapp and I don't use any of my minutes. I have Google Voice set up to ring my Gizmo5 number for which there is an app for also. This then rings my iPhone through a push notification to the Gizmo5 app and I answer it. It connects be through my unlimited 3G.
For some reason, this official Google Voice app will not let me do this which is really stupid.
This would work just as well on an iPod or iPad with WiFi.
I tried it out, but I can't get it to work properly like GV Mobile+, GV Connect, or even the Google Voice Webapp.
In the settings under the "This Phone" setting, I set a custom number for it to ring. However, when I make a call from the app, it just dials some weird number outbound of the regular iPhone phone app. I don't want it to use my iPhones number and minutes... I want it to use my Gizmo5 number like I can do with GV Mobile+, GV Connect and even the Google Voice Webapp.
Well, either the spacetime machine is designed to only take you to the same location in different times.
Or, having a destination input wouldn't work, because you can't just travel to a destination without traveling through time.
Think about it. Even when you drive from home to work, you aren't just moving through space, you are actually moving through time as well, since as you move, time slows down for you according to relativity. You are always moving through spacetime so there should be only one input to the machine; spacetime.
Space is implied by the location you are in and the time is what you select.
Now granted this is just my view on a science fiction topic:)
I just always thought of "time machines" as "spacetime machines". After all, space and time are really intertwined into one. They aren't simply traveling through time, they are traveling through spacetime. Doc does often mention the "spacetime continuum" throughout the movie so they do realize that space and time are one.
So if you assume the Delorean is a spacetime machine then they should end up in the correct place as well as correct time when traveling through spacetime.
I use VMWare Workstation for much of each day to run MS Office Apps, and it's very useful - but no VM performs well graphically.
I beg to differ. Modern VMs have full hardware acceleration. In many cases they aren't much slower then native. If VMWare can manage 77fps in Half Life 2, then I don't see why it couldn't scroll around a large image smoothly in Photoshop.
One game that comes to mind is Starcraft 2. Even my 4.2Ghz Core i7 930 drops down to 30-40fps in games where there are several hundreds of units on the screen at once. It's not my GPU, thats a 480GTX and its under 50% utilization when this CPU bottleneck occurs.
But other than that, 4Ghz on an i7 is enough to keep any game above 60fps given enough GPU power.
The 4850 is in a few tests, but you can look at the 5770 for the rest, it's quite close to the 4870.
Also, keep in mind a lot of gamers play in 1920x1200 and now 1920x1080, but even in 1680x1050, the 4870 or 5770 fails to exceed 30-40fps average in any recently game.
I've got a GTX480 and at 1920x1200 4xAA, it can be brought under 60fps in the newest games which is why some gamers have 2 of them in SLi.
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Photoshop?
CS5 is current at version 12.0.3. Plus, Photoshop only started to become amazing at version 7 or so.
Windows 7?
Though it's actually version 6.1.
Microsoft Word?
Currently at version 14.0. Word only started to become great with Word 95 which was version 7.0.
Google Chrome?
They are at version 9 in stable and 11 in development. Personally I think Chrome only started becoming great and a real competitor at version 5 or 6. and on.
I wasn't aware the Wii required an internet connection and firmware updates. Or even the Xbox, which came out after the PS2 as well.
If you are confused.
Here is a great article of how piracy works or used to work only a few years ago. I believe it hasn't really changed since then.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060519095624/http://old.wheresthebeef.co.uk/show.php/guide/2600_Guide_to_Internet_Piracy-TYDJ.txt
I don't think it's that easy. I have never seen someone successfully crack most PC games' multiplayer. The server simply disconnects you if you don't send them a serial that exists in their database of sold serials.
Though this system would be more similar to Steam or WoW. You have a gamer account that you add your keys to and then the system allows that account to play.
With how popular WoW and Steam are, nobody yet has managed to crack them to be able to connect and play on the real severs with other legitimate WoW and Steam players without a real serial key attached to their account.
If the mass of PC hackers can't do it on one of the most popular PC games and platforms then I don't see this happening on a game console.
Though Vinyl often does sound better, but not because it's vinyl.
Vinyl typically uses a different mastering of the audio with much less dynamic range compression and thus sounds much more dynamic. If they would simply put these "better" masterings on CDs or in digital downloads more people would be willing to switch from vinyl.
Or perhaps a better solution. Since its digital why not offer both masterings so the user can choose the sound they like more. Though I can't believe anyone would knowingly choose the dynamic range compressed copies given the choice.
When I flip bits in the audio stream or use a program other than EAC to rip my CDs (WMP, iTunes) I often hear small pops or cracks in the audio. Much like the pops of vinyl. If it's a digital copy, I would rather not have these small but often noticeable imperfections.
Yes, not everyone has the gear to hear these but some do and some really enjoy the music enough and care enough to not want these glitches.
Except when you buy your CDs used off Amazon, then it's typically 50% cheaper than digital distribution.
I'm only 22 and I prefer CDs at this point because they are Lossless and DRM-free. Though if digital distribution can provide me with lossless and DRM-free tracks I would not have a problem using that method.
Though I usually buy used CDs off places like Amazon for about $5 a disk so I also believe digital distribution needs to be cheaper as well as better quality if I am to start using it.
The plastic really is a waste seeing as I generally rip that CD to my server once and then never use the physical disk again.
Exactly, I have a 25' HDMI cable running from my PC in my bedroom to my Denon receiver in my living room. Then another 20' HDMI cable running from my receiver to my projector. Also have a 30' USB cable running from my PC to a hub under my couch where I connect various peripherals as well as my wireless mouse/keyboard receiver.
Even when I don't close the door to my bedroom I can't hear it anymore.
Cost of High-speed 22GA HDMI cable is only a dollar a foot on Monoprice.
I play PC games in my living room on my TV from 14' away on the couch. Though my "TV" is a 1080p projector at 136" so I have no problem reading text in my PC games at 1080p resolution from 14" and they do look vastly better than 720p console games.
50ms? When I ping my desktop from my laptop over WiFi the results says 1ms.
If you use a regular USB mouse, then the polling rate is 125hz or 8ms of input lag. The fastest 1000hz mice are 1ms then. Your video card is also set to render 3 frames ahead by default which can be between 0-50ms there (this can be set to 0 though). And finally, unless you are using a CRT, your LCD probably adds somewhere between 5-50ms of framebuffer input lag.
I really don't see how 1ms of wireless lag will be noticeable.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&q=3+Against+1+for+$800#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=jeopardy!+3+Against+1+for+%24800+3+Against+1+for+%241%2C000+%22what+is+%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=ca05a7bb65e82229
I run my sandbox in a sandbox. That ought to be safe enough!
Yeah, the blockbuster store I see online is probably a lie too then.
Usenet has a 720p copy. Probably a torrent too. I think it must have been broadcasted on HDTV and recorded at once point.
That copy looks and sounds great though.
Try renting it. Try buying it. Go on, I'll wait. Oh, you can only get it on E-Bay, for over $100? Yeah, the Mouse took it off the market.
According to Blockbuster.com they have a copy available at my local store.
What about remembering one base password and also making up your own mental hash function to use to hash your base password and the url of the website you are logging into. you only need to remember 2 things. Your base password and how to alter it per website. This way you have unlimited unique passwords for now and for forever.
I have been using Google Voice for nearly a year without a phone, it's called Gizmo5. Check out SIP and you will understand the real benefit to Google Voice and why you don't actually need a real phone or any minutes to make and receiver unlimited calls.
I use GV Mobile+ or the Google Voice Webapp and I don't use any of my minutes. I have Google Voice set up to ring my Gizmo5 number for which there is an app for also. This then rings my iPhone through a push notification to the Gizmo5 app and I answer it. It connects be through my unlimited 3G.
For some reason, this official Google Voice app will not let me do this which is really stupid.
This would work just as well on an iPod or iPad with WiFi.
I tried it out, but I can't get it to work properly like GV Mobile+, GV Connect, or even the Google Voice Webapp.
In the settings under the "This Phone" setting, I set a custom number for it to ring. However, when I make a call from the app, it just dials some weird number outbound of the regular iPhone phone app. I don't want it to use my iPhones number and minutes... I want it to use my Gizmo5 number like I can do with GV Mobile+, GV Connect and even the Google Voice Webapp.
Get it working Google!
Well, either the spacetime machine is designed to only take you to the same location in different times.
Or, having a destination input wouldn't work, because you can't just travel to a destination without traveling through time.
Think about it. Even when you drive from home to work, you aren't just moving through space, you are actually moving through time as well, since as you move, time slows down for you according to relativity. You are always moving through spacetime so there should be only one input to the machine; spacetime.
Space is implied by the location you are in and the time is what you select.
Now granted this is just my view on a science fiction topic :)
I just always thought of "time machines" as "spacetime machines". After all, space and time are really intertwined into one. They aren't simply traveling through time, they are traveling through spacetime. Doc does often mention the "spacetime continuum" throughout the movie so they do realize that space and time are one.
So if you assume the Delorean is a spacetime machine then they should end up in the correct place as well as correct time when traveling through spacetime.
I use VMWare Workstation for much of each day to run MS Office Apps, and it's very useful - but no VM performs well graphically.
I beg to differ. Modern VMs have full hardware acceleration. In many cases they aren't much slower then native. If VMWare can manage 77fps in Half Life 2, then I don't see why it couldn't scroll around a large image smoothly in Photoshop.
Some examples:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/09/parallels-desktop-6-the-ars-review.ars/5
I know VirtualBox also has these features in recent versions.
One game that comes to mind is Starcraft 2. Even my 4.2Ghz Core i7 930 drops down to 30-40fps in games where there are several hundreds of units on the screen at once. It's not my GPU, thats a 480GTX and its under 50% utilization when this CPU bottleneck occurs.
But other than that, 4Ghz on an i7 is enough to keep any game above 60fps given enough GPU power.
That's great it works for you, but not everyone jsut plays old games. Any new game will bring a 4870 to its knees at the highest detail settings.
Just check out the benchmarks if you don't believe me:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/amds-radeon-6870-6850-renewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market/6
The 4850 is in a few tests, but you can look at the 5770 for the rest, it's quite close to the 4870.
Also, keep in mind a lot of gamers play in 1920x1200 and now 1920x1080, but even in 1680x1050, the 4870 or 5770 fails to exceed 30-40fps average in any recently game.
I've got a GTX480 and at 1920x1200 4xAA, it can be brought under 60fps in the newest games which is why some gamers have 2 of them in SLi.
Hmm, well I absolutely love the 1920x1200 on my 15.4" HP workstation laptop, and thats 147.02ppi.
This new MacBook Air is only 135.09ppi. Not bad at all but it's still a bit less than I would be used to in a laptop.
If it was 1440x900 on 11.6" it would be 146.39ppi. That is actually what I would love to see.