Imagine there was this great candy manufacturer producing great sweets then packing it in a container that cant be sold on a supermarket shelf, just because the packaging makes a few extra bucks than normal. This is Apple's business model in a nutshell and it's "dumb", their crippling software (OSX etc) with with its high return margins (Windows is 415%) with low margin hardware (less than 40%). Then you get people saying, "but Apple can compete with Microsoft", ah so your telling me OSX is inferior when compared to Microsofts offerings so they hide this fact behinds pretty white plastic box's with a low margin ? Either way its "dumb".
In some ways I agree that the copyright holders should control the content but at the same time I can see they are missing a golden opportunity to "promote" their content on youtube. To give you an example, I like watching Anime but as anyone knows "my favorites are someone else's rubbish". So how do I know if I "like" the content on a DVD? Well when someone mentions a new Anime series I can go look at a review but as previously stated thats not always a good method or I can go look on youtube for an episode. Now with youtube removing most if not all the anime episodes I can only confirm that a handful suite my needs. So Im stuck with either bittorenting the first episode or just not buying the series at all because I cant confirm anything about the series with any certainty anymore. I think the content managers have gotten to the point that the controls are so harsh on the content that people "who want to pay for it" are starting to walk away. Not only is it an insult to be called a thief every time you play the dam thing but I don't want to be told how and when to play "what I've paid for".
"I was talking about countries whose copyright laws allow copying works that normally come on media (e.g. CD or DVD) for personal use, which includes Canada and many (all?) countries in the EU."
Fair use will vary obviously but copyright is actually a universal agreement. unfortunately when looking at the fair use side of this discussion these rules don't cross borders and its up to the user to be aware of the local laws
"People who copy your works without authorization are breaking the law"
true, I have no issue with this.
"If you don't punish them for that, breaking that law will become common practice."
I'm not trying to infer that I agree with the law breakers but one has to factor the economic damage done to your business model if any. If the copyright holder wishes to take this avenue I have no issue thats their right, but they would be seen as gullible if they didn't at first check to make sure what they are doing has no negatively effects.
"copying works will become so commonplace that people will expect works to be freely available"
This is actually the real issue that has me worried, if everything falls under copyright and patent law the distribution of information and innovation stops or becomes a competition were everyone is prospecting for gold nuggets when the community as a whole needs copper to move forward. This problem is already occurring within Universities were they have these secretive enclaves and little if any data is being exchanged between outside sources for fear of not being able to patent anything at the end of the process (or god forbid sharing) and cash in.
Well with countries that ignore copyright, or turn a blind eye to it they face trade sanctions and the following down turn in their economy as the money dries up. Regarding institutions for education, that's partially falls under fair use. Under common copyright law one can quote sections of a book or even reprint sections of a book but I cant reproduce the book as a whole. br> Google is only libel for its own actions or inactions that directly cause or assist a criminal act, you still also have to prove intent as well, lets say if someone uses a Microsoft program to build a bomb and the bomb then causes allot of deaths and destruction, Microsoft is totally innocent unless it can be proven that the code or product in question was "intentionally" designed to assist in a criminal act.
The logic of going after mp3s4free to me makes allot of sense, you don't cure a disease by curing the patient but by getting rid of the disease at its source. Suing users is a complete wast of time and complex and produces allot of bad will because the same people are your customers so I agree on this point. Yes new technologies come along all the time, companies adapt or die, but its doesn't mean that I have the immediate right to ignore the law because I disagree with the distribution method chosen by the copyright holder. if you don't like the method of distribution go find another company that meets your needs, sooner or later if enough people take there money some where else they will either adapt or die.
Your missing the point "knowingly assisting anyone to break any laws is a crime" in just about every country I know. The site in question was "well known" here in Australia so crying ignorance wont fly. Also the "hosting service" was "warned" about the site and did "nothing". Thats a clear breach of common law. A good example (and has gone to the court in the USA), lets say I'm in a bar and I cheer someone along as they rape a woman, am I assisting in the crime ?, well the US court said "yes" because it's knowingly assisting in an activity that is criminal in nature, simple as that. This isnt about linking, its about clearly intending to assist in a criminal act, how you do it may vary, ie linking but it is clearly illegal in this case and intent was also clearly proven.
One word is missing from all the comments it's "intent". For one to be breaking the law for linking you have to show clear "intent" to infringe copyright or assist in infringing copyright. The ISP in this case "clearly knew" that this service was "intentionally" infringing copyright. I hate DRM and all the copycrap just as much as anyone else but these guys were first class idiots and Im far from surprised from the decision. I doubt Google will face the same issue because there is little if any intent to infringe copyright they merely want to catalog the web.
Lots of the Saudi elite and middle classes have gone and done religious studies degree after much prodding from parents only to find their knowledge skills in the Koran are as useful as a one legged camel in the real world. So now you have this large group of unemployed disillusioned people who see the elite running up a huge national credit card bill with very little if any of it assisting their position. I can see things in the Saudi states getting very messy soon if things are not fixed.
Technically this is a racist belief system if you look at it from the view point of an Australian aboriginal, it denies the fact that they have lived in Australia now for over 50,000 years. Then you have simple things like pictures from the hubble telescope showing objects over "12 billion light years away", now lets think now, if something is 12 Billions light years away it took 6,000 years for the light to get here, riiiiight, believe that and I will happily sell you some prime time swamp land.
I used to be a huge Yahoo fanboy until the last few years were I found the service wanting. Heres a list of reason of why I don't use Yahoo "at all" any more.
1. Chat service isn't 100% cross platform, I use Linux/Windows and OSX/BSD and the experience on each is different, it either works (even then it's rubbish) or partially works. The rooms are full of spammers and idiots and the voice chat service is horrible (and not cross platform).
2. Yahoo doesn't do anything well, its search engine is dyslexic and doesn't really integrate with anything else
3. Theres no "real" innovation just a "me too" logic to yahoo in the last few years.
4. Its service api (chat being a great example) are all dyslexic and closed source and for ever changing with little if any warning.Heeelloo knock knock open standards Yahoo, time to wake up from the 90's it wants it's code back
5. The mail service is just horrible, sheesh what monkey designed that UI.
6. The final nail in the coffin for me was when Yahoo put profits before social responsibility and handed over details of a pro democracy supporter in China so it can keep making a few bucks.
PGP didnt Invent RSA encryption
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I remember watching an English documentary about 5 or so years ago on the history of encryption and cyphers. One thing I remember was how the RSA public and private key encryption wasn't invented by PGP even though they were awarded a patent , it was invented by an english researcher while working for one of the many U.K government secret service shadow projects at the time. The UK security services have been using RSA encryption for many years before PGP ever figured it out but wouldn't admit to this fact because it would assist the Russians efforts to decrypt messages sent by the UK secret service.
So even though PGP got the patent for this technology they were not the first to invent it.
The increase of Co2 levels that lead to effects Global Warming are but only one part of the whole problem you also have to contend with Global Dimming.
Global Dimming is what happens when small particles due to pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels block the suns rays from entering the atmosphere. Right now global dimming is partially countering the effects of global warming by blocking the suns rays but as heavy industry and cars become cleaner, (lower particulate output) the effects of global warming accelerate unless we reduce our Co2 output. Many in the fossil fuel industry will happily show you how the math for global warming doesn't work out when you enter the data into a computer model. What they won't tell you is if you add the effects of global dimming to the same model things start matching up to the weather patterns we now see today.
So here I am sitting at my desk in Australia seeing news reports of massive drought problems and central Africa suffering the same effects exactly as the computer models showed when you add global warming and dimming to the equation.
So when you see these articles always ask around or "follow the money", the latter will often lead you to some fossil fuel industry lobby group.
#Shot 1 of glass office building
Narrator: She was a innocent data entry operator, he just wanted to finnish his perl program.
BUT! they were destined for a roller coaster ride from hell
#Shot 2 Close up of smoking server, flickering lights
Male Geek 1 with shocked voice: "Whats happening"
#girl screams
Male Geek 2: " I dont know I just posted a link to an article on one of the servers to slashot"
Male Geek 1 shouting: "Oh my god it's going to blow"
#Shot 3 Glass Office Building on fire lots of smoke and running people
Narrator: if you have never seen a movie about computers this movie shouldnt be missed
#Shot 4 Little Girl with Del Computer
Little Girl "Daddy I can turn on your laptop"
Father screaming "NOOOO"
#Shot 5 Little girl getting blown to bits.
Narrator: the slashdotting coming to a cinema near you, just pray you never get linked.
What transpired in this case was the judge said fine if you invalidate the GPL you still lose because you then have to abide by copright law. I cant see anything under copyright law that allows you to freely distribute the code without the permission of the author so sorry but you lose either way.
This is the catch 22 with the GPL, even if you win and make the GPL invalid you then have to deal with copyright and there is no getting around that one.
Copyright "does not allow you the freedom to distribute an authors code" without prior permission, its that simple
Here in Australia its compulsory to have a retiremnt fund (called a superannuation fund or "super").
The top 10 performing funds last year were all "industry funds", basically a fund run and owned by the members as a Co Op. The comercial funds couldn't compete because there fee's are sky high even if there returns are good the fee's chew up any gains.
Im in an industry fund (with a spread balanced return setup) and I got 15.8%, if I invested in the same fund in a high risk account I would have returned 27%. One of my Co Workers is in a comercial fund and he started investing before me and now Im in front of him. So "yes" Co Op's do work.
The problem here isnt so much the lack of available scripts, no its really the studios being averse to taking risks to the point were everything they produce is now "beige". I don't blame the studios fully for this situation, its also an investor side problem too. Ive often seen financial commentary letting loose a salvo on how risky a set production is, then the studio will can the project rather than lose investor confidence. This wont be easy to fix and were not helping by sitting there complaining. Lets be honest would you put your hard earned money on a a high risk win or bust movie, no of course not, so why ask the studios to do the same.
Lets be honest here, this was all a short term snatch and grab, foisted on everyone so a few CEO's could say they increased the company profits thus the share worth. How many times have we seen one stupid cost cutting program come in to vogue only to find its all smoke an mirrors. No one sat down and asked the obvious questions, "well what will the customers think", I can bet the mangers said "the customers are idiots they don't think". The other obvious question is "if its a third world country wont we have third world inferstructure to deal with", lets ignore the major power outages and your computers not arriving because some donkey herder got lost with you gear because YES! "were saving money". Well your not, your just a bunch of cheap assed snake oil salesmen who get paid way too much for "petending" to think.
When anyone invests in a company ask this "is the CEO one of the top 100 paid CEO's in the world", if the answer is yes, don't invest because the reality is, the more a company CEO gets paid the lower the perfomance, Im not kidding thats true, google for it.
It's very common for people to complain that konqueror is slow, but there is a simple trick to speed it up
Look up the top of Konqueror, click on Settings->Configure Konqueror
Now on the right hand window were the icons are scroll right down to the bottom, look for a icon marked Performance, its rocket shaped one, right click on the icon.
Now on the left side pane, turn on "Preload an Instance after KDE has started up"
Set the pre loaded amount to "2"
Regarding the memory section I have it set to "File Browsing Only"
I baught a Dual P3 667 about 5 years ago its was very cheap at the time.
Over the years Ive added a bigger hardisk (200G-AU$120) and kept the old one (20G) baught two 1Ghz (AU$25ea) CPU , added a dual Layer DVD burner (AU$95) and doubled the ram to 1.0G (AU$70) and I just updated the Geforce2 card to a Geforce4 (AU$18).
The machine does everything I want, runs Linux just fine, plays anime, burns DVD's, surfs the net, plays mame roms
So in the last few weeks I decided to look at 64Bit cpu's and a reason to even bother updating. For me a new 64 bit cpu isnt going to do anything Im going to really care about, that my old machine doesnt already do just fine.
So there's the whole deal in a nutshell, unless you a gaming nut (Im a anime nut) why would you bother updating the cpu, bigger hardisk and a nice high res monitor maybe, but the cpu! why bother.
To be honest BLueray and HD-DVD falls short of the mark, what about HVDHolographic Versatile Disk
With hardisks hiting 500Gb now (Ive got 2 x 300Gb units) the storage capacity of HD-DVD and Blueray are just plain pathetic, at 25Gb per disk with data transfer speeds that are total rubbish.
So you wont see me updating to either of these formats mentioned, nope Im in the HDV que, with its far better 300Gb per disk and 1Gb/s transfer speeds.
HDV also has lots of room for growth in the format, with disks having a capacity of up to 3.9TB as the technology improves.
Yes HDV will be expensive but wait a while, it will adjust very quickly as people realise what a hairy dog with fleas (DRM) HD-DVD and Blueray are.
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Imagine there was this great candy manufacturer producing great sweets then packing it in a container that cant be sold on a supermarket shelf, just because the packaging makes a few extra bucks than normal. This is Apple's business model in a nutshell and it's "dumb", their crippling software (OSX etc) with with its high return margins (Windows is 415%) with low margin hardware (less than 40%). Then you get people saying, "but Apple can compete with Microsoft", ah so your telling me OSX is inferior when compared to Microsofts offerings so they hide this fact behinds pretty white plastic box's with a low margin ? Either way its "dumb".
In some ways I agree that the copyright holders should control the content but at the same time I can see they are missing a golden opportunity to "promote" their content on youtube. To give you an example, I like watching Anime but as anyone knows "my favorites are someone else's rubbish". So how do I know if I "like" the content on a DVD? Well when someone mentions a new Anime series I can go look at a review but as previously stated thats not always a good method or I can go look on youtube for an episode. Now with youtube removing most if not all the anime episodes I can only confirm that a handful suite my needs. So Im stuck with either bittorenting the first episode or just not buying the series at all because I cant confirm anything about the series with any certainty anymore. I think the content managers have gotten to the point that the controls are so harsh on the content that people "who want to pay for it" are starting to walk away. Not only is it an insult to be called a thief every time you play the dam thing but I don't want to be told how and when to play "what I've paid for".
"I was talking about countries whose copyright laws allow copying works that normally come on media (e.g. CD or DVD) for personal use, which includes Canada and many (all?) countries in the EU."
Fair use will vary obviously but copyright is actually a universal agreement. unfortunately when looking at the fair use side of this discussion these rules don't cross borders and its up to the user to be aware of the local laws
"People who copy your works without authorization are breaking the law"
true, I have no issue with this.
"If you don't punish them for that, breaking that law will become common practice."
I'm not trying to infer that I agree with the law breakers but one has to factor the economic damage done to your business model if any. If the copyright holder wishes to take this avenue I have no issue thats their right, but they would be seen as gullible if they didn't at first check to make sure what they are doing has no negatively effects.
"copying works will become so commonplace that people will expect works to be freely available"
This is actually the real issue that has me worried, if everything falls under copyright and patent law the distribution of information and innovation stops or becomes a competition were everyone is prospecting for gold nuggets when the community as a whole needs copper to move forward. This problem is already occurring within Universities were they have these secretive enclaves and little if any data is being exchanged between outside sources for fear of not being able to patent anything at the end of the process (or god forbid sharing) and cash in.
Well with countries that ignore copyright, or turn a blind eye to it they face trade sanctions and the following down turn in their economy as the money dries up. Regarding institutions for education, that's partially falls under fair use. Under common copyright law one can quote sections of a book or even reprint sections of a book but I cant reproduce the book as a whole.
br> Google is only libel for its own actions or inactions that directly cause or assist a criminal act, you still also have to prove intent as well, lets say if someone uses a Microsoft program to build a bomb and the bomb then causes allot of deaths and destruction, Microsoft is totally innocent unless it can be proven that the code or product in question was "intentionally" designed to assist in a criminal act.
The logic of going after mp3s4free to me makes allot of sense, you don't cure a disease by curing the patient but by getting rid of the disease at its source. Suing users is a complete wast of time and complex and produces allot of bad will because the same people are your customers so I agree on this point. Yes new technologies come along all the time, companies adapt or die, but its doesn't mean that I have the immediate right to ignore the law because I disagree with the distribution method chosen by the copyright holder. if you don't like the method of distribution go find another company that meets your needs, sooner or later if enough people take there money some where else they will either adapt or die.
Your missing the point "knowingly assisting anyone to break any laws is a crime" in just about every country I know. The site in question was "well known" here in Australia so crying ignorance wont fly. Also the "hosting service" was "warned" about the site and did "nothing". Thats a clear breach of common law. A good example (and has gone to the court in the USA), lets say I'm in a bar and I cheer someone along as they rape a woman, am I assisting in the crime ?, well the US court said "yes" because it's knowingly assisting in an activity that is criminal in nature, simple as that. This isnt about linking, its about clearly intending to assist in a criminal act, how you do it may vary, ie linking but it is clearly illegal in this case and intent was also clearly proven.
One word is missing from all the comments it's "intent". For one to be breaking the law for linking you have to show clear "intent" to infringe copyright or assist in infringing copyright. The ISP in this case "clearly knew" that this service was "intentionally" infringing copyright. I hate DRM and all the copycrap just as much as anyone else but these guys were first class idiots and Im far from surprised from the decision. I doubt Google will face the same issue because there is little if any intent to infringe copyright they merely want to catalog the web.
Lots of the Saudi elite and middle classes have gone and done religious studies degree after much prodding from parents only to find their knowledge skills in the Koran are as useful as a one legged camel in the real world. So now you have this large group of unemployed disillusioned people who see the elite running up a huge national credit card bill with very little if any of it assisting their position. I can see things in the Saudi states getting very messy soon if things are not fixed.
Pictures and Images to a working unit can be found here
Technically this is a racist belief system if you look at it from the view point of an Australian aboriginal, it denies the fact that they have lived in Australia now for over 50,000 years. Then you have simple things like pictures from the hubble telescope showing objects over "12 billion light years away", now lets think now, if something is 12 Billions light years away it took 6,000 years for the light to get here, riiiiight, believe that and I will happily sell you some prime time swamp land.
dam it
[queue music = inspector gadget]
aaaaaaaaagh
I used to be a huge Yahoo fanboy until the last few years were I found the service wanting. Heres a list of reason of why I don't use Yahoo "at all" any more.
1. Chat service isn't 100% cross platform, I use Linux/Windows and OSX/BSD and the experience on each is different, it either works (even then it's rubbish) or partially works. The rooms are full of spammers and idiots and the voice chat service is horrible (and not cross platform).
2. Yahoo doesn't do anything well, its search engine is dyslexic and doesn't really integrate with anything else
3. Theres no "real" innovation just a "me too" logic to yahoo in the last few years.
4. Its service api (chat being a great example) are all dyslexic and closed source and for ever changing with little if any warning.Heeelloo knock knock open standards Yahoo, time to wake up from the 90's it wants it's code back
5. The mail service is just horrible, sheesh what monkey designed that UI.
6. The final nail in the coffin for me was when Yahoo put profits before social responsibility and handed over details of a pro democracy supporter in China so it can keep making a few bucks.
I remember watching an English documentary about 5 or so years ago on the history of encryption and cyphers. One thing I remember was how the RSA public and private key encryption wasn't invented by PGP even though they were awarded a patent , it was invented by an english researcher while working for one of the many U.K government secret service shadow projects at the time. The UK security services have been using RSA encryption for many years before PGP ever figured it out but wouldn't admit to this fact because it would assist the Russians efforts to decrypt messages sent by the UK secret service.
So even though PGP got the patent for this technology they were not the first to invent it.
The increase of Co2 levels that lead to effects Global Warming are but only one part of the whole problem you also have to contend with Global Dimming.
Global Dimming is what happens when small particles due to pollution generated by the burning of fossil fuels block the suns rays from entering the atmosphere. Right now global dimming is partially countering the effects of global warming by blocking the suns rays but as heavy industry and cars become cleaner, (lower particulate output) the effects of global warming accelerate unless we reduce our Co2 output. Many in the fossil fuel industry will happily show you how the math for global warming doesn't work out when you enter the data into a computer model. What they won't tell you is if you add the effects of global dimming to the same model things start matching up to the weather patterns we now see today.
So here I am sitting at my desk in Australia seeing news reports of massive drought problems and central Africa suffering the same effects exactly as the computer models showed when you add global warming and dimming to the equation.
So when you see these articles always ask around or "follow the money", the latter will often lead you to some fossil fuel industry lobby group.
A more in depth video about quasi including the people behind the project.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=3tlqvdAaQNE&mode=relat
#Shot 1 of glass office building
Narrator: She was a innocent data entry operator, he just wanted to finnish his perl program.
BUT! they were destined for a roller coaster ride from hell
#Shot 2 Close up of smoking server, flickering lights
Male Geek 1 with shocked voice: "Whats happening"
#girl screams
Male Geek 2: " I dont know I just posted a link to an article on one of the servers to slashot"
Male Geek 1 shouting: "Oh my god it's going to blow"
#Shot 3 Glass Office Building on fire lots of smoke and running people
Narrator: if you have never seen a movie about computers this movie shouldnt be missed
#Shot 4 Little Girl with Del Computer
Little Girl "Daddy I can turn on your laptop"
Father screaming "NOOOO"
#Shot 5 Little girl getting blown to bits.
Narrator: the slashdotting coming to a cinema near you, just pray you never get linked.
Ok the article tittle is wrong for starters.
The GPL wasnt successfully defended at all.
What transpired in this case was the judge said fine if you invalidate the GPL you still lose because you then have to abide by copright law. I cant see anything under copyright law that allows you to freely distribute the code without the permission of the author so sorry but you lose either way.
This is the catch 22 with the GPL, even if you win and make the GPL invalid you then have to deal with copyright and there is no getting around that one.
Copyright "does not allow you the freedom to distribute an authors code" without prior permission, its that simple
Here in Australia its compulsory to have a retiremnt fund (called a superannuation fund or "super").
The top 10 performing funds last year were all "industry funds", basically a fund run and owned by the members as a Co Op. The comercial funds couldn't compete because there fee's are sky high even if there returns are good the fee's chew up any gains.
Im in an industry fund (with a spread balanced return setup) and I got 15.8%, if I invested in the same fund in a high risk account I would have returned 27%. One of my Co Workers is in a comercial fund and he started investing before me and now Im in front of him. So "yes" Co Op's do work.
I found WD-40 and 2-26 Electrolube works well with scratched DVD's, CD's.
Lasts a few hours but long enough to recover the ISO or data.
The problem here isnt so much the lack of available scripts, no its really the studios being averse to taking risks to the point were everything they produce is now "beige". I don't blame the studios fully for this situation, its also an investor side problem too. Ive often seen financial commentary letting loose a salvo on how risky a set production is, then the studio will can the project rather than lose investor confidence. This wont be easy to fix and were not helping by sitting there complaining. Lets be honest would you put your hard earned money on a a high risk win or bust movie, no of course not, so why ask the studios to do the same.
Lets be honest here, this was all a short term snatch and grab, foisted on everyone so a few CEO's could say they increased the company profits thus the share worth. How many times have we seen one stupid cost cutting program come in to vogue only to find its all smoke an mirrors. No one sat down and asked the obvious questions, "well what will the customers think", I can bet the mangers said "the customers are idiots they don't think". The other obvious question is "if its a third world country wont we have third world inferstructure to deal with", lets ignore the major power outages and your computers not arriving because some donkey herder got lost with you gear because YES! "were saving money". Well your not, your just a bunch of cheap assed snake oil salesmen who get paid way too much for "petending" to think.
When anyone invests in a company ask this "is the CEO one of the top 100 paid CEO's in the world", if the answer is yes, don't invest because the reality is, the more a company CEO gets paid the lower the perfomance, Im not kidding thats true, google for it.
It's very common for people to complain that konqueror is slow, but there is a simple trick to speed it up
Look up the top of Konqueror, click on Settings->Configure Konqueror
Now on the right hand window were the icons are scroll right down to the bottom, look for a icon marked Performance, its rocket shaped one, right click on the icon.
Now on the left side pane, turn on "Preload an Instance after KDE has started up"
Set the pre loaded amount to "2"
Regarding the memory section I have it set to "File Browsing Only"
Click on "OK" or "Apply", thats it all done.
Why don't these Govt archives store the data on a none volatile medium.
What about storing the data on glass, You can etch the data into the surface of the glass with some type of laser/chemical combination.
Ive seen 3D images laser etched into a glass block, why not ones and zero's ?
Anyway just an idea.
I baught a Dual P3 667 about 5 years ago its was very cheap at the time.
Over the years Ive added a bigger hardisk (200G-AU$120) and kept the old one (20G) baught two 1Ghz (AU$25ea) CPU , added a dual Layer DVD burner (AU$95) and doubled the ram to 1.0G (AU$70) and I just updated the Geforce2 card to a Geforce4 (AU$18).
The machine does everything I want, runs Linux just fine, plays anime, burns DVD's, surfs the net, plays mame roms
So in the last few weeks I decided to look at 64Bit cpu's and a reason to even bother updating. For me a new 64 bit cpu isnt going to do anything Im going to really care about, that my old machine doesnt already do just fine.
So there's the whole deal in a nutshell, unless you a gaming nut (Im a anime nut) why would you bother updating the cpu, bigger hardisk and a nice high res monitor maybe, but the cpu! why bother.
To be honest BLueray and HD-DVD falls short of the mark, what about HVD Holographic Versatile Disk
With hardisks hiting 500Gb now (Ive got 2 x 300Gb units) the storage capacity of HD-DVD and Blueray are just plain pathetic, at 25Gb per disk with data transfer speeds that are total rubbish.
So you wont see me updating to either of these formats mentioned, nope Im in the HDV que, with its far better 300Gb per disk and 1Gb/s transfer speeds.
HDV also has lots of room for growth in the format, with disks having a capacity of up to 3.9TB as the technology improves.
Yes HDV will be expensive but wait a while, it will adjust very quickly as people realise what a hairy dog with fleas (DRM) HD-DVD and Blueray are.