I'm glad to see that they are doing so well. I actually thought that there may be some impact from audio piracy, but I guess not.
"DVD music video dollar value grew 442 percent from $12.2 million in 1998 to $66.3 million in 1999."
Wow. Now that is great to see. I'm sure that this will mean that we will see more and more titles released for DVD. Looks like VHS sales dropped, I guess that market is moving to DVD.
Gee, I guess that DeCSS didn't have the major impact on the market that it was supposed to have, and that Napster isn't the end of CD audio.
They go on about how great this is, and how you can cut down on the amount of C02 into the aptmosphere, and it sounds perfect. Until they get to the fact that you need a lot of electrons to make this work. Hess's law states that you can go through any pathway for a reaction, but that the amount of energy is the same in the end. This means that whatever you are burning to create this CO2 must release more energy than the ethanol that you are producing. Seems to me that ethanol releases a lot of energy when it burns. I want to know what type of fuel's CO2 they plan to convert.
It depends on what they are trying to do. I have seen some games that looked really great but were ither too complex to be fun, or had no point. Teams seem to get off target and base the game too heavily on "but it looks cool" rather than "this is cool to play" I still like mario brothers, that game rocks! It definately pushed the limits of gaming when it was released, but they did it in a really well-organized fashion. Using technology to supplement an idea is good, but using an idea to show technology usually turns out badly.
The article mentions a DVD player as well as the now-standard Web browser. I have held off on buying a DVD player, and this might be a good excuse for me to make the jump. I have ignored the console market since my Nintendo (still have it) but they seem to be doing more and more neat stuff. I am a sucker for multi-function devices. Give me a toaster that answers the phone and I will probobaly buy that, too.
Exactly, you used some advanced media. Did you strap the card to your chest to carry it "fashionably"? I would imagine that it traveled where it goes, in your pocket.
I used to use my old BBS handle, but figured that I did not need hide my identity. If you feel the need, I really don't care. I don't have anything to prove to you. No one really gives a rats ass if I use a handle or my real name, so I choose the latter.
Why would you like to carry a presentation in your shirt? We have networks to store and transfer data. What if someone bumped your shirt and it "crashed"? In this future world you will probobaly be using some kind of memory card the size of a PCMCIA card or one of those Sony memory sticks. They are tiny, and you don't have to dry clean them like the hard drive shirt, or whatever you want to wear. I do think that in a couple of years people will not even think about technology as they do today, but not because they are wearing it. It will be because things have become intergrated into bigger networks that go from your house to your desk to the board room to the kitchen so that you don't have to worry about where a file is stored or where you can get online. Things will be accessable everywhere. With the development of satelite and wireless networks you will be able to access all of this from the car or the cabin in the mountains. I really doubt that people will want to wear their computer because that keeps it in their mind all the time. Wouldn't want to bend the processor or crack the fiber uplink, would we? Nah, they won't be thinking about it becuase they won't have to. It's there at the click of a button on their phone or pc.
And some of us have the balls to use our real names. Should I be ashamed that I have a system I built primarially for gaming? No. Why? Because I like to take a break from productive work and kick back from time to time. That, and I am still a student, which would allude to the fact that I like to goof off. Your not playing any new games should change my perspective? Why? I work with a lot of people every day, and allmost all of them are casual gamers. Even the slashdot folks like to put their own hints for new releases and personal experiences into their articles about loki and game releases. E-mail me and we can talk.
Depends on what you are doing and how much you stand to gain. I know some people who will definately be rich if they pull off what they are working on, and the only way they will get it done before the competition is to live under their desk. I just can't help but think it would be cool to be able to crash any time of day, though. Remember the Seinfeld episode when George was living under his desk after he had it renovated into a really cool little room? That would be cool.
I think that the quick turnaround of game technologies was incredible this year. Unreal Tournament and the Q3 demos let us get hooked on the games, and then all of a sudden they were on the shelves, finished. This is not just a great way to develop their software, but a cool marketing thing as well.
I am sure you can get a nice laptop for less than these things, and that will actually have a display that will be more than a gameboy-style view window. We already have stuff for doctors and other people who need to do data recording and viewing, Palm Pilots and Libretto palmtops do quite nicely. I don't see why I need to wrap a computer around my neck or strap it to my ass to get work done. I guess we wil just have to put up with the wierdos who will be gluing motherboards to their clothes for a while.
To those who want to look more important, I would suggest:
1) Buy some poster board and make a wearable sign announcing your importance to the world
2) If you are so important, why don't you have someone else to do all that computer crap for you? Hire someone to walk behind you with a bunch of tech stuff.
When I go outside or travel I am usually happy to leave my computer behind. All this means is that you can look like a moron with a computer strapped to your waist. Not that getting a few e-mails is bad, but most phones do that already. We have the Palm VII, phones with web browsers, and pagers that send and recieve e-mail. Why do we need this wearable crap?
Does this mean that we can expect more movie reviews in the future? I just hope that a mob of trekkies don't show up at your house this afternoon demanding you take back your star trek comments.:)
It sounds like these people are afraid of the what-if's of shopping. Sure, if you ship dishes via UPS ground they will be smashed, that is almost a garantee. That is why good commerce sites let you pick shipping options. Time-to-ship is not a mystery, you make a lot more profit on a $500 tech toy than a $15 CD. Which one would you ship first? Places like cdw and amazon.com are incredibly reliable because that is whay people pay them to be. Isn't it a given that Joe's Flowers @geocities will take longer to recieve orders and ship them? This is not an unexplainable mystery or a conspiracy, some e-commerce sites are better than others, and the best 50 or 100 probobaly get 90% of all web transactions for that reason.
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I'm glad to see that they are doing so well. I actually thought that there may be some impact from audio piracy, but I guess not.
"DVD music video dollar value grew 442 percent from $12.2 million in 1998 to $66.3 million in 1999."
Wow. Now that is great to see. I'm sure that this will mean that we will see more and more titles released for DVD. Looks like VHS sales dropped, I guess that market is moving to DVD.
Gee, I guess that DeCSS didn't have the major impact on the market that it was supposed to have, and that Napster isn't the end of CD audio.
They go on about how great this is, and how you can cut down on the amount of C02 into the aptmosphere, and it sounds perfect. Until they get to the fact that you need a lot of electrons to make this work. Hess's law states that you can go through any pathway for a reaction, but that the amount of energy is the same in the end. This means that whatever you are burning to create this CO2 must release more energy than the ethanol that you are producing. Seems to me that ethanol releases a lot of energy when it burns. I want to know what type of fuel's CO2 they plan to convert.
It depends on what they are trying to do. I have seen some games that looked really great but were ither too complex to be fun, or had no point. Teams seem to get off target and base the game too heavily on "but it looks cool" rather than "this is cool to play" I still like mario brothers, that game rocks! It definately pushed the limits of gaming when it was released, but they did it in a really well-organized fashion. Using technology to supplement an idea is good, but using an idea to show technology usually turns out badly.
The article mentions a DVD player as well as the now-standard Web browser. I have held off on buying a DVD player, and this might be a good excuse for me to make the jump. I have ignored the console market since my Nintendo (still have it) but they seem to be doing more and more neat stuff. I am a sucker for multi-function devices. Give me a toaster that answers the phone and I will probobaly buy that, too.
Exactly, you used some advanced media. Did you strap the card to your chest to carry it "fashionably"? I would imagine that it traveled where it goes, in your pocket.
I used to use my old BBS handle, but figured that I did not need hide my identity. If you feel the need, I really don't care. I don't have anything to prove to you. No one really gives a rats ass if I use a handle or my real name, so I choose the latter.
Why would you like to carry a presentation in your shirt? We have networks to store and transfer data. What if someone bumped your shirt and it "crashed"? In this future world you will probobaly be using some kind of memory card the size of a PCMCIA card or one of those Sony memory sticks. They are tiny, and you don't have to dry clean them like the hard drive shirt, or whatever you want to wear. I do think that in a couple of years people will not even think about technology as they do today, but not because they are wearing it. It will be because things have become intergrated into bigger networks that go from your house to your desk to the board room to the kitchen so that you don't have to worry about where a file is stored or where you can get online. Things will be accessable everywhere. With the development of satelite and wireless networks you will be able to access all of this from the car or the cabin in the mountains. I really doubt that people will want to wear their computer because that keeps it in their mind all the time. Wouldn't want to bend the processor or crack the fiber uplink, would we? Nah, they won't be thinking about it becuase they won't have to. It's there at the click of a button on their phone or pc.
And some of us have the balls to use our real names. Should I be ashamed that I have a system I built primarially for gaming? No. Why? Because I like to take a break from productive work and kick back from time to time. That, and I am still a student, which would allude to the fact that I like to goof off. Your not playing any new games should change my perspective? Why? I work with a lot of people every day, and allmost all of them are casual gamers. Even the slashdot folks like to put their own hints for new releases and personal experiences into their articles about loki and game releases. E-mail me and we can talk.
Depends on what you are doing and how much you stand to gain. I know some people who will definately be rich if they pull off what they are working on, and the only way they will get it done before the competition is to live under their desk. I just can't help but think it would be cool to be able to crash any time of day, though. Remember the Seinfeld episode when George was living under his desk after he had it renovated into a really cool little room? That would be cool.
I think that the quick turnaround of game technologies was incredible this year. Unreal Tournament and the Q3 demos let us get hooked on the games, and then all of a sudden they were on the shelves, finished. This is not just a great way to develop their software, but a cool marketing thing as well.
I am sure you can get a nice laptop for less than these things, and that will actually have a display that will be more than a gameboy-style view window. We already have stuff for doctors and other people who need to do data recording and viewing, Palm Pilots and Libretto palmtops do quite nicely. I don't see why I need to wrap a computer around my neck or strap it to my ass to get work done. I guess we wil just have to put up with the wierdos who will be gluing motherboards to their clothes for a while.
To those who want to look more important, I would suggest:
1) Buy some poster board and make a wearable sign announcing your importance to the world
2) If you are so important, why don't you have someone else to do all that computer crap for you? Hire someone to walk behind you with a bunch of tech stuff.
-Andrew Schaefer
When I go outside or travel I am usually happy to leave my computer behind. All this means is that you can look like a moron with a computer strapped to your waist. Not that getting a few e-mails is bad, but most phones do that already. We have the Palm VII, phones with web browsers, and pagers that send and recieve e-mail. Why do we need this wearable crap?
Does this mean that we can expect more movie reviews in the future? I just hope that a mob of trekkies don't show up at your house this afternoon demanding you take back your star trek comments. :)
It sounds like these people are afraid of the what-if's of shopping. Sure, if you ship dishes via UPS ground they will be smashed, that is almost a garantee. That is why good commerce sites let you pick shipping options. Time-to-ship is not a mystery, you make a lot more profit on a $500 tech toy than a $15 CD. Which one would you ship first? Places like cdw and amazon.com are incredibly reliable because that is whay people pay them to be. Isn't it a given that Joe's Flowers @geocities will take longer to recieve orders and ship them? This is not an unexplainable mystery or a conspiracy, some e-commerce sites are better than others, and the best 50 or 100 probobaly get 90% of all web transactions for that reason.