While it is true that resolution alone in this thing is pretty pointless, it does make for interesting possibilities, like being able to zoom in on a part of a scene or doing some neat post-processing magic with some of the data. You could for example make a movie where the entire scene is a whole island or whatever, and the viewers can zoom in on different parts of it, with the audio changing according to location. This UHDTV resolution wouldn't be enough for that though, but something on a smaller scale would be possible. Of course this could be done with multiple cameras and then seamlessly editing together it in the editing phase, but it would be more work to get it to fit seamlessly. This also applies to still cameras as well, there was a slashdot story (search didn't work, so I can't give a link) where some university or somesuch had made a 30 mp camera that took 3 mp pictures that had all the focus information in the pictures, the user could then change the focus of the image in realtime. ATM a reduction from 30 mp to 3 mp is unacceptable, but I expect to see some innovative new features in cameras when the resolutions start to near the 100 mp mark.
Actually it works now, as someone set up a redirect from the 'Parable of the broken window/' article to the 'Parable of the broken window' article on wikipedia. Sometimes the wiki software is a bit too pedantic.
I just thought it was silly to use them as a source. Next thing you know, people will start thinking government inflation statistics are reliable and other such nonsense, so it's good to be a sceptic and demand independent evidence.
The reason for my post was to point out that Clausewitz was the source of the quote, not some American talk-show host (I'm guessing that's what Geroge Will is). Also, I'm quite positive that Clausewitz's teachings were put to good use in the invasion of Iraq, as according to him, the purpose of an army is to destroy another nation's army. However, it's purpose is not to occupy a nation for extended periods of time, so I don't think the current use of the US army has anything to do with Clausewitz. And calling his texts "drivel" because of one quote drawn out of context makes you look like a clown.
The GP says that the republicans were in power in the networks and thus prevented any real investigation, and then you give a report funded by the said networks as proof that he is wrong?
Either the GPP is trying to be funny and his post means what you understood it to mean, or he is bashing on Gore & global warming and by implying that only he could come up with something that sounds as dumb as 'First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming'. I'm guessing this is the reason the GPP isn't modded, and why the GP is modded up by those who subscribe to the latter interpretation.
But there is no Moore's law for battery life, and having to read 25 megabytes of data vs 4 megabytes of data per song is going to kill your battery.
I agree, that is a problem with current battery tech.
Besides, why do you want lossless files for a player you'll be listening to with headphones?
Why not? I am unable to fill up a 2 GB DAP with lossy audio, as I don't have that much good music, so the space would go unused otherwise. Converting my existing mp3 files to lossless is pointless of course, but not having to convert my existing lossless to lossy saves time. This isn't true for all users of course, but everyone has a point when filling up your player with yet more music stops making sense, and quality becomes more important. While it seems like a waste to use lossless with headphones, I think it's a good idea to remove compression from the sound quality equation completely.
Aside from Moore's law not being about storage capacities, it still makes no sense to pay for more storage and less battery life for the sake of a slightly better audio quality, especially for portable audio players.
What do you think flash memory is made of?;)
At some point the question goes from "Why pay more to use lossless when I can fit more lossy music on my DAP?" to "Why use lossy formats when I can use lossless and still have too much space for my needs?". The extra power usage is bad though, and more efficient designs would be nice.
You may be right that someday it'll be true, but we're still far from there. I'd choose Apple Lossless only if I could get a flash (or other) iPod with 120GB for about 200$CAD. Until then, lossless is just wasted space. Just use a higher bitrate for those tunes that requires it.
YMMW, of course. A 4 GB nano can hold ~10 hours of lossless music, and I'd be very hard pressed to even come up with that much music worth listening to, so lossless makes sense for me.
As for most music being in FLAC on P2P networks, I have to strongly disagree. Either you're filtering keywords or searching for very obscure music. Most of the music on P2P is in MP3, by a huge margin.
Sorry, I mistyped. I meant that FLAC is the most popular format of all the lossless music on P2P.
Why is Apple Lossless "good enough" compared to FLAC?
The other poster already gave you a good answer, but I'll add one more reason: I, and many others, are lazy and would like to avoid converting between formats. Most of the music on P2P is in FLAC format (I base this on what I've seen, not on any real statistics), so it would also mean that most of the music in other people's collections is also FLAC. Hence the "good enough".
That's like asking someone if they want to pay 100$ for a 1GB player that can hold 11 CDs and play for 10 hours or pay 350$ for a 10GB player that can hold 11 CDs and play for one hour.
After a couple of more Moore's law doublings of capacity, we'll have enough space on our players to have our entire music collections in lossless format. When that happens, there will be no point in using lossy formats. It's still some years down the road, but the shift from mp3 to lossless has already started happening. If one rips a cd today, there is really no point in encoding it in a lossy format, audiophile or not.
IMO there's no point in supporting ogg. FLAC on the other hand would be a great addition, but I guess Apple lossless is good enough. It's not like HDDs are getting any smaller (on iPods or computers) so the amount of people using lossy codecs will only decrease.
OpenGL won't be any slower or faster than on XP, it's still up to NV and ATI to write the OpenGL ICD. While as a gamer and programmer I'm looking forward to Vista and DX10, I agree that there really is no must-have features for business users, maybe Longhorn server edition will have something useful.
I used to have 2 GB of RAM, but am temporarily forced to only use 512 MB, and I've noticed a huge difference in responsiveness. With 2 GB I could run tens of programs, some light games and compile simultaneously with no loss of responsiveness, now with 512 MB I can barely minimize Visual Studio to view my desktop without everything slowing to a crawl while I'm compiling, so I'd say the problem isn't necessarily in the scheduler.
The summary says the passwords were stored in encrypted form. Usually one would hash the password, making it very difficult and time-consuming to decrypt the password.
I think the problem is that it's easy to improve the graphical aspects in a game, whereas it's difficult to make a good story, and with multiple paths it becomes even more difficult. Now that graphics is starting to pay out decreasing dividends in sales, I hope developers will start to put more effort into AI and procedural content generation, that should make it a lot easier to make dynamic stories.
You could try editing the group policy manually as admin. 'Start->Run->gpedit.msc' and there 'Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update->Configure Automatic Updates', by choosing 'Not Configured' the panel should become enabled again. If your computer is a member of a domain with a group policy, this probably won't help as your computer will just restore the settings to those set by the domain controller.
Rerolling your char is a PITA though, and leveling is slow as hell. And to get all the nice rares you have to grind for a lot of money. It's got nice graphics though, and no lag! I give it 3 stars of 5.
Slashdot Mirror
While it is true that resolution alone in this thing is pretty pointless, it does make for interesting possibilities, like being able to zoom in on a part of a scene or doing some neat post-processing magic with some of the data. You could for example make a movie where the entire scene is a whole island or whatever, and the viewers can zoom in on different parts of it, with the audio changing according to location. This UHDTV resolution wouldn't be enough for that though, but something on a smaller scale would be possible. Of course this could be done with multiple cameras and then seamlessly editing together it in the editing phase, but it would be more work to get it to fit seamlessly. This also applies to still cameras as well, there was a slashdot story (search didn't work, so I can't give a link) where some university or somesuch had made a 30 mp camera that took 3 mp pictures that had all the focus information in the pictures, the user could then change the focus of the image in realtime. ATM a reduction from 30 mp to 3 mp is unacceptable, but I expect to see some innovative new features in cameras when the resolutions start to near the 100 mp mark.
Actually it works now, as someone set up a redirect from the 'Parable of the broken window/' article to the 'Parable of the broken window' article on wikipedia. Sometimes the wiki software is a bit too pedantic.
I just thought it was silly to use them as a source. Next thing you know, people will start thinking government inflation statistics are reliable and other such nonsense, so it's good to be a sceptic and demand independent evidence.
The reason for my post was to point out that Clausewitz was the source of the quote, not some American talk-show host (I'm guessing that's what Geroge Will is). Also, I'm quite positive that Clausewitz's teachings were put to good use in the invasion of Iraq, as according to him, the purpose of an army is to destroy another nation's army. However, it's purpose is not to occupy a nation for extended periods of time, so I don't think the current use of the US army has anything to do with Clausewitz. And calling his texts "drivel" because of one quote drawn out of context makes you look like a clown.
The GP says that the republicans were in power in the networks and thus prevented any real investigation, and then you give a report funded by the said networks as proof that he is wrong?
The idea is nothing new, and certainly not something George Will came up with.
"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz
Either the GPP is trying to be funny and his post means what you understood it to mean, or he is bashing on Gore & global warming and by implying that only he could come up with something that sounds as dumb as 'First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming'. I'm guessing this is the reason the GPP isn't modded, and why the GP is modded up by those who subscribe to the latter interpretation.
The light sabre fight was really well done. The starfighter and capital ship battles were astounding. This is all good sci-fi stuff.
No, that's good CGI, not sci-fi...
No way man! Altered Beast is where it's at! I remember weekly trips to the arcade to play that sucker. ;-) Nothing beats morphing into a wolfman beast.
Oh, altered beast. And here I was, looking forward to a life&deathish plastic surgeon game with the wii controller.
it could be possible (maybe someone would tweak it in the future), but I doubt your existing crt/lcd would support that :)
Disable VSync?
You are now free to make jokes about the "intelligent" component of the above sentence.
:)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=200
But there is no Moore's law for battery life, and having to read 25 megabytes of data vs 4 megabytes of data per song is going to kill your battery.
I agree, that is a problem with current battery tech.
Besides, why do you want lossless files for a player you'll be listening to with headphones?
Why not? I am unable to fill up a 2 GB DAP with lossy audio, as I don't have that much good music, so the space would go unused otherwise. Converting my existing mp3 files to lossless is pointless of course, but not having to convert my existing lossless to lossy saves time. This isn't true for all users of course, but everyone has a point when filling up your player with yet more music stops making sense, and quality becomes more important. While it seems like a waste to use lossless with headphones, I think it's a good idea to remove compression from the sound quality equation completely.
I think that's the "melted, hardened sludge" the summary mentions.
Aside from Moore's law not being about storage capacities, it still makes no sense to pay for more storage and less battery life for the sake of a slightly better audio quality, especially for portable audio players.
;)
What do you think flash memory is made of?
At some point the question goes from "Why pay more to use lossless when I can fit more lossy music on my DAP?" to "Why use lossy formats when I can use lossless and still have too much space for my needs?". The extra power usage is bad though, and more efficient designs would be nice.
You may be right that someday it'll be true, but we're still far from there. I'd choose Apple Lossless only if I could get a flash (or other) iPod with 120GB for about 200$CAD. Until then, lossless is just wasted space. Just use a higher bitrate for those tunes that requires it.
YMMW, of course. A 4 GB nano can hold ~10 hours of lossless music, and I'd be very hard pressed to even come up with that much music worth listening to, so lossless makes sense for me.
As for most music being in FLAC on P2P networks, I have to strongly disagree. Either you're filtering keywords or searching for very obscure music. Most of the music on P2P is in MP3, by a huge margin.
Sorry, I mistyped. I meant that FLAC is the most popular format of all the lossless music on P2P.
Thanks man, this'll come in handy if slashdot gets slashdotted! Mod the parent up informative!
Why is Apple Lossless "good enough" compared to FLAC?
The other poster already gave you a good answer, but I'll add one more reason: I, and many others, are lazy and would like to avoid converting between formats. Most of the music on P2P is in FLAC format (I base this on what I've seen, not on any real statistics), so it would also mean that most of the music in other people's collections is also FLAC. Hence the "good enough".
That's like asking someone if they want to pay 100$ for a 1GB player that can hold 11 CDs and play for 10 hours or pay 350$ for a 10GB player that can hold 11 CDs and play for one hour.
After a couple of more Moore's law doublings of capacity, we'll have enough space on our players to have our entire music collections in lossless format. When that happens, there will be no point in using lossy formats. It's still some years down the road, but the shift from mp3 to lossless has already started happening. If one rips a cd today, there is really no point in encoding it in a lossy format, audiophile or not.
IMO there's no point in supporting ogg. FLAC on the other hand would be a great addition, but I guess Apple lossless is good enough. It's not like HDDs are getting any smaller (on iPods or computers) so the amount of people using lossy codecs will only decrease.
I think saying "Cool, confirms my hypothesis." is stretching it a bit far... ;)
Still plenty of time for Vista to become legacy software before DNF comes out.
OpenGL won't be any slower or faster than on XP, it's still up to NV and ATI to write the OpenGL ICD. While as a gamer and programmer I'm looking forward to Vista and DX10, I agree that there really is no must-have features for business users, maybe Longhorn server edition will have something useful.
I used to have 2 GB of RAM, but am temporarily forced to only use 512 MB, and I've noticed a huge difference in responsiveness. With 2 GB I could run tens of programs, some light games and compile simultaneously with no loss of responsiveness, now with 512 MB I can barely minimize Visual Studio to view my desktop without everything slowing to a crawl while I'm compiling, so I'd say the problem isn't necessarily in the scheduler.
The summary says the passwords were stored in encrypted form. Usually one would hash the password, making it very difficult and time-consuming to decrypt the password.
I think the problem is that it's easy to improve the graphical aspects in a game, whereas it's difficult to make a good story, and with multiple paths it becomes even more difficult. Now that graphics is starting to pay out decreasing dividends in sales, I hope developers will start to put more effort into AI and procedural content generation, that should make it a lot easier to make dynamic stories.
You could try editing the group policy manually as admin. 'Start->Run->gpedit.msc' and there 'Local Computer Policy->Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update->Configure Automatic Updates', by choosing 'Not Configured' the panel should become enabled again. If your computer is a member of a domain with a group policy, this probably won't help as your computer will just restore the settings to those set by the domain controller.
Rerolling your char is a PITA though, and leveling is slow as hell. And to get all the nice rares you have to grind for a lot of money. It's got nice graphics though, and no lag! I give it 3 stars of 5.
I do not assume my usage is typical. I however do assume my usage is intensive, as I game a lot, which I maybe should have mentioned.