Digital Betacam, on the other hand, is still in use.
So is Beta SP. Beta is not dead in the broadcast industry. It's still the mostly used standard. (Especially since Sony is some of the most active in the broadcast industry.) Even when we're moving over to the digital age, Beta is still there with... like you said... Digital Betcam. And the nice thing about Beta SP is the quality doesn't degrade as fast as VHS.
That's sad. And you know what's worst, those Nigerian scammers are still scamming people... and I'm caught in the middle!
I'm an admin* for my father's business*, and he's one of those suckers for SPAM and scams. It's really sad. I believe he already lost tens of thousands of dollars due to scams... and the insane part is that he doesn't learn!
And the latest scheme, those Nigerians*. This is the vague story I received so far.
The Nigerians front a shop to scam suckers like my dad. Supposedly they needed to export some large sums of money to the US. They needed someone from the US to hold it. To earn that person's trust, that person gives back money, gifts, and whatever back to the Nigerian company. The co. calls the sucker... err.. victim up and sends him a check... in this case it was $150k to hold.
Umm... $150k in an account seems pretty suspicious right? Well, it was a business account, and the check was flagged for fraud. So there's investigations at my place... and I'm trying to dump my hardware. (Only because I hear horror stories that they take your hardware and it's a bitch to get back.)Which is the reason why my website is down:(
Anyway, back on track. My dad is (my theory) the fall guy for that Nigerian co. and now they're laughing because they have his money. But the funny thing is that I hear that co. is still trying to find a way to export the money. (I don't get it... I really don't get it.)
Now that's really off topic. Watching my dad trying to make a million over night over and over again... makes me realize I'm in the wrong business. I should be conning those suckers;)
*business = who knows what it really is
*admin = milk the bandwidth because there really isn't anything to do
*Nigerians = not the country in general, just the scammers who are doing the scamming in Nigeria... I'd use an actual co. name, but I don't know one. Sorry to sound stereotypical.
Yes, flex.com or known as shaka.com or virtualwebsite.com or some other ones.
I used them for about a year before I moved away from the islands. They're such an awesome ISP. A buddy of mine knew the admin, del, and he's a very funny guy. I guess del is just sick and tired of computer illiterate people.
It is funny, though. If you dig into their site, there's a rant and rave list of emails from their customers.
Also, for those who don't know Hawaii's pidgen talk, the letters are very humorous... only because I always though pidgen was silly. (A mixture of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese... basically all your Asian immagrants to Hawaii during the plantation days trying to speak English).
It's very, very cool, and it'll be much harder to clone for the Open Source world. I'd pay for it
I agree.
I remember using audiogalaxy.com a year or two ago when it was just a simple mp3 search engine. And it was a really good search engine at that. (Searches FTP sites of course.) Though, at the advent of Napster, I began to use that program instead... until I realized it was 'too big'. The realestate the program uses just to grab mp3 files was too much for my taste. So I stopped using it.
Then maybe about three months ago, I was trying to look for some song and resorted to using my old mp3 search engines. I was very surprised what happened to audiogalaxy.com. They really cleaned up. The first gave you the option to either search through 'ftp' or download through 'satellite'. I was curious what this satellite was and downloaded it.
Well, what do you know. It's the small little program that just sits in your tray (for Windows anyway) and uses a small amount of desktop realstate when you do decide to bring it up. I don't know how small. It's small enough to just show you information what kind of transfers are occurring at the moment.
The AG Satellite uses your browser to search for music. And like what Yoz said, it shows you your library, categorizes it by genre, and you can play it through your browser... using your preferred mp3 player. Top that off, it gives you the option if you want to buy that CD, gives you related artists to that music, and even has special sections with certain genres.
I think Napster also has a couple of these... and I think in the latest version, you can buy CDs through CDNOW.
By the way... the searching for mp3's seem more efficiant than Napster... but with one flaw... it doesn't have a user base as large as Napster.
But trying to hit the AG website... seems like the/. crowd is already hitting it pretty hard! Maybe that's a good thing;)
I don't think he knows how to use computers... or he hasn't been using right drivers for his install of Win2k
I've been using Win2k for nearly a year now (wow, has it been out for a year already?), and I don't recall explorer crashing at all. Actually, I don't recall Win2k crashing at all... but of course except when:
Dealing with video drivers. Especially the ones that don't earn MS' certificate or whatever. (I run Matrox beta drivers for awhile before they came out with final ones for my Marvel... they weren't certified from MS with beta, and I admit, I did have crashes monthly because of that, but seems fine with final drivers now.)
Hard drives. They have the tendancy to crap out. And one of mine are crapping out and somehow only gives me the 'blue screen' when I choose to shutdown or restart Win2k.
Memory. Bad memory leads to crashes... supposedly.
So if you were to run some Microsoft OS, use Win2k (and please stay away from WinME!).
One more thing about these all these OS wars and how we're all acting like kids saying, "My OS is better than yours!" This has been said over and over. Use whatever that fits you. Deal with its problems. Don't like it, try another. No one is holding you back.
I'm fine with what OS I'm using (Win2k for workstation, FreeBSD for server). My choice, my problems. Have a nice day:)
Do you share your name with your father, by any chance?
I do. And it sucks. I figure I could get away with the confusion between my father and I when I moved to another state. This was good during my middle and high school years. You know, establishing myself away from him. He also has very bad credit.
Anyway, after high school, I didn't get into any of the colleges I wanted to (due to laziness, didn't bother sending in any apps... I figure this beige box will get me where I wanted to). And I decided to live out in California with him. I didn't live in the same household as him, instead it was one of my grandmother's houses (my father's mom, not my mother's). But when I applied for a bank account, he recommended me not to use that address. Instead, I needed to use his address. Something I wanted to avoid.
Later he tells me that the he stained his name so bad with that house address (he also uses that house for his business address... and still is to this day) that if I did have my name under that adderss, my credit will get scewed instantly.
I really hope agencies look at our social security numbers, or at the leat our middle names... (or even middle initials!). This sucks.
Reason I'm ranting now because when I moved in, my cousin (who also lived there), signed me over to the phone bill (which my dad pays) because my dad has been tagged for terrible credit and he's not allow to be in charge of payments (or some shit like that). This past December, a collection agency sent me a letter about not paying my phone bill. Sure, my dad said he sorted everything out... but I'm wondering if that's going to affect me when I finally apply for some credit card when the spring semester begins.
Credit does baffle the mind. And it sure does suck.
Early estimates indicate that Sony is losing approximately $20 on the sale of each USDM
Last I heard Sony was biting $100 for each system sold. Maybe it changed since the Japanese launch.
Also, have you noticed Sony hasn't advertised through television or print ads? I guess the Playstation brand will sell it all... along with the press hype.
Um... Actually, most of the big computer/electronics players are running into semiconductor shortages all over the place. Sony is one of them. They are missing some of the raw components to make the systems.
It could be the chips, especially the Emotion Engine is one of its kind and they only have one plant to produce it in. (I think they're going to be building another EE fab plant some time next year... I think)...
...But I also heard that the problem lied on the DVD drives. People related it with the shortage of DVD drives for the notebooks... but I have no idea who the PS2 use the same design as a notebook DVD player. I know one thing about PS2's DVD design, it's the first of it's kind to create a hybrid laser for DVD and CD-ROM.
Anyway, before I get home today, I'm gonna swing buy a couple of stores and see if they have any leftover units... hah! Why am I joking myself?:)
Thirteen GB sure sounds like a lot a year ago. Now that we have 75+GB drives, it seems like it would take me awhile to fill it all up!
But instead of storing.jpg's or even.mp3's to save space. I end up saving them with.tif (or even the.psd format since I constantly work with Photoshop) and.wav's (I do a lot of mixing, too)
But of course not everyone does heavy design work or mixing, so it's more ideal for them to store their work in high quality.jpg's and keep.mp3's.
I figure we'll eventually store everything without the need of codecs. When processing power keeps rising and when bandwidth issues get resolved, we'll be streaming HDTV full frames and full resolution off of our HDD... err... sugar cube onto our 24" wide screen monitors with no problem!
3D is great. Really. Though, I don't normally use 3D to play games (after hours only... and not so much on the PC but on the consoles instead).
I work with both 3D and 2D design... mostly 2D. But when I work in 3D, it's a program layed out just like any other program while the 3D rendering takes place on your canvas.
At home, I didn't bother to shell out for a Wildcat (crazy?), Oxygen, or even a Geforce (been said it competes with the Oxygen in performance with Softimage). But, I stick with my Matrox. Why?
It's the 2D performance that I'm looking at! I did have a chance to work with Nvidia cards or even 3dfx cards, but the 2D is not as good as Matrox. And if you throw in a flat screen (not LCD, CRT flats) monitor, damn, you can never go back! At least I can't!
Though, it would be nice if Matrox finally made a 3D accellerator that could perform even as well as the original Geforce... or better yet! Have the leading 3D card developers make better RAMDACs! Or even to the more extreme. Give me 2 AGP slots!
Other than those black hole arguments, particle accelerator mishaps, and whatever would eat away at the planet, I'm sure the Earth will keep on doing what it does best... spin around in circles around the sun and be a mother to her children...
Since we're at the top of the chain, we're also the most likely to go out if any of these disasters were to occur. Life would repeat itself starting with the smallest surviving bacteria and work all the way up to a species like... us.
But I always had this thought, "What if we're not the first human-type generation."
Dislaimer: I'm obviously no scientist, but I just want to share a thought.
How does our technology stack up to determine the life of our planet or even our universe? I can see estimates (ie. Earth is 4 billion years old), but nothing that will determine that the Eart IS 4 billion years old.
So here's my idea... the human-type generation
We are not the first to roam this planet successfully. We are not the last to die here either. Instead, maybe billions upon billions of years ago, we did exist on this planet. And we eventually did kill ourselves off through technology or maybe some natural disaster.
In turn, Earth eventually heals itself and here we are again. When humans die off. The Earth would do the same thing again.
Space travel would save us, right? Who knows, maybe the last human-type are the aliens we think that are out there.
Of course, this is all an idea. And I'm sure it's not the first time it's been thought of. If you're still scratching your head... don't worry, I tried reading this again, I couldn't make sense of it either... Have a great day:)
I see where you're getting at, and that's great that the blind can use computers. Though, I'm wondering what a blind person could do with a computer.
Take our office applications, or maybe our Internet tools (browsers, email, usenet, etc), and how can the blind apply to all of those... currently. That's what I was trying to figure out
As oppose to the real-life... there is a way of communication from the blind to the seeing whether it be sound or touch. We can talk to them, they can talk to us. That's simple enough. But as for writing them a letter, it would have to translated to Braille for them to read it.
So I'm wondering how the seeing's computer application work for the blind. Yeah, I know. The blind can type on the keyboard. And sure, the computer can read it back. What about the web...
Nevermind, I just answered my own question. Bring on that feedback mouse!
That would be great, but we would have to think about how it would benefit the blind
Sure, when I thought it would be a great idea at first. But would this mean the blind would feel the icon... click on it, then... what? What would happen next? An image would come up for them to see... now a text document that would come up is a different matter...
...Like Braille! That's a great idea! Hmm... but I guess they're already working on something like that... there goes my patent...
Anyway, as for modern application, the blind wouldn't really have any immediate use for a feedback mouse... due to the fact I don't know any applications that are based on just sound (voice recognition)?
I think I'll stop now before I make an idiot of myself:)
I hope you're using MPEG2... since it's DVD... and you can pop it into any DVD player, y'know?
I also heard mastering a DVD takes a lot of work. And, currently, the software available for mastering them (movies, like what you're going to do, and not files like mp3s), are very expensive. I was looking into a DVD mastering production which was in the range of $10,000.
Anyway, I'm for MPEG2 over DivX;) any day... if of course the medium is on a DVD. Then again, if it was on a CD, I'd shoot for SVCD over DivX;). Gotta love those IEEE 1394 cards and DV cameras. The only way to go:)
I was looking into a Minidisc player one day, and I believe it was a model by Sharp (I can't confirm that) that played mp3's using the MD's to store the mp3 format on it.
It was a player that I really wanted to check out... but never had the money at the time to even purchase it. So the entire motivation of getting out and taking a look at it just went down the drain. But those who like the pros of an MD but don't want to "record" your mp3's into the MD format can check out that play... (I think it was Sharp)...
I would not be surprised if it took a hacker almost a year to crack Nintendo's new system. Just like the Dreamcast over the summer, a bunch of crackers finally reversed-engineered the DC and made it playable with normal CDR's instead of Sega's GD-ROM.
Now, I'm speculating here. So everything from here on is what I heard from various sources on the net and in magazines (probably all those sources related to IGN) and what I'm picturing what the N-Cube will be.
The N-Cube would be base on a new technology to deflect piracy on the new system. In helping with this is their new mini-DVD format. I'm guessing its the size of those mini-CDs you might see in an import section of a store. (You see the mini-CDs a lot for Asian music sinlges.) Though, I also heard that the mini-DVD may be in a case... sort of like the MiniDisc. That's my guess.
Now with that idea in mind. And this N-"Cube" shape (assuming), wouldn't it be nicer for Nintendo to create a mini-DVD drive instead of putting a full size DVD drive (which wouldn't even play movies)?
That will help Nintendo out for piracy since there won't be any mini-DVDR burners out there. Not only that, no one would be able to insert a normal DVDR in the player. (ala Dreamcast: Uses GD-ROM, though a CD-ROM can be used, too.)
But will be the new Nintendo system be un-crackable? Don't know, will have to ask the HK black market for that one. Anyway, also more heard information about Nintendo's new system. Matsushita is developing the drive for it. Also, Nintendo would be licensing their technology (maybe a year after N-Cube is released) back to Matsushita to develop a "home entertainment system". That's DVD playback and N-Cube playing included.
Only then I could think that N-Cube could be cracked and by then maybe DVDR will be cheaper. But, Nintendo's counterfeit protection isn't limited to the mini-DVD. They're doing some funky stuff internally with the system. I don't know much about security, so I'll leave it at that.
Though, I can say it will be fun watching everyone trying to crack Nintendo's new system. I guess that's how we progress in the technological age:)
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Not true.
Square signed a movie deal (for Final Fantasy) with Columbia Pictures for three movies.
I'm wondering if Square is going to follow the FF tradition with it's sequels and not make real sequels at all... :)
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Digital Betacam, on the other hand, is still in use.
So is Beta SP. Beta is not dead in the broadcast industry. It's still the mostly used standard. (Especially since Sony is some of the most active in the broadcast industry.) Even when we're moving over to the digital age, Beta is still there with... like you said... Digital Betcam. And the nice thing about Beta SP is the quality doesn't degrade as fast as VHS.
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even though it's not part of the new .biz or .info, I always wanted to pick up "stuckinacabi.net".
That way my email is neafevoc.is@stuckinacabi.net :)
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That's sad. And you know what's worst, those Nigerian scammers are still scamming people... and I'm caught in the middle!
I'm an admin* for my father's business*, and he's one of those suckers for SPAM and scams. It's really sad. I believe he already lost tens of thousands of dollars due to scams... and the insane part is that he doesn't learn!
And the latest scheme, those Nigerians*. This is the vague story I received so far.
The Nigerians front a shop to scam suckers like my dad. Supposedly they needed to export some large sums of money to the US. They needed someone from the US to hold it. To earn that person's trust, that person gives back money, gifts, and whatever back to the Nigerian company. The co. calls the sucker... err.. victim up and sends him a check... in this case it was $150k to hold.
Umm... $150k in an account seems pretty suspicious right? Well, it was a business account, and the check was flagged for fraud. So there's investigations at my place... and I'm trying to dump my hardware. (Only because I hear horror stories that they take your hardware and it's a bitch to get back.)Which is the reason why my website is down :(
Anyway, back on track. My dad is (my theory) the fall guy for that Nigerian co. and now they're laughing because they have his money. But the funny thing is that I hear that co. is still trying to find a way to export the money. (I don't get it... I really don't get it.)
Now that's really off topic. Watching my dad trying to make a million over night over and over again... makes me realize I'm in the wrong business. I should be conning those suckers ;)
*business = who knows what it really is
*admin = milk the bandwidth because there really isn't anything to do
*Nigerians = not the country in general, just the scammers who are doing the scamming in Nigeria... I'd use an actual co. name, but I don't know one. Sorry to sound stereotypical.
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Yes, flex.com or known as shaka.com or virtualwebsite.com or some other ones.
I used them for about a year before I moved away from the islands. They're such an awesome ISP. A buddy of mine knew the admin, del, and he's a very funny guy. I guess del is just sick and tired of computer illiterate people.
It is funny, though. If you dig into their site, there's a rant and rave list of emails from their customers.
Also, for those who don't know Hawaii's pidgen talk, the letters are very humorous... only because I always though pidgen was silly. (A mixture of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese... basically all your Asian immagrants to Hawaii during the plantation days trying to speak English).
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It's very, very cool, and it'll be much harder to clone for the Open Source world. I'd pay for it
I agree.
I remember using audiogalaxy.com a year or two ago when it was just a simple mp3 search engine. And it was a really good search engine at that. (Searches FTP sites of course.) Though, at the advent of Napster, I began to use that program instead... until I realized it was 'too big'. The realestate the program uses just to grab mp3 files was too much for my taste. So I stopped using it.
Then maybe about three months ago, I was trying to look for some song and resorted to using my old mp3 search engines. I was very surprised what happened to audiogalaxy.com. They really cleaned up. The first gave you the option to either search through 'ftp' or download through 'satellite'. I was curious what this satellite was and downloaded it.
Well, what do you know. It's the small little program that just sits in your tray (for Windows anyway) and uses a small amount of desktop realstate when you do decide to bring it up. I don't know how small. It's small enough to just show you information what kind of transfers are occurring at the moment.
The AG Satellite uses your browser to search for music. And like what Yoz said, it shows you your library, categorizes it by genre, and you can play it through your browser... using your preferred mp3 player. Top that off, it gives you the option if you want to buy that CD, gives you related artists to that music, and even has special sections with certain genres.
I think Napster also has a couple of these... and I think in the latest version, you can buy CDs through CDNOW.
By the way... the searching for mp3's seem more efficiant than Napster... but with one flaw... it doesn't have a user base as large as Napster.
But trying to hit the AG website... seems like the /. crowd is already hitting it pretty hard! Maybe that's a good thing ;)
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...the Wachowski brothers saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and they pissed their pants ;)
"No green screen, what?!@"
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Wait Wait! So what are you trying to say? The laser is the problem? ;)
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You're right!
I don't think he knows how to use computers... or he hasn't been using right drivers for his install of Win2k
I've been using Win2k for nearly a year now (wow, has it been out for a year already?), and I don't recall explorer crashing at all. Actually, I don't recall Win2k crashing at all... but of course except when:
So if you were to run some Microsoft OS, use Win2k (and please stay away from WinME!).
One more thing about these all these OS wars and how we're all acting like kids saying, "My OS is better than yours!" This has been said over and over. Use whatever that fits you. Deal with its problems. Don't like it, try another. No one is holding you back.
I'm fine with what OS I'm using (Win2k for workstation, FreeBSD for server). My choice, my problems. Have a nice day :)
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Do you share your name with your father, by any chance?
I do. And it sucks. I figure I could get away with the confusion between my father and I when I moved to another state. This was good during my middle and high school years. You know, establishing myself away from him. He also has very bad credit.
Anyway, after high school, I didn't get into any of the colleges I wanted to (due to laziness, didn't bother sending in any apps... I figure this beige box will get me where I wanted to). And I decided to live out in California with him. I didn't live in the same household as him, instead it was one of my grandmother's houses (my father's mom, not my mother's). But when I applied for a bank account, he recommended me not to use that address. Instead, I needed to use his address. Something I wanted to avoid.
Later he tells me that the he stained his name so bad with that house address (he also uses that house for his business address... and still is to this day) that if I did have my name under that adderss, my credit will get scewed instantly.
I really hope agencies look at our social security numbers, or at the leat our middle names... (or even middle initials!). This sucks.
Reason I'm ranting now because when I moved in, my cousin (who also lived there), signed me over to the phone bill (which my dad pays) because my dad has been tagged for terrible credit and he's not allow to be in charge of payments (or some shit like that). This past December, a collection agency sent me a letter about not paying my phone bill. Sure, my dad said he sorted everything out... but I'm wondering if that's going to affect me when I finally apply for some credit card when the spring semester begins.
Credit does baffle the mind. And it sure does suck.
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Just to add a little more information to help for your hidden website for your VC.
Put a robots.txt file in your root director for your website wtih this information in it:
User-agent: * /
Disallow:
This should tell most (if not all) search engine robots, crawlers, spiders, etc. to not search your website directories.
It seems to work. Not even Google has my website listed :)
(Either that, or people really don't visit.)
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Early estimates indicate that Sony is losing approximately $20 on the sale of each USDM
Last I heard Sony was biting $100 for each system sold. Maybe it changed since the Japanese launch.
Also, have you noticed Sony hasn't advertised through television or print ads? I guess the Playstation brand will sell it all... along with the press hype.
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Um... Actually, most of the big computer/electronics players are running into semiconductor shortages all over the place. Sony is one of them. They are missing some of the raw components to make the systems.
It could be the chips, especially the Emotion Engine is one of its kind and they only have one plant to produce it in. (I think they're going to be building another EE fab plant some time next year... I think)...
Anyway, before I get home today, I'm gonna swing buy a couple of stores and see if they have any leftover units... hah! Why am I joking myself? :)
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Thirteen GB sure sounds like a lot a year ago. Now that we have 75+GB drives, it seems like it would take me awhile to fill it all up!
But instead of storing .jpg's or even .mp3's to save space. I end up saving them with .tif (or even the .psd format since I constantly work with Photoshop) and .wav's (I do a lot of mixing, too)
But of course not everyone does heavy design work or mixing, so it's more ideal for them to store their work in high quality .jpg's and keep .mp3's.
I figure we'll eventually store everything without the need of codecs. When processing power keeps rising and when bandwidth issues get resolved, we'll be streaming HDTV full frames and full resolution off of our HDD... err... sugar cube onto our 24" wide screen monitors with no problem!
Okay, maybe not everyone. But I will :)
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OT
3D is great. Really. Though, I don't normally use 3D to play games (after hours only... and not so much on the PC but on the consoles instead).
I work with both 3D and 2D design... mostly 2D. But when I work in 3D, it's a program layed out just like any other program while the 3D rendering takes place on your canvas.
At home, I didn't bother to shell out for a Wildcat (crazy?), Oxygen, or even a Geforce (been said it competes with the Oxygen in performance with Softimage). But, I stick with my Matrox. Why?
It's the 2D performance that I'm looking at! I did have a chance to work with Nvidia cards or even 3dfx cards, but the 2D is not as good as Matrox. And if you throw in a flat screen (not LCD, CRT flats) monitor, damn, you can never go back! At least I can't!
Though, it would be nice if Matrox finally made a 3D accellerator that could perform even as well as the original Geforce... or better yet! Have the leading 3D card developers make better RAMDACs! Or even to the more extreme. Give me 2 AGP slots!
Okay, I'll stop now :)
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Other than those black hole arguments, particle accelerator mishaps, and whatever would eat away at the planet, I'm sure the Earth will keep on doing what it does best... spin around in circles around the sun and be a mother to her children...
Since we're at the top of the chain, we're also the most likely to go out if any of these disasters were to occur. Life would repeat itself starting with the smallest surviving bacteria and work all the way up to a species like... us.
But I always had this thought, "What if we're not the first human-type generation."
Dislaimer: I'm obviously no scientist, but I just want to share a thought.
How does our technology stack up to determine the life of our planet or even our universe? I can see estimates (ie. Earth is 4 billion years old), but nothing that will determine that the Eart IS 4 billion years old.
So here's my idea... the human-type generation
We are not the first to roam this planet successfully. We are not the last to die here either. Instead, maybe billions upon billions of years ago, we did exist on this planet. And we eventually did kill ourselves off through technology or maybe some natural disaster.
In turn, Earth eventually heals itself and here we are again. When humans die off. The Earth would do the same thing again.
Space travel would save us, right? Who knows, maybe the last human-type are the aliens we think that are out there.
Of course, this is all an idea. And I'm sure it's not the first time it's been thought of. If you're still scratching your head... don't worry, I tried reading this again, I couldn't make sense of it either... Have a great day :)
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Don't worry. All those amateaur bands in the radio can just post their music on Napster...
Oh wait! I get it now... :)
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I see where you're getting at, and that's great that the blind can use computers. Though, I'm wondering what a blind person could do with a computer.
Take our office applications, or maybe our Internet tools (browsers, email, usenet, etc), and how can the blind apply to all of those... currently. That's what I was trying to figure out
As oppose to the real-life... there is a way of communication from the blind to the seeing whether it be sound or touch. We can talk to them, they can talk to us. That's simple enough. But as for writing them a letter, it would have to translated to Braille for them to read it.
So I'm wondering how the seeing's computer application work for the blind. Yeah, I know. The blind can type on the keyboard. And sure, the computer can read it back. What about the web...
Nevermind, I just answered my own question. Bring on that feedback mouse!
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That would be great, but we would have to think about how it would benefit the blind
Sure, when I thought it would be a great idea at first. But would this mean the blind would feel the icon... click on it, then... what? What would happen next? An image would come up for them to see... now a text document that would come up is a different matter...
Anyway, as for modern application, the blind wouldn't really have any immediate use for a feedback mouse... due to the fact I don't know any applications that are based on just sound (voice recognition)?
I think I'll stop now before I make an idiot of myself :)
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I hope you're using MPEG2... since it's DVD... and you can pop it into any DVD player, y'know?
I also heard mastering a DVD takes a lot of work. And, currently, the software available for mastering them (movies, like what you're going to do, and not files like mp3s), are very expensive. I was looking into a DVD mastering production which was in the range of $10,000.
Anyway, I'm for MPEG2 over DivX;) any day... if of course the medium is on a DVD. Then again, if it was on a CD, I'd shoot for SVCD over DivX;). Gotta love those IEEE 1394 cards and DV cameras. The only way to go :)
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I was looking into a Minidisc player one day, and I believe it was a model by Sharp (I can't confirm that) that played mp3's using the MD's to store the mp3 format on it.
It was a player that I really wanted to check out... but never had the money at the time to even purchase it. So the entire motivation of getting out and taking a look at it just went down the drain. But those who like the pros of an MD but don't want to "record" your mp3's into the MD format can check out that play... (I think it was Sharp)...
Can anyone confirm?
I would not be surprised if it took a hacker almost a year to crack Nintendo's new system. Just like the Dreamcast over the summer, a bunch of crackers finally reversed-engineered the DC and made it playable with normal CDR's instead of Sega's GD-ROM.
Now, I'm speculating here. So everything from here on is what I heard from various sources on the net and in magazines (probably all those sources related to IGN) and what I'm picturing what the N-Cube will be.
The N-Cube would be base on a new technology to deflect piracy on the new system. In helping with this is their new mini-DVD format. I'm guessing its the size of those mini-CDs you might see in an import section of a store. (You see the mini-CDs a lot for Asian music sinlges.) Though, I also heard that the mini-DVD may be in a case... sort of like the MiniDisc. That's my guess.
Now with that idea in mind. And this N-"Cube" shape (assuming), wouldn't it be nicer for Nintendo to create a mini-DVD drive instead of putting a full size DVD drive (which wouldn't even play movies)?
That will help Nintendo out for piracy since there won't be any mini-DVDR burners out there. Not only that, no one would be able to insert a normal DVDR in the player. (ala Dreamcast: Uses GD-ROM, though a CD-ROM can be used, too.)
But will be the new Nintendo system be un-crackable? Don't know, will have to ask the HK black market for that one. Anyway, also more heard information about Nintendo's new system. Matsushita is developing the drive for it. Also, Nintendo would be licensing their technology (maybe a year after N-Cube is released) back to Matsushita to develop a "home entertainment system". That's DVD playback and N-Cube playing included.
Only then I could think that N-Cube could be cracked and by then maybe DVDR will be cheaper. But, Nintendo's counterfeit protection isn't limited to the mini-DVD. They're doing some funky stuff internally with the system. I don't know much about security, so I'll leave it at that.
Though, I can say it will be fun watching everyone trying to crack Nintendo's new system. I guess that's how we progress in the technological age :)
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