More like marketing lemming speak. Frankly, if I wanted to download an HD movie trailer I'd use my PC and not just because I don't have a PS360.
Given what Sony and MS are trying to accomplish with this console iteration, I can understand putting larger drives in. On the level above that one though, I think the whole plan they've set out with is off base, hard drive or not.
The XBox and PS3 hard drives aren't just for saves or new material. You can download demos, videos, even games (Castlevania: SotN takes up a decent chunk of space I believe...) and who knows what else to them.
Thing is, the XBox and PS3 are being marketed not just as video game consoles, but as media centers and as media centers they need to be able to store large amounts of media content. Once you start pulling off HD video content, need for space starts rising.
I can't help but think there's a world of difference between how DX stations work and how these CMOS chips work, but I don't think I'll have the time to figure it out before someone more versed in the topics can give a brief rundown.
One thing that sticks out is that this CMOS variation seems to allow for finely tuned control of the frequency, which allows them to use it regularly and reliably, but I could be way off.
Beat me to it. This sounds like it'd just wreak havoc on checksums.
Plus, I'd also like to add that P2P doesn't download from a single source as the summary claims...but it pulls down chunks of the same file from MANY sources.
Obviously she's unaware that something cannot have "real market value" when it's illegal to sell.
Tell that to Al Capone and anyone else arrested for illegal activities for not paying their taxes. Or to news organizations when a raid on a marijuana farm turns up "a $47 million street value haul." Obviously it has $0 value since it's illegal...
Frankly, once you get into real world monetary exchange, expect to pay taxes. Heck, this should be a duh for Second Life since this is built in to the system. Some people (allegedly) make a decent chunk of their living expenses from Second Life.
I think it's just inevitable that this is going to happen; I would just hope that, first, there's a grace amount, like $500, to give hobbyists some leeway but high enough to catch people that make a decent profit from an online world.
Second, that if the government gets their mitts into this that they provide the same protections inside the game world that they do outside. Enforcing contracts, and whatever else they're supposed to do to protect their citizens, especially legitimate transactions (i.e., Second Life). They can't just take the money and then have a hands-off policy if problems arise.
While it might not help set legal precident, it might make the RIAA more cautious in the future on who it goes after and continues to go after, which is still a plus.
Why they continued pursuing this case after finding out her children were the more likely culprits I can only imagine; they should have realized this case would not go their way after that but instead they kept trying. Maybe they thought they could still win? Or maybe they felt pulling out would be even worse? I can only speculate.
Regardless, if this makes their legal team second guess some of the very questionable cases, it might end up being a good thing.
anyway, who are you to diminish another round of slashdot RIAA bashing?:)
Fortunately I'm sure Vista (and hell, even the BIOS) guard the boot sector like it's fort knox.
No problem. We just send a flying circus over the BIOS, dump some VX gas on it, then march in with the industrial laser. Then we cut a hole, drop the virus in and, BOOM! Instant instability.
This is assuming, of course, Vista hasn't seduced the leader of the flying circus by this point, at which case the whole plan's shot to hell.
Those, though, are all major events that happened on US soil that had visable impact to everyone. If we compare this to the Civil War, where are we? Missouri Compromise? Dred Scott? John Brown? Restocking Fort Sumner? We're certainly not at the Civil War point yet.
I would imagine the sooner we have something that invigorates public involvement in the government, it'd be less damaging. The longer we wait, the more devistating the Event will end up being.
I'm sorta hoping Congress or the Executive Branch will take care of it on their own. Running TV ads wouldn't work, too expensive to get good time slots assuming people even watch em.
I'm also not exactly partial to running for office (not that I'm electable to begin with, especially not in my district...)
We're not congratulating ES&S, as much as being happy that justice is working. The judge rejected all of Diebold's whiny claims. ES&S is irrelevant to that point.
I don't think the revolution stage is necessary, at least not yet, but something needs to shake up the voting public so they actually start caring about the government and what they do in regards to economics and diplomacy rather than abortion or evolution. Require the branches of government to have accountability on all levels.
I, personally, don't see a way to spark that interest given the current environment outside of a jolt. I would be happy to be proven wrong though.
I used to care. But I think voter apathy is contagious...
Frankly, I think this country would be better off the sooner we start *really* fucking it up than later. Shock people into realizing their fragile little world is on the brink of becoming glass shards...
If we just slowly slide downward, people won't notice...like now. It's like gently turning the heat up on a frog in a pot of water on the stove. Need to crank that oven dial to 11 and make froggy jump out and go "DAMN, THAT'S HOT"
Point, it does seem I picked a bad phrasing there (which wasn't my intention...), but I expanded on details in some above responces.
To abridge the other posts, basically this would be ideal for the California run that was mentioned in the clip (San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento), not to mention Los Angeles - Las Vegas. Could also possibly see it being used to success hooking San Antonio - Ft Worth/Dallas - Houston - Austin, or maybe Phoenix - Tuscon. I'm sure an East Coaster could come up with good examples there as well.
Perhaps I should've picked 'interconnecting' instead of 'growing.'
Easy: Toll the bloody bejeezus out of the freeways between good train routes. Truckers get a discount.
Also, are airlines really running a profit right now? Maybe Southwest, but oy...I just don't like them...
Plus I think if it was marketed properly, to the jetsetters in a local region, it could really pay off.
Who wants to spend 5 hours driving or waiting in an airport through delays and the security? Take the train. Gets you there just as fast and you won't lose your luggage, be hassled by an apathetic TSA lacky or lose your rental deposit.
Yea, I'm pipe dreaming here, but it makes logical sense...which, of course, is why it'll never happen.
Yea, the EU couldn't fit inside one state...doubt even Alaska, and you said a normal US state anyway.
Trains may not make much sense on a nationwide scale, I doubt Denver - Cheyenne would be worth it, but between some close, but not too close, metro areas, it'd be ideal.
As mentioned in the article, San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento would be heavenly, considering how much traffic goes between those four locations daily. Los Angeles to Las Vegas would pay for itself in like, two years. Plus I'd use all of those routes.
While I don't live in Texas, it also seems linking Fort Worth/Dallas - San Antonio - Houston - Austin would be useful.
There's probably other locations where a trek of a couple hundred miles that this would be ideal for. (Phoenix - Tuscon, maybe?) It's not a nationwide solution, but in certain areas it could be a great boon to ease air congestion and road traffic in localized areas.
1. Concorde? On a more recent note, the Airbus 380 is pretty impressive (if arguably not practical).
2. For 12 lucky people...not exactly recent though is it. Plus we haven't been back.
3. Vostok? Oh. Well, what about the ISS then? Shoot, that doesn't work... Mir. And that one got finished, too.
4. I'm in the States, so that one doesn't quite work.
While I'd probably say SpaceShipOne was our best effort of the past decade, it's not a mass produced area yet. Instead, I went with the H3 to make a modern juxtaposition where commercial effort is focused: France in public transportation, the US in road tanks.
They were advertising a product with its niftiest features, but I think that about 15 minutes of research would have let someone know that they couldn't use the Aero interface.
Me thinks you put too much faith in the ability of US consumers to do 'research.'
This is the same country that sues fast food places because they didn't know fast food is fattening and unhealthy, despite needing only 15 minutes of research to tell them what large quantities of saturated fat and sodium would do to the human body.
I'll leave the 'blasting money into space' retort for someone else...I'm partial to the space program even though the ISS is the Ford Pinto of space projects...
However, a good high speed train would be great down here. LA to bay area...to Vegas... Holy crap, LA - Vegas train like that? Would pay for itself in probably 2 years. More practical than a plane, and more comfortable than a bus, and hella safer than dealing with the nutters on I-15.
Much more useful to have something like that in the US than another Hummer model, at the very least.
And I don't think the financial situation in the US as a nation is on solid enough ground that you can infer to it as better, even to France, but that's just an opinion.
Our rail system is a joke. Worse than a joke. It's not notable enough to use as a punchline.
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More like marketing lemming speak. Frankly, if I wanted to download an HD movie trailer I'd use my PC and not just because I don't have a PS360.
Given what Sony and MS are trying to accomplish with this console iteration, I can understand putting larger drives in. On the level above that one though, I think the whole plan they've set out with is off base, hard drive or not.
The XBox and PS3 hard drives aren't just for saves or new material. You can download demos, videos, even games (Castlevania: SotN takes up a decent chunk of space I believe...) and who knows what else to them.
Thing is, the XBox and PS3 are being marketed not just as video game consoles, but as media centers and as media centers they need to be able to store large amounts of media content. Once you start pulling off HD video content, need for space starts rising.
Well, that's 6 figures divvied up between all the congressmen they went after.
6 figures to *each* congressman might work.
And given the ensuing reaction, can't say I'm surprised they tried to sneak it in.
It's a dark day when well meaning politicans can't even get ideas in the door without being hassled.
I can't help but think there's a world of difference between how DX stations work and how these CMOS chips work, but I don't think I'll have the time to figure it out before someone more versed in the topics can give a brief rundown.
One thing that sticks out is that this CMOS variation seems to allow for finely tuned control of the frequency, which allows them to use it regularly and reliably, but I could be way off.
Make? Unlikely.
Lead to? We can only hope.
Beat me to it. This sounds like it'd just wreak havoc on checksums.
Plus, I'd also like to add that P2P doesn't download from a single source as the summary claims...but it pulls down chunks of the same file from MANY sources.
Maybe these guys are confusing P2P with FTP?...
Not to mention just recently the WTO ruled in favor of Antigua over online gaming.
I'd love to see China come out and say, on the record, "The US has no history of agreeing to WTO decisions, why should we?"
Obviously she's unaware that something cannot have "real market value" when it's illegal to sell.
Tell that to Al Capone and anyone else arrested for illegal activities for not paying their taxes. Or to news organizations when a raid on a marijuana farm turns up "a $47 million street value haul." Obviously it has $0 value since it's illegal...
Frankly, once you get into real world monetary exchange, expect to pay taxes. Heck, this should be a duh for Second Life since this is built in to the system. Some people (allegedly) make a decent chunk of their living expenses from Second Life.
I think it's just inevitable that this is going to happen; I would just hope that, first, there's a grace amount, like $500, to give hobbyists some leeway but high enough to catch people that make a decent profit from an online world.
Second, that if the government gets their mitts into this that they provide the same protections inside the game world that they do outside. Enforcing contracts, and whatever else they're supposed to do to protect their citizens, especially legitimate transactions (i.e., Second Life). They can't just take the money and then have a hands-off policy if problems arise.
While it might not help set legal precident, it might make the RIAA more cautious in the future on who it goes after and continues to go after, which is still a plus.
:)
Why they continued pursuing this case after finding out her children were the more likely culprits I can only imagine; they should have realized this case would not go their way after that but instead they kept trying. Maybe they thought they could still win? Or maybe they felt pulling out would be even worse? I can only speculate.
Regardless, if this makes their legal team second guess some of the very questionable cases, it might end up being a good thing.
anyway, who are you to diminish another round of slashdot RIAA bashing?
...cause that worked out so well in Transporter 2...
Fortunately I'm sure Vista (and hell, even the BIOS) guard the boot sector like it's fort knox.
No problem. We just send a flying circus over the BIOS, dump some VX gas on it, then march in with the industrial laser. Then we cut a hole, drop the virus in and, BOOM! Instant instability.
This is assuming, of course, Vista hasn't seduced the leader of the flying circus by this point, at which case the whole plan's shot to hell.
Those, though, are all major events that happened on US soil that had visable impact to everyone. If we compare this to the Civil War, where are we? Missouri Compromise? Dred Scott? John Brown? Restocking Fort Sumner? We're certainly not at the Civil War point yet.
I would imagine the sooner we have something that invigorates public involvement in the government, it'd be less damaging. The longer we wait, the more devistating the Event will end up being.
I'm open to suggestions.
I'm sorta hoping Congress or the Executive Branch will take care of it on their own. Running TV ads wouldn't work, too expensive to get good time slots assuming people even watch em.
I'm also not exactly partial to running for office (not that I'm electable to begin with, especially not in my district...)
We're not congratulating ES&S, as much as being happy that justice is working. The judge rejected all of Diebold's whiny claims. ES&S is irrelevant to that point.
I don't think the revolution stage is necessary, at least not yet, but something needs to shake up the voting public so they actually start caring about the government and what they do in regards to economics and diplomacy rather than abortion or evolution. Require the branches of government to have accountability on all levels.
I, personally, don't see a way to spark that interest given the current environment outside of a jolt. I would be happy to be proven wrong though.
I used to care. But I think voter apathy is contagious...
Frankly, I think this country would be better off the sooner we start *really* fucking it up than later. Shock people into realizing their fragile little world is on the brink of becoming glass shards...
If we just slowly slide downward, people won't notice...like now. It's like gently turning the heat up on a frog in a pot of water on the stove. Need to crank that oven dial to 11 and make froggy jump out and go "DAMN, THAT'S HOT"
In retrospect, I clearly shouldn't have made that lame attempt at a joke, at least not here. (Yes, I know -ii is so badly wrong.)
Although I did learn something, so I'm not calling it a complete loss.
Point, it does seem I picked a bad phrasing there (which wasn't my intention...), but I expanded on details in some above responces.
To abridge the other posts, basically this would be ideal for the California run that was mentioned in the clip (San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento), not to mention Los Angeles - Las Vegas. Could also possibly see it being used to success hooking San Antonio - Ft Worth/Dallas - Houston - Austin, or maybe Phoenix - Tuscon. I'm sure an East Coaster could come up with good examples there as well.
Perhaps I should've picked 'interconnecting' instead of 'growing.'
Easy: Toll the bloody bejeezus out of the freeways between good train routes. Truckers get a discount.
Also, are airlines really running a profit right now? Maybe Southwest, but oy...I just don't like them...
Plus I think if it was marketed properly, to the jetsetters in a local region, it could really pay off.
Who wants to spend 5 hours driving or waiting in an airport through delays and the security? Take the train. Gets you there just as fast and you won't lose your luggage, be hassled by an apathetic TSA lacky or lose your rental deposit.
Yea, I'm pipe dreaming here, but it makes logical sense...which, of course, is why it'll never happen.
Texas: 695,621 km^2
France: 551,695 km^2
Yea, the EU couldn't fit inside one state...doubt even Alaska, and you said a normal US state anyway.
Trains may not make much sense on a nationwide scale, I doubt Denver - Cheyenne would be worth it, but between some close, but not too close, metro areas, it'd be ideal.
As mentioned in the article, San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento would be heavenly, considering how much traffic goes between those four locations daily. Los Angeles to Las Vegas would pay for itself in like, two years. Plus I'd use all of those routes.
While I don't live in Texas, it also seems linking Fort Worth/Dallas - San Antonio - Houston - Austin would be useful.
There's probably other locations where a trek of a couple hundred miles that this would be ideal for. (Phoenix - Tuscon, maybe?) It's not a nationwide solution, but in certain areas it could be a great boon to ease air congestion and road traffic in localized areas.
1. Concorde? On a more recent note, the Airbus 380 is pretty impressive (if arguably not practical).
2. For 12 lucky people...not exactly recent though is it. Plus we haven't been back.
3. Vostok? Oh. Well, what about the ISS then? Shoot, that doesn't work... Mir. And that one got finished, too.
4. I'm in the States, so that one doesn't quite work.
While I'd probably say SpaceShipOne was our best effort of the past decade, it's not a mass produced area yet. Instead, I went with the H3 to make a modern juxtaposition where commercial effort is focused: France in public transportation, the US in road tanks.
They were advertising a product with its niftiest features, but I think that about 15 minutes of research would have let someone know that they couldn't use the Aero interface.
Me thinks you put too much faith in the ability of US consumers to do 'research.'
This is the same country that sues fast food places because they didn't know fast food is fattening and unhealthy, despite needing only 15 minutes of research to tell them what large quantities of saturated fat and sodium would do to the human body.
I'll leave the 'blasting money into space' retort for someone else...I'm partial to the space program even though the ISS is the Ford Pinto of space projects...
However, a good high speed train would be great down here. LA to bay area...to Vegas... Holy crap, LA - Vegas train like that? Would pay for itself in probably 2 years. More practical than a plane, and more comfortable than a bus, and hella safer than dealing with the nutters on I-15.
Much more useful to have something like that in the US than another Hummer model, at the very least.
And I don't think the financial situation in the US as a nation is on solid enough ground that you can infer to it as better, even to France, but that's just an opinion.
Our rail system is a joke. Worse than a joke. It's not notable enough to use as a punchline.
And driving's a joke.
At least someone's working on a project that's beneficial to growing metropolises (metropolii?)
France makes a train going 350mph. What does the US make as it's engineering masterpiece? The H3...