On the other side of the spectrum. I think it would be immensly cool to have a digital camera with a CD burner built in. Considering their already high prices and the mad cost of their media, it'd be near wonderful to be able to just plonk a blank CD in there at about 2 gigabytes per dollar for permanent storage.
NES is in utter dispute and PS1 had its share of problems in the beginning. I haven't heard anybody bash the SNES yet. Someone tell me something bad about it! Squeaky cartridge doors? Didn't handle a ten story drop well? Tell me!!!
It really makes the PS2 games, even the new great ones, look kinda pale and low-tech in comparison.
Just because some people were willing to part with $500 on PS2 launch doesn't mean it competes with any of the sub-year-old systems out now.
Not to start a flamewar, but I was never impressed wiht PS2 and often mistake it's graphics in commercials with a PS1 (mainly because I haven't used a PS1 much, but it has the same image artifacting IMO).
I still don't get why anyone wants to spend psycho gobs of money for 1 gig of space when 3 bucks on the high end gives you at least 650 megs of rewritable CD.
Drive: 1024 / 250 = 4 megs a buck
CD-RW: 650 / 3 = 216 megs a buck
Am I the only one who gets this?
54 times more bang for the buck here!
I slanted the calcs in the drive's favor!
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I'm actually for beating the OGR in the RC5 client. Which has nothing to do with crypto that I know of offhand. It'd probably help space exploration, and it beats processing space-noise.
AFAIK,.ogg and.mp3 are very different formats mechanically. I've heard the line "The magics in the encoding". In any case all the evil stuff.mp3 does to the audio to make it.mp3 will not be nearly undoable when "transcoding".
Did I forget to make my statement conditional upon the standard not being enhanced? Or did I seem to not grasp what I was typing about?
In any case I do think the upped frequency is more important than you give credit for. Though I think we're moving the wrong way bit wise. 1-bit has the elegance of a very strong standard in the making assuming everyone can agree on the parameters it uses and start making actual products with it.
RAW CDs will live as long as music comes in 44.1KHz dual channel (or even quad) 16 bit format.
Only format that a real hard f***ing core audiophile might consider is FLAC. That is still on average about %60 the size of RAW, but its also lossless.
And encapsulated to Ogg FLAC it'd have all the cushiness of the Vorbis streaming mechanism.:-)
The Nintendo64 had such a sorry array of games when compared to the PS1, its a no-brainer to expect the same of their cube.
Got the no-brain part right.
With 1500 megs versus 32 megs for game storage developers will have to spend less time squeezing out turnip-blood to get their games onto the medium. Oh, and its hardware isn't hard to work with as compared to the N64/PS2.
Its a brainer to expect more development taking less time, being more profitable, bringing more developer interest to the platform.
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On the other side of the spectrum. I think it would be immensly cool to have a digital camera with a CD burner built in. Considering their already high prices and the mad cost of their media, it'd be near wonderful to be able to just plonk a blank CD in there at about 2 gigabytes per dollar for permanent storage.
Troll? So slashdotters in general really like Microsoft formats and don't mind having Microsoft take over another market?
I wish I could moderate moderators.
(-1, Out of touch with reality.)
Nice they grouped up all the DVD players that have this bug in them. Now I know what not to get.
NES is in utter dispute and PS1 had its share of problems in the beginning. I haven't heard anybody bash the SNES yet. Someone tell me something bad about it! Squeaky cartridge doors? Didn't handle a ten story drop well? Tell me!!!
:-)
It really makes the PS2 games, even the new great ones, look kinda pale and low-tech in comparison.
Just because some people were willing to part with $500 on PS2 launch doesn't mean it competes with any of the sub-year-old systems out now.
Not to start a flamewar, but I was never impressed wiht PS2 and often mistake it's graphics in commercials with a PS1 (mainly because I haven't used a PS1 much, but it has the same image artifacting IMO).
I mean in the .mp3 player arena BTW. Though with these numbers I'm sure it could bleed into other arenas.
I still don't get why anyone wants to spend psycho gobs of money for 1 gig of space when 3 bucks on the high end gives you at least 650 megs of rewritable CD.
Drive: 1024 / 250 = 4 megs a buck
CD-RW: 650 / 3 = 216 megs a buck
Am I the only one who gets this?
54 times more bang for the buck here!
I slanted the calcs in the drive's favor!
I wish my mod points didn't just vaporize. Funny!
Ya know, I think his father can prove prior art here...
I'm actually for beating the OGR in the RC5 client. Which has nothing to do with crypto that I know of offhand. It'd probably help space exploration, and it beats processing space-noise.
I'm awed at how many slashdotters cannot tell the difference between MBps and Mbps.
R2D2 has been around for a while, thats why its so eccentric.
C3P0 didn't seem to grow too much in 4-6, probably because he wasn't born yesterday in those episodes.
I'd wait for Lucas to tie the series together before bashing him about their existance in hte known past. Just me though.
All these days I thought that was makeup she was wearing...
Actually, I saw LotR not for the Lucas garb, but for the Legend of the Rangers trailer. Which I was in the wrong theatre for... :-\
:-)
Heres a page about the other LotR.
The guys will be seen for a fleeting moment in a "big scene with lots of extras."
Sounds like a fun game for whoever buys the DVD...
AFAIK, .ogg and .mp3 are very different formats mechanically. I've heard the line "The magics in the encoding". In any case all the evil stuff .mp3 does to the audio to make it .mp3 will not be nearly undoable when "transcoding".
Did I forget to make my statement conditional upon the standard not being enhanced? Or did I seem to not grasp what I was typing about?
In any case I do think the upped frequency is more important than you give credit for. Though I think we're moving the wrong way bit wise. 1-bit has the elegance of a very strong standard in the making assuming everyone can agree on the parameters it uses and start making actual products with it.
Portable music players are restricted to 256 megs at the very most.
.mp3 and hopefully other formats in the future, just to avoid the 2nd generation trolls.
You must not be aware of these newfangled compact disk things then, put 700 megs on a disk you can!
And there ARE portable players that support
Soon they will also know how to feed them to an MP3-to-Ogg converter
.mp3 glitchies into another lossy encoder. He looks ill.
A blaspheme if I've ever seen one...
/me shudders at the thought of feeding
I know the feeling. Making my personal pages I realized that .png support was very partial-seated. :-)
RAW CDs will live as long as music comes in 44.1KHz dual channel (or even quad) 16 bit format.
:-)
Only format that a real hard f***ing core audiophile might consider is FLAC. That is still on average about %60 the size of RAW, but its also lossless.
And encapsulated to Ogg FLAC it'd have all the cushiness of the Vorbis streaming mechanism.
Any Gnutella client should work.
When will those guys STOP?!?!
:-)
About the day they can sneak a pulse-cannon into the theater instead.
The Nintendo64 had such a sorry array of games when compared to the PS1, its a no-brainer to expect the same of their cube.
;-)
Got the no-brain part right.
With 1500 megs versus 32 megs for game storage developers will have to spend less time squeezing out turnip-blood to get their games onto the medium. Oh, and its hardware isn't hard to work with as compared to the N64/PS2.
Its a brainer to expect more development taking less time, being more profitable, bringing more developer interest to the platform.
The cost of carts have been eliminated BTW.
Only someone with 17 fans on their Athlon would think the XBOX overheats.
I'm sorry, I only have four fans on my Athlon (two are in parallel).
And I've seen one of those nonfunctioning X-Box displays, and I think the heat argument is a good one. Nevermind the ridiculous complexity of it.