Been wanting one since the movie Hackers came out back in the mid-90s - which Zero Cool used. Loved the idea, have looked for years yet nothing has ever quite done it.
Unfortunately the storing computers are located in the United States - and the company is based in the United States. Britain may *try* to hold a US court liable for violating privacy laws - but it isn't going to matter much. In this case there isn't much another country could do about it.
The only 'Hoax' here is that this was a "scientific" study which Toms Hardware could not be wrong (they even state that they can't be wrong in the article). Talk about a load of bull. I couldn't have put it better myself.
You need to measure - WATTS/PERFORMANCE not TIME/DEPLETION.
Unfortunately they have no way of showing if it was the SSD drive or the CPU that was eating all that extra power with the method they used. I would call that decidedly un-scientific.
"Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include."
Ummm, no.... I'm sure many people here are already aware, but if not - check out Beyond TV (http://www.snapstream.com/). The guys over at Snapstream have been doing automatic commercial detection for a while now, and Beyond TV is in the category of a Commercial DVR. And, I'm pretty sure that other companies have been doing it too. This is nothing new - and hasn't yet been a 'killer app'.
We all knew it was coming, but it looks like SGI finally made the shift from Computer Maker - to Patent Company. Their business model failed - the only thing they now have to save themselves is the possibility that they may make money from Patents/Copyrights. Unfortunately, it's probably mostly stuff that can be seen in prior art. And litigation is likely to deplete their already depleted coffers (just look at the SCO case). Coming straight out of bankruptcy and going straight to litigation. I call this a bad sign for SGI stock holders.
If they build one big enough, they could even launch garbage... out of orbit. That's one way to reduce landfill size. (Notice I didn't say it was a good way).
I seriously hope that power consumption and heat disipation are really attacked before these things come out. Can you imagine needing a 200-amp service and liquid nitrogen cooling for something like that right now?
Make the DVDs small (like mini DVD), so they take up less space (should be easy enough, and you can still increase the audio quality). And remove DRM entirely. Again and again the music companies are working to stiffle your ability to make fair-use copies... if they could, they would force you to pay every time that you even listened to a song. It's called corporate greed. It has nothing to do with what is fair or right.
Considering in the LMS world - blackboard is barely a blip:
I am sure that companies like IBM, SumTotal Systems, Plateau, Saba, Oracle (iLearning), and Learn.com will have plenty to say about it. Especially since several of these companies (or generally pieces of these companies - since they tend to merge a lot in the LMS world) have had working LMS systems for far longer than Blackboard has been in existence.
Hell, when SumTotal Systems acquired Pathlore Software (which is all the way from Goul - they inherited more than 20 years worth of LMS code... we are talking mainframe days here - and I hear that a lot of that stuff is still running. Prior art abounds... this is a horrible patent anyway.
Considering that the Star Trek shows had a larger budget for special effects, than most of the other shows you mentioned had in total budget (combined) - I find it hard to believe that Star Trek's graphics wasn't far better in comparison. The other shows had to create new ways to get the effects done with only a fraction of the money - I am rather impressed by what they were able to do. Plus, B5 totally killed Star Trek in the costume department, and it set the bar high enough there that other shows try to match it still.
It is humorous to me that all this is going on, yet we still don't have a ruling in Novell v SCO - claiming that SCO doesn't even own the rights to the code that they are suing over. If Novell is correct, this is all a moot point anyway. And everything that has been seen so far seems to indicate that Novell is indeed correct here.
Which IBM is probably aware of the facts in that case as well - which is yet another reason to make them even more unconcerned about SCOs case.
I don't think so. I think had the name 'Silicon Graphics' been kept rather than the move to 'SGI' - then you would have a much higher presence for many of the things in the industry. Unfortnately, they lost almost all of their name recgonition when they made the name change - many people don't even know who SGI is these days. Now, they could bring back 'Silicon Graphics' as a brand name - and that might work out for them.
Also, another thing that people always liked about their systems was the design astetics (flowing curves of their systems). They need to bring that back. Also, bring back the bleeding edge performance - or make the systems they are selling more affordable... otherwise they are doomed to fail yet again.
Remember, the russians always have a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS to get people off. Plus, it would be far more likely that the russians could launch a couple more Soyuz before the US could get one of the other Shuttles off. If it truly was an emergency, and oxygen or something else consumable was an issue. They could send some of the astronauts down - eleviating the pressures on the ISS and (hopefully) allowing crew endurance to be boosted, until NASA or the Russian Space Agency could get another craft(s) up to retrieve the others.
All I can say is wow... I now have a running bet that come October we will start to see the beginnings of the end of OSX - I bet that we see the new Mac systems start comming out with "designed for Windows Vista" stickers on them.
Here's my hypothesis: I think that iTunes/iPod has become more important to Apple (it's their cash cow now) than the Mac line - i think that they believe that they can sell more of their computers with Windows.... and then pre-install iTunes and reach a larger audience for their music store. That's what i'm betting on.
With all the continuing good news about the evolution of the PPC, including the Cell processor, I find it hard to believe that Apple has choosen now to move to Intel chips... and the developer workstations are only 32bit no less (I think they could have at least gone with AMD64).
The good news is that someone is at least taking advantage of the architecture and producing linux workstations based on the Cell... unfortunately i don't think tht will be enough for it to survive in the desktop/workstation market. I fear that unless Microsoft ends up releasing a new PPC version of Windows (which i consider unlikely at best), PPC is soon to be relegated to Servers, Gaming Stations and the embedded market only.
The big problem with this, that always seems to be pointed out, is the 'assumed' non-compete agreement with Microsoft - that is said to have occured when Microsoft helped to bail Apple out a couple of years (and bought stock in Apple). Although, it has never been proven... since it's all under a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
The theory is... if Microsoft will not hit Apple's marketspace... if Apple stays out of the PC arena with their OS...
Actually, since OS X is BSD based... having a PDA running a version of OS X would not be to hard... it would probably actually be one of the easier routes for it to occur... especially since Linux based PDA's are becomming more and more common... BSD based OS X is definately not far off the mark.
I would like to see one a new Newton be a little bigger than a standard PDA.... sorta in between a PDA and a tablet system... but that's just dreaming now...
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Nice! Except suddenly the defense lawyer for every lawsuit that RIAA brings up will be requesting that information.
Seriously - they have to have been in about a hundred movies. And all over the place.
Maybe it's time for the Psychological research people to join the 21st century and make some new digital inkblots?
Been wanting one since the movie Hackers came out back in the mid-90s - which Zero Cool used. Loved the idea, have looked for years yet nothing has ever quite done it.
From the SeaQuest episode: Stinger
I guess maybe that show did make a single contribution to mankind........
Nah...
Unfortunately the storing computers are located in the United States - and the company is based in the United States. Britain may *try* to hold a US court liable for violating privacy laws - but it isn't going to matter much. In this case there isn't much another country could do about it.
The only 'Hoax' here is that this was a "scientific" study which Toms Hardware could not be wrong (they even state that they can't be wrong in the article). Talk about a load of bull. I couldn't have put it better myself.
You need to measure - WATTS/PERFORMANCE not TIME/DEPLETION.
Unfortunately they have no way of showing if it was the SSD drive or the CPU that was eating all that extra power with the method they used. I would call that decidedly un-scientific.
Good call hclewk!
That assumes 1: you could find a storage medium that large that could 2: actually accept data being written to it at that speed.
:)
Assuming you could find that... i suggest you hand it over to me, because I would really like to get my hands on it.
"Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include."
Ummm, no.... I'm sure many people here are already aware, but if not - check out Beyond TV (http://www.snapstream.com/). The guys over at Snapstream have been doing automatic commercial detection for a while now, and Beyond TV is in the category of a Commercial DVR. And, I'm pretty sure that other companies have been doing it too. This is nothing new - and hasn't yet been a 'killer app'.
We all knew it was coming, but it looks like SGI finally made the shift from Computer Maker - to Patent Company. Their business model failed - the only thing they now have to save themselves is the possibility that they may make money from Patents/Copyrights. Unfortunately, it's probably mostly stuff that can be seen in prior art. And litigation is likely to deplete their already depleted coffers (just look at the SCO case). Coming straight out of bankruptcy and going straight to litigation. I call this a bad sign for SGI stock holders.
If they build one big enough, they could even launch garbage... out of orbit. That's one way to reduce landfill size. (Notice I didn't say it was a good way).
I seriously hope that power consumption and heat disipation are really attacked before these things come out. Can you imagine needing a 200-amp service and liquid nitrogen cooling for something like that right now?
Make the DVDs small (like mini DVD), so they take up less space (should be easy enough, and you can still increase the audio quality). And remove DRM entirely. Again and again the music companies are working to stiffle your ability to make fair-use copies... if they could, they would force you to pay every time that you even listened to a song. It's called corporate greed. It has nothing to do with what is fair or right.
Considering in the LMS world - blackboard is barely a blip:
I am sure that companies like IBM, SumTotal Systems, Plateau, Saba, Oracle (iLearning), and Learn.com will have plenty to say about it. Especially since several of these companies (or generally pieces of these companies - since they tend to merge a lot in the LMS world) have had working LMS systems for far longer than Blackboard has been in existence.
Hell, when SumTotal Systems acquired Pathlore Software (which is all the way from Goul - they inherited more than 20 years worth of LMS code... we are talking mainframe days here - and I hear that a lot of that stuff is still running. Prior art abounds... this is a horrible patent anyway.
Considering that the Star Trek shows had a larger budget for special effects, than most of the other shows you mentioned had in total budget (combined) - I find it hard to believe that Star Trek's graphics wasn't far better in comparison. The other shows had to create new ways to get the effects done with only a fraction of the money - I am rather impressed by what they were able to do. Plus, B5 totally killed Star Trek in the costume department, and it set the bar high enough there that other shows try to match it still.
It is humorous to me that all this is going on, yet we still don't have a ruling in Novell v SCO - claiming that SCO doesn't even own the rights to the code that they are suing over. If Novell is correct, this is all a moot point anyway. And everything that has been seen so far seems to indicate that Novell is indeed correct here.
Which IBM is probably aware of the facts in that case as well - which is yet another reason to make them even more unconcerned about SCOs case.
I don't think so. I think had the name 'Silicon Graphics' been kept rather than the move to 'SGI' - then you would have a much higher presence for many of the things in the industry. Unfortnately, they lost almost all of their name recgonition when they made the name change - many people don't even know who SGI is these days. Now, they could bring back 'Silicon Graphics' as a brand name - and that might work out for them.
Also, another thing that people always liked about their systems was the design astetics (flowing curves of their systems). They need to bring that back. Also, bring back the bleeding edge performance - or make the systems they are selling more affordable... otherwise they are doomed to fail yet again.
The HyperTransport 3.0 Specification provides 41.6 GB/s of 'aggregate bandwidth' - nice, huh?
Remember, the russians always have a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS to get people off. Plus, it would be far more likely that the russians could launch a couple more Soyuz before the US could get one of the other Shuttles off. If it truly was an emergency, and oxygen or something else consumable was an issue. They could send some of the astronauts down - eleviating the pressures on the ISS and (hopefully) allowing crew endurance to be boosted, until NASA or the Russian Space Agency could get another craft(s) up to retrieve the others.
http://www.bluesecurity.com/ - which seems to be up or down at any given moment.... still under attack?
All I can say is wow... I now have a running bet that come October we will start to see the beginnings of the end of OSX - I bet that we see the new Mac systems start comming out with "designed for Windows Vista" stickers on them.
Here's my hypothesis: I think that iTunes/iPod has become more important to Apple (it's their cash cow now) than the Mac line - i think that they believe that they can sell more of their computers with Windows.... and then pre-install iTunes and reach a larger audience for their music store. That's what i'm betting on.
1984 comes to you live in 2024...
That's a reality that scares me...
Or if Google, the government, and the pharmacuticle companies join up
you get the world of THX 1138... some scary prospects for our future.
With all the continuing good news about the evolution of the PPC, including the Cell processor, I find it hard to believe that Apple has choosen now to move to Intel chips... and the developer workstations are only 32bit no less (I think they could have at least gone with AMD64).
The good news is that someone is at least taking advantage of the architecture and producing linux workstations based on the Cell... unfortunately i don't think tht will be enough for it to survive in the desktop/workstation market. I fear that unless Microsoft ends up releasing a new PPC version of Windows (which i consider unlikely at best), PPC is soon to be relegated to Servers, Gaming Stations and the embedded market only.
The big problem with this, that always seems to be pointed out, is the 'assumed' non-compete agreement with Microsoft - that is said to have occured when Microsoft helped to bail Apple out a couple of years (and bought stock in Apple). Although, it has never been proven... since it's all under a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
The theory is... if Microsoft will not hit Apple's marketspace... if Apple stays out of the PC arena with their OS...
Actually, since OS X is BSD based... having a PDA running a version of OS X would not be to hard... it would probably actually be one of the easier routes for it to occur... especially since Linux based PDA's are becomming more and more common... BSD based OS X is definately not far off the mark.
I would like to see one a new Newton be a little bigger than a standard PDA.... sorta in between a PDA and a tablet system... but that's just dreaming now...
Well, there has been the rumor for years that Apple would restart the Newton line... maybe they are looking at xscale PDA chips?