Maybe, and i say maybe, Playstation 2 outsold Wii, but if you look at the numbers, the DS outsold the other consoles all together.
And in terms of price its more PS2 vs DS...
Just saying...
I wont even discuss this with you, because thats not the point of the news after all.
( Bitch all you want, thats ok with me )
If you did read the article, iTunes wasn't outlawed because it locked the user in an OS, but because it locked the user on they player. You can't buy a song on iTunes and freely listen to it on other player than the iPod.
With PlayForSure you can, there are hundreds of PlaysForSure compatible players, you're not locked in to one single _HARDWARE_ vendor.
And yes, if you want to develop/distribute a hardware device/service compatible with PlaysForSure you CAN request a license.
Just go here: https://wmlicense.smdisp.net/licenserequest-04/lic enserequest.aspx
And yes i do know, i worked for Philips until some time ago ( Philips is a licensee ).
How do you know? Perhaps it relies on APIs within Windows, and not available on Linux? Do you have any actual evidence that playsforsure is available for any developer for any platform? Right because all those digital players available run on Windows CE or Mobile or whatever!
Also, I don't think Microsoft would give you a license if they considered you an untrustworthy developer. There are probably "trade secrets" and NDAs involved. Of course they would licensee the technology to everyone, no company would bloody do that. Are you THAT naive ?
Well if any software house wishes to buy/get a license to play WMA and/or Microsoft PlaysforSure on Linux they can, Microsoft gives it to you. The problem is if you want to do the same with Apple DRM u just cant, period. If there isn't any software of the kind on linux is because no company is willing to do it ( it just wouldn't be profitable... ) or very few hardware makers release drivers/software to any platform other than Windows.
I love windows much as u do, but comparing what Apple is doing to anything else like PlayForSure ( for example... ) is just plain stupid sorry...
Yaroze was neither the only nor the first 'consumer' console dev kit, Develo from NEC and WonderWitch from Bandai predates it ( just to name a few ).
All those "Microsoft/Apple/Linux/Whatever is a copycat!" stories are getting very old very fast...
Check you're facts first... ohh right, you don't have Wikipedia at Troll U =/
Windows:
- BSoD ( Black - Win 3.x - or Blue ( Wix 9x onwards )
- RSoD ( early builds of Vista )
- GSoD ( XBox 360 )
Unixes and alike:
- Kernel Panic
Mac:
- Kernel Panic ( Mac OS X )
- Sad Mac
- Bomb and the venerable Row of Bombs ( nothing better than seeing a screen full of tine litle bombs )
So you see, neither of them is the Ultimate OS.
Linux can also become stagnated, become unresponsive, start sending random noises to the PC Speaker and reboot with no apparent reason. U can try to only use the most stable software, the most stable kernel, the most stable shared libs, but you'll always find some bad written driver, application, lib, whatever that will take you beloved os to shreds.
You cant install it on a laptop without having to tinker with some obscure switch, compile and patch some driver ( or having to write one yourself), i even had to write my own DSDT table and patch the kernel to have decent ACPI support for my Acer.
If you're a noob the only help you'll probably get is RTFM or STFG, and so on.
Everyone will complain about something or someone.
I bet the are a lot of happy Mac users out there, but i had to sell my mac mini as it constantly hanged and was more slow than molasses in March.
Conclusion,
Windows is the captain of the football team, everyone wants to be like him but dislikes him at the same time for being such an asshole and the nerds hate him for being such a bully.
Unix is the President of the Computer Club, the Alpha ( pun intended ) Nerd, it has his share of nerdy followers but doesn't get laid and Windows keeps getting his lunch money.
Mac is the cheerleader, always cheerfull, hip, has a fashion sense and everyone drools over her but is dumb like a doorknob. Since she's no smarter than a peanut, she secretly dates Unix and uses her sexual attributes to make him do all the work.
I think the sphere where one or the other (or both) will really take off is in computing devices. True, there are still a lot of people out there who don't even have DVD burners (nevermind dual layer DVD burners), but I can see the need for very large offline storage capacity by computer users ensuring that one or both of these standards does indeed take off. Who wouldn't want a single disc that can store up to 200GB of data (which, according to WikiPedia is the current maximum achieved thus far -- whether or not such discs will be available to the general public anytime soon at a reasonable price is anyones guess)?
I guess you should have read the bottom of that page first then... One of the most promising ( i mean, the one most likely not to be just vaporware ) is the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD). It can hold a theorectical 3,9TB on a single disc.
Optware will launch their product in June/July ( 200GB disc version ) and Maxell will launch his product to the market in September 2006 ( 300GB disc version ). I believe Holographic Memory will be the new de facto standard in a few years, or at least, i hope.
Daniel
Yeah sure, but when you start hearing sexy chicks saying,
"Hell no, last night i was at neus's house and i played with his Wii all night long!"
Don't come and ask me to borrow it...
Actually when Euro was firstly introduced in 1999 his exchange rate was USD1.18, then in October 2000 declined to USD0.8228.It faced various changes throughout the years and on May 2003, the euro sur passed its initial ($1.18=1.00) trading value for the first time. It has been rising since then and is of today USD 1.28.
Never in its history reached the USD2.00 you quote. You better get your facts straight. I recommend http://www.kshitij.com/graphgallery/eurmth.shtml;)
It might not be in a near future, but at this rate, yes, the Euro might be the new major reserve currency and the default exchange currency.
Interesting how blind nationality can skew the subject of a comment and make you post something unrelated to the original article ( yes i know i might be doing the same thing, but Europe is not a country you know ? )
I referenced them just as an example, there are more companies working on this, InPhase Technologies and Maxell come to mind.
It's not the 10TB 'dream' we want, but they already have a 1,6TB optical disc ready and will be lauching a 300GB disc by the end of this year. Roadmap
It's not the Holy Grail we're looking for, but this technology seems more than vaporware!
Lets just hope this technology evolves at good pace... huge information on crystals... who needs Jonh Dvorak when we have Superman movies to give us future tech previews!
Thats because you never heard of Holographic Memory/Storage and more interesting Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology http://www.physorg.com/news785.html.
You can get from 10TB to 100TB per disk ( with a theoretical maximun of 10PT per disc ), and if they say is correct, the medium will be very cheap just like the player ( it will cost less than the currect Blu-Ray player ). They made the announcement in 2004 and said it would take from 3 to 5 years for the technology to be usable, if they're statement is correct, the time the telescope is finished, and based on all 'future' techologies beeing developed, yes, i bet there will be more viable options than to buy 300GB hard drive rom newegg...
There are already companies researching and building usable products based on this techonology, like HVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile _Disc.
As it is today one HVD can hold a maximum of 3,9TB per disc with an average transfer of 120MB/s. And this is for a removable media I bet they could use the same techonology for 'hard drive' type products.
But even with current technologies it would be feasable, Hitachi will be debuting a 1TB hard drive next year, i wonder what will be hard drive capacity when this project is finished.
Why keep talking about Yonah ? It's been out for some time, there are hundreds of 'benchmarks' like these out there and they all say the same, so why do YARB ( Yet Another Redundant Benchmark )...
It's still based on the old P6&Netburst microarchitecture, so, why do you think it could beat AMD? Its just an old cake with a few more chocolate sprinkles on top of it...
We all already know it has poor FPU performance, poor blah and that Intel is evil, we have to thank all those AMD fanboys to remember it to all Intel fanboys ( im either one, i hv systems from both and even from VIA, they all hv their place ).
I'm more interested in Conroe aka Intel Core 2. It has all the 'goodies' that u all want like EM64T ( wich 90% of the consumer market will not use anytime soon ).
Plus it will give some serious performance boost and will have lower power consumption. Conroe, if things continue as they are now, will reverse that benchmark scenario, with the stock Conroe beating the overclocked FX-60 to a 'pulp', with a 20% performance boost average coming from an early sample is considerable http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=794&cid=1.
From what has been seen ( search anandtech for that ), the new AMD socket won't bring anything very new, so we can at least assume that Intel might be in a position to be the king of performance.
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Yeah! Cause evryone knows Wordpad is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!
It just kicks Notepad's ass bit!
Nah u getting this all wrong !
Well an average 1U rack will weight about 45lbs, now a Sun rack cabinet weights at least 360lbs and can hold 38U's... so that makes 45*38+360, that alone makes 2 070lbs! assuming that they use all the racks ( the company wont use only one 1U rack, to hold the domain name it maybe true but we must see the company as a it is, they aren't holding just one domain/website!)...
Gold is about $596/ounce and we got at least 2070lbs(=33120ounces) in material, that makes 33120*596, wich is roughly $19 739 520!!
They sold the domain for $635,000 ??!
Those poor domain owners have just been ripped off =|
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Maybe, and i say maybe, Playstation 2 outsold Wii, but if you look at the numbers, the DS outsold the other consoles all together. And in terms of price its more PS2 vs DS ...
Just saying ...
Well if any software house wishes to buy/get a license to play WMA and/or Microsoft PlaysforSure on Linux they can, Microsoft gives it to you. ... ) or very few hardware makers release drivers/software to any platform other than Windows.
... ) is just plain stupid sorry ...
The problem is if you want to do the same with Apple DRM u just cant, period.
If there isn't any software of the kind on linux is because no company is willing to do it ( it just wouldn't be profitable
I love windows much as u do, but comparing what Apple is doing to anything else like PlayForSure ( for example
Yaroze was neither the only nor the first 'consumer' console dev kit, Develo from NEC and WonderWitch from Bandai predates it ( just to name a few ). All those "Microsoft/Apple/Linux/Whatever is a copycat!" stories are getting very old very fast ...
Check you're facts first ... ohh right, you don't have Wikipedia at Troll U =/
Windows: - BSoD ( Black - Win 3.x - or Blue ( Wix 9x onwards ) - RSoD ( early builds of Vista ) - GSoD ( XBox 360 ) Unixes and alike: - Kernel Panic Mac: - Kernel Panic ( Mac OS X ) - Sad Mac - Bomb and the venerable Row of Bombs ( nothing better than seeing a screen full of tine litle bombs ) So you see, neither of them is the Ultimate OS. Linux can also become stagnated, become unresponsive, start sending random noises to the PC Speaker and reboot with no apparent reason. U can try to only use the most stable software, the most stable kernel, the most stable shared libs, but you'll always find some bad written driver, application, lib, whatever that will take you beloved os to shreds. You cant install it on a laptop without having to tinker with some obscure switch, compile and patch some driver ( or having to write one yourself), i even had to write my own DSDT table and patch the kernel to have decent ACPI support for my Acer. If you're a noob the only help you'll probably get is RTFM or STFG, and so on. Everyone will complain about something or someone. I bet the are a lot of happy Mac users out there, but i had to sell my mac mini as it constantly hanged and was more slow than molasses in March. Conclusion, Windows is the captain of the football team, everyone wants to be like him but dislikes him at the same time for being such an asshole and the nerds hate him for being such a bully. Unix is the President of the Computer Club, the Alpha ( pun intended ) Nerd, it has his share of nerdy followers but doesn't get laid and Windows keeps getting his lunch money. Mac is the cheerleader, always cheerfull, hip, has a fashion sense and everyone drools over her but is dumb like a doorknob. Since she's no smarter than a peanut, she secretly dates Unix and uses her sexual attributes to make him do all the work.
Well i never saw a BSOD since Windows 2000; just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist! ...
Just like trolls i guess
Did Netcraft told you that ?
I guess you should have read the bottom of that page first then ... One of the most promising ( i mean, the one most likely not to be just vaporware ) is the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD). It can hold a theorectical 3,9TB on a single disc.
Optware will launch their product in June/July ( 200GB disc version ) and Maxell will launch his product to the market in September 2006 ( 300GB disc version ). I believe Holographic Memory will be the new de facto standard in a few years, or at least, i hope.
Daniel
Yeah sure, but when you start hearing sexy chicks saying, "Hell no, last night i was at neus's house and i played with his Wii all night long!" Don't come and ask me to borrow it ...
Never in its history reached the USD2.00 you quote. You better get your facts straight. I recommend http://www.kshitij.com/graphgallery/eurmth.shtml ;)
It might not be in a near future, but at this rate, yes, the Euro might be the new major reserve currency and the default exchange currency.
Interesting how blind nationality can skew the subject of a comment and make you post something unrelated to the original article ( yes i know i might be doing the same thing, but Europe is not a country you know ? )
It's not the 10TB 'dream' we want, but they already have a 1,6TB optical disc ready and will be lauching a 300GB disc by the end of this year.
Roadmap It's not the Holy Grail we're looking for, but this technology seems more than vaporware!
Lets just hope this technology evolves at good pace ... huge information on crystals ... who needs Jonh Dvorak when we have Superman movies to give us future tech previews!
Thats because you never heard of Holographic Memory/Storage and more interesting Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology http://www.physorg.com/news785.html. ...
You can get from 10TB to 100TB per disk ( with a theoretical maximun of 10PT per disc ), and if they say is correct, the medium will be very cheap just like the player ( it will cost less than the currect Blu-Ray player ). They made the announcement in 2004 and said it would take from 3 to 5 years for the technology to be usable, if they're statement is correct, the time the telescope is finished, and based on all 'future' techologies beeing developed, yes, i bet there will be more viable options than to buy 300GB hard drive rom newegg
There are already companies researching and building usable products based on this techonology, like HVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile _Disc.
As it is today one HVD can hold a maximum of 3,9TB per disc with an average transfer of 120MB/s. And this is for a removable media I bet they could use the same techonology for 'hard drive' type products.
But even with current technologies it would be feasable, Hitachi will be debuting a 1TB hard drive next year, i wonder what will be hard drive capacity when this project is finished.
We all already know it has poor FPU performance, poor blah and that Intel is evil, we have to thank all those AMD fanboys to remember it to all Intel fanboys ( im either one, i hv systems from both and even from VIA, they all hv their place ).
I'm more interested in Conroe aka Intel Core 2. It has all the 'goodies' that u all want like EM64T ( wich 90% of the consumer market will not use anytime soon ).l eid=794&cid=1.
Plus it will give some serious performance boost and will have lower power consumption. Conroe, if things continue as they are now, will reverse that benchmark scenario, with the stock Conroe beating the overclocked FX-60 to a 'pulp', with a 20% performance boost average coming from an early sample is considerable http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?artic
From what has been seen ( search anandtech for that ), the new AMD socket won't bring anything very new, so we can at least assume that Intel might be in a position to be the king of performance.
Yeah! Cause evryone knows Wordpad is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better! It just kicks Notepad's ass bit!
I just use nano ! Its waaay smaller ... like a milliardth! ( get it ? )
Someone should create Yocto ...
Nah u getting this all wrong ! Well an average 1U rack will weight about 45lbs, now a Sun rack cabinet weights at least 360lbs and can hold 38U's ... so that makes 45*38+360, that alone makes 2 070lbs! assuming that they use all the racks ( the company wont use only one 1U rack, to hold the domain name it maybe true but we must see the company as a it is, they aren't holding just one domain/website!) ...
Gold is about $596/ounce and we got at least 2070lbs(=33120ounces) in material, that makes 33120*596, wich is roughly $19 739 520!!
They sold the domain for $635,000 ??!
Those poor domain owners have just been ripped off =|