The trouble with ipod is that it's so popular, and expensive. People think that ipods are the best mp3 player, and they're wrong- Iopds are ugly (IMO), absurdly priced, and only a fool would use the heavily-DRM'd itunes music store. Stop giving apple so much credit for kickstarting the industry, we should be decrying them for ruining what might have been an otherwise quality, competitive industry.
It's ironic; ThinkPads are known for having solid OSS support for their devices (which is rare among laptops), but they don't take advantage of the market and sell clean computers. I'm typing this on a new thinkpad and I've already had a -lot- of trouble getting the repair partition (press the blue ThinkVantage button to boot into Rescue and Recovery!) to play with grub. And of course you can't use the Windows backup software for linux partitions so you're stuck with the ugly, gigantic R&R partition.
"People" don't deal with digital video on their computers at all. MPEG2 doesn't count since it's universally supported by DVD players, and universally unsupported by portable media players. Flash doesn't count either since it takes a real power user to download and convert it. I'd say that even including microsoft's format (WMV), MPEG4 is by far the most used digital video format since it includes DIVX (used by mini-dvd camcorders and I believe the itunes video store) and XVID (used to encode movies for download).
Yeah it's a waste of money, but for only $200k compared to some of the bullcrap multimillion US initiatives it's a pretty nifty project
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The 215000 people that are playing counter-strike right now would disagree with you. Same with the millions who bought half-life 2, not to mention halo. Games with dozens of unbalanced guns are a minority. Timesplitters did this well; it had a lot of guns, but you only play with a couple at a time depending on the time period of the level, so it balanced pretty well.
Why even consider memory buffers? Just "run the speaker output right back into the line-in" - pop your disc in a dvd player and run it to a good video capture card.
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The problem is those infuriating mac commercials! Macs. Are. Not. Better.
Except for the odd high-schooler, I'd think the average slashdotter lives at college or alone at home, certainly not with kids :)
Exactly like the PS3 :)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/23/212925 0&tid=133
"Ball lightning is also said to have an odd motion such as looping and the appearance of bouncing along the ground." (wikipedia)
What we have to worry about is data bombs poorly written by paranoid programmers who check in every hour every day..
The trouble with ipod is that it's so popular, and expensive. People think that ipods are the best mp3 player, and they're wrong- Iopds are ugly (IMO), absurdly priced, and only a fool would use the heavily-DRM'd itunes music store. Stop giving apple so much credit for kickstarting the industry, we should be decrying them for ruining what might have been an otherwise quality, competitive industry.
It's ironic; ThinkPads are known for having solid OSS support for their devices (which is rare among laptops), but they don't take advantage of the market and sell clean computers. I'm typing this on a new thinkpad and I've already had a -lot- of trouble getting the repair partition (press the blue ThinkVantage button to boot into Rescue and Recovery!) to play with grub. And of course you can't use the Windows backup software for linux partitions so you're stuck with the ugly, gigantic R&R partition.
Naw, Italians drink olive oil all day. Like Canadians and maple syrup.
And if packed into styrofoam cups, how many times could they go around the world?
Are people really so dumb as to need every size estimate in "football fields?"
"People" don't deal with digital video on their computers at all. MPEG2 doesn't count since it's universally supported by DVD players, and universally unsupported by portable media players. Flash doesn't count either since it takes a real power user to download and convert it. I'd say that even including microsoft's format (WMV), MPEG4 is by far the most used digital video format since it includes DIVX (used by mini-dvd camcorders and I believe the itunes video store) and XVID (used to encode movies for download).
Yeah it's a waste of money, but for only $200k compared to some of the bullcrap multimillion US initiatives it's a pretty nifty project
The 215000 people that are playing counter-strike right now would disagree with you. Same with the millions who bought half-life 2, not to mention halo. Games with dozens of unbalanced guns are a minority. Timesplitters did this well; it had a lot of guns, but you only play with a couple at a time depending on the time period of the level, so it balanced pretty well.
Why even consider memory buffers? Just "run the speaker output right back into the line-in" - pop your disc in a dvd player and run it to a good video capture card.