the video game industry has been larger then the movie industry for a while, at least in terms of revenue
uh huh... maybe if its said enough times it will come true. The video game industry is in the same ball park as the box office only. The movie industry makes way more money out of video, dvd and syndication.
Cheating in online games may be legal but there's no doubting that it costs Sony money when users get pissed off and stop playing. I don't see how encrypting the client-server communications helps anyway, even if it was "unbreakable", since the haxors will just hook the client executable after it decrypts it and read it from there.
Download the Remote Desktop Client from here. On the XP (Pro) box go into System Properties (right click on My Computer, select Properties), select the Remote tab, check the "Allow users to connect remotely to this compute" and you're done.
Basicly Microsoft has just invented "the terminal". I already do this with my iBook. Its pretty creepy running XP remotely in full screen. Its unlikely that anyone will be able to play games with it.
A bit optimistic. Better hope that the organizer of events never loses a hard drive or leaves their notebook at home. All the technology and specs already exist to make an Outlook/Exchange killer. vCard, iCal, iTIP are all good protocols for PDI and can be used via e-mail and HTTP (defined in iMIP). The best part (and Apple realized this by picking vCard and iCal for their OSX PIM software) is that Outlook already supports auto importing of vCard and iCal data (no if they would auto-export it then life would be great).
This review would have one assume this is the first device of this form factor. Fujitsu has been selling the very similar Lifebooks for a while now, but are better in many respects. - ROM drive is internal - Can accept high capacity batteries and the ROM drive can be replaced for up to (so they claim) 14 hours of life - Built in Wireless networking - Substantially cheaper than the Sony
Sure, per MHz a P3/Athon is faster than a P4. BUT the P4 is (at least in general) the fastest processor you can buy today because it can run a much higher clock speeds. These days with AMD using the PR rating to denote the equivalent speed of their processors the playing field is reasonably level (comparing the MHz of a P4 to the PR rating of an Athlon) so I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Considering that morse code is a form of huffman compression it shouldn't be that hard to find prior art (so long as someone used table-based morse code in a simlar fashion to that covered by the patent at some stage).
Gee, what could give you that impression. 1. They don't name the mysterious Vivendi rep. 2. War3pub.net is practicly a warez site 3. Slashdot has probably increased their ad revenue for the month by a factor of a 100 or so today.
What's next, slashdot stories based on wired articles... what a joke.
In my experience, it seems that if its technically feasable for content to be copied then there are individuals who will stop at nothing to do so. I don't think content providers care about these people directly since there is absolutely nothing they can do about it and it probably doesn't really effect the bottom line. But, as soon as there is massive distribution of the contraband then things get interesting. It seems to me that people just can't help themselves when breaking the law is easy to do and they beleive there's little to no chance of being caught.
If content providers don't make an effort to stop massive illegal distribution of their content and more and more people think, "hey its illegal but everybody does it so I may as well do it too", then content providers will have to substantially reduce the cost of producing that content (which will most likely lead to lower quality content) or increase the cost of the content passed on to consumers (which will probably lead to more people using the highly accesible illegal content). So as far as I can tell, unless content providers (or their representatives) try to prevent massive distribution of illegal content they will all go out of business, and that's what all want, isn't it?
This is quite a vicious cycle they are entering into. By adding more and more comercials to content they are reducing the value of the content and hence the value of the commercials displayed during that content. To compensate they'll need to add more commercials and so on. Why not have less commercials and charge more for them (heck this could even result in higher quality of commercials). I guess this is no supprise for the good old USA where the three major sports (Grid Iron, Basketball and Baseball) are all designed and continually redesigned to make them better for television (that is more time for commercials, less time for content).
So they start auctioning off domain names before they expire. Then when the domain name does expire jack up the price of renewal now that the "fair market value" of the domain has been determined. They are just renting the domain names out after all, so they probably figure charging 10% of the value of the domain name is fair.
What scares me is that Verisign would probably pull a stunt like this. Makes me oh so happy that I moved all my domains away from these a-holes years ago.
Who are the people moderating who don't know what the 2E15 means. Sheesh. It seems to me that Hard Drive manufacturers are correct using IEC approved SI system (for countries still using the imperial measument system the SI system is International System of Units) and that memory manufacturers are incorrect. Why not refer to memory by the number of applicable address bits and use the SI prefixes for what they really mean.
lmao... and next thing you'll be telling me that Australians drink Fosters... all the good brews are consumed domesticly, regardless of what quantities they are produced in;)
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Bob Slydell: "We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week."
Pretty much every thing you listed is what I think is wrong with almost all PC laptops. I dream of the day when PC manufacturers stop feeling the need to put parallel ports and serial ports into laptops which are a total waste of weight and space. Heck the weight of a good parallel cable is comparable to the weight of the entire laptop! Ditto for the floppy drive which died a quick death as soon as you could burn a Bootable CD. The only thing of minor annoyance is the lack of the PC slot.
OSX is nice and OSX 10.1 is a much faster polished version. The only thing you may need is more RAM but at 256MB for $40 you can't go wrong.
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the video game industry has been larger then the movie industry for a while, at least in terms of revenue
... maybe if its said enough times it will come true. The video game industry is in the same ball park as the box office only. The movie industry makes way more money out of video, dvd and syndication.
uh huh
Cheating in online games may be legal but there's no doubting that it costs Sony money when users get pissed off and stop playing. I don't see how encrypting the client-server communications helps anyway, even if it was "unbreakable", since the haxors will just hook the client executable after it decrypts it and read it from there.
Although Warcraft adventures might make a come back. I saw something like it at E3 this year, a Diablo type game in 3D with humans and orcs.
You mean WoW?
Don't you do all development in machine code?
Download the Remote Desktop Client from here. On the XP (Pro) box go into System Properties (right click on My Computer, select Properties), select the Remote tab, check the "Allow users to connect remotely to this compute" and you're done.
Basicly Microsoft has just invented "the terminal". I already do this with my iBook. Its pretty creepy running XP remotely in full screen. Its unlikely that anyone will be able to play games with it.
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I don't see any Swedish 70's porn in his filmography but you never know ... yes his work in Blizzard trailers in uncredited but is unmistakable.
A bit optimistic. Better hope that the organizer of events never loses a hard drive or leaves their notebook at home. All the technology and specs already exist to make an Outlook/Exchange killer. vCard, iCal, iTIP are all good protocols for PDI and can be used via e-mail and HTTP (defined in iMIP). The best part (and Apple realized this by picking vCard and iCal for their OSX PIM software) is that Outlook already supports auto importing of vCard and iCal data (no if they would auto-export it then life would be great).
This review would have one assume this is the first device of this form factor. Fujitsu has been selling the very similar Lifebooks for a while now, but are better in many respects.
- ROM drive is internal
- Can accept high capacity batteries and the ROM drive can be replaced for up to (so they claim) 14 hours of life
- Built in Wireless networking
- Substantially cheaper than the Sony
Check it out here
Offtopic my ass ... sigh ... you know they will be making a movie soon for those of you who don't read.
Sure, per MHz a P3/Athon is faster than a P4. BUT the P4 is (at least in general) the fastest processor you can buy today because it can run a much higher clock speeds. These days with AMD using the PR rating to denote the equivalent speed of their processors the playing field is reasonably level (comparing the MHz of a P4 to the PR rating of an Athlon) so I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Considering that morse code is a form of huffman compression it shouldn't be that hard to find prior art (so long as someone used table-based morse code in a simlar fashion to that covered by the patent at some stage).
If you want to have real fun, try using __LINE__ with "Edit and Continue Debugging" in Developer Studio (which is the default for new projects).
At least they acknowledge this one in the Knowledge Base.
Have you been to amazon.com with cookies enabled or seen amazon.com ads on other sites that also nab the amazon cookie to id you?
has a cheaper and superious line of 1600x1200 LCD displays that have been out since late last year.
20inch beige
20 inch black
23inch black
What more, the 20inch models can be had for under $1700!
Gee, what could give you that impression.
... what a joke.
1. They don't name the mysterious Vivendi rep.
2. War3pub.net is practicly a warez site
3. Slashdot has probably increased their ad revenue for the month by a factor of a 100 or so today.
What's next, slashdot stories based on wired articles
I am not a number ... I am a free man!
In my experience, it seems that if its technically feasable for content to be copied then there are individuals who will stop at nothing to do so. I don't think content providers care about these people directly since there is absolutely nothing they can do about it and it probably doesn't really effect the bottom line. But, as soon as there is massive distribution of the contraband then things get interesting. It seems to me that people just can't help themselves when breaking the law is easy to do and they beleive there's little to no chance of being caught.
If content providers don't make an effort to stop massive illegal distribution of their content and more and more people think, "hey its illegal but everybody does it so I may as well do it too", then content providers will have to substantially reduce the cost of producing that content (which will most likely lead to lower quality content) or increase the cost of the content passed on to consumers (which will probably lead to more people using the highly accesible illegal content). So as far as I can tell, unless content providers (or their representatives) try to prevent massive distribution of illegal content they will all go out of business, and that's what all want, isn't it?
This is quite a vicious cycle they are entering into. By adding more and more comercials to content they are reducing the value of the content and hence the value of the commercials displayed during that content. To compensate they'll need to add more commercials and so on. Why not have less commercials and charge more for them (heck this could even result in higher quality of commercials). I guess this is no supprise for the good old USA where the three major sports (Grid Iron, Basketball and Baseball) are all designed and continually redesigned to make them better for television (that is more time for commercials, less time for content).
So they start auctioning off domain names before they expire. Then when the domain name does expire jack up the price of renewal now that the "fair market value" of the domain has been determined. They are just renting the domain names out after all, so they probably figure charging 10% of the value of the domain name is fair.
What scares me is that Verisign would probably pull a stunt like this. Makes me oh so happy that I moved all my domains away from these a-holes years ago.
Who are the people moderating who don't know what the 2E15 means. Sheesh. It seems to me that Hard Drive manufacturers are correct using IEC approved SI system (for countries still using the imperial measument system the SI system is International System of Units) and that memory manufacturers are incorrect. Why not refer to memory by the number of applicable address bits and use the SI prefixes for what they really mean.
lmao ... and next thing you'll be telling me that Australians drink Fosters ... all the good brews are consumed domesticly, regardless of what quantities they are produced in ;)
Bob Slydell: "We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week."
Pretty much every thing you listed is what I think is wrong with almost all PC laptops. I dream of the day when PC manufacturers stop feeling the need to put parallel ports and serial ports into laptops which are a total waste of weight and space. Heck the weight of a good parallel cable is comparable to the weight of the entire laptop! Ditto for the floppy drive which died a quick death as soon as you could burn a Bootable CD. The only thing of minor annoyance is the lack of the PC slot.
OSX is nice and OSX 10.1 is a much faster polished version. The only thing you may need is more RAM but at 256MB for $40 you can't go wrong.