Computers & Technology News Comments 2006-09-01
Both of these technologies look really cool. 100TB in a 3.5″ anyone?
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Oh yeah Sony is a part of RIAA (Sony-BMG). They can rot and die for all I care. They botched up Star Wars Galaxies too (SOE Sony Online Entertainment), making it favorable for noobs to rake in revenue. And they probably did the same with the batteries – all bottom line oriented. Its all a balance between a greedy corporation and India’s terrible economic bureaucracy, while minimizing taint by the need for power and control. My Sony TIVO box’s modem is broken too. And Sony laptops break alot, far more than the IBM/lenovos, Dells, Fijutsus, and Toshibas, at work.
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Vista prices leaked! Prices are canadian but USA prices have been speculated by cross-applying the change percentage. Minimal inflation, mostly just exploiting the ‘ultimate edition’ for extra cash, but it still costs too much. I’m guessing that ‘Home Premium’ and ‘Business Professional’ don’t completley overlap and Ultimate overlaps them and maybe adds some worthless gimmicks. Cool exploit of loopholes in the law (Blogs) for a very sue-able corporation to be able to repeat the leak with no fear! Now go snoop on Area51 or any of its possible successors go leak that on to your blogs!
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This is the lazy and the ignorant failing to clear their cell phones and other devices of data before shipping them to the auction winning. Organized crime is now exploiting this on a large scale.
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This is evil-RIAA member Sony’s problem, not Dell or Apple. Since NIMH is denser than Li-Ion now, laptops that already have or don’t mind going to 12 cells (and that’s still only 14.4V) should switch to NIMH. 3 NIMH cells are needed to match each Li-Ion cell in voltage, but they are now holding quadrupal the amp-hour capacity, meaning there is 1/3 more energy from 3 1.2V NIMH cells in series than 3 3.6V Li-Ion cells in paralell. NIMH is not toxic-waste in a landfill and it is less explosive when badly overcharged or short-circuited (they still will leak hot fluid though), and are a lot less sensitive to overcharging and short-circuiting to not need protection-boards inside, though you sill need a microprocossor controlled charger.
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Dell and Nokia are winning! Yeah!! Apple sux! They can take both their intellecutual monopoly CRAP DRM and toxic waste and shove it up their ass!!!
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I not interested in overpriced portable DRM-d media players like iPod or Zune. Go shop at those MeritLine links for some cut-throat priced, open format players, with USB-OTG (no-PC copying) capability!
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I think they should port BOINC to the PlayStation 3, if it is possible to both port the code and have the PS3 talk XML over http over TCP/IP. Folding@Home is a BOINC project also!
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TDK is really ramping it up with Blu-Ray 
. They rocked for high-end VHS tapes and audio tapes. Now keep the licenses cheap so I can afford to buy them. $30 for 50GB is not competitive with hard drives and DVDs. The 25GB is $8. A Buck per layer, and $200 or less for the burner is probably when I get interested. I wonder what HD-DVD has got to offer? I hope blu-ray wins barring IP-tyranny. 200GB will fit my entire hoard on 3 discs and I could spin out copies like mad!
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Choose between being able to play Blue-Ray or HD-DVD or keeping my old proggies? Well I choose both via CHEATING!!. The K-Lite Codec pack will have me playing Blue-Ray movies (probably piggybacking off of it’s embedded WinDVD codecs) on my PC (if not I will just get them off of Emule instead), and then when a ‘WindowsBox’ comes out and I get a 64-bit machine, I’ll enjoy my old stuff on Vista 64-bit. For reasons, the MPAA cannot conceptualize that cracks will be swiftly released in x64 when the need arises and they want monopolistic tyranny on the world. Microsoft wants their tyranny as well, forcing drivers to be signed (a major red-tape, 5-figure figure process), which blocks small-time hardware companies or onese just want to not just hand free money over to Microsoft. My fairly new Epson scanner runs on unsigned drivers. Sierra Wireless fairly recently got their cellphone modem drivers signed, but they were unsigned for over 2 years. What’s so weird is that people are whining on Windows not having Hi-Def DRM support but at the same time they are whining for integrating Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer!
