Activity for January 6

Comment - Is the Internet full? AT&T's dire warnings sound a too-familiar theme
(Jan 6, 2010 - 10:07 PM)

Well Duh. When you increase the speed your customer can use, your customers figure out new ways to use it. So you increase the bandwidth and repeat all over again.

If you want to get ahead of the curve, stop spending money on stupid studies like this and put that money into increasing your bandwidth.
Comment - With 'Avatar' close at hand, the Blu-ray 3D spec is launched
(Dec 18, 2009 - 8:09 AM)

A few of points on this one.

1. In order to do 3D additional capacity is needed (about 50% more on the video encoding side). For 30gb HD-DVD disc that could be up to an additional 15gb. Magically adding the 30gb disc + 15gb needed for 3d ends up just under the capacity of a BD disc. My crystal ball couldn't have predicted this feature would be a use for the capacity....but I knew that storage capacity is always increasing because we humans figure out new ways to consume it.

2. There is no guarantee that if HD-DVD were alive today that some new feature would not have required a special new player. Microsoft being one of technology companies behind it loves to put stuff out now and fix it later. Then again Microsoft also loves internet updates.
Comment - Snow Leopard and Windows 7 still can't crack the netbook problem
(Nov 10, 2009 - 6:41 PM)

No of course not. It's not dumbed down PC in Apple style with extra $$ added to it (a.k.a the mini).
Just because Steve Jobs didn't invent it doesn't mean it's a good idea. Sooner or later though they will have to come up with a comparable product.
Comment - Blu-ray sales skyrocket, provided you lower the sky
(May 7, 2009 - 9:10 PM)

"Laughably, Sony lie and count PS3 game disks in the stats."
And where did you get this information?

"The truth was 4.45%.
h**p://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6627437.html?nid=3511"
Can you explain how you got that number from this site?

"Similarly the attempt to compare Blu-ray growth (whatever it actually is) with a time when the market was not used to disk-based video is ludicrous."
Why?
Comment - Service Pack 2 for Vista and WS2K8 released to manufacturing
(May 1, 2009 - 6:39 AM)

"They did the same thing with Windows 95 SP1 or was it SP2?"

Yes but it was called OSR2 (as in OEM Service Release) not SP2.

I can understand why MS decided not to release this as a Service Pack. Imagine if someone installed this SP2 converted there system to FAT32 and had some third party utility (such as a disk defrag program) run. Instant disk corruption! That would be begging for trouble. The main reason you needed FAT32 was to support larger hard drive partitions so unless you were installing a new hard drive you really didn't need this update. Hence it was released only to OEM for new computers.