Comment Re:Score 1 for capitalism! (Score 1) 94
Ah, the Alberta way!
Comment RDJ (Score 3) 57
And this is how RDJ stays the face of Iron Man in perpetuity.
Comment Re:False. 2019 was in the 21st Century (Score 1) 185
Sure, 2019 was in the 21st century. So the corrected headline should be:
"2019 was hotter than any year in the 20th century (and every year so far in the 21st)"
The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives 237
An anonymous reader writes "Over recent years Solid State Drives (SSDs) have moved from luxury to affordable additions to one's PC, but mechanical hard drives are still king when it comes to capacity. That was until the revamped Colossus LT series Solid State Drive came along this week. With up to 1TB, the drive offers offers massive storage capacities of the level normally not seen in SSDs. While 1TB of SSD space hits right at the heart of the traditional hard disk market, it comes at a high price — at around $4,000 for the 1TB model, these drives are in the realm of aspirational rather than practical."
Where To Start In DIY Electronics? 301
pyrosine writes "I've been thinking about this for a while and have no idea where to start. I have little or no previous experience in electronics — just what is covered in GCSE physics (wiring a plug and resistors — not much, I know). The majority of my interest lies in the wireless communication side of the field — i.e. ham radios and CB — but I am also interested in how many things work, one example being speakers, simply to better understand it. I would preferably like to start with some form of practical guide rather than learning the theory first, but where I would find such a walkthrough eludes me."
Comment They should try something that would work instead. (Score 1) 361
The content owners are sadly stuck in the mindset of trying to roll the calendar back to the day when no one could rip dvd's (and before that cds) due to technical limitations. Stupid and greedy.
If they were *smart* and greedy they would realize that what the customer wants is access to the whole catalog - on demand. And cheaply.
How to do this? Well setting up a server farm to stream the data would be a good start - but how to convince people to stream content from their servers instead of using p2p to access illegal sources?
Easy. Make it cheaper/easier to stream the content from a legal source rather than from an illegal source by working out a deal with ISP's so that data streamed from the legal servers costs less per Gb than 'normal' internet access. Cut the ISP's in for a peice of the action and they will help *encourage* streaming from legal sources.
As a side effect, currently existing pirated content sitting on the net becomes cost *un* effective.
Then only a moron would pirate a movie via p2p for more than the cost of streaming from the legal sources.
Remember most people only watch a movie/show once so the benefit of downloading for multiple views is not worth the extra cost .
Bingo - piracy obsoleted, content owners and ISP's a have a new market that easy to manage and exploit, old content becomes valuable again and the customer gets what they want.
Comment If they have any sense... (Score 1) 378
The new DVD's will contain both the original and the remastered versions.
Purists and techno geeks would both be happy.
Purists and techno geeks would both be happy.
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