State of the Industry: The Homebrew PC in 2005
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State of the Industry: Audio in 2005 and
Beyond
State of the Industry: Audio in 2005 and
Beyond
02/01/2005 09:06 PMAnalysis: 2004 wasn't a breakout year for PC audio, but 2005 just
might be. Here's why.
State of the Industry: HDTV
State of the Industry: HDTV
12/24/2004 12:37 PM2004 was another action-packed year for the burgeoning HDTV business
that featured LCoS losing two champions, new DLP chips, and prices
that keep on dropping.
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry 2004
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry 2004
02/17/2004 01:07 PMState of the U.S. Arcade Industry for
2004
State of the U.S. Arcade Industry for
2004
02/18/2004 08:12 AMSucks
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Entertainment Industry Gets In The Way
Of Education At Penn State
Entertainment Industry Gets In The Way
Of Education At Penn State
05/20/2004 04:00 PMPenn State University has a cozy relationship with the RIAA - and it
shows in a variety of policies they've put in place which seem
designed more to appease their RIAA friends than to encourage
education or a real analysis of issues. They were one of the first
universities to
kick
students off the university network when it was discovered they
had set up a local area system for exchanging files. Then, of course,
they put in place the somewhat useless (and
mostly
unwanted) plan to
take
student funds to pay Napster so that students can get streaming
music which they don't get to keep and which only works on campus.
Now, Ed Felten reports that the university has
forbidden
any student from operating any kind of server from a dorm.
Despite the fact that it seems clear that whoever came up with this
policy doesn't seem to know what a server is, Felten points out just
how terrible this is from an education standpoint. They're preventing
students from learning about important and useful technologies just
because there's a
chance that students may use a server to
infringe on copyrights. In other words the
risk of
infringement outweighs the benefits of education to the administration
at Penn State.
Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry
Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry
03/14/2005 05:29 PMCory Doctorow:
Alice continues to take fantastic, exhaustive notes at the Game
Developers' Conference in San Francisco. She's just posted her notes
from the closing panel in which eminent game developers were invited
to rant about the state of the industry. What follows is lewd,
hilarious, and very, very true:
Greg Costikyan:
I don't know about you but I could have been a lawyer, or a carpenter.
or a sous-chef. How many of you are here because you're after a
paycheck? [One bloke raises his hand, audience laughs and crows].
Ahuh. And how many of you are here because you love games? [all hands
go up]. Right. So we're being told that everything's going to get
bigger. Paychecks. Budgets. Consoles. But is it going to get better?
I've been researching old board games and I've spotted a pattern. A
new genre: it's called One Hit Game And Its Imitators. One fishing
game appears in mid-19C and dozens follow. Games grow through
innovations. Creations of new game styles that spawn imitators and
whole new markets. The story of the past few decades is not about
graphics and processing power, but startling innovation and industry.
That's why we love games. BUT IT'S OVER NOW!
As recently as 1992: games cost 200K. Next generation games will cost
20m. Publishers are becoming increasingly risk averse. Today you
cannot get an innovative title published unless your last name is
Wright or Miyamoto. Who was at the Microsoft keynote? I don't know
about you but it made my flesh crawl. [laughter] The HD era? Bigger,
louder? Big bucks to be made! Well not by you and me of course. Those
budgets and teams ensure the death of innovation. Was your allegiance
bought at the price of a television? Then there was the Nintendo
keynote. This was the company who established the business model that
has crucified the industry today.. Iwata-san has the heart of a gamer,
and my question is what poor bastard's chest did he carve it from?
[audience falls about]
How often DO they perform human sacrifices at Nintendo?? My friends,
we are FUCKED [laughter]. We are well and truly fucked. The bar in
terms of graphics and glitz has been raised and raised until we can't
afford to do anything at all. 80 hour weeks until our jobs are all
outsourced to Asia. but it's ok because the HD era is here right? I
say, enough. The time has come for revolution! It may seem to you that
what I describe is inevitable forces of history, but no, we have free
will! EA could have chosen to focus on innovation, but they did not.
Nintendo could make development kits cheaply available to small firms,
but they prefer to rely on the creativity on one aging designer. You
have choices too: work in a massive sweatshop publisher-run studio
with thousands of others making the next racing game with the same
gameplay as Pole Position. Or you can riot in the streets of redwood
city! Choose another business model, development path, and you can
choose to remember why you love games and make sure in a generation's
time there are still games to love. You can start today.
[standing ovation]
LinkMOM 2005: The State View!
MOM 2005: The State View!
07/14/2004 06:31 PMThe State of Laptop Linux In 2005
The State of Laptop Linux In 2005
04/08/2005 12:42 PMJournalism.org- The State of the News
Media 2005
Journalism.org- The State of the News
Media 2005
03/17/2005 02:48 AMThe State of the [U.S.] News Media 2005 .. new study ..
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Bush Says Palestinian State by 2005 Not
'Realistic'
Bush Says Palestinian State by 2005 Not
'Realistic'
05/08/2004 10:25 AMReuters via Wired News May 8 2004 1:40PM GMT
Bush Says Palestinian State by 2005 Not
'Realistic' (Reuters)
Bush Says Palestinian State by 2005 Not
'Realistic' (Reuters)
05/08/2004 06:26 AMReuters - President Bush said establishing a
Palestinian state by 2005 was no longer a "realistic" goal
because of violence and changes in Palestinian leadership.
Chip industry to rebound in second half
of 2005
Chip industry to rebound in second half
of 2005
04/08/2005 10:51 PMZDNet Apr 9 2005 3:41AM GMT
Universities targets in 2005: Music
industry
Universities targets in 2005: Music
industry
01/04/2005 04:21 AMZDNet Australia Jan 4 2005 7:47AM GMT
New Program Readies Industry for SQL
Server 2005
New Program Readies Industry for SQL
Server 2005
07/12/2004 12:14 AMDatabase developers and administrators (DBAs) who are eagerly awaiting
the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft's next generation
data management and analysis platform, can take immediate action to
prepare their enterprises for deployment.
State of The Blogosphere, March 2005,
Part 2: Posting Volume
State of The Blogosphere, March 2005,
Part 2: Posting Volume
03/17/2005 03:13 AM To expand on my post yesterday on the overall growth of the number of
weblogs, today I'm going to look at another important measure of the
growth of the blogosphere, posting volume. A single post is a single
entry...
State of The Blogosphere, March 2005,
Part 1: Growth of Blogs
State of The Blogosphere, March 2005,
Part 1: Growth of Blogs
03/14/2005 05:34 PM It's been 5 months since my first presentation on the State of the
Blogosphere at the Web 2.0 conference, which I later posted in parts.
A lot has happened, and its time for an update on what's going on...
Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals Industry
Looks Toward Growth in 2005
Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals Industry
Looks Toward Growth in 2005
02/01/2005 09:20 PMcPMP conference to highlight coming age of PMPs. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]
State of the Blogosphere March 2005,
Part 3: The A-List and the Long Tail
State of the Blogosphere March 2005,
Part 3: The A-List and the Long Tail
03/19/2005 03:15 AM Today I'll discuss the impact of weblogs on traditional media, the
impact of the A-List, and the power of the long tail. First off, some
terminology and an understanding of what we're measuring. This graph
is a measure of...
Huge Domain Industry Conference in
Seattle, Washington in May 2005
Huge Domain Industry Conference in
Seattle, Washington in May 2005
03/14/2005 04:39 PMFrom the innovators of the popular Whois.sc domain search technology,
comes a domain name industry event like no other. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]
SEO Industry Educators Robin Nobles and
John Alexander Return from Teaching At
Louisiana State University LSU - SEO
Workshop comes to Toronto, Ontario for
Thanksgiving in October
SEO Industry Educators Robin Nobles and
John Alexander Return from Teaching At
Louisiana State University LSU - SEO
Workshop comes to Toronto, Ontario for
Thanksgiving in October
09/08/2004 03:43 AMInternational search engine educators Robin Nobles and John Alexander
returned from delivering their SEO certification training at Louisiana
State University ( LSU Campus) last week and prepare to bring their
ultimate SEO Mastery Workshop to Toronto next. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]
Boing Boing: Game developers' amazing
rants on the state of the industry
Boing Boing: Game developers' amazing
rants on the state of the industry
03/14/2005 04:51 PMboingboinged ..
BoingBoing
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Syntax Launches High Value Olevia LCD
TVs into Hospitality Industry at HITEC
2005
Syntax Launches High Value Olevia LCD
TVs into Hospitality Industry at HITEC
2005
06/22/2005 02:46 AMManhattan Seaport Suites Outfits Guestrooms with Olevia LCD TVs in
Current Renovation Plans [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]
Waihona Participates on Industry Expert
Panels at NAB Las Vegas April 19, 2005
Waihona Participates on Industry Expert
Panels at NAB Las Vegas April 19, 2005
04/17/2005 04:47 AMWaihona founders participate on two expert panels produced by the
Global Society for Asset Management at NAB 2005 in Las Vegas. The
panels address the use of Asset Management and IT Infrastructure
Integration for emerging technology and business opportunities. [PRWEB
Apr 17, 2005]
NetPro's Directory Experts Conference
2005 to Showcase Leading Industry
Analysts
NetPro's Directory Experts Conference
2005 to Showcase Leading Industry
Analysts
02/05/2005 09:43 PMMarket Wire Feb 2 2005 1:07PM GMT
Industry Leaders to Share Best Practices
and Expertise at i2 Planet 2005 Phoenix;
Dell, Payless ShoeSource and
Industry Leaders to Share Best Practices
and Expertise at i2 Planet 2005 Phoenix;
Dell, Payless ShoeSource and
04/06/2005 11:23 PMdBusinessNews.com Apr 7 2005 3:27AM GMT
Speedline Technologies to Showcase
Leading Industry Solutions at Nepcon
Thailand 2005, with Niche Tech (2004)
Co. Ltd.
Speedline Technologies to Showcase
Leading Industry Solutions at Nepcon
Thailand 2005, with Niche Tech (2004)
Co. Ltd.
06/05/2005 11:15 PMSpeedline Technologies, the global leader for single-source process
knowledge, solutions, and service to the PCB assembly and
semiconductor packaging industries, will showcase the industry’s
leading solutions and technologies at Nepcon Thailand 2005, Booth No.
4D29, Bangkok, 16-19 June 2005. [PRWEB May 23, 2005]
Homebrew Mecha
Homebrew Mecha
12/24/2004 12:16 PM
If there is a sweeter pairing than the union of
"backyard" and "mecha," then I don't want to know it (unless there is,
then tell me right now). Deep in the Alaskan wilderness (okay,
Anchorage) lives Carlos Owens, a 26-year-old steelworker who is
working on his own hydraulic-motivated 18-foot mecha that he intends
to unveil at a local race track, where it will hopefully spout fire
and destroy cars—or maybe even fight another mecha. Owens has no
idea when his project will be done (if ever), but you have to respect
the work of a man who takes on the giant robot challenge even our
government has been reticent to pursue.
Be sure to look at the photo gallery on CNet, too. There's a great
shot of a 1960s power-suit that was being by GE. Imagine how
totally wicked our society would be now if that would have
panned out.
Giant robots in the backyard [CNet]
Homebrew USB menorah
Homebrew USB menorah
12/19/2003 11:44 AM
In this project called "Taking Menorah Design into the 59th Century,"
an amateur hardware hacker uses the $8 commodity USB chipset to brew
his own USB-powered menorah, then writes some code to get the shamas
to blink arbitrary messages in Morse code.
Link
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Thanks Buddha!)
Fun with Homebrew Parts
Fun with Homebrew Parts
12/21/2003 12:05 PMEvery robot builder has been faced with needing (or wanting) parts
that
don't fit the budget. What's the solution? We try to improvise by
building a homebrew replacement. Jack W. Crenshaw has
written an amusing
article
in Embedded Systems magazine on this subject. He tells of an obsession
in his college days
to have (then unaffordable) seven-segment displays to play with. First
he
struggled to build a seven-segment display out of things like ice cube
trays
and light bulbs. He followed that up with a plan to build a circuit
full
of oscillators and counters that could generate the waveforms needed
to
turn his
oscilliscope into a seven segment display.
SmoothWall Homebrew Mods
SmoothWall Homebrew Mods
07/23/2004 07:57 AMSmoothieMods
Homebrew PCB Through-Plating Machine
Homebrew PCB Through-Plating Machine
01/11/2004 01:32 PMEver wanted to create your own multilayer printed circuit boards? For
most of us it's easier to send them out to a commercial boardhouse but
it can be expensive. Open Collector
recently included a link to a homebrew
through-plating machine that can create 3 in x 3 in, 4 layer boards
in about 4 hours for around $10 per board. The creator's website
includes plenty
of photos but is a little light on description. He offers to provide
more construction details including schematics via email, however, if
anyone else wants to
try making their own multilayer boards.
Homebrew Robotic Lawmower
Homebrew Robotic Lawmower
06/24/2004 06:09 PMSlashdot posted an "ask
Slashdot" article yesterday asking for advice on building a homebrew
robotic lawmower. As you might expect, reader advice is all over the
place from
"buy a sheep" to building a complex vision-based robot utilizing
low-kinetic-energy cutting attachments for safety.
Homebrew Financial Planning
Homebrew Financial Planning
02/17/2004 01:03 PM I've been meaning to do it for a long, long time. But there are
always more interesting things on my radar. After updating my copy of
Open Office yesterday I started working on a few simple spreadsheets
that will greatly improve my understanding of my financial situation.
For far too long now I've been making educated (often overly
optimistic) guesses based on back of the envelope calculations without
the benefit of an envelope. I suspect that a lot of...
Homebrew Tatra G4 In-Car Computer
Homebrew Tatra G4 In-Car Computer
04/09/2004 03:55 PMJOEL JOHNSON -- Computers in cars aren't new; hell, you can buy one
from Sony or Pioneer these days, if you want. But this homebrew job,
'the Tatra Mac G4,' is extraordinarily well put-together, right down
to the live ethernet ports in the arm rest and the custom software
that...
Return of the homebrew coder
Return of the homebrew coder
04/09/2004 03:59 PMThe Economist: “The new craftsmen do not stitch leather, cut
cloth or saw wood: instead, they write software.”
This article featuring independent software developers mentions Brent,
as well as Jonas Salling of
Salling
Software; Gaurav Banga and Saurabh Aggarwbi, makers of
VeriChat; and
Nick Bradbury of
Bradbury
Software.
(Web access requires paid subscription. Print version: The Economist,
March 13th-19th 2004, Technology Quarterly section, pages 10-11.)
Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower?
Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower?
06/23/2004 08:53 PMWireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops?
Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops?
12/29/2003 12:25 PMLand Walker Homebrew Mecha
Land Walker Homebrew Mecha
04/05/2005 02:11 PM
Calling this mecha the 'Land Walker' might be a bit
generous—it's more like the 'Land Shuffler.' Nevertheless, it's
a heck of a project, and if I'm reading the stories right, it's mostly
the work of one man. Too bad the guns are just for show. On the
upside, there's a video, which makes it look a lot less photoshopped
than in these pictures. (Thanks, Erick!)
The Land Walker [TransportTrends via MotherDigital]
Homebrew baby-wipes with your table-saw
Homebrew baby-wipes with your table-saw
06/17/2005 03:34 PMCory Doctorow:
For parents with table-saws: converting a roll of paper towels to a
roll of baby-wiped through judicious application of shop tools and a
water/soap/oil mix.
The first thing that must be done is cut the roll of paper towels in
half. I've tried doing this with serrated knives or hand saws, but
I've found that they either squash the roll or produce a very ragged,
chewed-up end. The best solution I have tried is the table saw. A band
saw would probably do as well, but I don't have one to test on. First,
put on your safety glasses, then raise up the blade as high as it will
go. Then, with the plastic wrapper still on the roll, cut the roll
down the center. You will probably have to spin the roll to cut all
the way through....
Now, a box of 384 premade wipes costs around $10. A bulk package of 8
paper towel rolls costs around $5, and makes somewhere around 900
wipes. So the former runs around 2.6 cents per wipe, while the latter
is about 0.6 cents per wipe. Plus you have the intangibles, like a
personal feeling of accomplishment and the fact that you get to use
the table saw.
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