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Read more.Following much merriment and festivity - and a drinking session involving copious amounts of brandy - HEXUS' Steve Kerrison has joined in the journalists' Christmas tradition of "compiling some sort of end of/beginning of the year list".
Boo! Still no jetpacks or hovercars?
P.S. I thought that the seti project had packed up.
I believe various things threaten it, but it's not a dead project.
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The SSD RAID thing has already been done albeit not on hexus, but achieved none the less....its a beast.
- Engadget story or the full read from the main site
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Lucky for me that wasn't the crux of that particular prediction, then
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Will SSD make it into the 'domestic desktop' market? I would imagine most of it will be on laptops where the power benefit is hudge (no more paging etc), and the supply will be too limited and expensive for desktops. Even by the end of this year.
However, people like me are already planning to have a two SSD raid-0
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2. i hope so a bit of comptition for microsoft is always good and it might make them out the finger in regards to vista
3. compotition is always good and will stop intel from becoming lazy
5. I hope all drm will be dropped and the comapnys that use it either see the light or go under. as more comsumers see no valid technical reason why a device cannot play there media the better.
6.im hoping for this aswell for 2 reasons. i have been waiting for this and if it does come out i know hell will be closed for business.
9. might stop them from being so smug about there fisher-price-a-like operating system
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PC World sold SuSE Linux for years, nothing new here.Ubuntu on the high street
I think Steve meant it would be pre-installed on systems you would typically find in PC World, Comet, Curries and the like, not in a retail box as a separate product, so to speak
Some interesting predictions Steve.
I would love apple to get fed up with iEverything and start on jEverything, especially the jPod, I think Douglas Coupland would have something to say about it
The acronym for Duke Nukem Forever - DNF, means Did Not Finish in racing circles. How apt.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
Point 1. I reckon HD-DVD will win. Not because of any technical restrictions or availability or anything like that, but purely due to the name. Over the last year especially, people are used to having "HD" TV advertised all over the place, so surely an HD DVD to match the HD TV will be what most people think they want. After all - to most people, what does "blu ray" actually mean?
Point 3. AMD have to do something to come back. But holy crap - is that Sharikou guy for real? There's fanboys and there's fanboys, but that's either a satire or an example of mental illness :-|
Point 9. I agree. As much as I like Mac OS when I do use it; sooner or later it's going to happen. The kudos in the hacking community for someone who gets a widespread virus in Mac OS will be immense. But I'm sure that many Apple enthusiasts will find a way to blame it on Microsoft or some other third party
I've come to think that it's satirical, although I still have some doubts.
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Hilarious, all a person needs to do is say 'idiot', 'Intel', 'BK' and we all know what moron he/she is talking about. Just funny.
Hmmm, Steve you stuck your neck out there bud!
1. HD-DVD vs Blu-ray... I used to think that HD-DVD was on the winning track but now I'm thinking that BD might well win it for one major reason: the PS3. Folk are buying the cheaper 40Gb PS3 now, not bothering about the backward compatibility issue and they get a BD player included in the price of their new gaming console. They'll take advantage of that when faced with a choice between DVD, HD-DVD or BD disks of the same film.
Right now, to go HD-DVD you HAVE to specifically buy the necessary kit, either an HD-DVD player or an add-on HD-DVD drive... which the far more numerous general consumer is unlikely to deliberately do if they're replacing kit due to age and malfunction. The reason is, despite HD panels becoming far more numerous, people just don't see enough of an improvement in HD-DVD or BD over DVD... so they'll only adopt that standard if they are either a videophile, an enthusiast or, as with the PS3, it comes as an extra or WITH extras, (depending on how you perceive the PS3).
So, due purely to the increased market penetration of BD players, due wholly to the PS3, I reckon BD is gonna win out... and if you think the war will be won by the hardware, nope, there's loads of dual format players on the way, but the PS3 has given BD a BIG headstart.
2. Maybe it will hit the High Street, but what's the point? Until the perception changes that Linux is for geeks and needs hours to set up and doesn't work with anything MS related, no-one but the better informed is gonna buy it.
3. AMD's main problem is speed and price... THE two deciding factors over which chip to buy... Unless AMD can increase the former while dropping the latter, I can;t see them making much headway. They need to do what NVIDIA did and skip a generation, accept that Intel will be dominant for another 18 months or so and then come out sith something very fast, cool, low power and above all cheap.
As faithful as I've always been to AMD, I just couldn't ignore the price and performance of a C2D chip... and unless I want to be charitable to AMD there's not logical reason to go for them in a standard desktop system. Sorry, but there it is.
4. Agreed. EeePC anyone?
5. See 1. (add in: Who cares? Not the vast majority of PS3 buyers, that's for sure!
6. Hahahahahahahahahaha... and Buwahahahahahaha. 2009, that MY prediction.
7. You've read Apple's strategy manual, haven't you? If you flip on a few pages there's a whole list of other Apple stuff coming out this year... the iDesk, iChair, iCurtain... it's a link-up deal with iKea, sorry, IKEA,... they just got all their old stock, sprayed it glossy white and sealed it in an Apple box.
Hooter news is that iKea will be selling iPods from February. But in the usual iKea fashion, you buy the iPod, and then have to buy the headphones, charger, docking station, screen, drive, case and music separately... so not all that different then.
8. Snake oil.... pure and simple snake oil. GFX guys have a looooong way to go before 'life like' visuals are possible... and displays just aren't up to the job either. KODAK were STILL battling away on this one right up until the death of photo-film snuck up and surprised them three years ago.
9. Ah the Mac vs PC wars... Got one simple thing to say on that: User installed hardware upgrades. Nuff said.
10. Umm, we've found ETI. The problems is, it was intelligent until until the diet of Eastenders Omnibuses, Emmerdale specials and Coronation Street repeats on ITV2 rotted the intelligence down to mush, They're here among us now, unable to speak our language but being integrated and supported by the state... you see them in the Post Office on a Thursday, in their polyester 'space shell' suits, unable to do anything more than grumble and grunt as they collect their benefit.
mmh - on point 1 - my predicitions are also with Blu-ray winning this one, simply down to the strenghth of the PS3 installed base and Sony's control of a fairly large number of blockbusters - they have a lot more incentive to stay true to Blu-ray than the other studios have to stay true to HD-DVD. Content and not technology could be the vote winner here (think how game exclusives help promote games consoles...)
on point 3 - love the blog link - either the guy is suffering severe delusions or else it is satire at it's finest. Can't decide either way.....
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