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4K is not going to happen unless [...]

It seems a bit odd to suggest it can't happen when 4K streaming is already happening. The main selling point of Netflix's top streaming tier is that it grants you access to their "Ultra HD" (i.e. 4K) catalog. YouTube has had 4K support since late 2013 and has quietly been adding support for even higher resolutions in the last two years. You can already find content available at resolutions as high as 8K (e.g. this video). One of the production houses I follow on YouTube makes most of their animated content available at 4K and is moving more and more of their live action content over to 4K as they get more 4K cameras into the hands of their teams.

And the pipes are already good enough. Netflix's 4K content only requires a sustained 25 Mbps connection, which is orders of magnitude more common in US households than 4K TVs are.

Comcast, TWC, et al. are certainly deserving of a good raking over the coals, but when it comes to their ability to deliver 4K streaming capability...well, that bar is actually pretty low, and they've pretty much already met it. 25 Mbps plans are not particularly difficult to come by in most of the US, though I'm quite aware that some regions are woefully underserved and that prices for those plans remain unjustifiably high. For instance, the area where I live (Bryan/College Station, Texas, smack dab in the middle between Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin) is officially classified as a metropolitan area, but Internet plans here cost 34x that of peer cities not too long ago (that "34x" is sadly not a typo), simply because we don't have any adjacent urban centers.

I think that Alec Guinness did a lot for the original Star Wars movie, the experience of how to act and behave in a theatrical manner to make the best of a scene. A good actor is a lot more important than special effects ever can be. This because a good actor knows when and how to address the viewers.

Well, give her credit for at least being honest about it. Obama paid lip service to privacy and due process and trampled on both once he got into office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We need a little more of an economic failure and plea of desperation from people before she can be so easily Hitlerized into office. That takes time. Time takes money. Wait, now THAT'S an idea! Speed the process up by ruining everyone's finances, then become a "savior!"

Now, wait. Gotta make it in to office before she can start that. Scratch it. Maybe she should be VICE-President. I use the word "VICE" loosely, here.

No surprise here. Battery-powered flying craft + populated areas = regulation.

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Obligatory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs

Check out the Anti Cheese Edit of the Star Wars prequel movies with 98% less Jar-Jar and 90% less cheese. Much better movies.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+wars+anti+cheese+edit

Well, give her credit for at least being honest about it. Obama paid lip service to privacy and due process and trampled on both once he got into office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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You simply can't watch these movies through the eyes of an adult. You need to be a kid again. I provide the following counterpoint, which totally gets it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

watch the best short parodies of it.

The best, IMO - Robot Chicken's Emperor Palpatine going off about the Death Star.

If you want a great view of what the prequels could have been and burn a few joules off saying, "Damn it," a few more times about what they actually are, here's one man's great takes on Ep. 1 and Ep. 2. It's too bad he wasn't actually a Fox exec...

watch the best short parodies of it.

The best, IMO - Robot Chicken's Emperor Palpatine going off about the Death Star.

If you want a great view of what the prequels could have been and burn a few joules off saying, "Damn it," a few more times about what they actually are, here's one man's great takes on Ep. 1 and Ep. 2. It's too bad he wasn't actually a Fox exec...

"Skywalker... now thats a name I haven't heard in a long time"

He actually said that about the name Obi-Wan Kenobi, not Skywalker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And people in Europe are getting their driver's license mugshot taken with "religious headgear".

That doesn't satirize religion anymore. Yes, it looks ridiculous. But at the same time it acts as if putting on funny hats to make your imaginary buddy happy is in some way normal.

Here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

LMAO Non paywalled link: Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. "It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability." http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11... http://www.bloombergview.com/a... Top Gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> The Cell based PS3 was seriously powerful hardware being sold at a $400 loss price by Sony.

FTFY SCEA / Sony was in the red for 4 years due to the high cost of the hardware.

These days, a cluster or Raspberry Pi gives better watt/$
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or even Parallella:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> The Cell based PS3 was seriously powerful hardware being sold at a $400 loss price by Sony.

FTFY SCEA / Sony was in the red for 4 years due to the high cost of the hardware.

These days, a cluster or Raspberry Pi gives better watt/$
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or even Parallella:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Please tell me Thinkgeek sells a Penis Drone (Nice cock block at 0:39, by the way) that I would then be required to register with the FAA! I think they'd sell like hotcakes!

What about this politically subversive content? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You going to ban Force Awakens from the cinema too, Bangladesh?

You mean like the plug that shoots out of the top of the model rocket motor that ejects the nose cone and attached parachute? Or SpaceX rockets? I'm thinking there's a little more nuance to the law than what the GP says.

Well, it's a bit of a stretch to call a recovery streamer or parachute a "control system". I wouldn't even apply that label to the model rockets that Estes actually sold in stores that had a swing-wing that would fold out instead of deploying a parachute. Anyway, it does look as if he is completely full of crap anyway. TL;DR: You can not only build rocket-launched gliders and control them with COTS RC equipment, but you can even air-start rockets! And in that moment, the reader was enlightened. I've been trying to figure out what kind of UAV I want to build next, and the answer is rocket-launch glider. Apparently you are even allowed to launch them at an angle of 45 degrees so long as the model is designed to be controlled during the boost phase. Otherwise it's 30 degrees, like a normal model rocket. Even since I read about sugar rockets, I've had a renewed interest in rocketry. This is a pretty terrible county for model rocketry, because everything is so dry, but building something with control and without an ejection charge would reduce the hazard substantially.

Current Apple competitors do not have the same profit margins as Apple either.

Incorrect. Both Google and Microsoft both have net profit margins comparable to Apple. Go look at their financials. They are all between 20-30% net margins depending on the time period examined and those sorts of margins are nothing unusual for software companies. (Yes Apple is really a software company) Those sorts of margins are unheard of for manufacturing companies. Apple will not change this equation.

Today's cars are becoming computer driven, it is Apple field again.

Not all software is the same. The difference between the software in a car and the software in a PC is huge. Apple's facility with consumer electronics should not be assumed to translate well to automobiles. While there is plenty of electronics in a modern car, there is far more to a car that has nothing to do with electronics. Designing and tuning a suspension or building a structural frame or a seat are not software and never will be.

You just don't know how successful they will be or not and what they will show. Probably iCar v1 will not be huge success, but once the hype will be driven up, iCar v2 or v3 should attract masses of iFans willing to pay 20% or 30% more for extra bells an whistles that "only Apple has".

Here's what you don't understand. We're talking about the largest purchase people make outside of their house. The economics are completely different both on cost and . Apple quite simply cannot price these products that high and still sell enough of them to recover their costs. They cannot outsource the production like they currently do because it costs too much and there are too many quality problems. They CANNOT make 25%+ margins on cars because of the cost structure. Apple's brand will not change that equation. Apple has been successful because they've been focused on what they are good at which is software and industrial design for consumer electronics. If they want to swim off into the deep waters that is the auto industry, I wish them well, but you are deluded if you think they can maintain their margins in that industry.

No, but I have plans to buy a useful drone.

There is also the extremely poor state of UK roads, basically third world quality for the most part.

Also the fact that UK roads (like the country as a whole) are desparately overcrowded, narrow, traffic jams everywhere, traffic lights and roundabouts (often combined these days) everywhere, anomalous speed restriction policies, and local council traffic officers' crackpot scheme pet ideas*. I am often confused myself at unfamiliar junctions which traffic light head applies to which lane. I would have though a nation of more wide-open roads would be a better starting ground.

* Take a look at this lunacy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

are an environmental catastrophe. Solar panels and wind turbines require huge quantities of rare earth elements, and they all come from China today--even the ore mined in the US is shipped to China for processing. Until this is addressed, the so-called "green" technologies are not remotely green. Restoring our local rare earth industry would also enable local manufacturing of high-tech products, most all of which has been moved to China, for access to their rare earth resources.

There is no shortage of rare earths, and they could be mined and produced locally in an environmentally friendly manner. However, it would require changing the insane regulations surrounding thorium, which drove the industry to China in the first place. Concentrated ores invariably have high thorium concentrations, and the thorium could easily be separated and safely stored if only regulations allowed it. It is just barely radioactive, not water soluble, found in rocks everywhere anyway, and probably the least problematic of the mining wastes. Even ingesting it is essentially harmless; only inhaling thorium dust is of real concern. As it is a metal, there is a rather trivial way of preventing that from happening.

While this town may be shunning solar for the wrong reasons, there are good reasons. The area looks heavily wooded as well, and clearing vast areas of forest to collect a pitiful amount of unreliable solar energy is not productive. Moreover, unlike wind, PV solar does not coexist with vegetation at all, as even a stray leaf can damage the cells. The entire solar farm becomes a lifeless monument of irony to Big Green, which will long outlive the panels themselves.

Sadly, the greenest and most promising energy source is equally hampered by insane regulation. Nuclear is not only the least resource intensive, it also has the least environmental impact by far, and has proven to rapidly scale and displace fossil fuels in a number of countries.

Oh fucking jesus. If we move to alternatives

No one wants nuclear.

Speak for yourself.

Oh, and by the way, Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

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EnduranceRobots.com is looking for enthusiasts and hobbiests in robotics and laser industry. We are looking for tech smart people who would like to help us to improve our products and positioning on the markets. We are still very early startup and can not pay big salaries but we can pay some. Please have a look our web site: endurancerobots.com youtube channels: http://www.youtube.com/channel... http://www.youtube.com/channel... and our facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Endur... We are very open to all critics: email us your ideas to: gf@endurancerobots.com or skype my: george.fomitchev

EnduranceRobots.com is looking for enthusiasts and hobbiests in robotics and laser industry. We are looking for tech smart people who would like to help us to improve our products and positioning on the markets. We are still very early startup and can not pay big salaries but we can pay some. Please have a look our web site: endurancerobots.com youtube channels: http://www.youtube.com/channel... http://www.youtube.com/channel... and our facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Endur... We are very open to all critics: email us your ideas to: gf@endurancerobots.com or skype my: george.fomitchev

EnduranceRobots.com is looking for enthusiasts and hobbiests in robotics and laser industry. We are looking for tech smart people who would like to help us to improve our products and positioning on the markets. We are still very early startup and can not pay big salaries but we can pay some. Please have a look our web site: endurancerobots.com youtube channels: http://www.youtube.com/channel... http://www.youtube.com/channel... and our facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Endur... We are very open to all critics: email us your ideas to: gf@endurancerobots.com or skype my: george.fomitchev

But it would be interesting to see how Roger would have done that film.

Like a car in the rain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The correct one is it's predecessor, "The Milky Way" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Very cool vids though! :)

Doom and bellbottoms!! to go to yahoo.

There seems to be more than one opinion of the subject, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... The United States of marketing and public relations would be far more accurate, the empire of double speak.

There seems to be more than one opinion of the subject, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... The United States of marketing and public relations would be far more accurate, the empire of double speak.

It's a perfect name for it, regardless if it works. Tells you exactly what it does... "WHAT??? WHAT?!?!?! FUCKING VUVUZELAS!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The problem with actors is that after they become famous, they start demanding huge salaries. But if your "actor" is just a product that you hold all the IP rights to, suddenly you can get all the fan obsession (and the money it brings in) without the pesky salary demands. We still have a ways to go - synthetic voice acting (Hatsune Miku's songs are vocaloids) is woefully behind in technology compared to 3D graphics recreating human faces. And movements are still almost always motion-captured. But this is the direction all of this is heading - performers completely produced and controlled by a studio with no real lives of their own.

If there was ever a time for a video on Slashdot I think this is the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Send them to a farmers market and they'll happily buy and eat pesticide sprayed and GMO produce thinking it's "organic" - cause farmers know what "time to harvest" is for and cause their produce is FRESH.

There is an episode of Penn and Teller where they did exactly that, (AND at a farmer's market, with you know, you're vaunted "fresh" food) with a blind test, and they asked people who believed in the whole "organic tastes better" to try two different foods and ask which tasted better. 7 out of 10 of them identified the conventional farmed food as tasting better. Granted it's a small sample so not very scientific, but the show is intended to entertain. Still, it reflects similar scientific tests that have reached the same conclusion.

Here, watch the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Another thing they did (not in the above linked video) was place two banana halves on a table and tell a lady that one was organic and one wasn't, and ask her which one tasted better. She talked about how the organic one tasted much creamer and much more like a banana, and the non-organic one tasted plain. Then it was revealed to her that they were two halves of the same banana.

Organic food is a religion. Plain and simple. There is zero evidence that it tastes better or is healthier other than a lot of bullshit anecdotes that people push around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Phil Plait's excellent series of PBS shorts explains all this in a better fashion (I think), and he doesn't spam himself all over slashdot, so is more deserving of our time :) Galaxies part 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Part 2 is linked from there. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlqDFPLUhig

I heard he's a square!

People are up in arms over Trumps statement about banning Muslims from entering the U.S.. But Jimmy Carter did the EXACT same thing but for Iranians!

So tell me how Trumps statements are bad???????

See:

http://www.infowars.com/video-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/po...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

when is the last time a passenger jet design was constructed and flown by a "test pilot" to shake out the bugs and check for nasty handling behavior?

You are aware that there still are test pilots who fly prototype commercial jet prototypes and often even push the limits of what those vehicles can do. They test sub-systems for potential failure modes and do other things to "shake out the bugs and check for nasty handling behavior" under extreme conditions that likely would never actually happen on a routine flight.

Admittedly the engineers of these vehicles have a long history to draw from and they are doing mostly minor incremental changes with each new model that is being made, so those test pilots are usually not risking life and property during those test flights.

Such test flights are still a part of any aviation certification program and are required by the FAA before certification is granted for that model.

But throw gravity in there, and it turns out to be weaker by some 40 orders of magnitude.

Elbow room ?

Because we are presently living in a wind-up Universe and its mainspring consists of two fundamental forces that are 10^40 apart. As evidenced by the receding galaxies, we still getting all wound up.

At the end of this cycle the mainspring will snap around and in the next cycle gravity will trump the electromagnetic force by 10^40 to form a battery operated Universe. The charge light will come on and increase of potential (not spatial expansion) will take place.

The whole thing is the result of pulling on String Theory, and when contraction takes place the background remnant (which you could hear now if you play it backwards) is actually a slow voice saying,

"There's a snake in my boot!"

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Oh bugger off. I'm a die-hard Apple ][ fan and I even have to admit that what the demo-scene has done with the C64 is nothing short of amazing -- although I do have to point out that the Apple ][ demo's will switch video modes mid-scan line; giving the C64 scene a good run for their money!

Oh bugger off. I'm a die-hard Apple ][ fan and I even have to admit that what the demo-scene has done with the C64 is nothing short of amazing -- although I do have to point out that the Apple ][ demo's will switch video modes mid-scan line; giving the C64 scene a good run for their money!