Exactly. You get what you pay for. I have a 23" Cinema Display and it is flawles in regarding operation and even asthetic look.
I remember Jobs saying something to the effect of "we sell our rejected panels as surpluss to other LCD manufacturers for use in their displays" in his key notes introducing the new Cinerma displays.
Yeah. That's cool. I've always liked the idea of exploding bolts, it just seems so sketchy...a structural component that fails on command...it might just be a point of semantics, but having something that is intended to fail so completely seems weird...oh well. Crazy engineers...
Red Grape Juice. I lack propper sources, but apparently red grape juice is just as good with the free radicals as wine was found to be.
At the RNC they used pepper spray and riot gear to police the free radicals. and then they put them in jail, which made them imprisoned radicals...aka the opposite of free.
They would have to be selective with this. Its in their best interest for 3rd parties to be able to (easily) use the Office file formats, just as it is in Microsoft's best interest for 3rd parties to (easily) develop Windows software. Office is a ver extensable package.
They lay it all right out there. I've done work in the past that required me to integrate with Office (i.e. web app needed to make current data from a DB available in Office formats) and their guide to the XML format not only made it possible, it made it really easy.
Blue LEDs used to be really expensive (they still are, compared to RED or fake Green), but they are still cheap enough to make [your favorite consumer electrics device] look cool.
The demand of a globally accepted video format will drive prices down. Aside from the economies of scale, it will be worthwhile to invest a lot of money in making the manufacturing process easier. Its just a matter of time.
This may be true, but I question Sony's use of both formats. Let's assume that MiniDisc is superior to CD-RW and that Memory Stick is superior to any of its competitors (which, at launch, were CF and SM, if I recall...both of which have a bulkier form factor).
If this is the case, Sony would be trying to create a hardware lock in using its formats. I.e., I buy a Sony digital camera (maybe because its the best digital camera, maybe because I like memory sticks). Then I'm going to buy TVs...oh look, Sony is the only brand of TV that offers a memory stick reader, so I can take the stick out of my camera, stick it in the TV and get a nice slide show. hooray. The problem is that by choosing CF I can (in theory) select my camera from any number of non Sony brands and the same with the TV. Same with the photo printer. One year the best digi-cam is a Canon that reads CF, so I buy it, I also invest a lot of money in really big CF cards...next year, Nikon makes the best camera, and also uses all those CF cards I spent so much money on. Unfortunately, in the case of flash memory, the any given form factor seems to only last for a couple of generations of camera, but Sony has only contributed to the splintering, as has Olympus with their xD memory cards.
A valid point and in fact I think that playstation doesn't really belong in a discussion of media formats at all. Playstation is a platform, as is Windows...Saying the Playstation disc format is a success is kind of like saying NTFS is a success: both true and both irrelevant in a discussion of consumer media formats.
I'll give you CD, but PS and PS2 can't count: they're inherently propriatary, i.e. Sony doesn't _want_ anyone else to go out and build a PlayStation unless they liscense through Sony.
Also, while Betamax lives on as BetcamSP and D-Beta, you should remember that they (Beta brand products) were around and accepted _before_ betamax existed. In other words betamax was supposed to be a consumer adaptation of the pro line of beta formats, and it failed.
Not to question the great Wikipedia in the sky, but I was under the impression that DVD originally stood for Digital Video Disc, but then everyone was like "no, its more than just video, cuz it will work really nice in computers and stuff" (unlike the hack used to put data on CDs)...and so they want with Digial Versital Disc...
If it was "Versital" from the start, they should have gone with the gramatically more sensible "Versital Digial Disc"...VDD. Not to be confused with the compeating "Venerial Disease Disc" format.
The movie industry _has_ been more agile about this than the music industry, though. i.e. look at the time gap between CD->Legal Music Download Service compared to the timegap between DVD->Legal Movie Download Service.
Also, the broadcast bit is another good example. Even though they don't want to give up control, they are setting things up in such a way that they can distribute things w/o physical media and _keep_ control.
First you say that DVDs are fine. Then you say you want HD. Of course you do. We all know how this works, the tech keeps marching on.
Format wars are a result of incremental progress. DVDs were so long overdue (i.e. soo much better than VHS) that the battles all occured pre-consumer (and there were many battles, just not much in the way of products produced before these things were resolved). CD audio saw a similar success (DAT doesn't count, its a pro format, which, incidentaly, Betamax has become (or stayed, really))
Then there was DVD-A vs. SACD...why the format war? Because the industry wasn't dying for an upgrade. Sometimes it makes sense for everyone to just shut up and agree on something rather than trying to get the best possible result. In the case of the next digital video format, there isn't much of a percieved need to improvment. People are buying DVDs in droves. All a studio needs to do to generate some extra cash is release a 30 year old TV show on $50 / season box sets. Early adopters are used to format wars, it comes with the teritory.
You also mention that we could end up with two standards both of which are supported by all players (a.la DVD(+|-)R[W] ). If that is the final result, who cares? If one studio releases everything on a 16 layered red-laser disc and another releases their stuff on a 2 layered blue-laser disc, but the player you got in your box of Cherios can play both happily, who really gives a crap?
On the commute in to work this morning I was thinking about the possibility of having sky scrapers extend as far down as they do up. The problem is the same one I have in my office: no windows (which results in me being suprised at the weather every day when I step out of my climate controlled box).
If you were going to build a building without windows the best substitute, I decided, would be to build a sky box around the outside of the building. So you look out your window and see a sky cyc. The cyc could be generated by ellaborate lighting and projection to simulate the real weather, time of day, etc. or to transport the office dweller to a completely different setting.
Pull yourself together a little focus group and see how much "good feeling" is generated among the typical (or potential) Real customer by the words "Linux Support" or "Mac Support".
Now pat yourself on the back for having only invested in a focus group instead of in the development and support of a consumer level app targeted at 5% of the desktop market.
Doesn't this imply that when you order PPV content that you are actually buying a time limited liscence to view that content? Isn't this a "new" restriction that wasn't there before?
If all the efforts that have gone into "fixing" email were instead put into replacing it with an inherantly more secure system, we might have gotten somewhere by now.
The only way to really fix email is to replace it. Of course it will suck, but it doesn't have to suck a lot. Obviously gateways between the old system and the new system will make the transision less painfull, and in several years when all you get from you EmailV1 gateway is SPAM, shut it off!
I'm suprised that there hasn't been a bigger move towards starting from scratch with the electronic mail concept.
Similarly, I've a right to use my cellphone, but if I try it on an airplane, they'll kick me off.
Sorry, the FCC has specific laws against this.
I've a right to privacy, but if I try and board an airplane without ID, they'll tell me to fuck off.
Again, there are prevailing federal laws
The point is that the enforcement is based on the code of conduct, not the "law". The University could put a clause in their code of conduct that says: "Students must not wear socks on tuesdays. Three violations within one academic year constitute grounds for expultion"...there, done... you won't get arrested for wearing the socks, you'll just get uninvited from attendance at the university. The only things they legally can't put in there code of conduct are racial/gender/etc based rules (i.e. "black people aren't allowed to wear socks on tuesday") or rules that require you to violate some one elses rights or the law in general ("if you see someone wearing socks on tuesday, you must kill them or else face expultion")...
Again, these rules might generally break tenancy laws, but that is moot. Tenancy is (most likely) conditional on good diciplanary standing and is def conditional on attendance at the University. It is, in turn, their code of conduct that affects your status in both of these categories.
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Now if they would only release nuclear mountain dew.
Yeah, about that Mountain dew...maybe there is something you should know about that. Mountain Dew is actually radioa*(@#$ NO CARRIER
MRIs are nuclear? Holy crap! I think I feel some cancer comming on. Who can I sue?
Exactly. You get what you pay for. I have a 23" Cinema Display and it is flawles in regarding operation and even asthetic look.
I remember Jobs saying something to the effect of "we sell our rejected panels as surpluss to other LCD manufacturers for use in their displays" in his key notes introducing the new Cinerma displays.
Yeah. That's cool. I've always liked the idea of exploding bolts, it just seems so sketchy...a structural component that fails on command...it might just be a point of semantics, but having something that is intended to fail so completely seems weird...oh well. Crazy engineers...
This could be a good oppertunity for RedHat or MS:
"The fastest coder in the world gets it done on [RedHat|Windows]"
I'm no rocket scientist, but exploding bolts have always seemed like an engineering cop out to me.
Engineer A: "Lets see...we have these two parts that need to be held together really tightly and then released very quickly"
Engineer B: "I have an idea, let's just build the whole damn thing out of plastique or some shit, that'll work great"
A: "Good show ol' chap. That will work fine and dandy indeed."
jokes aside, what are the compelling (practical?) reasons that exploding bolts seem to be so common in spacecraft?
Red Grape Juice. I lack propper sources, but apparently red grape juice is just as good with the free radicals as wine was found to be.
At the RNC they used pepper spray and riot gear to police the free radicals. and then they put them in jail, which made them imprisoned radicals...aka the opposite of free.
Yes, but betamax predates betacam sp. Betamax was a consumer derivation of the pro U-Matic format, betacam sp was in turn a pro derivation of betamax
see: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Betamax
They would have to be selective with this. Its in their best interest for 3rd parties to be able to (easily) use the Office file formats, just as it is in Microsoft's best interest for 3rd parties to (easily) develop Windows software. Office is a ver extensable package.
See: The Office Developer Center and XML in Office
They lay it all right out there. I've done work in the past that required me to integrate with Office (i.e. web app needed to make current data from a DB available in Office formats) and their guide to the XML format not only made it possible, it made it really easy.
Blue LEDs used to be really expensive (they still are, compared to RED or fake Green), but they are still cheap enough to make [your favorite consumer electrics device] look cool.
The demand of a globally accepted video format will drive prices down. Aside from the economies of scale, it will be worthwhile to invest a lot of money in making the manufacturing process easier. Its just a matter of time.
This may be true, but I question Sony's use of both formats. Let's assume that MiniDisc is superior to CD-RW and that Memory Stick is superior to any of its competitors (which, at launch, were CF and SM, if I recall...both of which have a bulkier form factor).
If this is the case, Sony would be trying to create a hardware lock in using its formats. I.e., I buy a Sony digital camera (maybe because its the best digital camera, maybe because I like memory sticks). Then I'm going to buy TVs...oh look, Sony is the only brand of TV that offers a memory stick reader, so I can take the stick out of my camera, stick it in the TV and get a nice slide show. hooray. The problem is that by choosing CF I can (in theory) select my camera from any number of non Sony brands and the same with the TV. Same with the photo printer. One year the best digi-cam is a Canon that reads CF, so I buy it, I also invest a lot of money in really big CF cards...next year, Nikon makes the best camera, and also uses all those CF cards I spent so much money on. Unfortunately, in the case of flash memory, the any given form factor seems to only last for a couple of generations of camera, but Sony has only contributed to the splintering, as has Olympus with their xD memory cards.
Argh.
A valid point and in fact I think that playstation doesn't really belong in a discussion of media formats at all. Playstation is a platform, as is Windows...Saying the Playstation disc format is a success is kind of like saying NTFS is a success: both true and both irrelevant in a discussion of consumer media formats.
I'll give you CD, but PS and PS2 can't count: they're inherently propriatary, i.e. Sony doesn't _want_ anyone else to go out and build a PlayStation unless they liscense through Sony.
Also, while Betamax lives on as BetcamSP and D-Beta, you should remember that they (Beta brand products) were around and accepted _before_ betamax existed. In other words betamax was supposed to be a consumer adaptation of the pro line of beta formats, and it failed.
Not to question the great Wikipedia in the sky, but I was under the impression that DVD originally stood for Digital Video Disc, but then everyone was like "no, its more than just video, cuz it will work really nice in computers and stuff" (unlike the hack used to put data on CDs)...and so they want with Digial Versital Disc...
If it was "Versital" from the start, they should have gone with the gramatically more sensible "Versital Digial Disc"...VDD. Not to be confused with the compeating "Venerial Disease Disc" format.
Betamax
Mini Disc
Memory Stick
Blu-ray?
The movie industry _has_ been more agile about this than the music industry, though. i.e. look at the time gap between CD->Legal Music Download Service compared to the timegap between DVD->Legal Movie Download Service.
Also, the broadcast bit is another good example. Even though they don't want to give up control, they are setting things up in such a way that they can distribute things w/o physical media and _keep_ control.
First you say that DVDs are fine. Then you say you want HD. Of course you do. We all know how this works, the tech keeps marching on.
Format wars are a result of incremental progress. DVDs were so long overdue (i.e. soo much better than VHS) that the battles all occured pre-consumer (and there were many battles, just not much in the way of products produced before these things were resolved). CD audio saw a similar success (DAT doesn't count, its a pro format, which, incidentaly, Betamax has become (or stayed, really))
Then there was DVD-A vs. SACD...why the format war? Because the industry wasn't dying for an upgrade. Sometimes it makes sense for everyone to just shut up and agree on something rather than trying to get the best possible result. In the case of the next digital video format, there isn't much of a percieved need to improvment. People are buying DVDs in droves. All a studio needs to do to generate some extra cash is release a 30 year old TV show on $50 / season box sets. Early adopters are used to format wars, it comes with the teritory.
You also mention that we could end up with two standards both of which are supported by all players (a.la DVD(+|-)R[W] ). If that is the final result, who cares? If one studio releases everything on a 16 layered red-laser disc and another releases their stuff on a 2 layered blue-laser disc, but the player you got in your box of Cherios can play both happily, who really gives a crap?
As OLED works with self-luminous organic materials, it has outstanding response time
This quote is worded as if it were obvious. Am I missing something? What makes an organic material inherently more responsive?
On the commute in to work this morning I was thinking about the possibility of having sky scrapers extend as far down as they do up. The problem is the same one I have in my office: no windows (which results in me being suprised at the weather every day when I step out of my climate controlled box).
If you were going to build a building without windows the best substitute, I decided, would be to build a sky box around the outside of the building. So you look out your window and see a sky cyc. The cyc could be generated by ellaborate lighting and projection to simulate the real weather, time of day, etc. or to transport the office dweller to a completely different setting.
Pull yourself together a little focus group and see how much "good feeling" is generated among the typical (or potential) Real customer by the words "Linux Support" or "Mac Support".
Now pat yourself on the back for having only invested in a focus group instead of in the development and support of a consumer level app targeted at 5% of the desktop market.
Funny, because only the binaries for those viruses ever seem to spread out very well.
Doesn't this imply that when you order PPV content that you are actually buying a time limited liscence to view that content? Isn't this a "new" restriction that wasn't there before?
If all the efforts that have gone into "fixing" email were instead put into replacing it with an inherantly more secure system, we might have gotten somewhere by now.
The only way to really fix email is to replace it. Of course it will suck, but it doesn't have to suck a lot. Obviously gateways between the old system and the new system will make the transision less painfull, and in several years when all you get from you EmailV1 gateway is SPAM, shut it off!
I'm suprised that there hasn't been a bigger move towards starting from scratch with the electronic mail concept.
Dude, you're so stuck in the 1900s ... it's the digital revolution man!
Similarly, I've a right to use my cellphone, but if I try it on an airplane, they'll kick me off.
Sorry, the FCC has specific laws against this.
I've a right to privacy, but if I try and board an airplane without ID, they'll tell me to fuck off.
Again, there are prevailing federal laws
The point is that the enforcement is based on the code of conduct, not the "law". The University could put a clause in their code of conduct that says:
"Students must not wear socks on tuesdays. Three violations within one academic year constitute grounds for expultion"...there, done... you won't get arrested for wearing the socks, you'll just get uninvited from attendance at the university. The only things they legally can't put in there code of conduct are racial/gender/etc based rules (i.e. "black people aren't allowed to wear socks on tuesday") or rules that require you to violate some one elses rights or the law in general ("if you see someone wearing socks on tuesday, you must kill them or else face expultion")...
Again, these rules might generally break tenancy laws, but that is moot. Tenancy is (most likely) conditional on good diciplanary standing and is def conditional on attendance at the University. It is, in turn, their code of conduct that affects your status in both of these categories.