Why does anyone even trust Aberdeen reports? They're just a marketing company. You pay them money and then they write you a favorable report in proportion to the amount of money you give them. So who reads this crap anyway?
I saw shrek still playing in a second-run movie theatre even after I already purchased the DVD.
It's a shame that these megaplex 64-screen movie theatres don't dedicate a screen or two to running older but popular movies (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc). So much is lost on television, and it'd be a great way to meet fellow fans.
Maybe when digital theatres are finally common it won't be all that difficult to pull it off in a cost-effective way; then they can cycle through a dozen movies a day and the fans go to the one show that they're interested in.
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Additional (seemingly redundant) towers are erected to provide additional capacity, not necessarily to improve signal strength. More towers operating at lower power (and instructing the phones to transmit at lower power) means more people can use the same radio frequency.
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What am I supposed to do, go to some kind of appropriate authority and somehow publish it through them?
Try publishing something on DVD. Some (most?) DVD players won't play a non-CSS-encrypted (or non-region) DVD, and to get an encryption key, you have to knee-down to the MPAA.
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I wonder how long before someone makes a turntable that uses a laser instead of a needle so that nothing actually touches the record.
You don't really need a WMP >6.4 anyway, as it plays all codecs just as well as 7. Actually better, since it's a bit more efficient than the bloatware that is WMP7+.
While we're all being such nice neighbors, why don't we extend the benevolent spirit of the term "good faith" to other fuzzy terms such as "securing for limited times"?
This is actually a very simple concept, called beat frequency. I guess nobody ever thought to try it on ultrasonic frequencies to recreate frequencies that are within our hearing range. You may remember beat frequency from your high school physics class, if your teacher ever demonstrated the "weird effect" you hear when you strike two very slightly different tuning forks, you'll hear both tuning forks, plus a beat frequency that is equal to the frequency difference of the two tuning forks. You also hear the effects of beat frequency if two people try to make the same tone with their voice (such as when singing duet), it almost sounds like there's a third voice in there.
Clie PEG-S320 ($199)
+ Nokia 3360 ($free-$200 depending on if you sign a contract)
+ $20/month dial-up
< $449 + $50/month mobitex network
Plus, with my setup, I get a real TCP/IP connection which allows me to use interactive applications like telnet, AIM, etc...
I'm glad I got tired of waiting for this back in November. Sony is so far ahead of Palm with hardware, it's quite laughable what Palm is coming out with now.
Ok, so my response is: What if we're the first civilization to advance to this point?
Somebody (some civilization) has to be the first, and that somebody will probably create the same probability scheme to explain why they haven't heard from anyone else yet.
In a hypothetical universe where civilization eventually comes about, some civilization has to be the first one. That civilization is going to be quite depressed that there's nobody else out there. It's a self-centered assumption, because the probability seems low that you'd be the first, but if there are any number of civilizations throughout the timespan of the universe, one of them had to have been the first one.
Actually, it's probably there to intice them to make the correction. In the original PDF version, they end the message with some questions. This one doesn't have that page, so maybe rather than asking basic questions the first round, we just want to send them a little quiz...
Actually it makes more sense than trying to ask a question, as it makes for something obvious to talk about in a reply.
I'd probably even go so far as to say they're probably not. Space is harsh. And who's to say we won't be obsolete by our own inventions 1000 years from now.
What Apple has that is unique, and sadly Windows and Linux both lack, is cohesion. Everyone with devices and software for the Mac seem to work so well with each other and the OS.
This is easy to do when your OS and your hardware both come from the same company. As an example, how many people had any hardware/software compatibility issues with their Commodore 64? At least until the later years, everyone had the exact same amount of RAM, same graphics and sound capabilities, same plugs, etc. If you developed hardware or wrote software for the 64, it was easy to make it compatible with all of them because they were all the same "rubber-stamped" machines.
PC's are so scattered about because there are a bajillion different hardware configurations, and each with a (slight or major) different OS revision than your next-door neighbor's PC.
So if you want cohesion, you have to give up variety. The mac has it going for it that everything comes from one place, which is good for now so long as you agree with what Apple puts out. And I'm not knocking on the mac, it's a cool machine, especially since they finally put out a decent OS, but I'm just pointing out that in order to have "cohesion", variety will suffer.
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AFAIK, a lot of the newer video compression codecs use wavlets. Doesn't DivX &/| MPEG4 use it?
Why does anyone even trust Aberdeen reports? They're just a marketing company. You pay them money and then they write you a favorable report in proportion to the amount of money you give them. So who reads this crap anyway?
It's a shame that these megaplex 64-screen movie theatres don't dedicate a screen or two to running older but popular movies (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Matrix, etc). So much is lost on television, and it'd be a great way to meet fellow fans.
Maybe when digital theatres are finally common it won't be all that difficult to pull it off in a cost-effective way; then they can cycle through a dozen movies a day and the fans go to the one show that they're interested in.
That's actually not saying much. How much of quantum physics is intuitive? :)
I can just see a bunch of chili-dining astronauts confined to a small space together for weeks or months.
"Fuck cable, that's pay-per-view!" -- George Carlin
(user intends to delete all temp files from his OFS partition)
DELETE FROM OFS_store (...)
(user gets distracted by girlfriend and leaves computer momentarily)
(meanwhile cat walks across keyboard hitting enter first)
oops...
Additional (seemingly redundant) towers are erected to provide additional capacity, not necessarily to improve signal strength. More towers operating at lower power (and instructing the phones to transmit at lower power) means more people can use the same radio frequency.
You don't really need a WMP >6.4 anyway, as it plays all codecs just as well as 7. Actually better, since it's a bit more efficient than the bloatware that is WMP7+.
While we're all being such nice neighbors, why don't we extend the benevolent spirit of the term "good faith" to other fuzzy terms such as "securing for limited times"?
I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years ago at Epcot center, during the Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation. The demonstrator held this paddle-like device with an array of metallic discs on it, and as he turned it slowly across the crowd, you'd not hear a thing until it was pointed at you. Very cool :)
Once again I must point out that the label of hypocracy can't be applied to a group of loosely organized people with differing opinions.
Simple solution.. just use gibberish. works for me :)
To sign up for new services, press or say 1 ... To find out about existing...
brr?
I'm sorry. I do not understand that command. Please try again. To sign up for new...
ack!
I'm sorry, I still can not understand your command. Please stay on the line and one of our operators will assist you.
Once again I must point out that the label of hypocracy can't be applied to a group of loosely organized people with differing opinions.
If you think EQ is fun/addictivie, prepare to drool: http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/
Amoeba? Isn't that old technology? I know someone who had one of those computers back around 1990... ;-)
What? You mean all those movies where they zoom 1000:1 into an image are all fake?
Clie PEG-S320 ($199)
+ Nokia 3360 ($free-$200 depending on if you sign a contract)
+ $20/month dial-up
< $449 + $50/month mobitex network
Plus, with my setup, I get a real TCP/IP connection which allows me to use interactive applications like telnet, AIM, etc...
I'm glad I got tired of waiting for this back in November. Sony is so far ahead of Palm with hardware, it's quite laughable what Palm is coming out with now.
Somebody (some civilization) has to be the first, and that somebody will probably create the same probability scheme to explain why they haven't heard from anyone else yet.
In a hypothetical universe where civilization eventually comes about, some civilization has to be the first one. That civilization is going to be quite depressed that there's nobody else out there. It's a self-centered assumption, because the probability seems low that you'd be the first, but if there are any number of civilizations throughout the timespan of the universe, one of them had to have been the first one.
If you refute this with the fact that rectangular coordinates are easier to deal with, then just remember that most humans use base-10 for math.
Actually it makes more sense than trying to ask a question, as it makes for something obvious to talk about in a reply.
I'd probably even go so far as to say they're probably not. Space is harsh. And who's to say we won't be obsolete by our own inventions 1000 years from now.
This is easy to do when your OS and your hardware both come from the same company. As an example, how many people had any hardware/software compatibility issues with their Commodore 64? At least until the later years, everyone had the exact same amount of RAM, same graphics and sound capabilities, same plugs, etc. If you developed hardware or wrote software for the 64, it was easy to make it compatible with all of them because they were all the same "rubber-stamped" machines.
PC's are so scattered about because there are a bajillion different hardware configurations, and each with a (slight or major) different OS revision than your next-door neighbor's PC.
So if you want cohesion, you have to give up variety. The mac has it going for it that everything comes from one place, which is good for now so long as you agree with what Apple puts out. And I'm not knocking on the mac, it's a cool machine, especially since they finally put out a decent OS, but I'm just pointing out that in order to have "cohesion", variety will suffer.