They didn't actually deny anything. They made a statement about their current plans. At that particular moment. The guy that said that could have gone into the next room and signed a deal to go bluray right there and then, and it wouldn't have been untrue - *at that moment* there were no plans.
I've actually seen this but I can't remember the instance, where a company said the same 'no plans' line then announced plans that day. Damn my short memory.. it even made slashdot.
Damn. What must they think of my 92" projection screen?:p
I'll agree that for most people HD isn't in their radar.. half the people I know have 20" or smaller TVs and are perfectly happy. When I sold my old 28" CRT widescreen the friend who bought it thought it was the largest TV they'd ever seen.
I'm still weaning relatives off VCR. It's happening, but slowly. None of them have hard disk recorders, DVD recorders or anything like that.
The remote is a faithful rendition of a remote used in the show - looks very authentic. I'm not sure prop is the right term but I'm having a hard time right now thinking of a better one.
I remember seeing something like that at the Illinois State Fair probably 15+ years ago. They were focusing on biodegradable plastic bags made from corn, but it's the same concept. Unfortunately nothing much really came from that, and I doubt much will come from this. For now, it's a novelty material
1999 called, it wants its pessimism back.
The technology is already becoming common in drinks containers. It looks and behaves just like normal plastic, except if you leave it lying around outside long enough it'll degrade. Our local pub even serves all their drinks in it.
Bluray players play DVDs too. Very well, in fact. Nobody's going to be trashing anything.. except HDDVD early adopters who backed the wrong horse - that's the risk you take.
HDDVD always suffered from brand confusion. Walk into any electronics store and you'll see HDMI upscaling DVD players marketed as 'HD Compatible DVD Play' or even sometimes just 'HD DVD Player'.
Then sitting lonely on a shelf is a Toshiba HD-E1 'HDDVD Player' at £200 - 5 times the cost of all the others - and nobody buys because they assume it's more of the same.
OTOH Bluray is clearly different, so people are more likely to ask questions and consider it to be something different.
Actually he's advocating the complete abolition of the legal and social framework and the US and the complete abolition of the Army. Apparrently he was born in 1492.
When I first heard about him he sounded OK, but please, for the love of bob, find out everything he stands for. Also investigate his continued writing for white supermacist organisations... if you still agree with him by all means vote for him.
Hitler got in because he was clever at saying just the right things to the right audience. I'd hate to have that happen to the US.
2007 was definately warm in the UK. Every year I can remember there has been ice on the streets (I know I've fallen over on it enough times) and snow that's stuck around, at least for a day. None of that this year, at least where I am. We didn't even get the first light dusting of snow until January this year, and that disappeared as soon as it fell.
There's some debate whether the rest of January/February will be cold, since after a warm winter you normally have a cold spell.
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For myself, I love both Vista and 2007
Didn't know Steve Ballmer was a slashdotter? You do now...
FYI it's not just empty and shallow. Some of us had to use it since the betas.. and they still haven't fixed major bugs in both the UI and the core OS - even in RC1!
Facebook isn't for kids - in fact they seem to be in the minority.. it's the older people, even grannies, who have taken to it like ducks to water. I've actually had phone calls from family members offering to ferry me halfway across the country to set it up on their PCs.
Facebook is the new email (inevitable since spam killed the old one).
I buy a CD, copy it, then some time later sell the original. According to your revised law I haven't broken the law even though 2 copies now exist.
Copyright law in most countries does make it illegal to format shift. I don't know how it is in the US but in the UK for example it's illegal to use a VCR to record a TV programme - however nobody ever prosecutes (because it would be silly) so the law is effectively meaningless.
BD-RWs are definately getting cheaper.. I *nearly* bought one the other day when I realized the price had halved in 6 months.
Bluray players for PCs are getting commodity now. £85, which is cheap enough to consider replacing the DVD drive with it if it breaks (Pioneer BDC-202).
As for RW it's still just over what I'd pay - £225 for the BDR-202. Drop that by another £50 and I'll have on on my server for backups.
90% of the time it won't find other routers in range of course. Outside colleges, which presumably have a lot of them, most of them are in houses and the wifi signal doesn't travel that well through solid brick walls especially with the weedy antennas that ship by default.
Even public wifi has an effective range of about 30 feet from the source.. you might be able to pickup starbucks from the mcdonalds next door (as you can around here - mcdonalds didn't bother with wifi presumably for that reason) but how many other APs are likely to be in that range? I'd wager it tends towards zero in most places. Not a very effective virus.
The wii has had modchips for a ages. Nintendo has though basically squashed it for the time being, because they made it so hard to mod that few will bother (d2ckey requires to you solder about 20 lines directly onto surface mounted chips - not something I'd recommend anyone without a hell of a lot of experience to attempt).
You'd be surprised. If you prove you can be businesslike during business hours whilst being nonconformist and creative outside.. that's a huge asset. It proves you're both flexible and creative. Bosses really like people to be a bit different - those kind of people often have the best ideas (they also have the most off the wall stupid ideas.. but we can deal with that).
Bloody hell after reading that diatribe I'm sure glad I'm not an employee of yours.
You treat them like shit they'll do shit work. It'll be nice looking shit because you've told them that appearance is all that matters. But it'll still be shit.
A company is a collaboration of everyone working together as a team. *everyone* takes risks and *everyone* shares in the rewards. The boss has the highest potential reward (and the highest potential loss) but it's not *their* company exclusively because they couldn't possibly do everything on their own. They needed the employees. Not slaves, as you seem to believe.
I also fail to see how a picture of you drunk on a saturday night half naked compromises your ability to do your job if all you do is work in an office where *everyone* including the boss gets drunk and half naked on a saturday night.
We're mostly geeks here.. we work in offices where people will behave, well, like people when they're away from the office. To fire someone for doing that is tantamount to discriminating against them for being human.
That's a bit weak... like saying IE7 is a copy of the open source Mosaic. Sure that's true on some level, but there's been a hell of a lot of development in the intervening time.
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Any deal would be under NDA anyway.
They didn't actually deny anything. They made a statement about their current plans. At that particular moment. The guy that said that could have gone into the next room and signed a deal to go bluray right there and then, and it wouldn't have been untrue - *at that moment* there were no plans.
I've actually seen this but I can't remember the instance, where a company said the same 'no plans' line then announced plans that day. Damn my short memory.. it even made slashdot.
doesn't matter how many times they are refuted, the lies live on and will probably enter the history books one day.
Welcome to the world of PR.
This is how all companies work, good and bad. Leaked rumour, hedged denials.. and we fall for it every single time.
a TV over 26" is the mark of he working classes.
:p
Damn. What must they think of my 92" projection screen?
I'll agree that for most people HD isn't in their radar.. half the people I know have 20" or smaller TVs and are perfectly happy. When I sold my old 28" CRT widescreen the friend who bought it thought it was the largest TV they'd ever seen.
I'm still weaning relatives off VCR. It's happening, but slowly. None of them have hard disk recorders, DVD recorders or anything like that.
The mirror is slashdotted, the original article is working fine.
Makes you wonder why they bothered mirrororing it...
I counted 3 before someone mentioned it, and every second or third post thereafter.
The first few probably got modded offtopic by mods on a particular strong brand of crack.
The remote is a faithful rendition of a remote used in the show - looks very authentic. I'm not sure prop is the right term but I'm having a hard time right now thinking of a better one.
I remember seeing something like that at the Illinois State Fair probably 15+ years ago. They were focusing on biodegradable plastic bags made from corn, but it's the same concept. Unfortunately nothing much really came from that, and I doubt much will come from this. For now, it's a novelty material
1999 called, it wants its pessimism back.
The technology is already becoming common in drinks containers. It looks and behaves just like normal plastic, except if you leave it lying around outside long enough it'll degrade. Our local pub even serves all their drinks in it.
As far as its use for CDs goes.. you have to go back to 2003 for that
Not even close...
Bluray $337
HDDVD $299
Or if you're into bundles, Walmart to a PS3 and 15 free disks for $499.
Bluray players play DVDs too. Very well, in fact. Nobody's going to be trashing anything.. except HDDVD early adopters who backed the wrong horse - that's the risk you take.
HDDVD always suffered from brand confusion. Walk into any electronics store and you'll see HDMI upscaling DVD players marketed as 'HD Compatible DVD Play' or even sometimes just 'HD DVD Player'.
Then sitting lonely on a shelf is a Toshiba HD-E1 'HDDVD Player' at £200 - 5 times the cost of all the others - and nobody buys because they assume it's more of the same.
OTOH Bluray is clearly different, so people are more likely to ask questions and consider it to be something different.
Actually he's advocating the complete abolition of the legal and social framework and the US and the complete abolition of the Army. Apparrently he was born in 1492.
When I first heard about him he sounded OK, but please, for the love of bob, find out everything he stands for. Also investigate his continued writing for white supermacist organisations... if you still agree with him by all means vote for him.
Hitler got in because he was clever at saying just the right things to the right audience. I'd hate to have that happen to the US.
2007 was definately warm in the UK. Every year I can remember there has been ice on the streets (I know I've fallen over on it enough times) and snow that's stuck around, at least for a day. None of that this year, at least where I am. We didn't even get the first light dusting of snow until January this year, and that disappeared as soon as it fell.
There's some debate whether the rest of January/February will be cold, since after a warm winter you normally have a cold spell.
You think you've got problems.. I sign half my letters with :wq!
For myself, I love both Vista and 2007
Didn't know Steve Ballmer was a slashdotter? You do now...
FYI it's not just empty and shallow. Some of us had to use it since the betas.. and they still haven't fixed major bugs in both the UI and the core OS - even in RC1!
Facebook isn't for kids - in fact they seem to be in the minority.. it's the older people, even grannies, who have taken to it like ducks to water. I've actually had phone calls from family members offering to ferry me halfway across the country to set it up on their PCs.
Facebook is the new email (inevitable since spam killed the old one).
The problem with that is it breaks down.
I buy a CD, copy it, then some time later sell the original. According to your revised law I haven't broken the law even though 2 copies now exist.
Copyright law in most countries does make it illegal to format shift. I don't know how it is in the US but in the UK for example it's illegal to use a VCR to record a TV programme - however nobody ever prosecutes (because it would be silly) so the law is effectively meaningless.
BD-RWs are definately getting cheaper.. I *nearly* bought one the other day when I realized the price had halved in 6 months.
Bluray players for PCs are getting commodity now. £85, which is cheap enough to consider replacing the DVD drive with it if it breaks (Pioneer BDC-202).
As for RW it's still just over what I'd pay - £225 for the BDR-202. Drop that by another £50 and I'll have on on my server for backups.
Yup. That's why you have an admin account only accessible from a serial port on the router, or possibly via USB on modern routers.
Password lockout on incorrect logins is standard procedure - any reasonably locked down network will do it.
90% of the time it won't find other routers in range of course. Outside colleges, which presumably have a lot of them, most of them are in houses and the wifi signal doesn't travel that well through solid brick walls especially with the weedy antennas that ship by default.
Even public wifi has an effective range of about 30 feet from the source.. you might be able to pickup starbucks from the mcdonalds next door (as you can around here - mcdonalds didn't bother with wifi presumably for that reason) but how many other APs are likely to be in that range? I'd wager it tends towards zero in most places. Not a very effective virus.
Wordpad on XP produces/reads word 95 documents.
Killing that makes the doc format a lot less useful.. off that MS would restrict the use of their own product.
The wii has had modchips for a ages. Nintendo has though basically squashed it for the time being, because they made it so hard to mod that few will bother (d2ckey requires to you solder about 20 lines directly onto surface mounted chips - not something I'd recommend anyone without a hell of a lot of experience to attempt).
You'd be surprised. If you prove you can be businesslike during business hours whilst being nonconformist and creative outside.. that's a huge asset. It proves you're both flexible and creative. Bosses really like people to be a bit different - those kind of people often have the best ideas (they also have the most off the wall stupid ideas.. but we can deal with that).
:p
Plus it'd liven up office parties
Bloody hell after reading that diatribe I'm sure glad I'm not an employee of yours.
You treat them like shit they'll do shit work. It'll be nice looking shit because you've told them that appearance is all that matters. But it'll still be shit.
A company is a collaboration of everyone working together as a team. *everyone* takes risks and *everyone* shares in the rewards. The boss has the highest potential reward (and the highest potential loss) but it's not *their* company exclusively because they couldn't possibly do everything on their own. They needed the employees. Not slaves, as you seem to believe.
I also fail to see how a picture of you drunk on a saturday night half naked compromises your ability to do your job if all you do is work in an office where *everyone* including the boss gets drunk and half naked on a saturday night.
We're mostly geeks here.. we work in offices where people will behave, well, like people when they're away from the office. To fire someone for doing that is tantamount to discriminating against them for being human.
That's a bit weak... like saying IE7 is a copy of the open source Mosaic. Sure that's true on some level, but there's been a hell of a lot of development in the intervening time.