You're overlooking several reasons why DVDs appear to be "cheaper" when compared to CDs. Realize that DVDs represent a repackaging of existing content pre-produced for prior distribution and profit. Home video is an aftermarket, even though studios increasingly rely on it to turn break-even flicks into profitable ones.
The money spent on mastering, manufacturing, distribution, and the occasional extra doesn't amount to a great deal of cost when averaged over the typical mass market DVD title. A great deal of the cost to produce the movie itself has been covered through theatrical release. Initial VHS/DVD release meets any revenue shortfalls and then goes on to pad the bottom line. Furthermore, in what has become a habit for a number of studios, popular titles are rereleased three to twelve months later as "special edition" DVDs to double-dip the home theatre crowd.
Albums (sidestepping "best of" or other compilations) exist as the primary consumer medium for the music generated by mainstream artists. The profit has to be made on the CD, as people don't attend concerts on nearly the same scale as they do movie theatres. Even though manufacturing and distribution costs are on par with DVDs, recording labels are looking to CD sales for the bulk of its profits, whereas the movie studios treat DVD sales as a way to profit a second (and third, etc.) time on material already sold to the public in another form and so can lower pricing to hit a "sweet spot" to tempt consumers to buy rather than rent.
The movie studios may seem a bit more savvy than the record labels at first glance -- and perhaps they really are -- but the revenue stream represented by DVDs is not truly analogous to that of CDs for record labels, even though they both are disc-based media.
Would you directly compare a race car with a minivan?
Explain how MacOS::Windows (or any two consumer-grade OS, for that matter) is like minivan::racecar, and maybe I'd be able to follow your train of thought a bit better.
Let's be honest here, both OS X and Windows Whatever are in the same camp. They're made to fulfill the same purposes, regardless of company backing and unlike the specious automobile analogy offered above.
Besides, you can't directly compare releases of Windows and Mac OS either by revision number or date. They're completely different beasts and are therefore subject to different validation.
What utter drivel. They're both operating systems, aren't they? Both offer the same basic functionality to users, don't they? If I were looking to migrate from one to the other, wouldn't I have to directly compare both on some level?
I think it makes no sense to give the bridge an tunnel crowd who use all the public resources (PATCO/subways/roads) a free ride for those who are essentially using the accident the the jersey burbs are "outside" the city and outside the state pay no tax.
I understand the argument from the basis of public resources, but somehow I can't wrap my mind around the concept that those who work in NYC but don't live there full-time (40 or so hours a week v. 168 hours) should be expected to carry an equal burden in funding those resources.
On the flip side, those in "the burbs" (which they're not -- ask a Manhattanite to come out to Jersey City and he/she acts as though you asked them to take a trip to the Moon) contribute a great deal economically to NYC in terms of labor force while reducing a number of public resource costs -- simply because they spend the majority of time and maintain their residences in another state. It isn't so bad for NYC that it has a huge labor force on tap that isn't its concern after close of business when the workers return home. I'm not quite sure how NYC would replace those workers from those now "within" the City limits.
As for the commuter tax, it would affect everyone who uses those public transit systems. Fair enough if based on usage and metered to each system's funding needs. There is no "free ride" at the moment. It's not as though living outside the City currently exempts commuters from contributing toward the support of those systems -- we all pay to use the PATH, the subways, etc. Remember, it costs money (~$160/mo. if you drive in each workday) to enter NYC by way of the Holland Tunnel, but it's free to leave by the same route.:)
With this new tax rull [sic] people who commute from New Jersey would end up paying taxes to two states!
Afraid to say that it would just be more of the same for those who live in Jersey but work in NYC: we already pay City tax atop NJ State and Federal income taxes. On the other hand, NJ does dole out Homestead rebates, which help to offset costs.
Instead of linking simply to the download page and the screenshots, give people a chance to RTFA and link to the History Flow Visualization Application's overview document.
Part of that is because IE for the Mac is still a good browser. It really isn't as bad as IE for Windows.
No, no it's not.
It's neither as "good" as MSIE (6.x) for Windows, nor a solid browser for Mac (OS X).
OS 9 is another matter, but the stability and utility of MSIE running atop OS X is dreadful. It's less stable, somehow, than the OS 9 version... and as you point out, its feature set doesn't compare well to at least two common alternatives for OS X: Safari and Firefox.
It's good enough for OS 9, as there aren't (m)any viable or even supported alternatives on that platform, but being the probable best browser for a dead OS isn't much to crow about. A shame that OS 9 users are more or less shackled to it.
For OS X, MSIE is painfully bug-ridden, prone to crashing, and terribly behind-the-times in terms of "Web technologies" and "standards support" (whatever those are). Quite sad, really, given how far ahead it of the pack just a few short years ago.
...and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.
Though, in my opinion, it was by far the easiest of the bunch to "win" against AI opponents. The buggiest, as well. The unit customization was an interesting feature to add, but I think, in the end, it was simply something that the AI couldn't effectively cope with (among other things). More fun than Civ III, but pretty flawed in terms of balance.
As for simply removing the gAMA chunk from PNG files (as you describe) will alleviate the situation for most browsers... but then there's Safari, which applies gamma correction to PNG images lacking a gAMA chunk. Pretty much kills color matching should a web author care about Safari.
Oh, whatever. I bet you get all up in arms about people using the word "gypped" too, don't you?
No, but I occasionally do.
Language evolves continuously. I'm positive the OP did not mean it as a slur against Jewish people but rather as the slang that it is. Oversensitive people like you are exactly what's wrong with the world.
One would think that if languages evolve, they would progress in step with greater enlightenment on the part of their users. Racial slurs such as "to gyp" or "to jew" someone else should fall by the wayside as people come to realize the origin and significance of such phrases. Promoting continued usage in prose given these words' heritage is hard to defend when numerous alternatives exist. And I didn't really see any need for poetic license in the OP...
And no, it may be slang, but these phrases are clearly slurs. Declaring the parent to be oversensitive is nothing more than a personal attack, and does nothing to strengthen whatever your argument may have been.
Yes, this is all heading off-topic, but my little worldview that those with sub-10000 UIDs wouldn't forward such a foolish position lies shattered on the floor...
Paying doesn't necessarily mean "transfer of money", it can also mean giving some content back. YMMV.
Or, in a broader sense, one could consider payment in terms of opportunity cost - the time spent browsing/. instead of doing something else. All that lost productivity. It may not pay the bills, but to know oodles have wasted scads more time on a site than put in to build it... oh, the humanity of it all.
I never did own a Mac back then, but I always enjoyed using others' for games. I don't think anyone has mentioned the (shareware?) arcade shooter Solarian II. Haven't played it since 1999, but now that I think about it, I wouldn't mind a quick game or two right about now...
Uhm. I'm sure the USS Enterprise was designed to fly in a vacuum; you know.. cause.. space is a vacuum.
That's what I thought at first, too. I'm not really a Trekkie, though I must've absorbed the movies and most of TOS and TNG from TV... which triggers memories from TOS where the Enterprise was seen flying around in the upper atmosphere on at least one episode (e.g., where the crew snaps back to Earth of the 60's and are picked up on radar; jets are scrambled, etc.).
So, silly as this experiment is, I think there's some evidence that the Enterprise may have been designed to fly around in more than just the vaccuum of space. After all, I saw it on the TV. And TV never lies.
Sadly lost... and now (from the site) "Copyright 2004 (c) Car Rentals, Hotel Reservation, Discount Hotels, Airline Ticket, Airfare, Rental Car, Rent a Car , Cruise, Cruises, Vacation Rental Discounts, Rental Cars Online Shopping Mall."
I guess you can't be accused of keyword spamming search engines if that's the monicker of your firm... or something.
Apple's switch stories are also made up, the switchers themselves say that.
Hating myself for feeding the troll, but...
I happen to work with one of the "switchers" and can attest to the veracity of at least one story. Surely that counts as at least minor refutation of the parent post's absurd take on things.
Also Microsoft's story wasn't made up, only slashdot monkies claimed it is. In fact the person who wrote it stood up and told her story.
Interesting to note that there is a kernel of truth to this, however small, in that the person stepped forward only after being named by the Associated Press. However, it's just as likely that the "switcher" here was unduly prejudiced to write a good yarn,
being in the employ of Microsoft at the time in public relations.
The salesman mentioned that Mr. Lewin actually died before the plane hit the building, as there is a recording of a stewardess phoning someone that "9B just slit the throat of 10B". Lewin was sitting in 10B, and someone with an Arabic name, one of the hijackers, was in 9B.
his may be the answer as opposed to other methods of optical storage that have been floating around.
Actually, this announcement directly relates to the manufacture of master discs for such "other" methods (specifically, Blu-ray). This press release is not announcing another new format in the least (for now), just a new tool for use in the mastering process.
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You're overlooking several reasons why DVDs appear to be "cheaper" when compared to CDs. Realize that DVDs represent a repackaging of existing content pre-produced for prior distribution and profit. Home video is an aftermarket, even though studios increasingly rely on it to turn break-even flicks into profitable ones.
The money spent on mastering, manufacturing, distribution, and the occasional extra doesn't amount to a great deal of cost when averaged over the typical mass market DVD title. A great deal of the cost to produce the movie itself has been covered through theatrical release. Initial VHS/DVD release meets any revenue shortfalls and then goes on to pad the bottom line. Furthermore, in what has become a habit for a number of studios, popular titles are rereleased three to twelve months later as "special edition" DVDs to double-dip the home theatre crowd.
Albums (sidestepping "best of" or other compilations) exist as the primary consumer medium for the music generated by mainstream artists. The profit has to be made on the CD, as people don't attend concerts on nearly the same scale as they do movie theatres. Even though manufacturing and distribution costs are on par with DVDs, recording labels are looking to CD sales for the bulk of its profits, whereas the movie studios treat DVD sales as a way to profit a second (and third, etc.) time on material already sold to the public in another form and so can lower pricing to hit a "sweet spot" to tempt consumers to buy rather than rent.
The movie studios may seem a bit more savvy than the record labels at first glance -- and perhaps they really are -- but the revenue stream represented by DVDs is not truly analogous to that of CDs for record labels, even though they both are disc-based media.
Explain how MacOS::Windows (or any two consumer-grade OS, for that matter) is like minivan::racecar, and maybe I'd be able to follow your train of thought a bit better.
Let's be honest here, both OS X and Windows Whatever are in the same camp. They're made to fulfill the same purposes, regardless of company backing and unlike the specious automobile analogy offered above.
What utter drivel. They're both operating systems, aren't they? Both offer the same basic functionality to users, don't they? If I were looking to migrate from one to the other, wouldn't I have to directly compare both on some level?
"Different validation"? What on earth...?
Brilliant!
I understand the argument from the basis of public resources, but somehow I can't wrap my mind around the concept that those who work in NYC but don't live there full-time (40 or so hours a week v. 168 hours) should be expected to carry an equal burden in funding those resources.
On the flip side, those in "the burbs" (which they're not -- ask a Manhattanite to come out to Jersey City and he/she acts as though you asked them to take a trip to the Moon) contribute a great deal economically to NYC in terms of labor force while reducing a number of public resource costs -- simply because they spend the majority of time and maintain their residences in another state. It isn't so bad for NYC that it has a huge labor force on tap that isn't its concern after close of business when the workers return home. I'm not quite sure how NYC would replace those workers from those now "within" the City limits.
As for the commuter tax, it would affect everyone who uses those public transit systems. Fair enough if based on usage and metered to each system's funding needs. There is no "free ride" at the moment. It's not as though living outside the City currently exempts commuters from contributing toward the support of those systems -- we all pay to use the PATH, the subways, etc. Remember, it costs money (~$160/mo. if you drive in each workday) to enter NYC by way of the Holland Tunnel, but it's free to leave by the same route. :)
Afraid to say that it would just be more of the same for those who live in Jersey but work in NYC: we already pay City tax atop NJ State and Federal income taxes. On the other hand, NJ does dole out Homestead rebates, which help to offset costs.
Instead of linking simply to the download page and the screenshots, give people a chance to RTFA and link to the History Flow Visualization Application's overview document.
Better yet, now that BT 4.0.0 uses GTK instead of wxWidgets (as per the release notes), will this hamper the OS X frontend?
The only other OS X native BT frontend I know is Tomato Torrent ... but that's just a tweaked 3.4.2 build. CLI / X Windows here I come...
Write I before E
Except after C
Or when it sounds like an A
As in "neighbor" and "weigh"
Yeah, I know there are better things to do than criticize article headlines.
Perhaps if by D3D, you mean DirectX. Direct 3D is the graphics component only, which offers far less than what OpenGL+SDL might.
No, no it's not.
It's neither as "good" as MSIE (6.x) for Windows, nor a solid browser for Mac (OS X).
OS 9 is another matter, but the stability and utility of MSIE running atop OS X is dreadful. It's less stable, somehow, than the OS 9 version ... and as you point out, its feature set doesn't compare well to at least two common alternatives for OS X: Safari and Firefox.
It's good enough for OS 9, as there aren't (m)any viable or even supported alternatives on that platform, but being the probable best browser for a dead OS isn't much to crow about. A shame that OS 9 users are more or less shackled to it.
For OS X, MSIE is painfully bug-ridden, prone to crashing, and terribly behind-the-times in terms of "Web technologies" and "standards support" (whatever those are). Quite sad, really, given how far ahead it of the pack just a few short years ago.
Wow. Nice (non-deliberate) page-widener (at least for Safari) ... good to see soupy markup like the following (inserted by slash, I assume):
<nobr> <wbr></nobr>
Though, in my opinion, it was by far the easiest of the bunch to "win" against AI opponents. The buggiest, as well. The unit customization was an interesting feature to add, but I think, in the end, it was simply something that the AI couldn't effectively cope with (among other things). More fun than Civ III, but pretty flawed in terms of balance.
As for simply removing the gAMA chunk from PNG files (as you describe) will alleviate the situation for most browsers ... but then there's Safari, which applies gamma correction to PNG images lacking a gAMA chunk. Pretty much kills color matching should a web author care about Safari.
Recommended reading: The Sad Story of PNG Gamma 'Correction'.
For a systematic view of the problem of PNG support as it relates to gamma correction, you can just skip to the pretty chart.
The solution you offer -- removing the gAMA chunk from all PNGs -- is suboptimal for real-world cases. Sorry.
Something similar to this happens with the Calculator.app in OS X 10.3.3, too. For example: 2791.27 + 1358.92 = 4150.19000000001
Odd. But not unique.
No, but I occasionally do.
One would think that if languages evolve, they would progress in step with greater enlightenment on the part of their users. Racial slurs such as "to gyp" or "to jew" someone else should fall by the wayside as people come to realize the origin and significance of such phrases. Promoting continued usage in prose given these words' heritage is hard to defend when numerous alternatives exist. And I didn't really see any need for poetic license in the OP...
And no, it may be slang, but these phrases are clearly slurs. Declaring the parent to be oversensitive is nothing more than a personal attack, and does nothing to strengthen whatever your argument may have been.
Yes, this is all heading off-topic, but my little worldview that those with sub-10000 UIDs wouldn't forward such a foolish position lies shattered on the floor...
Or, in a broader sense, one could consider payment in terms of opportunity cost - the time spent browsing /. instead of doing something else. All that lost productivity. It may not pay the bills, but to know oodles have wasted scads more time on a site than put in to build it ... oh, the humanity of it all.
I never did own a Mac back then, but I always enjoyed using others' for games. I don't think anyone has mentioned the (shareware?) arcade shooter Solarian II. Haven't played it since 1999, but now that I think about it, I wouldn't mind a quick game or two right about now ...
That's what I thought at first, too. I'm not really a Trekkie, though I must've absorbed the movies and most of TOS and TNG from TV ... which triggers memories from TOS where the Enterprise was seen flying around in the upper atmosphere on at least one episode (e.g., where the crew snaps back to Earth of the 60's and are picked up on radar; jets are scrambled, etc.).
So, silly as this experiment is, I think there's some evidence that the Enterprise may have been designed to fly around in more than just the vaccuum of space. After all, I saw it on the TV. And TV never lies.
Sadly lost ... and now (from the site) "Copyright 2004 (c) Car Rentals, Hotel Reservation, Discount Hotels, Airline Ticket, Airfare, Rental Car, Rent a Car , Cruise, Cruises, Vacation Rental Discounts, Rental Cars Online Shopping Mall."
I guess you can't be accused of keyword spamming search engines if that's the monicker of your firm... or something.
Hating myself for feeding the troll, but...
I happen to work with one of the "switchers" and can attest to the veracity of at least one story. Surely that counts as at least minor refutation of the parent post's absurd take on things.
Interesting to note that there is a kernel of truth to this, however small, in that the person stepped forward only after being named by the Associated Press. However, it's just as likely that the "switcher" here was unduly prejudiced to write a good yarn, being in the employ of Microsoft at the time in public relations.
Actually, according to reports, he was shot. The FAA draft memo says as much. However, the FAA's final draft omits mention of gunfire.
Both DogPile and MetaCrawler are owned by InfoSpace. There may be more than five companies, but not as much diversity as one would think.
Although I understand the BBC had strong reasons to twist Real's arm in negotiations, I don't understand why MPR cannot wrangle something along the lines of BBC's relation to Real?
Oh, wait. MPR pretty much does ...
MPR Homepage > How To Listen > You can manually download the newest version here.
Am I missing something?
(Real seems to provoke the same thread topics on /. regardless of story context, it seems. This post is no different.)
Actually, this announcement directly relates to the manufacture of master discs for such "other" methods (specifically, Blu-ray). This press release is not announcing another new format in the least (for now), just a new tool for use in the mastering process.