streaming is the future BECAUSE it involves higher DRM than dvd's have.
its just that simple and no need to look any further.
the industry loves BD since its harder to break. they love streaming since it costs almost nothing and has tougher drm than dvd.
streaming is good FOR THEM. physical media is better FOR ME.
please avoid their streaming models: make it fail, people. the sooner we sink their sales on streaming the sooner they'll return to physical media. physical media is much more freedom-oriented (and the quality is higher, too).
and as isp's put more and more caps on your bandwidth, I don't see being MORE dependant on the internet as being a good thing. not at all. its a drug dealer situation: they want you addicted to streaming so that they can control all the cards.
don't fall for it. don't give them what they dream about. it will never be good for you and me.
You bring up some interesting points. Here's a few more to consider. Physical delivery of DVD's from Netflix or any other company rely on the USPS. They are having some serious budgetary issues, and congress seems unwilling to agree on anything let alone helping them. It appears that mail delivery may be cut back to 4 or 5 day per week sometime next year. To compound this, they are also likely to close half of their sorting centers. This will mean that most mail will take at minimum 2 days rather than the typical one day to be delivered. I'm currently able to get up to 3 deliveries per week from Netflix. If the USPS makes the changes they have proposed, I'll be lucky to get one delivery per week. I don't like it, but It's probably smart of Netflix to prepare to get out of the physical DVD rental business.
The streaming model also has it's own issues. My ISP is Comcast and they obviously do not like the competition using their own network. With all of the bandwidth caps and other issues they have, it's pretty obvious that streaming, at least when it's not from them, is evil in their opinion. This is only going to become more problematic. Additionally, streaming quality sucks. It's not hard to record it, but it's so bad I don't see the value in doing so. I can see why the MPAA is so rabid over torrents. They use less bandwidth and you can get a better viewing experience than may be possible in the near future from the rental options.
Of course, I have to wonder, if they've got all these other vectors covered, they clearly have a development process that supports multiple platforms. Would it be that hard to also have a linux client?
I can't imagine so. Doesn't anyone know why else they would be forgoing a linux client?
I would assume that it has something to do with satisfying the MPAA requirements for DRM. But that's just a guess.
Every time I get depressed about it, some great new show comes along to renew my faith.
Except in my case they generally get cancelled after less than a season or change direction to appeal to a larger (dumber) audience. That's why I wait until a show has been on a few seasons before watching it on DVD. No commercials, writer strikes or season breaks.
NO. Cultured meat is the product of a factory. Cow meat is the product of an inhumane series of tortures inflicted on a helpless animal.
Cows have been domesticated to the point that I seriously doubt the species could survive on it's own. If it ever comes to pass that synthetic meat supplants them then I'd guess that they'd quickly become an endangered/extinct species. At that point no one will be intentionally setting aside huge pastures for them to graze in . They would become a large destructive animal that has little to no natural habitat left.
I expect Firefox 9 to come out when clicking the submit button for this comment.../quote
Actually I thought Slashdot was a little slow with this story. I was prompted about the update earlier today and installed it w/o restarting Firefox. After installing a program that needed the computer to be restarted, I finally shutdown Firefox. Then some time later This story came up on Slashdot. Perhaps they should change the tag line from "News for nerds..." to "History for nerds..."
In fact, just in the spirit of openness, we voluntarily announce that neither we, nor the British royal family, are Pod People, or Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Minus.
Of course the British royal family are none of those. They're werewolves.
How many more lines are left on the list? We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage. So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
How do we make money off of it? That's what most conservatives have been thinking for quite a while now. Consider the prices of agricultural land as an indicator.
And what many liberals have already been making money off of for some time now. Consider carbon credits. Scumbags will always find a way to cash in on a crisis no matter which side of the aisle they are on, or between.
This can't be a coincidence. If you convert 147 to hex you get 93. You can then subtract the 50 (the number of strips on the American flag) from 93 (decimal) and you have 43. Then subtract 20 (This number is represented in Hebrew by the letter caph, in form of opened hand, to seize and hold.) and you get 23! See, the Illuminati are real!;-)
My understanding is that Hogel is just a Voxel with additional information - specifically, information about how it should appear from different viewing angles. For example, making a building "hide" behind another building, rather than being fully translucent, would require Hogels, not just Voxels.
Voxels are also used in 3D medical imaging such as CT and MRI. There's more than spacial location attached to those. Information is encoded to allow for programs to know what type of material was imaged. This allows the user to remove skeletal structures from the image. By doing this you can change (on the fly) if a structure is transparent, translucent, or opaque. I'm not sure I see how this is different.
"4D" is 3D with certain immersive effects, such as moving seats, a spray of water to simulate being splashed, something in the chair that simulates something touching you from behind, etc. One that I've seen has a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you.
Length, Width, Depth, Time... Moving seats/water spray/"a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you."
I guess I am getting old when, "a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you" counts as a dimension on a "nerd" website.
Now get your motherfucking rubber-hose-snakes-dimension off my motherfucking lawn!;-)
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Not true. Back in school I used to win free beer by betting people that I could recite Pi to 50 digits.
It's a shame about what has become of the tea party. However I fear the same is happening to OWS by the left wing. Personally I'd like to see it blow up in both of the wing nuts faces and see the tea party and OWS find common ground.
yeah, I just reposted your post as mine. whaddaya gonna do, sue me?
Nope. You're more than welcome to do so. Please feel free to re-post it as much as you wish. You may want to check my spelling though as you probably care more about type-Os than I do.;-)
Just to compare to modern carnivores, I think the biggest is the kodiak bear, and it's about ONE ton.
Actually kodiak bears are tied with the polar bear and both are estimated to have a max. peak weight of 1500 lbs. for males. Still, it's pretty damn small compared to 9 tons.
and keep thinking there is a difference between people with a "D" or an "R"
There is a difference, just not one you've noticed. I'm no fan of the Democrat party, but this whole "they're both the same!!!!" is disingenuous at best, signs of incipient retardation at worst.
They both seem to be more interested in accumulating more power for themselves than doing what's right for the country. Granted they both have different ways of doing it. But they seem to be equally idiotic and are looking for the same outcome for themselves.
Just look at the Tea Party and the Wall Street protesters.To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi: The Teabaggers were corporate funded brown-shirt Nazi racists, similar to the violent groups of the 60's and 70's. The Wall street people are just a great grass roots group of patriots. If you ask a republican you will get just about the complete opposite description of each of those groups.
In all honesty the republicans are starting to look slightly (very slightly) less insane at the moment. However when you have two groups that are full-on bat-shit crazy, I'm not too sure how much that slight difference really matters. I've rarely voted for either of the major two parties, and I don't think I voted for anyone who currently holds a federal office.
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It looks like they're setting up a science fair project. I predict second prize (anything with trained mice always gets first prize).
A baking soda volcano trumps mice. ;-)
I don't think current battery technology lasts that long, especially store bought AA's.
It's a good thing Amazon sells batteries with future technology then. ;-)
streaming is the future BECAUSE it involves higher DRM than dvd's have.
its just that simple and no need to look any further.
the industry loves BD since its harder to break. they love streaming since it costs almost nothing and has tougher drm than dvd.
streaming is good FOR THEM. physical media is better FOR ME.
please avoid their streaming models: make it fail, people. the sooner we sink their sales on streaming the sooner they'll return to physical media. physical media is much more freedom-oriented (and the quality is higher, too).
and as isp's put more and more caps on your bandwidth, I don't see being MORE dependant on the internet as being a good thing. not at all. its a drug dealer situation: they want you addicted to streaming so that they can control all the cards.
don't fall for it. don't give them what they dream about. it will never be good for you and me.
You bring up some interesting points. Here's a few more to consider. Physical delivery of DVD's from Netflix or any other company rely on the USPS. They are having some serious budgetary issues, and congress seems unwilling to agree on anything let alone helping them. It appears that mail delivery may be cut back to 4 or 5 day per week sometime next year. To compound this, they are also likely to close half of their sorting centers. This will mean that most mail will take at minimum 2 days rather than the typical one day to be delivered. I'm currently able to get up to 3 deliveries per week from Netflix. If the USPS makes the changes they have proposed, I'll be lucky to get one delivery per week. I don't like it, but It's probably smart of Netflix to prepare to get out of the physical DVD rental business.
The streaming model also has it's own issues. My ISP is Comcast and they obviously do not like the competition using their own network. With all of the bandwidth caps and other issues they have, it's pretty obvious that streaming, at least when it's not from them, is evil in their opinion. This is only going to become more problematic. Additionally, streaming quality sucks. It's not hard to record it, but it's so bad I don't see the value in doing so. I can see why the MPAA is so rabid over torrents. They use less bandwidth and you can get a better viewing experience than may be possible in the near future from the rental options.
Of course, I have to wonder, if they've got all these other vectors covered, they clearly have a development process that supports multiple platforms. Would it be that hard to also have a linux client?
I can't imagine so. Doesn't anyone know why else they would be forgoing a linux client?
I would assume that it has something to do with satisfying the MPAA requirements for DRM. But that's just a guess.
Pft, you kids and your instant-on solid state TVs. Real men don't mind waiting for the tubes to warm up.
Had those too. Still, it took time for those early solid state TVs to charge the capacitors too.
Every time I get depressed about it, some great new show comes along to renew my faith.
Except in my case they generally get cancelled after less than a season or change direction to appeal to a larger (dumber) audience. That's why I wait until a show has been on a few seasons before watching it on DVD. No commercials, writer strikes or season breaks.
Grandpa, whats this thing you call a TV knob?
If you television doesn't proudly display in shiny embossed letters, "Solid State" you probably don't know. ;-)
NO. Cultured meat is the product of a factory. Cow meat is the product of an inhumane series of tortures inflicted on a helpless animal.
Cows have been domesticated to the point that I seriously doubt the species could survive on it's own. If it ever comes to pass that synthetic meat supplants them then I'd guess that they'd quickly become an endangered/extinct species. At that point no one will be intentionally setting aside huge pastures for them to graze in . They would become a large destructive animal that has little to no natural habitat left.
I expect Firefox 9 to come out when clicking the submit button for this comment.../quote
Actually I thought Slashdot was a little slow with this story. I was prompted about the update earlier today and installed it w/o restarting Firefox. After installing a program that needed the computer to be restarted, I finally shutdown Firefox. Then some time later This story came up on Slashdot. Perhaps they should change the tag line from "News for nerds..." to "History for nerds..."
...Faster than a speeding bullet, able to level entire buildings in a single blow. ;-)
In fact, just in the spirit of openness, we voluntarily announce that neither we, nor the British royal family, are Pod People, or Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Minus.
Of course the British royal family are none of those. They're werewolves.
How realistic is this except for the psychological aspect? How easy will it be to stay healthy in 0g?
I think this is the first time that I've found myself wishing I had mod points.
How many more lines are left on the list?
We've got past the "it's not warming at all" stage.
So next up is "it may be warming, but it's not us" then "ok, it's us, but we can't/shouldn't do anything about it" and eventually "it was us but it's too late." What comes after that?
How do we make money off of it? That's what most conservatives have been thinking for quite a while now. Consider the prices of agricultural land as an indicator.
And what many liberals have already been making money off of for some time now. Consider carbon credits. Scumbags will always find a way to cash in on a crisis no matter which side of the aisle they are on, or between.
This can't be a coincidence. If you convert 147 to hex you get 93. You can then subtract the 50 (the number of strips on the American flag) from 93 (decimal) and you have 43. Then subtract 20 (This number is represented in Hebrew by the letter caph, in form of opened hand, to seize and hold.) and you get 23! See, the Illuminati are real! ;-)
My understanding is that Hogel is just a Voxel with additional information - specifically, information about how it should appear from different viewing angles. For example, making a building "hide" behind another building, rather than being fully translucent, would require Hogels, not just Voxels.
Voxels are also used in 3D medical imaging such as CT and MRI. There's more than spacial location attached to those. Information is encoded to allow for programs to know what type of material was imaged. This allows the user to remove skeletal structures from the image. By doing this you can change (on the fly) if a structure is transparent, translucent, or opaque. I'm not sure I see how this is different.
"4D" is 3D with certain immersive effects, such as moving seats, a spray of water to simulate being splashed, something in the chair that simulates something touching you from behind, etc. One that I've seen has a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you.
Length, Width, Depth, Time... Moving seats/water spray/"a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you."
I guess I am getting old when, "a rubber hose that they shoot out between your feet to simulate a snake crawling under you" counts as a dimension on a "nerd" website.
Now get your motherfucking rubber-hose-snakes-dimension off my motherfucking lawn! ;-)
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Not true. Back in school I used to win free beer by betting people that I could recite Pi to 50 digits.
It's a shame about what has become of the tea party. However I fear the same is happening to OWS by the left wing. Personally I'd like to see it blow up in both of the wing nuts faces and see the tea party and OWS find common ground.
...That's the real story here.
yeah, I just reposted your post as mine. whaddaya gonna do, sue me?
Nope. You're more than welcome to do so. Please feel free to re-post it as much as you wish. You may want to check my spelling though as you probably care more about type-Os than I do. ;-)
while others are merely vulgar incompetents who can't spell moron.
Neither is really true, is it?
Yes, both are true. I'm merely a fucking vulgar incompetent proof reader that is prone to making type-Os...
...And IP lawyers are fucking morons that should all be fed to sharks.
...That's the real story here.
Wow, T.Rex was a bit of a fatty.
On the off chance you ever meet one, I'd advise you keep that to yourself. ;-)
Just to compare to modern carnivores, I think the biggest is the kodiak bear, and it's about ONE ton.
Actually kodiak bears are tied with the polar bear and both are estimated to have a max. peak weight of 1500 lbs. for males. Still, it's pretty damn small compared to 9 tons.
and keep thinking there is a difference between people with a "D" or an "R"
There is a difference, just not one you've noticed. I'm no fan of the Democrat party, but this whole "they're both the same!!!!" is disingenuous at best, signs of incipient retardation at worst.
They both seem to be more interested in accumulating more power for themselves than doing what's right for the country. Granted they both have different ways of doing it. But they seem to be equally idiotic and are looking for the same outcome for themselves.
Just look at the Tea Party and the Wall Street protesters.To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi: The Teabaggers were corporate funded brown-shirt Nazi racists, similar to the violent groups of the 60's and 70's. The Wall street people are just a great grass roots group of patriots. If you ask a republican you will get just about the complete opposite description of each of those groups.
In all honesty the republicans are starting to look slightly (very slightly) less insane at the moment. However when you have two groups that are full-on bat-shit crazy, I'm not too sure how much that slight difference really matters. I've rarely voted for either of the major two parties, and I don't think I voted for anyone who currently holds a federal office.