streaming 1080p content is a worthless point. 720p IS more than enough for internet HD in the short term (5 year) future. It's all that broadcast HD is and will be for a very long time. Plus 90% is on PC use and I dont see many people with 37" computer monitors. typically a 19" wide aspect monitor at 720P is very good for 99% of the population. get it to stream smoothly and without glitches (something that comcast cant even do on their cable tv channels) and now you have something.
1080p is a marginal increase over 720p simply because most cameras out there are 720p or 1080i. I dont see many prosumer or even pro camera makers releasing 1080p video cameras or lenses that can actually resolve clear enough for it. The only format that can take advantage of it right now is CG or the uber rich that have red cameras.
P.S. the little consumer 1080p video cameras do NOT produce a 1080p picture that is worth a damn. You need really good glass when you hit 1080p to get the full effect of shooting at that res.
I had a nimrod here at work trot out his aiptek 1080p camcorder. My outdated SD 480i GL1 camera produced a clearer video even blown up to 1080p than his did. Because his CCD and lens were garbage. (and the video was compressed to hell as well)
Even people who don't want to pay for music prefer to pirate as opposed to download free indie material. This stays true even in the digital stores.
Because it's impossible to find the good indies among the mountians of utter crap. and some in the utter crap would be good if they simply learned to record.
mp3.com had a effective indie charts setup, but all other places have a useless way of filtering down the ooky stuff. Granted my ooky is someones holy grail. I cant stand screamo-deathmetal or gangsta-rap...
Deliver a real place for indies to offered up their wares and things will change.
Everything with velocity and a trajectory wants to fly. Even you in your car. you just don't have enough energy to overcome gravity this deep in the gravity well.
There is NEVER a potential that the plane wont leave the treadmill. Aircraft use propellers or jet engines to fly, they dont care what the ground is doing.
I've flown in a plane that had ZERO ground speed. we were doing 70mph airspeed and had lift, but our ground speed was zero mph. WE were in a 70mph headwind.
Yes it was a small plane, and no we should not have been there in those conditions, we should have landed at a different airport and waited out the weather. BTW, the stall speed of the plane was less than 60mph for the pilots out there.
they will go ape when GI's in the field cover a "bigdog" in backpacks full of C4 and send it into a building full of insurgents..... or down the street to take out the two buildings that are full of people shooting at them.
CFL's and FL lighting has not used Ballast systems for a decade. Everything is electronic start since the 80's. every single fixture around here has no ballast and a tiny circuit-board in it.
If your home is full of led lighting and CFL lighting and the designer is using Incandescent, then the designer is a uneducated moron.
you look at colors under the light the items will be in. Designers or artists that have any decent knowledge and skill already know this. Current trends also are moving to RGB lighting in homes. To make it warmer or cooler as desired. This trend makes designers Florry and convulse on the floor. Something I think is a good thing. RGB lighting into a properly designed light diffuser is fantastic and incredibly smooth.
Low power lighting simple works crappy with dimmers and lighting controllers. Oh and the fact that a 40watt incandesant costs $0.59 while a 40 watt lumen equivalent LED lamp costs $94.00
They did not send navy seals into Russia to kidnap him and bring him here. he did the stupid move of coming into the USA. You don't enter a hostile country and not expect to get detained.
If I transfer cash to a friend it costs me $25.00 processing fee plus a $15.00 transaction fee.
This is normal for american banks.
Granted I could use a credit card and pay interest on that but why should I do that. credit cards are for credit NOT bill payment.
I still write a check to pay my electric bill because the electric company charges an extra $3.50 for me to pay electronically.
It's all about screwing the customer, banks love to do that here in the United states. Over in europe they are more restricted when it comes to screwing people.
The bankers call "float" a scam, are all bankers scam artists?
without a doubt, yes. That is one solid fact of life, rule 1 about life. NEVER EVER trust your bank, always look at them with distrust. The ONLY person you can trust with your money is you.
checks are supposed to have magnetic ink for the MICR code on the bottom.. Problem is that buying a drum of magnetic toner to print fake checks is trivial. and with scumbag companies like quicken selling blank check paper to anyone, you have a super easy way of faking checks with a $30.00 used laser printer and a $100.00 thowaway computer.
Shit scan someone signature and you can completely fake the check in gimp without effort.
Paper checks needed to be done away with 50 years ago, the greedy banks simple dont want to do wire transfers for free to each other, they love being able to rape their customers with those made-up fees.
Because UAC dialogs were ambiguous. They needed to say. "This program wants to be able to write to ANYTHING on your computer. It can be a VIRUS that wants to take over and steal your credit card information. It also Kills Kittens.. Do you want to allow this?"
Really? so all mac users hate their mac and wish they had a Windows PC? Because that exact behavior is what OSX on it's own does.
Program writing to where it should not? Prompt user for administration password and ask if it's ok to do so. Seems to be that MOST people like it contrary to what you think.
You mean like how OSX and Linux does WITHOUT Antivirus?
It's called permission. yes you can still get past the user by confusing of tricking them. but any OS that allows a user (not a superuser but a regular user) to run a program that silently infects a system file is a defective and poorly written system.
People claim that OSX has no viruses because it's a tiny target. Most people that have a mac have a lot more money than a PC user, that makes them a juicy target for stealing info. yet I still dont see the flood of problems under OSX. Why? it's the underlying security model of the OS that BSD brought to the table and that Linux also has. Your userland app CAN NOT WRITE TO OS FILES without permission.
To hell with telling good from bad, let's violently force all OS's to stop the poorly designed behavior of allowing ANY app to happily write to system files. That mans getting rid of the security nightmare abortion that is the registry.
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streaming 1080p content is a worthless point. 720p IS more than enough for internet HD in the short term (5 year) future. It's all that broadcast HD is and will be for a very long time. Plus 90% is on PC use and I dont see many people with 37" computer monitors. typically a 19" wide aspect monitor at 720P is very good for 99% of the population. get it to stream smoothly and without glitches (something that comcast cant even do on their cable tv channels) and now you have something.
1080p is a marginal increase over 720p simply because most cameras out there are 720p or 1080i. I dont see many prosumer or even pro camera makers releasing 1080p video cameras or lenses that can actually resolve clear enough for it. The only format that can take advantage of it right now is CG or the uber rich that have red cameras.
P.S. the little consumer 1080p video cameras do NOT produce a 1080p picture that is worth a damn. You need really good glass when you hit 1080p to get the full effect of shooting at that res.
I had a nimrod here at work trot out his aiptek 1080p camcorder. My outdated SD 480i GL1 camera produced a clearer video even blown up to 1080p than his did. Because his CCD and lens were garbage. (and the video was compressed to hell as well)
Even people who don't want to pay for music prefer to pirate as opposed to download free indie material. This stays true even in the digital stores.
Because it's impossible to find the good indies among the mountians of utter crap. and some in the utter crap would be good if they simply learned to record.
mp3.com had a effective indie charts setup, but all other places have a useless way of filtering down the ooky stuff. Granted my ooky is someones holy grail. I cant stand screamo-deathmetal or gangsta-rap...
Deliver a real place for indies to offered up their wares and things will change.
Wow! It looks just like the hosted by tripod logo!
"Hello, this is onstar, can help you?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"what was that sir?"
Only on USB 2.0 full speed.
Everything with velocity and a trajectory wants to fly. Even you in your car. you just don't have enough energy to overcome gravity this deep in the gravity well.
There is NEVER a potential that the plane wont leave the treadmill. Aircraft use propellers or jet engines to fly, they dont care what the ground is doing.
I've flown in a plane that had ZERO ground speed. we were doing 70mph airspeed and had lift, but our ground speed was zero mph. WE were in a 70mph headwind.
Yes it was a small plane, and no we should not have been there in those conditions, we should have landed at a different airport and waited out the weather. BTW, the stall speed of the plane was less than 60mph for the pilots out there.
So if a government builds their nuclear missle silos on the grounds of a childrens hospital we need to just stand there and say....
"Oh MAN! CHEATERS!!!!!!"
I dont think you understand how war works.
they will go ape when GI's in the field cover a "bigdog" in backpacks full of C4 and send it into a building full of insurgents..... or down the street to take out the two buildings that are full of people shooting at them.
BOOM!
CFL's and FL lighting has not used Ballast systems for a decade. Everything is electronic start since the 80's. every single fixture around here has no ballast and a tiny circuit-board in it.
If your home is full of led lighting and CFL lighting and the designer is using Incandescent, then the designer is a uneducated moron.
you look at colors under the light the items will be in. Designers or artists that have any decent knowledge and skill already know this. Current trends also are moving to RGB lighting in homes. To make it warmer or cooler as desired. This trend makes designers Florry and convulse on the floor. Something I think is a good thing. RGB lighting into a properly designed light diffuser is fantastic and incredibly smooth.
your above statement is crap.
They have LED lighting that is darn close to incandescent warm light colors. have you even looked to see what has been available for the past year?
Nope....
Low power lighting simple works crappy with dimmers and lighting controllers. Oh and the fact that a 40watt incandesant costs $0.59 while a 40 watt lumen equivalent LED lamp costs $94.00
It's lighting for the rich only...
I think he just wants to see Linus say "Bring it sweaty, chair throwing fat man!"
That would make a rocking cool ringtone!
What MS should do is to re-register the domain names and point them to a C&C server they host
What kind of C&C server? Red alert? Tiberium wars? I prefer a Generals C&C server myself...
They did not send navy seals into Russia to kidnap him and bring him here. he did the stupid move of coming into the USA. You don't enter a hostile country and not expect to get detained.
All american ones.
If I transfer cash to a friend it costs me $25.00 processing fee plus a $15.00 transaction fee.
This is normal for american banks.
Granted I could use a credit card and pay interest on that but why should I do that. credit cards are for credit NOT bill payment.
I still write a check to pay my electric bill because the electric company charges an extra $3.50 for me to pay electronically.
It's all about screwing the customer, banks love to do that here in the United states. Over in europe they are more restricted when it comes to screwing people.
The bankers call "float" a scam, are all bankers scam artists?
without a doubt, yes. That is one solid fact of life, rule 1 about life. NEVER EVER trust your bank, always look at them with distrust. The ONLY person you can trust with your money is you.
checks are supposed to have magnetic ink for the MICR code on the bottom.. Problem is that buying a drum of magnetic toner to print fake checks is trivial. and with scumbag companies like quicken selling blank check paper to anyone, you have a super easy way of faking checks with a $30.00 used laser printer and a $100.00 thowaway computer.
Shit scan someone signature and you can completely fake the check in gimp without effort.
Paper checks needed to be done away with 50 years ago, the greedy banks simple dont want to do wire transfers for free to each other, they love being able to rape their customers with those made-up fees.
That would mean forcing the banks to serve the customer instead of the shareholders.
Are you INSANE???????
customers are nothing but pests that must be tolerated.
That $128/hr contractor MIGHT be getting paid $45 an hour with benefits. Their firm takes the rest.
There is no Generic IT grunt getting $45.00 an hour in New York. They are getting $21.00 MAX.
Because UAC dialogs were ambiguous. They needed to say. "This program wants to be able to write to ANYTHING on your computer. It can be a VIRUS that wants to take over and steal your credit card information. It also Kills Kittens.. Do you want to allow this?"
Install Ubuntu over it.
Really? so all mac users hate their mac and wish they had a Windows PC? Because that exact behavior is what OSX on it's own does.
Program writing to where it should not? Prompt user for administration password and ask if it's ok to do so. Seems to be that MOST people like it contrary to what you think.
You mean like how OSX and Linux does WITHOUT Antivirus?
It's called permission. yes you can still get past the user by confusing of tricking them. but any OS that allows a user (not a superuser but a regular user) to run a program that silently infects a system file is a defective and poorly written system.
People claim that OSX has no viruses because it's a tiny target. Most people that have a mac have a lot more money than a PC user, that makes them a juicy target for stealing info. yet I still dont see the flood of problems under OSX. Why? it's the underlying security model of the OS that BSD brought to the table and that Linux also has. Your userland app CAN NOT WRITE TO OS FILES without permission.
To hell with telling good from bad, let's violently force all OS's to stop the poorly designed behavior of allowing ANY app to happily write to system files. That mans getting rid of the security nightmare abortion that is the registry.