The Raite is a piece of crap, just like the Apex. I had one of both, and returned them. They both had the same problem with audio that isn't synced up with the video. Go figure, they both use the same chipset. And yes, I tried the latest firmware. Anyone who tells you the Raite or the Apex doesn't have audio-sync problems either got a magic player or they're not capable of noticing it. I don't see how companies can release such utter pieces of sh*t. I mean, when you buy a DVD player, you sort of assume that it can at least make audio match up with video. I don't think that's unreasonable.
You can't think of the consequences before releasing something to the world.
What if Chuck Palahniuk never wrote 'Fight Club,' because he was afraid that some guys, somewhere, would go out and beat each other up after reading the book? (As I'm sure happened somewhere.) We'd have one less great book in the world.
Just an example.
Fear of how people will react is no excuse to stifle art of science.
Think of the industrial revolution, women and children forced to work long hours slaving over dangerous machinery.
We've got to get a few thumbs chopped off in the machinery in order to advance. We can't just shy away from it.
There's nothing wrong with having the "perfect baby" if people are able to realize what perfect really is. "Perfect" is being born without deformation or retardation. "Perfect" is not having blond hair or perky breasts or being six feet tall. In a society that places so much value on appearance and superficiality, I doubt we could make that distinction.
God help us if Cosmo or "the academy" should get ahold of this technology.
Anybody can get a "vanity" book published on the internet.
If it's in paper, and actually carried by bookstores, it at least has the verification that SOMEONE read it and didn't think it was total crap.
I know, everyone's taste is different. My point is just that anyone can publish on the internet, there's nothing to set you apart from the next guy and his self-published 50,000 words of crap.
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What is wrong with you people? I think these look cool.
Aronofsky needed the money that bad, eh?
His credits page says "Many thanks to linux.com's cool layout." Maybe that's new. Dunno.
The Raite is a piece of crap, just like the Apex. I had one of both, and returned them. They both had the same problem with audio that isn't synced up with the video. Go figure, they both use the same chipset. And yes, I tried the latest firmware. Anyone who tells you the Raite or the Apex doesn't have audio-sync problems either got a magic player or they're not capable of noticing it. I don't see how companies can release such utter pieces of sh*t. I mean, when you buy a DVD player, you sort of assume that it can at least make audio match up with video. I don't think that's unreasonable.
You can't think of the consequences before releasing something to the world.
What if Chuck Palahniuk never wrote 'Fight Club,' because he was afraid that some guys, somewhere, would go out and beat each other up after reading the book? (As I'm sure happened somewhere.) We'd have one less great book in the world.
Just an example.
Fear of how people will react is no excuse to stifle art of science.
Think of the industrial revolution, women and children forced to work long hours slaving over dangerous machinery.
We've got to get a few thumbs chopped off in the machinery in order to advance. We can't just shy away from it.
There's nothing wrong with having the "perfect baby" if people are able to realize what perfect really is. "Perfect" is being born without deformation or retardation. "Perfect" is not having blond hair or perky breasts or being six feet tall. In a society that places so much value on appearance and superficiality, I doubt we could make that distinction.
God help us if Cosmo or "the academy" should get ahold of this technology.
But it has to happen, and it's gonna be rough.
Anybody can get a "vanity" book published on the internet.
If it's in paper, and actually carried by bookstores, it at least has the verification that SOMEONE read it and didn't think it was total crap.
I know, everyone's taste is different. My point is just that anyone can publish on the internet, there's nothing to set you apart from the next guy and his self-published 50,000 words of crap.