What good is a "high quality" picture if you aren't allowed to watch it?
"High quality" is intentionally quoted as all the extra crispness and chroma filters they run the original source through to make some BR content can make the BR look worse than the original and/or the DVD.
VHS to DVD was an obvious improvement in both quality and convenience. DVD to BR is meh at best.
Colbert already blew the lid off of this one. There's normal Obama, who presides over the incompetent government that can't do anything. Then there's evil Obama, who rules the evil government that is an unstoppable menace bent on destroying the country.
Thus the government can *and* cannot get its act together.
Yeah, 'cause being able to indoctrinate your crotchfruit into your own delusional belief system is the foundation of being a family. Down with schools and their "facts"!
History would disagree with you there. For much of civilization's history you drank some sort of alcohol if you didn't want to get sick from drinking the unpurified water. Wine wasn't so vitally important because of the buzz you got. It was important because the alcohol content made it safe(r) to drink.
"Software can only be pirated if the creator expects to be compensated for it."
If this is true why do F/OSS zealots get their collective panties in a bunch when some corporation profits on something that uses some open source code?
All this thinking about children these people do just doesn't seem healthy. They're probably using all this as a cover so they can think about children like...that. To be safe we better lock them all up as pedos for thinking about children so much.
So far the vast majority of the people claiming that the iPad is the second coming are the haters not the fanboys. I'd say most of the people doing Apple hype in general are the haters, just so they have something they can whinge about.
CDs are unreliable. They get scratched or stolen. The music company won't send me a replacement.
Apple knows every track you've downloaded with your iTunes account. You can petition to get another round of downloads. You really think it was Apple's choice to put this limit in place? (And don't even start with the "well they could have chosen to not carry label X then".) When their files had DRM you could still have them on multiple machines. Now you can put your iTunes music on as many machines as you want. How does not being able to easily download them again benefit Apple? It doesn't. But it does allow the Labels to feel that they still have some control over Apple and its upstart distribution system. "But but service X doesn't have that limitation!" Well, iTunes sorta broke new ground. Service X probably doesn't have that restriction because the labels need competition to iTunes to have some leverage with Apple.
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Don't forget to charge the kid too. It's the American way.
What good is a "high quality" picture if you aren't allowed to watch it?
"High quality" is intentionally quoted as all the extra crispness and chroma filters they run the original source through to make some BR content can make the BR look worse than the original and/or the DVD.
VHS to DVD was an obvious improvement in both quality and convenience.
DVD to BR is meh at best.
Colbert already blew the lid off of this one. There's normal Obama, who presides over the incompetent government that can't do anything. Then there's evil Obama, who rules the evil government that is an unstoppable menace bent on destroying the country.
Thus the government can *and* cannot get its act together.
So what makes an antenna HD-compatible? Did they change the frequency ranges used?
Yet another reason not to bother with BR.
And the Firebird RDBMS stole its name from Pontiac.
The real Alex is off fighting the Ko-Dan armada.
So basically why bother with rules at all since everyone can cheat?
Is a game still a game if it has no rules?
Childbirth in general had/has (depending on access to modern medical facilities) a fairly high mortality rate.
Yeah, 'cause being able to indoctrinate your crotchfruit into your own delusional belief system is the foundation of being a family. Down with schools and their "facts"!
I say we end this child porn menace once and for all!
To protect children from child porn we must kill all children so they cannot be used in child porn!
(And as a side benefit restaurants and airplanes will be slightly more tolerable.)
History would disagree with you there. For much of civilization's history you drank some sort of alcohol if you didn't want to get sick from drinking the unpurified water. Wine wasn't so vitally important because of the buzz you got. It was important because the alcohol content made it safe(r) to drink.
That sounds suspiciously, dare I say it, socialist. Good luck getting supporters here in Rand land with that idea.
(Note: I agree with you.)
And the word "pad" has no other meaning than sanitary napkin. Good luck finding a word that isn't a euphemism for something.
Speaking of all white men in the work place, why do companies even bother hiring men anymore if they can apparently pay women less for equal work?
Our corps are A-OK with offshoring jobs so why aren't they gendershoring them as well?
Hey now, we could at least let them sign the treaty at some place fancy, like Versailles.
Obviously the Germans should be forced to pay war reparations...
"Software can only be pirated if the creator expects to be compensated for it."
If this is true why do F/OSS zealots get their collective panties in a bunch when some corporation profits on something that uses some open source code?
X:How can you shoot women and children?
AM:It's easy. You just don't lead them as much.
"Isn't a cigarette more traditional?"
Procreation and recreation aren't the same thing.
You can have recreation without procreation despite what certain people tell you.
Congratulations on spawning. Here's your cookie.
All this thinking about children these people do just doesn't seem healthy. They're probably using all this as a cover so they can think about children like ...that. To be safe we better lock them all up as pedos for thinking about children so much.
So far the vast majority of the people claiming that the iPad is the second coming are the haters not the fanboys. I'd say most of the people doing Apple hype in general are the haters, just so they have something they can whinge about.
I think I found some but I was reading it on my laptop and my eyes melted before I could finish it.
CDs are unreliable. They get scratched or stolen. The music company won't send me a replacement.
Apple knows every track you've downloaded with your iTunes account. You can petition to get another round of downloads. You really think it was Apple's choice to put this limit in place? (And don't even start with the "well they could have chosen to not carry label X then".) When their files had DRM you could still have them on multiple machines. Now you can put your iTunes music on as many machines as you want. How does not being able to easily download them again benefit Apple? It doesn't. But it does allow the Labels to feel that they still have some control over Apple and its upstart distribution system. "But but service X doesn't have that limitation!" Well, iTunes sorta broke new ground. Service X probably doesn't have that restriction because the labels need competition to iTunes to have some leverage with Apple.