are you calculating the amount of improvement by just comparing the resolutions differences in the formats?
No, I'm comparing the amount of "picture quality" improvement by just comparing the resolution.
1) I always just turned the channel, and let the VCR automatically handle rewinding. 2) Degradation was much more of a problem with older tape formulations, and old/crappy VCRs. I haven't seen that in many years. 3) I've never just wanted to watch a single scene of a movie, so FFW wasn't an issue, except for 30 seconds at the start to skip trailers (splicing tape to eliminate them is easy enough). 4) There were several laptop-sized VCR/Screen combos available. That you never got one is irrelevant. 5) DVD cases aren't much smaller than VHS tapes. They're maybe 50% thinner, but also wider than VHS tapes. So that's a big "meh". 6) Selectable subtitles are hardly a compelling reason for more than a tiny fraction of the population.
Then we have DVD -> High Def: 1. Significantly better picture and sound (6x presumably, according to your calculations) and..... ummmmmm..... What was number 2?
2) Extremely strong surface coating (no more scratches). 3) Farm more advanced and interactive menu system. 4) Even MORE numerous subtitle and audio languages, instead of just 2-3 local/random ones, as is currently standard. 5) Far more room for special features, extras, etc., etc. 6) 16:9 standard ratio, instead of everything from fullscreen on some, and a ridiculously wide and short panoramic.
The difference is that all those groups were formed by artists to make music, and they happened to make it big. Most pop today is produced, start to finish, and boy does it show.
As opposed to pop that was produced from start to finish in the 60s...
There was plenty of crap 50 years ago, and there's plenty of crap today.
Well, when your nation is suffering from out-and-out economic warfare on all sides, any law that damages the ability of your nation to compete is very bad.
If you think economic concerns (DMCA/Software Patents) are more important civil rights (Patriot Act), I've got a one-way ticket to China for you.
DVDs were successful due to the drastic improvement in convenience and picture quality over VHS, despite the DRM. BluRay and HD-DVD won't have it so easy since they're not such a drastic improvement over DVDs as DVDs were to VHS,
Yeah, VHS to DVD was a HUGE 3X improvement, while DVD to HighDef is a MEASLY 6X improvement.
If you go to opensecrets.org and look at where the $$$ for both parties comes from, you will see the #1 contributor to the Democratic party is Hollywood.
That's all well and good, except for the fact that you're COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY WRONG.
"TV/Movies/Music" is 7th, from the top in 2006. Hell, "Real Estate" is above Hollywood.
It's led to fake claims, a person making a DMCA takedown claim does not need to show any evidence that they are the copyright owner and because the DMCA claim is made to a third party, there is no interest in that third party ensuring the claim has even the basics of legitimacy.
Now you've moved from DRM to the DMCA. And you've hit on the one single benefit of it. It's only the DMCA that makes sites like Youtube possible, as the infamous DMCA take-down notices limit legal liability to common-carriers. It's only really been a nightmare because ISPs haven't exactly followed the law, people weren't informed about their counter-claim options, and some will ignore those anyhow. The biggest problem with fraudulent DMCA take-down notices is that the guilty parties haven't been prosecuted, even though they're breaking the law. If it wasn't for the DMCA, there'd just be some OTHER form of baseless legal threats going around, to make "unpleasant" material disappear.
I BUY a DVD and it's ILLEGAL for me to rip it and put it on a server in my own home or to compress it and put it on a laptop.
No it isn't. Not under the DMCA, or any other law.
The DMCA makes it strictly illegal for anyone to sell you the tools to perform that task, since they can equally be used for illegal purposes, but that's really not very different than the situation with Macrovision in the analog era.
How relevant is it to have memory that is this fast?
Very. Memory IO is very important to performance. Intel, since the P4 has been trying to push the FSB frequency higher and higher, and using dual-channels to double the speed. AMD chose instead to integrate the memory controller onto the CPU, which reduced latency, and gave them a big performance boost. Even there, the only difference between socket 478 and 939 is the later has dual-channel memory.
if there isn't enough of it, your computer has to read and write from swap space on the hard drive, and even the fastest harddrive is at least a million times slower than slow memory,
It's extremely unlikely your computer actively operates on GBs of data at once. You probably have a couple hundred MBs of data that is really being used, and the rest can be swapped out with very little performance penalty. So, you'd have to have EXTREMELY little RAM for that argument to hold any water.
The reason people like to get excess RAM is because of caching... The more RAM you have, the less repeated reads from the hard drive. It works for servers that are always-on, or otherwise constantly run the same programs/data, but not so much for desktops. When you boot-up, it doesn't matter how much RAM you have, everything you launch needs to be loaded from the hard drive, and again the next time you reboot. No to mention that you probably run a range of applications, and open a large set of different files, that couldn't be cached in 8GBs of RAM (that's not even 1 entire DVD, for example).
It seems that no matter how efficient the cooling system claims to be, active cooling is another thing that can go wrong. I would much rather have slower memory that I don't have to worry about frying, then fast memory that is dependent on a fan that may break.
Well you're definitely old. Even my very old DDR266 ran too hot, and really needed a heat-spreader installed. Even that only works because I already have good airflow in my case, and if my case fan goes out, my RAM will fry.
Whatever you may think about modern (hot) computer components, nothing made since your Tandy can operate without fans. Even the earliest PCs absolutely required a PSU fan. And if you want to go to extremes, get an incredibly low-end computer that can be run fanless, you're again at the mercy of one of the vents possibly being blocked, and quickly overheating the system. So, complaining that a fan on your RAM could potentially go out is nonsense, since the rest of your computer will burn up if some OTHER fan goes out.
Last I checked, only politicians could change orientation without physically moving. ..
The quote you posted sounds bad, out of context, but the article was quite clear they meant it takes far less energy to rotate an electron, rather than move it any appreciable distance (ie. down a wire).
It's amazing the number of people who feel often compelled to post replies, even though they've obviously not even read the original comment in it's entirety.
Can you actually sell ubuntu CDs that you download?
You can sell GPL'd binaries, so long as you provide source code as well.
That can mean you wait for someone to ask, then you ship them a CD of the source code for $2, or you can make it easy and just include source code on the CD, or on another separate CD along with the binary CD.
<RANT> IMHO, Open Source on Windows isn't going to get much traction because of this... The GPL requires you provide source with your binaries, but most GPL'd Windows projects don't provide a source package... only binaries, and you have to go upstream, or look around for CVS/SVN instructions to create your own snapshot. Whether it's ClamWin, Cygwin, cdrdao, or most anything else, you've got lots of work to do to find the source code.
Recall that you are the one that called me an idiot [...] you say something that I and many others know from bitter experience is untrue.
Yet you continue to be an idiot, and argue the same moot points over and over. Meanwhile, you could have quickly read other comments in the thread, understood the context, realized what I was actually saying, far more quickly than repeatedly trolling, and learning nothing.
There is no objective measure at the moment whether this video is infringing or not.
Fair use guidelines have been on the books for 2 decades +
Viacom probalby should have known that this is non-infringing, but their argument that they aren't in a position to make a legal judgement will be a decent defence in court.
If they weren't sure, they shouldn't have filed the DMCA notice, where the swore under penalty of perjury that the video was infringing.
It is very difficult to compete in design when you are working with something 4 times less dense.
And yet, AMD is just barely behind Intel, in both performance, and power consumption. The only exception is the very high-end, where Intel has a quad core, and AMD needs two dual-core SMP CPUs.
In the article it's specifically mentioned that you can find certain AMD CPUs priced much cheaper than Intel counterparts. But the part that interests me much more is that AMD's low-end CPUs aren't crippled, where Intel removes SpeedStep on it's Core-based Celerons, driving power consumption way up.
And even more than that, Intel's Turions appear to own the low power consumption market, with better performance than anything Intel has to offer with 1/3rd lower power/heat requirements. That's what I'm look at getting right now, for a nearly-silent DVR system, and it's dirt-cheap.
I see an announcement that Intel has announced another 45nm processor for ultra low power consumption.
Except it's more rumor than announcement, and there's no info to be had on performance, power consumption, etc.
There are couple of dozen DVDs I can't read that I can try things out on. If it requires a scaning electron microscope and a conductive coating I can organise that.
If the reflective layer hasn't been damaged, you'd do better to try a simple scratch repair kit first (anything that comes with a simple vacuum tool). If that doesn't work, buffing the disc should.
If you didn't have to remove a significant amount (depth) of material to eliminate the scratch, you may then be able to just throw that in a drive. If it is significant, you'll either need to take it to a manufacturer of DVDs, and have them re-coat it to normal thickness, or it is possible to hook the laser pickup in a DVD-ROM to an oscilloscope, and recalibrate it for thinner (or thicker) discs.
An electron microscope is really never going to be useful for reading DVD-R/RW/RAM.
Because music is a personal thing and people will tend to enjoy what they are exposed to at a young age and leaves a lasting impression.
Odd. The music I was "exposed to at a young age" is the music I can't stand, now.
So right now rap, girl bands, heavy metal (the pointless screaming type) and punk would be popular with children (0-12ish) in most cases. Where as back in my day (born 86) we had more dance music and retro stuff from the 70s and 80s still hanging around. Which would be very similar to my taste in music now.
I'm a lot older than you, and I'm a fan of heavy metal, punk, etc.
Punk and Metal were around in the 80s, too. "Dance" and similar was just the most popular genre, like pop music is now. That pop is most popular right now doesn't mean the rest of the genres aren't still around, and quite active...
Plus children are fickle, if we gave them the entire catalog of music they would have a new favourite band/style every other day.
I think all your opinions here apply to YOUR musical tastes, and not to most anyone else in the world.
I know for absolute certain that the kids in *my* highschool that listened to heavy metal were most certainly not the best and the brightest.
Strange that you were so well informed as to know the musical tastes of every other person in your school... How did you manage that?
And I also happen to know several of the most intelligent kids in *my* high school were in fact fans of heavy metal music, around the same period of time.
[...] against a medieval set of ideas based on forced conversion not of just people to their religion, but indeed also the conversion of the entire worlds law and governmental systems to Sharia law.
Yeah, Iraq was really on the brink of taking over the world...
Sure, they were just about the most liberal and secular Muslim country in the world, but you know, as soon as they'd taken over, BAM! Islamic law everywhere!
You can't lump Afghanistan and Iraq together. The two couldn't possibly have been more different.
Technological measures don't solve social problems... This is more an act of over-bearing school (nanny) administrators.
Additionally, 802.11 transceivers are tiny, and dirt cheap these days. All it takes is one person to plug a USB adapter into a library or lab computer, change your default gateway, and everyone is online.
And that's assuming they physically sever the network link... If not, any type of masquerading could get access. Even if the lab and library computers are on a separate network segment (DMZ, behind a router) a few minor software tricks can tunnel any and all traffic through, quite easily... At a technical school, half the student body should have the know-how to do that.
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No, I'm comparing the amount of "picture quality" improvement by just comparing the resolution.
1) I always just turned the channel, and let the VCR automatically handle rewinding.
2) Degradation was much more of a problem with older tape formulations, and old/crappy VCRs. I haven't seen that in many years.
3) I've never just wanted to watch a single scene of a movie, so FFW wasn't an issue, except for 30 seconds at the start to skip trailers (splicing tape to eliminate them is easy enough).
4) There were several laptop-sized VCR/Screen combos available. That you never got one is irrelevant.
5) DVD cases aren't much smaller than VHS tapes. They're maybe 50% thinner, but also wider than VHS tapes. So that's a big "meh".
6) Selectable subtitles are hardly a compelling reason for more than a tiny fraction of the population.
2) Extremely strong surface coating (no more scratches).
3) Farm more advanced and interactive menu system.
4) Even MORE numerous subtitle and audio languages, instead of just 2-3 local/random ones, as is currently standard.
5) Far more room for special features, extras, etc., etc.
6) 16:9 standard ratio, instead of everything from fullscreen on some, and a ridiculously wide and short panoramic.
Well then onus is on you to prove that there is such a phenomenon with regards to video resolution.
Not true. A 27" $300 HDTV from Target can display 1080i just fine.
That might be true, if you weren't completely wrong.
You're not paying attention. The INSTALLER itself is GPL'd, and it's considerably harder to find the source code for it on the website.
As opposed to pop that was produced from start to finish in the 60s...
There was plenty of crap 50 years ago, and there's plenty of crap today.
If you think economic concerns (DMCA/Software Patents) are more important civil rights (Patriot Act), I've got a one-way ticket to China for you.
Yeah, VHS to DVD was a HUGE 3X improvement, while DVD to HighDef is a MEASLY 6X improvement.
That's all well and good, except for the fact that you're COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY WRONG.
"TV/Movies/Music" is 7th, from the top in 2006. Hell, "Real Estate" is above Hollywood.
Now you've moved from DRM to the DMCA. And you've hit on the one single benefit of it. It's only the DMCA that makes sites like Youtube possible, as the infamous DMCA take-down notices limit legal liability to common-carriers. It's only really been a nightmare because ISPs haven't exactly followed the law, people weren't informed about their counter-claim options, and some will ignore those anyhow. The biggest problem with fraudulent DMCA take-down notices is that the guilty parties haven't been prosecuted, even though they're breaking the law. If it wasn't for the DMCA, there'd just be some OTHER form of baseless legal threats going around, to make "unpleasant" material disappear.
No it isn't. Not under the DMCA, or any other law.
The DMCA makes it strictly illegal for anyone to sell you the tools to perform that task, since they can equally be used for illegal purposes, but that's really not very different than the situation with Macrovision in the analog era.
Very. Memory IO is very important to performance. Intel, since the P4 has been trying to push the FSB frequency higher and higher, and using dual-channels to double the speed. AMD chose instead to integrate the memory controller onto the CPU, which reduced latency, and gave them a big performance boost. Even there, the only difference between socket 478 and 939 is the later has dual-channel memory.
It's extremely unlikely your computer actively operates on GBs of data at once. You probably have a couple hundred MBs of data that is really being used, and the rest can be swapped out with very little performance penalty. So, you'd have to have EXTREMELY little RAM for that argument to hold any water.
The reason people like to get excess RAM is because of caching... The more RAM you have, the less repeated reads from the hard drive. It works for servers that are always-on, or otherwise constantly run the same programs/data, but not so much for desktops. When you boot-up, it doesn't matter how much RAM you have, everything you launch needs to be loaded from the hard drive, and again the next time you reboot. No to mention that you probably run a range of applications, and open a large set of different files, that couldn't be cached in 8GBs of RAM (that's not even 1 entire DVD, for example).
Well you're definitely old. Even my very old DDR266 ran too hot, and really needed a heat-spreader installed. Even that only works because I already have good airflow in my case, and if my case fan goes out, my RAM will fry.
Whatever you may think about modern (hot) computer components, nothing made since your Tandy can operate without fans. Even the earliest PCs absolutely required a PSU fan. And if you want to go to extremes, get an incredibly low-end computer that can be run fanless, you're again at the mercy of one of the vents possibly being blocked, and quickly overheating the system. So, complaining that a fan on your RAM could potentially go out is nonsense, since the rest of your computer will burn up if some OTHER fan goes out.
The quote you posted sounds bad, out of context, but the article was quite clear they meant it takes far less energy to rotate an electron, rather than move it any appreciable distance (ie. down a wire).
It's amazing the number of people who feel often compelled to post replies, even though they've obviously not even read the original comment in it's entirety.
You can sell GPL'd binaries, so long as you provide source code as well.
That can mean you wait for someone to ask, then you ship them a CD of the source code for $2, or you can make it easy and just include source code on the CD, or on another separate CD along with the binary CD.
Distros usually make it easy, by providing ISOs or packages of the source code for download. Fortunately for you, Ubuntu is no different: ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/sou
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IMHO, Open Source on Windows isn't going to get much traction because of this... The GPL requires you provide source with your binaries, but most GPL'd Windows projects don't provide a source package... only binaries, and you have to go upstream, or look around for CVS/SVN instructions to create your own snapshot. Whether it's ClamWin, Cygwin, cdrdao, or most anything else, you've got lots of work to do to find the source code.
Yet you continue to be an idiot, and argue the same moot points over and over. Meanwhile, you could have quickly read other comments in the thread, understood the context, realized what I was actually saying, far more quickly than repeatedly trolling, and learning nothing.
Whoops! Yes I did.
How is "I'm afraid I can't say" deceitful?
Fair use guidelines have been on the books for 2 decades +
If they weren't sure, they shouldn't have filed the DMCA notice, where the swore under penalty of perjury that the video was infringing.
And yet, AMD is just barely behind Intel, in both performance, and power consumption. The only exception is the very high-end, where Intel has a quad core, and AMD needs two dual-core SMP CPUs.
In the article it's specifically mentioned that you can find certain AMD CPUs priced much cheaper than Intel counterparts. But the part that interests me much more is that AMD's low-end CPUs aren't crippled, where Intel removes SpeedStep on it's Core-based Celerons, driving power consumption way up.
And even more than that, Intel's Turions appear to own the low power consumption market, with better performance than anything Intel has to offer with 1/3rd lower power/heat requirements. That's what I'm look at getting right now, for a nearly-silent DVR system, and it's dirt-cheap.
Except it's more rumor than announcement, and there's no info to be had on performance, power consumption, etc.
I have no interest in humoring you. Troll away.
If the reflective layer hasn't been damaged, you'd do better to try a simple scratch repair kit first (anything that comes with a simple vacuum tool). If that doesn't work, buffing the disc should.
If you didn't have to remove a significant amount (depth) of material to eliminate the scratch, you may then be able to just throw that in a drive. If it is significant, you'll either need to take it to a manufacturer of DVDs, and have them re-coat it to normal thickness, or it is possible to hook the laser pickup in a DVD-ROM to an oscilloscope, and recalibrate it for thinner (or thicker) discs.
An electron microscope is really never going to be useful for reading DVD-R/RW/RAM.
Odd. The music I was "exposed to at a young age" is the music I can't stand, now.
I'm a lot older than you, and I'm a fan of heavy metal, punk, etc.
Punk and Metal were around in the 80s, too. "Dance" and similar was just the most popular genre, like pop music is now. That pop is most popular right now doesn't mean the rest of the genres aren't still around, and quite active...
I think all your opinions here apply to YOUR musical tastes, and not to most anyone else in the world.
Strange that you were so well informed as to know the musical tastes of every other person in your school... How did you manage that?
And I also happen to know several of the most intelligent kids in *my* high school were in fact fans of heavy metal music, around the same period of time.
You should be VERY careful not to make any typos when pedantically bitching about someone else's spelling.
Yeah, Iraq was really on the brink of taking over the world...
Sure, they were just about the most liberal and secular Muslim country in the world, but you know, as soon as they'd taken over, BAM! Islamic law everywhere!
You can't lump Afghanistan and Iraq together. The two couldn't possibly have been more different.
Technological measures don't solve social problems... This is more an act of over-bearing school (nanny) administrators.
Additionally, 802.11 transceivers are tiny, and dirt cheap these days. All it takes is one person to plug a USB adapter into a library or lab computer, change your default gateway, and everyone is online.
And that's assuming they physically sever the network link... If not, any type of masquerading could get access. Even if the lab and library computers are on a separate network segment (DMZ, behind a router) a few minor software tricks can tunnel any and all traffic through, quite easily... At a technical school, half the student body should have the know-how to do that.