My parents have a 50 inch CRT, and still watch VHS on it, it gives a great picture (Better then broadcast tv),
Digital TV will certainly change that. Broadcast signals will go further in most situations, and the picture will be absolutely bit- PERFECT right up until the edge of the signal coverage area.
they have no need to go to a new format, to rebuy all the dvds and tapes on it.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are both backwards compatible. Anyone saying "I don't want to rebuy everything" is a complete idiot. You keep your DVD collection, and simply buy NEW movies in highdef formats.
There was a reason to rebuy VHS tapes on DVD (not a GOOD one, but still). There will be almost no good reasons to rebuy your DVDs in highdef formats.
I still watch TV on 27" JVC TV I purchased in 1995. I think it looks great.
I still watch TV on a 13" B&W tube TV I purchased in 1959. I think it looks great. The picture was awesome the day I bought it, and the picture is still great today.
They have always had problems keeping up with demand, and they have been capacity constrained for a few years now,
More urban legend than reality. It's odd that AMD gets tagged as having "shortages" while Intel gets the opposite, despite MORE actual instances of Intel chip shortages than AMD has experienced in the past ~5 years.
The result is they have unparalleled capacity and a huge technological lead over competitors with manufacturing technology.
Right, that's why there were widespread Intel chipset shortages, forcing many OEMs to switch from Intel chipsets, or else stop making new systems...
The result is they have unparalleled capacity
That's funny, because the demand for the Intel Core chips caused more of a shortage of Intel CPUs than AMD has seen.
Intel, like AMD, doesn't have significant excess capacity. They are both living with minor shortages, in other to undercut each other.
In addition, despite the story, there's no information in the article, or anywhere else, indicating AMD is actually experiencing CPU shortages. It's implied, but that's all. The source for all this seems to be The Inquirer, which is wrong as often as it is right. If anyone has some reputable information that this is the case and not just more rumor and myth, please link it, by all means.
That's a sunk cost if you have to have the generators either way, as a backup to the mains power.
No. There's a certain base cost for idle generators, but the cost is MUCH higher when they are operational.
Oil changes have to be more frequent, staff can't be minimal, mechanical failures increase exponentially, etc.
There's a reason few people run their own generators. And those that do, stick with natural gas turbines, and spend significant money to legally interface with the power grid as a backup.
Secondly, stop cramming everything into small spaces...learn to expand gracefully. Otherwise, that rule of thumb is going to fail...and we'll end up spending two-thirds of our power dollar on A/C...and still end up frying hardware.
The problem has been CREATED by datacenters in the first place. They charge so much more for SPACE than they do for POWER, that ultra-dense systems have become economical.
If datacenters would just change how they bill their customers, the problem would solve itself.
revolutionized and revived console gaming with the PSX,
Sony's PSX was long AFTER their glory days were over. Just ask any of the millions of people that had their PSX fail just beyond the warranty period.
There was nothing revolutionary about it, it was just somewhat better at 3D than the Sega Saturn (at the expense of 2D), while being somewhat cheaper.
Personally, I long for a world where Sony never jumped-in, and Sega is still #2, selling great consoles with great games, rather than the PSX's line of unregulated heaps of crappy games.
Problem is, it's most likely shares your biases so you'll allow yourself to be convinced it isn't biased.
The Daily Show isn't completely unbiased, of course, but it certainly is LESS biased than Fox News.
John Stewart may give a bit of a biased explanation of something, just to make fun of it, but he then always follows-up with a correction afterwards.
He's also equally hard on both parties. He hammered on the Democrats when they were in power, when they were being found corrupt, when they shot a guy in the face with a shotgun, etc. He even corrects his own guests, whether they're being overly hard on Democrats or Republicans.
The rest of the world agrees, you are doing too much outside your own country, and if you stopped, the rest of the world might just get that warm fuzzy feeling that you are talking about.
Sometimes the worst punishment of all, is for people to get what they wish for.
When is Europe going to send the bulk of the troops on UN missions? When is Europe going to develop a blue water navy? When is Europe going to start doing any of the hard jobs that nobody wants to do, but absolutely need to be done?
Funny, you think reporters should be above the law when it comes to sources, but held fully responsible for other people actions that MAY have been incited based upon something they said...
So basically, you think reporters shouldn't be responsible for what THEY do, and the crimes THEY are accomplises to, but they SHOULD be for crimes they didn't do.
You have a very interesting twist on freedom of speech.
Yours is the twisted one. His is at least closer to reality.
When was the last time the press published something classified that actually harmed this country as opposed to bringing to light some kind of power grab by the administration?
For example, let's say that a person in a position of great power was doing something highly illegal. An inside source discovers this, and informs the press anonymously.
There's a world of difference between concealing the identity of a whistleblower, and concealing the identity of the "person in a position of great power [who] was doing something highly illegal" by giving classified information to the reporter in the first place.
#3 isn't so optimal after all.
There are limits on lawyer/client privlidge now as well, since it was being abused to commit and conceal future/ongoing crimes.
Better sort it out quick or you'll be left too far behind to catch up!
You're assuming that there's something there to begin with... Embryonic stem-cell research could well be a dead-end, resulting in no viable treatments.
It's also strange that you categorize it as if it is a race... Europeans aren't going to find some magical cure and keep it to themselves. If European scientists develop something before the US, good for them. It would be a nice change.
If America could do that, then We The People (as opposed to We The Government) would have all the money We want to spend on science, and embryonic stem cell researchers would have all the funding they merit.
It doesn't work as well as it sounds...
The whole IDEA of a government, is that they spend all their time deciding what is important, and allocating resources to those issues. Even if we disagree with many of the things they do with our money, most everyone agrees that, as a whole, the duty they are charged with is absolutely necessary. Despite the flaws, despite the problems, it has resulted in tremendous good over the past couple centuries, and certainly more good than bad, and the bad simply takes time to be corrected.
By not paying the $2500 and $250 yearly fee, they make you feel like a bad parent and you've signed the death warrant for your kid that isn't even 24 hours old.
Very true. The COMMERCIAL cord blood banks are scams that have a ridiculously small chance of ever paying off. That $5,000 is better spent elsewhere.
There is, however, work on expanding the public cord-blood bank, so you can donate your child's cord blood for free, to whomever needs it most urgently.
Private cord blood banks are about as practical as private organ banks, or preserving your own blood.
The interoperability clause of the DMCA, which DVD Jon uses as his basis for the legality of his system, allows you to break the CSS encryption on DVDs in order to play them on your Linux box.
True.
creating an implimentation of CSS without paying the licensing fee violates patent law,
False.
At this time, no patent is known to cover the descrambling of CSS-scrambled data.
Approximately half a dozen patents have been suggested that might cover the CSS scrambling system. Although some of these patents may describe extensions to CSS-like systems, none of them obviously cover the descrambling of CSS-scrambled data nor do they seem to describe other aspects of an ordinary DVD player's operation. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dvd-discu ss-faq.html#ss2.11.2
The arrogance of suggesting the internet supercedes items such as newspapers, phones (remember those things? No IP, just voice -> voltage -> voice), hell, even a decent postal service is laughable.
Internet access IS cutting into the profits of newspapers, telecos, and yes, even the postal service, in countries where those have been long-established.
Phones are an interesting one... In the age of wireless, many countries which didn't already have a fully developed land-line infrastructure (for one reason or another) just decided to skip that step and go directly to cell towers instead. It's entirely concievable that a country could decide to jump even further... directly to VoIP, web radio, e-mail, IPTV, etc.
I agree that internet access isn't nearly as important as people make it out to be, but your arguments against it are very easily dismissed.
This is slightly off the topic, but in the same vein...
I continue to wonder, after every major laptop theft, why NOBODY is working on physical security.
Notebook hard drives are easily pocket-sized, and the only thing keeping the hard drive from sliding out of most laptops is the thin plastic shell of the unit. Build laptops with a very simple hinging door over the drive would be absolutely trivial. You probably also want to add thin aluminum shell around the drive to protect it from static discharge and other abuse.
Then, you tell employees to keep the drive in their pockets when they go into public. If it's really critical data, attaching a retractable cable (as seen attached to your janitor's keyring) between your belt and the drive will stop all but the most skilled, equiped and determined theives.
It's as if everyone in IT has forgotten the lessons learned from the past several thousand years of (physical) security developments.
Right now, we've got little to nothing in our houses we might want to network for any reason... Who really gives a damn about your TV telling you the phone is ringing? Everyone is so anxious to leap-frog the next several steps, that they skip over the REASONS someone might EVENTUALLY WANT to network their house.
I'm still opening and closing all my windows... I still have to go up and open/close the vents in my attic... I still have to climb onto my roof... I still have to adjust my refridgerator's temurature... I still have to turn each room's lights on and off. I still have to run wires to get sound or video from one part of my house to another. I still have to manually transfer individual music/video files from one device to another. etc.
It is rather necessary to have those individual things automated in their own small way first, before you would even WANT to start networking the house. Simple, local mechanisms could take care of many of those current hassles without some single, over-riding system in control of it all.
Only then would you perhaps want to interconnect all those things, to have them working together.
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Digital TV will certainly change that. Broadcast signals will go further in most situations, and the picture will be absolutely bit- PERFECT right up until the edge of the signal coverage area.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray are both backwards compatible. Anyone saying "I don't want to rebuy everything" is a complete idiot. You keep your DVD collection, and simply buy NEW movies in highdef formats.
There was a reason to rebuy VHS tapes on DVD (not a GOOD one, but still). There will be almost no good reasons to rebuy your DVDs in highdef formats.
I still watch TV on a 13" B&W tube TV I purchased in 1959. I think it looks great. The picture was awesome the day I bought it, and the picture is still great today.
Am I really missing anything?
You're complaining you can't afford a luxury car, while ignoring the cheaper, nearly-as-good cars out there RIGHT NOW.
You can already get a 27" 1080i CRT HDTV for $400 (no OTA tuner--that usually adds $100).
Okay then, make that: "Thank You for GOOD tabbed browsing."
Tabbed browsing, which jumps to the last window you were looking at, is utterly useless. Seperate browser windows work just as well.
Mozilla got it right the first time. Opera, sadly, still doesn't even make sane tabbed browsing a selectable OPTION.
More urban legend than reality. It's odd that AMD gets tagged as having "shortages" while Intel gets the opposite, despite MORE actual instances of Intel chip shortages than AMD has experienced in the past ~5 years.
Right, that's why there were widespread Intel chipset shortages, forcing many OEMs to switch from Intel chipsets, or else stop making new systems...
That's funny, because the demand for the Intel Core chips caused more of a shortage of Intel CPUs than AMD has seen.
Intel, like AMD, doesn't have significant excess capacity. They are both living with minor shortages, in other to undercut each other.
In addition, despite the story, there's no information in the article, or anywhere else, indicating AMD is actually experiencing CPU shortages. It's implied, but that's all. The source for all this seems to be The Inquirer, which is wrong as often as it is right. If anyone has some reputable information that this is the case and not just more rumor and myth, please link it, by all means.
With some Java...
No. There's a certain base cost for idle generators, but the cost is MUCH higher when they are operational.
Oil changes have to be more frequent, staff can't be minimal, mechanical failures increase exponentially, etc.
There's a reason few people run their own generators. And those that do, stick with natural gas turbines, and spend significant money to legally interface with the power grid as a backup.
The problem has been CREATED by datacenters in the first place. They charge so much more for SPACE than they do for POWER, that ultra-dense systems have become economical.
If datacenters would just change how they bill their customers, the problem would solve itself.
Sony's PSX was long AFTER their glory days were over. Just ask any of the millions of people that had their PSX fail just beyond the warranty period.
There was nothing revolutionary about it, it was just somewhat better at 3D than the Sega Saturn (at the expense of 2D), while being somewhat cheaper.
Personally, I long for a world where Sony never jumped-in, and Sega is still #2, selling great consoles with great games, rather than the PSX's line of unregulated heaps of crappy games.
The Daily Show isn't completely unbiased, of course, but it certainly is LESS biased than Fox News.
John Stewart may give a bit of a biased explanation of something, just to make fun of it, but he then always follows-up with a correction afterwards.
He's also equally hard on both parties. He hammered on the Democrats when they were in power, when they were being found corrupt, when they shot a guy in the face with a shotgun, etc. He even corrects his own guests, whether they're being overly hard on Democrats or Republicans.
There's certainly some bias, but it is minimal.
Sometimes the worst punishment of all, is for people to get what they wish for.
When is Europe going to send the bulk of the troops on UN missions? When is Europe going to develop a blue water navy? When is Europe going to start doing any of the hard jobs that nobody wants to do, but absolutely need to be done?
So basically, you think reporters shouldn't be responsible for what THEY do, and the crimes THEY are accomplises to, but they SHOULD be for crimes they didn't do.
Yours is the twisted one. His is at least closer to reality.
Complete nonsense. MOST reporting doesn't include, nor does it need, anonymous sources.
Also nonsense. You can make up all the hate speech you want, as VALID opinion, based on unbiased FACTS.
Umm... Plame?
There's a world of difference between concealing the identity of a whistleblower, and concealing the identity of the "person in a position of great power [who] was doing something highly illegal" by giving classified information to the reporter in the first place.
#3 isn't so optimal after all.
There are limits on lawyer/client privlidge now as well, since it was being abused to commit and conceal future/ongoing crimes.
Brain drain and funding disparities are REAL. By all means, try and prove me wrong (with facts, not anecdotes nor opinion).
You're assuming that there's something there to begin with... Embryonic stem-cell research could well be a dead-end, resulting in no viable treatments.
It's also strange that you categorize it as if it is a race... Europeans aren't going to find some magical cure and keep it to themselves. If European scientists develop something before the US, good for them. It would be a nice change.
It doesn't work as well as it sounds...
The whole IDEA of a government, is that they spend all their time deciding what is important, and allocating resources to those issues. Even if we disagree with many of the things they do with our money, most everyone agrees that, as a whole, the duty they are charged with is absolutely necessary. Despite the flaws, despite the problems, it has resulted in tremendous good over the past couple centuries, and certainly more good than bad, and the bad simply takes time to be corrected.
Very true. The COMMERCIAL cord blood banks are scams that have a ridiculously small chance of ever paying off. That $5,000 is better spent elsewhere.
There is, however, work on expanding the public cord-blood bank, so you can donate your child's cord blood for free, to whomever needs it most urgently.
Private cord blood banks are about as practical as private organ banks, or preserving your own blood.
It's her own fault for putting a blue sheet over her head...
True.
False.
At this time, no patent is known to cover the descrambling of CSS-scrambled data.
Approximately half a dozen patents have been suggested that might cover the CSS scrambling system. Although some of these patents may describe extensions to CSS-like systems, none of them obviously cover the descrambling of CSS-scrambled data nor do they seem to describe other aspects of an ordinary DVD player's operation.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dvd-disc
Internet access IS cutting into the profits of newspapers, telecos, and yes, even the postal service, in countries where those have been long-established.
Phones are an interesting one... In the age of wireless, many countries which didn't already have a fully developed land-line infrastructure (for one reason or another) just decided to skip that step and go directly to cell towers instead. It's entirely concievable that a country could decide to jump even further... directly to VoIP, web radio, e-mail, IPTV, etc.
I agree that internet access isn't nearly as important as people make it out to be, but your arguments against it are very easily dismissed.
IMHO:
A USB device may be cumbersomely slow, depending on the use of the data.
It's ALL sensative data. Getting a copy of $TEMP/%TEMP%, or perhaps the registry, may reveal some of the information on the USB device.
Still, it depends on the application, and is certainly better than the current trend of nothing at all.
This is slightly off the topic, but in the same vein...
I continue to wonder, after every major laptop theft, why NOBODY is working on physical security.
Notebook hard drives are easily pocket-sized, and the only thing keeping the hard drive from sliding out of most laptops is the thin plastic shell of the unit. Build laptops with a very simple hinging door over the drive would be absolutely trivial. You probably also want to add thin aluminum shell around the drive to protect it from static discharge and other abuse.
Then, you tell employees to keep the drive in their pockets when they go into public. If it's really critical data, attaching a retractable cable (as seen attached to your janitor's keyring) between your belt and the drive will stop all but the most skilled, equiped and determined theives.
It's as if everyone in IT has forgotten the lessons learned from the past several thousand years of (physical) security developments.
Right now, we've got little to nothing in our houses we might want to network for any reason... Who really gives a damn about your TV telling you the phone is ringing? Everyone is so anxious to leap-frog the next several steps, that they skip over the REASONS someone might EVENTUALLY WANT to network their house.
I'm still opening and closing all my windows...
I still have to go up and open/close the vents in my attic...
I still have to climb onto my roof... I still have to adjust my refridgerator's temurature... I still have to turn each room's lights on and off. I still have to run wires to get sound or video from one part of my house to another. I still have to manually transfer individual music/video files from one device to another. etc.
It is rather necessary to have those individual things automated in their own small way first, before you would even WANT to start networking the house. Simple, local mechanisms could take care of many of those current hassles without some single, over-riding system in control of it all.
Only then would you perhaps want to interconnect all those things, to have them working together.