It's the customer who's stupid and should eat the loss. MUCH better than my bank footing the bill.
The customer is imperfect, yes. However, it's the BANK that's not doing anything to make the system more secure, and/or less error-prone. It's the bank that's using the WWW and e-mail in the first place, and extremely simple authentication systems that make it easy for 3rd parties to hijack your account.
Making customers foot the bill would make it financial benefital for banks to have poor security in-place.
One day you will be that idiot that got fooled by a flawless scam because you didn't help strengthen the system when you had the opportunity.
A system that requires nothing less than eternal vigilance to remain secure, is a system that needs to be replaced with something better.
As long as the banks are being forced to pay for fraud, they have motivation to combat it, although they generally just prefer to tolerate the fraud... see how credit cards haven't been significantly improved in some 30 years.
If it was my money, I'd sure as hell do something about it... Probably something along the lines of one-time passwords, public keys, smartcards, etc. Since I'm not in a position to do so, those that are in the position to do something about it, rightly should bear full financial responsibility. Helping them maintain their current stupid system is useless at best, and likely counter productive to real security being implemented.
Windows update is okay. THE REST OF MICROSOFT.COM IS UTTER CRAP.
A COMPLETELY random collection of pages, added with no particular scheme in-mind. It's extremely difficult for both their own search engine, and Google, to handle. And to make things WORSE, they go out of their way to REMOVE links to useful pages frequently, and eventually remove the pages themselves.
I've made it a point to burn EVERYTHING to CD, that I've downloaded from Microsoft. Next system I setup, or next time I reinstall, I'm very likely going to need most of that same software, and I'm NEVER going to be able to find it. Even while the OS is actively supported, they're going out of their way to hide extremely important downloads.
It's a nightmare trying to find anything for older OSes. Just try to find the PowerTools for Windows 95. I'm willing to bet NOBODY can find and download DirectX 6 for NT 4.0 (last released version), despite its popularity and utility. How about a copy of IE4, which is the only version of IE that can give 95 and NT4 active-desktop features, as found in later Windows versions? How long will the last versions of IE and DirectX for Windows 95 be available before they hide it, and remove all the files from their servers?
This is a bit off-topic but it has been quite a while now and the center-column squishing bug with the new slashdot style still hasn't yet been fixed.
How long until some work on that one is going to take place? It's extremely annoying, as you can see.
Slashdot is hard to read with the style-sheet, and it's hard to read without the style-sheet.
I'm now beginning to agree with the others that said/. should have kept it's old HTML formatting, for those who need or want to view the site without CSS.
Any chance of fixing the current problems, before introducing new features with their own issues?
How do you run Linux without a keyboard or mouse? They aren't free, you realize.
A 10GB hard drive is also rather modest, and your exansion capabilities are incredibly limited, likely making it cheaper to buy a more expensive PC, if you need to add ANYTHING that isn't stock.
How about scripting? It isn't as powerful as the current popular languages, but perhaps nearly as powerful as BASIC. You can certainly get a hell of a lot done that way, and it's trivially easy to get started. Anything you can type on the command-line, you can put into a simple text file, and run it.
DOS batch files are pretty limited, but there have always been DOS programs to help extend them, and now that Windows is all NT-based,.cmd files run everywhere, which include many of the features BAT files lack...
Once you're pretty advanced with such shell scripting, it's not a hard transition to interpreted programming languages like PERL, and then to compiled languages.
I have a feeling the lack of kids programming has more to do with the fact that it's "unwashed masses" time, with the advanced still programming, but being hidden by the larger numbers of point-and-click users.
As for CnQ, I haven't been able to measure any difference in idle power usage whether it's on or off.
Well that's a very clear sign you've got a serious problem with CnQ. The difference should be MAJOR.
I'd suggest starting off by removing all but one stick of RAM, and any nonessential accessories (old problems I would expect to be fixed by now). Looking for BIOS updates and errata on the manufacturer's website can't hurt either.
I seem to recall that 200 MHz and an 8 Gig hard drive was top of the line, some time during the 90's. Such computers seemed to handle word processing, web browsing, email, etc. just fine.
Yes, they ran Netscape 3.0 and Windows 95 just fine. Similar software today, however, is much better than it used-to be, which is why almost nobody uses that old software on their new computers.
Though, you aren't extremely far off. Something like a 400MHz P2 is fast enough for things like DVD playback, and most office apps if you don't mind a bit of waiting.
What would those components cost now? Not very much because of miniaturization.
There becomes a point when making a slower CPU, and a smaller (capacity) hard drive, just isn't any cheaper.
Maxtor tries to get around that by making their cheapest, 10-20GB 5400 rpm hard drives only half the height of normal 3.5" drives.
Now that's only NEW units. You can get some old surplus units pretty cheap, because they'll sell them at a loss to get them out of their wherehouse, but that's a limited supply, that's gone when it's gone.
With that said, for reasonably small quantities, you can put together many systems if you're willing to wait for surplus components to drop in price, but it wouldn't make much of a business. Someone ordering 500 systems wants to know what the clock speed of the CPU is, the type of motherboard, the brand and size of hard drive. You can't just say "You'll get whatever's available at the time". For larger companies, the added maintenance costs of systems with various parts outweighs that inital savings.
For individuals, though, it's pretty easy to piece together a multi-GHz system for a little over $100 (provided assembly time is free).
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no one blamed the chinese for ripping of anything.
You're kidding, right? Did you actually look through those comments? There are numerous accusations.
and what is different in this case from, say, AMD cloning til Intel instruction set?
AMD didn't just say one day "We're going to clone Intel chips". They had a contract with Intel, which allowed them to use both the instruction set, and the architecture of Intel's x86 chips. Intel did that because IBM demanded a chip with a second supplier.
AMD went to court with the issue, and secured their rights to use the instruction set, although not the actual same chip architecture.
In more recent years, Intel licenses all of their patents on this, so you just have to pay them a fee for it. AMD also has a lot of tech that Intel wants to use, so there has been extensive cross-licensing between the two.
he tries to explain why he means that the Godson-2 processor does not infringe on any patents or intellectual properties.
When the Chinese government tells you to say something, YOU SAY IT.
China is constantly running afoul of international copyright and patent laws, and they always deny it, even when the evidence is overwhelming.
This makes it 2-3x slower per-clock than modern CPUs.
Absolutely right. I've been saying for quite a long time now, that was exactly my experience. C3s perform perhaps a hair less than half as fast as similarly-clocked AMD/Intel processors.
I replaced a 750MHz Thunderbird system with a Via C3 800MHz system (actually swapped the hard drive), and the performance dropped through the floor. I added RAM, external video card, etc., all in a futile attempt to get it up to speed. Shortly after that, I returned, because they falsely advertising it was as fast as 800MHz AMD/Intel chips. Despite my experience with Cyrix chips years earlier, I was inclined to believe their ridiculous claim...
The only thing VIA has going for it is a lot of marketing bullshit, which manages to trick a lot of less-informed customers into buying-in. Kinda the Walmart mentality... You pay less for it, but you're getting a LOT LESS for your money.
I have a Via C3 box and an Athlon64 X2 box right here. One uses 30W when idle; the other, 75W.
That surely has a lot to do with having a good power supply in the VIA, fewer hard drives, a lower-power graphics card, etc. Either that, or your Athlon64 has CnQ disabled for reasons I can't imagine.
Last year everyone blamed the incredible number of hurricanes on global warming.
By "everyone" you mean "nobody" right?
After Katrina, I'd turn on my TV, and every 15 minutes, the newspeople would be saying "The number of hurricanes has nothing to do with global warming, it's a standard 15-year cycle." I heard that so many times I got sick of hearing it. I heard it from news people, climatologists, meterologists, NOAA, etc.
I get the feeling the people spouting the blatantly obviously bullshit idea that the number of hurricanes had anything to do with global warming were astroturfing employees of Exxon.
Demand for the release of the original, unaltered trilogy on DVD has come up in the form of a great and plaintive whine in every single Star Wars-related story on Slashdot since probably around 1999. Now, here they are, and what are the "fans" doing? Complaining.
You know, there wouldn't be much of any complaining if:
A) He hadn't repeatedly claimed he would NEVER let you buy a copy.
and
B) You could buy them without buying another copy of the remastered version.
Even without remastering, that would quell most of the complaints around here.
Of course, the bullshit still continues. These get released when most everyone bergrudingly bought the DVD copies (not me though, I digitized my VHS copies), right when it seems that newer, high quality video formats are comming along, and he's claiming the original film reels were destroyed (so there'll be no highdef versions of the original).
It's hard to be happy about this small breakthrough, when the bullshit level is still staying so very high.
I want the original edition, but I think I'll wait another decade or so for the Blu-ray/HD-DVD editions, before Lucas gets any money from me.
I caught my first episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit the other night, and it just so happened to have a piece on GM food.
"Bullshit" is a highly appropos name for that show.
In that particular episode, they find a couple kids outside of a supermarket, handing out fliers, and take their casual comments on the subject, and discount them one by one. They don't even give the dummies a chance to reply to their claims.
On slashdot, crap like that would be modded down in seconds. "Bullshit" makes Michael Moore look like a fair and unbiased reporter...
* GM foods don't require any testing/checks before being used: Also apparently bullshit, that they are more heavily regulated than any other food.
The teen-age kid handing out the fliers said GM seeds aren't tested by the FDA. Which may well have been true in the past, and I presume he really meant something alonge the lines that the FDA doesn't do EXTENSIVE testing. Of course, neither he, nor anybody else was allowed on the show to debate the issue. Penn's word is law.
The FDA doesn't do long-term testing of GM crops, which is precisely what is required to determine whether the public's fears are valid. Short-term testing won't show most effects that people (and farmers) are afraid of.
to feed the millions who are otherwise dying because it's hard to get crops to grow in their parts of the world.
When was the last time you saw someone protesting GM crops being grown in Africa? If they want them, they can have them...
HOWEVER, the GM companies charge insane rates for GM seeds. You have to buy new seeds every year. (ensuring those poor farmers can't get them, anyhow) And then, you are still taking the risk that farmers in Mexico did with GM seeds, that the untested crops might turn your soil acidic, guaranteeing that you won't be able to grow any crops on that land again, whether GM or not. (Except maybe Tomacco)
GM crops are all being marketed to the 1st-world countries, that don't strictly need them, and the "poor farmers" senario is pretty much that the western countries need to buy the farmers these seeds, non-stop. The rich are still supporting the poor, it's just that the money would be going to the big GM companies now, instead.
or have Penn & Teller hoodwinked me?
Always.
The one that really disgusted me was the show where they "disprove" that recycling is necessary. Their whole premise for that is, we have enough land on the earth to make landfills to handle current levels of human wastes for a couple decades... Yes, we should plow-under the entire surface of the planet, because Penn and Teller don't want to recycle. Bullshit is a VERY good name for that show.
As it stands right now, neither 15GB for HD-DVD or 4.7 GB for standard DVD is sufficient size for an entire movie in their respective formats, meaning that either the DVD version or the HD-DVD version on the disk is going to suffer.
Actually 4.7GBs would be enough for a DVD movie (let's say less than 2 hours), PROVIDED they don't include ANY extras. No "making-of", fewer audio tracks, no interviews, etc.
Of course, that's assuming most people don't care about the DVD extras.
All kidding aside, I can see many problems, and practically no advantages over normal wireless connections.
Whatever happened to microwave antennas on houses? Wireless cable never did so well, but combine it with telephone service and internet access, and you've really got something there.
I really wasn't going to respond anymore, I'd rather let this thread die, but I don't want to come off as a complete asshole, so here's the finale...
Once again, it's not polite to post into a discussion saying "you're all ignorant and should just take my word for it".
I never said anything of the sort. The only time I even came close was when you were reapeatedly dismissing everything I had to say, not for technical reasons, but because you read some baseless article on some home theatre site which happened to disagree.
Neither you nor I know how they came to that conclusion, they may just believe some lying press release from Toshiba. There's no way to know, so there's no way for me to tell you why they've come to the wrong conclusion, which you keep insisting I should do. I can't. I can only say their wrong, for several of the reasons I've already outlined.
"X says so" doesn't lead to a good discussion.
and I am trying to figure out if what you say is true or not. The "preponderance of the evidence" is that it is not. Sorry.
And in your previous posts, the "preponderance of the evidence" told you that:
Telecine didn't need to be reversed. The 3:2 pattern never varied. etc. etc.
I've repeatedly answered questions, but my patience is at it's end. I don't say you should trust me, or anything like that. I've given you numerous places to start learning about inverse telecine, if you wish understand why it's not perfect.
How long do you think a physicists would answer questions from people claiming "there's no such thing as gravity" and "the world is flat" before they would recomend some reference books to the person?
I'm not dismissing what you say, I just want to point out that your opinion is born out of ignorance, not knowledge, and I mean that literally, not as an insult. i.e. you don't know why telecine is hard, so you don't understand why there are problems. As opposed to understanding how inverse telecine works, and believing that it will do the job perfectly.
I keep asking one thought-provoking (I hope) question, that you ignore... If HDTVs can do perfect IVTC, why do progressive-scan DVD players even exist? Standard DVD players output interlaced/telecined signals like HD-DVD players, so why is the TV's IVTC sufficent for HD-DVDs, but somehow insufficent for DVDs?
I'm now more than finished with this thread... If it makes you feel better, go ahead and have the last word, and say what a jerk I am.
You could knock another faceplate out tha would serve the same purpose for less than $5 in material and maybe an hour of your own personal time.
First, you can certainly make a replacement, but the problem is getting the original off, and the new one on, without ANYTHING getting in there. Do you have a vacuum chamber lying around?
Besides that, the hour of your time probably isn't worth the cost of most types of refurbished hard drives. The manufacturers consider them worth about $40.
Maybe you could make a profit on high-end SCSI drives, or something like that, but it's not going to be a large one. What's more, the manufacturer is likely to look into cases of a large number of defective drives going to one company, or one area, and consequently sending you to jail for a long time.
I can think of much more profitable and legal ways to earn money.
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The customer is imperfect, yes. However, it's the BANK that's not doing anything to make the system more secure, and/or less error-prone. It's the bank that's using the WWW and e-mail in the first place, and extremely simple authentication systems that make it easy for 3rd parties to hijack your account.
Making customers foot the bill would make it financial benefital for banks to have poor security in-place.
A system that requires nothing less than eternal vigilance to remain secure, is a system that needs to be replaced with something better.
As long as the banks are being forced to pay for fraud, they have motivation to combat it, although they generally just prefer to tolerate the fraud... see how credit cards haven't been significantly improved in some 30 years.
If it was my money, I'd sure as hell do something about it... Probably something along the lines of one-time passwords, public keys, smartcards, etc. Since I'm not in a position to do so, those that are in the position to do something about it, rightly should bear full financial responsibility. Helping them maintain their current stupid system is useless at best, and likely counter productive to real security being implemented.
Windows update is okay. THE REST OF MICROSOFT.COM IS UTTER CRAP.
A COMPLETELY random collection of pages, added with no particular scheme in-mind. It's extremely difficult for both their own search engine, and Google, to handle. And to make things WORSE, they go out of their way to REMOVE links to useful pages frequently, and eventually remove the pages themselves.
I've made it a point to burn EVERYTHING to CD, that I've downloaded from Microsoft. Next system I setup, or next time I reinstall, I'm very likely going to need most of that same software, and I'm NEVER going to be able to find it. Even while the OS is actively supported, they're going out of their way to hide extremely important downloads.
It's a nightmare trying to find anything for older OSes. Just try to find the PowerTools for Windows 95. I'm willing to bet NOBODY can find and download DirectX 6 for NT 4.0 (last released version), despite its popularity and utility. How about a copy of IE4, which is the only version of IE that can give 95 and NT4 active-desktop features, as found in later Windows versions? How long will the last versions of IE and DirectX for Windows 95 be available before they hide it, and remove all the files from their servers?
With a console, you'll actually be paying MSRP for it.
With computer components, it'll take a few weeks before it's selling for half-price, and less.
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How do you run Linux without a keyboard or mouse? They aren't free, you realize.
A 10GB hard drive is also rather modest, and your exansion capabilities are incredibly limited, likely making it cheaper to buy a more expensive PC, if you need to add ANYTHING that isn't stock.
How about scripting? It isn't as powerful as the current popular languages, but perhaps nearly as powerful as BASIC. You can certainly get a hell of a lot done that way, and it's trivially easy to get started. Anything you can type on the command-line, you can put into a simple text file, and run it.
.cmd files run everywhere, which include many of the features BAT files lack...
DOS batch files are pretty limited, but there have always been DOS programs to help extend them, and now that Windows is all NT-based,
Once you're pretty advanced with such shell scripting, it's not a hard transition to interpreted programming languages like PERL, and then to compiled languages.
I have a feeling the lack of kids programming has more to do with the fact that it's "unwashed masses" time, with the advanced still programming, but being hidden by the larger numbers of point-and-click users.
Well that's a very clear sign you've got a serious problem with CnQ. The difference should be MAJOR.
I'd suggest starting off by removing all but one stick of RAM, and any nonessential accessories (old problems I would expect to be fixed by now). Looking for BIOS updates and errata on the manufacturer's website can't hurt either.
You might also look here:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article172-page1.ht
and http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInform
If you're running Linux, you might also see the cpufreq kernel driver.
I didn't say more features, I said "much better than it used-to be", which you quoted correctly, and still doesn't seem to have registered with you.
Yes, they ran Netscape 3.0 and Windows 95 just fine. Similar software today, however, is much better than it used-to be, which is why almost nobody uses that old software on their new computers.
Though, you aren't extremely far off. Something like a 400MHz P2 is fast enough for things like DVD playback, and most office apps if you don't mind a bit of waiting.
There becomes a point when making a slower CPU, and a smaller (capacity) hard drive, just isn't any cheaper.
Maxtor tries to get around that by making their cheapest, 10-20GB 5400 rpm hard drives only half the height of normal 3.5" drives.
Now that's only NEW units. You can get some old surplus units pretty cheap, because they'll sell them at a loss to get them out of their wherehouse, but that's a limited supply, that's gone when it's gone.
With that said, for reasonably small quantities, you can put together many systems if you're willing to wait for surplus components to drop in price, but it wouldn't make much of a business. Someone ordering 500 systems wants to know what the clock speed of the CPU is, the type of motherboard, the brand and size of hard drive. You can't just say "You'll get whatever's available at the time". For larger companies, the added maintenance costs of systems with various parts outweighs that inital savings.
For individuals, though, it's pretty easy to piece together a multi-GHz system for a little over $100 (provided assembly time is free).
You're kidding, right? Did you actually look through those comments? There are numerous accusations.
AMD didn't just say one day "We're going to clone Intel chips". They had a contract with Intel, which allowed them to use both the instruction set, and the architecture of Intel's x86 chips. Intel did that because IBM demanded a chip with a second supplier.
AMD went to court with the issue, and secured their rights to use the instruction set, although not the actual same chip architecture.
In more recent years, Intel licenses all of their patents on this, so you just have to pay them a fee for it. AMD also has a lot of tech that Intel wants to use, so there has been extensive cross-licensing between the two.
When the Chinese government tells you to say something, YOU SAY IT.
China is constantly running afoul of international copyright and patent laws, and they always deny it, even when the evidence is overwhelming.
Similar problems here. See "The Call of the Wild" by "James Baldwin".
I must have missed something...
Back in my day, all our data was stored on an 8x8 grid of bits you had to read and toggle by hand. That's 64-bits of storage, and we liked it that way!
Kids these days, with your teletypes, and multi-kilobyte video games.
The H3 is the smaller, more fuel-effecient version of the Hummer.
Perhaps you mean the H1 or H2...
Absolutely right. I've been saying for quite a long time now, that was exactly my experience. C3s perform perhaps a hair less than half as fast as similarly-clocked AMD/Intel processors.
I replaced a 750MHz Thunderbird system with a Via C3 800MHz system (actually swapped the hard drive), and the performance dropped through the floor. I added RAM, external video card, etc., all in a futile attempt to get it up to speed. Shortly after that, I returned, because they falsely advertising it was as fast as 800MHz AMD/Intel chips. Despite my experience with Cyrix chips years earlier, I was inclined to believe their ridiculous claim...
The only thing VIA has going for it is a lot of marketing bullshit, which manages to trick a lot of less-informed customers into buying-in. Kinda the Walmart mentality... You pay less for it, but you're getting a LOT LESS for your money.
That surely has a lot to do with having a good power supply in the VIA, fewer hard drives, a lower-power graphics card, etc. Either that, or your Athlon64 has CnQ disabled for reasons I can't imagine.
By "everyone" you mean "nobody" right?
After Katrina, I'd turn on my TV, and every 15 minutes, the newspeople would be saying "The number of hurricanes has nothing to do with global warming, it's a standard 15-year cycle." I heard that so many times I got sick of hearing it. I heard it from news people, climatologists, meterologists, NOAA, etc.
I get the feeling the people spouting the blatantly obviously bullshit idea that the number of hurricanes had anything to do with global warming were astroturfing employees of Exxon.
Yeah, who knew Luke had a sex change?
It's a trap!
The original movie didn't show any romance between Luke and Leia. Leia and Solo, however...
Besides, since when are trailers written/made/authorized by the writers and directors of a film?
Vader means "father".
Suspicious dialog:
"He has too much of his father in him."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
etc.
That'll be 3 geek points off your card...
You know, there wouldn't be much of any complaining if:
A) He hadn't repeatedly claimed he would NEVER let you buy a copy.
and
B) You could buy them without buying another copy of the remastered version.
Even without remastering, that would quell most of the complaints around here.
Of course, the bullshit still continues. These get released when most everyone bergrudingly bought the DVD copies (not me though, I digitized my VHS copies), right when it seems that newer, high quality video formats are comming along, and he's claiming the original film reels were destroyed (so there'll be no highdef versions of the original).
It's hard to be happy about this small breakthrough, when the bullshit level is still staying so very high.
I want the original edition, but I think I'll wait another decade or so for the Blu-ray/HD-DVD editions, before Lucas gets any money from me.
"Bullshit" is a highly appropos name for that show.
In that particular episode, they find a couple kids outside of a supermarket, handing out fliers, and take their casual comments on the subject, and discount them one by one. They don't even give the dummies a chance to reply to their claims.
On slashdot, crap like that would be modded down in seconds. "Bullshit" makes Michael Moore look like a fair and unbiased reporter...
The teen-age kid handing out the fliers said GM seeds aren't tested by the FDA. Which may well have been true in the past, and I presume he really meant something alonge the lines that the FDA doesn't do EXTENSIVE testing. Of course, neither he, nor anybody else was allowed on the show to debate the issue. Penn's word is law.
The FDA doesn't do long-term testing of GM crops, which is precisely what is required to determine whether the public's fears are valid. Short-term testing won't show most effects that people (and farmers) are afraid of.
When was the last time you saw someone protesting GM crops being grown in Africa? If they want them, they can have them...
HOWEVER, the GM companies charge insane rates for GM seeds. You have to buy new seeds every year. (ensuring those poor farmers can't get them, anyhow) And then, you are still taking the risk that farmers in Mexico did with GM seeds, that the untested crops might turn your soil acidic, guaranteeing that you won't be able to grow any crops on that land again, whether GM or not. (Except maybe Tomacco)
GM crops are all being marketed to the 1st-world countries, that don't strictly need them, and the "poor farmers" senario is pretty much that the western countries need to buy the farmers these seeds, non-stop. The rich are still supporting the poor, it's just that the money would be going to the big GM companies now, instead.
Always.
The one that really disgusted me was the show where they "disprove" that recycling is necessary. Their whole premise for that is, we have enough land on the earth to make landfills to handle current levels of human wastes for a couple decades... Yes, we should plow-under the entire surface of the planet, because Penn and Teller don't want to recycle. Bullshit is a VERY good name for that show.
No, that's much to straight forward for Intel.
I expect something along the lines of: "Core 2 Tre Quad Pentium 405".
And AMD's AM3 5235+ 3.1G X4 Thunderon is faster and cheaper, anyhow.
Actually 4.7GBs would be enough for a DVD movie (let's say less than 2 hours), PROVIDED they don't include ANY extras. No "making-of", fewer audio tracks, no interviews, etc.
Of course, that's assuming most people don't care about the DVD extras.
At least it's not a big truck.
All kidding aside, I can see many problems, and practically no advantages over normal wireless connections.
Whatever happened to microwave antennas on houses? Wireless cable never did so well, but combine it with telephone service and internet access, and you've really got something there.
I never said anything of the sort. The only time I even came close was when you were reapeatedly dismissing everything I had to say, not for technical reasons, but because you read some baseless article on some home theatre site which happened to disagree.
Neither you nor I know how they came to that conclusion, they may just believe some lying press release from Toshiba. There's no way to know, so there's no way for me to tell you why they've come to the wrong conclusion, which you keep insisting I should do. I can't. I can only say their wrong, for several of the reasons I've already outlined.
"X says so" doesn't lead to a good discussion.
And in your previous posts, the "preponderance of the evidence" told you that:
Telecine didn't need to be reversed.
The 3:2 pattern never varied.
etc. etc.
I've repeatedly answered questions, but my patience is at it's end. I don't say you should trust me, or anything like that. I've given you numerous places to start learning about inverse telecine, if you wish understand why it's not perfect.
How long do you think a physicists would answer questions from people claiming "there's no such thing as gravity" and "the world is flat" before they would recomend some reference books to the person?
I'm not dismissing what you say, I just want to point out that your opinion is born out of ignorance, not knowledge, and I mean that literally, not as an insult. i.e. you don't know why telecine is hard, so you don't understand why there are problems. As opposed to understanding how inverse telecine works, and believing that it will do the job perfectly.
I keep asking one thought-provoking (I hope) question, that you ignore... If HDTVs can do perfect IVTC, why do progressive-scan DVD players even exist? Standard DVD players output interlaced/telecined signals like HD-DVD players, so why is the TV's IVTC sufficent for HD-DVDs, but somehow insufficent for DVDs?
I'm now more than finished with this thread... If it makes you feel better, go ahead and have the last word, and say what a jerk I am.
First, you can certainly make a replacement, but the problem is getting the original off, and the new one on, without ANYTHING getting in there. Do you have a vacuum chamber lying around?
Besides that, the hour of your time probably isn't worth the cost of most types of refurbished hard drives. The manufacturers consider them worth about $40.
Maybe you could make a profit on high-end SCSI drives, or something like that, but it's not going to be a large one. What's more, the manufacturer is likely to look into cases of a large number of defective drives going to one company, or one area, and consequently sending you to jail for a long time.
I can think of much more profitable and legal ways to earn money.