Yes, because clearly a police box and a phone booth look identical...
(I know what you mean though. Only I thought initially "Why is that TARDIS red instead of greyish?" - I've been watching the 1965-66 season recently:)
I don't mind watching DVDs on a 4:3 CRT because black is actually BLACK. Therefore, if you turn off enough lights, it's still a nice 16:9 image with no distractions. And I have quite a few 4:3 dvds too, so, 4:3 is obviously preferable for watching those. (And a few 4:3 bluray discs... Star Trek: TOS specifically)
My IBM P275 can do 2048x1536, and I can actually force it a LITTLE higher... but anyway, it only cost like $100. Of course it's a CRT, I bought it used, and it weighs enough that the IKEA table I have it on has a noticable bend in it now, but it works like a dream, and I love the screen real-estate. I have another computer with 2 1080p LCDs... which is good enough for what I use it for, but I don't know what I'll do when my 275 eventuallly goes bust. Such a great monitor.
Frankly I could use about a 1-2TB SSD for all of the samples for my virtual instruments on my studio machine, though a 250GB drive would probably handle the most complex and most used instruments...
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And that version runs faster, renders better, and has better sound.... AND it doesn't make every fan in my computer speed up to the point where I think I'm playing doom on a jet engine. Still not perfect (Gosh, native code runs better than code through a browser, who'd have thought?) but it's better than the JS version by leaps and bounds. Or it would be if you could jump in Doom.
So... no music, and the sound effects are like a half second delayed from the action, AND they sound really REALLY bad. I guess it's impressive what you can do visually with Javascript these days, but at least on my setup, the sound is just.... no where near as mature. That's probably not a huge problem for many people, but personally sound is a huge part of any experience for me, and I find the web constantly disappoints. Except, generally for Flash animation/Flash games which seem to have at least gotten THAT... well, MORE right.
Damn, of the stuff I know on that list, it's stuff I like... for an AC, that's a pretty informative post! (On the one day I don't have like 15 mod points...)
It's clearly not a defective product. It's insecure, yes, but those insecurities are "by design" - in that at some point, some coder coded something in such a way that was insecure. Complaining that this is "defective" in terms of consumer law seems folly - the claim "100% secure" was never made, so not being 100% secure is not a defect, it is merely an aspect of the product.
My car is not 100% soundproof. I can hear the wind as I drive, I can hear the sound of my tires on the road, I can hear other cars pass by, and if someone is playing loud music in another car, I can hear that. My ideal car might provide a quieter experience - there are cars on the market that do provide a quieter experience - but I bought my car as is. If my car was found to be substantially less sound proof than all other cars exactly the same as mine, then this would be a defective car, however that is not the case.
Windows XP is not perfect. But Windows XP is perfectly Windows XP. Heck, there have even been FREE improvements - so WIndows XP now is better than XP was. But as a customer, I don't expect them to keep improving XP forever because they never said they would. Rather, they have done what is expected as per their business model - they released new versions which cost money. Just like the new version of my model of car is a quiter ride, but in order to gain that benefit, I have to buy the new car.
Yes, Microsoft relies on copyright law in order to force you to pay for their product - but copyright law is substantially older than Microsoft as a business, and thus it seems natural that their business model would take copyright law in to account. But frankly, after they stop improving a product, they aren't exactly disabling that product, are they. I mean, Windows XP still activates, and it still runs - and there is no indication that this will cease to be, or that the facility to activate the product will at some point cease. Obviosly, if the product purchased failed to activate - and thus failed to actually perform the task of operating the system, then you would have a damn good consumer case in my mind in terms of owning a defective product.
If you want to change the situation from a legal perspective, you need to convince a heck of a lot of people to agree with you - and then convince all of them to take action on that topic, enacting change through the democratic/legal process. But realise that - GIVEN the CURRENT LEGAL REALITY - Microsoft ending patch support for Windows XP - leaving in a state that is not 100% secure (albeit more secure than when released, is EXPECTED, and they are CLEARLY not in the wrong.
Because there is a guaranteed timeline for how long the product will remain serviced, and that was available knowledge when you bought the damn prodcut. AND it was EXTENDED past the original announced date.
Stop complaining about XP security. The Windows model has and likely always will be a series of paid upgrades in order to gain not only the latest features but also the latest security updates after a certain point. It's not like that was a recent change to their business model, that's how it's always been. Since Windows 1.0. So I mean, really, do suck it up.
I'm not sure that I've ever seen a copy of Windows 1.0, and I was REALLY in to old versions of windows at a point. 1.01, yes. 1.02, yes. 1.03, yes. 1.04, definitely (had that running native on a P4 though I forget how easy or difficult that was...) - but not the original 1.0. Apparently there was some sort of major bug with 1.0, or memory leak, or something.
If anybody actually finds a copy somewhere though... that would be amazing. I've seen things claiming to be 1.0 that are just resource hacks of 1.01 or 1.04, (usually 1.04) so I know you can "find it on the google" but I have yet to see a confirmed 1.0 disk image anywhere on the net....
How early exactly did you use AOL? Because I recall using AOL back in the days before Netscape hit 1.0 (Netscape 0.9 was what my first ISP bundled with their startup package)
I certainly recall frustrations with AOL back then (1992-1993ish)..., so I'm curious as to what exactly your timeline was for AOL use....
But what I enjoy about say, going to one of the many libraries that my school operates - is having a list of a few books I want to check out, and browsing around where those books are found, finding additional books on the subject. This helps me find further research sources. I'm not sure how common that would be in all programs, but in History, it's quite a bit beneficial, or at least it has been for me...
Yup, it really is. You don't have to pay all that money up front, so even though the cost for security over a 500-1000 year period seems high - compared to the cost of walmart greeters for 500-1000 years, it's going to be THAT different - both numbers will seem ludacris.
There has been, is, and always will be a trade-off when it comes to security. If you want to have the ability to do everything you possibly can with your machine, you have to acknowledge that someone can convince you to do those same things, but to their benefit instead of yours.
It's like driving a car vs. riding a driverless subway system. When you drive a car, you have great freedom. You can go almost anywhere. Because of this, some people can be convinced to drive into lakes because their GPS says so. Hell, you can be killed by someone else because they decided to get massively drunk and then go drive their car. The car - generally speaking - doesn't care that you're driving into a lake, or driving into another car, or whatever - the car pretty much just drives. And you can make it beep as it approaches water - but some people will still gun it.
A driverless subway system probably won't drive into a lake in normal operation. It's pretty much guarenteed to stay on the rails. As a passenger, you don't have a lot of control. The subway is useful - heck it can get you some places faster than a car, but it won't go everywhere you want it to go, It runs in a restricted environment. When you ride a driverless subway, you ARE protected against some device directing you into a lake if the tracks don't lead the train into a lake. Your route is very much protected against stupidity.
It's not a perfect analogy, but the point remains: If you have freedom, you have freedom to be stupid and do bad things to yourself.
I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime. I also don't think that the formula for distributing an "artistic tax" would be fair across all situations, and could likely be LESS fair than the current system.
They are TRYING to charge you for their time and talent, which is not scarce. As a bonus, you get a game. The way they do this, is by attatching an arbitrary value to what they CAN GIVE YOU - a game - but you are actually paying for the time and talent it took to create that game, not the copy of the game. Same with music, same with books, etc., etc.. If you can come up with a business model that lets people give out something that is infinitely reproduceable - AFTER it is produced, and get paid for the non-scarce talent/time investment... well, I'd like to hear it. I'm not convinced the current model is overly broken, merely that the the value of the public domain is undervalued in the current regulatory regime, and that many people don't look beyond the thing they can acquire to see if something pre-final product was actually scarce.
Wait - you don't copy AppData? That's where many versions of outlook put their PST files. (Not 2010, but I'm pretty sure everything before 2010 was in AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook or AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Outlook.) That's where a hell of a lot of programs I use put their main databases. It's one of the main folders I make sure is backed up remotely on a daily basis just in case. If I wound up with a system which didn't have that data at least kicking around so somewhere, I'd be really quite a bit pissed off.
Again though - for a case where 1080p3D works, a more expensive cable will not make it work better, which is my point. The lowest cost solution that WORKS is precisely as good as a higher cost solution.
Except in the case where you will be plugging and unplugging often, at which point the actual quality of the connectors matters. However - again - replacing a WORKING cable with a more expensive cable will not make it work BETTER in Digital. Apply "WORKING" to your use case.
There's a cable that includes error corection? In the cable? Or compression... in the cable? Because after all this article is about cables and their ability to transmit data, and not at all what that data actually is.
Your only point that has any relevance is if HDMI is optical or not. But given that you can get fibre optic HDMI extension cables all over the internet - if it concerns you that much, then go for it, run HDMI over fibre optic.
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No, I call that part of the social compact that defines society :p
Yes, because clearly a police box and a phone booth look identical... (I know what you mean though. Only I thought initially "Why is that TARDIS red instead of greyish?" - I've been watching the 1965-66 season recently :)
20-50msecs? Not all of us ditched our CRTs for crappy LCD panels...
I don't mind watching DVDs on a 4:3 CRT because black is actually BLACK. Therefore, if you turn off enough lights, it's still a nice 16:9 image with no distractions. And I have quite a few 4:3 dvds too, so, 4:3 is obviously preferable for watching those. (And a few 4:3 bluray discs... Star Trek: TOS specifically)
My IBM P275 can do 2048x1536, and I can actually force it a LITTLE higher... but anyway, it only cost like $100. Of course it's a CRT, I bought it used, and it weighs enough that the IKEA table I have it on has a noticable bend in it now, but it works like a dream, and I love the screen real-estate. I have another computer with 2 1080p LCDs... which is good enough for what I use it for, but I don't know what I'll do when my 275 eventuallly goes bust. Such a great monitor.
Frankly I could use about a 1-2TB SSD for all of the samples for my virtual instruments on my studio machine, though a 250GB drive would probably handle the most complex and most used instruments...
And that version runs faster, renders better, and has better sound.... AND it doesn't make every fan in my computer speed up to the point where I think I'm playing doom on a jet engine. Still not perfect (Gosh, native code runs better than code through a browser, who'd have thought?) but it's better than the JS version by leaps and bounds. Or it would be if you could jump in Doom.
So... no music, and the sound effects are like a half second delayed from the action, AND they sound really REALLY bad. I guess it's impressive what you can do visually with Javascript these days, but at least on my setup, the sound is just.... no where near as mature. That's probably not a huge problem for many people, but personally sound is a huge part of any experience for me, and I find the web constantly disappoints. Except, generally for Flash animation/Flash games which seem to have at least gotten THAT... well, MORE right.
Damn, of the stuff I know on that list, it's stuff I like... for an AC, that's a pretty informative post! (On the one day I don't have like 15 mod points...)
It's clearly not a defective product. It's insecure, yes, but those insecurities are "by design" - in that at some point, some coder coded something in such a way that was insecure. Complaining that this is "defective" in terms of consumer law seems folly - the claim "100% secure" was never made, so not being 100% secure is not a defect, it is merely an aspect of the product. My car is not 100% soundproof. I can hear the wind as I drive, I can hear the sound of my tires on the road, I can hear other cars pass by, and if someone is playing loud music in another car, I can hear that. My ideal car might provide a quieter experience - there are cars on the market that do provide a quieter experience - but I bought my car as is. If my car was found to be substantially less sound proof than all other cars exactly the same as mine, then this would be a defective car, however that is not the case. Windows XP is not perfect. But Windows XP is perfectly Windows XP. Heck, there have even been FREE improvements - so WIndows XP now is better than XP was. But as a customer, I don't expect them to keep improving XP forever because they never said they would. Rather, they have done what is expected as per their business model - they released new versions which cost money. Just like the new version of my model of car is a quiter ride, but in order to gain that benefit, I have to buy the new car. Yes, Microsoft relies on copyright law in order to force you to pay for their product - but copyright law is substantially older than Microsoft as a business, and thus it seems natural that their business model would take copyright law in to account. But frankly, after they stop improving a product, they aren't exactly disabling that product, are they. I mean, Windows XP still activates, and it still runs - and there is no indication that this will cease to be, or that the facility to activate the product will at some point cease. Obviosly, if the product purchased failed to activate - and thus failed to actually perform the task of operating the system, then you would have a damn good consumer case in my mind in terms of owning a defective product. If you want to change the situation from a legal perspective, you need to convince a heck of a lot of people to agree with you - and then convince all of them to take action on that topic, enacting change through the democratic/legal process. But realise that - GIVEN the CURRENT LEGAL REALITY - Microsoft ending patch support for Windows XP - leaving in a state that is not 100% secure (albeit more secure than when released, is EXPECTED, and they are CLEARLY not in the wrong.
Because there is a guaranteed timeline for how long the product will remain serviced, and that was available knowledge when you bought the damn prodcut. AND it was EXTENDED past the original announced date.
Stop complaining about XP security. The Windows model has and likely always will be a series of paid upgrades in order to gain not only the latest features but also the latest security updates after a certain point. It's not like that was a recent change to their business model, that's how it's always been. Since Windows 1.0. So I mean, really, do suck it up.
I'm not sure that I've ever seen a copy of Windows 1.0, and I was REALLY in to old versions of windows at a point. 1.01, yes. 1.02, yes. 1.03, yes. 1.04, definitely (had that running native on a P4 though I forget how easy or difficult that was...) - but not the original 1.0. Apparently there was some sort of major bug with 1.0, or memory leak, or something. If anybody actually finds a copy somewhere though... that would be amazing. I've seen things claiming to be 1.0 that are just resource hacks of 1.01 or 1.04, (usually 1.04) so I know you can "find it on the google" but I have yet to see a confirmed 1.0 disk image anywhere on the net....
How early exactly did you use AOL? Because I recall using AOL back in the days before Netscape hit 1.0 (Netscape 0.9 was what my first ISP bundled with their startup package) I certainly recall frustrations with AOL back then (1992-1993ish)..., so I'm curious as to what exactly your timeline was for AOL use....
The authors of the article are aware of other scaling algorhythms, and discuss and compare their work to them. RTFA.
But what I enjoy about say, going to one of the many libraries that my school operates - is having a list of a few books I want to check out, and browsing around where those books are found, finding additional books on the subject. This helps me find further research sources. I'm not sure how common that would be in all programs, but in History, it's quite a bit beneficial, or at least it has been for me...
Yup, it really is. You don't have to pay all that money up front, so even though the cost for security over a 500-1000 year period seems high - compared to the cost of walmart greeters for 500-1000 years, it's going to be THAT different - both numbers will seem ludacris.
There has been, is, and always will be a trade-off when it comes to security. If you want to have the ability to do everything you possibly can with your machine, you have to acknowledge that someone can convince you to do those same things, but to their benefit instead of yours. It's like driving a car vs. riding a driverless subway system. When you drive a car, you have great freedom. You can go almost anywhere. Because of this, some people can be convinced to drive into lakes because their GPS says so. Hell, you can be killed by someone else because they decided to get massively drunk and then go drive their car. The car - generally speaking - doesn't care that you're driving into a lake, or driving into another car, or whatever - the car pretty much just drives. And you can make it beep as it approaches water - but some people will still gun it. A driverless subway system probably won't drive into a lake in normal operation. It's pretty much guarenteed to stay on the rails. As a passenger, you don't have a lot of control. The subway is useful - heck it can get you some places faster than a car, but it won't go everywhere you want it to go, It runs in a restricted environment. When you ride a driverless subway, you ARE protected against some device directing you into a lake if the tracks don't lead the train into a lake. Your route is very much protected against stupidity. It's not a perfect analogy, but the point remains: If you have freedom, you have freedom to be stupid and do bad things to yourself.
DOS runs just fine on modern hardware. DOS applications however... (I did have a native 3.1 install on my old P4 though...)
I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime. I also don't think that the formula for distributing an "artistic tax" would be fair across all situations, and could likely be LESS fair than the current system.
They are TRYING to charge you for their time and talent, which is not scarce. As a bonus, you get a game. The way they do this, is by attatching an arbitrary value to what they CAN GIVE YOU - a game - but you are actually paying for the time and talent it took to create that game, not the copy of the game. Same with music, same with books, etc., etc.. If you can come up with a business model that lets people give out something that is infinitely reproduceable - AFTER it is produced, and get paid for the non-scarce talent/time investment... well, I'd like to hear it. I'm not convinced the current model is overly broken, merely that the the value of the public domain is undervalued in the current regulatory regime, and that many people don't look beyond the thing they can acquire to see if something pre-final product was actually scarce.
I bet your 32 inch TV only has about 1920x1080 pixels of screen real estate.
2 monitors smaller monitors could fit much more information into the same amount of physical space.
Psh - active studo reference monitors, connected to your high quality mixing board via XLR cables. :P
Wait - you don't copy AppData? That's where many versions of outlook put their PST files. (Not 2010, but I'm pretty sure everything before 2010 was in AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook or AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Outlook.) That's where a hell of a lot of programs I use put their main databases. It's one of the main folders I make sure is backed up remotely on a daily basis just in case. If I wound up with a system which didn't have that data at least kicking around so somewhere, I'd be really quite a bit pissed off.
Again though - for a case where 1080p3D works, a more expensive cable will not make it work better, which is my point. The lowest cost solution that WORKS is precisely as good as a higher cost solution. Except in the case where you will be plugging and unplugging often, at which point the actual quality of the connectors matters. However - again - replacing a WORKING cable with a more expensive cable will not make it work BETTER in Digital. Apply "WORKING" to your use case.
There's a cable that includes error corection? In the cable? Or compression... in the cable? Because after all this article is about cables and their ability to transmit data, and not at all what that data actually is. Your only point that has any relevance is if HDMI is optical or not. But given that you can get fibre optic HDMI extension cables all over the internet - if it concerns you that much, then go for it, run HDMI over fibre optic.