However, you can get productive work done on a Mac/PC but not on an iPad. The iPad is great for reading newspapers, books, watching videos, listening to music (not at the same time yet) but you're limited to end user functionality.
A television set is also easy to use, you have an ON button, buttons to change channels and buttons to change volume. Easy! But can you actually work on it? Some people will say yes, you can watch news bulletins on it for example and see what the stock price is doing but you can't really use the device (iPad or TV) to produce anything significant. You can watch a video on the iPad, nice! However, you can't EDIT it.
Secondly, your video file has to be the exact format and profile of the H.264 codec to be playable on the iPad. So you can't really watch other videos, eg AVCHD or XDCAM that you shot on your camcorder without first transcoding.
What Apple has done is re-invent the portable telly (as The Register pointed out) with an obviously easy interface and added some other features (newspapers, web browsing, iTunes music, etc) and you have a nice end user consumer product - primarily aimed to be used for consumption of mostly Apple content. The PC/Mac on the other hand is a different ballgame. It's everything the iPad is with a less finger-friendly interface and more - you can actually WORK on it and not just monkey around and watch iTunes video clips or read newspapers. Apple has made a nice appliance device for content consumption but not content creation, a nice toy.
The trick for Tablet PC makers, I think, would be to have an iPad like interface on a device which can do the work of a PC and not a multi-modal portable television.
Or the European Commission could tell Google to get out of the EU. If they disobey, their assets are seized. Google will lose a ton of advertising as customers in the EU are no longer able to view their ads. Granted other businesses in Europe will lose out too and governments will lose tax revenue too.
The Soviets used far fewer and less knowledgeable Nazis and they abandoned them much sooner than the USA. To suggest that the Russian space program was a German affair is incorrect. By the time they sent the first man into space they didn't use any significant German scientists.
To qualify "non-Jewish women and children" - everyone knows that the Germans killed over 6 million Jewish civilians but few people realise how many non Jewish civilians they killed. Just pointing that out.
Even the Nazis got this right! With only a few glaring exceptions (most of which involved the SS) the Wehrmacht conducted themselves in a civil manner throughout the conflict and treated civilians and our POWs as well as could be expected. The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine were similarly well behaved.
If even the Nazis are capable of conducting war in a mostly civil manner, we should be capable of the same.
Total nonsense. The Germans were most cruel to people in the East whom they considered subhuman. I lost relatives to German army.
If you also consider the numbers of Russian casualties and the numbers of SS as well as the numbers of troops killed by Stalin's own thugs, you have to logically concur that the Wehrmacht was guilty of many war crimes and actively executed civilans as well as POWs on top of providing logistical support for the SS.
War crimes of the Wehrmacht were those carried out by German armed forces during World War II. While the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust amongst German armed forces were the Nazi German political armies (the SS-Totenkopfverbände and particularly the Einsatzgruppen), the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front in the war against the Soviet Union. The Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals at the end of World War II found that the Wehrmacht was not an inherently criminal organization, but that it had committed crimes in the course of the war.
Of course the Germans were more civil towards those they didn't consider sub-human eg French, Americans, British, Dutch etc and life was comparatively easier there with prisoner exchanges, five star facilities and whatnot. There were also instances of the Wehrmacht participating in massacres of civilians in Italy, France and Holland but not on the level as in the General Government (Poland), Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe. The notion that only the SS were the main killers is preposterous and sick to the extreme.
It's amazing how we now demonise the Japanese but consider ONLY the Nazi SS to be nasty with gentlemanly armies and sailors fighting along - yet if you read the Wiki article on brothels, mass rapes, tortures, executions of non-Jewish women and children by Werhmacht soldiers (non-Gestapo/non-SS personnel) you realise how uncivilised Europeans really are. I had the honour of losing family to Wehrmacht in WW2 myself - civilians and POW.
As a doctor, if I did that, I'd be fired and probably have my license taken away. Why should the police, who have the power of life or death over Joe Public not have to be held up to the same strict standards?
Fire those cops, I say.
Birds once flew because of god's will. I don't think the general belief was that these birds flew because God supported them in some way but that they flew because He made them that way. The mechanisms behind God's work were never explained beyond a few simplistic analogies. Religion never tried to explain the reasons behind how something is possible but more behind WHY it occurs. That's why this article, evolution, non-carbon based life etc - all of these ideas are not against the idea of God. As was, many simple people - and people were simple in ancient times as we are simple - as our descendants will say - ascribed many unexplained things to elements borrowed from religious dogma, a type of superstition if you will. That still does not prove God away one bit.
Secondly, as someone who lived under Soviet imposed Communism, I don't for a moment think that getting rid of religion will give us some improved society. IMHO I think it will be a lot worse.
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Since the Sino-British Joint Declaration stipulates that China cannot interfere with the economic system, rights or freedoms of Hong Kong until 2047, I'm sure Google won't be kicked out too soon.
And why should China obey that declaration. Doesn't the UK need China more than China needs the UK? Is the UK going to invade China? China can do what it wants in Hong Kong and they will do it if they think it's necessary.
Can someone tell me who would stop China from doing what it wants to Hong Kong - after all it was all Chinese territory originally before the British came. Of course nothing and no-one can stop them. Is the UK going to start a nuclear war over Hong Kong?
Intolerance was the norm. However, if you looked at it objectively you'd find that the Catholic Church was probably more tolerant of transgressions than secular monarchs and merchants. Read up Sublimus Dei for example where the Pope forbids the enslavement of native Americans (and other undiscovered people) and taking of their property. Did it stop the SECULAR monarchs of Spain and Portugal from doing that? Did it stop the SECULAR slave merchants?
Then again torture and harsh punishment were acceptable in that age. Feudalism was the order of the day and most Europeans were slaves (serfs) themselves. It was a different world and while the Church had abuses, one has to put those in perspective of what was the acceptable and expected standard in those days.
Wow, that must mean that anger is a rare emotion in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc. My Japanese and Taiwanese friends never get angry... they've all freed themselves from that unwholesome feeling.
Export resrictions. Amazon.com can't ship electronics outside USA, Amazon.co.jp can't ship electronics outside of Japan, Amazon.co.uk should ship electronics to the whole of the EU, same for.fr and.de and the EU should force Amazon to follow those rules or be banned from selling to EU customers.
How's this for a paradox: Amazon can't sell MP3s outside of the US but they can ship CDs worldwide.
Kidney damage is not a given when using any of these antibiotics and death with intact kidneys is also erroneous because Gram negative Endotoxic shock (or septic shock) often results in kidney complications - DIC, immune complex mediated glomerulonephritis, renal sepsis, pre-renal failure culminating in ATN, bilateral cortical necrosis etc. You end up dying of multiple organ failure - kidneys are one of these critical organs which fail.
Sinead O'Connor could have carried her point across better. For people like me, I'm of Polish descent by the way, the Pope was the source of inspiration and the only person we could trust while we were under the yoke of the Soviet Union (having been sold out by the West to Stalin). The Pope definitely did not support child abuse and his message was a positive one and quite ecumenical - whether you were Buddhist or Catholic he had positive things to say to you. On the other hand Sinead O'Connor decided to take the sensationalist approach instead of stating her case in a civilised way. In fact the Pope was not the enemy - he may have not realised the amount of child abuse going on but being of the older generation he probably couldn't believe that such things were happening - not to also say that the media did not blow them out of proportion to sale more papers or push the agendas of those who were anti the RCC. Personally, I'll take the Pope's message any time over the sorrowful moaning of O'Connor because it was he and not her who stood by us and gave us hope at a time where everyone else turned their back on us.
I'd like a citation for that. Child abuse is quite common and most of it is perpetrated by relatives or people who know the child well - step father, boyfriend of the teenage mother, uncle, next door neighbour and often camp counselor or teacher. In some cases the mother is responsible. I'm not aware of any statistics which say that the mostly homosexual child abuse perpetrated by priests makes up the majority of cases. It's nice not to like the clergy but it's better not to demonise them without proof.
True. Most anime fansub releases in the last 2 years have appeared as 720p H.264 MKV files with selectable subtitles. Sometimes, some series appear as 1080p.
Nowadays US anime companies no longer dub the anime series anymore. However, many of us still buy the animes which we once watched as fansubs on DVD - eg He is My Master, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya etc. Most of these DVDs and Blurays are still region coded and some of us aren't even in the US, which means we have to jump through hoops to get the stuff to play.
The people that nearly bankrupted the world are far from undereducated simpletons. Most in fact, were educated in the most prestigious of institutions of higher learning.
It's more likely that those prestigious institutions aren't any better than non-prestigious ones, i.e. they're overhyped. It's the same with boards hiring over payed execs because they must be good and they will boost profits so leading to higher bonus payouts for everyone concerned. That's all hype too.
What about playing back non-standard video?
Will the iPad play H.264 in Advanced Profile with higher bitrates?
With it understand MKV containers, multiple soundtracks and subtitle streams?
I doubt it. I'd like it to play all these things but it probably won't.
The Nazis were good to the (racially pure) Germans. In contrast the Soviets and Chinese murdered millions of their own - irrespective of race and later of class. Nazi system was good for most Germans, while the Soviet one sucked for almost everyone but the Party members. During Stalin's reign it sucked for everyone except for Stalin. After they got rid of Stalin, it was good for the Party members again.
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However, you can get productive work done on a Mac/PC but not on an iPad. The iPad is great for reading newspapers, books, watching videos, listening to music (not at the same time yet) but you're limited to end user functionality.
A television set is also easy to use, you have an ON button, buttons to change channels and buttons to change volume. Easy! But can you actually work on it? Some people will say yes, you can watch news bulletins on it for example and see what the stock price is doing but you can't really use the device (iPad or TV) to produce anything significant. You can watch a video on the iPad, nice! However, you can't EDIT it.
Secondly, your video file has to be the exact format and profile of the H.264 codec to be playable on the iPad. So you can't really watch other videos, eg AVCHD or XDCAM that you shot on your camcorder without first transcoding.
What Apple has done is re-invent the portable telly (as The Register pointed out) with an obviously easy interface and added some other features (newspapers, web browsing, iTunes music, etc) and you have a nice end user consumer product - primarily aimed to be used for consumption of mostly Apple content. The PC/Mac on the other hand is a different ballgame. It's everything the iPad is with a less finger-friendly interface and more - you can actually WORK on it and not just monkey around and watch iTunes video clips or read newspapers. Apple has made a nice appliance device for content consumption but not content creation, a nice toy.
The trick for Tablet PC makers, I think, would be to have an iPad like interface on a device which can do the work of a PC and not a multi-modal portable television.
Or the European Commission could tell Google to get out of the EU. If they disobey, their assets are seized. Google will lose a ton of advertising as customers in the EU are no longer able to view their ads. Granted other businesses in Europe will lose out too and governments will lose tax revenue too.
In Cracow, Poland major roads have overhead displays showing the speed you should be going at to make it to the next intersection while it's green.
The Soviets used far fewer and less knowledgeable Nazis and they abandoned them much sooner than the USA. To suggest that the Russian space program was a German affair is incorrect. By the time they sent the first man into space they didn't use any significant German scientists.
They will however confuse those who are not BD-related professionals or aficionados.
To qualify "non-Jewish women and children" - everyone knows that the Germans killed over 6 million Jewish civilians but few people realise how many non Jewish civilians they killed. Just pointing that out.
Even the Nazis got this right! With only a few glaring exceptions (most of which involved the SS) the Wehrmacht conducted themselves in a civil manner throughout the conflict and treated civilians and our POWs as well as could be expected. The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine were similarly well behaved.
If even the Nazis are capable of conducting war in a mostly civil manner, we should be capable of the same.
Total nonsense. The Germans were most cruel to people in the East whom they considered subhuman. I lost relatives to German army. If you also consider the numbers of Russian casualties and the numbers of SS as well as the numbers of troops killed by Stalin's own thugs, you have to logically concur that the Wehrmacht was guilty of many war crimes and actively executed civilans as well as POWs on top of providing logistical support for the SS.
War crimes of the Wehrmacht were those carried out by German armed forces during World War II. While the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust amongst German armed forces were the Nazi German political armies (the SS-Totenkopfverbände and particularly the Einsatzgruppen), the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front in the war against the Soviet Union. The Nuremberg Trials of the major war criminals at the end of World War II found that the Wehrmacht was not an inherently criminal organization, but that it had committed crimes in the course of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht#War_crimes
Of course the Germans were more civil towards those they didn't consider sub-human eg French, Americans, British, Dutch etc and life was comparatively easier there with prisoner exchanges, five star facilities and whatnot. There were also instances of the Wehrmacht participating in massacres of civilians in Italy, France and Holland but not on the level as in the General Government (Poland), Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe. The notion that only the SS were the main killers is preposterous and sick to the extreme.
It's amazing how we now demonise the Japanese but consider ONLY the Nazi SS to be nasty with gentlemanly armies and sailors fighting along - yet if you read the Wiki article on brothels, mass rapes, tortures, executions of non-Jewish women and children by Werhmacht soldiers (non-Gestapo/non-SS personnel) you realise how uncivilised Europeans really are. I had the honour of losing family to Wehrmacht in WW2 myself - civilians and POW.
As a doctor, if I did that, I'd be fired and probably have my license taken away. Why should the police, who have the power of life or death over Joe Public not have to be held up to the same strict standards? Fire those cops, I say.
Secondly, as someone who lived under Soviet imposed Communism, I don't for a moment think that getting rid of religion will give us some improved society. IMHO I think it will be a lot worse.
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Since the Sino-British Joint Declaration stipulates that China cannot interfere with the economic system, rights or freedoms of Hong Kong until 2047, I'm sure Google won't be kicked out too soon.
And why should China obey that declaration. Doesn't the UK need China more than China needs the UK? Is the UK going to invade China? China can do what it wants in Hong Kong and they will do it if they think it's necessary.
Can someone tell me who would stop China from doing what it wants to Hong Kong - after all it was all Chinese territory originally before the British came. Of course nothing and no-one can stop them. Is the UK going to start a nuclear war over Hong Kong?
Then again torture and harsh punishment were acceptable in that age. Feudalism was the order of the day and most Europeans were slaves (serfs) themselves. It was a different world and while the Church had abuses, one has to put those in perspective of what was the acceptable and expected standard in those days.
Wow, that must mean that anger is a rare emotion in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc. My Japanese and Taiwanese friends never get angry... they've all freed themselves from that unwholesome feeling.
How's this for a paradox: Amazon can't sell MP3s outside of the US but they can ship CDs worldwide.
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Sinead O'Connor could have carried her point across better. For people like me, I'm of Polish descent by the way, the Pope was the source of inspiration and the only person we could trust while we were under the yoke of the Soviet Union (having been sold out by the West to Stalin). The Pope definitely did not support child abuse and his message was a positive one and quite ecumenical - whether you were Buddhist or Catholic he had positive things to say to you. On the other hand Sinead O'Connor decided to take the sensationalist approach instead of stating her case in a civilised way. In fact the Pope was not the enemy - he may have not realised the amount of child abuse going on but being of the older generation he probably couldn't believe that such things were happening - not to also say that the media did not blow them out of proportion to sale more papers or push the agendas of those who were anti the RCC. Personally, I'll take the Pope's message any time over the sorrowful moaning of O'Connor because it was he and not her who stood by us and gave us hope at a time where everyone else turned their back on us.
I'd like a citation for that. Child abuse is quite common and most of it is perpetrated by relatives or people who know the child well - step father, boyfriend of the teenage mother, uncle, next door neighbour and often camp counselor or teacher. In some cases the mother is responsible. I'm not aware of any statistics which say that the mostly homosexual child abuse perpetrated by priests makes up the majority of cases. It's nice not to like the clergy but it's better not to demonise them without proof.
True. Most anime fansub releases in the last 2 years have appeared as 720p H.264 MKV files with selectable subtitles. Sometimes, some series appear as 1080p. Nowadays US anime companies no longer dub the anime series anymore. However, many of us still buy the animes which we once watched as fansubs on DVD - eg He is My Master, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya etc. Most of these DVDs and Blurays are still region coded and some of us aren't even in the US, which means we have to jump through hoops to get the stuff to play.
Postage stamp size video - from the 90s! :)
When AVIs using the Indeo codec played back in postage stamp size windows...
Time to complain to the EC again.
The people that nearly bankrupted the world are far from undereducated simpletons. Most in fact, were educated in the most prestigious of institutions of higher learning.
It's more likely that those prestigious institutions aren't any better than non-prestigious ones, i.e. they're overhyped. It's the same with boards hiring over payed execs because they must be good and they will boost profits so leading to higher bonus payouts for everyone concerned. That's all hype too.
What about playing back non-standard video? Will the iPad play H.264 in Advanced Profile with higher bitrates? With it understand MKV containers, multiple soundtracks and subtitle streams? I doubt it. I'd like it to play all these things but it probably won't.
No-one's mentioned 2ch. That's the largest forum in the world, and surely they could DDOS 4chan pretty easily.
The Nazis were good to the (racially pure) Germans. In contrast the Soviets and Chinese murdered millions of their own - irrespective of race and later of class. Nazi system was good for most Germans, while the Soviet one sucked for almost everyone but the Party members. During Stalin's reign it sucked for everyone except for Stalin. After they got rid of Stalin, it was good for the Party members again.