S-video has a resolution equal to DVD of 720x480. Actually S-video can exceed DVD quality, if you have a high-quality source like ED Betamax or D-VHS or HDTV receiver.
And yes obviously Component cables can carry HD, but if you're using a standard definition source like a VCR or PS2, there won't be any visible difference from S-video to component. AND even if you claim you can see a difference, it still wouldn't be accurate to say "s-video sucks". DVD quality doesn't suck
I thought maybe those brands were like my Compaq computer, which is made by HP but has no indication of it. Or Lexus which is made by Toyota but also hides that fact from the owner.
>>>Is it the job of the SCOTUS to strike down the law as unconstitutional, yes or no?
Not according to the Constitution. The Supreme Court can review CASES and offer an opinion (i.e. decide to free a person who exercised his free speech right), but they were Never given the power to nullify the Congress and the Executive's passed laws. On the contrary the Constitution reserves that power to the Member States of the Union (Bill of Rights, article 12) (aka amendment 10).
No it isn't clear. My reading of what you just quoted is that the Supreme Court decides CASES. It was never given the power to nullify laws duly-passed by the Congress and signed by the Executive. But since you probably won't listen to a nobody like me, instead I will quote one of the Founding Fathers..... also our second-most intelligent president (IQ of 160):
- "The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches." --Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, 1815
- "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820
- "But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is the Court? The ultimate arbiter is the People of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823
- "But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824
"This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825
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I don't have a direct quote, but Jefferson also supported allowing Member States of the Union to nullify laws that violated the central contract they had created. Such as when the New England states refused to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act and refused to return escapees to the south. I would go farther then Jefferson and recommend this amendment:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act. ----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII. Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
>>>It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution
Really? So if we signed a treaty called the "No Free Speech Treaty", that would supersede our first amendment rights? Sorry but no. That's not how it works. No treaty or law can nullify Constitutional Laws or Rights or Protections.
Someone needs to show Roger Ebert Final Fantasy 10. Ya know, just play it in front of him for a few hours. I did that with my mom and she got hooked into the story, and asked me to show her the ending. Modern videogames are basically 30-40 hour long movies, but interactive.
Roger doesn't seem to realize this because he probably still thinks of games like PacMan. He's living in the past and not knowledgeable about the present state of gaming.
Cellular reception is variable. When I moved into a hotel room for a job project, my cellphone had just 1 bar. It was enough to text messages but not enough to send or receive voicecalls. It was like that for about 1.5 days and then suddenly the signal jumped to 5 bars and stayed there. I theorized that my phone was "calling" out to the nearest tower, and it automatically reconfigured itself to "steer" the signal in my direction.
Since cellphones use a digital signal, it's probably based on the Bit Error Ratio (BER) like the signal bars used in my DTV receiver. The more errors received, the few bars are displayed. Also it varies from receiver to receiver - some will drop as low as 20% and yet still show a picture, while others need 80% to show a picture.
It's completely arbitrary where the programmer puts the "cutoff" point, and it sounds like Apple's merely shifting the BER meter -1 bar. Nothing's really changed signal wise or error wise.
Wow you really enjoy that Apple Kool Aide don't ya? "They told me and I believe it.";-) ----- *I* suspect that the company is lying to us (as virtually all corporations do), and that there's nothing wrong with the number of bars being displayed. The display is accurate.
BESIDES it doesn't matter - a dropped call is a dropped call. If the iPhone 4 drops calls in areas where other phones (like the iPhone 3) worked perfectly, then the problem is not the number of bars displayed or the software. It's the antenna being short-circuited by the user's hand. I've seen this with my television - touch the antenna and lose the picture. It seems logical that iPhone antenna is experiencing a similar effect. IMHO.
I still think of Apple as that little third-party company that almost went bankrupt in the mid-90s (as happened with Atari and Commodore). I forgot they have a virtually monopoly with their iPod and iTunes divisions and are now raking in big bucks. However the MAC division is still rather small. What's Mac's share? 10%?
First off "IBM PC" is a brand name and that's what I was referring to, and you knew very well that's what I meant. Second.....
>>>The PC was invented by Apple
WRONG. The first personal computers were sold in the early 70s, and the most popular of those was the Altair (1975-77). The Apple I was not the first PC. ----- Then Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 in 1976 and it quickly became the most popular computer up to that date (approximately 1 million sold), followed by the 1979 Atari 400/800 (1.5 million), and finally the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 (30 million and 15 million respectively).
And now you know..... the Rest of the story. And you can erase that Steve Jobs 101 revisionist stuff from your mind. Apple I was not the first personal computer - the early 70s hobbyist computers were the first PCs.
And was the floating-off of the rover also part of the mission? I can just imagine the Pixar movie of this: "Rover! Rooooover! Come back!" "I can't Busa. It's too late. Goodbye, goodbye..... Boy I hope space is kind to me."
It was Big Blue IBM that invented the PC (and AT and XT and so on). Do they still produce IBM-branded personal computers? Or have they conceded defeat to the clone makers?
As annoying as Apple's various lockdowns are, at least they've managed to maintain control of their hardware. Like Nintendo they may be small but they are still a profitable company.
>>>When we indulge that kind of thinking, we devalue human life.
Yes but if we allow murderers (saddam) or thieves or tyrants (RIAA CEO) to continue abusing other humans, that THAT is a devaluation of life. It is because we are sick of seeing our these crimes that we hope the Idiot will die, and the suffering stop. .
>>>be replaced by a carbon-copy duplicate
Yeah but maybe his fear of being shot in the head would make him tread more carefully, and not piss off the voters. He might even reverse policy and form a gentler, kinder RIAA. (As Obama did when he replaced Bush as president.)
>>>Isn't this kind of thinking what copyright laws are supposed to prevent?
Copyright laws are created to promote the sciences and useful arts. It says that in the Supreme Law of our nation. But a copyright that locks-up items for ~150 years does the exact opposite - it harms the sciences and arts. Imagine if you could not read Tom Sawyer or hear Rhapsody in Blue or see Van Gogh's starry night painting, because the corporation had them locked in a vault.
That is not promoting but instead damaging our culture.
>>>It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution
Really? So if we signed a treaty called the "No Free Speech Treaty", that would supersede our first amendment rights? Sorry but no. That's not how it works. No treaty or law can nullify Constitutional Laws or Rights or Protections.
Furthermore who put the 9 unelected Supreme Court Oligarchs in charge? Certainly not the constitution - it gave to the SCOTUS no power to nullify laws passed by Congress and signed by the Executive. If they so chose the Congress & President could simply ignore the Supreme Court and continue enforcing the laws they passed.
Actually nullifying the League treaties worked GREAT for Japan..... until they rather stupidly decided to attack a continent-sized nation. If they had not done that, they could have walked-out of the League with no further repercussions and existed independently.
Another way to think of Voltage is like potential energy. A car starts at the top of the hill and then rolls down to the bottom. Electrons operate the same way, "rolling" from high voltage to low voltage (from one battery terminal to another). Along the way they do work, such as light a bulb.
But saying the battery "pushed" the current through the bulb is also okay. It's the same way that power plants push water through the city pipes.
S-video sucks? Not really. S-video is DVD quality and works just fine for 480i or 480p source video (like my VCR, DVR, playstation, or Nintendo). And what do you mean VGA doesn't allow for hot swap? I plug and unplug VGA while it's "live" without any problem.
Anyway I'm just annoyed that I have to throw-away money buying a new CRT/LCD (or adapter) when the CRT/LCD I have works perfectly.
>>>I don't have to take it down because I receive a takedown. It's just legally safer that way.
You mean legally more dangerous. As an ISP or website, refusing to abide by a takedown notice makes you liable for the copyright infringement too, and you could be sued if the RIAA-related company decides to pursue it. You've just been lucky so far that they decided to let it slide.
Dell also makes these PC brands so if you have one, you might want to check for faulty components, or search google to see if anyone's having problems:
* OptiPlex (office desktop computer systems) * Vostro (office/small business desktop and notebook systems) * n Series (desktop and notebook computers shipped with Linux or FreeDOS installed) * Latitude (business-focused notebooks) * Precision (workstation systems and high-performance notebooks),
* Inspiron (budget desktop and notebook computers)
* Studio (mainstream desktop and laptop computers)
* XPS (high-end desktop and notebook computers)
* Studio XPS (high-end design-focus of XPS systems and extreme multimedia capability)
* Alienware (high-performance gaming systems)
* Adamo (high-end luxury laptop)
>>>RIAA sits back and collects the profit while ISPs pay the costs
Ya know: If I picked-up the morning paper and read that someone shot the RIAA CEO in the head, I think I'd actually smile..... just like I smiled when Saddam Hussein was terminated. For a few rare individuals, the world would improve if they ceased breathing. Such as when Emperor Nero died.
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>>>What does "S-Video is DVD quality" mean?
S-video has a resolution equal to DVD of 720x480. Actually S-video can exceed DVD quality, if you have a high-quality source like ED Betamax or D-VHS or HDTV receiver.
And yes obviously Component cables can carry HD, but if you're using a standard definition source like a VCR or PS2, there won't be any visible difference from S-video to component. AND even if you claim you can see a difference, it still wouldn't be accurate to say "s-video sucks". DVD quality doesn't suck
Oh.
I thought maybe those brands were like my Compaq computer, which is made by HP but has no indication of it. Or Lexus which is made by Toyota but also hides that fact from the owner.
>>>Is it the job of the SCOTUS to strike down the law as unconstitutional, yes or no?
Not according to the Constitution. The Supreme Court can review CASES and offer an opinion (i.e. decide to free a person who exercised his free speech right), but they were Never given the power to nullify the Congress and the Executive's passed laws. On the contrary the Constitution reserves that power to the Member States of the Union (Bill of Rights, article 12) (aka amendment 10).
No it isn't clear. My reading of what you just quoted is that the Supreme Court decides CASES. It was never given the power to nullify laws duly-passed by the Congress and signed by the Executive. But since you probably won't listen to a nobody like me, instead I will quote one of the Founding Fathers..... also our second-most intelligent president (IQ of 160):
- "The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches." --Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, 1815
- "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820
- "But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is the Court? The ultimate arbiter is the People of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823
- "But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824
"This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825
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I don't have a direct quote, but Jefferson also supported allowing Member States of the Union to nullify laws that violated the central contract they had created. Such as when the New England states refused to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act and refused to return escapees to the south. I would go farther then Jefferson and recommend this amendment:
The "Protect the 9th and 10th Amendments" Act.
----- Proposed Amendment XXVIII.
Section 1. After a Bill has become Law, if one-half of the State legislatures declare the Law to be "unconstitutional" it shall be null and void. It shall be as if the Law never existed. ----- SECTION 2. The Supreme Court will have the authority to review cases, and as part of the ruling declare these cases constitutional or unconstitutional, however the decision by the States (section 1) shall be superior.
>>>It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution
Really? So if we signed a treaty called the "No Free Speech Treaty", that would supersede our first amendment rights? Sorry but no. That's not how it works. No treaty or law can nullify Constitutional Laws or Rights or Protections.
I thought Windows Vista/7 eliminated the Start button?
Someone needs to show Roger Ebert Final Fantasy 10. Ya know, just play it in front of him for a few hours. I did that with my mom and she got hooked into the story, and asked me to show her the ending. Modern videogames are basically 30-40 hour long movies, but interactive.
Roger doesn't seem to realize this because he probably still thinks of games like PacMan. He's living in the past and not knowledgeable about the present state of gaming.
Cellular reception is variable. When I moved into a hotel room for a job project, my cellphone had just 1 bar. It was enough to text messages but not enough to send or receive voicecalls. It was like that for about 1.5 days and then suddenly the signal jumped to 5 bars and stayed there. I theorized that my phone was "calling" out to the nearest tower, and it automatically reconfigured itself to "steer" the signal in my direction.
Since cellphones use a digital signal, it's probably based on the Bit Error Ratio (BER) like the signal bars used in my DTV receiver. The more errors received, the few bars are displayed. Also it varies from receiver to receiver - some will drop as low as 20% and yet still show a picture, while others need 80% to show a picture.
It's completely arbitrary where the programmer puts the "cutoff" point, and it sounds like Apple's merely shifting the BER meter -1 bar. Nothing's really changed signal wise or error wise.
Wow you really enjoy that Apple Kool Aide don't ya? "They told me and I believe it." ;-) ----- *I* suspect that the company is lying to us (as virtually all corporations do), and that there's nothing wrong with the number of bars being displayed. The display is accurate.
BESIDES it doesn't matter - a dropped call is a dropped call. If the iPhone 4 drops calls in areas where other phones (like the iPhone 3) worked perfectly, then the problem is not the number of bars displayed or the software. It's the antenna being short-circuited by the user's hand. I've seen this with my television - touch the antenna and lose the picture. It seems logical that iPhone antenna is experiencing a similar effect. IMHO.
Sorry I keep forgetting.
I still think of Apple as that little third-party company that almost went bankrupt in the mid-90s (as happened with Atari and Commodore). I forgot they have a virtually monopoly with their iPod and iTunes divisions and are now raking in big bucks. However the MAC division is still rather small. What's Mac's share? 10%?
First off "IBM PC" is a brand name and that's what I was referring to, and you knew very well that's what I meant. Second.....
>>>The PC was invented by Apple
WRONG. The first personal computers were sold in the early 70s, and the most popular of those was the Altair (1975-77). The Apple I was not the first PC. ----- Then Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 in 1976 and it quickly became the most popular computer up to that date (approximately 1 million sold), followed by the 1979 Atari 400/800 (1.5 million), and finally the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 (30 million and 15 million respectively).
And now you know..... the Rest of the story. And you can erase that Steve Jobs 101 revisionist stuff from your mind. Apple I was not the first personal computer - the early 70s hobbyist computers were the first PCs.
And was the floating-off of the rover also part of the mission? I can just imagine the Pixar movie of this:
"Rover! Rooooover! Come back!"
"I can't Busa. It's too late. Goodbye, goodbye..... Boy I hope space is kind to me."
It was Big Blue IBM that invented the PC (and AT and XT and so on). Do they still produce IBM-branded personal computers? Or have they conceded defeat to the clone makers?
As annoying as Apple's various lockdowns are, at least they've managed to maintain control of their hardware. Like Nintendo they may be small but they are still a profitable company.
>>>When we indulge that kind of thinking, we devalue human life.
Yes but if we allow murderers (saddam) or thieves or tyrants (RIAA CEO) to continue abusing other humans, that THAT is a devaluation of life. It is because we are sick of seeing our these crimes that we hope the Idiot will die, and the suffering stop.
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>>>be replaced by a carbon-copy duplicate
Yeah but maybe his fear of being shot in the head would make him tread more carefully, and not piss off the voters. He might even reverse policy and form a gentler, kinder RIAA. (As Obama did when he replaced Bush as president.)
>>>Isn't this kind of thinking what copyright laws are supposed to prevent?
Copyright laws are created to promote the sciences and useful arts. It says that in the Supreme Law of our nation. But a copyright that locks-up items for ~150 years does the exact opposite - it harms the sciences and arts. Imagine if you could not read Tom Sawyer or hear Rhapsody in Blue or see Van Gogh's starry night painting, because the corporation had them locked in a vault.
That is not promoting but instead damaging our culture.
>>>It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution
Really? So if we signed a treaty called the "No Free Speech Treaty", that would supersede our first amendment rights? Sorry but no. That's not how it works. No treaty or law can nullify Constitutional Laws or Rights or Protections.
Furthermore who put the 9 unelected Supreme Court Oligarchs in charge? Certainly not the constitution - it gave to the SCOTUS no power to nullify laws passed by Congress and signed by the Executive. If they so chose the Congress & President could simply ignore the Supreme Court and continue enforcing the laws they passed.
Actually nullifying the League treaties worked GREAT for Japan..... until they rather stupidly decided to attack a continent-sized nation. If they had not done that, they could have walked-out of the League with no further repercussions and existed independently.
Please tell me more about this "stealing from the public domain" bit
Another way to think of Voltage is like potential energy. A car starts at the top of the hill and then rolls down to the bottom. Electrons operate the same way, "rolling" from high voltage to low voltage (from one battery terminal to another). Along the way they do work, such as light a bulb.
But saying the battery "pushed" the current through the bulb is also okay. It's the same way that power plants push water through the city pipes.
>>>S-video sucks, VGA doesn't allow for hot swap.
S-video sucks? Not really. S-video is DVD quality and works just fine for 480i or 480p source video (like my VCR, DVR, playstation, or Nintendo). And what do you mean VGA doesn't allow for hot swap? I plug and unplug VGA while it's "live" without any problem.
Anyway I'm just annoyed that I have to throw-away money buying a new CRT/LCD (or adapter) when the CRT/LCD I have works perfectly.
>>>I don't have to take it down because I receive a takedown. It's just legally safer that way.
You mean legally more dangerous. As an ISP or website, refusing to abide by a takedown notice makes you liable for the copyright infringement too, and you could be sued if the RIAA-related company decides to pursue it. You've just been lucky so far that they decided to let it slide.
Dell also makes these PC brands so if you have one, you might want to check for faulty components, or search google to see if anyone's having problems:
* OptiPlex (office desktop computer systems)
* Vostro (office/small business desktop and notebook systems)
* n Series (desktop and notebook computers shipped with Linux or FreeDOS installed)
* Latitude (business-focused notebooks)
* Precision (workstation systems and high-performance notebooks),
* Inspiron (budget desktop and notebook computers)
* Studio (mainstream desktop and laptop computers)
* XPS (high-end desktop and notebook computers)
* Studio XPS (high-end design-focus of XPS systems and extreme multimedia capability)
* Alienware (high-performance gaming systems)
* Adamo (high-end luxury laptop)
>>>RIAA sits back and collects the profit while ISPs pay the costs
Ya know: If I picked-up the morning paper and read that someone shot the RIAA CEO in the head, I think I'd actually smile..... just like I smiled when Saddam Hussein was terminated. For a few rare individuals, the world would improve if they ceased breathing. Such as when Emperor Nero died.