Pretty soon they'll be able to see individual cells, similar to a microscope, and remove a cell at a time rather than tear the tissue with a primitive scalpel.
BTW the summary is wrong. It's *2* times the resolution... just the same as a DVD (704 across) is about twice the resolution of VHS (350 across).
If I were given control of the government budget, I could have it balanced in less than a month, and all the debt wiped-out by 2020. Yes it would require sacrifice, but laborers do that every single day when they balance their family's budgets. Why politicians don't know how to do this is a mystery.
Yes BadAnalogy, but there's a difference between applying a $1,000 flat tax to a small ISP with only $10,000 in total equity, versus applying $1,000 to million-dollar Comcast. The small company can't absorb the cost and will disappear..... just the same as if you applied an additional $1,000 flat tax to an engineer like me, I could swallow it but if you do the same to a McDonalds worker, he will be forced into bankruptcy.
They already tax Small ISP's profits - but because politicians are addicted to spending like a teenager with a credit card, they want MORE money. Hence a *additional* tax lobbied just because the ISP exists (profit or no profit).
The U.S. and EU are going to tax themselves into serfdom. It's what the Roman Empire did in the 300s and 400s.
>>>no incentive to "accidentally" grab some huge bycatch
Typical example of unintended consequences caused by laws. What's more efficient? To go on 5 trips catching 5 different marketable sea animals? Or to go on ONE trip and just catch all of them at the same time? The answer is obvious.
>>>maybe we should indeed be eating more different sorts of species to help "spread the damage"
A survivalist told me one time that a family could survive on just 1 acre of ground if they learned to eat bugs and worms. That sounds extreme but when the asteroid hit the planet, the only animals which survived were the ones that dug-up and ate bugs. The ones that refused to eat bugs (dinosaurs) starved.
I guess eating bugs is no worse than popping calcium pills - crunchy with a meaty center. Or just swallow them whole.
>>>Are you suggesting private waste collection/disposal companies don't change by weight (or volume)?
Yes of course, but the idea is that trash can would have an extra tax (per pound) placed on top of it, while the recycle bins would not. (At least that's how the UK guy explained it to a CNN reporter.) It's a way to encourage people to recycle rather than trash their items.
I don't condone murder (violates your neighbors' right to life).
But I do condone defending yourself from tyrannical leaders in government. If the tyrant is about to put a bullet in my head, then I will go-out with a fight. (See the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
>>>Where would you get these warez? And would you pay for additional phone lines
Same place I got them in the 80s - have the crackers mail them to me on disk, and post them on my BBS for everyone to grab. Or rip the games, CDs, DVDs myself. Or if somebody already beat me to the punch and posted it on some distant California BBS, I'd just grab it from them and share it with all my users.
And: Many BBSes of the 80s had two or three lines, and the computer on my desk would handle these 2-3 users all at the same time. It was standard practice. Don't you remember? Hmmm. .
>>>AOL being resurrected counts directly as recreating the internet.
>>>Usenet newsgroups like rec.arts.tv would not exist because the internet is turned off and so there is no way to access it.
(sigh). Okay you know what annoys me? It's not ignorance; it's okay to be ignorant. What annoys me is people who make comments about Subjects they nothing about. Like you. ----- Before the internet became widespread, Usenet and FIDOnet used phonelines. During the 80s, at a predetermined time of 1 or 2 or 3 a.m. thousands of computers all over the U.S. would connect to one another via Dialup modem and exchange messages. Then they connected to computers in Europe. And those connected to computers in Russia and Japan. And Japan would connect to the U.S.
No. Internet. Involved. The messages would propagate around the world using the plain-old telephone service, and users would read these by logging into a local BBS using their 2400 or 9600 baud modems. That's how it was done when I first joined rec.arts.tv and rec.arts.startrek in 1988. And that's how it would be done AGAIN if the internet suddenly died.
Online play? What's that? (I kid.) No actually I have no interest in being harassed by a bunch of kiddies that lack manners, so the problem you describe has never happened to me. I prefer standard offline games - me versus the computer.
>>>our broadband infrastructure isn't really equipped to download GBs of data as the primary way of purchasing games.
That's for sure. Verizon DSL recently had a "free week" of downloadable games. While most of them were reasonable in size, when I downloaded Tomb Raider Legend it took all night, plus a big chunk of the morning until I was finally able to play it.
Plus Verizon's player has a rather stupid design. You can't play games and download in the background. You have to just sit and wait.:-( Haven't they ever heard of multitasking? Even my ancient 1985 Amiga lets me play games and download at the same time.
PS2/3 Greatest Hits DVDs only cost $20. Or less. For example I got Kingdom Hearts 2 this past spring for $18. Now come Thanksgiving I can sell it on ebay as a "like new" game for about $15.
In some cases if you hang onto a game long enough it will actually increase in value. Like Mario Sunshine which I was able to acquire it for $20 three years ago (Nintendo Player's Choice), and then sell it for $70 on Ebay last Christmas due to its rarity. Same applies to my copy of Final Fantasy 7, which I could make a similar profit it I chose to sell it.
Anyway you can sell most games for more than $10 easily. And buying games for $20 is just a matter of waiting for the pricedrop.
The Digital download would have to really, really cheap (less than $10) to make it worthwhile for me to participate in this new economy. Why 10? Because oftentimes I buy a game on DVD for $20, play it, and then sell it used for $10-15, so my actual out-of-pocket cost for most games is less than $10 overall.
>>>The "Apple premium" story has been debunked so many times
No it hasn't. The Staples $300 AMD X2 dual-core 3 gig RAM/500 GB HDD with included keyboard, mouse and Win7, would cost $1100 in a Macintosh Mini of comparable power (Intel Duo with 2 gig RAM/500 GB HDD plus keyboard mouse).
By the way what's up with the Mac Mini requiring a separate $70 Apple Video-to-DVI adapter??? My IBM PC-compatible doesn't need a VGA or DVI adapter.
(goes to apple.com) $1100 retail Mac Mini - 2.6 GHz, dual core, 2 gig RAM, 500 GB HDD. Sale price would probably be $1000. Okay it's cheaper than my initial guess, but still over 3 times as much money.
>>>The average consumer doesn't give a shit what commodore64_love on Slashdot is interested in buying --
I don't give a shit that they don't give a shit. I'll buy whatever shit I feel like buying with the shitty salary my shitty boss hands me at the end of each shitty week. So go eat ____. JEEZ. Such an uproar just because I said, "Staples is selling a brand-new AMD X2 at only $300. A comparable Mac costs about $1500." I was just vocalizing.....
Squirrel!
............... what I was thinking. I'm sorry you did not like my opinion. Learn some tolerance for people who hold opinions different from your own.
>>>you can't just take a single pet peeve and use it to claim that one OS is better than the other.
Oh I've just got started:
- Ubuntu refuses to connect to my Netscape ISP via their supplied software. And after opening a terminal program and direct-dialing to connect, then I found the Web Accelerator software refused to work. I don't want to be stuck at a slow 50k with no acceleration. On Windows and Mac this stuff "just works" without any effort.
- My Stella Atari and Netsticle NES emulators work, but refuse to play about half of the ROMs. This is odd for two reasons: All the ROMs work just fine on Windoze XP. The emulators were written for Linux; they should work 100%.
- Internet Explorer refuses to work. Some may call this a blessing, but I still like to have IE in case I need it.
- It's difficult to find-out what's on my machine. i.e. The size of the HDD and the speed of the CPU. On Windows you just click "My computer" and there it is. On Ubuntu Linux it's hidden for some dumb reason.
Well that's all I can think of right now, but overall I find using Linux less user-friendly than using my old Commodore Amiga (1985) which is a pretty sad state of affairs (imho). Somebody somewhere needs to sit down and say, "Let's make Ubuntu idiot-friendly," as was done with Windows and Mac OSes.
Ya know, I've had this same argument with Fans of Hybrids.
I say, "Why pay $20,000 for a 50mpg Civic Hybrid, when I can buy buy a standard 40mpg Civic HX for only $14,000, and still get great gas mileage." Then these Hybrid Fans come back and say that the Hybrid has bluetooth and upgraded 5-speaker stereo and other crap, to which I respond, "Yeah but I don't want all those extras. I just want a car that carries me to work and back, so I'll take 14,000 dollar 40mpg car instead."
The same is true with Levis. Why spend $40 when I can pay $15 for Arizonas or Big Macs or Wrangler. With Levis you're just paying more for the label - there's no real difference (none that matters to me).
Ditto Macs.
Yeah they come with lots of extras, but I don't want those extras. I want something I can afford, and the $300 AMD X2 Win7 PC is it. I don't see ANY value in spending fives times more for the Apple/Intel product. I don't want to pay for a label.
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
From what I've read MacOS 10.x *is* NEXT OS. When Jobs took-over, he kept using his beloved OS, and merely changed the appearance.
I think it's worth nothing that MacOS doesn't use universal binaries anymore. They were used during the 68000/PowerPC transition, and then eliminated. And now the PPC/Intel binaries are being phased-out too, because having smaller files speeds-up hard drive thrashing, and 10.6 doesn't support PPC.
First off, I rationalize piracy because prior to the internet, I used to buy VHS tapes or Cassette albums, and oftentimes the purchase was trash (example: Bill Cosby's Ghost Dad). And of course it wasn't possible to get a refund. No "satisfaction guaranteed" in the media market.
Now I can try before I buy, and ONLY buy the good stuff. i.e. I avoided the trash that was Voyager, but I discovered (and bought) the genius that is Star Trek DS9.
SECOND: The point of me quoting the statistics is to kill RIAA's claims that 1 download == 1 lost sale. In reality it takes 2500 downloads for 1 lost sale, therefore piracy still causes damage but not as extreme as the MAFIAA.... ooops I mean RIAA would lead you to believe. Jamie Thomas owes about 2 million dollars in damages, which is based upon the 1 download == 1 lost sale argument. I believe she should only owe 2 mil/2500 == $800 plus incurred legal fees. She caused damage in terms of lost sales, but it was minimal.
The difference is the + part, which refers to AAC + SBR.
Without SBR the 48k sample would sound like your typical 48k MP3 (11,000 max frequency - AM radio quality), but the SBR is specifically designed to recreate the high-frequency components (upto 22,000). It's an illusion but a very effective one. AAC+ is what is used for digital radio to let it sound FM or CD quality at only 64k.
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Pretty soon they'll be able to see individual cells, similar to a microscope, and remove a cell at a time rather than tear the tissue with a primitive scalpel.
BTW the summary is wrong. It's *2* times the resolution... just the same as a DVD (704 across) is about twice the resolution of VHS (350 across).
I can't believe how politicians spend money.
If I were given control of the government budget, I could have it balanced in less than a month, and all the debt wiped-out by 2020. Yes it would require sacrifice, but laborers do that every single day when they balance their family's budgets. Why politicians don't know how to do this is a mystery.
Yes BadAnalogy, but there's a difference between applying a $1,000 flat tax to a small ISP with only $10,000 in total equity, versus applying $1,000 to million-dollar Comcast. The small company can't absorb the cost and will disappear..... just the same as if you applied an additional $1,000 flat tax to an engineer like me, I could swallow it but if you do the same to a McDonalds worker, he will be forced into bankruptcy.
They already tax Small ISP's profits - but because politicians are addicted to spending like a teenager with a credit card, they want MORE money. Hence a *additional* tax lobbied just because the ISP exists (profit or no profit).
The U.S. and EU are going to tax themselves into serfdom. It's what the Roman Empire did in the 300s and 400s.
>>>no incentive to "accidentally" grab some huge bycatch
Typical example of unintended consequences caused by laws. What's more efficient? To go on 5 trips catching 5 different marketable sea animals? Or to go on ONE trip and just catch all of them at the same time? The answer is obvious.
>>>maybe we should indeed be eating more different sorts of species to help "spread the damage"
A survivalist told me one time that a family could survive on just 1 acre of ground if they learned to eat bugs and worms. That sounds extreme but when the asteroid hit the planet, the only animals which survived were the ones that dug-up and ate bugs. The ones that refused to eat bugs (dinosaurs) starved.
I guess eating bugs is no worse than popping calcium pills - crunchy with a meaty center. Or just swallow them whole.
>>>Are you suggesting private waste collection/disposal companies don't change by weight (or volume)?
Yes of course, but the idea is that trash can would have an extra tax (per pound) placed on top of it, while the recycle bins would not. (At least that's how the UK guy explained it to a CNN reporter.) It's a way to encourage people to recycle rather than trash their items.
>>>But in the USA, you'd still be paying for public TV if you did this.
In the USA television is free. All you need is an aerial. Unless you were talking about PBS? That's only $3 a year - not really a big deal.
I don't condone murder (violates your neighbors' right to life).
But I do condone defending yourself from tyrannical leaders in government. If the tyrant is about to put a bullet in my head, then I will go-out with a fight. (See the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
>>>Where would you get these warez? And would you pay for additional phone lines
Same place I got them in the 80s - have the crackers mail them to me on disk, and post them on my BBS for everyone to grab. Or rip the games, CDs, DVDs myself. Or if somebody already beat me to the punch and posted it on some distant California BBS, I'd just grab it from them and share it with all my users.
And: Many BBSes of the 80s had two or three lines, and the computer on my desk would handle these 2-3 users all at the same time. It was standard practice. Don't you remember? Hmmm.
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>>>AOL being resurrected counts directly as recreating the internet.
Completely and totally false. Back before 1993, AOL was only accessible via a 1-800 phone line. There was NO internet or IP protocol whatsoever. Here you can see what AOL looked like back then: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Qlink-mainmenu.png Here you can see another BBS that used ANSI (not Internet protocol) to create graphics: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/VC-DMSEL.PNG
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>>>Usenet newsgroups like rec.arts.tv would not exist because the internet is turned off and so there is no way to access it.
(sigh). Okay you know what annoys me? It's not ignorance; it's okay to be ignorant. What annoys me is people who make comments about Subjects they nothing about. Like you. ----- Before the internet became widespread, Usenet and FIDOnet used phonelines. During the 80s, at a predetermined time of 1 or 2 or 3 a.m. thousands of computers all over the U.S. would connect to one another via Dialup modem and exchange messages. Then they connected to computers in Europe. And those connected to computers in Russia and Japan. And Japan would connect to the U.S.
No. Internet. Involved. The messages would propagate around the world using the plain-old telephone service, and users would read these by logging into a local BBS using their 2400 or 9600 baud modems. That's how it was done when I first joined rec.arts.tv and rec.arts.startrek in 1988. And that's how it would be done AGAIN if the internet suddenly died.
Online play? What's that? (I kid.) No actually I have no interest in being harassed by a bunch of kiddies that lack manners, so the problem you describe has never happened to me. I prefer standard offline games - me versus the computer.
Reread what I wrote. PS2 *and* PS3 games can be had for $20 as part of Sony's Greatest Hits portfolio.
>>>our broadband infrastructure isn't really equipped to download GBs of data as the primary way of purchasing games.
That's for sure. Verizon DSL recently had a "free week" of downloadable games. While most of them were reasonable in size, when I downloaded Tomb Raider Legend it took all night, plus a big chunk of the morning until I was finally able to play it.
Plus Verizon's player has a rather stupid design. You can't play games and download in the background. You have to just sit and wait. :-( Haven't they ever heard of multitasking? Even my ancient 1985 Amiga lets me play games and download at the same time.
PS2/3 Greatest Hits DVDs only cost $20. Or less. For example I got Kingdom Hearts 2 this past spring for $18. Now come Thanksgiving I can sell it on ebay as a "like new" game for about $15.
In some cases if you hang onto a game long enough it will actually increase in value. Like Mario Sunshine which I was able to acquire it for $20 three years ago (Nintendo Player's Choice), and then sell it for $70 on Ebay last Christmas due to its rarity. Same applies to my copy of Final Fantasy 7, which I could make a similar profit it I chose to sell it.
Anyway you can sell most games for more than $10 easily.
And buying games for $20 is just a matter of waiting for the pricedrop.
...I'm not buying.
The Digital download would have to really, really cheap (less than $10) to make it worthwhile for me to participate in this new economy. Why 10? Because oftentimes I buy a game on DVD for $20, play it, and then sell it used for $10-15, so my actual out-of-pocket cost for most games is less than $10 overall.
>>>The "Apple premium" story has been debunked so many times
No it hasn't. The Staples $300 AMD X2 dual-core 3 gig RAM/500 GB HDD with included keyboard, mouse and Win7, would cost $1100 in a Macintosh Mini of comparable power (Intel Duo with 2 gig RAM/500 GB HDD plus keyboard mouse).
By the way what's up with the Mac Mini requiring a separate $70 Apple Video-to-DVI adapter???
My IBM PC-compatible doesn't need a VGA or DVI adapter.
>>>If so, who the hell is buying all the Macs?
Same people who spend $40,000 buying a Lexus, Chrysler, or some other luxury brand. That top 5% who have money to spare buying expensive toys.
2.7 GHz
Dual Processor core
3 gig RAM/ 500 GB HDD
versus
(goes to apple.com) $1100 retail Mac Mini - 2.6 GHz, dual core, 2 gig RAM, 500 GB HDD. Sale price would probably be $1000. Okay it's cheaper than my initial guess, but still over 3 times as much money.
>>>The average consumer doesn't give a shit what commodore64_love on Slashdot is interested in buying --
I don't give a shit that they don't give a shit. I'll buy whatever shit I feel like buying with the shitty salary my shitty boss hands me at the end of each shitty week. So go eat ____. JEEZ. Such an uproar just because I said, "Staples is selling a brand-new AMD X2 at only $300. A comparable Mac costs about $1500." I was just vocalizing.....
Squirrel!
>>>You are living 5+ years in the past when it comes to Linux.
I just bought my Ubuntu laptop 6 months ago.
I use Firefox on a Win98 laptop with only 0.01 gig of RAM (96 MB).
>>>you can't just take a single pet peeve and use it to claim that one OS is better than the other.
Oh I've just got started:
- Ubuntu refuses to connect to my Netscape ISP via their supplied software. And after opening a terminal program and direct-dialing to connect, then I found the Web Accelerator software refused to work. I don't want to be stuck at a slow 50k with no acceleration. On Windows and Mac this stuff "just works" without any effort.
- My Stella Atari and Netsticle NES emulators work, but refuse to play about half of the ROMs. This is odd for two reasons: All the ROMs work just fine on Windoze XP. The emulators were written for Linux; they should work 100%.
- Internet Explorer refuses to work. Some may call this a blessing, but I still like to have IE in case I need it.
- It's difficult to find-out what's on my machine. i.e. The size of the HDD and the speed of the CPU. On Windows you just click "My computer" and there it is. On Ubuntu Linux it's hidden for some dumb reason.
Well that's all I can think of right now, but overall I find using Linux less user-friendly than using my old Commodore Amiga (1985) which is a pretty sad state of affairs (imho). Somebody somewhere needs to sit down and say, "Let's make Ubuntu idiot-friendly," as was done with Windows and Mac OSes.
Ya know, I've had this same argument with Fans of Hybrids.
I say, "Why pay $20,000 for a 50mpg Civic Hybrid, when I can buy buy a standard 40mpg Civic HX for only $14,000, and still get great gas mileage." Then these Hybrid Fans come back and say that the Hybrid has bluetooth and upgraded 5-speaker stereo and other crap, to which I respond, "Yeah but I don't want all those extras. I just want a car that carries me to work and back, so I'll take 14,000 dollar 40mpg car instead."
The same is true with Levis. Why spend $40 when I can pay $15 for Arizonas or Big Macs or Wrangler. With Levis you're just paying more for the label - there's no real difference (none that matters to me).
Ditto Macs.
Yeah they come with lots of extras, but I don't want those extras. I want something I can afford, and the $300 AMD X2 Win7 PC is it. I don't see ANY value in spending fives times more for the Apple/Intel product. I don't want to pay for a label.
When did VMS take-over Windows? Which iteration? NT5 (2000/XP) or NT6 (Vista/Win7)? Or earlier?
From what I've read MacOS 10.x *is* NEXT OS. When Jobs took-over, he kept using his beloved OS, and merely changed the appearance.
I think it's worth nothing that MacOS doesn't use universal binaries anymore. They were used during the 68000/PowerPC transition, and then eliminated. And now the PPC/Intel binaries are being phased-out too, because having smaller files speeds-up hard drive thrashing, and 10.6 doesn't support PPC.
First off, I rationalize piracy because prior to the internet, I used to buy VHS tapes or Cassette albums, and oftentimes the purchase was trash (example: Bill Cosby's Ghost Dad). And of course it wasn't possible to get a refund. No "satisfaction guaranteed" in the media market.
Now I can try before I buy, and ONLY buy the good stuff. i.e. I avoided the trash that was Voyager, but I discovered (and bought) the genius that is Star Trek DS9.
SECOND: The point of me quoting the statistics is to kill RIAA's claims that 1 download == 1 lost sale. In reality it takes 2500 downloads for 1 lost sale, therefore piracy still causes damage but not as extreme as the MAFIAA.... ooops I mean RIAA would lead you to believe. Jamie Thomas owes about 2 million dollars in damages, which is based upon the 1 download == 1 lost sale argument. I believe she should only owe 2 mil/2500 == $800 plus incurred legal fees. She caused damage in terms of lost sales, but it was minimal.
The difference is the + part, which refers to AAC + SBR.
Without SBR the 48k sample would sound like your typical 48k MP3 (11,000 max frequency - AM radio quality), but the SBR is specifically designed to recreate the high-frequency components (upto 22,000). It's an illusion but a very effective one. AAC+ is what is used for digital radio to let it sound FM or CD quality at only 64k.
Here's an AAC+ sample at 80k - http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=1807
And another: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=710541
Another: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=991083
Here you can do your own searching for AAC+ stations: http://classic.shoutcast.com/