Just thinking how many times I've bent the pins on N. American plugs. The polarised plugs took a while to get used to as they're not always the easiest to orient properly (difference in size between the pins isn't great). Don't however tread on a UK plug with bare feet. It will hurt. Those things are robust!
"2. Use unions that add about $1500.00 overhead to each car in pensions and health care"
It's a bit more complicated than that isn't it? In other countries companies don't have the expense of health care. But that's really a political issue for the American people general.
BTW - you can write to Yahoo's support about things like date formats. Ask them how to configure it to the standard where you live. They replied to me. If enough people do it, one hopes they'll pay attention and fix it as it will be cheaper than continuing to handle people's emails. Ok, maybe I'm deluded;)
Threading sounds all right. The rest is tosh. How about they localise properly so I don't have to look at confusing dates in the American format? How hard is that compared with the amount money and time they're throwing at the other crap?
You've got the wrong end of the stick. BD discs in two years time will work on shipping players today.
BD+ does not require constant firmware updates.
Except for the PS3, profile 1.0 players will not be upgradable to 1.1 nor 2.0 (a.k.a. BDLive). Content authors are creating their content to degrade gracefully, for instance they might show a still image on a profile 1.0 player in place of the secondard video that would appear on a profile 1.1 or 2.0. The main feature would still remain accessible. Not ideal IMHO, but doesn't render content inaccessible.
There won't be any three layer HD DVD movie discs any time in the next year or two.
There are constant revisions and clarifications to the HD DVD spec (I received a couple of paper copies in the last six months). Ambiguities in the spec and incorrect implementations of the spec require firmware updates too. But as far as consumers are concerned there is no difference between updating firmware for this as there is for keeping up with updates to the BD spec. All the consumer cares about is whether the content on the discs works or not. This requires a firmware update in both cases, and so the reason for the update is irrelevant.
Anyway, the BD spec for profile 1.0 is not in flux. Firmware updates for these players are no different than those for your A2.
The PS3 is the special case. It is probably the only player on the market that can be firmware upgraded from the original profile 1.0 to 1.1, and then 2.0.
"Today if you want HD DVD, you can get a player to do it that has no major advantages over a Blu-ray player except in that it doesn't need constant firmware updates. And as most consumers have never heard of firmware, and aren't aware that Blu-ray isn't finished and that discs sold within the next couple of years will be unplayable on current equipment without updates, consumers have largely gone for the marketing pushed brand."
Do you own a Toshiba HD DVD player? There's been a stream of firmware updates. And as I've posted elsewhere, bugs in the networking on those players makes it hard to get them. Consumers that haven't heard of firmware are 1) unlikely to check that they need an update, and 2) will have a hard time figuring out that the player's TCP/IP settings are wrong and reset them correctly.
You've really got it in for BD haven't you? You're contradicting your journal entry when you say the HD DVD spec is finished... there you promoted HD DVD because they've recently added a third layer to bring it up to the same capacity as BD (ignoring the fact that BD is designed to scale up to 200GB).
Any Hollywood title will have AACS on HD DVD, whether or not it's mandatory. Your point is moot. BD doesn't require AACS, as many people making movie discs at home will discover. Most consumers don't care about things like AACS and BD+, and so this will have no bearing on displacing DVD. As for the firmware updates... have you seen how many times the Toshiba players have had to updated in the last year? Made particularly tricky by their buggy network settings that often don't set the netmask or default gateway properly (I've helped maintain six of them, and more than half have had problems).
Well you just look daft if you can't spell a product name properly. It's "Blu-ray" or "BD". Anything else just looks like ignorance, but go ahead if it makes you feel special.
Java and runnable code has been part of the TV for a long time. BD-J is based on MHP/GEM. Cable boxes in N. America have had JVMs for a while. In the UK, BBCi is Java-based. It's already wide-spread, get used to it.
You think it will be better in the EU? Try flying out of a UK airport: only one carry-on allowed. Not much fun for a business traveller like me with a large laptop and other gear that can't be trusted to checked baggage.
Maybe he means having tabs down the left-side instead of across the top. The Tabbrowser extension used to allow this, but its usage is discouraged because it does some other bad stuff. It doesn't mean the text is vertical. I loved having tabs down the side. There's often space on web pages width-wise, so wider tabs are possible in this configuration, which means more of the title is visible. It also means one can have more tabs without having to scroll. Another nice thing about the Tabbrowser extension was that it grouped tabs in a tree view, so windows that popped up from one page appeared next to it on the tab bar, and all pages from one site could easily be closed in one go.
Yep, I've had the same experience. I gave up trying to report bugs, etc years ago. It's just not worth it. I struggled with Seamonkey for several years with it bringing down my system - the devs just blew it off or tried to blame the OS. When they finally admitted there was a problem and fixed the bug at the root of that, it was a serious enough fix to make a frontpage story here on/..
Anybody who's been an engineering lead or manager will know just how hard it can be sometime to get some developers to look at issues they're either not interested in or think are hard and want to avoid. They can be quite persuasive with their claims for not looking at it, or being too lazy to even investigate. That's one reason to have engineering managers - to shield the normal people in the rest of the world from prickly prima donnas. What you've experienced is partly due to there being no layer between you and the devs.
English is a mongrel language. Something like 1200 of the most common words are derived from German. These tend to be the shorter, simpler words too. Presumably by the Angles and Saxons. Longer words tend to be derived from French, and less common as they were only used by the ruling classes after the Norman invasion. There are words of direct Latin origin too, etc. English has continued to absorb words from all over the world due imperialism and multiculturalism. It's a functional language. It seems to me though that all languages have roots elsewhere, but English as we know was spread around the world by the British. American English is now spreading around the world in much the same way the British did it before: trade, backed by military force.
Get off the let's blame Microsoft bandwagon. This was the installer not the final app. At very least it would have required admin rights to write under "Program Files", because MSFT does enforce security.
"about 80% of the users run with admin privileges on XP, because most apps simply don't work as standard user"
Wrong. I've been logging on to XP as a limited user for years. Most apps work. Some broken apps can be made to work by fiddling with NTFS and registry permissions (hardly ideal, but workable). This isn't MSFT's fault, but sloppy and lazy programming by app developers. I've also been writing my software to MSFT guidelines on this for years too, so see no excuse other people in the industry.
Indeed. GEM/MHP is in wide usage. Isn't BBCi based on this in the UK? It seems to function fine on my mum's cheapo Freeview box. That said, the amount of memory available on a Blu-ray player is quite low, especially when you consider how quickly a few static images of 1920x1080@32bpp will use it up. The most affordable BD player right now is the PS3, and it just so happens to be a super computer compared to the other players, with by far the best performance.
Cool gadget hey. I found when my Creative Labs speakers are turned off they draw 75% of the power of when they're on. Extremely inefficient AC->DC converter, which is always warm.
I wish power bars in N. America had individual switches per socket as seems to be fairly standard in places like the UK. Then I can completely power-down individual devices, but still use the power bar of other things.
That's not a question that can be answered here. Why would you even bother asking? Every piece of software is different. Every company has a different set of talent, different size budget, different processes and different sets of expectations.
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Just thinking how many times I've bent the pins on N. American plugs. The polarised plugs took a while to get used to as they're not always the easiest to orient properly (difference in size between the pins isn't great). Don't however tread on a UK plug with bare feet. It will hurt. Those things are robust!
"2. Use unions that add about $1500.00 overhead to each car in pensions and health care"
It's a bit more complicated than that isn't it? In other countries companies don't have the expense of health care. But that's really a political issue for the American people general.
Although not my first choice, I'd be happy with that. The point is: Yahoo doesn't give that option.
BTW - you can write to Yahoo's support about things like date formats. Ask them how to configure it to the standard where you live. They replied to me. If enough people do it, one hopes they'll pay attention and fix it as it will be cheaper than continuing to handle people's emails. Ok, maybe I'm deluded ;)
http://help.yahoo.com/l/ca/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/contactus/
Threading sounds all right. The rest is tosh. How about they localise properly so I don't have to look at confusing dates in the American format? How hard is that compared with the amount money and time they're throwing at the other crap?
And affordable is that to the people of India?
You've got the wrong end of the stick. BD discs in two years time will work on shipping players today.
BD+ does not require constant firmware updates.
Except for the PS3, profile 1.0 players will not be upgradable to 1.1 nor 2.0 (a.k.a. BDLive). Content authors are creating their content to degrade gracefully, for instance they might show a still image on a profile 1.0 player in place of the secondard video that would appear on a profile 1.1 or 2.0. The main feature would still remain accessible. Not ideal IMHO, but doesn't render content inaccessible.
There won't be any three layer HD DVD movie discs any time in the next year or two.
There are constant revisions and clarifications to the HD DVD spec (I received a couple of paper copies in the last six months). Ambiguities in the spec and incorrect implementations of the spec require firmware updates too. But as far as consumers are concerned there is no difference between updating firmware for this as there is for keeping up with updates to the BD spec. All the consumer cares about is whether the content on the discs works or not. This requires a firmware update in both cases, and so the reason for the update is irrelevant.
Anyway, the BD spec for profile 1.0 is not in flux. Firmware updates for these players are no different than those for your A2.
The PS3 is the special case. It is probably the only player on the market that can be firmware upgraded from the original profile 1.0 to 1.1, and then 2.0.
"Today if you want HD DVD, you can get a player to do it that has no major advantages over a Blu-ray player except in that it doesn't need constant firmware updates. And as most consumers have never heard of firmware, and aren't aware that Blu-ray isn't finished and that discs sold within the next couple of years will be unplayable on current equipment without updates, consumers have largely gone for the marketing pushed brand."
Do you own a Toshiba HD DVD player? There's been a stream of firmware updates. And as I've posted elsewhere, bugs in the networking on those players makes it hard to get them. Consumers that haven't heard of firmware are 1) unlikely to check that they need an update, and 2) will have a hard time figuring out that the player's TCP/IP settings are wrong and reset them correctly.
You've really got it in for BD haven't you? You're contradicting your journal entry when you say the HD DVD spec is finished... there you promoted HD DVD because they've recently added a third layer to bring it up to the same capacity as BD (ignoring the fact that BD is designed to scale up to 200GB).
Any Hollywood title will have AACS on HD DVD, whether or not it's mandatory. Your point is moot. BD doesn't require AACS, as many people making movie discs at home will discover. Most consumers don't care about things like AACS and BD+, and so this will have no bearing on displacing DVD. As for the firmware updates... have you seen how many times the Toshiba players have had to updated in the last year? Made particularly tricky by their buggy network settings that often don't set the netmask or default gateway properly (I've helped maintain six of them, and more than half have had problems).
Well you just look daft if you can't spell a product name properly. It's "Blu-ray" or "BD". Anything else just looks like ignorance, but go ahead if it makes you feel special.
Twaddle. The special coating on BD discs IS scratch resistance.
Java and runnable code has been part of the TV for a long time. BD-J is based on MHP/GEM. Cable boxes in N. America have had JVMs for a while. In the UK, BBCi is Java-based. It's already wide-spread, get used to it.
Sony controls the standard, or does the BDA?
You think it will be better in the EU? Try flying out of a UK airport: only one carry-on allowed. Not much fun for a business traveller like me with a large laptop and other gear that can't be trusted to checked baggage.
Maybe he means having tabs down the left-side instead of across the top. The Tabbrowser extension used to allow this, but its usage is discouraged because it does some other bad stuff. It doesn't mean the text is vertical. I loved having tabs down the side. There's often space on web pages width-wise, so wider tabs are possible in this configuration, which means more of the title is visible. It also means one can have more tabs without having to scroll. Another nice thing about the Tabbrowser extension was that it grouped tabs in a tree view, so windows that popped up from one page appeared next to it on the tab bar, and all pages from one site could easily be closed in one go.
Yep, I've had the same experience. I gave up trying to report bugs, etc years ago. It's just not worth it. I struggled with Seamonkey for several years with it bringing down my system - the devs just blew it off or tried to blame the OS. When they finally admitted there was a problem and fixed the bug at the root of that, it was a serious enough fix to make a frontpage story here on /..
Anybody who's been an engineering lead or manager will know just how hard it can be sometime to get some developers to look at issues they're either not interested in or think are hard and want to avoid. They can be quite persuasive with their claims for not looking at it, or being too lazy to even investigate. That's one reason to have engineering managers - to shield the normal people in the rest of the world from prickly prima donnas. What you've experienced is partly due to there being no layer between you and the devs.
English is a mongrel language. Something like 1200 of the most common words are derived from German. These tend to be the shorter, simpler words too. Presumably by the Angles and Saxons. Longer words tend to be derived from French, and less common as they were only used by the ruling classes after the Norman invasion. There are words of direct Latin origin too, etc. English has continued to absorb words from all over the world due imperialism and multiculturalism. It's a functional language. It seems to me though that all languages have roots elsewhere, but English as we know was spread around the world by the British. American English is now spreading around the world in much the same way the British did it before: trade, backed by military force.
Wrong. I've been logging on to XP as a limited user for years. Most apps work. Some broken apps can be made to work by fiddling with NTFS and registry permissions (hardly ideal, but workable). This isn't MSFT's fault, but sloppy and lazy programming by app developers. I've also been writing my software to MSFT guidelines on this for years too, so see no excuse other people in the industry.
I should add though that HDi also has a pixel buffer that's quite limited too.
Indeed. GEM/MHP is in wide usage. Isn't BBCi based on this in the UK? It seems to function fine on my mum's cheapo Freeview box. That said, the amount of memory available on a Blu-ray player is quite low, especially when you consider how quickly a few static images of 1920x1080@32bpp will use it up. The most affordable BD player right now is the PS3, and it just so happens to be a super computer compared to the other players, with by far the best performance.
And why is this even an option. Let's get the US on the same frequencies and cellular standards as the rest of the world. Then everybody's a winner.
Cool. Wish it were the norm though.
Cool gadget hey. I found when my Creative Labs speakers are turned off they draw 75% of the power of when they're on. Extremely inefficient AC->DC converter, which is always warm.
I wish power bars in N. America had individual switches per socket as seems to be fairly standard in places like the UK. Then I can completely power-down individual devices, but still use the power bar of other things.
That's not a question that can be answered here. Why would you even bother asking? Every piece of software is different. Every company has a different set of talent, different size budget, different processes and different sets of expectations.