Which is exactly why it's only a matter of time before there's a huge backlash from these content distributors
Well, they are adept in hurting their own intersts.
Funny thing is, they've fought against PVRs, and now most of them even offer one as part of the subscription.
The broadcast, cable and satellite networks very often finance the programming they use, I bet they could stand to make more from subscriptions + video sales than they do with just subscriptions. They resisted putting their shows on DVD, but then caved in and many of them are making a lot of money doing so, be the shows new or old. I don't see why it is sensible for them to reject a deal to get listed in iTunes. They'll make more money (net!) per episode than with DVD sales, and only have a little bit of preparation and encoding work. I hope that this untapped potential gets exploited, though I'd prefer not to use iTunes as the conduit. I've heard it said that making a show like Enterprise could cost about $0.25 (US) per episode per viewer.
I think that he's pissed because on VOIP their only collecting your money from ISP revenue and not the other party like in a traditional POTS setup where you and the other party (local pizza, bank, etc)pay them for phone service.
I'd say that except for people leeching from a neighbor, people on both ends of a given conversation paid for access of one form or another, be it phone, internet or both.
I wonder if it might also have something to do with more companies using P2P to cut down on server costs. It is very often a means of cost-shifting, reducing server costs by using the user's upstream bandwidth.
The problem I see is that all that will end up happening, then, is that all forms of people will start creating sites in.mobi that aren't for consumption through a mobile phone.
I think this is a pretty important concern. There's no point in creating a special purpose domain set if any corporation or any entrepeneur can jump in and defeats its purpose right away.
This seems to happen a lot when a niche development goes mainstream, the companies and people that take it mainstream don't understand it and make fundemental distortions that defeat the original intent. Sometimes it is good but usually it isn't.
I really don't understand why people love or hate Steve Jobs. Most of the haters seem to act as if Jobs personally took the time to kick their puppy. On the other hand, the people that love him don't seem to understand that he has serious personality flaws, and that he's just human.
I don't know, but I don't think the mall stores account for more than 25% of sales, I have to find the numbers again. Maybe it's just a form of advertisement, but then, from that angle they pay for a lot of TV and magazine ads, and get a lot of newspaper coverage with the launch of a new revision or new product.
I too personally think it's silly to replace computers every three years, simply because the lease and support is up. All of my x86 computers were off-lease and sold for cheap, and the workstations are the most reliable computers I've ever owned, except for one compatibility issue with one hard drive, I've never had a reliability problem attributable to the computer. I think this is one way foreign companies and countries are probably going to beat us just because all they have to do is be smarter about their resources.
Kind of too bad they didn't do that mil-standard drive wipe and re-sell them, but so many large businesses tend to just buy new, small businesses might not necessarily need this or be able to use it.
Linux isn't the only OS competitor, and your examples aren't necessarily commercial programs, the purpose of that act is to avoid needlessly driving other companies out of business. OO.o is an open version of Star Office though.
Can you imagine Victoria's Secret being promoted to the same general group as Cartoon Network? What's next, teaming up with Nickelodeon to put Invader Zim on a crotchless panty?
MPEG doesn't necessarily start with the green channel, it starts with the luminance. Often they can and are treated the same but there is a difference.
But anyways, you are right that most of the information is in the luminance, colors make a minority portion of the video signal, even for component. Take a look at the video signal voltages, Y (luminance) is given 1V peak to peak, Pr & Pb are in the 0.07V range, I think, I can't find my manual.
I've heard that 1 in 10 video games make a profit, and the profit on that one more than makes up for the losses of the rest, which isn't that hard. Say the other nine earn back 90% of their production & marketing cost, and the tenth that makes a profit three times its production costs. Assuming all movies cost the same, a net profit was made.
A the first release of specialized product for specialized markets isn't going to hit Walmart pricing soon. I imagine it will go down in price soon enough.
The article doesn't mention power consumption, which might need improvement before it goes to consumer use.
I don't think the enclosure is necessarily designed to look pretty. It's probably not the target market of graphic designers, probably medical imaging and so on. In those markets, the actual image on the screen is far more important than any consideration of how the screen is packaged.
The internal chip is supposed to be able to decode H.264 at VGA resolution, but Apple only claims it is able to play 480x480 videos, though scaled down, of course. But at least the software to recode video for the iPod's native resolution is readily available.
I've seen some of the creationist stuff, and I too really don't think it proves the point the authors were trying to make. The "they" I will use here is the authors of the propaganda, not necessarily the movement as a whole.
It went about its argument among a few different attacks. One seemed to try to prove the truth of creation or intelligent design by exploiting the percieved shortfalls of evolution and percieved shortfalls of geology. Also, it tries to cast doubts on the constancy the half-life of radioactive decay, but of course, the booklet fails to show known cases where the half-life is somehow different, making it an argument somewhat like someone saying there exist purple zebras but won't prove where to find them.
Another point of attack was to discuss the translations of a few different words in Genesis 1 to try to dismantle opposing interpretations. It also had some pretty odd argument that tries to refute the claims that the Bible isn't a science textbook.
All this is pretty sad, considering so much of the Bible was misinterpreted before and that doesn't weigh into their own considerations, their own methods of interpretation are still very much the same that was used to try to prove that the Earth was flat, the center of the universe, and that the Sun moves around the Earth. Unfortunately, some things don't change.
First, I think "blog" is a pretty retarded word, even for a portmanteau.
Second, I really don't agree with calling Slashdot a "blog". Slashdot isn't a personal diary for anyone, nor does it cover what happens to any specific object or place, so it's not really a log.
That is way too small of a sample to form a good case. Seinfeld was OK for a while, but got annoying, and Family Guy is simply annoying. I've never seen Benny Hill or Love American style, but I've enjoyed several episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. I thought Hillbillies did a good job of poking fun at both the common man and high society without being mean.
One thing I can say about the past is... no reality shows! Soaps without a script, and on prime time! How can that possibly be dumb!?
When was the last time you remember that Sprint customers were cut off from being able to call MCI subscribers?
I don't want massive regulation, but something simple to prevent deliberate cut-offs would be nice, and it appears that the free market didn't solve that problem.
I think the "depeering" probably shouldn't have happened, and should not have affected people that weren't involved in the dispute, i.e. the rest of us. Had this happened with any other utility, there would be investigations.
Is this good or bad? I think it's neither. It's a tool. It can be used well, or used poorly. Sure, Lucas can go back and revise history so Greedo shoots first, but he can also go back and clean up the lousy compositing in the Rancor pit, fix the transparency in the Hoth battle sequences, etc.
Bah, forget the process, some people just think that Lucus is a tool.
I would tend to distinguish art from software, I don't want to see art subject to unnecessary revisions, software is generally much more utilitarian than art. The compositing errors aren't a big deal to me, I would consider it part of the charm. Heck, for example, fixing Ed Wood movies would eliminate the reason to watch them.
I'm thinking the separate camera is likely to be better given that fewer compromises, such as those made to make a camera small enough to cram into a phone package. The available zoom factors w/o going to digital zoom, flash brightness, the size of the lenses, the size and type of the sensors and onboard software are all factors that affect the image.
That said, there's always the idea that the integrated device is "good enough" and that portability is a greater concern. For example, neither the clock nor the tuner on my clock radio are necessarily very good, but I need something that will wake me up at a certain time in the morning. A $20 clock radio is fine, I don't need a dedicated radio or an atomic clock.
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Which is exactly why it's only a matter of time before there's a huge backlash from these content distributors
Well, they are adept in hurting their own intersts.
Funny thing is, they've fought against PVRs, and now most of them even offer one as part of the subscription.
The broadcast, cable and satellite networks very often finance the programming they use, I bet they could stand to make more from subscriptions + video sales than they do with just subscriptions. They resisted putting their shows on DVD, but then caved in and many of them are making a lot of money doing so, be the shows new or old. I don't see why it is sensible for them to reject a deal to get listed in iTunes. They'll make more money (net!) per episode than with DVD sales, and only have a little bit of preparation and encoding work. I hope that this untapped potential gets exploited, though I'd prefer not to use iTunes as the conduit. I've heard it said that making a show like Enterprise could cost about $0.25 (US) per episode per viewer.
I think that he's pissed because on VOIP their only collecting your money from ISP revenue and not the other party like in a traditional POTS setup where you and the other party (local pizza, bank, etc)pay them for phone service.
I'd say that except for people leeching from a neighbor, people on both ends of a given conversation paid for access of one form or another, be it phone, internet or both.
I wonder if it might also have something to do with more companies using P2P to cut down on server costs. It is very often a means of cost-shifting, reducing server costs by using the user's upstream bandwidth.
The problem I see is that all that will end up happening, then, is that all forms of people will start creating sites in .mobi that aren't for consumption through a mobile phone.
I think this is a pretty important concern. There's no point in creating a special purpose domain set if any corporation or any entrepeneur can jump in and defeats its purpose right away.
This seems to happen a lot when a niche development goes mainstream, the companies and people that take it mainstream don't understand it and make fundemental distortions that defeat the original intent. Sometimes it is good but usually it isn't.
I really don't understand why people love or hate Steve Jobs. Most of the haters seem to act as if Jobs personally took the time to kick their puppy. On the other hand, the people that love him don't seem to understand that he has serious personality flaws, and that he's just human.
I don't know, but I don't think the mall stores account for more than 25% of sales, I have to find the numbers again. Maybe it's just a form of advertisement, but then, from that angle they pay for a lot of TV and magazine ads, and get a lot of newspaper coverage with the launch of a new revision or new product.
Kerry's name doesn't appear in the article. I think the legislators in the article are to the state, not Federal legislation bodies.
A better solution is to make the software comply with the disabilities law.
I too personally think it's silly to replace computers every three years, simply because the lease and support is up. All of my x86 computers were off-lease and sold for cheap, and the workstations are the most reliable computers I've ever owned, except for one compatibility issue with one hard drive, I've never had a reliability problem attributable to the computer. I think this is one way foreign companies and countries are probably going to beat us just because all they have to do is be smarter about their resources.
Kind of too bad they didn't do that mil-standard drive wipe and re-sell them, but so many large businesses tend to just buy new, small businesses might not necessarily need this or be able to use it.
Linux isn't the only OS competitor, and your examples aren't necessarily commercial programs, the purpose of that act is to avoid needlessly driving other companies out of business. OO.o is an open version of Star Office though.
Can you imagine Victoria's Secret being promoted to the same general group as Cartoon Network? What's next, teaming up with Nickelodeon to put Invader Zim on a crotchless panty?
MPEG doesn't necessarily start with the green channel, it starts with the luminance. Often they can and are treated the same but there is a difference.
But anyways, you are right that most of the information is in the luminance, colors make a minority portion of the video signal, even for component. Take a look at the video signal voltages, Y (luminance) is given 1V peak to peak, Pr & Pb are in the 0.07V range, I think, I can't find my manual.
I've heard that 1 in 10 video games make a profit, and the profit on that one more than makes up for the losses of the rest, which isn't that hard. Say the other nine earn back 90% of their production & marketing cost, and the tenth that makes a profit three times its production costs. Assuming all movies cost the same, a net profit was made.
Funny you should say that stuff, I would expect a $7000 computer monitor to have good picture quality.
A the first release of specialized product for specialized markets isn't going to hit Walmart pricing soon. I imagine it will go down in price soon enough.
The article doesn't mention power consumption, which might need improvement before it goes to consumer use.
I don't remember seeing a cut off breast on TV, or anywhere else, for that matter.
that looks ugly.
I don't think the enclosure is necessarily designed to look pretty. It's probably not the target market of graphic designers, probably medical imaging and so on. In those markets, the actual image on the screen is far more important than any consideration of how the screen is packaged.
The internal chip is supposed to be able to decode H.264 at VGA resolution, but Apple only claims it is able to play 480x480 videos, though scaled down, of course. But at least the software to recode video for the iPod's native resolution is readily available.
I've seen some of the creationist stuff, and I too really don't think it proves the point the authors were trying to make. The "they" I will use here is the authors of the propaganda, not necessarily the movement as a whole.
It went about its argument among a few different attacks. One seemed to try to prove the truth of creation or intelligent design by exploiting the percieved shortfalls of evolution and percieved shortfalls of geology. Also, it tries to cast doubts on the constancy the half-life of radioactive decay, but of course, the booklet fails to show known cases where the half-life is somehow different, making it an argument somewhat like someone saying there exist purple zebras but won't prove where to find them.
Another point of attack was to discuss the translations of a few different words in Genesis 1 to try to dismantle opposing interpretations. It also had some pretty odd argument that tries to refute the claims that the Bible isn't a science textbook.
All this is pretty sad, considering so much of the Bible was misinterpreted before and that doesn't weigh into their own considerations, their own methods of interpretation are still very much the same that was used to try to prove that the Earth was flat, the center of the universe, and that the Sun moves around the Earth. Unfortunately, some things don't change.
And slashdot is a blog
First, I think "blog" is a pretty retarded word, even for a portmanteau.
Second, I really don't agree with calling Slashdot a "blog". Slashdot isn't a personal diary for anyone, nor does it cover what happens to any specific object or place, so it's not really a log.
That is way too small of a sample to form a good case. Seinfeld was OK for a while, but got annoying, and Family Guy is simply annoying. I've never seen Benny Hill or Love American style, but I've enjoyed several episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. I thought Hillbillies did a good job of poking fun at both the common man and high society without being mean.
One thing I can say about the past is... no reality shows! Soaps without a script, and on prime time! How can that possibly be dumb!?
When was the last time you remember that Sprint customers were cut off from being able to call MCI subscribers?
I don't want massive regulation, but something simple to prevent deliberate cut-offs would be nice, and it appears that the free market didn't solve that problem.
I think the "depeering" probably shouldn't have happened, and should not have affected people that weren't involved in the dispute, i.e. the rest of us. Had this happened with any other utility, there would be investigations.
Is this good or bad? I think it's neither. It's a tool. It can be used well, or used poorly. Sure, Lucas can go back and revise history so Greedo shoots first, but he can also go back and clean up the lousy compositing in the Rancor pit, fix the transparency in the Hoth battle sequences, etc.
Bah, forget the process, some people just think that Lucus is a tool.
I would tend to distinguish art from software, I don't want to see art subject to unnecessary revisions, software is generally much more utilitarian than art. The compositing errors aren't a big deal to me, I would consider it part of the charm. Heck, for example, fixing Ed Wood movies would eliminate the reason to watch them.
I really don't see the conflict.
A lot of the camera phones play music too. The ROKR has an integrated camera as well, though only VGA.
I don't see it as a problem as a phone capable of taking pictures has everything that's needed to play music.
I'm thinking the separate camera is likely to be better given that fewer compromises, such as those made to make a camera small enough to cram into a phone package. The available zoom factors w/o going to digital zoom, flash brightness, the size of the lenses, the size and type of the sensors and onboard software are all factors that affect the image.
That said, there's always the idea that the integrated device is "good enough" and that portability is a greater concern. For example, neither the clock nor the tuner on my clock radio are necessarily very good, but I need something that will wake me up at a certain time in the morning. A $20 clock radio is fine, I don't need a dedicated radio or an atomic clock.