avsforum has a truly massive thread on the Oppo DV971H. Do note throughout that thread's existence, Oppo has updated the firmware several times (you can download and burn an.iso, and update the dvd player from that). It has also replaced the old remote, which was apparently rather horrid, with a newer more functional design.
The Oppo 971H doesn't encrypt its DVI output. Some people might find that to be a distinct advantage.
It's my understanding that the DVD-Audio license requires some sort of SPDIF down-sampling to 48 KHz. But the Oppo will output up to 192 Khz. I haven't investigated this in any great detail. I have only a few discs, and most of them don't have high resolution stereo tracks--6 channel stereo is far more common. As the spdif output is two channel only, there's little point.
Some say that that the only real advantage of 96/24 or 192/24 is the 24 bits of resolution. My receiver doesn't display this information, so I don't know if the spdif interface is carrying those extra 8 bits.
I think that this is a case of the inadequacy of the fossil record. If the intellivison, colecovision, and various outher game controllers were added, as well as the species adapted for computer use, the so-caled gaps would not be apparent. Pure Sophistry, in my view. But then, ID is sophistry.
That assumes a great deal-- that some genius won't be able to develop quantum computing, that the cryptography algorithm is perfect, that the key is truly random...
What? Do you even have digital television? The sound is carried by dolby digital. The failure mode associated with dolby digital is not static, but muting. After all, there are checksums involved.
I can't really tell whether "first responders"-- scratch that: "emergency workers" has less of a orwellian feel-- are cited because they happen to have political cachet after 11 September, or whether there is a serious need for such things. Certain frequencies, however, are better at penetrating reinforced concrete. Perhaps it is those frequencies which are to be given to emergency workers.
The current NTSC spectrum is divided into 6 MHz channels. However, interference concerns generally prohibit adjacent channels from being used. The ATSC scheme, however. is not so prone to interference, and adjacent channels are possible. Thus, it is possible to pack all the stations in a market into a much smaller slice of spectrum-- and the surplus can be sold off once this realignment is complete.
The current emergency channels are similarly constrained by obsolete methods of spectrum allocation.
I have a old samsung tuner, hooked up to a widescreen lcd. I have to be pretty careful in placing the antenna, but a 720p picture and dolby digital "5.1" makes up for this minor hassle. Of course, I do live in a major market, and most stations (save the UPN) are already broadcasting at close to full power. One station even does its local news in hdtv-- a fact that does not really inspire me to watch it.
Your argument would make more sense to me if you said that China violates the UN conventions on human rights, the closest thing we have to universally agreed upon human rights.
Are you seriously suggesting that China doesn't violate the conventions?
... Article 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article 20 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Article 21 Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures....
My dispute is with those who claim that the long term development of life is easier attributed to randomness than it is to an inherit design.
It's both, actually.
Organisms inherit genes from their parents. However, the genes are susceptible to mutation-- a mostly random process. Sometimes this can result in appreciable changes in the organism's reproductive success. Those genes that result in greater reproductive success get passed on, those that result in less successful reproduction don't. It is random, in a way, but it's biased towards good mutations.
A nuke can be used for only one thing - cause destruction. The only positive use it might have is to threaten the other person with destruction. It has been created with the specific purpose and intent of causing mass destruction, and nothing else.
That's not true. That's simply not true. You can blow up nukes for peaceful purposes. For instance, you can excavate harbors in Alaska with nukes. You can also use them to launch spaceships. Mmm, Specific Impulse... Of course, the naysayers do tend to complain about fallout...
This is also untrue. I haven't seen any NC-17 rated movies at Blockbuster, but that's probably because there haven't been any NC-17 rated movies released by a major studio in a decade. I've seen plenty of unrated versions of movies, though.
Young Adam (Sony Pictures Classics) was originally given a NC-17 rating. It was later released as a "R", but I'm not sure what, if anything was cut. I do remember seeing the NC-17 version at a local (mainstream, commercial) movie theater.
On Monday, Mirecki was treated at a Lawrence hospital for head injuries after he said he was beaten by two men on a country road. He said the men referred to the creationism course. Law enforcement officials were investigating.
My dad was a bit of a gamer in the Apple II days-- and every once in a while, he'd spot a bug. Being a programmer, he knew how to document bugs, and because of this, he belonged to a couple of beta test programs-- Omnitrend's Universe II, for one. Every so often, we'd get new releases in the mail, and were told to test the hell out of them. The games were usually feature incomplete, though whether this was by design ("We'd really prefer that you concentrate your efforts on testing this feature) or by omission ("really haven't gotten around to coding that, sorry"), I don't recall.
Now, with the internet ("please download our patch") and open source software ("my box is so optimized that it can rebuild a kernel in 45 seconds"), the exclusivity is gone...
Parents would decide to either have a child friendly IP addresss or not.
My children have already informed me that they've made lots of new friends on the internet. I'm glad that I unblocked 6667. One of them even offered to buy her a very special wardrobe, if she'd install a webcam.
If you have a SDTV, it is almost indistinguisable between the XBox and XBox 360 versions (there are slight differences, but nothing noticible). But if you have an HDTV, things look agazing. During replays they say you could easily mistake it for real footage.
Come again?
If you have an HDTV, the game looks like real hdtv footage. If you have a 525 line set, the game doesn't come close to matching real NTSC footage.
Or maybe, if you have an HDTV, the XBox 360 looks like real NTSC footage. But exposure to hdtv broadcasts of games (that's why you bought that 70" fucker, isn't it?) will have reminded you that 525 lines of poorly rendered color isn't really real-- it'sjust a piss poor approximation.
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Most of the deaths from ANY flu have been from the SECONDARY respratory infections that take hold once a person is sick.
Tsk, Tsk. You really must learn to pay attention to the medical literature.
In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, multifocal consolidation involving at least two zones was the most common abnormali- ty among patients at the time of admission. Pleural effusions are uncommon. Limited microbiologic data indicate that this process is a primary viral pneumonia, usually without bacterial suprainfec- tion at the time of hospitalization. Progression to respiratory failure has been as- sociated with diffuse, bilateral, ground-glass infil- trates and manifestations of the acute respirato- ry distress syndrome (ARDS). In Thailand, the median time from the onset of illness to ARDS was 6 days (range, 4 to 13). Multiorgan failure with signs of renal dysfunction and sometimes cardiac compromise, including cardiac dilatation and su- praventricular tachyarrhythmias, has been com- mon.
Other complications have included influenza A infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, pulmonary hem- orrhage, pneumothorax, pancytopenia, Reye's syn- drome, and sepsis syndrome without documented bacteremia.
Source: The Writing Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Human Influenza A/H5 "Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans" The New England Journal of Medicine 353:1374-1385 You can probably find it online here
Bad analogy. STDs want to be shared with other people.
Bad analogies deserve to be embraced and extended into absurdity.
It is not particularly evolutionarily advantageous for an virus to produce angy red sores-- even though this may increase shedding. Eventually, someone's going to look down there. And perhaps they'll tell all their friends that so and so has lesions. Although the chance of transmission may be slightly reduced, a STD may be more effective if the symptoms are not so obvious.
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avsforum has a truly massive thread on the Oppo DV971H. Do note throughout that thread's existence, Oppo has updated the firmware several times (you can download and burn an .iso, and update the dvd player from that). It has also replaced the old remote, which was apparently rather horrid, with a newer more functional design.
The Oppo 971H doesn't encrypt its DVI output. Some people might find that to be a distinct advantage.
It's my understanding that the DVD-Audio license requires some sort of SPDIF down-sampling to 48 KHz. But the Oppo will output up to 192 Khz. I haven't investigated this in any great detail. I have only a few discs, and most of them don't have high resolution stereo tracks--6 channel stereo is far more common. As the spdif output is two channel only, there's little point.
Some say that that the only real advantage of 96/24 or 192/24 is the 24 bits of resolution. My receiver doesn't display this information, so I don't know if the spdif interface is carrying those extra 8 bits.
I think that this is a case of the inadequacy of the fossil record. If the intellivison, colecovision, and various outher game controllers were added, as well as the species adapted for computer use, the so-caled gaps would not be apparent. Pure Sophistry, in my view. But then, ID is sophistry.
That assumes a great deal-- that some genius won't be able to develop quantum computing, that the cryptography algorithm is perfect, that the key is truly random...
I'll be sure to avoid panasonic in the future, then.
What? Do you even have digital television? The sound is carried by dolby digital. The failure mode associated with dolby digital is not static, but muting. After all, there are checksums involved.
I can't really tell whether "first responders"-- scratch that: "emergency workers" has less of a orwellian feel-- are cited because they happen to have political cachet after 11 September, or whether there is a serious need for such things. Certain frequencies, however, are better at penetrating reinforced concrete. Perhaps it is those frequencies which are to be given to emergency workers.
The current NTSC spectrum is divided into 6 MHz channels. However, interference concerns generally prohibit adjacent channels from being used. The ATSC scheme, however. is not so prone to interference, and adjacent channels are possible. Thus, it is possible to pack all the stations in a market into a much smaller slice of spectrum-- and the surplus can be sold off once this realignment is complete.
The current emergency channels are similarly constrained by obsolete methods of spectrum allocation.
I have a old samsung tuner, hooked up to a widescreen lcd. I have to be pretty careful in placing the antenna, but a 720p picture and dolby digital "5.1" makes up for this minor hassle. Of course, I do live in a major market, and most stations (save the UPN) are already broadcasting at close to full power. One station even does its local news in hdtv-- a fact that does not really inspire me to watch it.
Are you seriously suggesting that China doesn't violate the conventions?
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until this impediment is removed, I shall never take anarcho-capitalism seriously.
Perhaps the dateline would have given the submitter a clue: "Monday July 25, 2005".
My dispute is with those who claim that the long term development of life is easier attributed to randomness than it is to an inherit design.
It's both, actually.
Organisms inherit genes from their parents. However, the genes are susceptible to mutation-- a mostly random process. Sometimes this can result in appreciable changes in the organism's reproductive success. Those genes that result in greater reproductive success get passed on, those that result in less successful reproduction don't. It is random, in a way, but it's biased towards good mutations.
A nuke can be used for only one thing - cause destruction. The only positive use it might have is to threaten the other person with destruction. It has been created with the specific purpose and intent of causing mass destruction, and nothing else.
That's not true. That's simply not true. You can blow up nukes for peaceful purposes. For instance, you can excavate harbors in Alaska with nukes. You can also use them to launch spaceships. Mmm, Specific Impulse... Of course, the naysayers do tend to complain about fallout...
Young Adam (Sony Pictures Classics) was originally given a NC-17 rating. It was later released as a "R", but I'm not sure what, if anything was cut. I do remember seeing the NC-17 version at a local (mainstream, commercial) movie theater.
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Oh, you mean this bit?
what evidence do you have that he wasn't?
My dad was a bit of a gamer in the Apple II days-- and every once in a while, he'd spot a bug. Being a programmer, he knew how to document bugs, and because of this, he belonged to a couple of beta test programs-- Omnitrend's Universe II, for one. Every so often, we'd get new releases in the mail, and were told to test the hell out of them. The games were usually feature incomplete, though whether this was by design ("We'd really prefer that you concentrate your efforts on testing this feature) or by omission ("really haven't gotten around to coding that, sorry"), I don't recall.
Now, with the internet ("please download our patch") and open source software ("my box is so optimized that it can rebuild a kernel in 45 seconds"), the exclusivity is gone...
Parents would decide to either have a child friendly IP addresss or not.
My children have already informed me that they've made lots of new friends on the internet. I'm glad that I unblocked 6667. One of them even offered to buy her a very special wardrobe, if she'd install a webcam.
functions impose overhead.
the use of amphetamines to stay alert, followed by sedatives to sleep,
Or vice versa.
You don't happen to use a CRT, do you?
I'd imagine that jaggies would be most visible with static imagery-- and games still have a lot of static imagery-- status displays and the like.
On a HDTV set, SDTV looks horrible. It isn't just the diminished resolution. It's also the quality of the video scaler.
Come again?
If you have an HDTV, the game looks like real hdtv footage.
If you have a 525 line set, the game doesn't come close to matching real NTSC footage.
Or maybe, if you have an HDTV, the XBox 360 looks like real NTSC footage. But exposure to hdtv broadcasts of games (that's why you bought that 70" fucker, isn't it?) will have reminded you that 525 lines of poorly rendered color isn't really real-- it'sjust a piss poor approximation.
Tsk, Tsk. You really must learn to pay attention to the medical literature.
Source: The Writing Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation
on Human Influenza A/H5 "Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans" The New England Journal of Medicine 353:1374-1385 You can probably find it online here
Bad analogy. STDs want to be shared with other people.
Bad analogies deserve to be embraced and extended into absurdity.
It is not particularly evolutionarily advantageous for an virus to produce angy red sores-- even though this may increase shedding. Eventually, someone's going to look down there. And perhaps they'll tell all their friends that so and so has lesions. Although the chance of transmission may be slightly reduced, a STD may be more effective if the symptoms are not so obvious.
Take Sony's thing, for instance...