"Investment" is a valid term here. A DVD player on its own is useless unless you really like setup menus. It gains value with each DVD you buy. If you have 100 discs, then a $200 DVD player will have cost an average of $2 per disc. If it becomes defunct before you buy 10, then it will have cost $20 per disc.
Less of a factor this time round. Only existing porn formats before VCR were movie theatres and still images (photos, magazine, etc), so video was a major step up. And anyone who spends thousands per year on porn isn't going to balk at buying both formats.
It means kids can buy them rather than having to rely on a credit card. They take up no shelf space so a lot of convenience stores can offer them rather than just record stores.
I think a drawback of D&D is that it does tend to be a bit heavy on the rules and numbers. Probably because there wasn't a lot to base it on, the designers were a little heavy on the game side of the system rather than the story telling side. It does tend towards encouraging rules lawyering.
So you honestly think that having words being flagged as misspelt while you are typing is a bad idea?
I'll turn that feature off is I want to write a lot. It's a bit too distracting The grammar checker is worse though. Do quite like it as a feature in firefox though.
Why doesn't Condorcet take linear (n-1) time? Surely the comparisons in your 3 way race would be A more highly ranked than B, then winner of A vs B more highly ranked than C. Is there a situation where this wouldn't work with more candidates?
Vim has a modal user interface and usually I would be the first person to criticise this as a design decision. In the case of a text editor, however, I find that it makes sense. To me, writing and editing are two conceptually separate tasks.
I consider this a user interface error for exactly that reason. It's two applications masquerading as one.
It is odd, but I have similar experiences.
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I remember when I first got a computer with a mouse, I had a lot of fun with paint programs. I'm no great artist but I could be quite creative. I tried a different application. Somehow I couldn't do anything. It seems that the toolbar was on the wrong side. Bottom or right I can create. Top or left, I can't.
These days I find a similar issue with developing code. I need as much of the screen dedicated to the editor as possible. A second monitor was a godsend! Just wish I could remove all the extra junk around the editor. Trouble is, that occasionally comes in useful.
Would it be too much trouble for the submitter to explain what the acronym HDMI stands for, or at least to link to the WP article?
Normally I'm all for spelling out acronyms, but this is one of those times when it really isn't going to help. Of course, a link or a brief explanation of what HDMI is wouldn't have hurt.
Okay - I realise it's annoying when a service doesn't work, but only a little bit. Considering every single user of the service likes to play games, a free game seems a perfectly good level of compensation.
Both were expected to be major consumer formats as well. Studio use is a relatively tiny market. Neither managed to replace the consumer format the studios wanted them to. Billions of CDs have been sold. Minidisc sales peaked at something like 2% of CD sales. Finding a niche doesn't really make them a huge success.
Minidisc was never a huge success. The small form factor made it reasonably popular for portable players for a time, but Sony wanted it to replace CD. DAT was seen as a digital successor to the compact cassette but was never as successful. They found their niches but neither did as well as might be hoped.
Most of Sony's biggest successes are in equipment that's compatible with existing technology.
Well, there is a difference in that known keys can be revoked with AACS. This was the idea with DVD as well, but they only used 40 bit encryption, so keys can easily be brute forced in a few days with modern hardware, and they used a broken system which cut that down to a few seconds.
Once an AACS key is known and published, it will be revoked, and the hackers will have to get the key from existing player software. The encryption is too strong for brute forcing within a reasonable time.
VHS was adequate. HD is nice, but to my eye, HD-DVD vs. DVD isn't anything like as extreme a difference as DVD vs. VHS. And DVD also offered 5.1 sound, fast seek times, extra content and handy gimmicks like multiple audio tracks. The improvements in those areas for HD are quite small.
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"Investment" is a valid term here. A DVD player on its own is useless unless you really like setup menus. It gains value with each DVD you buy. If you have 100 discs, then a $200 DVD player will have cost an average of $2 per disc. If it becomes defunct before you buy 10, then it will have cost $20 per disc.
Can any graphics card handle the sort of fill rate required from this yet?
Less of a factor this time round. Only existing porn formats before VCR were movie theatres and still images (photos, magazine, etc), so video was a major step up. And anyone who spends thousands per year on porn isn't going to balk at buying both formats.
If they had had the foresight (or even just the balls) to put HD-DVD in to the Xbox 360, the article would be the other away around.
Then the XBox 360 would have been late to market and expensive. I think MS had a lot more staked on the success of the XBox 360 than HD DVD.
Except for the fact that this is Sony, which I have determined NEVER to give any money to again.
But now they're doing something right. Reward them for good behaviour, punish for bad. We might be able to train them.
It means kids can buy them rather than having to rely on a credit card. They take up no shelf space so a lot of convenience stores can offer them rather than just record stores.
Doesn't the existing cable system already have blackjack and hookers?
I think a drawback of D&D is that it does tend to be a bit heavy on the rules and numbers. Probably because there wasn't a lot to base it on, the designers were a little heavy on the game side of the system rather than the story telling side. It does tend towards encouraging rules lawyering.
So you honestly think that having words being flagged as misspelt while you are typing is a bad idea?
I'll turn that feature off is I want to write a lot. It's a bit too distracting The grammar checker is worse though. Do quite like it as a feature in firefox though.
Would work well if it was very fast and could copy the entire disc to internal memory.
Yes. But I'm no under the illusion that TSA guidelines are logical or consistent:)
Why doesn't Condorcet take linear (n-1) time? Surely the comparisons in your 3 way race would be A more highly ranked than B, then winner of A vs B more highly ranked than C. Is there a situation where this wouldn't work with more candidates?
Backspace key is writing. Copy and paste can be in both applications.
Actually it's probably an app for writing and an app for formatting, spellchecking and the rest.
I would say they were hugely unsuccessful if they launched a car that they wanted to have 50% of the market and they ended up with 5%.
Yes. But a channel only provides about 24MB/s (YMMV in different countries. This is UK DVB using 64 QAM).
Vim has a modal user interface and usually I would be the first person to criticise this as a design decision. In the case of a text editor, however, I find that it makes sense. To me, writing and editing are two conceptually separate tasks.
I consider this a user interface error for exactly that reason. It's two applications masquerading as one.
I remember when I first got a computer with a mouse, I had a lot of fun with paint programs. I'm no great artist but I could be quite creative. I tried a different application. Somehow I couldn't do anything. It seems that the toolbar was on the wrong side. Bottom or right I can create. Top or left, I can't.
These days I find a similar issue with developing code. I need as much of the screen dedicated to the editor as possible. A second monitor was a godsend! Just wish I could remove all the extra junk around the editor. Trouble is, that occasionally comes in useful.
Would it be too much trouble for the submitter to explain what the acronym HDMI stands for, or at least to link to the WP article?
Normally I'm all for spelling out acronyms, but this is one of those times when it really isn't going to help. Of course, a link or a brief explanation of what HDMI is wouldn't have hurt.
Okay - I realise it's annoying when a service doesn't work, but only a little bit. Considering every single user of the service likes to play games, a free game seems a perfectly good level of compensation.
Both were expected to be major consumer formats as well. Studio use is a relatively tiny market. Neither managed to replace the consumer format the studios wanted them to. Billions of CDs have been sold. Minidisc sales peaked at something like 2% of CD sales. Finding a niche doesn't really make them a huge success.
Minidisc was never a huge success. The small form factor made it reasonably popular for portable players for a time, but Sony wanted it to replace CD. DAT was seen as a digital successor to the compact cassette but was never as successful. They found their niches but neither did as well as might be hoped.
Most of Sony's biggest successes are in equipment that's compatible with existing technology.
Yes, I know. They were 90x94mm, but most people in the US and UK knew them as 3.5 inch disks so I'll stick with the well known convention.
Well, there is a difference in that known keys can be revoked with AACS. This was the idea with DVD as well, but they only used 40 bit encryption, so keys can easily be brute forced in a few days with modern hardware, and they used a broken system which cut that down to a few seconds.
Once an AACS key is known and published, it will be revoked, and the hackers will have to get the key from existing player software. The encryption is too strong for brute forcing within a reasonable time.
It's not totally without precedent. The 3.5" floppy disk was a Sony format.
VHS was adequate. HD is nice, but to my eye, HD-DVD vs. DVD isn't anything like as extreme a difference as DVD vs. VHS. And DVD also offered 5.1 sound, fast seek times, extra content and handy gimmicks like multiple audio tracks. The improvements in those areas for HD are quite small.