I was going to get an Audi TT then I found out I could get a Kia Rio for less than 10 grand! They both go 75mph which is as fast as you can go anywhere anyway. Audi is charging over 3 times as much!
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The RIAA is doing whatever it could to kill it's market. '"Quality content" is low on the agenda list. But for the few "artists" that have enough vision and desire to jump the hurdles of the media oligarchies, the commerce model that the media companies are working towards is to produce-nothing- and have their profit automatically guaranteed though taxes. Why should TV be any different?
I've been trying to jump on the HD bandwagon, purchasing the required equipment experience this promised glorious new content. So far, it's promise had come nowhere near reality. It's all just a way to extract money from us "consumers", while providing as little as possible in return. American business as usual. And when the model fails, they turn to the government to mandate guaranteed profit either by contributing to the campaign of our supposed representatives, or now, by threatening to take their ball and go home.
How much money is enough? What to people have to put up with today to watch HDTV?
- The equipment is expensive and consumes a lot of power (HDTV boxes suck the watts, they almost all run hot). When it breaks, even more will be spent on repair and replacement. Although a few sets have a built-in tuner, most require an additional set-top-box, plus a reasonably decent old-school antenna on the roof to receive HD. For consumers, its messy with lots of wires and it takes a remote with 50 buttons to allow you to switch inputs. Try explaining that to grandma when all she wants to do is watch some TV --- "push the input 1 button and then use -this- remote to change channels, don't use that other remote because that will change channels on the TV, not the set-top-box". And on the subject of remotes, why isn't all of that standardized? Looking up a remote code for a specific model in a book and programming a remote is stupid. Programmable "learning" remotes are even worse. Although it allows some flexibility, these days, sitting for an hour pressing obscure button sequences to get everything to work together, even from different vendors, is absurd. It should all be easy plug and play, flexible, standardized yet modular.
- The over-the-air HD stations here (Indianapolis) have implemented the infrastructure, yet don't use more than 10% of it's potential. Most stations can't even send the correct time of day that's embedded in the signal. Few, if any, send the program meta-data for the channel guide display. This totally screws the potential to schedule accurate recording. Even though digital lets then transmit additional channels, it's wasted on things like weather radar or low resolution news loops. There's still problems with encoding that cause the audio to lag the video in some cases. Our local CBS affiliate has something wrong with it's encoding that causes many set-top-boxes to crash. Once a month or so, they set something wrong and there's no audio at all on the digital prime- time feed. Our NBC affiliate, or the NBC feed itself, has this odd chroma problem during prime time where there's a small hue shift that cycles at about 4Hz. They also run this huge station ID overlay in the upper left, at full brightness, sometimes for a minute or more, yet because it's in the full upper left corner, it's clipped in the overscan part of the image. Don't these engineers ever -watch- what they are broadcasting?
- True HD content is hard to find. The only truly awesome HD content here is the PBS HD loop and even then, it's only about 1.5 hours of total content. There's occasional PBS shows that truly look as good as the loop, but it's rare. The network hdtv shows in prime time never are stunning, merely adequate in image quality. The only consistent HD show that looks like HD should, is Leno. Unfortunate that the show (for me) is so awful, I can't watch it for more than a few minutes. CBS promised Letterman in HD for a year, yet who knows when they'll
You know, wishing won't make it so Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it The supreme court won't do it, the president and the congress won't do it The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it, the sun and the moon won't do it And God won't do it, and I certainly won't do it That leaves you, you'll have to do it
Given the way the US is headed, these schools would better serve these future proles by providing deep fryers, grills, basic gardening tools, and toilet brushes.
Basic urban wildlife hunting skills and how to make a shelter and clothing out of tarps and cardboard will also be essential. They can probably reduce the number of books they buy because any on the job training they'll get won't require much reading, but they might need a little basic training in spoken Hindi, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
But "Linux" is a coined, synthetic word, like Kodak. There's lots of things named Apple, including many varieties of apples. This is nothing but a grab for money from a fading cash cow.
I hope that Apple Computer has a better legal team than they did on the last go round and this nonsense can be put to rest.
I'm so tired of money grubbing scum. Hardly anybody creates things anymore to generate revenue and value on it's own merit.
I'm a computer expert and just like I tell everyone at work, although Wintel has problems, Macs are overpriced and out of touch with what users want to run. Besides, there's no software available and who wants a fruit colored PC?
I know I'm right because 6 years ago I had to admin a bunch of Macs at my community college and it was an awful mess. So don't tell me that Macs don't have problem, I've lived it!
I haven't touched a Mac (why?) since then but I imagine that OS X isn't any better. I've read things on the net about all kinds of problems. Besides, my Athlon XL3600 that I just built will blow the doors off of any Apple stuff, at a quarter the price!
We just installed Windows Server 2003 at work and I can do everything on it I want, just like at home.
I'm amazed at the kneejerk reactions on this thread. If the goverment knew it would be this easy, they would have started years ago.
Even the supposed learned tech elite here snarf the party line and eat it up.
The beatings grew less frequent, and became mainly a threat, a horror to which he could be sent back at any moment when his answers were unsatisfactory. His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals, little rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who worked on him in relays over periods which lasted -- he thought, he could not be sure -- ten or twelve hours at a stretch. These other questioners saw to it that he was in constant slight pain, but it was not chiefly pain that they relied on. They slapped his face, wrung his ears. pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning. Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue Sometimes he would weep half a dozen times in a single session. Most of the time they screamed abuse at him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him wish to undo the evil he had done. When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to snivelling tears. In the end the nagging voices broke him down more completely than the boots and fists of the guards. He became simply a mouth that uttered, a hand that signed, whatever was demanded of him. His sole concern was to find out what they wanted him to confess, and then confess it quickly, before the bullying started anew. He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind. He confessed that he had been a spy in the pay of the Eastasian government as far back as 1968. He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert. He confessed that he had murdered his wife, although he knew, and his questioners must have known, that his wife was still alive. He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known. It was easier to confess everything and implicate everybody. Besides, in a sense it was all true. It was true that he had been the enemy of the Party, and in the eyes of the Party there was no distinction between the thought and the deed.
The reason he's latched on to this "cause" is because it's safe, it gives him a populist glow with the folks back home, and he'll get a nice suck off of that RIAA lobbyist teat.
The only mp3 on his iPod is "Takin' care of business" .
Yeah, I've got a couple Indigos, 2 Personal Irises, an Indy, and this big honkin' 100 plus lb. dual proc Power Series GTX. Other than bringing up the GTX because it's...there (and it's still kind of fast), the other machines just aren't very interesting any more.
The GTX eats so much juice, and throws off so much heat, I only run it for short bits in the winter. Shame, I used to really like SGI stuff.
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I was going to get an Audi TT then I found out I could get a
Kia Rio for less than 10 grand! They both go 75mph which is as
fast as you can go anywhere anyway. Audi is charging over
3 times as much!
Audi, as a quality automobile company, is dying.
You need more flouride in your water.
No flouride in the water supply.
Wow, you've really convinced me with your persuasive argument and astounding insight.
But in most cases, that 12 song LP is $9.99.
Your rights to the free flow of information may be severely curtailed.
The story on tonight's Eyewitness News at 11.
Uh. I've just been handed a programming update.
Tonight's news report will be preempted by an extra special,
exclusive interview with Barbara Bush, America's Mom.
Coming up after tonight's episode of Fear Factor.
Keep it right here on News Center 4.
Or else.
The RIAA is doing whatever it could to kill it's market.
'"Quality content" is low on the agenda list. But for the few "artists"
that have enough vision and desire to jump the hurdles of the media
oligarchies, the commerce model that the media companies are working
towards is to produce-nothing- and have their profit automatically guaranteed
though taxes. Why should TV be any different?
I've been trying to jump on the HD bandwagon, purchasing the required
equipment experience this promised glorious new content. So far, it's
promise had come nowhere near reality. It's all just a way to extract
money from us "consumers", while providing as little as possible in return.
American business as usual. And when the model fails, they turn to the
government to mandate guaranteed profit either by contributing to the
campaign of our supposed representatives, or now, by threatening to
take their ball and go home.
How much money is enough?
What to people have to put up with today to watch HDTV?
- The equipment is expensive and consumes a lot of power (HDTV boxes
suck the watts, they almost all run hot). When it breaks, even more will
be spent on repair and replacement. Although a few sets have a built-in
tuner, most require an additional set-top-box, plus a reasonably decent
old-school antenna on the roof to receive HD. For consumers, its messy
with lots of wires and it takes a remote with 50 buttons to allow you to
switch inputs. Try explaining that to grandma when all she wants to do
is watch some TV --- "push the input 1 button and then use -this- remote
to change channels, don't use that other remote because that will change
channels on the TV, not the set-top-box". And on the subject of remotes,
why isn't all of that standardized? Looking up a remote code for a specific
model in a book and programming a remote is stupid. Programmable
"learning" remotes are even worse. Although it allows some flexibility,
these days, sitting for an hour pressing obscure button sequences to
get everything to work together, even from different vendors, is absurd.
It should all be easy plug and play, flexible, standardized yet modular.
- The over-the-air HD stations here (Indianapolis) have implemented the
infrastructure, yet don't use more than 10% of it's potential. Most stations
can't even send the correct time of day that's embedded in the signal.
Few, if any, send the program meta-data for the channel guide display.
This totally screws the potential to schedule accurate recording.
Even though digital lets then transmit additional channels, it's wasted
on things like weather radar or low resolution news loops. There's still
problems with encoding that cause the audio to lag the video in some
cases. Our local CBS affiliate has something wrong with it's encoding
that causes many set-top-boxes to crash. Once a month or so, they
set something wrong and there's no audio at all on the digital prime-
time feed. Our NBC affiliate, or the NBC feed itself, has this odd chroma
problem during prime time where there's a small hue shift that cycles
at about 4Hz. They also run this huge station ID overlay in the upper
left, at full brightness, sometimes for a minute or more, yet because
it's in the full upper left corner, it's clipped in the overscan part of the
image. Don't these engineers ever -watch- what they are broadcasting?
- True HD content is hard to find. The only truly awesome HD content
here is the PBS HD loop and even then, it's only about 1.5 hours of
total content. There's occasional PBS shows that truly look as good
as the loop, but it's rare. The network hdtv shows in prime time never
are stunning, merely adequate in image quality. The only consistent
HD show that looks like HD should, is Leno. Unfortunate that the show
(for me) is so awful, I can't watch it for more than a few minutes.
CBS promised Letterman in HD for a year, yet who knows when they'll
You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The supreme court won't do it,
the president and the congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it,
the sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it,
and I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it
playola.
If anyone deserves laptops, it's those kids in Iraq.
Given the way the US is headed, these schools would better serve these future
proles by providing deep fryers, grills, basic gardening tools, and toilet brushes.
Basic urban wildlife hunting skills and how to make a shelter and clothing out of tarps
and cardboard will also be essential. They can probably reduce the number of books
they buy because any on the job training they'll get won't require much reading, but
they might need a little basic training in spoken Hindi, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
But "Linux" is a coined, synthetic word, like Kodak.
There's lots of things named Apple, including many varieties of apples.
This is nothing but a grab for money from a fading cash cow.
I hope that Apple Computer has a better legal team than they did
on the last go round and this nonsense can be put to rest.
I'm so tired of money grubbing scum.
Hardly anybody creates things anymore to generate revenue and value on it's own merit.
hugh amounts of tax money...
Hef's big into facial recognition. If you catch my meaning.
But if you grow facial hair, they'll know you're the evil one.
He plays tranquility .
To sum up 80% of these posts:
I'm a computer expert and just like I tell everyone at work,
although Wintel has problems, Macs are overpriced and
out of touch with what users want to run. Besides, there's
no software available and who wants a fruit colored PC?
I know I'm right because 6 years ago I had to admin a bunch
of Macs at my community college and it was an awful mess.
So don't tell me that Macs don't have problem, I've lived it!
I haven't touched a Mac (why?) since then but I imagine that
OS X isn't any better. I've read things on the net about all kinds
of problems. Besides, my Athlon XL3600 that I just built will
blow the doors off of any Apple stuff, at a quarter the price!
We just installed Windows Server 2003 at work and I can do
everything on it I want, just like at home.
I'm amazed at the kneejerk reactions on this thread.
If the goverment knew it would be this easy, they would have started years ago.
Even the supposed learned tech elite here snarf the party line and eat it up.
The beatings grew less frequent, and became mainly a
threat, a horror to which he could be sent back at any moment
when his answers were unsatisfactory. His questioners now were
not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals, little
rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who
worked on him in relays over periods which lasted -- he
thought, he could not be sure -- ten or twelve hours at a
stretch. These other questioners saw to it that he was in
constant slight pain, but it was not chiefly pain that they
relied on. They slapped his face, wrung his ears. pulled his
hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate,
shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water;
but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his
power of arguing and reasoning. Their real weapon was the
merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour,
tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that
he said, convicting him at every step of lies and
self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as
from nervous fatigue Sometimes he would weep half a dozen times
in a single session. Most of the time they screamed abuse at
him and threatened at every hesitation to deliver him over to
the guards again; but sometimes they would suddenly change
their tune, call him comrade, appeal to him in the name of
Ingsoc and Big Brother, and ask him sorrowfully whether even
now he had not enough loyalty to the Party left to make him
wish to undo the evil he had done. When his nerves were in rags
after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him
to snivelling tears. In the end the nagging voices broke him
down more completely than the boots and fists of the guards. He
became simply a mouth that uttered, a hand that signed,
whatever was demanded of him. His sole concern was to find out
what they wanted him to confess, and then confess it quickly,
before the bullying started anew. He confessed to the
assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of
seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of
military secrets, sabotage of every kind. He confessed that he
had been a spy in the pay of the Eastasian government as far
back as 1968. He confessed that he was a religious believer, an
admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert. He confessed that
he had murdered his wife, although he knew, and his questioners
must have known, that his wife was still alive. He confessed
that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and
had been a member of an underground organization which had
included almost every human being he had ever known. It was
easier to confess everything and implicate everybody. Besides,
in a sense it was all true. It was true that he had been the
enemy of the Party, and in the eyes of the Party there was no
distinction between the thought and the deed.
The reason he's latched on to this "cause" is because
it's safe, it gives him a populist glow with the folks
back home, and he'll get a nice suck off of that RIAA
lobbyist teat.
The only mp3 on his iPod is "Takin' care of business" .
Too late.
I've always found SBC to be drastically retarded.
Pathetic loser.
Coward.
Forget about seizing the day, you should seize yourself a spell checker.
here in the US, our government is giving out rewards for
killing 14 year old boys in far away countries we invade.
"A great day for America!"
Your loss, his gain.
Yeah, I've got a couple Indigos, 2 Personal Irises, an Indy, and this big honkin'
100 plus lb. dual proc Power Series GTX. Other than bringing up the GTX because it's...there
(and it's still kind of fast), the other machines just aren't very interesting any more.
The GTX eats so much juice, and throws off so much heat, I only run it for short bits in the winter.
Shame, I used to really like SGI stuff.