Are you trying to infer that only black people listen to rap music? That's quite an odd stereotype to be pushing these days. Kind of like talking about how only white people play pro golf or only men like football. Wake up pal.
Finally! One more way in which Apple can decide what is good for me so that my MacOS-asphyxiated brain can go back to tryting to remember which keys are where on my spiffy transparent keyboard. Seriously, who would ever want to waste a dinky little serial bus which is already being used by the keyboard, mouse, zip drive, scanner, etc. and stream high bandwidth digital audio over it so that you don't have to have a sound card (that is already standard on the motherboard anyway)??? Even if the WAS a good idea, would you really want to be limited to using Apple multimedia speakers with the five cent D/A converter that their outsourced vender found in the back of his warehouse? Not I. Until my stereo equipment comes with a USB bus I'm sticking with plain vanilla analog.
You are correct. DVD gives you a very nice picture, but it is still an NTSC (or PAL, if you buy it in Europe) picture. This means 525 interlaced lines. There are multiple HDTV standards that have been agreed upon but they are all still duking it out amongst themselves, something that you will notice in 2-4 years (CBS's standard vs. NBC's standard, etc.) They are:
1080I: This is the longest talked about format, using 1080 lines interlaced.
720P: This is a competing format, using only 720 lines, but displayed progressively, like a computer monitor, giving you essentially double the resolution of an interlaced screen.
480P: This is a sort of intermediate format, and is the exact thing as playing a 640x480 video clip on a computer screen. This is not a high resolution for computer people, but because it is progressive it is a substantial improvement over standerd NTSC. To the average viewer, BTW, many people can not tell the difference between the three formats at a glance, though the difference between any of them and NTSC is very clear.
As to your question about saving money with Divx, HDTV has started being broadcast on the big networks, but almost nobody (even some of the broadcasting stations!) can see it so far. Full (or even 1/4) HDTV broadcasting will not happen for at least 1 year, and HDTV sets are expected to sell very slowly. (Though I hypothesize that HDTV tuner cards on computers with big monitors and hi-res video cards will be quick to catch on.) I imagine that anyone buying a DVD player at this time will want to buy a new player of some type by the time that such a consumer player (of which there are none right now) are availible. And further, even if you DID expect to buy an HDTV set and player in the nexty year, Divx players are said to cost $100 MORE than a DVD player, and most people, upon buying a disc, will be watching it at least four times, thus making DVD on par with, if not cheaper than, Divx.
Bottom line: HDTV is still a ways off and Divx still ain't worth it.
Sorrry, that mantra doesn't hold water in this discussion. Tim Berners-Lee is single-handedly responsible for the creation of the World Wide Web. While working for CERN he invisioned an Internet service/protocol based on a worldwide hierarchy of hyperlinked pages (the concept of which was around before he came up with it) and went on to CREATE the HTML specification, the HTTP protocol, and the Universal Resource Locator (URL). He also wrote the first web browser, and in NeXTStep at that. Therefore he did invent the World Wide Web. Don't believe me? Ask the W3.
There's a difference. I've seen a good working implentmentation of the internet. I have NEVER seen a good java applet on a web page. They just crud things up. Besides, as Rob pointed out a few days out, his Netscape's java is busted, so he doesn't want to use any java regardless.:)
> o) This comment is well written but wrong! > o) This comment is both well written and I agree with its contents.
If anything is flamebait then this is. Right or wrong may be fine for the number of lines of sourse code that so-and-so has written but what about the times when/. delves into more ideological discussion? For example, the discussion of Falwell vs. Teletubbies brought to the surface a number of ideological differences between slashdot members. Would it be fair so mark another's opinion as 'wrong'? And I don't even want to get INTO the whole KDE vs. gnome religious war. Perhaps if such a system as you suggest was put into place (not likely) a more appropriate method would be to rank the relevence of the comment instead of critiquing its writing style and verity.
Speaking of the "the guy who wants to read a thousand flame infested offtopic comments while slugging out a good debate in the trenches," I'll bet he would also be interested in the STORIES that don't make the cut. How about making a page on which there are listed all of the submitted stories whidh didn't make the grade. This would keep the main page clean and interesting to the majority but enable your loyal readers to publicize stories that would be of interest to a niche group. To save CPU cycles, you could even turn off comments for those stories, as you so choose. Hows about it?
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>Is that a backhanded racial slur?
Are you trying to infer that only black people listen to rap music? That's quite an odd stereotype to be pushing these days. Kind of like talking about how only white people play pro golf or only men like football. Wake up pal.
Finally! One more way in which Apple can decide what is good for me so that my MacOS-asphyxiated brain can go back to tryting to remember which keys are where on my spiffy transparent keyboard. Seriously, who would ever want to waste a dinky little serial bus which is already being used by the keyboard, mouse, zip drive, scanner, etc. and stream high bandwidth digital audio over it so that you don't have to have a sound card (that is already standard on the motherboard anyway)??? Even if the WAS a good idea, would you really want to be limited to using Apple multimedia speakers with the five cent D/A converter that their outsourced vender found in the back of his warehouse? Not I. Until my stereo equipment comes with a USB bus I'm sticking with plain vanilla analog.
You are correct. DVD gives you a very nice picture, but it is still an NTSC (or PAL, if you buy it in Europe) picture. This means 525 interlaced lines. There are multiple HDTV standards that have been agreed upon but they are all still duking it out amongst themselves, something that you will notice in 2-4 years (CBS's standard vs. NBC's standard, etc.) They are:
1080I: This is the longest talked about format, using 1080 lines interlaced.
720P: This is a competing format, using only 720 lines, but displayed progressively, like a computer monitor, giving you essentially double the resolution of an interlaced screen.
480P: This is a sort of intermediate format, and is the exact thing as playing a 640x480 video clip on a computer screen. This is not a high resolution for computer people, but because it is progressive it is a substantial improvement over standerd NTSC. To the average viewer, BTW, many people can not tell the difference between the three formats at a glance, though the difference between any of them and NTSC is very clear.
As to your question about saving money with Divx, HDTV has started being broadcast on the big networks, but almost nobody (even some of the broadcasting stations!) can see it so far. Full (or even 1/4) HDTV broadcasting will not happen for at least 1 year, and HDTV sets are expected to sell very slowly. (Though I hypothesize that HDTV tuner cards on computers with big monitors and hi-res video cards will be quick to catch on.) I imagine that anyone buying a DVD player at this time will want to buy a new player of some type by the time that such a consumer player (of which there are none right now) are availible. And further, even if you DID expect to buy an HDTV set and player in the nexty year, Divx players are said to cost $100 MORE than a DVD player, and most people, upon buying a disc, will be watching it at least four times, thus making DVD on par with, if not cheaper than, Divx.
Bottom line: HDTV is still a ways off and Divx still ain't worth it.
Will
Sorrry, that mantra doesn't hold water in this discussion. Tim Berners-Lee is single-handedly responsible for the creation of the World Wide Web. While working for CERN he invisioned an Internet service/protocol based on a worldwide hierarchy of hyperlinked pages (the concept of which was around before he came up with it) and went on to CREATE the HTML specification, the HTTP protocol, and the Universal Resource Locator (URL). He also wrote the first web browser, and in NeXTStep at that. Therefore he did invent the World Wide Web. Don't believe me? Ask the W3.
Will
There's a difference. I've seen a good working implentmentation of the internet. I have NEVER seen a good java applet on a web page. They just crud things up. Besides, as Rob pointed out a few days out, his Netscape's java is busted, so he doesn't want to use any java regardless. :)
Will
Die Die Die!!! No Java On Slashdot!!! Be gone, evil "next-big-thing" spirits!!!
:) Will
> o) This comment is well written but wrong!
/. delves into more ideological discussion? For example, the discussion of Falwell vs. Teletubbies brought to the surface a number of ideological differences between slashdot members. Would it be fair so mark another's opinion as 'wrong'? And I don't even want to get INTO the whole KDE vs. gnome religious war. Perhaps if such a system as you suggest was put into place (not likely) a more appropriate method would be to rank the relevence of the comment instead of critiquing its writing style and verity.
> o) This comment is both well written and I agree
with its contents.
If anything is flamebait then this is. Right or wrong may be fine for the number of lines of sourse code that so-and-so has written but what about the times when
Will
Speaking of the "the guy who wants to read a thousand flame infested offtopic comments while slugging out a good debate in the trenches," I'll bet he would also be interested in the STORIES that don't make the cut. How about making a page on which there are listed all of the submitted stories whidh didn't make the grade. This would keep the main page clean and interesting to the majority but enable your loyal readers to publicize stories that would be of interest to a niche group. To save CPU cycles, you could even turn off comments for those stories, as you so choose. Hows about it?
Will