I don't care about his assurances, I have read his site since the time it was posted here and its just another way for journalist to claim professional and unbiased view points all without actually living up to it. Its one thing to claim it but he is undone by the stories and his companies associations. The problem is that he doesn't see the bias because its just every natural to think that way.
I really think he has no clue as too how little trust many people put into media people anymore, having five plus years of experience to me means they are probably biased to an extreme already because even the freshest minds out of college are beat down by hardliners in the industry. Educators. Well lets just say, his two support categories all lean left and lean left hard.
So I've been there, laughed it off really quick. I will still read it this week and see what the stories are like compared to when the republican's have their convention. I seriously doubt they will change. Let alone the fact I didn't see any stories related to OTHER parties.
Being without bias first requires knowing what you like isn't necessarily right.
Sorry, but the no-fly list is nothing compared to the forfeiture laws that were passed in the 80s where it has become the norm to sue the property instead of the person owning it in order to circumvent the Constitution and laws protecting person and property.
People act as if anti-terrorism laws infringing on our rights is something new cooked up by Bush and Co. but the fact is we have had a steady erosion of our rights ever since the the New Deal getting far worse with Nixon's War on Drugs which has been perpetuated by each following administration. Hell Clinton went so far as to make it a Cabinet position.
The government has show increasing disregard for the rights of people and when the law proved to be insurmountable they invented new means of accomplishing the same (look up asset forfeiture) Sometimes the good guy wins ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700 ) but the fact that there are judges who think otherwise is scary.
You asked if they know, they do and they don't care.
No one seems to get it. Its countries like these (Iran is another) that you cannot just talk to. They don't care. They will let you talk their ears off while beating the snot out of people right next door. They don't have to care. Who is going to do anything about it?
Hell the real disgrace is the IOC and every country that calls it self civilized for allowing China to have the Olympics. To them they aren't cheating, they are simply winning. They are more likely emboldened by the fact they staged the Olympics. I figure that every abuse will simply get worse in the coming years because at least up until the teams showed up they had to show restraint.
So where will the restraint be after the Olympics are done?
World level scandal : Yeah, the world is China's accomplice
let alone there has to be lots of emotional strain.
I think it was done after Nadia, wasn't she 14?
Granted some people mature faster than others but who is to judge?
I look at it this way, the IOC turns a blind eye to Tibet so I seriously don't think something as age is important to them either. They won't do anything until the Olympics are done, let alone acknowledge it. They won't do anything if it affects how much money the IOC gets.
for those of us with satellite and the ability to have a dish, can it also be used for OTA HD? Or if we replace Sat service can we use it OTA HD and receive that through their cable which is no longer needed for sat?
I am trying to avoid a new cable incoming to the house and figured on grafting theirs
Sorry, I went through a dozen or so stories, checked out the comments and the scores, nope, there is nothing fancy about yet another rating system taken over by groups with an agenda.
So, what does he do about near obvious or cloned reviews, reviews without substantial comment? A site like this is only good if it has a large number of participants as anything will be skewed if its determined to be important.
Even sites as popular as Digg fell sway to organized attempts to skew story ratings. What does this site do to avoid it?
BTW - its probably already to slanted to be meaningful. My advice, get US politics OFF your site. Its a similar problem/. faces but we can ignore it because the admins here can be pretty brazen with their leanings its easy to laugh them off. They don't make any pretense about being fair, balanced, etc, which you are trying to do so your going to have to work a lot harder
The desert is full of life, why should it be treated any different from river life?
Besides, the biggest problem facing the US is power transmission. If we had that down we could situate nuke plants where people didn't care or would see them.
Got to love mandate, which means its a new tax on consumers because the power company can pass it all on. People need to realize what they are voting on.
How much of the rated energy to solar farms produce across the year? I have seen reports than many windfarms struggle to get to 20% of their rated output across a whole year. (which essentially makes their cost five times what people list)
Access speed to what your looking for is where many make up for time. The problem with many heads is similar to many drives per controller. You end up over running the controller, bus, etc, with volume.
Our file system (db2) is usually under the load of hundreds of SQL statements being processed at any second, selected columns and linked tables. The data isn't large, just a lot of it from a lot of different files. Plus IBM likes to abuse high speed drives with scatter loaded data... something is always bound to be under a head. It isn't the size of the data that slows us, just the volume of individual bits of it
Satellite is just as bad if not worse. Let alone the fact that HDTV has opened up all new fee structures that these companies can impose.
Case in point. I actually canceled Dish TV yesterday. I have been a subscriber for nearly two years. What went wrong, well I bought a HD TV. Now they have these great packages costing $24.99 and up for HD only. Guess what, I can't get them because their "billing" system can't handle the switch and won't be able to until 2009. If I want HD from them I not only have to pay for a new dish, sign a new contract for two years, I also will be paying $10 more than I currently do. Since my bill is $32.99 with fees for DVR and a second receiver box my bill already hits $45.99 but to get HD I have to pay nearly eighteeen dollars more than if I were a new customer (the 24.99 isn't a teaser rate)
So I looked at Comcast, nearly sixty dollars PLUS box fees PLUS fees for the HD connection and an additional fees for each extra HD connection. Direct, far worse than Dish. Even if you buy an HD package they have a ten dollar HD enabling fee and receiver fees.
These guys are following the airline/cell phone route. Quoting a price then laying on all the "required" fees for regulatory issues and rentals of require equipment. I can't use my own box with Dish or Direct without first having theirs in the stream.
I would be more than happy to pay for the DVR, its cheaper than Tivo and works just fine, yet I don't even have that option.
Funny thing is, I might actually end up buying the blu-ray I mentioned in a previous post as being overpriced (Wal-Mart has a Sony for over $100 off suddenly) and rent from Net-Flix. Perhaps if the XBOX gets its blu-ray finally I can not only rent Blu-ray films, play games on my HD tv, but I could also stream it, all for a lower monthly than any Cable/Satellite company and only have my equipment in the loop
you obviously must not real politics here, this place is just as lacking in intelligence as Digg ever was.
The bleed over under the guise of science sometimes astounds me. I guess they knew no one would read some of it if labeled politics so they slip in elsewhere when they can.
As long as idle is off by default I think we are safe. It should be off for anonymous coward surfing as well.
I am sure we will invent a new piece of legislation so we don't have to acknowledge our pesky integrity or morals.
After all, its just some little piss ant country, aren't the G8s allowed to run over one a year?
Whats next? Having doubts about going to the Olympics based on China's treatment of Tibet and other ethnic/religious minorities? Oops, looks like we forgot that one too, there G8 as well. I know, New G.... oops, can't go there... uh...
Oh yeah... Russia will have a hissy because we bitched, people will claim that talking would have worked or did work (ignoring the fact Russia got what they wanted and killed lots of people - but talking sure brought them back to life), and threaten to not allow us to fly but will cave in when we pay more.
Yeah, US foreign policy has been pretty much spineless when dealing with Russia since Reagans day... somehow since then we aren't allowed to piss them off. Peace sucks for the little guys as it means the big boys get to trample the little guys without worry about another big guy actually doing something about it.
I know, lets get the UN involved, they can write a strongly worded letter, well as long as none of the words offend the Russians and the Russians approve it of course.
It almost seems as if he exists to offend both the religious fanatics and homosexuals all at the same time. Its not like the position was needed; Star Wars isn't out to teach anyone anything, represent anything historically accurate, and as such doesn't need to touch on all PC aspects of modern life. At the same time they don't need to ridicule/stereotype it either with a ham handed method of trying to not offend both sides but doing so greatly regardless.
Hell, even the name is amazing... whats next on their list.
but damn if a large number of the bigger pushers of carbon credits not heavily invested in those "credit industries" let alone massive abusers themselves.
The global warming as defined; feel free to pick your definition it seems the experts love to change it up a lot too; is not a hoax but a carefully planned wealth and power transfer. Did you ever wonder why the interest in it spiked even with proof we haven't warmed in years but actually may have cooled? Simple, many figured how to make money off of it and many realized how they could get power over other groups by crafting laws to give them oversight.
Its an eco system. I know we can influence it but when I see the results that show one Pacific volcano was measurable beyond doubt yet its passed over like how all the planets warmed too. Go figure, the fact is that the whackjobs lost their credibility when they kept moving the line. They then fell back on total scare tactics, TWENTY YEARS TILL DOOM, EIGHTEEN YEARS, TWELVE, hell some even go as low as TEN YEARS AND WERE DOOMED!
Sheesh, people lament religion here and fail to see the newest one.
Well I figure for some the off chance of being published; even if as a crack pot; is just too much to pass up. Oh I am sure some might believe it but I doubt all who profess it do. Its outlandish enough so that you can always come back one day and say you were joking. It is outlandish enough many would just call it a day and pass it off as a personality trait they acknowledge but don't accept
Besides, it could be infinitely horizontal or what not, depends on what dimension your from, or perhaps you need to ascribe to this belief to get into Tom Cruise's inner circle?
with the Georgia invasion and some local power outages caused by storms. Unfortunately since its not exactly relevant to Americans it seems that we can make light of such a situation. Needless to say they were talking to some people and lead a few along the lines that Georgia had just shot down two Russian planes and while the power was out in lots of places (it wasn't) they were still on the air "for now".
Got to love Russia's timing on the invasion. I guess we could have expected it from the Chinese if it were hosted elsewhere. Time will tell if the Olympics changes how the Chinese treat their neighbors all in the name of obtaining trust based respect on the world stage or if they use the fact that after the Olympics end they can just whack Taiwan or hit Tibet harder.
they know that by putting soldiers on the ground that some will not return.
Having them participate in killing the enemy directly isn't going to do anything. In fact it will probably cause more harm because some Presidents may not have willpower to do what is right even if it is morally distasteful.
Many officers have served and been in conflicts where they were directly involved. The fact is that there needs to be some separation in order to perform the job properly. Just as above, if it distracts from the mission it could be very detrimental to the troops they have ordered into harms way.
While I understand where your coming from its directed at the wrong people.
If anything the ones I want to see and experience it first hand are the psychopaths who send young men and women out with bomb belts into civilian areas to purposely kill and maim those who have no ability to fight back.
If anything the Iraq war, and previous incarnation, show the great extend to which we now go to not kill civilians. Before the last few US major engagements wars were fought as hard as possible to end them quickly. The terrorists haven't forgotten that the surest way to win is to break the spirit of the opponent. We did that in WW2 and to some extent Korea. You remove the support of the fighters and the war will fail.
It sucks, but sometimes I wonder just how so many people can actually believe you can talk to some of these people in this world. Unreasonable people do not negotiate, they stall.
that it is not the CEO's fault that you or other people have the wrong skills.
Our productivity is higher than ever before, our industry is earning more than ever before, and still our standard of living is crazy good.
The real fact is, too many people would rather bitch and moan, stay in a job they hate, or just do nothing, instead of trying to learn a valuable skill set. I know, it costs money. Well duh, its an investment. Got a super cell plan? Gee, guess it was important than your education. I can go on and on. Cars are more important investments too many people than an education.
Quit blaming companies. Small business employs more people than those companies you read about laying off people.
I have a HD player, Toshiba's AH3. Yeah, that means HD-DVD. Got it for $99 with eleven free movies. Got a bunch more when HD-DVD got shut down for less than $100. Still work. Better yet, compared to my friend's PS3 I don't have a single HD-DVD that forces me to watch anything other than the movie. His movies, well its pot-luck but many play ads for up coming movies that don't allow skip.
Still I have a 61 HD tv (Samsung LED DLP fwiw) and with a good upscaling player I can still tell a difference between DVD and HD-DVD. Dune and Blade Runner are good examples of being able to pick out details on. Especially in clothing and other textured items that just seem to blur on vhs and even base DVD. HD OTA looks better than some dvds! Yet with even a great TV, good sound, and the ability to get HD satellite, I can't see getting a new player
The real issue is two parts. The players are obnoxiously priced and the movies aren't far behind. With the ability to rent them I could see getting a service like Netflix but honestly I am not going to fork out nearly four hundred dollars for a media player. Get the price of the player down and do it quickly or simply write it off. Sony may have bought off the studios and if the rumors are true even Toshiba but they bought nothing if they cannot price the players and the movies into a realm where people don't even have to think about it. I have no qualms buying movies at CD prices... but at twenty four and higher its not worth it. Maybe Disney films for the kids as they will watch them for years, but regular movies? Get real. Its just a movie.
I guess we should ask those who are Chinese and live in China.
don't just assume that because you work forty hours a week (or less in certain countries) that that is the ideal.
Based on their perspective, their cultural norms, that iPod factory job might just be heaven. Then we can throw in interference of outside countries with their we are holier than thou and this is all the hours we deem you worthy of and suddenly this guy works less hours and isn't as happy.
how do we know? You certainly don't but your willing to vilify the previous poster with values no more backed up with facts than his
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These are stunts, nothing more than to attract some advertising dollars. You would be lucky to even hear about it on page 2 of the sports section.
People will take green technology seriously under two events.
1. Non-green sources skyrocket in price
2. Its unobtrusive.
More of the latter than anything else. The way you get people to go green is to make it a non-event. You just quietly swap out the technology.
I don't care about his assurances, I have read his site since the time it was posted here and its just another way for journalist to claim professional and unbiased view points all without actually living up to it. Its one thing to claim it but he is undone by the stories and his companies associations. The problem is that he doesn't see the bias because its just every natural to think that way.
I really think he has no clue as too how little trust many people put into media people anymore, having five plus years of experience to me means they are probably biased to an extreme already because even the freshest minds out of college are beat down by hardliners in the industry. Educators. Well lets just say, his two support categories all lean left and lean left hard.
So I've been there, laughed it off really quick. I will still read it this week and see what the stories are like compared to when the republican's have their convention. I seriously doubt they will change. Let alone the fact I didn't see any stories related to OTHER parties.
Being without bias first requires knowing what you like isn't necessarily right.
Sorry, but the no-fly list is nothing compared to the forfeiture laws that were passed in the 80s where it has become the norm to sue the property instead of the person owning it in order to circumvent the Constitution and laws protecting person and property.
People act as if anti-terrorism laws infringing on our rights is something new cooked up by Bush and Co. but the fact is we have had a steady erosion of our rights ever since the the New Deal getting far worse with Nixon's War on Drugs which has been perpetuated by each following administration. Hell Clinton went so far as to make it a Cabinet position.
The government has show increasing disregard for the rights of people and when the law proved to be insurmountable they invented new means of accomplishing the same (look up asset forfeiture) Sometimes the good guy wins ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700 ) but the fact that there are judges who think otherwise is scary.
You asked if they know, they do and they don't care.
No one seems to get it. Its countries like these (Iran is another) that you cannot just talk to. They don't care. They will let you talk their ears off while beating the snot out of people right next door. They don't have to care. Who is going to do anything about it?
Hell the real disgrace is the IOC and every country that calls it self civilized for allowing China to have the Olympics. To them they aren't cheating, they are simply winning. They are more likely emboldened by the fact they staged the Olympics. I figure that every abuse will simply get worse in the coming years because at least up until the teams showed up they had to show restraint.
So where will the restraint be after the Olympics are done?
World level scandal : Yeah, the world is China's accomplice
Please understand there is a big difference between American engineering and government controlled American engineering.
The people are far better than their government, thats why the government mostly treats them as villians
let alone there has to be lots of emotional strain.
I think it was done after Nadia, wasn't she 14?
Granted some people mature faster than others but who is to judge?
I look at it this way, the IOC turns a blind eye to Tibet so I seriously don't think something as age is important to them either. They won't do anything until the Olympics are done, let alone acknowledge it. They won't do anything if it affects how much money the IOC gets.
for those of us with satellite and the ability to have a dish, can it also be used for OTA HD? Or if we replace Sat service can we use it OTA HD and receive that through their cable which is no longer needed for sat?
I am trying to avoid a new cable incoming to the house and figured on grafting theirs
have you by the short ones.
Sorry, I went through a dozen or so stories, checked out the comments and the scores, nope, there is nothing fancy about yet another rating system taken over by groups with an agenda.
So, what does he do about near obvious or cloned reviews, reviews without substantial comment? A site like this is only good if it has a large number of participants as anything will be skewed if its determined to be important.
Even sites as popular as Digg fell sway to organized attempts to skew story ratings. What does this site do to avoid it?
BTW - its probably already to slanted to be meaningful. My advice, get US politics OFF your site. Its a similar problem /. faces but we can ignore it because the admins here can be pretty brazen with their leanings its easy to laugh them off. They don't make any pretense about being fair, balanced, etc, which you are trying to do so your going to have to work a lot harder
The desert is full of life, why should it be treated any different from river life?
Besides, the biggest problem facing the US is power transmission. If we had that down we could situate nuke plants where people didn't care or would see them.
Got to love mandate, which means its a new tax on consumers because the power company can pass it all on. People need to realize what they are voting on.
How much of the rated energy to solar farms produce across the year? I have seen reports than many windfarms struggle to get to 20% of their rated output across a whole year. (which essentially makes their cost five times what people list)
Access speed to what your looking for is where many make up for time. The problem with many heads is similar to many drives per controller. You end up over running the controller, bus, etc, with volume.
Our file system (db2) is usually under the load of hundreds of SQL statements being processed at any second, selected columns and linked tables. The data isn't large, just a lot of it from a lot of different files. Plus IBM likes to abuse high speed drives with scatter loaded data... something is always bound to be under a head. It isn't the size of the data that slows us, just the volume of individual bits of it
Satellite is just as bad if not worse. Let alone the fact that HDTV has opened up all new fee structures that these companies can impose.
Case in point. I actually canceled Dish TV yesterday. I have been a subscriber for nearly two years. What went wrong, well I bought a HD TV. Now they have these great packages costing $24.99 and up for HD only. Guess what, I can't get them because their "billing" system can't handle the switch and won't be able to until 2009. If I want HD from them I not only have to pay for a new dish, sign a new contract for two years, I also will be paying $10 more than I currently do. Since my bill is $32.99 with fees for DVR and a second receiver box my bill already hits $45.99 but to get HD I have to pay nearly eighteeen dollars more than if I were a new customer (the 24.99 isn't a teaser rate)
So I looked at Comcast, nearly sixty dollars PLUS box fees PLUS fees for the HD connection and an additional fees for each extra HD connection. Direct, far worse than Dish. Even if you buy an HD package they have a ten dollar HD enabling fee and receiver fees.
These guys are following the airline/cell phone route. Quoting a price then laying on all the "required" fees for regulatory issues and rentals of require equipment. I can't use my own box with Dish or Direct without first having theirs in the stream.
I would be more than happy to pay for the DVR, its cheaper than Tivo and works just fine, yet I don't even have that option.
Funny thing is, I might actually end up buying the blu-ray I mentioned in a previous post as being overpriced (Wal-Mart has a Sony for over $100 off suddenly) and rent from Net-Flix. Perhaps if the XBOX gets its blu-ray finally I can not only rent Blu-ray films, play games on my HD tv, but I could also stream it, all for a lower monthly than any Cable/Satellite company and only have my equipment in the loop
Well sometimes the stupidity is evident just in the subject, let alone the synopsis while displayed on the first page.
damage done.
you obviously must not real politics here, this place is just as lacking in intelligence as Digg ever was.
The bleed over under the guise of science sometimes astounds me. I guess they knew no one would read some of it if labeled politics so they slip in elsewhere when they can.
As long as idle is off by default I think we are safe. It should be off for anonymous coward surfing as well.
I am sure we will invent a new piece of legislation so we don't have to acknowledge our pesky integrity or morals.
After all, its just some little piss ant country, aren't the G8s allowed to run over one a year?
Whats next? Having doubts about going to the Olympics based on China's treatment of Tibet and other ethnic/religious minorities? Oops, looks like we forgot that one too, there G8 as well. I know, New G.... oops, can't go there... uh...
Oh yeah... Russia will have a hissy because we bitched, people will claim that talking would have worked or did work (ignoring the fact Russia got what they wanted and killed lots of people - but talking sure brought them back to life), and threaten to not allow us to fly but will cave in when we pay more.
Yeah, US foreign policy has been pretty much spineless when dealing with Russia since Reagans day... somehow since then we aren't allowed to piss them off. Peace sucks for the little guys as it means the big boys get to trample the little guys without worry about another big guy actually doing something about it.
I know, lets get the UN involved, they can write a strongly worded letter, well as long as none of the words offend the Russians and the Russians approve it of course.
Sheesh.
It almost seems as if he exists to offend both the religious fanatics and homosexuals all at the same time. Its not like the position was needed; Star Wars isn't out to teach anyone anything, represent anything historically accurate, and as such doesn't need to touch on all PC aspects of modern life. At the same time they don't need to ridicule/stereotype it either with a ham handed method of trying to not offend both sides but doing so greatly regardless.
Hell, even the name is amazing... whats next on their list.
and when that lawyer dropped dead during the Clinton years we spent how many years of amateur sleuths telling us what a grand conspiracy it was?
Just consider this "what goes around, comes around"
There is a conspiracy anywhere you have a crackpot
I should have never listened to her, she should have known Steve was a snake
~ Adam
but damn if a large number of the bigger pushers of carbon credits not heavily invested in those "credit industries" let alone massive abusers themselves.
The global warming as defined; feel free to pick your definition it seems the experts love to change it up a lot too; is not a hoax but a carefully planned wealth and power transfer. Did you ever wonder why the interest in it spiked even with proof we haven't warmed in years but actually may have cooled? Simple, many figured how to make money off of it and many realized how they could get power over other groups by crafting laws to give them oversight.
Its an eco system. I know we can influence it but when I see the results that show one Pacific volcano was measurable beyond doubt yet its passed over like how all the planets warmed too. Go figure, the fact is that the whackjobs lost their credibility when they kept moving the line. They then fell back on total scare tactics, TWENTY YEARS TILL DOOM, EIGHTEEN YEARS, TWELVE, hell some even go as low as TEN YEARS AND WERE DOOMED!
Sheesh, people lament religion here and fail to see the newest one.
Well I figure for some the off chance of being published; even if as a crack pot; is just too much to pass up. Oh I am sure some might believe it but I doubt all who profess it do. Its outlandish enough so that you can always come back one day and say you were joking. It is outlandish enough many would just call it a day and pass it off as a personality trait they acknowledge but don't accept
Besides, it could be infinitely horizontal or what not, depends on what dimension your from, or perhaps you need to ascribe to this belief to get into Tom Cruise's inner circle?
with the Georgia invasion and some local power outages caused by storms. Unfortunately since its not exactly relevant to Americans it seems that we can make light of such a situation. Needless to say they were talking to some people and lead a few along the lines that Georgia had just shot down two Russian planes and while the power was out in lots of places (it wasn't) they were still on the air "for now".
Got to love Russia's timing on the invasion. I guess we could have expected it from the Chinese if it were hosted elsewhere. Time will tell if the Olympics changes how the Chinese treat their neighbors all in the name of obtaining trust based respect on the world stage or if they use the fact that after the Olympics end they can just whack Taiwan or hit Tibet harder.
they know that by putting soldiers on the ground that some will not return.
Having them participate in killing the enemy directly isn't going to do anything. In fact it will probably cause more harm because some Presidents may not have willpower to do what is right even if it is morally distasteful.
Many officers have served and been in conflicts where they were directly involved. The fact is that there needs to be some separation in order to perform the job properly. Just as above, if it distracts from the mission it could be very detrimental to the troops they have ordered into harms way.
While I understand where your coming from its directed at the wrong people.
If anything the ones I want to see and experience it first hand are the psychopaths who send young men and women out with bomb belts into civilian areas to purposely kill and maim those who have no ability to fight back.
If anything the Iraq war, and previous incarnation, show the great extend to which we now go to not kill civilians. Before the last few US major engagements wars were fought as hard as possible to end them quickly. The terrorists haven't forgotten that the surest way to win is to break the spirit of the opponent. We did that in WW2 and to some extent Korea. You remove the support of the fighters and the war will fail.
It sucks, but sometimes I wonder just how so many people can actually believe you can talk to some of these people in this world. Unreasonable people do not negotiate, they stall.
that it is not the CEO's fault that you or other people have the wrong skills.
Our productivity is higher than ever before, our industry is earning more than ever before, and still our standard of living is crazy good.
The real fact is, too many people would rather bitch and moan, stay in a job they hate, or just do nothing, instead of trying to learn a valuable skill set. I know, it costs money. Well duh, its an investment. Got a super cell plan? Gee, guess it was important than your education. I can go on and on. Cars are more important investments too many people than an education.
Quit blaming companies. Small business employs more people than those companies you read about laying off people.
I have a HD player, Toshiba's AH3. Yeah, that means HD-DVD. Got it for $99 with eleven free movies. Got a bunch more when HD-DVD got shut down for less than $100. Still work. Better yet, compared to my friend's PS3 I don't have a single HD-DVD that forces me to watch anything other than the movie. His movies, well its pot-luck but many play ads for up coming movies that don't allow skip.
Still I have a 61 HD tv (Samsung LED DLP fwiw) and with a good upscaling player I can still tell a difference between DVD and HD-DVD. Dune and Blade Runner are good examples of being able to pick out details on. Especially in clothing and other textured items that just seem to blur on vhs and even base DVD. HD OTA looks better than some dvds! Yet with even a great TV, good sound, and the ability to get HD satellite, I can't see getting a new player
The real issue is two parts. The players are obnoxiously priced and the movies aren't far behind. With the ability to rent them I could see getting a service like Netflix but honestly I am not going to fork out nearly four hundred dollars for a media player. Get the price of the player down and do it quickly or simply write it off. Sony may have bought off the studios and if the rumors are true even Toshiba but they bought nothing if they cannot price the players and the movies into a realm where people don't even have to think about it. I have no qualms buying movies at CD prices... but at twenty four and higher its not worth it. Maybe Disney films for the kids as they will watch them for years, but regular movies? Get real. Its just a movie.
Unless you own an iMac, mine is in the shop (AGAIN!) for yet another circuit board and possibly new video card.
So that was the best $169 I ever spent.
you or the other guy?
I guess we should ask those who are Chinese and live in China.
don't just assume that because you work forty hours a week (or less in certain countries) that that is the ideal.
Based on their perspective, their cultural norms, that iPod factory job might just be heaven. Then we can throw in interference of outside countries with their we are holier than thou and this is all the hours we deem you worthy of and suddenly this guy works less hours and isn't as happy.
how do we know? You certainly don't but your willing to vilify the previous poster with values no more backed up with facts than his