You name it. But indeed, there is a rather simple solution to VOD clogging up the fibre tubes: stop pushing those services to consumers. The internet is not a TV network, never was, it is a playground that should encourage _active_participation_ instead of passive consumerism. Push movie downloads into the channels that were made for yesterday's AV distribution, namely cable and satellites.
There's no need to push this stuff onto iPhones and Laptops, so leave the internet for what it's best at: fast and concise information. Some people (like the top reps at Microsoft) will do everything they can to urge VOD upon us as the new thing, just to kill the now increasing demand for Blu-ray. Don't let their blind anger kill the internet (as we knew it) for all of us.
The result of this was horrific eyestrain. Yes, some people can handle bright colored text on a black background. Most get eyestrain or worse, migraines. This is especially so if you switch from green-on-black to black-on-white (like a printed page).
And it never occurred to you that this might be the fault of the colour scheme these people were switching to? I always have to turn down my brightness and contrast settings as low as possible to be even able to read Slashdot for more than a few minutes.
But sure, if you use a dim green on black theme and for some reason a black-on-white application window pops up, it will burn right through your retina. Sai-aku!
If the submitted story is really summing it up correctly (please keep your RTFA comments for yourself, thank you) then I have to ask, whatever happened to "Windows 7 will be a complete rewrite of [substantial parts of] the Windows codebase" which (of course) has been Redmond's big plan for each and every new OS release in the works? I read about what a radical break (e.g. abandoning all backwards compatibility) the new design would be just the other day, and suddenly now it's just 'a new version' (of Vista)?
Interesting. I just did that, and granted, I wasn't brave enough to hold the key for the 10 seconds you suggest I did, but that did open 47 explorer windows on my machine anyway. As soon as the task bar was filled up, they got sorted into a task group, which I right-clicked on, chose CLOSE GROUP, and they were all gone.
I wonder, can you use that as some sort of benchmark, like, do a fresh boot, log in, do not load any applications but wait until all booting activity has stopped, then set up a timer and hold down WINDOWS and E for exactly 10 seconds. How many windows does your machine get open before it locks up? I would try now, but then I won't be able to finish this post.
And besides, that was a great title, even back then. I somehow feel the urge to play this, especially after watching that episode of the IT Crowd. "Do these sunglasses make me look like a bastard? - No, they make you look like an idiot?!" "I'm a bastard, all right. Trouble, is what I am." Classic.
It might be difficult to find one that doesn't (ab)use its own patents in that way. Erh, well, there possibly is, so let's go and buy Chinese, if you don't already.
I would prefer to put my money where the quality is, and that's where Seagate fails even more. Mind you, this is just anecdotal reasoning, but it's my very own anecdotes, so: I've purchased around 15 hard disk drives over the last 12 years or so, around five of them died at some point. Four out of those five were my Seagate drives, the ones that never failed yet on the other hand are all displaying the Samsung icon, so my wild guess would be: patents != innovation (where it matters).
Could you elaborate (in under 100 words, mind you) what kind of correlation you might have found between good music and Aerosmith? Or was that just a non sequitur for rhetoric effect?
Maybe good, but definitely not quiet. Remember, it's a Diesel. Although we are rather used to Diesel engines here in Europe they are not exactly known for being sophisticated and smooth movers. Especially not in a middle class car like the Golf. Combine this with the frequent switch off/re-ignition phases a fully fledged hybrid passes during each and every road trip, and this spells like disaster to me.
My bet, this is gonna be one of those 'micro hybrid' affairs like they already use on one model of the Smart car: a somewhat slightly more sophisticated start/stop automatic mechanism. Volkswagen is nowhere near Toyota's know-how in terms of powerful motors and planet gears to make it all work. Or even worse, I suspect they are going to abuse the early adopters for beta testing their technology.
And actually it should rather be the full version, conditio sine qua non ('the condition without which nothing [is valid]'). Using Latin half-assedly just in a buzzword manner makes you look -well- dumb, like you went out of your Latin class to go to the toilet just to miss the _important_ part, yet insist to use whatever you picked up leaving the room at whatever occasion.
Hey, why not add to the crap usage by making a verb out of it? 'Hey dude, I so sine qua nonned that guy, you shoulda seen the expression on his face!'
Yeah, like as if Sony was the only company to play the patents game, and like as if embracing HD-DVD and Microsoft patented VC-1 would do you any better, and like as if Blu-ray was inferior and Sony did this spiel all the time, like with their inferior Betamax and CD formats, and like as if you had a clue.
What you're not getting about the post you just flamed the second time in a row, is that the statement is correct. There are some things other first gen Blu-ray players won't be able to do, like newer profiles, but as for the PS3, it is just a matter of a small firmware update. The PS3 automatically updated from BR 1.0 to 1.1 already, and they will most likely do the same as far as BR 2.0 or BR 9.7 are concerned, as long as none of the newer profiles embed hardware revisions, like faster read speeds and the like.
Taking that into account, the PS3 is everyone's best bet to get a sometime in the distant future profile 14.2 compatible Blu-ray player, now.
This might be oversimplifying things a bit, but aren't you saying, or implying, that NOT buying from a person who is -say- a well-known fascist is kinda silly? As for me, I'm surely politically incorrect in one way or the other, but some lines still have to be drawn and upheld, IMHO.
And especially concerning music, I have always had a hard time trying to ignore songwriters' agendas. That's as inconceivable for me as a suggestion like, "Hey, if you think the lyrics are stupid and racist, just enjoy the music for what it is." Sorry, but I can't do that.
Now that is just plain evil. As if some unknown indie outfit like Negativland could have taken away any of U2's precious revenue. And reading the speech this Slashdot article is about: There might be a saying that you can't choose your friends; but as I see it, people (especially those in a position like U2 is in) are quite well responsible for whichever manager they choose to employ.If they go along with a stupid git like this one just proved himself to be then the band itself doesn't seem to be much brighter. Not that I had thought them to be before reading this rant, but you know, hope is always the last thing to die.
But isn't it U2/ Bono who has those very same problems separating music and politics? I along with some friends have - starting from our juvenile days - always despised Bono and other singer/preachers for whom the term Jesus Christ Pose just had to be invented, I think. That one damn pose has always (and forever) spoiled any qualities (earlier) U2 songs might have had.
I was thinking, what if it incidentally hit Mecca? On the other hand, do we know what's inside the Kaaba? Maybe some prehistoric 'satellite' hit ground zero there, inspired a cult, and now history finishes some circle, and this thing goes down in the same spot.
Whatever, bad timing, the Hadj is already over, the circus left town, so to speak.
I agree with your points 99.999%, but just to clarify, Lik-Sang are pirates exactly how? They were just harmless traders, didn't smuggle merchandise, or anything. 'Grey exporters' would be appropriate, at most.
There were those rumors, alright, and Warner executives have already shown how laughable those rumors were.And by the way, if everything was indeed done 'fairly',it would look ever worse for HD-DVD, because then Universal and Paramount wouldn't have been bribed to be in their camp as well. So, no real winning option for them, I figure.
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On a related note, the headline doesn't make any sense, grammatically. Who is this Bill Fossett, anyway?
You name it. But indeed, there is a rather simple solution to VOD clogging up the fibre tubes: stop pushing those services to consumers. The internet is not a TV network, never was, it is a playground that should encourage _active_participation_ instead of passive consumerism. Push movie downloads into the channels that were made for yesterday's AV distribution, namely cable and satellites.
There's no need to push this stuff onto iPhones and Laptops, so leave the internet for what it's best at: fast and concise information. Some people (like the top reps at Microsoft) will do everything they can to urge VOD upon us as the new thing, just to kill the now increasing demand for Blu-ray. Don't let their blind anger kill the internet (as we knew it) for all of us.
But sure, if you use a dim green on black theme and for some reason a black-on-white application window pops up, it will burn right through your retina. Sai-aku!
Right there. Scuttlemonkey vs. Zonk, 1-0.
Does this mean every comment on this article is redundant by default?
If the submitted story is really summing it up correctly (please keep your RTFA comments for yourself, thank you) then I have to ask, whatever happened to "Windows 7 will be a complete rewrite of [substantial parts of] the Windows codebase" which (of course) has been Redmond's big plan for each and every new OS release in the works? I read about what a radical break (e.g. abandoning all backwards compatibility) the new design would be just the other day, and suddenly now it's just 'a new version' (of Vista)?
Wow, that was quick.
Interesting. I just did that, and granted, I wasn't brave enough to hold the key for the 10 seconds you suggest I did, but that did open 47 explorer windows on my machine anyway. As soon as the task bar was filled up, they got sorted into a task group, which I right-clicked on, chose CLOSE GROUP, and they were all gone.
I wonder, can you use that as some sort of benchmark, like, do a fresh boot, log in, do not load any applications but wait until all booting activity has stopped, then set up a timer and hold down WINDOWS and E for exactly 10 seconds. How many windows does your machine get open before it locks up? I would try now, but then I won't be able to finish this post.
And besides, that was a great title, even back then. I somehow feel the urge to play this, especially after watching that episode of the IT Crowd. "Do these sunglasses make me look like a bastard? - No, they make you look like an idiot?!" "I'm a bastard, all right. Trouble, is what I am." Classic.
It might be difficult to find one that doesn't (ab)use its own patents in that way. Erh, well, there possibly is, so let's go and buy Chinese, if you don't already.
I would prefer to put my money where the quality is, and that's where Seagate fails even more. Mind you, this is just anecdotal reasoning, but it's my very own anecdotes, so: I've purchased around 15 hard disk drives over the last 12 years or so, around five of them died at some point. Four out of those five were my Seagate drives, the ones that never failed yet on the other hand are all displaying the Samsung icon, so my wild guess would be: patents != innovation (where it matters).
Could you elaborate (in under 100 words, mind you) what kind of correlation you might have found between good music and Aerosmith? Or was that just a non sequitur for rhetoric effect?
And I like people who say, let me buy you another beer.
In the end, there will only remain the Overlords, and then the Microserfs. You should know that.
You will hear them cry in agony: - Those damned developers, developers, developers, developers!
Maybe good, but definitely not quiet. Remember, it's a Diesel. Although we are rather used to Diesel engines here in Europe they are not exactly known for being sophisticated and smooth movers. Especially not in a middle class car like the Golf. Combine this with the frequent switch off/re-ignition phases a fully fledged hybrid passes during each and every road trip, and this spells like disaster to me.
My bet, this is gonna be one of those 'micro hybrid' affairs like they already use on one model of the Smart car: a somewhat slightly more sophisticated start/stop automatic mechanism. Volkswagen is nowhere near Toyota's know-how in terms of powerful motors and planet gears to make it all work. Or even worse, I suspect they are going to abuse the early adopters for beta testing their technology.
And actually it should rather be the full version, conditio sine qua non ('the condition without which nothing [is valid]'). Using Latin half-assedly just in a buzzword manner makes you look -well- dumb, like you went out of your Latin class to go to the toilet just to miss the _important_ part, yet insist to use whatever you picked up leaving the room at whatever occasion.
Hey, why not add to the crap usage by making a verb out of it? 'Hey dude, I so sine qua nonned that guy, you shoulda seen the expression on his face!'
Yeah, like as if Sony was the only company to play the patents game, and like as if embracing HD-DVD and Microsoft patented VC-1 would do you any better, and like as if Blu-ray was inferior and Sony did this spiel all the time, like with their inferior Betamax and CD formats, and like as if you had a clue.
What you're not getting about the post you just flamed the second time in a row, is that the statement is correct. There are some things other first gen Blu-ray players won't be able to do, like newer profiles, but as for the PS3, it is just a matter of a small firmware update. The PS3 automatically updated from BR 1.0 to 1.1 already, and they will most likely do the same as far as BR 2.0 or BR 9.7 are concerned, as long as none of the newer profiles embed hardware revisions, like faster read speeds and the like.
Taking that into account, the PS3 is everyone's best bet to get a sometime in the distant future profile 14.2 compatible Blu-ray player, now.
I guess Ballmer just got mod points at the right time.
"No, Microsoft, that's a shtooopid thing to do! A Shhtooopid thing to do!"
Seriously: Flickr from now on being forced to use Microsoft server technology? Reason enough not to extend my Pro membership account this year.
This might be oversimplifying things a bit, but aren't you saying, or implying, that NOT buying from a person who is -say- a well-known fascist is kinda silly? As for me, I'm surely politically incorrect in one way or the other, but some lines still have to be drawn and upheld, IMHO.
And especially concerning music, I have always had a hard time trying to ignore songwriters' agendas. That's as inconceivable for me as a suggestion like, "Hey, if you think the lyrics are stupid and racist, just enjoy the music for what it is." Sorry, but I can't do that.
Now that is just plain evil. As if some unknown indie outfit like Negativland could have taken away any of U2's precious revenue. And reading the speech this Slashdot article is about: There might be a saying that you can't choose your friends; but as I see it, people (especially those in a position like U2 is in) are quite well responsible for whichever manager they choose to employ.If they go along with a stupid git like this one just proved himself to be then the band itself doesn't seem to be much brighter. Not that I had thought them to be before reading this rant, but you know, hope is always the last thing to die.
But isn't it U2/ Bono who has those very same problems separating music and politics? I along with some friends have - starting from our juvenile days - always despised Bono and other singer/preachers for whom the term Jesus Christ Pose just had to be invented, I think. That one damn pose has always (and forever) spoiled any qualities (earlier) U2 songs might have had.
I was thinking, what if it incidentally hit Mecca? On the other hand, do we know what's inside the Kaaba? Maybe some prehistoric 'satellite' hit ground zero there, inspired a cult, and now history finishes some circle, and this thing goes down in the same spot.
Whatever, bad timing, the Hadj is already over, the circus left town, so to speak.
Oh my, I didn't know there was Hitler branded gel around for sale. What has the world come to?
And, because Apple is part of the BluRay group.
I agree with your points 99.999%, but just to clarify, Lik-Sang are pirates exactly how? They were just harmless traders, didn't smuggle merchandise, or anything. 'Grey exporters' would be appropriate, at most.
There were those rumors, alright, and Warner executives have already shown how laughable those rumors were.And by the way, if everything was indeed done 'fairly',it would look ever worse for HD-DVD, because then Universal and Paramount wouldn't have been bribed to be in their camp as well. So, no real winning option for them, I figure.