DRAM is a commodity product. Only overclockers and enthusiasts pay significant attention to the relative "quality" of DRAM, so there is no way for you to "increase the quality of your merchandise" to attract significant amounts of customers. The mass market only cares for two things about DRAM:
1) Does it meet the specs my computer requires? 2) How cheap is it?
The DRAM industry is an oligopoly that has had such a vicious price war over the past decade that they are effectively selling their products almost at cost. In effect, despite the barriers to entry for new firms and the small number of producers, the DRAM market operates as if it were perfect competition. If one manufacturer raises their prices slightly, they lose a huge chunk of marketshare. If one manufacturer lowers prices slightly, they gain a huge chunk of the market or force all their rivals to cut prices to match. There is no product differentiation, and there is no brand awareness by the customer base.
Since Hynix is getting loans from the South Korean government, they can sell their commodity product at below cost. This is getting them an unfair share of the marketplace since companies who only have their own capital base to work with cannot compete with their prices. There is effectively nothing that the other companies can do to compete with that. Nothing. I repeat, there is no product differentiation in the mass market for DRAM. None. It's merely a cost war.
You see, South Korea's government has already become involved. If our government doesn't become involved, then someone who is effectively cheating in the marketplace will win. Since the DRAM market has such a high barrier to entry due to the cost of chip fabrication plants, once our local DRAM companies go out of business, they can't simply jump back into the market after Hynix reraises the prices.
Government needs to be involved because another government is already involved.
Remember folks, only the French (er, excuse me, "only the Freedom") put their adjectives after their nouns.
Actually, FYI, all Romance languages -- those languages derived from Latin -- place the adjective after the noun. Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese all place adjectives after their nouns. Germanic and Slavic languages tend place the adjective before the noun, as does Greek. Of course, this just covers the most common European languages, and none of the other languages around the world. Swahili & Vietnamese, for example, also place adjectives after nouns.
Question: How do you pour it in without touching anything, and how do you get it back out of your mouth before running out of breath without touching anything?
Actually, no. The BSDs and all of their derivatives will be safe. Ever since the Unix System Labs vs. BSDI lawsuit in 1992-1994 came to a conclusion, the BSD 4.4-Lite distribution has contained none of the original source code from AT&T's Unix. Any system based on BSD 4.4-Lite, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X will be safe. Similarly, unencumbered GNU systems, such as the mythical GNU/Hurd, will be safe.
Worst case scenario: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and other modern commercial Unices will be unable to be sold without submitting to SCO. Linux will be unable to be sold period. This will leave only Windows solutions and Unix solutions that are have little credibility among the businesses who insist on commercially-supported big iron. There will be a few years gap in which Unix big business will rush to either adopt Windows, quick-port and bulk-up one of the BSDs, revive their old BSD OSes (SunOS), pay their tribute money to SCO, or die. If Linux becomes illegal to sell in the US, it will probably be illegal to sell in nearly every other civilized nation due to international copyright law. At any rate, it would be illegal to sell and license here even if it were based in another country.
At any rate, BSD is safe. Mac OS X is safe. SCO may win and still die the death of a thousand paper-cuts as competing vendors, licensees of AIX, users of Linux, etc. all find any and all means to screw them and keep them tied up in court until bankruptcy.
Okay, I'll concede that you do work with and are actually familiar with the data formats and their uses. However, can you think of a good explanation for why LandSat 7 would go black instead the Hyperion instrument on the EO-1 satellite with its 220 band hyperspectral sensor and resolution matching that of LandSat 7? What about the ASTER sensor on the Terra satellite with its 9 bands of better/equivalent resolution data and its futher 5 bands of True IR at 90 m resolution?
LandSat 7 is simply not as capable of a sensor as some of the others out there. Shutting it down without shutting down better sensors is wasterful and strategically pointless. The continued operation of other, better satellites is a complication to your version of the story as is the ability of the government to simply censor the data without shutting down the satellite. Due to the complications above, Occam's Razor would suggest that we go with the simpler solution; it broke down after 9 years of service.
Your "simple inductive logic" reminds me of an old joke:
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer enter a mathematics contest, the first task of which is to prove that all odd number are prime. The mathematician has an elegant argument: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime. Therefore, by mathematical induction, all odd numbers are prime. It's the physicist's turn: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, so, to within experimental error, all odd numbers are prime.' The most straightforward proof is provided by the engineer: `1's a prime, 3's a prime, 5's a prime, 7's a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime...'
By the way, can you give any substaniated examples of a satellite being shut down permanently when it was putting out data of military significance, or is this an old wive's tale that I need to take as an article of faith?
I'm chiming in in agreeance with the AC who says that you've never worked with LandSat 7 data. In my job as a developer for a company whose product line is used to analyze satellite and aerial photography, I regularly do. The LandSat 7 satellite has poor resolution for this sort of thing.
The color bands only have a resolution of 30 meters per pixel width, with the exception of band 6 (the far infrared band) which only has a resolution of 60 meters per pixel width. The panchromatic band has a better resolution of 15 meters per pixel width. If you do the math, that means that the color bands have a resolution of about a 1/6 of a football field per pixel.
This is nothing compared to other satellites out there. Orbital Imaging owns a satellite called OrbView-3 that should be going up soon which has an 4-band multispectral sensor with 4 m resolution on each band and a panchromatic sensor with 1 m resolution. Digital globe has 2.44 m multispectral data and 61 cm panchromatic data for sale as their basic imagery for sale. Trust me, LandSat 7 one of the least likely sensors to be shut down for being just "too good."
Your conspiracy theory is silly. As noted by another poster, the government already reserves the right to pull all sensitive information from it. This is routine. There's no reason to declare the satellite to be an expensive piece of space junk when they've already got procedures for handling data of military significance.
(BTW, the LandSat fleet was taken back under the government's wing in 1992 after the costs for data became too onerous.)
Many, many restaraunts don't have beer. Further, quitting sugary drinks to drink beer isn't much of a improvement in calorie consumption, and it can cause other trouble if you have a habit of downing several glasses of your drink per meal.
If it ain't plasma.. it's crap. Or was that scottish...? I'm sure the Scots would have used plasma though.
And if it is plasma, it's burned-in crap. Seriously, you don't want to use a plasma screen as a monitor. While they have amazing contrast ratios and screen resolutions, the burn-in problem is an ever-present one, even if you're using it as a TV. The little logos that stations use to identify themselves frequently cause problems for plasma screen owners.
As a matter of fact, when I don't drink it, I have these POUNDING HEADACHES LIKE A NAIL IN MY BRAIN.
A nail in the brain -- that's the best description. For me, the nail was right behind my left eye, jabbing with each beat of my heart, and the pain would actually interrupt my speech with every pulse and cause my eyes to water.
My problem was inconsistent doses of caffeine. I would go a day without drinking a drop of caffeine (thanks to my love of ginger ale) and then pound back 3-6 glasses of Coke at a restaraunt. This inconsistent dosing of caffeine led to me having about 2-3 migranes-level headaches per week since I was 12.
Two years ago, a friend of mine made me aware of caffeine withdrawal as a source of headache problems. Month later, after attempting to diet by drinking nothing but unsweetened tea (do the math sometime), I gave up caffeine on a lark. Two weeks later, I had no headaches. I've averaged maybe one headache every 3 months since then, and none of them have even come close to the horror of my old migrane-level headaches.
I don't drink caffeine anymore. I had to give up the diet, though. Unless you want to drink nothing but water at a restaraunt, then your choices are either caffeine or sugar. I chose sugar.
To back what the other poster said about it being just like EverQuest, I'd like to point out that all of the characters in.hack are using standard character templates with few exceptions. If you watch both anime series and play the games, you'll notice that a lot of characters look the same except for color choices and tattoo patterns -- exactly like most modern MMORPGs.
The exceptions are characters with retired character models or other specially rewarded character models, hackers and AIs who don't follow the rules of the game, and special NPCs played by company employees. Every one else is using the same model as someone else. Most NPCs all look the same. Heck, if you watch the TV series long enough, you'll see Subaru confront another player who uses the same Heavy Axe character model.
They've never done you any harm. And except for recent accusations of revenue massaging, they don't lie.
Well, friend. It's time you learn that nothing is sacred. Yes, Virginia, even Coca-Cola lies and squashes people to keep its bottom line intact. Read the sad and infuriating tale of judicial corruption and corporate fraud of Bob Kolody vs. Coca-Cola. I was outraged for days.
Seriously. I think NVidia really overestimated just how much the average computer user wants a graphics card that literally goes "VROOM!" when you power it up.
Man, usually in the games I've played in, stepping sideways was like going from the frying pan to the fire (in more ways that one). The only real benefit that you got was that there was no Paradox on the other side. With the exception of most Technocracy conventions other than the Void Engineers, there's few enemies that you could have have even worse forces on the other side of the Gauntlet waiting to strike. Nephandi, Marauders, and Changing Breeds, oh my!
Besides, if you feel the need to straight-jacket the players out of the Umbra, then you're not playing close attention to the way they want to play. If multiple players are investing in enough levels of Spirit to step sideways, then they obviously want an Umbra-heavy game. Adapt the game to it. Let them explore exotic vistas where their normal human understanding and societal upbringing can lead them dangerously astray. Make the setting perilously surreal, faerie-like (in the classic bogeyman sense), and Mythic (with a capital M). Let them gradually attract the attention of friendly and decidedly unfriendly Umbral beings, and they'll treat the Umbra and the Gauntlet with more respect that just as a sewer-tunnel system to escape the cops via. Let the Umbra change them so that they learn respect for the Gauntlet and maybe some sympathy for the devil.
(And read Nobilis, the Whispering Vault, and plenty of Neil Gaiman to get your creative juices going.)
In my opinion, the whole Avatar Storm plot was responsible for raping 3 perfectly good products lines -- Mage, Mummy, and Wraith. The whole cross-over fanfic appeal of it all just somehow missed me when Mummies got Clans, Wraith got 86'ed to be replaced with Demon (retch), and the Traditions just rolled over and started wimpering to the Technocracy. Overall, I think the Avatar Storm plot is where WoD jumped the shark. It was a blatant move to screw-over all previous editions of their product lines so that they could add some momentum to the endless supplement churn that feeds their bottom line. I might not have as much of a problem with it if it didn't turn out to make a series of (in my opinion) damaging and setting-wrecking changes to each of the games it touched.
I'm not sure which is scarier, the idea that these databases are being opened to anyone who has a credit card and a willingness to snoop on their neighbors, or the idea that they should be restricted so that only "legitimate" businesses like telemarketers can get it.
Considering the recent actions of ChoicePoint, I find the latter far more scary than the former. At least with the former, I can log into their site and see what they say about me. I can't do that with ChoicePoint. Imagine how different things might be in our country right now if all the banned voters in Florida had been able to see that they were incorrectly on the list before the last Presidential election.
Actually it's funny they should mention that. I'm reading "The Millionaire Next Door" right now and by far the oddest statistic I've seen in the book is the dollar/pound measurement of the cars that millionaires tend to buy. It tends to be the around $5-8 of an American clunker rather than the $14-20 of a foreign luxury car.
Weird statistic... but it gets you thinking about value even if neither weight nor page count contribute directly to quality.
I agree, but that intro song, "The Fear of Angels" is simply the sorrowful song ever in my opinion. If you can find the Seiken Desetsu 2 Plus album (which is just one long 48 minute mostly techno-remixed track), you should listen for the haunting remake of the intro song at about 5 minutes into the album.
Perhaps you should read the educational tale of the Osbourne to learn exactly how your reaction is exactly why Apple keeps this kind of thing secret:
Two years after the Osborne débuted in the marketplace, the company was bankrupt! Why? Osborne made a fatal mistake! They failed to plan! To make matters worse, they announced a second machine, the Osborne 2, which was suppose to be a great improvement over the initial Osborne and all of its competition. However, the announcement was premature since the Osborne 2 was not ready for customer shipments. As a result, the sales for the original Osborne dried up while their customers waited for the Osborne 2. Consequently, the company had no sales that translated to no revenue and subsequently to no cash. Meanwhile, the market was waiting for the new and improved Osborne 2 that never materialized because the company ran out of money, and went bankrupt. The company failed in large part to a lack of honest and intensive business planning. In summary, by failing to plan, it plan to fail and was found guilty of "eating its own children."
...that I can finally find that one song that goes Wagga-chigga wa! Wagga-chigga wa! Wagga-chigga wa-wa! Thoomp! Meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly! Meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly meeeeeeee!!
Actually, I'm in the market for an HDTV or home theater setup right now for both movies and for use as a computer monitor, and I've pretty much entirely discounted the majority of solutions right now because of longevity in one form or another. Plasma screens, LCoS projectors, CRT projectors, and LCD projectors all have burn-in/burn-out problems. This pretty much knocks-out every one of the technologies for 40"+ screens except for DLP.
By the way, was your DLP a single-chip or triple-chip solution? Did anything about it cause headaches other than the rainbow problem?
Does anyone know if there's a DLP system that'll display 1080 lines as it's native resolution? Most DLP systems I've seen have 720 lines as their native resolution. I'm holding off on an HDTV system until I can get the max resolution with the best picture technology.
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DRAM is a commodity product. Only overclockers and enthusiasts pay significant attention to the relative "quality" of DRAM, so there is no way for you to "increase the quality of your merchandise" to attract significant amounts of customers. The mass market only cares for two things about DRAM:
1) Does it meet the specs my computer requires?
2) How cheap is it?
The DRAM industry is an oligopoly that has had such a vicious price war over the past decade that they are effectively selling their products almost at cost. In effect, despite the barriers to entry for new firms and the small number of producers, the DRAM market operates as if it were perfect competition. If one manufacturer raises their prices slightly, they lose a huge chunk of marketshare. If one manufacturer lowers prices slightly, they gain a huge chunk of the market or force all their rivals to cut prices to match. There is no product differentiation, and there is no brand awareness by the customer base.
Since Hynix is getting loans from the South Korean government, they can sell their commodity product at below cost. This is getting them an unfair share of the marketplace since companies who only have their own capital base to work with cannot compete with their prices. There is effectively nothing that the other companies can do to compete with that. Nothing. I repeat, there is no product differentiation in the mass market for DRAM. None. It's merely a cost war.
You see, South Korea's government has already become involved. If our government doesn't become involved, then someone who is effectively cheating in the marketplace will win. Since the DRAM market has such a high barrier to entry due to the cost of chip fabrication plants, once our local DRAM companies go out of business, they can't simply jump back into the market after Hynix reraises the prices.
Government needs to be involved because another government is already involved.
Remember folks, only the French (er, excuse me, "only the Freedom") put their adjectives after their nouns.
Actually, FYI, all Romance languages -- those languages derived from Latin -- place the adjective after the noun. Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese all place adjectives after their nouns. Germanic and Slavic languages tend place the adjective before the noun, as does Greek. Of course, this just covers the most common European languages, and none of the other languages around the world. Swahili & Vietnamese, for example, also place adjectives after nouns.
Question:
How do you pour it in without touching anything, and how do you get it back out of your mouth before running out of breath without touching anything?
I'm sorry, but the White House is being taken over by the Church of Elvis with assistance from the Goldfish Fanciers, Prince Charles, and Big Media.
I am fairly certain that IBM does not want SCO to protect AIX from anything.
SCO will protect IBM from the terrible secret of space!
Actually, no. The BSDs and all of their derivatives will be safe. Ever since the Unix System Labs vs. BSDI lawsuit in 1992-1994 came to a conclusion, the BSD 4.4-Lite distribution has contained none of the original source code from AT&T's Unix. Any system based on BSD 4.4-Lite, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X will be safe. Similarly, unencumbered GNU systems, such as the mythical GNU/Hurd, will be safe.
Worst case scenario: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and other modern commercial Unices will be unable to be sold without submitting to SCO. Linux will be unable to be sold period. This will leave only Windows solutions and Unix solutions that are have little credibility among the businesses who insist on commercially-supported big iron. There will be a few years gap in which Unix big business will rush to either adopt Windows, quick-port and bulk-up one of the BSDs, revive their old BSD OSes (SunOS), pay their tribute money to SCO, or die. If Linux becomes illegal to sell in the US, it will probably be illegal to sell in nearly every other civilized nation due to international copyright law. At any rate, it would be illegal to sell and license here even if it were based in another country.
At any rate, BSD is safe. Mac OS X is safe. SCO may win and still die the death of a thousand paper-cuts as competing vendors, licensees of AIX, users of Linux, etc. all find any and all means to screw them and keep them tied up in court until bankruptcy.
Okay, I'll concede that you do work with and are actually familiar with the data formats and their uses. However, can you think of a good explanation for why LandSat 7 would go black instead the Hyperion instrument on the EO-1 satellite with its 220 band hyperspectral sensor and resolution matching that of LandSat 7? What about the ASTER sensor on the Terra satellite with its 9 bands of better/equivalent resolution data and its futher 5 bands of True IR at 90 m resolution?
LandSat 7 is simply not as capable of a sensor as some of the others out there. Shutting it down without shutting down better sensors is wasterful and strategically pointless. The continued operation of other, better satellites is a complication to your version of the story as is the ability of the government to simply censor the data without shutting down the satellite. Due to the complications above, Occam's Razor would suggest that we go with the simpler solution; it broke down after 9 years of service.
Your "simple inductive logic" reminds me of an old joke:
By the way, can you give any substaniated examples of a satellite being shut down permanently when it was putting out data of military significance, or is this an old wive's tale that I need to take as an article of faith?
I'm chiming in in agreeance with the AC who says that you've never worked with LandSat 7 data. In my job as a developer for a company whose product line is used to analyze satellite and aerial photography, I regularly do. The LandSat 7 satellite has poor resolution for this sort of thing.
The color bands only have a resolution of 30 meters per pixel width, with the exception of band 6 (the far infrared band) which only has a resolution of 60 meters per pixel width. The panchromatic band has a better resolution of 15 meters per pixel width. If you do the math, that means that the color bands have a resolution of about a 1/6 of a football field per pixel.
This is nothing compared to other satellites out there. Orbital Imaging owns a satellite called OrbView-3 that should be going up soon which has an 4-band multispectral sensor with 4 m resolution on each band and a panchromatic sensor with 1 m resolution. Digital globe has 2.44 m multispectral data and 61 cm panchromatic data for sale as their basic imagery for sale. Trust me, LandSat 7 one of the least likely sensors to be shut down for being just "too good."
Your conspiracy theory is silly. As noted by another poster, the government already reserves the right to pull all sensitive information from it. This is routine. There's no reason to declare the satellite to be an expensive piece of space junk when they've already got procedures for handling data of military significance.
(BTW, the LandSat fleet was taken back under the government's wing in 1992 after the costs for data became too onerous.)
Many, many restaraunts don't have beer. Further, quitting sugary drinks to drink beer isn't much of a improvement in calorie consumption, and it can cause other trouble if you have a habit of downing several glasses of your drink per meal.
If it ain't plasma.. it's crap. Or was that scottish...? I'm sure the Scots would have used plasma though.
And if it is plasma, it's burned-in crap. Seriously, you don't want to use a plasma screen as a monitor. While they have amazing contrast ratios and screen resolutions, the burn-in problem is an ever-present one, even if you're using it as a TV. The little logos that stations use to identify themselves frequently cause problems for plasma screen owners.
As a matter of fact, when I don't drink it, I have these POUNDING HEADACHES LIKE A NAIL IN MY BRAIN.
A nail in the brain -- that's the best description. For me, the nail was right behind my left eye, jabbing with each beat of my heart, and the pain would actually interrupt my speech with every pulse and cause my eyes to water.
My problem was inconsistent doses of caffeine. I would go a day without drinking a drop of caffeine (thanks to my love of ginger ale) and then pound back 3-6 glasses of Coke at a restaraunt. This inconsistent dosing of caffeine led to me having about 2-3 migranes-level headaches per week since I was 12.
Two years ago, a friend of mine made me aware of caffeine withdrawal as a source of headache problems. Month later, after attempting to diet by drinking nothing but unsweetened tea (do the math sometime), I gave up caffeine on a lark. Two weeks later, I had no headaches. I've averaged maybe one headache every 3 months since then, and none of them have even come close to the horror of my old migrane-level headaches.
I don't drink caffeine anymore. I had to give up the diet, though. Unless you want to drink nothing but water at a restaraunt, then your choices are either caffeine or sugar. I chose sugar.
To back what the other poster said about it being just like EverQuest, I'd like to point out that all of the characters in .hack are using standard character templates with few exceptions. If you watch both anime series and play the games, you'll notice that a lot of characters look the same except for color choices and tattoo patterns -- exactly like most modern MMORPGs.
The exceptions are characters with retired character models or other specially rewarded character models, hackers and AIs who don't follow the rules of the game, and special NPCs played by company employees. Every one else is using the same model as someone else. Most NPCs all look the same. Heck, if you watch the TV series long enough, you'll see Subaru confront another player who uses the same Heavy Axe character model.
Here's a short list...
Tsukasa (.hack//SIGN) == Elk (.hack games)
Mimiru (.hack//SIGN) == Blackrose (.hack games) == Rena (.hack//DUSK)
Bear (.hack//SIGN) == Orca (.hack games)
Subaru (.hack//SIGN) == Kachikan (.hack//SIGN) ~= Ryoko Terashima (.hack games)
Crim (.hack//SIGN) ~= Nuke Usagimaru (.hack games)
A-20 (.hack//SIGN) == Natsume (.hack games)
Mistral (.hack games) == Mirelle (.hack//DUSK)
Kite (.hack games) == Shuugo (.hack//DUSK)
They've never done you any harm. And except for recent accusations of revenue massaging, they don't lie.
Well, friend. It's time you learn that nothing is sacred. Yes, Virginia, even Coca-Cola lies and squashes people to keep its bottom line intact. Read the sad and infuriating tale of judicial corruption and corporate fraud of Bob Kolody vs. Coca-Cola. I was outraged for days.
Seriously. I think NVidia really overestimated just how much the average computer user wants a graphics card that literally goes "VROOM!" when you power it up.
Man, usually in the games I've played in, stepping sideways was like going from the frying pan to the fire (in more ways that one). The only real benefit that you got was that there was no Paradox on the other side. With the exception of most Technocracy conventions other than the Void Engineers, there's few enemies that you could have have even worse forces on the other side of the Gauntlet waiting to strike. Nephandi, Marauders, and Changing Breeds, oh my!
Besides, if you feel the need to straight-jacket the players out of the Umbra, then you're not playing close attention to the way they want to play. If multiple players are investing in enough levels of Spirit to step sideways, then they obviously want an Umbra-heavy game. Adapt the game to it. Let them explore exotic vistas where their normal human understanding and societal upbringing can lead them dangerously astray. Make the setting perilously surreal, faerie-like (in the classic bogeyman sense), and Mythic (with a capital M). Let them gradually attract the attention of friendly and decidedly unfriendly Umbral beings, and they'll treat the Umbra and the Gauntlet with more respect that just as a sewer-tunnel system to escape the cops via. Let the Umbra change them so that they learn respect for the Gauntlet and maybe some sympathy for the devil.
(And read Nobilis, the Whispering Vault, and plenty of Neil Gaiman to get your creative juices going.)
Wait, wait. You liked the Avatar Storm plot?
In my opinion, the whole Avatar Storm plot was responsible for raping 3 perfectly good products lines -- Mage, Mummy, and Wraith. The whole cross-over fanfic appeal of it all just somehow missed me when Mummies got Clans, Wraith got 86'ed to be replaced with Demon (retch), and the Traditions just rolled over and started wimpering to the Technocracy. Overall, I think the Avatar Storm plot is where WoD jumped the shark. It was a blatant move to screw-over all previous editions of their product lines so that they could add some momentum to the endless supplement churn that feeds their bottom line. I might not have as much of a problem with it if it didn't turn out to make a series of (in my opinion) damaging and setting-wrecking changes to each of the games it touched.
Anyway, we're both horribly off-topic.
I'm not sure which is scarier, the idea that these databases are being opened to anyone who has a credit card and a willingness to snoop on their neighbors, or the idea that they should be restricted so that only "legitimate" businesses like telemarketers can get it.
Considering the recent actions of ChoicePoint, I find the latter far more scary than the former. At least with the former, I can log into their site and see what they say about me. I can't do that with ChoicePoint. Imagine how different things might be in our country right now if all the banned voters in Florida had been able to see that they were incorrectly on the list before the last Presidential election.
Proving once again that if you want to know what Waterworld's like, take Mad Max and just add water.
All this talk of evil monsters and sudden death just shills me to the bone.. err..! I mean chills me to the bone! Chills me!
Actually it's funny they should mention that. I'm reading "The Millionaire Next Door" right now and by far the oddest statistic I've seen in the book is the dollar/pound measurement of the cars that millionaires tend to buy. It tends to be the around $5-8 of an American clunker rather than the $14-20 of a foreign luxury car.
Weird statistic... but it gets you thinking about value even if neither weight nor page count contribute directly to quality.
I agree, but that intro song, "The Fear of Angels" is simply the sorrowful song ever in my opinion. If you can find the Seiken Desetsu 2 Plus album (which is just one long 48 minute mostly techno-remixed track), you should listen for the haunting remake of the intro song at about 5 minutes into the album.
Perhaps you should read the educational tale of the Osbourne to learn exactly how your reaction is exactly why Apple keeps this kind of thing secret:
-- From this site.
...that I can finally find that one song that goes Wagga-chigga wa! Wagga-chigga wa! Wagga-chigga wa-wa! Thoomp! Meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly! Meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly meeeeeeee!!
Actually, I'm in the market for an HDTV or home theater setup right now for both movies and for use as a computer monitor, and I've pretty much entirely discounted the majority of solutions right now because of longevity in one form or another. Plasma screens, LCoS projectors, CRT projectors, and LCD projectors all have burn-in/burn-out problems. This pretty much knocks-out every one of the technologies for 40"+ screens except for DLP.
By the way, was your DLP a single-chip or triple-chip solution? Did anything about it cause headaches other than the rainbow problem?
Does anyone know if there's a DLP system that'll display 1080 lines as it's native resolution? Most DLP systems I've seen have 720 lines as their native resolution. I'm holding off on an HDTV system until I can get the max resolution with the best picture technology.