Considering that Salon's stock has lost nearly 92% of its value since this time last year, and has been trading for about a buck a share on good days for the last several months, you'd better believe they're betting the farm on this scheme. Apparantly, their financial situation is so bad over there that they're even stiffing freelance writers on payment for their articles, and aren't returning phone calls.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's about damn time, too. Salon was a useless piece of slop who's only purpose was to promote Talbot's fantasyland view of politics while (he hoped) making him enough money to buy himself a vineyard in California and live like a mogul; the man is openly contemptuous of anything resembling "objective" reporting and, with rare exceptions, employs a stable of left-wing hacks who've never quite grasped the difference between journalism and advocacy. I, for one, shall dance on its grave when it finally reaches the end of it's well-deserved death spiral.
Good - we have enough transplanted-from-out-of-state "wakkos" screwing up our perfectly good state already. While you're at it, see if you can't convince a few of these expatriate Californicated looney-tunes to move out again, would you?
VideoCD and SVCD never really caught on here in the U.S.A. because they were never really introduced here... except for the Teraoptix Terapin VCD recorder, and a few "grey-market" SVCD units from otherwise-unknown Asian manufacturers like Amoisonic, stand-alone record/playback units are virtually unknown to the average consumer.
Whether this is by accident or design is left as an exercise to the reader.:)
How about developing a chip that can encode MPEG-4 in real-time, and marrying it to a CD-R / CD-RW transport with a suitable embedded computer to run the show? Ultra-VCD's, anyone?:)
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Considering that Salon's stock has lost nearly 92% of its value since this time last year, and has been trading for about a buck a share on good days for the last several months, you'd better believe they're betting the farm on this scheme. Apparantly, their financial situation is so bad over there that they're even stiffing freelance writers on payment for their articles, and aren't returning phone calls. And as far as I'm concerned, it's about damn time, too. Salon was a useless piece of slop who's only purpose was to promote Talbot's fantasyland view of politics while (he hoped) making him enough money to buy himself a vineyard in California and live like a mogul; the man is openly contemptuous of anything resembling "objective" reporting and, with rare exceptions, employs a stable of left-wing hacks who've never quite grasped the difference between journalism and advocacy. I, for one, shall dance on its grave when it finally reaches the end of it's well-deserved death spiral.
Good - we have enough transplanted-from-out-of-state "wakkos" screwing up our perfectly good state already. While you're at it, see if you can't convince a few of these expatriate Californicated looney-tunes to move out again, would you?
VideoCD and SVCD never really caught on here in the U.S.A. because they were never really introduced here... except for the Teraoptix Terapin VCD recorder, and a few "grey-market" SVCD units from otherwise-unknown Asian manufacturers like Amoisonic, stand-alone record/playback units are virtually unknown to the average consumer. Whether this is by accident or design is left as an exercise to the reader. :)
How about developing a chip that can encode MPEG-4 in real-time, and marrying it to a CD-R / CD-RW transport with a suitable embedded computer to run the show? Ultra-VCD's, anyone? :)