The government has always acted in its own interests. Perhaps they have realised that releasing software as OSS suits their purposes.
People have always acted in their own interests. A good government (one that is of and by the people) acting in its own interest is acting in your interest as well.
Not saying this is always the case, but it does happen. Using your money to develop software that is licensed for you to use freely is a good example.
Sorry Hulu, but calling it the "free-to-air" model is dubious at best. Any time we are receiving advertising over websites/TV/radio/Hulu, we are a product being delivered to advertisers.
Hulu, you run plenty of ads. The idea that you are not making any money, or that your service is free in any sense beyond the most narrow interpretation, is absurd.
I'm surprised no one seems to have brought up the difference between Star Trek under Gene Roddenberry, and Star Trek under Rick Berman.
If you watch ST:TNG in order, all the way through (yay Netflix), there is a CLEAR change in the series after Roddenberry passed away.
With Roddenbery, Star Trek was about tackling the big issues and (mostly) unanswerable questions facing humanity. Under Berman, it turned into a (still mostly entertaining) technobabble soap opera, where some bug in the Enterprise supplies the main plot point for every other episode.
It really is a night-and-day difference. Go back and watch.
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Me either.
In fairness, that is more a fault of the way most CD's are mastered today, rather than an inherent problem with the CD format. It is possible to produce CDs with a decent amount of dynamic range that do have the "feel" or dynamics of a live performance.
It's too bad that none of the 24-bit music formats have really caught on. That increased bit depth gives even more opportunity to incorporate real dynamics. With a CD (16-bit) you only have 65,535 possible amplitude levels. With a 24-bit format you get 16,777,216 possible levels. It's like the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit color on your desktop - they may look similar at first, but once you know what to look (listen) for, the difference is obvious and you never want to go back to 16-bit.
"So, a DivX player with a normal TV set is useless"
Utter, utter crap. You should be modded "funny" at best. Its not like hooking this up to a 'normal' TV (which by your standards probably means 'giant hunk of dung') will look like a grid of 4 giant pixels or anything. It'll look just fine, thank you.
"All older compression schemes used to delete these due to lossy compression"
Ummm, DivX is quite lossy my friend. On my rather old but still fine 52" Hitachi Ultravision, even the compression artifacts on great-transfer DVD's are apparent. And great quality DivX files still look a bit soft compared to DVDs.
This is with playback on my Xbox (which incidentally has been doing DivX on TV for some time now, and without having to burn anything - it streams straight from any Samba share).
You should connect it either to your computer screen
Then what's the point of buying this device?!
or get one of these new plasma or LCD TV-sets.
Sure, that definitely sounds like the solution. NOT. To those who modded this guy up - OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!!
This is rather strange, as I _used_ to have a Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM drive. Upon inserting a standard CDR with a bunch of MP3s on it, after a few minutes of copying, it sounded like a gun went off inside my computer.
The copying aborted with an error, and the drive wouldn't take any more discs. Upon removing it I could immediately hear shards of the exploded disc moving around.
Anyone else experience this? I don't think this problem is confined to just their burners... Class action anyone?:)
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Hopefully just enough to run Plex.
I'm guessing you missed their highly re-reported blog post regarding the new release schedule.
Do you mean Keychain? According to Wikipedia and my experience, Chrome already uses it.
The government has always acted in its own interests. Perhaps they have realised that releasing software as OSS suits their purposes.
People have always acted in their own interests. A good government (one that is of and by the people) acting in its own interest is acting in your interest as well.
Not saying this is always the case, but it does happen. Using your money to develop software that is licensed for you to use freely is a good example.
Sorry Hulu, but calling it the "free-to-air" model is dubious at best. Any time we are receiving advertising over websites/TV/radio/Hulu, we are a product being delivered to advertisers.
Hulu, you run plenty of ads. The idea that you are not making any money, or that your service is free in any sense beyond the most narrow interpretation, is absurd.
I'm surprised no one seems to have brought up the difference between Star Trek under Gene Roddenberry, and Star Trek under Rick Berman.
If you watch ST:TNG in order, all the way through (yay Netflix), there is a CLEAR change in the series after Roddenberry passed away.
With Roddenbery, Star Trek was about tackling the big issues and (mostly) unanswerable questions facing humanity. Under Berman, it turned into a (still mostly entertaining) technobabble soap opera, where some bug in the Enterprise supplies the main plot point for every other episode.
It really is a night-and-day difference. Go back and watch.
Have you ever heard a CD that you would confuse with a live performance? Me either.
In fairness, that is more a fault of the way most CD's are mastered today, rather than an inherent problem with the CD format. It is possible to produce CDs with a decent amount of dynamic range that do have the "feel" or dynamics of a live performance.
It's too bad that none of the 24-bit music formats have really caught on. That increased bit depth gives even more opportunity to incorporate real dynamics. With a CD (16-bit) you only have 65,535 possible amplitude levels. With a 24-bit format you get 16,777,216 possible levels. It's like the difference between 16-bit and 24-bit color on your desktop - they may look similar at first, but once you know what to look (listen) for, the difference is obvious and you never want to go back to 16-bit.
They aren't losing their margins on Macs. And really, what company isn't all about profit margin?
Mod parent up (and the article down...)
ALL laptop displays are "unacceptable" for serious graphics work, because they are all TN-type (TN is the thinnest).
TFA even admits that the only recent laptop that had an IPS-type panel, a Lenovo, is discontinued.
Rob should know by now that laptops are not for color critical work. This has been blindingly obvious for years.
Cog has been on the scene since 2006, is fully GPL'd, and supports most formats.
A nice, lightweight player designed to play music and not get in your way. Highly recommended.
http://cogx.org/
"'This is not news nor is it a scoop,' says an Apple Inc. spokesman, declining further comment."
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003722487
ColorPlus indeed uses the original Spyder hardware, which is quite dated and did not perform very well even when initally released.
The new Spyder2 hardware is much better, about 5x as sensitive, and can be had for $150 (list $199). Very accurate, works great.
"So, a DivX player with a normal TV set is useless"
Utter, utter crap. You should be modded "funny" at best. Its not like hooking this up to a 'normal' TV (which by your standards probably means 'giant hunk of dung') will look like a grid of 4 giant pixels or anything. It'll look just fine, thank you.
"All older compression schemes used to delete these due to lossy compression"
Ummm, DivX is quite lossy my friend. On my rather old but still fine 52" Hitachi Ultravision, even the compression artifacts on great-transfer DVD's are apparent. And great quality DivX files still look a bit soft compared to DVDs.
This is with playback on my Xbox (which incidentally has been doing DivX on TV for some time now, and without having to burn anything - it streams straight from any Samba share).
You should connect it either to your computer screen
Then what's the point of buying this device?!
or get one of these new plasma or LCD TV-sets.
Sure, that definitely sounds like the solution. NOT. To those who modded this guy up - OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!!
This is rather strange, as I _used_ to have a Pioneer 16X DVD-ROM drive. Upon inserting a standard CDR with a bunch of MP3s on it, after a few minutes of copying, it sounded like a gun went off inside my computer.
:)
The copying aborted with an error, and the drive wouldn't take any more discs. Upon removing it I could immediately hear shards of the exploded disc moving around.
Anyone else experience this? I don't think this problem is confined to just their burners... Class action anyone?