Competing Product-B doesn't have access to said performance enhancers and therefore, have a harder time getting their application to achieve the same level of performance.
In this case, yes they do have access to the same performance. RTFA.
i knew nothing about RSS feeds, and after a quick read at google I was able to add RSS to my site and get it online in under half an hour. this is because my code is lean, and it's mine. there was no process to follow, no code reviews, no deployment scheduling. nothing, just me and a text editor.
iTunes and iPods have made a significant impact on how popular music is consumed, but pretty much zero impact on all other genres. Outside pop music, CD sales have been growing over time, and the online sales of these other genres is pretty much dead in the water.
"Outside pop music?" You mean, outside of 90% of music sold? I guess the rich yuppies that love jazz and pay out the nose for hi-fis and horrible DRM'd junk like SACD and DVD Audio can prop up the physical media market a bit longer.
Some forms of video - cheap date movies, stupid comedy (Borat etc) and other sorts of low-end pop-junk like sit-com TV shows will be downloaded. Non-pop culture film (serious movies, foreign film, classics, etc.); i.e. things that have lasting value; that you can watch many times over your lifetime will still be distributed on physical media.
Why? You are romanticizing physical media. There's nothing particularly special about it, other than it's a bit more reliable than a hard drive.
Au Contraire, I own a BR player and I know an awful lot about both formats. I can drone on about U-Matic, Laserdisc or Betacam too if you'd prefer.
All of the "upgraded" features Blu-Ray offers over DVD BESIDES greater resolution are either:
1)Related to DRM/region control 2)Marketing-driven features (such as PiP) that don't improve the user experience and will remain unknown/ignored by a majority of consumers.
The size of the format is another tangible advantage, but that is more useful for data than movies. From a production/authoring standpoint, Blu-Ray is a bigger headache than DVD or HD-DVD. But it's what we've got to work with now, so let's suck it up and move on, I guess...
I'm glad you put "nice" in quotes. BluRay is a moving target of a platform. Newer profiles don't add much (who the fuck wants to watch picture in picture through an entire movie?) except complexity and consumer confusion. Consumers don't want to have to check the fine print every time to see if their movie will play, especially since Blu Ray costs more and does not offer anything over DVD except a high resolution.
And the poor late adopters that buy Used HDTV's from 3-4 years ago.
m tv dont have HDCP, it's a 1080i set. Bluray and HDDVD is useless as nither will output anything but 480p out the Component output. In fact this is mentioned in EVERY HDDDVD and BluRay players manual.
"720p and 1080i output is disabled on component out on discs that have the copy protection flag set." EVERY SINGLE DISK HAS THIS FLAG SET!
I'm sorry, but there's enough FUD in this article. You are talking out of your ass-my PS3 plays Bluray discs in 1080i over the component out, and my cousin's Toshiba HD-DVD player will play HD-DVDs in 1080i and 720p over component. Neither will upscale regular DVDs over component.
DRM, pointless format wars, and needlessly complex standards are frustrating, but there's no need to mislead anyone.
Are US citizens being gouged? Or are we subsidizing the socialist Canadian medical system, which many Canadians don't like.
Thanks to the lobbying of the drug companies, it's illegal for the US government to negotiate lower prices for Medicare drugs. So yes, I'm pretty sure the US citizens are being gouged.
I agree except for Killer Instinct revolutionizing fighting games.
Killer Instinct was the disgusting excess of ugly digitized graphics and esoteric, hard to control combo systems. Street Fighter II basically created the fighting genre, and the best home version was the SNES version. How 'bout that one instead?
I know plenty of well-informed non-fundies that read/listen/watch content from The News Corporation, including Fox. Why, because they also read/listen/watch liberal stations. There is plenty to take seriously from each side, the effort is spent sifting through the fallacies and weighing out bias to get at the heart of the matter and from there deciding what your stance on the issue will be. Remember, the truth is more easily found when most conflict is filtered out
They watch both sides of the debate between Britney Spears getting into a car and what drugs were found in Heath Ledger's apartment? American cable news is for shit. Any time they hit on a relevant issue it's practically by accident, and I can't imagine that anyone that has time to watch both CNN and FOX News has a job. Their websites are a little better, but it's still 90% fluff. Try the BBC, they actually have some reporters left there. It's only about 50% fluff.
There used to be a troupe of Austin comedians who did live movie riffings, they were known as "Mr. Sinus Theatre." Jim Mallon and Best Brains sued them. At first, they attempted to license the MST3k name and logo, but Mallon decided they were "too adult." They ended up changing their name to "The Sinus Show" and eventually broke up. Do you approve of licensing MST3k?
P.S. If you liked the first four lines, please feel free to quote them. With modifications if necessary.
Sure, we'll be using them to demonstrate how pompous, out-of-touch nerds equate trivial things like voluntary software licenses with the evils of slavery. We'll be anxiously awaiting your next well-thought-out screed about how the iPod's lack of support for Ogg Vorbis is on par the Holocaust.
Good points, except saying stuff like "Apple have a monopoly on Mac OS X" confuses readers.
Apple produces Mac OS X. They don't have a monopoly on it any more than Dell has a monopoly on Dell Computers, or the Coca-Cola corporation has a monopoly on Coca-Cola. There is a difference. iPod, Mac OS X, etc are Apple's proprietary products. They are not monopolies because there are other competitors in the various markets (iPods=MP3 players, Mac OS X=operating systems).
I would place a heavy bet on the prison system being just as full if we legalized all drugs...some people are just leeches and will find some other way to earn a dishonest living.
You fail to understand the difference between violent and non-violent crime. You seem to assume that people have an innate desire to be locked up, or at least to be deviant. That's naughty, and I'm afraid I must slap these handcuffs on you and discipline you!
"Freedom of the press only applies to those who have a press," so the old saying goes. In the old days, the cost of a press and its upkeep was a significant barrier to the dissemination of ideas.
Of course, this pales in comparison to the barrier to entry in television or radio. Unless you are a multi-billionaire, you won't even get a seat at the table to talk about getting an FCC license. As for starting a cable channel-who will support you? All the other cable infrastructure is controlled by huge conglomerates that want to push their own channels. Even Ted Turner is too small of a fish to have any major influence these days.
Maybe you think the Internet is some sort of panacea for the lack of diversity on the airwaves. Think again-most of the people on the Internet are visiting the websites for CNN, ESPN, etc-the same huge conglomerates that control TV and radio.
The fact is, journalism is dying in this country. The media is an echo chamber for those in power, and itself. True investigative journalism is being squeezed further and further into the margins in this country. Maybe you think that's what "the market" supports. But since "the market" is a rigged game as long as the airwaves rely on outdated modulation techniques, artificial scarcity and broadcast licenses granted in perpetuity. It is a rigged game as long as fewer and fewer corporations are allowed to monopolize our ears and eyes. "We're only giving the people what they want," the broadcast giants cry as they eliminate choice.
A fax machine's UI is far more user friendly to novices and beginners alike. Is there some reason we don't design GUIs to mimic the fax machine? This, to me, is a substantial failing in modern UI design.
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Competing Product-B doesn't have access to said performance enhancers and therefore, have a harder time getting their application to achieve the same level of performance.
In this case, yes they do have access to the same performance. RTFA.
Doc Ruby,
Thanks for the ubuntu links. I have a couple questions for you if you don't mind-
What codecs are the 1080p videos using?
Have you had any luck with Matruska/x264 videos?
i knew nothing about RSS feeds, and after a quick read at google I was able to add RSS to my site and get it online in under half an hour. this is because my code is lean, and it's mine. there was no process to follow, no code reviews, no deployment scheduling. nothing, just me and a text editor.
No underwear? Damn, that IS hot!
Does Slashdot have a bad analogy Hall of Fame?
If it does, pally, you've got my vote!
iTunes and iPods have made a significant impact on how popular music is consumed, but pretty much zero impact on all other genres. Outside pop music, CD sales have been growing over time, and the online sales of these other genres is pretty much dead in the water.
"Outside pop music?" You mean, outside of 90% of music sold? I guess the rich yuppies that love jazz and pay out the nose for hi-fis and horrible DRM'd junk like SACD and DVD Audio can prop up the physical media market a bit longer.
Some forms of video - cheap date movies, stupid comedy (Borat etc) and other sorts of low-end pop-junk like sit-com TV shows will be downloaded. Non-pop culture film (serious movies, foreign film, classics, etc.); i.e. things that have lasting value; that you can watch many times over your lifetime will still be distributed on physical media.
Why? You are romanticizing physical media. There's nothing particularly special about it, other than it's a bit more reliable than a hard drive.
You don't know much about DVD vs BD do you?
Au Contraire, I own a BR player and I know an awful lot about both formats. I can drone on about U-Matic, Laserdisc or Betacam too if you'd prefer.
All of the "upgraded" features Blu-Ray offers over DVD BESIDES greater resolution are either:
1)Related to DRM/region control
2)Marketing-driven features (such as PiP) that don't improve the user experience and will remain unknown/ignored by a majority of consumers.
The size of the format is another tangible advantage, but that is more useful for data than movies. From a production/authoring standpoint, Blu-Ray is a bigger headache than DVD or HD-DVD. But it's what we've got to work with now, so let's suck it up and move on, I guess...
I'm glad you put "nice" in quotes. BluRay is a moving target of a platform. Newer profiles don't add much (who the fuck wants to watch picture in picture through an entire movie?) except complexity and consumer confusion. Consumers don't want to have to check the fine print every time to see if their movie will play, especially since Blu Ray costs more and does not offer anything over DVD except a high resolution.
And the poor late adopters that buy Used HDTV's from 3-4 years ago.
m tv dont have HDCP, it's a 1080i set. Bluray and HDDVD is useless as nither will output anything but 480p out the Component output. In fact this is mentioned in EVERY HDDDVD and BluRay players manual.
"720p and 1080i output is disabled on component out on discs that have the copy protection flag set." EVERY SINGLE DISK HAS THIS FLAG SET!
I'm sorry, but there's enough FUD in this article. You are talking out of your ass-my PS3 plays Bluray discs in 1080i over the component out, and my cousin's Toshiba HD-DVD player will play HD-DVDs in 1080i and 720p over component. Neither will upscale regular DVDs over component.
DRM, pointless format wars, and needlessly complex standards are frustrating, but there's no need to mislead anyone.
If you're looking for the sounds of the arcade, try the Arcade Ambience Project.
It will take you back to those dark, smoky, wonderful places of your childhood (or at least, it did for me!)
Don't worry about a lighter, just upgrade your DNA with these base pairs. You'll be able to shoot fire from your fingertips!
Are US citizens being gouged? Or are we subsidizing the socialist Canadian medical system, which many Canadians don't like.
Thanks to the lobbying of the drug companies, it's illegal for the US government to negotiate lower prices for Medicare drugs. So yes, I'm pretty sure the US citizens are being gouged.
I agree except for Killer Instinct revolutionizing fighting games.
Killer Instinct was the disgusting excess of ugly digitized graphics and esoteric, hard to control combo systems. Street Fighter II basically created the fighting genre, and the best home version was the SNES version. How 'bout that one instead?
I know plenty of well-informed non-fundies that read/listen/watch content from The News Corporation, including Fox. Why, because they also read/listen/watch liberal stations. There is plenty to take seriously from each side, the effort is spent sifting through the fallacies and weighing out bias to get at the heart of the matter and from there deciding what your stance on the issue will be. Remember, the truth is more easily found when most conflict is filtered out
They watch both sides of the debate between Britney Spears getting into a car and what drugs were found in Heath Ledger's apartment? American cable news is for shit. Any time they hit on a relevant issue it's practically by accident, and I can't imagine that anyone that has time to watch both CNN and FOX News has a job. Their websites are a little better, but it's still 90% fluff. Try the BBC, they actually have some reporters left there. It's only about 50% fluff.
There used to be a troupe of Austin comedians who did live movie riffings, they were known as "Mr. Sinus Theatre." Jim Mallon and Best Brains sued them. At first, they attempted to license the MST3k name and logo, but Mallon decided they were "too adult." They ended up changing their name to "The Sinus Show" and eventually broke up. Do you approve of licensing MST3k?
Mike Nelson was the head writer for the entire series, including season 1.
So it's possible that he's referring to Nelson-the fact that they aren't doing riffing together suggests it.
But it's more likely that Jim Mallon is the source of the problem. He runs Best Brains, and he owns the likenesses of Crow, Servo, Dr. Forrester etc.
Is there some reason why I'm automatically browsing at 0 instead of my preferred setting of -1?
I checked my preferences and apparently I'm still set to -1, so what gives?
P.S. If you liked the first four lines, please feel free to quote them. With modifications if necessary.
Sure, we'll be using them to demonstrate how pompous, out-of-touch nerds equate trivial things like voluntary software licenses with the evils of slavery. We'll be anxiously awaiting your next well-thought-out screed about how the iPod's lack of support for Ogg Vorbis is on par the Holocaust.
Naked Boggle, naked Scrabble, naked Taboo, or naked Minesweeper?
Or naked Monopoly with Uncle Pennybags swollen testi-sack?
I'll bet stuff like this already exists on the Internet.
Good points, except saying stuff like "Apple have a monopoly on Mac OS X" confuses readers.
Apple produces Mac OS X. They don't have a monopoly on it any more than Dell has a monopoly on Dell Computers, or the Coca-Cola corporation has a monopoly on Coca-Cola. There is a difference. iPod, Mac OS X, etc are Apple's proprietary products. They are not monopolies because there are other competitors in the various markets (iPods=MP3 players, Mac OS X=operating systems).
I would place a heavy bet on the prison system being just as full if we legalized all drugs...some people are just leeches and will find some other way to earn a dishonest living.
You fail to understand the difference between violent and non-violent crime. You seem to assume that people have an innate desire to be locked up, or at least to be deviant. That's naughty, and I'm afraid I must slap these handcuffs on you and discipline you!
"Freedom of the press only applies to those who have a press," so the old saying goes. In the old days, the cost of a press and its upkeep was a significant barrier to the dissemination of ideas.
Of course, this pales in comparison to the barrier to entry in television or radio. Unless you are a multi-billionaire, you won't even get a seat at the table to talk about getting an FCC license. As for starting a cable channel-who will support you? All the other cable infrastructure is controlled by huge conglomerates that want to push their own channels. Even Ted Turner is too small of a fish to have any major influence these days.
Maybe you think the Internet is some sort of panacea for the lack of diversity on the airwaves. Think again-most of the people on the Internet are visiting the websites for CNN, ESPN, etc-the same huge conglomerates that control TV and radio.
The fact is, journalism is dying in this country. The media is an echo chamber for those in power, and itself. True investigative journalism is being squeezed further and further into the margins in this country. Maybe you think that's what "the market" supports. But since "the market" is a rigged game as long as the airwaves rely on outdated modulation techniques, artificial scarcity and broadcast licenses granted in perpetuity. It is a rigged game as long as fewer and fewer corporations are allowed to monopolize our ears and eyes. "We're only giving the people what they want," the broadcast giants cry as they eliminate choice.
It's for "Life Day."
And when are we going to get a Star Wars Holiday Special Special Edition? C'mon Lucas, I want to see Bea Arthur shoot first!
You nailed it. Kevin Martin is in bed with the Telcos (AT&T and Verizon) but they oppose the cable companies. It's not a good situation.
A fax machine's UI is far more user friendly to novices and beginners alike. Is there some reason we don't design GUIs to mimic the fax machine? This, to me, is a substantial failing in modern UI design.
All technological breakthroughs have happened already. The fax machine was the pinnacle of human achievement. Just give up.