Super, thanks for the recommendation. I finally saw an HD set that had depth and colors as good as my CRT this year. I don't twenty-two-hundred-dollars like it, but it does seem inevitable for me at this point.
Well, I suppose the same logic can be applied to another 3 billion people as well. I thought Apple, Microsoft, and most of the content producers were US-based, so I assumed that their local sales market would be influential on them.
most of the content on the Discs are NOT CLEAN and CRISP 1080p content to begin with.
Have you found some that are? I'd think perhaps some of the wildlife documentary makers would put some effort into it, or something where detail should matter. Perhaps with the trend towards digitally-shot movies this will improve?
I agree, though, the format and datarates are sufficient for most foreseeable needs. I'd personally rather see 60fps at 720 than 24fps at 1080 - that bothers me the most at the movies. Actually, with digital codecs a variable framerate with a high cap ought to be perfectly suitable.
I don't see psychical media dieing anything soon though.
Perhaps it will, in the 65% of America that can get decent broadband. The rest is a big enough number to keep the market alive for at least the next decade.
just like when kids i the 60's would make marijuana legal when they got into politics.
Only a very small subset of them got into power. Those that did realize that it's a useful tool that's required to perpetuate their own power (through the government which needs to expand its tax base for a new layer on its Ponzi scheme programs, and so needs a failed State with a young population to annex, or else is left looking impotent and fails itself).
The other 99% are getting old and painful and don't want to put up with the hassles of dealing illegally for an analgesic/anti-emetic.
back when Apple stopped shipping floppy drives with their computers just about 99% of 'manufactured' computers shipped with floppy drives
Yeah, and Intel Inside stickers, but both were nearly useless - anyone who was seriously using that mode of transport had a ZIP disk in his computer. And USB ZIP drives in iMac colors sold by the palette.
Let's see, Steve Jobs says a technology is complete crap and nobody would ever want to use it. So, that means in a year and a half, Jobs will be having a Flash love-in on stage somewhere.
And then your facial expression at the moment of orgasm will be for sale a few seconds later.
Why do you think the free porn sites all switched over to Flash video? Does you webcam have a hardware-only 'recording' light?
I say that only to scare people, but a friend of mine was recently on a boring webx screencast and began clicking on the interface elements to see what was there and noticed that the organizer had turned on video conferencing and there was one of the other attendees in her undies, doing some work from home. A PM was sent and she ran scurrying off to get her robe.
What a great illustration of the true nature of 'intellectual property' - control of the masses' arrangement of their own property for the benefit of the one.
Somebody go tag this restaurant in the online maps so I remember never to eat there if I'm in the area.
You know the official Oracle answer for that: get a support contract on a supported hardware and they'll fix it for you.
Will they really or will they just offer that to close the sale? I can see where it would be worth it for certain classes of users to buy a support contract to have known-good hardware selections.
Oracle has all the agreements with Intel, LSI and whoever helps them build servers to have drivers developed
I have a server with a year-old Intel gigabit chipset where only one LAN port works under Solaris, both work under Linux. Last month the Solaris bug was sitting at "3 - Yes, that's a problem". I think the bug was reported about 10 months ago.
I've been watching the RHEL bug for adding iotop since at least RHEL 5.3. It keeps getting bumped, now RHEL 5.7 IIRC.
It would require a bunch of backporting work from the kernel beyond 2.6.18. But once sysadmins get used to knowing which disks are busy they really get used to that. And doubly so for optimizing database servers.
Redhat's strategy gains them certainty and loses them opportunity. That's certainly a niche that's done well for them, but there are also users with other needs. Oracle's strategy will be very popular with some of them. When Redhat brings RHEL6 to market there will be lots of required subsystem changes to get the new kernel. Some people will just want the new kernel and not want to change all their underlying dependencies, and Oracle is meeting that need. Eventually Fedora will adopt a rolling-release model and RHEL will track that (probably with more QA) but it's a hard problem and not well-solved yet.
It's great that we have such a vibrant market that there's room for so many approaches.
But then, they already have Solaris which is much more suited for the markets they are aiming at (high-end enterprise servers), so why waste the time ?
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I'll second that- subs have the best chow
In my book, subs are the best chow. Real ones made at the Jersey Shore, not nasty national chain stores, of course.
FEWER staff, not less
Fewer staffers, less staff. (the former being countable)
Super, thanks for the recommendation. I finally saw an HD set that had depth and colors as good as my CRT this year. I don't twenty-two-hundred-dollars like it, but it does seem inevitable for me at this point.
Well, I suppose the same logic can be applied to another 3 billion people as well. I thought Apple, Microsoft, and most of the content producers were US-based, so I assumed that their local sales market would be influential on them.
most of the content on the Discs are NOT CLEAN and CRISP 1080p content to begin with.
Have you found some that are? I'd think perhaps some of the wildlife documentary makers would put some effort into it, or something where detail should matter. Perhaps with the trend towards digitally-shot movies this will improve?
I agree, though, the format and datarates are sufficient for most foreseeable needs. I'd personally rather see 60fps at 720 than 24fps at 1080 - that bothers me the most at the movies. Actually, with digital codecs a variable framerate with a high cap ought to be perfectly suitable.
I don't see psychical media dieing anything soon though.
Perhaps it will, in the 65% of America that can get decent broadband. The rest is a big enough number to keep the market alive for at least the next decade.
What difference exactly does it make if someone exclaims Fuck! instead of Custard!
If it did make any real difference, Butters wouldn't be my favorite South Park character.
just like when kids i the 60's would make marijuana legal when they got into politics.
Only a very small subset of them got into power. Those that did realize that it's a useful tool that's required to perpetuate their own power (through the government which needs to expand its tax base for a new layer on its Ponzi scheme programs, and so needs a failed State with a young population to annex, or else is left looking impotent and fails itself).
The other 99% are getting old and painful and don't want to put up with the hassles of dealing illegally for an analgesic/anti-emetic.
I buy the bluray and then rip it to a non DRM file format for use on my XBMC box.
That's exactly what I've been waiting on BluRay for - are you doing it with Free Software? I don't really have a use case for the full 'experience'.
And I get that warm fuzzy feeling that I am violating a unjust law by doing it.
"An unjust law is no law at all" - St. Augustine. I really need to speak to more Christians about getting on board with their Saints' teachings.
back when Apple stopped shipping floppy drives with their computers just about 99% of 'manufactured' computers shipped with floppy drives
Yeah, and Intel Inside stickers, but both were nearly useless - anyone who was seriously using that mode of transport had a ZIP disk in his computer. And USB ZIP drives in iMac colors sold by the palette.
How to we mark an entire story as -1, Flamebait?
Let's see, Steve Jobs says a technology is complete crap and nobody would ever want to use it. So, that means in a year and a half, Jobs will be having a Flash love-in on stage somewhere.
There's no content that I'm missing out on
Well, *of course* there is. You may not value that content, and that's fine.
A prime example of this is the old thought that the world is flat and one can fall off of it by walking too far.
Pretty much nobody who gave the matter any serious inquiry ever thought this. It's a story made up by a novelist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
This is annoying to not just Biblical literalists but also historians and archaeologists.
Do the literalists invoke the multiverse theory?
I can see several fingers that are totally useless on top of an Apple mouse, which can be operated by a stump.
Yeah, that's the point. Large muscles = no RSI.
I wish my Linux UI worked well with one mouse button. Shocker that it's actually possible with good UI engineering, huh?
And then your facial expression at the moment of orgasm will be for sale a few seconds later.
Why do you think the free porn sites all switched over to Flash video? Does you webcam have a hardware-only 'recording' light?
I say that only to scare people, but a friend of mine was recently on a boring webx screencast and began clicking on the interface elements to see what was there and noticed that the organizer had turned on video conferencing and there was one of the other attendees in her undies, doing some work from home. A PM was sent and she ran scurrying off to get her robe.
What a great illustration of the true nature of 'intellectual property' - control of the masses' arrangement of their own property for the benefit of the one.
Somebody go tag this restaurant in the online maps so I remember never to eat there if I'm in the area.
You know the official Oracle answer for that: get a support contract on a supported hardware and they'll fix it for you.
Will they really or will they just offer that to close the sale? I can see where it would be worth it for certain classes of users to buy a support contract to have known-good hardware selections.
3. Charge for Support
Fair enough. In theory this keeps Step 4 from growing too large.
Oracle has all the agreements with Intel, LSI and whoever helps them build servers to have drivers developed
I have a server with a year-old Intel gigabit chipset where only one LAN port works under Solaris, both work under Linux. Last month the Solaris bug was sitting at "3 - Yes, that's a problem". I think the bug was reported about 10 months ago.
Just one example of why this is good - iotop.
I've been watching the RHEL bug for adding iotop since at least RHEL 5.3. It keeps getting bumped, now RHEL 5.7 IIRC.
It would require a bunch of backporting work from the kernel beyond 2.6.18. But once sysadmins get used to knowing which disks are busy they really get used to that. And doubly so for optimizing database servers.
Redhat's strategy gains them certainty and loses them opportunity. That's certainly a niche that's done well for them, but there are also users with other needs. Oracle's strategy will be very popular with some of them. When Redhat brings RHEL6 to market there will be lots of required subsystem changes to get the new kernel. Some people will just want the new kernel and not want to change all their underlying dependencies, and Oracle is meeting that need. Eventually Fedora will adopt a rolling-release model and RHEL will track that (probably with more QA) but it's a hard problem and not well-solved yet.
It's great that we have such a vibrant market that there's room for so many approaches.
3. ???
3. Support.
But then, they already have Solaris which is much more suited for the markets they are aiming at (high-end enterprise servers), so why waste the time ?
Drivers.
So, I'm copying this to my quips file - credit to you or is that one borrowed?
This works on 51-byte frames.