Nope. Not these days, while I'm on vacation. I make sure to watch some TV too. Keep in mind, it's taken me a coupla years to reach a thousand, it's not like all I do is post.
If there is slowly and gradually less and less innovation every day as a result of this, we can all be affected by it without actually noticing it. The point is, whether you know it or not, things might've been very different if it weren't for the law.
Same thing with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I can't reliably record episodes with a season pass since I don't generally want 4 copies recorded every day. I could just have it save a maximum of one episode a day, but then I don't want it pre-empting other shows. If it had a description it wouldn't record the same episode twice in a day.
Two weeks? I have Tivo with digital cable and I can only see up to 10 days in advance. Does the DirecTivo service let you see more? Or are you just calling 10 days "two weeks".
Yes, but as I mentioned, it's illegal to re-encode it. As in use another format to make it smaller.
I don't think it's a "dumb idea" to have a little machine with a nice screen that can store 100 movies. I don't think it's a dumb idea to write software that can shrink your dvd to 1/5th of it's size so you don't have to get the disc if you want to watch it.
I'm not saying apple would've done it already were it not for the DMCA, but it's NOT a dumb idea.
Yes, their business model relies on profits from the blades and not from the razor itself. I'm basing it on the fact that the razors are not particularly cheap themselves. I can't imagine it costing more than 9 dollars to make a friggin razor handle.
Yes, I browse slashdot in nested mode, and with MSIE for OS X the browser just crashes half the time if there are too many posts. Safari and Chimera both handle slashdot fine though.
That's such a crazy question. I'm not saying it's stupid; I'm just not an expert on these things. So what's the question? Are you saying that the gravity of a black hole is so strong that even the gravity can't escape? Sorry, I'm just trying to understand what you're asking.
Hey, if you're enjoying it, that's great, I enjoy it too. But I'm a graphics whore, so I'm not too busy to count pixels.
It's not all HDTV. 480p and 1080i or 720p is a world of difference.
And the Xbox definitely does not support 720p DVD playback since there is no such thing as a 720p DVD. You might mean 480p, but the answer is still no: the Xbox cannot play DVDs in 480p, even though there's no technical reason why it shouldn't be able to.
720p is really the ideal resolution for videogames, as opposed to 1080i. The reason is that while 720p and 1080i are similar in quality, 1080i requires that approximately twice as many pixels be actually rendered only to be thrown out. See, the Xbox can't selectively render pixels, so it has to render an entire frame just to make one field (interlaced frame). Interlacing, while nice for video, is incredibly wasteful for videogames.
Gamecube does NOT support 720p or 1080i. It supports 480p, which takes no more processing power than 480i since 480i is really rendered in 480p with half the pixels being thrown out.
Xbox, in theory, supports 720p and 1080i, but most games don't support it. Unless it's rendering simple geometry, 720p and certainly 1080i is just way beyond what the Xbox can handle.
This is a better photo because it's a side by side comparison. One of the links claimed that the new screen size will be smaller, but this photo seems to show otherwise.
All I gotta say is, nice design! I feel bad for that afterburner dude though. He definitely played in a big role in bringing this to market (not to mention the little blurb about the afterburner in Newsweek.)
I'm aware of all of this, but I'm trying to avoid being confusing. I'm just trying to lay down the basic concept. Sure, you're absolutely right though.
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Nope. Not these days, while I'm on vacation. I make sure to watch some TV too. Keep in mind, it's taken me a coupla years to reach a thousand, it's not like all I do is post.
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Good for you.
Yes. As in "Zero Hours"
Yeah, that's true! They should at least have the airdate. I guess they don't even know in advance whether they're going to show a repeat or not.
I think the word "illegible" refers only to handwriting.
If there is slowly and gradually less and less innovation every day as a result of this, we can all be affected by it without actually noticing it. The point is, whether you know it or not, things might've been very different if it weren't for the law.
Same thing with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I can't reliably record episodes with a season pass since I don't generally want 4 copies recorded every day. I could just have it save a maximum of one episode a day, but then I don't want it pre-empting other shows. If it had a description it wouldn't record the same episode twice in a day.
other story here: lexmark sues
Two weeks? I have Tivo with digital cable and I can only see up to 10 days in advance. Does the DirecTivo service let you see more? Or are you just calling 10 days "two weeks".
Yes, but as I mentioned, it's illegal to re-encode it. As in use another format to make it smaller.
I don't think it's a "dumb idea" to have a little machine with a nice screen that can store 100 movies. I don't think it's a dumb idea to write software that can shrink your dvd to 1/5th of it's size so you don't have to get the disc if you want to watch it.
I'm not saying apple would've done it already were it not for the DMCA, but it's NOT a dumb idea.
LOL, Ok, I'd imagine that was at a loss.
Maybe they haven't done it yet because of legal issues? As in: it's illegal to access and therefore to re-encode DVDs because of the DMCA.
Yes, their business model relies on profits from the blades and not from the razor itself. I'm basing it on the fact that the razors are not particularly cheap themselves. I can't imagine it costing more than 9 dollars to make a friggin razor handle.
The reason I ask is because you say it as if something is automatically "wrong" if it were against the law.
Gillette does NOT sell their razors at a loss.
And if it were the case? Would that suddenly be a good thing? Artificially restraining competition is, for the most part, bad. Period.
Yes, I browse slashdot in nested mode, and with MSIE for OS X the browser just crashes half the time if there are too many posts. Safari and Chimera both handle slashdot fine though.
That's such a crazy question. I'm not saying it's stupid; I'm just not an expert on these things. So what's the question? Are you saying that the gravity of a black hole is so strong that even the gravity can't escape? Sorry, I'm just trying to understand what you're asking.
Hey, if you're enjoying it, that's great, I enjoy it too. But I'm a graphics whore, so I'm not too busy to count pixels.
It's not all HDTV. 480p and 1080i or 720p is a world of difference.
And the Xbox definitely does not support 720p DVD playback since there is no such thing as a 720p DVD. You might mean 480p, but the answer is still no: the Xbox cannot play DVDs in 480p, even though there's no technical reason why it shouldn't be able to.
720p is really the ideal resolution for videogames, as opposed to 1080i. The reason is that while 720p and 1080i are similar in quality, 1080i requires that approximately twice as many pixels be actually rendered only to be thrown out. See, the Xbox can't selectively render pixels, so it has to render an entire frame just to make one field (interlaced frame). Interlacing, while nice for video, is incredibly wasteful for videogames.
Gamecube does NOT support 720p or 1080i. It supports 480p, which takes no more processing power than 480i since 480i is really rendered in 480p with half the pixels being thrown out.
Xbox, in theory, supports 720p and 1080i, but most games don't support it. Unless it's rendering simple geometry, 720p and certainly 1080i is just way beyond what the Xbox can handle.
Display technology, though, *has* improved.
This is a better photo because it's a side by side comparison. One of the links claimed that the new screen size will be smaller, but this photo seems to show otherwise.
All I gotta say is, nice design!
I feel bad for that afterburner dude though. He definitely played in a big role in bringing this to market (not to mention the little blurb about the afterburner in Newsweek.)
Wait, how do the record companies have anything to do with this case?
I'm aware of all of this, but I'm trying to avoid being confusing. I'm just trying to lay down the basic concept. Sure, you're absolutely right though.