It's almost always more economical to use the A/C than to roll down the windows at highway speeds (and above..), due to the increased drag of opening your windows, especially when you consider that drag increases at a higher rate than velocity. The increase of MPG was directly related to the fact that you were maintaining a (relatively) constant velocity for a long duration, which easily offset the extra load.. once you're up to speed, the greater load would actually be benefitial to your inertia.
I look forward to the fan-based translations where you see the actor's mouth move for 10 seconds and the voice-over says, "No." Followed by several more seconds of the actor's mouth continuing to move. Bonus points for unrelated subtitles like, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
History would indicate it will be a success especially with the XBox not releaseing an HD-DVD model until later (undoubtedly at the same time as the PS3).
Good point. It seems MS will have a hard time explaining why HD-DVD should be preferred over BluRay if they launch at the same time or later.
MS: "HD-DVD is the future!"
Customer: "But, uh, BluRay has a larger capacity.."
MS: "But HD-DVD is cheaper! Resulting in lower prices for the consumer!!"
Customer: "But your games are the same price as the PS3 games?!? Almost as if the cost of the media itself has a negligible impact on pricing..."
MS: "But OUR player is backwards compatible, and.."
Customer: "BluRay players are backward compatible too."
EnterNetica R&D is working on a new spherical video technology for capturing and presenting full 360 degree scenes using a 180 degree lens, by adaptively predicting the camera's surroundings. Video extrapolation techniques have been proposed in the past, but this is the first time I've heard of an entire hemisphere of the video image being "guessed".
That's nothing new.. women have had this technology for centuries. My girlfriend is so good at it, she doesn't even feel the need to look in the rear view mirror when reversing. (Although the dents in the rear bumper would seem to suggest otherwise).
You are aware that the term "space age" is just an advertising gimmick right? If not, I've got a space age car I'll give you a deal on. It's got some space age ventilation holes in the floorboards, and the motor is definately space age. $40k obo. I'll even throw in a free Russian Space Writing Impliment*.
T minus 3.. 2... 1.... Liftoff! Ladies and gentlemen, SpaceNow.com has just officially.. OH MY GOD! Oh God, this is terrible.. Folks, it looks like SpaceNow.com has just come crashing back down mere seconds after its launch.*
*Actually, it's doing just fine. Apparently space websites are not a popular destination for today's/. crowd.
Last time I checked, music pirates primarily used Windows only tools like Kazaa, most probably running on pirated copies of Windows. People who earn their livings using Linux, every single copy legitimately licensed I might add, are much MUCH less likely to participate in music and software piracy.
Last time *I* checked, "last time I checked," doesn't validate conjecture and speculation. "Music pirates" (Yarr!) cover a large cross-section of the population, and most filesharing apps have been ported to (gasp!) Linux by now, or have OSS implementations. I also find it unlikely that most Kazaa users would have the knowledge or wherewithal to obtain and install a pirated copy of Windows on what would presumably be a PC they built themselves, since almost every PC sold to consumers has XP preinstalled.
And not everyone has the same rigid interpretation of copyright that you seem to hold. Some people don't see the point in paying money for music that's being broadcast for free. Given the choice, some people won't wait years for a DVD to be released in their region. And some people believe that if they're already paying a cable bill, then how they obtain their TV shows is just a matter of semantics. And other people just don't care, and will download whatever they want. And some people will sneak into a second movie after they watched the first one.
Contrary to the Chicken Littles among us, the world will survive, and the entertainment industry will continue to flourish.
What is the point of Pirates? And why do I constantly have to split the booty to keep my #$%# crew from rebelling? No matter how much freakin' treasure I collect, they're never happy. I can't even amass a large enough crew to attack a large city because by the time I've stopped in 3 ports, everyone's deserting. And why does the potential population of recruits never replenish once I've visited a tavern? Aren't these people breeding? Don't new people ever visit the bar? Also, am I the only one who hopes to God nobody walks in while I'm doing the "Dance with the Governor's Daughter," minigame? Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep step when someone looks at the screen with little hearts popping up, and gay (as in happy) music, and they ask "What the hell are you doing?"
I guess what I'm saying is, it would all be worth it if I could see a nice big "You Win!" at the end, and maybe some fireworks.
That doesn't even make sense anyways. Macs used ADB for everything before USB -- Mac users had never expected to be able to use PC peripherals, why would Apple suddenly start having to explain to their customers that things would remain the way they had been for years already?
I forgot to mention cost, quality, and timeliness. The same reason they started including AGP -- so their users could get quality video cards at a reasonable cost in a timely manner, rather than waiting for the hardware to be ported, like they already wait for the software to be ported (except in rare (read: Adobe) instances). Apple could have kept using proprietary formats and protocols indefinately, but it was only hurting their users. In fact, Apple keeps becoming more and more in line with PC hardware; I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days, they announce they're going to switch from the IBM PPC to the Intel x86 architecture.
Of course, most PC users wouldn't have noticed it, either, as the only benefit we'd seen from USB before Apple got on the bandwagon is that it eliminated the problem of mixing up the mouse and keyboard PS/2 connectors when we plugged things in.
You can claim it was mere coincidence that the USB explosion was all of devices in transparent colored plastic, but history has already judged otherwise.
Okay, let me get this straight. You're asserting that the peripheral USB market exploded because Apple, a 2% market share, started including USB ports on its computers? And you're basing this on the fact that the peripherals are/were made out of plastic? That's just absurd.
Apple was chasing the USB market, not the other way around.
Macs used ADB for everything before USB -- Mac users had never expected to be able to use PC peripherals, why would Apple suddenly start having to explain to their customers that things would remain the way they had been for years already? Apple could have ignored USB completely if they'd so desired, and their users wouldn't have even noticed it existed.
Nonsense. You're basing that on the presumption that Apple led the USB parade, which just doesn't make sense.
1) The fact that Apple wanted a cross-platform standard is evident in the fact that they developed FireWire.
2) They couldn't ignore USB because a protocol that nobody makes peripherials for (FireWire) isn't very cross-platform.
3) Apple led the FireWire parade, and nobody showed up. Hence they jumped on the USB bandwagon.
If they wanted to make a protocol successful, they would have done it with FireWire, not USB.
Now you can claim that the explosion of devices was because of Apple adopting the standard until you're blue in the face, but the only evidence you cite is the anecdotal "peripherals are clear plastic" evidence. Certainly, from an asthetics standpoint, peripheral manufacturers very well may have been following the Apple design strategy, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the internal mechanisms and protocols, and everything to do with wanting to present Shiny products to the PC market.
Hmm.. I was neither asleep nor in utero during the late 90s, and I remember a completely different history. Perhaps the absense of crack smoke from my daily habit of breathing is responsible.
At any rate, Apple pushed FireWire in direct competition with USB. USB was developed mainly by players in the PC market, such as Intel, Compaq, and VIA. In the end Apple decided to include both USB and FireWire for the sake of compatibility. Apple's own website still downplays USB and praises FireWire. USB has been standard on most PCs almost since its launch, whereas FireWire didn't become common in the PC world until well after the release of USB 2.0. (At least in my personal experiance building systems..). But you don't have to take my word for it. Here's some relevant links..
However, the small royalty that Apple Computer and other patent holders have initially demanded from users of FireWire ($0.25 per end-user system) and the more expensive hardware needed to implement it ($1-$2) has prevented FireWire from displacing USB in low-end mass-market computer peripherals where cost of product is a major constraint.
In summary, it wasn't Apple's vision that created the market explosion of USB, but rather their attempt to milk FireWire for every cent. In the end, they had to get onboard with USB or explain to their customers why they couldn't use most new perhiperials on the market.
Right, but the "joke" originates from actual incidents of old terminal programs storing the ^H rather than erasing the previous character. Occasionally, BBSes would have backspace set to something other than ^H. When someone would post a message, and they sent the ^H sig, their own terminals echoed a backspace, but the remote BBS simply logged the ^H as part of their post.
we are discussing disemintating opinions based on information recieved under an NDA, or at least I am
Me too. The US Government can criminally prosecute breaking a government NDA. Classified information is by definition of national security, so anyone who disseminates such information, regardless of what they signed, would be subject to prosecution. The point is, the government has much a much greater arsenal of legal remedies at its disposal than a corporation, and the First Amendment won't even begin to shield you from those remedies.
Not to nitpick but bunkers, especially underground, are virtually impenetrable. Cheyanne Mountain is one famous example. The tunnels of the Viet Cong are another. Even nukes don't leave very deep craters (relatively speaking). It takes orders of magnitude more powerful explosions to reach any meaningful depth.
where if they'd go for volume pricing instead, and roll prices back a few years, they'd have NO problem with piracy at all.
It depends what type of piracy you're talking about. $2 bootlegs might become a thing of the past, but people who distribute their copies online don't generally profit financially. There will always be piracy, and the price will always be set to compensate. Just like insurance fraud, employee shoplifting (the most costly kind), and any other theft or "copyright infringement," or whatever you want to call it, that exists. There will always be an arms race between pirates and content producers.
Why is it that the damages to the company are important anyway? A company is a fictitious entity. Damages to people matter more than damges to companies, and in this case employees are important people, and they are the ones being damaged and not the other way around.
Companies may be invented entities (which I don't think is the same as ficticious; I'm pretty sure MS really exists), but real people derive their livelyhood from these companies. While this public airing of dirty laundry, as it were, may be beneficial in the end, it may also shake investor confidence (again, maybe good, maybe bad), devaluing the stock and causing real people to lose money, possibly forcing the company to downsize or collapse entirely, which costs some other real people their jobs. That's why damages to a company are important; you're affecting the lives and livelyhood of more than just one person.
It's possible, of course, that the existance and business practices of a company are harmful to the general public, and it's definately an ethical debate, but your hippyesque idealistic view that damages to a company's reputation are unimportant is not an accurate reflection of the real world.
If product X was made out of dolphin skin by child slaves in San Diego there's a public interest in that information.
Not to mention product Y, made out of child skin by dolphin slaves. And I won't even get into the details of product Z.
What you don't seem to understand is the first amendment only applies to government. It does not extend to private organizations or property. The government can't tell you that you can't post specs on as yet unreleased product Y but a contract can.
Actually, the government can tell you not to discuss anything they want, especially the specs on as yet unreleased products, and they don't need a contract to do it. And the punishment for disclosing the government's secrets can make a civil suit look trivial.
Not all speech is free of criminal prosecution either. Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, inciting a riot, threatening someone's life, and all sorts of otherwise malicious speech is illegal as well. The most that can be said of free speech is that you're free to say whatever you want, just like I'm "free" to steal a car, but that doesn't mean you're not liable for the consequences of what you say.
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That's not BS; in fact, it makes perfect sense, even if it's counter-intuitive.
It's almost always more economical to use the A/C than to roll down the windows at highway speeds (and above..), due to the increased drag of opening your windows, especially when you consider that drag increases at a higher rate than velocity. The increase of MPG was directly related to the fact that you were maintaining a (relatively) constant velocity for a long duration, which easily offset the extra load.. once you're up to speed, the greater load would actually be benefitial to your inertia.
I look forward to the fan-based translations where you see the actor's mouth move for 10 seconds and the voice-over says, "No." Followed by several more seconds of the actor's mouth continuing to move. Bonus points for unrelated subtitles like, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Sort of a parody-within-a-parody.
Bad example.. ratio of "Evil Dead 2" earnings to "Star Wars Episode 3" earnings: 1 to 3,720.
There's milking, and then there's trying to break even.
Ironically, your post seems to be the first time sarcasm wasn't misinterpreted online, ever.
History would indicate it will be a success especially with the XBox not releaseing an HD-DVD model until later (undoubtedly at the same time as the PS3).
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Good point. It seems MS will have a hard time explaining why HD-DVD should be preferred over BluRay if they launch at the same time or later.
MS: "HD-DVD is the future!"
Customer: "But, uh, BluRay has a larger capacity.."
MS: "But HD-DVD is cheaper! Resulting in lower prices for the consumer!!"
Customer: "But your games are the same price as the PS3 games?!? Almost as if the cost of the media itself has a negligible impact on pricing..."
MS: "But OUR player is backwards compatible, and.."
Customer: "BluRay players are backward compatible too."
MS:
Customer: "Are you done?"
MS: i h8 u
Customer: "No kidding."
EnterNetica R&D is working on a new spherical video technology for capturing and presenting full 360 degree scenes using a 180 degree lens, by adaptively predicting the camera's surroundings. Video extrapolation techniques have been proposed in the past, but this is the first time I've heard of an entire hemisphere of the video image being "guessed".
That's nothing new.. women have had this technology for centuries. My girlfriend is so good at it, she doesn't even feel the need to look in the rear view mirror when reversing. (Although the dents in the rear bumper would seem to suggest otherwise).
Many space-age foods, polymers and foams...
You are aware that the term "space age" is just an advertising gimmick right? If not, I've got a space age car I'll give you a deal on. It's got some space age ventilation holes in the floorboards, and the motor is definately space age. $40k obo. I'll even throw in a free Russian Space Writing Impliment*.
*Pencil
T minus 3.. 2... 1.... Liftoff! Ladies and gentlemen, SpaceNow.com has just officially.. OH MY GOD! Oh God, this is terrible.. Folks, it looks like SpaceNow.com has just come crashing back down mere seconds after its launch.*
/. crowd.
*Actually, it's doing just fine. Apparently space websites are not a popular destination for today's
Last time I checked, music pirates primarily used Windows only tools like Kazaa, most probably running on pirated copies of Windows. People who earn their livings using Linux, every single copy legitimately licensed I might add, are much MUCH less likely to participate in music and software piracy.
Last time *I* checked, "last time I checked," doesn't validate conjecture and speculation. "Music pirates" (Yarr!) cover a large cross-section of the population, and most filesharing apps have been ported to (gasp!) Linux by now, or have OSS implementations. I also find it unlikely that most Kazaa users would have the knowledge or wherewithal to obtain and install a pirated copy of Windows on what would presumably be a PC they built themselves, since almost every PC sold to consumers has XP preinstalled.
And not everyone has the same rigid interpretation of copyright that you seem to hold. Some people don't see the point in paying money for music that's being broadcast for free. Given the choice, some people won't wait years for a DVD to be released in their region. And some people believe that if they're already paying a cable bill, then how they obtain their TV shows is just a matter of semantics. And other people just don't care, and will download whatever they want. And some people will sneak into a second movie after they watched the first one.
Contrary to the Chicken Littles among us, the world will survive, and the entertainment industry will continue to flourish.
if i get an extortion letter form the RIAA for $36,000 because i downloaded Kelly Clarkson, can i play stupid in court and win?
If you downloaded Kelly Clarkson, I'm not sure you'd really be playing stupid...
Sid,
What is the point of Pirates? And why do I constantly have to split the booty to keep my #$%# crew from rebelling? No matter how much freakin' treasure I collect, they're never happy. I can't even amass a large enough crew to attack a large city because by the time I've stopped in 3 ports, everyone's deserting. And why does the potential population of recruits never replenish once I've visited a tavern? Aren't these people breeding? Don't new people ever visit the bar? Also, am I the only one who hopes to God nobody walks in while I'm doing the "Dance with the Governor's Daughter," minigame? Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep step when someone looks at the screen with little hearts popping up, and gay (as in happy) music, and they ask "What the hell are you doing?"
I guess what I'm saying is, it would all be worth it if I could see a nice big "You Win!" at the end, and maybe some fireworks.
That doesn't even make sense anyways. Macs used ADB for everything before USB -- Mac users had never expected to be able to use PC peripherals, why would Apple suddenly start having to explain to their customers that things would remain the way they had been for years already?
I forgot to mention cost, quality, and timeliness. The same reason they started including AGP -- so their users could get quality video cards at a reasonable cost in a timely manner, rather than waiting for the hardware to be ported, like they already wait for the software to be ported (except in rare (read: Adobe) instances). Apple could have kept using proprietary formats and protocols indefinately, but it was only hurting their users. In fact, Apple keeps becoming more and more in line with PC hardware; I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days, they announce they're going to switch from the IBM PPC to the Intel x86 architecture.
Of course, most PC users wouldn't have noticed it, either, as the only benefit we'd seen from USB before Apple got on the bandwagon is that it eliminated the problem of mixing up the mouse and keyboard PS/2 connectors when we plugged things in.
You can claim it was mere coincidence that the USB explosion was all of devices in transparent colored plastic, but history has already judged otherwise.
Okay, let me get this straight. You're asserting that the peripheral USB market exploded because Apple, a 2% market share, started including USB ports on its computers? And you're basing this on the fact that the peripherals are/were made out of plastic? That's just absurd.
Apple was chasing the USB market, not the other way around.
Macs used ADB for everything before USB -- Mac users had never expected to be able to use PC peripherals, why would Apple suddenly start having to explain to their customers that things would remain the way they had been for years already? Apple could have ignored USB completely if they'd so desired, and their users wouldn't have even noticed it existed.
Nonsense. You're basing that on the presumption that Apple led the USB parade, which just doesn't make sense.
1) The fact that Apple wanted a cross-platform standard is evident in the fact that they developed FireWire.
2) They couldn't ignore USB because a protocol that nobody makes peripherials for (FireWire) isn't very cross-platform.
3) Apple led the FireWire parade, and nobody showed up. Hence they jumped on the USB bandwagon.
If they wanted to make a protocol successful, they would have done it with FireWire, not USB.
Now you can claim that the explosion of devices was because of Apple adopting the standard until you're blue in the face, but the only evidence you cite is the anecdotal "peripherals are clear plastic" evidence. Certainly, from an asthetics standpoint, peripheral manufacturers very well may have been following the Apple design strategy, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the internal mechanisms and protocols, and everything to do with wanting to present Shiny products to the PC market.
At any rate, Apple pushed FireWire in direct competition with USB. USB was developed mainly by players in the PC market, such as Intel, Compaq, and VIA. In the end Apple decided to include both USB and FireWire for the sake of compatibility. Apple's own website still downplays USB and praises FireWire. USB has been standard on most PCs almost since its launch, whereas FireWire didn't become common in the PC world until well after the release of USB 2.0. (At least in my personal experiance building systems..). But you don't have to take my word for it. Here's some relevant links..
FireWire:
http://developer.apple.com/devicedrivers/firewire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire
USB:
http://developer.apple.com/devicedrivers/usb/
http://en.wikipedia.ord/wiki/USB
And finally, here's a nice little article detailing the history of the USB/FireWire:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=
In summary, it wasn't Apple's vision that created the market explosion of USB, but rather their attempt to milk FireWire for every cent. In the end, they had to get onboard with USB or explain to their customers why they couldn't use most new perhiperials on the market.
Right, but the "joke" originates from actual incidents of old terminal programs storing the ^H rather than erasing the previous character. Occasionally, BBSes would have backspace set to something other than ^H. When someone would post a message, and they sent the ^H sig, their own terminals echoed a backspace, but the remote BBS simply logged the ^H as part of their post.
That's exactly the sort of thing I'd expect a shorty to say.
we are discussing disemintating opinions based on information recieved under an NDA, or at least I am
Me too. The US Government can criminally prosecute breaking a government NDA. Classified information is by definition of national security, so anyone who disseminates such information, regardless of what they signed, would be subject to prosecution. The point is, the government has much a much greater arsenal of legal remedies at its disposal than a corporation, and the First Amendment won't even begin to shield you from those remedies.
*Void where prohibited.
**When they're not making sneakers.
Hello Pot, I'm Kettle!
Shit! I had $250 on a hard 8. New roller!
Not to nitpick but bunkers, especially underground, are virtually impenetrable. Cheyanne Mountain is one famous example. The tunnels of the Viet Cong are another. Even nukes don't leave very deep craters (relatively speaking). It takes orders of magnitude more powerful explosions to reach any meaningful depth.
My money is on the bunker any day.
Fortunately movies aren't anything like bunkers.
where if they'd go for volume pricing instead, and roll prices back a few years, they'd have NO problem with piracy at all.
It depends what type of piracy you're talking about. $2 bootlegs might become a thing of the past, but people who distribute their copies online don't generally profit financially. There will always be piracy, and the price will always be set to compensate. Just like insurance fraud, employee shoplifting (the most costly kind), and any other theft or "copyright infringement," or whatever you want to call it, that exists. There will always be an arms race between pirates and content producers.
Why is it that the damages to the company are important anyway? A company is a fictitious entity. Damages to people matter more than damges to companies, and in this case employees are important people, and they are the ones being damaged and not the other way around.
Companies may be invented entities (which I don't think is the same as ficticious; I'm pretty sure MS really exists), but real people derive their livelyhood from these companies. While this public airing of dirty laundry, as it were, may be beneficial in the end, it may also shake investor confidence (again, maybe good, maybe bad), devaluing the stock and causing real people to lose money, possibly forcing the company to downsize or collapse entirely, which costs some other real people their jobs. That's why damages to a company are important; you're affecting the lives and livelyhood of more than just one person.
It's possible, of course, that the existance and business practices of a company are harmful to the general public, and it's definately an ethical debate, but your hippyesque idealistic view that damages to a company's reputation are unimportant is not an accurate reflection of the real world.
If product X was made out of dolphin skin by child slaves in San Diego there's a public interest in that information.
Not to mention product Y, made out of child skin by dolphin slaves. And I won't even get into the details of product Z.
What you don't seem to understand is the first amendment only applies to government. It does not extend to private organizations or property. The government can't tell you that you can't post specs on as yet unreleased product Y but a contract can.
Actually, the government can tell you not to discuss anything they want, especially the specs on as yet unreleased products, and they don't need a contract to do it. And the punishment for disclosing the government's secrets can make a civil suit look trivial.
Not all speech is free of criminal prosecution either. Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, inciting a riot, threatening someone's life, and all sorts of otherwise malicious speech is illegal as well. The most that can be said of free speech is that you're free to say whatever you want, just like I'm "free" to steal a car, but that doesn't mean you're not liable for the consequences of what you say.