My parents have a 60 Hz LCD TV that has adjustable levels of motion smoothing. I can tell when the motion blurring is turned on because some parts of the movies just don't look "right". But, most of my family can't tell the difference - they just don't see anything change.
Very true, but when it comes to people, past performance in a similar situation is the best indicator future performance.
Since these companies are run by people it is reasonable to speculate on what price cuts will happen in the future based on what they've done in the past.
I imagine lawyers get a good laugh out of lawyer movies, cops chuckle at police movies, and doctors find medical dramas hard to watch.
This would imply that to best enjoy movies an TV I must know as little as possible.
Its true! Ignorance is bliss.
The parent poster and several others have hinted at a key part of the culture of physicists: it doesn't matter what it means as long as its useful. My Inverse Problems teacher mentioned that a certain scientist (can't remember the name) suggested that what the wave equation is really complex probability instead of our normal real probability. But, his ideas hadn't received much attention because it doesn't change the equation, just the interpretation. And, its only the predictive quality of the theory that is of real importance to most physicists.
They had a lot to say, a lot of bold claims to make, a lot of doomsday predictions as well as predictions of paradise. The only thing they didn't include was supporting facts and information.
I just checked out the customer reviews at Circuit City and although the majority are positive, quite a few complained that the mouse or more often the keyboard didn't work. Seems like Gyration has some quality control problems. Also, you'd think that they could do a good job on the wireless keyboard since that's so common but perhaps they included a cheap one to help keep prices down. Would have been better to just sell the mouse separately.
So what is "wrong"? As a religious person I would define anything that goes against God's commandments. How would someone describe wrong without appealing to a higher source?
My dentist has a TV/VCR in the rooms and at the start of any work hands a set of headphones and a remote control to the patient. I can bring in movies or just watch TV. Its the most pleasant dental experience I've ever had.
I completely agree. Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic do wonders with CGI but he needs to stick with that. It's obviously his true love because any chance he gets to replace flesh and blood with bytes he does it. Now, in Indiana Jones and the original Star Wars trilogy that didn't seem to be a temptation so he did a decent job with those. CGI just didn't fit with Indiana Jones and wasn't very advanced at the time of the original trilogy.
I think its great that our representatives are condsidering different ideas to solve this problem. It shows that they are listening to us. Also, I'd agree that this solution isn't right, but by suggesting it (notice he didn't say he was going to try to get it passed) he and a lot of other people learned a lot and now they can come up with a better idea. I've learned a lot from the discussion on Slashdot relating to this article.
Since we don't have any all-wise and all-knowing people in government the best way to get the best solution is through the sharing of ideas and the helpful criticism of them. In short, he's doing his job.
If you'll notice on Star Trek most of the people running the ship don't talk to the computer. The helmsman types away on his desk thing and Worf hits the photon torpedo button. Voice and manual input will complement each other, just like a mouse and keyboard do. Sometimes its easier to click on a location, sometimes its faster to arrow key over. We now have another option and many people will naturally see which is best to use in each situation.
Anyone know the email addresses of the RIAA execs? I want to send them a few copies of this. Maybe we all should. (hint, hint) Really, we all should. (hint, hint!) At 5 pm ET today (hint, hint, hint!!!)
I don't see any battles happening in space for a long time. The technology to send combat vessels into space is a ways off, although I suppose we could develop it within a decade or two if we really wanted to. But, we already send rockets into space from earth on a regular basis to put satelites in orbit. This is quite reliable. It wouldn't take much of a payload to knock out a satelite - you probably wouldn't even need explosives. So, a rocket to hit satelites (in any orbit) probably exists right now.
As far as targets go, any communication satelite would be fair game. Spy satelites too, of course. Russia has a global positioning system up there called GLONASS that would be a prime target if they were the enemy. There is nothing revolutionary about this. One of the first steps the US took in the recent wars in the gulf was to take out radar and communication stations. Its an extention of a simple strategy to make the enemy blind and deaf.
I would be surprised if we DIDN'T already have this technology. Its just that we haven't been in a conflict with a country advanced enough to have satelites. The real question here is if we have the technology to defend against such attacks. Given the disappointing performance of the anti-balistic missile system recently developed, I kind of doubt we do. But, who knows?
I would love a new space race. I just watched Apollo 13 again and I was wishing that I could have been alive that night when Armstrong stepped foot on another world. What drama and what achievement! I think the world, or at least the US, could use some grand and positive goal like the race to the moon was. The government should be inspiring dreamers instead of putting thousands of soldiers in harms way.
I suppose the Chinese government installed filters on the windows of the spacecraft so that the astronaut (or whatever the Chinese translation) doesn't get a full view of the corrupt western world.
I've always been curious why I'm not required to sign the receipt when I use my credit card if the purchase is below a certain dollar value (I've heard $10, but I don't know). This often happens at fast food places and the like. How can they do that without my signature? The first time I realized it happened I read the agreement they didn't require me to sign and it was a traditional "I agree to pay the above amount...". So if I didn't sign it, do I have to pay it?
I finally figured it all out. IBM really is behind everything. You see, they created SCO back in the day and now they're having SCO sue them. SCO's president is actually a robot IBM created. Thanks to the Styx we know IBM's had that technology for years (Mr. Roboto: "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM"). This is all just a huge publicity stunt to get the open source community to love IBM.
The american market is not just made up of consumers, you need producers too. Producers attract consumers by offering something of value to them, in this case entertainment. Consumers in turn need to offer something of value to the producers. We offer them assurances that they will be paid for the use of their work (if anyone uses it). This is good old economics. If DRM can be implemented that will give added benefits to the producer without taking much away from the consumer, so that a net benefit has been added to the market, then we'll all win.
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My parents have a 60 Hz LCD TV that has adjustable levels of motion smoothing. I can tell when the motion blurring is turned on because some parts of the movies just don't look "right". But, most of my family can't tell the difference - they just don't see anything change.
And it has to contain a Latte-cup-ejector that Mr. Jobs can activate remotely decides you're consuming a non-approved Latte (Starbucks only!)
Very true, but when it comes to people, past performance in a similar situation is the best indicator future performance.
Since these companies are run by people it is reasonable to speculate on what price cuts will happen in the future based on what they've done in the past.
Great, now they're going to ban Star Wars because it "makes" people do dumb things.
I imagine lawyers get a good laugh out of lawyer movies, cops chuckle at police movies, and doctors find medical dramas hard to watch.
This would imply that to best enjoy movies an TV I must know as little as possible.
Its true! Ignorance is bliss.
The parent poster and several others have hinted at a key part of the culture of physicists: it doesn't matter what it means as long as its useful. My Inverse Problems teacher mentioned that a certain scientist (can't remember the name) suggested that what the wave equation is really complex probability instead of our normal real probability. But, his ideas hadn't received much attention because it doesn't change the equation, just the interpretation. And, its only the predictive quality of the theory that is of real importance to most physicists.
Uh, I'd rather just get the car and move on with my life.
They had a lot to say, a lot of bold claims to make, a lot of doomsday predictions as well as predictions of paradise. The only thing they didn't include was supporting facts and information.
Well, I can explain why you couldn't find those groups. You see, its the Walmart Online MUSIC Store.
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I just checked out the customer reviews at Circuit City and although the majority are positive, quite a few complained that the mouse or more often the keyboard didn't work. Seems like Gyration has some quality control problems. Also, you'd think that they could do a good job on the wireless keyboard since that's so common but perhaps they included a cheap one to help keep prices down. Would have been better to just sell the mouse separately.
So what is "wrong"? As a religious person I would define anything that goes against God's commandments. How would someone describe wrong without appealing to a higher source?
My dentist has a TV/VCR in the rooms and at the start of any work hands a set of headphones and a remote control to the patient. I can bring in movies or just watch TV. Its the most pleasant dental experience I've ever had.
I completely agree. Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic do wonders with CGI but he needs to stick with that. It's obviously his true love because any chance he gets to replace flesh and blood with bytes he does it. Now, in Indiana Jones and the original Star Wars trilogy that didn't seem to be a temptation so he did a decent job with those. CGI just didn't fit with Indiana Jones and wasn't very advanced at the time of the original trilogy.
Its the old "Two wrongs make a right" argument, huh?
I think its great that our representatives are condsidering different ideas to solve this problem. It shows that they are listening to us. Also, I'd agree that this solution isn't right, but by suggesting it (notice he didn't say he was going to try to get it passed) he and a lot of other people learned a lot and now they can come up with a better idea. I've learned a lot from the discussion on Slashdot relating to this article.
Since we don't have any all-wise and all-knowing people in government the best way to get the best solution is through the sharing of ideas and the helpful criticism of them. In short, he's doing his job.
If you'll notice on Star Trek most of the people running the ship don't talk to the computer. The helmsman types away on his desk thing and Worf hits the photon torpedo button. Voice and manual input will complement each other, just like a mouse and keyboard do. Sometimes its easier to click on a location, sometimes its faster to arrow key over. We now have another option and many people will naturally see which is best to use in each situation.
Anyone know the email addresses of the RIAA execs? I want to send them a few copies of this. Maybe we all should. (hint, hint) Really, we all should. (hint, hint!) At 5 pm ET today (hint, hint, hint!!!)
I don't see any battles happening in space for a long time. The technology to send combat vessels into space is a ways off, although I suppose we could develop it within a decade or two if we really wanted to. But, we already send rockets into space from earth on a regular basis to put satelites in orbit. This is quite reliable. It wouldn't take much of a payload to knock out a satelite - you probably wouldn't even need explosives. So, a rocket to hit satelites (in any orbit) probably exists right now.
As far as targets go, any communication satelite would be fair game. Spy satelites too, of course. Russia has a global positioning system up there called GLONASS that would be a prime target if they were the enemy. There is nothing revolutionary about this. One of the first steps the US took in the recent wars in the gulf was to take out radar and communication stations. Its an extention of a simple strategy to make the enemy blind and deaf.
I would be surprised if we DIDN'T already have this technology. Its just that we haven't been in a conflict with a country advanced enough to have satelites. The real question here is if we have the technology to defend against such attacks. Given the disappointing performance of the anti-balistic missile system recently developed, I kind of doubt we do. But, who knows?
This link tells how to disable the service on various Windows platforms.
I would love a new space race. I just watched Apollo 13 again and I was wishing that I could have been alive that night when Armstrong stepped foot on another world. What drama and what achievement! I think the world, or at least the US, could use some grand and positive goal like the race to the moon was. The government should be inspiring dreamers instead of putting thousands of soldiers in harms way.
I suppose the Chinese government installed filters on the windows of the spacecraft so that the astronaut (or whatever the Chinese translation) doesn't get a full view of the corrupt western world.
I've always been curious why I'm not required to sign the receipt when I use my credit card if the purchase is below a certain dollar value (I've heard $10, but I don't know). This often happens at fast food places and the like. How can they do that without my signature? The first time I realized it happened I read the agreement they didn't require me to sign and it was a traditional "I agree to pay the above amount...". So if I didn't sign it, do I have to pay it?
I finally figured it all out. IBM really is behind everything. You see, they created SCO back in the day and now they're having SCO sue them. SCO's president is actually a robot IBM created. Thanks to the Styx we know IBM's had that technology for years (Mr. Roboto: "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM"). This is all just a huge publicity stunt to get the open source community to love IBM.
Man, I'm smart.
The american market is not just made up of consumers, you need producers too. Producers attract consumers by offering something of value to them, in this case entertainment. Consumers in turn need to offer something of value to the producers. We offer them assurances that they will be paid for the use of their work (if anyone uses it). This is good old economics.
If DRM can be implemented that will give added benefits to the producer without taking much away from the consumer, so that a net benefit has been added to the market, then we'll all win.
...it costs you your soul.