Murder is not the only crime. Not even the only violent crime.
And there may very well be fewer than 50 stranger-on-stranger murders in NYC this year.
Then again, down the block you have Killadelphia, which is what NYC was during Mayor Sweaty's administration circa 1989-92... "Unmanageable! There's no way you can stop folks from killing each other here! It's the Federal Government's fault!!!"
Given that the global warming argument got its political impetus from Margaret Thatcher wanting to push nukes to castrate the NUM (coal miners' union), it's interesting to see her former foes come around to her way of thinking.
Not that I mind, I am a big Thatcher fan and am glad that she smashed the unions and privatised, if only she could have spun off the BBC it wouldn't be a jobs scheme for unemployable pinkoes.
And yes, if I could have one, I would have a nuclear battery in my basement.
These are interesting, but my favorite "retro" art of that era is still the work done by Erik Nitsche for General Dynamics' "Atoms for Peace" program.. Anyone know where I can find reproductions?
Fair 'nuff, but with taxes like that it's likely jobs will be elsewhere, such as Vancouver (all I ever saw was Windoze work there though) or Calgary (visualization ftw).. I mean, you look at, say, western NY.. Tons of universities, lots of connectivity, but WTF are the good tech jobs? Only things keeping that area afloat are NY state subsidized jobs and cross-border shopping.. And the people who refuse to move or who can't sell their houses for enough $$$ to live anywhere else in the country. But those folks' kids are by and large not coming back..
Methinks the gov wants to prepare for BRAC and have the mechanisms in place to milk all those new jobs..
Here's hoping Delaware isn't so stupid as to not take advantage of this.. Especially with the housing armageddon fixing to annihilate a ton of credit-related jobs...
"Clean" only in the sense that with the proper and rather expensive care it doesn't cause trouble right away. It does leave us with waste products that are difficult to deal with and require safely storing it for the next, oh, five millennia or so. Do you think our grandchildren's grandchildren will thank us for leaving that as a legacy?
Nevada's a huge, empty place. They're just gonna have to take one for the team.
And that is disregarding all the operational problems of a design that requires positive action to stop it in case of trouble (runaway processes, meltdown, etc.). Go read the RISKS list digest for plenty of insight in what such designs can do.
So don't use those designs.
Fusion has been 50 years away for 50 years, newer stuff like hafnium/gamma ray energy, nanotech solar and engineered H2 microbes is coming but not yet ready. Can we go another 20-30 years on fossil fuels before those things are ready? 'Cuz the alternative is electrify everything using coal IMO, for national security reasons. And I think the French have been pretty happy with their multigenerational 'fling' with nuclear power, hell when I was in Paris in November a few years ago everyplace I went had electric heating and it was bloody STIFLINGLY hot everywhere I went..
If you are antinuke and not from Nevada, you are a shortsighted luddite. If you're from Nevada, you're a Mayor NIMBY.
Fun fact of the day: Blu-ray Discs contain their data relatively close to the surface (less than 0.1 mm) which combined with the smaller spot size presents a problem when the surface is scratched as data would be destroyed. To overcome this, TDK, Sony, and Panasonic each have developed a proprietary scratch resistant surface coating. TDK trademarked theirs as Durabis, which has withstood direct abrasion by steel wool and marring with markers in tests.[7] At this point only TDK recordable Blu-ray discs and DVD-R discs use the Durabis coating.[citation needed] HD DVD uses traditional material and has the same scratch and surface characteristics of a regular DVD. The data is at the same depth (0.6 mm) as DVD as to minimize damage from scratching. Furthermore similar to DVD the construction of the HD DVD disc allows for a second side of either HD DVD or DVD.
So, Bluray discs have a super hard coating, but if that coating gets scratched, it's game over for the disc, can't be polished by standard means. HDDVDs are constructed more like DVDs, and light scratching is ignored or can be polished.
What do you think Netflix thinks about this? I wish I got the stats on HDDVD vs. Bluray coastering, I'm sure it's more expensive for Neflix to support Bluray rentals, and maybe there will be a Bluray premium or separate plan?
In this war, there may not be a winner, but I guarantee the consumers will be the losers. From high priced product ( which may go down in time ) to DRM shens ( Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player ).
WTF are you talking about, HDDVD players down to $200 (or even $100) and catalog discs at $20 (or even $15).
VHS allowed an entire feature length movie on one tape and had more of them to offer when it launched. Many people have said that was the key reason that VHS won.
You can easily fit 3+ hours of HD film on an HDDVD, using AVC/VC-1 codecs and TrueHD lossless, if you so desired.
Also, HD-DVD's format specification was finalized a long time before Blu-Ray (is Blu-Ray's spec even finalized yet!?). That allows for all HD-DVD players to support a standard set of features when some early Blu-Ray players won't be able to play later Blu-Ray features because the spec wasn't (or still isn't) finalized. Also, HD-DVD has an overlay layer so they can do some neat things with running special features in Picture in picture or sliding menus up on top of the movie so you can browse around without pausing the movie or having to go to a "root" menu.
Sony fanbois bring up 2 main things about HDDVD these days, now that the capacity issue has been put to rest (between BD25 being the majority of BD releases, advanced codecs not needing more than 30GB, TL51, etc): LPCM audio and Bandwidth. * LPCM audio: HDDVD can do lossless with TrueHD or DTSHD-MA, not all Bluray players can (it's not in their half-baked spec), therefore BD lossless tracks must be uncompressed LPCM (taking up tons more space and bandwidth) to be guaranteed compatible in all players, much like a large # of BD discs have MPEG-2 instead of advanced codecs since AVC/VC-1 are _optional_ for Bluray. Whether or not HDDVD discs have lossless is more of a marketing decision rather than a technical one, possibly studios cheap out on paying royalties for the use of those codecs (especially for catalog titles). * Bandwidth: Bluray needs more bandwidth because it has to shovel more stuff due to lack of advanced codecs by default than HDDVD. AVC tops out at 25mbps, while MPEG-2 needs more like 40mbps. Likewise, IIRC TrueHD is at least 50% compressed over LPCM, thus reducing its bandwith accordingly. Of course, higher bandwidth helps for doing PC backups or whatever, but there'll be 2X,4X,etc for both formats eventually for data purposes so it's irrelevant.
Ultimately, I think the winner will be whoever strikes some more "We give you $50 million in cash and you only release on our format for minimum of 2 years" type deals. There are very few movies out on Blu-Ray right now that I really miss having other than Spider Man and Pirates of the Carribean. There are a LOT more that are exclusive to HD-DVD that I wouldn't want to miss having: Shrek 3, Transformers, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen, some Jet Li movies, Unforgiven, The Searchers and about 30+ more.
I think the winner will be determined by installed standalone player base (standalones attach more movies than combo players, and the XBox 360 HDDVD is really a standalone since you can't use it to play games), because studios want to sell more discs. Standalone player base will be determined by price. Methinks it's no coincidence that Stringer said what he said when HDDVD went below $199.
Are they selling old movies in HD-DVD/Blu-ray? I don't imagine that many people want them, given that the switch from VHS to DVD really wasn't that long ago.
My 'old' HDDVDs off the top of my head: * Casablanca * Blazing Saddles * Dune * Excalibur * Enter The Dragon * Goodfellas * Casino * Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory * Monty Python & The Meaning of Life
There's tons more, though not nearly as many as I'd like. I'd LOVE Criterion films, particularly Kurosawa, to be available. Not to mention that most older titles are priced online about $20.
Check online shops' HDDVD areas, you'd be surprised what's available even in B&W... (and yeah, imagine sharp B&W instead of the muddy crap you get on TV, even if you get pillarboxing for academy ratio, it's quite a surprise)
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Murder is not the only crime. Not even the only violent crime.
And there may very well be fewer than 50 stranger-on-stranger murders in NYC this year.
Then again, down the block you have Killadelphia, which is what NYC was during Mayor Sweaty's administration circa 1989-92... "Unmanageable! There's no way you can stop folks from killing each other here! It's the Federal Government's fault!!!"
I'm sure there's just as much junk going on in the UK, we in the USA just don't give a shit.
Seriously, NYC is far safer than London, especially for non-Black strangers.
There are left-hand-turns in Jersey? I thought it was all jughandles and tollbooths!
It's a plot by Chimpy McBu$hitlerburton to do something sneaky... Lord knows what it is, but it's gotta be...
You just need to invite 14 friends over.. 30 hot dogs + 2 buns in case of mangling..
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Yeah, it could be worse. At least your name isn't Michael Bolton..
Given that the global warming argument got its political impetus from Margaret Thatcher wanting to push nukes to castrate the NUM (coal miners' union), it's interesting to see her former foes come around to her way of thinking.
Not that I mind, I am a big Thatcher fan and am glad that she smashed the unions and privatised, if only she could have spun off the BBC it wouldn't be a jobs scheme for unemployable pinkoes.
And yes, if I could have one, I would have a nuclear battery in my basement.
He's only been spending the past 6 years dead for tax reasons.. Imagine his shock when he comes back... /snif
These are interesting, but my favorite "retro" art of that era is still the work done by Erik Nitsche for General Dynamics' "Atoms for Peace" program.. Anyone know where I can find reproductions?
Me likee me brushed goldtone metal theme...
Fair 'nuff, but with taxes like that it's likely jobs will be elsewhere, such as Vancouver (all I ever saw was Windoze work there though) or Calgary (visualization ftw).. I mean, you look at, say, western NY.. Tons of universities, lots of connectivity, but WTF are the good tech jobs? Only things keeping that area afloat are NY state subsidized jobs and cross-border shopping.. And the people who refuse to move or who can't sell their houses for enough $$$ to live anywhere else in the country. But those folks' kids are by and large not coming back..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jBbfBpqvpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLzmBDAywAc
Chris Rock for President...
And that's why when I think of a dynamic high-tech destination, I think "Saskatchewan".
Methinks the gov wants to prepare for BRAC and have the mechanisms in place to milk all those new jobs..
Here's hoping Delaware isn't so stupid as to not take advantage of this.. Especially with the housing armageddon fixing to annihilate a ton of credit-related jobs...
... I will now smoke an entire pipe full of Nat Sherman's in a preschool class just to spite these dickfucks. At least until the cops arrive.
And I don't even smoke.
Who else will sponsor a Bad Uncle event?
"Clean" only in the sense that with the proper and rather expensive care it doesn't cause trouble right away. It does leave us with waste products that are difficult to deal with and require safely storing it for the next, oh, five millennia or so. Do you think our grandchildren's grandchildren will thank us for leaving that as a legacy?
Nevada's a huge, empty place. They're just gonna have to take one for the team.
And that is disregarding all the operational problems of a design that requires positive action to stop it in case of trouble (runaway processes, meltdown, etc.). Go read the RISKS list digest for plenty of insight in what such designs can do.
So don't use those designs.
Fusion has been 50 years away for 50 years, newer stuff like hafnium/gamma ray energy, nanotech solar and engineered H2 microbes is coming but not yet ready. Can we go another 20-30 years on fossil fuels before those things are ready? 'Cuz the alternative is electrify everything using coal IMO, for national security reasons. And I think the French have been pretty happy with their multigenerational 'fling' with nuclear power, hell when I was in Paris in November a few years ago everyplace I went had electric heating and it was bloody STIFLINGLY hot everywhere I went..
If you are antinuke and not from Nevada, you are a shortsighted luddite. If you're from Nevada, you're a Mayor NIMBY.
Ask any European or European colony... Then again, given the moral decay I doubt anyone in Europe gives two shits for the lost generation..
Fun fact of the day:
Blu-ray Discs contain their data relatively close to the surface (less than 0.1 mm) which combined with the smaller spot size presents a problem when the surface is scratched as data would be destroyed. To overcome this, TDK, Sony, and Panasonic each have developed a proprietary scratch resistant surface coating. TDK trademarked theirs as Durabis, which has withstood direct abrasion by steel wool and marring with markers in tests.[7] At this point only TDK recordable Blu-ray discs and DVD-R discs use the Durabis coating.[citation needed]
HD DVD uses traditional material and has the same scratch and surface characteristics of a regular DVD. The data is at the same depth (0.6 mm) as DVD as to minimize damage from scratching. Furthermore similar to DVD the construction of the HD DVD disc allows for a second side of either HD DVD or DVD.
So, Bluray discs have a super hard coating, but if that coating gets scratched, it's game over for the disc, can't be polished by standard means. HDDVDs are constructed more like DVDs, and light scratching is ignored or can be polished.
What do you think Netflix thinks about this? I wish I got the stats on HDDVD vs. Bluray coastering, I'm sure it's more expensive for Neflix to support Bluray rentals, and maybe there will be a Bluray premium or separate plan?
In this war, there may not be a winner, but I guarantee the consumers will be the losers. From high priced product ( which may go down in time ) to DRM shens ( Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player ).
WTF are you talking about, HDDVD players down to $200 (or even $100) and catalog discs at $20 (or even $15).
Oh wait, you bought Bluray?
SUCKER!
VC-1 and AVC are not mandatory Bluray standards, and 40% (the plurality) of all Bluray discs to date have used MPEG-2.
VHS allowed an entire feature length movie on one tape and had more of them to offer when it launched. Many people have said that was the key reason that VHS won.
You can easily fit 3+ hours of HD film on an HDDVD, using AVC/VC-1 codecs and TrueHD lossless, if you so desired.
Actually, they cost more.
Synergy!!
Also, HD-DVD's format specification was finalized a long time before Blu-Ray (is Blu-Ray's spec even finalized yet!?). That allows for all HD-DVD players to support a standard set of features when some early Blu-Ray players won't be able to play later Blu-Ray features because the spec wasn't (or still isn't) finalized. Also, HD-DVD has an overlay layer so they can do some neat things with running special features in Picture in picture or sliding menus up on top of the movie so you can browse around without pausing the movie or having to go to a "root" menu.
Sony fanbois bring up 2 main things about HDDVD these days, now that the capacity issue has been put to rest (between BD25 being the majority of BD releases, advanced codecs not needing more than 30GB, TL51, etc): LPCM audio and Bandwidth.
* LPCM audio: HDDVD can do lossless with TrueHD or DTSHD-MA, not all Bluray players can (it's not in their half-baked spec), therefore BD lossless tracks must be uncompressed LPCM (taking up tons more space and bandwidth) to be guaranteed compatible in all players, much like a large # of BD discs have MPEG-2 instead of advanced codecs since AVC/VC-1 are _optional_ for Bluray. Whether or not HDDVD discs have lossless is more of a marketing decision rather than a technical one, possibly studios cheap out on paying royalties for the use of those codecs (especially for catalog titles).
* Bandwidth: Bluray needs more bandwidth because it has to shovel more stuff due to lack of advanced codecs by default than HDDVD. AVC tops out at 25mbps, while MPEG-2 needs more like 40mbps. Likewise, IIRC TrueHD is at least 50% compressed over LPCM, thus reducing its bandwith accordingly. Of course, higher bandwidth helps for doing PC backups or whatever, but there'll be 2X,4X,etc for both formats eventually for data purposes so it's irrelevant.
Ultimately, I think the winner will be whoever strikes some more "We give you $50 million in cash and you only release on our format for minimum of 2 years" type deals. There are very few movies out on Blu-Ray right now that I really miss having other than Spider Man and Pirates of the Carribean. There are a LOT more that are exclusive to HD-DVD that I wouldn't want to miss having: Shrek 3, Transformers, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen, some Jet Li movies, Unforgiven, The Searchers and about 30+ more.
I think the winner will be determined by installed standalone player base (standalones attach more movies than combo players, and the XBox 360 HDDVD is really a standalone since you can't use it to play games), because studios want to sell more discs. Standalone player base will be determined by price. Methinks it's no coincidence that Stringer said what he said when HDDVD went below $199.
Are they selling old movies in HD-DVD/Blu-ray? I don't imagine that many people want them, given that the switch from VHS to DVD really wasn't that long ago.
My 'old' HDDVDs off the top of my head:
* Casablanca
* Blazing Saddles
* Dune
* Excalibur
* Enter The Dragon
* Goodfellas
* Casino
* Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
* Monty Python & The Meaning of Life
There's tons more, though not nearly as many as I'd like. I'd LOVE Criterion films, particularly Kurosawa, to be available. Not to mention that most older titles are priced online about $20.
Check online shops' HDDVD areas, you'd be surprised what's available even in B&W... (and yeah, imagine sharp B&W instead of the muddy crap you get on TV, even if you get pillarboxing for academy ratio, it's quite a surprise)