After spending a lot of time watching DVDs on 100Hz TV sets, I actually find the juddery screen experience at the cinema is often (but not always) inferior to home. I know, they want to keep it that way because apparently 24fps is much more "artistic" or some BS, just like B&W photography and monophonic sound apparently are.
And I'm not subjected to people hooting and throwing popcorn at home, for the most part.
I'm not sure I buy that argument - if the studios were only churning out unwatchable rubbish, then nobody would bother pirating it and this "problem" would go away.
I fully understand your point, and agree for the most part - however there is one way in which people knowingly harming themselves is affecting us - we end up paying their medical bills.
I'd rather my tax dollars were spent on more deserving causes, but do not support making smokers, bicyclists, and other "high risk" groups forfeit healthcare.
And it reminds me of something -- when the Star Wars special editions were about to come out in '97, I was certain that Lucas was going to redo those computer effects, like from the Rebel briefing and on the Millennium Falcon's display during the TIE Fighter dogfight. Dead certain, because if anything dated the Star Wars movies (besides Hamill's hair) it was the computer effects.
Lucasfilm did nothing to update these dated CG effects - it took Adywan to fix it once and for all.
I found 19" LCDs filled this niche quite well - the Philips 190 series, for example, had the exact same native 5:4 resolution as the 17" 170 series - 1280x1024. This very low resolution gave a wonderfully cheap solution to some clients who were in the senior demographic.
Though it might not work for you as these don't meet your size nor aspect ratio requirements.
It's this deluge of traffic of unlicensed copyright material by freetards that's giving media companies the ammunition they need to get these crazy laws passed. And people buying their products that give them the money to buy them.
I agree this merits more than a 0.01 increment. However this change isn't going from MythTV 0.2.1 -> 0.2.2, it's 0.21 -> 0.22 which, in the software version world, equates to minor number 22, not 2. Remember we're not talking about a single-point decimal system here.
Another example - my system is currently running Linux kernel 2.6.30, which is quite different from version 2.6.3
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After spending a lot of time watching DVDs on 100Hz TV sets, I actually find the juddery screen experience at the cinema is often (but not always) inferior to home. I know, they want to keep it that way because apparently 24fps is much more "artistic" or some BS, just like B&W photography and monophonic sound apparently are.
And I'm not subjected to people hooting and throwing popcorn at home, for the most part.
I trust my Ogg player will be exempt from this :)
Indeed, but I would be truly impressed if anyone could regard that number of combinations anything but infinite to all intents and purposes.
Why is that? I didn't realise that ones taste in music could be such a defining characteristic.
Are you also this snobbish about peoples choice of software, clothing, transport?
Carbon Credits?
Why would they bother coming after a site that seems to only indulge nutbar conspiracy theories?
Maybe Alex Jones was really onto something! *rolls eyes*
I'm not sure I buy that argument - if the studios were only churning out unwatchable rubbish, then nobody would bother pirating it and this "problem" would go away.
You mean like AV vendors profiting from virus writers and hackers?
Stop. Please, just... stop.
... then cut off the stream that lets these studios think they can dictate to ISPs.
In other words:
Stop buying their crap, and encourage others to do the same.
Now.
Haven't you been keeping up? These days it's all about mutating neutrinos and microwaving the earths core.
Popcorn, anyone?
No, but Iran was.
Flash?
(ducks for cover)
I fully understand your point, and agree for the most part - however there is one way in which people knowingly harming themselves is affecting us - we end up paying their medical bills.
I'd rather my tax dollars were spent on more deserving causes, but do not support making smokers, bicyclists, and other "high risk" groups forfeit healthcare.
(Disclaimer - I am a cyclist)
Go ahead, you can probably blame some of this on me -- and people like me. I was in the market for an XBox 360 Arcade...
I think I've read enough, and agree with your first assessment. :P
Wait - people still use IE?
And it reminds me of something -- when the Star Wars special editions were about to come out in '97, I was certain that Lucas was going to redo those computer effects, like from the Rebel briefing and on the Millennium Falcon's display during the TIE Fighter dogfight. Dead certain, because if anything dated the Star Wars movies (besides Hamill's hair) it was the computer effects.
Lucasfilm did nothing to update these dated CG effects - it took Adywan to fix it once and for all.
I found 19" LCDs filled this niche quite well - the Philips 190 series, for example, had the exact same native 5:4 resolution as the 17" 170 series - 1280x1024. This very low resolution gave a wonderfully cheap solution to some clients who were in the senior demographic.
Though it might not work for you as these don't meet your size nor aspect ratio requirements.
Well put, sir.
It's this deluge of traffic of unlicensed copyright material by freetards that's giving media companies the ammunition they need to get these crazy laws passed. And people buying their products that give them the money to buy them.
You forgot the pony.
I agree this merits more than a 0.01 increment. However this change isn't going from MythTV 0.2.1 -> 0.2.2, it's 0.21 -> 0.22 which, in the software version world, equates to minor number 22, not 2. Remember we're not talking about a single-point decimal system here.
Another example - my system is currently running Linux kernel 2.6.30, which is quite different from version 2.6.3
because nobody sane uses Flash for navigation,
FTFY
Your other points are valid, but no web site should be designed to rely on Flash for navigation. Ever.
I think you mean North Montana.
I think that's called Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Are you sure it wasn't Pluto?
(yes I've been watching too much Wallace & Gromit lately)