" I don't personally know anyone that supports the IRA. My mother's best friend is Irish"
well put, but consider this: I'm British, English to be more precise. My mother's family was Catholic from Wiltshire back three generations and prior to that, IRISH. My father's family were "protestant" from Lancashire back two generations and prior to that IRISH. I was born in Berkshire and have had many first and second generation Irish friends throughout my life - unsurprisingly, but often overlooked is the fact that there are literally millions of 1st and 2nd generation Irish men and women living all over the UK, and I have only ever known ONE to profess support for the IRA's motives, if not their actions. To me, the very idea that the British Isles and it's population can be carved up into distinct national identities at this point is a nationalist fools' paradise - though it probably matters a lot less now if it were, as SURELY we won't start fighting each other again (God, I do hope not) especially as it's a fight that the English will ALWAYS win through sheer force of numbers. Ireland now is a prosperous and democratic state, but will never be and CAN never be independent from the "rest" of the UK in much more than name. There have been many shameful incedents throughout the history of Britain - oppression of Scots, Welsh, English and Irish alike at different times by each other, the British state, the crown and various foreign entities looking to leverage old emnities for their own purposes. American funding of the IRA (or any other nationalist terror organisation) is just such a situation, though I'd be stunned if they were the only ones - just look at the FARC buying terror expertise from the IRA and the IRA obtaining weapons by way of Libya for a clearer picture of the international nature of "nationalism". Murderers are simply that, whether British, Irish; state sponsored or anti-state.
I may, indeed, be superior to the rest of you (no evidence either way as yet), but I'm not so blind as to think that my Mac is faster than my heavy lifting Athlon XP 2200+ based PCs. I just use a slower (but more thorough) encoder when working on the PC - still doesn't take much more than 5X playback even at it's VERY slowest setting.
I didn't blame the whole Middle eastern history of conflict on the USA, just the Gulf War. Started by Saddam, who was armed to the teeth by the USA so as to win the Iran-Iraq war a decade earlier. And to suggest that the UN created Israel! Come on! Officially, perhaps, but it was - and remains - a total non-starter without direct American involvement at every level. I don't understand Zionism for the life of me, but it sure encompasses a motley collection of right wing lunatics in the USA and Israel both (and yes, some in Britain too).
Britons COULDN'T GIVE A FUCK about Northern Ireland. It constitutes an ENORMOUS drain on UK resources, about 1 million feuding fuckwits and a bunch of sheep. Just about the only thing that NI's got going for it is a couple of decent motorbike road races, and even they're not as good as the TT.
95% of the British would gladly turn NI over to Eire tomorrow - it's the biggest pain in the arse ever.
for ever one of the fuckers that we take down, there's another New Yorkian shitbag ready to pay for four more
the USA is now, and always has been the root cause of Irish terrorism, just as it caused the Gulf War, created Israel and is trying to destroy Venezuelan democracy now
I can go D1 (10bit) to MPEG2 in about 1.3x playspeed on a single CPU PowerMac G4 - what the hell are you on about, and how the fuck do you get dropped frames when multitasking? I ALWAYS listen to mp3s and do my email while encoding
"So in 50 years, will people look at our computers today in the same kind of disgust? Yes."
Well, almost ALL operating systems have ALREADY suffered a degree of this - MS DOS/Windows being the worst offender, of course. What depresses me is the consistent failure to legislate cruft out of the TV system - ATSC has spectacularly failed at this by allowing ALL of the old failings to migrate to the new platform, removing ANY incentive for producers to alter their output for the new medium. In the UK things are slightly better, but i'd still like to see Widescreen being forced on the broadcasters a little harder - there are still some GLARINGLY 4:3 productions (Channel 4 News, hello?) and a disappointing lack of resolve to get tough with Sky over standards, or with ANYONE over the use of fucking DOGs.
"Riddle me this, flame boy: is it better to gain 0.54" on the minority of signals, or gain 4.49 inches on most signals? Especially given that the 4:3 HDTV is perfectly capable of displaying a 16:9 signal and simply not use the extra screen real estate (letterboxing)?"
You make a good point, but you KNOW that you're swimming against the current. TVs typically last for 10 years or more these days before replacement - and your 4:3 set is gong to get increasingly marginalised as we trundle into the future. If/when the US gets mandatory widescreen like we did in the UK - your calculation will fall apart pretty quickly.
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+1, really quite funny
I'm hardly a Trekkie - but didn't the gorgeous Mulgrew fly the "Voyager" spaceship-thing?
...glad to see that the Slashdot tradition of incredibly poor grammar and spelling is being upheld!
by the way, Lynn, can you call Bill Oddie...
" I don't personally know anyone that supports the IRA. My mother's best friend is Irish"
well put, but consider this: I'm British, English to be more precise. My mother's family was Catholic from Wiltshire back three generations and prior to that, IRISH. My father's family were "protestant" from Lancashire back two generations and prior to that IRISH. I was born in Berkshire and have had many first and second generation Irish friends throughout my life - unsurprisingly, but often overlooked is the fact that there are literally millions of 1st and 2nd generation Irish men and women living all over the UK, and I have only ever known ONE to profess support for the IRA's motives, if not their actions. To me, the very idea that the British Isles and it's population can be carved up into distinct national identities at this point is a nationalist fools' paradise - though it probably matters a lot less now if it were, as SURELY we won't start fighting each other again (God, I do hope not) especially as it's a fight that the English will ALWAYS win through sheer force of numbers. Ireland now is a prosperous and democratic state, but will never be and CAN never be independent from the "rest" of the UK in much more than name. There have been many shameful incedents throughout the history of Britain - oppression of Scots, Welsh, English and Irish alike at different times by each other, the British state, the crown and various foreign entities looking to leverage old emnities for their own purposes. American funding of the IRA (or any other nationalist terror organisation) is just such a situation, though I'd be stunned if they were the only ones - just look at the FARC buying terror expertise from the IRA and the IRA obtaining weapons by way of Libya for a clearer picture of the international nature of "nationalism". Murderers are simply that, whether British, Irish; state sponsored or anti-state.
"With current desktop SMP systems it's more duel than dual"
I thought that there weren't any?
"anyhow, i don't give a fuck"
you posted, arse candle
I may, indeed, be superior to the rest of you (no evidence either way as yet), but I'm not so blind as to think that my Mac is faster than my heavy lifting Athlon XP 2200+ based PCs. I just use a slower (but more thorough) encoder when working on the PC - still doesn't take much more than 5X playback even at it's VERY slowest setting.
it's fun trying to think up strangely insulting non-words. At the moment I'm using "dingus" a lot, it's got a nice feel to it...
I didn't blame the whole Middle eastern history of conflict on the USA, just the Gulf War. Started by Saddam, who was armed to the teeth by the USA so as to win the Iran-Iraq war a decade earlier. And to suggest that the UN created Israel! Come on! Officially, perhaps, but it was - and remains - a total non-starter without direct American involvement at every level. I don't understand Zionism for the life of me, but it sure encompasses a motley collection of right wing lunatics in the USA and Israel both (and yes, some in Britain too).
not to mention a soft target...
you are mind-bendingly ignorant
Britons COULDN'T GIVE A FUCK about Northern Ireland. It constitutes an ENORMOUS drain on UK resources, about 1 million feuding fuckwits and a bunch of sheep. Just about the only thing that NI's got going for it is a couple of decent motorbike road races, and even they're not as good as the TT.
95% of the British would gladly turn NI over to Eire tomorrow - it's the biggest pain in the arse ever.
what the fuck are you talking about?
for ever one of the fuckers that we take down, there's another New Yorkian shitbag ready to pay for four more
the USA is now, and always has been the root cause of Irish terrorism, just as it caused the Gulf War, created Israel and is trying to destroy Venezuelan democracy now
fuck the USA
sorry, you're gonna have to help us with a definition of this "soap" you're talking about.
this IS Slashdot, you know
also, wasn't 911 carried out with the aid of BOXCUTTERS? Wouldn't it be more sensible to ban scissors than toy rockets?
it's DUAL dingus, and there are loads of them
what?
I can go D1 (10bit) to MPEG2 in about 1.3x playspeed on a single CPU PowerMac G4 - what the hell are you on about, and how the fuck do you get dropped frames when multitasking? I ALWAYS listen to mp3s and do my email while encoding
that's really interesting, buthe's asking about the Athlon 64 and Opteron
you fucking schlumph
before you DECIDE who to be loyal to?
clearly, loyalty is an alien concept to you
personally, I troll
if you get just the right combination of anti-Americanism and anti-geekdom you can get a couple of pages of indignant flamage in an hour or so...
then?
you stupid fucking hick it's THAN
you must be pretty young...
"So in 50 years, will people look at our computers today in the same kind of disgust? Yes."
Well, almost ALL operating systems have ALREADY suffered a degree of this - MS DOS/Windows being the worst offender, of course. What depresses me is the consistent failure to legislate cruft out of the TV system - ATSC has spectacularly failed at this by allowing ALL of the old failings to migrate to the new platform, removing ANY incentive for producers to alter their output for the new medium. In the UK things are slightly better, but i'd still like to see Widescreen being forced on the broadcasters a little harder - there are still some GLARINGLY 4:3 productions (Channel 4 News, hello?) and a disappointing lack of resolve to get tough with Sky over standards, or with ANYONE over the use of fucking DOGs.
Ah well, plus ca change...
Pixels do have area (they must, if they exist at all), they just don't have a DEFINED area, so you shoudn't go giving them shape as well...
"Riddle me this, flame boy: is it better to gain 0.54" on the minority of signals, or gain 4.49 inches on most signals? Especially given that the 4:3 HDTV is perfectly capable of displaying a 16:9 signal and simply not use the extra screen real estate (letterboxing)?"
You make a good point, but you KNOW that you're swimming against the current. TVs typically last for 10 years or more these days before replacement - and your 4:3 set is gong to get increasingly marginalised as we trundle into the future. If/when the US gets mandatory widescreen like we did in the UK - your calculation will fall apart pretty quickly.