I used to go to a technical school that offered various vocational training. There was my floor with the computer dept. It was 60% guys. A couple of floors up was the medical / nursing area. All girls.
They had to practice giving shots and such on live human beings. Once they were tired of stabbing each other they would wander down to the geek farm in search of brave young men willing to sacrifice their arms to advance medical science.(i.e. suckers) They figured that just because they were attrctive, dressed like nurses (even through they weren't) and the guys were all loney introverted dorks, they would be able to find lots of willing arms to practice on. They were right.
I fell for this a lot.
As a side note, being stabbed by a girl repeatedly doesn't win you her respect or admiration as much as you might think. Go figure.
What's certain, according to her, is that even though Genoa's technology increases the range of colors, it's not recovering the full original color information of a movie on film, lost in the conversion to other formats, like DVD. "It's kind of arbitrarily making images look better," she says, though people will in fact prefer the resulting colors, which will typically be more saturated and brighter.
So it isn't really "truer" colors at all, its just brighter and more saturated. That IS more appealing, but making things brighter / more colorful is hardly a new technology. Anyone who's messed with photographs in photoshop has probably noticed that you can make almost any image more striking by messing with the contrast and saturation.
The sales pitch gives the impression that the colors will be more true to the original (as in film) but in reality it looks like they are just taking the same old (post-lossy compressed) RGB data and making it "more vibrant". Not the same thing. At all.
As an example, arithmetic computation will show that a 34GB E-Disk flash drive fitted with flash chips rated at an endurance limit of 1 million erase/write cycles will have an endurance life of...
Yes, asking for new laws to deal with people pirating music is like Wall-Mart demanding the national guard come in to search shoppers to deal with rampant shoplifting.
Sorry you're being robbed and all, but stop messing with my rights as an individual and a consumer.
But, as has been pointed out all over this thread, this website, this community, and the whole stinking internet: sales are not down due to piracy, they are down because the quality of the product is low and people now have access to other sources of music.
I've had a theory about this for a long time. In one episode, Young Crusher applies to entrance into Starfleet. He has to compete against a lizzard-like guy who breathes through some machine and a young vulcan.
The vulcan had, I think, about two or three lines. I've always suspected this was the contest winner.
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I used to go to a technical school that offered various vocational training. There was my floor with the computer dept. It was 60% guys. A couple of floors up was the medical / nursing area. All girls.
They had to practice giving shots and such on live human beings. Once they were tired of stabbing each other they would wander down to the geek farm in search of brave young men willing to sacrifice their arms to advance medical science.(i.e. suckers) They figured that just because they were attrctive, dressed like nurses (even through they weren't) and the guys were all loney introverted dorks, they would be able to find lots of willing arms to practice on. They were right.
I fell for this a lot.
As a side note, being stabbed by a girl repeatedly doesn't win you her respect or admiration as much as you might think. Go figure.
The sales pitch gives the impression that the colors will be more true to the original (as in film) but in reality it looks like they are just taking the same old (post-lossy compressed) RGB data and making it "more vibrant". Not the same thing. At all.
...Amazing what you can get for just $34,000!
The Patriot Act. (Satire)
At The Lemon: New Patriot Act II Gives Police Authority to "String 'em Up"
Sorry you're being robbed and all, but stop messing with my rights as an individual and a consumer.
But, as has been pointed out all over this thread, this website, this community, and the whole stinking internet: sales are not down due to piracy, they are down because the quality of the product is low and people now have access to other sources of music.
And because I think it's funny, I'm mentioning this again: New UCD is ultimate weapon against piracy.
Record labels have a new secret weapon that will make piracy impossible.
I've had a theory about this for a long time. In one episode, Young Crusher applies to entrance into Starfleet. He has to compete against a lizzard-like guy who breathes through some machine and a young vulcan.
The vulcan had, I think, about two or three lines. I've always suspected this was the contest winner.