Or for a touch of irony, may they recieve 1000's of unsolicited telemarketers per week to their unlisted home numbers, and may streams of Mormons forever knock at their doors...
I recently read an article about a study that showed that overall DVD profits would rise if the cost of DVD's dropped down to a few dollars each... A move like this would allow DVD's to be sold at magazine racks at checkout counters, and would cause a great increase in demand for DVD's. People would buy DVD's under this model that they never would have considered spending $20 for... Sure, the profit per DVD would drop, but overall the increase in sales would make up the difference...
If this could work for DVD's... I'd imagine it could work equally well for CD's, as the production costs of both are relatively similar and low!
*Excellent* point... I realize that those at the top may be wiser than they appear, based on ulterior motives such as those you pointed out... but I still find it funny to see anyone making such unjustified connections (see also: lucky rabbit's feet, telephone psychics, and the entire health and beauty section at walmart!)
Stupidity is also contageous of course, as human minds tend to be very impressionable... Unfortunately, just because those behind this article didn't really mean it when they claimed that file trading was to blame for their losses, it won't stop the masses from reading articles such as these and believing them word for word! (although this is not the perfect example, as you'd probably have to be living under a rock somewhere to have made it this far without deciding where you stand on the issue of file trading)
I just love to see stupidity in action. People have an incredibly powerful urge to assume that just because when A happens followed by B, then B must be caused by A... File trading came first, then CD sales dropped... never mind that we had that little recession incident.... throwing that into the mix would be a little too complex I suppose.
This reminds me of a hilarious study I read about in college... Several pigeons were put into identical boxes that would spit out a food pellet once every minute. Within a few minutes one pigeon was hopping up and down constantly, the second was continually spinning, and another wouldn't stop bobbing his head... It turns out that they were assuming that whatever action they were doing when the food first was dispensed was causing the food to be released, so they would continue to do it indefinitely to keep the food coming! If A is happening, then it MUST be a result of B....
Minute by minute, day by day.. we are being drained of our privacy right before our collective eyes. September 11th represents fuel being added to the fire that is represented by paranoia. In the war on terrorism, who is winning? We are slowly and methodically being drained of our freedoms while being watched closer and closer... Based on recent bills that have been passed with little opposition, you have to wonder exactly where it will all go from here!
How can y'all bash the creator of this masterpiece left and right? This is creativity in pure form... a technical wonder... 100 points of "coolness"... one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! I know people who have spent half this much on the game Everquest buying intangible items, yet I doubt such purchases would drum up anywhere near the negative response that spending $4000 on this creation has elicited on Slashdot... Give this guy some credit!
It has hardware MPEG2 compression, and does it on the fly quite well on my AMD 1.0 GHZ computer. I tend to record in VCD quality, though, which takes up 322 MB per 30 minutes. A 2 hour movie recorded in full DVD high quality (Mpeg2) takes around 3GB, although you could save a great deal of space converting it to Divx. If you want detailed Mpeg encoding information, email me at bmooney@**nospam**bigfoot.com and I'll be happy to give you additonal encoding size/speed when I'm at home (where the card is located)
1. Not all channels seem to be supported by the Guide+ guide... (Oxygen, WB, and a few others in my area) (Note that you can still record shows on these channels, but you have to program it as you would a traditional VCR) 2. Recording quality is great, but when watching TV in "TV On Demand Mode" (where you can pause, fast forward, rewind, etc..) the quality card is less than perfect at lip-synch'ing... and this can be quite annoying. 3. You don't want to have your computer be doing much else while recording shows... (The card has often decided it was in my best interest to *not* record certain shows that I had earmarked...) 4. This card is designed to not record anything that has been protected with macrovision... (Some forum users elsewhere have reported success in bypassing this, though) All in all, I am very happy with this card, as I use it primarily to record shows when I'm not around for archival purposes. If you want perfection and true TV on Demand, I'd suggest TIVO instead...
First of all, it has been released for over a month... mine arrived in late February... Unlike a previous poster, I have had little setup issues with Windows 2000, although it is a tad on the quirky side. (A useful tip is to do a google search for "beta radeon drivers," where you can get the latest release of ATI's multimedia center that is considerably less buggy than the one that it ships with... The only issue that I have had with this card is that my "non-line of sight" remote only seems to work within about 5 feet from the receiver... (ATI's tech support has been no help with this issue either)....
In my experience,
Google websearch is best for specific web searches...
Dmoz.org directory is best for broad Directory style searches, where you know the broad category that your search fits into, and you wish to find several sites that have this topic in common. (Yahoo, prior to advertisement bombardments held first place in this category)
Google websearch is also among the best for file searches... try including "index of" (with quotes) in a search for a specific file.. (example: "index of" passwords.doc for interesting results)
Google websearch is best for up to date news story searches... (try including "news" in the search query.)
Limewire is best for music and video searches, both general and specific.
Overall, Google is best for nearly all searches, in my opinion... and is usually more effective than using search boxes on specific websites...
Google has a long way to fall...
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· Score: 5, Insightful
before I start using bookmarks as religiously as I had done before... Besides, the Google team seems to respond to new ideas (good or bad) like white blood cells responding to an infection... Companies have been attempting to boost their rankings on Google for years... yet, for the most part, they have been unsuccessful. I doubt seriously that this is by chance...
Pioneer DVR-AO3 can be found at pricewatch for under $380; DVD-RW media can be purchased for $4 each, again found through pricewatch. These prices reflect a drive that writes CD-R/CD-RW/dvd-rw/and dvd-r... (Note that for video compatibility, dvd-r runs around 95% with current players, while dvd-rw and dvd+rw both work with around 30% of current dvd players...)
At any rate, I do highly recommend the Pioneer model mentioned above... I purchased it from MicroPro.Com ($379) 2 weeks ago, and media from QTCCDR.Com ($4/each).
To put the cost of media in proper perspective, at this price, you would only pay 50 cents more for a 4.7 GB of mp3's on DVD-RW vs the same on 80min CD-R's (assuming 50 cents each...)
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Or for a touch of irony, may they recieve 1000's of unsolicited telemarketers per week to their unlisted home numbers, and may streams of Mormons forever knock at their doors...
If this could work for DVD's... I'd imagine it could work equally well for CD's, as the production costs of both are relatively similar and low!
Stupidity is also contageous of course, as human minds tend to be very impressionable... Unfortunately, just because those behind this article didn't really mean it when they claimed that file trading was to blame for their losses, it won't stop the masses from reading articles such as these and believing them word for word! (although this is not the perfect example, as you'd probably have to be living under a rock somewhere to have made it this far without deciding where you stand on the issue of file trading)
This reminds me of a hilarious study I read about in college... Several pigeons were put into identical boxes that would spit out a food pellet once every minute. Within a few minutes one pigeon was hopping up and down constantly, the second was continually spinning, and another wouldn't stop bobbing his head... It turns out that they were assuming that whatever action they were doing when the food first was dispensed was causing the food to be released, so they would continue to do it indefinitely to keep the food coming! If A is happening, then it MUST be a result of B....
so... yeah... um.. it must be the file trading!
Minute by minute, day by day.. we are being drained of our privacy right before our collective eyes. September 11th represents fuel being added to the fire that is represented by paranoia. In the war on terrorism, who is winning? We are slowly and methodically being drained of our freedoms while being watched closer and closer... Based on recent bills that have been passed with little opposition, you have to wonder exactly where it will all go from here!
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How can y'all bash the creator of this masterpiece left and right? This is creativity in pure form... a technical wonder... 100 points of "coolness"... one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! I know people who have spent half this much on the game Everquest buying intangible items, yet I doubt such purchases would drum up anywhere near the negative response that spending $4000 on this creation has elicited on Slashdot... Give this guy some credit!
It has hardware MPEG2 compression, and does it on the fly quite well on my AMD 1.0 GHZ computer. I tend to record in VCD quality, though, which takes up 322 MB per 30 minutes. A 2 hour movie recorded in full DVD high quality (Mpeg2) takes around 3GB, although you could save a great deal of space converting it to Divx. If you want detailed Mpeg encoding information, email me at bmooney@**nospam**bigfoot.com and I'll be happy to give you additonal encoding size/speed when I'm at home (where the card is located)
1. Not all channels seem to be supported by the Guide+ guide... (Oxygen, WB, and a few others in my area) (Note that you can still record shows on these channels, but you have to program it as you would a traditional VCR) 2. Recording quality is great, but when watching TV in "TV On Demand Mode" (where you can pause, fast forward, rewind, etc..) the quality card is less than perfect at lip-synch'ing... and this can be quite annoying. 3. You don't want to have your computer be doing much else while recording shows... (The card has often decided it was in my best interest to *not* record certain shows that I had earmarked...) 4. This card is designed to not record anything that has been protected with macrovision... (Some forum users elsewhere have reported success in bypassing this, though) All in all, I am very happy with this card, as I use it primarily to record shows when I'm not around for archival purposes. If you want perfection and true TV on Demand, I'd suggest TIVO instead...
First of all, it has been released for over a month... mine arrived in late February... Unlike a previous poster, I have had little setup issues with Windows 2000, although it is a tad on the quirky side. (A useful tip is to do a google search for "beta radeon drivers," where you can get the latest release of ATI's multimedia center that is considerably less buggy than the one that it ships with... The only issue that I have had with this card is that my "non-line of sight" remote only seems to work within about 5 feet from the receiver... (ATI's tech support has been no help with this issue either)....
In my experience, Google websearch is best for specific web searches... Dmoz.org directory is best for broad Directory style searches, where you know the broad category that your search fits into, and you wish to find several sites that have this topic in common. (Yahoo, prior to advertisement bombardments held first place in this category) Google websearch is also among the best for file searches... try including "index of" (with quotes) in a search for a specific file.. (example: "index of" passwords.doc for interesting results) Google websearch is best for up to date news story searches... (try including "news" in the search query.) Limewire is best for music and video searches, both general and specific. Overall, Google is best for nearly all searches, in my opinion... and is usually more effective than using search boxes on specific websites...
before I start using bookmarks as religiously as I had done before... Besides, the Google team seems to respond to new ideas (good or bad) like white blood cells responding to an infection... Companies have been attempting to boost their rankings on Google for years... yet, for the most part, they have been unsuccessful. I doubt seriously that this is by chance...
Pioneer DVR-AO3 can be found at pricewatch for under $380; DVD-RW media can be purchased for $4 each, again found through pricewatch. These prices reflect a drive that writes CD-R/CD-RW/dvd-rw/and dvd-r... (Note that for video compatibility, dvd-r runs around 95% with current players, while dvd-rw and dvd+rw both work with around 30% of current dvd players...) At any rate, I do highly recommend the Pioneer model mentioned above... I purchased it from MicroPro.Com ($379) 2 weeks ago, and media from QTCCDR.Com ($4/each). To put the cost of media in proper perspective, at this price, you would only pay 50 cents more for a 4.7 GB of mp3's on DVD-RW vs the same on 80min CD-R's (assuming 50 cents each...)