When you publish a scientific article in a journal, you sign over the rights to own the article to the publisher. In effect, its theirs, however, the data is still owned by the author i believe.
Doesnt delaying vista make it better for customers? As a user, I am on the side of making it better. I have seen 2 groups of people complaining that its delayed. Investors and people that want MS to fail. For the average user, I think it is to their benefit for the OS to work well, instead of be released early and buggy. If it released before its ready, wont that make for a backlash against MS and potentially send more people to Linux and Apple? Wont this actually hurt investors more than a delay? Maybe I am simple in my thinking but Im not sure I understand business. I think in the long run, Vista will make more money by actually showing that MS is capable of releasing an OS that is actually stable, and secure.
My 30 inch screen looks great even with divx movies at a low res and bitrate. My 60 inch SXBR on the other hand clarly shows the limits of the divx files. DVDs look pretty good, HD-DVDs look better. The difference is in the bitrate on the large screens. This is the clear benefit I can see from the new formats. Black backgrounds look MUCH better on a large screen. Check it out yourself if you dont believe me.
HD content is better on 50 inch and over TVs. Noone is their right mind would say its not. DVD is not good enough for big screens. Its very very good for 50 inch and smaller.
You probably think that the Sony TVs at Walmart and the new XBR sets are made by the same factory too. Idiot. Think before you stick your foot in your mouth.
Wow, does slashdot now need to goto MSNBC to find negative things about Microsoft? This is pretty bad as I wouldnt trust anything the mass media says regarding computers (even if it is owned by MS). Typically, I find the tradional print press and its outlets to be a minimum of 6 months behind on even the most general of things.
Sony is a group of companies. Grouping them all together and making general opinions of the company is a big mistake. They have many divisions, and many of them make good products. Sony IS a clear example of how making too big of a company is a mistake. However, I am reading more and more about how people will never buy another sony device becasue of this and that. I would recommend checking out their TVs and monitors separately from their software and media, they are clearly not managed by the same people.
Mostly agreed, however, dont forget that Sony TVs are still by far the best. The XBR is far superior to anything else in its class. The price is competitive, and its made in USA!!! I dont mean the low end TVs either. Low end TVs are all cheap, and are exactly what you pay for, regardless of the company. High emd Sony TVs are much more robust in the features, and the pictures seem to just look better (my opinion of course).
Didn't we just read an article here the other day that IE costs MS millions of dollars to make and maintain with no real income? Now we hear that IE is free to MS with no cost? How can it be both? How can MS do no good, no matter WHAT? I am no fan of MS, but these contrasting arguments are not really enough to convince people to use linux on a regular basis.
Windows media center is actually very stable, and works well. Its easy to set up and has the option for UNLIMITED storarage. With a bit of knowledge it recored HD from Motorolla cable boxes as well. Quite a nice feature. Much better than my HD Tivo.
Have you actually watched one of the videos from the itunes music store? The quality is a joke on anything other than a video ipod. The audio is FAR less than acceptable. I do hope that competition from other sources (google, amazon) gives us the ability to download legal HD video.
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You have missed my point completely.
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I have actually expereimented with this. Take a jap version, and a US version. Put both infront of general US gamers. Most people will not use the game even if it has very little Kanji. The feel that they are missing something by not being able to read it. Again, as I said, hardcore gamers wont care. But most want the game that is in their native language as well as screen format. Hence my originial argument for not needing region coding on the games.
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Europe is PAL and has lots of different languages, US is NTSC english, Japan is NTSC with Japanese. Dont these things already give the games somewhat of a region code to the vast amount of general users anyway. The hardcore users have a modchip and dont care. Why would 90 percent of gamers import a Japanese Final Fantasy game that they cant read or understand the language.
Is there any chance of getting nice tabs in Windows Explorer? I love the tabs in firefox, and I would love to have them in Windows Explorer as well. Does anyone know if this will happen?
Hmm... Let's see. First, Linux on a pc is good becasue its cheap. Universities have THOUSANDS of computers and each one has a license paid to microsoft. To not pay this would free up money for tuition for students, lab supplies or other software or hardware. This is very easy. I am a scientist working in the field of Neurophysiology and Rehab Medecine. I use the PCs for high speed video and analysis. The dual core athlon 64 cpus allow for extremely fast simultaneuous capture of high speed video from up to 12 cameras runing at 500 frames per second. I can compress the video to nice open source codecs using free opensource software like virtualdub. The analysis of the video is greatly aided by running 4 monitors (12 video sources!!!) The option to switch in and out of SLi allows for this very easliy. There are numerous other data capture processing techniques that I use. I am sure you can do most of this with a Mac too, but when I can compress a video and play a game at the same time, I just love that athlon 64. I dont mean to start a fight here, but please, I have a Phd, Masters, and 2 bachelors degrees. I am now working in the 4th year of my Post Doctoral Fellowship. However, I DO like to frag online when I cant leave the lab for hours on end becasue of extended background data processing or some other extended procedure. So if my opinion doesnt matter, why did I buy all the PCs for 3 compaines and numerous labs last year? This amounted to over 3000 computers. I would say my opionion does matter.
umm..... My Windows PC is MUCH more powerful than any Mac. In addition, I have the option of using AMD cpus (which I do), SLI (which is very nice) and most importantly, I have a huge library of games as well as the newest version of windows media center (which is simply great). Finally, I have the option of using linux if I so please (which I have running on my second pc). Please explain your porsche and camry comparison further. Becasue its not valid in my opinion.
Well, after reading this article, I have even less faith in the news from cnet. What type of video card are they using that they cant get windows to display? I have no problems at all getting any of my systems to display via s-video, DVI, or component out on several Sony HDTV's. I can get them to display native 1080i, 720p, or even 480i via component out. I didnt do anything special other than install the current drivers. Secondly, they say that media center cant export video to an ipod. Well, not natively, but with 4 pushes of my mouse I have it on my ipod video. Very very simple, again no hacking involved here. I just installed a simple free program and use nero (or other programs). This is a joke. Finally, talking about the TV downloads on itunes. They must be kidding, I personally will not violate my HDTV with the less than stellar video and ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE audio from these video downloads. I cant believe they even brought this up in talking about a media center.
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When you publish a scientific article in a journal, you sign over the rights to own the article to the publisher. In effect, its theirs, however, the data is still owned by the author i believe.
Doesnt delaying vista make it better for customers? As a user, I am on the side of making it better. I have seen 2 groups of people complaining that its delayed. Investors and people that want MS to fail. For the average user, I think it is to their benefit for the OS to work well, instead of be released early and buggy. If it released before its ready, wont that make for a backlash against MS and potentially send more people to Linux and Apple? Wont this actually hurt investors more than a delay? Maybe I am simple in my thinking but Im not sure I understand business. I think in the long run, Vista will make more money by actually showing that MS is capable of releasing an OS that is actually stable, and secure.
My 30 inch screen looks great even with divx movies at a low res and bitrate. My 60 inch SXBR on the other hand clarly shows the limits of the divx files. DVDs look pretty good, HD-DVDs look better. The difference is in the bitrate on the large screens. This is the clear benefit I can see from the new formats. Black backgrounds look MUCH better on a large screen. Check it out yourself if you dont believe me.
few hours behind........ http://digg.com/apple/Is_Nintendo_the_apple_of_App le_s_eye_
Exactly. Easy to complain about something... but, how can you make it better if you don't cite an example or even better, a fix?
what are you talking about?
I wish more people had the balls to say such things these days. Totally Agreed.
HD content is better on 50 inch and over TVs. Noone is their right mind would say its not. DVD is not good enough for big screens. Its very very good for 50 inch and smaller.
You probably think that the Sony TVs at Walmart and the new XBR sets are made by the same factory too. Idiot. Think before you stick your foot in your mouth.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Wow, does slashdot now need to goto MSNBC to find negative things about Microsoft? This is pretty bad as I wouldnt trust anything the mass media says regarding computers (even if it is owned by MS). Typically, I find the tradional print press and its outlets to be a minimum of 6 months behind on even the most general of things.
Sony is a group of companies. Grouping them all together and making general opinions of the company is a big mistake. They have many divisions, and many of them make good products. Sony IS a clear example of how making too big of a company is a mistake. However, I am reading more and more about how people will never buy another sony device becasue of this and that. I would recommend checking out their TVs and monitors separately from their software and media, they are clearly not managed by the same people.
Mostly agreed, however, dont forget that Sony TVs are still by far the best. The XBR is far superior to anything else in its class. The price is competitive, and its made in USA!!! I dont mean the low end TVs either. Low end TVs are all cheap, and are exactly what you pay for, regardless of the company. High emd Sony TVs are much more robust in the features, and the pictures seem to just look better (my opinion of course).
Didn't we just read an article here the other day that IE costs MS millions of dollars to make and maintain with no real income? Now we hear that IE is free to MS with no cost? How can it be both? How can MS do no good, no matter WHAT? I am no fan of MS, but these contrasting arguments are not really enough to convince people to use linux on a regular basis.
Windows media center is actually very stable, and works well. Its easy to set up and has the option for UNLIMITED storarage. With a bit of knowledge it recored HD from Motorolla cable boxes as well. Quite a nice feature. Much better than my HD Tivo.
Very True.
Agreed.
Have you actually watched one of the videos from the itunes music store? The quality is a joke on anything other than a video ipod. The audio is FAR less than acceptable. I do hope that competition from other sources (google, amazon) gives us the ability to download legal HD video.
You have missed my point completely.
I have actually expereimented with this. Take a jap version, and a US version. Put both infront of general US gamers. Most people will not use the game even if it has very little Kanji. The feel that they are missing something by not being able to read it. Again, as I said, hardcore gamers wont care. But most want the game that is in their native language as well as screen format. Hence my originial argument for not needing region coding on the games.
Europe is PAL and has lots of different languages, US is NTSC english, Japan is NTSC with Japanese. Dont these things already give the games somewhat of a region code to the vast amount of general users anyway. The hardcore users have a modchip and dont care. Why would 90 percent of gamers import a Japanese Final Fantasy game that they cant read or understand the language.
Is there any chance of getting nice tabs in Windows Explorer? I love the tabs in firefox, and I would love to have them in Windows Explorer as well. Does anyone know if this will happen?
Hmm... Let's see. First, Linux on a pc is good becasue its cheap. Universities have THOUSANDS of computers and each one has a license paid to microsoft. To not pay this would free up money for tuition for students, lab supplies or other software or hardware. This is very easy. I am a scientist working in the field of Neurophysiology and Rehab Medecine. I use the PCs for high speed video and analysis. The dual core athlon 64 cpus allow for extremely fast simultaneuous capture of high speed video from up to 12 cameras runing at 500 frames per second. I can compress the video to nice open source codecs using free opensource software like virtualdub. The analysis of the video is greatly aided by running 4 monitors (12 video sources!!!) The option to switch in and out of SLi allows for this very easliy. There are numerous other data capture processing techniques that I use. I am sure you can do most of this with a Mac too, but when I can compress a video and play a game at the same time, I just love that athlon 64. I dont mean to start a fight here, but please, I have a Phd, Masters, and 2 bachelors degrees. I am now working in the 4th year of my Post Doctoral Fellowship. However, I DO like to frag online when I cant leave the lab for hours on end becasue of extended background data processing or some other extended procedure. So if my opinion doesnt matter, why did I buy all the PCs for 3 compaines and numerous labs last year? This amounted to over 3000 computers. I would say my opionion does matter.
umm..... My Windows PC is MUCH more powerful than any Mac. In addition, I have the option of using AMD cpus (which I do), SLI (which is very nice) and most importantly, I have a huge library of games as well as the newest version of windows media center (which is simply great). Finally, I have the option of using linux if I so please (which I have running on my second pc). Please explain your porsche and camry comparison further. Becasue its not valid in my opinion.
Well, after reading this article, I have even less faith in the news from cnet. What type of video card are they using that they cant get windows to display? I have no problems at all getting any of my systems to display via s-video, DVI, or component out on several Sony HDTV's. I can get them to display native 1080i, 720p, or even 480i via component out. I didnt do anything special other than install the current drivers. Secondly, they say that media center cant export video to an ipod. Well, not natively, but with 4 pushes of my mouse I have it on my ipod video. Very very simple, again no hacking involved here. I just installed a simple free program and use nero (or other programs). This is a joke. Finally, talking about the TV downloads on itunes. They must be kidding, I personally will not violate my HDTV with the less than stellar video and ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE audio from these video downloads. I cant believe they even brought this up in talking about a media center.