Agreed on the short answer. But long answer no? I assume you've never seen an HDTV at work. 720p is rock solid and gorgeous and hardly low res, 1080p is on it's way. Five years down the road, this could easily work.
"I'm giving up my granola bar snack and going to eat dog shit instead. It's much more natural and less refined."
Parent refered to refined products. You consider dog crap a product? You need to shop at better grocery stores.
"In reality I'll just eat more natural vegetables like rhubarb. It can't possibly be harmful to me because it's natural."
Rubbish. Rhubarb leaves are toxic, not the rest of the plant. The wrapper for the granola bar likely isn't as good for you as the bar itself is either.
So, they'll be pumping salt water from 3,000 below the surface, purifying it then using it as a power source, cooling, fresh water to name a few. What happens to all the salt during the purification process? Is it any concern at all? Surely short term there will be no effect, but over the long term?
"I can't name a single space-opera style show OTHER than Trek that has made it more than two seasons on broadcast network TV since Babylon 5 ended."
You don't watch nearly enough bad TV. Andromeda is in it's 5th, and hopefully last, season. I would have also added Earth : Final conflict if we weren't strictly talking space operas.
Most HD TV's are only capable of *one* of these resolutions. So you have to choose, 720p OR 1080i in most cases. If you want one that can do both, check very carefully.. forget DLP or LCD based devices (fixed set of pixels so fixed resolution), CRT only.
If you mean direct view CRTs, you are mistaken. There are no consumer direct view CRTs that display 720p natively; they upconvert to 1080i.
"Will digital ever come close to the quality film when blowing up an image to full page size or more?"
Certainly, unless you mean affordably. It's coming close as it is, at least resolution wise. Dynamic range is another story.
"Will digital ever be as true as film, can an algorithm on a camera that converts colors and images to zero's and one's be as good as film which reacts naturally to the light?"
Different film gives different results in exactly the same environment. Take a Kodak film against a Fuji film at the same ISO rating and compare... Heck, the same film from the same manufacturer may not give the same results depending on which was from what batch. Look at a strip of negatives ; white is not white, and everything has a brown/orange tint to it. At some point a machine is saying "we'll call this color white," something is making a decision not unlike what a digital camera has to make.
Exactly, the only thing that is going to be obsolete is the tuners inside existing TVs. Even most HDTV tuners that I know of will downcovert for S-Video/composite connections. So you could watch HDTV content on a standard NTSC set. But all that anyone will need is a DTV tuner and they are good to go.
You throw the word pirate around without regards, making law abiding citizens look like criminals. It would really help if you understood the law before you rant.
You paid a levy in exchange for the LEGAL RIGHT to make personal copies of music, even if you don't own the source material. Again, LEGAL RIGHT. If you are making a copy for yourself, no matter where it came from, it is not copyright infringement. Period. The catch is, YOU have to make the copy. You have always had the right to make copies of your own CDs for yourself, that isn't part of this discussion.
You didn't pay a levy to give you permission to distribute copyrighted material. That has been, and likely always will be, illegal. So, if you're sharing music files on $P2P network, you are breaking the law, levy or no. If you make a copy of a CD for your friend, that's distribution of copyrighted material. It is illegal. It's "piracy." This is who they are after, and good for them.
AC Xbox fanboy probably thinks more capabilities means "More Mhz" and more memory. Out of the box, PSP has more capabilites, ie. things you can do with it, than Xbox, even discounting portability.
Why not? They outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude.
Technical and internet saavy people outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude. Non english reading internet users outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude. Fox Kids users outnumber Slashdot users.... So your observation really doesn't have the impact you think it does.
To answer your question why not... If the only participants in the survey were elemetary school kids and AOLers, the survey is flawed and the results skewed. Simple as that.
I agree with much of what you say, but if you need a piece of software to detect and prevent malicious userland code from performing operations that the operating system should never have permitted it to do, is the operating system secure? Yes we need an antivirus to secure Windows, but we certainly shouldn't.
As an avid but aging volleyball player, I'm starting to suffer through joint problems, mostly knees and rotator cuff. For the time being two Advil before a game and I'm usually fine for a couple of hours. Regardless, the conditions that cause the pain still exist, the medication has just removed symptom for the time being. Next time I go to play, I'll have to take Advil again. What really needs to be done is physio, rehab and better conditioning.
An antivirus is just like Advil, treating a symptom without fixing the problem. IMHO of course.
This is uninteresting to those who don't use Gentoo becasue it doesn't effect them, and uninteresting to users because they have installed it already.
Did you consider it might affect users who don't use Gentoo but might consider it?
Just because existing users have it installed already, doesn't mean they won't be deploying more systems, or even reinstalling at some point. It's always nice to have the newest image on hand.
You may not appreciate the news but others do. You're quite free to not read it if it bores you so much. Or would you prefer a dupe in it's place?
Indeed. Who knows, maybe they were acting down to the feature films' level!
Acutally, some of their pricipals have quite impressive credentials. It's easy to spot those who have camera experience from those who've only worked on stage. Regardless, I think they've done a great job. Keep in mind they are all volunteers for this film.
It says on the cast page (sorry, I actually RTFed the site) that one of the actors, Shane Felux, enjoys historical fencing. Did they ever luck out getting him. Some of the lightsaber scenes, particularly the ones with him onscreen, were quite impressive. Gina Hernandez, one of the other pricipals, also does costumes with her husband.
Kudos to the entire cast and crew. I look forward to seeing the finished product. The trailer has already put episode I to shame.
I can tell by your post that you are not a photographer by any means, that you don't quite understand what vacations are for, and that you desire quality far, far less than convenience.
Right now, we do have the technology to incorporate all of these features into one device with the form factor of a small notebook or PDA. Instead, people spend 5 times the amount of money on discrete appliances, and then have the added burden of having to carry them all.
Not by a longshot. None of the integrated devices hold a candle to the quality and capabilities of any of the standalone products. If i go on a holiday, I don't want to come back with 25 seconds of 160x100 video and a few pictures not fit to print on stamps. The smallest lense for my cameras is larger than my current cellphone.
Just how big would your phone be if it had the quality and features of a mid range point and shoot digital camera, could record DV quality video to removable storage, have all the features and usability of an iPod, record and store video and play TV from a variety of sources. Oh and take phone calls.
And then they whine because their phone isn't just a phone - as if they enjoy having dozens of electronic gadgets lying around the house, waiting to get lost, stolen, forgotten, etc...
Yeah, it's much more convenient to bring an all in one device on a vacation, and drop it / lose it / have it stolen. One device, with everything on it. There goes your vacation pictures, video, your agenda, and the phone number for the cute chic you met at the bar. And you won't even be able to watch TV to get your mind off of your loss.
When I charge my cell, I can still go out and take picutes. I can watch TV and talk on my phone at the same time, without mirrors. Not that I carry around my TV.
I'm tired of using a dozen different gadgets to do what could easily be integrated into one.
A great many of the things you mentioned are not gadgets to others. At any rate, if all these "gadgets" make you so tired, maybe you should take a holiday, and leave them all behind this time.
Dell is a smart company that runs a lean & mean R&D machine.
Unless you consider that many other companies are getting right out of plasma production. At any rate neither of their displays are HDTV devices. They lack the resolution to even display 720p at 16:9. Suprised no one sues for false advertising.
I didn't keep up with the later shows; what went wrong?
Braga was just a writer for TNG. His hands were probably far more tied back then as far as "creative license" is concerned. He worked his way up the producer ladder during Voyager, while continuing to write, until he shared Executive Producer duties with Berman.
If you want a good example of what happens when you let your Executive Producers write... look at Enterprise. It wasn't until Manny Coto took over that the show started to work. The whole temporal cold war was an idea that should never have seen the light of day. But when wrote the script and you also have final say in it... what are you going to do, say your story sucks and trash it?
For another, DS9 (the first series run soley by Berman) was actually very good (once it got going - the first season or two were quite.. icky).
Actually, Ira Steven Behr and Michael Piller were also executive producers. However, I don't think that it's a coincidence that Deep Space 9 picked up steam around the time when Voyager was launched. Personally I suspect Ira Steven Behr had far more to do with the success of Deep Space 9 than Berman ; he likely got more control of the show as Berman turned his attention to Voyager.
That's not to say that I think Berman is solely, nor even mostly responsible for the downfall of the franchise : Check Brannon Braga's credits : He had his fingers in a great deal of the two worst Star Trek shows. And notably absent from my favorite trek, DS9.
It has been like this here in Denmark for a while now with regular landlines. Areacodes are a thing of the past.
You are comparing two totally different numbering systems. Denmark has 8 digits for the subscriber. The NANP uses 7. Denmark has a population of 5,397,640. North America, plus the Carribean, roughly 334,700,000. New York City has a greater population than Denmark. Many states require two area codes just because of their population.
Also, Denmark has it's own country code, +45. North America has it's own. Denmark is responsible for it's own numbering plan. NANPA looks after all of North America and the Carribean.
Check the NANPA for more information on North American phone numbering.
Now you get a phonenumber and stick to that whereever you live.
What happens to your phone number when you move out of Denmark? Had you said that you could keep your number if you moved anywhere in the EU that would have been intersting indeed.
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There are 38 Engineering job postings for the United States. There are 22 for China. That's an incredible amount of inequity.
Hope you're not a researcher.
Agreed on the short answer. But long answer no? I assume you've never seen an HDTV at work. 720p is rock solid and gorgeous and hardly low res, 1080p is on it's way. Five years down the road, this could easily work.
Bob?
"I'm giving up my granola bar snack and going to eat dog shit instead. It's much more natural and less refined."
Parent refered to refined products. You consider dog crap a product? You need to shop at better grocery stores.
"In reality I'll just eat more natural vegetables like rhubarb. It can't possibly be harmful to me because it's natural."
Rubbish. Rhubarb leaves are toxic, not the rest of the plant. The wrapper for the granola bar likely isn't as good for you as the bar itself is either.
So, they'll be pumping salt water from 3,000 below the surface, purifying it then using it as a power source, cooling, fresh water to name a few. What happens to all the salt during the purification process? Is it any concern at all? Surely short term there will be no effect, but over the long term?
"I can't name a single space-opera style show OTHER than Trek that has made it more than two seasons on broadcast network TV since Babylon 5 ended."
You don't watch nearly enough bad TV. Andromeda is in it's 5th, and hopefully last, season. I would have also added Earth : Final conflict if we weren't strictly talking space operas.
If you mean direct view CRTs, you are mistaken. There are no consumer direct view CRTs that display 720p natively; they upconvert to 1080i.
He chu sheng za jiao de zang huo!
"Will digital ever come close to the quality film when blowing up an image to full page size or more?"
Certainly, unless you mean affordably. It's coming close as it is, at least resolution wise. Dynamic range is another story.
"Will digital ever be as true as film, can an algorithm on a camera that converts colors and images to zero's and one's be as good as film which reacts naturally to the light?"
Different film gives different results in exactly the same environment. Take a Kodak film against a Fuji film at the same ISO rating and compare... Heck, the same film from the same manufacturer may not give the same results depending on which was from what batch. Look at a strip of negatives ; white is not white, and everything has a brown/orange tint to it. At some point a machine is saying "we'll call this color white," something is making a decision not unlike what a digital camera has to make.
Exactly, the only thing that is going to be obsolete is the tuners inside existing TVs. Even most HDTV tuners that I know of will downcovert for S-Video/composite connections. So you could watch HDTV content on a standard NTSC set. But all that anyone will need is a DTV tuner and they are good to go.
But they aren't after the people who download music... it's the people who upload. The levy doesn't grant rights to distribute copyrighted material.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
You throw the word pirate around without regards, making law abiding citizens look like criminals. It would really help if you understood the law before you rant.
You paid a levy in exchange for the LEGAL RIGHT to make personal copies of music, even if you don't own the source material. Again, LEGAL RIGHT. If you are making a copy for yourself, no matter where it came from, it is not copyright infringement. Period. The catch is, YOU have to make the copy. You have always had the right to make copies of your own CDs for yourself, that isn't part of this discussion.
You didn't pay a levy to give you permission to distribute copyrighted material. That has been, and likely always will be, illegal. So, if you're sharing music files on $P2P network, you are breaking the law, levy or no. If you make a copy of a CD for your friend, that's distribution of copyrighted material. It is illegal. It's "piracy." This is who they are after, and good for them.
I hope this clears things up.
"The give away that they had lost all clues was the queen."
You can't blame Voyager for that : First Contact introduced the borg queen.
AC Xbox fanboy probably thinks more capabilities means "More Mhz" and more memory. Out of the box, PSP has more capabilites, ie. things you can do with it, than Xbox, even discounting portability.
Technical and internet saavy people outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude. Non english reading internet users outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude. Fox Kids users outnumber Slashdot users.... So your observation really doesn't have the impact you think it does.
To answer your question why not... If the only participants in the survey were elemetary school kids and AOLers, the survey is flawed and the results skewed. Simple as that.
I agree with much of what you say, but if you need a piece of software to detect and prevent malicious userland code from performing operations that the operating system should never have permitted it to do, is the operating system secure? Yes we need an antivirus to secure Windows, but we certainly shouldn't.
As an avid but aging volleyball player, I'm starting to suffer through joint problems, mostly knees and rotator cuff. For the time being two Advil before a game and I'm usually fine for a couple of hours. Regardless, the conditions that cause the pain still exist, the medication has just removed symptom for the time being. Next time I go to play, I'll have to take Advil again. What really needs to be done is physio, rehab and better conditioning.
An antivirus is just like Advil, treating a symptom without fixing the problem. IMHO of course.
Did you consider it might affect users who don't use Gentoo but might consider it?
Just because existing users have it installed already, doesn't mean they won't be deploying more systems, or even reinstalling at some point. It's always nice to have the newest image on hand.
You may not appreciate the news but others do. You're quite free to not read it if it bores you so much. Or would you prefer a dupe in it's place?
Speaking of misreading, where you said
"Yet Revelations is an entire film featuring thespians of this caliber."
I saw
"Yet Revelations is an entire film featuring lesbians of this caliber."
I hope I was the only one.
Indeed. Who knows, maybe they were acting down to the feature films' level!
Acutally, some of their pricipals have quite impressive credentials. It's easy to spot those who have camera experience from those who've only worked on stage. Regardless, I think they've done a great job. Keep in mind they are all volunteers for this film.
It says on the cast page (sorry, I actually RTFed the site) that one of the actors, Shane Felux, enjoys historical fencing. Did they ever luck out getting him. Some of the lightsaber scenes, particularly the ones with him onscreen, were quite impressive. Gina Hernandez, one of the other pricipals, also does costumes with her husband.
Kudos to the entire cast and crew. I look forward to seeing the finished product. The trailer has already put episode I to shame.
I can tell by your post that you are not a photographer by any means, that you don't quite understand what vacations are for, and that you desire quality far, far less than convenience.
Right now, we do have the technology to incorporate all of these features into one device with the form factor of a small notebook or PDA. Instead, people spend 5 times the amount of money on discrete appliances, and then have the added burden of having to carry them all.Not by a longshot. None of the integrated devices hold a candle to the quality and capabilities of any of the standalone products. If i go on a holiday, I don't want to come back with 25 seconds of 160x100 video and a few pictures not fit to print on stamps. The smallest lense for my cameras is larger than my current cellphone.
Just how big would your phone be if it had the quality and features of a mid range point and shoot digital camera, could record DV quality video to removable storage, have all the features and usability of an iPod, record and store video and play TV from a variety of sources. Oh and take phone calls.
And then they whine because their phone isn't just a phone - as if they enjoy having dozens of electronic gadgets lying around the house, waiting to get lost, stolen, forgotten, etc...Yeah, it's much more convenient to bring an all in one device on a vacation, and drop it / lose it / have it stolen. One device, with everything on it. There goes your vacation pictures, video, your agenda, and the phone number for the cute chic you met at the bar. And you won't even be able to watch TV to get your mind off of your loss.
When I charge my cell, I can still go out and take picutes. I can watch TV and talk on my phone at the same time, without mirrors. Not that I carry around my TV.
I'm tired of using a dozen different gadgets to do what could easily be integrated into one.A great many of the things you mentioned are not gadgets to others. At any rate, if all these "gadgets" make you so tired, maybe you should take a holiday, and leave them all behind this time.
Unless you consider that many other companies are getting right out of plasma production. At any rate neither of their displays are HDTV devices. They lack the resolution to even display 720p at 16:9. Suprised no one sues for false advertising.
Internet Explorer is far, far more than just one binary.
Braga was just a writer for TNG. His hands were probably far more tied back then as far as "creative license" is concerned. He worked his way up the producer ladder during Voyager, while continuing to write, until he shared Executive Producer duties with Berman.
If you want a good example of what happens when you let your Executive Producers write... look at Enterprise. It wasn't until Manny Coto took over that the show started to work. The whole temporal cold war was an idea that should never have seen the light of day. But when wrote the script and you also have final say in it... what are you going to do, say your story sucks and trash it?
Just my theory, of course.
Actually, Ira Steven Behr and Michael Piller were also executive producers. However, I don't think that it's a coincidence that Deep Space 9 picked up steam around the time when Voyager was launched. Personally I suspect Ira Steven Behr had far more to do with the success of Deep Space 9 than Berman ; he likely got more control of the show as Berman turned his attention to Voyager.
That's not to say that I think Berman is solely, nor even mostly responsible for the downfall of the franchise : Check Brannon Braga's credits : He had his fingers in a great deal of the two worst Star Trek shows. And notably absent from my favorite trek, DS9.
You are comparing two totally different numbering systems. Denmark has 8 digits for the subscriber. The NANP uses 7. Denmark has a population of 5,397,640. North America, plus the Carribean, roughly 334,700,000. New York City has a greater population than Denmark. Many states require two area codes just because of their population.
Also, Denmark has it's own country code, +45. North America has it's own. Denmark is responsible for it's own numbering plan. NANPA looks after all of North America and the Carribean.
Check the NANPA for more information on North American phone numbering.
Now you get a phonenumber and stick to that whereever you live.What happens to your phone number when you move out of Denmark? Had you said that you could keep your number if you moved anywhere in the EU that would have been intersting indeed.