I would give the benefit of the doubt to the author and assume that they realize the "film" developed on a computer is digital media and not photosensitive.
Instead, a more reasonable assumption is that it is intended as humor. Now while various people might disagree as to how funny it might actually be, I think your troll moderation is, well, immoderate. Evidently, I am not alone, Quill_28, also raises the question, "How is this a troll". Subsequently someone has demonstrated for him, by marking the inquiry itself troll.
I have been getting moderater points fairly frequently. I try to use them with more care than this.
Hey you anonymous bozo. The spellngs of night and lite are generally "ad speak" and generally not used by anyone writing in a serious venue. UK English speakers are evidently easily confused in such matters. By way of demonstration, I have a Haynes automotive service manual that says that the UK English term "battery" is equivalent to the American English term "energizer". Somewhere there is an advertising exec cheering.
As far as the -num vs. -inium debate, I think that the American spelling should carry more weight -- the U.S. refines far more of this metal. Perhaps you've heard of our airplanes?
I believe the comment to which you replied is fairly well on target but it is not very polite. The development is a significant benefit but I agree with you that everyone who uses a machine for the desktop does not need to be understand this subject. There are almost always many, many things that individual users do not understand about the complex systems they use. That doesn't mean that significant discusion between those that are interested in a particular area is without value.
What the original commenter was correct in bemoaning is that the quality of the discussion here on/. is degraded by the number of coments that give evidence to the fact that their authors are not familiar with the general subject matter and have not taken the time to do basic orientation before emitting. These comments add a much value to the forum as the endless Beowulf cluster chatter and the first post idiocy.
I agree. It is the stupid hardware. I don't need theirs. Thats why I indicated that they shouldn't try to support all PC hardware. However by not running on the most prominent processor family, they limit their opportunity. To continue your automotive analogy, it is as if BMW only ran on 5% of the roads.
While they don't need more market share, they, or their promoters, do whine.
The main value in purchasing RH is in the support, I guess. I just download. I think we would both agree that $200 for 5 is a relative bargain, given the commercial competition.
However, in absolute terms, the OS software is the one component of a typical personal system that has not been subject to more typical increase in function and decrease in price that we have seen over the years.
But my point is that you are the exception, not the rule. I have many aquaintances with 5 or more Intel PCs, several running Linux. But I only have one with that many Macs - you.
I'm a Unix bigot myself. I would like to try OS X, I just don't want to have to buy provincial hardware to do it.
If we cease to hear any more nonsense about them trying to restrain users from 'tweaking' the OS ( recently on/.) and they continue resisting DRM pressure, they may have a winning combination. If they combine that with support for commodity PC hardware ( also recently/.), I reach for my billfold for the first time with Apple.
As to the endless debate as to whether Mac vs. PC is cheaper, I say most of the debate is missing a major point and Apple is missing a market. My hardware cost for a PC running OS X would be essentially nothing, there are plenty of PCs to be had. As long as their OS only runs on their hardware, I face a steep cost to start with Mac OS, like most. Being able to run Mac OS on PC hardware would leave my entire expenditure available for software alone. While once a major issue, drivers for the diverse selection of PC hardware should not be as much of an issue with the Free Software community advanced as far as it has. Just use free source for the drivers and keep the remainder of the OS licensed software. If Apple released an SDK a zero cost, the community would probably port the drivers for them.
The list price of $130 for OS X is perhaps a little high but I am surprised to see a 'family' 5 count site license at $200 or $40 each. I have never seen anyone with five Macs in their home. Compared to PCs, seeing five Macs in a company setting is rare. Still, I don't recall Micro$oft offering a five seat Windoze license at a 66% discount. Price a five count license for OS X on PC hardware at $200 and see how many takers there are.
I was referring to the futility of forcing the hardware manufacturers to support this type of thing with something embodied in the processor itself. With a virtual machine implementation, espcically an open source one, the virtual machine design will dictate whether the feature is absent, fully present or bogusly dummied up.
As far as the chess game, none of us are playing alone.
Using the likes of VMWare, etc will always leave the door open to defeat these approaches. If the commercial products knuckle under, free/open software ones will prevail.
Another example of ineffective enforcement of questionable goals inflicted on the masses while not really hindering those truely bent on circumvention. I doubt many are jumping at the chance to add a DRM framework to the Linux kernel. I, for one, would help cauterize it.
I had never heard of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center prior to this week. There was a contestant on Jeopardy from there earlier this week who mentioned the photo on air.
Virtually any Panasonic VCRs above the basic models. There are two different features that have similar names, but one is the cat's meow:
Commercial Skip
This is found on many VCRs and is the same as the PVRs. With Panasonic, only the el cheapo units seem to not have this. Who knows, the current base model might have it this year. It is a blind skip forward for some number of seconds in response to the user pushing a button. Of course a PVR skips virtually instantly compared to tape. This helps but not as great a benefit as...
Commercial Advance
This is found on Panasonic consumer VCRs from about the midpoint of the line up to their top. It analyzes commercials by guessing on audio level and video fading to black, etc. It collects this during the realtime recording and then marks the tape afterwards. The only downside in practice is that you have to wait a little for this marking phase. It depends on the number of commercials but I would guess it takes an additional 10%. You lose the info if you change tapes. The speed at which it skips is its fastest fast forward without unloading the tape off the head. I'd guess six seconds for two minutes of commercial. It is not long enough to start conversation.
I'd like to claim that I sought out and found this feature on my own but it was my techno savy 70-year parents that bought the first unit that turned my head. Their selection was based mainly on repair frequency as per Consumer's Reports mag. Panasonic is significantly best in this category and my family had taken several hits on Sony decks.
I bought one, then a second for them, got a friend to buy one, then three at once (2nd for me, 1 buddy, one for fiance) and another friend. This stretches out over three years. None of these decks has malfunctioned yet.
I have two tivos. I only recommend PVRs with caveats.
My now wife and I are in the process of watching all Seinfeld episodes, more or less in order. I collect with Tivo, dub to VCR for more buffer space. I put down the title in front of each episode. My point in mentioning this is that the Panasonic VCR nails the commercial cuts in and out almost perfectly. The start of the skip is never permature but sometimes a blip of the commecial gets by. The tape stops slewing and settles then the sound comes back just right on the money. I get no false skips but only in one area do I get an overage on skip length. Perhaps due to the nature of the program coming back from the last commercial break for a short end segment, it sometimes (10%) blows past this last little bit. Not too bad, over all.
Your comment again provides an opportunity to point to VHS VCRs from Panasonic (and perhaps others) that automatically analyzes commercial content after recording and automatically fast forwards during playback. It works pretty good and is reasonably fast. Also, when I pull that tape out, it can go to a much wider audience than other hiqh speed internet video/computer junkies.
All of the people that I exchange recordings with have already or will soon migrate to this type of VCR. It only takes one demo. It is very convincing.
This is good. It would have been dangerous beyond the scope of the case at hand to have the court start requiring the implementation of anything that those opposed to a software system dream up. Of course this could be eroded or reversed by other cases but still a step in what sane people must think is the right direction.
In a surprise announcement today the justice department attempted to release the details of "Operation Sharpie" in which all felt tip markers are to be confiscated. The press conference ended prematurely when a SWAT team crashed in and siezed the whiteboard and all other presentation materials as evidence.
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But hey, if it works for you.
Instead, a more reasonable assumption is that it is intended as humor. Now while various people might disagree as to how funny it might actually be, I think your troll moderation is, well, immoderate. Evidently, I am not alone, Quill_28, also raises the question, "How is this a troll". Subsequently someone has demonstrated for him, by marking the inquiry itself troll.
I have been getting moderater points fairly frequently. I try to use them with more care than this.
Brilliant. I should have anticipated it.
As far as the -num vs. -inium debate, I think that the American spelling should carry more weight -- the U.S. refines far more of this metal. Perhaps you've heard of our airplanes?
Wouldn't you want a starting point before /. published the current link?
What the original commenter was correct in bemoaning is that the quality of the discussion here on /. is degraded by the number of coments that give evidence to the fact that their authors are not familiar with the general subject matter and have not taken the time to do basic orientation before emitting. These comments add a much value to the forum as the endless Beowulf cluster chatter and the first post idiocy.
Certainly but perhaps not the the type of anti-trust you refer to. They act in unison and we don't trust them.
While they don't need more market share, they, or their promoters, do whine.
However, in absolute terms, the OS software is the one component of a typical personal system that has not been subject to more typical increase in function and decrease in price that we have seen over the years.
First thing I wanted to know. Thanks for posting.
I'm a Unix bigot myself. I would like to try OS X, I just don't want to have to buy provincial hardware to do it.
As to the endless debate as to whether Mac vs. PC is cheaper, I say most of the debate is missing a major point and Apple is missing a market. My hardware cost for a PC running OS X would be essentially nothing, there are plenty of PCs to be had. As long as their OS only runs on their hardware, I face a steep cost to start with Mac OS, like most. Being able to run Mac OS on PC hardware would leave my entire expenditure available for software alone. While once a major issue, drivers for the diverse selection of PC hardware should not be as much of an issue with the Free Software community advanced as far as it has. Just use free source for the drivers and keep the remainder of the OS licensed software. If Apple released an SDK a zero cost, the community would probably port the drivers for them.
The list price of $130 for OS X is perhaps a little high but I am surprised to see a 'family' 5 count site license at $200 or $40 each. I have never seen anyone with five Macs in their home. Compared to PCs, seeing five Macs in a company setting is rare. Still, I don't recall Micro$oft offering a five seat Windoze license at a 66% discount. Price a five count license for OS X on PC hardware at $200 and see how many takers there are.
A most elusive member of the periodic table
As far as the chess game, none of us are playing alone.
Another example of ineffective enforcement of questionable goals inflicted on the masses while not really hindering those truely bent on circumvention. I doubt many are jumping at the chance to add a DRM framework to the Linux kernel. I, for one, would help cauterize it.
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Gordon Gekko had sticky fingers
I had never heard of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center prior to this week. There was a contestant on Jeopardy from there earlier this week who mentioned the photo on air.
This is found on many VCRs and is the same as the PVRs. With Panasonic, only the el cheapo units seem to not have this. Who knows, the current base model might have it this year. It is a blind skip forward for some number of seconds in response to the user pushing a button. Of course a PVR skips virtually instantly compared to tape. This helps but not as great a benefit as...
This is found on Panasonic consumer VCRs from about the midpoint of the line up to their top. It analyzes commercials by guessing on audio level and video fading to black, etc. It collects this during the realtime recording and then marks the tape afterwards. The only downside in practice is that you have to wait a little for this marking phase. It depends on the number of commercials but I would guess it takes an additional 10%. You lose the info if you change tapes. The speed at which it skips is its fastest fast forward without unloading the tape off the head. I'd guess six seconds for two minutes of commercial. It is not long enough to start conversation.
I'd like to claim that I sought out and found this feature on my own but it was my techno savy 70-year parents that bought the first unit that turned my head. Their selection was based mainly on repair frequency as per Consumer's Reports mag. Panasonic is significantly best in this category and my family had taken several hits on Sony decks.
I bought one, then a second for them, got a friend to buy one, then three at once (2nd for me, 1 buddy, one for fiance) and another friend. This stretches out over three years. None of these decks has malfunctioned yet.
I have two tivos. I only recommend PVRs with caveats.
My now wife and I are in the process of watching all Seinfeld episodes, more or less in order. I collect with Tivo, dub to VCR for more buffer space. I put down the title in front of each episode. My point in mentioning this is that the Panasonic VCR nails the commercial cuts in and out almost perfectly. The start of the skip is never permature but sometimes a blip of the commecial gets by. The tape stops slewing and settles then the sound comes back just right on the money. I get no false skips but only in one area do I get an overage on skip length. Perhaps due to the nature of the program coming back from the last commercial break for a short end segment, it sometimes (10%) blows past this last little bit. Not too bad, over all.
Hope this helps.
All of the people that I exchange recordings with have already or will soon migrate to this type of VCR. It only takes one demo. It is very convincing.
This is good. It would have been dangerous beyond the scope of the case at hand to have the court start requiring the implementation of anything that those opposed to a software system dream up. Of course this could be eroded or reversed by other cases but still a step in what sane people must think is the right direction.
Not exactly sure what you meant by....
Now we will here that their own forensic data recovery types will suceed -- but only the /bin/laden data, of course.
The original poster is subtle. Check the article's department.
In a surprise announcement today the justice department attempted to release the details of "Operation Sharpie" in which all felt tip markers are to be confiscated. The press conference ended prematurely when a SWAT team crashed in and siezed the whiteboard and all other presentation materials as evidence.