Nonsense, H.264 is more than capable of storing full-length movies on a dual-layer DVD at 720P with very good quality. If you don't believe me go find a hardcore movie pirate who pirates HD movies (or just check a public bittorrent tracker and look at the file sizes), most 720P movies will fit on a DVD. 1080P movies would be pushing it on longer movies, but even then 90 minute movies would easily fit on one disc and look fantastic.
If movie pirates can encode it so that it doesn't have significant artifacting and can fit onto a regular DVD, I have no doubt that Toshiba would be able to pull it off.
As an example, the 1080P pirate of Casino Royale is a little over 12GB, but that's a 150 minute long movie.
Now I'm not saying that it'll be videophile level video, but it'd be competitive in terms of quality with the downloadable HD movies available nowadays on iTunes and Xbox Live, and if people are willing to buy those maybe a cheap physical disc format that doesn't require downloading for hours and hours would actually work.
It could also be blamed on computer processors by that logic, just because there weren't computers around.
And the times aren't really that sterile-while there aren't the super polluted rivers around anymore like the 70's, there's all kinds of chemical pollutants that have been put out over the years that basically never go away.
On top of which, a lot of stuff takes a couple generations for you to really notice the effects-cigarette smoking for example, causes less fertility in the female offspring of mothers who smoke-but you wouldn't know that until decades later. So what drugs people used decades ago may have affects on much later generations.
Anyways, probably the largest contributor to the rise in all these problems is just that people have kids much later in life now.
And while I'm not a fan of big pharma, vaccines aren't the biggest moneymakers for the drug companies because you don't stay on them. The real money is in chronic medications that you have to take for life-stuff like cholesterol medications, herpes supression drugs, etc.
The researchers do this kind of research to get a better feel of what patients believe when they come into the office. That way the physician (if they have a decent relationship with their patient) can hopefully educate them correctly.
So they did the research to see what the public believes, and what kinda attitudes the public has (like how the negative ones got more comments, etc).
Anyways, the problem here is also that other idiots not getting vaccines actually affects even the people who do, because the people who get sick can end up spreading an epidemic/pandemic around the world. Plus, new strains that your vaccine doesn't protect against can also mutate inside those people and then end up making the vaccine worthless, etc. Point is, less sick people is better for everyone.
Plus, kids don't really deserve to have uneducated idiots make bad decisions for them.
Although you may feel that Freedom of Speech is to be protected, the question is whether or not Freedom of Speech should take precendence over OTHER freedoms.
For example, although freedom of speech is first and foremost in the U.S. Constitution, it's not the case in all countries.
In the Netherlands for one, freedom against discrimination takes precedent over freedom of speech-therefore hate speech is *NOT* protected there.
In this case, if he was in fact suggesting that a security guard be killed or framed to fire him, you have to address the question of whether the student's freedom of speech should really take precedent over all the freedom's the security guard should have.
Lest you forget, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" was one of the unalienable rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence upon which the United States was founded. In this case the security guard's liberty and pursuit of happiness-even his very life-would very much have been impacted by the things that this student was suggesting that people do.
No, these rights are not specifically laid out in the Constitution-but the Declaration of Independence has also been used through the years to determine people's rights (although sometimes in a rather biased manner-such as the interpretation of "all men are created equal" as applying only to white men).
So to believe that the school was right in expelling this student does *NOT* neccessarily mean that you are supporting an erosion of freedoms-it merely means that you believe more strongly in the freedoms of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Let's not forget that even the regular police in England don't carry firearms. The US is definitely way more gun-happy than pretty much anywhere else on the planet.
(that's not to say that they don't have people with guns ready to stop a gang of gun toting criminals though...one call and a SWAT-type team will come down on you hard)
You have to realize that in Singapore people get caught for almost everything because there are cameras EVERYWHERE. There's even cameras outside public toilets, so that if you don't flush, the next person can rat you out and they'll hunt you down and fine you.
That's why the harsh punishments there work, since everyone knows that doing anything stupid *will* get them punished, or at least has a very high chance of getting them punished.
UV sunglasses, pacemakers, velcro, and hundreds of other major scientific breaktrhoughs are a result of NASA research.
Umm...I know Americans are supposed to hate the French and all, but just because the Swiss invented Vel(our)Cro(chet) has a French name is no reason to use revisionist tactics on it =P
(btw a French textile plant guy helped the Swiss inventer get Velcro to market when nobody believed him and thought he was nuts)
Nah, if something horrible happens and the shuttles blow up, or maybe there's a disease breakout on the space station(Space SARS!) and terrorists blow up a wing of the space station, then we'll see REALLY CHEAP SPACE FARES!
Yes, a horribly bad joke about the current state of airline fares. But that's probably the only way regular people will be able to afford to go to space for QUITE a while.
I'm going to have to go ahead and agree with the original poster who said it *was* racist. The fact that there is an existing stereotype of Asians as "sneaky" business people in America(perceived as sneaky more than ANY other group by a HUUUUGE margin) makes it very unlikely that his comment wasn't at all affected by racism.
Factor in the fact that the article mentioned nothing of Asians being the perpetrators of this big scam, PLUS the fact that Sony and Toshiba are mentioned as being FOOLED TOO, and you get a comment about Asian businesspeople that came right out of left field.
It's racist, even if not quite as blatant as a KKK lynching, it's the kind of racism where-although people of a group have NOTHING to do with the issue-someone makes a comment that creates the impression that somehow it's Asian businesspeople and their business practices that caused this.
Yeah, forget Enron, Worldcom, etc. Let's blame it on Asian businesses and how competitive they are! Who cares if Intel isn't an Asian company, they must have been infiltrated by Asian competition and those evil Asian ways because they have fab plants in Asia.
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Nonsense, H.264 is more than capable of storing full-length movies on a dual-layer DVD at 720P with very good quality. If you don't believe me go find a hardcore movie pirate who pirates HD movies (or just check a public bittorrent tracker and look at the file sizes), most 720P movies will fit on a DVD. 1080P movies would be pushing it on longer movies, but even then 90 minute movies would easily fit on one disc and look fantastic. If movie pirates can encode it so that it doesn't have significant artifacting and can fit onto a regular DVD, I have no doubt that Toshiba would be able to pull it off. As an example, the 1080P pirate of Casino Royale is a little over 12GB, but that's a 150 minute long movie. Now I'm not saying that it'll be videophile level video, but it'd be competitive in terms of quality with the downloadable HD movies available nowadays on iTunes and Xbox Live, and if people are willing to buy those maybe a cheap physical disc format that doesn't require downloading for hours and hours would actually work.
It could also be blamed on computer processors by that logic, just because there weren't computers around. And the times aren't really that sterile-while there aren't the super polluted rivers around anymore like the 70's, there's all kinds of chemical pollutants that have been put out over the years that basically never go away. On top of which, a lot of stuff takes a couple generations for you to really notice the effects-cigarette smoking for example, causes less fertility in the female offspring of mothers who smoke-but you wouldn't know that until decades later. So what drugs people used decades ago may have affects on much later generations. Anyways, probably the largest contributor to the rise in all these problems is just that people have kids much later in life now. And while I'm not a fan of big pharma, vaccines aren't the biggest moneymakers for the drug companies because you don't stay on them. The real money is in chronic medications that you have to take for life-stuff like cholesterol medications, herpes supression drugs, etc.
The researchers do this kind of research to get a better feel of what patients believe when they come into the office. That way the physician (if they have a decent relationship with their patient) can hopefully educate them correctly.
So they did the research to see what the public believes, and what kinda attitudes the public has (like how the negative ones got more comments, etc).
Anyways, the problem here is also that other idiots not getting vaccines actually affects even the people who do, because the people who get sick can end up spreading an epidemic/pandemic around the world. Plus, new strains that your vaccine doesn't protect against can also mutate inside those people and then end up making the vaccine worthless, etc. Point is, less sick people is better for everyone.
Plus, kids don't really deserve to have uneducated idiots make bad decisions for them.
I keep forgetting that you have to insert tags for breaks...doh!
Although you may feel that Freedom of Speech is to be protected, the question is whether or not Freedom of Speech should take precendence over OTHER freedoms. For example, although freedom of speech is first and foremost in the U.S. Constitution, it's not the case in all countries. In the Netherlands for one, freedom against discrimination takes precedent over freedom of speech-therefore hate speech is *NOT* protected there. In this case, if he was in fact suggesting that a security guard be killed or framed to fire him, you have to address the question of whether the student's freedom of speech should really take precedent over all the freedom's the security guard should have. Lest you forget, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" was one of the unalienable rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence upon which the United States was founded. In this case the security guard's liberty and pursuit of happiness-even his very life-would very much have been impacted by the things that this student was suggesting that people do. No, these rights are not specifically laid out in the Constitution-but the Declaration of Independence has also been used through the years to determine people's rights (although sometimes in a rather biased manner-such as the interpretation of "all men are created equal" as applying only to white men). So to believe that the school was right in expelling this student does *NOT* neccessarily mean that you are supporting an erosion of freedoms-it merely means that you believe more strongly in the freedoms of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
WHAT?!?! Humans slaughtering?!?!? Say it isn't so!
OMG did you go to my high school?! I think I might have sat behind you in Invisible Pink Unicorn Theory!!!
Let's not forget that even the regular police in England don't carry firearms. The US is definitely way more gun-happy than pretty much anywhere else on the planet. (that's not to say that they don't have people with guns ready to stop a gang of gun toting criminals though...one call and a SWAT-type team will come down on you hard)
You have to realize that in Singapore people get caught for almost everything because there are cameras EVERYWHERE. There's even cameras outside public toilets, so that if you don't flush, the next person can rat you out and they'll hunt you down and fine you.
That's why the harsh punishments there work, since everyone knows that doing anything stupid *will* get them punished, or at least has a very high chance of getting them punished.
So I can sell my Westen Digital ATA100 Hard Drive as an SATA drive on ebay and then tell people that there's no difference under current conditions?
UV sunglasses, pacemakers, velcro, and hundreds of other major scientific breaktrhoughs are a result of NASA research. Umm...I know Americans are supposed to hate the French and all, but just because the Swiss invented Vel(our)Cro(chet) has a French name is no reason to use revisionist tactics on it =P (btw a French textile plant guy helped the Swiss inventer get Velcro to market when nobody believed him and thought he was nuts)
Nah, if something horrible happens and the shuttles blow up, or maybe there's a disease breakout on the space station(Space SARS!) and terrorists blow up a wing of the space station, then we'll see REALLY CHEAP SPACE FARES! Yes, a horribly bad joke about the current state of airline fares. But that's probably the only way regular people will be able to afford to go to space for QUITE a while.
I'm going to have to go ahead and agree with the original poster who said it *was* racist. The fact that there is an existing stereotype of Asians as "sneaky" business people in America(perceived as sneaky more than ANY other group by a HUUUUGE margin) makes it very unlikely that his comment wasn't at all affected by racism. Factor in the fact that the article mentioned nothing of Asians being the perpetrators of this big scam, PLUS the fact that Sony and Toshiba are mentioned as being FOOLED TOO, and you get a comment about Asian businesspeople that came right out of left field. It's racist, even if not quite as blatant as a KKK lynching, it's the kind of racism where-although people of a group have NOTHING to do with the issue-someone makes a comment that creates the impression that somehow it's Asian businesspeople and their business practices that caused this. Yeah, forget Enron, Worldcom, etc. Let's blame it on Asian businesses and how competitive they are! Who cares if Intel isn't an Asian company, they must have been infiltrated by Asian competition and those evil Asian ways because they have fab plants in Asia.