In Japan, it's common to see businessmen with manga.
In the US, you are considered childish to be seen playing a cartoonish game.
I'm sure that his golf buddies would give him no end of grief over playing Wii Golf, but a realistic Tiger Woods "simulator" would be completely different even if it was only a change of graphics.
Nintendo or some third-party needs to realize this cultural difference and cash in.
I completely agree with their decision. If you want Windows, buy Windows.
Linux needs to stand on its own merits. Running Linux to use your Windows apps would make Dell and Linux look bad by giving a bad user experience.
Wine as a Windows replacement is hard to set up, largely incompatible and the wrong solution for more than one or two applications.
Let Linux have a fair chance on the desktop without false expectations of running Windows applications. If that's not enough, then Linux isn't ready for mass market adoption.
There is clearly something wrong with this operation in Vista.
I jumped in early to test our software for compatibility, so I have three completely different Vista computers with different configurations. They range from a Core2Duo to an dual CPU dual core Opteron.
Copying and deleting are a chore. The XP systems routinely finish deleting, copying and begin testing before the Vista systems have actually deleted a file. They are still counting files.
Don't even think about running source safe on Vista if you have more than a handful of files. GLV can take an afternoon.
Consumers weren't asking for higher resolution. Companies were looking for a way to sell new TV's. And they did it badly.
Why on Earth keep interlaced modes? And then almost completely standardize on 1080i.
The "pristine" digital signal is a myth. The signal is so overly compressed that it causes noticeable artifacting. Because of so many formats and actual display resolutions, you will be lucky if your TV and signal are even close in resolution.
Have you seen a 1024x768 LCD computer screen display the BIOS in 640x480? It looks like crap. That's what your LCD TV is probably doing to the signal, but hardly anybody seems to care.
HDTV's aren't TV's at all. They are monitors. Why don't they include an HD tuner?
There is little content that isn't just upsampled SD. If you aren't a sports fanatic or a bird watcher, God help you. Like SciFi? You are SOL.
In two cities that I've lived in, HD cable doesn't even have proper lip sync. Not just a frame or two off, it's bad enough that my children notice.
HD will only overtake SD because older sets are no longer available, not because of overwhelming consumer demand.
If people had any REAL problems, they wouldn't be so damn oversensitive.
There is no real oppression, no worry of starvation, no in real danger. They take the smallest thing and turn it into an attack on themselves because they can "win" something.
Planet of the Apes is an example of how science fiction can talk about issues that are too taboo to speak of publicly. Racism, slavery and nuclear war were huge issues that needed addressed publicly and tricking people into thinking is what makes fiction of all types great.
Screaming about the ape reference is an excuse to cry "poor me". Apes fit in the context of the movie and are more human than any other animal. Would the movie have been able to capture audiences in the 60's if it had been "Planet of the Negros"? Hell no. It had to be disguised. Maybe today we could use CG roaches or something, but at the time apes were a huge accomplishment for the makeup department. They won many awards for the breathtaking special effects that are now cliche and cheezy.
Someday we will run this country into the ground and people will have real problems to deal with. Only then will the PC cround quit whining about unintended inferrences and imagined slurs and begin to work on real problems at hand.
A client of mine recently requested a Ciprico Huge array, not knowing it used 10 Hitachi 160GB Deathstars.
One drive failed within an hour.
Luckily, Ciprico does have a 30 day no questions asked return policy.
One more more good reason we use Rorke Data arrays. Besides the fact that they don't choke on simultaneous R/W or common Adaptec controller cards like the Huge boxes do.
The problem is that the computer can't tell what you are looking at. Depth of field and motion totally break realizm if they aren't in sync with what the viewer is focusing on.
If you are being guided through a cut scene or movie, depth of field can make you focus on the path the story intends. If you are in an FPS with "free" control, this can blur the object you are trying to see.
True, but bad execution doesn't help promote use of HD either. In my case TW cable is my only option, not that I've heard better results from many other services. I'm surpised that 50% are actually using HD capability.
You seem to be one of the lucky ones. What service do you use?
I build HD video editing systems for a living. So yeah, I know the difference.
I have a 55" HD set in the livingroom with HD cable. I actually use the DVI connector. I *gasp* read the fine manual and set the box to the correct HD output mode for my TV, unlike the Time Warner cable guys who left it set for SD.
Having said all that, I hardly EVER watch HD on it.
The lipsync is seriously off. It's such a low bitrate that the MPEG artifacting is terrible. What content is available is extremely limited. Many of the available shows are just upsampled SD. Most of the shows on the "HD only" channels use every single thing the camera person shot. Multiple times. Can't waste that expensive footage!
Instead I end up watching the first 100 analog channels through RF directly from the wall.
Try it sometime. Through RF, the analog SD channels haven't been digitized by the craptacular cablebox yet. MUCH cleaner picture.
The only one I've seen this season is the first episode of CSI:NY.
Within 2 minutes they pulled out a fucking tricorder and I turned it off. I complained about the image enhancements for years. I complained about pseudo-science for years. Star Trek tech is just too much.
All CSI's are off my (short) list of watchable TV now.
Can the children of Atheists (and other, non-Christians) be excused from science class because of this?
What about children that claim to be? It is their right.
If the words "under God" in can get the Pledge of Allegiance banned or reworded and the Ten Commandments, a work of art, can be removed from public places, why not?
Have you installed a Linux in the last year or two?
Unless you use one of the "hard" distros, such as Gentoo or pure Debian, the install is far easier than Windows. Good luck downloading all those Windows drivers, especially if your ethernet card is one of them.
Installation is done. Linux needs a consistant GUI, friendly configuration tools, more high-quality 3D games and a better range of professional apps.
If you look at a ps2 and a s-video connector side by side, they have the same shielding. It's just that one is a 4 pin and one is a 6 pin.
Neither one can be put in wrong because the metal shield has either one or three keys around it and a plastic key pin in the middle. You can roll them around until the thing just drops into place. I'm not sure why some people get all intimidated with s-video but jam ps2 connectors in without blinking. Maybe because ps2 connectors always have the keys aligned one certain way on the motherboard?
I think this guy had a BNC flash back or something. He HAD to twist that sucker. HARD.
He lost my interest when I found the pic of the destroyed s-video cable.
I've been in video since the 80's and I've seen that ONCE.
You have to be a complete idiot to break an s-video cable off like that, so I can't take anything else in the article seriously. I guess he breaks keyboard and mouse connectors off too?
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In Japan, it's common to see businessmen with manga.
In the US, you are considered childish to be seen playing a cartoonish game.
I'm sure that his golf buddies would give him no end of grief over playing Wii Golf, but a realistic Tiger Woods "simulator" would be completely different even if it was only a change of graphics.
Nintendo or some third-party needs to realize this cultural difference and cash in.
I completely agree with their decision. If you want Windows, buy Windows.
Linux needs to stand on its own merits. Running Linux to use your Windows apps would make Dell and Linux look bad by giving a bad user experience.
Wine as a Windows replacement is hard to set up, largely incompatible and the wrong solution for more than one or two applications.
Let Linux have a fair chance on the desktop without false expectations of running Windows applications. If that's not enough, then Linux isn't ready for mass market adoption.
There is clearly something wrong with this operation in Vista.
I jumped in early to test our software for compatibility, so I have three completely different Vista computers with different configurations. They range from a Core2Duo to an dual CPU dual core Opteron.
Copying and deleting are a chore. The XP systems routinely finish deleting, copying and begin testing before the Vista systems have actually deleted a file. They are still counting files.
Don't even think about running source safe on Vista if you have more than a handful of files. GLV can take an afternoon.
HDTV is a solution in search of a problem.
Consumers weren't asking for higher resolution.
Companies were looking for a way to sell new TV's.
And they did it badly.
Why on Earth keep interlaced modes? And then almost completely standardize on 1080i.
The "pristine" digital signal is a myth. The signal is so overly compressed that it causes noticeable artifacting. Because of so many formats and actual display resolutions, you will be lucky if your TV and signal are even close in resolution.
Have you seen a 1024x768 LCD computer screen display the BIOS in 640x480?
It looks like crap. That's what your LCD TV is probably doing to the signal, but hardly anybody seems to care.
HDTV's aren't TV's at all. They are monitors. Why don't they include an HD tuner?
There is little content that isn't just upsampled SD. If you aren't a sports fanatic or a bird watcher, God help you. Like SciFi? You are SOL.
In two cities that I've lived in, HD cable doesn't even have proper lip sync. Not just a frame or two off, it's bad enough that my children notice.
HD will only overtake SD because older sets are no longer available, not because of overwhelming consumer demand.
Holy crap, that recording does actually hurt.
Thanks, that's the first recording I've heard that is clear enough to understand why teenagers would leave.
You're right, that's almost like a flyback transformer, but possibly more intense.
It did make me feel a little better though. I'm working on 40 but that was still clear as a bell.
Does anyone have a clue WTF this article is about?
If the summary is that bad, I'm not about to click the link.
is a hexagon made of dry erase board.
All the hexagons are attached in a sort of hive configuration.
Would I give it up?
Hell no.
No wonder they fell for the WMD story and joined us in Iraq.
How about a router with a firewall and the slightest bit of common sense?
It works here even with Windows XP.
If people had any REAL problems, they wouldn't be so damn oversensitive.
There is no real oppression, no worry of starvation, no in real danger. They take the smallest thing and turn it into an attack on themselves because they can "win" something.
Planet of the Apes is an example of how science fiction can talk about issues that are too taboo to speak of publicly. Racism, slavery and nuclear war were huge issues that needed addressed publicly and tricking people into thinking is what makes fiction of all types great.
Screaming about the ape reference is an excuse to cry "poor me". Apes fit in the context of the movie and are more human than any other animal. Would the movie have been able to capture audiences in the 60's if it had been "Planet of the Negros"? Hell no. It had to be disguised. Maybe today we could use CG roaches or something, but at the time apes were a huge accomplishment for the makeup department. They won many awards for the breathtaking special effects that are now cliche and cheezy.
Someday we will run this country into the ground and people will have real problems to deal with. Only then will the PC cround quit whining about unintended inferrences and imagined slurs and begin to work on real problems at hand.
You're right. Someone might steal his clevernickname.
Nope.
A client of mine recently requested a Ciprico Huge array, not knowing it used 10 Hitachi 160GB Deathstars.
One drive failed within an hour.
Luckily, Ciprico does have a 30 day no questions asked return policy.
One more more good reason we use Rorke Data arrays. Besides the fact that they don't choke on simultaneous R/W or common Adaptec controller cards like the Huge boxes do.
Maybe it was bad marketing.
Did anyone NOT think the commercial said "Put the lime in the coconut"?
The problem is that the computer can't tell what you are looking at. Depth of field and motion totally break realizm if they aren't in sync with what the viewer is focusing on.
If you are being guided through a cut scene or movie, depth of field can make you focus on the path the story intends. If you are in an FPS with "free" control, this can blur the object you are trying to see.
True, but bad execution doesn't help promote use of HD either. In my case TW cable is my only option, not that I've heard better results from many other services. I'm surpised that 50% are actually using HD capability.
You seem to be one of the lucky ones. What service do you use?
I build HD video editing systems for a living. So yeah, I know the difference.
I have a 55" HD set in the livingroom with HD cable. I actually use the DVI connector. I *gasp* read the fine manual and set the box to the correct HD output mode for my TV, unlike the Time Warner cable guys who left it set for SD.
Having said all that, I hardly EVER watch HD on it.
The lipsync is seriously off. It's such a low bitrate that the MPEG artifacting is terrible. What content is available is extremely limited. Many of the available shows are just upsampled SD. Most of the shows on the "HD only" channels use every single thing the camera person shot. Multiple times. Can't waste that expensive footage!
Instead I end up watching the first 100 analog channels through RF directly from the wall.
Try it sometime. Through RF, the analog SD channels haven't been digitized by the craptacular cablebox yet. MUCH cleaner picture.
Gee, I can't wait for the DTV revolution.
The only one I've seen this season is the first episode of CSI:NY.
Within 2 minutes they pulled out a fucking tricorder and I turned it off.
I complained about the image enhancements for years.
I complained about pseudo-science for years.
Star Trek tech is just too much.
All CSI's are off my (short) list of watchable TV now.
Ethics is free but it's under a GPL license.
Hmm, guess that shouldn't be stopping them...
If Microsoft did it they would be making their monopoly stronger.
Apple doing it makes Microsofts monopoly weaker.
Leveling the playing field is a good thing.
Please, I was being serious. I meant the SCULPTURE that was removed.
Insightful my ass.
I see the mod had great insight into my original question.
Can the children of Atheists (and other, non-Christians) be excused from science class because of this?
What about children that claim to be? It is their right.
If the words "under God" in can get the Pledge of Allegiance banned or reworded and the Ten Commandments, a work of art, can be removed from public places, why not?
of a mental act performed entirely within the immanentmind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind"
Have you installed a Linux in the last year or two?
Unless you use one of the "hard" distros, such as Gentoo or pure Debian, the install is far easier than Windows.
Good luck downloading all those Windows drivers, especially if your ethernet card is one of them.
Installation is done. Linux needs a consistant GUI, friendly configuration tools, more high-quality 3D games and a better range of professional apps.
If you look at a ps2 and a s-video connector side by side, they have the same shielding. It's just that one is a 4 pin and one is a 6 pin.
Neither one can be put in wrong because the metal shield has either one or three keys around it and a plastic key pin in the middle. You can roll them around until the thing just drops into place. I'm not sure why some people get all intimidated with s-video but jam ps2 connectors in without blinking. Maybe because ps2 connectors always have the keys aligned one certain way on the motherboard?
I think this guy had a BNC flash back or something. He HAD to twist that sucker. HARD.
He lost my interest when I found the pic of the destroyed s-video cable.
I've been in video since the 80's and I've seen that ONCE.
You have to be a complete idiot to break an s-video cable off like that, so I can't take anything else in the article seriously. I guess he breaks keyboard and mouse connectors off too?