It won't expire until you open the sealed packaging. So just don't open the thing until you're ready to watch it. You don't have 48 hours from when you buy it -- you have 48 hours from when you break the packaging open. If you RTFA, you'll see that the concept works b/c the chemical coating begins to degrade once oxygen hits it.
I wonder what the packaging will look like? It should be absolutely minimal to keep costs down. If costs is as cheap or cheaper than rentals and/or PPV, this should work well.
Seriously, I get your arguments concerning ergonomics. I guess as one who's not had the "hand meltdown" you speak of, it's harder for that concern to immediately jump to my mind. I only hope that it never has to. Heck, I might consider trying Dvorak if it didn't mean remapping my company-issued PBG4.
You missed the arguments about vi and the majority of all other keyboards. You'll do your children a disservice by "raising" them on Dvorak. Every public terminal will be QWERTY, plain and simple.
And last time I checked, no child taught QWERTY was in any way inferior or held back. And I've never seen a report of someone succeeding in life because they knew Dvorak and their peers did not. Reality is this: Keyboard layouts are the least of our problems.
I bet you're a Libertarian, too.
In Soviet Russia, you do not learn Dvorak, Dvorak learns you.
"You can have my DVDs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!"
Seriously, VoD is nice as an alternative to the video rental store but look how DVD sales have sky-rocketed in a few years in comparison to VHS sales over 2 decades of trying. People want to have high-quality libraries of movies that they can hold on to and claim as their own. And they definitely don't want to have to pay for them more than once.
And that statement is MHO which is well-informed, thank you. You can disagree all you want but 128kbps AAC is indistinquishable from 256kbps MP3 to my ears. And my ears are all that matter to me.
Okay, so I'm glad I read these feedback comments. But now the inevitable question is: which laptop should I buy?
Actually, it's my boss who's asked me to find him a few good quotes on laptops. He needs a few things: 1) Lightweight (under 7lbs.) 2) Good quality/performance 3) Decent price (under $2300 would be great)
So far, the 14.1" iBook looks like the best bargain to me but he's a Windows guy by nature. And Centrinos are on the high end of the price tag. Suggestions? Puhlease!:o)
And the quality is only 128. I can get better than tha on Kazaa.
That's a little uninformed. This is AAC. 128kbps in AAC is equal to 256kbps in MP3 encoding.
And this does not cost the same or more as an album. It is $9.99 per album regardless of how many tracks it has. You find me one record store where you can buy any new, decent album for $9.99 (save the bargain bin). How the crap is even $.99/song too expensive when you have to pay nearly $4.00 just for a CD single in a store? The logic in this argument just ain't there.
The new iPods still come with a firewire cable that has, on one end, an iPod connector, and on the other end, a firewire connection. So, yes, you can still use it as a FireWire portable harddrive. The dock is for your home use so you dont have to worry about reaching around to always plug in a cable. Keep the dock at home and take the connector cable with you on the road.
They reduced the size of the fonts in the new iTunes. The simple solution is to go into System Prefs and change the font smoothing to smooth all fonts under 8 pts. Viola!
The story did not concern Apple Records, it concerned Carl Sagan, if I remember correctly. He didn't like the fact that Apple code-named one of their projects "Carl Sagan" and he threatened to sue them. So they renamed the project "BHA" (Butt-head Astronomer) and immortalized him with a system sound.
Just for those who aren't aware, Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. His objections to Christianity most likely weren't along the same lines as those objections many people today might have. The quote, out of context, may seem to be something it is not.
The author of that statement, for the uninformed, thick-skulled, is saying, "How can we sneak off to have sex once and a while without Timmy asking for a drink of water everytime I make a move on you?" Jeez. Don't over analyze. And if in your family, you don't speak of ditching kids, you're not making them stronger -- you're scaring them for life with images of your bare rump pumping against your middle aged wife.
You're agreement with the other post proves you lack an understanding or even an appreciation for abstract science. I liked the comparison one person made to thermodynamics. Quantum physics works well, also, for a comparison. You can call psychohistory a lost cause all you want but I'm glad men like Newton, Carnot, Einstein, Young, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Watson, Crick, Hawking, and Asimov don't think in terms of "lost causes." Not everything is cut and dry and can be proved as "babble" because the world strikes you as utterly chaotic. The chaos sometimes even holds the answers to its own problems.
Finally, I believe it is men like Asimov that push determined people onward and upward to stretch the possibilities and absolutely amaze people like yourself who claim that some things are a "lost cause."
Speaking of AC3, what are the odds the first release (8/26) will have DTS? Or do I have to wait til November again? DTS is amazing and AC3/Dolby Digital doesn't hold a candle. Of course, I've yet to be able to take advantage of the new Dolby EX or DTS ES 6.1. Anyone have comments or thoughts on these encodings on FotR?
You must have the most proper and beautiful handwriting on the planet. What I wrote on my Newton: "Have lunch with Betty tomorrow." What it gave me back: "Hato lunar white Ballv lavawen." Kiss this Rosetta.
And how do you lug around a Newton? Got one slung over your neck? I keep my tucked inside my sock. Works great as a shin guard.
It's really depressing to see a post you made in all sincerity be modded down as "Flamebait." I'm not a sarcastic person. Seriously, I wanna buy the darn game. After only paying for 3 games in just as many years, it's nice to see HL2 heading out. Gimme gimme gimme Seirra!
Okay, that joke was old the second time it was stated in this discussion and now it's just plain lame. Not to be an ass, but please search the entire discussion before posting your witty comments.
Sure, it'd be nice to think that business can build "their" own, but do you really think that pipe dream will happen? If you want something done on that level, don't leave it up to business to do it on their own. There will never be one standard and instead, you'll just end up with absolute chaos. It takes a community of people committed to real change to ban together to make something like this happen. And I'm all for that.
Who's to say that a redesign would take away? When people banned together to "redesign" the way the OS worked and was controlled, we got Linux. Now is that such a bad thing?
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Why not just make edible DVD discs? Then, even if the movie sucks, at least I'd have a nice, chocolatey snack to appease my bitter rage.
I wonder what the packaging will look like? It should be absolutely minimal to keep costs down. If costs is as cheap or cheaper than rentals and/or PPV, this should work well.
Seriously, I get your arguments concerning ergonomics. I guess as one who's not had the "hand meltdown" you speak of, it's harder for that concern to immediately jump to my mind. I only hope that it never has to. Heck, I might consider trying Dvorak if it didn't mean remapping my company-issued PBG4.
And last time I checked, no child taught QWERTY was in any way inferior or held back. And I've never seen a report of someone succeeding in life because they knew Dvorak and their peers did not. Reality is this: Keyboard layouts are the least of our problems.
I bet you're a Libertarian, too.
In Soviet Russia, you do not learn Dvorak, Dvorak learns you.
The former. Sue-see. Hence the spelling with the capital "E" at the end indicating its stress.
"Anti-Quark" can be vaguely defined as any Mac OS X user or any Adobe programmer.
Seriously, VoD is nice as an alternative to the video rental store but look how DVD sales have sky-rocketed in a few years in comparison to VHS sales over 2 decades of trying. People want to have high-quality libraries of movies that they can hold on to and claim as their own. And they definitely don't want to have to pay for them more than once.
And that statement is MHO which is well-informed, thank you. You can disagree all you want but 128kbps AAC is indistinquishable from 256kbps MP3 to my ears. And my ears are all that matter to me.
Actually, it's my boss who's asked me to find him a few good quotes on laptops. He needs a few things: 1) Lightweight (under 7lbs.) 2) Good quality/performance 3) Decent price (under $2300 would be great)
So far, the 14.1" iBook looks like the best bargain to me but he's a Windows guy by nature. And Centrinos are on the high end of the price tag. Suggestions? Puhlease! :o)
That's a little uninformed. This is AAC. 128kbps in AAC is equal to 256kbps in MP3 encoding.
And this does not cost the same or more as an album. It is $9.99 per album regardless of how many tracks it has. You find me one record store where you can buy any new, decent album for $9.99 (save the bargain bin). How the crap is even $.99/song too expensive when you have to pay nearly $4.00 just for a CD single in a store? The logic in this argument just ain't there.
The new iPods still come with a firewire cable that has, on one end, an iPod connector, and on the other end, a firewire connection. So, yes, you can still use it as a FireWire portable harddrive. The dock is for your home use so you dont have to worry about reaching around to always plug in a cable. Keep the dock at home and take the connector cable with you on the road.
They reduced the size of the fonts in the new iTunes. The simple solution is to go into System Prefs and change the font smoothing to smooth all fonts under 8 pts. Viola!
The story did not concern Apple Records, it concerned Carl Sagan, if I remember correctly. He didn't like the fact that Apple code-named one of their projects "Carl Sagan" and he threatened to sue them. So they renamed the project "BHA" (Butt-head Astronomer) and immortalized him with a system sound.
No, it did not. Yesterday $399 got you a 10GB iPod. So, no it is not a shame, it is an absolutely great deal.
Just for those who aren't aware, Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. His objections to Christianity most likely weren't along the same lines as those objections many people today might have. The quote, out of context, may seem to be something it is not.
The author of that statement, for the uninformed, thick-skulled, is saying, "How can we sneak off to have sex once and a while without Timmy asking for a drink of water everytime I make a move on you?" Jeez. Don't over analyze. And if in your family, you don't speak of ditching kids, you're not making them stronger -- you're scaring them for life with images of your bare rump pumping against your middle aged wife.
How would that knowledge have kept us from having the problem in the first place?
Finally, I believe it is men like Asimov that push determined people onward and upward to stretch the possibilities and absolutely amaze people like yourself who claim that some things are a "lost cause."
Speaking of AC3, what are the odds the first release (8/26) will have DTS? Or do I have to wait til November again? DTS is amazing and AC3/Dolby Digital doesn't hold a candle. Of course, I've yet to be able to take advantage of the new Dolby EX or DTS ES 6.1. Anyone have comments or thoughts on these encodings on FotR?
And how do you lug around a Newton? Got one slung over your neck? I keep my tucked inside my sock. Works great as a shin guard.
It's really depressing to see a post you made in all sincerity be modded down as "Flamebait." I'm not a sarcastic person. Seriously, I wanna buy the darn game. After only paying for 3 games in just as many years, it's nice to see HL2 heading out. Gimme gimme gimme Seirra!
Okay, that joke was old the second time it was stated in this discussion and now it's just plain lame. Not to be an ass, but please search the entire discussion before posting your witty comments.
(after hell freezes over), DNF! riiiiiight. Well, at least we might see HL2.
Wow, finally a game worth spending money for this year. At least, I hope so.
Who's to say that a redesign would take away? When people banned together to "redesign" the way the OS worked and was controlled, we got Linux. Now is that such a bad thing?