Abuse can be dished out to lines like that very easily, and it's definitely a good idea to have a councellor there in case. It can be important data as well, maybe losing their job for it can make them fall into depression
Also people who have "lost it" generally look to someone to talk to, and maybe a tech support guy can help?
Depends, of course, on what definition of Obsolete that you use, and I was exaggerating a tiny bit:P
None-the-less, that still gets back to what I was arguing in the first place, that people don't like changing things because it's expensive and mostly not worth the bother.
And btw, I really wouldn't mind surround sound music to go with my surround sound system:P
And no I don't listen to Human Nature either, but that was on a CD for charity where popular bands and artists played something as humanly different to their norm as possible - it was made and promoted by a Rock radio station. here's a promo. I'm a fan of charitable stuff:P
For your first point go here this is a news article from half way through 2000 for a DVD sized disc that holds 36GB of data - about the time when DVDs became mainstream.
As for the compression, MPEG-2 is 6.25GB/3 hour movie and Div-X is 1.25GB/3 hour movie in same res (if I remember the figures right).
CDs don't have the highest quality of sound, and a surround sound CD would be nice, but it doesn't really make too much of a difference.
On another note, have you heard Human Nature sing ACDC's TNT? Or Legs? Or G&Rs Sweet Child of Mine? It's an experience, look for Musical Challenge.
but I still argue that the only reason that DVD-Rs are high in price is because they aren't mass produced and there are three different formats still.
But again, you have a point.
People just don't like change! The DVD was obsolete by the time it became main-stream - it doesn't use the best compression methods nor does it have the highest capacity out of all the Compact Discs, but it is mainstream now and it'll take a while for it to budge.
Do you know how much it costs to replace something? Getting rid of something to replace it with something else just isn't within human nature, no matter how much it would help in the long run! What would happen anyway if they did get rid of CDs? They would just put the same amount of songs on a DVD and sell them at a higher price:P
We're probably better off with them - or is that my human nature talking?
Absolute zero is when the movement of atoms stops, and for that to happen it'd have to have no external forces acting on it, which is quite impossible.
I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the very distant future absolute zero would be possible, but definitly not using any sort of current technology.
The fact is that heat is just the vibration of molecules which is another sort of movement (note that to cool something down you don't have to put something cool next to it - there are many other ways to cool something). To keep something totally still you'll need something to keep the thing still - how can you do that with an atom that measures nanometres wide?
The only way I could think of to do this would be to use strong electromagnetic force to keep the atom aligned or something, but then you're adding more energy to it!
One thing to think about:
We can't have a static universe philisophically as without any movement then time would be irrelevant:)
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Hey, some freak's on the phone saying he's just switched from (insert favorite open source os) to Win2k server!! Here you take him!
God no, why waste good time councilling against suicide with someone who should clearly just throw themselves off a cliff?
Oh my god, giving a free service and moderating it is absolutely horrible! Donating hours upon hours of free time for the general community!
Get a life you f*cking stupid arsehole!
To Slash-Editors - I'll just assume you'll excuse my french.
I lost quite a few when accidentely deleting the partition they were on :P
At least She's hot :)
And I'm sure that'll comfort the caller immensly on the other side of the line!
When they see the bill for being on the line of tech support getting councilled for an hour after "clearly losing it", they'd definitely crack!
Abuse can be dished out to lines like that very easily, and it's definitely a good idea to have a councellor there in case. It can be important data as well, maybe losing their job for it can make them fall into depression
Also people who have "lost it" generally look to someone to talk to, and maybe a tech support guy can help?
On the whole I can't see any bad coming from it!
lol I remember us buying one of the first CD-Rom's for a computer in Australia. It was a 1X CD-ROM and cost over $1000. It was for a 386.
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Ah old times
Depends, of course, on what definition of Obsolete that you use, and I was exaggerating a tiny bit :P
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None-the-less, that still gets back to what I was arguing in the first place, that people don't like changing things because it's expensive and mostly not worth the bother.
And btw, I really wouldn't mind surround sound music to go with my surround sound system
And no I don't listen to Human Nature either, but that was on a CD for charity where popular bands and artists played something as humanly different to their norm as possible - it was made and promoted by a Rock radio station. here's a promo. I'm a fan of charitable stuff
For your first point go here this is a news article from half way through 2000 for a DVD sized disc that holds 36GB of data - about the time when DVDs became mainstream.
As for the compression, MPEG-2 is 6.25GB/3 hour movie and Div-X is 1.25GB/3 hour movie in same res (if I remember the figures right).
CDs don't have the highest quality of sound, and a surround sound CD would be nice, but it doesn't really make too much of a difference.
On another note, have you heard Human Nature sing ACDC's TNT? Or Legs? Or G&Rs Sweet Child of Mine? It's an experience, look for Musical Challenge.
but I still argue that the only reason that DVD-Rs are high in price is because they aren't mass produced and there are three different formats still.
But again, you have a point.
I live in Australia:
CD: 45c
DVD: $12
You're right with the CD's but not with the DVDs
If you translate that to $US then that's
CD: 25c
DVD: $7
*shrug* you do the maths
People just don't like change! The DVD was obsolete by the time it became main-stream - it doesn't use the best compression methods nor does it have the highest capacity out of all the Compact Discs, but it is mainstream now and it'll take a while for it to budge.
:P
Do you know how much it costs to replace something? Getting rid of something to replace it with something else just isn't within human nature, no matter how much it would help in the long run! What would happen anyway if they did get rid of CDs? They would just put the same amount of songs on a DVD and sell them at a higher price
We're probably better off with them - or is that my human nature talking?
invest in computers in general! Imagine becoming like Bill Gates and getting rich off the things?
Absolute zero is when the movement of atoms stops, and for that to happen it'd have to have no external forces acting on it, which is quite impossible.
:)
I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the very distant future absolute zero would be possible, but definitly not using any sort of current technology.
The fact is that heat is just the vibration of molecules which is another sort of movement (note that to cool something down you don't have to put something cool next to it - there are many other ways to cool something). To keep something totally still you'll need something to keep the thing still - how can you do that with an atom that measures nanometres wide?
The only way I could think of to do this would be to use strong electromagnetic force to keep the atom aligned or something, but then you're adding more energy to it!
One thing to think about: We can't have a static universe philisophically as without any movement then time would be irrelevant