I beg to differ. I bought a DVD player in 1997 and remember it costing about $600 and I didn't buy the top of the line player. It wasn't even a first gen player either because it supported DTS, which none of the first gen players did. It was more like a 1.5 gen.
It says more than no public API. It says no user installed apps period. So it may be possible for some developer somewhere to partner with Apple and write and app that comes installed on new phones or as some sort of flash upgrade from Apple. But I don't see any developer bothering to do that. For all practical purposes you can expect no 3rd party apps.
I'd love to have DLP rear projection. Unfortunately my living room can't handle a TV much larger than 32". I probably could have squeezed in a 37", but the smallest DLP I've seen is 42". At the size I need and LCD was perfect.
Actually you can gamble online for horse racing. Also, the law that really bans internet gambling was the wire act which would technically allow you to set up an online casino in one state and only accept bets from people in that state.
I like deadwood enough, but the one flaw I find is that it is semi-historical. Since I know a bit of the history, the drama isn't as good. Until of course they kill a character who didn't die in real life, then I might change my tune.
The problem with this is that the DVR comcast gives me allows me to record two channels at once. To do the same thing with a 3rd party DVR i'd need to rent two boxes from comcast and have two IR blasters. They've made it just difficult enough for me to just buy their system and be done with it.
Evolution doesn't work that way. First off, human evolution became stalled the moment we started making our environment adapt to us, instead of adapting to it. So saying "humans will evolve into X in Y years" is innacurate - it assumes that we'll start changing to suit the environment we're living in by then, instead of doing the opposite.
There is quite a bit of new research that humans have continued to evolve. This article talks about recent evolution:
Now, a human growing up in a low-g environment might certainly face developmental problems. Ie, you hit growth spurts in puberty and reach a height of 7 feet tall. But that isn't evolution, as there is no genetic componant.
But if the humans who have spurts that that grow them to 7 feet find it easier to live and reproduce on Mars (versus the ones who stop at 6'5"), then that trait will slowly spread throughout the population. For example a child born on earth who stops developing muscle and bone mass at a level far below normal may have trouble leading a life that allows him to reproduce. On mars, he might not even notice he's different because everyone stops developing early. His genes are no longer selected out and a few thousand years later a large percentage of the martian population carries those genes.
You are correct, I probably can't here the difference between a good lame VBR mp3 or high rate ogg versus FLAC. However, I store all my music on my computer as FLAC. I like having a lossless backup. Which means if I want to use a player with no FLAC support, I can either keep 2 copies of every song on my hard drive, or I have to transcode them on the fly before I transfer. Neither of those is a good solution. I'd rather just have the thing play FLAC.
Why would this be anti-competitive? ATI and AMD merge and the new company says they are phasing out their intel chipsets and will now be producing AMD chipsets only. Intel doesn't produce AMD chipsets so why should ATI/AMD make chipsets for Intel? And there are many other places you can go for both a AMD or Intel chipset (SiS, VIA, nVidia, etc). I don't see how there is anything wrong with that plan.
I actually see it as a smart move. I know ALOT of people who don't take AMD seriously because AMD doesn't put out many of their own chipsets. Of course AMD can't put out that many because they want to use their fabs for making as many processors as possible. ATI has the ability to make all the chipsets AMD can use. And know AMD, just like Intel, can offer the one stop solution for chipset/video/cpu.
What kind of lens are you using? The kit lenses that come with the DSLRs are rarely fast enough. They're usually around F4 or F5.6. In low light you can't use a really fast shutter.
Depending on you make of DSLR you should buy a low light portrait lens. Since I have a Pentax, I was able to find a used lens that is compatible. For under $80 I got a F1.7 50mm. For just a little more I could have gotten a F1.4 or F1.2.
a. fast operation. Whatever the operation, I want it to be as fast as it was on the old SLR with 35mm film and a power winder. Snap, snap, snap. No waiting for camera to boot. No waits between pics.
Get a Digital SLR. Mine boots up in less than a second (it's ready to take pictures before you can bring it to your eye). It can easily take 5 pictures at about 3 frames a second, and about 1 more a second after that.
I'm sure someone makes a digital camera with a fixed focal length fixed aperture lens. I'm not sure there is a huge demand for one though. The majority of bad pictures I see people taking are simply because they are asking the camera to do something it can't. Like take a picture of something moving in low light. Or shooting in darkness with no tripod.
The big sensor helps too. I can tell you that my APS size 6MP sensor is going to take better pictures than a fingernail size sensor, even if they used identical optics. Of course I also have the option of using much better optics.
You give the consumers too much credit. They will switch to the cheaper ISP. If they have a choice of course. If I want broadband in Seattle I basically have two choices, Comcast or Qwest. What if they both decide to throttle wikipedia?
Will the average consumer even realize that it is their ISP doing the throttling? They most likely will blame wikipedia.
You don't even need a lot of money to do it. Gang of Four recently recored Return the Gift which is just new recordings of old songs. Because EMI still claims to have not recouped their advances, they knew they'd never see any royalties for re-releases or greatest hits albums, so they made their own.
Rerecording the songs--something that contracts typically allow artists to do after 20 years--puts Gang of Four in a strong bargaining position for negotiating a new deal with superior royalty rates.
Roe v. Wade gives differing legal rights based on the trimester. I cannot, based on this alone, give this the status as good legal thinking. If the human gestation period was a prime number, what would have happened to the legal decision?
You have to be kidding me. If the gestation period was 7 months, they'd just call a trimester 65 days. The gestation period isn't exact so it doesn't really matter. That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever read.
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I beg to differ. I bought a DVD player in 1997 and remember it costing about $600 and I didn't buy the top of the line player. It wasn't even a first gen player either because it supported DTS, which none of the first gen players did. It was more like a 1.5 gen.
It says more than no public API. It says no user installed apps period. So it may be possible for some developer somewhere to partner with Apple and write and app that comes installed on new phones or as some sort of flash upgrade from Apple. But I don't see any developer bothering to do that. For all practical purposes you can expect no 3rd party apps.
apple has confirmed no 3rd party apps
I'd love to have DLP rear projection. Unfortunately my living room can't handle a TV much larger than 32". I probably could have squeezed in a 37", but the smallest DLP I've seen is 42". At the size I need and LCD was perfect.
Actually you can gamble online for horse racing. Also, the law that really bans internet gambling was the wire act which would technically allow you to set up an online casino in one state and only accept bets from people in that state.
My precinct uses the scantron style voting. When you slide in the ballot, it spits it back out if you didn't mark something correctly.
I like deadwood enough, but the one flaw I find is that it is semi-historical. Since I know a bit of the history, the drama isn't as good. Until of course they kill a character who didn't die in real life, then I might change my tune.
The sheild has nothing on The Wire which just might be the best television show of all time.
He means a system like comcast on demand.
The problem with this is that the DVR comcast gives me allows me to record two channels at once. To do the same thing with a 3rd party DVR i'd need to rent two boxes from comcast and have two IR blasters. They've made it just difficult enough for me to just buy their system and be done with it.
Most likely they mean a kid who listens to predominatly indie rock.
Get some old klipsch horns!
Could you be a dear and show me a proton? The electric and physical affect of them is not enough, I need to see one.
There is quite a bit of new research that humans have continued to evolve. This article talks about recent evolution:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/science/07evolv
But if the humans who have spurts that that grow them to 7 feet find it easier to live and reproduce on Mars (versus the ones who stop at 6'5"), then that trait will slowly spread throughout the population. For example a child born on earth who stops developing muscle and bone mass at a level far below normal may have trouble leading a life that allows him to reproduce. On mars, he might not even notice he's different because everyone stops developing early. His genes are no longer selected out and a few thousand years later a large percentage of the martian population carries those genes.
I implemented a command line version of it, not the most effective, but it did work.
You are correct, I probably can't here the difference between a good lame VBR mp3 or high rate ogg versus FLAC. However, I store all my music on my computer as FLAC. I like having a lossless backup. Which means if I want to use a player with no FLAC support, I can either keep 2 copies of every song on my hard drive, or I have to transcode them on the fly before I transfer. Neither of those is a good solution. I'd rather just have the thing play FLAC.
Why would this be anti-competitive? ATI and AMD merge and the new company says they are phasing out their intel chipsets and will now be producing AMD chipsets only. Intel doesn't produce AMD chipsets so why should ATI/AMD make chipsets for Intel? And there are many other places you can go for both a AMD or Intel chipset (SiS, VIA, nVidia, etc). I don't see how there is anything wrong with that plan.
I actually see it as a smart move. I know ALOT of people who don't take AMD seriously because AMD doesn't put out many of their own chipsets. Of course AMD can't put out that many because they want to use their fabs for making as many processors as possible. ATI has the ability to make all the chipsets AMD can use. And know AMD, just like Intel, can offer the one stop solution for chipset/video/cpu.
What kind of lens are you using? The kit lenses that come with the DSLRs are rarely fast enough. They're usually around F4 or F5.6. In low light you can't use a really fast shutter.
Depending on you make of DSLR you should buy a low light portrait lens. Since I have a Pentax, I was able to find a used lens that is compatible. For under $80 I got a F1.7 50mm. For just a little more I could have gotten a F1.4 or F1.2.
a. fast operation. Whatever the operation, I want it to be as fast as it was on the old SLR with 35mm film and a power winder. Snap, snap, snap. No waiting for camera to boot. No waits between pics.
Get a Digital SLR. Mine boots up in less than a second (it's ready to take pictures before you can bring it to your eye). It can easily take 5 pictures at about 3 frames a second, and about 1 more a second after that.
I'm sure someone makes a digital camera with a fixed focal length fixed aperture lens. I'm not sure there is a huge demand for one though. The majority of bad pictures I see people taking are simply because they are asking the camera to do something it can't. Like take a picture of something moving in low light. Or shooting in darkness with no tripod.
The big sensor helps too. I can tell you that my APS size 6MP sensor is going to take better pictures than a fingernail size sensor, even if they used identical optics. Of course I also have the option of using much better optics.
Canon uses CMOS. Pentax, Nikon, KonicaMinolta (now Sony), and Olympus still use CCD.
You are just guessing. Since Qwest owns the physical network, they might impose the same rules on speakeasy.
You give the consumers too much credit. They will switch to the cheaper ISP. If they have a choice of course. If I want broadband in Seattle I basically have two choices, Comcast or Qwest. What if they both decide to throttle wikipedia?
Will the average consumer even realize that it is their ISP doing the throttling? They most likely will blame wikipedia.
Their was a slate article about it that said this:
Roe v. Wade gives differing legal rights based on the trimester. I cannot, based on this alone, give this the status as good legal thinking. If the human gestation period was a prime number, what would have happened to the legal decision?
You have to be kidding me. If the gestation period was 7 months, they'd just call a trimester 65 days. The gestation period isn't exact so it doesn't really matter. That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever read.