If your eyes and ears work and you have a good TV and stereo system, the return on investment is very high, assuming you like movies and TV in the first place. As for your movie collection, which were probably filmed
The maximum resolutions that film currently offers are 2485Ã--2970 or 1420Ã--3390, UHD, a future digital video format, will offer a massive resolution of 7680Ã--4320, surpassing all current film resolutions. The only viable competitor to these new innovations is IMAX which can play film content at an extreme 10000Ã--7000 resolution
All of these are much higher than Blu-Ray's 1920x1080 which they would be down-scaled to when scanned into a digital format.
Audio of course has a nearly infinite resolution, a very large amount of which is tapped by current Dolby Digital and dts technology, but uncompressed PCM in 7+ channels does sound noticeably better.
In the end of course, your enjoyment mileage may vary, but don't go spreading falsehoods about the technology.
In Canada, the courts overrule the government. Its not really relevant, and there are much more pressing issues being dealt with by the government.
I might add, the current Conservative government has gotten more done from their electoral promises list as a minority government than the previous 10+ years of Liberal governments did.
I've been reading books from Project Gutenberg on my original Newton Messagepad for years. Obviously I'm looking for a product to which recent books will be published due to the DRM features but whose DRM understands the legal realities of my rights.
Check your facts. Those numbers are large but not so much compared to their revenue streams.
Microsoft earned a lot of money last year, almost 16 billion in the fourth quarter alone. The 20 billion it has in cash then represents just over one fiscal quarter of revenues.
That's not exactly "weathering a recession" kind of money.
... unfortunately, one of the service reps I dealt with actually had the gonads to tell me to switch carriers. I asked for a manager. I got the deal I wanted.
I knew full well they were treating me poorly, and I also knew that talking to people higher up the pay scale often fixes that problem.
I'd be willing to argue that phone companies should be allowed to sell phones at retail but never as a lock-in or service-assisted purchase. They can even lease me the phone as an additional fee on my service contract if they want, that's fine. I'd have no problem with that. Its the fact that I am almost forced to purchase a phone with an attached contract that bothers me.
I'm waiting for "Books sold on this product will never again need to be checked for authenticity and can be ported to any future Kindle device you purchase, and if we ever go under or cancel this offer, we will give you the book in PDF format for free."
Bad question -- Prius purchasers are almost implicitly looking to save on and minimize gas usage.
What if you could buy a Corvette for just $10,000 but had to gas it up at GM dealerships for twice the price per litre? I bet a number of people would go for that option. Those same people would want the new Corvette model next year when it comes out too.
There are several companies I can think of with lower profit margins than this. Oil and gas retailers come to mind, with profit margins well under 5% most of the year, but often healthy profits due to huge volume.
What kills me is that people still get into these plans willingly. Its been years since most of them started doing the cell phone game, and they should know better by now. I looked at the three year plan one cell company wanted me to enter into years ago and decided to buy the phone for full price instead.
Of course, our short attention spans allow us to both sign a two year contract and expect a new phone the next year on that same plan, and be confused why we have to pay more when the phone is worth what they're charging for it.
Its not like they're selling you a $200 iPhone for $400. They're selling you a $400 iPhone for $400, with a discount for signing a NEW contract. Jeez.
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If your eyes and ears work and you have a good TV and stereo system, the return on investment is very high, assuming you like movies and TV in the first place. As for your movie collection, which were probably filmed
All of these are much higher than Blu-Ray's 1920x1080 which they would be down-scaled to when scanned into a digital format.
Audio of course has a nearly infinite resolution, a very large amount of which is tapped by current Dolby Digital and dts technology, but uncompressed PCM in 7+ channels does sound noticeably better.
In the end of course, your enjoyment mileage may vary, but don't go spreading falsehoods about the technology.
It comes with Bluetooth access -- the one feature I've wanted on my PSP that it doesn't have. Not worth $50 but still a feature.
The Go does not replace the traditional PSP at all. Sony has said this repeatedly, it is for people who don't want the UMD support.
In Canada, the courts overrule the government. Its not really relevant, and there are much more pressing issues being dealt with by the government.
I might add, the current Conservative government has gotten more done from their electoral promises list as a minority government than the previous 10+ years of Liberal governments did.
You really don't understand what the difference between Canadian and American conservatism is obviously.
I've been reading books from Project Gutenberg on my original Newton Messagepad for years. Obviously I'm looking for a product to which recent books will be published due to the DRM features but whose DRM understands the legal realities of my rights.
Yes, I understand that perfectly. I've been running RH based machines since 1996. May I rephrase my original as
For better hardware support of course.
The version of the kernel running on CentOS is practically ancient at any given point more than six months after release.
But you do have to have a good comprehension of the language in which the humour is communicated or it will be lost on you.
There seems to be a direct correlation between the ability to spell, and whether that same person has something to say worth paying attention to.
Personally, I'm still waiting for a version of Windows that supports multiple IP addresses per network device like Linux does.
I'm still working out how 'requires open source' is an implicit evil.
Nobody said any such thing.
Your reading comprehension may be a little off, but I'm sure you're smart in your own way too.
Check your facts. Those numbers are large but not so much compared to their revenue streams.
Microsoft earned a lot of money last year, almost 16 billion in the fourth quarter alone. The 20 billion it has in cash then represents just over one fiscal quarter of revenues.
That's not exactly "weathering a recession" kind of money.
IIRC its in a museum as his death caused the first "white man" graveyard to be built on Manitoulin Island.
And that's exactly why those of us who wait and buy our phones a year later enjoy the process so much.
... unfortunately, one of the service reps I dealt with actually had the gonads to tell me to switch carriers. I asked for a manager. I got the deal I wanted.
I knew full well they were treating me poorly, and I also knew that talking to people higher up the pay scale often fixes that problem.
I'd be willing to argue that phone companies should be allowed to sell phones at retail but never as a lock-in or service-assisted purchase. They can even lease me the phone as an additional fee on my service contract if they want, that's fine. I'd have no problem with that. Its the fact that I am almost forced to purchase a phone with an attached contract that bothers me.
Blasphemy!
I'm waiting for "Books sold on this product will never again need to be checked for authenticity and can be ported to any future Kindle device you purchase, and if we ever go under or cancel this offer, we will give you the book in PDF format for free."
That is to say, I'm probably never buying one.
If they were just fanboys, they'd pay full price and buy the stupid phone.
They're crybabies because they're unwilling to accept reality and want a deal.
Bad question -- Prius purchasers are almost implicitly looking to save on and minimize gas usage.
What if you could buy a Corvette for just $10,000 but had to gas it up at GM dealerships for twice the price per litre? I bet a number of people would go for that option. Those same people would want the new Corvette model next year when it comes out too.
They spend it on purpose to avoid being taxed on it. Welcome to tax avoidance and why nobody has cash on hand to recover in economic down-turns.
There are several companies I can think of with lower profit margins than this. Oil and gas retailers come to mind, with profit margins well under 5% most of the year, but often healthy profits due to huge volume.
Volume makes all the difference.
What kills me is that people still get into these plans willingly. Its been years since most of them started doing the cell phone game, and they should know better by now. I looked at the three year plan one cell company wanted me to enter into years ago and decided to buy the phone for full price instead.
Of course, our short attention spans allow us to both sign a two year contract and expect a new phone the next year on that same plan, and be confused why we have to pay more when the phone is worth what they're charging for it.
Its not like they're selling you a $200 iPhone for $400. They're selling you a $400 iPhone for $400, with a discount for signing a NEW contract. Jeez.
And since they can sell off the old iPhone on Ebay to unlockers to partly make up the difference, why the whining?