Something no one else has mentioned is what better uses could have been made out of this funding. You see, most of this camera network is fiber optic and some of it is wireless. Why spend $3mil putting in 160 cameras when we could have used this fiber optic/ wireless network to provide high speed internet to the whole city?! THAT would have been a much better investment, but I'm sure Comcast would have had a temper tantrum.
I must disagree. first of all, the difference in video quality between dvd and bluray is very significant. consider:
DVD = 640x480 pixels = 307,200 total pixels
Bluray = 1920x1080 pixels = 2,073,600 total pixels
this means that bluray has roughly 6.5x the resolution of dvd. Whether you _need_ this many pixels is up to you.
Also, something that a lot of people don't seem to consider is that this format war was about more than just movies. As you can see with dvd and cd, optical disks are used for more than just movies and the same is true of bluray. once prices go down, bluray burners will become a default part of computers. As far as I know, you can back up data on them. So, aren't you glad that bluray won since its maximum capacity is 50gb vs the 30gb capacity of hd-dvd? i heard that it would be possible to make bluray disks that hold 200gb, which is even better. If they start making 200gb bluray blank media, you might be able to back up your entire pr0n collection to one disk!
like my dad used to tell me, "Think before you speak!"
I find this thought interesting because it is similar to an analogy I came up with recently. Rather than thinking of dark matter as unrendered parts of a scene, think of it like this: If the physical world were to be equated to an LCD monitor, then dark matter would be the electrical charges symbolizing bits of data coursing through the cpu and circuitry. Hence, the physical world is only a window into the underlying "dark matter program". Or, in a similar analogy, the physical world would be equated to the light coming out of the LCD display and dark matter is equated to the physical components of the LCD. you may call me crazy now, but I have a hunch that someday my analogy will be shown to be at least somewhat accurate.
it appears that 'mandatory managed copy' will still allow content producers to limit what consumers can do with the content and equipment they own well beyond the limitations imposed by copyright law. Thus the question over DRM remains: should we be policed by our own property?"
/.ers seem to think that media/drm is the only thing that "controls" what we can do with the product we "own". Microwaves don't work with the door open, some copiers wont copy money, and nail guns dont fire unless they are pressed firmly against something. Although you may think of these as "safety" issues, the idea is the same in that the product governs what we can do with it. The people promoting drm arent doing it to take away our freedom, but because they believe it is a type of "safety" featue or something.
Although I understand why DRM is supposed to be good, I disagree with it too. Primarily because it unnecesarily cripples functionality for honest users. Those who want to "steal" will continue to "steal". it only takes 1 person to crack a disc and put it on the internet for the rest.
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doesnt the government realize that by prohibiting pot, peoples money go to shady and possibly "terroristic" people, but if they legalized it (and possibly taxed it) the money would go to help the economy and help pay for bushs trillion dollar debt? this is why i dont bother with politics; they are retarded!
if you get a good dl rate like 120k/s it'll take about 2 hours, but due to the nature of p2p apps it may take overnight or a whole day. atleast, thats my experience.
amen! why pay for gas either? the prices are heinous! just drive off after pumping. And what about food? Why dont we just get it for free by leaving before they give the check? What has this world come to? what has happened to our god given right to free stuff that others work hard to make?
yeah, but you see, games already get pirated no matter what. just because the source is out, i highly doubt more people would pirate the game. besides, atleast half of gamers (my estimate) are either rich enough to not care about spending the money, or not computer literate enought to pirate stuff. so i can only see good coming from it if valve open sources.
this is certianly incredible, but it is not yet available for x86 platforms. Do note, that this is not the boot sequence up till you get the login prompt, but just the initial loading of the kernel.
I dont get it. whenever a company (i.e. warner bros) releases a video/trailer in qt, we all complain since its a proprietary format, and then some1 points out mplayer can play it. Now, when a community-based thing releases a video in almost every format BUT quicktime, we get pissed. I guess thats just slashdot...
those are measured in *bits, not by bytes. this is another marketing scheme that i hate, because it uses a different measurement scheme for network data transfer than actual data measurements.
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Something no one else has mentioned is what better uses could have been made out of this funding. You see, most of this camera network is fiber optic and some of it is wireless. Why spend $3mil putting in 160 cameras when we could have used this fiber optic/ wireless network to provide high speed internet to the whole city?! THAT would have been a much better investment, but I'm sure Comcast would have had a temper tantrum.
I must disagree. first of all, the difference in video quality between dvd and bluray is very significant. consider: DVD = 640x480 pixels = 307,200 total pixels Bluray = 1920x1080 pixels = 2,073,600 total pixels this means that bluray has roughly 6.5x the resolution of dvd. Whether you _need_ this many pixels is up to you. Also, something that a lot of people don't seem to consider is that this format war was about more than just movies. As you can see with dvd and cd, optical disks are used for more than just movies and the same is true of bluray. once prices go down, bluray burners will become a default part of computers. As far as I know, you can back up data on them. So, aren't you glad that bluray won since its maximum capacity is 50gb vs the 30gb capacity of hd-dvd? i heard that it would be possible to make bluray disks that hold 200gb, which is even better. If they start making 200gb bluray blank media, you might be able to back up your entire pr0n collection to one disk! like my dad used to tell me, "Think before you speak!"
I find this thought interesting because it is similar to an analogy I came up with recently. Rather than thinking of dark matter as unrendered parts of a scene, think of it like this: If the physical world were to be equated to an LCD monitor, then dark matter would be the electrical charges symbolizing bits of data coursing through the cpu and circuitry. Hence, the physical world is only a window into the underlying "dark matter program". Or, in a similar analogy, the physical world would be equated to the light coming out of the LCD display and dark matter is equated to the physical components of the LCD. you may call me crazy now, but I have a hunch that someday my analogy will be shown to be at least somewhat accurate.
Although I understand why DRM is supposed to be good, I disagree with it too. Primarily because it unnecesarily cripples functionality for honest users. Those who want to "steal" will continue to "steal". it only takes 1 person to crack a disc and put it on the internet for the rest.
doesnt the government realize that by prohibiting pot, peoples money go to shady and possibly "terroristic" people, but if they legalized it (and possibly taxed it) the money would go to help the economy and help pay for bushs trillion dollar debt? this is why i dont bother with politics; they are retarded!
are you fucking kidding me? Dont knights have to be able to use a sword, wear armor, and ride a horse?
how could you forget the most important thing to americas teenage drivers?
it looks nice but why would they use kde toolbar icons if they're porting it to OSX?
if you get a good dl rate like 120k/s it'll take about 2 hours, but due to the nature of p2p apps it may take overnight or a whole day. atleast, thats my experience.
amen! why pay for gas either? the prices are heinous! just drive off after pumping. And what about food? Why dont we just get it for free by leaving before they give the check? What has this world come to? what has happened to our god given right to free stuff that others work hard to make?
they probably just couldnt afford spending ~70$ for a copy of staroffice to install on the demo-ing computer.
im sure the clerk payed the man to take it.
of course! that is one thing we will always be looking forward to!
Yesterday I had my tech guy come to the house and disconnect my Sun network, and tomorrow I'm having them shut down my company e-mail account.
you would think that a man of his position and career would know how to do such simple things. maybe it's a good thing he's leaving sun after all.
yeah, but you see, games already get pirated no matter what. just because the source is out, i highly doubt more people would pirate the game. besides, atleast half of gamers (my estimate) are either rich enough to not care about spending the money, or not computer literate enought to pirate stuff. so i can only see good coming from it if valve open sources.
according to the article, the developments that this is about are stated as having not been ported to x86 yet. RTFM
the greek word that "apocalypse" came from actually means "to reveal something that was hidden", not destruction or such.
this is certianly incredible, but it is not yet available for x86 platforms. Do note, that this is not the boot sequence up till you get the login prompt, but just the initial loading of the kernel.
I dont get it. whenever a company (i.e. warner bros) releases a video/trailer in qt, we all complain since its a proprietary format, and then some1 points out mplayer can play it. Now, when a community-based thing releases a video in almost every format BUT quicktime, we get pissed. I guess thats just slashdot...
those are measured in *bits, not by bytes. this is another marketing scheme that i hate, because it uses a different measurement scheme for network data transfer than actual data measurements.
in other news, the egg comes before the chicken.
im not sure id like finguring, holding, and poking tux like that. that is, unless he giggles like the Tickle-Me-Elmo.
by doom 4 you mean Bob, right?
yes, i love it when, rather than entering their hands, it stays in mine.
well, he didnt make instant booting, but Be almost did. ~20 seconds max to boot beos is close enough to instant for me.