I'm using whatever xfce4 defaults to as the box has plenty of horsepower, but I agree, I don't much care for tabs either. I have a fairly high-res screen at work (1920x1200 if memory serves) and I've got four 132x44 terminals roughly each taking a quarter of the screen, sometimes sets on each of the four workspaces depending on what I'm doing.
I've started using Terminator when I'm doing bulk stuff on serial equipment. I can send the same keystrokes to eight vtys at the same time and it has the ability to send terminal window number to the console, which works well when I'm putting temporary IP addresses on a bunch of switches and I don't want to accidentally reuse the same IP. I typically do eight terminals in that configuration, works well.
I've played with both cygwin and mobaxterm on my Windows box, I don't have much of a preference. I typically use the Apple-supplied terminal on the MacOSX box, mainly because I'm lazy. I don't like how Apple task-switches though.
Basically what I take away from this is that the cars are not ready for prime-time if they're limited to NEV speeds and have been mostly used in suburban neighborhoods.
I actually want autonomous vehicles. I want them to be capable of driving entirely without occupant involvement beyond stating a destination. I do want honest disclosure of how development is going though, and most of the discussion to this point has made it sound like they were further along and further tested than this article describes.
Haven't tried. I use Linux on my Alienware at my desk but with work's use of AD I can't easily travel with Linux, and throwing the tablet convertible nature on I don't think it's worth trying. If I had a pure laptop I might give it a shot.
I have put cygwin tools on. I do wish I could go all-Linux but at the moment it's not in the cards.
If I never wanted any tablet functionality I'd probably go with a Thinkpad Carbon X1. Much larger screen relative to the bezel, plus as a more conventional laptop I could probably run Linux on it, or at least downgrade to Windows 7 and not have to use Metro...
Yeah, the older Alienware M17xR2 that I'm using as a desktop computer at work (we had it laying around, may as well do something practical with it) has a 16:10 screen, and I've found that I like that resolution better than 16:9 if only because dual-page PDFs fit really nicely on it.
Probably because Bluetooth has a wide install base. USB was slow to take-off too, I remember working on PCs in the 1990s that had it and we referred to it as "UnSupported Bus". Now nearly all external peripherals are USB. Bluetooth was originally for very specific things (like how USB was pretty much limited to keyboards and mice) but has grown in its popularity.
I would not be surprised if future Bluetooth standards attempt to challenge 802.11 for local wireless in commercial settings where there's one AP installed in every space. If Bluetooth doesn't pass through walls much then it would allow for greater density of access points in a campus environment where they interfere with each other less, assuming that they can get the clients to work well with such tight density. It might be an end-all solution, but for classrooms it could be gold.
Private-prison towns would have a real problem, even if in-prison felons were required to vote-absentee, assuming that they would be allowed to register based on their current residence (ie, the prison).
Everyone should have the right to vote, and individual pockets of abhorrent behavior are exceedingly unlikely to override a fairly reasonable silent majority. Besides, if a local pocket of abhorrent behavior does manage to make law or repeal law to enable conditions that shouldn't be tolerated, a state or federal law could just as easily cover the jurisdiction if needed, and the concept of nullification was destroyed by the civil war.
We noticed in the stores that the Thinkpad Yoga was less encumbered with garbage software than the mainstream, non-Thinkpad Yoga series. We also bought this one at the Microsoft Store; both it and the X301 came from there and both were better deals than online or at other retailers at the time. I wonder if Microsoft had some say in what was installed on them, to reduce the amount of Lenovo garbage compared to being sourced elsewhere.
Got a citation for the claim that felons voting to legalize their crimes was a problem in the past?
Because the way I see it, if there is such a broad danger that a crime won't be a crime if there are enough criminals to support removing it from law, then perhaps it shouldn't be a crime.
Or putting it another way, if criminals can form enough of a voting bloc to where they make for a significant impact on politics, then perhaps we have made crimes of too many behaviors.
I suppose I should add, no integrated Ethernet port, and only two serial ports, so I have to use dongles off of the two USB ports for both, leaving none available. I've got one of those flexible Microsoft mice that use Bluetooth so it's not so bad, but it was a much bigger pain in the butt than it should have been to find a Bluetooth mouse. Too many vendors are still trying to get consumers to use their USB dongle. I'm looking at you, Logitech...
The BIOS supports swapping Ctrl and Fn key duties, which I have done for my work i5. The screen tends to leave artifacting on the i5 model that we don't see on the i7 model, there was some Wacom-based feature available for the i7 version that I don't think the i5 version is equipped with. We use the SD slot for a 256GB card for media. The lack of 3G/4G was mildly offputting, given that the Helix models have it available; it would have been nice for her to have been able to use cellular when she couldn't use anything else but that SD slot helped account for it a bit.
Screen is slightly too small relative to the bezel that it's mounted into, reminiscent of older laptops. It also has some of the downsides of tablets in that the memory is soldered-on rather than modular so upgrading the memory is not possible, which dictated choice of model; we bought the one with the most RAM in the product line. The positioning of the keyboard and the touchpad is not quite as good as it was on the X301 either and the Microsoft-equivalent of Multitouch is a bit awkward for right-clicking with just the touchpad. When using as a tablet the calibration can get off, and the stylus requires an unnaturally high lift off the screen to distinguish between writing and not, and reacts slowly to the change, so the software might not interpret lifting one's pen and leave extraneous lines.
If I had to buy one right now I'd look at either the 14" version or else whatever in the Thinkpad line is available. We briefly considered the Helix, where the whole computer is built into the part with the screen and the keyboard section only internally provides more battery and some pass-through ports, but the breakage rate seen at the repair depot is far too high for a computer to be used in travel. We also looked at the downright-cheap offerings from Dell and Asus, but we like replacing technology like this on a five-plus year plan, rather than on a two-plus year plan like the cheap devices would probably need.
Work issued to me a Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen, i5, 4GB RAM. It works so well that when my wife needed a new computer to replace the old Thinkpad X301 she bought the i7 version with 8GB RAM. It's running Windows 8.1 and we currently have no desire to change that.
Cook is right, it is neither a perfect laptop nor a perfect tablet, but when she was traveling and going to be gone for about three weeks for a family emergency without reliable Internet access it made for an excellent platform on which to watch movies and TV shows, a good book reader, a good casual simple game computer (ie, emulated card and tile games), and a good computer on which to take notes. It also allowed her to do some work when she could occasionally get Internet access as it ran full versions of productivity programs.
If I want a toy I'll buy something that's only a tablet. If I want a computer to do work on then at a minimum I want something that runs a conventional computer operating system.
Just to hazard a guess, but in the same way there are very expensive, exclusive spas, country clubs, resorts, and the like, there are undoubtedly expensive and private heath clubs, sanitariums, and other facilities available to the wealthy outside of the normal everyman system.
My point is that you're making an assertion without supporting it. In my experience, people screw-off and are just as inefficient in the private sector as they are in the public sector, or if they're seemingly more productive in the private sector then the hours they work and sacrifices in their personal lives often explain the extra productivity and the sometimes-extra salary.
Meanwhile government bureaucracies don't have these mechanisms. For example, in a lot of the US agencies, an employee who keeps their head down and doesn't rock the boat probably will have a job for many decades even if they aren't particularly competent at it even if their department is a negative sum money sink. This tends to create a huge risk adverse culture which seeks to avoid things that get one fired, but not have much else for ambitions.
So, which agency did you work for, where you have such extensive first-hand experience knowing how government agencies work?
NASA took huge risks during the sixties. They strapped men into tiny capsules atop repurposed intercontinental ballistic missiles and shot them into space, after they subjected men to experiments in g-force, vacuum, microgravity, rapid acceleration, rapid deceleration, and all sorts of other things. Apollo astronauts could not even qualify for life insurance, this stuff was so risky. Three astronauts died on the ground in what was retroactively named Apollo I in their honor.
NASA was engaged in an arms race. It was a form of war preparation. Arms races will always compel nations to take risks. That's why the current X-prizes, while cool and valuable, do not compare. The sixties saw a push to achieve space no matter what the cost as it was perceived that our survival was dependent on it. Now, it's a matter of cost. We're trying to bring down the cost to achieve what we already achieved expensively.
I think it's good for photography students to learn film, because film is less forgiving and they're actually learning how exposure time and the light-gathering characteristics of the lens work. But, once the basic principles are fully understood there's little reason to remain on film. There certainly isn't a reason to manually develop one's own film anymore even if one still develops one's own prints, even for students, unless they're really want to be anachronistic.
There never will be an ideal. That's why it's an ideal, it's a fictional asymptote that never be reached.
This is why I am in favor of single-payer. Remove the concept of insurance altogether, it isn't insurance that people need, it's the ability to go to the damn doctor or hospital. Worried about fraud? The current system already has loads of fraud in the form of the screwed-up billing, fraud against the patient. Make fraud by the billing-entity (ie, the clinic or doctor) a federal crime.
With medical care decoupled from the workplace, employers would have less incentive to restrict employee hours to the numbers needed to legally be part-time. More people that struggle to find full-time work could actually work full time in jobs that of-late have been part-time, like retail. It still has its downsides but if employees now can actually afford to make rent by working one job then quality of life is much improved.
InfoSec Institute has assessed the security posture of 16 of the presidential candidates' websites. This is an indicator of the level of security awareness the candidate and the campaign staff has.
This assertion is false. First, the candidate has other things to be concerned about. His IT staff, who will probably not follow him to the political office if he's elected given the nature of government bureaucracy, handle it. Second, a web site is a glorified poster and graffiti wall. It's there for John Q Public. Media organizations are provided with itineraries and possibly with the contents of speeches and other material directly, they do not have to go to the candidate's website. Third, any maliciousness done to the candidate only serves to strengthen the candidate, as those who were already in-favor of the candidate will not lessen their opinions based on a website hack, and those who were undecided may sympathize with the candidate after such an attack. Fourth, given the propensity for semianonymous abuse of comments sections, the candidate's staff already have to peruse comments to moderate/censor, so long-term abuse that could paint a candidate as something that they don't want to be is unlikely.
If you want to know how a candidate handles security, follow how they handle money, and how quickly they return contributions that come from undesirable sources, or how they handle public appearances and interaction with specific persons. At this early stage that's probably more of a tell than any website.
I suspect the biggest danger for media that won't read is the magnetic media coming into incidental contact with magnets, especially if one has moved residences throughout the years and possibly ended up piling old stuff into boxes to move it.
As for the media itself, we tolerated a lot of picture and sound problems back when that was the only option available. We had reduced horizontal resolution compared to broadcast TV, poor sound, and often there were tracking issues such that the top or bottom of the image would be oddly distorted to one side or the other. We even had crappy on-screen displays that would end up recorded on to the media at times. It was even worse if the antenna or signal was poor when home-recording.
I got into SuperVHS for home recording; it was SO much better, basically looked as good as my Laserdiscs did. The Laserdiscs looked basically as good as early DVD and in some specific cases better (Highlander 20th Anniversary comes to mind, terrible digital artifacting on the DVD), it wasn't until widescreen-native televisions that DVD really pulled away from Laserdisc, and obviously the quality on Blu-Ray is significantly better.
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time. I can understand why too, they look like arrows, and normally we associate the arrow as pointing to the thing that we are attempting to focus on. They also look a bit funnel-like, almost like they're representing how the thing on the open-side is a component of the thing on the pointed-side.
That's before getting into the use of those characters, along with other bracketing characters, in other uses in software. Depending on the language one could use squiggly-braces, brackets, parentheses, or these characters. Even in languages like C++ and in Bash they're used to direct, taking a thing and inserting it into another thing.
There were some digital replacement backs for film cameras, but when it comes down to it that means spending a fairly large amount of money on a used, possibly worn camera. For professionals, they're probably going to want the newer camera body so long as it takes their existing inventory of lenses, because they wear-out cameras through use anyway. That leaves the replacement-back for consumers, and there's probably not enough demand.
If I understand correctly, it's a lot more common on medium-format cameras or other cameras, where spending five figures for the new back is justified.
As for the digital interface for tapes/video cams, I suspect that for the business, once the equipment is sufficiently depreciated they'll just buy new. They already have to contend with 1080, and at the rate they're going they'll have to consider 1080's successor. Plus they can still record over existing tapes for some time, and if they think they'll need tapes, put in a big final order now that the end-date has been announced.
We have VHS tapes that still work 20+ years later.
While I don't dispute the potential for degradation, I suspect people are comparing the quality at the time of recording with the quality of modern recordings, and claiming degradation when in fact the differences are more attributable to the initial quality.
Wait! Let me get this straight. If you own a 250 gram toy drone you need to register it because it could be dangerous?
But if you own an assault rifle with 100 round magazine you don't need to register it. Yes, only in America.
False equivalency. Besides, many argue for even stronger regulations on firearms, they simply are not able to bring those arguments to fruition.
RC aircraft are being regulated because of the abuses that have been carried out through the operation of RC aircraft. The desire to regulate firearms comes from the abuses that have been carried out through the operation of firearms. They do not compare, they are each their own specific situation, with only one well known example of overlap.
I suspect that landlord/tenant laws (or their enforcement) changed over time and made boarding houses harder to operate; if it's hard to evict a bad tenant when living conditions are that tight/overlapping then the whole model comes crashing down.
This isn't to say that I want a model that allows for incredibly easy eviction without much in the way of notice, but without some means to prevent problems from festering I don't see how this could really work well.
How do hotels do it? How about "extended stay" hotels where one arguably does establish residency?
"Betamax" probably encompasses more than simply the end-consumer tape. "SuperBeta" is a common commercial standard, much in the same way that "SuperVHS" was a common commercial standard, used by TV news and local-station production for decent quality for quick-turnaround broadcasting. It was essentially broadcast quality in an era of NTSC televisions, the tapes were durable and cheap, and just about all of the field cameras used for on-the-spot reporting supported them. Hell, even the vans they would use for remotes had their own mini editing studio with three or five decks, most for playback, one for recording to edit the clips together.
For this application the tapes were fine. When you're going to use less than five minutes of footage the tape length is not terribly critical, the smaller-than-VHS and smaller-than-three-quarter form factor meant that less camera by volume was necessary, and the quality was more than adequate at the time. I expect this kind of setup is still used, even if it is being replaced by higher def cameras and digital storage, that kind of changeout is expensive and again, for local news or local time-filler programming isn't really all that necessary.
The end of sale of the tapes probably comes as the market has finally shifted over, there are now more solid-state video cameras than tape video cameras, and the market finally doesn't want tapes in enough quantity to justify production.
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I'm using whatever xfce4 defaults to as the box has plenty of horsepower, but I agree, I don't much care for tabs either. I have a fairly high-res screen at work (1920x1200 if memory serves) and I've got four 132x44 terminals roughly each taking a quarter of the screen, sometimes sets on each of the four workspaces depending on what I'm doing.
I've started using Terminator when I'm doing bulk stuff on serial equipment. I can send the same keystrokes to eight vtys at the same time and it has the ability to send terminal window number to the console, which works well when I'm putting temporary IP addresses on a bunch of switches and I don't want to accidentally reuse the same IP. I typically do eight terminals in that configuration, works well.
I've played with both cygwin and mobaxterm on my Windows box, I don't have much of a preference. I typically use the Apple-supplied terminal on the MacOSX box, mainly because I'm lazy. I don't like how Apple task-switches though.
Basically what I take away from this is that the cars are not ready for prime-time if they're limited to NEV speeds and have been mostly used in suburban neighborhoods.
I actually want autonomous vehicles. I want them to be capable of driving entirely without occupant involvement beyond stating a destination. I do want honest disclosure of how development is going though, and most of the discussion to this point has made it sound like they were further along and further tested than this article describes.
Haven't tried. I use Linux on my Alienware at my desk but with work's use of AD I can't easily travel with Linux, and throwing the tablet convertible nature on I don't think it's worth trying. If I had a pure laptop I might give it a shot.
I have put cygwin tools on. I do wish I could go all-Linux but at the moment it's not in the cards.
If I never wanted any tablet functionality I'd probably go with a Thinkpad Carbon X1. Much larger screen relative to the bezel, plus as a more conventional laptop I could probably run Linux on it, or at least downgrade to Windows 7 and not have to use Metro...
Yeah, the older Alienware M17xR2 that I'm using as a desktop computer at work (we had it laying around, may as well do something practical with it) has a 16:10 screen, and I've found that I like that resolution better than 16:9 if only because dual-page PDFs fit really nicely on it.
Probably because Bluetooth has a wide install base. USB was slow to take-off too, I remember working on PCs in the 1990s that had it and we referred to it as "UnSupported Bus". Now nearly all external peripherals are USB. Bluetooth was originally for very specific things (like how USB was pretty much limited to keyboards and mice) but has grown in its popularity.
I would not be surprised if future Bluetooth standards attempt to challenge 802.11 for local wireless in commercial settings where there's one AP installed in every space. If Bluetooth doesn't pass through walls much then it would allow for greater density of access points in a campus environment where they interfere with each other less, assuming that they can get the clients to work well with such tight density. It might be an end-all solution, but for classrooms it could be gold.
Private-prison towns would have a real problem, even if in-prison felons were required to vote-absentee, assuming that they would be allowed to register based on their current residence (ie, the prison).
Everyone should have the right to vote, and individual pockets of abhorrent behavior are exceedingly unlikely to override a fairly reasonable silent majority. Besides, if a local pocket of abhorrent behavior does manage to make law or repeal law to enable conditions that shouldn't be tolerated, a state or federal law could just as easily cover the jurisdiction if needed, and the concept of nullification was destroyed by the civil war.
We noticed in the stores that the Thinkpad Yoga was less encumbered with garbage software than the mainstream, non-Thinkpad Yoga series. We also bought this one at the Microsoft Store; both it and the X301 came from there and both were better deals than online or at other retailers at the time. I wonder if Microsoft had some say in what was installed on them, to reduce the amount of Lenovo garbage compared to being sourced elsewhere.
Got a citation for the claim that felons voting to legalize their crimes was a problem in the past?
Because the way I see it, if there is such a broad danger that a crime won't be a crime if there are enough criminals to support removing it from law, then perhaps it shouldn't be a crime.
Or putting it another way, if criminals can form enough of a voting bloc to where they make for a significant impact on politics, then perhaps we have made crimes of too many behaviors.
I suppose I should add, no integrated Ethernet port, and only two serial ports, so I have to use dongles off of the two USB ports for both, leaving none available. I've got one of those flexible Microsoft mice that use Bluetooth so it's not so bad, but it was a much bigger pain in the butt than it should have been to find a Bluetooth mouse. Too many vendors are still trying to get consumers to use their USB dongle. I'm looking at you, Logitech...
The BIOS supports swapping Ctrl and Fn key duties, which I have done for my work i5. The screen tends to leave artifacting on the i5 model that we don't see on the i7 model, there was some Wacom-based feature available for the i7 version that I don't think the i5 version is equipped with. We use the SD slot for a 256GB card for media. The lack of 3G/4G was mildly offputting, given that the Helix models have it available; it would have been nice for her to have been able to use cellular when she couldn't use anything else but that SD slot helped account for it a bit.
Screen is slightly too small relative to the bezel that it's mounted into, reminiscent of older laptops. It also has some of the downsides of tablets in that the memory is soldered-on rather than modular so upgrading the memory is not possible, which dictated choice of model; we bought the one with the most RAM in the product line. The positioning of the keyboard and the touchpad is not quite as good as it was on the X301 either and the Microsoft-equivalent of Multitouch is a bit awkward for right-clicking with just the touchpad. When using as a tablet the calibration can get off, and the stylus requires an unnaturally high lift off the screen to distinguish between writing and not, and reacts slowly to the change, so the software might not interpret lifting one's pen and leave extraneous lines.
If I had to buy one right now I'd look at either the 14" version or else whatever in the Thinkpad line is available. We briefly considered the Helix, where the whole computer is built into the part with the screen and the keyboard section only internally provides more battery and some pass-through ports, but the breakage rate seen at the repair depot is far too high for a computer to be used in travel. We also looked at the downright-cheap offerings from Dell and Asus, but we like replacing technology like this on a five-plus year plan, rather than on a two-plus year plan like the cheap devices would probably need.
Work issued to me a Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen, i5, 4GB RAM. It works so well that when my wife needed a new computer to replace the old Thinkpad X301 she bought the i7 version with 8GB RAM. It's running Windows 8.1 and we currently have no desire to change that.
Cook is right, it is neither a perfect laptop nor a perfect tablet, but when she was traveling and going to be gone for about three weeks for a family emergency without reliable Internet access it made for an excellent platform on which to watch movies and TV shows, a good book reader, a good casual simple game computer (ie, emulated card and tile games), and a good computer on which to take notes. It also allowed her to do some work when she could occasionally get Internet access as it ran full versions of productivity programs.
If I want a toy I'll buy something that's only a tablet. If I want a computer to do work on then at a minimum I want something that runs a conventional computer operating system.
Just to hazard a guess, but in the same way there are very expensive, exclusive spas, country clubs, resorts, and the like, there are undoubtedly expensive and private heath clubs, sanitariums, and other facilities available to the wealthy outside of the normal everyman system.
My point is that you're making an assertion without supporting it. In my experience, people screw-off and are just as inefficient in the private sector as they are in the public sector, or if they're seemingly more productive in the private sector then the hours they work and sacrifices in their personal lives often explain the extra productivity and the sometimes-extra salary.
Meanwhile government bureaucracies don't have these mechanisms. For example, in a lot of the US agencies, an employee who keeps their head down and doesn't rock the boat probably will have a job for many decades even if they aren't particularly competent at it even if their department is a negative sum money sink. This tends to create a huge risk adverse culture which seeks to avoid things that get one fired, but not have much else for ambitions.
So, which agency did you work for, where you have such extensive first-hand experience knowing how government agencies work?
NASA took huge risks during the sixties. They strapped men into tiny capsules atop repurposed intercontinental ballistic missiles and shot them into space, after they subjected men to experiments in g-force, vacuum, microgravity, rapid acceleration, rapid deceleration, and all sorts of other things. Apollo astronauts could not even qualify for life insurance, this stuff was so risky. Three astronauts died on the ground in what was retroactively named Apollo I in their honor.
NASA was engaged in an arms race. It was a form of war preparation. Arms races will always compel nations to take risks. That's why the current X-prizes, while cool and valuable, do not compare. The sixties saw a push to achieve space no matter what the cost as it was perceived that our survival was dependent on it. Now, it's a matter of cost. We're trying to bring down the cost to achieve what we already achieved expensively.
I think it's good for photography students to learn film, because film is less forgiving and they're actually learning how exposure time and the light-gathering characteristics of the lens work. But, once the basic principles are fully understood there's little reason to remain on film. There certainly isn't a reason to manually develop one's own film anymore even if one still develops one's own prints, even for students, unless they're really want to be anachronistic.
There never will be an ideal. That's why it's an ideal, it's a fictional asymptote that never be reached.
This is why I am in favor of single-payer. Remove the concept of insurance altogether, it isn't insurance that people need, it's the ability to go to the damn doctor or hospital. Worried about fraud? The current system already has loads of fraud in the form of the screwed-up billing, fraud against the patient. Make fraud by the billing-entity (ie, the clinic or doctor) a federal crime.
With medical care decoupled from the workplace, employers would have less incentive to restrict employee hours to the numbers needed to legally be part-time. More people that struggle to find full-time work could actually work full time in jobs that of-late have been part-time, like retail. It still has its downsides but if employees now can actually afford to make rent by working one job then quality of life is much improved.
InfoSec Institute has assessed the security posture of 16 of the presidential candidates' websites. This is an indicator of the level of security awareness the candidate and the campaign staff has.
This assertion is false. First, the candidate has other things to be concerned about. His IT staff, who will probably not follow him to the political office if he's elected given the nature of government bureaucracy, handle it. Second, a web site is a glorified poster and graffiti wall. It's there for John Q Public. Media organizations are provided with itineraries and possibly with the contents of speeches and other material directly, they do not have to go to the candidate's website. Third, any maliciousness done to the candidate only serves to strengthen the candidate, as those who were already in-favor of the candidate will not lessen their opinions based on a website hack, and those who were undecided may sympathize with the candidate after such an attack. Fourth, given the propensity for semianonymous abuse of comments sections, the candidate's staff already have to peruse comments to moderate/censor, so long-term abuse that could paint a candidate as something that they don't want to be is unlikely.
If you want to know how a candidate handles security, follow how they handle money, and how quickly they return contributions that come from undesirable sources, or how they handle public appearances and interaction with specific persons. At this early stage that's probably more of a tell than any website.
I suspect the biggest danger for media that won't read is the magnetic media coming into incidental contact with magnets, especially if one has moved residences throughout the years and possibly ended up piling old stuff into boxes to move it.
As for the media itself, we tolerated a lot of picture and sound problems back when that was the only option available. We had reduced horizontal resolution compared to broadcast TV, poor sound, and often there were tracking issues such that the top or bottom of the image would be oddly distorted to one side or the other. We even had crappy on-screen displays that would end up recorded on to the media at times. It was even worse if the antenna or signal was poor when home-recording.
I got into SuperVHS for home recording; it was SO much better, basically looked as good as my Laserdiscs did. The Laserdiscs looked basically as good as early DVD and in some specific cases better (Highlander 20th Anniversary comes to mind, terrible digital artifacting on the DVD), it wasn't until widescreen-native televisions that DVD really pulled away from Laserdisc, and obviously the quality on Blu-Ray is significantly better.
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time. I can understand why too, they look like arrows, and normally we associate the arrow as pointing to the thing that we are attempting to focus on. They also look a bit funnel-like, almost like they're representing how the thing on the open-side is a component of the thing on the pointed-side.
That's before getting into the use of those characters, along with other bracketing characters, in other uses in software. Depending on the language one could use squiggly-braces, brackets, parentheses, or these characters. Even in languages like C++ and in Bash they're used to direct, taking a thing and inserting it into another thing.
yay ambiguity.
There were some digital replacement backs for film cameras, but when it comes down to it that means spending a fairly large amount of money on a used, possibly worn camera. For professionals, they're probably going to want the newer camera body so long as it takes their existing inventory of lenses, because they wear-out cameras through use anyway. That leaves the replacement-back for consumers, and there's probably not enough demand.
If I understand correctly, it's a lot more common on medium-format cameras or other cameras, where spending five figures for the new back is justified.
As for the digital interface for tapes/video cams, I suspect that for the business, once the equipment is sufficiently depreciated they'll just buy new. They already have to contend with 1080, and at the rate they're going they'll have to consider 1080's successor. Plus they can still record over existing tapes for some time, and if they think they'll need tapes, put in a big final order now that the end-date has been announced.
We have VHS tapes that still work 20+ years later.
While I don't dispute the potential for degradation, I suspect people are comparing the quality at the time of recording with the quality of modern recordings, and claiming degradation when in fact the differences are more attributable to the initial quality.
Wait! Let me get this straight. If you own a 250 gram toy drone you need to register it because it could be dangerous?
But if you own an assault rifle with 100 round magazine you don't need to register it. Yes, only in America.
False equivalency. Besides, many argue for even stronger regulations on firearms, they simply are not able to bring those arguments to fruition.
RC aircraft are being regulated because of the abuses that have been carried out through the operation of RC aircraft. The desire to regulate firearms comes from the abuses that have been carried out through the operation of firearms. They do not compare, they are each their own specific situation, with only one well known example of overlap.
Pretty much.
I suspect that landlord/tenant laws (or their enforcement) changed over time and made boarding houses harder to operate; if it's hard to evict a bad tenant when living conditions are that tight/overlapping then the whole model comes crashing down.
This isn't to say that I want a model that allows for incredibly easy eviction without much in the way of notice, but without some means to prevent problems from festering I don't see how this could really work well.
How do hotels do it? How about "extended stay" hotels where one arguably does establish residency?
"Betamax" probably encompasses more than simply the end-consumer tape. "SuperBeta" is a common commercial standard, much in the same way that "SuperVHS" was a common commercial standard, used by TV news and local-station production for decent quality for quick-turnaround broadcasting. It was essentially broadcast quality in an era of NTSC televisions, the tapes were durable and cheap, and just about all of the field cameras used for on-the-spot reporting supported them. Hell, even the vans they would use for remotes had their own mini editing studio with three or five decks, most for playback, one for recording to edit the clips together.
For this application the tapes were fine. When you're going to use less than five minutes of footage the tape length is not terribly critical, the smaller-than-VHS and smaller-than-three-quarter form factor meant that less camera by volume was necessary, and the quality was more than adequate at the time. I expect this kind of setup is still used, even if it is being replaced by higher def cameras and digital storage, that kind of changeout is expensive and again, for local news or local time-filler programming isn't really all that necessary.
The end of sale of the tapes probably comes as the market has finally shifted over, there are now more solid-state video cameras than tape video cameras, and the market finally doesn't want tapes in enough quantity to justify production.