I believe you are wrong. I believe all stand alone BD players require RomMark, which is only available with special hardware that you have to be licensed for (ie, not the home consumer).
BD will die. The reason why is DVD is good enough for the masses, and downloads will be more convenient/cost-effective for the majority that own HD equipment, leaving only a tiny slice of the pie for the overpriced BD media.
Oh, and as predicted, BD prices rose. Expect BD Live (2.0 profile) players to debut at $600 and stay above $500 for 2 years.
...Well, I got a nice HDTV and AnimalPlanetHD, DiscoveryHD and NatGeoHD have actually pulled me back to the TV side. Those are definitely nice channels in HD. There are some good shows on those. There's also the Science, Military, and History Channels, along with some more mainstream entertainment like TMC, Universal, and HDNET which can also have some worthwhile content.
Whats even more interesting is that I'm watching it live (read: with commercials) instead of with TiVo. And then you lost me. Watching commercials? No HD DVR functionality? You post on/.?
My laptop has one, my workstation at home has one and all the PCs at work have them. They're all Windows PCs. Firewire isn't rare; it's possibly just rare for people to use it. Partly, I expect, because USB2 is faster (at least on paper).
If you have a video camera or HD with FW, then it's a no-brainer. USB anything sucks rocks in comparison.
But, you'll have to be using more than 1 device or have a RAID system before you'll see a real difference in performance, as USB2/FW both exceed the transfer ability of any common single hard drive's throughput.
There was a story about 1-2 years ago about some software simulation on traffic in a circle, and how 1 slow driver would cause the "wave effect" seen in rolling traffic jams. They even had worked out what the traffic density and variances in speed that were needed before reaching the critical mass required to start seeing the effect. I remember watching it and thinking well, that obvious, as we were working with assembly line efficiency models over 20 years ago that simulated a variety of problems if you reached a certain congestion point. We weren't trying to solve why the congestion happens, as that was obvious, but how to minimize a problem's impact on the overall flow. (The problem itself wasn't new then either, but dates back to the earliest assembly lines)
Apparently civil engineers dealing with traffic have finally discovered this "new" technology.
You know, I've not come across a single one of those issues. I slipstreamed my needed drivers into my install so the floppy install wasn't needed, as I haven't had a floppy in at least 4 years.
The game issue is a programmer issue. You can't expect a piece of code written with full control of the machine to play nice in a multi-user system. However, this problem was solved with the introduction of VM's, which have been around for quite a while.
Who uses WEP these days? Seriously.
As what I see as the last and only real issue, the pathing - symlinks work wonders.... oh yeah, that's right, Vista still doesn't support them (as in real support - a limit of 26 or 32 links in a directory is a hack, not support) And that's where the true issues for me start. The things you've outlined, while important for an initial user experience during installation, are irrelevant in the normal daily operation. The rest of your list are dealing with issues MS created in the first place, and I won't give them credit for solving their own bugs, or for things that everyone has to deal with.
I have a lack of interest in using Vista because of early experience with it. It is less of an OS than XP, precisely because it carries more baggage and tries to do more things, like be a proprietary content delivery platform.
Vista fails in some ways in exactly the same way XP failed when it came out. The GUI glitz causes such a noticeable slow down on anything except the most insane hardware as to be useless to those of us trying to do work. Contrast that with OSX or Ubuntu's interfaces, and you'll see why they're both still broken.
I haven't seen a single thing "fixed". They still have a registry. They still have an essentially single-user system with multi-user capabilities pasted on. The file system's a massive joke. Memory management... wait, I need to stop laughing.. ok, it still sucks. Oh, and did I mention that it's slower than XP?
As for Windows 7, MS announced it pretty much as an acknowledgment of the failure of Vista. Businesses are not converting, thus they needed a bone to keep them using MS. Home users don't want it. Gamers won't touch it. The fact that it might be Vista under the hood with yet another GUI change (read that as retraining nightmare) will be the last thing any business needs to hear from MS.
And since Vista was more different from XP than XP from 2000 doesn't say much for the acceptance rate. 2K was only accepted in the business world, after quite a delay. XP had a horrible start, only dwarfed by the failure that is Vista. I can't wait to see the new and slapped on GUI of Windows 7 get eaten up (and spit out).
Obviously I'm a little in the dark:) I've no interest in Vista other than to see it fail to become the next standard. I do not wish that for silly reasons like "MS is da evil" or anything like that, but rather because with Vista they've created essentially less of an OS, and more of a proprietary content delivery appliance disguised as a general purpose OS.
Don't get into a live/work situation where you commute 3 hours a day.
Next, don't work 12 hours at the office either. It's unhealthy, and counterproductive. There's plenty of studies on it.
You forgot about exercise. Remember, you're supposed to try to get at least 30m of aerobic exercise a day. There's also the mental downtime you're supposed to have before going to bed. (If you're working and then go straight to bed and fall asleep within a couple of minutes, that's a classic sign of sleep deprivation)
I don't know about you, but I'm already down to about 6 hours a night on average, so any less would probably start being seriously counterproductive.
You've just shown that a) you don't run MS OSes with product activation (You PIRATE!!!!) b) If a) is false, you don't tinker with your system. (/. posting violation!!)
Well, since HTML, circa 1993, was designed to allow for referencing external components. Rewriting URLs was a fundamental principal for serving pages and applications, which existed since at least 1996 that I'm aware of, as I did it then. Add in to that that commercial IP blocks are owned by companies with definite locality, and I'm not sure what part of Akamai's patent isn't stating things that were already in existence.
It was already stated that algorithms cannot be patented. And that's all that Akamai seems to have. Not withstanding that there's several thousand people skilled in the arts that would have come up with the same or similar solutions to the problem set.
You don't live in areas that have hurricanes that result in outages of all services for a week or more at a time, tornadoes, ice storms, straight line winds, or thunderstorms so severe that regular antenna reception even suffers.
Or, what about the nifty Verizon cell outage that affected most of the south of the US for 8 hours 6 months or so ago? Or the network issues in the middle east? Rolling brown/blackouts in Ca and the NE of the US?
There's not a lot you can do when the entire area is covered in 6 or more inches of ice with heavy winds, or if every goes under a few feet of water.
My last two CEO's wore those floral prints to the office. Even the Board members came in short sleeve shirts and no ties.:)
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GPUs certainly have become very very fast in the past couple of years. Decoding is a simple process however, compared to encoding, and is many orders of magnitude more computationally intensive.
I'll admit I don't know enough about the encoding process to say whether any particular encoding algorithm will break down well into GPU work units, but I do know enough that most can be broken into a significant number of parallel tasks that can make efficient use of multiple cores.
As for the desktop meme, I wouldn't bet for or against it. There's a lot to be said for being able to take it with you, but I also extensively use desktops and servers. Right now you can't even come close to video editing and encoding done on a dual quad-core system (8 cores) with any laptop solution that could even remotely be called a laptop. FYI: Video editing makes game hardware requirements look like kindergarten wide rule notebooks.... but I'm sure that game software will catch up in the next few years and become truly multi-threaded.
BD requires AACS and ROM-Mark, IIRC. BD players won't play home burned disks, only commercially pressed ones, due to the Rom-Mark and AACS requirements.
You've spewed that nonsense before and that is such a load of crap.
Do a quick search and look into the camcorder forums. There are both BluRay high def recorders out there that record directly to BluRay disc, and there is also PC and Mac software that can take a 1080 digital source from a high-def camcorder and record directly to Blu-Ray. So your statement that BD players won't play home burned discs is clearly wrong.
Just because you bet on the wrong horse doesn't mean you should run around spreading FUD on every forum. Sony won with a superior product. Get over it.
Commercial BD players will NOT play home burned BD disks, no matter how misinformed you are. But, your tenacity really brings out your better characteristics. You must really really badly want someone to put you on their "foes" list. Your response will merely prove the point.
Numb3rs pilot lost me - boring and you gotta be kidding were my first two thoughts. Same with Bones. L&O... well, if we needed any more lawyer yapping on TV... Which brings us to CSI. It was good the first couple of seasons, but it looked like the writers ran out of material, and started rewriting earlier episodes with more unbelievable conundrums.
As for shows that totally jumped the shark, let's try Lost for that one. In the pilot, a plane crashes in the jungle/beach (you decide where it *actually* crashed in the crash scenes) and breaks up. A pregnant woman survivor goes into labor. Great, with you so far. An engine actually revs up and causes several dramatic moments (I don't recall if it actually sucked someone up or not)... wait a second.... There were a whole slew of problematic things before the revving engine, but I seriously don't recall them. The revving engine was the point of no return, and I turned it off never to revisit it again.
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When AMD integrates ATI video with AMD CPUs, the resulting combination is likely to be very competitive. AMDs technical prospects seem good to me, although I have not done a thorough analysis. Remember that we are no longer in a CPU speed race; CPUs are fast enough now for the average user. I too believe that AMD's integration with ATI will be a boon for regular laptops and desktops, especially those used in the business world where price is much more important than upgradability as an "upgrade" is merely purchasing a newer model.
However, the CPU "speed" race is still on, and very applicable even to the average user, or have you not looked into video encoding? They still have a lot of room for improvement with even mere DV encoding, much less HD DV encoding.
Actually, I assuming the lack of response from Sony to multiple large media sources indicates that there's significant truth in the reported statements.
AFAIK, Reuters has never been caught doctoring the news. One of their photographers however was recently caught and was removed from their contributors list. I also distinctly recall the massive embarrassment and instant action on Reuters part to distance themselves from that individual.
The allegations made in those stories are far stronger than "Dole may have violated some labor laws".
Wont play high res (downsamples) on older non-HDMI TVs. I wasn't an early adopter so I'm not in that boat, but regardless, those older TVs wont play 1080p anyway so I don't know what they are whining about. If your player downsamples a 1080p source to 720 when your TV can only display 720 anyway is not a big concern. I have a 1080i TV that's now 7 years old. Plays HD movies just fine, as long as that CIT flag isn't set. HDCP is an arbitrary restriction that buys you nothing.
Playing on a PC. I've never watched a movie on a PC. Don't see the point. I want to watch movies on a big screen with good sound. Watching on a PC is just stupid. And if you are thinking about the ability to download movies on demand, my cable provider alrady has this capability - I can watch on demand hundereds of regular and hi-def movies from an onscreen menu. Why would I want any of that capability on a PC? Record your own home movies. Edit out stupid 30m trailers that disney inserts at the beginning of their movies. Create a disk that your kid(s) can use without fear of death when they scratch it (that's thrown in there because of your statement about "caring" for your disk). How about a HTPC setup? How about a 1s startup for a movie vs the 45+s startup for a HD disk of either type? I could go on, but it seems pointless.
Region encoding. DVDs already have region encoding - never has been a limitation. Guess your vision is limited. Never wanted to see anything that wasn't in the 200 selections at your local BlockBuster?
Their complaints about the format war are now obsolete. They weren't complaints about the format war, but about the formats themselves.
But I'm happy that in your bubble you're happy. May you always march in lock-step with your content overlords, as apparently you're happy to swallow whatever they send your way. I'd prefer not to give them any new "rights".
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Except both of those would result in the "excuse me ma'am/sir, would you kindly step over here for the full-body orifice probe?"
I believe you are wrong. I believe all stand alone BD players require RomMark, which is only available with special hardware that you have to be licensed for (ie, not the home consumer).
BD will die. The reason why is DVD is good enough for the masses, and downloads will be more convenient/cost-effective for the majority that own HD equipment, leaving only a tiny slice of the pie for the overpriced BD media.
Oh, and as predicted, BD prices rose. Expect BD Live (2.0 profile) players to debut at $600 and stay above $500 for 2 years.
The Toshiba A3 takes about 30s to boot up (it is a full-fledged linux system under the hood, after all). Popping a disk in takes another 10s or so.
...Well, I got a nice HDTV and AnimalPlanetHD, DiscoveryHD and NatGeoHD have actually pulled me back to the TV side. Those are definitely nice channels in HD. There are some good shows on those. There's also the Science, Military, and History Channels, along with some more mainstream entertainment like TMC, Universal, and HDNET which can also have some worthwhile content. Whats even more interesting is that I'm watching it live (read: with commercials) instead of with TiVo. And then you lost me. Watching commercials? No HD DVR functionality? You post onMy laptop has one, my workstation at home has one and all the PCs at work have them. They're all Windows PCs. Firewire isn't rare; it's possibly just rare for people to use it. Partly, I expect, because USB2 is faster (at least on paper).
If you have a video camera or HD with FW, then it's a no-brainer. USB anything sucks rocks in comparison.But, you'll have to be using more than 1 device or have a RAID system before you'll see a real difference in performance, as USB2/FW both exceed the transfer ability of any common single hard drive's throughput.
There was a story about 1-2 years ago about some software simulation on traffic in a circle, and how 1 slow driver would cause the "wave effect" seen in rolling traffic jams. They even had worked out what the traffic density and variances in speed that were needed before reaching the critical mass required to start seeing the effect. I remember watching it and thinking well, that obvious, as we were working with assembly line efficiency models over 20 years ago that simulated a variety of problems if you reached a certain congestion point. We weren't trying to solve why the congestion happens, as that was obvious, but how to minimize a problem's impact on the overall flow. (The problem itself wasn't new then either, but dates back to the earliest assembly lines)
Apparently civil engineers dealing with traffic have finally discovered this "new" technology.
You know, I've not come across a single one of those issues. I slipstreamed my needed drivers into my install so the floppy install wasn't needed, as I haven't had a floppy in at least 4 years.
The game issue is a programmer issue. You can't expect a piece of code written with full control of the machine to play nice in a multi-user system. However, this problem was solved with the introduction of VM's, which have been around for quite a while.
Who uses WEP these days? Seriously.
As what I see as the last and only real issue, the pathing - symlinks work wonders.... oh yeah, that's right, Vista still doesn't support them (as in real support - a limit of 26 or 32 links in a directory is a hack, not support) And that's where the true issues for me start. The things you've outlined, while important for an initial user experience during installation, are irrelevant in the normal daily operation. The rest of your list are dealing with issues MS created in the first place, and I won't give them credit for solving their own bugs, or for things that everyone has to deal with.
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I have a lack of interest in using Vista because of early experience with it. It is less of an OS than XP, precisely because it carries more baggage and tries to do more things, like be a proprietary content delivery platform.
Vista fails in some ways in exactly the same way XP failed when it came out. The GUI glitz causes such a noticeable slow down on anything except the most insane hardware as to be useless to those of us trying to do work. Contrast that with OSX or Ubuntu's interfaces, and you'll see why they're both still broken.
I haven't seen a single thing "fixed". They still have a registry. They still have an essentially single-user system with multi-user capabilities pasted on. The file system's a massive joke. Memory management... wait, I need to stop laughing.. ok, it still sucks. Oh, and did I mention that it's slower than XP?
As for Windows 7, MS announced it pretty much as an acknowledgment of the failure of Vista. Businesses are not converting, thus they needed a bone to keep them using MS. Home users don't want it. Gamers won't touch it. The fact that it might be Vista under the hood with yet another GUI change (read that as retraining nightmare) will be the last thing any business needs to hear from MS.
And since Vista was more different from XP than XP from 2000 doesn't say much for the acceptance rate. 2K was only accepted in the business world, after quite a delay. XP had a horrible start, only dwarfed by the failure that is Vista. I can't wait to see the new and slapped on GUI of Windows 7 get eaten up (and spit out).
Obviously I'm a little in the dark :) I've no interest in Vista other than to see it fail to become the next standard. I do not wish that for silly reasons like "MS is da evil" or anything like that, but rather because with Vista they've created essentially less of an OS, and more of a proprietary content delivery appliance disguised as a general purpose OS.
Don't get into a live/work situation where you commute 3 hours a day.
Next, don't work 12 hours at the office either. It's unhealthy, and counterproductive. There's plenty of studies on it.
You forgot about exercise. Remember, you're supposed to try to get at least 30m of aerobic exercise a day. There's also the mental downtime you're supposed to have before going to bed. (If you're working and then go straight to bed and fall asleep within a couple of minutes, that's a classic sign of sleep deprivation)
I don't know about you, but I'm already down to about 6 hours a night on average, so any less would probably start being seriously counterproductive.
You've just shown that
a) you don't run MS OSes with product activation (You PIRATE!!!!)
b) If a) is false, you don't tinker with your system. (/. posting violation!!)
What SP1? Wasn't it yanked due to incompatibilities?
Well, since HTML, circa 1993, was designed to allow for referencing external components. Rewriting URLs was a fundamental principal for serving pages and applications, which existed since at least 1996 that I'm aware of, as I did it then. Add in to that that commercial IP blocks are owned by companies with definite locality, and I'm not sure what part of Akamai's patent isn't stating things that were already in existence.
It was already stated that algorithms cannot be patented. And that's all that Akamai seems to have. Not withstanding that there's several thousand people skilled in the arts that would have come up with the same or similar solutions to the problem set.
You don't live in areas that have hurricanes that result in outages of all services for a week or more at a time, tornadoes, ice storms, straight line winds, or thunderstorms so severe that regular antenna reception even suffers.
Or, what about the nifty Verizon cell outage that affected most of the south of the US for 8 hours 6 months or so ago? Or the network issues in the middle east? Rolling brown/blackouts in Ca and the NE of the US?
There's not a lot you can do when the entire area is covered in 6 or more inches of ice with heavy winds, or if every goes under a few feet of water.
My last two CEO's wore those floral prints to the office. Even the Board members came in short sleeve shirts and no ties. :)
GPUs certainly have become very very fast in the past couple of years. Decoding is a simple process however, compared to encoding, and is many orders of magnitude more computationally intensive.
I'll admit I don't know enough about the encoding process to say whether any particular encoding algorithm will break down well into GPU work units, but I do know enough that most can be broken into a significant number of parallel tasks that can make efficient use of multiple cores.
As for the desktop meme, I wouldn't bet for or against it. There's a lot to be said for being able to take it with you, but I also extensively use desktops and servers. Right now you can't even come close to video editing and encoding done on a dual quad-core system (8 cores) with any laptop solution that could even remotely be called a laptop. FYI: Video editing makes game hardware requirements look like kindergarten wide rule notebooks.... but I'm sure that game software will catch up in the next few years and become truly multi-threaded.
You've spewed that nonsense before and that is such a load of crap.
Do a quick search and look into the camcorder forums. There are both BluRay high def recorders out there that record directly to BluRay disc, and there is also PC and Mac software that can take a 1080 digital source from a high-def camcorder and record directly to Blu-Ray. So your statement that BD players won't play home burned discs is clearly wrong.
Just because you bet on the wrong horse doesn't mean you should run around spreading FUD on every forum. Sony won with a superior product. Get over it.
Commercial BD players will NOT play home burned BD disks, no matter how misinformed you are. But, your tenacity really brings out your better characteristics. You must really really badly want someone to put you on their "foes" list. Your response will merely prove the point.You truly are an idiot.
Numb3rs pilot lost me - boring and you gotta be kidding were my first two thoughts. Same with Bones. L&O... well, if we needed any more lawyer yapping on TV... Which brings us to CSI. It was good the first couple of seasons, but it looked like the writers ran out of material, and started rewriting earlier episodes with more unbelievable conundrums.
As for shows that totally jumped the shark, let's try Lost for that one. In the pilot, a plane crashes in the jungle/beach (you decide where it *actually* crashed in the crash scenes) and breaks up. A pregnant woman survivor goes into labor. Great, with you so far. An engine actually revs up and causes several dramatic moments (I don't recall if it actually sucked someone up or not)... wait a second.... There were a whole slew of problematic things before the revving engine, but I seriously don't recall them. The revving engine was the point of no return, and I turned it off never to revisit it again.
Apple took a BSD kernel and started with that.
However, the CPU "speed" race is still on, and very applicable even to the average user, or have you not looked into video encoding? They still have a lot of room for improvement with even mere DV encoding, much less HD DV encoding.
Actually, I assuming the lack of response from Sony to multiple large media sources indicates that there's significant truth in the reported statements.
AFAIK, Reuters has never been caught doctoring the news. One of their photographers however was recently caught and was removed from their contributors list. I also distinctly recall the massive embarrassment and instant action on Reuters part to distance themselves from that individual.
The allegations made in those stories are far stronger than "Dole may have violated some labor laws".
I don't know what you are talking about with that one. Buy quality equipment not cheap crap next time.
Thanks for pointing out your total lack of experience with HD media formats for all to see.Now crawl back under your bridge, as your trolling devolved to nothing more than boring lame insults and name-calling.
But I'm happy that in your bubble you're happy. May you always march in lock-step with your content overlords, as apparently you're happy to swallow whatever they send your way. I'd prefer not to give them any new "rights".