SPARC/Solaris or AIX based systems would be what I'd still base anything system critical on, at least until a couple of weeks ago. x86/Linux just doesn't cut it. I remember I had a Solaris box in a closet that ran consistently I actually forgot to reboot it for 5 years. The only reason I did wind up rebooting it was because it's memory got upgraded because certain functions got a little slower over time as things grew. Quadrupling memory (memory got both cheaper and larger in the meantime) and boom - back to like it was new. x86 Linux systems, at least pre-systemd, were ok but still require some hand-holding. More than 180 days of uptime wasn't really in the cards. No clue on systemd systems, I won't run one until I have no choice.
Yep, sad to say, Solaris is a much much better system than, say, this Linux thing. Does it have challenges? Sure. But compared to x86 hardware, Solaris/SPARC just runs circles around it, although more expensive circles.
DRM simply isn't a factor in the music sales.... Video is where you go to find DRM, which is why I eventually gave up and started just pirating all my movies and TV, whereas I still buy music. Music publishers still want your money; it's the video people who are constantly creating piracy incentives.
Note that playable music does not have DRM, ever. You can record sound easily, always, since you can do analogue recordings. Video only has the appearance of DRM, in truth it is no different than sound, in that you can record everything in analog, and additionally you have the ability to record it digitally as well, if you're willing to open up your hardware. This would not violate the DMCA in anyway. You can also more simply just use certain pieces of hardware that give you access to unencrypted video/sound. There are various legal and some questionable ways to do so.
Enforced via industry standard/average salaries for the region
Thanks for the loophole. Let the best paid people get brought down a bit thus bringing the industry average down.
Yeah, it should be just the opposite - H1B salaries should drive the average upward, so a 50% premium on the average, as established by region. After all, those are very hard to fill jobs, so money should be no object, right? It also solves the "minimum salary" for an H1B, by tying it to an equated average that rises, even if it's a little bit, with every H1B hire. Oh, and they get 1 year guaranteed salary, for signing up.
Thanks for an informative reply. One of the best I've seen to date.
I too am in the market for a new OLED TV, total nits don't mean much to me if the color etc aren't accurate. A high nit value fluorescent pink screen just doesn't do blue irises justice. Sounds like the Dolby Vision certification is something that will be a decider, unless there's a quality TV line out there that matches those sets without the certification. Calibration can only take a substandard set so far after all.
It's not higher convenience and you know it (unless of course you misunderstand what convenience means). And yes you pay more for a BR than a DVD so more money for higher quality.
Wrong on both counts.:) I frequently pay less per BD than I've ever seen DVDs on sale for. You just have to have the correct sources and take advantage of the situation when it presents itself. For instance, I recently got Dredd 2D/3D BD for under $4. I don't believe I've seen the DVD for less than $4, but I don't keep an eye out for DVDs really.
Now for convenience - I'm not sure how it can be more convenient than turn TV on and watch it. No hesitation, no hiccups, no delays, no buffering issues, and, in the case of rentals, no limited window in case I have to do something else for a while after starting it. In fact, the only downside to disks is not having one and wanting something specific RIGHT NOW or I'll DIE. I'm not driven by a "right now" mentality, I suppose because my backlog is large and varied enough that there's always something else to view until that particular disk gets added to the collection. And, there's the issue that I may watch 4 hours of something a week these days as I'm too busy with other stuff, so even my netflix delivery rate exceeds my capacity to watch things right now.
As for the generational thing, my statement was about today's youth paying $5+ for rather inconvenient rentals (time limits for viewing and other issues) vs the sub $2 rentals of physical media, with ability to extend viewing usually at a minimal cost of $1 / day, or Netflx where you pay under $10 / month and just have a disk as long as you want. The "purchase" of streaming media also bothers me, because with 1 exception, most of those will disappear one day. Some already have.
- We get more network neutrality - by separating the ISPs from the media conglomerates that incentivize NON-neutrality.
I still have trouble getting my head around why that was ever considered an acceptable situation. It'd be like car companies owning specific roads, and if you were driving the right car, it'd be free, pedal to the metal driving with all gas supplied, but if you were a competitors car you'd pay tolls and be limited to walking speed.
Actually, if renting was the same cost as streaming, and the same quality, I'd be ok with it.
Yes so let's not pretend this about the "younger generation" and the idea that they misunderstand the concept of "borrowing". And yes if you want higher quality (DVD vs BR, SD vs HD) or higher convenience (no need to wait for deliveries or drive anywhere) you need to pay more.
And that's where you're wrong, I'm paying less for higher quality and in many cases higher convenience.
Ok so it seems we've now drilled down to the root of the issue, it's just that a lot of people don't mind spending a couple of dollars for the convenience of not having to go and drive to the store and back to rent a disc and then doing it again to return it.
Actually, if renting was the same cost as streaming, and the same quality, I'd be ok with it. I don't drive anywhere, stuff comes via mail. Drop it on the list and forget about it until it shows up. That's the process for most things.
Have you got actual examples? What specifically do you mean by "lower quality crappy soundtrack version"?
It's pretty simple, really, Dolby TrueHD bitrates are up to 18Mbps with 7.1 support and Dolby Atmos and/or DTS-X. Your iTunes HD file carries at best DDPLII 5.1 encoded sound, which is also lossy. Hugo, as an example, is a compressed 11.8GB file with DTS-HD in my library, and 5.4GB with Dolby 5.1 sound in iTunes. Now, I'll grant you I probably have a lot less compression in the H.264 video, but the audio is also significantly larger. If I actually had both files, I could compare file sizes and see what the compression ratio really is. FWIW, on Hugo, the audio bit rates for DD is less than 1/3 of the DTS-HD audio. But, more important than that, for instance, I get Dolby Atmos and 7.1 with The Fifth Element, iTunes etc gives you... yep - DVD quality DD 5.1. In fact, any bigger budget recent BD movie will give you a higher quality True-HD type soundtrack, quite a few with 7.1 and/or one of the 3D sound mapping solutions. As for buying, because I'm not one to get a movie asap, sometimes a sale comes on prior to it getting shipped or I like the movie/topic enough and I pick it up.
Yet another example of marketing / business interests ruining a perfectly good engineering technology accomplishment.
Google was ruined years ago when they IPOd. Their search results have been going downhill for a while, and switching to ddg has actually been just fine for me.
I've had RDS in cars since at least 2003. Several 100K miles driven. Not once, ever, have I received anything over RDS.
Should a TA truly be able to interrupt radio playback I predict hackers will employ annoyance transmissions within days, making it the shortest lived feature/policy ever.
This is the stated intent of his pick to head the FCC. He truly believes the FCC should be disbanded and rolled into the FTC. I personally don't believe he'll be able to accomplish anything but figuratively assign the FCC underneath the FTC and remove a few political appointee positions (unlikely) but that's likely all he'll be able to do in the predicted short term of his presidency.
Last I looked, it costs me <$2 to rent a recent disk, and >$5 to stream a lower quality crappy soundtrack version and >$10 if I wish to see something really recent that I can only "buy", but not own. Meanwhile, my local stores down the street have those same recent disks on sale with superior sound and PQ for anywhere from $10-15 (less or the same as streaming purchase prices) which after viewing can then be traded, sold or donated, resulting in a cheaper price all around.
Don't be confused, UHD is not HDR, and there are a lot of UHD sets out there. Walking through my local stores, most HDR sets start above $900 for 50 inch sets. Reasonable is a 65+ inch screen preferably under $2K. OLED 4K HDR is no where near that price point yet, at least not as of last year. LG just entered the market last year, and is set to make some serious price waves this year. I'm looking forward to it.
That would be Comcast and Charter, or TWC, but they're out of the picture now. Actually, AT&T has to rank down there as well, with their shitty service. All of them suck far worse than Verizon.
That doesn't mean there's not a submarine patent waiting out there to torpedo it. That's the entire point of submarine patents. We can't make that statement about any of the codecs. None can be stated to be 100% safe from submarine patents.
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SPARC/Solaris or AIX based systems would be what I'd still base anything system critical on, at least until a couple of weeks ago. x86/Linux just doesn't cut it. I remember I had a Solaris box in a closet that ran consistently I actually forgot to reboot it for 5 years. The only reason I did wind up rebooting it was because it's memory got upgraded because certain functions got a little slower over time as things grew. Quadrupling memory (memory got both cheaper and larger in the meantime) and boom - back to like it was new. x86 Linux systems, at least pre-systemd, were ok but still require some hand-holding. More than 180 days of uptime wasn't really in the cards. No clue on systemd systems, I won't run one until I have no choice.
Yep, sad to say, Solaris is a much much better system than, say, this Linux thing. Does it have challenges? Sure. But compared to x86 hardware, Solaris/SPARC just runs circles around it, although more expensive circles.
DRM simply isn't a factor in the music sales.... Video is where you go to find DRM, which is why I eventually gave up and started just pirating all my movies and TV, whereas I still buy music. Music publishers still want your money; it's the video people who are constantly creating piracy incentives.
Note that playable music does not have DRM, ever. You can record sound easily, always, since you can do analogue recordings. Video only has the appearance of DRM, in truth it is no different than sound, in that you can record everything in analog, and additionally you have the ability to record it digitally as well, if you're willing to open up your hardware. This would not violate the DMCA in anyway. You can also more simply just use certain pieces of hardware that give you access to unencrypted video/sound. There are various legal and some questionable ways to do so.
Enforced via industry standard/average salaries for the region
Thanks for the loophole. Let the best paid people get brought down a bit thus bringing the industry average down.
Yeah, it should be just the opposite - H1B salaries should drive the average upward, so a 50% premium on the average, as established by region. After all, those are very hard to fill jobs, so money should be no object, right? It also solves the "minimum salary" for an H1B, by tying it to an equated average that rises, even if it's a little bit, with every H1B hire. Oh, and they get 1 year guaranteed salary, for signing up.
It's tragic, but at least he didn't hurt anyone else.
Is it tragic if someone dies juggling chainsaws? I guess the Darwin Awards are a thing of the past, this guy was definitely a nominee!
Be amazed that MS upped it to 128GB. Take a look at previous versions. Before Win8, it was downright tiny.
In this case, wikipedia. I figure for something like this, Google probably "owns" the page. It could be wrong, feel free to correct it.
Thanks for an informative reply. One of the best I've seen to date.
I too am in the market for a new OLED TV, total nits don't mean much to me if the color etc aren't accurate. A high nit value fluorescent pink screen just doesn't do blue irises justice. Sounds like the Dolby Vision certification is something that will be a decider, unless there's a quality TV line out there that matches those sets without the certification. Calibration can only take a substandard set so far after all.
It's not higher convenience and you know it (unless of course you misunderstand what convenience means). And yes you pay more for a BR than a DVD so more money for higher quality.
Wrong on both counts. :) I frequently pay less per BD than I've ever seen DVDs on sale for. You just have to have the correct sources and take advantage of the situation when it presents itself. For instance, I recently got Dredd 2D/3D BD for under $4. I don't believe I've seen the DVD for less than $4, but I don't keep an eye out for DVDs really.
Now for convenience - I'm not sure how it can be more convenient than turn TV on and watch it. No hesitation, no hiccups, no delays, no buffering issues, and, in the case of rentals, no limited window in case I have to do something else for a while after starting it. In fact, the only downside to disks is not having one and wanting something specific RIGHT NOW or I'll DIE. I'm not driven by a "right now" mentality, I suppose because my backlog is large and varied enough that there's always something else to view until that particular disk gets added to the collection. And, there's the issue that I may watch 4 hours of something a week these days as I'm too busy with other stuff, so even my netflix delivery rate exceeds my capacity to watch things right now.
As for the generational thing, my statement was about today's youth paying $5+ for rather inconvenient rentals (time limits for viewing and other issues) vs the sub $2 rentals of physical media, with ability to extend viewing usually at a minimal cost of $1 / day, or Netflx where you pay under $10 / month and just have a disk as long as you want. The "purchase" of streaming media also bothers me, because with 1 exception, most of those will disappear one day. Some already have.
- We get more network neutrality - by separating the ISPs from the media conglomerates that incentivize NON-neutrality.
I still have trouble getting my head around why that was ever considered an acceptable situation. It'd be like car companies owning specific roads, and if you were driving the right car, it'd be free, pedal to the metal driving with all gas supplied, but if you were a competitors car you'd pay tolls and be limited to walking speed.
Actually, if renting was the same cost as streaming, and the same quality, I'd be ok with it.
Yes so let's not pretend this about the "younger generation" and the idea that they misunderstand the concept of "borrowing". And yes if you want higher quality (DVD vs BR, SD vs HD) or higher convenience (no need to wait for deliveries or drive anywhere) you need to pay more.
And that's where you're wrong, I'm paying less for higher quality and in many cases higher convenience.
Ok so it seems we've now drilled down to the root of the issue, it's just that a lot of people don't mind spending a couple of dollars for the convenience of not having to go and drive to the store and back to rent a disc and then doing it again to return it.
Actually, if renting was the same cost as streaming, and the same quality, I'd be ok with it. I don't drive anywhere, stuff comes via mail. Drop it on the list and forget about it until it shows up. That's the process for most things.
Have you got actual examples? What specifically do you mean by "lower quality crappy soundtrack version"?
It's pretty simple, really, Dolby TrueHD bitrates are up to 18Mbps with 7.1 support and Dolby Atmos and/or DTS-X. Your iTunes HD file carries at best DDPLII 5.1 encoded sound, which is also lossy. Hugo, as an example, is a compressed 11.8GB file with DTS-HD in my library, and 5.4GB with Dolby 5.1 sound in iTunes. Now, I'll grant you I probably have a lot less compression in the H.264 video, but the audio is also significantly larger. If I actually had both files, I could compare file sizes and see what the compression ratio really is. FWIW, on Hugo, the audio bit rates for DD is less than 1/3 of the DTS-HD audio. But, more important than that, for instance, I get Dolby Atmos and 7.1 with The Fifth Element, iTunes etc gives you... yep - DVD quality DD 5.1. In fact, any bigger budget recent BD movie will give you a higher quality True-HD type soundtrack, quite a few with 7.1 and/or one of the 3D sound mapping solutions. As for buying, because I'm not one to get a movie asap, sometimes a sale comes on prior to it getting shipped or I like the movie/topic enough and I pick it up.
Thus Apple can't use the risk of submarine patents as an excuse against VP8 and VP9.
Parts of the format are covered by patents held by Google. The company grants free usage of its own related patents based on reciprocity, I think that's the answer right there.
in general I'm a fan of most things Google.
Yet another example of marketing / business interests ruining a perfectly good engineering technology accomplishment.
Google was ruined years ago when they IPOd. Their search results have been going downhill for a while, and switching to ddg has actually been just fine for me.
It will be undone in 4 years, if not sooner.
I've had RDS in cars since at least 2003. Several 100K miles driven. Not once, ever, have I received anything over RDS.
Should a TA truly be able to interrupt radio playback I predict hackers will employ annoyance transmissions within days, making it the shortest lived feature/policy ever.
Has everyone forgotten James Dean ?
Rock on.
This is the stated intent of his pick to head the FCC. He truly believes the FCC should be disbanded and rolled into the FTC. I personally don't believe he'll be able to accomplish anything but figuratively assign the FCC underneath the FTC and remove a few political appointee positions (unlikely) but that's likely all he'll be able to do in the predicted short term of his presidency.
Last I looked, it costs me <$2 to rent a recent disk, and >$5 to stream a lower quality crappy soundtrack version and >$10 if I wish to see something really recent that I can only "buy", but not own. Meanwhile, my local stores down the street have those same recent disks on sale with superior sound and PQ for anywhere from $10-15 (less or the same as streaming purchase prices) which after viewing can then be traded, sold or donated, resulting in a cheaper price all around.
Don't be confused, UHD is not HDR, and there are a lot of UHD sets out there. Walking through my local stores, most HDR sets start above $900 for 50 inch sets. Reasonable is a 65+ inch screen preferably under $2K. OLED 4K HDR is no where near that price point yet, at least not as of last year. LG just entered the market last year, and is set to make some serious price waves this year. I'm looking forward to it.
You could go to 500/500, but the roughly $300/month cost is a tad high.
That would be Comcast and Charter, or TWC, but they're out of the picture now. Actually, AT&T has to rank down there as well, with their shitty service. All of them suck far worse than Verizon.
Note I said most. There is one....
That doesn't mean there's not a submarine patent waiting out there to torpedo it. That's the entire point of submarine patents. We can't make that statement about any of the codecs. None can be stated to be 100% safe from submarine patents.
How old are you? Seriously you must on death's door if you think Blockbuster and their ilk are the product of "younger individuals".
You're mistaken - borrowing is fine for one time things. However, paying a purchase price for borrowing, that's just flat out stupid.