The very fact that Sony releases any miniDV camcorders at all almost seems to show that they're trying to move away from their attitude that standards don't matter.
On the other hand, they most likely did so because it became obvious that digital8 isn't a very feasible technology in a market where size is very important. You can't compete in the consumer DV market if your tapes are almost as big as your competitor's whole camera. The only shocking thing is that Sony embraced miniDV instead of inventing "digital4" or something.
I bet your DV camera has a Memory Stick slot for still captures, though.
I don't see how. I trust the voters of my state to pick Senators a lot better than I trust the state legislature to do anything at all.
Your state legislature may be significantly less corrupt than mine, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I do think that it's kind of dumb that we trust the popular vote to pick Senators, but hang on to the Electoral College to pick Presidents, but I don't think moving further away from direct democracy is likely to improve things at all. As bad as the voters make decisions, they'll always be better than someone who spends his life figuring out ways to game the system for his own profit.
If you think that's bad, just think about what's going to happen after 4 years of the US consuming 25% of the world's natural resources. The entire planet will lietterally be GONE. Vanished into thin air.
Oops. Maybe those numbers don't mean what you think they mean.
How many of us benefit from quality goods at very low prices? Judging from the lines at Walmart, lots.
If these people weremaking more money, they wouldn't choose to wait in long lines at Walmart to buy crappy products.
Now, how many of those people have moved on and have a better job? That would be almost all judging by the unemployment numbers.
Really? ALl of the unemployment reports I've seen have left off the part that quantifies how much "better" those new jobs are. I could have sworn they only quantified how many people are actively looking for jobs who don't have a job. If one person loses a $30/hr job, and 4 people get new minimum wage jobs, unemployment goes down. That one person still didn't get a "better" job.
Try following the reasoning: businesses make a profit and shareholders benefit from increased stock price and dividends. Thus validated, businesses grow into new markets and create new jobs.
Why would they create new, high paying jobs in the US when they made those high profits by creating low-paying jobs overseas? Do you think the people running corporations are idiots? They'd have to be to switch from a strategy that's benefiting them greatly to one that's going to harm them.
That class warfare stuff went out with Carter. It is pretty discredited.
Oh, well if's been discredited, then I guess I shouldn't look at the evidence of a growing income gap and maybe think that the haves are waging class warfare against the have-nots. Now I'm sure my state's plan to replace property taxes with higher sales taxes couldn't possibly benefit wealthy property owners and harm poor people, because you've informed me that idea's been "discredited".
AH, the great fallacy of Amerian capitalism: everyone in the country can just become a capitalist, and we won't need any workers. We'll just use our limitless capital to explot oversees labor markets and everyone can be rich without producing anything.
Guess what? The vast majority of Americans don't have enough capital to live off their profits. Do you expect them all to just starve to death instead of killing you and taking your property?
I send email from home all the time using by work email address. All of it goes through my ISP's SMTP server, and none of it goes through my employer's SMTP server.
According to your logic, this proves that I did not send the messages.
Although I guess we should expect someone talking about "received by:" headers to actually know anything about how SMTP actually works.
I'm an atheist, and I think pretty much all religious belief is inherently irrational.
And I agree, GP is definitely flamebait. And remarkably stupid.
There have been lots of very smart people who have held religious beliefs. There are also lots of very smart people who aren't religious, but who hold other irrational beliefs. I daresay you won't find a single human anywhere who doesn't have at least some kind of irrational beliefs or behavior patterns. Unless GP poster is a nihilist who rejects calling anyone at all "smart", it's hard to argue that singling out one group is anything but Flamebait.
What China is doing here is OVERRIDING the default/normal/rest_of_the_world's names, and thus anyone looking up, say....http:://google.com will get directed to CHINA's version/replacement/whatever of google.com.
No, what China's actually doing is launching thousands of hydrogen bombs at every city in the West, right as we speak!
What? It's no more inaccurate than what you just said.
Right, because slapping a poem on a statue (or, more accurately, allowing a statue that had a poem slapped on it by the French to be installed on a small island outside a major US city) before treating all the immigrants who were so graciously allowed to come here like crap was a really great system.
Are we going to praise the pre-Civil War immigration policies that made it much easier for people to immigrate here from Africa, too? I mean, back then they didn't have to fill out all the paperwork they have to now, and still face being told they couldn't come; hell, they didn't even have to want to come here in the first place.
They claim that the biggest spammer is paypal.com.
I believe them that 4.whatever% of spam has a To: line ending in "@paypal.com". If they think that any of that spam is actually originating on Paypal's network, and thus in the United States, they have absolutely no idea how email works. I'd hope a company "dedicated to protecting the integrity of the world's most widespread form of communication, e-mail" would hire at least one person who at least has to skill to "View All Headers" in their email client. Some understanding of what an IP address is might be nice, too.
Umm, the same thing that happened to the PDA they were "supposed to announce" and "definitely going to announce this time" for the past 5 years?
Every Apple rumor you read anywhere is completely made up by the author with no real information whatsoever. You may think the ones that turn out to be true are proof that the writers had actual inside information, but they're just a statistical certainty given the number of rumors. If someone predicts literally every product Apple could possibly release, a few of them are going to be true.
This is precisely the best sort of argument against letting public schools teach children religion.
"How do you feel about having your child instructed in what's 'true' by a [Mormon/Muslim/Catholic/Protestant/Jew/Satanist] teacher?"
Smart religious people obviously would want their religion taught to their kids by their church, not by a public school. It's really only people who irrationally assume that the public school would be teaching just their religion and no one else's that are in favor of stuff like this.
Much like how people who irrationally think that their favorite political party will always be in power are in favor of unlimited government power.
It's hardly being "out-front" and rational when you're forced to reject ridiculous "legislation" because there's a sizeable number of people in your legislature who will actually bring such crap to a vote.
I'd argue that this puts Utah squarely in 49th place, after Kansas.
Regardless of whether you call the iPod "innovative", I think we can all agree that creating a product just like the iPod using the same designer is probably the least "innovative" thing Samsung could possibly do.
Copying an innovative product isn't innovation. Copying a product that wasn't really all that innovative in the first place is just dumb. Either way, Samsung loses.
I absolutely agree with you. This rumor is about as ridiculous as when people said AOL was going to merge with Time-Warner. It just makes no sense, and will absolutely never happen.
Right, because Sony's going to read a moronic post on Slashdot and decide to release a format that makes their LCD TV business completely worthless. I'd patent that idea quick if I were you, genius.
By "visionary" do you mean "loony", or is this some sort of trick question?
Me, I'm studying the writings of Uri Gellar to learn how to bend spacetime like a spoon to make Mars only 5 feet away so we can walk there. These rocketry guys are thinking way too small.
You must be new here. It's not necessary to know anything about a patent in order to argue against it on Slashdot. We prefer to just see the word "patent" in an article summary, and then argue that it's impossible for the patent to be valid, because there's obviously prior art and besides the entire patent system is illogical, unconstitutional, and immoral.
How would actually reading the claims in the patent help at all?
Actually, a study showed that during the year of the last big frenzy of shark attack stories, there were significantly fewer actual shark attacks and significantly more news stories about them than the previous year.
If that trend holds, we can expect nothing but 24 hour shark attack coverage once sharks actually become extinct.
That would be where you said Unix didn't have file extensions.
Try passing an old version of cc(1) the name of a file that doesn't end with ".c" and see if it "determines from the contents of the file" that it's C source code.
I stand by my assertion that Unix had file extensions before DOS existed. I never claimed they worked the same way, but they were certainly there.
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On the other hand, they most likely did so because it became obvious that digital8 isn't a very feasible technology in a market where size is very important. You can't compete in the consumer DV market if your tapes are almost as big as your competitor's whole camera. The only shocking thing is that Sony embraced miniDV instead of inventing "digital4" or something.
I bet your DV camera has a Memory Stick slot for still captures, though.
I've seen stores with hundreds of titles, many of which have very little to do with soccer at all.
Your state legislature may be significantly less corrupt than mine, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I do think that it's kind of dumb that we trust the popular vote to pick Senators, but hang on to the Electoral College to pick Presidents, but I don't think moving further away from direct democracy is likely to improve things at all. As bad as the voters make decisions, they'll always be better than someone who spends his life figuring out ways to game the system for his own profit.
Oops. Maybe those numbers don't mean what you think they mean.
If these people weremaking more money, they wouldn't choose to wait in long lines at Walmart to buy crappy products.
Now, how many of those people have moved on and have a better job? That would be almost all judging by the unemployment numbers.
Really? ALl of the unemployment reports I've seen have left off the part that quantifies how much "better" those new jobs are. I could have sworn they only quantified how many people are actively looking for jobs who don't have a job. If one person loses a $30/hr job, and 4 people get new minimum wage jobs, unemployment goes down. That one person still didn't get a "better" job.
Try following the reasoning: businesses make a profit and shareholders benefit from increased stock price and dividends. Thus validated, businesses grow into new markets and create new jobs.
Why would they create new, high paying jobs in the US when they made those high profits by creating low-paying jobs overseas? Do you think the people running corporations are idiots? They'd have to be to switch from a strategy that's benefiting them greatly to one that's going to harm them.
That class warfare stuff went out with Carter. It is pretty discredited.
Oh, well if's been discredited, then I guess I shouldn't look at the evidence of a growing income gap and maybe think that the haves are waging class warfare against the have-nots. Now I'm sure my state's plan to replace property taxes with higher sales taxes couldn't possibly benefit wealthy property owners and harm poor people, because you've informed me that idea's been "discredited".
Guess what? The vast majority of Americans don't have enough capital to live off their profits. Do you expect them all to just starve to death instead of killing you and taking your property?
I'd love to see all of the money taken out of politics, but in this case the cure is a lot worse than the disease.
According to your logic, this proves that I did not send the messages.
Although I guess we should expect someone talking about "received by:" headers to actually know anything about how SMTP actually works.
And I agree, GP is definitely flamebait. And remarkably stupid.
There have been lots of very smart people who have held religious beliefs. There are also lots of very smart people who aren't religious, but who hold other irrational beliefs. I daresay you won't find a single human anywhere who doesn't have at least some kind of irrational beliefs or behavior patterns. Unless GP poster is a nihilist who rejects calling anyone at all "smart", it's hard to argue that singling out one group is anything but Flamebait.
No, what China's actually doing is launching thousands of hydrogen bombs at every city in the West, right as we speak!
What? It's no more inaccurate than what you just said.
Are we going to praise the pre-Civil War immigration policies that made it much easier for people to immigrate here from Africa, too? I mean, back then they didn't have to fill out all the paperwork they have to now, and still face being told they couldn't come; hell, they didn't even have to want to come here in the first place.
They claim that the biggest spammer is paypal.com.
I believe them that 4.whatever% of spam has a To: line ending in "@paypal.com". If they think that any of that spam is actually originating on Paypal's network, and thus in the United States, they have absolutely no idea how email works. I'd hope a company "dedicated to protecting the integrity of the world's most widespread form of communication, e-mail" would hire at least one person who at least has to skill to "View All Headers" in their email client. Some understanding of what an IP address is might be nice, too.
you're quite wrong.
Every Apple rumor you read anywhere is completely made up by the author with no real information whatsoever. You may think the ones that turn out to be true are proof that the writers had actual inside information, but they're just a statistical certainty given the number of rumors. If someone predicts literally every product Apple could possibly release, a few of them are going to be true.
"How do you feel about having your child instructed in what's 'true' by a [Mormon/Muslim/Catholic/Protestant/Jew/Satanist] teacher?"
Smart religious people obviously would want their religion taught to their kids by their church, not by a public school. It's really only people who irrationally assume that the public school would be teaching just their religion and no one else's that are in favor of stuff like this.
Much like how people who irrationally think that their favorite political party will always be in power are in favor of unlimited government power.
I'd argue that this puts Utah squarely in 49th place, after Kansas.
Copying an innovative product isn't innovation. Copying a product that wasn't really all that innovative in the first place is just dumb. Either way, Samsung loses.
I absolutely agree with you. This rumor is about as ridiculous as when people said AOL was going to merge with Time-Warner. It just makes no sense, and will absolutely never happen.
Right, because Sony's going to read a moronic post on Slashdot and decide to release a format that makes their LCD TV business completely worthless. I'd patent that idea quick if I were you, genius.
Me, I'm studying the writings of Uri Gellar to learn how to bend spacetime like a spoon to make Mars only 5 feet away so we can walk there. These rocketry guys are thinking way too small.
How would actually reading the claims in the patent help at all?
Actually, a study showed that during the year of the last big frenzy of shark attack stories, there were significantly fewer actual shark attacks and significantly more news stories about them than the previous year.
If that trend holds, we can expect nothing but 24 hour shark attack coverage once sharks actually become extinct.
You're thinking of Italy, not Australia. Australia is considerably more than 7000 nanometers away from Austria.
Was I the only one who assumed this was going to be an article about the Playstation 3?
That would be where you said Unix didn't have file extensions.
Try passing an old version of cc(1) the name of a file that doesn't end with ".c" and see if it "determines from the contents of the file" that it's C source code.
I stand by my assertion that Unix had file extensions before DOS existed. I never claimed they worked the same way, but they were certainly there.