I used to post on a number of forums regarding audio equipment. I'd say about 50% of the people were open minded and logical, 40% were set in their ways and would take light offense if you disagreed, but they had good things to say often and 10% were out to completely destroy everyone's opinion -- trolls. I make a living in audio and consider myself an expert in the field, in the same way an experienced high level mechanical engineer might, and I have a lot of practical experience to back it up. Even with well thought out explanations, and with cases where there were irrefutable answers to questions, those 10% of people would inevitably shout incorrect answers or make personal attacks and derail everything. It was just a question of the loudest and most frequent yeller. Have you seen the movie Idiocracy where the main character is trying to convince the government that plants need water, not Brawndo? Exactly like this:
I stopped posting on all these forums because it's just not worth it. Those people have way more free time than any productive person. It's a real shame though, because when people like me are driven away, the majority of people who just want an honest answer are getting completely screwed by these yahoos. There's no accountability so even if you call them on an argument, they just shut up until the next post a day later. Their energy to cause shit seems to be endless.
It basically looks like Chrome with facebook grafted on the left and right sides. The only problem is that the layout is not nearly as good as the full facebook page. It's actually much easier keeping another tab open with facebook then to use the Rocketmelt interface. The friend list didn't even recognize my groups settings and the icons of most of my friends have nothing to do with their actual face so it was just a bunch of useless things down the left side. The news feed on the right loaded noticeably slow - i.e. it wasn't just "there" when i wanted it. What's the point of having to wait when I can keep the page open in the tab?
It only takes one really good reencode which is then uploaded. That's 2 hours per blu-ray. I know it's not 10x or 20x read but it's still insignficant for one person somewhere to invest the 2 hours and produce a nearly indistinguishable copy.
It will be obvious to anyone who has driven with a German driver in Germany that the reason why they can drive fast and not die. The vast majority of German drivers are highly skilled, highly respectful of the laws AND are motivated to get from A to B as quickly as possible in a purposeful manner. They also fastidiously maintain their cars which are generally very well built to begin with. American drivers by comparison are unskilled, disrespectful of basic laws (like stop signs), distracted and they drive inferior automobiles in worse condition.
I'd rather see an advanced driving test instituted. You pay $50 to take it and if you pass you can drive as fast as you want. Your car gets inspected once a year. Done. Privileges for those who are skilled and responsible.
The problem is most likely that your hand creates electrical contact with the steel or bridges the 2 antenna parts on the lower left. Either way you just coat the steel with plastic resin or something transparent/matte and the problem is solved. I'll be the factory has already done this on new models.
We have already tapped all the easy forms of energy available to us. Your argument doesn't apply. If the Romans didn't have anything else to find after they used up all the trees, then they damn well should have rationed them. By conservative accounts, we've got 50 years of oil left at our current use, solar and alternative energies will never provide more than 10-20% of world consumption. Even if we were to conserve massively now, there would have to be a major population reduction. Damn right we should be rationing right now. The majority of us live in complete luxury, with artificially cheap everything but there is nobody consuming rationally. It's not in our nature.
No, actually the ISPs will make all the money. Small shows like Pioneer will continue to be given away, while large producers will have exclusive deals with the ISPs (or will own the ISPs) to take a percentage of bandwidth revenue.
I think in the next 10-15 years the large internet providers are going to put a strangle hold on subscribers and basically charge out the a$$ for bandwidth. If content producers can't charge for content (realistically), they can get the equivalent charges from the raw bandwidth. Notice how the content producers are making closer and closer ties to the service providers? Vertically integrated markets here we come.
3D gives me motion sickness. Surely the day will come when I and many others won't be able to watch a regular 2D movie in a theatre. If you ask me, it's 1 step forward, 2 steps back from an overall marketshare standpoint.
Everything moves, thus everything has time. The trick is in the measuring. One must observe, which on a large scale is easy, but as you get to basic particles the energy of watching is always slightly greater than the energy of movement so you will always be behind in measuring "time". You can certainly predict what might happen but I don't think it's ever possible to see it happen or measure it at this scale.
Or, it's some basic cultural misunderstanding where he thought it was appropriate to celebrate with firecrackers on Xmas. If this the biggest terrorist threat of the year then America can sleep soundly.
And where do you put it? It was dumped in the Ocean for a reason, because it was not convenient or possible to dump it anywhere else. Did you read the size of the garbage patch? Would you want that in your back yard? The point is that we are making too much garbage! Any 5 year old can tell you that's the real issue.
You might be used to Windows or Linux upgrades which are typically slower and more feature laden than their predecessors. In this case I'd agree, the OS does very little to increase productivity if you have specialized needs like graphics creation. However, OS X is generally getting faster with each release, the OS gets "smarter" and by nature the multi-window-one-toolbar orientation of OS X lends itself to some nifty interface advantages for people who have 20 or 30 windows open and active at a time across multiple programs.
I would say each OS X release has given me 5% more productivity because of speed and window management/file management features they've added. The #1 reason I want Leopard is for this same reason. It's supposed to be faster, require less disc space and the new UI advancements will save me lots of time, maybe 30 minutes a day if you calculated it.
If you want broadband you've got basically 2 companies to choose from depending on where you live. Both suck. It won't be long before they really put the screws to people. Prices are going up and so are restrictions.
Actually, I think you'll find that replacing a $300 CD player with a $300 turntable in just about any system will yield huge improvements. There is just such a big difference in the source material, it transcends the rest of the system. Garbage in-garbage out.
This is an interesting point. I'm in the audio business so I know a bit about selling formats. The other way one of the formats will win is if retailers get off the fence and just choose a format. Then customers will have artificially easier access to only one. Personally, I am telling people to go for Blu-Ray for the simple reason that is sounds different than "DVD" and people get confused between HD-DVD and DVD. i.e. "why would I need that, it's just DVD right?"
From what I've read so far, it seems as though the video and audio are finally state of the art, whereas the original DVD was a piece of junk. Seeing the movie in the theatre around 2000 from a fresh master print was a revelation. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of film ever made and it deserves a complete restoration for DVD/Hidef.
OS X rarely has kernel panics and 99% of the time they are related to:
1.) failing hardware/RAM
2.) bizarre, hack or beta software
The only kernel panic I've had since the original version of OS X was from an old iMac with a failing logic board. I'm still running old versions of Office and many other programs that I never bothered to upgrade because to my surprise they keep working perfectly fine even under Leopard. This guy is totally out to lunch.
Blade Runner was one of the worst mastered DVDs out there. For anybody who saw it in the theatre, especially the limited run 35mm print from around 2000, it's apparent that Blade Runner is one of the most beautiful films ever shot. The DVD was too dark and grainy, non-anamorphic and the sound plain sucked ass. It's probably the film that will get me to buy Blu-ray.
I bet you have no idea how many databases, private and public know your driver's license number and can cross-reference tons of other information. Just because you haven't had any privacy problems yet, it doesn't mean your information is actually private or not being used for market research.
Thing is, record companies never controlled the stores anyway. It was the stores that had a market demand and asked the record companies for their product. Over time, it became a symbiosis where the companies realized they could make more money selling fewer bands or only adequate quality, or one hit wonders. But, even at this point, they only had control over the stores in so much as there was still a market the store's needed to fill and the record companies had something they could fill it with. The real problem now is that there is no market for music so stores are going out of business. The record companies are trying to keep to business as usual because without the stores they have no direct route to customers (in their eyes). The reason they screwed up digital distribution is because they never dealt with customers directly in the past. They have no idea what the market really wants or is. That's why it's taken a consumer company like Apple to take over the role that old brick and mortar stores used to fill. They essentially created their own market.
Even if this is the case, (and there ARE at least a few companies such as RTI that will take hi-res masters), when you put the CD file onto vinyl it does something to the sound that makes it better than the CD. There are hundreds of new LPs you can buy and compare to the CD which came from the same source and the LP will sound better 90% of the time. Why? Who the hell knows, but the conclusion is the same.
People don't care about sound quality. Now that they've seen that they can put their whole music collection on a little box the size of a deck of cards, the only thing 99% of people care about is size. Take it from someone who owns a high end stereo store. The number one request I get is for "wireless speakers." This is followed closely by "a tiny amplifier." People just want invisible music. They're not listening seriously, it's all for background. And now that they can download anything they want, why the hell would they buy space-taking CDs? The CD is dead. Ironically, the only people who do care about quality have gone back to vinyl, largely because the CD selection locally is dwindling to the same size.
The point of this is to figure out the exact number of atoms in 1KG. Even if the sphere gets damaged, they should theoretically be able to check it for the number of atoms or just grow another using the same procedure.
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I used to post on a number of forums regarding audio equipment. I'd say about 50% of the people were open minded and logical, 40% were set in their ways and would take light offense if you disagreed, but they had good things to say often and 10% were out to completely destroy everyone's opinion -- trolls. I make a living in audio and consider myself an expert in the field, in the same way an experienced high level mechanical engineer might, and I have a lot of practical experience to back it up. Even with well thought out explanations, and with cases where there were irrefutable answers to questions, those 10% of people would inevitably shout incorrect answers or make personal attacks and derail everything. It was just a question of the loudest and most frequent yeller. Have you seen the movie Idiocracy where the main character is trying to convince the government that plants need water, not Brawndo? Exactly like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs
I stopped posting on all these forums because it's just not worth it. Those people have way more free time than any productive person. It's a real shame though, because when people like me are driven away, the majority of people who just want an honest answer are getting completely screwed by these yahoos. There's no accountability so even if you call them on an argument, they just shut up until the next post a day later. Their energy to cause shit seems to be endless.
It basically looks like Chrome with facebook grafted on the left and right sides. The only problem is that the layout is not nearly as good as the full facebook page. It's actually much easier keeping another tab open with facebook then to use the Rocketmelt interface. The friend list didn't even recognize my groups settings and the icons of most of my friends have nothing to do with their actual face so it was just a bunch of useless things down the left side. The news feed on the right loaded noticeably slow - i.e. it wasn't just "there" when i wanted it. What's the point of having to wait when I can keep the page open in the tab?
It only takes one really good reencode which is then uploaded. That's 2 hours per blu-ray. I know it's not 10x or 20x read but it's still insignficant for one person somewhere to invest the 2 hours and produce a nearly indistinguishable copy.
So you record the stream from the player to the display. No big difference.
It will be obvious to anyone who has driven with a German driver in Germany that the reason why they can drive fast and not die. The vast majority of German drivers are highly skilled, highly respectful of the laws AND are motivated to get from A to B as quickly as possible in a purposeful manner. They also fastidiously maintain their cars which are generally very well built to begin with. American drivers by comparison are unskilled, disrespectful of basic laws (like stop signs), distracted and they drive inferior automobiles in worse condition. I'd rather see an advanced driving test instituted. You pay $50 to take it and if you pass you can drive as fast as you want. Your car gets inspected once a year. Done. Privileges for those who are skilled and responsible.
The problem is most likely that your hand creates electrical contact with the steel or bridges the 2 antenna parts on the lower left. Either way you just coat the steel with plastic resin or something transparent/matte and the problem is solved. I'll be the factory has already done this on new models.
We have already tapped all the easy forms of energy available to us. Your argument doesn't apply. If the Romans didn't have anything else to find after they used up all the trees, then they damn well should have rationed them. By conservative accounts, we've got 50 years of oil left at our current use, solar and alternative energies will never provide more than 10-20% of world consumption. Even if we were to conserve massively now, there would have to be a major population reduction. Damn right we should be rationing right now. The majority of us live in complete luxury, with artificially cheap everything but there is nobody consuming rationally. It's not in our nature.
No, actually the ISPs will make all the money. Small shows like Pioneer will continue to be given away, while large producers will have exclusive deals with the ISPs (or will own the ISPs) to take a percentage of bandwidth revenue.
I think in the next 10-15 years the large internet providers are going to put a strangle hold on subscribers and basically charge out the a$$ for bandwidth. If content producers can't charge for content (realistically), they can get the equivalent charges from the raw bandwidth. Notice how the content producers are making closer and closer ties to the service providers? Vertically integrated markets here we come.
3D gives me motion sickness. Surely the day will come when I and many others won't be able to watch a regular 2D movie in a theatre. If you ask me, it's 1 step forward, 2 steps back from an overall marketshare standpoint.
Everything moves, thus everything has time. The trick is in the measuring. One must observe, which on a large scale is easy, but as you get to basic particles the energy of watching is always slightly greater than the energy of movement so you will always be behind in measuring "time". You can certainly predict what might happen but I don't think it's ever possible to see it happen or measure it at this scale.
Or, it's some basic cultural misunderstanding where he thought it was appropriate to celebrate with firecrackers on Xmas. If this the biggest terrorist threat of the year then America can sleep soundly.
And where do you put it? It was dumped in the Ocean for a reason, because it was not convenient or possible to dump it anywhere else. Did you read the size of the garbage patch? Would you want that in your back yard? The point is that we are making too much garbage! Any 5 year old can tell you that's the real issue.
You might be used to Windows or Linux upgrades which are typically slower and more feature laden than their predecessors. In this case I'd agree, the OS does very little to increase productivity if you have specialized needs like graphics creation. However, OS X is generally getting faster with each release, the OS gets "smarter" and by nature the multi-window-one-toolbar orientation of OS X lends itself to some nifty interface advantages for people who have 20 or 30 windows open and active at a time across multiple programs. I would say each OS X release has given me 5% more productivity because of speed and window management/file management features they've added. The #1 reason I want Leopard is for this same reason. It's supposed to be faster, require less disc space and the new UI advancements will save me lots of time, maybe 30 minutes a day if you calculated it.
If you want broadband you've got basically 2 companies to choose from depending on where you live. Both suck. It won't be long before they really put the screws to people. Prices are going up and so are restrictions.
Actually, I think you'll find that replacing a $300 CD player with a $300 turntable in just about any system will yield huge improvements. There is just such a big difference in the source material, it transcends the rest of the system. Garbage in-garbage out.
This is an interesting point. I'm in the audio business so I know a bit about selling formats. The other way one of the formats will win is if retailers get off the fence and just choose a format. Then customers will have artificially easier access to only one. Personally, I am telling people to go for Blu-Ray for the simple reason that is sounds different than "DVD" and people get confused between HD-DVD and DVD. i.e. "why would I need that, it's just DVD right?"
From what I've read so far, it seems as though the video and audio are finally state of the art, whereas the original DVD was a piece of junk. Seeing the movie in the theatre around 2000 from a fresh master print was a revelation. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of film ever made and it deserves a complete restoration for DVD/Hidef.
OS X rarely has kernel panics and 99% of the time they are related to:
1.) failing hardware/RAM
2.) bizarre, hack or beta software
The only kernel panic I've had since the original version of OS X was from an old iMac with a failing logic board. I'm still running old versions of Office and many other programs that I never bothered to upgrade because to my surprise they keep working perfectly fine even under Leopard. This guy is totally out to lunch.
Blade Runner was one of the worst mastered DVDs out there. For anybody who saw it in the theatre, especially the limited run 35mm print from around 2000, it's apparent that Blade Runner is one of the most beautiful films ever shot. The DVD was too dark and grainy, non-anamorphic and the sound plain sucked ass. It's probably the film that will get me to buy Blu-ray.
I bet you have no idea how many databases, private and public know your driver's license number and can cross-reference tons of other information. Just because you haven't had any privacy problems yet, it doesn't mean your information is actually private or not being used for market research.
Thing is, record companies never controlled the stores anyway. It was the stores that had a market demand and asked the record companies for their product. Over time, it became a symbiosis where the companies realized they could make more money selling fewer bands or only adequate quality, or one hit wonders. But, even at this point, they only had control over the stores in so much as there was still a market the store's needed to fill and the record companies had something they could fill it with. The real problem now is that there is no market for music so stores are going out of business. The record companies are trying to keep to business as usual because without the stores they have no direct route to customers (in their eyes). The reason they screwed up digital distribution is because they never dealt with customers directly in the past. They have no idea what the market really wants or is. That's why it's taken a consumer company like Apple to take over the role that old brick and mortar stores used to fill. They essentially created their own market.
Even if this is the case, (and there ARE at least a few companies such as RTI that will take hi-res masters), when you put the CD file onto vinyl it does something to the sound that makes it better than the CD. There are hundreds of new LPs you can buy and compare to the CD which came from the same source and the LP will sound better 90% of the time. Why? Who the hell knows, but the conclusion is the same.
People don't care about sound quality. Now that they've seen that they can put their whole music collection on a little box the size of a deck of cards, the only thing 99% of people care about is size. Take it from someone who owns a high end stereo store. The number one request I get is for "wireless speakers." This is followed closely by "a tiny amplifier." People just want invisible music. They're not listening seriously, it's all for background. And now that they can download anything they want, why the hell would they buy space-taking CDs? The CD is dead. Ironically, the only people who do care about quality have gone back to vinyl, largely because the CD selection locally is dwindling to the same size.
The point of this is to figure out the exact number of atoms in 1KG. Even if the sphere gets damaged, they should theoretically be able to check it for the number of atoms or just grow another using the same procedure.