Well, for one, what's the product differential? DVDs are movies on disks, Blu-Rays are movies on disks. Movies? Maybe Blu-Ray is better suited to archival apps?
Second, you play DVDs in a DVD player. I have one of those. But you play Blu-Rays on a PS3. Say what? Blu-Ray is just a game format? Ok, I get it, but why should I buy another player to watch Blu-Ray? Just so I can buy the White Album again?
Third, my daughter won't touch Blu-Ray, and she's in high school -- cool by definition.
Personally, I think Blu-Ray has missed its niche. Leave it to gaming, but design for the massive production values the medium is perfect for. I would love to see Square-Enix actually building fantasies on an unfettered planetary scale -- with, say, seamless pathways to approach the same character's emotions from nine directions, like flying/walking/swimming/riding/motoring over the same landscape that NEVER gets linear. Could we have that, please? A game in which "Nothing is Written?" A game without unevolved context-free monstrosity that owes more to drugs and STD's than anything remotely (r)evolutionary?
Besides, if you remember your playing fields of Eton propaganda, you will realize that compulsory games are just a way to foster unintentional consequences, such as the loss of Hong Kong to a separate hegemony.
Wouldn't it make more sense to force babies to learn Bridge instead of Go Fish? Really, though... chess? Chess??!!
Go, aka weiqi or baduk, now... That makes some sense, and despite recent news releases, Go as played by humans has not yet succumbed to computers, even those using Monte Carlo algorithms.
Most of the angry disregard displayed by younglings who could obviously not pass Harvard's 1869 entrance exam at ages coeval with their ancestors boils down to "No fair, nobody speaks Latin or Greek these days." That, obviously, is the damning point of the exercise.
I'm reminded of the Iowa State University 1964 standards expected for qualitative analysis laboratory notebooks; these were meant to be legal documents, as much as lab notes. I was unprepared by anything I'd encountered in high school, and shocked by the legibility and orderliness strictures, as well as the stunning news that a) no erasures would be tolerated, and b) a passing grade would be 95%. My God, who knew?!
Funny. We seem to want robotic nannies to "save labor" (for what, one might ask?), but invade the grapefruit-sized domain of "pure thought" with a few AI functions and everyone goes ape from the sheer soul-less-ness of it all. When Skynet takes over, I hope they put high voltage collars on stupidity and install invisible fences around our anoetic living spaces.
So... Apparenly, Korea is dragging its heels about supplying Japan with enough boric acid to shut down those four nuclear reactors damaged by the Sendai temblor.
Makes sense, in a strictly technical way. It takes millions of dollars to refine uranium to the point it can be used in a reactor. So if the reactor core gets out of control, what you do is unrefine it.
I don't know what they used at Chernoble, but in Japan they'd like to use Boron, a neutron quencher one spot left of Carbon, which was Fermi's control rod in the first sustained nuclear pile ever (Stagg Stadium, University of Chicago, 1942).
How do you deliver something like that to a hot nuclear core in Japan? I'd recommend 20-Mule Team Borax, tons of the stuff, maybe melted into a couple hundred tons of potmetal, tin and pewter. Once the reaction is diluted to the cooling point, what you got left is a chunk of high-quality uranium ore.
And, as any potter with experience mixing glazes can tell you, you don't want pure elements in your glaze anyway, you want the pre-mixed kind, the fully-adulterated mixtures provided by aeons of geological weathering.
Hang the security issue. What about the "what's in it for me?" issue? Guaranteed guvmint approved Spam in my inbox? The U.S. Postal Service already treats my name and address as a commodity, and that's just snail mail.
My initial reaction was Bunk! Disclosing the details of a technology so obviously useful to DoD would border on treason. There seems to be room to speculate the PR is disinformation.
So why not run fiberglass cable from tower to tower, and increase the number of towers? I run a Verizon Wireless hot spot (5 connections at home), but I'm not wedded to the plan I've got (5 GB per billing cycle, which is nothing like 24/7 unlimited). There needs to be a little Federal oversight of these practices. Or a lot of Federal oversight...
Who else besides the NSA and most of Congress believes The Yellow Peril is incapable of rational thought, except when necessary to depict People With Brains in television commercials?
My working presumption since I learned Eudora has been that the 'net is inherently -- and more to the point, OBVIOUSLY -- insecure. When my email traffic isn't scanned automatically by the NSA, the KGB, Mossad, MI6 and all their various subclients, maybe I'll believe some kid isn't reading my stuff.
The only real preventive measure against email surveillance is glasnost -- be open, be boring, be unafraid.
The first step is semi-rational, the next step is coercion -- outsourcing company costs onto payroll. Why not just force IT to take employee recommendations on what IT should have bought in instance one?
I've worked in shops where the corporate mindset was, literally, don't go home, there's nothing for you at home, please stay overnight and get this done... etc etc ad nauseam. My salary, based on foolish idiocy about my own worth, seemed nice enough for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, but...
All programmer-analysts were programmers, and all programmers were coders, with the clear understanding that any schmuck off the streets (or fresh out of college) can "code."
I quit. Revenge came in a few weeks, as that company quickly rawhided itself to death. They sold out to a Big Name (not M$) who sold it to a dying brand who tore it to pieces and sold off the nearly worthless assets. Chairs and old computers and framed office decoration subscriptions went for a song.
Real company assets have brains and go home at night. Must he hell on control freaks.
These days, of course, coder is more a badge of honor than it was, because the ability to use Microsoft software somehow morphed from using to "programming."
In GTA Chinatown Wars, Mission #33 Dragon-Haul-Z is of this ilk. It seems designed to fry the nerves of adrenalin phreaques with a one-two punch. Most of the pixelbangers complaining about it seem to be 12-year-olds. That'll teach 'em to play a game rated 17+ before they're able to see the joke, let alone get it. If you're not sure who is and who isn't, read the T. "I'm so cool God is my fangirl" doesn't cut it.
My favorite "science for the cause" was the bogus but widely believed Top Scientist's report that 70's college kids are going blind from looking at the sun after dropping acid (LSD.)
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Well, for one, what's the product differential? DVDs are movies on disks, Blu-Rays are movies on disks. Movies? Maybe Blu-Ray is better suited to archival apps?
Second, you play DVDs in a DVD player. I have one of those. But you play Blu-Rays on a PS3. Say what? Blu-Ray is just a game format? Ok, I get it, but why should I buy another player to watch Blu-Ray? Just so I can buy the White Album again?
Third, my daughter won't touch Blu-Ray, and she's in high school -- cool by definition.
Personally, I think Blu-Ray has missed its niche. Leave it to gaming, but design for the massive production values the medium is perfect for. I would love to see Square-Enix actually building fantasies on an unfettered planetary scale -- with, say, seamless pathways to approach the same character's emotions from nine directions, like flying/walking/swimming/riding/motoring over the same landscape that NEVER gets linear. Could we have that, please? A game in which "Nothing is Written?" A game without unevolved context-free monstrosity that owes more to drugs and STD's than anything remotely (r)evolutionary?
Put that on Blu-Ray and smoke it!
Besides, if you remember your playing fields of Eton propaganda, you will realize that compulsory games are just a way to foster unintentional consequences, such as the loss of Hong Kong to a separate hegemony.
Wouldn't it make more sense to force babies to learn Bridge instead of Go Fish? Really, though ... chess? Chess??!!
Go, aka weiqi or baduk, now... That makes some sense, and despite recent news releases, Go as played by humans has not yet succumbed to computers, even those using Monte Carlo algorithms.
http://senseis.xmp.net/
http://senseis.xmp.net/?MoGo%2FPlayingStrength
Most of the angry disregard displayed by younglings who could obviously not pass Harvard's 1869 entrance exam at ages coeval with their ancestors boils down to "No fair, nobody speaks Latin or Greek these days." That, obviously, is the damning point of the exercise.
I'm reminded of the Iowa State University 1964 standards expected for qualitative analysis laboratory notebooks; these were meant to be legal documents, as much as lab notes. I was unprepared by anything I'd encountered in high school, and shocked by the legibility and orderliness strictures, as well as the stunning news that a) no erasures would be tolerated, and b) a passing grade would be 95%. My God, who knew?!
Another nicely weird s.a.
Funny. We seem to want robotic nannies to "save labor" (for what, one might ask?), but invade the grapefruit-sized domain of "pure thought" with a few AI functions and everyone goes ape from the sheer soul-less-ness of it all. When Skynet takes over, I hope they put high voltage collars on stupidity and install invisible fences around our anoetic living spaces.
So... Apparenly, Korea is dragging its heels about supplying Japan with enough boric acid to shut down those four nuclear reactors damaged by the Sendai temblor.
Makes sense, in a strictly technical way. It takes millions of dollars to refine uranium to the point it can be used in a reactor. So if the reactor core gets out of control, what you do is unrefine it.
I don't know what they used at Chernoble, but in Japan they'd like to use Boron, a neutron quencher one spot left of Carbon, which was Fermi's control rod in the first sustained nuclear pile ever (Stagg Stadium, University of Chicago, 1942).
How do you deliver something like that to a hot nuclear core in Japan? I'd recommend 20-Mule Team Borax, tons of the stuff, maybe melted into a couple hundred tons of potmetal, tin and pewter. Once the reaction is diluted to the cooling point, what you got left is a chunk of high-quality uranium ore.
And, as any potter with experience mixing glazes can tell you, you don't want pure elements in your glaze anyway, you want the pre-mixed kind, the fully-adulterated mixtures provided by aeons of geological weathering.
Just a thought....
Tim 'n Abby's greatest hits include "IDEA" which can be cracked in mere minutes by arm-waving.
Hang the security issue. What about the "what's in it for me?" issue? Guaranteed guvmint approved Spam in my inbox? The U.S. Postal Service already treats my name and address as a commodity, and that's just snail mail.
L R L R L L UP DN L1 R2 L2 R1 X X X doesn't do it for me.
Just installed the patches. Nicely, nicely quickstuff.
Awk, what's that you sed?
Siriusly, I gave up sysadmining when I realized bds unix (i.e., Apple) already done that for me, and all I had to worry about was how to fork Perl.
"You sir, are an idiot."
It's possible. Thanks for pointing.
My initial reaction was Bunk! Disclosing the details of a technology so obviously useful to DoD would border on treason. There seems to be room to speculate the PR is disinformation.
So why not run fiberglass cable from tower to tower, and increase the number of towers? I run a Verizon Wireless hot spot (5 connections at home), but I'm not wedded to the plan I've got (5 GB per billing cycle, which is nothing like 24/7 unlimited). There needs to be a little Federal oversight of these practices. Or a lot of Federal oversight...
Who else besides the NSA and most of Congress believes The Yellow Peril is incapable of rational thought, except when necessary to depict People With Brains in television commercials?
My working presumption since I learned Eudora has been that the 'net is inherently -- and more to the point, OBVIOUSLY -- insecure. When my email traffic isn't scanned automatically by the NSA, the KGB, Mossad, MI6 and all their various subclients, maybe I'll believe some kid isn't reading my stuff.
The only real preventive measure against email surveillance is glasnost -- be open, be boring, be unafraid.
The first step is semi-rational, the next step is coercion -- outsourcing company costs onto payroll. Why not just force IT to take employee recommendations on what IT should have bought in instance one?
I've worked in shops where the corporate mindset was, literally, don't go home, there's nothing for you at home, please stay overnight and get this done... etc etc ad nauseam. My salary, based on foolish idiocy about my own worth, seemed nice enough for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, but...
All programmer-analysts were programmers, and all programmers were coders, with the clear understanding that any schmuck off the streets (or fresh out of college) can "code."
I quit. Revenge came in a few weeks, as that company quickly rawhided itself to death. They sold out to a Big Name (not M$) who sold it to a dying brand who tore it to pieces and sold off the nearly worthless assets. Chairs and old computers and framed office decoration subscriptions went for a song.
Real company assets have brains and go home at night. Must he hell on control freaks.
These days, of course, coder is more a badge of honor than it was, because the ability to use Microsoft software somehow morphed from using to "programming."
In GTA Chinatown Wars, Mission #33 Dragon-Haul-Z is of this ilk. It seems designed to fry the nerves of adrenalin phreaques with a one-two punch. Most of the pixelbangers complaining about it seem to be 12-year-olds. That'll teach 'em to play a game rated 17+ before they're able to see the joke, let alone get it. If you're not sure who is and who isn't, read the T. "I'm so cool God is my fangirl" doesn't cut it.
Only the Dutch could take a word like "object" and make it sound so..... naughty.
Hairsplitting ("mierenneuken") is even more psychically formidable in tje urginal Dertch (slapping down wooden alien hand).
About how known bugs get shipped. For $87 grand, I can get almost that laid back.
Not without a soothing bath of buttdents remover, anyway.
My favorite "science for the cause" was the bogus but widely believed Top Scientist's report that 70's college kids are going blind from looking at the sun after dropping acid (LSD.)
Thanks for that name. /. is the only place I've seen it this morning. "New South"... Bigoted and proud, stand tall, Alabama.