Another factor that seems to be glossed over is the size of the TV - I own a 26" HDTV which is small by some standards, but for the size of my apartment and the distance from TV to seating it is the "ideal" size. With these parameters HD and DVD formats look practically the same to me - granted I have noticed a difference on the extremely large sets, but on the smaller ones that most people have you just don't have enough screen to see a difference - so what is the point?
I've had the same problem with them as well - the startup, they play the jingle, but there isn't any video output. Odds are it may just be that my monitor doesn't support sync-on-green - but since I am moving to LCDs what is the point in keeping a heavy monitor around to play with an Indy.
The simplest way to define a poor harvest would be one that fails to meet even the minimum expected production. So if a harvest normally provides 100 units of foodstuffs, then a poor harvest may only provide 50 units of foodstuffs.
Didn't they say something ten to twenty years ago about how printed media was going to be phased out? Since bookstores still seem to be around I doubt that there will ever not be a means to buy movies and music in a "hard" format - but the question will be what you can do with them in that format.
Personally, I like the fact that I can rip all of my CDs to play with my MP3 player when I am at the gym, and I also like the fact that rip some movies to play on my laptop when I go on trips. As such what is going on now will affect what the next generation "hard" media format will be and how it will work.
To me the fact that they didn't take into account someone downloading 260,000 records in chuncks of 25,000 from two computers. Most likely when Amazon wrote the conditions of use they didn't think that the average (e.g. only looking at friends and family) person would try and mass download wish lists.
Part of it could be the size of the TV as well - 26" compared to 34" is a significant difference, so needless to say that bigger can be better. I do agree with you in the CRT vs. LCD and Projection - there is a noticeable difference between the pictures, even when you are comparing them all in HD, which is part of the reason that mine is a CRT as well.
I have a 26" HDTV and to be honest I cannot tell the difference between DVD quality and high definition on the TV. This may be due to the fact that it is smaller than a TV that fills my entire wall - but I have no intention of ever buying a TV that fills the entire wall so if I can get the current state of technology as opposed to something that they say is better (and I personally can't tell the difference) but I have to pay more money - well what do you think that I as a consumer is going to do - the cheaper one of course.
If I recall correctly a good number of the speed limits (with in cities, I know that between cities it can be different) are based upon the speed rating for the road surface and the amount of traffic that the road is projected to carry. As such there are times where the speed limit is below what it should logically be (e.g. they thought the road would be used more) but for the most part there is a logical reasoning to most of them.
Also, you have to take into account that there are a lot of idiot drives out there that you don't want driving than - say - 10 miles an hour?
Don't forget that for extremely big transgressions you can unincorporate the company and pretty much force it out of business. The downside is that anyone working for that company also loses all of their jobs.
Which raises an interesting question, if a company was knowingly doing something that would case it to be unincorporated a) would all of the employees know and b) would the employees be equally responsible if they did?
I lived in Pennsylvania for awhile and I had not even heard of that law - I would be curious to see if there was a block on the state income tax form (e.g. if you spent between $500-$1,000 online last year pay X) if they would collect for that law.
If this does come to pass, I would hope that the law would also provide for a publicly accessible database funded by the government. The subscription fees charged by some of these commercial database companies would break a small business, and possibly even one at the $5million level proposed depending on the nature and margin of the business.
You are kidding right? If anything such a law would likely have a significant fine for not making sure you are collecting the right taxes.
You pretty much nailed it to a "T" right there - odds are if the movie had been marked as "The Sprits Within" and that is was produced by the creators of Final Fantasy it would have done much better.
If you put aside the Final Fantasy in the name the movie is a decent enough Sci-Fi flick with some slight philosophical overtones, but it is no way worthy of the Final Fantasy name.
The support for backwards capability is there if the XBox API is unchanged from before (or if the original calls are still supported), but even then it will come down to if the developers used the XBox API alone, or if they used hardware targeted code as well.
As such, odds are when the XBox 360 comes out it will offer limited backwards capability support. Most likely along the lines of "We provided the XBox developers with the tools to make sure their games where forwards compatible, and we left the API calls unchanged so if they did their job the games will run fine, but don't hold us accountable if you can't play all of them because of something that the developers did."
This may be a simple question - but how would the amount of memory and the performance of the card relate to each other? I can understand how having a faster GPU can be a benefit, but I fail to see how having more RAM (past a certain point) is a benefit.
Obviously if you don't have enough (e.g. 64Mb RAM when the game engine needs about 128Mb RAM) there will be a performance hit, but if the game has all the memory it needs what would the point of having more be?
More likely is that people will ignore it until a week before it hits because they would treat it the same way as global warming - it doesn't exist until it begins to affect them, and then it sits in committee for awhile while people decide what to do about it.
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Because just because something is technologically better doesn't mean that it's (a) easier to use, and (b) marketed more.
In the case of OSX part of the problem is that it is for only one platform and that platform is expensive compared to the cheap internet computers you can buy at Wal-Mart. As such Joe L-User only has real experience with the basics of Windows and they know that it "looks pretty" and "does what they need it to do", once you add in the fact that they hear that "Linux is hard to use" and you have word of mouth working against other OSes.
Long story short, Linux is always going to have problems getting major wide spread appeal as long entry level computers come loaded with Windows - if they were pre-loaded and pre-configured to run Linux in a desktop environment then odds are the word-of-mouth appeal of Linux would start to change and more people would start using it.
However, in the mean time people want "pretty" desktops that they can use to send baby pictures to Gramma with, and the hardware companies want Microsoft to come out with bloated OSes so that people have to upgrade their computer every two years.
But why bother taxing the computer? Why not just add an additional tax to anyone that has an ISP. It seems to me that it would solve alot of the problems that would be associated with anyone that has a computer getting taxed.
Except most don't buy the season boxes - most people that watch anime will buy about one or two disks a month and slowly collect the series over about a year. That's the big difference between anime and most TV series box sets - anime is released in more "manageable" chucks, were as TV shows are released all at once - you may want that show but you can't bring yourself to pay the $50-$100 they want for it.
$120 is about what people that watch anime are paying now for a full season for a series.
Consider the following: a full season of an anime series is about 26 episodes, with about 4/3 episodes (typically they will have an extra episode on the first disk or two and then drop down to 3 per disk) to a DVD. That means about 7 DVDs for a series, and anime DVDs are about $20-$25 dollars a DVD. So that means that on average people that watch anime are paying about $140-$170 to own the series.
Granted it is more expensive to make the series (paying for licensing, dubbing the show, marketing), but the key sticking point seems to be the same it always has been - they change what they know people will buy. If you have a good series people would willing to pay $5 an hour if they can keep a tangible item (a movie file they can burn for example).
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To the best of my knowledge the first part roughly translates as:
"According to the local laws, regulations, and policy; part of the search's results could not be returned"
Which is something that I find interesting, I would not have expected Google to be allowed to admit that they are censoring the search results.
Another factor that seems to be glossed over is the size of the TV - I own a 26" HDTV which is small by some standards, but for the size of my apartment and the distance from TV to seating it is the "ideal" size. With these parameters HD and DVD formats look practically the same to me - granted I have noticed a difference on the extremely large sets, but on the smaller ones that most people have you just don't have enough screen to see a difference - so what is the point?
I've had the same problem with them as well - the startup, they play the jingle, but there isn't any video output. Odds are it may just be that my monitor doesn't support sync-on-green - but since I am moving to LCDs what is the point in keeping a heavy monitor around to play with an Indy.
The simplest way to define a poor harvest would be one that fails to meet even the minimum expected production. So if a harvest normally provides 100 units of foodstuffs, then a poor harvest may only provide 50 units of foodstuffs.
Have you even bothered to try to google for the relevant research?
Here's a hint - the Earth has cyclic patterns. The problem is that right now there is only one major source of C02.
Didn't they say something ten to twenty years ago about how printed media was going to be phased out? Since bookstores still seem to be around I doubt that there will ever not be a means to buy movies and music in a "hard" format - but the question will be what you can do with them in that format.
Personally, I like the fact that I can rip all of my CDs to play with my MP3 player when I am at the gym, and I also like the fact that rip some movies to play on my laptop when I go on trips. As such what is going on now will affect what the next generation "hard" media format will be and how it will work.
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I've run into it on I,Robot and Electra so far - so there are two to avoid right off the bat.
To me the fact that they didn't take into account someone downloading 260,000 records in chuncks of 25,000 from two computers. Most likely when Amazon wrote the conditions of use they didn't think that the average (e.g. only looking at friends and family) person would try and mass download wish lists.
Part of it could be the size of the TV as well - 26" compared to 34" is a significant difference, so needless to say that bigger can be better. I do agree with you in the CRT vs. LCD and Projection - there is a noticeable difference between the pictures, even when you are comparing them all in HD, which is part of the reason that mine is a CRT as well.
I have a 26" HDTV and to be honest I cannot tell the difference between DVD quality and high definition on the TV. This may be due to the fact that it is smaller than a TV that fills my entire wall - but I have no intention of ever buying a TV that fills the entire wall so if I can get the current state of technology as opposed to something that they say is better (and I personally can't tell the difference) but I have to pay more money - well what do you think that I as a consumer is going to do - the cheaper one of course.
If I recall correctly a good number of the speed limits (with in cities, I know that between cities it can be different) are based upon the speed rating for the road surface and the amount of traffic that the road is projected to carry. As such there are times where the speed limit is below what it should logically be (e.g. they thought the road would be used more) but for the most part there is a logical reasoning to most of them.
Also, you have to take into account that there are a lot of idiot drives out there that you don't want driving than - say - 10 miles an hour?
Don't forget that for extremely big transgressions you can unincorporate the company and pretty much force it out of business. The downside is that anyone working for that company also loses all of their jobs.
Which raises an interesting question, if a company was knowingly doing something that would case it to be unincorporated a) would all of the employees know and b) would the employees be equally responsible if they did?
I lived in Pennsylvania for awhile and I had not even heard of that law - I would be curious to see if there was a block on the state income tax form (e.g. if you spent between $500-$1,000 online last year pay X) if they would collect for that law.
If this does come to pass, I would hope that the law would also provide for a publicly accessible database funded by the government. The subscription fees charged by some of these commercial database companies would break a small business, and possibly even one at the $5million level proposed depending on the nature and margin of the business.
You are kidding right? If anything such a law would likely have a significant fine for not making sure you are collecting the right taxes.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. I rest my case ^_^
You pretty much nailed it to a "T" right there - odds are if the movie had been marked as "The Sprits Within" and that is was produced by the creators of Final Fantasy it would have done much better.
If you put aside the Final Fantasy in the name the movie is a decent enough Sci-Fi flick with some slight philosophical overtones, but it is no way worthy of the Final Fantasy name.
The support for backwards capability is there if the XBox API is unchanged from before (or if the original calls are still supported), but even then it will come down to if the developers used the XBox API alone, or if they used hardware targeted code as well.
As such, odds are when the XBox 360 comes out it will offer limited backwards capability support. Most likely along the lines of "We provided the XBox developers with the tools to make sure their games where forwards compatible, and we left the API calls unchanged so if they did their job the games will run fine, but don't hold us accountable if you can't play all of them because of something that the developers did."
This may be a simple question - but how would the amount of memory and the performance of the card relate to each other? I can understand how having a faster GPU can be a benefit, but I fail to see how having more RAM (past a certain point) is a benefit.
Obviously if you don't have enough (e.g. 64Mb RAM when the game engine needs about 128Mb RAM) there will be a performance hit, but if the game has all the memory it needs what would the point of having more be?
More likely is that people will ignore it until a week before it hits because they would treat it the same way as global warming - it doesn't exist until it begins to affect them, and then it sits in committee for awhile while people decide what to do about it.
Because just because something is technologically better doesn't mean that it's (a) easier to use, and (b) marketed more.
In the case of OSX part of the problem is that it is for only one platform and that platform is expensive compared to the cheap internet computers you can buy at Wal-Mart. As such Joe L-User only has real experience with the basics of Windows and they know that it "looks pretty" and "does what they need it to do", once you add in the fact that they hear that "Linux is hard to use" and you have word of mouth working against other OSes.
Long story short, Linux is always going to have problems getting major wide spread appeal as long entry level computers come loaded with Windows - if they were pre-loaded and pre-configured to run Linux in a desktop environment then odds are the word-of-mouth appeal of Linux would start to change and more people would start using it.
However, in the mean time people want "pretty" desktops that they can use to send baby pictures to Gramma with, and the hardware companies want Microsoft to come out with bloated OSes so that people have to upgrade their computer every two years.
But why bother taxing the computer? Why not just add an additional tax to anyone that has an ISP. It seems to me that it would solve alot of the problems that would be associated with anyone that has a computer getting taxed.
Except most don't buy the season boxes - most people that watch anime will buy about one or two disks a month and slowly collect the series over about a year. That's the big difference between anime and most TV series box sets - anime is released in more "manageable" chucks, were as TV shows are released all at once - you may want that show but you can't bring yourself to pay the $50-$100 they want for it.
$120 is about what people that watch anime are paying now for a full season for a series.
Consider the following: a full season of an anime series is about 26 episodes, with about 4/3 episodes (typically they will have an extra episode on the first disk or two and then drop down to 3 per disk) to a DVD. That means about 7 DVDs for a series, and anime DVDs are about $20-$25 dollars a DVD. So that means that on average people that watch anime are paying about $140-$170 to own the series.
Granted it is more expensive to make the series (paying for licensing, dubbing the show, marketing), but the key sticking point seems to be the same it always has been - they change what they know people will buy. If you have a good series people would willing to pay $5 an hour if they can keep a tangible item (a movie file they can burn for example).
They are going to hear that you have too much time on you hands...