It doesn't matter where you are. If you can vote for your leaders, then it's up to you to send a message loud and clear with your votes on how to deal with the Americans. If you can't vote for them, if you're under authoritarian leadership, then Gandhi's way of non-cooperation is probably your only hope of making a peaceful change. History has proven that violence will only start the cycle over. If the majority of people where you are like things the way they are, as they do in the states, then we just have to except it. But don't start bleating about how it's the government's or the corp's fault. There shouldn't be any arrogance in telling people that they themselves must bring about a change if that is what they want, that the power is in their hands, not the government's. If you try to exercise it every once in a while, you might just find how strong it is, but you won't know until you try. The responses I see here don't mean much. The election results I see in the paper tells the whole story.
If everbody obeyed the law, the country would go broke and have to make laws that are impossible to obey. This, of course is not news. I just felt a need to point that out. Most of these laws are created to generate revenue. There's no morality to speak of. A good experiment to try would be to get everybody to quit doing coke and let's just see how the world's economies do. I would wager that the effects would be pretty dramatic. The real reason prohibition was abolished was that too many very important people were getting cought up in it. Plus, other, more closely targeted prohibitions(drugs) were starting to take affect and generate adequate profits for the parties involved. This is one reason drunk driving isn't taken seriously by the authorities. Too many rich and powerful people are doing it. That would include the people who write and enforce the law.
It's not just cable. Most DVDs, besides sticking or skipping more oftem than a scratched record, have horrible video also. Working this stuff over the last 15 years has just made me hyper-critical. Now I see every flash frame and phase change in a bad edit. I suppose this is what makes $80 DVD players possible. Doesn't matter to me anynore. I quit buying with the demise of the 12 inch video disk, and besides, I don't trust the damn things to last more than 15 years...tops. Hell, I can be happy with a 5 inch black 'n white, so this whole picture quality thing really doesn't matter that much. In fact, with this DTV stuff, will I still be able to buy a 5 inch black 'n white for 60 bucks? Probably, but there won't be a signal for me to see.
We're talking about the public airwaves here, not what you watch in private, so I have at least as much say over it as you do.
The only say you have is over your channel selector not mine. The airwaves may be public, but you still have to tune in. Nobody's forcing you to watch. Since you don't seem to be a great believer in individual freedom, maybe the US is not the place for you. You might like a more authoritarian regime, like China for instance. They have lots of censorship there. We're trying to keep the level of fascism down to a more tolerable level here. Oh, and you have good company in that list you put yourself into. You fit right in. You should have a little chat with them. You all will get along just fine.
Only your neighbors. They voted too. How they vote is their choice, not the gov't or some corp. Maybe they got bought by some phoney tax cut or a promise to kick out all the Mexicans, but they are the ones who got bought.
The people that did win, got the most money from someone.
More importantly, and apparently unbeknownst to you, is that the people that did win, got the most votes from someone. I don't care how much money you have. If you don't get the votes, you will not occupy the office.
Yeah, self responsibility is a bitch...aint it? You can censor your TV all you want but keep your hands off of mine. I don't need you or anybody else telling me what I'm allowed to see.
We just can't stop the industry that owns our government.
Oh, jeez. Stop it already! The voters own the gov't! Quit trying to pass the buck. If all you're going to do is view spoon fed info and vote for for the major party, then you don't deserve to have a democracy(democratic republic to you nit pickers). Is this continued voter ignorance just another attempt to avoid responsibility for the actions of the people YOU voted for? If all of you can divert your attention away from American Idol or whatever for ten minutes, you might find that you can own the media also. The cause of your mis-fortunes is completely self contained within your own cranium. Accept it. Them move on to step 2.
Wrong. The sense of entitlement comes from the copyright holders. They're looking for and getting special privileges for their line of work. And now a lot of them are bitter that they might not get the E! Channel red carpet treatment. And now they want to extend these entitlements for...how many years now? And 100 years(more like 295) of legal precedent does not a good law make. You're right. This isn't a fair fight. That doesn't matter. We have the power to change it, but most just aren't interested. There's a new Simpsons movie coming out, and Malibu Stacy has a new hat. The simple fact is that the law will follow the money. Always has. It's as natural as the flow of water.
Sony BVH-2000. Best 1 inch ever. Better than Ampex. Though I'll admit the vipers were easy to fix. Kept some running until 2001. If you want auto-thread, get a 3000.
The tape operator could just lean on the tape reel flange and slow down the playback.
Might work with the Ampex, but the Sony would just shut down if the tension got too high or low. I found a better way for me was to simply pause the machine, spin one reel like a record as fast or as slow as you want, and the machine would keep tension on the tape and play a perfect picture. Theough beta took over for all the obvious reasons, picture quality will never be one of them. The 1 inch still looks better. All this being analog. No "D" nothing. The last equipment I saw was some Sony Beta "hybrid" thing that could do both analog and digital. I thought editing with digital was a pain. With analog, shuttling through hours of video was just easier to "decypher" as it was passing along. And audio cues were easier to pick out.
Oh, Damn! That didn't come out the way I expected. To rephrase, Let's not blame anybody but ourselves for our own lack of attention span and ability to stay focused.
You all voted them in. Now quit your bellyaching, and vote them out. Do you realize that if all the people that didn't vote voted for the opposition, the president and possibly many of your congressmen would not be a republican/democrat? You all made a choice. Now you have to live with it. You spilt the milk. Now clean it up!
In addition, Congress would likely approve subsidies for low-income residents who can not afford to buy a new set. They could use the subsidies to either buy a new TV or get a converter box that would transfer digital signals so they could be watched on an analog set.
I'm sure Hollywood would like that. They would also probably like it if you couldn't turn it off.
What I'm also looking for are criticisms of DTV...
How about all that horrible pixelation in low contrast areas of the screen because of the extreme compression being used? I'm not the least bit impressed with digital or DVDs. My old 12 inch video disks looked just as good...better to me. If you want real quality, you need a 1 inch VTR with component video out. It still makes the best picture I've seen. And it's analog. So searching rapidly through the tape is easy. Besides, DTV is expensive..., but then, so is the 1 inch. I do like the idea of other data bieng put into the signal. We were promised that with CDs, but so far hardly anybody uses it.
* Some corporations are corrupt * Some governments are corrupt * Individuals are often powerless when the two get together...
Sorry...Uh uh...It take lazy/corrupt individuals to allow/encourage this. Let's not blame our own lack of attention span and ability to stay focused on anybody but ourselves.
Now if they just mandate more intelligent programming.
Anything but that! Programming is none of their business. You should know that by now. Especially after the "Janet" thing. Technical standards are the only thing theFCC should be messing with.
Intel is buying HP to resurrect Alpha, which is "the Intel chip" to which Apple is actually porting OS-X.
Now that would be very good news. That would definitely keep the Apple hardware "aura" alive. I would most certainly welcome something like this. This would give everbody a chance to build really new hardware and software...a nice fresh start.
I think it would be great. Intel could finally shake off the 4004 and make a real, modern chip. Not some 1972 hack with 33 layers on it that look like the rings of a tree. But of course Microsoft will then buy Apple. Or maybe they'll buy Linux. So we can still keep the "Apple vs. Microsoft" and "Linux vs. BSD" wars going. Maybe Microsoft will just go to the PPC. Does that mean they're going to buy IBM? And what about SCO? Are they going continue to sell licenses? Or will they finally start making license plates?
I can't understand how people can be so juvenile over something so small as a CPU.
Maybe for the same reason I prefer a ratty Volkswagen beetle over a new Yugo. The whole experience is completely different. Yeah, a Yugo gets the job done, but I prefer a little pleasure , or at least fun along the way. I was really pathetic when the Alpha chip died. I guess mediocre is ok if the price is right. The most significant benchmark that the Intel excelled in was power consumed and heat generated to match the computing power of a PPC...possibly up to the G5. I haven't checked out laptop(I know...G4) benchmarks. A better benchmark might be computing power per watt.
Well, maybe while Jimmy Carter was President, but not since Reagan took ofice.
Being a Hollywood "veteran", Reagan(more likely his handlers) knew how to work the propaganda machine better than any of his predecessors. We still haven't seen the consequences yet. The power of distraction continues undiminished today. Now excuse me while I check out my American Idol reruns.
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It doesn't matter where you are. If you can vote for your leaders, then it's up to you to send a message loud and clear with your votes on how to deal with the Americans. If you can't vote for them, if you're under authoritarian leadership, then Gandhi's way of non-cooperation is probably your only hope of making a peaceful change. History has proven that violence will only start the cycle over. If the majority of people where you are like things the way they are, as they do in the states, then we just have to except it. But don't start bleating about how it's the government's or the corp's fault. There shouldn't be any arrogance in telling people that they themselves must bring about a change if that is what they want, that the power is in their hands, not the government's. If you try to exercise it every once in a while, you might just find how strong it is, but you won't know until you try. The responses I see here don't mean much. The election results I see in the paper tells the whole story.
If everbody obeyed the law, the country would go broke and have to make laws that are impossible to obey. This, of course is not news. I just felt a need to point that out. Most of these laws are created to generate revenue. There's no morality to speak of. A good experiment to try would be to get everybody to quit doing coke and let's just see how the world's economies do. I would wager that the effects would be pretty dramatic. The real reason prohibition was abolished was that too many very important people were getting cought up in it. Plus, other, more closely targeted prohibitions(drugs) were starting to take affect and generate adequate profits for the parties involved. This is one reason drunk driving isn't taken seriously by the authorities. Too many rich and powerful people are doing it. That would include the people who write and enforce the law.
I doubt that he won also, but again, the vast majority is letting it slide. We will get fair elections the minute we all ask for it.
It's not just cable. Most DVDs, besides sticking or skipping more oftem than a scratched record, have horrible video also. Working this stuff over the last 15 years has just made me hyper-critical. Now I see every flash frame and phase change in a bad edit. I suppose this is what makes $80 DVD players possible. Doesn't matter to me anynore. I quit buying with the demise of the 12 inch video disk, and besides, I don't trust the damn things to last more than 15 years...tops. Hell, I can be happy with a 5 inch black 'n white, so this whole picture quality thing really doesn't matter that much. In fact, with this DTV stuff, will I still be able to buy a 5 inch black 'n white for 60 bucks? Probably, but there won't be a signal for me to see.
By whose standard? Is the Amiercain definition the only valid one?
We're talking about the public airwaves here, not what you watch in private, so I have at least as much say over it as you do.
The only say you have is over your channel selector not mine. The airwaves may be public, but you still have to tune in. Nobody's forcing you to watch. Since you don't seem to be a great believer in individual freedom, maybe the US is not the place for you. You might like a more authoritarian regime, like China for instance. They have lots of censorship there. We're trying to keep the level of fascism down to a more tolerable level here. Oh, and you have good company in that list you put yourself into. You fit right in. You should have a little chat with them. You all will get along just fine.
Sure smells like something was bought to me...
Only your neighbors. They voted too. How they vote is their choice, not the gov't or some corp. Maybe they got bought by some phoney tax cut or a promise to kick out all the Mexicans, but they are the ones who got bought.
The people that did win, got the most money from someone.
More importantly, and apparently unbeknownst to you, is that the people that did win, got the most votes from someone. I don't care how much money you have. If you don't get the votes, you will not occupy the office.
It's ludicrous for an Indonesian government minister to justify theft...
If 51% of the Indonesians say it's not theft, is it still theft?
Yeah, self responsibility is a bitch...aint it? You can censor your TV all you want but keep your hands off of mine. I don't need you or anybody else telling me what I'm allowed to see.
We just can't stop the industry that owns our government.
Oh, jeez. Stop it already! The voters own the gov't! Quit trying to pass the buck. If all you're going to do is view spoon fed info and vote for for the major party, then you don't deserve to have a democracy(democratic republic to you nit pickers). Is this continued voter ignorance just another attempt to avoid responsibility for the actions of the people YOU voted for? If all of you can divert your attention away from American Idol or whatever for ten minutes, you might find that you can own the media also. The cause of your mis-fortunes is completely self contained within your own cranium. Accept it. Them move on to step 2.
Wrong. The sense of entitlement comes from the copyright holders. They're looking for and getting special privileges for their line of work. And now a lot of them are bitter that they might not get the E! Channel red carpet treatment. And now they want to extend these entitlements for...how many years now? And 100 years(more like 295) of legal precedent does not a good law make. You're right. This isn't a fair fight. That doesn't matter. We have the power to change it, but most just aren't interested. There's a new Simpsons movie coming out, and Malibu Stacy has a new hat. The simple fact is that the law will follow the money. Always has. It's as natural as the flow of water.
Sony BVH-2000. Best 1 inch ever. Better than Ampex. Though I'll admit the vipers were easy to fix. Kept some running until 2001. If you want auto-thread, get a 3000.
The tape operator could just lean on the tape reel flange and slow down the playback.
Might work with the Ampex, but the Sony would just shut down if the tension got too high or low. I found a better way for me was to simply pause the machine, spin one reel like a record as fast or as slow as you want, and the machine would keep tension on the tape and play a perfect picture. Theough beta took over for all the obvious reasons, picture quality will never be one of them. The 1 inch still looks better. All this being analog. No "D" nothing. The last equipment I saw was some Sony Beta "hybrid" thing that could do both analog and digital. I thought editing with digital was a pain. With analog, shuttling through hours of video was just easier to "decypher" as it was passing along. And audio cues were easier to pick out.
Oh, Damn! That didn't come out the way I expected. To rephrase, Let's not blame anybody but ourselves for our own lack of attention span and ability to stay focused.
You all voted them in. Now quit your bellyaching, and vote them out. Do you realize that if all the people that didn't vote voted for the opposition, the president and possibly many of your congressmen would not be a republican/democrat? You all made a choice. Now you have to live with it. You spilt the milk. Now clean it up!
You know where the off switch is..or no? And most people have more than one channel. And if it's that horrible, rent a movie.
I'm not sure her husband would like hearing from you :-) The Inquirer might be interested.
In addition, Congress would likely approve subsidies for low-income residents who can not afford to buy a new set. They could use the subsidies to either buy a new TV or get a converter box that would transfer digital signals so they could be watched on an analog set.
I'm sure Hollywood would like that. They would also probably like it if you couldn't turn it off.
What I'm also looking for are criticisms of DTV...
How about all that horrible pixelation in low contrast areas of the screen because of the extreme compression being used? I'm not the least bit impressed with digital or DVDs. My old 12 inch video disks looked just as good...better to me. If you want real quality, you need a 1 inch VTR with component video out. It still makes the best picture I've seen. And it's analog. So searching rapidly through the tape is easy. Besides, DTV is expensive..., but then, so is the 1 inch. I do like the idea of other data bieng put into the signal. We were promised that with CDs, but so far hardly anybody uses it.
* Some corporations are corrupt
* Some governments are corrupt
* Individuals are often powerless when the two get together...
Sorry...Uh uh...It take lazy/corrupt individuals to allow/encourage this. Let's not blame our own lack of attention span and ability to stay focused on anybody but ourselves.
Now if they just mandate more intelligent programming.
Anything but that! Programming is none of their business. You should know that by now. Especially after the "Janet" thing. Technical standards are the only thing theFCC should be messing with.
Intel is buying HP to resurrect Alpha, which is "the Intel chip" to which Apple is actually porting OS-X.
Now that would be very good news. That would definitely keep the Apple hardware "aura" alive. I would most certainly welcome something like this. This would give everbody a chance to build really new hardware and software...a nice fresh start.
I think it would be great. Intel could finally shake off the 4004 and make a real, modern chip. Not some 1972 hack with 33 layers on it that look like the rings of a tree. But of course Microsoft will then buy Apple. Or maybe they'll buy Linux. So we can still keep the "Apple vs. Microsoft" and "Linux vs. BSD" wars going. Maybe Microsoft will just go to the PPC. Does that mean they're going to buy IBM? And what about SCO? Are they going continue to sell licenses? Or will they finally start making license plates?
Yeah, well, Britney is easier on the eyes than Bill...or Steve, and she dances better. I'd say she's worth more...to me...for now.
I can't understand how people can be so juvenile over something so small as a CPU.
Maybe for the same reason I prefer a ratty Volkswagen beetle over a new Yugo. The whole experience is completely different. Yeah, a Yugo gets the job done, but I prefer a little pleasure , or at least fun along the way. I was really pathetic when the Alpha chip died. I guess mediocre is ok if the price is right. The most significant benchmark that the Intel excelled in was power consumed and heat generated to match the computing power of a PPC...possibly up to the G5. I haven't checked out laptop(I know...G4) benchmarks. A better benchmark might be computing power per watt.
Well, maybe while Jimmy Carter was President, but not since Reagan took ofice.
Being a Hollywood "veteran", Reagan(more likely his handlers) knew how to work the propaganda machine better than any of his predecessors. We still haven't seen the consequences yet. The power of distraction continues undiminished today. Now excuse me while I check out my American Idol reruns.