The composite signal does have to be seperated into chroma and luma signals before being displayed. If the VCR has a better comb filter than the TV, connecting it via S-Video will result in a better picture. If the display has a better filter than the source, a composite (RCA) connection will look better. You generally have to try it both ways and just see which one looks better.
I still use a composite cable to connect my S-Video capable VCR, because I get a better picture that way. My LaserDisc player has an exceptional filter, though, and it get's connected to the projector via S-Video.
So, the competition of HD-DVD caused Blu Ray players to drop in price at about the same rate as regular DVD players dropped in price after their introduction at similar price-points to Blu Ray when DVD didn't have competition from a similar, competing format?
Well, since writable Blu Ray is already available as a PC storage format (has been for years, especially in Japan), and capacity is the only thing that really matters in a storage format, and Blu Ray has 60% more capacity than HD-DVD, I'd say positioning HD-DVD exclusively as a storage format probably won't happen.
"Why wouldn't you be able to comply with the request? Is your mouse and keyboard broken? How hard is it to hit "Validate"?"
From Iraq? Where my personal notebook has no connectivity? (I'm posting from my work machine, of course.) Not to mention where I'm only allowed 15 minute phone calls, so sitting on hold with their Indian call-center is out of the question?
It's pretty damn fucking hard to "validate" the software I own. So, I had to borrow a pirated version from a friend just to get my system working correctly. Brilliant strategy, Microsoft... "Let's force our legitimate customers to run pirated versions of our software so they see that there's really no point in buying it in the future!"
Aerobraking can be effective with passengers. Even Apollo did a limited form of it with direct high-speed re-entry upon return from the moon without retro-firing into low Earth orbit first. Admittedly, the speeds will be higher upon arrival at Mars, but that doesn't mean the situation will be unmangeable.
But even it turns out not be feasible to aerobrake passengers at Mars, just how many unmanned cargo flights do you think will be sent in support of the early permanent bases on Mars? It's going to be a lot. All of those missions will greatly benefit from the reduced propellant requirements and therefore greater payload capacity permitted by utilizing the martian atmosphere for deceleration and landing.
Parachutes are riskier on Mars, for the reasons you cited. That I'll give you. However, even on current remote missions the chute opening parameters have been adjusted just prior to atmospheric entry to compensate for current conditions. These measurements and adjustments will be even easier on a manned flight, not to mention that the chutes can always be deployed manually if something goes wrong with the automated system.
And it's too far away from home? I recall the same things being said about how help would be too far away if something bad happend on the moon. The same thing stands for sending ships to sea or climing a mountain right here on Earth. If we never went anywhere new because bad things might happen, we'd still be banging rocks together to make stone axes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Actually, there's already been real testing of martian-equivalent atmosphere to produce methane and oxygen as a potential propellant source. The reaction used is exothermic and therefore self-sustaining. Once you start it up, no further energy input is required. The first prototype machine achieved 94% efficiency.
And how exactly would you test an atmospheric processing machine on the moon in a way that you couldn't do at home? Our moon just isn't relevant to developing much of what we're going to need to operate on Mars.
The difference between.16G and.37G is quite significant.
And finally, restricting yourself to a polar base for sunlight when you could just build on Mars instead and put the base anywhere you want it? Why bother?
It even requires more delta-V to get to the moon than it does to just go directly to Mars, because aerobreaking and parachutes don't work too well on an airless rock.
Luna is a side-show. It's just the ISS on a grand scale. The only good reason to go to our moon is to harvest He-3, and there's no reason to do that until we get reactors working that can use it.
Iron, silicon, methane & oxygen for a fuel/oxidizer combination (produced from the atmosphere) to supply both ground vehicles and rockets, various other important metals, etc. Mars is literally the only body in the solar system other than our own planet that has the potential to support a completely self-sustaining settlement.
And don't overlook the importance of water. Water is so rare on the moon that if long-term explorers or colonists found concrete on the lunar surface they'd extract the water from it. We don't know exactly how rare water is on Mars yet, but we do know there's far more than what's on the moon.
Also, the conditions on Mars (gravity far closer to what people and other life forms are used to, presence of an atomosphere to scatter sunlight so greenhouses don't turn into solar furnaces, pretty close to a 24 hour day where the month-long lunar day would require prohibitively power-consuming artificial lighting of crops, etc.
I strongly recommend anyone with any interest in space development or simply in the future of humanity read The Case for Mars. There's far more there than anyone could hope to cover on/.
It's total fabrication. The HD-DVD camp is apparantly getting quite desperate, to the point where now they're just making stuff up in the hopes that gullible people won't bother trying to verify their lies. Here's the real deal:
"Kmart Not Exclusively Supporting HD-DVD Format
Statement from Jonathan Magasanik, Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Home Electronics, Sears Holdings
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 2/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- There have been numerous statements in the media today, attributed to Toshiba, indicating exclusive support for the HD-DVD format in Kmart stores. These statements are false. Kmart intends to support both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray platforms, and has no plans to support either platform exclusively.
About Kmart
Kmart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD), is a mass merchandising company that offers customers quality products through a portfolio of exclusive brands that include Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Martha Stewart Everyday and Route 66. For more information visit the company's website at http://www.kmart.com/ or the Sears Holdings Corporation website at http://www.searsholdings.com./"
Now 200K pounds is enough, by current standards to make [snip] everybody in Tenessee a mouth-breathing moron...
Apparently none of those things have come to pass.
Actually, this is not true. HDCP is NOT an encryption on the media. HDCP is part of the communications prototcol between the playback hardware and the display. A company could EASILY build a device that played back Blu Ray or HD-DVD discs WITHOUT HDCP on the HDMI output. However, this would violate the terms of their license to manufacture the player and they would quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
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The composite signal does have to be seperated into chroma and luma signals before being displayed. If the VCR has a better comb filter than the TV, connecting it via S-Video will result in a better picture. If the display has a better filter than the source, a composite (RCA) connection will look better. You generally have to try it both ways and just see which one looks better.
I still use a composite cable to connect my S-Video capable VCR, because I get a better picture that way. My LaserDisc player has an exceptional filter, though, and it get's connected to the projector via S-Video.
So, the competition of HD-DVD caused Blu Ray players to drop in price at about the same rate as regular DVD players dropped in price after their introduction at similar price-points to Blu Ray when DVD didn't have competition from a similar, competing format?
Well, since writable Blu Ray is already available as a PC storage format (has been for years, especially in Japan), and capacity is the only thing that really matters in a storage format, and Blu Ray has 60% more capacity than HD-DVD, I'd say positioning HD-DVD exclusively as a storage format probably won't happen.
Due to the lack of an oxygen-rich atmosphere like Earth's, it really wouldn't be a problem.
"Why wouldn't you be able to comply with the request? Is your mouse and keyboard broken? How hard is it to hit "Validate"?"
From Iraq? Where my personal notebook has no connectivity? (I'm posting from my work machine, of course.) Not to mention where I'm only allowed 15 minute phone calls, so sitting on hold with their Indian call-center is out of the question?
It's pretty damn fucking hard to "validate" the software I own. So, I had to borrow a pirated version from a friend just to get my system working correctly. Brilliant strategy, Microsoft... "Let's force our legitimate customers to run pirated versions of our software so they see that there's really no point in buying it in the future!"
You're talking about AOL. They'll send out HD-DVDs.
Aerobraking can be effective with passengers. Even Apollo did a limited form of it with direct high-speed re-entry upon return from the moon without retro-firing into low Earth orbit first. Admittedly, the speeds will be higher upon arrival at Mars, but that doesn't mean the situation will be unmangeable.
But even it turns out not be feasible to aerobrake passengers at Mars, just how many unmanned cargo flights do you think will be sent in support of the early permanent bases on Mars? It's going to be a lot. All of those missions will greatly benefit from the reduced propellant requirements and therefore greater payload capacity permitted by utilizing the martian atmosphere for deceleration and landing.
Parachutes are riskier on Mars, for the reasons you cited. That I'll give you. However, even on current remote missions the chute opening parameters have been adjusted just prior to atmospheric entry to compensate for current conditions. These measurements and adjustments will be even easier on a manned flight, not to mention that the chutes can always be deployed manually if something goes wrong with the automated system.
And it's too far away from home? I recall the same things being said about how help would be too far away if something bad happend on the moon. The same thing stands for sending ships to sea or climing a mountain right here on Earth. If we never went anywhere new because bad things might happen, we'd still be banging rocks together to make stone axes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Actually, there's already been real testing of martian-equivalent atmosphere to produce methane and oxygen as a potential propellant source. The reaction used is exothermic and therefore self-sustaining. Once you start it up, no further energy input is required. The first prototype machine achieved 94% efficiency.
.16G and .37G is quite significant.
And how exactly would you test an atmospheric processing machine on the moon in a way that you couldn't do at home? Our moon just isn't relevant to developing much of what we're going to need to operate on Mars.
The difference between
And finally, restricting yourself to a polar base for sunlight when you could just build on Mars instead and put the base anywhere you want it? Why bother?
It even requires more delta-V to get to the moon than it does to just go directly to Mars, because aerobreaking and parachutes don't work too well on an airless rock.
Luna is a side-show. It's just the ISS on a grand scale. The only good reason to go to our moon is to harvest He-3, and there's no reason to do that until we get reactors working that can use it.
Iron, silicon, methane & oxygen for a fuel/oxidizer combination (produced from the atmosphere) to supply both ground vehicles and rockets, various other important metals, etc. Mars is literally the only body in the solar system other than our own planet that has the potential to support a completely self-sustaining settlement.
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And don't overlook the importance of water. Water is so rare on the moon that if long-term explorers or colonists found concrete on the lunar surface they'd extract the water from it. We don't know exactly how rare water is on Mars yet, but we do know there's far more than what's on the moon.
Also, the conditions on Mars (gravity far closer to what people and other life forms are used to, presence of an atomosphere to scatter sunlight so greenhouses don't turn into solar furnaces, pretty close to a 24 hour day where the month-long lunar day would require prohibitively power-consuming artificial lighting of crops, etc.
I strongly recommend anyone with any interest in space development or simply in the future of humanity read The Case for Mars. There's far more there than anyone could hope to cover on
It's actually quite easy to brick a pizza. Especially one with extra cheese.
It absolutely is mission critical, to the people responsible for the display.
If he'd said "the fastest fighter planes rarely crack Mach 1.6" that would have been a fairly accurate statement.
Non-standard output? You mean like 110 volts at 60 Hz?
No, if you settled, you settled. You're done. The trial is irrelevant, and doesn't even have to begin (most didn't) for settlement to occur.
IANAL, BIPOOTV
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
So, we just feed the 10 vegetarians to the meat eater, and have a win-win situation. Let's do it!
The design looks very 1980'ish, in a "Buck Rogers tech-retro kind of way.
It's total fabrication. The HD-DVD camp is apparantly getting quite desperate, to the point where now they're just making stuff up in the hopes that gullible people won't bother trying to verify their lies. Here's the real deal:
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- There have been numerous statements in the media today, attributed to Toshiba, indicating exclusive support for the HD-DVD format in Kmart stores. These statements are false. Kmart intends to support both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray platforms, and has no plans to support either platform exclusively.
"Kmart Not Exclusively Supporting HD-DVD Format
Statement from Jonathan Magasanik, Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Home Electronics, Sears Holdings
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 2
About Kmart
Kmart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD), is a mass merchandising company that offers customers quality products through a portfolio of exclusive brands that include Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Martha Stewart Everyday and Route 66. For more information visit the company's website at http://www.kmart.com/ or the Sears Holdings Corporation website at http://www.searsholdings.com./"
http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-02-2007/0004696858&EDATE=
Or you could discipline your child when he or she acts inappropriately, instead of expecting the federal government to raise your child for you.
"What will be REALLY interesting is if these states succeed"
:p
No pun intended, I'm sure?
Actually, this is not true. HDCP is NOT an encryption on the media. HDCP is part of the communications prototcol between the playback hardware and the display. A company could EASILY build a device that played back Blu Ray or HD-DVD discs WITHOUT HDCP on the HDMI output. However, this would violate the terms of their license to manufacture the player and they would quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
Cavemen on Mars? That could be a new GEICO commercial!
Stargate Universe? Sounds like a better name for a Stargate MMORPG than a TV show.
I haven't bought a single CD since the labels started suing their best customers. I won't buy any more until they stop.