That's fine for you; but what about the OTHER 95% of Windows 8 purchasers that DON'T know how to do all that?
They take 5, maybe 10 minutes to learn how to use the start screen, then carry on? It's not exactly complex: it's a start menu that stretches over all of you screen, rather than just the left 1/5. Don't want to navigate tiles (or navigate nested submenus)? Press start, type in the first few characters of the program you want, hit enter, and voila! Same as 7 and Vista.
heavy investment to educate the consumer on the differences between windows RT and 8
I still think it was an absurdly foolish decision not to make Windows 8 and Windows RT obviously and distinctly separate products. Call it Windows Tablet or something. Even for people who do know the difference (8 = 7 with a wider start menu, RT = locked down tablet OS), you often need to drill down to the 'tech specs' page when looking at tablets in order to tell whether it has a useful OS or not.
Compared to existing ear-bud moulding services, that require you to visit an audiologist to have moulds of your ear canal made, then send them to the company that produce earplugs with the correct fittings from your headphones:
Pros:
- Cheaper
- No need to visit an Audiologist
Cons:
- Self-fitted, so there's a possibility of Doing It Wrong (if you do not use sufficient caution is putting something you have just heated into your ear)
- Press-fit into your pinnae, so they will not fit as deeply and securely as headphones moulded to your ear canals
- Fitted to your pinnae, not your ear canals, so inferior sound isolation
- Will only function with their proprietary headphones, rather than you supplying your own
Which is what you should be editing with (well, R'G'B'), unless you want to progressively lose more and more information through colourspace conversion.
On my current 37" LCD (capable of 720p, 1080i), I notice only a minimal difference between SD DVD's (480i) and HD Blu-rays
In descending order of probability:
1) You are WAY to far away from your TV. THX standard is for the display to fill 40 of your field of view diagonally, or a viewing distance of 1.2x the screen diagonal. A little under 4 feet would be the recommended viewing distance.
2) Your TV is still set to the factory/showroom default profile, and will look like shit whatever you feed it with. Use a calibration disc (e.g. Spears & Munsil) or the basic THX calibration included on many BD (e.g. Disney/Pixar films) to set to correct brightness and contrast (actually the black and white clipping level, respectively) and approach the correct colour saturation and white point. Don't worry about getting a tristimulus colimiter or spectrophotometer, the difference between a stock TV and a correctly by-eye calibrated one will be vastly more than between by-eye calibration and instrumental calibration.
3) You happen to only own terrible mastered BDs. It is unfortunately becoming MORE common, not less, for lazy companies to upscale SD source material to a BD, cake it in smeary DVNR to hide the deficiencies in the source material, then slap a 'digitally remastered' logo on the box
The OICW and XM25 both have (had, in the case of the OICW) a similar sighting system: ping the range (or enter manually) and the reticule will relocate to the correct angle to fire the grenade to have it land at/over/in the target location (depending on whether the round is meant to detonate above a trench, over a wall or through a window into a building).
relatively new, high tech industries (like PCB design) also still use imperial
But ONLY in the US! You want to spec out a PCB anywhere else in the world, everything will be in metric. Hole sizes, hole spacing, pad sizes, pad spacing, tolerances, etc. But if you want to buy parts listed in the US, you have to be very careful, because an 0402 in the US is not the same 0402 as the rest of the world is using.
This only applies to the Amazon Kindle store, not to the Kindle hardware itself. Plug the thing in, and it's a USB Mass Storage device you can drag-and-drop DRM-free ebooks (in.mobi and a few other formats) perfectly fine.
Is the omission of 'nuclear' from MRI deceit? Maybe food should also be labelled if it has been bred selectively for certain traits, or is a monoculture with a risk of rapid extinction (e.g. the Gros Michel).
What is the process to determine when something has undergone enough testing and is ready to push it forward? How many years of human trials must be held before it can be released? We do this with drugs but strangely, I haven't heard of much about this with GMO crops -- why is that?
Does anyone do this with 'regular' crops? What about 'natural' hybrids? Decades of selectively bred crops have just been grandfathered in totally untested!
GM crops don't have totally artificial genes inserted. Writing totally artificial genetic code to do what you want is insanely complicated. It's far easier just to find another similar plant that does what you want, find the gene(s) that control that behaviour (not easy), then transplant those into your desired plant. Your outcomes are either the new genes do nothing (not expressed), the plant is not viable at all, or the new genes do what you want. It's vanishingly unlikely that any inserted genes are going to have a detrimental effect that is not immediately obvious.
Concerns about monocultures still stand, but those apply equally to regular crops.
The same reason the 'n' was dropped from 'nMRI': anything with 'nuclear' associated with it is automatically doubleplusungood. Similarly, anything that is 'genetically modified' must be packed full of 'chemicals' and therefore bad for you.
Mandatory. On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement the ability for a physically present user to select between two Secure Boot modes in firmware setup: "Custom" and "Standard". Custom Mode allows for more flexibility as specified in the following: It shall be possible for a physically present user to use the Custom Mode firmware setup option to modify the contents of the Secure Boot signature databases and the PK. This may be implemented by simply providing the option to clear all Secure Boot databases (PK, KEK, db, dbx), which puts the system into setup mode.
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv.
Bullshit.
1) Windows 8 runs perfectly fine without Secure Boot
2) For a manufacturer to provide a computer with Windows 8 pre-installed, or to label their product as compatible with Windows 8, they MUST allow end-user modification of the bootloader keys. If they don't, then no Windows 8 for them, as per MS' own hard certification requirements.
fixed so that it isn't so wholly Microsoft centric
Good news, it's already fixed then!
So who decides what keys can be added to the bootloader? The end user, in the case of every x86 board. Microsoft requires any system vendor to allow end users to add their own keys (either directly, or by wiping the existing keys and requiring the user to add their own and microsofts back in). No user-modifiable Secure Boot, no Windows 8 for you. No windwos 8 certification? The manufacturer can do whatever they want, from locking down the loader to only one key of their choice, or not implementing secure boot at all/ Basically, the current state of affairs.
If key handling were decentralized
It is decentralised. It's so decentralised, that it's handled on a per-end-device basis. Because you manage the keys on your device by entering them.
and adding your own key wasn't mutually exclusive with other keys (as it effectively is now,)
No, it isn't. If you can add your own keys, you can add any keys.
The level of FUD over Secure Boot, and it's non-relation to Windows 8, is astounding.
Who do you trust less: the military, or a whatever corporation would be set up to run it? Personally, I'd take the one where people of whatever level of management can be held accountable by court-martial.
Not above break-even, but actually performing D-T fusion is relatively easy, to the point it has been done as a high-school science experiment using the old Farnsworth-Hirsch 'fusor' IEC design.
What, did you think NIF was actually going to be producing power? I assume you also class JET as a total failure for not producing cost-effective energy, then.
And that 'fusion will never happen' article cold be summed up as "D-T fusion is the easiest so is used in research reactors, and so must also be used in commercial reactors, and it has a bunch of problems in tokamaks, so fusion will never happen", happily ignoring a-neutronic fusion entirely, as well as other forms of confinement than purely magnetic.
This sounds like a subset, rather than a fragment. The idea being to restrict what users can or can't install from the public appstore (i.e. to prevent PHB#528 installing 300 fart noise apps with 6 different keyloggers lurking in there), and restrict global users from installing company-specific programs while still delivering them to company users via the same distribution mechanism as the rest of their apps (e.g. no need to sideload each phone individually).
Well, I can see your point but by making it a product with visibility and all that, people are more inclined to standardize on a particular way of doing things.
There already is a standard way of doing things, and it's built into Android! Introducing an additional way to connect a bluetooth controller to an Android phone only means a game now has to support two bluetooth controller APIs, rather than one. A total waste of time and effort.
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That's fine for you; but what about the OTHER 95% of Windows 8 purchasers that DON'T know how to do all that?
They take 5, maybe 10 minutes to learn how to use the start screen, then carry on? It's not exactly complex: it's a start menu that stretches over all of you screen, rather than just the left 1/5. Don't want to navigate tiles (or navigate nested submenus)? Press start, type in the first few characters of the program you want, hit enter, and voila! Same as 7 and Vista.
heavy investment to educate the consumer on the differences between windows RT and 8
I still think it was an absurdly foolish decision not to make Windows 8 and Windows RT obviously and distinctly separate products. Call it Windows Tablet or something. Even for people who do know the difference (8 = 7 with a wider start menu, RT = locked down tablet OS), you often need to drill down to the 'tech specs' page when looking at tablets in order to tell whether it has a useful OS or not.
Compared to existing ear-bud moulding services, that require you to visit an audiologist to have moulds of your ear canal made, then send them to the company that produce earplugs with the correct fittings from your headphones:
Pros:
- Cheaper
- No need to visit an Audiologist
Cons:
- Self-fitted, so there's a possibility of Doing It Wrong (if you do not use sufficient caution is putting something you have just heated into your ear)
- Press-fit into your pinnae, so they will not fit as deeply and securely as headphones moulded to your ear canals
- Fitted to your pinnae, not your ear canals, so inferior sound isolation
- Will only function with their proprietary headphones, rather than you supplying your own
Whoops, missed the link: http://www.poynton.com/papers/Discreet_Logic/index.html
The 190MB/s figure was for the RGB 4:4:4 format
Which is what you should be editing with (well, R'G'B'), unless you want to progressively lose more and more information through colourspace conversion.
On my current 37" LCD (capable of 720p, 1080i), I notice only a minimal difference between SD DVD's (480i) and HD Blu-rays
In descending order of probability:
1) You are WAY to far away from your TV. THX standard is for the display to fill 40 of your field of view diagonally, or a viewing distance of 1.2x the screen diagonal. A little under 4 feet would be the recommended viewing distance.
2) Your TV is still set to the factory/showroom default profile, and will look like shit whatever you feed it with. Use a calibration disc (e.g. Spears & Munsil) or the basic THX calibration included on many BD (e.g. Disney/Pixar films) to set to correct brightness and contrast (actually the black and white clipping level, respectively) and approach the correct colour saturation and white point. Don't worry about getting a tristimulus colimiter or spectrophotometer, the difference between a stock TV and a correctly by-eye calibrated one will be vastly more than between by-eye calibration and instrumental calibration.
3) You happen to only own terrible mastered BDs. It is unfortunately becoming MORE common, not less, for lazy companies to upscale SD source material to a BD, cake it in smeary DVNR to hide the deficiencies in the source material, then slap a 'digitally remastered' logo on the box
The OICW and XM25 both have (had, in the case of the OICW) a similar sighting system: ping the range (or enter manually) and the reticule will relocate to the correct angle to fire the grenade to have it land at/over/in the target location (depending on whether the round is meant to detonate above a trench, over a wall or through a window into a building).
Anonymous.
relatively new, high tech industries (like PCB design) also still use imperial
But ONLY in the US! You want to spec out a PCB anywhere else in the world, everything will be in metric. Hole sizes, hole spacing, pad sizes, pad spacing, tolerances, etc. But if you want to buy parts listed in the US, you have to be very careful, because an 0402 in the US is not the same 0402 as the rest of the world is using.
This only applies to the Amazon Kindle store, not to the Kindle hardware itself. Plug the thing in, and it's a USB Mass Storage device you can drag-and-drop DRM-free ebooks (in .mobi and a few other formats) perfectly fine.
Is the omission of 'nuclear' from MRI deceit? Maybe food should also be labelled if it has been bred selectively for certain traits, or is a monoculture with a risk of rapid extinction (e.g. the Gros Michel).
What is the process to determine when something has undergone enough testing and is ready to push it forward? How many years of human trials must be held before it can be released? We do this with drugs but strangely, I haven't heard of much about this with GMO crops -- why is that?
Does anyone do this with 'regular' crops? What about 'natural' hybrids? Decades of selectively bred crops have just been grandfathered in totally untested!
GM crops don't have totally artificial genes inserted. Writing totally artificial genetic code to do what you want is insanely complicated. It's far easier just to find another similar plant that does what you want, find the gene(s) that control that behaviour (not easy), then transplant those into your desired plant. Your outcomes are either the new genes do nothing (not expressed), the plant is not viable at all, or the new genes do what you want. It's vanishingly unlikely that any inserted genes are going to have a detrimental effect that is not immediately obvious.
Concerns about monocultures still stand, but those apply equally to regular crops.
You're using a computer, so I can assume you support software patents? You can't separate the two.
Software patents are part of the landscape. You can't just pretend they're not there.
The same reason the 'n' was dropped from 'nMRI': anything with 'nuclear' associated with it is automatically doubleplusungood. Similarly, anything that is 'genetically modified' must be packed full of 'chemicals' and therefore bad for you.
So in the same camp as every iPad made, and the majority of Android tablets, then?
No they do not, so I don't know where you're getting this from.
The Windows 8 Hardware Certification requirements published by Microsoft. To quote the relevant section:
Mandatory. On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement the ability for a physically present user to select between two Secure Boot modes in firmware setup: "Custom" and "Standard". Custom Mode allows for more flexibility as specified in the following: It shall be possible for a physically present user to use the Custom Mode firmware setup option to modify the contents of the Secure Boot signature databases and the PK. This may be implemented by simply providing the option to clear all Secure Boot databases (PK, KEK, db, dbx), which puts the system into setup mode.
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv.
Bullshit.
1) Windows 8 runs perfectly fine without Secure Boot
2) For a manufacturer to provide a computer with Windows 8 pre-installed, or to label their product as compatible with Windows 8, they MUST allow end-user modification of the bootloader keys. If they don't, then no Windows 8 for them, as per MS' own hard certification requirements.
fixed so that it isn't so wholly Microsoft centric
Good news, it's already fixed then!
So who decides what keys can be added to the bootloader? The end user, in the case of every x86 board. Microsoft requires any system vendor to allow end users to add their own keys (either directly, or by wiping the existing keys and requiring the user to add their own and microsofts back in). No user-modifiable Secure Boot, no Windows 8 for you. No windwos 8 certification? The manufacturer can do whatever they want, from locking down the loader to only one key of their choice, or not implementing secure boot at all/ Basically, the current state of affairs.
If key handling were decentralized
It is decentralised. It's so decentralised, that it's handled on a per-end-device basis. Because you manage the keys on your device by entering them.
and adding your own key wasn't mutually exclusive with other keys (as it effectively is now,)
No, it isn't. If you can add your own keys, you can add any keys.
The level of FUD over Secure Boot, and it's non-relation to Windows 8, is astounding.
Who do you trust less: the military, or a whatever corporation would be set up to run it? Personally, I'd take the one where people of whatever level of management can be held accountable by court-martial.
we haven't even got D-T going yet
Not above break-even, but actually performing D-T fusion is relatively easy, to the point it has been done as a high-school science experiment using the old Farnsworth-Hirsch 'fusor' IEC design.
What, did you think NIF was actually going to be producing power? I assume you also class JET as a total failure for not producing cost-effective energy, then.
And that 'fusion will never happen' article cold be summed up as "D-T fusion is the easiest so is used in research reactors, and so must also be used in commercial reactors, and it has a bunch of problems in tokamaks, so fusion will never happen", happily ignoring a-neutronic fusion entirely, as well as other forms of confinement than purely magnetic.
This sounds like a subset, rather than a fragment. The idea being to restrict what users can or can't install from the public appstore (i.e. to prevent PHB#528 installing 300 fart noise apps with 6 different keyloggers lurking in there), and restrict global users from installing company-specific programs while still delivering them to company users via the same distribution mechanism as the rest of their apps (e.g. no need to sideload each phone individually).
Well, I can see your point but by making it a product with visibility and all that, people are more inclined to standardize on a particular way of doing things.
There already is a standard way of doing things, and it's built into Android! Introducing an additional way to connect a bluetooth controller to an Android phone only means a game now has to support two bluetooth controller APIs, rather than one. A total waste of time and effort.
So what you're saying is, The Hobbit does not contain any Trolls.
Apple are the exact definition of a 'bit player' then, I take it?