There are several people that I consider to be family that I can't legally marry. This is the norm, not the exception.
Why do you believe that gay people are somehow defective, and can't manage this in the same way everyone else does? That, for some unexplained reason, they need the the Federal government to come bless their union, something they don't do for heterosexuals, else they will lose control of their own actions?
I find this point of view offensive in the extreme!
I've heard the Amsterdam canals were dug by slave labor. I can't find a reference, but this jives with the fact that the Dutch were the "leading" traders of slaves at the time they were dug.
I love the Dutch, but let's not pretend they're perfect.
I don't really get the idleispants thing. I mean, I think I understand the sentiment, but it is a very . . . non-US way of expressing it.
It just seems that nearly all the posts I see on Slashdot are in some approximation of US English. Are there a bunch of Britons hanging around Slashdot just tagging stories? If so, are they the assholes who insist on tagging every story, "story"?
It is unlawful for a person in a public forum or place of public accommodation wilfully and knowingly to publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.
I guess these assholes are going to have to burn down their own fucking libraries.
QAM is not a container format. It is a modulation scheme (as implied by the name).
A QAM (in the video world) normally carries an MPEG Transport Stream, which is sort of like a container, except that it's a sequential stream. But the MPEG TS does carry a mux of video, audio, and data such as subtitles, so it would be more analogous to a container format than QAM in this context. And, in fact, there is a container format that is a direct sibling to the MPEG TS, the MPEG Program Stream, which is the "container" that DVDs use. (Sorta. File size limits prevent the use of an absolutely pure MPEG PS.)
A container is used to cram all the components of a program into a random-access file. QAMs are linear streams, so the two don't directly correlate.
Okay, having said all that I did a little research, and many do call a TS a container. Either way, a QAM certainly isn't one. Also, everything I said applies equally to ATSC. (Though ATSC is a standards body, so the waters are somewhat muddier.)
Yes, I'm lying to hurt the environment because I'm a mustache-twisting villain. And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! Thank Gaia she has you to defend her!
Or maybe it is you. I mean, the post is +5 funny. But I guess you're the only one smart enough to see how unfunny I am.
The facts are: I drive a ULEV. I have all CFL lighting in my apartment. I don't operate any CRTs, in part, because they are wasteful. I just threw out a box of dead alkaline batteries because, according to my city's hazardous waste department, they're "safe" and there's no way to recycle them. I'd been saving them for quite a while, as I'm all switched over to NiMH AA and AAA batteries now, in an effort to reduce.
But, no, that's probably all a lie too. I exist only as an affront to you and your Holy Crusade to stamp out any levity until we're all a bunch of little Al Gore's with no one to pull our strings.
Were you born without a sense of humor? Or did you lose it in a tragic accident?
I have a tiny electric bill, and eighteen bucks a year is still negligible. It's a weak, stupid argument. I was illustrating that through irony.
Saving energy is good, but I don't think that telling people that dropping a thousand bucks or whatever on a TV to save eighteen bucks a year is very persuasive.
First, as I understand it, HD DVD is more of an incremental expansion of DVD. So writing authoring tools should be much easier (read: less costly). Second, for "full" Blu-ray authoring you have to support both AACS and BD+. BD+ sounds like a real bitch.
There are a couple of items in the "bag of hurt", though I still think that HDCP is the big one for Apple.
As a side note, if you're doing HD authoring you probably should be on more recent hardware. The Mac Pro (Intel) started shipping a full three years ago. I'm writing this on a three-year-old Intel Mini!
I'm dying for a Mac Mini with a Blu-ray drive and player software.
I don't understand what you mean when you say that Apple bet the farm on HD DVD. I don't think they ever released any HD DVD products. And they're not just members of the Blu-ray Disc Association, they're on the board!
I think they're backed into the corner by HDCP, but the situation was the same with HD DVD.
The difficulty is that we can't say either way if any of these programs have had any of the intended positive effects. But there are demonstrable negative effects.
So we are reduced to magical thinking. Essentially believing (or not) that the price is worth paying only because we wish it to be so.
This does not seem to me to be a reasonable way to run our government or our lives.
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There are several people that I consider to be family that I can't legally marry. This is the norm, not the exception.
Why do you believe that gay people are somehow defective, and can't manage this in the same way everyone else does? That, for some unexplained reason, they need the the Federal government to come bless their union, something they don't do for heterosexuals, else they will lose control of their own actions?
I find this point of view offensive in the extreme!
-Peter
Cool! Thanks for the info!
-Peter
I've heard the Amsterdam canals were dug by slave labor. I can't find a reference, but this jives with the fact that the Dutch were the "leading" traders of slaves at the time they were dug.
I love the Dutch, but let's not pretend they're perfect.
-Peter
I don't really get the idleispants thing. I mean, I think I understand the sentiment, but it is a very . . . non-US way of expressing it.
It just seems that nearly all the posts I see on Slashdot are in some approximation of US English. Are there a bunch of Britons hanging around Slashdot just tagging stories? If so, are they the assholes who insist on tagging every story, "story"?
-Peter
Very nicely done.
-Peter
Not only is this handily the worst Slashdot "story" I've ever seen, but it's spelled "Ouroboros".
-Peter
I guess these assholes are going to have to burn down their own fucking libraries.
-Peter
I have no idea what you are driving at, but I'm very interested. Would you mind explaining a bit?
-Peter
I hate four tens. I always found that I got NOTHING done outside work and spent the whole extra day trying to catch up. Not fun.
To each his own, I suppose.
-Peter
Scoundrel? Scoundrel . . . I like the sound of that. You like me because I'm a scoundrel.
-Peter
Certainly not. But the abnormal throw the normal into contrast. I don't think there's anything wrong with finding that fascinating.
I do disagree with you about polite treatment. Being impolite, even to someone we can agree is a scumbag, only diminishes you. Dick.
Just kidding.
Kinda.
-Peter
Settle down, AC. Ornis means bird. Bats are rodentia.
-Peter
On the other hand, wood is renewable and does valuable work (for humans) while it's growing.
I'm no expert, but as many arguments as there are against clear-cutting, strip-mining lime and aggregate seems worse.
-Peter
QAM is not a container format. It is a modulation scheme (as implied by the name).
A QAM (in the video world) normally carries an MPEG Transport Stream, which is sort of like a container, except that it's a sequential stream. But the MPEG TS does carry a mux of video, audio, and data such as subtitles, so it would be more analogous to a container format than QAM in this context. And, in fact, there is a container format that is a direct sibling to the MPEG TS, the MPEG Program Stream, which is the "container" that DVDs use. (Sorta. File size limits prevent the use of an absolutely pure MPEG PS.)
A container is used to cram all the components of a program into a random-access file. QAMs are linear streams, so the two don't directly correlate.
Okay, having said all that I did a little research, and many do call a TS a container. Either way, a QAM certainly isn't one. Also, everything I said applies equally to ATSC. (Though ATSC is a standards body, so the waters are somewhat muddier.)
-Peter
Rodenthopter.
-Peter
Don't forget hairdressers and telephone sanitizers.
Shit. DON'T GET ON THE SHIP!
-Peter
"Car Buyers"? What a strange choice of words. I like to think of myself as an "owner" when I buy something.
Aren't "buyers" people who buy something on someone else's behalf? Like, "I used to live in South America as a coffee buyer for Folgers."
-Peter
Yes, I'm lying to hurt the environment because I'm a mustache-twisting villain. And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! Thank Gaia she has you to defend her!
Or maybe it is you. I mean, the post is +5 funny. But I guess you're the only one smart enough to see how unfunny I am.
The facts are: I drive a ULEV. I have all CFL lighting in my apartment. I don't operate any CRTs, in part, because they are wasteful. I just threw out a box of dead alkaline batteries because, according to my city's hazardous waste department, they're "safe" and there's no way to recycle them. I'd been saving them for quite a while, as I'm all switched over to NiMH AA and AAA batteries now, in an effort to reduce.
But, no, that's probably all a lie too. I exist only as an affront to you and your Holy Crusade to stamp out any levity until we're all a bunch of little Al Gore's with no one to pull our strings.
In short; fuck you.
-Peter
Were you born without a sense of humor? Or did you lose it in a tragic accident?
I have a tiny electric bill, and eighteen bucks a year is still negligible. It's a weak, stupid argument. I was illustrating that through irony.
Saving energy is good, but I don't think that telling people that dropping a thousand bucks or whatever on a TV to save eighteen bucks a year is very persuasive.
-Peter
$18.48 in just a year? That new LCD HDTV will practically pay for itself!
-Peter
And the Soviets proved that Leftist ideology doesn't work in reality. But on a far, far grander and more terrible scale.
Consider that there may be no perfect, or even no "good" system. If that's the case, why not maximize liberty?
-Peter
There was an email going around a while ago with this exact mistake.
You can always tell folks who never took any hard Science; they can't reliably divide in scientific notation.
-Peter
If it's anybody's guess, here's mine.
First, as I understand it, HD DVD is more of an incremental expansion of DVD. So writing authoring tools should be much easier (read: less costly). Second, for "full" Blu-ray authoring you have to support both AACS and BD+. BD+ sounds like a real bitch.
There are a couple of items in the "bag of hurt", though I still think that HDCP is the big one for Apple.
As a side note, if you're doing HD authoring you probably should be on more recent hardware. The Mac Pro (Intel) started shipping a full three years ago. I'm writing this on a three-year-old Intel Mini!
-Peter
I'm dying for a Mac Mini with a Blu-ray drive and player software.
I don't understand what you mean when you say that Apple bet the farm on HD DVD. I don't think they ever released any HD DVD products. And they're not just members of the Blu-ray Disc Association, they're on the board!
I think they're backed into the corner by HDCP, but the situation was the same with HD DVD.
What am I missing?
-Peter
You aren't wrong.
The difficulty is that we can't say either way if any of these programs have had any of the intended positive effects. But there are demonstrable negative effects.
So we are reduced to magical thinking. Essentially believing (or not) that the price is worth paying only because we wish it to be so.
This does not seem to me to be a reasonable way to run our government or our lives.
-Peter