"Wait, I'm using a Mac - which ships with nearly every conceivable video codec I'd ever need to produce and edit professional video because It Just Works."
With the exception, of course, of obscure codecs like MPEG-2, Flash Video, and WMV9.
Macs can be great for video editing and production, but if you want to use anything other than DV and h.264 you are going to have to add third party codecs.
I can spend $40/month for basic cable, which only gets me my already free over-the-air channels, 10 local public access channels, and 2 or 3 nation-wide basic cable channels (like WGN, CSPAN, and TNT).
I call bullshit on this one. I've had the package you are talking about with two different cable companies in the past two years (Comcast and Cox) and haven't paid more than $13/month for it. It variously referred to as "basic" or "limited" and consists of free-to-air and public access channels. Stations like WGN and TNT tend to end up in the mix because they have low channel numbers, and the cable company restricts higher number "expanded basic" channels like Discovery, MTV, and ESPN by sticking a low pass filter on the line.
Anyhow, the general gist of what you are saying is correct - you often have to pay like $60/month for stuff like Disney and SciFi, but nobody is paying $40/month for locals + CSPAN.
The question shouldn't be, "Why aren't C-SPAN's important recordings in the public domain?" It should be, "If it's so damn important, why isn't the government making its own recordings?"
Surely you mean BSOD (as in Blue Screen of Death). Mac has plenty of BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution). Of course, Mac also has the Polyglot Gray Screen of Death - more cultured and refined than the BSOD, but equally disruptive.
There's a lot more *content* on YouTube than you'll ever find on *all American TV channels combined.*
In relative terms, a single 15 second "don't smoke crack while you're pregnant, you dumb bitch!" PSA per day is probably more significant than the educational content on YouTube.
Well, that's if you want to track someone with their Nike shoes. But what prevents you from taking the transmitter, slipping it into someone's backpack, and then track them? Intelligence, hopefully.
If I was going to slip something into someone's backpack for the purposes of tracking them - well, it wouldn't be one of these things.
Libraries are public facilities? Most, perhaps, but any list of the world's biggest libraries is littered with private libraries (hint: the biggest of these are located in Cambridge, Massachustts).
I would definitely expect there to be a Core Solo option at the low end of the line, and some of the features from the MacBook Pro are certain to be missing. Integrated video would certainly seem likely - after all, there have to be quite a lot of potential MacBook buyers out there who don't care/aren't willing to pay for dedicated video in their notebook.
It is often disease itself that is the drag on productivity which prevents infrastructure developement which allows disease to infect the next generation.
Wikipedia and http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/dollar_answer.php suggest to me that the NPV of Carnegie's donations is about $7 Billion. The Gates Foundation endowment is in the neighborhood of $29 Billion.
Gates has already given 4x as much money in real terms as Carnegie did in his lifetime. In nominal terms, it is clser to 80x.
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You would no longer be a /.er at that point, however.
"Wait, I'm using a Mac - which ships with nearly every conceivable video codec I'd ever need to produce and edit professional video because It Just Works."
With the exception, of course, of obscure codecs like MPEG-2, Flash Video, and WMV9.
Macs can be great for video editing and production, but if you want to use anything other than DV and h.264 you are going to have to add third party codecs.
$5.64? I'll take two!!
Or maybe that should read "1.8"? Or something entirely different?
.38 hours/GB
Hard drive:
DVD: ~2 hours / GB , approx 1200kbps for "Full HD"?
960x540 at 11 inches is 1920x1080 at 22 inches - a similar dot pitch to what is found in most computer monitors.
wow. you are pretty dumb.
Hey, I enjoy watching Deadwood with my 3 year old daughter, you insensitive clod!
As a bonus, it's fucking hilarious when she calls her friends at preschool "cocksucker!"
I call bullshit on this one. I've had the package you are talking about with two different cable companies in the past two years (Comcast and Cox) and haven't paid more than $13/month for it. It variously referred to as "basic" or "limited" and consists of free-to-air and public access channels. Stations like WGN and TNT tend to end up in the mix because they have low channel numbers, and the cable company restricts higher number "expanded basic" channels like Discovery, MTV, and ESPN by sticking a low pass filter on the line.
Anyhow, the general gist of what you are saying is correct - you often have to pay like $60/month for stuff like Disney and SciFi, but nobody is paying $40/month for locals + CSPAN.
Generally speaking, Grandma's sphere of influence isn't very big when it comes to operating systems, is it?
The question shouldn't be, "Why aren't C-SPAN's important recordings in the public domain?" It should be, "If it's so damn important, why isn't the government making its own recordings?"
There's a lot more *content* on YouTube than you'll ever find on *all American TV channels combined.*
In relative terms, a single 15 second "don't smoke crack while you're pregnant, you dumb bitch!" PSA per day is probably more significant than the educational content on YouTube.
For about the price of a webcam, you can remotely violate only 1 person's privacy - and all you can do is detect their presence.
Groundbreaking stuff, really.
Next up on YRO: Intrepid humans use eyeballs to invade privacy from distances of up to 100M!
There is an even easier fix: bid what you would be willing to pay for the item, and let the proxy bidding take care of the rest.
If you get sniped, it will only be because the sniper was willing to pay more than you.
Libraries are public facilities? Most, perhaps, but any list of the world's biggest libraries is littered with private libraries (hint: the biggest of these are located in Cambridge, Massachustts).
I would definitely expect there to be a Core Solo option at the low end of the line, and some of the features from the MacBook Pro are certain to be missing. Integrated video would certainly seem likely - after all, there have to be quite a lot of potential MacBook buyers out there who don't care/aren't willing to pay for dedicated video in their notebook.
Scheme was my first programming language, too.
I'm not going to call it awesome, though.
which is right across Lake Michigan from... Milwaukee.
There are five great lakes, and the U.S.-Canadian border runs through four of them. You named the fifth.
On top of that, your post was at best tangentially related to what the GP said.
Nice work, dumbass.
A not too careful perusal of Apple marketing materials suggests that the dorks there listen to Gorillaz and U2. And not much else.
Was that supposed to make sense?
It is often disease itself that is the drag on productivity which prevents infrastructure developement which allows disease to infect the next generation.
The GP was dealing strictly with moral imperatives. The law of the land was never brought into the conversation.
Wikipedia and http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/dollar_answer.php suggest to me that the NPV of Carnegie's donations is about $7 Billion. The Gates Foundation endowment is in the neighborhood of $29 Billion.
Gates has already given 4x as much money in real terms as Carnegie did in his lifetime. In nominal terms, it is clser to 80x.
Isn't large relative? Aren't his donations larger than anything anyone has ever given before?