If you want to know who'll win the high-def DVD war, it's the one which offers a writable version first. Geeks will leap on it for their hefty backups. It'll sell. And the market will take over. Meanwhile, I'll start saving up for that terabyte drive.
they already have burners for sale, so i guess it's over?
How is that different from anything else in HD? I'm not going to miss any action in a football game on a regular cable broadcast, but if I'm to believe the ads for comcast HD I see everyday, I ASBOLUTELY MUST GET HD so I can REALLY appreciate the game. If you think you can see too much of a porn star on HD, why the hell would I want to watch a game populated by 350 pound linemen in HD?
think about the "beer goggles" effect, and how a lot of porn stars look better with a bit of the blurriness of DVD versus what you'd get with HD-DVD. do you really want to see the zit on their ass, isn't that going to be just a distraction?
the difference between football and porn in this respect is that in order to see all the football action the camera is tens of yards away from the players on the field so any increase in definition to better see them is helpful. in porn (where the camera is quite often within inches of the people being filmed) having extra detail just means you're going to see stuff you probably don't want to like pores and zits and the like. the only possible gain would be that they could zoom out a bit and keep the same detail, so you can see more of the scene. but unless you're watching a group scene, they're usually able to show the whole scene and get enough detail as-is
But the item about the Canadian coins item appeared to be the result of only partial intelligence.
Defence contractors had apparently been give certain special-issue Canadian coins, the unfamiliar look of which caused them to be concerned about the money, a source said. That led to an investigation once the contractors returned to the United States.
But a U.S. agency that investigated the complaint found no evidence of any secret transmitters, or of any other tampering.
if i were you, i would have just had your wife use her Mac at work to rip it. most of these protected discs use windows-only autorun software to protect them
I'm also curious why you used the adjectives "impartial" and "unbiased." Are you implying the Myth Busters, Nova, and other such shows are somehow "partial" and "biased" because they're flashy? Are fun and educational mutually exclusive concepts to you? i'm not the OP, but the problem that i have with Myth Busters is that while what they're doing has some science in it they don't really concern themselves in explaining their thought process during the show. they explain the myth, they describe their tests at a really high level and then show the test results (the flash), but they don't really spend much time explaining how they arrived at their test plan, why they don't need to test some other factors, or much else between the two endpoints of the timeline. it seems like they're catering to those that just want to watch the flash and those that can look at their end test results and already know enough to work backwards from there. there's not really any education going on, because the first target audience is people who don't want to know more and the latter target audience already knows the subject anyway. i was watching the show at my parents' house over the holiday and everyone in the room agreed that it'd be much more interesting if they'd spend the entire time debunking one myth in more detail than glossing over all the interesting stuff so that they could cram two myths or more into one show.
In related news, humans still can't seem to bridges with any reliable schedule or budget. Despite the fact that bridges have been built probably since the dawn of man, and we've been building suspension bridges for at least 500 years. that's only because bridge building isn't nearly as easy as bridge building, there's a lot more that goes into it
i'd also like to see him express the same outrage at the "shoot anyone that's not a Christian" game that he expresses for other violent games, and i'd be sort of content
i think they just need to control potentially rising expectations that might come with the new revenue. turning down all money now because you're concerned that you may not be able to turn some harmful money down later seems like overkill.
The UK is a great example of what I DON'T want to happen in the US when it comes to surveillance. It is disturbing. Care to elaborate on this? I live in the UK, but I spent 3 months in the USA last year, so I have some perspective on both. The police powers in the USA are quite a bit stronger than those in the UK. I saw a lot more security cameras in the USA than in the UK, but in both cases most were privately owned. "In January 2004 there were more than 4,285,000 CCTV cameras in the UK (roughly 1 for every 4 households). No data about the number of CCTV cameras now in use in the UK is available." - previous Slashdot YRO article (one separate source claims that is 20% of the cctv cameras in the world)
i don't know the exact number of cameras in the United States, but if we matched that rate per-capita it seems like i couldn't drive a mile down the road without seeing several. do they really need this many cameras to catch speeding drivers? it seems like you couldn't even get up to speed between one of them and another, and the Parliament website has a document explaining the system that barely mentions that use
the OP clearly confused "the period of time since we first suspected that there is global warming" with "the period of time over which global warming is suspected to have been occurred" (i'll use the speculative wording so as not to offend the oil companies and their minions)
Seriously, is there anything happening in the arctic or antarctic regions that IS NOT the [result] of Global Warming?
well, the tripling of the manatee population in the last 6 months is probably due more to Conan getting them revved up with spicy hornymanatee.com pictures than global warming. come to think of it a sufficiently large population of horny manatees could cause the ocean to rise in temperature this much by itself
They admit that when an email (or everything in your mailbox) is gone, its gone.
or more specifically, they say that anything in your mailbox that you delete is really deleted. the details on all this are pretty sketchy so it's hard to say, but some details indicate that it may have been a browser or service exploit that made the server think that people were deliberately deleting things and so it really deleted them. that's completely different than just losing things.
imagine if someone ran a test where they deleted things and then were able to fiddle with something in their account and bring them back, we'd be here right now discussing a story about how "Gmail doesn't really delete the things that you ask it to delete" wouldn't we?
i expect a whole line of O'Reilly "Research on RAILs" books to show up on shelves near me, or would they just digitize those directly instead of printing?
I also take issue with Durbin saying this indicates a problem with the patent system. If a new drug comes out that offers no additional benefit, but has patent protection, WHY DOESN'T THE CONSUMER BUY THE GENERIC? That is the real problem. Capitalism fundamentally depends on informed consumers. If anything, I would urge Durbin to consider legislation to inform the consumer about non-patent-protected drugs in a reasonable way so they would not waste their money on a slickly marketed new drug that is only just as good as a generic.
it's not slick marketing that's the problem (who the hell buys a drug based on what they say on TV?), it's buying off doctors to get the prescription written up that way and to get their recommendations
That's why I firmly believe that the other manufacturers need to band together to create a standard external connector.
they could call it ConnectsForSure and their customers would be assured of a universal interface until one of the member companies decides that it might have a chance to be dominant on its own
I don't understand how, in this context, that is supposed to be a bad thing.
Elite = best. Elitist = likes the best.
What, I'm supposed to buy the music I think is the worst, and reject the music I think is the best? Just to keep up my anti-snobbery credentials? That doesn't make any sense. Of course I'm an elitist!
you're not supposed to buy music you think is the worst, you're supposed to acknowledge that not everyone likes (or even should like) the music that you happen to like. "the best" is subjective, elitists don't acknowledge that fact
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think about the "beer goggles" effect, and how a lot of porn stars look better with a bit of the blurriness of DVD versus what you'd get with HD-DVD. do you really want to see the zit on their ass, isn't that going to be just a distraction?
the difference between football and porn in this respect is that in order to see all the football action the camera is tens of yards away from the players on the field so any increase in definition to better see them is helpful. in porn (where the camera is quite often within inches of the people being filmed) having extra detail just means you're going to see stuff you probably don't want to like pores and zits and the like. the only possible gain would be that they could zoom out a bit and keep the same detail, so you can see more of the scene. but unless you're watching a group scene, they're usually able to show the whole scene and get enough detail as-is
iMobile sounds more like something Steve Jobs would drive to Macworld
if i were you, i would have just had your wife use her Mac at work to rip it. most of these protected discs use windows-only autorun software to protect them
and all the Seawomen and Seamen rejoiced
i'd also like to see him express the same outrage at the "shoot anyone that's not a Christian" game that he expresses for other violent games, and i'd be sort of content
i think they just need to control potentially rising expectations that might come with the new revenue. turning down all money now because you're concerned that you may not be able to turn some harmful money down later seems like overkill.
i don't know the exact number of cameras in the United States, but if we matched that rate per-capita it seems like i couldn't drive a mile down the road without seeing several. do they really need this many cameras to catch speeding drivers? it seems like you couldn't even get up to speed between one of them and another, and the Parliament website has a document explaining the system that barely mentions that use
maybe a fish-eye lens just for the novelty
the OP clearly confused "the period of time since we first suspected that there is global warming" with "the period of time over which global warming is suspected to have been occurred" (i'll use the speculative wording so as not to offend the oil companies and their minions)
imagine if someone ran a test where they deleted things and then were able to fiddle with something in their account and bring them back, we'd be here right now discussing a story about how "Gmail doesn't really delete the things that you ask it to delete" wouldn't we?
if you could narrow it down a little further they can more easily find you and fire you for complaining
i expect a whole line of O'Reilly "Research on RAILs" books to show up on shelves near me, or would they just digitize those directly instead of printing?
Breaking News: Palm amends their statement to say that they have 159,999 developers
these guys probably thought that ICQ/Miranda had the best website ever (if you think it's bad there, it was messier years before)
and who would have expected this