You're comparing $600 laser printers to cheap $80 inkjets. I was thinking of large office copiers that do duplexing and stapling at over 55 pages per minute and are rated for millions of copies in addition to any MFD/MFC abilities.
When is the last time you saw an actual photocopier and not a multipurpose copier/printer/scanner/etc.? That's roughly the same problem with Blackberry phones.
We know how stupid humans are, how could we create anything smarter than ourselves?
I would think you would build upon the intelligence of hundreds if not thousands of people, much like all of the technology our civilization is based on, or do you happen to know how to manufacture everything you use from scratch including microchips, displays, etc.?
I'll agree with most of your post, but the "I've had a 37-inch HDTV for 5 years and I sit about 10-12 feet away and it's fine." comment is subjective. When I was a kid, we sat 10 feet from a 19" tv and considered it fine, but the 52" I have now is much better, and if or when I replace it, I'll probably get a 60".
The problem is that Samsung and Brother are somehow making consumer crap that only costs 1/2 as much. Why buy a HP when I can get a Samsung or Brother laser printer for under $60?
Artifacts- I'll bet you that many of those artifacts that you see are due to your equipment and it's settings. Most likely it's your TV doing post-processing causing the artifacts.
In addition to encoding and DVD players causing artifacting, the television itself could be introducing artifacting during a post-processing routine. I was reading a review on a 1 year old plasma that the reviewer had some blocky artifacting on some quick transitions before he disabled the 600mhz interpolation mode.
My friend who works at a Navy helicopter depot as a contractor had to buy her own tools, her own tool box and make foam cut-outs for every single tool.
I (thought I) deleted my Facebook account a couple months ago (according to their directions, you can't try to log back in to make sure it's deleted, as that will reactivate it), and lately I've been getting emails about people posting things in their facebook accounts. I get the feeling that it isn't really deleted.
From what I remember of civics class, It's good that we are not a true democracy, otherwise we'd be suffering from "Tyranny of the masses". Which, after witnessing how many Americans believe in god and that they are superior to everyone in other countries, frankly scares me.
"While falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose their argument and/or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[10] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by Glenn Greenwald.[11]"
Funny. They've been saying that ever since Pentium 90 days -- maybe even before. Unless you're counting cpu's with integrated gpu units, I doubt they'll ever compare to equivalent generation discrete hardware.
I looked at the linked chart and they are basing it on "with 20/20 vision it is possible to resolve 1/60th of a degree of an arc". Maybe I just have better than 20/20 vision with my glasses, but the quality difference between 720p and 1080p on a 47" at 14 feet is quite obvious to me. I will admit that 720p on my 52" still looks quite nice and I'm putting off on a 1080p upgrade because of it.
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people who believe in Christ are doing it in vein.
So that's what it is. I've always wondered...
Anyway, go ahead and believe in your god and bible all you want. As long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care.
Compared to how many $7 meals + drinks you consume in a month, the cellphone can be downright cheap.
You're comparing $600 laser printers to cheap $80 inkjets. I was thinking of large office copiers that do duplexing and stapling at over 55 pages per minute and are rated for millions of copies in addition to any MFD/MFC abilities.
When is the last time you saw an actual photocopier and not a multipurpose copier/printer/scanner/etc.? That's roughly the same problem with Blackberry phones.
We know how stupid humans are, how could we create anything smarter than ourselves?
I would think you would build upon the intelligence of hundreds if not thousands of people, much like all of the technology our civilization is based on, or do you happen to know how to manufacture everything you use from scratch including microchips, displays, etc.?
I've never ridden a clipper before (I assume the sail ship?), but surely to sail from Newark to San Francisco is much longer than 19 hours?
I'll agree with most of your post, but the "I've had a 37-inch HDTV for 5 years and I sit about 10-12 feet away and it's fine." comment is subjective. When I was a kid, we sat 10 feet from a 19" tv and considered it fine, but the 52" I have now is much better, and if or when I replace it, I'll probably get a 60".
The problem is that Samsung and Brother are somehow making consumer crap that only costs 1/2 as much. Why buy a HP when I can get a Samsung or Brother laser printer for under $60?
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but you sure that wasn't 8MB on those K6/2s instead of 8GB? Otherwise, thanks for the awesome writeup!
Have fun loading your Geos operating system from 170K 1541 disk drive for some 3 minutes.
Ha! I had 3 copies of doom playing multiplayer with each other through windows 95 on my 4 megs of ram. Granted, it was kind of slow...
Maybe you should download AutoIT and make a script to automate some of that.
Artifacts- I'll bet you that many of those artifacts that you see are due to your equipment and it's settings. Most likely it's your TV doing post-processing causing the artifacts.
They call that color banding and is definitely a problem for older and less expensive HDTVs.
In addition to encoding and DVD players causing artifacting, the television itself could be introducing artifacting during a post-processing routine. I was reading a review on a 1 year old plasma that the reviewer had some blocky artifacting on some quick transitions before he disabled the 600mhz interpolation mode.
My friend who works at a Navy helicopter depot as a contractor had to buy her own tools, her own tool box and make foam cut-outs for every single tool.
I (thought I) deleted my Facebook account a couple months ago (according to their directions, you can't try to log back in to make sure it's deleted, as that will reactivate it), and lately I've been getting emails about people posting things in their facebook accounts. I get the feeling that it isn't really deleted.
From what I remember of civics class, It's good that we are not a true democracy, otherwise we'd be suffering from "Tyranny of the masses". Which, after witnessing how many Americans believe in god and that they are superior to everyone in other countries, frankly scares me.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
"While falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose their argument and/or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.[10] Similar criticisms of the "law" (or "at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes") have been made by Glenn Greenwald.[11]"
"Modern cpus handle such loads pretty well."
Funny. They've been saying that ever since Pentium 90 days -- maybe even before. Unless you're counting cpu's with integrated gpu units, I doubt they'll ever compare to equivalent generation discrete hardware.
On my keyboard, it's a 7 key.
I looked at the linked chart and they are basing it on "with 20/20 vision it is possible to resolve 1/60th of a degree of an arc". Maybe I just have better than 20/20 vision with my glasses, but the quality difference between 720p and 1080p on a 47" at 14 feet is quite obvious to me. I will admit that 720p on my 52" still looks quite nice and I'm putting off on a 1080p upgrade because of it.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is pretty much history from the point of view of the losers.
Do you really think those cables would be run through anything other than the undercarriage or bottom frame of the car?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect