Actually, most new network shows are in HD. HBO's shows are all in HD too (probably Showtime and such as well, I only get HBO).
Now, whether you like to watch those or not is another issue, but going forward most tv shows will be in HD (I'm sure cable will catch up soon enough, once cable/sat companies support a larger number of HD channels, right now they mostly just have networks+ESPN+HBO/etc).
Right, just pretty much every commercial movie and modern network TV shows. That's all. (anything shot on film is high-def, and network tv/HBO/etc are all shooting almost everything in digital HD now). The great thing about film (which could be put into an even higher resolution format than 1080p) is that even things filmed decades ago can be converted to HD digital.
Older TV shows, made-for-TV movies, and movies shot in standard-def digital are the only content not available for HD.
Uhm, contradictions in reality are a big part of science. Look at quantum physics for some nice examples. Math/CS are different since they are invented logical systems, but the physical sciences are hardly straightforward.
(That being said, I'm still an atheist... but the real world is f**ked up and complicated, "clean logical structure" exists only in your mind, if at all).
Great for you, but I have watched a hell of a lot of TV my whole life and I graduated from Caltech as well. And please, if you're going to rant like that, at least spell Caltech right (it's not CalTech, Pasadena freeway signs to the contrary). Besides, you most certainly can multitask with TV... I usually leave it on while I'm doing other things (including, but not limited to, programming). TV doesn't turn your brain off for you, people do that voluntarily, and did it millenia before TV was invented.
But simply inserting a CD into your computer once doesn't prove you purchased it. The way it worked was that the first time you wanted access from a computer, you insert the original CD into your drive and register it with my.mp3.com. Afterwards, you can listen to it without the CD.
So if I borrowed 100 CDs from a friend for an afternoon and registered them, then returned the CDs, I would be able to listen to music I hadn't purchased. Hence copyright violation... they can't really guarantee that users have purchased the CDs, just that they had them in their possession for a minute or so.
Note that this means you can't just go your own web page or portal (which could actually be useful...), since you'll need the proprietary W* tools to be able to create the content.
Um, you can download the SDK for free from phone.com. I did. It may not be open-source, but that doesn't prevent you from developing your own HDML applications with it.
Third, it's just painfully difficult to do any input at all (now THIS is dangerous cellphone activity when driving!)
Oh come on, would anyone seriously even THINK of using this while driving???
The value IS there... but, IMHO, mostly for developers. If you take the time to write your own stuff, you can get anything you want from it (for example, I'm nearly done with a nice little scientific calculator, so now I have one of those that I can use from my phone). The lack of content sucks for nonprogrammers, I guess, but learning to program this stuff is trivial. Will it last? Of course not. Eventually we'll all have monitors in our sunglasses or something. And I'd rather build a cellphone into a Palm than the other way around. But this is what is here now, and I don't see anything better coming out in the next year or two. So for the $50 investment to buy my 2760 (after all the rebates), and not all that much per month, it's damn useful for little tasks, taking notes when out, etc.
Yes, it is true. To quote from ther June 4, 1998 edition of the Los Angeles Times, from an article entitled "Hippo Dies at Disney Animal Theme Park":
"A hippopotamus has died of bacterial pneumonia at Disney's Animal Kingdom, the latest in a series of deaths of animals at the new theme park in Lake Buena Vista. Nearly 30 animals, including cheetahs, an otter, a rhino and another hippo, died at the park before it opened in April."
Here's the URL, you need to register for Hunter (LA Times search bot), but it's free (much like NYTimes registration): http://www.latimes.com/cgi-bin/slwebcli?DBLIST=lt9 8&DOCNUM=48497
I definitely remember the press coverage on this when it happened.
Ja, as someone else pointed out, he almost certainly meant "Mein Leben!" which translates to "My Life!" (as in, "Oh no, there it goes"), which was the death-cry of the SS in Wolf3D. Of course, back then it often came across as a throaty warble 'cause sound cards weren't quite so common or advanced.
Why the heck would you need to be 18 to buy cards? Didn't you ever buy anything as a kid? Of course they can go buy them on their own (only things like tobacco, alcohol, rated music, and all that 'adult-only' crap requires an age to buy).
A 2-year old with money can go buy all the Pokemon he/she wants.
Suing over it is obviously ridiculous, and letting your kids spend so much money (since these kids aren't high schoolers making their own money, obviously) on cards is probably a bad move.
Just because one took algebra/geo/trig etc in high school doesn't mean they don't also take it in college. College alg/geo are pretty normal for your average high school student (because the high school class called "algebra" was, most likely, much less comprehensive than what their college required). So calling college algebra/geometry remedial would imply that a very large number of college students are in "remedial" math, which by definition kinda fails (because remedial implies below average)
Your average slashdot reader probably took calculus in high school (hell, I took it halfway through high school)... but most people don't.
Obviously it's ridiculous that calculus doesn't supercede algebra/geo/whatever in requirements, tho.
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Yeah, correction:
Worldwide/US: Sony > Microsoft > Nintendo
Japan: Sony > Nintendo >>> Microsoft
Handhelds: Nintendo >>>>>>> Sony (PSP what a joke)
I don't knoe what planet you live on
Planet America, probably. 360's here are still sold out everywhere.
Actually, most new network shows are in HD. HBO's shows are all in HD too (probably Showtime and such as well, I only get HBO).
Now, whether you like to watch those or not is another issue, but going forward most tv shows will be in HD (I'm sure cable will catch up soon enough, once cable/sat companies support a larger number of HD channels, right now they mostly just have networks+ESPN+HBO/etc).
Too bad most things aren't filmed in HD
Right, just pretty much every commercial movie and modern network TV shows. That's all.
(anything shot on film is high-def, and network tv/HBO/etc are all shooting almost everything in digital HD now). The great thing about film (which could be put into an even higher resolution format than 1080p) is that even things filmed decades ago can be converted to HD digital.
Older TV shows, made-for-TV movies, and movies shot in standard-def digital are the only content not available for HD.
Uhm, contradictions in reality are a big part of science. Look at quantum physics for some nice examples. Math/CS are different since they are invented logical systems, but the physical sciences are hardly straightforward.
(That being said, I'm still an atheist... but the real world is f**ked up and complicated, "clean logical structure" exists only in your mind, if at all).
Great for you, but I have watched a hell of a lot of TV my whole life and I graduated from Caltech as well. And please, if you're going to rant like that, at least spell Caltech right (it's not CalTech, Pasadena freeway signs to the contrary). Besides, you most certainly can multitask with TV... I usually leave it on while I'm doing other things (including, but not limited to, programming). TV doesn't turn your brain off for you, people do that voluntarily, and did it millenia before TV was invented.
But simply inserting a CD into your computer once doesn't prove you purchased it. The way it worked was that the first time you wanted access from a computer, you insert the original CD into your drive and register it with my.mp3.com. Afterwards, you can listen to it without the CD.
So if I borrowed 100 CDs from a friend for an afternoon and registered them, then returned the CDs, I would be able to listen to music I hadn't purchased. Hence copyright violation... they can't really guarantee that users have purchased the CDs, just that they had them in their possession for a minute or so.
Um, you can download the SDK for free from phone.com. I did. It may not be open-source, but that doesn't prevent you from developing your own HDML applications with it.
Third, it's just painfully difficult to do any input at all (now THIS is dangerous cellphone activity when driving!)
Oh come on, would anyone seriously even THINK of using this while driving???
The value IS there... but, IMHO, mostly for developers. If you take the time to write your own stuff, you can get anything you want from it (for example, I'm nearly done with a nice little scientific calculator, so now I have one of those that I can use from my phone). The lack of content sucks for nonprogrammers, I guess, but learning to program this stuff is trivial. Will it last? Of course not. Eventually we'll all have monitors in our sunglasses or something. And I'd rather build a cellphone into a Palm than the other way around. But this is what is here now, and I don't see anything better coming out in the next year or two. So for the $50 investment to buy my 2760 (after all the rebates), and not all that much per month, it's damn useful for little tasks, taking notes when out, etc.
Yes, it is true.
To quote from ther June 4, 1998 edition of the Los Angeles Times, from an article entitled "Hippo Dies at Disney Animal Theme Park":
"A hippopotamus has died of bacterial pneumonia at Disney's Animal Kingdom, the latest in a series of deaths of animals at the new theme park in Lake Buena Vista. Nearly 30 animals, including cheetahs, an otter, a rhino and another hippo, died at the park before it opened in April."
Here's the URL, you need to register for Hunter (LA Times search bot), but it's free (much like NYTimes registration): http://www.latimes.com/cgi-bin/slwebcli?DBLIST=lt
I definitely remember the press coverage on this when it happened.
Ja, as someone else pointed out, he almost certainly meant "Mein Leben!" which translates to "My Life!" (as in, "Oh no, there it goes"), which was the death-cry of the SS in Wolf3D. Of course, back then it often came across as a throaty warble 'cause sound cards weren't quite so common or advanced.
-Kevin
Why the heck would you need to be 18 to buy cards? Didn't you ever buy anything as a kid? Of course they can go buy them on their own (only things like tobacco, alcohol, rated music, and all that 'adult-only' crap requires an age to buy).
A 2-year old with money can go buy all the Pokemon he/she wants.
Suing over it is obviously ridiculous, and letting your kids spend so much money (since these kids aren't high schoolers making their own money, obviously) on cards is probably a bad move.
-Kevin
Just because one took algebra/geo/trig etc in high school doesn't mean they don't also take it in college. College alg/geo are pretty normal for your average high school student (because the high school class called "algebra" was, most likely, much less comprehensive than what their college required). So calling college algebra/geometry remedial would imply that a very large number of college students are in "remedial" math, which by definition kinda fails (because remedial implies below average)
Your average slashdot reader probably took calculus in high school (hell, I took it halfway through high school)... but most people don't.
Obviously it's ridiculous that calculus doesn't supercede algebra/geo/whatever in requirements, tho.