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I'll second that. Expert use of google is a very valuable skill. But you can't get there just be searching google a lot, you have to have a good working knowledge of the problem domain too.
Obviously all the folks who use H.264 have looked at the alternatives you mention and rejected them. That's an awfully big assumption. From my experience within the corporate world, I'd feel reasonably confident in saying that not even half of the folks who use h.264 even know that dirac exists, much less have looked at it as an alternative to h.264.
Oh, puh-leaze. Do you really think I took the original post at face value? I linked the lolcatz for anyone who didn't get the joke to begin with. If I had misspelled my post, would that have made it obvious enough for you?
What i suspect is happening is that the first blade may dull, but its making the rough cut anyway, then one of the other blades which is sharper follows up with a cleaner cut. Razor blades do not generally dull from use - they dull from rust.
You can dry them with a hair-dryer to increase longevity, or use use shaving oil in the shower, which tends to leave the blades with a thin, protective layer of oil - I typically get at least 3 months, generally 6, out of a single blade cartridge that way.
Note - I have no financial interest in this particular shaving-oil vendor.
Everybody knows cats need fast processors to run extra grammar and spelling checks. For a cat, being caught spelling something incorrectly is the height of humiliation. The internet disagrees.
Your "problems" have nothing to do with Vista, and everything to do with media companies DRM-encumbering their content. Where did I say one word about media companies or even playback of DRM-encumbered media?
I think you completely failed to understand the point that being vista-compliant is a market necessity for most major hardware manufacturers and part of that compliance results in extra costs for people who don't care one whit about "DRM-encumbered media" on their vista systems or for vista at all.
"DRM" is quite possibly the biggest non-argument about Vista there is I disagree. The DRM problem with vista is so bad it that it even affects all linux distributions. The problem is that in order to comply with vista's DRM requirements, hardware has to include support for DRM (aka 'protected path'). That's a cost that everyone bears when they buy new hardware, even if they don't want to run vista.
But it gets worse. In order to minimize the cost of the extra DRM circuitry, ATI (and presumably nvidia) integrated the DRM with the video decode acceleration. The end result ist that ATI is releasing truly Free drivers for Linux that include everything but video decode acceleration.
Gee chuck, maybe you oughta switch to decaf, what? You're paranoid. I'm gonna gitcha! hahaha haha aha ha LOL! Why would I worry about you? You aren't smart enough to ever end up in a position to abuse the system.
I am guarnateed totally 100% anonymity anywhere I go in public! It's a guarnateed right in the USA Constitution. Don't give me any of this "I can see you" bS!!!!!!!! Being seen and identified by a person or agent of the government on the street is one thing - that's how its been for thousands of years.
Having every movement of every person on the street automatically recorded, indexed and cataloged into nationwide databases without the any human intervention is a completely different matter - that's a recipe for totalitarianism.
Right now, we are rapidly barreling down the road from how its been for thousands of years to the ultimate totalitarian state with very little good to show for it beyond political rhetoric.
No but seriously, I'm curious what you're talking about here. Nissan has a lane-departure detector that "rumbles" the steering wheel if it thinks you are drifting out of your lane. They are trying to mimic the feel of the "rumble strips" that are on the shoulder of some highways.
The Blue LED patent story is very interesting - not the typical david vs goliath situation. The article is a bit old, it is my understanding that Nakamura did prevail.
Only 50 years ago it was mostly unheard of for women to have a job at all, certainly nothing like the positions they fill today. In other words, societies DO change. Unless you want to argue we have the same society as Babelon? Is that a society where only hot babes had jobs?
Best way to make me happy is to give me the product/service for free, without any ads. What good is free, if the product is not what you want?
I say the best way to make me happy is to give me what I want. The trick is to make it easy for me to pay for and get what I want. In other words, let me pay up front for shows with storylines/actors/directors/etc that I want. Kind of like the ultimate ala-carte for cable tv - instead of subscribing to a channel, subscribe to a show.
As long as subscription revenues for the show are sufficient, new episodes get created. The episodes are then released for free distribution because they have already been paid for. If the subscription revenues fall, then the show gets cancelled.
No need for middle-men who don't care a whit about the quality or direction of the show determining what shows get funded and what shows get canned. Let the real audience decide.
So, lawyers have been thinking about the nature of property for hundreds of years, and have come up with the idea that property is a bundle of rights in a thing. And, there are some very real parallels between Real Property (ie land) and Intellectual Property The only reason those parallels exist is because the legal fiction of intellectual property attempts to mimic the physical reality of real property. You are doing the equivalent of using a term to define itself.
Let's look at the difference between the two in the physical world, rather than the abstraction of the physical world which is the law.
The right to exclude Real property - exclusion can be accomplished without involving 3rd parties. Intellectual property - exclusion can only occur with the aid of 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement).
The right to convey Real property - Once conveyed, its gone. Intellectual property - Once conveyed, you still have it.
The right to subdivide Real property - Subdivision is finite, there is only so much to go around. Intellectual property - Subdivision is infinite, you can give away pieces of arbitrary size to as many people as want them.
The right to control how something is used Real property - control does not require 3rd parties. Intellectual property - control requires 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement)
That is a non-rivalrous property right: my ability to get my golf ball is not impeded by the number of other people who have that right. Whether or not a right is rivalrous says nothing about whether or not the actual resource is rivalrous. The entire world could have the right to retrieve golfballs from someone's yard, but the entire world could not actually DO it because the yard is rivalrous.
IP resembles real or personal property a lot more than it resembles anything else. But physical resources do not resemble ideas anywhere but within the realm of some legal systems.
That doesn't even make any sense. I mean if you're going to insult me, call me your dad or something. You said "it" where "it" is: "You're telling me that even a simple correction requires me to engage people like you in debate?"
You said "that" where "that" is: "That's a pretty stupid thing to say."
If you felt insulted, it's only by your own words.
You're telling me that even a simple correction requires me to engage people like you in debate? Nobody is forcing you to "engage."
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. Which must be why you said it, and said that.
Why do you people think that when you get a response it's an invitation to debate? Get outta the kitchen if you can't take the heat.
It's not hard, why are you having such a hard time? Seems to me that you are the one having a hard time. I've never met a practicing solipsist before.
As to "straw men", I think you need to look that one up so you don't incorrectly accuse someone of using one again. You DID give an example of an individual abuse, so you're completely wrong. You ignored the man's point about systemic abuse summarized as "problem one" focusing on the point about individual abuse labeled "problem three" and then disputed "problem three" as not applying to systemic abuse. Quite brill! So glad to read your contribution to the discussion.
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I'll second that. Expert use of google is a very valuable skill. But you can't get there just be searching google a lot, you have to have a good working knowledge of the problem domain too.
Oh, puh-leaze. Do you really think I took the original post at face value?
I linked the lolcatz for anyone who didn't get the joke to begin with.
If I had misspelled my post, would that have made it obvious enough for you?
You can dry them with a hair-dryer to increase longevity, or use use shaving oil in the shower, which tends to leave the blades with a thin, protective layer of oil - I typically get at least 3 months, generally 6, out of a single blade cartridge that way.
Note - I have no financial interest in this particular shaving-oil vendor.
They tried this already...
http://www.forbes.com/2000/07/20/mu4.html
and we all know how well THAT worked out.
Anyone find a review of one of the linux models?
I think you completely failed to understand the point that being vista-compliant is a market necessity for most major hardware manufacturers and part of that compliance results in extra costs for people who don't care one whit about "DRM-encumbered media" on their vista systems or for vista at all.
The problem is that in order to comply with vista's DRM requirements, hardware has to include support for DRM (aka 'protected path'). That's a cost that everyone bears when they buy new hardware, even if they don't want to run vista.
But it gets worse. In order to minimize the cost of the extra DRM circuitry, ATI (and presumably nvidia) integrated the DRM with the video decode acceleration. The end result ist that ATI is releasing truly Free drivers for Linux that include everything but video decode acceleration.
You aren't smart enough to ever end up in a position to abuse the system.
That's not how it works on my new car - it reports actual tire pressure in psi.
Having every movement of every person on the street automatically recorded, indexed and cataloged into nationwide databases without the any human intervention is a completely different matter - that's a recipe for totalitarianism.
Right now, we are rapidly barreling down the road from how its been for thousands of years to the ultimate totalitarian state with very little good to show for it beyond political rhetoric.
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-- The purr of an engine in a french luxury car.
Census data was used to round up japanese-american citizens for interment camps during WWII:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-30-census-role_N.htm
With the current "war on the unexpected" who knows how current census data will be used to abuse citizens like yourself.
The Blue LED patent story is very interesting - not the typical david vs goliath situation.
The article is a bit old, it is my understanding that Nakamura did prevail.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010824S0051
I say the best way to make me happy is to give me what I want. The trick is to make it easy for me to pay for and get what I want. In other words, let me pay up front for shows with storylines/actors/directors/etc that I want. Kind of like the ultimate ala-carte for cable tv - instead of subscribing to a channel, subscribe to a show.
As long as subscription revenues for the show are sufficient, new episodes get created. The episodes are then released for free distribution because they have already been paid for. If the subscription revenues fall, then the show gets cancelled.
No need for middle-men who don't care a whit about the quality or direction of the show determining what shows get funded and what shows get canned. Let the real audience decide.
Let's look at the difference between the two in the physical world, rather than the abstraction of the physical world which is the law. The right to exclude Real property - exclusion can be accomplished without involving 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - exclusion can only occur with the aid of 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement). The right to convey Real property - Once conveyed, its gone.
Intellectual property - Once conveyed, you still have it. The right to subdivide Real property - Subdivision is finite, there is only so much to go around.
Intellectual property - Subdivision is infinite, you can give away pieces of arbitrary size to as many people as want them. The right to control how something is used Real property - control does not require 3rd parties.
Intellectual property - control requires 3rd parties (i.e. law enforcement) That is a non-rivalrous property right: my ability to get my golf ball is not impeded by the number of other people who have that right. Whether or not a right is rivalrous says nothing about whether or not the actual resource is rivalrous. The entire world could have the right to retrieve golfballs from someone's yard, but the entire world could not actually DO it because the yard is rivalrous. IP resembles real or personal property a lot more than it resembles anything else. But physical resources do not resemble ideas anywhere but within the realm of some legal systems.
You said "that" where "that" is: "That's a pretty stupid thing to say."
If you felt insulted, it's only by your own words.
I command you to respond!
I've never met a practicing solipsist before.