on digital channels, yes, they compress the image, but not digital HD on my cable providor. you can afford a $6000 tv, but not digital cable? i would have figured as a/. poster you would have done your research.
*stares at the pile of 80 minidiscs on my desk* HEY minidiscs are quite usefull. i purchased my portable player/recorder in 1998, when there were no hard drive based mp3 players, and a minidisc recorder and a 64 meg mp3 player cost the same. the reason minidisc was better was i could carry another 74 minutes of music in my pocket for only a dollar. if i wanted to take more than 64 megs of mp3s with me, i'd have to spend a lot more money, or hook it up to a computer and swap songs out. this simply was not acceptable for plane flights, etc. the reason the minidisc never caught on was the way you obtained the music itself. i was one of VERY few people with a cable modem at that time, so most people were still relying on copying from a CD to get music onto their mp3 player or minidisc, because record companies hardly released anything on a MD because the Japanese market had already for 2 or 3 years shown it was the replacement of the tape, not the compact disc. a replacement for the most popular recordable format. anyways...hd-dvd or blu-ray won't be that way. they will "go the way" of the SACD or DVD-A....and by that i mean onto my shelf in mass quantities. sure, wal mart doesn't sell them, but best buy and circuit city have a nice collection of the 2 "better than cd" audio formats, even though most people dont care. if it's not adopted instead of a dvd, i think it will still fall into the specialty market...like 7.1 channel recievers, and recievers with HD video switchting and upmixing. people still buy them, but who do you know that actually has it? it's not going to go the way of the SelectaVision CED disks of the early 80's. (a video disc that plays with a stylus like a record?!?!?! turns out my girlfriend's father was VP of that whole disaster RCA had there... http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who/babcock-bruce.html)
I dont use any, and have no problems. Never. And i fix other people's computers without them.
When are people going to learn to be careful? I put firefox on a friends PC, along with adaware, and he still was screwed withtin 2 weeks. what is wrong with the general public???
Is the point to say "we've been to do moon", or do they plan on doing something worthwhile while they are there? We know quite a bit about the moon alrady, do we know enough to begin to be able to colonize it? I would like to say yes. We know about the moon. We may not know about our technology's ability to sustain us there, so they better be going with that in mind. We know we can get there, and they've got near 45 years technology on NASA. I would consider just getting there a waste of India's resources.
$$$ this and $$$ that if i had open access to what someone tried 10 years ago, my home PC might get further than they did with my added insight... i say, if you've given up, it goes opensource. let everyone have their shot at their $$$ from their time, but dont lock it up when you're done!!! make something out of it or let someone else.
ahhh, that's what i was forgetting about, being a student of phsyics and computer technology here at Purdue, i always forget about "commercial companies"
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on digital channels, yes, they compress the image, but not digital HD on my cable providor. you can afford a $6000 tv, but not digital cable? i would have figured as a /. poster you would have done your research.
*stares at the pile of 80 minidiscs on my desk*e .html)
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minidiscs are quite usefull. i purchased my portable player/recorder in 1998, when there were no hard drive based mp3 players, and a minidisc recorder and a 64 meg mp3 player cost the same. the reason minidisc was better was i could carry another 74 minutes of music in my pocket for only a dollar. if i wanted to take more than 64 megs of mp3s with me, i'd have to spend a lot more money, or hook it up to a computer and swap songs out. this simply was not acceptable for plane flights, etc.
the reason the minidisc never caught on was the way you obtained the music itself. i was one of VERY few people with a cable modem at that time, so most people were still relying on copying from a CD to get music onto their mp3 player or minidisc, because record companies hardly released anything on a MD because the Japanese market had already for 2 or 3 years shown it was the replacement of the tape, not the compact disc. a replacement for the most popular recordable format.
anyways...hd-dvd or blu-ray won't be that way. they will "go the way" of the SACD or DVD-A....and by that i mean onto my shelf in mass quantities. sure, wal mart doesn't sell them, but best buy and circuit city have a nice collection of the 2 "better than cd" audio formats, even though most people dont care.
if it's not adopted instead of a dvd, i think it will still fall into the specialty market...like 7.1 channel recievers, and recievers with HD video switchting and upmixing. people still buy them, but who do you know that actually has it?
it's not going to go the way of the SelectaVision CED disks of the early 80's. (a video disc that plays with a stylus like a record?!?!?! turns out my girlfriend's father was VP of that whole disaster RCA had there... http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who/babcock-bruc
exactly. also, if i always have 22 proccesses running, that's a pretty darn good clue, too.
I dont use any, and have no problems. Never. And i fix other people's computers without them. When are people going to learn to be careful? I put firefox on a friends PC, along with adaware, and he still was screwed withtin 2 weeks. what is wrong with the general public???
Is the point to say "we've been to do moon", or do they plan on doing something worthwhile while they are there?
We know quite a bit about the moon alrady, do we know enough to begin to be able to colonize it? I would like to say yes. We know about the moon. We may not know about our technology's ability to sustain us there, so they better be going with that in mind.
We know we can get there, and they've got near 45 years technology on NASA. I would consider just getting there a waste of India's resources.
see: "the moon is a harsh mistress"
$$$ this and $$$ that
if i had open access to what someone tried 10 years ago, my home PC might get further than they did with my added insight...
i say, if you've given up, it goes opensource. let everyone have their shot at their $$$ from their time, but dont lock it up when you're done!!! make something out of it or let someone else.
you seem to have an even faith that humanity will preserve itself and destroy itself at the same time.
ahhh, that's what i was forgetting about, being a student of phsyics and computer technology here at Purdue, i always forget about "commercial companies"
In my opinion, all research should be this way in fields that are directly related to the betterment of our health. Who would object?