Gah! You aren't paying for black bars! You're paying for more pixels for other uses. And *double*? Where the hell are you shopping?
The 1080 can map into any monitor with 1080 OR MORE pixels in height. It will look EXACTLY the same as on a 1080 only monitor. The unused part of the monitor will be black bars, yes. SO WHAT? Why are you staring and obsessing at the bars? There's nothing there because there's nothing to go there. You aren't missing anything. Because the HDTV standard is 1080, you will limit yourself to only 1080 in all other computing tasks? Is there a dimension where that makes a picogram of sense?
Jeebus, I thought these sorts of dumbass arguments died with standard definition and people thinking letterboxed films showed less than pan-and-scan. This is juts a newer, and stupider, version of that.
You can get pixel perfect TV playback on a monitor with 1200 pixels as well. There's unused bands at the top and bottom, but you are getting the EXACT SAME THING in the middle 1080 pixels. And then you get extra height when computing or gaming.
Honestly, this "NO BLACK BANDS!" is some sort of bizarre OCD thing at this point. I could see it back in the standard def days because letterboxing smooshed the image into less pixels, but 1080 mapped on to a 1200 screen is the same as 1080 on a 1080 screen.
Or are you using some crappy playback system that can only do stretching and not just place the video in the middle?
If China wants to bury us all they have to do is call in the loans that finances 40% of our national budget each year, or simply stop loaning us money.
And no one would ever trust China as a creditor again. Bad move.
Besides, treasury bonds are not callable. They could trade them with other countries, I guess.
The glorious People's Army does **NOT** take cover!!1!!2! They charge! And charge! and charge again until the dishonorable barbarian enemy lies trampled with lamentations and impotent penises!
Cover taking is for weak, pampered Western pig dogs with their silly chain saw guns and thermal clips.
You're right. I will stop having fun and enjoying my Apple devices and become bitter like you.
Some of us were happy about that, too.
Happy about a company that hires skilled engineers (I know a guy who just got hired there) who pay a lot of taxes going under because you don't personally like their products? Nice. Not selfish there at all.
Wait, didn't you mean "EXPLODEY at APPLE factory that only builds APPLE stuff and APPLE totally controls and really, really does not build stuff for anyone else and we're totally not just tying it to APPLE for page hits!"
A Giants fan was beaten into a coma by a couple sacks of filth at a Dodger game earlier this year. He's in what seems to be a permanent vegetative state now.
Then again, ubergeeks can't attack people with Apple products because they'd get their sad little loser faces smacked around.:-D
Yeah, like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money safe. I used to use that long ago to try and explain to ideologues that, say, Bill Gates having a dollar does not prevent me from also handling that dollar at some point, or making an entirely different dollar, or creating wealth to make yet another dollar. I look at what the up and coming generations have to say, and I gave up, figuring that the high schools are basically using some variant of Das Kapital as the standard economics text these days. Now I just keep my head down, invest every dollar I can, and plan out an overseas retirement before it all goes belly up.
Having anyone simply sitting on huge piles of cash benefits no-one.
Well, that's the problem right there. No, not that some rich guy is sitting on a pile of cash that no one else can touch, but that fact that many *see* the rich guy as sitting on piles of cash no one can touch. It's a cartoon view of economics.
I just meant naming his employer as an AC is unlikely to incur legal trouble. People have openly bad mouthed their former employers here loads of times, and not as AC.
"Newzflash: private company decides it would rather not sell a specific type of, er, literature. Gnashing of teeth and wailing of lamentations erupts on Slashdot. No film at 11 'cuz we've got way more important things to cover."
Hey, wait a minute! I can't buy Triple-D titty magazines at the magazine rack in Ralph's, either! CENSORSHIP!!1!!2!! If I can't buy Big Busty Anal Plumpers at Vons, then the terrorists have already won. Or something. And, um, oh yeah! HITLER!
That's high, I guess, but I agreed to clean up the laptop of a wife of a best friend, and that shit took six to eight hours to finally set right. They took me to dinner, at least.
And then she manages to infect it with malware again *days* later by doing one of the very things I told her not to do!
Ah well. I got lunch *and* dinner out of that. I told my friend if she does it a third time the price will involved a period of indentured servitude.
Then they got matching Macbooks. No problems since.;-)
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Gah! You aren't paying for black bars! You're paying for more pixels for other uses. And *double*? Where the hell are you shopping?
The 1080 can map into any monitor with 1080 OR MORE pixels in height. It will look EXACTLY the same as on a 1080 only monitor. The unused part of the monitor will be black bars, yes. SO WHAT? Why are you staring and obsessing at the bars? There's nothing there because there's nothing to go there. You aren't missing anything. Because the HDTV standard is 1080, you will limit yourself to only 1080 in all other computing tasks? Is there a dimension where that makes a picogram of sense?
Jeebus, I thought these sorts of dumbass arguments died with standard definition and people thinking letterboxed films showed less than pan-and-scan. This is juts a newer, and stupider, version of that.
You can get pixel perfect TV playback on a monitor with 1200 pixels as well. There's unused bands at the top and bottom, but you are getting the EXACT SAME THING in the middle 1080 pixels. And then you get extra height when computing or gaming.
Honestly, this "NO BLACK BANDS!" is some sort of bizarre OCD thing at this point. I could see it back in the standard def days because letterboxing smooshed the image into less pixels, but 1080 mapped on to a 1200 screen is the same as 1080 on a 1080 screen.
Or are you using some crappy playback system that can only do stretching and not just place the video in the middle?
or we will be speaking Chinese in 50 years.
We need to make a new Godwin-style rule for this. Any discussion of China has a 1.0 probability of us speaking Chinese in XX years.
If China wants to bury us all they have to do is call in the loans that finances 40% of our national budget each year, or simply stop loaning us money.
And no one would ever trust China as a creditor again. Bad move.
Besides, treasury bonds are not callable. They could trade them with other countries, I guess.
The glorious People's Army does **NOT** take cover!!1!!2! They charge! And charge! and charge again until the dishonorable barbarian enemy lies trampled with lamentations and impotent penises!
Cover taking is for weak, pampered Western pig dogs with their silly chain saw guns and thermal clips.
If they try to invade Alaska again, my level Fallout character has a a whole chest full of alien blasters and Nuka-grenades!
You're right. I will stop having fun and enjoying my Apple devices and become bitter like you.
Some of us were happy about that, too.
Happy about a company that hires skilled engineers (I know a guy who just got hired there) who pay a lot of taxes going under because you don't personally like their products? Nice. Not selfish there at all.
So not yet old enough to realize what you want can't actually be done. OK.
You'll get there, kid. Just hang in there.
I'm sure China is just lying awake at night wishing it had your respect.
Why have we not told China to man up and get some human rights?
Really? I mean... really? How old are you?
Wait, didn't you mean "EXPLODEY at APPLE factory that only builds APPLE stuff and APPLE totally controls and really, really does not build stuff for anyone else and we're totally not just tying it to APPLE for page hits!"
A Giants fan was beaten into a coma by a couple sacks of filth at a Dodger game earlier this year. He's in what seems to be a permanent vegetative state now.
Then again, ubergeeks can't attack people with Apple products because they'd get their sad little loser faces smacked around. :-D
Isn't that just called advertising and/or marketing? Is this really anything new?
You know, how some guys might invoke Apple in order to draw more attention to their little documentary.
Love how the thread turned into a squabbling mass of loons about the definition of atheism. You people... honestly...
Yeah, like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his money safe. I used to use that long ago to try and explain to ideologues that, say, Bill Gates having a dollar does not prevent me from also handling that dollar at some point, or making an entirely different dollar, or creating wealth to make yet another dollar. I look at what the up and coming generations have to say, and I gave up, figuring that the high schools are basically using some variant of Das Kapital as the standard economics text these days. Now I just keep my head down, invest every dollar I can, and plan out an overseas retirement before it all goes belly up.
It does benefit the person sitting on the cash.
Didn't say it didn't.
There's still educated adults who think laws are passed to optimize things? Really?
Having anyone simply sitting on huge piles of cash benefits no-one.
Well, that's the problem right there. No, not that some rich guy is sitting on a pile of cash that no one else can touch, but that fact that many *see* the rich guy as sitting on piles of cash no one can touch. It's a cartoon view of economics.
more conservative or traditional countries in the world have a right to decide for themselves what is appropriate or not.
Well, the *men* do, at least.
I just meant naming his employer as an AC is unlikely to incur legal trouble. People have openly bad mouthed their former employers here loads of times, and not as AC.
Oh, please.
Uh, yeah, that was the joke as implied, there, sport.
"Newzflash: private company decides it would rather not sell a specific type of, er, literature. Gnashing of teeth and wailing of lamentations erupts on Slashdot. No film at 11 'cuz we've got way more important things to cover."
Hey, wait a minute! I can't buy Triple-D titty magazines at the magazine rack in Ralph's, either! CENSORSHIP!!1!!2!! If I can't buy Big Busty Anal Plumpers at Vons, then the terrorists have already won. Or something. And, um, oh yeah! HITLER!
That's high, I guess, but I agreed to clean up the laptop of a wife of a best friend, and that shit took six to eight hours to finally set right. They took me to dinner, at least.
And then she manages to infect it with malware again *days* later by doing one of the very things I told her not to do!
Ah well. I got lunch *and* dinner out of that. I told my friend if she does it a third time the price will involved a period of indentured servitude.
Then they got matching Macbooks. No problems since. ;-)
I get a thing where I try to type a post, and the browser insta-scrolls to the top of the page. Has happened on more than one OS.
Yet you still did it, and you are still covering for them. You're AC- cough up the name.
Pfft. Nothing new. Insurance scams were all the rage in ancient Greece.
The scams involved the common practice of bottomry.
No, it does not mean what you think. :)