By the "logic" in your original complaint - there are no remote controls used in the show. It's all just bits in a computer or ink on paper. There can also be no characters in the show... if one follows your unreasonable complaint to its logical conclusion.
Oh yeah, it also sounds as if it would be possible to author these discs on existing red-laser DVD burners. Which means all of our existing Final Cut Pro/DVD Studio Pro workstations are able to produce High-Def discs without any hardware upgrades. All we'd need is the players in the screening rooms. The only way we'd be able to do that otherwise would be to hook up a computer in every screening room, which isn't the most attractive solution.
It is possible to master a type of red-laser (DVD) Blu-ray (data) format disc without AACS, but for obvious reasons this isn't exactly an attractive option.
Sound pretty attractive to me. For home movies, and short films (students, no budget experimenters) - you get the very cheap cost of DVD media, but are able to show the content in High Definition.
Never sign up for any unnecessary service that requires you to install software, EVER.
So, people should never play WoW, WWII Online, or any other online game that is subscription-based, or use an online EPG for their PVR? After all, they are unnecessary and require the installation of software.
Short of MP3 there is no format that is more common.
Judging by the sales of songs from the iTunes store compared to the WMA stores, and the fact that many people rip music for their iPods in AAC (it's the default setting) - I would imagine that AAC files are far more common in the wild than WMA files. Do you have any actual research available that compares what format people use more?
That doesn't make sense grammatically. He said "scatterbrained companies" in the plural. Microsoft is only one company. And if you're familiar with Dvorak's work, I doubt he would ever call MS "scatterbrained", no matter how crappy their products get. He was clearly talking about other employers switching platforms, not MS.
Wrong - his platform is personal liberty, one of the ideals that this country was founded upon.
You can't have liberty when you're dead... or up to your armpits in sick people. Healthcare is a pretty damn good supporter of freedom. As is education. The result of Ron Paul's policies would be virtual slavery to the wealthy, not personal liberty (unless you're a millionaire).
I don't think honesty matters that much when you're talking about a crazy person. I think we should expect more from our politicians - like being honest and sane.
Actually, Minidisc's failure has plenty to do with the proprietary ATRAC and its ridiculous conversion utilities. But it has even more to do with not having a direct-to-computer interface until it was far too late. During the time when it had potential for amateur recording, one had to re-record the output of the Minidisc player back into the computer in real-time. Lame. It wasn't long after the Minidisc came out that there were some much nicer recorders available that used solid-state memory. The whole "yet another format of optical disc" decision was retarded.
As for ATRAC being superior, it actually gets very poor results in blind tests. And if you are using it to listen to your MP3s, it's definitely not superior, because it has to be transcoded from MP3 anyway.
That interpretation doesn't make a lot of sense, if you consider the "scatterbrained companies" clause. He seems to be referring to companies switching employees to Mac or Linux, not his making a voluntary decision. But of course, he fails to mention which companies he's talking about - nor does he say why it's a scatterbrained decision. It seems like a perfectly rational decision to ditch Windows.
That just means someone took an already existing idea and slapped a lot of marketing and PR behind it... but the actual IDEA behind the iPhone is at least a decade old.
So tell me - why didn't somebody else do it sooner? And how does PR and marketing create a high-tech phone? I'm pretty sure that you need at least a few engineers, software developers and industrial designers to make such a device.
Going by your logic, it wasn't innovative when the first personal computers were actually made. After all, Alan Turing came up with the idea decades before. Was all it took to put Turing's idea into practice some marketing and PR?
Ideas are easy. It's the implementation that's difficult.
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The problem with holodecks is when real hologram simulated Evil Lincoln appears.
Not if you're a rich "know-it-all." There are plenty of dishonest idiots with money.
By the "logic" in your original complaint - there are no remote controls used in the show. It's all just bits in a computer or ink on paper. There can also be no characters in the show... if one follows your unreasonable complaint to its logical conclusion.
If one had infinite-sized fingers, rather than finite, wouldn't:
What? I don't think his HD-DVD player will last forever. And once they stop making them and his player dies, then what?
Oh yeah, it also sounds as if it would be possible to author these discs on existing red-laser DVD burners. Which means all of our existing Final Cut Pro/DVD Studio Pro workstations are able to produce High-Def discs without any hardware upgrades. All we'd need is the players in the screening rooms. The only way we'd be able to do that otherwise would be to hook up a computer in every screening room, which isn't the most attractive solution.
Sound pretty attractive to me. For home movies, and short films (students, no budget experimenters) - you get the very cheap cost of DVD media, but are able to show the content in High Definition.
Wait, this crap has fanboys??? Ye Gods.
Yeah, I can't possibly see how an iconic American company committing an act that is most likely criminal in most states would be newsworthy...
More likely, born 60+ years ago. Those born yesterday are probably savvy enough to avoid this.
So, people should never play WoW, WWII Online, or any other online game that is subscription-based, or use an online EPG for their PVR? After all, they are unnecessary and require the installation of software.
However, Ogg isn't proprietary or DRM infested, so it doesn't count.
Sue Cowboy Neal because Hot Grits won't play games/music/movies/books meant for Madeleine Albright.
Judging by the sales of songs from the iTunes store compared to the WMA stores, and the fact that many people rip music for their iPods in AAC (it's the default setting) - I would imagine that AAC files are far more common in the wild than WMA files. Do you have any actual research available that compares what format people use more?
Why would I want to load my player in that fashion? I thought technology was supposed to make tasks easier and quicker, not more difficult and slower?
That doesn't make sense grammatically. He said "scatterbrained companies" in the plural. Microsoft is only one company. And if you're familiar with Dvorak's work, I doubt he would ever call MS "scatterbrained", no matter how crappy their products get. He was clearly talking about other employers switching platforms, not MS.
Sure, here you go.
That's what they say now, until the next "threat to homeland security" and it becomes mandatory.
You can't have liberty when you're dead... or up to your armpits in sick people. Healthcare is a pretty damn good supporter of freedom. As is education. The result of Ron Paul's policies would be virtual slavery to the wealthy, not personal liberty (unless you're a millionaire).
I don't think honesty matters that much when you're talking about a crazy person. I think we should expect more from our politicians - like being honest and sane.
... welcome our Ron Paul overlords.
As for ATRAC being superior, it actually gets very poor results in blind tests. And if you are using it to listen to your MP3s, it's definitely not superior, because it has to be transcoded from MP3 anyway.
Actually, people have done direct comparisons of the speed of web browsing on 2G vs. 3G phones, and found very little real-world difference.
That interpretation doesn't make a lot of sense, if you consider the "scatterbrained companies" clause. He seems to be referring to companies switching employees to Mac or Linux, not his making a voluntary decision. But of course, he fails to mention which companies he's talking about - nor does he say why it's a scatterbrained decision. It seems like a perfectly rational decision to ditch Windows.
I think he's just being incoherent, as usual.
So tell me - why didn't somebody else do it sooner? And how does PR and marketing create a high-tech phone? I'm pretty sure that you need at least a few engineers, software developers and industrial designers to make such a device.
Going by your logic, it wasn't innovative when the first personal computers were actually made. After all, Alan Turing came up with the idea decades before. Was all it took to put Turing's idea into practice some marketing and PR?
Ideas are easy. It's the implementation that's difficult.