The size of the porn industry was totally irrelevant in the format war between VHS and Betamax because, as I said above, porn was readily produced for BOTH formats. The whole idea that it was not is an urban legend.
Finally, just in case you think for some reason Sony had some kind of "standards" that didn't allow porn to be produced on betamax, I point you here as an example I found after all of 5 seconds on google: http://www.vintagesleaze.com/vids-supercharger.html
Oracle bought the MySQL InnoDB engine a while ago, and if you are using MySQL for any kind of business or reliable system you are using the InnoDB engine. So if you're using MySQL you are likely already using Oracle, you just don't know it.
POrn weas not a factor in the uptake of VHS at all - Betamax had plenty of porn.
Many theories regarding why Sony's Betamax failed have arisen over the years. One of the more amusing (and false) is that Sony refused to allow pornographic material on their system. A quick perusal of the Betamax library reveals that adult entertainment was readily available. For example, Playboy Industries released their videos in a dual format, both Betamax and VHS, for most of the 1970s and 80s (and can be confirmed with a quick search through eBay's adult section, or other used video markets). Second, the adult industry is too small to have any lasting impact on standards selection. According to Forbes.com, adult video income is approximately $1 billion. "The industry is tiny next to broadcast television ($32.3 billion in 1999), cable television ($45.5 billion), the newspaper business ($27.5 billion), Hollywood ($31 billion), even to professional and educational publishing ($14.8 billion). When one really examines the numbers, the porn industry -- while a subject of fascination -- is every bit as marginal as it seems at first glance." [3]
When oh when will the never-ending sensationalist description of events that water down the English language end?
If you are talking about an "Apocalyptic event", neither of these things even register on the radar. A few K die at 9/11? Please. A few hundred K die in a Tsunami? Worse, but still not that bad historically. Tens of millions died during the black plague, it wiped out 2/3 of Europe's population, and even that is not an apocalyptic event.
An "apocalyptic event" is an event that - guess what - could be mistaken for THE APOCALYPSE in it's early phases. Something that wipes out billions of people.
People keep quoting your above argument, but if you look historically, it is often backwards.
When did consumers make the move en-masse and DVD started outselling VHS? Not when the quality and content difference was there - it was there from the beginning. It was when the players got cheap!
When did the DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD-RAM war end? It wasn't when one media had innvation over the other - it was when the dual-format hardware came out!
Why did VHS beat out betamax? It wasn't cause of the Porn angle, that is an urban myth (do a Google search). The real reason? VHS media was cheaper both to acquire and to record on (consumers could record 3 hour long shows on 1 tape vs. betamax's 1 ).
Consumers don't think with their heads. They think with their WALLETS. If they see high def player A on the shelf and high def player B on the shelf, and one is 1/2 the price of the other, they don't sit around doing market analysis to see what content is available on each - they buy the cheap one. Then they buy stuff that works in the cheap one.
And if your content doesn't work in their cheaper player and they know that, it won't get bought.
Having the code open is just one piece of the puzzle. There also has to be stringent auditing of the voting machines and random spot-checking of them to ensure that the code being run is the exact same as the code that is published and open.
I dunno where the heck you live but 27C is NOT room temp. "Room temp" is 20-22C. If my house was 27C year round I would not be able to wear pants!
Assuming a more *NORMAL* room temp of 21C, the updated calculation is (305-294)/294 = 3.7%, or 21.76 milliwatts.
That is 4.5 days to charge fully from 0.
And you're also forgetting the point of this is not to take a dead battery from 0% to 100%, it is to MAINTAIN your current battery. As such I think this system could theoretically easily make it so you would rarely have to charge your battery.
You will soon realize experience and connections often count much more than education when it comes to employment.
I am not trying to bash the value of a university education - I certainly d o not regret my degree. But back in 2003, when I graduated, there is absolutely no way I would have gotten the position I am currently in without the connections I had at the company. If i did not have these connections at the time I would have had to start much more "at the bottom" and would likely not be doing as well as I am currently.
The sooner young people learn how the business world really works the better. Your education means nothing compared to your competition's weekly golf game with his manager. Get out there, go to user groups and community events, socialize with business people in your area. Don't waste your whole university life studying and partying - make as many business connections as you can while in school so you will be prepared when you graduate.
The point of this is you no longer have to be a 3D wiz or artist to make decent 3D objects - you just plug in their attributes and they generate themselves.
So say you are a great programmer but a totally lousy artist - now you can actually make that cool 3D game you have been envisioning by yourself.
Assuming you want optimal route to visit N destinations on your vacation, all you have to do is map the directions from A to B, then click 'Add Destination' at the bottom for each stop over.
It won't automatically find the shortest drive to visit each, however, you can drag them around on the left to change the overall route ordering. Assuming your vacation route is only 4 or 5 items it should be fairly simple to plan the optimal route for your family using the map on the right while you drag.
Next gen is the current gen once it arrives. At that moment the current gen becomes "last gen". Your PS2 is one such "last gen" console.
Saying that the current gen remains so until it dies is the EXACT same as saying people born in the 1940s are the "current generation" just because they are still alive!
Discovery is still not too bad. But TLC stopped being The Learning Channel many years ago. The acronym now refers to "The Life Channel", hence all the reality programs on home improvement and medical stuff.
On a side note though, a lot of the stuff on TLC *IS* educational, just to a different audience. I find many of the home improvement shows convey a lot of valuable information I use in my own home.
As for your statement of get off the fence & don't worry your format of choice will be supported I ask you to look back at the betmax/VHS/LaserDisk war and see who survived it. And what happened with HD-Digital tapes & mini-discs. DVD is the standard and will stay as such until there is a clear path to a new standard with the same price as the DVD version and that ain't going to happen soon.
This isn't an apt comparison because these were analog formats with different form factors so cheap dual--format players were not possible. A more apt comparison is the war between DVD+R and DVD-R formats, which lasted 6 months to a year before manufacturers got sick of no one adopting their hardware and just all started supporting both. At first these dual format burners were expensive, but scaling of the market took care of that, and for the past few years it has been basically impossible to not be able to buy a burner that burns both formats. The same thing will happen with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray over the next year or two.
Get a membership at your local university or college library. They are much better funded and have more relevant material, both up-to-date and historic.
They usually only charge basically a token annual fee for non-students.
Something people don't seem to get, and I don't hear talked about much, is that there is more to HD DVD and Blu-Ray than a jump in quality. The amount of interactivity with the movie is simply amazing and orders of magnitude beyond DVD.
Take Trasnformers for example. The ability to watch this movie with overlayed HUD displaying info and Michael Bay and the actors popping up for PIP descriptions of various scenes? Amazing. Don't even get me started with the web-based content that can inter-mesh with the movie.
You can't do this with DVD, and for people who really love movies, it is spectacular. I know some people don't give a crap about this and just want to watch the film, but really, these kind of people don't buy ANY movies, they just rent them.
IMO this is what is going to happen to the market - people who love movies and buy them will make the jump to Blu-Ray or HD DVD. People who are mainly just renters are all going to migrate to VOD type services, either online or from their Satellite or cable companies. I mean, if all you care about is watching a movie once, why would you invest in a $100 HD player when you can order them on demand in HD from your cable company?
And one other note - for people who ARE into movies and are still sitting on the fence, realize what I realized a few months ago. The players are so cheap now (~ $100 for HD-DVD on sale, $350 for PS3), that you can take a chance on a format. The war is not going to be "decided" for at least another year, if not more. And whenever it is decided, it is not like your existing player and discs are going to stop working. Whenever it is decided, if the other format wins out, you will for sure be able to get a cheap dual format player, and continue to enjoy your existing HD collection, which you have been able to appreciate while other people who are sitting on the fence are twiddling their thumbs!
Once again repeat after me... the benefit of digital is not that it LASTS FOREVER or is EASIER TO PRESERVE. It is that it is EASY TO COPY.
Who gives a rats ass if a given copy of a film will degrade in 10 years. I can make a 100% perfect copy of the thing in minutes. Copy the data every year. Hell copy it 100 times. Copying also makes the obsolescence of formats meaningless.
I still have emails and RTF documents written in 1994. These are 100% perfect copies of the original data. Is that somehow to be interpreted by brain-dead fear-mongers that any day now my data will be "obsolete" since the obviously 15-year old media is almost degraded beyond recognition? Or are people a bit more intelligent and realize I have already copied this from hard drive to disc and back about 30 different times?
Otherwise the original show was reasonably good about keeping the tech on the level. KITT was powered by Gas Turbines (good!), had laser weaponry (okay), was capable of computer graphics (actually, that's almost amusingly primitive at this point), and had an ultra-strong "Molecular Bonded Shell". (Unlikely, but at least within the realm of possibility.)
Yeah - it was especially believable how KITT could control other cars and electronics by sending commands to them through the ether.
In Canada legislation legally caps the amount you can be legally held liable for an unauthorized credit card OR debit card purchase to $50.
Both Visa and Mastercard offer $0 liability. Some banks do as well. But the real crux is there is no defined time in the law to saw when you get your refund. If someone takes $1000 from your bank accont, you could be out that money for days or weeks while the investigation is proceeding. This could cause you to defualt on mortgage payments or car payments and be a real PITA to work out without surcharges involved, if you can at all.
If the same happens with a CC, since you have an automatic grace period before interest is charged anyway, generally there is no issue.
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The size of the porn industry was totally irrelevant in the format war between VHS and Betamax because, as I said above, porn was readily produced for BOTH formats. The whole idea that it was not is an urban legend.
Please read through http://tafkac.org/products/beta_vs_vhs.html which is a thorough description of exactly what transpired.
Finally, just in case you think for some reason Sony had some kind of "standards" that didn't allow porn to be produced on betamax, I point you here as an example I found after all of 5 seconds on google: http://www.vintagesleaze.com/vids-supercharger.html
I have a Dell D820 laptop and hibernate and suspend both work 100% with no issue.
If I just close my laptop it suspends and can maintain instant-on state for almost 6 days on a full battery.
If I select hibernate then it writes everything to disk and shuts off. Booting up then launches right back where I was and takes about 5-10 seconds.
This is using a stock Ubuntu / Kubuntu install of Gutsy Gibbon.
Oracle bought the MySQL InnoDB engine a while ago, and if you are using MySQL for any kind of business or reliable system you are using the InnoDB engine. So if you're using MySQL you are likely already using Oracle, you just don't know it.
POrn weas not a factor in the uptake of VHS at all - Betamax had plenty of porn.
Many theories regarding why Sony's Betamax failed have arisen over the years. One of the more amusing (and false) is that Sony refused to allow pornographic material on their system. A quick perusal of the Betamax library reveals that adult entertainment was readily available. For example, Playboy Industries released their videos in a dual format, both Betamax and VHS, for most of the 1970s and 80s (and can be confirmed with a quick search through eBay's adult section, or other used video markets). Second, the adult industry is too small to have any lasting impact on standards selection. According to Forbes.com, adult video income is approximately $1 billion. "The industry is tiny next to broadcast television ($32.3 billion in 1999), cable television ($45.5 billion), the newspaper business ($27.5 billion), Hollywood ($31 billion), even to professional and educational publishing ($14.8 billion). When one really examines the numbers, the porn industry -- while a subject of fascination -- is every bit as marginal as it seems at first glance." [3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
When oh when will the never-ending sensationalist description of events that water down the English language end?
If you are talking about an "Apocalyptic event", neither of these things even register on the radar. A few K die at 9/11? Please. A few hundred K die in a Tsunami? Worse, but still not that bad historically. Tens of millions died during the black plague, it wiped out 2/3 of Europe's population, and even that is not an apocalyptic event.
An "apocalyptic event" is an event that - guess what - could be mistaken for THE APOCALYPSE in it's early phases. Something that wipes out billions of people.
People keep quoting your above argument, but if you look historically, it is often backwards.
When did consumers make the move en-masse and DVD started outselling VHS? Not when the quality and content difference was there - it was there from the beginning. It was when the players got cheap!
When did the DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD-RAM war end? It wasn't when one media had innvation over the other - it was when the dual-format hardware came out!
Why did VHS beat out betamax? It wasn't cause of the Porn angle, that is an urban myth (do a Google search). The real reason? VHS media was cheaper both to acquire and to record on (consumers could record 3 hour long shows on 1 tape vs. betamax's 1 ).
Consumers don't think with their heads. They think with their WALLETS. If they see high def player A on the shelf and high def player B on the shelf, and one is 1/2 the price of the other, they don't sit around doing market analysis to see what content is available on each - they buy the cheap one. Then they buy stuff that works in the cheap one.
And if your content doesn't work in their cheaper player and they know that, it won't get bought.
Having the code open is just one piece of the puzzle. There also has to be stringent auditing of the voting machines and random spot-checking of them to ensure that the code being run is the exact same as the code that is published and open.
What a goofy question.
The Open Source movement has been around how long now - 20 years? 30? Longer? Recessions have come and gone, the movement has only grown.
You only have to look at the 1999-2001 period to see that Open Source can not onyl survive a recession but thrive in it.
I dunno where the heck you live but 27C is NOT room temp. "Room temp" is 20-22C. If my house was 27C year round I would not be able to wear pants!
Assuming a more *NORMAL* room temp of 21C, the updated calculation is (305-294)/294 = 3.7%, or 21.76 milliwatts.
That is 4.5 days to charge fully from 0.
And you're also forgetting the point of this is not to take a dead battery from 0% to 100%, it is to MAINTAIN your current battery. As such I think this system could theoretically easily make it so you would rarely have to charge your battery.
You will soon realize experience and connections often count much more than education when it comes to employment.
I am not trying to bash the value of a university education - I certainly d o not regret my degree. But back in 2003, when I graduated, there is absolutely no way I would have gotten the position I am currently in without the connections I had at the company. If i did not have these connections at the time I would have had to start much more "at the bottom" and would likely not be doing as well as I am currently.
The sooner young people learn how the business world really works the better. Your education means nothing compared to your competition's weekly golf game with his manager. Get out there, go to user groups and community events, socialize with business people in your area. Don't waste your whole university life studying and partying - make as many business connections as you can while in school so you will be prepared when you graduate.
The point of this is you no longer have to be a 3D wiz or artist to make decent 3D objects - you just plug in their attributes and they generate themselves.
So say you are a great programmer but a totally lousy artist - now you can actually make that cool 3D game you have been envisioning by yourself.
Assuming you want optimal route to visit N destinations on your vacation, all you have to do is map the directions from A to B, then click 'Add Destination' at the bottom for each stop over.
It won't automatically find the shortest drive to visit each, however, you can drag them around on the left to change the overall route ordering. Assuming your vacation route is only 4 or 5 items it should be fairly simple to plan the optimal route for your family using the map on the right while you drag.
Just because something isn't codified into law doesn't make it ethical or right.
How true. Also true is the opposite, just because something IS codified into law doesn't make it unethical or wrong. Bring forth the DMCA.
Next gen is the current gen once it arrives. At that moment the current gen becomes "last gen". Your PS2 is one such "last gen" console.
Saying that the current gen remains so until it dies is the EXACT same as saying people born in the 1940s are the "current generation" just because they are still alive!
Discovery is still not too bad. But TLC stopped being The Learning Channel many years ago. The acronym now refers to "The Life Channel", hence all the reality programs on home improvement and medical stuff.
On a side note though, a lot of the stuff on TLC *IS* educational, just to a different audience. I find many of the home improvement shows convey a lot of valuable information I use in my own home.
So this means my dreams of having a 3some with Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba are just preparing me for a future where it will likely happen!
As for your statement of get off the fence & don't worry your format of choice will be supported I ask you to look back at the betmax/VHS/LaserDisk war and see who survived it. And what happened with HD-Digital tapes & mini-discs. DVD is the standard and will stay as such until there is a clear path to a new standard with the same price as the DVD version and that ain't going to happen soon.
This isn't an apt comparison because these were analog formats with different form factors so cheap dual--format players were not possible. A more apt comparison is the war between DVD+R and DVD-R formats, which lasted 6 months to a year before manufacturers got sick of no one adopting their hardware and just all started supporting both. At first these dual format burners were expensive, but scaling of the market took care of that, and for the past few years it has been basically impossible to not be able to buy a burner that burns both formats. The same thing will happen with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray over the next year or two.
Get a membership at your local university or college library. They are much better funded and have more relevant material, both up-to-date and historic.
They usually only charge basically a token annual fee for non-students.
Something people don't seem to get, and I don't hear talked about much, is that there is more to HD DVD and Blu-Ray than a jump in quality. The amount of interactivity with the movie is simply amazing and orders of magnitude beyond DVD.
Take Trasnformers for example. The ability to watch this movie with overlayed HUD displaying info and Michael Bay and the actors popping up for PIP descriptions of various scenes? Amazing. Don't even get me started with the web-based content that can inter-mesh with the movie.
You can't do this with DVD, and for people who really love movies, it is spectacular. I know some people don't give a crap about this and just want to watch the film, but really, these kind of people don't buy ANY movies, they just rent them.
IMO this is what is going to happen to the market - people who love movies and buy them will make the jump to Blu-Ray or HD DVD. People who are mainly just renters are all going to migrate to VOD type services, either online or from their Satellite or cable companies. I mean, if all you care about is watching a movie once, why would you invest in a $100 HD player when you can order them on demand in HD from your cable company?
And one other note - for people who ARE into movies and are still sitting on the fence, realize what I realized a few months ago. The players are so cheap now (~ $100 for HD-DVD on sale, $350 for PS3), that you can take a chance on a format. The war is not going to be "decided" for at least another year, if not more. And whenever it is decided, it is not like your existing player and discs are going to stop working. Whenever it is decided, if the other format wins out, you will for sure be able to get a cheap dual format player, and continue to enjoy your existing HD collection, which you have been able to appreciate while other people who are sitting on the fence are twiddling their thumbs!
And you're missing the point of progress.
How long did it take to copy 4 GB of data 10 years ago. Days? Weeks?
Now I can do it in minutes.
In 10 years I will be able to do it in microseconds or less.
And that is just in my home with residential-quality systems.
Once again repeat after me... the benefit of digital is not that it LASTS FOREVER or is EASIER TO PRESERVE. It is that it is EASY TO COPY.
Who gives a rats ass if a given copy of a film will degrade in 10 years. I can make a 100% perfect copy of the thing in minutes. Copy the data every year. Hell copy it 100 times. Copying also makes the obsolescence of formats meaningless.
I still have emails and RTF documents written in 1994. These are 100% perfect copies of the original data. Is that somehow to be interpreted by brain-dead fear-mongers that any day now my data will be "obsolete" since the obviously 15-year old media is almost degraded beyond recognition? Or are people a bit more intelligent and realize I have already copied this from hard drive to disc and back about 30 different times?
Otherwise the original show was reasonably good about keeping the tech on the level. KITT was powered by Gas Turbines (good!), had laser weaponry (okay), was capable of computer graphics (actually, that's almost amusingly primitive at this point), and had an ultra-strong "Molecular Bonded Shell". (Unlikely, but at least within the realm of possibility.)
Yeah - it was especially believable how KITT could control other cars and electronics by sending commands to them through the ether.
If time emerged during the big bang, then wouldn't that mean that there was no "before" the big bang? So where did it come from?
Freedom is not earned. It is given. What have YOU done to "earn" your freedom? Likely bubkus.
Same goes with privacy. You're either given it or you don't get it at all.
In Canada legislation legally caps the amount you can be legally held liable for an unauthorized credit card OR debit card purchase to $50.
Both Visa and Mastercard offer $0 liability. Some banks do as well. But the real crux is there is no defined time in the law to saw when you get your refund. If someone takes $1000 from your bank accont, you could be out that money for days or weeks while the investigation is proceeding. This could cause you to defualt on mortgage payments or car payments and be a real PITA to work out without surcharges involved, if you can at all.
If the same happens with a CC, since you have an automatic grace period before interest is charged anyway, generally there is no issue.