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How about buying a projector and a pulldown canvas? You could use the space used by the TV for a fishtank or a bookshelf. You'd be surprised how much nicer a room looks without a huge TV in the middle.
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Yeah, but his point still stands. The new 40" HDTV generation costs pretty much exactly as much as the 32" widescreen SDTV generation it replaces used to cost a few years ago, and those TVs in turn cost pretty much exactly as much as the 28" fullscreen SDTV generation it replaced used to cost a few years before that.
In Sweden, you can get a HD plasma or LCD for 10,000-15,000 kr, I bought a 32" CRT five years ago for 11,000 kr. In 1996, when I bought my first TV, a new 28" CRT cost 10,000 kr, but I was a poor student in those days and bought a crappy old 26" for a dime.
I suspect that all the whining about expensive HDTV sets comes from people who bought a 32" CRT two years ago and are pissed that they could get a brand new tv for almost the same money today.
Neither is HDTV. All other HD resoulutions support 24,25,30,50 and 60 FPS, but 1080p only goes as far as 30 fps. I would be surprised if your laptop doesn't use more than 30 fps.
Because you have to use a carpet knife to get the cut right (or else you'd get one 30-bit and one 34-bit processor), and Delta Airlines don't allow you to use carpet knives any more.
Blame Osama.
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And I have a site about an alternative commandline shell for Unix systems, fish. And guess what, The IE marketshare is almost nothing!
Thats the thing with statistics. If you know what result you want, all you have to do is figure out where to collect your data.
Remember the first law of thermodynamics? Power companies never produce more energy than is consumed (plus small losses from the transfer of course). When energy usage goes up, they turn on more power plants.
Electricity can be stored in capacitors for a short while with decent efficiency. Electricity can be turned into mechanical energy for permantent storage with slightly worse efficiency. The most common way to 'store' large quantitys of electricity is to build dams. They don't really store electrical energy of course, but given that a river river will only produce so much water each year, you can chose exactly when to use that energy with a large enough dam.
If newer Microsoft software would start requiring new hardware, people wouldn't buy it. Kind of how no one switched to one of the new, fast RISC platforms when they where all the rage a decade and a half ago.
Are you an artist? Specifically, do you live exclusively of your art? If no, then I suggest you stop telling other people to live up to standards you don't yourself live up to.
I would like it if artists where more concerned with quality then with money. But I try to avoid forcing my views on other people.
People like you (claim to be) are the reason that out of four highjacked planes, only three hit their target. Though it would have been nice if all the people on the fourth plane hadn't died as well.
64-bit computing is reasonably efficient on most 32-bit machines. And $92,233,720,368,547,758.07 is more than the summed total earnings of every single person alive on the planet today.
* Peers are people who are both downloading and uploading. * Seeders are people who have already downloaded the entire file and are uploading it out of the kindness of their hearts.
Peers will continually kill the connections with the worst download/upload ratio, meaning you will get virtually nothing from peers if you don't upload.
Seeders upload to anybody, though they _may_ be clever by avoiding uploading the same parts of the file more than once during a limited amount of time in order to maximize the amount of data that can be distributed between peers.
So in other words, if trhere are a lot of seeders you will get ok download speeds without uploading.
While I agree that sweatshops suck, I have yet to hear of any practical way to bring third world countries up to first world standard that does not involve exploiting the gap in labour cost between coutries.
To put things simply, third world countries have inferior infrastructure, inferior education levels, inferior political stability and a non-existing domestic market, when compared to a first world country. The _only_ thing most third world countries have going for them is cheap labour.
The theory is that by allowing companies to exploit cheap labour, the state is given enough money to invest in infrastructure, publich schooling, police and other things that are needed to bring in more companies to the country, which will in turn create higher demand for labour, which will drive up the cost of labour. This is a slow and painful process, where the future of a country is built on the broken backs of people living today, but we have seen countries like South Korea and Taiwan raise themselves from poverty to prosperity over the course of a few decades using this method. All the foreign aid and all the U2 concerts against poverty in the world have yet to raise a single country out of poverty.
Apple deserves focus because Apple is cashing in bigtime.
So you are saying that it is ok to exploit people if you aren't making money on it? This type of reasoning is what is at the core of Marxism, and I do not agree with it.
I'm curious about how Sony will be able to translate the PS2 popularity into PS3 sales. The 100% backward compatibility promise is a great start, but I think that to sell the PS3 to all the people who don't have a HDTV, you need something better than 'this $500 machine does everything your $100 does'. No more memory cards, wireless controllers, possibly faster load times are all nice, but not enough. And I don't see consumers flocking to HD movies either. I own a HD projector, and HD movies _do_ look better on it than plain DVDs, but it is by no stretch the same landslide change that VHS->DVD was.
A boatload of highly desirable PS3 excluisives to popular PS2 franchises would possibly seal the deal. But most of the upcoming sequels, like Gran Turismo HD, seem more like HD versions of the same game. That won't sell any consoles to the non-HD consumers, which are still the majority, even in the early adopter bracket.
The proper solution is to use a multipass encryption. First encrypt using the chinese standard, then re-encrypt using the american one, the beligian one, the iranian one, etc. That way, you'd need to know a backdoor to every encryption scheme used to access the data. Only a minuscle number of quintuple-agents would know all the backdoors, and they can't use this knowledge out of fear of compromising themselves.
While I am worried about net neutrality, your description of a future with no net neutrality is rather unrealistic.
If an internet provider would try to blacklist, or even seriously downgrade the bandwidth to any of the popular sites on the internet not willing to pay for the extra bandwidth, then that provider will lose a _lot_ of customers.
Gimp is not a part of Gnome. Gimp actually predates Gnome. If you are going to mention all free projects starting with a 'G', you should mention 'GNU/Linux', 'GNU/Hurd', glibc, gzip and gcc.
The notion of 'too much' is wrong, at least from a capitalist point of view. You charge as much for your wares as the market is willing to pay. The only relation between cost of manufacturing and price in a capitalist company is that once they are equal, it's time to get out of the game.
These days, almost all GNU commands and quite a few non-GNU ones use getopt with the GNU long style extensions. The GNU extensions are even supported on e.g. NetBSD.
The problem with fragmenting is not a problem. Fragmentation in this case is another word for diversity. And diversity is _good_. More games and more types of games will mean better games.
What? Have you _played_ KOTOR on the 360? I have. The game takes a two second pause about once or twice every minute, which can be a bit of a bother in a fight. It also crashes once every few hours, sometimes either the sound or the animations dissapear, there are huge issues with stuttering in the cutscenes, etc.. Overall, playing KOTOR, KOTOR 2 or Jade on the 360 is a very frustrating experience. The backwards compatibility of the 360 is a _joke_.
And the low polycounts and lowres textures of KOTOR mean that the graphical difference isn't that big, either.
You mean unlike the non-fundamentalist distros like Fedora, Gentoo and Ubunto who have decided thatSUNs Java is not free enough to distribute and hence won't do it at all?
Exactly. The main problem is that incompetent programmers are producing horrible code. Some of the choices made by PHP (magic quotes, no database abstraction, register globals) make it too easy to take the wrong shortcuts, meaning that to some _small_ degree, PHP does encourage bad coding practices. But belive me, if all the PHP coders of the world where using Rails, the incompetent programmers would quickly find various ways to break and abuse Ruby as well. The first thing that would happen is that they would _completely_ ignore the MVC-model. They would _only_ put code into the rhtml template files and ignore the rest of the tree. In the end, it would only be a small improvement over PHP.
PHP is a rather boring C-like language, with some semi-serious issues w.r.t. library consistency (compare the call signatures of the various sleep functions), backwards compatibility (PHP3 uses [] for string access, PHP5 uses {}, PHP6 will use [] again...) and possibilities to shoot yourself in the foot (Magic quotes, safe mode, etc.). It is by no means perfect, but I really don't think comparing it to BASIC is fair. Not only does PHP force you to use functions instead of gotos (thogh a special goto-like syntax will probably be added in PHP6), PHP also has a mostly sane Object model, complete with a sane reflection interface, inheritance and everything.
And don't even get me started on MySQL. People talk about ACID, transactions and other high level concepts, but real-world PHP-programmers don't even use joins or subselects. Look at the big, famous open source PHP projects like Joomla and various Forum software. You'll find that the coders generally do multiple selects instead of a single join. They even write loops where they do two or three selects per lap in the loop where a single joined query would be enough. This isn't mysql's fault, mysql has supported joins for a s long as I've used it. This is purely a case of incompetent coders.
So in the end, the tools that are most popular get the blame for the fact that people don't know how to use them. *meh*
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How about buying a projector and a pulldown canvas? You could use the space used by the TV for a fishtank or a bookshelf. You'd be surprised how much nicer a room looks without a huge TV in the middle.
Yeah, but his point still stands. The new 40" HDTV generation costs pretty much exactly as much as the 32" widescreen SDTV generation it replaces used to cost a few years ago, and those TVs in turn cost pretty much exactly as much as the 28" fullscreen SDTV generation it replaced used to cost a few years before that.
In Sweden, you can get a HD plasma or LCD for 10,000-15,000 kr, I bought a 32" CRT five years ago for 11,000 kr. In 1996, when I bought my first TV, a new 28" CRT cost 10,000 kr, but I was a poor student in those days and bought a crappy old 26" for a dime.
I suspect that all the whining about expensive HDTV sets comes from people who bought a 32" CRT two years ago and are pissed that they could get a brand new tv for almost the same money today.
Neither is HDTV. All other HD resoulutions support 24,25,30,50 and 60 FPS, but 1080p only goes as far as 30 fps. I would be surprised if your laptop doesn't use more than 30 fps.
That's the funniest troll I've read all week!
Because you have to use a carpet knife to get the cut right (or else you'd get one 30-bit and one 34-bit processor), and Delta Airlines don't allow you to use carpet knives any more.
Blame Osama.
And I have a site about an alternative commandline shell for Unix systems, fish. And guess what, The IE marketshare is almost nothing!
Thats the thing with statistics. If you know what result you want, all you have to do is figure out where to collect your data.
Remember the first law of thermodynamics? Power companies never produce more energy than is consumed (plus small losses from the transfer of course). When energy usage goes up, they turn on more power plants.
Electricity can be stored in capacitors for a short while with decent efficiency. Electricity can be turned into mechanical energy for permantent storage with slightly worse efficiency. The most common way to 'store' large quantitys of electricity is to build dams. They don't really store electrical energy of course, but given that a river river will only produce so much water each year, you can chose exactly when to use that energy with a large enough dam.
One word: Inertia.
If newer Microsoft software would start requiring new hardware, people wouldn't buy it. Kind of how no one switched to one of the new, fast RISC platforms when they where all the rage a decade and a half ago.
Are you an artist? Specifically, do you live exclusively of your art? If no, then I suggest you stop telling other people to live up to standards you don't yourself live up to.
I would like it if artists where more concerned with quality then with money. But I try to avoid forcing my views on other people.
People like you (claim to be) are the reason that out of four highjacked planes, only three hit their target. Though it would have been nice if all the people on the fourth plane hadn't died as well.
64-bit computing is reasonably efficient on most 32-bit machines. And $92,233,720,368,547,758.07 is more than the summed total earnings of every single person alive on the planet today.
There are two types of sources in bittorrent:
* Peers are people who are both downloading and uploading.
* Seeders are people who have already downloaded the entire file and are uploading it out of the kindness of their hearts.
Peers will continually kill the connections with the worst download/upload ratio, meaning you will get virtually nothing from peers if you don't upload.
Seeders upload to anybody, though they _may_ be clever by avoiding uploading the same parts of the file more than once during a limited amount of time in order to maximize the amount of data that can be distributed between peers.
So in other words, if trhere are a lot of seeders you will get ok download speeds without uploading.
While I agree that sweatshops suck, I have yet to hear of any practical way to bring third world countries up to first world standard that does not involve exploiting the gap in labour cost between coutries.
To put things simply, third world countries have inferior infrastructure, inferior education levels, inferior political stability and a non-existing domestic market, when compared to a first world country. The _only_ thing most third world countries have going for them is cheap labour.
The theory is that by allowing companies to exploit cheap labour, the state is given enough money to invest in infrastructure, publich schooling, police and other things that are needed to bring in more companies to the country, which will in turn create higher demand for labour, which will drive up the cost of labour. This is a slow and painful process, where the future of a country is built on the broken backs of people living today, but we have seen countries like South Korea and Taiwan raise themselves from poverty to prosperity over the course of a few decades using this method. All the foreign aid and all the U2 concerts against poverty in the world have yet to raise a single country out of poverty.
So you are saying that it is ok to exploit people if you aren't making money on it? This type of reasoning is what is at the core of Marxism, and I do not agree with it.
I'm curious about how Sony will be able to translate the PS2 popularity into PS3 sales. The 100% backward compatibility promise is a great start, but I think that to sell the PS3 to all the people who don't have a HDTV, you need something better than 'this $500 machine does everything your $100 does'. No more memory cards, wireless controllers, possibly faster load times are all nice, but not enough. And I don't see consumers flocking to HD movies either. I own a HD projector, and HD movies _do_ look better on it than plain DVDs, but it is by no stretch the same landslide change that VHS->DVD was.
A boatload of highly desirable PS3 excluisives to popular PS2 franchises would possibly seal the deal. But most of the upcoming sequels, like Gran Turismo HD, seem more like HD versions of the same game. That won't sell any consoles to the non-HD consumers, which are still the majority, even in the early adopter bracket.
The proper solution is to use a multipass encryption. First encrypt using the chinese standard, then re-encrypt using the american one, the beligian one, the iranian one, etc. That way, you'd need to know a backdoor to every encryption scheme used to access the data. Only a minuscle number of quintuple-agents would know all the backdoors, and they can't use this knowledge out of fear of compromising themselves.
While I am worried about net neutrality, your description of a future with no net neutrality is rather unrealistic.
If an internet provider would try to blacklist, or even seriously downgrade the bandwidth to any of the popular sites on the internet not willing to pay for the extra bandwidth, then that provider will lose a _lot_ of customers.
Gimp is not a part of Gnome. Gimp actually predates Gnome. If you are going to mention all free projects starting with a 'G', you should mention 'GNU/Linux', 'GNU/Hurd', glibc, gzip and gcc.
The notion of 'too much' is wrong, at least from a capitalist point of view. You charge as much for your wares as the market is willing to pay. The only relation between cost of manufacturing and price in a capitalist company is that once they are equal, it's time to get out of the game.
These days, almost all GNU commands and quite a few non-GNU ones use getopt with the GNU long style extensions. The GNU extensions are even supported on e.g. NetBSD.
You know that Oblivion is not an MMO, right?
The problem with fragmenting is not a problem. Fragmentation in this case is another word for diversity. And diversity is _good_. More games and more types of games will mean better games.
What? Have you _played_ KOTOR on the 360? I have. The game takes a two second pause about once or twice every minute, which can be a bit of a bother in a fight. It also crashes once every few hours, sometimes either the sound or the animations dissapear, there are huge issues with stuttering in the cutscenes, etc.. Overall, playing KOTOR, KOTOR 2 or Jade on the 360 is a very frustrating experience. The backwards compatibility of the 360 is a _joke_.
And the low polycounts and lowres textures of KOTOR mean that the graphical difference isn't that big, either.
You mean unlike the non-fundamentalist distros like Fedora, Gentoo and Ubunto who have decided thatSUNs Java is not free enough to distribute and hence won't do it at all?
Exactly. The main problem is that incompetent programmers are producing horrible code. Some of the choices made by PHP (magic quotes, no database abstraction, register globals) make it too easy to take the wrong shortcuts, meaning that to some _small_ degree, PHP does encourage bad coding practices. But belive me, if all the PHP coders of the world where using Rails, the incompetent programmers would quickly find various ways to break and abuse Ruby as well. The first thing that would happen is that they would _completely_ ignore the MVC-model. They would _only_ put code into the rhtml template files and ignore the rest of the tree. In the end, it would only be a small improvement over PHP.
PHP is a rather boring C-like language, with some semi-serious issues w.r.t. library consistency (compare the call signatures of the various sleep functions), backwards compatibility (PHP3 uses [] for string access, PHP5 uses {}, PHP6 will use [] again...) and possibilities to shoot yourself in the foot (Magic quotes, safe mode, etc.). It is by no means perfect, but I really don't think comparing it to BASIC is fair. Not only does PHP force you to use functions instead of gotos (thogh a special goto-like syntax will probably be added in PHP6), PHP also has a mostly sane Object model, complete with a sane reflection interface, inheritance and everything.
And don't even get me started on MySQL. People talk about ACID, transactions and other high level concepts, but real-world PHP-programmers don't even use joins or subselects. Look at the big, famous open source PHP projects like Joomla and various Forum software. You'll find that the coders generally do multiple selects instead of a single join. They even write loops where they do two or three selects per lap in the loop where a single joined query would be enough. This isn't mysql's fault, mysql has supported joins for a s long as I've used it. This is purely a case of incompetent coders.
So in the end, the tools that are most popular get the blame for the fact that people don't know how to use them. *meh*