Just like to add to the other comments that women take on different jobs than men. I suppose it depends on the statistics used, but I haven't ever heard a proper discussion of these factors when listening to politicians and popular media. If many women avoid engineering, the a lot of the money made in those jobs isn't going to land in women's pockets.
In a free market this is normally self-regulating. You can buy those little 2-inch packs of butter, but that doesn't fit the habits of 99% of the population, who prefer to buy the 10 oz blocks. But if someone wants to just buy one song, why shouldn't they? Especially when it's no extra expense to them.
When artist start wanting to dictate how people should listen to their music, they're getting too big-headed. If people only want to buy one song, it's pretty clear that they've failed to do what they want to have made.
This is more true for traditional discussion. Before, all you had to do was mention a name, a study or a source along with your "facts" and nobody could really counter that within a discussion. Now, you can check it up immediately and point out where bullshit is bullshit.
The reason for Bluray and HDDVD's existance is that, in contrast to the more ambitious Holographic disc, is that they can cheaply and easily be stamped in large quantities using existing machines, for distributing content, and in this case the only thing worthy of it is HD Video.
As far as people making their own content, I think it's more likely they'll choose solid state storage to plug directly into their TVs or DVD players instead of fiddling around with their own DVD-Rs.
The holographic disc fits in a different niche, namely high-requirement backup.
Well no, there are actually limits to lossy comprssion. In both ways. Try encoding using XVID and jacking up the bitrate and you'll see what codec saturation is. Alternatively you can manipulate the compression parameters and convince people it better quality cause it's "less compressed". Kinda like how they introduced lossless 6-channel audio.
Well most large screens sold do these days don't they? Whether you can see a difference depends on the relative screen size. If you sit at the optimal distance for your screen size, you'll see the diference.
Lol, I just used one of those films for testing playback of Bluray Rips on my PC to my HDTV. Can't even begin to imagine how many times I heard "Although each of the world's..." Which is the other one btw.?
I have Life of Brian on DVD too. A few years old. My freind has a remastered version of Life of Brian on DVD (With cardboard sppecial-edition box etc). You'd have to have a serious vision impairment not to be able discern the difference in quality.
Personally, interlaced content bugs me. Even with a good deinterlacer it's simply blurry and some of that horzontal jitter still seeps through despite all the filters you slap on.
No, they're not exposed. A Thick layer of polycarbonate protects the data layer. To read it, light passes through this dielectric material uhindered. By contrast, magnetic media needs near-contact with the reading head, so it needs to be relatively exposed. This necessitates some kind of additional shell.
Why not just put your DVDs in one of those handy little storage boxes between the drivers seat and passenger?
If by "buy an adapter" you mean buy a bircuit board, rip open you case (voiding you warranty) and solder it to some conectors, yeah, that's all you have to do. Most people aren't comfortable with that.
But most PC gamers would be able to follow "search for a torrent of a readily cracked game, wait, and install"
This isn't about storage, but about a way of distributing movies. Thing is, we didn't really need the capacity increase by Bluray, but Sony saw it as a way of pushing DRM, preventing Piracy and just making the balance of power sway their way.
If Toshiba can seriously pull this one off, I'd congratulate them fully. I hope they ditch the Region lock, like with HDDVD.
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Why would you want to? No surround sound, a lot of mechanical wear on an expensive system. Go buy a $30 player, which will also allow you to play your own discs with support for Mpeg4
First, few hardware maker actually sell consoles at a loss (even if they have smaller margins on the hardware compared to the software). What do you mean by "few"? I'd say two out of three is a large proportion, wouldn't you?
The PSP has a relatively hardcore audiance, and has sold quite a fair amount of hardware. It's also avoided by developers as it has proven notoriously difficult to sell games for.
Part of the reason is piracy (which actually delivers a more comfortable experience than bought games. Damn those fucking UMDs.)
I do feel sorry for the homebrew developers who are hurt.
But anybody who thinks that homebrewers make up more than a dot in the statistics compared to pirates has completely lost scope of reality.
Hate to disappoint you cobber, but it's now $383. When the Wii launched it was more like $310. Your example perfectly demonstrates why these pricing strategies aren't wholly unjust. The UK used to be one of the most expensice markets in Europe, but now that the Pound has plummeted its positively bargain-country.
You might not be able to remember all those bits yourself, but as a human being, surely you have the right to augment your memory with technology. Tell that to the medicine student sitting an exam.
Seriously though, when people hear "information should be free", they don't go into the extreme like you do and use fundamental information theory as a definition. Arguing that a sequence of 10^12 bits is the same as someone saying there are swords made of light is just silly. It's never wrong to try a little common sense once in a while.
The moral difference is quite clear: If someone gave you a vague recollection of what he saw at the movies, it wouldn't replace the experience of actually seeing the movie. Watching a copied movie does.
That "right" is only needed if you're intent on treating music and movies like a widget, something manufactured on an assembly line and sold in discrete units. It's actually quite the opposite. When arts were funded almost exclusively by patronage, most of it was designed to be crowd pleasing. Music and drama had to be made in time to fit the schedule and habits of whichever monarch or aristocrat gave the money. If you pay someone in advance it implies that the outcome should be predictable and can be subjectively evaluated. That's just not the case with arts.
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Just like to add to the other comments that women take on different jobs than men. I suppose it depends on the statistics used, but I haven't ever heard a proper discussion of these factors when listening to politicians and popular media. If many women avoid engineering, the a lot of the money made in those jobs isn't going to land in women's pockets.
In a free market this is normally self-regulating. You can buy those little 2-inch packs of butter, but that doesn't fit the habits of 99% of the population, who prefer to buy the 10 oz blocks.
But if someone wants to just buy one song, why shouldn't they? Especially when it's no extra expense to them.
When artist start wanting to dictate how people should listen to their music, they're getting too big-headed. If people only want to buy one song, it's pretty clear that they've failed to do what they want to have made.
This is more true for traditional discussion. Before, all you had to do was mention a name, a study or a source along with your "facts" and nobody could really counter that within a discussion. Now, you can check it up immediately and point out where bullshit is bullshit.
The reason for Bluray and HDDVD's existance is that, in contrast to the more ambitious Holographic disc, is that they can cheaply and easily be stamped in large quantities using existing machines, for distributing content, and in this case the only thing worthy of it is HD Video.
As far as people making their own content, I think it's more likely they'll choose solid state storage to plug directly into their TVs or DVD players instead of fiddling around with their own DVD-Rs.
The holographic disc fits in a different niche, namely high-requirement backup.
You really think you can tell the difference between lossless audio and DTS or AC3?
And if you truly think that they need all that storage on Bluray, I suggest you try reencoding a movie for yourself.
You can make a 480p MPEG-2 movie blow up to 30 GB too, it doesn't make it better.
Well no, there are actually limits to lossy comprssion. In both ways. Try encoding using XVID and jacking up the bitrate and you'll see what codec saturation is. Alternatively you can manipulate the compression parameters and convince people it better quality cause it's "less compressed".
Kinda like how they introduced lossless 6-channel audio.
The Audio is usually a directly copied 5.1 DTS stream. That's more than most Bluray customers bother to get out of their players.
And those Matroska files can easily be muxed into an AVI, so no problem there.
Well most large screens sold do these days don't they? Whether you can see a difference depends on the relative screen size. If you sit at the optimal distance for your screen size, you'll see the diference.
He's on about compressing HDTV Material (1080p would be possible) down to 9GB coded in AVC. Not quite the same as you understood.
Lol, I just used one of those films for testing playback of Bluray Rips on my PC to my HDTV. Can't even begin to imagine how many times I heard "Although each of the world's..."
Which is the other one btw.?
I have Life of Brian on DVD too. A few years old. My freind has a remastered version of Life of Brian on DVD (With cardboard sppecial-edition box etc). You'd have to have a serious vision impairment not to be able discern the difference in quality.
Personally, interlaced content bugs me. Even with a good deinterlacer it's simply blurry and some of that horzontal jitter still seeps through despite all the filters you slap on.
No, they're not exposed. A Thick layer of polycarbonate protects the data layer. To read it, light passes through this dielectric material uhindered.
By contrast, magnetic media needs near-contact with the reading head, so it needs to be relatively exposed. This necessitates some kind of additional shell.
Why not just put your DVDs in one of those handy little storage boxes between the drivers seat and passenger?
If by "buy an adapter" you mean buy a bircuit board, rip open you case (voiding you warranty) and solder it to some conectors, yeah, that's all you have to do.
Most people aren't comfortable with that.
But most PC gamers would be able to follow "search for a torrent of a readily cracked game, wait, and install"
This isn't about storage, but about a way of distributing movies. Thing is, we didn't really need the capacity increase by Bluray, but Sony saw it as a way of pushing DRM, preventing Piracy and just making the balance of power sway their way.
If Toshiba can seriously pull this one off, I'd congratulate them fully. I hope they ditch the Region lock, like with HDDVD.
Give him some Porn.
They didn't have enough dough for 9.
why not get a cheap A/V switcher?
Why would you want to? No surround sound, a lot of mechanical wear on an expensive system.
Go buy a $30 player, which will also allow you to play your own discs with support for Mpeg4
The PSP has a relatively hardcore audiance, and has sold quite a fair amount of hardware. It's also avoided by developers as it has proven notoriously difficult to sell games for.
Part of the reason is piracy (which actually delivers a more comfortable experience than bought games. Damn those fucking UMDs.)
I do feel sorry for the homebrew developers who are hurt.
But anybody who thinks that homebrewers make up more than a dot in the statistics compared to pirates has completely lost scope of reality.
This is the most informative post I have ever read on Slashdot.~
They were analog Joysticks. We were thinking more about analog Thumbsticks.
Hate to disappoint you cobber, but it's now $383. When the Wii launched it was more like $310. Your example perfectly demonstrates why these pricing strategies aren't wholly unjust.
The UK used to be one of the most expensice markets in Europe, but now that the Pound has plummeted its positively bargain-country.
Just go buy a Freeloader.
Seriously though, when people hear "information should be free", they don't go into the extreme like you do and use fundamental information theory as a definition.
Arguing that a sequence of 10^12 bits is the same as someone saying there are swords made of light is just silly. It's never wrong to try a little common sense once in a while.
The moral difference is quite clear: If someone gave you a vague recollection of what he saw at the movies, it wouldn't replace the experience of actually seeing the movie. Watching a copied movie does. That "right" is only needed if you're intent on treating music and movies like a widget, something manufactured on an assembly line and sold in discrete units. It's actually quite the opposite. When arts were funded almost exclusively by patronage, most of it was designed to be crowd pleasing. Music and drama had to be made in time to fit the schedule and habits of whichever monarch or aristocrat gave the money.
If you pay someone in advance it implies that the outcome should be predictable and can be subjectively evaluated. That's just not the case with arts.