I only suffer filesystem corruption, empty ink cartridges, or spontaneous Windows bullshit when I'm finishing a term paper/programming project. My computer can detect stress better than my girlfriend can.
I think the trend has life in it yet.
Consider digital photography, for instance, where resolution has gone well beyond "HD" for what will usually wind up as a 3x5 print. Consider also that the projectors you mentioned weren't in common use a couple years ago, but are now becoming mainstream because television sizes are approaching the infeasable. Eventually, we may even have stereoscopic video, which I believe has already begun in a handful of movies.
It looks good on paper, but with the way that format wars tend to end, such a device would eventually be about as useful as a combo Betamax/VHS player. Sure, they can save money by using only one tray/motor, etc., but they'll still pay twice for licensing, decoding, etc, on top of what it already costs to do DVD, CD, SACD, bizarro-copy-protected CD, etc.
On the other hand, God has seeded the earth with all this "evidence" (geological records, useless organs, similar features across species, etc.) that all these things happened on their own. Seems to me that God would rather we not believe in him and that belief in God is against His will. How can you be sure that the non-believers won't be rewarded for making good use of the rational abilities He so kindly supplied us with? Or that believers won't be punished for ignoring the vast pile of consistent evidence before them?
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I only suffer filesystem corruption, empty ink cartridges, or spontaneous Windows bullshit when I'm finishing a term paper/programming project. My computer can detect stress better than my girlfriend can.
I think the trend has life in it yet. Consider digital photography, for instance, where resolution has gone well beyond "HD" for what will usually wind up as a 3x5 print. Consider also that the projectors you mentioned weren't in common use a couple years ago, but are now becoming mainstream because television sizes are approaching the infeasable. Eventually, we may even have stereoscopic video, which I believe has already begun in a handful of movies.
Marketing can simplify anything to the point where "the vast majority of people" will spend money on it.
It looks good on paper, but with the way that format wars tend to end, such a device would eventually be about as useful as a combo Betamax/VHS player. Sure, they can save money by using only one tray/motor, etc., but they'll still pay twice for licensing, decoding, etc, on top of what it already costs to do DVD, CD, SACD, bizarro-copy-protected CD, etc.
On the other hand, God has seeded the earth with all this "evidence" (geological records, useless organs, similar features across species, etc.) that all these things happened on their own. Seems to me that God would rather we not believe in him and that belief in God is against His will. How can you be sure that the non-believers won't be rewarded for making good use of the rational abilities He so kindly supplied us with? Or that believers won't be punished for ignoring the vast pile of consistent evidence before them?
Suborning perjury. There's a difference. Just don't ask me what the difference is - they both sound like "lieing" to me. Ow, my eyes.
Isn't this exactly what they're trying to do in Hurd?
Grammar tip: 'effect' can be used as a verb.
These clearly aren't "clones". They are x86s with a Commodore logo on them.