very good point I googled (love using it as a verb) for stock types and found this
link that seems to explain things... now I have no clue as to the reliability as I just followed the first link on this page.
Now, I didn't verify the types of google stock issued, but still if it is publicly traded, someone has to own the common stock that has voting rights, and someone will most likely sell those at some point
As for the value of the company, that depends on who owns it and what's on the agenda. As long as the majority shareholders have made clear that they have no intention of compromising on principle for profit that remains the objective of the company, but as soon as walstreet types take over the board that may all change.
Its this reason that I tend to never become too attached to a publicly traded company. As long as shares are trading, its objectives will be traded with it. So long as its bylaws are what they are and enough people stay on the board (or like-minded people buy into the company) they can remain (if you believe they are) a company of principle.
For example, everyone remembers the departure of Jobs from Apple. That sort of thing can occur at google and now you have a "new" company. Other notable exammples would be the turnaround of IBM.
Its for these very reasons that I advocate the creation of "good company" trading cards. It would be utterly cool and a great way to waste time. Every year you make 1000 limited addition cards for each company and if you think they will be good you buy the card and can trade them. I'm sure someone more creative than me will be able to turn this into some sort of game and childrens cartoon too. We can train a whole generation of people to play this game then we turn them loose on the stock market. Imagine it... wallstreet types will never be able to predict the market as little bastards say, "ah, but I am holding 2000 microsoft stocks and will attack you with monopolist pricing!"... it would be absolutely brillian.... now hopefully this post is coherent enough for some people to understand and incoherent enough that people don't try to stop me.
hrm... I was under the assumption that this would be for broader wireless... this in my book makes it little better than say a cordles phone. I don't think we will see blanket wifi coverage until the telcos (or city gov't) hop on the bandwagon.... just my theory... thanks for clarifying... had no desire to read the article (didn't mention linux once).
One important factor that people seem to be missing is that you will have to buy wireless broadband FROM THE WIRELESS CARRIER for this to work. They are still in the loop big time, and if they see this cutting into profits (as in people getting these phones and not buying voice packages) expect them to put in delays in the service making two way streaming services less attractive (like say a 1.5 second delay before the first packet in any stream is sent. this would make voice over IP on cellular phones annoying. The other thing is that in the United States there are only a handfull of carriers that use phones with sim cards (where you can just buy the phone and plug in your card). I can't imagine Verizon people enabling such illegal phones for use on their network.
In Europe, where all calls are caller pays, this would just be more competition and would most likely be less worthwhile (you pay for the data connection AND then pay per call). If anything, it will just make the carrier lower prices a little.
oh yes, my disclaimer. I no nothing, I don't work for a telecom, I don't know the mindset of telecom workers, this post is nothing but speculation
The site mentions emmissions of 6 tons per person... does that include normal CO2 production such as by breathing? If those numbers are correct that would imply nearly 2gigatons of green house gases per year? How much would things change if we increased foilage in cities? For example, if all avenues were lined by trees creating a canopy over the traffic? In other words, would it be possible to combat the emissions by increasing foilage?
the other thing is that the site admits that we don't know how much the green house gases are influencing the change in temperature, so where is the debate on this issue? Do people actually doubt that the world is getting warmer?
The interviewer seems to make it seem like assaults on global warming theories are non-scientific. Most of what I've seen against global warming is not whether the temperature is rising, but whether we are the ones causing it and a lot of what they say seems reasonable. Perhaps someone here i the field could enlighten us on this matter. How much has the worlds CO2 level changed and are there any controlled experiments that would allow us to extrapolate this data to global temperatures?
I really would like to know what the hard evidence is that global warming is secondary to the actions of mankind and that we are throwing enough pollution into the world to have caused it... as of now, I wouldn't feel comfortable commenting on it from either perspective. My other issue with this is that how do you conduct an experiment that you can comfortably extrapolate information that would be accurate at the global level?
here's the top ten -
1) Wikipedia
2) Firefox
3) Open Office
4) Bittorrent
5) MediaWiki
6) Xvid
7) pbb
8) Outfoxed
9) dyne:bolic
10) GIMP
11) Apache
12) SourceForge
Front page posts never have errors, so I know I messed something up... what gives? and one more thing, what is pbb?
They'll have absolutely no problems filling positions for these jobs. Probably will become one of the most sought after jobs in China. Maybe you should move there before it becomes impossible to get a position.
also, IBM is a hardware company at heart. Having a wide array of supported and high quality software only helps sales. If they have to play nice with other vendors or a broad array of hardware, they can offer Linux. If they want software optimized for that particular hardware and that has a long history of proven reliability, they still fully support AIX. Considering how recent some of the enterprise grade features have been put into Linux, there are many who would hold off switching to it.
Isn't this what trademark law was really intended for? If this isn't an abuse of a trademark, I have know clue what is. The masking of the chips identity is a trademark violation, so I would expect intel to come in with a big wooden stick and a rail gun fairly quickly to resolve this issue.
> there was nothing in the grandparent's post that excluded the poster from being female.
umm.... we are talking about sperm donors no??? I don't know about you, but if that doesn't exclude females, I'm not sure what would. A female sperm donor would scare the shit out of me.
Plus return on investment will be better with apple as u own less of Dell or spend more money to obtain a similar percentage. IE, owning $100 of apple will give u a better return than owning $100 of Dell. A far more important statistic for the small investor (at least I think so, IANASB).
and about cost cutting. Dell customer service has already dropped dramatically. She bought a laptop from them and has a desktop that runs linux (which I put together for her). She got a router from dell with the laptop and when she called to ask them how to connect the desktop, they told her she would need to install windows and call Microsoft for help. also, my brother bought an XPS laptop with bad RAM. When he sent it back they just reinstalled to OS and things "worked" so they sent it back. He paid for shipping. by the time he had figured out the prob was from bad RAM his warranty was up. Essentially he was running a broken computer that would unexpectedly crash with various tasks.
> He sees law and policy as a means to an end rather than the description and implementation of a > general principle
Well, approaching this issue in the same direction as those who pass the law is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if your goal is to deconstruct this view. You show how the policies created with this mindset fail. He seems to be doing this job fairly well. Even the constitution states that copyright law exists to further the sciences and arts thus being to achieve an objective and not to uphold principles. Perhaps the principle being upheld is that we as a society want to technologically advance thus our laws must reflect that.
He is merely stating that given the objectives, the law providing additional rights to broadcasters has failed. Stating that copyrights are wrong or extending copyrights is wrong shifts the framing of the debate to something the broadcast industry doesn't want to hear. They will be far more likely to listen to someone who says, I agree with your goals, but this isn't going to accomplish them. Often, its better to just deconstruct the views of an opponent in a debate than to repeatedly yell your view point.
but then, what do I know... my idea of debating an issue is slashdot...
If I'm not entirely mistaken the issue may stem directly from Microsoft's patent on a Word processing document to be ENTIRELY contained within an XML file, so it in their interest to muddy this situation as much as they possibly can. OpenDoc does allow for embedded objects such as images/charts and whatnot, but it does so using an archive.
The archive is a standard and open zip file that contains within it a content.xml file along with seperate files for the embedded objects in their native format. This allows for more efficient formatting than would embedding these directly into the XML and also allows other programs to get at this information more easily. IE, if you just want to edit an embeded image, a plugin could be made for an image editor that can unzip and extract the image then insert this image back into the archive once it is done. If not a plugin u could just manually unzip - edit - rezip
Although it could be done with the Microsoft method as well, it would seem easier to just extract from an archive which is already so widely supported esp since supporting MS method would REQUIRE the plugin.
Furthermore, if OpenDoc were to move to a single XML file containing all data for the page, it would be in violation of Microsoft's greatest innovation yet (the single XML file containing the entire document).... so it would seem like MS's best interest to say opendoc is an inferior format and can not embed other objects... if they can convince people that a "single" XML file is somehow better and that an archive is inferior backwards technology then openoffice.org and friends do not stand a chance since MS can then extract royalties (and thus not care if there is a competiter since they make money from either).
How does this new version compare to this site:
The red book?? Is it worth the money to buy it if you are a true beginner with a decent C background, but little prior work with 3D graphics? Or would it be fair to say that the online book would suffice and that a API reference for changes and updates would allow you to do simple rendering?
but alas, I don't have a computer capable of running it. Anyone know of a mozilla plugin or linux app that provides this functionality? I already have the gmail notifier, and KDEs news ticker allows searches and can possibly be docked to gnome or KDEs panel would be nice (i have computers running both as well as an old laptop running icewm)... It would be nice to have an open source equivalent to this...
from what I have read of the act here, here and for a quick note here
this act has mainly to do with protect competition. One, most doctors who will be doing the actual billing to the patient, are not interstate corporations and are thus not affected. (Well at least by my interpretation)
Second, the variation in pricing has to do with contracts between doctors and the insurance. As in the insurance will say that we will not pay more than X dollars for this product or this service and this number will varry by insurance. In order to bill the insurance the doctor must agree to these terms or not bill the insurance. Any doctor is free to do that but would then have to charge a patient directly and would thus lose out on potential business. This drop can be far greater the larger the insurance group, so large insurance groups can force doctors to lower their pricing.
Some doctors opt not to do this, so they will not be listed in the insurances directory. They will then be free to charge as they see fit. Also, doctors can form groups and thus gain levarage over insurance companies for billing purposes. If members of a certain specialty in an area belong to a select number of groups, the insurance companies may pay higher prices or risk not having enough qualified physicians to service those they are covering.
btw, if you find this disturbing just think of this. In medicine, you often pay for procedures that fail. Could you imagine going to Lexus and them saying only 2 out of 5 cars will actually drive, but you can not test drive the cars and once purchased, there are no refunds, but they can service your new car for additional costs. That essentially happens with many services in medicine (although a big difference is that in medicine, not getting a procedure may be more detrimental than the 40% chance of failure)... anyway, just wanted to say that the medicine world really does operate by a seperate set of rules that may not be fair, but are not easily comparable to say just purchasing a watch (and you would not be purchasing this watch without good medical indication unless you like wasting money).
Integrating a chat mode to gmail would be a nice way to go. I think people would love to just use their email account for messaging. and then have the conversations show up in gmail along with the rest of their emails. It solves the messaging problem and allows them to get a email client onto peoples computers. If they could do it through a web interface (not sure how that would work as far as socket connections) even better. no new client to install. just go to their website, log in and chat/email. not sure how a gateway to other services would fit into this, but that would be another plus.
um... i do that already with gaim. I have logs of all conversations... currently over 10 megs of logs going back a few years. It is unbelievably useful. addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, all sorts of information ready to be mined with grep. Of course I have only needed to do that a few times, but nonetheless one must maintain the logs to be able to ever do it.
also, you don't have to be anally retentive to do that. Its the same reason I keep all emails and documents written and have downloaded the human genome project. You just never know when you may need it.
well... if you had access to the host hard drive and a wine installation you might be able to run 40% of what is on that computer, but you have the benefit of it being slower (emulated by a 400MHz PowerPC) and possibly crashing due to lack of memory.... that Is why it needs to mount the host systems RAM as swap... wait... u know... I think I'm on to something... I call dibs on this new most useless device ever!
The main problem with software patents comes about when the patent covers only an algorithm. A patent on algorithms is probably where most peoples problem with software patents arose.
A patent on an algorithm (read method) to sort a list is something that can be implemented mentally so long as u can keep track of what state the machine would be in. Granted that when this software is combined with a CPU it may be capable of doing things much faster, but nonetheless the computer is doing nothing you could not do yourself mentally.
Now an entirely different kind of software patent would be one in which it is not possible to do something mentally because it requires direct interaction with hardware such as a software algorithm that can optimize reads and writes to a harddrive. A person is not able to mentally follow these steps... at least most people I know do not have the ability to directly write to a harddrive...
In short, I don't think that patents of the type that merely manipulate memory or data structures should be allowed. So no patents on image compression, file formats, data structures, APIs, or advanced mathematical techniques.
Yes I do believe that you are discriminating here, but patents are not a fundamental right. They were created to advance society and must be setup in a way that furthers that goal. The rate and type of innovation occuring in the software field would largely be stiffled by these patents, so for that reason and that reason alone, they should not be allowed or if they are, the time frame should be severely restricted (like 7 years with no possible extension).
JVC HD-GR1 records video that I believe is superior to standard Mini-DV recordings using mpeg2. mpeg2 is not the problem, its the bpp and resolution that you record at that is the problem. You can obtain much higher quality with mpeg2 than you probably think.
The editing can be an issue but good quality frames can be extracted from mpeg2... although it may take longer since it has to decode more than one frame to arrive at the one you want.
on a side note, is there any other camera in the consumer market that matches JVCs resolution?
Slashdot Mirror
very good point I googled (love using it as a verb) for stock types and found this link that seems to explain things... now I have no clue as to the reliability as I just followed the first link on this page.
Now, I didn't verify the types of google stock issued, but still if it is publicly traded, someone has to own the common stock that has voting rights, and someone will most likely sell those at some point
As for the value of the company, that depends on who owns it and what's on the agenda. As long as the majority shareholders have made clear that they have no intention of compromising on principle for profit that remains the objective of the company, but as soon as walstreet types take over the board that may all change.
Its this reason that I tend to never become too attached to a publicly traded company. As long as shares are trading, its objectives will be traded with it. So long as its bylaws are what they are and enough people stay on the board (or like-minded people buy into the company) they can remain (if you believe they are) a company of principle.
For example, everyone remembers the departure of Jobs from Apple. That sort of thing can occur at google and now you have a "new" company. Other notable exammples would be the turnaround of IBM.
Its for these very reasons that I advocate the creation of "good company" trading cards. It would be utterly cool and a great way to waste time. Every year you make 1000 limited addition cards for each company and if you think they will be good you buy the card and can trade them. I'm sure someone more creative than me will be able to turn this into some sort of game and childrens cartoon too. We can train a whole generation of people to play this game then we turn them loose on the stock market. Imagine it... wallstreet types will never be able to predict the market as little bastards say, "ah, but I am holding 2000 microsoft stocks and will attack you with monopolist pricing!"... it would be absolutely brillian.... now hopefully this post is coherent enough for some people to understand and incoherent enough that people don't try to stop me.
hrm... I was under the assumption that this would be for broader wireless... this in my book makes it little better than say a cordles phone. I don't think we will see blanket wifi coverage until the telcos (or city gov't) hop on the bandwagon.... just my theory... thanks for clarifying... had no desire to read the article (didn't mention linux once).
One important factor that people seem to be missing is that you will have to buy wireless broadband FROM THE WIRELESS CARRIER for this to work. They are still in the loop big time, and if they see this cutting into profits (as in people getting these phones and not buying voice packages) expect them to put in delays in the service making two way streaming services less attractive (like say a 1.5 second delay before the first packet in any stream is sent. this would make voice over IP on cellular phones annoying. The other thing is that in the United States there are only a handfull of carriers that use phones with sim cards (where you can just buy the phone and plug in your card). I can't imagine Verizon people enabling such illegal phones for use on their network.
In Europe, where all calls are caller pays, this would just be more competition and would most likely be less worthwhile (you pay for the data connection AND then pay per call). If anything, it will just make the carrier lower prices a little.
oh yes, my disclaimer. I no nothing, I don't work for a telecom, I don't know the mindset of telecom workers, this post is nothing but speculation
I first lernt about this from the simpsons
Homer: Hey, look! Those frogs are eating all their crops.
from Bart vs. Australia
The site mentions emmissions of 6 tons per person... does that include normal CO2 production such as by breathing? If those numbers are correct that would imply nearly 2gigatons of green house gases per year? How much would things change if we increased foilage in cities? For example, if all avenues were lined by trees creating a canopy over the traffic? In other words, would it be possible to combat the emissions by increasing foilage?
the other thing is that the site admits that we don't know how much the green house gases are influencing the change in temperature, so where is the debate on this issue? Do people actually doubt that the world is getting warmer?
The interviewer seems to make it seem like assaults on global warming theories are non-scientific. Most of what I've seen against global warming is not whether the temperature is rising, but whether we are the ones causing it and a lot of what they say seems reasonable. Perhaps someone here i the field could enlighten us on this matter. How much has the worlds CO2 level changed and are there any controlled experiments that would allow us to extrapolate this data to global temperatures? I really would like to know what the hard evidence is that global warming is secondary to the actions of mankind and that we are throwing enough pollution into the world to have caused it... as of now, I wouldn't feel comfortable commenting on it from either perspective. My other issue with this is that how do you conduct an experiment that you can comfortably extrapolate information that would be accurate at the global level?
here's the top ten - 1) Wikipedia 2) Firefox 3) Open Office 4) Bittorrent 5) MediaWiki 6) Xvid 7) pbb 8) Outfoxed 9) dyne:bolic 10) GIMP 11) Apache 12) SourceForge Front page posts never have errors, so I know I messed something up... what gives? and one more thing, what is pbb?
They'll have absolutely no problems filling positions for these jobs. Probably will become one of the most sought after jobs in China. Maybe you should move there before it becomes impossible to get a position.
interesting thought... put the legislature underground... unfortunately, isn't this what the terrorist want to do to?
also, IBM is a hardware company at heart. Having a wide array of supported and high quality software only helps sales. If they have to play nice with other vendors or a broad array of hardware, they can offer Linux. If they want software optimized for that particular hardware and that has a long history of proven reliability, they still fully support AIX. Considering how recent some of the enterprise grade features have been put into Linux, there are many who would hold off switching to it.
Isn't this what trademark law was really intended for? If this isn't an abuse of a trademark, I have know clue what is. The masking of the chips identity is a trademark violation, so I would expect intel to come in with a big wooden stick and a rail gun fairly quickly to resolve this issue.
> there was nothing in the grandparent's post that excluded the poster from being female.
umm.... we are talking about sperm donors no??? I don't know about you, but if that doesn't exclude females, I'm not sure what would. A female sperm donor would scare the shit out of me.
Plus return on investment will be better with apple as u own less of Dell or spend more money to obtain a similar percentage. IE, owning $100 of apple will give u a better return than owning $100 of Dell. A far more important statistic for the small investor (at least I think so, IANASB). and about cost cutting. Dell customer service has already dropped dramatically. She bought a laptop from them and has a desktop that runs linux (which I put together for her). She got a router from dell with the laptop and when she called to ask them how to connect the desktop, they told her she would need to install windows and call Microsoft for help. also, my brother bought an XPS laptop with bad RAM. When he sent it back they just reinstalled to OS and things "worked" so they sent it back. He paid for shipping. by the time he had figured out the prob was from bad RAM his warranty was up. Essentially he was running a broken computer that would unexpectedly crash with various tasks.
> He sees law and policy as a means to an end rather than the description and implementation of a
> general principle
Well, approaching this issue in the same direction as those who pass the law is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if your goal is to deconstruct this view. You show how the policies created with this mindset fail. He seems to be doing this job fairly well. Even the constitution states that copyright law exists to further the sciences and arts thus being to achieve an objective and not to uphold principles. Perhaps the principle being upheld is that we as a society want to technologically advance thus our laws must reflect that.
He is merely stating that given the objectives, the law providing additional rights to broadcasters has failed. Stating that copyrights are wrong or extending copyrights is wrong shifts the framing of the debate to something the broadcast industry doesn't want to hear. They will be far more likely to listen to someone who says, I agree with your goals, but this isn't going to accomplish them. Often, its better to just deconstruct the views of an opponent in a debate than to repeatedly yell your view point.
but then, what do I know... my idea of debating an issue is slashdot...
If I'm not entirely mistaken the issue may stem directly from Microsoft's patent on a Word processing document to be ENTIRELY contained within an XML file, so it in their interest to muddy this situation as much as they possibly can. OpenDoc does allow for embedded objects such as images/charts and whatnot, but it does so using an archive.
The archive is a standard and open zip file that contains within it a content.xml file along with seperate files for the embedded objects in their native format. This allows for more efficient formatting than would embedding these directly into the XML and also allows other programs to get at this information more easily. IE, if you just want to edit an embeded image, a plugin could be made for an image editor that can unzip and extract the image then insert this image back into the archive once it is done. If not a plugin u could just manually unzip - edit - rezip
Although it could be done with the Microsoft method as well, it would seem easier to just extract from an archive which is already so widely supported esp since supporting MS method would REQUIRE the plugin.
Furthermore, if OpenDoc were to move to a single XML file containing all data for the page, it would be in violation of Microsoft's greatest innovation yet (the single XML file containing the entire document).... so it would seem like MS's best interest to say opendoc is an inferior format and can not embed other objects... if they can convince people that a "single" XML file is somehow better and that an archive is inferior backwards technology then openoffice.org and friends do not stand a chance since MS can then extract royalties (and thus not care if there is a competiter since they make money from either).
How does this new version compare to this site: The red book?? Is it worth the money to buy it if you are a true beginner with a decent C background, but little prior work with 3D graphics? Or would it be fair to say that the online book would suffice and that a API reference for changes and updates would allow you to do simple rendering?
as it's unlikely that all these slashdotters are stupid enough to refer to a single organization in plural form.
nice post and all, but I has a quick questions... what are a pleural?
but alas, I don't have a computer capable of running it. Anyone know of a mozilla plugin or linux app that provides this functionality? I already have the gmail notifier, and KDEs news ticker allows searches and can possibly be docked to gnome or KDEs panel would be nice (i have computers running both as well as an old laptop running icewm)... It would be nice to have an open source equivalent to this...
Second, the variation in pricing has to do with contracts between doctors and the insurance. As in the insurance will say that we will not pay more than X dollars for this product or this service and this number will varry by insurance. In order to bill the insurance the doctor must agree to these terms or not bill the insurance. Any doctor is free to do that but would then have to charge a patient directly and would thus lose out on potential business. This drop can be far greater the larger the insurance group, so large insurance groups can force doctors to lower their pricing.
Some doctors opt not to do this, so they will not be listed in the insurances directory. They will then be free to charge as they see fit. Also, doctors can form groups and thus gain levarage over insurance companies for billing purposes. If members of a certain specialty in an area belong to a select number of groups, the insurance companies may pay higher prices or risk not having enough qualified physicians to service those they are covering.
btw, if you find this disturbing just think of this. In medicine, you often pay for procedures that fail. Could you imagine going to Lexus and them saying only 2 out of 5 cars will actually drive, but you can not test drive the cars and once purchased, there are no refunds, but they can service your new car for additional costs. That essentially happens with many services in medicine (although a big difference is that in medicine, not getting a procedure may be more detrimental than the 40% chance of failure)... anyway, just wanted to say that the medicine world really does operate by a seperate set of rules that may not be fair, but are not easily comparable to say just purchasing a watch (and you would not be purchasing this watch without good medical indication unless you like wasting money).
Integrating a chat mode to gmail would be a nice way to go. I think people would love to just use their email account for messaging. and then have the conversations show up in gmail along with the rest of their emails. It solves the messaging problem and allows them to get a email client onto peoples computers. If they could do it through a web interface (not sure how that would work as far as socket connections) even better. no new client to install. just go to their website, log in and chat/email. not sure how a gateway to other services would fit into this, but that would be another plus.
um... i do that already with gaim. I have logs of all conversations... currently over 10 megs of logs going back a few years. It is unbelievably useful. addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, all sorts of information ready to be mined with grep. Of course I have only needed to do that a few times, but nonetheless one must maintain the logs to be able to ever do it.
also, you don't have to be anally retentive to do that. Its the same reason I keep all emails and documents written and have downloaded the human genome project. You just never know when you may need it.
well... if you had access to the host hard drive and a wine installation you might be able to run 40% of what is on that computer, but you have the benefit of it being slower (emulated by a 400MHz PowerPC) and possibly crashing due to lack of memory.... that Is why it needs to mount the host systems RAM as swap... wait... u know... I think I'm on to something... I call dibs on this new most useless device ever!
The main problem with software patents comes about when the patent covers only an algorithm. A patent on algorithms is probably where most peoples problem with software patents arose.
A patent on an algorithm (read method) to sort a list is something that can be implemented mentally so long as u can keep track of what state the machine would be in. Granted that when this software is combined with a CPU it may be capable of doing things much faster, but nonetheless the computer is doing nothing you could not do yourself mentally.
Now an entirely different kind of software patent would be one in which it is not possible to do something mentally because it requires direct interaction with hardware such as a software algorithm that can optimize reads and writes to a harddrive. A person is not able to mentally follow these steps... at least most people I know do not have the ability to directly write to a harddrive...
In short, I don't think that patents of the type that merely manipulate memory or data structures should be allowed. So no patents on image compression, file formats, data structures, APIs, or advanced mathematical techniques.
Yes I do believe that you are discriminating here, but patents are not a fundamental right. They were created to advance society and must be setup in a way that furthers that goal. The rate and type of innovation occuring in the software field would largely be stiffled by these patents, so for that reason and that reason alone, they should not be allowed or if they are, the time frame should be severely restricted (like 7 years with no possible extension).
JVC HD-GR1 records video that I believe is superior to standard Mini-DV recordings using mpeg2. mpeg2 is not the problem, its the bpp and resolution that you record at that is the problem. You can obtain much higher quality with mpeg2 than you probably think.
The editing can be an issue but good quality frames can be extracted from mpeg2... although it may take longer since it has to decode more than one frame to arrive at the one you want.
on a side note, is there any other camera in the consumer market that matches JVCs resolution?