Exactly. All HDTV does is drive the costs of production up. This means more lame reality tv(/gameshows/etc where there is no added cost) and fewer production studios willing to take chances on anything remotely innovative since the cost of failure is now that much higher.
Lets not even get into the decades of VHS quality footage that isn't improved in the slightest by HD.
the quality of the picture was so high that you could see the every little unintentional gesture the actors made, every little imperfection in the props. Instead of suspending your disbelief, the format makes it painfully clear that your watching a bunch of dudes in costume recite lines.
Yeah, I remember watching Star Wars Ep1 in one of the theaters that were using digital projectors. You could see the spirit gum holding on the fake hair at the edge of Liam Neeson's hairline.
I thought most of his troubles in France had more to do with highly-experienced young French peasant girls galloping up and down his trousers than the local nobility. Perhaps I was misinformed?
In any case I would point out that Franklin very much wanted a free republic, and the current CYA/terror parade is all about taking away real freedoms in return for imagined safety.
He would as a diplomat in France have been exposed to the recklessness and arrogance of the nobles who traveled anonymously in closed carriages and were answerable to no one.
Yes, but only if you can crack my wallsafe. Not only is the Dreamcast dead, all of it's immediate successors are too. It pleases me that people still remember and care a bit. Well, at least here in bizarroworld.org
Really? Can I get a new one from Sega? Can I get a new one from *anybody*?
Well I can tell you that the 9" screen they used is a regular tv tube, they just added some circuitry to let them control it with X-Y vector commands instead of by sending continuous scan lines (raster). It was actually pretty primitive, IIRC there was no brightness control, if you wanted something brighter you had to redrew the image more frequently.
Can someone shed some light on this for me? I don't think I've ever even seen a vector display in real life other than my oscilloscope (which uses vectors to draw little snippets of text).
Yes, but we don't need C130 laser systems to deal with them. What did you think the 'Active Denial System' was for anyway? Your tax dollars at work, just not for you.
Domestic "terrorism", if anything.
Notice how it all became the craze after the Paris riots? When politicians noticed that sooner or later something like that will become the problem of every town if we continue to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Because, well, to get richer after you have ripped off every penny from those that have already nothing, you have to create more poor and push those in the middle further down.
I agree, though the offer of an 'advanced skillset' seems a bit farfetched. Well yes sir, I see from your resume that you're fully trained on the Stinger RPG,M-16,M-240 and have pilots credentials for the M109A6 Paladin. What part of that experience do you think most prepares you to be a WalMart greeter?
This is another attempt to appeal to the nature of an all-volunteer armed forces: they are built from gathering young adults into contractual labor. the payoff is (initially promised to be) large, and the skillset is indeed advanced - the US wields some of the most advanced weaponry. This doesn't lessen the risk of actual warfare or the usage of strong tools of destruction (independently risky actions).
That would be the rather well known porn actress from the 70's, who later turned out to have lied about her age(17). I would love to have a representative government, my government largely represents people with wealth and power.
Since when do corporations fail to increase prices when they can get away with it? After all, they need to get those November sales figures up. I'll give a simple example. Gas prices rise when the price of oil rises. Think about this. The corporation that is raising prices now still has millions of gallons of oil they obtained on the cheap, which they will happily sell you for a huge markup. Think about the opposite scenario. Oil prices fall. Said corporation will lower prices if and only if their quasi-legal cartel approves it, at some agreed upon time in the future.
But what is the corporation is already making so much money that the loss doesn't actually produce need to increase prices?
Your logic will only really follow when CEO's stop being paid billions of dollars.
Oh ok, so 18+16=OK, 19+16=felon for life. Yes that makes a lot of sense. Oh no, I found a traci lords vid in your VCR, I see you're a child pornographer as well.
In most states, at least the states I've lived in, an 18 year old can't be charged for having consensual sex with a 16 year old girlfriend. There's usually a number of years (ie 3) between the people that's required.
That's purely temporary. The majority of our breadbasket is in middle america. Lots of it runs on well water pumped from the Ogallala aquifer. Every year we pump out 1.5 feet of groundwater from this massive aquifer, and mother nature puts back about half an inch. Some areas of Texas and Kansas are already effectively pumped out. But hey, we made our numbers last quarter.
No, not really. The latest US Department of Agriculture forecast has a $15B net surplus for agricultural exports over imports for FY 2008.
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Regardless of how secure you make your OS, the weak link will always be the chair to keyboard interface. You may be able to stop overflow exploits, but what about trojans? These are regular apps, you installed them, and the OS has no idea that you are a moron. The more resident services and apps you have running, the easier it is for these applications to hide. Since OS bloat basically guarantees that to be the case, things are looking more bleak than ever moving forward.
Windows and many windows apps are still coded with a bolted on afterward Security design.
Cool, what happens when disgruntled brown people put a car full of diesel and fertilizer on the tracks? Incidentally, this will never fly in the USA...not because it isn't useful, but because the current rail monopolies would lose money. If you have were to create a maglev track there is no reason you couldn't use the same easements to put freight lines in, and that means no more 'i can charge whatever i want as long as it's cheaper than trucking companies'.
The advantage is speed. A maglev train is essentially a plane without wings, so speeds of 300+MPH are not unreasonable right now. In theory, though, a Maglev can reach the 500+MPH of a commercial jet.
Such as the blue eyed migrant mutt imports from Norway who arrived in 1000AD?
I am [my ancestry is such that I'm one of those blue eyed migrant mutt imports from northern European countries who emigrated to what is now the US in the 17th and 18th centuries ].
Um, they're unreliable because they're running on 30 year old parts? Incidentally, some cars came without computer controls until much later. My beater 80' corolla certainly doesn't have any, not that I expect it to evade too many police cruisers.
That's the obvious conclusion... people tend to forget that those cars were rather unreliable (thus the "keep it running" so often heard by getaway drivers in the movies)...
No, actually flash works just fine on a Mac. For client side content you have flash, you have applets, you have activeX. Lots of sites use flash, many sites use activeX, almost nobody uses applets. Java succeeded as a server development language, but it has totally bombed as a client platform. Whether you or I personally like that fact is kind of irrelevant. As Colbert would say 'the free market has spoken'.
...and the alternative path is the only option if you're not running Windows, then I guess I like the alternative and I'm kind of at a loss as to what you're getting at.
Of course it's not a good idea, but look at the alternative. Java's security model=applets, and with only 1.0 java guaranteed that's not much fun either. If you're running a java-app you can do all kinds of mischief but that is perfectly reasonable since you're explicitly running an application on your machine, presumably from a trusted source. In the middle ground there's flash, at least for those not running linux.
What the hell is wrong with people that anyone, for one minute, could think this is a good idea? It's not. It's so lousy an idea that it makes only moderately lousy ideas like Java's security model look good by comparison, even to people like me who know better.
You're going to take all our licenses away? Be reasonable, you'll perfectly safe as long as you stay away from the Country Kitchen Buffet. On another note, I'm all in favor of this just as soon as the government starts handing out free cars. Just because you can afford a shiny hybrid electric chauffeur doesn't mean poor people can.
We limit the rights of some to protect the rights of all - if you are an unsafe driver, I will happily limit your right to drive if it increases the rights of the majority to drive safely.
It pisses me off too. I understand being poor sucks, but really, $10 will buy you a fine coat at Goodwill. Don't make your kids suffer because you're too damn proud to shop at someplace without valet parking. If you're unwilling to make your children a priority, make putting on a damn rubber a priority.
That said, cable fees have been rising markedly faster than inflation for quite some time. If someone actually competed with them, one would think that prices would go down, not up. But where we don't have a government enforced monopoly, we have a lovely corporate oligopoly instead, colluding to raise their rates 'competitively'. Just like in government, what we can sorely use is a viable 3rd party candidate.
I don't mean to sound like Scrooge, but it pisses me off when an elementary school kid shows up at school without a coat in the dead of winter because his parents "can't afford one," but they sure can afford to pay the cable bill every month.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that crime can pay quite well...you just have to become incorporated. Haliburton, AT&T, Sony, Blackwater, what do all of these companies have in common, yes, wait for it. they've committed crimes and made out like bandits in the process. Who says the system doesn't work?
Pretty much anyone with an IQ above 90 figures out before he's 12 that crime does not pay, in the long run, and he goes into other lines of business as an adult.
Yes, and coincidentally enough it's also the same state that appears as a kind of blue rectangle around election time. You can see how strongly we support the right by our governor and the many republican congressmen and senators we elected last time...all what, 8 (out of 53) of them?
I'll grant your point that the left generally ignores pornography, but this is a special case. This is (allegedly) pornography in school. Left or right, no vote hungry politician is going to get behind that one.
Hi, have you been to California sir? You know, that liberal democratic state where (as of 2008) police are compelled to take dna swabs and it's more or less illegal to own a gun? I know you're thinking hey, that's just like the UK but without the surveilance cameras. Rest assured citizen, those are coming any day now...
However, in what world is the "left" the ones censoring pornography and "dangerous" material? Sure, there are parents who are overprotective despite being leftists, but that's far more the exception than the rule.
It's not just the right you need be concerned with, the left is equally likely to purge "inappropriate content", they just make up different reasons for it. It espouses racism (Huckleberry Finn), it's pornographic (The Scarlet Letter), it's dangerous (The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments). Big brother or nanny government, it all boils down to the same thing. 2008 is coming people, can we please can all of these assholes before I end up having to describe this as double plus good?
(read Christian religious right) have "won" and science as it now stands is banned. Books could easily be "misplaced" by these folks, and the library of congress purged of "inappropriate content".
We already have that, it's called a Palm IIIe. It's smaller, more organized, has great battery life, oh and it has some sort of widely sold stylus type input device. Just don't drop it.
It is also more environmentally friendly and efficient. Not to mention more organized and smaller! However you've also got battery life... It works just as well without the price and no batteries required. If you could make some sort of pocket book that had an easy input method such as a widely sold stylus and a battery life lasting at least 200 hours on full power.
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Lets not even get into the decades of VHS quality footage that isn't improved in the slightest by HD.
In any case I would point out that Franklin very much wanted a free republic, and the current CYA/terror parade is all about taking away real freedoms in return for imagined safety.
That would be the rather well known porn actress from the 70's, who later turned out to have lied about her age(17). I would love to have a representative government, my government largely represents people with wealth and power.
That said, cable fees have been rising markedly faster than inflation for quite some time. If someone actually competed with them, one would think that prices would go down, not up. But where we don't have a government enforced monopoly, we have a lovely corporate oligopoly instead, colluding to raise their rates 'competitively'. Just like in government, what we can sorely use is a viable 3rd party candidate.
Yes, and coincidentally enough it's also the same state that appears as a kind of blue rectangle around election time. You can see how strongly we support the right by our governor and the many republican congressmen and senators we elected last time...all what, 8 (out of 53) of them?
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca
I'll grant your point that the left generally ignores pornography, but this is a special case. This is (allegedly) pornography in school. Left or right, no vote hungry politician is going to get behind that one.