the cultural pot calling the cultural kettle black?
i wonder how far your "third world" talk will get you in India.
if we're to play the "but there's places there that are clearly third world" game, i could have a fun afternoon with you and a map of your country (and mine).
you should be pissed at those in your country that would sacrifice good service and local jobs to save a buck. it's insulting to their customers (ie you).
one thing i've noticed in business, is you are seldom asked by a supplier what you would like the equipment for.
given it took a computer far more sophisticated than IBM's efforts at the time (and Alan Turing himself) to reveal just what the Godwins were doing, one could find a doubt that IBM could be given the benefit of.
just saying - i haven't researched the topic in depth, just seen it referred to in a documentary.
sort of... Jobs' famed "reality distortion field" flies in the face of that though.
accepting the constraints of reality is something we all have to do, but it's difficult not to think yourself into a box that way. given TFA is about entrepreneurs, it's possible that knowing what is and isn't possible is a bad thing.
to paraphrase something i read in a/. sig:
"if you don't go to far you'll never know how far you can go".
it's the sign of a petulant child to blame it's parents. though it is completely natural.
sooner or later one has to grow up, realise that we only have what we have, we can't change the past, so let's try to wrench the present into a half-decent future.
i'm quite new at the parenting game - my son's only 15 months old. but the idea that i would try to stiff him or his generation for my own comfort is sort of insulting.
we all want the same thing, but we have different ideas of how to get there. i can't blame the generation above me because, with what they had, they acted in a way no different to how we would have acted. crowds can be more predictable than individuals, and applying the crowd model to our generation with the initial conditions of the previous generation will likely yield the same result.
though it's tempting to believe everything is getting worse (i'm convinced it's a uniquely human quality that helps keep us doing our human thing - improving things), you should probably speak to someone REALLY old and ask how things went for them back in the day.
i wish inverse democracy worked - in the sense that the act of voting determines the quality of the candidates, where in forward democracy the quality of the candidate determines the act of voting.
we could dream up a head of state that didn't suck!
i'm well aware of the differences. pro video would give a max of 40 mins NTSC, 48 mins PAL, in the "S" case (the betamax-ish shell).
the physical difference between the shells was similar to the distinction between HD and DD floppy disks, or the difference between S-VHS and VHS - just a tab punched out of a bit of the shell to allow a simple mechanical way to distinguish.
of course, the tape itself was higher grade (metal particle v whatever).
later versions didn't use a different case - just different colours and various bits punched out or filled in. they did come out with a large size though - a huge tape that could hold 120 mins (or 144 in PAL).
beta SP tapes are incredibly still used in broadcast today, though not too often. Digibeta never completely displaced it, because the decks were so expensive and the perception was of little improvement (though it was a VAST improvement, the perception came from the fact that the rest of the production chain needed to catch up when digibeta came out. there's no point resolving 702 lines when your film chain barely gives you 400 and your patchbay and router is still analog).
ummm... betamax was negligibly better initially, and inferior toward the end of the 80s.
the battle was won ENTIRELY on record time. when beta came out with long-play modes, they were suddenly at less quality than VHS for the same record time.
who would want a format with max length of 60 mins when the average movie is about 90 mins?
now... 60 mins is an eternity for a camera operator, as the only portable format at the time was 16mm film which gave just a little over 10 mins record time. so guess what happened to beta?
it's funny - lack of reading the market that led to the failure of both formats. beta missed the consumer market, and when DVDs came along, VHS missed the opportunity with the pro market (D-VHS launched too late and was only really competitive with HDV which was a much more convenient form-factor). beta is still alive because though it failed to disrupt the consumer market, it completely disrupted the news gathering and television markets and became a main-stay until just a couple of years ago (XDCAM is the news-gathering darling now, either on cards or caddied-blu-ray discs).
apparently people watch movies on their phones now.
i don't understand that one, either, considering the ludicrously big TVs everyone owns.
that said, it's not wise to compete with youtube on the low-res front. iTunes needs to push HD and true SD (not this hobbled 640xwhatever shit that they insist on).
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for the love of FSM, mods? how is this off topic?
+1
politics != football.
you don't choose a team and back it for life. too many people do.
a dog can maul a baby, but a cat is most likely just going to give it toxoplasmosis.
as pointed out earlier, the point is that people died, not who started it.
so no other country could have sufficient pride in it's national achievements to be horrified if they go wrong?
the cultural pot calling the cultural kettle black?
i wonder how far your "third world" talk will get you in India.
if we're to play the "but there's places there that are clearly third world" game, i could have a fun afternoon with you and a map of your country (and mine).
you misplace your anger.
you should be pissed at those in your country that would sacrifice good service and local jobs to save a buck. it's insulting to their customers (ie you).
nah. all good. it's actually made of Paneer.
i've heard this.
one thing i've noticed in business, is you are seldom asked by a supplier what you would like the equipment for.
given it took a computer far more sophisticated than IBM's efforts at the time (and Alan Turing himself) to reveal just what the Godwins were doing, one could find a doubt that IBM could be given the benefit of.
just saying - i haven't researched the topic in depth, just seen it referred to in a documentary.
Wales is making a statement.
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
sort of... Jobs' famed "reality distortion field" flies in the face of that though.
accepting the constraints of reality is something we all have to do, but it's difficult not to think yourself into a box that way. given TFA is about entrepreneurs, it's possible that knowing what is and isn't possible is a bad thing.
to paraphrase something i read in a /. sig:
"if you don't go to far you'll never know how far you can go".
something like that. i like it.
something on your mind?
it's the sign of a petulant child to blame it's parents. though it is completely natural.
sooner or later one has to grow up, realise that we only have what we have, we can't change the past, so let's try to wrench the present into a half-decent future.
i'm quite new at the parenting game - my son's only 15 months old. but the idea that i would try to stiff him or his generation for my own comfort is sort of insulting.
we all want the same thing, but we have different ideas of how to get there. i can't blame the generation above me because, with what they had, they acted in a way no different to how we would have acted. crowds can be more predictable than individuals, and applying the crowd model to our generation with the initial conditions of the previous generation will likely yield the same result.
though it's tempting to believe everything is getting worse (i'm convinced it's a uniquely human quality that helps keep us doing our human thing - improving things), you should probably speak to someone REALLY old and ask how things went for them back in the day.
ED-209!! yes!
yep! it's just that robots don't have a union.
I suspect it's an attempt to counter the sudden rash of negative op-eds that Apple has been subject to since the iPhone 5 launch date came and went.
NO! this is just the attitude that has destroyed the western work ethic!
instead of telling them to get off our lawn, we should ask them to mow it.
that's cause our generation and the one before it spent a hefty amount of time telling them how great they are...
i wish inverse democracy worked - in the sense that the act of voting determines the quality of the candidates, where in forward democracy the quality of the candidate determines the act of voting.
we could dream up a head of state that didn't suck!
ixnae on the prior art-ae! we don't want Apple to sue MIT into nonexistence!
stillsuits!
you again! excellent!
"hey guize, please get back to being boring and having no hope - you're all spoiling my downer here."
i'm well aware of the differences. pro video would give a max of 40 mins NTSC, 48 mins PAL, in the "S" case (the betamax-ish shell).
the physical difference between the shells was similar to the distinction between HD and DD floppy disks, or the difference between S-VHS and VHS - just a tab punched out of a bit of the shell to allow a simple mechanical way to distinguish.
of course, the tape itself was higher grade (metal particle v whatever).
later versions didn't use a different case - just different colours and various bits punched out or filled in. they did come out with a large size though - a huge tape that could hold 120 mins (or 144 in PAL).
beta SP tapes are incredibly still used in broadcast today, though not too often. Digibeta never completely displaced it, because the decks were so expensive and the perception was of little improvement (though it was a VAST improvement, the perception came from the fact that the rest of the production chain needed to catch up when digibeta came out. there's no point resolving 702 lines when your film chain barely gives you 400 and your patchbay and router is still analog).
ummm... betamax was negligibly better initially, and inferior toward the end of the 80s.
the battle was won ENTIRELY on record time. when beta came out with long-play modes, they were suddenly at less quality than VHS for the same record time.
who would want a format with max length of 60 mins when the average movie is about 90 mins?
now... 60 mins is an eternity for a camera operator, as the only portable format at the time was 16mm film which gave just a little over 10 mins record time. so guess what happened to beta?
it's funny - lack of reading the market that led to the failure of both formats. beta missed the consumer market, and when DVDs came along, VHS missed the opportunity with the pro market (D-VHS launched too late and was only really competitive with HDV which was a much more convenient form-factor). beta is still alive because though it failed to disrupt the consumer market, it completely disrupted the news gathering and television markets and became a main-stay until just a couple of years ago (XDCAM is the news-gathering darling now, either on cards or caddied-blu-ray discs).
how do you get that from TFA?
oh, you didn't read it?
apparently people watch movies on their phones now.
i don't understand that one, either, considering the ludicrously big TVs everyone owns.
that said, it's not wise to compete with youtube on the low-res front. iTunes needs to push HD and true SD (not this hobbled 640xwhatever shit that they insist on).
also, DRM.