even before we get into legislation (this article is an example of my trusting legislators slightly less far than i could bat them with my dick), you might consider that the market might actually work in this case.
if dell, lenovo, asus, et al don't allow an override, alienware might just do so out of respect for their customers.
of course, if nobody allows an override, the market is ripe for a small upstart to fill the niche that would like to have one.
that analogy is irrelevant. one was a response to something we KNOW was going to happen BEFORE it happened (or rather didn't, due to the dilligent work of those that sought to prevent it), the other was a knee-jerk response to something that should have been spotted before it happened, but wasn't.
you can't say attacks have been prevented by the TSA's ball groping, and naked-scanning-irradiating-machines without some form of proof. considering the massive scale of abuses the TSA is committing, it'd better be solid proof of thousands of attacks directly foiled by ball-groping, otherwise it simply is not worth the sacrifice in freedom.
how can a person take sides in a matter between companies they don't work for? i suppose there's always Apple stock, but surely if that were the case you'd just buy up big when the press is bad and sell at launch dates?
so the people that take more than their fair share today will be the same people in the future, only they'll be better looking?
sounds like society's standard of beauty will move on and the rich will have to turn their genes into a leatherface patchwork in order to keep up with the resultant frequent shifts in beauty standards. this will cause the kind of detriment on a genetic level that we see on people like Jocelyn Wildenstein or the late Michael Jackson. rich kids will have arthritis by the time they're 10yo, and will need armed guards to prevent a poor person from snapping their neck by bumping them.
arbitrary gene selection has nothing to do with fitness for survival, as we've seen with dog breeding.
original camera neg can have huge amounts of detail, but beyond ~3k (as noted by others), all you're gonna get is grain and blur and exposing the shitty lens optics (that make cinema great... too sharp sux).
it's like arguing that vinyl has more detail than . you might be able to recover something "up ther", but the whole spectrum is covered with noise and distortion and other crap.
film is going the way vinyl did. i'll miss it, to be sure. i'll miss rocking up to work at 7am only to find the lab hasn't finished processing it yet, and my client's coming in at 9. i'll miss not being able to get the telecine started, or having a coke-can sized capacitor blow up while i'm loading it. i'll miss the piss smell of fresh black-and-white reversal, or the soft touch of a reel that's been rushed from the lab and is still warm. i'll miss waxing lyric about the merits of various film stocks, and the amazing amount of highlight detail the modern stocks can give you (8 stops overexposed and still something in the picture with the vision3 stuff... digital still has some room for improvement in latitude). i'll miss how goddamned easy a well shot bit of film is to colour-grade, and how beautiful it can look, even on a modest budget.
digital is so much cheaper and more accessible. for practical purposes on a sane shoot with a good DP, it's just as good as film (no, really it is and has been for a while). it's easy to do effects for as it's more linear and has bugger-all grain (though rolling shutter is a pain in the anus).
it's a fair bit harder to post, at least not counting keeping the scanning/telecine machines running. going tapeless and lab-reel-less is a nightmare for workflow, especially with people who don't know what timecode is because they grew up on final cut and miniDV and never needed it.
used a printer much lately? i'm pretty sure one company's cartridges don't fit another company's printers.
that said, car analogies don't work unless a car costs the same as an iToy, and occupies a similar amount of space. you can't shove an unwanted car in your drawer and forget about it. you don't need a license to use a phone. iPhone use while drunk might annoy, but is not likely to kill anyone.
k, swap iphone 4s for ipad 2. there's been reports of scuffles in queues at apple stores. google it.
doesn't affect the rest of what i said. like it or not, your life is empty. i pity you and your kind (and i laugh at your downmods). when the economy finally kicks it's last and dies in a heap, you wont know what the fuck happened, and i'll continue to live a full and happy life.
"European countries"... that's like saying "English speaking countries" for all the difference among them.
the social democracies of the north are actually doing quite well. that's because they have natural resources that can supplement their (high) tax. but then look at Greece or Italy and you'll see a different story.
It doesn't seem to serve your point to include all of Europe in one bucket.
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perhaps GP was referring to the KKK?
even before we get into legislation (this article is an example of my trusting legislators slightly less far than i could bat them with my dick), you might consider that the market might actually work in this case.
if dell, lenovo, asus, et al don't allow an override, alienware might just do so out of respect for their customers.
of course, if nobody allows an override, the market is ripe for a small upstart to fill the niche that would like to have one.
there's a freeBSD shill floating round these parts. i think they might be using the same script the rather humourous microsoft bot was using.
the searches are random, meaning that theoretically every single path in all of the USA is covered.
your argument is wrong.
that analogy is irrelevant. one was a response to something we KNOW was going to happen BEFORE it happened (or rather didn't, due to the dilligent work of those that sought to prevent it), the other was a knee-jerk response to something that should have been spotted before it happened, but wasn't.
you can't say attacks have been prevented by the TSA's ball groping, and naked-scanning-irradiating-machines without some form of proof. considering the massive scale of abuses the TSA is committing, it'd better be solid proof of thousands of attacks directly foiled by ball-groping, otherwise it simply is not worth the sacrifice in freedom.
Apple stole Xerox's lunch money.
how can a person take sides in a matter between companies they don't work for? i suppose there's always Apple stock, but surely if that were the case you'd just buy up big when the press is bad and sell at launch dates?
so the people that take more than their fair share today will be the same people in the future, only they'll be better looking?
sounds like society's standard of beauty will move on and the rich will have to turn their genes into a leatherface patchwork in order to keep up with the resultant frequent shifts in beauty standards. this will cause the kind of detriment on a genetic level that we see on people like Jocelyn Wildenstein or the late Michael Jackson. rich kids will have arthritis by the time they're 10yo, and will need armed guards to prevent a poor person from snapping their neck by bumping them.
arbitrary gene selection has nothing to do with fitness for survival, as we've seen with dog breeding.
...i'd hate to see the antiviral resistant virii, and chemo resistant cancers.
(i do see your point, of course, but a nitpick in a post is worth two in the bush)
google Modulation Transfer Function.
original camera neg can have huge amounts of detail, but beyond ~3k (as noted by others), all you're gonna get is grain and blur and exposing the shitty lens optics (that make cinema great... too sharp sux).
it's like arguing that vinyl has more detail than . you might be able to recover something "up ther", but the whole spectrum is covered with noise and distortion and other crap.
film is going the way vinyl did. i'll miss it, to be sure. i'll miss rocking up to work at 7am only to find the lab hasn't finished processing it yet, and my client's coming in at 9. i'll miss not being able to get the telecine started, or having a coke-can sized capacitor blow up while i'm loading it. i'll miss the piss smell of fresh black-and-white reversal, or the soft touch of a reel that's been rushed from the lab and is still warm. i'll miss waxing lyric about the merits of various film stocks, and the amazing amount of highlight detail the modern stocks can give you (8 stops overexposed and still something in the picture with the vision3 stuff... digital still has some room for improvement in latitude). i'll miss how goddamned easy a well shot bit of film is to colour-grade, and how beautiful it can look, even on a modest budget.
digital is so much cheaper and more accessible. for practical purposes on a sane shoot with a good DP, it's just as good as film (no, really it is and has been for a while). it's easy to do effects for as it's more linear and has bugger-all grain (though rolling shutter is a pain in the anus).
it's a fair bit harder to post, at least not counting keeping the scanning/telecine machines running. going tapeless and lab-reel-less is a nightmare for workflow, especially with people who don't know what timecode is because they grew up on final cut and miniDV and never needed it.
phone scalping? interesting concept.
so alice and bob needn't know so long as eve does?
but it would be illegal if not even eve knew she was eavesdropping?
fpfail
used a printer much lately? i'm pretty sure one company's cartridges don't fit another company's printers.
that said, car analogies don't work unless a car costs the same as an iToy, and occupies a similar amount of space. you can't shove an unwanted car in your drawer and forget about it. you don't need a license to use a phone. iPhone use while drunk might annoy, but is not likely to kill anyone.
i think this is the appropriate link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
k, swap iphone 4s for ipad 2. there's been reports of scuffles in queues at apple stores. google it.
doesn't affect the rest of what i said. like it or not, your life is empty. i pity you and your kind (and i laugh at your downmods). when the economy finally kicks it's last and dies in a heap, you wont know what the fuck happened, and i'll continue to live a full and happy life.
with their super ears?
"Ever since his accident, Mr. Hemmes said, he's had the goal of hugging his daughter Jaylei"
i'm imagining a horror ending here where the robot arms are just way too powerful.
i'm a bad person.
in that case the Tea Party is a good thing - taking votes from Republicans
(disclaimer - not living in the USA, don't know the situation)
"Not everyone thought those were admiral pursuits"
you should have studied literature a bit harder.
you were in farm town.
you could have learnt some chemical engineering (what was present in the encyclopedia should have been enough), and started moonshining.
you would then have had money for more books :)
how are those roads working out for you? driven on one lately?
dickhead.
"European countries"... that's like saying "English speaking countries" for all the difference among them.
the social democracies of the north are actually doing quite well. that's because they have natural resources that can supplement their (high) tax. but then look at Greece or Italy and you'll see a different story.
It doesn't seem to serve your point to include all of Europe in one bucket.
even if one of the two parties were perfect, the balance is such that nothing would ever get done because it would be blocked in the upper house.
there's no such thing as "too soon" :)
any reason your friend can't just roll back to the older OS?
oh yeah, it's hardware and software in conflict. good thing they're made by the same company, huh?