No, nobody has considered that because it's meaningless - especially to Joe Movie Watcher. Both HDDVD and BluRay have more than enough space to provide existing movie content. Look at most HDDVDs, there's usually quite a bit of free space even with extras etc... Well, yeah, there is enough space on there for the current model we have for watching, but what if we change the model? What if instead of a season of television spanning 4 DVDs it just spans 1 blu-ray disk and is all in 1080p? If you're at best buy, and you ask the sales guy the difference between Blu Ray and HD DVD, what is he going to tell you that is relevant to your inerests? Is the DRM model on each relevant? Well, if you need to talk to a sales guy at best buy, then chances are you don't even know what this is; so no. Is the capacity relevant? Well, not really (of course they both have enough space to hold a movie), but if you need to decide between two (seemingly equal) players, and you're told that one of them can hold more data, which are you going to choose?
Has anyone considered the remote possibility that Blu-Ray won out because it was the better of the two formats? It stores more data. From an end user perspective, isn't this pretty much the #1 thing that matters?
Granted, geeks know that the DRM on blu-ray is harsher than that on HD-DVD, but if your just joe Movie Watcher does it really matter?
It is compressed air with nitrogen added for its cooling effects on a motor.
Air is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and other trace gases. Nitrous oxide is a chemical compound. There's a difference. This is like 8th grade chemistry here. If you still can't tell the difference, reflect that breathing air causes you to stay alive and breathing nitrous oxide causes "analgesia, depersonalization, derealization, dizziness, euphoria, sound distortion and slight hallucinations". You're taking what I said out of context. Read the post that I replied to. They're talking about using compressed air "like a turbo". Obviously whoever posted it has a very limited knowledge of automotive performance. I called N2O "air" so that they would understand the correlation.
As far as N2O vs O2s effects on a motor: go talk to a mechanic, specifically one that deals with high performance engines. Ask them why you need to use N2O instead of straight O2. Every single one is going to tell you that O2 burns too hott. The nitrogen helps cool the motor down.
Why is this such an issue? You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. My OP was not inflammatory at all, just calm down. Its Friday for crying out loud!
OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IS GREATER THAN YOUR OWN! We have got hordes of geeks working on ways to circumvent every single way you have ever conceived to censor what we do. What happened with iTunes DRM? It got owned by qtfairuse. What happened when you blocked bittorrent? We started encrypting it. What happened when you blocked the port that bittorrent runs on? We started running it on a different port. What happened when you throttled NNTP connections? We started using lots and lots of simultaneous connections, each of them throttled, but collectively adding up to our original speed. What happened when you started blocking NNTP all together? We started running it over port 80 and disguising it as legitimate SSL traffic. What happened when you started listening to our phone calls? We started using encrypted VOIP.
Every single time there has EVER been ANY attempt at stopping people from doing what they want it has only caused them to grow stronger. Don't challenge us to develop stronger encryption, because we will. Its like spraying a weed with weed killer, eventually you're just going to create stronger weeds.
What you are trying to do in the UK will absolutely fail. History has shown this. Non tech-savvy users will be alienated for a while, until we create yet ANOTHER work around for your idiotic bureaucratic attempt at pleasing your own appetite for money and power.
I cannot repeat enough that this WILL fail.
The community welcomes your attempt at censoring us. It will only present us with yet another challenge and cause the gap between our skills and your own to grow.
From the wiki article: The gas itself is not flammable, but it delivers more oxygen than atmospheric air by breaking down at elevated temperatures, allowing the engine to burn more fuel and air and resulting in more powerful combustion. Go read it again.
maybe similar to how a Turbo or SuperCharger works, only rather than increasing the acceleration, the energy goes toward fuel economy. What your describing is called "Nitrous Oxide". It is compressed air with nitrogen added for its cooling effects on a motor. Adding compressed air to an engine increases the amount of air in the cylinder, and allows you to increase the amount of fuel in a cylinder without making the mixture too "rich" (rich means too much gas, lean means too much air).
Adding compressed gases would allow high performance to be gained out of a small motor, but would not increase the overall fuel economy of said motor.
I learned GIMP first and found Photoshop awkward to use. I could not agree with you more. I NEVER used photoshop when i was younger. I got a bootleg of it once, but had been using the Gimp for so long that photoshop just felt "weird" to me.
Now I do graphic design for a living. The tools that I use are: Scribus, Inkscape, and the Gimp. Honestly, I've been told by the boss that I can, but i have absolutely no desire to, switch over to Adobe products. In fact if i was forced to switch, the quality of my work would most certainly go down.
I've been given the blessing to go out and spend whatever I want on a photoshop/illustrator combo and whatever fancy pants Mac rig i want...but the truth is that my commodity Dell box, running these great open source solutions is every bit as good (and in my eyes better) than really ANY other combo i could come up with.
Frankly, the Community could start charging for this software and my company would gladly pay whatever they asked. These three programs are absolutely invaluable to us.
To me, the internet looks like a big ecosystem. Things have become overpopulated, and as a result, the storm disease is keeping the population in check. It should kill off a chunk of the population, and then it will disappear.
Part of me doesn't WANT to see storm go away...maybe its just because i'm that big of a geek...the worm is actually really impressive and kind of cool to me.
I don't think it is "programming as art" as much as it is "making art through programming I used to agree with you 100%. But then i started looking at some of my code and realizing that i could tell what kind of mood i was in by my approach to whatever problem i was coding against. How is me pushing keys to manipulate my computer any different than a pianist pushing keys to manipulate his piano?
Let me preface this by saying that I am one of the biggest linux geeks you're ever going to meet. I run gentoo on my laptop, as well as on my Desktop at work. I have installed Ubuntu on my sisters' laptops and my mom's Desktop. I do graphic design work in scribus and inkscape.
I'm a linux geek....but
If the true goal of a computer program for a school is to ready its students for the workplace, then is linux really the best method of doing so? Isn't the school in some way doing its students a dis-service my training them on a computing method that they will very likely never use again? As much as i DESPISE some of microsoft's products (i admin a damn win2k3 server...do i really need to explain WHY i hate microsoft?) i understand that in order to function in a modern workplace, the ability to navigate microsoft windows is almost as essential as any other office skill.
Yeah, that's it. I wanted to avoid slashdotting the servers there, so I didn't provide a link. Well the server is down already.... Google cache to the rescue!
Personally, I'm a little angry that their killing off regular broadcast TV to begin with. Granted, digital is really great if you have a tuner for it...but a LOT of people DON'T!.
If they're selling this spectrum off for 6 billion of 20 billion or whatever it is, I propose that they use the money to purchase enough digital tuners to give out for free to anybody who asks for the following 2 years after they make the switch.
This type of interface is completely impractical, except for a few high specialized applications (like architecture). The problem with things like this is that your arm gets tired after using it for a few minutes. The great thing about a mouse is that you can take your hand off of it and it stays in the same place. I know that personally, I use the arrow and tab keys for navigation WAY more than i use my mouse.
Mice work really really great because it is a 2D interface to a 2D environment.
I would rather see grant money pumped into multi-touch than stuff like this.....its cool, its just not going to replace your mouse anytime soon.
Where, exactly would a group of bloggers create enough value that "we" would be prepared to pay extra to have them continue? Furthermore, in most cases WE ARE the bloggers. WE submit content to websites, and then WE comment on it. If some big blogger shuts down their site....there is going to be 10 more that will pop up the same day and replace it.
Saving Private Ryan used hand-held cameras, but with a MAJOR difference: They were attached to Steadicam setups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam i know what a damn steadicam is, and they didn't use them on all of the shots in saving private Ryan. Go watch it again.
Why do people treat shit camera work as though it's something raw and edgy? because when its done right...it looks really REALLY good. Go watch saving private Ryan. The cinematography in that movie was second to none. The unfortunate thing is that people try and use techniques like that to make up for other areas that are lacking...like story.
An effect similar to this is one that i'm sure all of us are aware of. When you're building a website (or gui, or whatever it is) and your boss is like "we need more sections, it looks really plain..." but you don't have any CONTENT to fill those sections with. Same thing....shaky cameras have their place....but sometimes people look at a shot and go "this shot is boring....lets SHAEK THE CAMERA!"
if you want a movie that REALLY over does this...watch "Manic".
Er...except that the Air costs *more* than the Pro, which kinda screws up your whole "the Armada is cheaper than the Infiniti" argument. No, that is exactly my point.
The armada is cheaper becaues it doesn't have as many features....thats what the air SHOULD be....
What apple has done would be similar to if Nissan had decided to charge more for the armada than they do for the infiniti. What apple did doesn't make any sense (to me) because you're not getting as much laptop for a HIGHER price.
Or in other words, using a car metaphor, of course: "Nobody will ever buy a Porsche, because it's got only two seats and a minimal trunk space. For 50'000 EUR *less*, you'd get four seats, a pickup-sized cargo bay AND as much horsepowers, so the Porsche is clearly bad value.":) You're really close (okay, no you're not even remotely close on this one).
A better analogy would be a Nissan Armada vs an Infiniti QX56. The Armada dn the Infinit are very very similar vehicles. The difference is:
The armada can't pull my boat The armada can't fit all the kids AND their snowboards the armada can't fit 6 full sized adults comfortably the armada is quite a bit smaller The armada doesn't have some of the features of the QX56 like standard navigation, backup camera, heated seats etc. etc.
But the armada IS basically a smaller version of the same body, minus a few features of course. An armada is certainly not a CHEAP car (its a really nice SUV)...but it is certainly not in the same class as the infiniti.
Now, an armada, due to its lack of features, is a much MUCH cheaper car than the infiniti. Some might say that this doesn't make sense. An armada is a much more practical car than the Infinit...it gets better gas mileage, it will fit into smaller parking spaces, it looks better. etc.
Same thing in Air vs Macbook pro. The pro has more features than the air does. The air should be looked at like a stripped down "budget" version of the macbook pro that is aimed at travelers.
okay now mod me as flaimbait for not worshiping the son of god[steve jobs] that is the maccbook air!
THis seems like a completely unnecessary move on the part of AOL....there isn't anything WRONG with AIM....so why do they need to change it?
for example..
I've currently got pidgin running and its talking to people over AIM...its talking to people on MSN...and its talking back into my corporate jabber network over the VPN...
With cross network clients like this readily available....moving their network is(was?) a completely unneeded IT expense.
We don't have cable or satellite T.V. and I can't see spending money on the antenna we'd need for broadcast digital Just make your own antenna. Pull one of the little tiny wires out of an ethernet cable and strip one end of it. Just shove that end in the little hole in the coax connector on the back of your TV.
I used this setup for months at my apartment when Target wanted to charge me 30 dollars for an antenna (amazed my roomate too...."dude..there's no way thats gonna work.....holy shiat! is that anchorman in full HD!?"). The only reason i finally bought one (5 bucks at fry's) was my homemade one looked ghetto.
If you don't have any ethernet cable.....coax works too....its a lot harder to strip (unless you have the tools for it)...but I've done that before too.
Let me just say really quick that these machines don't connect back into some uber secret underground database or anything. The magnetic stripe on the back of your license contains your address, your DL number, and your date of birth all stored in PLAIN TEXT! The "machine" that they scan it through is usually just a credit card reader that has a program on it to read the date. There is really nothing that evil here at all.
Just re-write the data on the card to say something more interesting. Everything is stored plaintext. Just leave the birthdate intact and you'll be good.
And when i say rewrite the date...of course I mean "create another novelty ID to be used for testing purposes only";-).
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If you're at best buy, and you ask the sales guy the difference between Blu Ray and HD DVD, what is he going to tell you that is relevant to your inerests?
Is the DRM model on each relevant? Well, if you need to talk to a sales guy at best buy, then chances are you don't even know what this is; so no.
Is the capacity relevant? Well, not really (of course they both have enough space to hold a movie), but if you need to decide between two (seemingly equal) players, and you're told that one of them can hold more data, which are you going to choose?
The answer is, obviously, blu ray.
Has anyone considered the remote possibility that Blu-Ray won out because it was the better of the two formats? It stores more data. From an end user perspective, isn't this pretty much the #1 thing that matters?
Granted, geeks know that the DRM on blu-ray is harsher than that on HD-DVD, but if your just joe Movie Watcher does it really matter?
Just a thought.
It is compressed air with nitrogen added for its cooling effects on a motor.
Air is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and other trace gases. Nitrous oxide is a chemical compound. There's a difference. This is like 8th grade chemistry here. If you still can't tell the difference, reflect that breathing air causes you to stay alive and breathing nitrous oxide causes "analgesia, depersonalization, derealization, dizziness, euphoria, sound distortion and slight hallucinations". You're taking what I said out of context. Read the post that I replied to. They're talking about using compressed air "like a turbo". Obviously whoever posted it has a very limited knowledge of automotive performance. I called N2O "air" so that they would understand the correlation.
As far as N2O vs O2s effects on a motor: go talk to a mechanic, specifically one that deals with high performance engines. Ask them why you need to use N2O instead of straight O2. Every single one is going to tell you that O2 burns too hott. The nitrogen helps cool the motor down.
Why is this such an issue? You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. My OP was not inflammatory at all, just calm down.
Its Friday for crying out loud!
To every lawmaker on the planet:
OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IS GREATER THAN YOUR OWN! We have got hordes of geeks working on ways to circumvent every single way you have ever conceived to censor what we do.
What happened with iTunes DRM? It got owned by qtfairuse.
What happened when you blocked bittorrent? We started encrypting it.
What happened when you blocked the port that bittorrent runs on? We started running it on a different port.
What happened when you throttled NNTP connections? We started using lots and lots of simultaneous connections, each of them throttled, but collectively adding up to our original speed.
What happened when you started blocking NNTP all together? We started running it over port 80 and disguising it as legitimate SSL traffic.
What happened when you started listening to our phone calls? We started using encrypted VOIP.
Every single time there has EVER been ANY attempt at stopping people from doing what they want it has only caused them to grow stronger. Don't challenge us to develop stronger encryption, because we will. Its like spraying a weed with weed killer, eventually you're just going to create stronger weeds.
What you are trying to do in the UK will absolutely fail. History has shown this. Non tech-savvy users will be alienated for a while, until we create yet ANOTHER work around for your idiotic bureaucratic attempt at pleasing your own appetite for money and power.
I cannot repeat enough that this WILL fail.
The community welcomes your attempt at censoring us. It will only present us with yet another challenge and cause the gap between our skills and your own to grow.
From the wiki article: The gas itself is not flammable, but it delivers more oxygen than atmospheric air by breaking down at elevated temperatures, allowing the engine to burn more fuel and air and resulting in more powerful combustion. Go read it again.
Adding compressed gases would allow high performance to be gained out of a small motor, but would not increase the overall fuel economy of said motor.
you can read about Nitrous Oxide Here.
Can we now have a bunch of idiots upload time lapse videos of clouds with synthesized voice overlays declaring the end of the RIAA?
Please?
Can we?
They can even wear Guy Fawkes masks if they want!
Because its hard(read:impossible) to convince a PHB type to contribute money to something when they can get it for free. :(
sad, i know.
Now I do graphic design for a living. The tools that I use are: Scribus, Inkscape, and the Gimp. Honestly, I've been told by the boss that I can, but i have absolutely no desire to, switch over to Adobe products. In fact if i was forced to switch, the quality of my work would most certainly go down.
I've been given the blessing to go out and spend whatever I want on a photoshop/illustrator combo and whatever fancy pants Mac rig i want...but the truth is that my commodity Dell box, running these great open source solutions is every bit as good (and in my eyes better) than really ANY other combo i could come up with.
Frankly, the Community could start charging for this software and my company would gladly pay whatever they asked. These three programs are absolutely invaluable to us.
To me, the internet looks like a big ecosystem. Things have become overpopulated, and as a result, the storm disease is keeping the population in check. It should kill off a chunk of the population, and then it will disappear.
Part of me doesn't WANT to see storm go away...maybe its just because i'm that big of a geek...the worm is actually really impressive and kind of cool to me.
How is me pushing keys to manipulate my computer any different than a pianist pushing keys to manipulate his piano?
Let me preface this by saying that I am one of the biggest linux geeks you're ever going to meet. I run gentoo on my laptop, as well as on my Desktop at work. I have installed Ubuntu on my sisters' laptops and my mom's Desktop. I do graphic design work in scribus and inkscape.
I'm a linux geek....but
If the true goal of a computer program for a school is to ready its students for the workplace, then is linux really the best method of doing so? Isn't the school in some way doing its students a dis-service my training them on a computing method that they will very likely never use again?
As much as i DESPISE some of microsoft's products (i admin a damn win2k3 server...do i really need to explain WHY i hate microsoft?) i understand that in order to function in a modern workplace, the ability to navigate microsoft windows is almost as essential as any other office skill.
Google cache to the rescue!
Personally, I'm a little angry that their killing off regular broadcast TV to begin with. Granted, digital is really great if you have a tuner for it...but a LOT of people DON'T!.
If they're selling this spectrum off for 6 billion of 20 billion or whatever it is, I propose that they use the money to purchase enough digital tuners to give out for free to anybody who asks for the following 2 years after they make the switch.
I have said it before, and i will say it again:
This type of interface is completely impractical, except for a few high specialized applications (like architecture).
The problem with things like this is that your arm gets tired after using it for a few minutes. The great thing about a mouse is that you can take your hand off of it and it stays in the same place. I know that personally, I use the arrow and tab keys for navigation WAY more than i use my mouse.
Mice work really really great because it is a 2D interface to a 2D environment.
I would rather see grant money pumped into multi-touch than stuff like this.....its cool, its just not going to replace your mouse anytime soon.
An effect similar to this is one that i'm sure all of us are aware of. When you're building a website (or gui, or whatever it is) and your boss is like "we need more sections, it looks really plain..." but you don't have any CONTENT to fill those sections with. Same thing....shaky cameras have their place....but sometimes people look at a shot and go "this shot is boring....lets SHAEK THE CAMERA!"
if you want a movie that REALLY over does this...watch "Manic".
The armada is cheaper becaues it doesn't have as many features....thats what the air SHOULD be....
What apple has done would be similar to if Nissan had decided to charge more for the armada than they do for the infiniti.
What apple did doesn't make any sense (to me) because you're not getting as much laptop for a HIGHER price.
A better analogy would be a Nissan Armada vs an Infiniti QX56. The Armada dn the Infinit are very very similar vehicles. The difference is:
The armada can't pull my boat
The armada can't fit all the kids AND their snowboards
the armada can't fit 6 full sized adults comfortably
the armada is quite a bit smaller
The armada doesn't have some of the features of the QX56 like standard navigation, backup camera, heated seats etc. etc.
But the armada IS basically a smaller version of the same body, minus a few features of course. An armada is certainly not a CHEAP car (its a really nice SUV)...but it is certainly not in the same class as the infiniti.
Now, an armada, due to its lack of features, is a much MUCH cheaper car than the infiniti. Some might say that this doesn't make sense. An armada is a much more practical car than the Infinit...it gets better gas mileage, it will fit into smaller parking spaces, it looks better. etc.
Same thing in Air vs Macbook pro. The pro has more features than the air does. The air should be looked at like a stripped down "budget" version of the macbook pro that is aimed at travelers.
okay now mod me as flaimbait for not worshiping the son of god[steve jobs] that is the maccbook air!
THis seems like a completely unnecessary move on the part of AOL....there isn't anything WRONG with AIM....so why do they need to change it?
for example..
I've currently got pidgin running and its talking to people over AIM...its talking to people on MSN...and its talking back into my corporate jabber network over the VPN...
With cross network clients like this readily available....moving their network is(was?) a completely unneeded IT expense.
STUPID AOL, STOP CLOGGING MY TUBES!
I used this setup for months at my apartment when Target wanted to charge me 30 dollars for an antenna (amazed my roomate too...."dude..there's no way thats gonna work.....holy shiat! is that anchorman in full HD!?"). The only reason i finally bought one (5 bucks at fry's) was my homemade one looked ghetto.
If you don't have any ethernet cable.....coax works too....its a lot harder to strip (unless you have the tools for it)...but I've done that before too.
Enjoy your free HD
Let me just say really quick that these machines don't connect back into some uber secret underground database or anything. The magnetic stripe on the back of your license contains your address, your DL number, and your date of birth all stored in PLAIN TEXT! The "machine" that they scan it through is usually just a credit card reader that has a program on it to read the date. There is really nothing that evil here at all.
Everybody calm down!
Just re-write the data on the card to say something more interesting. Everything is stored plaintext. Just leave the birthdate intact and you'll be good.
;-).
And when i say rewrite the date...of course I mean "create another novelty ID to be used for testing purposes only"
The device that you linked to is for finding cracks or "leaks" in a fiber cable, not for picking out a single one inside of a bundle.