You clearly didn't read (or didn't comprehend) my original point.
HD-DVD needs to make hybrid disks inexpensive so that there is no reason to not use them in place of DVDs. If every DVD sold was an HD hybrid with the HD-DVD logo on it, you can bet player sales will skyrocket once their
I'm a supporter of HD-DVD, and I also expect it to fail. Here's why:
1) They aren't advertising, or making its existence known at all to the general public 2) They aren't attracting studios 3) They are overcharging on the disks, just like Bluray.
If I had the capital to do it and were in their position, I'd have taken the loss on HD-DVD and approached Nintendo and Microsoft about putting it in the Wii and 360 at no greater cost than the DVD drives they used. Then you guarantee some market share in high-capacity game disks if nothing else. Plus it would have been a huge leap in player distribution numbers.
Bluray is winning now because studios saw the PS3 as a sure thing. It was a given that they'd put millions of BR players in homes. HD can't boast anything like that. They seriously dropped the ball, multiple times.
Nobody with an HD-DVD player gives a rat's ass about the DVD release being on the disc as well...it's only a CYA policy for the disc pressers and retail outlets.
No, but those of us with no HD player today like the idea of buying a disk that works today without being obsolete tomorrow. THAT is the benefit of hybrid, not covering for the "oh no I bought HD-DVD and can't play it" crowd.
I guess then it should be pointed out that you left the part out about the fact that there wasn't a major HD-DVD release in the same time frame.
This format war may well be decided by titles rather than player sales.
I still think HD-DVD has the best chance if they can make the hybrid disks (HD-DVD that will play in DVD players) a big enough deal to get the major publishers to completely switch to them on new releases.
But you're going to miss out on Command & Conquer 3 on console!/sarcasm
This generation just gets more underwhelming by the minute.
I have a whole great big rant about how the upcoming generation sucks far more than most, but it just makes me sound like an old man griping about these darned kids who won't stay off my lawn.
Microcenter has (or once had) one that says you can't work for any competing company in the county you were employed or any surround counties for eighteen months. Where I was applying, that meant I'd have had to move 100 miles to find work.
AMD bought ATI. This new chip is almost entirely the work of ATI engineers prior to purchase (there hasn't been enough time for AMD to get credit for it). Intel could fairly easily take on nvidia if they wanted to; they've never expressed interest.
Intel is likely only in the graphics business so they can offer OEMs a complete package: motherboard with integrated everything, all made by Intel.
When you buy a car battery, you pay a core fee. You get that fee back by returning your old battery (or avoid it by bringing it in) for recycling or proper disposal.
Why not do the same with electronics? Whenever you buy new electronics, if you bring in old ones for recycling you don't have to pay the fee.
Sure, but the power drain would be tremendous and it would cost you more than the gross domestic product of South Africa to replace them if they failed to perform up to your standards.
...and ends quickly if they stick with $15 a month for Office.
I can walk into Wal-Mart and buy the student/teacher edition for $150, and that includes the msot commonly-used Office components. Regardless of the edition, they could "rent" for two years and spend the retail cost of the product. I'd rather spend the money up front and consider it a money-saving investment.
I've been a Cingular user for years, and am quite happy with them. In fact, my only complaint is that they apparently are going to become AT&T Wireless. I have a bad history with AT&T Wireless and laughed when they were absorbed by Cingular. What really chafes me is that SBC bought AT&T, yet they're the ones who gave up the name.
It can be considered stalking, harassment, terroristic threat, and (if other people read what is written) libel. The problem is that the authorities don't take it seriously until a kid gets his hands on a gun and someone gets hurt.
Let's just apply the law as it exists and slap the bullies around when they break the law. If they're posting lies about someone they don't like, charge them with libel. If they're making threats, put them in jail and explain you don't get to do that. We don't need more laws to make this work.
Oh yeah, and also teach the "victim" how to use the ignore button. More often than not bullies get their fun because their target talks back.
I was just about to make this exact post. Well, not "exact" but pretty darn close. Kind of like it, anyway. Similar, but different. Very different. Completely something else, in fact. Not that post at all.
I was thinking "Squid from space? HOLY CRAP THAT'S COOL!!!"
Do you think HPs could be bought for current prices if there weren't bargain products like eMachines?
The budget PC market has helped lower prices across the board. It drives the "sweet spot" between price and performance down and funds the increased output of manufacturing, making components cheaper across the board.
If every car were priced like a Mercedes, how many cars would be on the roads today? How much would they cost without the economy of scale that keep driving auto prices lower?
Can you tell the difference between a violent person and a nonviolent person? I can't. Cops are using the threat of taser as a means of getting people to cooperate WITHOUT resorting to physical force that could harm both the officer and the individual.
I have watched the video on YouTube, read many conflicting reports about the incident, and even spoke with a student who witnessed part of the incident at the library and I really don't see a problem with what happened.
From what I can put together the student was in the library after hours without ID. In order to be lawfully in the library after a certain time a student must be able to produce ID. A University library is allowed to lawfully restrict access by employing reasonable rules and regulations. I think it is pretty reasonable to limit library access to students with ID after 11pm.
The student apparently wanted to protest this policy and chose to do so by violating it. When asked for ID he refused to produced it and refused to leave the library. At that time he probably was considered to be tresspassing under applicable state law. The student cop called the real cops who showed up to arrest him for violating that law. But, when the real cops showed up he then decided he should leave because he didn't want to be arrested. He got up from his seat, ignored the officer's orders to stop, and attempted to leave the library. Because he had already committed a crime (and their was probable cause he did), the police had every right to arrest and detain him. I guess your average UCLA student isn't educated enough to know that you can't break the law and then make everything OK by simply leaving (it's as silly as saying "sorry for robbing your bank - her is the cash back and we will call it even.")
It appears that the police tasered him multiple times because he was being insubordinate while actively and passively resisting arrest. He refused to stand and walk while in custody (I have been told by my criminal defense attorney friends in CA that the courts have found it lawful to use pain compliance techniques to force a detainee to walk while in custody and that officers, under normal circumstances, are under no obligation to carry them around like other jurisdiction do.)
Also, it appeared on the video, that the student called for the crowd of students to assist him resist arrest. Now I've got no problem with saying a person has a 1st amendment right to verbally protest an arrest and tell a cop to fuck off. But, when you call for immenent lawless action that is quite a different story. The growing crowd appeeared restless and students began aggressively protesting their fellow student's arrest. The possibility that the situation could have escalated had the arrested student continued his calls was pretty high. I think under the circumstances the officers were quite justified.
With all that said, I don't know why they simply didn't hog tie him and carry him out to the paddy wagon while letting him yell and scream. That's what the cops do around here and it works pretty well.
Suppose you try to enter a public library when it's closed to the public, and you refuse to leave when ordered to do so by the police who were called by library staff.
1) He didn't didn't "have every right to be" there.
2) You and I aren't the police. Like it or not, these are the guys entrusted by our municipal governments to enforce the law and keep the peace. In matters like trespassing, they have the authority to use force to remove a person.
3) Beating someone and tasing them are two very different things.
Cops have learned that they have two options with people like that: carry them out kicking and screaming, or carry them out limp and whimpering. The former can pose a serious threat to the officers, the "suspect" (for lack of a better word), and bystanders. The best approach is to stand up and allow the cops to escort you out.
I've seen a person hit by a taser stand up and walk within ten seconds. This guy acted like he was in pain long after the shock was over, which just doesn't happen. The kid was spouting off about the Patriot Act like the cops had anything to do with it, and was clearly looking for a fight. He got what he wanted, and suddenly he's the victim.
I saw that video. That kid earned the taser hit. All he had to do was get up and leave.
Around here every cop who carries a taser has been shocked by one at least a few times. They know exactly what they are doing to you when they use the taser, and 99% of them wish they never had to.
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You clearly didn't read (or didn't comprehend) my original point.
HD-DVD needs to make hybrid disks inexpensive so that there is no reason to not use them in place of DVDs. If every DVD sold was an HD hybrid with the HD-DVD logo on it, you can bet player sales will skyrocket once their
I'm a supporter of HD-DVD, and I also expect it to fail. Here's why:
1) They aren't advertising, or making its existence known at all to the general public
2) They aren't attracting studios
3) They are overcharging on the disks, just like Bluray.
If I had the capital to do it and were in their position, I'd have taken the loss on HD-DVD and approached Nintendo and Microsoft about putting it in the Wii and 360 at no greater cost than the DVD drives they used. Then you guarantee some market share in high-capacity game disks if nothing else. Plus it would have been a huge leap in player distribution numbers.
Bluray is winning now because studios saw the PS3 as a sure thing. It was a given that they'd put millions of BR players in homes. HD can't boast anything like that. They seriously dropped the ball, multiple times.
No, but those of us with no HD player today like the idea of buying a disk that works today without being obsolete tomorrow. THAT is the benefit of hybrid, not covering for the "oh no I bought HD-DVD and can't play it" crowd.
I guess then it should be pointed out that you left the part out about the fact that there wasn't a major HD-DVD release in the same time frame.
This format war may well be decided by titles rather than player sales.
I still think HD-DVD has the best chance if they can make the hybrid disks (HD-DVD that will play in DVD players) a big enough deal to get the major publishers to completely switch to them on new releases.
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer the cops do something when the gun is pointed at my head rather than wait until the trigger is pulled.
I have a whole great big rant about how the upcoming generation sucks far more than most, but it just makes me sound like an old man griping about these darned kids who won't stay off my lawn.
Microcenter has (or once had) one that says you can't work for any competing company in the county you were employed or any surround counties for eighteen months. Where I was applying, that meant I'd have had to move 100 miles to find work.
Err...they're counting console users, not console sales. So they should be counting Atari 2600s right along with PS3s.
This is a survey about how many people are *playing* games, not buying them.
AMD bought ATI. This new chip is almost entirely the work of ATI engineers prior to purchase (there hasn't been enough time for AMD to get credit for it). Intel could fairly easily take on nvidia if they wanted to; they've never expressed interest.
Intel is likely only in the graphics business so they can offer OEMs a complete package: motherboard with integrated everything, all made by Intel.
When you buy a car battery, you pay a core fee. You get that fee back by returning your old battery (or avoid it by bringing it in) for recycling or proper disposal.
Why not do the same with electronics? Whenever you buy new electronics, if you bring in old ones for recycling you don't have to pay the fee.
Can I buy two Intel GPU-based cards and team them in an attempt to match AMD's (really, ATI's) performance?
Can I buy a motherboard with this Tflop technology integrated?
Apples and oranges. I suspect fanboyism.
Shouldn't we be talking about nVidia, since this is a GPU?
Yeah, looks like about half of us are going to get modded redundant. That's what we get for all typing "search newegg you noob" at the same time.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Rangesearch.asp? SubCategory=48&CNP_DisplayType=2&GASearch=3
Just check what bus and the number of DVI ports you need, and sort it by ascending price.
Sure, but the power drain would be tremendous and it would cost you more than the gross domestic product of South Africa to replace them if they failed to perform up to your standards.
...and ends quickly if they stick with $15 a month for Office.
I can walk into Wal-Mart and buy the student/teacher edition for $150, and that includes the msot commonly-used Office components. Regardless of the edition, they could "rent" for two years and spend the retail cost of the product. I'd rather spend the money up front and consider it a money-saving investment.
I've been a Cingular user for years, and am quite happy with them. In fact, my only complaint is that they apparently are going to become AT&T Wireless. I have a bad history with AT&T Wireless and laughed when they were absorbed by Cingular. What really chafes me is that SBC bought AT&T, yet they're the ones who gave up the name.
It can be considered stalking, harassment, terroristic threat, and (if other people read what is written) libel. The problem is that the authorities don't take it seriously until a kid gets his hands on a gun and someone gets hurt.
Let's just apply the law as it exists and slap the bullies around when they break the law. If they're posting lies about someone they don't like, charge them with libel. If they're making threats, put them in jail and explain you don't get to do that. We don't need more laws to make this work.
Oh yeah, and also teach the "victim" how to use the ignore button. More often than not bullies get their fun because their target talks back.
I was just about to make this exact post. Well, not "exact" but pretty darn close. Kind of like it, anyway. Similar, but different. Very different. Completely something else, in fact. Not that post at all.
I was thinking "Squid from space? HOLY CRAP THAT'S COOL!!!"
Do you think HPs could be bought for current prices if there weren't bargain products like eMachines?
The budget PC market has helped lower prices across the board. It drives the "sweet spot" between price and performance down and funds the increased output of manufacturing, making components cheaper across the board.
If every car were priced like a Mercedes, how many cars would be on the roads today? How much would they cost without the economy of scale that keep driving auto prices lower?
The least expensive console sold the most units? WOW!!!
Good news for the rest of us: those expensive consoles are going drop prices quick or be forgotten. Consumers win when things like this get reported.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engamr511392
This guys puts it all together better than I can:
Suppose you try to enter a public library when it's closed to the public, and you refuse to leave when ordered to do so by the police who were called by library staff.
1) He didn't didn't "have every right to be" there.
2) You and I aren't the police. Like it or not, these are the guys entrusted by our municipal governments to enforce the law and keep the peace. In matters like trespassing, they have the authority to use force to remove a person.
3) Beating someone and tasing them are two very different things.
Cops have learned that they have two options with people like that: carry them out kicking and screaming, or carry them out limp and whimpering. The former can pose a serious threat to the officers, the "suspect" (for lack of a better word), and bystanders. The best approach is to stand up and allow the cops to escort you out.
I've seen a person hit by a taser stand up and walk within ten seconds. This guy acted like he was in pain long after the shock was over, which just doesn't happen. The kid was spouting off about the Patriot Act like the cops had anything to do with it, and was clearly looking for a fight. He got what he wanted, and suddenly he's the victim.
Not that I'm aware of.
Hey, if you had a boss who knew what he was doing you'd brag about it, too.
Anyone hit by a taser shrieks in pain.
I saw that video. That kid earned the taser hit. All he had to do was get up and leave.
Around here every cop who carries a taser has been shocked by one at least a few times. They know exactly what they are doing to you when they use the taser, and 99% of them wish they never had to.