9 out of my 17 add-ons from Firefox 4 are not working in Firefox 5. So for me at least, that's the majority of them. (and 5 of the 8 that are working, are all different versions of the Java Console add-on).
You obviously don't know what you are talking about since both VB.NET and C# use the EXACT SAME libraries.
What makes Visual Basic an excellent place to start is the environment. Code completion, instant error/syntax checking, code reformatting, and a real debugger. All of which is integrated, easy to set up, and easy to pick up quickly. Although, C# is also a good choice, I'm not sure learning when and where to use curly braces and semi-colons is easier than putting each statement on it's own line.
Avatar - 28.82 Mbps Recently released (Past 2 years): Watchmen - 10.11. The Town - 13.97. The Final Destination - 15.70. Gamer - 15.83. Ninja - 16.04. The Box - 16.30. The Hangover - 16.50. Just released (Last 60 dyas): Green Hornet - 22Mbps. The roommate - 23.92. Vaninishing on 7th Street - 22.60. Blue Valentine - 22.15 Mbps. Drive Angry - 27.78 Mbps.
Facts: VC-1 will give about the same quality as MPEG-2 while using 35% of the same bitrate. Netflix "HD" is either 480p or 720p, never 1080i (1080i sucks for video btw, 720p is usually better) Blurays are typically encoded at 15-25Mbps, with a rare occasion of one hitting 30-33. Every video encoding of 40Mbps I've seen has always been an MPEG-2 encoding (YUCK!). Bluray is limited to a peak video bitrate of 40Mbps, and a combined audio and video of 48Mbps. High bitrates blurays are often dedicating a large amount of that to audio data. Netflix currently only supports surround sound, no Dolby Digital TrueHD or the like.
Example blue rays: 2001 is encoded at 13.39Mbps. 300 - 16.80Mbps. Batman Begins - 13.70. Blade Runner - 16.87. Blood Diamond - 12.71. The Chronicles of Riddick - 14.01. Constantine - 11.88. Superman Returns - 14.82.
So taking 300 @ 16.80 and reducing it to 720p@7466Kbps or 480p@2488Kbps, with 3800Kbps sitting between. Reducing that 720p stream down to 3800Kbps would result in minimal quality loss in most cases, and still be significantly better than "DVD quality". In fact, a 5Kbps MPEG-2 stream would be the equivalent of a 1.75Mbps VC-1 stream.
I could go on, but in short, you've overestimated how much data goes on the typical bluray, and the encode rates used, and you've underestimated the difference between MPEG-2 and VC-1.
It's not hard to get service >30Mbps, and at least my provider (comcast) can and does actually deliver the speeds they advertise. I did have their 50Mb/s speed tier for a while, and I could max out my connection at that speed at any time of the day that I wanted to. As for netflix "HD", it's good enough for my (and most others) use, and yes, blurays are better, but not so much more that I really care the vast majority of the time. For those I did care, I bought the bluray (Avatar, etc).
Well except they were "rip-offs" of commercial ideas.
Firefox started from the commercial netscape browser. Linux started as a free alternative to commercial UNIX's (AT&T/SCO). MySQL/PostgreSQL were free alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and SyBase.
I'd have to agree that Ruby, Rails, and perhaps Apache might be considered original, although heavily borrowing from other projects both FOSS and commerical.
Extradition in civilized countries is for already known criminals... and it means loss of freedom, so fuck the innocent until proven guilty principle.
First, dictionary definition of "Extradition": The official process whereby one nation or state surrenders a suspected or convicted criminal to another nation or state. So you are wrong on that. It's the normal process when one person is being charged in a crime, is summoned to court to appear, and then refuses to show, trying to hide in another country.
I hope people with a limited grasp of basic human rights like you get extradited to China or Iran.
You would be better off if you spent your time learning about topics rather than trying to insult others just because they understand things better than you. It must suck to run around your whole life so bitter at every one else.
Those are the places that generally apply as much human rights to their people as the USA reserve for those infringing copyrights.
Human rights for infringing copyrights? Your perception of reality is pretty skewed. The vast vast majority (99.99%+) of all copyright claims result in a fine. Most people don't consider a fine to fall under the category of "human rights" abuse.
Fortunately there you won't even have to pay a arm and leg for the lawyers!
Defense lawyers are free in the United States if you can not afford (or want one) of your own choosing. In many cases, you can also get a lawyer of your own choosing as well (even as a plaintiff) and they will get their fees from the court in a counter suit.
Yes, finding work in IT is easy, if you aren't lazy. As a consultant over the past 7 years, there has only been once instance where after I left a contract it took more than 72 hours to be working at another. Quite often it was less than 24, and usually with multiple offers sitting on the table.
Besides, "the cloud" companies need IT too you know.
I guess that depends on what country you are in, and what country you are being charged in. I doubt there is enough cases that get extradition to make that kind of judgement.
They are the chips that are responsible for converting data to and drop the HDMI signals most likely. They aren't free, but they wouldn't be free if they didn't need to do the decryption either. Are they more complex? Sure. But if they didn't need to do the encryption/decryption it wouldn't make your other stuff run any faster/lag any less either. Or are you upset about the $.0001 extra that the chip costs to manufacture?
Extradition doesn't mean jail. It means you are brought in front of a court to hear the case against you. He could be found innocent, or found the law doesn't apply to him, or if found guilty, could be a fine, probation, restricted from hosting a webserver for a period of time, having to write I'm sorry 100 times, instant time served, OR jail time (or a combination I guess).
Won't know until the case has been tried. Nice jumping to conclusions.
NCSA Mosiac, and CERN httpd were not in the list of projects Jane Q. Public mentioned.
Although, I do believe that CERN httpd started as a commercial project that was later made public domain rather than starting as an open source project, but I could be mistaken.
Well except none of those were new ideas, just commercial ideas that someone created an open source alternative, or the rare case, like firefox, that was a commercial product that went belly up and released the source over to an open source project.
Perhaps there are some out there, but none of those are examples.
Isn't it also the fact that BluRay players need extra CPU power just because it has to decrypt the disc content, and probably re-encrypt it for the HDMI stream
No, this is not a fact. That is handled by ancillary chips, not the CPU.
You are naive AND you want what is best for the consumer (actually, usually this means what is best for you, but I'll let that point be). The two aren't mutually exclusive, but if you can come up with a plan that allows ATI to be better for the consumer (both short and long term) I'm sure they'd be happy to do it.
Unfortunately, your armchair naivety doesn't work in the real world. When you finish growing up and you realize the world isn't black and white, and the easy thing isn't often the best thing, perhaps you'll understand things better.
No I was not there, however, I HAVE been on both sides of similar contracts, so I am quite aware of the discussions that a normal, rational person would have. This is running a business 101, and unless you think that everyone at Nvidia including their board of directors, CEO, everyone at the executive level AND their legal team are completely stupid and blind, they had these exact same discussions too.
Just because you are blinded by your own religious dogma, doesn't mean that most normal people are.
They didn't forget. It's business. It was more profitable for NVidia to secure the contract to make all these chips for Microsoft, and fund their R&D efforts to help put them ahead of the competition. They likely would not be as big of a player now if they didn't do that then.
Go back to your conspiracy theories and anti-Microsoft bullshit. Go push your pro-Linux propaganda on some other sucker. Not everything revolves around your religion.
Full Disclosure: I own shares of Nvidia stock, and reserve the right to buy more or sell any/all at anytime.
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9 out of my 17 add-ons from Firefox 4 are not working in Firefox 5. So for me at least, that's the majority of them. (and 5 of the 8 that are working, are all different versions of the Java Console add-on).
You obviously don't know what you are talking about since both VB.NET and C# use the EXACT SAME libraries.
What makes Visual Basic an excellent place to start is the environment. Code completion, instant error/syntax checking, code reformatting, and a real debugger. All of which is integrated, easy to set up, and easy to pick up quickly. Although, C# is also a good choice, I'm not sure learning when and where to use curly braces and semi-colons is easier than putting each statement on it's own line.
Yes.
As a side note, about 37% of all Blurays are single sided.
Avatar - 28.82 Mbps
Recently released (Past 2 years): Watchmen - 10.11. The Town - 13.97. The Final Destination - 15.70. Gamer - 15.83. Ninja - 16.04. The Box - 16.30. The Hangover - 16.50.
Just released (Last 60 dyas): Green Hornet - 22Mbps. The roommate - 23.92. Vaninishing on 7th Street - 22.60. Blue Valentine - 22.15 Mbps. Drive Angry - 27.78 Mbps.
Facts:
VC-1 will give about the same quality as MPEG-2 while using 35% of the same bitrate.
Netflix "HD" is either 480p or 720p, never 1080i (1080i sucks for video btw, 720p is usually better)
Blurays are typically encoded at 15-25Mbps, with a rare occasion of one hitting 30-33.
Every video encoding of 40Mbps I've seen has always been an MPEG-2 encoding (YUCK!).
Bluray is limited to a peak video bitrate of 40Mbps, and a combined audio and video of 48Mbps.
High bitrates blurays are often dedicating a large amount of that to audio data.
Netflix currently only supports surround sound, no Dolby Digital TrueHD or the like.
Example blue rays: 2001 is encoded at 13.39Mbps. 300 - 16.80Mbps. Batman Begins - 13.70. Blade Runner - 16.87. Blood Diamond - 12.71. The Chronicles of Riddick - 14.01. Constantine - 11.88. Superman Returns - 14.82.
So taking 300 @ 16.80 and reducing it to 720p@7466Kbps or 480p@2488Kbps, with 3800Kbps sitting between. Reducing that 720p stream down to 3800Kbps would result in minimal quality loss in most cases, and still be significantly better than "DVD quality". In fact, a 5Kbps MPEG-2 stream would be the equivalent of a 1.75Mbps VC-1 stream.
I could go on, but in short, you've overestimated how much data goes on the typical bluray, and the encode rates used, and you've underestimated the difference between MPEG-2 and VC-1.
It's not hard to get service >30Mbps, and at least my provider (comcast) can and does actually deliver the speeds they advertise. I did have their 50Mb/s speed tier for a while, and I could max out my connection at that speed at any time of the day that I wanted to. As for netflix "HD", it's good enough for my (and most others) use, and yes, blurays are better, but not so much more that I really care the vast majority of the time. For those I did care, I bought the bluray (Avatar, etc).
That does make things more difficult. I know you can do it on recent HP/UX machines, but I'm not familiar enough with 2001 hardware.
A HD movie from netflix is on average 1.7GB/hour (3800kbps). At 5 hours a night, that would be 8.5GB/night, and a 250GB cap would last you 29.4 days.
Reference here: http://www.dslreports.com/speak/slideshow/22179750?c=1415814&ret=L2ZvcnVtL3IyMjE2NDQ4MS1OZXRmbGl4LWJhbmR3aWR0aC1Jcy0xR0Joci1hdC1IRC1hY2N1cmF0ZQ%3D%3D
Netflix on the other hand currently says that they are averaging about 2200kbps for HD movies. Reference here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gC6nMAI6mu8/TUHG6jsQq-I/AAAAAAAAADE/Bwe1fkAUxzA/s1600/isp_usa.png
Well except they were "rip-offs" of commercial ideas.
Firefox started from the commercial netscape browser.
Linux started as a free alternative to commercial UNIX's (AT&T/SCO).
MySQL/PostgreSQL were free alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and SyBase.
I'd have to agree that Ruby, Rails, and perhaps Apache might be considered original, although heavily borrowing from other projects both FOSS and commerical.
Extradition in civilized countries is for already known criminals... and it means loss of freedom, so fuck the innocent until proven guilty principle.
First, dictionary definition of "Extradition": The official process whereby one nation or state surrenders a suspected or convicted criminal to another nation or state. So you are wrong on that. It's the normal process when one person is being charged in a crime, is summoned to court to appear, and then refuses to show, trying to hide in another country.
I hope people with a limited grasp of basic human rights like you get extradited to China or Iran.
You would be better off if you spent your time learning about topics rather than trying to insult others just because they understand things better than you. It must suck to run around your whole life so bitter at every one else.
Those are the places that generally apply as much human rights to their people as the USA reserve for those infringing copyrights.
Human rights for infringing copyrights? Your perception of reality is pretty skewed. The vast vast majority (99.99%+) of all copyright claims result in a fine. Most people don't consider a fine to fall under the category of "human rights" abuse.
Fortunately there you won't even have to pay a arm and leg for the lawyers!
Defense lawyers are free in the United States if you can not afford (or want one) of your own choosing. In many cases, you can also get a lawyer of your own choosing as well (even as a plaintiff) and they will get their fees from the court in a counter suit.
And why couldn't you install IIS on a HP/UX server? Spin up a windows server in a VM, and be done with it. Not that hard.
Yes, finding work in IT is easy, if you aren't lazy. As a consultant over the past 7 years, there has only been once instance where after I left a contract it took more than 72 hours to be working at another. Quite often it was less than 24, and usually with multiple offers sitting on the table.
Besides, "the cloud" companies need IT too you know.
I guess that depends on what country you are in, and what country you are being charged in. I doubt there is enough cases that get extradition to make that kind of judgement.
They are the chips that are responsible for converting data to and drop the HDMI signals most likely. They aren't free, but they wouldn't be free if they didn't need to do the decryption either. Are they more complex? Sure. But if they didn't need to do the encryption/decryption it wouldn't make your other stuff run any faster/lag any less either. Or are you upset about the $.0001 extra that the chip costs to manufacture?
lol. Have a link to pudding story somewhere, I'd love to read it.
Extradition doesn't mean jail. It means you are brought in front of a court to hear the case against you. He could be found innocent, or found the law doesn't apply to him, or if found guilty, could be a fine, probation, restricted from hosting a webserver for a period of time, having to write I'm sorry 100 times, instant time served, OR jail time (or a combination I guess).
Won't know until the case has been tried. Nice jumping to conclusions.
NCSA Mosiac, and CERN httpd were not in the list of projects Jane Q. Public mentioned.
Although, I do believe that CERN httpd started as a commercial project that was later made public domain rather than starting as an open source project, but I could be mistaken.
Well except none of those were new ideas, just commercial ideas that someone created an open source alternative, or the rare case, like firefox, that was a commercial product that went belly up and released the source over to an open source project.
Perhaps there are some out there, but none of those are examples.
Isn't it also the fact that BluRay players need extra CPU power just because it has to decrypt the disc content, and probably re-encrypt it for the HDMI stream
No, this is not a fact. That is handled by ancillary chips, not the CPU.
You are naive AND you want what is best for the consumer (actually, usually this means what is best for you, but I'll let that point be). The two aren't mutually exclusive, but if you can come up with a plan that allows ATI to be better for the consumer (both short and long term) I'm sure they'd be happy to do it.
Unfortunately, your armchair naivety doesn't work in the real world. When you finish growing up and you realize the world isn't black and white, and the easy thing isn't often the best thing, perhaps you'll understand things better.
So, you are just being naive.
Came with an OEM XP license most likely, which can't be transferred to another computer legally.
I don't see where you've contradicted the parent.
No I was not there, however, I HAVE been on both sides of similar contracts, so I am quite aware of the discussions that a normal, rational person would have. This is running a business 101, and unless you think that everyone at Nvidia including their board of directors, CEO, everyone at the executive level AND their legal team are completely stupid and blind, they had these exact same discussions too.
Just because you are blinded by your own religious dogma, doesn't mean that most normal people are.
They didn't forget. It's business. It was more profitable for NVidia to secure the contract to make all these chips for Microsoft, and fund their R&D efforts to help put them ahead of the competition. They likely would not be as big of a player now if they didn't do that then.
Go back to your conspiracy theories and anti-Microsoft bullshit. Go push your pro-Linux propaganda on some other sucker. Not everything revolves around your religion.
Full Disclosure: I own shares of Nvidia stock, and reserve the right to buy more or sell any/all at anytime.