Yeah, BANTA allegedly shows the "efficiency" of a set of potential deals/agreements. How he could possibly know what those private deals/agreements were is a good question one should ask before bothering to take the charts seriously.
Consumers expect software to have new versions. They don't expect iPod videos to have new versions. They certainly don't expect to have to buy the same video for the same price to get the new version.
All of this is pointless though, as GP's implication that "Apple's preferences are [NOT] aligned with consumers" is correct in this case.
You're talking about the addition of new media types. GP was talking about replacing existing poor quality files with existing better quality files. The old versions no longer exist in their catalog. The files play on the exact same player and are the exact same media type. They cost the exact same amount.
To help you understand the problem, Amazon lets you download the same file as many times as you want. If they upgraded (remove old file, replace with better file) their catalog with better versions of the files, you'd be able to just redownload it again.
This shares little similarity with the upgrades from 8-tracks through to CD.
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Replace all reference to 720p/720i with 480p/480i in my parent post, and it makes a lot more sense.;-)
Basically what I'm saying is SDTV/DVD (in the US) is either: 480p24 480p30 or 480i60
p24 and i60 (telecined) for DVD or p30 and i60 for SDTV end up being the same amount of data (pixels x frames / sec)
HDTV/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is the same: 720p24/1080p24 720p30/1080p30 or 720i60/1080i60
I just read the specs on Sony's Blu-Ray site, and Blu-Ray doesn't even support 1080p60. I'd be really surprised if games do.
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That doesn't even make sense to me. When you're talking movies, they are shot on film at 24fps progressive. So say 720p24 for film. Then on DVD it is encoded as either 720p24 or telecined to 720i60, where 60 refers to fields (1/2 frames). NTSC TV is usually recorded at 720i60, which displays as 60 fields per second, which equals 30 frames per second.
HD movies would be sourced to film still, at 1080p24, and there is no reason to encode or display them at any higher frame rate. The data is not there. Every HDTV broadcast I've seen has been 1080p30, which is equivalent to 1080i60. Same number of pixels once the 60 fields are deinterlaced to 30 frames.
Games could theoretically output 1080p60, which would be twice as many pixels as 1080i60, but from what I've read so far, you need the latest version of HDMI, 1.3, to even support that bandwidth. Does the PS3 use HDMI 1.3? I'm sure the Xbox didn't. The 360 probably doesn't.
If we're talking a full 60 frames of 1080p, it has more pixels. Still not for movies, which are still recorded at 24fps, but possibly for games. Short of that, this whole discussion about pixels is meaningless.
Yeah, he cosponsored some bills that "took the initiative to create the internet," to paraphrase it close enough for government work. Sounds like he did help in the creation of it to me. But we discussed that yesterday, somewhere around this place.
Well, if they only end up with 5 or 10 laptops delivered to each school in a country, that's still a lot better than no computers. Maybe they should have called it the Five Laptops Per School program.
I don't see why they didn't make it $200 instead of $300 to start. $200 is still cheaper than just about any PC available. Sure you only get 1 donated OLPC, but if you get over twice as many people to do it, you end up with more OLPCs donated overall. I could be wrong though. Maybe people wouldn't even do it in great numbers at that price.
I was thinking about that a bit, and you could even print something like:
o Al Gore
George Bush
and then after the voter has verified their ballot, have the printer change it to:
o Al Gore o George Bush
with the circle next to George Bush filled in.
There are probably countless other ways to change the ballots if you can't observe the whole process (including printing additional fake ballots or replacing all the ballots in the printer bin). It's unnecessarily complicated while the ballot box has worked for hundreds of years.
I'd prefer not to even complicate the system with that. While the printed ballots would be viewable, if they drop into a box in the booth, you don't have the chance to observe what happens to the ballots, due to the privacy concerns of its location. It is much easier to secure a ballot box that is right out in the open, and to secure the ballot's complete transit from booth to counting, first by the voter herself, then by election observers.
If the paper were inside, it would be just as useless. All you'd need to do is hack the system to display a different vote than it prints.
Any electronic voting machine should print a ballot that you stuff in a box. Electronic tabulation of votes could be used for preliminary results, but the printed ballot that the voter can read and verify should be the final word.
Yeah I remembered seeing gravy on fries at a Wendy's in Montreal. I couldn't remember the rest of it though. Cheese curds, eh? I took a pass then, and I don't think I could do it now. I'll just take your word for it that it is tasty.;-)
Well, it's been going on in this administration at least since 2002. The Office of Strategic Influence was its former name, which was officially shut down because of backlash from the press, but its activities continued. That office was intended to influence foreign media, but the question is, how much of the disinformation makes its way back into (or is spread directly into) our media in the form of blowback. Contracts for this type of work run into the hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq. You better believe they are using the same strategies at home (no reg.).
Objectively, ZoneAlarm has done very well in Gibson Research Corp's tests. The Shield's Up online test available from that page has come back with all "cloaked" responses on all ports, meaning your computer doesn't even identify that it is there, in contrast to other firewalls that return a "blocked" message. GRC's latest test appears to be LeakTest, and ZoneAlarm has passed that test since its creation. Others have caught up, but ZoneAlarm is definitely, objectively, among the best personal firewalls.
I assume you got Article 147 from this article, which was also repeated at several other sites around the web.
In the context of that article, and the documentary about Venezuela we have been discussing, it is much easier to understand the crack down on journalists, especially those financed by foreign parties. They provoked the coup that usurped his Presidency after all. Though it does seem rather broad. I'll have to look into whether there are any other rights that have been limited by Chavez. But I still think that most of what we hear about him is because of his intent to reclaim their oil from the private ruling class to help feed the poor in his country, and that ~15% of our oil comes from Venezuela. He is also hostile to NAFTA and similar trade agreements.
VideoRedo is a great little app. It repairs many MPEG-2 streams that other programs choke on as well.
Similar to VideoRedo, I also use Womble MPEG. It also can cut sections without reencoding, and can do transitions, fades, and text overlays. It doesn't do the automatic detection, but its very fast at seeking and stream copying, so it works well for manual removal of commercials.
I'd sometimes use all three methods if I had an extra MythTV box around.
Trolling as usual, eh Krell? With a cross-post to boot.
"Propaganda" being information you do not like?
No, "propaganda" meaning
propaganda n.
1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
This documentary had a very bad ending; as the Venezuelans lost their rights as the dictator prevailed in the end. The title is idiotic anyway: it was televised.
Obviously some of the revolution was televised. But you must have missed the part where the protesters getting sniped wasn't aired on the private TV stations.
If you're not even going to cite any sources to back up the rest of your opinions, it's not really worth discussing with you. For instance, how is Chavez, who was democratically elected, a dictator? What rights did Venezuelans lose?
You have an opportunity to inform me. So go ahead. If you're not just spouting off trivial opinions it should be easy.
If you don't like Fox News, why not just change the channel? It's not like it has any huge influence: only a minority pay attention to it. Thanks, also for the obligatory use of the term "propaganda" as a meaning-free pejorative to mean "information I happen to not like."
I get most of my news from the web now, as I'm not that impressed with any of the news networks. I don't watch Fox News at all anymore, though I used to watch it every day. I knew then that they were biased. It wasn't until later that I realized how misinformed their viewers are:
Additionally, an October 2003 study conducted by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy (PIPA) found Fox News viewers were "significantly more likely to have misperceptions" about the Iraq war than all other media consumers. [...] Fox News watchers were found not only to be the "most likely to hold misperceptions," but "were more than twice as likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions." The PIPA study found that 80 percent of Fox News viewers held at least one of the three misperceptions.
Some of the misperceptions Fox News viewers have are that they are statistically more likely to believe WMDs were found in Iraq, and to believe Saddam Hussein is tied to Bin Laden, than viewers of any other network or newspaper.
Fox News isn't just biased. They spread false information. And after hearing from media insiders (such as former FNC reporters) that some of the false information and bias is demanded in memos from corporate headquarters, it becomes obvious that the disinformation is intentional. But you'd know that if you had actually watched the documentary, rather than just discussing it as if you had.
Looks like you have been outfoxed by a movement that wants to censor Fox News for not sharing its political ideology. So much for tolerance, and "if you don't like what someone says, ignore it". The far-left's fictional case "against" Fox News reminds me so much of when the far-right makes a big case "against" CBS, also as part of building a case to have licenses pulled (or other forms of censorship).
Never once have I encouraged censorship of FNC. I think they're full of shit, and it's documentable that watching FNC regularly makes you less informed than pretty much any other English news source. I'm not even encouraging you not to like them. Do as you please. Meanwhile I'm going to enjoy sharing these films, articles, links, etc. with others whom are interested, as I have just done.
As a webmaster, I happen to agree with them. I don't want people downloading pages that they're not even going to look at, wasting my bandwidth. The pipelining and max connections I don't have a problem with. But they're in about:config and you don't need FasterFox for that.
Great recommendation. I have seen that. It's frightening some of the corporate/party lines the reporters are demanded to follow, passed down from headquarters.
Brave New Films actually released the interviews from that documentary as Creative Commons, so I posted it to Google Video a while back: Outfoxed Interviews. Looks like someone else posted the full documentary.
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Yeah, BANTA allegedly shows the "efficiency" of a set of potential deals/agreements. How he could possibly know what those private deals/agreements were is a good question one should ask before bothering to take the charts seriously.
Consumers expect software to have new versions. They don't expect iPod videos to have new versions. They certainly don't expect to have to buy the same video for the same price to get the new version.
All of this is pointless though, as GP's implication that "Apple's preferences are [NOT] aligned with consumers" is correct in this case.
You're talking about the addition of new media types. GP was talking about replacing existing poor quality files with existing better quality files. The old versions no longer exist in their catalog. The files play on the exact same player and are the exact same media type. They cost the exact same amount.
To help you understand the problem, Amazon lets you download the same file as many times as you want. If they upgraded (remove old file, replace with better file) their catalog with better versions of the files, you'd be able to just redownload it again.
This shares little similarity with the upgrades from 8-tracks through to CD.
Replace all reference to 720p/720i with 480p/480i in my parent post, and it makes a lot more sense. ;-)
Basically what I'm saying is SDTV/DVD (in the US) is either:
480p24
480p30 or
480i60
p24 and i60 (telecined) for DVD or
p30 and i60 for SDTV
end up being the same amount of data (pixels x frames / sec)
HDTV/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is the same:
720p24/1080p24
720p30/1080p30 or
720i60/1080i60
I just read the specs on Sony's Blu-Ray site, and Blu-Ray doesn't even support 1080p60. I'd be really surprised if games do.
That doesn't even make sense to me. When you're talking movies, they are shot on film at 24fps progressive. So say 720p24 for film. Then on DVD it is encoded as either 720p24 or telecined to 720i60, where 60 refers to fields (1/2 frames). NTSC TV is usually recorded at 720i60, which displays as 60 fields per second, which equals 30 frames per second.
HD movies would be sourced to film still, at 1080p24, and there is no reason to encode or display them at any higher frame rate. The data is not there. Every HDTV broadcast I've seen has been 1080p30, which is equivalent to 1080i60. Same number of pixels once the 60 fields are deinterlaced to 30 frames.
Games could theoretically output 1080p60, which would be twice as many pixels as 1080i60, but from what I've read so far, you need the latest version of HDMI, 1.3, to even support that bandwidth. Does the PS3 use HDMI 1.3? I'm sure the Xbox didn't. The 360 probably doesn't.
If we're talking a full 60 frames of 1080p, it has more pixels. Still not for movies, which are still recorded at 24fps, but possibly for games. Short of that, this whole discussion about pixels is meaningless.
Yeah, he cosponsored some bills that "took the initiative to create the internet," to paraphrase it close enough for government work. Sounds like he did help in the creation of it to me. But we discussed that yesterday, somewhere around this place.
;-P
I still thought it was funny.
Al Gore should sue them. We all know he invented the tubes.
Well, if they only end up with 5 or 10 laptops delivered to each school in a country, that's still a lot better than no computers. Maybe they should have called it the Five Laptops Per School program.
I don't see why they didn't make it $200 instead of $300 to start. $200 is still cheaper than just about any PC available. Sure you only get 1 donated OLPC, but if you get over twice as many people to do it, you end up with more OLPCs donated overall. I could be wrong though. Maybe people wouldn't even do it in great numbers at that price.
I was thinking about that a bit, and you could even print something like:
o Al Gore
George Bush
and then after the voter has verified their ballot, have the printer change it to:
o Al Gore
o George Bush
with the circle next to George Bush filled in.
There are probably countless other ways to change the ballots if you can't observe the whole process (including printing additional fake ballots or replacing all the ballots in the printer bin). It's unnecessarily complicated while the ballot box has worked for hundreds of years.
I'd prefer not to even complicate the system with that. While the printed ballots would be viewable, if they drop into a box in the booth, you don't have the chance to observe what happens to the ballots, due to the privacy concerns of its location. It is much easier to secure a ballot box that is right out in the open, and to secure the ballot's complete transit from booth to counting, first by the voter herself, then by election observers.
If the paper were inside, it would be just as useless. All you'd need to do is hack the system to display a different vote than it prints.
Any electronic voting machine should print a ballot that you stuff in a box. Electronic tabulation of votes could be used for preliminary results, but the printed ballot that the voter can read and verify should be the final word.
Yeah I remembered seeing gravy on fries at a Wendy's in Montreal. I couldn't remember the rest of it though. Cheese curds, eh? I took a pass then, and I don't think I could do it now. I'll just take your word for it that it is tasty. ;-)
Yeah that's those Canadian freaks that put mayonnaise on their fries. Eww.
Well, it's been going on in this administration at least since 2002. The Office of Strategic Influence was its former name, which was officially shut down because of backlash from the press, but its activities continued. That office was intended to influence foreign media, but the question is, how much of the disinformation makes its way back into (or is spread directly into) our media in the form of blowback. Contracts for this type of work run into the hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq. You better believe they are using the same strategies at home (no reg.).
Yeah because there are so many vulnerabilities in ZoneAlarm. </sarcasm>
Objectively, ZoneAlarm has done very well in Gibson Research Corp's tests. The Shield's Up online test available from that page has come back with all "cloaked" responses on all ports, meaning your computer doesn't even identify that it is there, in contrast to other firewalls that return a "blocked" message. GRC's latest test appears to be LeakTest, and ZoneAlarm has passed that test since its creation. Others have caught up, but ZoneAlarm is definitely, objectively, among the best personal firewalls.
I assume you got Article 147 from this article, which was also repeated at several other sites around the web.
In the context of that article, and the documentary about Venezuela we have been discussing, it is much easier to understand the crack down on journalists, especially those financed by foreign parties. They provoked the coup that usurped his Presidency after all. Though it does seem rather broad. I'll have to look into whether there are any other rights that have been limited by Chavez. But I still think that most of what we hear about him is because of his intent to reclaim their oil from the private ruling class to help feed the poor in his country, and that ~15% of our oil comes from Venezuela. He is also hostile to NAFTA and similar trade agreements.
VideoRedo is a great little app. It repairs many MPEG-2 streams that other programs choke on as well.
Similar to VideoRedo, I also use Womble MPEG. It also can cut sections without reencoding, and can do transitions, fades, and text overlays. It doesn't do the automatic detection, but its very fast at seeking and stream copying, so it works well for manual removal of commercials.
I'd sometimes use all three methods if I had an extra MythTV box around.
SageTV has 2 different plugins for commercial detection as well.
No, "propaganda" meaning
propaganda n.
1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.
Obviously some of the revolution was televised. But you must have missed the part where the protesters getting sniped wasn't aired on the private TV stations.
If you're not even going to cite any sources to back up the rest of your opinions, it's not really worth discussing with you. For instance, how is Chavez, who was democratically elected, a dictator? What rights did Venezuelans lose?
You have an opportunity to inform me. So go ahead. If you're not just spouting off trivial opinions it should be easy.
I get most of my news from the web now, as I'm not that impressed with any of the news networks. I don't watch Fox News at all anymore, though I used to watch it every day. I knew then that they were biased. It wasn't until later that I realized how misinformed their viewers are:
Some of the misperceptions Fox News viewers have are that they are statistically more likely to believe WMDs were found in Iraq, and to believe Saddam Hussein is tied to Bin Laden, than viewers of any other network or newspaper.
Fox News isn't just biased. They spread false information. And after hearing from media insiders (such as former FNC reporters) that some of the false information and bias is demanded in memos from corporate headquarters, it becomes obvious that the disinformation is intentional. But you'd know that if you had actually watched the documentary, rather than just discussing it as if you had.
Never once have I encouraged censorship of FNC. I think they're full of shit, and it's documentable that watching FNC regularly makes you less informed than pretty much any other English news source. I'm not even encouraging you not to like them. Do as you please. Meanwhile I'm going to enjoy sharing these films, articles, links, etc. with others whom are interested, as I have just done.
Perhaps I should have been more clear, but I was about to head to work.
The problem that webmasters have with FasterFox has nothing to do with HTTP/1.1 or any RFC. It has to do with that FasterFox prefetches all of the links on a page. That's why there are webmasters figuring out how to block FasterFox requests.
As a webmaster, I happen to agree with them. I don't want people downloading pages that they're not even going to look at, wasting my bandwidth. The pipelining and max connections I don't have a problem with. But they're in about:config and you don't need FasterFox for that.
Great recommendation. I have seen that. It's frightening some of the corporate/party lines the reporters are demanded to follow, passed down from headquarters.
Brave New Films actually released the interviews from that documentary as Creative Commons, so I posted it to Google Video a while back: Outfoxed Interviews. Looks like someone else posted the full documentary.
I've seen webmasters complain right on FasterFox's download page on Mozilla Update.