Both BR and HDDVD support TrueHD audio, so I'm not sure where your misinformation on audio comes from. You should also note that almost all movies are in 5.1 audio, not the 7.1 that's supported.
Dolby Digital, DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD MA all are higher bit rates. Wikipedia contains the same "misinformation" - optical disc comparison
Now as to capacity, most BR disks use the less than optimal MPEG2 encoding which is a space hog
I scanned about 30 recent titles here and couldn't find one that was MPEG2. They were all equally split between MPEG4 and VC-1. The only MPEG2 titles I did find was stuff released in 2006, so it's pretty clear they're not using it any more for new releases.
I'm sorry, but Blu-Ray was technically the better solution. It had higher storage density per disk, higher transfer rates, stored audio at higher bit rates and required hard coating of the disks. That and HD-DVD was supported by Microsoft for no other reason than their hatred of Java. Screw them.
He never said "billions and billions", but there was a particular way that he said words with "illions" on the end (billions, trillions, etc). See this video as an example.
You already have JungleDisk. JungleDisk 3.0 just came out in the last couple of days and has the capability of synchronizing arbitrary folders between computers. Upgrade is free if you already have JD. (FYI - not a JungleDisk or Amazon employee, just a happy JungleDisk user of close to 2 years).
Wonderful network operating system with an networked/integrated security model and full ACL implementation and a network file system implementation that I have yet to see the equal of. In some aspects, it sounds like some modern operating systems today, but this was the mid to late eighties when Windows was a glorified file manager.
Oh, he's probably right. They probably do make 30 to 50 dollars per hour, but they don't work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, either. So while they may get paid 30 dollars for an hour of work, the average hourly wage for the entire year is considerably lower than that.
Maybe it isn't. Maybe two thirds of the people on this page are ranting about something that a reporter left out of the article by omission and are too lazy to verify themselves. Maybe Verizon left it out of their press release (they are prepared by PR people, after all, not techies). Stranger things have happened. This is/. after all and we are talking about humans here.
Something that says "if you like something, pay for it - it's only fair".
Honestly, I like that a lot more than "if you don't pay for something, you'll go to jail". I think you're missing the point of the Pirate Party, though. Its a push back against draconian DRM that says if I download a song on my computer, I can't move it to my media box, or burn a CD to use in my car. This, folks, is where the RIAA and the big media companies jumped the shark. I can't even been to tell you how much stuff like that makes me seethe with anger.
Granted, personal use doesn't cover buying Peace Sells, but Who's Buying and putting it up on the web for everybody and their brother to download. The line is somewhere between there and where the RIAA wants it, though.
Consider this: you go to the store and buy a CD, listen to it on the way home and decide it's pretty good. You tell your {brother|sister|friend} about it and they ask to borrow the CD. Should you be able to loan them the CD? Most sane people say yes (not sure where the RIAA is on this question, but when sanity is involved, I can probably guess which side of sanity they choose), but if you take the same equivalent actions in the iTunes world and burn a CD for somebody to borrow, suddenly you're a pirate.
Don't get me started on DRM for books either. I, to this day, refuse to buy a book reader no matter how cool, convenient and connected to the internet they are if they restrict me to reading downloaded content ONLY on the device they were downloaded on. I have no less than 6 devices in my house and several more at work capable of reading books on - why would I focus all my reading on one deivce? That's insanity.
Considering that they just licensed the technology from Sybase, isn't that "We couldn't write it ourselves (look how Access turned out) so we bought it"SQL?
Except Office 2007 has been a huge success due to the (badly needed, IMO) overhauling of the UI.
I think it's funny that one of the primary arguments to not going to OpenOffice is the old "OMG! The expense at re-training people will be horrendous!", yet nobody batted an eye when Microsoft decided to redesign Office and give it those stupid ribbons.
There is more information and meaning in a 15 second voice mail than in any text. Is the caller angry? Sad? Frustrated? What did the environment he was calling from sound like?
Does it matter? If they left a voice mail and you get it a day or two later, obviously the conditions that person are in have changed drastically since then. Plus, who would actually leave a voice mail from an overturned car in the median of a highway? "!beep! Hey, this is Bill. My car is upside down in the woods on I-65. When you get this, come find me past mile marker 182. I'll wait till you get here. Thanks. !beep!"
Literature and history students have it the worst. Most of their classes at the upper levels require multiple books per class. My wife, working on her masters degree, had a single class that required six or seven books - total bill was over 200 dollars.
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Both BR and HDDVD support TrueHD audio, so I'm not sure where your misinformation on audio comes from. You should also note that almost all movies are in 5.1 audio, not the 7.1 that's supported.
Dolby Digital, DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD MA all are higher bit rates. Wikipedia contains the same "misinformation" - optical disc comparison
Now as to capacity, most BR disks use the less than optimal MPEG2 encoding which is a space hog
I scanned about 30 recent titles here and couldn't find one that was MPEG2. They were all equally split between MPEG4 and VC-1. The only MPEG2 titles I did find was stuff released in 2006, so it's pretty clear they're not using it any more for new releases.
I'm sorry, but Blu-Ray was technically the better solution. It had higher storage density per disk, higher transfer rates, stored audio at higher bit rates and required hard coating of the disks. That and HD-DVD was supported by Microsoft for no other reason than their hatred of Java. Screw them.
Because Wine would only be a PART of ReactOS. Wine doesn't have a windows-like operating system under it.
He never said "billions and billions", but there was a particular way that he said words with "illions" on the end (billions, trillions, etc). See this video as an example.
And I would expect the oldest galaxies to have the least amount of hydrogen left, having had stars burning it the longest.
True, but you're seeing the galaxy as it was 13 billion (emphasis homage to Carl Sagan) years ago when it was relatively new, yes?
Good post. Minor correction, though. One isn't a prime number.
They gave themselves that power.
Isn't that the definition of any religion?
Maybe you should have went to college and got a degree in physics then?
You already have JungleDisk. JungleDisk 3.0 just came out in the last couple of days and has the capability of synchronizing arbitrary folders between computers. Upgrade is free if you already have JD. (FYI - not a JungleDisk or Amazon employee, just a happy JungleDisk user of close to 2 years).
I have some 20-ish year old CD's that work great.
Wonderful network operating system with an networked/integrated security model and full ACL implementation and a network file system implementation that I have yet to see the equal of. In some aspects, it sounds like some modern operating systems today, but this was the mid to late eighties when Windows was a glorified file manager.
No kidding. The correct spelling would be y'all'll, since y'all is a contraction for you all.
There's a possible lawsuit from Pringles, also. I wonder if they wiped all the oil out of the tube before they assembled it.
Oh, he's probably right. They probably do make 30 to 50 dollars per hour, but they don't work 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, either. So while they may get paid 30 dollars for an hour of work, the average hourly wage for the entire year is considerably lower than that.
Probably only big enough for the hair dressers and phone sanitizers, leaving the rest of the planet to die with bad hair and nasty ear infections.
Maybe it isn't. Maybe two thirds of the people on this page are ranting about something that a reporter left out of the article by omission and are too lazy to verify themselves. Maybe Verizon left it out of their press release (they are prepared by PR people, after all, not techies). Stranger things have happened. This is /. after all and we are talking about humans here.
Ummm .... just how many deaths and how much radioactivity was released by 3MI? Approx: None.
What's the old addage? More people have died in the back of Ted Kennedey's car than have died in the US from a nuclear accident.
Something that says "if you like something, pay for it - it's only fair".
Honestly, I like that a lot more than "if you don't pay for something, you'll go to jail". I think you're missing the point of the Pirate Party, though. Its a push back against draconian DRM that says if I download a song on my computer, I can't move it to my media box, or burn a CD to use in my car. This, folks, is where the RIAA and the big media companies jumped the shark. I can't even been to tell you how much stuff like that makes me seethe with anger.
Granted, personal use doesn't cover buying Peace Sells, but Who's Buying and putting it up on the web for everybody and their brother to download. The line is somewhere between there and where the RIAA wants it, though.
Consider this: you go to the store and buy a CD, listen to it on the way home and decide it's pretty good. You tell your {brother|sister|friend} about it and they ask to borrow the CD. Should you be able to loan them the CD? Most sane people say yes (not sure where the RIAA is on this question, but when sanity is involved, I can probably guess which side of sanity they choose), but if you take the same equivalent actions in the iTunes world and burn a CD for somebody to borrow, suddenly you're a pirate.
Don't get me started on DRM for books either. I, to this day, refuse to buy a book reader no matter how cool, convenient and connected to the internet they are if they restrict me to reading downloaded content ONLY on the device they were downloaded on. I have no less than 6 devices in my house and several more at work capable of reading books on - why would I focus all my reading on one deivce? That's insanity.
Probably the same way that Java and Perl are nearly identical - they both use curly braces to enclose code blocks.
Considering that they just licensed the technology from Sybase, isn't that "We couldn't write it ourselves (look how Access turned out) so we bought it"SQL?
I remember hearing about an exactly identical study when taking psychology in the late eighties. This news article even mentions a similar thing.
D'oh! Submit != Continue Editing. "The expense of re-training..." and "batted an eyelash when".
My apologies to the grammar, proper English and common phrases fans.
Except Office 2007 has been a huge success due to the (badly needed, IMO) overhauling of the UI.
I think it's funny that one of the primary arguments to not going to OpenOffice is the old "OMG! The expense at re-training people will be horrendous!", yet nobody batted an eye when Microsoft decided to redesign Office and give it those stupid ribbons.
There is more information and meaning in a 15 second voice mail than in any text. Is the caller angry? Sad? Frustrated? What did the environment he was calling from sound like?
Does it matter? If they left a voice mail and you get it a day or two later, obviously the conditions that person are in have changed drastically since then. Plus, who would actually leave a voice mail from an overturned car in the median of a highway? "!beep! Hey, this is Bill. My car is upside down in the woods on I-65. When you get this, come find me past mile marker 182. I'll wait till you get here. Thanks. !beep!"
Literature and history students have it the worst. Most of their classes at the upper levels require multiple books per class. My wife, working on her masters degree, had a single class that required six or seven books - total bill was over 200 dollars.