People are also only pointing out animals we know exist being on those boulders. It's entirely possible there were many more species hundreds of millions of years ago that were as resiliant as the "Water Bear" towards harsh conditions, but suffered some other short coming that lead to their extinction on Earth.
If France has a problem, it's a good chanc Europe will have a problem. While Europe probably doesn't make up quite as large a part of their Market as North America does, it's still significant. I for one am tired of Apple's tomfuckery. But I thought you could convert Mp3s to itunes?
Apple can't technically call their devices Mp3 players, either.
This has always bothered me. Why is it that Parody is the only "fair use"? You can't mention something in a serious manner, but if you take the piss out of it, it's legal? Never quite gotten that.
DiVX compression would be a better way to solve that. You could have it at higher resolution and still take up less space.
And you're not going to notice the resolution increase on small televisions, and it's not going to be too significant on medium sized televisions, either.
I don't think we should be stuck with DVD forever. I just think it's a few years too early for HD DVD and we're likely to have ANOTHER "Next Big Thing" in 5 years time. There's too much new technology being created to take a format that's already technically a couple of years old, that the market isn't fully ready for.
Well yeah, I did read up on "How Things Work" a while back:P I wasn't aware it was as old as the 60s though.
But technically, Plasma is often considered the fourth state of matter, and is hotter than the substance's equivellent gaseous form.
Someone's been watching too many 90s Spider-man cartoons with Michael Morbius in them. Plasma is something found in blood, but it's also a kind of high energy gas.
The fourth state of matter you get from Super-heating gas? Clouds of highly charged particles and that? Wouldn't you kind of expect that to be dangerous?
That's still pretty irritating for people like me. Over here, we have 20 gig a month download caps. Download a couple of games, and it's already gone. Sure you might not be downloading any more than that, but it's still an annoying dent.
It will increase congestion quite a lot more and be an expensive service to keep. I think it's much better to minimise the strain on less "real" methods because you never know when they may be the most needed.
If you take your medication right, you'll never taste an ounce of spiciness. All the "spicy" stuff will be kept inside a neat little pill casing, presuming the chemical IS all that spicy when isolated from the peppers.
Just don't bite.
Get a weird "MYSTERIES OF EXISTENCE REVEALED!" tingle down their spine when seeing that?
Reagardless of whether it's formed by magnetism or not, delving into it that way detracts from the fuller picture. A more apt endeavour would be to ask why a magnetic field forms a shape similiar to that found in our DNA, and nowhere else in particular.
I meant "Small screen TVs" on that bit where you probably went "WTF?!", and I meant "quality" instead of performance. Damn homophobes making me angry and careless.
Higher resolutions do not immediately mean a massive increase in quality.
Most people think of resolutions in terms of 3D Polygonal games, where higher resolutions means less "jaggies" or blurry anti-aliased edges.
Everything on DVD is "Pre-blended" as such in a much more efficent way than polygons ever will be. I don't know if you've ever notived how even analog television can pull off much more convincing "edges" than any pre-render has done.
Higher resolutions mean it will be a little less blurred. But in practice, DVD is already high quality. There is a point for which resolutions become difficult for an untrained eye to distinguish. HD lies within that spectrum, but at the end of it.
On most TVs, it will be difficult to tell the resolution. On very large screen TVs, it most certainly is a benefit. But for most of us, it's a small performance increase as opposed to the relatively large one DVDs offered, and even that had it's critics.
The difference between composite and HD-TV is obvious, but the higher resolution that will be on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD movies won't look any better past added "crispness", not from anything I've seen.
If you have any short video clips demonstrating it, I'd love to see them, they should be very noticable on a PC Monitor.
DVD's been mainstream for what, 6-7 years at most? And still there are many many people who haven't adjusted. So in another year they're introducing something else? DVD is a flash in the pan compared to VHS, which is still in wide use today.
The change in quality will be almost negligble. People will only feel cheated paying more and hardly being able to tell the difference.
It would make much more sense to switch to DivX on normal capacity DVDs, which is higher quality and much smaller, that way you can fit more on a single DVD, which I think is one of the more important things we need with a new format.
I don't see how anyone can be excited by Blu-Ray or HDDVD for movies, and you're kidding yourself if you are. More space isn't going to help movies that much at this stage. Yes, it will be in a higher resolution, yes, it will be crisper, but it will be at best half the difference between VHS and DVD. Many people may not even be able to tell the difference.
Games and data storage, yes, but it's too soon as the PS3 is showing. It would be better to wait a little longer to make sure that it can be distributed more cost effectively, and maybe even improve it.
When George W. Bush, removed from presidency, attempts to take over the world with 8 military robot masters, who is going to be there to stop him!? His own incompetence most likely, but that's another story.
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You have to convert the mp3s to Itunes first. You can't just copy over Mp3s in the normal way. It doesn't TECHNICALLY support mp3s at all.
People are also only pointing out animals we know exist being on those boulders. It's entirely possible there were many more species hundreds of millions of years ago that were as resiliant as the "Water Bear" towards harsh conditions, but suffered some other short coming that lead to their extinction on Earth.
If France has a problem, it's a good chanc Europe will have a problem. While Europe probably doesn't make up quite as large a part of their Market as North America does, it's still significant. I for one am tired of Apple's tomfuckery. But I thought you could convert Mp3s to itunes? Apple can't technically call their devices Mp3 players, either.
This has always bothered me. Why is it that Parody is the only "fair use"? You can't mention something in a serious manner, but if you take the piss out of it, it's legal? Never quite gotten that.
DiVX compression would be a better way to solve that. You could have it at higher resolution and still take up less space. And you're not going to notice the resolution increase on small televisions, and it's not going to be too significant on medium sized televisions, either. I don't think we should be stuck with DVD forever. I just think it's a few years too early for HD DVD and we're likely to have ANOTHER "Next Big Thing" in 5 years time. There's too much new technology being created to take a format that's already technically a couple of years old, that the market isn't fully ready for.
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Well yeah, I did read up on "How Things Work" a while back :P I wasn't aware it was as old as the 60s though.
But technically, Plasma is often considered the fourth state of matter, and is hotter than the substance's equivellent gaseous form.
Someone's been watching too many 90s Spider-man cartoons with Michael Morbius in them. Plasma is something found in blood, but it's also a kind of high energy gas.
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The fourth state of matter you get from Super-heating gas? Clouds of highly charged particles and that? Wouldn't you kind of expect that to be dangerous?
You'll get to play them ALL OVER AGAIN with added Shininess(TM)on the PS3!
But, if you were to create tablets which store the chemical inside a capusle, you wouldn't taste it unless you're stupid enough to bite it.
That's still pretty irritating for people like me. Over here, we have 20 gig a month download caps. Download a couple of games, and it's already gone. Sure you might not be downloading any more than that, but it's still an annoying dent. It will increase congestion quite a lot more and be an expensive service to keep. I think it's much better to minimise the strain on less "real" methods because you never know when they may be the most needed.
If you take your medication right, you'll never taste an ounce of spiciness. All the "spicy" stuff will be kept inside a neat little pill casing, presuming the chemical IS all that spicy when isolated from the peppers. Just don't bite.
Gives whole new meaings to the phrases "Fireball", "It's a Spicy Meatball!", and "Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!".
That one is great. I'd also try the X-men Legends games.
Get a weird "MYSTERIES OF EXISTENCE REVEALED!" tingle down their spine when seeing that? Reagardless of whether it's formed by magnetism or not, delving into it that way detracts from the fuller picture. A more apt endeavour would be to ask why a magnetic field forms a shape similiar to that found in our DNA, and nowhere else in particular.
I meant "Small screen TVs" on that bit where you probably went "WTF?!", and I meant "quality" instead of performance. Damn homophobes making me angry and careless.
Higher resolutions do not immediately mean a massive increase in quality.
Most people think of resolutions in terms of 3D Polygonal games, where higher resolutions means less "jaggies" or blurry anti-aliased edges.
Everything on DVD is "Pre-blended" as such in a much more efficent way than polygons ever will be. I don't know if you've ever notived how even analog television can pull off much more convincing "edges" than any pre-render has done.
Higher resolutions mean it will be a little less blurred. But in practice, DVD is already high quality. There is a point for which resolutions become difficult for an untrained eye to distinguish. HD lies within that spectrum, but at the end of it.
On most TVs, it will be difficult to tell the resolution. On very large screen TVs, it most certainly is a benefit. But for most of us, it's a small performance increase as opposed to the relatively large one DVDs offered, and even that had it's critics.
The difference between composite and HD-TV is obvious, but the higher resolution that will be on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD movies won't look any better past added "crispness", not from anything I've seen. If you have any short video clips demonstrating it, I'd love to see them, they should be very noticable on a PC Monitor.
Is going to be the Next Big Thing of '06?
Just to turn his speakers off?
I bet with my friend over this on the internet. I can't believe it was cleared! I'm taking this one to the bank.
DVD's been mainstream for what, 6-7 years at most? And still there are many many people who haven't adjusted. So in another year they're introducing something else? DVD is a flash in the pan compared to VHS, which is still in wide use today.
The change in quality will be almost negligble. People will only feel cheated paying more and hardly being able to tell the difference.
It would make much more sense to switch to DivX on normal capacity DVDs, which is higher quality and much smaller, that way you can fit more on a single DVD, which I think is one of the more important things we need with a new format.
I don't see how anyone can be excited by Blu-Ray or HDDVD for movies, and you're kidding yourself if you are. More space isn't going to help movies that much at this stage. Yes, it will be in a higher resolution, yes, it will be crisper, but it will be at best half the difference between VHS and DVD. Many people may not even be able to tell the difference.
Games and data storage, yes, but it's too soon as the PS3 is showing. It would be better to wait a little longer to make sure that it can be distributed more cost effectively, and maybe even improve it.
DivX DVDs are a much better idea, in my opinion.
When George W. Bush, removed from presidency, attempts to take over the world with 8 military robot masters, who is going to be there to stop him!? His own incompetence most likely, but that's another story.