The amusing part of that is that it's probably the constant version increments that caused them to address the addon compatibility thing. Personally, I think this makes all the bitching everyone does about the rapid version incrementing thing rather pointless now.:)
No kidding. It's a protest...what the hell IS that supposed to mean? Reducing the value of public land by protesting on it for a few months? What? What the hell justification is that for anything? o_O
Unfortunately any attempt to change it in this day and age would completely ruin it. We're stuck with what we've got because the people who could potentially change it are so thoroughly corrupt that we would NOT like what they did.
My cars simply do not cost that much per year to operate on any realistic level. I don't know what those stats include but that's simply not true. At all. Maybe because my dad helps me do maintenance? I don't know but it sure as hell doesn't cost that much even with all the gas costs.
My family includes my parents, aunts, uncles, etc that all live within a 5-10 mile radius from me now (even further away from the direction of my work). I see them rather frequently and it's much more convenient to live closer to them than work. Anywhere close to my work on the west side is near downtown and there's pretty much nowhere near downtown anyone would want to live. If I moved to the other side of my work to Mesa, then I'm looking at it being a good 35 miles just to my parents' house (the closest) and it generally being a giant pain in the ass to visit family, see my little sisters' school things, softball games, etc. I hated living out there because of that (even though the close drive to work was really nice).
I know it's about priorities but I don't particularly appreciate them being fucked with like this because some people want to tax gas more due to some moral imperative. I fully support alternatives but there is plenty of money out there to use that doesn't involve me paying $8 a gallon for gas and basically fucking up the way I live immediately for no reason. SOMEONE has to live out where I live regardless because the city is only so big. We've been working on solutions to this anyway so rather than punishing us, maybe they should think of incentives instead? Maybe we should take some of that DoD money and funnel it back into the country for things that matter instead of lobbing bombs over at the middle east. Just a thought. Gas doesn't need to be $8 a gallon for people to find alternatives...the alternatives just need to actually be better than what is currently available. That's one of the biggest issue here. If you make something better, people will eventually get with the program. You can't try and push something bad on people by artificially making what they currently do worse. That's retarded.
I get tired of seeing these arguments ad nauseam. I honestly think people on this website lose touch with reality at times. We don't all have the ability nor want to live the same way you do (or say you do...lot of arm chair philosophers here). One of the greatest accomplishments of the United States throughout history was our ability to move people and information cheaply and efficiently. We aren't going to do that by thinking up shitty half baked ideas and depreciating what currently exists when it still works better. The technology needs to catch up. I understand that we are running out of oil and that we are polluting the planet but making everyone's life harder by doubling the price of gas isn't doing anyone any favors. As I said earlier...there is plenty of money out there being misused for bullshit. Let's work on that, huh?
Thank you. People seem to think that Mass Transit is this wonderful solution to all our problems failing to realize that the US is a big fucking place. We're a lot more spread out here and you can blame that on whatever, say we're stupid for being that way, or whatever snooty comments you might have...but the reality is that Mass Transit does not work here in every place. I live in Phoenix. This place is SUPER spread out. We wouldn't even be able to do a subway here because of how ridiculously spread out the city is. Europe is packed in like sardines and I really don't think they're understanding the realities of the US.
What are we supposed to do in a city like this where nothing is close by anything else? I have a job 25 miles from my house and most of the office buildings are a minimum of 20 miles from my house anyway. Should I sell my house and buy a house that is more expensive and shittier so that I can live closer to work and farther from my family? Should I do as other suggest and apparently "get a new job" in this wonderful job market we have? Further to that point...I don't think people realize that there simply isn't always a job for you within a few miles of your house unless your career goals involve working at a grocery store or a fast food restaurant. I don't look down upon that at all, but that's not the direction I want to take my career. I'm going to go for a job like that just to eliminate travel time. Even with gas/car expenses I still make a hell of a lot more money doing what I do now than I would at one of those places.
What we need are cars that run on alternative fuel. Mass transit is nice too but it isn't going to solve the problem all by itself...we need both. As someone else mentioned briefly...the time required to get to work is horrendous. I have a 30 minutes drive now and I shudder to think what it would be like if I had to take the bus to work. Also on that same token, trying to make gas more expensive to make people not want to drive is bullshit. As previously mentioned, mass transit is not a viable alternative for everyone. I don't think turning my hour back and forth commute into a 3 hour back and forth commute is even remotely reasonable. People are developing alternatives right now but they aren't affordable to normal people yet. As with most new technologies, rich people will buy them as playthings until it is cheaper to manufacture. It will happen eventually and let's not forget that the people that are the most stuck on gas are people who don't have the extra money to pay for it to go up to $8 a gallon. If electric cars can become as cheap and useful as gas powered cars (road trips aren't possible at this point), then more people are going to want them. Let's also not forget where all that great electricity comes from, which is kind of hilarious to think about sometimes. We don't have that many nuclear plants here and that means that a pretty large portion of electric power probably comes from polluting sources anyway.
A great deal of his post is actually pretty ignorant. My favorite being that broadcast cameras shoot in 1080i. Lol. Film is film. What they do with it varies but the information is still there. That whole post the GP made SOUNDS fancy and like he knows what he's talking about (even got modded 4 Informative) but most of it seems completely wrong to me. Like he just pulled it out of his ass.
Second all movies on BluRay are not "HD" movies from the 80's are a waste of money on bluray as all you get is more film grain!
I have a copy of XXX on superbit that looks IDENTICAL to the BLuRay version. (which means the bluray version is NOT 1080p worth of video)
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p) or the more common 720p. and THAT is what is on most Bluray disks as the source materiel.
1. This is a preview release, not the way they plan to release the entire thing. They already did the Original series on Bluray and while it's expensive, it's not like that.
2. It may not be as good looking as a new movie but it will be considerably better looking than you have ever seen the series and I think would be worth the quality.
3. They're going back to film and actually taking their time on it and I think we should applaud them on that. They could have taken the shitty road out and used the horrible tape quality ones that the DVD releases had but they're actually doing it right.
Eh...I've used them. Not impressed. They shut my site down without even taking the time to notify me because of some files they didn't like. Now, having an issue with my having files they don't like is one thing...but shutting down my entire website without notifying me is another. Further to the fact, I didn't particularly like that they were snooping around my server or whatever they did to find these apparently objectionable files. There was no complaint against me (I verified this with them), therefore you can politely stay the fuck out of my files.
Just my 2 cents. Right now we're using FDCServers and they've been quite good to us. They have some very nice looking colocation plans. I'd give them a look. They have servers in Denver, Chicago, and apparently Europe now too.
I think the main point is that it is completely useless. People will buy them because they have to for some retarded reason and then shove it into the glove compartment never to be seen again. The politicians saying this is going to improve anything are completely full of shit. Urge people to do it? Sure. Legislate that they are required to do it? Useless. This will not do anything at all and they know it. I guess it's not just US politicians that are only looking for votes rather than actually fixing anything. Politics is politics and I'll be damned if it doesn't seem to be fairly universal.
I really don't understand people in this way. Just watch the movie and quit nitpicking stupid shit like this. I mean, I'll admit...some of the things people do with computers in movies make me want to scream but it doesn't ruin the movie. Just watch it...you are supposed to be having fun. Quit over analyzing every stupid thing.
That's because the line was a joke. It is not some silly irony...they intended for it to be a joke. The joke is exactly that...it would be silly for him to even think that in the first place.
Wooooooosh. It is getting to be a sad state of affairs when one cannot tell sarcasm based on the fact that what the person has said is obviously completely ridiculous.
Yes, and if I put Windows 95 on my current computer, it would probably take less time to do it. What is your point? We are doing more things with the computer now because we have all this extra hardware and you aren't even going to try and wiggle out of that and say Windows hasn't improved anything since Windows 95 because that's bullshit.
Seriously, I know that I was only like 9 or 10 around this time but I dealt with my fair share of computers and I don't get all this trolly stupidity in this topic. Yes, your computer takes a minute to boot still. You say you can do more on the current PC and then praise the other one for having 15 year old versions of IE and Office and that's apparently good enough? Come on.:p You are all being purposely obtuse. It's not just you either, I'm just reading this topic and I find all these posts really irritating.
Some people go into the future kicking and screaming, I guess. If it was "good enough" then you wouldn't have upgraded in the first place.
The point is to run it in the browser on a web page as it was intended to be viewed. Youtube is a website...not a video download service or whatever. I like running it in a browser window and I don't want to dick with a bunch of things to make it work. These things add up and Linux already has enough "little things" I have to do to make all my stuff work together.
Yes, because that's not a pain in the ass to do or anything. We all want to drag links from the browser into an external player just to look at a damn Youtube video.
Slashdot Mirror
The amusing part of that is that it's probably the constant version increments that caused them to address the addon compatibility thing. Personally, I think this makes all the bitching everyone does about the rapid version incrementing thing rather pointless now. :)
No kidding. It's a protest...what the hell IS that supposed to mean? Reducing the value of public land by protesting on it for a few months? What? What the hell justification is that for anything? o_O
Unfortunately any attempt to change it in this day and age would completely ruin it. We're stuck with what we've got because the people who could potentially change it are so thoroughly corrupt that we would NOT like what they did.
My cars simply do not cost that much per year to operate on any realistic level. I don't know what those stats include but that's simply not true. At all. Maybe because my dad helps me do maintenance? I don't know but it sure as hell doesn't cost that much even with all the gas costs.
My family includes my parents, aunts, uncles, etc that all live within a 5-10 mile radius from me now (even further away from the direction of my work). I see them rather frequently and it's much more convenient to live closer to them than work. Anywhere close to my work on the west side is near downtown and there's pretty much nowhere near downtown anyone would want to live. If I moved to the other side of my work to Mesa, then I'm looking at it being a good 35 miles just to my parents' house (the closest) and it generally being a giant pain in the ass to visit family, see my little sisters' school things, softball games, etc. I hated living out there because of that (even though the close drive to work was really nice).
I know it's about priorities but I don't particularly appreciate them being fucked with like this because some people want to tax gas more due to some moral imperative. I fully support alternatives but there is plenty of money out there to use that doesn't involve me paying $8 a gallon for gas and basically fucking up the way I live immediately for no reason. SOMEONE has to live out where I live regardless because the city is only so big. We've been working on solutions to this anyway so rather than punishing us, maybe they should think of incentives instead? Maybe we should take some of that DoD money and funnel it back into the country for things that matter instead of lobbing bombs over at the middle east. Just a thought. Gas doesn't need to be $8 a gallon for people to find alternatives...the alternatives just need to actually be better than what is currently available. That's one of the biggest issue here. If you make something better, people will eventually get with the program. You can't try and push something bad on people by artificially making what they currently do worse. That's retarded.
I get tired of seeing these arguments ad nauseam. I honestly think people on this website lose touch with reality at times. We don't all have the ability nor want to live the same way you do (or say you do...lot of arm chair philosophers here). One of the greatest accomplishments of the United States throughout history was our ability to move people and information cheaply and efficiently. We aren't going to do that by thinking up shitty half baked ideas and depreciating what currently exists when it still works better. The technology needs to catch up. I understand that we are running out of oil and that we are polluting the planet but making everyone's life harder by doubling the price of gas isn't doing anyone any favors. As I said earlier...there is plenty of money out there being misused for bullshit. Let's work on that, huh?
Thank you. People seem to think that Mass Transit is this wonderful solution to all our problems failing to realize that the US is a big fucking place. We're a lot more spread out here and you can blame that on whatever, say we're stupid for being that way, or whatever snooty comments you might have...but the reality is that Mass Transit does not work here in every place. I live in Phoenix. This place is SUPER spread out. We wouldn't even be able to do a subway here because of how ridiculously spread out the city is. Europe is packed in like sardines and I really don't think they're understanding the realities of the US.
What are we supposed to do in a city like this where nothing is close by anything else? I have a job 25 miles from my house and most of the office buildings are a minimum of 20 miles from my house anyway. Should I sell my house and buy a house that is more expensive and shittier so that I can live closer to work and farther from my family? Should I do as other suggest and apparently "get a new job" in this wonderful job market we have? Further to that point...I don't think people realize that there simply isn't always a job for you within a few miles of your house unless your career goals involve working at a grocery store or a fast food restaurant. I don't look down upon that at all, but that's not the direction I want to take my career. I'm going to go for a job like that just to eliminate travel time. Even with gas/car expenses I still make a hell of a lot more money doing what I do now than I would at one of those places.
What we need are cars that run on alternative fuel. Mass transit is nice too but it isn't going to solve the problem all by itself...we need both. As someone else mentioned briefly...the time required to get to work is horrendous. I have a 30 minutes drive now and I shudder to think what it would be like if I had to take the bus to work. Also on that same token, trying to make gas more expensive to make people not want to drive is bullshit. As previously mentioned, mass transit is not a viable alternative for everyone. I don't think turning my hour back and forth commute into a 3 hour back and forth commute is even remotely reasonable. People are developing alternatives right now but they aren't affordable to normal people yet. As with most new technologies, rich people will buy them as playthings until it is cheaper to manufacture. It will happen eventually and let's not forget that the people that are the most stuck on gas are people who don't have the extra money to pay for it to go up to $8 a gallon. If electric cars can become as cheap and useful as gas powered cars (road trips aren't possible at this point), then more people are going to want them. Let's also not forget where all that great electricity comes from, which is kind of hilarious to think about sometimes. We don't have that many nuclear plants here and that means that a pretty large portion of electric power probably comes from polluting sources anyway.
Second all movies on BluRay are not "HD" movies from the 80's are a waste of money on bluray as all you get is more film grain!
I have a copy of XXX on superbit that looks IDENTICAL to the BLuRay version. (which means the bluray version is NOT 1080p worth of video)
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p) or the more common 720p. and THAT is what is on most Bluray disks as the source materiel.
Lol.
1. This is a preview release, not the way they plan to release the entire thing. They already did the Original series on Bluray and while it's expensive, it's not like that.
2. It may not be as good looking as a new movie but it will be considerably better looking than you have ever seen the series and I think would be worth the quality.
3. They're going back to film and actually taking their time on it and I think we should applaud them on that. They could have taken the shitty road out and used the horrible tape quality ones that the DVD releases had but they're actually doing it right.
Wow I have been on the internet too much lately. I read that last part as "arrested by lolcats."
I'm pretty sure it has never mattered whether you knew you were impaired or not. Lol. Driving drunk is driving drunk.
Eh...I've used them. Not impressed. They shut my site down without even taking the time to notify me because of some files they didn't like. Now, having an issue with my having files they don't like is one thing...but shutting down my entire website without notifying me is another. Further to the fact, I didn't particularly like that they were snooping around my server or whatever they did to find these apparently objectionable files. There was no complaint against me (I verified this with them), therefore you can politely stay the fuck out of my files.
Just my 2 cents. Right now we're using FDCServers and they've been quite good to us. They have some very nice looking colocation plans. I'd give them a look. They have servers in Denver, Chicago, and apparently Europe now too.
I think the main point is that it is completely useless. People will buy them because they have to for some retarded reason and then shove it into the glove compartment never to be seen again. The politicians saying this is going to improve anything are completely full of shit. Urge people to do it? Sure. Legislate that they are required to do it? Useless. This will not do anything at all and they know it. I guess it's not just US politicians that are only looking for votes rather than actually fixing anything. Politics is politics and I'll be damned if it doesn't seem to be fairly universal.
Because he's a troll.
I really don't understand people in this way. Just watch the movie and quit nitpicking stupid shit like this. I mean, I'll admit...some of the things people do with computers in movies make me want to scream but it doesn't ruin the movie. Just watch it...you are supposed to be having fun. Quit over analyzing every stupid thing.
That's because the line was a joke. It is not some silly irony...they intended for it to be a joke. The joke is exactly that...it would be silly for him to even think that in the first place.
This makes my heard hurt. All of it. Please stop. :(
Not to mention that this is near the beginning of the movie so it doesn't really count as a "spoiler" very much.
Wooooooosh. It is getting to be a sad state of affairs when one cannot tell sarcasm based on the fact that what the person has said is obviously completely ridiculous.
HDMI outputs. :p Seriously, a lot of phones have them now.
Yes, and if I put Windows 95 on my current computer, it would probably take less time to do it. What is your point? We are doing more things with the computer now because we have all this extra hardware and you aren't even going to try and wiggle out of that and say Windows hasn't improved anything since Windows 95 because that's bullshit.
:p You are all being purposely obtuse. It's not just you either, I'm just reading this topic and I find all these posts really irritating.
Seriously, I know that I was only like 9 or 10 around this time but I dealt with my fair share of computers and I don't get all this trolly stupidity in this topic. Yes, your computer takes a minute to boot still. You say you can do more on the current PC and then praise the other one for having 15 year old versions of IE and Office and that's apparently good enough? Come on.
Some people go into the future kicking and screaming, I guess. If it was "good enough" then you wouldn't have upgraded in the first place.
Bluetooth keyboard. Problem solved.
We're all adults here...I'm pretty sure you can use fuck. The song sounds really stupid when you use the version with words replaced. :p
The point is to run it in the browser on a web page as it was intended to be viewed. Youtube is a website...not a video download service or whatever. I like running it in a browser window and I don't want to dick with a bunch of things to make it work. These things add up and Linux already has enough "little things" I have to do to make all my stuff work together.
Yes, because that's not a pain in the ass to do or anything. We all want to drag links from the browser into an external player just to look at a damn Youtube video.
Actually, running it in the intern's basement is probably more reliable than GoDaddy. :)
So what you're saying is that because something shitty is widespread, it must be okay now? Right. I'll keep that in mind.