(The thing about conscious vs conscience is a pet peeve of mine, because so many people use it as you did while firmly believing that it is acceptable as a noun, and such usage always grates on me.)

You're right about the bloodthirsty dog pack phenomenon, but I'm not convinced that the Seinfeld/Gates foray achieved anything to counter it. To my view, it simply reinforced the notion of Microsoft being out of touch with popular taste and sensibility, and further evidence that they are wildly trying to do something without a solid understanding of what they're trying to do or how to properly do it (q.v. historical Windows, Zune, etc.)

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1. "conscious" is an adjective. Perhaps you mean "conscience".

2. I do not see a logical connection between "acts I and II" and "act III". My understanding is that Windows Vista is widely perceived as garbage, and simply therefore, people bent on Windows will be optimistic about its successor.

b

To me it looked as though everything were transcribed from handwritten notes by someone with no command of English.

If you envision all the words printed out onto paper in shoddy penmanship, it is easy to envision similarities between some of those characters.

-b

Great choice of words, under the circumstances.

-b

Frankly, I find printf("output\n"); to be more self-evident than either of the above.

But then, I learned C first.

Uh... I'm a Mac user, and I've found it annoying for years that Windows users, developers and vendors use the term 'PC' as if it were a synonym for 'Windows'.

-b

Now that's a sort of bowling I've never heard of.

-b

Thirsty Man Turns To Water.

Naked People Turn To Clothes.

etc.

I think you are proving the parent's point.

Parent:

You:

The lens on your phone is a piece of shit; a better lens will make your phone's 1 megapixel picture look better than would a 22 megapixel sensor.

-b

No kidding.

I didn't get the memo; what is it that's happening with robots on monday?

-b

Right, that's because there's a shutter which is necessarily forced to cut off the light 48 times per second. On a LCD or plasma panel though, there is no blanking. Or are you telling me that this 120Hz display is going black all the time?

-b

Then what about 23.98, 29.97, 59.94?

HD specifies all of the above frame rates (integer and non) as viable. Indeed, most programming in North America will be 59.94i or 23.98p, but 30.00 and so on are valid as well.

b

You're absolutely correct.

That is what I was trying to communicate, but you've said it more accurately than I did.

thanks,

-b

Sorry, I think I must be misunderstanding what you're trying to say then. I thought we were talking about "smoothing" an interlaced source signal (be it TV or a movie from a DVD or whatnot, or even 1080i HD) into a 120Hz progressive display.

2:3 pulldown.

-b

Minor nitpick - you mean to say interlaced fields (the progressive frame is split into two fields), rather than frames.

Even if this were true, I don't understand how it would be an improvement over simply reversing the pulldown and displaying 24 progressive fps rather than 120. After all, if you redraw the same frame once or a hundred times over the same interval on a progressive display, the result is exactly the same.