I have trouble enough finding all the remote controls. The shutter glasses seem to be just one more thing to have to find and put batteries in. One reason CDs replaced Vinyl and MP3s are replacing CDs is it is a lot more convenient to just listen to something. This seems to be a step backwards.
I know movie theatre screens can reflect circularly polarized light without changing the polarization, so it can work with projection home theater. But, what about DLP displays? Can the screens pass circularly polarized light with polarization intact?
IMAX theatres use DLP for 3D so it should work.
I believe the biggest hurdle is trying to build a transmission line that does not go near an endangered species,a fragile ecosystem, or someones backyard (NIMBY). This may be the biggest obstacle for any new energy production facility.
The problem with this is that it does not detect cancer cells but anomalies that may be cancer cells. All the dentist can do is refer one to an oral surgeon who will just look at the tongue and ask if one has bitten it accidentally in the last few days. They are not going to do a biopsy on something they can not see and they are not trained to interpret the photos.
Insightful? Seriously?
Are the modders out of their fricking minds?
They've probably played too much chess, or something.
What else are you supposed to do at chess camp?
That's a good point.
Another is that a craftsman does not begrudge good money spent on quality tools of their trade that will last for years/decades[1] with proper care.
It's considered a sound investment that pays back across the board.
[1] YMMV, depends on craft/trade
It's also a deductible business expense for a professional photographer.
I personally feel that Apple should sue itself.
Specifically the Quick Time team should sue the iPhone and iPod OS team for not putting Quick Time support in the OS. Seriously, why must we all convert our Quick Time movies? Is it really that hard to support their own format on their own device?
It wouldn't be the first time a company sued itself:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/1727218/Wells-Fargo-Bank-Sues-Itself
I thought Windows was freeware... None of the torrent sites ever asked for payment.
Freeware or malware?
You can also get a compressor unit that will reject the houses heat into the pool. This only works if you have a smaller compressor for example for the upstairs and a larger compressor for downstairs unless you have a really big pool since it will get too warm. In the good old days, people would just run cold tap water through them and dump the hot water into the sewer.
I think the biggest problem is that the employees did not pay their taxes using gold coins. If one gets paid in gold coins and pays their taxes in gold coins there would not be a problem. If one gets paid in gold coins and pays their taxes with fiat money then one is manipulating the system.
What a fucking perversion of the interstate commerce clause. The lawyers twist it to mean anything. How else do you think that states can really legalize pot now, even though that pot could stay within the state's borders the entire time? Via interstate commerce clause, they argue, because it COULD go out of state. Just like I may commit a crime one day, so lock me up now before it happens.
Mail was delivered for 160+ years in this country before the interstate highways. I never once thought "Gee, this highway is here to deliver mail". It never occured to me, because that's a benefit of the highway but not the main purpose. (I'm not saying highways aren't beneficial, but that's a seperate discussion).
The interstate commerce clause is also used to justify the civil right act of 1964. Your argument also applies to segregation as well. The question being, if I have a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and the state is fine with what I do, what right does the federal government have in telling me how to run my business. Without a broad interpretation of the commerce clause, the federal government loses its ability to affect social change. It seems one can not have their cake and eat it too. I am all for state rights but not at any cost.
For a pandemic, it is also helpful to have a war with massive troop movements from one place to the other such as during WWI with everyone living in tight quarters. It is thought to have incubated in the U.S., was carried over to Europe by our troops and then brought back to the U.S. by them.
I believe that Blu-ray is the last physical media format for movies. Movies will instead be distributed electronically. As it has been pointed out in other posts, consumers want convenience. Renting movies and returning them is not convenient. Also, I believe that consumers are tiring of purchasing a shelf full of media in one format and being told that it is now obsolete. It is also hard to justify buying shelves, allocating a bunch of space, having to pack and unpack them every time one moves.
Even with modern electronic equipment. I don't see why you cant just Tap the signal after it has been decoded and before it goes to the display. Sure it is a hardware hack but like all DRM technology it just needs to be broken once for it to be useless and spread on the Internet.
The problem is that the signal being carried over an HDMI connector can be encrypted using the display devices public key. If a brand of device is compromised then the key can be blacklisted for all future disks when they are produced.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
