Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 06:24:56 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <a0510100bb8375314d283@[10.0.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 0000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$ 0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]> <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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At 5:27 AM +0100 on 2001/12/08, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Can you say CD, or DVD? There are plenty of compromises that were made with both of these technologies. Neither of them is anywhere near the best technical solution for these problems. If they were, they would have had a good technical reason for selecting the inner diameter of the CD (and the products that have followed based on this form-factor, such as DVD, etc...). You get bunny points if you can tell me the reason why the external diameter of the CD was selected. You get extra bunny points if you can tell me the real reason why the inner diameter of the CD was selected. > Betacam SP and its digital successors resemble Betamax in the form of the > cassette only, as far as I know. They are quite substantially removed from > the consumer form of Betamax, although these professional formats do indeed > have their origin in that type of cassette. Betamax was clearly superior at the time to VHS, and was arguably even superior to S-VHS. Further generations of the technology have retained their technical superiority, albeit in a format that has virtually no consumer acceptance. > Professional formats are not dictated by technical considerations alone, > however; U-Matic is still around, and it's garbage. U-matic defines the parameters by which all other analog video formats are measured. Indeed, by your own claim that it is garbage, you have proved the very point I was trying to make. Thank you. > But people do not buy their home or office computers as a mob. Yes they do. In your example, they are all lemmings who jump off the bridge just because everyone else is jumping off the bridge, and not for any real reason at all. Lemmings herd in the thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or in the case of Windows, in the hundreds of millions. But lemmings are lemmings. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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