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[petrossa]

He threatened while I was typing. I got the smack down.

Smackonic.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

 

[Lordbob75]

~Lordbob

 

[DJG]

Here's something not worth own thread but what I want to say. If I misunderstood the point of this thread, I sincerely ask the OP to tell it to me and I will delete this post.

We, household CEO and I, we like to watch an American TV-series "Numb3rs". Just yesterday when watching an episode I was thinking the difference between European PAL and American NTSC systems. (NTSC = Never The Same Color)

I mean, I paid a lot of completely digital high-end Home Entertainment system with FullHD 1080 capability, and then most of the shows I'd like to watch come from U.S.A., so what I see is quite a lousy picture most often in 4:3 format. The quality is often quite poor because of converting NTSC to PAL.

Back there behind the big water, is this Digital Broadcasting you just started going to make a change in my dilemma? May I see better picture quality in American shows in the future?

Kari

Kari, the problem is not in the NTSC standard. The problem is in the crappy implementation providers use. The bottom line rules, and the bottom line says "compress the bejeezus out of it as long as it sort of ressembles the original so we can send two or three additional signals in the same bandwidth".

Now with HD, you get compression artifacts that are smaller :sarc:. Hell, an upscaled well-mastered DVD sometimes looks better than the station / cable / satellite transmitted HD program.

For true HD, look to Blu-Ray, but that will only bring me to my pet peeve rant, which I may start a thread about ... and no, it's not about the format war, that's over and done and gone. And the image quality is great. No, it's about how can a bunch of multi-billion technological corporations can come up with such a moronic set of UI standards, if standard is indeed a concept that can be applied to it.

 

[DJG]

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edit: Well, that didn't work.

I hope you do a better job with the calendar ...

 

[DJG]

Science.

I mean, scienconic.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o"]YouTube - Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science[/ame]

OMG, now he's got me doing it!!!

 

[petrossa]

Kari, the problem is not in the NTSC standard.

welllll, not completely. PAL is more likely to give an image in the correct colours. Since digital satellite went live the signal is compressed to ridiculous tidbits and still it comes out sort of ok.

btw:

Here's something not worth own thread but what I want to say. If I misunderstood the point of this thread, I sincerely ask the OP to tell it to me and I will delete this post.

In view of the identity of the OP sincerely asking him something doesn't get you anywhere.
I guess Dwarf found a way to converse sincerely with him though

 

[DJG]

... sort of ok.

I rest my case . Add to that the TV set to "Vivid" ...

 

[billman87]

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[petrossa]

I rest my case . Add to that the TV set to "Vivid" ...

vivid ouch. If anything the colours are overfed. I have to set tv to cold, and put all 3 colours to about 35 out of 100

What bites is the compression,mpeg3/4. You can see the artifacts;

The image when not moving to much is ok, if not you get a bit like the cleartype effect. Bit fuzzy around the edges and fast moving objects tend to pixelblock a bit.

 

[Dwarf]

This explains some of the similarities (and differences) between NTSC and PAL encoding: NTSC vs PAL - Difference and Comparison - Diffen

 

[petrossa]

This explains some of the similarities (and differences) between NTSC and PAL encoding: NTSC vs PAL - Difference and Comparison - Diffen

tnx Dwarf. Explains it all. Here in France Secam, but on my satellite i have PAL/SECAM; Secam works fine, but suffers from exactly the problems on satellite as PAL.

 

[Kari]

To: Antman

Subject: Thank You!

Ref: Word don't work

Thank you, Antman. I was already starting to loose it. It is very, very difficult to understand that OP. I'm lost, interesting to see if you can understand him better

Kari

 

[petrossa]

He has blow away his pc.

weird he asks you to interpret a OP. Isn't that like asking a philosopher directions to the nearest MacDrive?

 

[petrossa]

:roflmao: i once saw this post on MS and it's software design
Trident

me is the last 2 posts

 

[Kari]

Hello, geeks. I have been following this debate around the coming of "our savior" Windows 7 very keenly. Thread after thread topics like "XP / Vista vs. Windows 7", "What do you like / dislike in Windows 7", "What's still missing", "Why doesn't my *** work with Windows 7" etc.

I got an idea: why don't we all make a wish to get The Ultimate Absolute Operating System. This Wednesday night is the night of the annual appearance of the Perseid meteor shower. You can then see up to 100 shooting starts per hour, and like everybody knows you can make a wish when you see a shooting star.


(Full story)

If we all wish the same thing seeing these shooting stars on Wednesday night, maybe our combined wish is strong enough for Microsoft to make last minute changes and we'll get The Perfect Operating System. You know what I mean:

• any FPS can be played in full-HD dual screen mode with 7.1 THX sound, even when you only have an old 14" CRT and laptop speakers
• it connects you to the interweb with over 50 megs per second using your existing 2 meg line
• it has thousends of different built-in gadgets on display showing temperature in Vietnam or list of every piece of hardware you have, all this on top of the background with ever changing images of Playmates
• it includes all major torrent and P2P software
• it rips any existing CD, DVD or BD
• it can crack any existing DRM
• it has built-in system to blink in all known neon colors
• it can fry your eggs and chips
• etc. etc.

Let's all wish together to get what we want!

Kari

EDIT: Forget it, I had second thoughts. Windows 7 is already working fine for me, helping me with my tasks, keeping track of my schedule, archiving emails, assisting me in project planning and presentations and bookkeeping.

 

[petrossa]

CP/M worked for me.

 

[Kari]

CP/M worked for me.

org 100h

; set video mode
mov ax, 3 ; text mode 80x25, 16 colors, 8 pages (ah=0, al=3)
int 10h ; do it!

; cancel blinking and enable all 16 colors:
mov ax, 1003h
mov bx, 0
int 10h

; set segment register:
mov ax, 0b800h
mov ds, ax

; print "hello world"
; first byte is ascii code, second byte is color code.

mov [02h], 'h'
mov [04h], 'e'
mov [06h], 'l'
mov [08h], 'l'
mov [0ah], 'o'
mov [0ch], ','
mov [0eh], 'w'
mov [10h], 'o'
mov [12h], 'r'
mov [14h], 'l'
mov [16h], 'd'
mov [18h], '!'

; color all characters:
mov cx, 12 ; number of characters.
mov di, 03h ; start from byte after 'h'

c: mov [di], 11101100b ; light red(1100) on yellow(1110)
add di, 2 ; skip over next ascii code in vga memory.
loop c

; wait for any key press:
mov ah, 0
int 16h

ret

A> HELLO WORLD!

 

[petrossa]

I wrote this insightful piece once about OS/2:

i’m sure no one at IBM knows where OS ends and /2 begins. I’m also sure it’s impossible to separate the 2 now. That they didn’t lie when they said they couldn’t get it out. Not for lack of (well at least not totally) of will but in great part because the code is now in a state where it’s completely beyond any human competence to visualize it’s state of integration.

Already with the source code for the shuttle it was admitted that the code was beyond human comprehension and i remember it to be a couple of million lines at the time.

Most blocks of code are generated by codegenerators which in turn are quality controlled by computerized processes. They are then assembled into the codebase via an automated proces that collates the code.

Which is then computer tested.

No way in hell anyone is going to comprehend that, but of course admitting to the world that IBM has no idea how it’s code works is not what i would advise them to do.

 

[petrossa]

A> HELLO WORLD!
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Ha, the good old days when you could ask any price for a consult. Nobody knew what you did, how you did it and how long it took.

But when their black box came up with something legible it was a big check in the bank.

Stares melancholy out the window, hearing the cries of the rat race passing by

 

[Kari]

And now even more OT, if it's possible in an OT-thread:

I have an old film, made by my younger brother with his Super 8 camera back in, I'm not so sure, -84 I think. I had just bought my first 10 meg hard drive and my brother is filming when I try to install it. On the film I hear myself answering my brothers question why it costs so much: "I believe these things cost so much because they don't think that also a private person could use them, only big companies. They make these things so enormous that no man is going to need it's full capacity even if he had it 20 years. I'm sure in a couple of years we have smaller and cheaper ones to normal users, like 1 to 1.5 meg!"

Still laughing every time my brother comes to visit from Finland and we watch these old family mementos.

Kari