Noddy wrote:
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>"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
><drunk_and_distracted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Just because most people are morons doesn't mean I have to be one,
>> too. Have you ever compared the image quality of a Betamax to VHS?
>
>*years* ago when I had both.
>
>Most people who were into video big time were of the opinion that Betamax
>was better, but I couldn't tell the difference.
The only reason I noted the difference is because I laid down some CGI
on the two formats, and thought the betamax capture was a much truer
rendition than the VHS. Wasn't enough of a difference to make me
forsake either format, though.
>> Same with Winblows. I don't mind using it as a client, but no way in
>> hell I'd deploy it as a server.
>
>It would depend on largely what you wanted to do.
Agreed.
>For a high end server Linux is unbeatable, but for an end user it's about
as
>useful as wax toilet paper. Walk into any computer shop looking for
software
>and you'll find *rows* of **** for Windows to suit every possible need
and
>next to nothing for Linux, and that's it's biggest problem. If it was
>anywhere near as well sup****ted in the software department it'd put
>Microsoft out of business over night.
Agreed.
>Whenever these discussions come up I'm reminded of a friend of mine who
had
>an old Sun Micrographics machine (I think that's what it was) that he
bought
>at an auction after it was de-commissioned. He used to brag about it
having
>a 21 inch monitor (back in the days when most high end PC's had a 15 inch
>CRT monitor) and how it's Silicon Graphics video card cost 311 grand when
it
>was new.
>
>As "funky" as all that high end machinery was all it could do was run
Linux,
>and about all that allowed him to do was turn it on and admire it's
beauty.
>The rest of us Windows 3.1 users were actually enjoying ourselves :)
I'm thinking his best bet for that, not being a developer, would have
been to salvage the tube in the hopes he could get it working with
EGA/VGA signaling.
In my case, with 11 years of experience with authoring digital image
processing software, that machine would have been a dream, assuming it
had enough processor to keep up with the off-the-shelf consumer crap
at the time.
>> By the way, believe it or not, the BetaMAX "market" is still alive,
>> albeit only among high-end users of video cassettes. A friend of
>> mine's father repairs BetaMAX recorders ****pped to him from all over
>> the world, and he is making $$$ hand over fist. Last time I saw his
>> entertainment room, he had 9 studio quality betamax recorders stacked
>> on each other, with a robotic assembly that fed the systems blank
>> tapes when the tapes in the recorders become full.
>
>Given the price, speed, reliability and availability of hard disc
recording
>devices these days, you'd have to wonder why anyone would bother with
*any*
>kind of tape.
Legacy, primarily. A lot of schools and other institutions have a
MASSIVE investment in those tapes, and it's cost prohibitive to
transfer that much content to digital storage. Best to maintain the
playback devices, and move the ****tions of the content to the digital
domain as required.
>Still, it doesn't surprise me. I mean, to keep it topical for this group
>(being aus.cars), there are people who insist Alfa make a great car and
>worthy of spending money on.
>
>The rest of us just laugh :)
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