Yeah, I could do that easily enough but it's money I'd rather not spend. DVDs are kind of dead media now, that's where this branch of the discussion originated. I skipped the whole BD hardware era because BDRips are easy enough to find online. I used to do a lot of DVD mastering with DVD Studio Pro but I haven't touched it in years, everyone wants files for online delivery now. For the rare occasions I would ever need a DVD drive, the kludgy Remote Drive is good enough.

Well that's another problem right there. My mini doesn't have a DVD drive, if I want to rip a DVD I have to use Remote Drive and link to my old G4 Windtunnel machine, the last machine I owned with an internal DVD drive. So I usually just copy the VOB to my local Mini and transcode it there. I don't know if that is any faster or slower, I have nothing to compare it to, I haven't ripped a DVD in years probably. In transcoding, Handbrake will peg the CPU but I don't recall exact fps, something around 100 I think. It's an old dual core i7, it's no speed demon. Jeez, I remember when I got a PowerPC G5 and I thought it was a fucking miracle that I was able to encode mpegs for DVDs in just a bit faster than 1x realtime. The G5 would kick out so much waste heat, my office temperature would get up to over 100F.

It would be difficult to judge by my encoding times, I'm using an antique Mac mini 2011 model with a 2.7Ghz i7. I have an SSD but encoding is CPU intensive so the CPU is the bottleneck. I haven't done any direct comparisons at similar encoding rates, the Compressor settings are so dissimilar that I'm not sure how I'd even compare them to Handbrake. But overall Compressor seems more flexible and faster. Apple pro apps tend to use multithreading very efficiently so they're fast on multicore computers like mine (i7 with 2 real cores, 4 virtual cores).

Be fair, it does a good job of transcoding. I tried using the previous version of Handbrake to transcode some video files that wouldn't play on my iPhone, it was good enough. But I use a Mac and the feature to add a batch of files all at once is missing from that version, so it was a bit inconvenient to set up a big encoding run one file at a time. Maybe they added it to this release. But ultimately since I'm on a Mac and I have Final Cut Pro, it's faster for me to use Compressor.app.

I have to agree to a certain level. Apple has a level of quality control that people tend to forget and think of it more as a proprietary system. Its true Apple does not make sense in their choices most of the time and for some reason it works. A elite cliche type of expression if you own their products.

Whiles others that see room for improvement in their model try the same with looser controls and it never seems to be able to catch that distortion field momentum that Jobs is so good at creating.

Other should be all the above. Each one of these organizations are equally hellish to work with.

Perhaps some sort of job saving move by this Guggenheimer. If anything I think many will really miss XP, regretfully.

Check out the player experience, and its navigation, commentary, captioning, etcetera. And it uses Smooth Streaming to provide proxy-cachable video at multiple bitrates.

As he said, those features are all available on the video players already available. QuickTime and QuickTime Streaming Server (and it's Open Source version Darwin Streaming Server) already offer all those features.

So why do I need Silverlight, except to support Bill Gates' attempt to "knife the baby"...?

Correct. There is no way to put a Public Domain book back into copyright, except through translation (that would be a new, original derivative work). Just re-typesetting the text does not create a new copyright. Mazzone's paper describes in detail "copyright creep" where authors slap a new foreword onto a PD work and then claim a fraudulent copyright on the whole book. Yes, the foreword would be copyrighted but the other contents could not be copyrighted.

Yes its good to hear I am not the only one in a company like yours. While I dont do 16 hours consecutively I feel your pain.

When your in it, its hard to see whats better, the mind numbing slave work for days on end or unemployment.
Grass is greener whichever side of the fence your on in a company run as such.

I work for a large medical company that has a call center in the US headquarters and have also been outsourcing their call center to India and Phillipines. From what I can tell from my observations, by the way I am not directly involved in the call center so my comments are not quantifiable, people anywhere eventually tire of working for shit jobs.

Perhaps people outside the US can last longer than their American counterparts, but over the course of time they eventually develop the same traits that cause them to be terminated as well. Bad attitude, lack of interest, insubordination, lack of job performance. A crap job is just that, if you are hungry then you may accept it, but once your basic needs are met you will realize you no longer wish to be in a crap job. Americans have their basic needs met more easily, than the countries mentioned so they tolerate a bad job in a less amount of time than people that have not eaten or had a decent place to live for many years of their life.

Complacency is human trait not just Americans.