xine is reliable (including menus) for me on all my dvds, though I do wish it had less of a crappy interface.
- Better sound quality as there's no need to resample
Come again?
Although I've tried many times to switch over to Linux completely, the above have kept me using Windows, especially since there is no 64-bit Cedega (AFAIK) and there doesn't seem to be any benefit to setting up a 32-bit chroot over simply using Windows.
Why do you have to set up a 32-bit chroot? I use cedega all the time on my 64-bit Fedora home machine (in fact, I use it far too much).
Starbuck's treats its employees very well, who certainly aren't faceless drones, who have good pay and good advancement opportunities, generous educational benefits and health coverage.
I think you came near to the original poster's point in your post. Starbucks employees usually aren't sullen art student types. They're not as angsty, and they are certainly NOT avant-guard like so many mopey or snobbish indie coffee house employees are. That's how Starbucks has a different "atmosphere."
That bathrooms are for paying customers only. They can't stop me from using the bathroom if I'm not a paying customer.
They can feel free to try, but the law is on my side.
They can't physically stop you, no, only the police have that legal right. But they can charge you with trespassing. They have the right to kick out whomever they want from their store.
Ok. Perv has bookshelves. Hides said photos in between the books. The brilliant, insightful courts:
"We find that evidence of appellant's bookshelf use and the existence of books in his house was at least somewhat relevant to the state's case against him"
No, no, no. If you insist on using the bookshelf analogy, then write is as this: "The defendant had a bookshelf that we have reason to believe has been used to hide evidence but the defendant refused to let the authorities search through the bookshelf. We find that refusal somewhat relevant to the state's case against him."
It's not the encryption itself. It's the encryption, the charges, and the defendant's refusal to turn over the keys that gets the perv in trouble with his files.
I doubt that encryption will be banned, but I can see more cases like this where a defendant's refusal to turn over keys will be used against him.
Now.. this is all assuming the defendant was asked to turn over the keys, but he refused. I mean, I can't imagine any half-competent investigator not demanding them! The article doesn't mention it though.
I went home as promised and looked at my walmart purchased lawnmower man DVD. It is double-sided and it has exactly the same deleted scenes as he specified. You are wrong about seeing them in the theater, imdb specifically lists them as part of a director's cut.
I never saw the theatrical/dvd releases, but I do remember the wife being controlled and getting blown away by the law when it was shown on USA back in the mid-90s.
Some of us have monitors that most consumer cards aren't capable of driving. That's why I'm considering the card purchase. $1k is pricey, but it's better than the $2k+ for a QuadroFX. On the other hand.. I might wait a little wait and hold on to the Quadro card I'm borrowing and hope this card comes down in price soon.
You're confused, but that's ok, you have reason to be. The people who make and sell the cards themselves often get this wrong. The 30" Cinema Display does not take two inputs, it takes a single dual-link DVI cable. Dual-link DVI is not a combination of two DVI cables, it refers to a single DVI output with more active pins than your standard DVI-D output. This is how you can connect two 30" monitors to a single 6800 Ultra on the powermac, though those cards are unfortunately Mac-only, and don't physically work in a PC. The only NVIDIA cards that have true dual-link DVI connections are the Quadro workstation series, and the ASUS "gamer edition" 6800 card (and maybe one or two other AGP cards). No PCI Express consumer cards exist that do this (well, as of two months ago). I've found a few video card companies that advertized "dual link dvi" for their cards and tried those cards out, only to find that those claims were false.
Taking two outputs and multiplexing them to form a larger image isn't dual-link dvi. I don't think it's SLI either (I thought that involved two graphics cards).
cna i download a song of iTunes, decide I don't like it - and sell it to my friend for 80c?
Why not?
Because with iTunes, you're not buying a product, you're buying a service. Even if you burn your songs to a CD.. that's the copy that you've made, and you can't sell that CD, just as you can't sell a burned CD copy of a CD that you retain possession of. One of the reasons I don't like services, and would rather have real products.
"Specialized" DVD players that play "Specialized" disks to go along with the other 9, big, ugly boxes collecting dust on top of your TV (along with the other "normal" DVD player which plays only "normal" DVDs).
It won't work. History says so. Gadh believes consumers will be interested in purchasing this moronic system because it's in his interest to believe it. He's paid to believe it.
There is one way this could work.. the public won't accept it if there is no incentive to upgrade. This additional "restriction" would have to be paired with an upgrade incentive powerful enough to overwhelm the negatives. Say.. "well, you have to buy a new machine to play HD-DVDs anyway, we'll just mandate this in the new standard. Is it too late for them to try to shoehorn this sort of thing into Blue-Ray and/or HD-DVD?
Actually, the original name of the mouse was (if I remember correctly) Steamboat Willie, which was more directly related to one of the major sources.
Steamboat Willie was the name of the first short starring Mickey Mouse that had sound. Originally Walt created "Oswald the Rabbit," a creation which was appropriated by his employer who then fired Disney. Disney worked on his own then, creating "Mortimer Mouse," though the name was changed to Mickey Mouse at the suggestion of Walt's wife.
You would also probably say why dont they make it illegal to stop adding these extras to bigger bills and allow them to make and debate little bills too. Well this opens the doors for other types of abuse such as a party creating a bunch of small little bills that will tie up the senate for the whole term and leaving their larger bills to be in the wayside.
Oh please please please! That would be the best thing to happen to Congress since partisan-caused gridlock.
relax. they are just animals. i eat them, you probably eat them, their lives are nothing. whether they live or die has no effect on us. you wouldnt even know about it if you hadnt read it. it only bothers you if you are looking for a reason to be upset. animals are slaughtered in large quantities every day for eatin'. a couple extra hunted for sport means nothing. has been happening forever. being upset about this is like being upset that a character in a video game died. doesnt matter. your life doesnt change.
Thank goodness someone else believes in this! I've been wanting to start up an Internet hunting business where you can hunt Etheopians. These guys starve all the time, and if a few dozen of them die, hell, it doesn't affect me. I'm way over in California, for God's sake! They're meaningless to me. So let's hunt some of the fuckers for sport over the Internet!
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What does HONOR system and Battlegrounds have to do with each other?
For one, Battlegrounds has been Blizzard's constant mantra for the last week. "Don't like the current honor system? It's ok, Battlegrounds will fix it. Immense lagfests in Tarren Mill/Crossroads/etc? That's ok, Battlegrounds will draw away the masses of players seeking honor. Level 48 characters can't even poke their noses outside of the towns on PvP servers without getting splattered by level 60 chars seeking honor? That's ok, Battlegrounds will draw the honor-seekers instead." If Battlegrounds is supposed to be the great compliment to the honor system that Blizzard has claimed it will be, then why was the honor system released before the Battlegrounds was ready? Why was the honor system released without dishonor? Ie, dishonorable actions have no punishments? It's because Guild Wars is out, and Blizzard needed to throw something out FAST so that bored level 60 players wouldn't hop over to that game instead. Well now they've put out a system that has degraded the quality of the game for almost everyone who isn't level 58-60.
I don't expect perfection. But I do expect progression. I agree that WoW is probably better than Everquest (that SOE auction site makes me nauseated) or SWG, etc. I really liked the game up until the honor system. I still like it for the most part. But if you're on an RP/normal server and the entire town you're at is massacred on a constant basis, then it becomes pretty hard to progress. This is, of course, not nearly as much of a problem for the Alliance as it is for the Horde. If it keeps up then people playing the Horde are going to give up, because where's the fun getting massacred in a town against 3:1, 4:1, 5:1 odds? Then who will the Alliance fight? Sure, places like Tarren Mill were always hotspots, but it was nothing like it is now. My problem with the honor system is that it currently encourages and rewards the worst of the anti-social tendancies of the game -- griefing and ganking. How is that an improvement over the system that was in place before? Oh that's right, the level 60 folks were crying that they were bored. And the competition was starting to look formidable..
My biggest problem is that originally we were sold the idea that PvP would be optional, that it would be a great system and there would be incentives if you wanted to take part in it. Now the nature of the game has been changed, and PvP is inescapable even on normal/RP servers (when a town is destroyed, it affects the low-level folks who can't PvP as well).
Um...its a GAME! If you buy a game for a PC, Console, board game, etc. and dont like it, you should NOT have the right to sue the game developer!
I never said anything about suing the game developer. Yes, that would be a rediculous idea. I specifically mentioned "vote with wallets," meaning to cancel the account. I was responding to the derision you showed towards those who were canceling their account.
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What such immature babies. You say "The Honor systems sucks- I am cancelling boo hoo" - Why don't you grow up and get youselves a real life. The freaking system has only been in place just over week. How can you determine that it sucks already?
I would say part of the problem is that it was pushed out in an incomplete form to try to preempt the launch date of Guild Wars. In addition, the lead designer was interviewed about the upcoming battlegrounds, and he demonstrated a shameful lack of understanding of how PvP actually works in practice on the regular realms ("Alliance outnumber horde? Oh, that's just a misconception, it's not really true. And we're looking to fix that. Massive lag around the massive battle areas? That's all in your head."). That's why people aren't optomistic about the future of "honor" in World of Warcraft.
You cry babies should NOT be playing any MMORPGs because you just look for excuses to quit. Same stuff with Everquest, same crap over Star Wars galaxies!
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that features listed in the game manual are implimented within the first six months of game release, especially for a game with a monthly fee, do you?
These people are PAYING for the game on an ongoing basis. That gives them full license to complain about poor service.
If someone actually held the game companies liable for shoddy service and shoddy products (vote with your wallets), then perhaps they wouldn't be able to get away with these sorts of things so much.
Are you a Randian? How about an Objectivist? I started to read one of her books, is it "Atlas Shrugged" with the architect?
Nope, that was the Fountainhead. I had to read that junk over summer vacation for Honors English, and procrastinated so long I had to read all 700 pages in two hellish days.
Well sure it doesn't have to be that way (I've heard DirecTV looks pretty good), but the temptation is always there. Cable companies try to squeeze in just a liiiittle bit more.. maybe another channel here or there. I like that analog cable doesn't give them as many options. They have fewer ways to screw it up.
Digital cable makes much more efficient use of the bandwidth on the cable distribution system.
Translation: It gets so compressed so much that the quality is actually less than that of analog cable. Or at least that's how it worked here in California with Comcast.
In short, if you even remotely care about quality, MPEG-2 is going to beat MPEG-4 in any hardware-encoding-only situation with any currently available hardware, and it will likely stay that way for quite some time.
Also, if you plan to do any editing of the video before archiving it (say you only want an exerpt of the stream or you want to cut out commercials), MPEG-2 is much easier to edit (especially frame by frame!) than MPEG-4.
Nope, it's not just you. I wonder how much calibration went on with the capture settings of these cards (or at least, with the amount of "calibration" that you can do when your controls are so limited). When I first installed my PVR350, I found the default brightness/contrast/hue/saturation settings to be horrible. The image was way too dark and also oversaturated.. after a lot of tweaking the card captures a pretty good image.
Are you sure? I seem to recall an observation that Tupac has released almost as many new songs in the time since his "death," as he did when he was alive.
You are correct! Noted cultural observer David Wong has put together a summary of events after Tupac's death that seem to point to the possibility that Tupac faked his own death. Interesting reading.
Because audiences usually react fairly well to humanoids. They wouldn't connect, except maybe to a few hardcore sci-fi geeks who would find it pretty cool, even if no one else did.
Why do people in the future right with light sabers?
Chivalry. Star Wars is like an old pirate movie.. in space!!
Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?
Because the people fight better, especially if they use the force which robots can't touch.
Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?
Why is technology today so bad that it always needs fixing? I can imagine technology will always be bad enough to need fixing, given what it goes through in the Star Wars movies.
When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly? Why does it require physical manipulation?
Maybe their security policy says no wireless.;)
Wireless is incredibly overrated at the moment.
My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us. It won't be humanoids in space suits breathing nitrogen... it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.
But honestly, how intelligent a society could such creatures have evolved into? Humans are very well designed and our civilization was able to evolve because we are physically able to manipulate our environment. For a race to develop.. interstellar travel, these sorts of things are a must.
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Not only that, but some nitwit modded him up. Does no one read the context post anymore?
Good point.
- Reliable DVD playing support (Including menus)
xine is reliable (including menus) for me on all my dvds, though I do wish it had less of a crappy interface.
- Better sound quality as there's no need to resample
Come again? Although I've tried many times to switch over to Linux completely, the above have kept me using Windows, especially since there is no 64-bit Cedega (AFAIK) and there doesn't seem to be any benefit to setting up a 32-bit chroot over simply using Windows.
Why do you have to set up a 32-bit chroot? I use cedega all the time on my 64-bit Fedora home machine (in fact, I use it far too much).
I think you came near to the original poster's point in your post. Starbucks employees usually aren't sullen art student types. They're not as angsty, and they are certainly NOT avant-guard like so many mopey or snobbish indie coffee house employees are. That's how Starbucks has a different "atmosphere."
They can feel free to try, but the law is on my side.
They can't physically stop you, no, only the police have that legal right. But they can charge you with trespassing. They have the right to kick out whomever they want from their store.
"We find that evidence of appellant's bookshelf use and the existence of books in his house was at least somewhat relevant to the state's case against him"
No, no, no. If you insist on using the bookshelf analogy, then write is as this: "The defendant had a bookshelf that we have reason to believe has been used to hide evidence but the defendant refused to let the authorities search through the bookshelf. We find that refusal somewhat relevant to the state's case against him."
It's not the encryption itself. It's the encryption, the charges, and the defendant's refusal to turn over the keys that gets the perv in trouble with his files.
I doubt that encryption will be banned, but I can see more cases like this where a defendant's refusal to turn over keys will be used against him.
Now.. this is all assuming the defendant was asked to turn over the keys, but he refused. I mean, I can't imagine any half-competent investigator not demanding them! The article doesn't mention it though.
I never saw the theatrical/dvd releases, but I do remember the wife being controlled and getting blown away by the law when it was shown on USA back in the mid-90s.
Some of us have monitors that most consumer cards aren't capable of driving. That's why I'm considering the card purchase. $1k is pricey, but it's better than the $2k+ for a QuadroFX. On the other hand.. I might wait a little wait and hold on to the Quadro card I'm borrowing and hope this card comes down in price soon.
Taking two outputs and multiplexing them to form a larger image isn't dual-link dvi. I don't think it's SLI either (I thought that involved two graphics cards).
Because with iTunes, you're not buying a product, you're buying a service. Even if you burn your songs to a CD.. that's the copy that you've made, and you can't sell that CD, just as you can't sell a burned CD copy of a CD that you retain possession of. One of the reasons I don't like services, and would rather have real products.
It won't work. History says so. Gadh believes consumers will be interested in purchasing this moronic system because it's in his interest to believe it. He's paid to believe it.
There is one way this could work.. the public won't accept it if there is no incentive to upgrade. This additional "restriction" would have to be paired with an upgrade incentive powerful enough to overwhelm the negatives. Say.. "well, you have to buy a new machine to play HD-DVDs anyway, we'll just mandate this in the new standard. Is it too late for them to try to shoehorn this sort of thing into Blue-Ray and/or HD-DVD?
Steamboat Willie was the name of the first short starring Mickey Mouse that had sound. Originally Walt created "Oswald the Rabbit," a creation which was appropriated by his employer who then fired Disney. Disney worked on his own then, creating "Mortimer Mouse," though the name was changed to Mickey Mouse at the suggestion of Walt's wife.
Consider yourself lucky.
Oh please please please! That would be the best thing to happen to Congress since partisan-caused gridlock.
He must be a satanist. They like writing URLS with backslashes instead of forward slashes, upside-down pentagrams, etc.
Thank goodness someone else believes in this! I've been wanting to start up an Internet hunting business where you can hunt Etheopians. These guys starve all the time, and if a few dozen of them die, hell, it doesn't affect me. I'm way over in California, for God's sake! They're meaningless to me. So let's hunt some of the fuckers for sport over the Internet!
For one, Battlegrounds has been Blizzard's constant mantra for the last week. "Don't like the current honor system? It's ok, Battlegrounds will fix it. Immense lagfests in Tarren Mill/Crossroads/etc? That's ok, Battlegrounds will draw away the masses of players seeking honor. Level 48 characters can't even poke their noses outside of the towns on PvP servers without getting splattered by level 60 chars seeking honor? That's ok, Battlegrounds will draw the honor-seekers instead." If Battlegrounds is supposed to be the great compliment to the honor system that Blizzard has claimed it will be, then why was the honor system released before the Battlegrounds was ready? Why was the honor system released without dishonor? Ie, dishonorable actions have no punishments? It's because Guild Wars is out, and Blizzard needed to throw something out FAST so that bored level 60 players wouldn't hop over to that game instead. Well now they've put out a system that has degraded the quality of the game for almost everyone who isn't level 58-60.
I don't expect perfection. But I do expect progression. I agree that WoW is probably better than Everquest (that SOE auction site makes me nauseated) or SWG, etc. I really liked the game up until the honor system. I still like it for the most part. But if you're on an RP/normal server and the entire town you're at is massacred on a constant basis, then it becomes pretty hard to progress. This is, of course, not nearly as much of a problem for the Alliance as it is for the Horde. If it keeps up then people playing the Horde are going to give up, because where's the fun getting massacred in a town against 3:1, 4:1, 5:1 odds? Then who will the Alliance fight? Sure, places like Tarren Mill were always hotspots, but it was nothing like it is now. My problem with the honor system is that it currently encourages and rewards the worst of the anti-social tendancies of the game -- griefing and ganking. How is that an improvement over the system that was in place before? Oh that's right, the level 60 folks were crying that they were bored. And the competition was starting to look formidable..
My biggest problem is that originally we were sold the idea that PvP would be optional, that it would be a great system and there would be incentives if you wanted to take part in it. Now the nature of the game has been changed, and PvP is inescapable even on normal/RP servers (when a town is destroyed, it affects the low-level folks who can't PvP as well).
Um...its a GAME! If you buy a game for a PC, Console, board game, etc. and dont like it, you should NOT have the right to sue the game developer!
I never said anything about suing the game developer. Yes, that would be a rediculous idea. I specifically mentioned "vote with wallets," meaning to cancel the account. I was responding to the derision you showed towards those who were canceling their account.
I would say part of the problem is that it was pushed out in an incomplete form to try to preempt the launch date of Guild Wars. In addition, the lead designer was interviewed about the upcoming battlegrounds, and he demonstrated a shameful lack of understanding of how PvP actually works in practice on the regular realms ("Alliance outnumber horde? Oh, that's just a misconception, it's not really true. And we're looking to fix that. Massive lag around the massive battle areas? That's all in your head."). That's why people aren't optomistic about the future of "honor" in World of Warcraft.
You cry babies should NOT be playing any MMORPGs because you just look for excuses to quit. Same stuff with Everquest, same crap over Star Wars galaxies!
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that features listed in the game manual are implimented within the first six months of game release, especially for a game with a monthly fee, do you?
These people are PAYING for the game on an ongoing basis. That gives them full license to complain about poor service.
If someone actually held the game companies liable for shoddy service and shoddy products (vote with your wallets), then perhaps they wouldn't be able to get away with these sorts of things so much.
Nope, that was the Fountainhead. I had to read that junk over summer vacation for Honors English, and procrastinated so long I had to read all 700 pages in two hellish days.
Well sure it doesn't have to be that way (I've heard DirecTV looks pretty good), but the temptation is always there. Cable companies try to squeeze in just a liiiittle bit more.. maybe another channel here or there. I like that analog cable doesn't give them as many options. They have fewer ways to screw it up.
Translation: It gets so compressed so much that the quality is actually less than that of analog cable. Or at least that's how it worked here in California with Comcast.
Also, if you plan to do any editing of the video before archiving it (say you only want an exerpt of the stream or you want to cut out commercials), MPEG-2 is much easier to edit (especially frame by frame!) than MPEG-4.
Nope, it's not just you. I wonder how much calibration went on with the capture settings of these cards (or at least, with the amount of "calibration" that you can do when your controls are so limited). When I first installed my PVR350, I found the default brightness/contrast/hue/saturation settings to be horrible. The image was way too dark and also oversaturated.. after a lot of tweaking the card captures a pretty good image.
You are correct! Noted cultural observer David Wong has put together a summary of events after Tupac's death that seem to point to the possibility that Tupac faked his own death. Interesting reading.
Because audiences usually react fairly well to humanoids. They wouldn't connect, except maybe to a few hardcore sci-fi geeks who would find it pretty cool, even if no one else did.
Why do people in the future right with light sabers?
Chivalry. Star Wars is like an old pirate movie.. in space!!
Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?
Because the people fight better, especially if they use the force which robots can't touch.
Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?
Why is technology today so bad that it always needs fixing? I can imagine technology will always be bad enough to need fixing, given what it goes through in the Star Wars movies.
When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly? Why does it require physical manipulation?
Maybe their security policy says no wireless. ;)
Wireless is incredibly overrated at the moment.
My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us. It won't be humanoids in space suits breathing nitrogen... it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.
But honestly, how intelligent a society could such creatures have evolved into? Humans are very well designed and our civilization was able to evolve because we are physically able to manipulate our environment. For a race to develop.. interstellar travel, these sorts of things are a must.