Annoyingly, the dvdauthor team changed to an XML specification the week before the article was published 8-). The dvdauthor site now has some half-decent documentation to describe how the new format works, so it's not too hard to translate my article into the new version.
(my article was written with dvdauthor 0.5.3 in mind)
No. The product that CD-Wow sells is legal. It's just that they can buy it in Hong Kong, ship it across the globe, and still manage to charge a lower price than most UK retailers. The record company's Hong Kong division gets the money, rather than the UK division.
Yes, you're absolutely right that video producers should be thinking about the video rather than wrestling with the tools. And yes, a GUI would make things a lot easier (there is an effort, Polidori under way to provide one). But on the other hand, commercial DVD authoring applications are not cheap, especially if you want one that takes advantage of the more esoteric features. dvdauthor on the other hand, doesn't have any of these restrictions, so if you're an amateur who wants to play around with making DVDs, but don't want to fork out the $1,000 or so for Scenarist, it's a good trade-off (also, the new release of dvdauthor has created a new way of specifying the layout, so it's not quite as hideous as my article makes out anymore;)).
But, yes, I am looking forward to the day when I can can click on GnomeDVD and drag MPEG2 across the desktop:)
the reports about their 'funky RSS' are rather troubling.
Don't worry, it's just Dave Winer throwing a hissy fit. The 'funky' parts of the MovableType feeds are just a few extra tags from the Dublin Core specification, which Dave doesn't want sullying his RSS spec. He's the only one who seems to have problems with the additions (I haven't heard of an aggregator that breaks on MT feeds, for example).
You've just made my day:-). I've been wondering how I was going to play my AVI files on my shiny new iBook. I can now watch Cowboy Bebop on the flight home. Hurrah!
And David Micheline (who wrote the first appearences of Venom) had nothing to do with it at all, right? Incidentally, Todd was the one who made Spider-Man lose the black suit, as he wanted to draw the "classic" costume...
Or not, as I imagine our wonderful Government will use the fact that we are "at war" in order to contravane certain sections of the Act (which is apparently allowed). We have always been at war with Oceania.
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Warning: This could all be rubbish, but here's what I've picked up...
Bonobo is the new GNOME component architecture, heavily influenced by Microsoft COM. The flame war seemed to start over bonobo-conf (or bonobo-config - I think these are two different programs, but people seemed to use them interchangably) versus GConf (the current GNOME configuaration system. Originally, bonobo-conf was going to be a wrapper for GConf, but apparently Miguel + Ximian thought that GConf had major design flaws, so they (well, Dietmar Maurer
) created a new system with bonobo-conf. When this became apparent, Havoc (maintainer of GConf) was upset that they had done this whilst originally telling him that it would be a wrapper, and that the new bonobo-conf had problems that GConf already addressed (like overridable default settings). Cue flamage. I think that parts of libgnomeui were changed to use bonobo-conf, which annoyed people even more.
At the moment, I expect nothing from Napster; if a song cuts out in mid-download it is a pain, but as I'm going to be getting the track for free, I don't mind spending a bit more time getting the track later on. Once money gets involved (and I have no qualm about paying a monthly/yearly fee in order for access to a music catalogue), I (and I'm sure others) will expect a much better quality of servers. And I'm also feeling a bit uneasy about the fact that Napster's current line of defence (being a common carrier) doesn't quite suit once they start charging for the service. After all, it's the people who use Napster who make it valuable, not the server setup. Anyway, we shall see...
False. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, that staple of holiday TV fare, is in the public domain.
Close. The film footage of It's a Wonderful Life is in the Public Domain, but the score isn't. And yes, the film company that owned the rights was quite happy when they discovered this fact 8-).
I am sick about seeing Outlook and Outlook Express clones on Linux that will never get as close to the level of i18n support that Outlook Express has simply because the underlying system (e.g. X Windows or GTK ) do not provide a decent framework to build i18n-enabled applications.
Fair enough, but Region 1 DVDs are invariably much better than the Region 2 DVDs we get over here. Bad transfers, less special features, and almost twice the price.
Also, I think you'll find that many films do make a lot of their money from the home market; in some cases it can turn a cinema flop into a modest success....
Plus it has the best (if you can live without pictures) video game magazine in the UK(Digitiser, on p480, Channel 4).
And really lo-res Advent Calendars during the Christmas time...who could ask for more? 8-)
I had forgotten about the emulation, to be honest 8-). I'm just a bit sick of all this hype that's going around concerning the PS2. All the games released so far, and those that are being released in the near future, fall far short of this 'revolution' that Sony was proclaiming, which almost all games magazines and mainstream media seem to have bought into. Consequently, the DC has been kicked into the ground, despite the wonderful games that have been released for it recently (Disclaimer: I don't own a DC or PS2, and don't intend to. But I do take an interest in these things 8-)).
And then you wouldn't have a kickass PSX2 system, you'd have an old Dreamcast with crappy controllers and graphics (relatively speaking of course). Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. The capabilities of the PSX2 are far more impressive then a dreamcast. -ivan256
Maybe so, but at least the DC has decent games available for it at the moment. I'd rather play MSR than Ridge Racer.
Not a BBC journalist, the BBC journalist...
Point taken. I was just in a rush to get it posted (my first accepted submission!!!), and I didn't really want to call him an anchorman 8-).
mpg123 sounds fine to me (although I'm not an audiophile), and it doesn't suffer from the Nitrane bug (see
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/winamp/winamp.html for details) that's cursed WinAmp for a long time now, making it painful to listen to any of my LAME-encoded MP3s...
Maybe it's the continuity-addicted comic freak in me, but I quite like Batman Beyond (or Batman of The Future as it's called over here in the UK when ITV deign to actually show an episode). I love the referencing back to older villains, the mystery of why Bruce stopped being Batman, Barbara Gordon being the new Commissioner (with the subtext that she and Batman did not part of good terms), the episode with the armour from Dark Knight Returns, and so on.
Now if you want to get me started on the WB's case, mention Pinky, Elmrya, and The Brain...
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Annoyingly, the dvdauthor team changed to an XML specification the week before the article was published 8-). The dvdauthor site now has some half-decent documentation to describe how the new format works, so it's not too hard to translate my article into the new version.
(my article was written with dvdauthor 0.5.3 in mind)
Are you questioning the computer?
No. The product that CD-Wow sells is legal. It's just that they can buy it in Hong Kong, ship it across the globe, and still manage to charge a lower price than most UK retailers. The record company's Hong Kong division gets the money, rather than the UK division.
Okay, you got me. No defense. I screwed up, and thanks for pointing it out. I'll remember in future.
(I didn't make any apostrophe errors, though, did I? Because I'd kick myself if they managed to get through several read-throughs)
Hey, I'm the writer :).
;)).
:)
Yes, you're absolutely right that video producers should be thinking about the video rather than wrestling with the tools. And yes, a GUI would make things a lot easier (there is an effort, Polidori under way to provide one). But on the other hand, commercial DVD authoring applications are not cheap, especially if you want one that takes advantage of the more esoteric features. dvdauthor on the other hand, doesn't have any of these restrictions, so if you're an amateur who wants to play around with making DVDs, but don't want to fork out the $1,000 or so for Scenarist, it's a good trade-off (also, the new release of dvdauthor has created a new way of specifying the layout, so it's not quite as hideous as my article makes out anymore
But, yes, I am looking forward to the day when I can can click on GnomeDVD and drag MPEG2 across the desktop
Don't worry, it's just Dave Winer throwing a hissy fit. The 'funky' parts of the MovableType feeds are just a few extra tags from the Dublin Core specification, which Dave doesn't want sullying his RSS spec. He's the only one who seems to have problems with the additions (I haven't heard of an aggregator that breaks on MT feeds, for example).
You've just made my day :-). I've been wondering how I was going to play my AVI files on my shiny new iBook. I can now watch Cowboy Bebop on the flight home. Hurrah!
> It's generally considered fact that if Batman had >enough time to plan, he could defeat God.
And for anybody who wants to read this, get hold of JLA: Rock Of Ages, where Batman defeats The New Gods (specifically Darkseid)...
And David Micheline (who wrote the first appearences of Venom) had nothing to do with it at all, right? Incidentally, Todd was the one who made Spider-Man lose the black suit, as he wanted to draw the "classic" costume...
>Like T.S. Eliot said in The Waste Land, "The best >lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of >passionate
>intensity".
Just a nitpick, that's actually from W.B. Yeats' The Second Coming, not Eliot 8-).
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"The eZ80 executes Z80 code four times faster than traditional Z80s at the same clock speed, and can operate at speeds up to 50 MHz"
Forget CP/M, this means we can have a 50MHz Spectrum 8-).
But doesn't Evolution use a 'wombat' back-end, which could be used by other programs?
Bonobo is the new GNOME component architecture, heavily influenced by Microsoft COM. The flame war seemed to start over bonobo-conf (or bonobo-config - I think these are two different programs, but people seemed to use them interchangably) versus GConf (the current GNOME configuaration system. Originally, bonobo-conf was going to be a wrapper for GConf, but apparently Miguel + Ximian thought that GConf had major design flaws, so they (well, Dietmar Maurer ) created a new system with bonobo-conf. When this became apparent, Havoc (maintainer of GConf) was upset that they had done this whilst originally telling him that it would be a wrapper, and that the new bonobo-conf had problems that GConf already addressed (like overridable default settings). Cue flamage. I think that parts of libgnomeui were changed to use bonobo-conf, which annoyed people even more.
For more accurate info, read the GConf mailing-list archives and see for yourself 8-).At the moment, I expect nothing from Napster; if a song cuts out in mid-download it is a pain, but as I'm going to be getting the track for free, I don't mind spending a bit more time getting the track later on. Once money gets involved (and I have no qualm about paying a monthly/yearly fee in order for access to a music catalogue), I (and I'm sure others) will expect a much better quality of servers. And I'm also feeling a bit uneasy about the fact that Napster's current line of defence (being a common carrier) doesn't quite suit once they start charging for the service. After all, it's the people who use Napster who make it valuable, not the server setup. Anyway, we shall see...
You mean something like Pango?
The Starships Troopers Region 2 disc was a "flipper". And had no extras. I'm so glad I've got a hacked player 8-).
Fair enough, but Region 1 DVDs are invariably much better than the Region 2 DVDs we get over here. Bad transfers, less special features, and almost twice the price.
Also, I think you'll find that many films do make a lot of their money from the home market; in some cases it can turn a cinema flop into a modest success....
Plus it has the best (if you can live without pictures) video game magazine in the UK(Digitiser, on p480, Channel 4).
And really lo-res Advent Calendars during the Christmas time...who could ask for more? 8-)
I had forgotten about the emulation, to be honest 8-). I'm just a bit sick of all this hype that's going around concerning the PS2. All the games released so far, and those that are being released in the near future, fall far short of this 'revolution' that Sony was proclaiming, which almost all games magazines and mainstream media seem to have bought into. Consequently, the DC has been kicked into the ground, despite the wonderful games that have been released for it recently (Disclaimer: I don't own a DC or PS2, and don't intend to. But I do take an interest in these things 8-)).
Not a BBC journalist, the BBC journalist... Point taken. I was just in a rush to get it posted (my first accepted submission!!!), and I didn't really want to call him an anchorman 8-).
mpg123 sounds fine to me (although I'm not an audiophile), and it doesn't suffer from the Nitrane bug (see http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/winamp/winamp.html for details) that's cursed WinAmp for a long time now, making it painful to listen to any of my LAME-encoded MP3s...
Maybe it's the continuity-addicted comic freak in me, but I quite like Batman Beyond (or Batman of The Future as it's called over here in the UK when ITV deign to actually show an episode). I love the referencing back to older villains, the mystery of why Bruce stopped being Batman, Barbara Gordon being the new Commissioner (with the subtext that she and Batman did not part of good terms), the episode with the armour from Dark Knight Returns, and so on.
Now if you want to get me started on the WB's case, mention Pinky, Elmrya, and The Brain...