I haven't made copies of DVDs for safekeeping, but this may change once I get kid(s). I've been told that I destroyed a few LPs while a kid myself, and no doubt they will someday find that this is caused by genes as well... So yes, I probably want to make copies of some DVDs / BluRay-discs in the future.
Currently I'm more interested in converting my stuff (in semi-optimal settings) for whatever portable mediaplayer I'm currently using, and watching stuff on the go. So it is not only matter of (physical) robustness.
umm. you do the payment on the futuristic internet, using pre-printed codes / passwords / something. I visit the (brick and mortar) bank about once a year (if that...)
True enough, and I've read a few books several times. There aren't many games that I've gone back to... Although there are many I've got very fond memories of.
The streaming / transcoding / media support combination _might_ be the 'the best' in anything. Or I believe that might be the case if it wasn't so damn difficult to set up...
What I tried yesterday was streaming a DVD from my desktop to netbook over wlan... Both Windows XP systems. I was going to watch an episode of Monk before getting some sleep. I had two problems, the first one being that it didn't work (and I wish I knew why) and the second one was that the aspect ratio of the video got strecthed to incorrect width...
The first problem could be caused by firewall settings, need to look into that... If not, I have no idea... The instructions I found for DVD streaming were for linux, but adapting them to Windows didn't seem to be problematic. The streaming window certainly isn't very helpful. Some instructions on which Profile suit what purpose would be nice. Apparently some profiles were completely unsuitable for streaming at all. (Or otherwise broken, this based on the errors I was getting...)
What other options for streaming DVDs are out there?
You are probably right about the optical media, as I have mostly been using my PSP for reading e-books, and I've been very happy with the battery life...
Offtopic: Unfortunately I managed to break the screen physically a few days ago (and unfortunately can't even blame the screen for being too flimsy), so I don't have an e-reader.
I had the first generation PSP, and sort of enjoyed the layout for reading with Bookr. I now need to buy something similar... I'm thinking of a new PSP, but also wondering if iPod Touch works well for reading? I'm pretty fast reader and I wonder if lack of buttons on the Touch would slow me down..? (The actual e-book readers are a bit wide to be carried around, I think)
But it's not evolutionary dead end, considering the survival of the species... for example it could be that the man cannot produce offspring.
Perhaps related to this is altruism, which I believe was demonstrated to be good for the survival of a species as whole...
I'm using Firefox 3.1 beta 3, and I have a feeling that I'm no longer annoyed about the slowness. I'm pretty sure it's because this one is faster and not because I'm used to it...
What counts as high end? I bought my Nokia 'music phone' for EUR 150, and I have copy-paste (and bluetooth, but no wlan...).
In fact, my wife's phone cost EUR 70 in December 2006 and it has copy-paste... She even uses it occasionally. Sometimes to work around the memory limits caused by ~2000 SMS, but nevertheless
Oh but it does, I've used it to create some UML-diagrams under Ubuntu.
[Someone said something about 'not caring if the diagrams are created with paint', and that sounded like a challenge. The best UML-editor I've ever used ^o^]
Besides, in laymans terms, the game contained material not suitable for the rating it received. The amount of work you have to do to "unlock" it via the patch (and I did out of curiosity - it took 5 minutes) is trivial, but the joke is, the only reason I became aware of it is because of the news.
Applying any patch to any game is a trivial. So I don't think the amount of work is really important here, but rather the intent of the patcher. The coffee was disabled, and (I believe) there was no way to enable it within the game. An adult mod created from scratch for any other game would be as easy to install.
One couldn't access the hot coffee by accident, the mod had to be downloaded and installed intentionally. Operating systems are not rated R, although installing an adult game is trivial.
And I do believe the characters had clothes on in the game data... I have no idea what 17 year old persons are allowed to watch in the states, but seems to me that the game is no more no less harmful with the coffee mod enabled.
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I haven't made copies of DVDs for safekeeping, but this may change once I get kid(s). I've been told that I destroyed a few LPs while a kid myself, and no doubt they will someday find that this is caused by genes as well... So yes, I probably want to make copies of some DVDs / BluRay-discs in the future.
Currently I'm more interested in converting my stuff (in semi-optimal settings) for whatever portable mediaplayer I'm currently using, and watching stuff on the go. So it is not only matter of (physical) robustness.
Good. But hopefully because of something more subtantial than not providing decryption keys.
umm. you do the payment on the futuristic internet, using pre-printed codes / passwords / something. I visit the (brick and mortar) bank about once a year (if that...)
For something that can mess up someone's life, you probably want a really really low false positive rate, e.g., 1:100,000.
I'm not quite sure that's good enough... That would be around 3000 messed up lives in the USA if the test was widespread...
Or they've lost more of them...
I'm wondering if the ??AA lawyer appointments weren't designed to "take them out of the game". If so, it's a brilliant move, IMHO. :)
Right. He considered them harmful and wanted to take them out of the way, so he appointed them in the DOJ. Very ingenious move ^.^
Did he really...
True enough, and I've read a few books several times. There aren't many games that I've gone back to... Although there are many I've got very fond memories of.
A dollar from each person who wanted to hear the song. Sounds more than reasonable ^.^
But think of the outrage...
If I were in prison, I would enjoy watching South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
Where you're one of the characters made fun of? (fun being in this case something that you would find quite demeaning)
The streaming / transcoding / media support combination _might_ be the 'the best' in anything. Or I believe that might be the case if it wasn't so damn difficult to set up...
What I tried yesterday was streaming a DVD from my desktop to netbook over wlan... Both Windows XP systems. I was going to watch an episode of Monk before getting some sleep. I had two problems, the first one being that it didn't work (and I wish I knew why) and the second one was that the aspect ratio of the video got strecthed to incorrect width...
The first problem could be caused by firewall settings, need to look into that... If not, I have no idea... The instructions I found for DVD streaming were for linux, but adapting them to Windows didn't seem to be problematic. The streaming window certainly isn't very helpful. Some instructions on which Profile suit what purpose would be nice. Apparently some profiles were completely unsuitable for streaming at all. (Or otherwise broken, this based on the errors I was getting...)
What other options for streaming DVDs are out there?
You are probably right about the optical media, as I have mostly been using my PSP for reading e-books, and I've been very happy with the battery life...
Offtopic:
Unfortunately I managed to break the screen physically a few days ago (and unfortunately can't even blame the screen for being too flimsy), so I don't have an e-reader.
I had the first generation PSP, and sort of enjoyed the layout for reading with Bookr. I now need to buy something similar... I'm thinking of a new PSP, but also wondering if iPod Touch works well for reading? I'm pretty fast reader and I wonder if lack of buttons on the Touch would slow me down..? (The actual e-book readers are a bit wide to be carried around, I think)
I would never post a comment just to get the achievement. obviously.
But it's not evolutionary dead end, considering the survival of the species... for example it could be that the man cannot produce offspring. Perhaps related to this is altruism, which I believe was demonstrated to be good for the survival of a species as whole...
I'm using Firefox 3.1 beta 3, and I have a feeling that I'm no longer annoyed about the slowness. I'm pretty sure it's because this one is faster and not because I'm used to it...
What counts as high end? I bought my Nokia 'music phone' for EUR 150, and I have copy-paste (and bluetooth, but no wlan...).
In fact, my wife's phone cost EUR 70 in December 2006 and it has copy-paste... She even uses it occasionally. Sometimes to work around the memory limits caused by ~2000 SMS, but nevertheless
Easy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_in_the_Fast_Lane
I've got this setting disabled, not quite sure if there are any other relevant settings (you could try filtering with ctrlTab or Tab):
about:config
browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed --> false
Oh but it does, I've used it to create some UML-diagrams under Ubuntu.
[Someone said something about 'not caring if the diagrams are created with paint', and that sounded like a challenge. The best UML-editor I've ever used ^o^]
Besides, in laymans terms, the game contained material not suitable for the rating it received. The amount of work you have to do to "unlock" it via the patch (and I did out of curiosity - it took 5 minutes) is trivial, but the joke is, the only reason I became aware of it is because of the news.
Applying any patch to any game is a trivial. So I don't think the amount of work is really important here, but rather the intent of the patcher. The coffee was disabled, and (I believe) there was no way to enable it within the game. An adult mod created from scratch for any other game would be as easy to install.One couldn't access the hot coffee by accident, the mod had to be downloaded and installed intentionally. Operating systems are not rated R, although installing an adult game is trivial.
And I do believe the characters had clothes on in the game data... I have no idea what 17 year old persons are allowed to watch in the states, but seems to me that the game is no more no less harmful with the coffee mod enabled.
A double negative, no? No, it's double negative no.