Solution for that is AnyDVD. Strip that bullshit HDCP before it infects everything else. Otherwise always buy a HD Fury for any home entertainment systems and use that to Strip the worthless HDCP.
anyone that has a real home theater has an HDfury in it. dont risk a HDCP infection.
First Bluray is NOT 1080p. It's CAPABLE OF 1080p, but it can contain anything from 480i to 1080p. you are a fool if you think all Blurays are 1080p.
Second all movies on BluRay are not "HD" movies from the 80's are a waste of money on bluray as all you get is more film grain! Woo! A lot of movies were shot on crap quality 35mm film to save money and ended up having a metric buttload of film grain. Want a good example of a waste of money on BluRay? Star Wars 4,5,6.
Second dont try and tell me that a DVD will not have "visible artifacts" DVD's have long been so poorly mastered and have had the movies bitrate so reduced to fit worthless "added feature crap" on them they look like crap and are FULL of artifacts. The ONLY way to get a DVD that is fantastic is to buy "superbit" editions that do away with all the worthless extras crap and use the whole dual layer disc for just the movie at the maximum bitrate possible. I have a copy of XXX on superbit that looks IDENTICAL to the BLuRay version. (which means the bluray version is NOT 1080p worth of video)
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p) or the more common 720p. and THAT is what is on most Bluray disks as the source materiel.
There are exceptions. Pixar for example re-renders the film at 1080p for perfection on a Bluray. and any film transfers from IMAX also will work at 1080p IF they did the transfer with a 1080p camera. Anything shot digitally in the last few years on digital panaflex cameras, or digital Arriflex cameras can also look fantastic and real 1080p IF they re render the film at that resolution for DVD release.
My 20Mp camera let's me crop and correct in post framing issues. I have created fantastic photos from casual experiential shots because if the larger image.
Also. at 20X30 a 20mp image looks a LOT better than a 10mp image does, IF printed on a printer that can do the resolution. the garbage printers at Costco can not.
Honestly, sell your old Canon Rebel and get a Rebel t2i and get a camera that sees in the dark and kicks the crud out of that paleolithic age camera... IF.....
If you have decent glass. Crap glass will not take a better photo on more megapixels. L series glass really shines with the big sensors.
I find it more likely that the person driving like a jerk and breaking the law to have a "jesus fish" on their SUV or Minivan. I see that far more often than the BMW 7 series, Mercedes, or a Porsche (except the Cayanne, those bitches all drive like assholes) driving like a jerk risking other people lives by tailgaiting and overly agressive driving.
Honestly, as a christian I am embarassed how these hypocrytes that advertise they are christian make the world think my kind act. We dont. The "christian" that acts like that and spews hate at Homosexuals and other people that are "immoral" are NOT christians, they are a wierd sect of extremists that seems to have taken hold.
It's so bad, I have stopped identifying myself as a christian for fear of being identified as one of these scumbags.
Get friends to start buying old linksys routers and create your own rouge wireless internet campus wide. Get people to donate to pay for hardware and a few cable modems at the perimiter so your mesh network can have multiple internet gateways to balance the load.
Old routers and openWRT will do this, then start putting them up.
you are in college, it's time to be subversive and community building. a non uni owned student run wireless internet setup is the best way to do this.
I know a LOT of mac users and none of them use safari, They all use Chrome or Firefox, mostly because of what you experienced. Safari causing the system to crash. Running Lion helps, mostly because they eliminated the PPC code completely, but that adds in new issues installing older software that was universal and written by dummies that did not make the installer universal.
" you remember the "I'm a PC" and "I'm a Mac" commercials, the gist of several of the ads was that Macs COULDN'T be compromised like PCs."
And at that time it was 100% correct.
Pc's would get a virus just by letting it sit on the internet without a firewall. MAC's would not do this as they actually had a firewall in the BSD underpinnings.
I know that MS fanbois hate that this was a fact and most try like hell to ignore it, but it's also the reason why Linux is far more secure than Windows. Ms is getting better 10 years later, but they still have a long way to go.
"HOWEVER, a cop who kicks in the door without a warrant and finds nothing becomes personally (and his agency, collectively) responsible for damages, including punitive damages."
Nope. Cops are indemnified all the time. They can KILL someone during a high speed chase and can not be sued by the victims relatives. IT's a bullshit law that the feds and most states put in place to protect police from being responsible for their actions. This is outside their "good ol boy" network of the cops covering things up for each other. Cops protect other Cops above all else.
Sounds great, I'll support that as soon as they put a penalty for the law enforcement being wrong.
This is the problem, they CAN go on fishing expeditions without any recourse. They can smash down a door and kill the family dog on accident and the family does not get all damages covered, they get told "sucks to be you"
As soon as I get to sue the Cops that did the deed and the city department for all damages and legal costs I'll support that warrants are legitimate.
Sometimes you had to do that. I remember working several 16 hours days and then having to do a 1.2.3.2.1.3.2.1.2.3 shift rotation with every 3rd day a 16 hour day to cover for sick or vacation schedules. After working this way for 7 years My doctor actually suggested to my wife to sue the city when I die because the rotating shift was killing me. I quit shortly thereafter.
Siestas are common in coffee culture countries. Ask the people that live in South america where everyone has good coffee, not his month old crap sold in the northern hemisphere.
IF you want to torture people make them work the "swing shift" 1st shift for 1 week, 2nd Shift for the next week, and 3rd shift the third week, rotate back to 1st.
Within 2 months you will become highly cranky, want to kill everyone and you enjoy a constant mental fog of never feeling awake.
That is called a Siesta, and civilized cultures have been doing it for thousands of years. and early afternoon nap typically after lunch or a couple hours after lunch works wonders.
My body actually get's "sleepy" around 3:00-4:00pm every day and it's common with others as well. your body WANTS a nap.
Hey canada, want to save money operating your government? Switch over to the US dollar as your currency. It worked for the EU and Euro! Look at how happy they are over there!
I'm going to still use client side aggressive tactics to force them to do "no tracking" or at least make it hard for them. Sorry, but I don't trust them and all it takes is one scumbag company (doubleclick) to act as a harvester that everyone else uses.
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They are, they are making prequels. back when the Vulcans had floppy ears and had a racial slur stereotype southern drawl.
i have one of those and several HDDVD disks. It's far superior to the dumb BluRay.
got them cheap too!
Solution for that is AnyDVD. Strip that bullshit HDCP before it infects everything else.
Otherwise always buy a HD Fury for any home entertainment systems and use that to Strip the worthless HDCP.
anyone that has a real home theater has an HDfury in it. dont risk a HDCP infection.
First Bluray is NOT 1080p. It's CAPABLE OF 1080p, but it can contain anything from 480i to 1080p. you are a fool if you think all Blurays are 1080p.
Second all movies on BluRay are not "HD" movies from the 80's are a waste of money on bluray as all you get is more film grain! Woo! A lot of movies were shot on crap quality 35mm film to save money and ended up having a metric buttload of film grain. Want a good example of a waste of money on BluRay? Star Wars 4,5,6.
Second dont try and tell me that a DVD will not have "visible artifacts" DVD's have long been so poorly mastered and have had the movies bitrate so reduced to fit worthless "added feature crap" on them they look like crap and are FULL of artifacts. The ONLY way to get a DVD that is fantastic is to buy "superbit" editions that do away with all the worthless extras crap and use the whole dual layer disc for just the movie at the maximum bitrate possible. I have a copy of XXX on superbit that looks IDENTICAL to the BLuRay version. (which means the bluray version is NOT 1080p worth of video)
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p) or the more common 720p. and THAT is what is on most Bluray disks as the source materiel.
There are exceptions. Pixar for example re-renders the film at 1080p for perfection on a Bluray. and any film transfers from IMAX also will work at 1080p IF they did the transfer with a 1080p camera. Anything shot digitally in the last few years on digital panaflex cameras, or digital Arriflex cameras can also look fantastic and real 1080p IF they re render the film at that resolution for DVD release.
Lastly BLuRay's mostly ARE H264 on the disk if they are not MPEG2. I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc for more reading on the subject.
My 20Mp camera let's me crop and correct in post framing issues. I have created fantastic photos from casual experiential shots because if the larger image.
Also. at 20X30 a 20mp image looks a LOT better than a 10mp image does, IF printed on a printer that can do the resolution. the garbage printers at Costco can not.
Honestly, sell your old Canon Rebel and get a Rebel t2i and get a camera that sees in the dark and kicks the crud out of that paleolithic age camera... IF.....
If you have decent glass. Crap glass will not take a better photo on more megapixels. L series glass really shines with the big sensors.
No it's not. I see those commercials as the new CX-5 is GREEN because it runs on the little furry creatures instead of oil.
Why use oil when we can breed these furry things as a renewable fuel source?
I find it more likely that the person driving like a jerk and breaking the law to have a "jesus fish" on their SUV or Minivan. I see that far more often than the BMW 7 series, Mercedes, or a Porsche (except the Cayanne, those bitches all drive like assholes) driving like a jerk risking other people lives by tailgaiting and overly agressive driving.
Honestly, as a christian I am embarassed how these hypocrytes that advertise they are christian make the world think my kind act. We dont. The "christian" that acts like that and spews hate at Homosexuals and other people that are "immoral" are NOT christians, they are a wierd sect of extremists that seems to have taken hold.
It's so bad, I have stopped identifying myself as a christian for fear of being identified as one of these scumbags.
Get friends to start buying old linksys routers and create your own rouge wireless internet campus wide. Get people to donate to pay for hardware and a few cable modems at the perimiter so your mesh network can have multiple internet gateways to balance the load.
Old routers and openWRT will do this, then start putting them up.
you are in college, it's time to be subversive and community building. a non uni owned student run wireless internet setup is the best way to do this.
You bought ram from Apple when you ordered your mac too?
I know a LOT of mac users and none of them use safari, They all use Chrome or Firefox, mostly because of what you experienced. Safari causing the system to crash. Running Lion helps, mostly because they eliminated the PPC code completely, but that adds in new issues installing older software that was universal and written by dummies that did not make the installer universal.
" you remember the "I'm a PC" and "I'm a Mac" commercials, the gist of several of the ads was that Macs COULDN'T be compromised like PCs."
And at that time it was 100% correct.
Pc's would get a virus just by letting it sit on the internet without a firewall. MAC's would not do this as they actually had a firewall in the BSD underpinnings.
I know that MS fanbois hate that this was a fact and most try like hell to ignore it, but it's also the reason why Linux is far more secure than Windows. Ms is getting better 10 years later, but they still have a long way to go.
You can replace the name "FoxConn" with any corporations name and still be as correct.
Hell you can put in any Politicians name and still use that statement.
"HOWEVER, a cop who kicks in the door without a warrant and finds nothing becomes personally (and his agency, collectively) responsible for damages, including punitive damages."
Nope. Cops are indemnified all the time. They can KILL someone during a high speed chase and can not be sued by the victims relatives. IT's a bullshit law that the feds and most states put in place to protect police from being responsible for their actions. This is outside their "good ol boy" network of the cops covering things up for each other. Cops protect other Cops above all else.
There is a direct link between eating High Fructose Corn Syrup and Murder.
Every Murderer in the USA consumed HFCS at one point in his or her life.
Sounds great, I'll support that as soon as they put a penalty for the law enforcement being wrong.
This is the problem, they CAN go on fishing expeditions without any recourse. They can smash down a door and kill the family dog on accident and the family does not get all damages covered, they get told "sucks to be you"
As soon as I get to sue the Cops that did the deed and the city department for all damages and legal costs I'll support that warrants are legitimate.
Sometimes you had to do that. I remember working several 16 hours days and then having to do a 1.2.3.2.1.3.2.1.2.3 shift rotation with every 3rd day a 16 hour day to cover for sick or vacation schedules. After working this way for 7 years My doctor actually suggested to my wife to sue the city when I die because the rotating shift was killing me. I quit shortly thereafter.
incorrect data.
Siestas are common in coffee culture countries. Ask the people that live in South america where everyone has good coffee, not his month old crap sold in the northern hemisphere.
"Then again, the smart criminal is a rare breed."
Not really, they all work at banks and wall street. They know that you need to scam big time to get rich.
why not just a good old fashoned uprising? It worked for the French! Or are all the poor people just to lazy now days?
IF you want to torture people make them work the "swing shift" 1st shift for 1 week, 2nd Shift for the next week, and 3rd shift the third week, rotate back to 1st.
Within 2 months you will become highly cranky, want to kill everyone and you enjoy a constant mental fog of never feeling awake.
That is called a Siesta, and civilized cultures have been doing it for thousands of years. and early afternoon nap typically after lunch or a couple hours after lunch works wonders.
My body actually get's "sleepy" around 3:00-4:00pm every day and it's common with others as well. your body WANTS a nap.
I've added ghostery and do not track plus. Both are aggressive and blocking tracking info.
Hey canada, want to save money operating your government? Switch over to the US dollar as your currency. It worked for the EU and Euro! Look at how happy they are over there!
Canada is now on the "United States's Bitch List" as you guys do what we tell you.
Honestly, I cant believe that my country is strong arming everyone on this planet into catering to a few small Organized crime operations.
I'm going to still use client side aggressive tactics to force them to do "no tracking" or at least make it hard for them. Sorry, but I don't trust them and all it takes is one scumbag company (doubleclick) to act as a harvester that everyone else uses.