I am pretty sure you could fit an entire season on a DVD-R. TNG was shot on film, but all editing and special effects were done on tape, so unless you redo the special effects, you will never have TNG in HD. So, take the SD episodes, compress it down in DivX or XVid to about 250-300 meg an episode, and you can fit an entire season on a dual layer disc.
However, it would be nice to have the HD-version of an entire season of TOS on a single disc.
And a disc is certainly more convienant to swap out than a HDD, and takes up less space on the shelf. Now if we can just talk Paramount into not charging us $140 a season.
My browser doesn't support anything as new fangled as altavista, excite, webcrawler, or that Yahoo thing that will probably never take off. I still have to use Archie and Veronica.
Still having trouble getting NCSA Mosaic to install in Vista - I think NCSA should release a new version to be compatable.
I have a BBA in Computer Sciences, and I work in Desktop Support at a major advertising company. Networking (system administrators, e-mail administrators, etc) is a possibility. Don't forget webdesigner and database designer. You could also get your teaching certification and teach programming, sciences or math at most schools. IT consulting is very big now, if you want to get into that field. Or you can go back to school and get a minor in something else.
Any storage medium you choose will degrade over time. You should plan to transfer the data every few years. All digital storage media, I have in several different areas. I keep copies of pics on my PS3, two different external harddrives, a harddrive in my computer, and back up to DVDs - with reburning to new discs every year or two. Knock on wood, I have not lost a single picture since I went digital back in 2001.
However, I also go a futher route. I take the best pictures out of a series (I can easily take hundreds of pictures at a time) and get prints. These are like 12 cents each on most stores websites. Digital videos I back up on high quality SVHS tapes. SVHS is a great long term format - just make sure you are not using that SVHS ET - storing SVHS on a regular VHS tape, as the signal degrades too fast. If you really want to go with long term storage, you might be able to find some 3-quarters decks around in some places.
So, in summery, what I do is store on both multiple harddrives and DVDs - with creating complete backups onto DVDs at least once a year, and also get analog copies of everything. Oh, and you also may want to look at some storage places - there are tons of places where you can store your photos online - hundreds or thousands for free at most sites. Many of these places will annoyingly resize the photos and compress them, but I use them as my ultimate last resort. I haven't had to retreive yet from one of these sites, but its nice to know the stuff is there. Webshots, I think, lets you store all your stuff at full rez, but I think the payoff is that you have to make your stuff searchable, so its fine for your trips abroad and stuff, but may not be where you want to put your personal memories. Then again, its been years since I used them, maybe they have other options to protect your privacy nowdays.
When I bought the PS3, only a special version of YellowDog worked, and it was not well documented. If they have documentaiton, and how to do it with Ubuntu, I might be willing to try it again. YellowDog hung up in install for me, and I could not get the thing to boot back into the PS3 firmware and had to return the thing. Bestbuy had to take it back, as it was within the first 7 days, but they were not too happy, but I did point out to them that it is a documented feature of the console.
Just to note - If you have issues with Nero converting the files for you, you can always use Canopus Procoder for the converting. Just convert whatever you want to put on a BD disc to Mpeg2 and Nero knows what to do from there.
Also, has anyone found an easy way to do surround sound? I find it annoying that when I convert a DD5.1 TS stream to anything else, it always downmixes the audio to 2 channel. I have tried tons of different conversion software, all with the same effect - 2 channel low-res DVD audio.
Uh, as far as I know, all current and future BluRay discs are compatable with the old Profile 1.0 systems. You may not be able to take advantage of all the webenabled stuff, and whatknot, but the movie still plays.
On a side note, I got the exact same notes in some of my HD-DVD discs that I got in my BluRay discs - saying something along the lines that the disc may have been manufactored after the player, and you may need a firmware upgrade to experience all of the FEATURES on the disc (not to watch the movie).
Adobe Encore easily made Menus for BluRay discs. In fact, I could take my DVD menus, with HD content, and compile the same thing to either BluRay or DVD, and it just reencoded the disc for whichever format I needed
Nero easily recorded AVC files to DVD5 and DVD9, and played flawlessly on my PS3. Source was a PAL TS file that I converted to NTSC AVC. No issues whatsoever.
I have yet to see any software that would allow me to author HD-DVD. As I have both formats, I would love to see something that would let me make HD-DVD compatable discs as easily as I can make BluRay compatable discs.
From the screenshots, it looks more like they stole the UI from Gimp or Photoshop. I see nothing even remotely similar to Office 2007's ribbon in there.
I timeshift everything, if even by a few minutes. I have a long commute to work, and may not get home to after 7. If I cannot time shift, I do not watch the event.
Of course, I still have the analog SVHS recorder that should work until February of next year.
Why would any broadcaster want to PREVENT time-shifting? Time-shifting leads to more viewers, such as myself, who usually cannot watch the show when its actually being broadcast. The only argument would be that if they had to watch it live, they could not foward through the commercials.
Of course, you are going to hit dead spots, and low signal areas. VPN craps out if you have higher than a 2% packet loss, and chances are, you are going to loose packets on a cellular modem, especially if you hit a dead spot.
My best was in Austria, on Max Mobile I think it was called. I paid roughly around 80 euro for the phone (of course, they were still on the shilling at that time, but they displayed both euro and shilling, and at the time, the dollar was stronger than the euro), and it came with like 20 euro of minutes. However, it cost me nothing to recieve calls, and nothing to call toll free numbers, and I had a calling plan to the states. I think it was also free to call other Max Mobile users, and all of us students had them. I used the phone all the time, yet I think those 20 euro of minutes lasted 3 months (until I started traveling outside of Austria and those roaming fees kicked in).
In the states, I pay roughly $70 a month, and that is with the business discount. Oh, and I do not have a blackberry or iPhone, so no internet or e-mail on this phone (add an extra $50 a month for that). This covers 250 anytime minutes, rollover, free nights and weekends, free calling to AT&T customers and landlines anytime of day, nationwide roaming, and unlimited texts. Its a freakin ripoff, but I have never been in an area (even in the mountains) where I have not had a signal, and I depend on the cell phone too much. Sad thing is, I think $25 of that is in taxes to the state, 911 fees, Texas infastructor fund, and other things. However, I did cut off the house line, so that helps lower my telecommunications fees.
I use these for commuting, and even the Edge cards are faster than dialup (although there is a longer lag time, the actual speeds seem to be faster). We just upgraded to a 3G card through AT&T, and it is noticibly faster. It they have a desktop rather than a laptop, most of the major cellular providers do offer USB devices as well.
I will point out that you are looking at spending around $50-$60 a month for unlimited access for speeds that hover around 200k-300k a second. Its fine for using HTML e-mail, and most websites. Even using VPN, having Outlook sync up with my RSS Feeds, Exchange Server, and GMail account, only takes about 45 seconds over 3G (I have a LOT of RSS Feeds), and that is only when you first launch the program, of course once launched, it constantly checks mail, so its not that big of an issue.
I should point out that VPN over a cellular modem is flaky at best, and practically useless if you are moving in a vehicle.
I would be fine if they let me have roleover limits, kinda like AT&T does on minutes. Shoot, its only 10 in the morning, and I have already transfered 2 gig of data today alone, and it was not copyrighted material but material for work. During busy months, I can easily do 10-20 gig a DAY, then there will be other days when I may not even transfer 50 meg. I do not want to be punished on a month when I have to transfer 300-350 gig when the month before I transfered under 50 gig.
Shoot, if Richard Dean Anderson can play a role that Kurt Russel made famous, it only seems natual that Kurt Russel would play a role that Richard Dean Anderson made famous.
"What, a Microsoft program stops working in XP? Strange, there is no issue in Vista. Just upgrade to Vista, and all your problems will be solved. May I intrest you in the Ultimate Edition? We are running a special today, $5 off if you order in the next 5 minutes."
Well, when the internet was 15 years old, which was, what, mid 80s, I don't think the web had even been concieved yet. As for the web, I have been using it for 16 years.
Even on an SD tv, some of the older games such as Alice, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, and Halo are fun. With an HDTV, you should check out King Kong, FarCry, and games like that.
If you are looking for stuff to play with a gamepad: Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, King Kong, the Need 4 Speeds games, and of course console emulators are great. In fact, if you do not have a great graphics card, but have a good processor, SNES, Gennesis and other emulators may be a godsend. But I am not going to tell you where to find ROMS, you will have to find them on your own.
Also, I think there is a PC version of Guitar Hero that you may be interested in checking out.
Goto 3dgamers.com and there are TONS and TONS of demos there that you can try stuff up, including demos of all the games I have mentioned earlier.
What type of office do you work in that blocks Flash? This is not 1999, and many legit and useful websites, including most companies' clients, use Flash. The concept of blocking flash from installing is archaic.
As far as usability, I saw one small Flash animation on the site - the rest seems to be HTML. The site took no longer than usual to load up. There was no Dilbert logo like I remember, but the daily strip was right there toward the middle of the page just like it has always been. All I ever do on the site is read the daily strip, and I saw nothing on the site that kept me from accessing it, nothing that made the site longer to load up, and nothing that made finding the daily comic any harder. So quite frankly, I could care less.
I missed the middle part about there was a hearing, so my first impression was, "How does he know its easy to find this stuff just by looking at the file names?"
This depends on if you actually want to go into programing. I graduated from a small univeristy which was heavy liberal arts witha degree in CS, and I am not programing. Truthfully, you will not remember probably 80% of what is taught to you in college 5 years after you graduate. What you are paying for is a $40,000 piece of paper that shows potential employers that you will stick to something. Granted, some colleges do look better than others, so if one of the colleges has a well known name, take that. If neither is that well known out of your immediate area, take whichever one you like better, and do some side studying. We actually had a full class at my smaller universisty that was taught by a student out of student demand, and that was a Linux course. So, talk with the head of the CS departments at both instituitons, tour the campuses, and choose which ever you like best, because that sheet of paper is worth more than what eitehr will actually teach you. That is my opinion, it may not be others, and I am sure people will disagree with me.
To me, it sounds as if she is being subpoenaed for being an expert in the field, not for criticizing lawyers - which is perfectly legal and how the US justice system runs.
All such use without a prescription is illegal. I actually read the article, and I did not see anywhere in the article that it says they are using these meds without a perscription, just that they were using them daily or weekley. Does it really sound that unlikely that scientists may have ADD or ADHD and need something like Ritalin to help control it? And even more so, if this is the case, then yes, they are going to state that it helps them, increases their productivity, and they see a definate benifit to using it. I grew up taking Ritalin - pretty much up until college, it was perscribed, and I can deffinately say it made a difference.
I guess you could say I use performance-enhancing drugs on almost a daily basis - cafinee, turine, and ginsing (otherwise known as Monster). Of course, those are all legal.
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I am pretty sure you could fit an entire season on a DVD-R. TNG was shot on film, but all editing and special effects were done on tape, so unless you redo the special effects, you will never have TNG in HD. So, take the SD episodes, compress it down in DivX or XVid to about 250-300 meg an episode, and you can fit an entire season on a dual layer disc.
Of course, someone has already done this
However, it would be nice to have the HD-version of an entire season of TOS on a single disc.
And a disc is certainly more convienant to swap out than a HDD, and takes up less space on the shelf. Now if we can just talk Paramount into not charging us $140 a season.
My browser doesn't support anything as new fangled as altavista, excite, webcrawler, or that Yahoo thing that will probably never take off. I still have to use Archie and Veronica.
Still having trouble getting NCSA Mosaic to install in Vista - I think NCSA should release a new version to be compatable.
I have a BBA in Computer Sciences, and I work in Desktop Support at a major advertising company. Networking (system administrators, e-mail administrators, etc) is a possibility. Don't forget webdesigner and database designer. You could also get your teaching certification and teach programming, sciences or math at most schools. IT consulting is very big now, if you want to get into that field. Or you can go back to school and get a minor in something else.
However, I also go a futher route. I take the best pictures out of a series (I can easily take hundreds of pictures at a time) and get prints. These are like 12 cents each on most stores websites. Digital videos I back up on high quality SVHS tapes. SVHS is a great long term format - just make sure you are not using that SVHS ET - storing SVHS on a regular VHS tape, as the signal degrades too fast. If you really want to go with long term storage, you might be able to find some 3-quarters decks around in some places.
So, in summery, what I do is store on both multiple harddrives and DVDs - with creating complete backups onto DVDs at least once a year, and also get analog copies of everything. Oh, and you also may want to look at some storage places - there are tons of places where you can store your photos online - hundreds or thousands for free at most sites. Many of these places will annoyingly resize the photos and compress them, but I use them as my ultimate last resort. I haven't had to retreive yet from one of these sites, but its nice to know the stuff is there. Webshots, I think, lets you store all your stuff at full rez, but I think the payoff is that you have to make your stuff searchable, so its fine for your trips abroad and stuff, but may not be where you want to put your personal memories. Then again, its been years since I used them, maybe they have other options to protect your privacy nowdays.
When I bought the PS3, only a special version of YellowDog worked, and it was not well documented. If they have documentaiton, and how to do it with Ubuntu, I might be willing to try it again. YellowDog hung up in install for me, and I could not get the thing to boot back into the PS3 firmware and had to return the thing. Bestbuy had to take it back, as it was within the first 7 days, but they were not too happy, but I did point out to them that it is a documented feature of the console.
Just to note - If you have issues with Nero converting the files for you, you can always use Canopus Procoder for the converting. Just convert whatever you want to put on a BD disc to Mpeg2 and Nero knows what to do from there.
Also, has anyone found an easy way to do surround sound? I find it annoying that when I convert a DD5.1 TS stream to anything else, it always downmixes the audio to 2 channel. I have tried tons of different conversion software, all with the same effect - 2 channel low-res DVD audio.
Uh, as far as I know, all current and future BluRay discs are compatable with the old Profile 1.0 systems. You may not be able to take advantage of all the webenabled stuff, and whatknot, but the movie still plays.
On a side note, I got the exact same notes in some of my HD-DVD discs that I got in my BluRay discs - saying something along the lines that the disc may have been manufactored after the player, and you may need a firmware upgrade to experience all of the FEATURES on the disc (not to watch the movie).
Adobe Encore easily made Menus for BluRay discs. In fact, I could take my DVD menus, with HD content, and compile the same thing to either BluRay or DVD, and it just reencoded the disc for whichever format I needed
Nero easily recorded AVC files to DVD5 and DVD9, and played flawlessly on my PS3. Source was a PAL TS file that I converted to NTSC AVC. No issues whatsoever.
I have yet to see any software that would allow me to author HD-DVD. As I have both formats, I would love to see something that would let me make HD-DVD compatable discs as easily as I can make BluRay compatable discs.
From the screenshots, it looks more like they stole the UI from Gimp or Photoshop. I see nothing even remotely similar to Office 2007's ribbon in there.
I timeshift everything, if even by a few minutes. I have a long commute to work, and may not get home to after 7. If I cannot time shift, I do not watch the event.
Of course, I still have the analog SVHS recorder that should work until February of next year.
Why would any broadcaster want to PREVENT time-shifting? Time-shifting leads to more viewers, such as myself, who usually cannot watch the show when its actually being broadcast. The only argument would be that if they had to watch it live, they could not foward through the commercials.
Of course, you are going to hit dead spots, and low signal areas. VPN craps out if you have higher than a 2% packet loss, and chances are, you are going to loose packets on a cellular modem, especially if you hit a dead spot.
My best was in Austria, on Max Mobile I think it was called. I paid roughly around 80 euro for the phone (of course, they were still on the shilling at that time, but they displayed both euro and shilling, and at the time, the dollar was stronger than the euro), and it came with like 20 euro of minutes. However, it cost me nothing to recieve calls, and nothing to call toll free numbers, and I had a calling plan to the states. I think it was also free to call other Max Mobile users, and all of us students had them. I used the phone all the time, yet I think those 20 euro of minutes lasted 3 months (until I started traveling outside of Austria and those roaming fees kicked in).
In the states, I pay roughly $70 a month, and that is with the business discount. Oh, and I do not have a blackberry or iPhone, so no internet or e-mail on this phone (add an extra $50 a month for that). This covers 250 anytime minutes, rollover, free nights and weekends, free calling to AT&T customers and landlines anytime of day, nationwide roaming, and unlimited texts. Its a freakin ripoff, but I have never been in an area (even in the mountains) where I have not had a signal, and I depend on the cell phone too much. Sad thing is, I think $25 of that is in taxes to the state, 911 fees, Texas infastructor fund, and other things. However, I did cut off the house line, so that helps lower my telecommunications fees.
I use these for commuting, and even the Edge cards are faster than dialup (although there is a longer lag time, the actual speeds seem to be faster). We just upgraded to a 3G card through AT&T, and it is noticibly faster. It they have a desktop rather than a laptop, most of the major cellular providers do offer USB devices as well.
I will point out that you are looking at spending around $50-$60 a month for unlimited access for speeds that hover around 200k-300k a second. Its fine for using HTML e-mail, and most websites. Even using VPN, having Outlook sync up with my RSS Feeds, Exchange Server, and GMail account, only takes about 45 seconds over 3G (I have a LOT of RSS Feeds), and that is only when you first launch the program, of course once launched, it constantly checks mail, so its not that big of an issue.
I should point out that VPN over a cellular modem is flaky at best, and practically useless if you are moving in a vehicle.
I would be fine if they let me have roleover limits, kinda like AT&T does on minutes. Shoot, its only 10 in the morning, and I have already transfered 2 gig of data today alone, and it was not copyrighted material but material for work. During busy months, I can easily do 10-20 gig a DAY, then there will be other days when I may not even transfer 50 meg. I do not want to be punished on a month when I have to transfer 300-350 gig when the month before I transfered under 50 gig.
How the heck am I supposed to get used to these Text menus? I need a ribbon!
Shoot, if Richard Dean Anderson can play a role that Kurt Russel made famous, it only seems natual that Kurt Russel would play a role that Richard Dean Anderson made famous.
"What, a Microsoft program stops working in XP? Strange, there is no issue in Vista. Just upgrade to Vista, and all your problems will be solved. May I intrest you in the Ultimate Edition? We are running a special today, $5 off if you order in the next 5 minutes."
Well, when the internet was 15 years old, which was, what, mid 80s, I don't think the web had even been concieved yet. As for the web, I have been using it for 16 years.
Did anyone else read this as "Hamas nearly went extenct"?
Even on an SD tv, some of the older games such as Alice, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, and Halo are fun. With an HDTV, you should check out King Kong, FarCry, and games like that.
If you are looking for stuff to play with a gamepad:
Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, King Kong, the Need 4 Speeds games, and of course console emulators are great. In fact, if you do not have a great graphics card, but have a good processor, SNES, Gennesis and other emulators may be a godsend. But I am not going to tell you where to find ROMS, you will have to find them on your own.
Also, I think there is a PC version of Guitar Hero that you may be interested in checking out.
Goto 3dgamers.com and there are TONS and TONS of demos there that you can try stuff up, including demos of all the games I have mentioned earlier.
What type of office do you work in that blocks Flash? This is not 1999, and many legit and useful websites, including most companies' clients, use Flash. The concept of blocking flash from installing is archaic.
As far as usability, I saw one small Flash animation on the site - the rest seems to be HTML. The site took no longer than usual to load up. There was no Dilbert logo like I remember, but the daily strip was right there toward the middle of the page just like it has always been. All I ever do on the site is read the daily strip, and I saw nothing on the site that kept me from accessing it, nothing that made the site longer to load up, and nothing that made finding the daily comic any harder. So quite frankly, I could care less.
I missed the middle part about there was a hearing, so my first impression was, "How does he know its easy to find this stuff just by looking at the file names?"
This depends on if you actually want to go into programing. I graduated from a small univeristy which was heavy liberal arts witha degree in CS, and I am not programing. Truthfully, you will not remember probably 80% of what is taught to you in college 5 years after you graduate. What you are paying for is a $40,000 piece of paper that shows potential employers that you will stick to something. Granted, some colleges do look better than others, so if one of the colleges has a well known name, take that. If neither is that well known out of your immediate area, take whichever one you like better, and do some side studying. We actually had a full class at my smaller universisty that was taught by a student out of student demand, and that was a Linux course. So, talk with the head of the CS departments at both instituitons, tour the campuses, and choose which ever you like best, because that sheet of paper is worth more than what eitehr will actually teach you. That is my opinion, it may not be others, and I am sure people will disagree with me.
To me, it sounds as if she is being subpoenaed for being an expert in the field, not for criticizing lawyers - which is perfectly legal and how the US justice system runs.
I guess you could say I use performance-enhancing drugs on almost a daily basis - cafinee, turine, and ginsing (otherwise known as Monster). Of course, those are all legal.