Not so. I've got binaries that are several years old and still running just fine on my Linux box. It all depends how you compile the program and what parts of the system that the program uses.
Also for the most part it doesn't matter in Linux because you have the source code. If you update part of the system you should update everything related too. You aren't stuck with something that is broken.
I have my doubts that they could even get these attacks to work on my computer. 1.) It's Linux, 2.) I'm paranoid about my security, and 3.) I'm a programmer and will just write a detection script to locate and remove these trojans. If I can defend against this bullshit than I'm sure other geeks will do the same. All the RIAA seems to be doing is creating a market for secure P2P software and quite possibly giving Linux a good chance for a killer app.
Now the DoS attack might be effective but that game goes both ways. If they start attacking individuals how long will it be until P2P clients come with the ability to detect DoS's and trigger the whole P2P network to do a DDos on the source of those attacks? They'd be hard pressed to handle such a DDoS with legal threats if they did it first and I can just imagine the negative public relations off an Internet war that'd no doubt disrupt large portions of the Net at once.
Why don't these morons figure out that the only way to beat P2P is to offer cheaper cd prices and affordable (non DRM) downloads of songs themselves. Legal or technical attacks aren't going to be very functional and have dangerous tailspins off their customer base.
I think the Matrix is far better than any of the Star Wars films and was considerably better than SWPM. I went to see Phantom Menance more often than The Matrix simply because SWPM stayed in the dollar theature for almost a year. Still I went to see The Matrix several times and bought it on DVD and VHS on the day of it's release (preordered). The Matrix is just far and away the best Sci Fi movie of recent years.
The special effects were the frosting on the cake but really the story and unique use of a scifi for a kickass kungfu bang bang flick were what made it so good. Sure the story had some sillyness as most sci fi does (who can not laugh at Star Trek) but was overall a good story. The fact that the actors were actually trained in martial arts before trying to act like experts on screen did as much for the visual appeal of The Matrix as special effects. Overall though I'd say I agree with the articles author when he labels The Matrix as Harry Potter with guns. Both take a geek and send him to school to learn. Both geeks find out they are special and are worshipped, loved, and feared. Of course LotR can almost fall under the same category but I'm not sure if Frodo is especially a geek. Maybe compaired to other Hobbits he would be.
iLoo is a dumb idea. iShower would be better. Have a public shower with a computer and camera hooked to a live website. Let people use the shower for free while being shown on your website - let the viewers tip the showerer and maybe hold a conversation with them chatroom style. It'd make for a fun live website and for the showerer it's a better way to make some extra cash than say selling plasma.
For me this says write more P2P software, download more copyrighted works, share more copyrighted works. Let's see if those bastards can squeeze $17k out of me. Everyone should hold a protest - everyone buy a 120Gb drive, fill it with ripped songs, and share it. Any pro-P2P folks running for office?
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If you are a serious Linux geek and gamer it might be worth your effort and money but otherwise I really can't suggest it. Some games will run well but almost always you have to do lil things like find no-cd cracks and a lot of tweaking. Even games that claimed to be fully supported often wouldn't work well (or at all) - and Transgaming was no help in making them work. You also have to already have your video card working properly under Linux - if your 3D isn't config'd right obviously WineX won't run well.
You'd probably be happier dual booting for now.
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It's been my experience so far that WineX 3 runs fewer of my games than WineX 2 did. That coupled with the bad attitude I have felt from some of WineX's staff caused me to cancel my subscription yesterday. Until WineX can run at least older games as well as CrossOver Plugin runs Real Audio, Quicktime, etc then it's not worth my effort.
WineX isn't hopeless but IMO isn't ready for your average end-user. It seems like it'd be a good tool for developers trying to port their Windows games to Linux but it's to painful for the average Windows (or Linux) user to just play games with.
Is there anyone else that is good at getting people to do what they want but no longer does so for moral reasons? People aren't toys to manipulate to your own game. I used to be a major sociopath that sort of viewed humans as toys or pets. Controlling the majority of people is really easy.
Life is much MUCH harder now that I've decide it's wrong to behave that way. It seems you can't really advance much in life unless you are an asshole. (I can say that about sociopaths since I am one.)
The main reason I decided being manipulative was wrong ss that it's very easy to have less and less respect for the people you manipulate. It becomes easy to abuse them in other ways. You tend to think of people as belonging to you as livestock might. It's easy to get into brutality and sexual abuse and things such as that.
When I see somebody that seems to have a lot of power or be some great leader I have to wonder how they got there.
You can use a term for more than one thing. A DVD is a type of disc. People also say they have a VCR and a DVD with their tv.. meaning a DVD player. If someone says, "You want to come over and watch a DVD tonight?" to his sweetie I hardly think he is suggesting she come over and stare at the shiny disc all night.. "Woah, look how the colors shimmer in the light." No, more likely he means watch a movie that happens to be on a DVD. I doubt most people have any idea that the movie is in MPEG-2 format. DVD is as much a movie format as Quicktime at least.:)
Take your pick of third world camel fucking terrorist fighters and send him on over. He can use sticks or stones or his choice of machete. I'll use a self-targeting automatic rifle (a minor toy that I've actually built) and we'll see who wins. He may be a tougher SOB but he'll still be the one that winds up dead because A.) my weapon will lock in on his body heat and movement and cap his sorry ass and B.) because I can be 1000 miles away from my weapon so there is little chance of his sorry ass capping me. Who cares how good you are if you still lose.
Iraq could be ours already.. with no lose of human life on our side.. none at all.. if we weren't trying to be nice guys and protect the average Iraqi citizen. We could have leveled the whole damn contry remotely. We could have won the war that very first day. All the slum living of the whole damn Iraqi nation wouldn't have meant shit. Lucky for the average Joe over there that is more or less innocent that we would rather cause as little harm to him as possible.
Yes, SWPM wasn't a great movie (but better than Clones) but the political goings on are all to possible. That's why I still suspect factions of our own government of sponsoring the 9/11 attacks. At the least there have certainly been many factions taking advantage of the attacks for their own gains. A lot of damage has been done to our liberty since 9/11 in the name of safety and protection.
In our case the government is slowly being brought under the control of the trade federation with certain high-level individuals pulling strings behind the scenes to remove the rights from the average citizens. This amounts to the upper class making the middle and lower class into slaves - without ever bothering to tell them they're slave. How long before they make it difficult for the average guy to leave or enter the country? They've mentioned making it difficult to move between states as part of their plan for security. Will it be an act of terrorism to quit your job without permission from your employer? They're already doing a good job at destroying the education system. Add anti-terrorism bullshit to education and we will no longer be teaching religion, science or advanced mathematics because it's possible that one of those kids could learn to do something dangerous. Pretty frigtening - especially since we've already seen the government making such moves.
I think if you are doing something in public the government has a right to record it. That includes outdoor cameras of public areas, reading your posts to Usenet, etc. That IMO isn't an invasion of privacy. That doesn't mean I think they should do it.. but it boils down to a different argument.
What you do in private though is in privacy - thus the same root words. If you're in a private home or business or communicating over a private channel such as email then the government is by default serching and seizing your information if they snoop on you there. If they do this without a warrant it's unconstitutional. If the warrants are issued to easily or to broadly it means something is very screwed up in out government.
The framers probably couldn't imagine a world where everything can be snooped on. To invade privacy you pretty much had to physically invade the space. There are a lot of things possible now that weren't even thought of at that time. There are a lot of politicians and spooks right now trying to stretch the rules.
What could the guy have possibly done that is so horrible but so secret that the reason he is being held can't be said? Really that is just bullshit. That's not just hiding the details but hiding the whole damn case.
As bad as the terrorist are I have trouble defending a country that uses what amounts to secret police that raid your home and steal you away without proper representation or trial. I certainly won't be voting for Bush come election day. To bad I can't vote against the FBI and the so called Homeland Security shit.
This sounds like it could drive a programmer insane. Can you imagine trying to not only keep track of what you're doing in real time but also all the other developers in the project? You might as well get rid of version control and such. Oops my new function doesn't work because Dick Hayde over there changed something in that function over there while I was working on this function.
Having a shared view with other programmers that can IM you and add notes to the code (just in the view, not the actually source) would be useful. Having them live edit the same document as you are is just crazy. If you want others to be able to view your work as you code then try vnc or something like that.
Are you sure the problem with your cable isn't that your cable box's processor isn't up to handling the job? On slightly slow computers when you play movies back during a scene that changes a lot (such as a starfield rotating) you can see jumps in the playback. If you play it on a processor that is fast enough those jumps are gone and the playback is smooth and nice looking. When it comes to DVD's you'll also often get a nicer picture playing from a ripped copy than from a legit copy because it's common practice to degrade the output signal from your DVD player.
There is some loss of quality when you use any lossy compression format and of course some codecs are better than others and there is always tradeoff decisions made by the programmers and technicians that control how the movies are encoded. Even analog has a max resolution. It's just not typically as easy a variable to manipulate. It's based on all sorts of factors that are hard to control. Quality of the storage medium and tranmission mediums. Quality of the recording and editing devices, etc. Digital is really the way to go. You just want someone that doesn't have their head up their ass to do any compressing and such.
Eventually we probably will have extremely high-res high-quality releases of new movies but not until enough people are interested to make it affordable. Think about the processing power needed to play a movie of the size you mention. The size of disc space you'd need to store it. It just wouldn't be practical. Also you run into artistic problems. The higher the quality of the movie the more work has to go into making every scene right. If you see more then someone has to be making sure you see what they want you to see. Even with fancy equipment old movies aren't going to look that much better. Limitations of the technology they were recorded with.
On an interesting note.. phone companies also often add slight whitenoise to the line. People expect it and are startled by the quality of the calls if that whitenoise isn't there. Again it's just for giving the 'right feel'.
No matter what we do we can't make everyone safe all the time. It isn't possible. The only way to avoid being hurt is to be dead.
While privacy is not a constitutional right it probably would have been had our founding fathers lived in a time, such as ours, where everything can literally be snooped on. Privacy is vital to democracy. Without it our other rights are slowly suffocated. Privacy rights are implied by other rights we do have which limit the power of the government to come into your home and search through your stuff.
These rights that we're giving up to our government will not be easily won back. Fear and greed are the twin evils that can destroy us.
Actually to correct myself. I checked my math. I believe the right answer would be that a movie that is 4Gb at DVD quality would be about 20Gb at this high-res quality. 20Gb is even easier to work with. I have ripped movies bigger than that on my home computer. The new blue laser DVD's should be able to store that much data.. assuming they turn into real products.:)
Actually, if I was a studio that is exactly what I'd have them do. For anyone with a valid ticket stub from the movie I'd allow them to buy a no frills white disc copy of the DVD for a couple bucks. Imediate result would be huge drop in pirate copies of the movies. Then you could put the extras and fancy box etc in the more expensive version of the movie that could be released later. After the movie left the theature I'd not sell any more of the cheap copies. Get it now or pay more later.
Correct me if my quick math is wrong but assuming similar compression results wouldn't that make a movie that results in a 4Gb movie at normal DVD quality something like 64Gb? If so that really isn't all that large. It could easily be moved around on a stack of DVD's or a hdd (or beamed by sat as someone mentioned).
I'd argue that DVD is a movie format because you can count on a DVD movie (like that plays in a normal DVD player) to be of a format that player can understand. It's a lot easier than going into details of audio and video codecs, encryption, and whatever other bullshit descriptive terms could be used.;)
I agree with your assesment of resolution situation though.:)
I bet if you got up close to a theature screen it'd look pretty shitty. The screen is bigger but you sit further away. The movie may be at a higher than normal DVD resolution but it can't be higher than the film it's recorded on (in the case of those analog movies we've been watching for years). I'd imagine you could still fit a movie within a half dozen DVD's at most. How does this compare to say a superbit DVD? Maybe I'll try to look it up.:)
I don't have Opera 7 (because it doesn't seem to be available yet for free.. and I'm not paying for it or stealing it) but in Opera 6.12 it scrolls oddly. The original stylesheet used images but it didn't work right in Opera or IE so I scraped it (which I forgot when making the last post.. my mistake).
As far as color.. it isn't meant to be stylish or pretty or whatever. Possibly a little to bright and cheery but there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't abuse color that much though. All text is easily readable. It's easy to see the difference between plain text, links, and visited links. Design elements are constant through the site. Navigational choices are clearly defined. It should be easily usable for text-based browsers (such as the blind). All very functional UI design IMO. I could go with a nice grayscale look (as I have in the past) but that is about as nice on tired geek eyes as the default colors used by web browsers. Just be glad I didn't use neon green text as I do in my console windows.:)
Any suggestions of sites that you think do make proper use of color?:)
Dunno about you but if I go to a movie and it crashes I'm gonna demand my money back at the least. I'd be really pissed if the movie locked up and even more so if I got a blue screen or similar error messages. It's bad enough at airport terminals and on POS devices.
One more way for Microsoft to lock up artist works in their own file formats. How long before studios decide to release Windows only DVD's rather than bother reencoding the movies?
Why was this needed? Couldn't studios have just mastered the movies to DVD and either mailed them to theatures or allowed the theature to download the movie if they had the bandwidth? Damn it costs about $2 to burn and mail a DVD. They couldn't afford that? Then the theature could use a fairly standard DVD player hooked to their projector and audio system. If the movie won't fit on DVD then split it over several discs and allow the theature to rip the DVD to a harddrive and playback.
Content doesn't expire with age. Binaries have to be either ported to the new platform or the platform has to be emulated. Porting usually results in better performance than emulation. Source code availability makes porting a lot easier.:)
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Not so. I've got binaries that are several years old and still running just fine on my Linux box. It all depends how you compile the program and what parts of the system that the program uses.
Also for the most part it doesn't matter in Linux because you have the source code. If you update part of the system you should update everything related too. You aren't stuck with something that is broken.
I have my doubts that they could even get these attacks to work on my computer. 1.) It's Linux, 2.) I'm paranoid about my security, and 3.) I'm a programmer and will just write a detection script to locate and remove these trojans. If I can defend against this bullshit than I'm sure other geeks will do the same. All the RIAA seems to be doing is creating a market for secure P2P software and quite possibly giving Linux a good chance for a killer app.
Now the DoS attack might be effective but that game goes both ways. If they start attacking individuals how long will it be until P2P clients come with the ability to detect DoS's and trigger the whole P2P network to do a DDos on the source of those attacks? They'd be hard pressed to handle such a DDoS with legal threats if they did it first and I can just imagine the negative public relations off an Internet war that'd no doubt disrupt large portions of the Net at once.
Why don't these morons figure out that the only way to beat P2P is to offer cheaper cd prices and affordable (non DRM) downloads of songs themselves. Legal or technical attacks aren't going to be very functional and have dangerous tailspins off their customer base.
I think the Matrix is far better than any of the Star Wars films and was considerably better than SWPM. I went to see Phantom Menance more often than The Matrix simply because SWPM stayed in the dollar theature for almost a year. Still I went to see The Matrix several times and bought it on DVD and VHS on the day of it's release (preordered). The Matrix is just far and away the best Sci Fi movie of recent years.
The special effects were the frosting on the cake but really the story and unique use of a scifi for a kickass kungfu bang bang flick were what made it so good. Sure the story had some sillyness as most sci fi does (who can not laugh at Star Trek) but was overall a good story. The fact that the actors were actually trained in martial arts before trying to act like experts on screen did as much for the visual appeal of The Matrix as special effects. Overall though I'd say I agree with the articles author when he labels The Matrix as Harry Potter with guns. Both take a geek and send him to school to learn. Both geeks find out they are special and are worshipped, loved, and feared. Of course LotR can almost fall under the same category but I'm not sure if Frodo is especially a geek. Maybe compaired to other Hobbits he would be.
iLoo is a dumb idea. iShower would be better. Have a public shower with a computer and camera hooked to a live website. Let people use the shower for free while being shown on your website - let the viewers tip the showerer and maybe hold a conversation with them chatroom style. It'd make for a fun live website and for the showerer it's a better way to make some extra cash than say selling plasma.
For me this says write more P2P software, download more copyrighted works, share more copyrighted works. Let's see if those bastards can squeeze $17k out of me. Everyone should hold a protest - everyone buy a 120Gb drive, fill it with ripped songs, and share it. Any pro-P2P folks running for office?
If you are a serious Linux geek and gamer it might be worth your effort and money but otherwise I really can't suggest it. Some games will run well but almost always you have to do lil things like find no-cd cracks and a lot of tweaking. Even games that claimed to be fully supported often wouldn't work well (or at all) - and Transgaming was no help in making them work. You also have to already have your video card working properly under Linux - if your 3D isn't config'd right obviously WineX won't run well.
You'd probably be happier dual booting for now.
It's been my experience so far that WineX 3 runs fewer of my games than WineX 2 did. That coupled with the bad attitude I have felt from some of WineX's staff caused me to cancel my subscription yesterday. Until WineX can run at least older games as well as CrossOver Plugin runs Real Audio, Quicktime, etc then it's not worth my effort.
WineX isn't hopeless but IMO isn't ready for your average end-user. It seems like it'd be a good tool for developers trying to port their Windows games to Linux but it's to painful for the average Windows (or Linux) user to just play games with.
Is there anyone else that is good at getting people to do what they want but no longer does so for moral reasons? People aren't toys to manipulate to your own game. I used to be a major sociopath that sort of viewed humans as toys or pets. Controlling the majority of people is really easy.
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Life is much MUCH harder now that I've decide it's wrong to behave that way. It seems you can't really advance much in life unless you are an asshole. (I can say that about sociopaths since I am one.)
The main reason I decided being manipulative was wrong ss that it's very easy to have less and less respect for the people you manipulate. It becomes easy to abuse them in other ways. You tend to think of people as belonging to you as livestock might. It's easy to get into brutality and sexual abuse and things such as that.
When I see somebody that seems to have a lot of power or be some great leader I have to wonder how they got there.
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You can use a term for more than one thing. A DVD is a type of disc. People also say they have a VCR and a DVD with their tv.. meaning a DVD player. If someone says, "You want to come over and watch a DVD tonight?" to his sweetie I hardly think he is suggesting she come over and stare at the shiny disc all night.. "Woah, look how the colors shimmer in the light." No, more likely he means watch a movie that happens to be on a DVD. I doubt most people have any idea that the movie is in MPEG-2 format. DVD is as much a movie format as Quicktime at least. :)
Take your pick of third world camel fucking terrorist fighters and send him on over. He can use sticks or stones or his choice of machete. I'll use a self-targeting automatic rifle (a minor toy that I've actually built) and we'll see who wins. He may be a tougher SOB but he'll still be the one that winds up dead because A.) my weapon will lock in on his body heat and movement and cap his sorry ass and B.) because I can be 1000 miles away from my weapon so there is little chance of his sorry ass capping me. Who cares how good you are if you still lose.
Iraq could be ours already.. with no lose of human life on our side.. none at all.. if we weren't trying to be nice guys and protect the average Iraqi citizen. We could have leveled the whole damn contry remotely. We could have won the war that very first day. All the slum living of the whole damn Iraqi nation wouldn't have meant shit. Lucky for the average Joe over there that is more or less innocent that we would rather cause as little harm to him as possible.
Yes, SWPM wasn't a great movie (but better than Clones) but the political goings on are all to possible. That's why I still suspect factions of our own government of sponsoring the 9/11 attacks. At the least there have certainly been many factions taking advantage of the attacks for their own gains. A lot of damage has been done to our liberty since 9/11 in the name of safety and protection.
In our case the government is slowly being brought under the control of the trade federation with certain high-level individuals pulling strings behind the scenes to remove the rights from the average citizens. This amounts to the upper class making the middle and lower class into slaves - without ever bothering to tell them they're slave. How long before they make it difficult for the average guy to leave or enter the country? They've mentioned making it difficult to move between states as part of their plan for security. Will it be an act of terrorism to quit your job without permission from your employer? They're already doing a good job at destroying the education system. Add anti-terrorism bullshit to education and we will no longer be teaching religion, science or advanced mathematics because it's possible that one of those kids could learn to do something dangerous. Pretty frigtening - especially since we've already seen the government making such moves.
I think if you are doing something in public the government has a right to record it. That includes outdoor cameras of public areas, reading your posts to Usenet, etc. That IMO isn't an invasion of privacy. That doesn't mean I think they should do it.. but it boils down to a different argument.
What you do in private though is in privacy - thus the same root words. If you're in a private home or business or communicating over a private channel such as email then the government is by default serching and seizing your information if they snoop on you there. If they do this without a warrant it's unconstitutional. If the warrants are issued to easily or to broadly it means something is very screwed up in out government.
The framers probably couldn't imagine a world where everything can be snooped on. To invade privacy you pretty much had to physically invade the space. There are a lot of things possible now that weren't even thought of at that time. There are a lot of politicians and spooks right now trying to stretch the rules.
What could the guy have possibly done that is so horrible but so secret that the reason he is being held can't be said? Really that is just bullshit. That's not just hiding the details but hiding the whole damn case.
As bad as the terrorist are I have trouble defending a country that uses what amounts to secret police that raid your home and steal you away without proper representation or trial. I certainly won't be voting for Bush come election day. To bad I can't vote against the FBI and the so called Homeland Security shit.
This sounds like it could drive a programmer insane. Can you imagine trying to not only keep track of what you're doing in real time but also all the other developers in the project? You might as well get rid of version control and such. Oops my new function doesn't work because Dick Hayde over there changed something in that function over there while I was working on this function.
Having a shared view with other programmers that can IM you and add notes to the code (just in the view, not the actually source) would be useful. Having them live edit the same document as you are is just crazy. If you want others to be able to view your work as you code then try vnc or something like that.
Are you sure the problem with your cable isn't that your cable box's processor isn't up to handling the job? On slightly slow computers when you play movies back during a scene that changes a lot (such as a starfield rotating) you can see jumps in the playback. If you play it on a processor that is fast enough those jumps are gone and the playback is smooth and nice looking. When it comes to DVD's you'll also often get a nicer picture playing from a ripped copy than from a legit copy because it's common practice to degrade the output signal from your DVD player.
There is some loss of quality when you use any lossy compression format and of course some codecs are better than others and there is always tradeoff decisions made by the programmers and technicians that control how the movies are encoded. Even analog has a max resolution. It's just not typically as easy a variable to manipulate. It's based on all sorts of factors that are hard to control. Quality of the storage medium and tranmission mediums. Quality of the recording and editing devices, etc. Digital is really the way to go. You just want someone that doesn't have their head up their ass to do any compressing and such.
Eventually we probably will have extremely high-res high-quality releases of new movies but not until enough people are interested to make it affordable. Think about the processing power needed to play a movie of the size you mention. The size of disc space you'd need to store it. It just wouldn't be practical. Also you run into artistic problems. The higher the quality of the movie the more work has to go into making every scene right. If you see more then someone has to be making sure you see what they want you to see. Even with fancy equipment old movies aren't going to look that much better. Limitations of the technology they were recorded with.
On an interesting note.. phone companies also often add slight whitenoise to the line. People expect it and are startled by the quality of the calls if that whitenoise isn't there. Again it's just for giving the 'right feel'.
Amen. Exactly what came to my mind.
No matter what we do we can't make everyone safe all the time. It isn't possible. The only way to avoid being hurt is to be dead.
While privacy is not a constitutional right it probably would have been had our founding fathers lived in a time, such as ours, where everything can literally be snooped on. Privacy is vital to democracy. Without it our other rights are slowly suffocated. Privacy rights are implied by other rights we do have which limit the power of the government to come into your home and search through your stuff.
These rights that we're giving up to our government will not be easily won back. Fear and greed are the twin evils that can destroy us.
Actually to correct myself. I checked my math. I believe the right answer would be that a movie that is 4Gb at DVD quality would be about 20Gb at this high-res quality. 20Gb is even easier to work with. I have ripped movies bigger than that on my home computer. The new blue laser DVD's should be able to store that much data.. assuming they turn into real products. :)
Actually, if I was a studio that is exactly what I'd have them do. For anyone with a valid ticket stub from the movie I'd allow them to buy a no frills white disc copy of the DVD for a couple bucks. Imediate result would be huge drop in pirate copies of the movies. Then you could put the extras and fancy box etc in the more expensive version of the movie that could be released later. After the movie left the theature I'd not sell any more of the cheap copies. Get it now or pay more later.
Correct me if my quick math is wrong but assuming similar compression results wouldn't that make a movie that results in a 4Gb movie at normal DVD quality something like 64Gb? If so that really isn't all that large. It could easily be moved around on a stack of DVD's or a hdd (or beamed by sat as someone mentioned).
I'd argue that DVD is a movie format because you can count on a DVD movie (like that plays in a normal DVD player) to be of a format that player can understand. It's a lot easier than going into details of audio and video codecs, encryption, and whatever other bullshit descriptive terms could be used. ;)
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I agree with your assesment of resolution situation though.
I bet if you got up close to a theature screen it'd look pretty shitty. The screen is bigger but you sit further away. The movie may be at a higher than normal DVD resolution but it can't be higher than the film it's recorded on (in the case of those analog movies we've been watching for years). I'd imagine you could still fit a movie within a half dozen DVD's at most. How does this compare to say a superbit DVD? Maybe I'll try to look it up. :)
Yeah, through every window is an lovely unaware woman in some degree of undress.
Where do you want to go today?
I don't have Opera 7 (because it doesn't seem to be available yet for free.. and I'm not paying for it or stealing it) but in Opera 6.12 it scrolls oddly. The original stylesheet used images but it didn't work right in Opera or IE so I scraped it (which I forgot when making the last post.. my mistake).
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As far as color.. it isn't meant to be stylish or pretty or whatever. Possibly a little to bright and cheery but there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't abuse color that much though. All text is easily readable. It's easy to see the difference between plain text, links, and visited links. Design elements are constant through the site. Navigational choices are clearly defined. It should be easily usable for text-based browsers (such as the blind). All very functional UI design IMO. I could go with a nice grayscale look (as I have in the past) but that is about as nice on tired geek eyes as the default colors used by web browsers. Just be glad I didn't use neon green text as I do in my console windows.
Any suggestions of sites that you think do make proper use of color?
Dunno about you but if I go to a movie and it crashes I'm gonna demand my money back at the least. I'd be really pissed if the movie locked up and even more so if I got a blue screen or similar error messages. It's bad enough at airport terminals and on POS devices.
One more way for Microsoft to lock up artist works in their own file formats. How long before studios decide to release Windows only DVD's rather than bother reencoding the movies?
Why was this needed? Couldn't studios have just mastered the movies to DVD and either mailed them to theatures or allowed the theature to download the movie if they had the bandwidth? Damn it costs about $2 to burn and mail a DVD. They couldn't afford that? Then the theature could use a fairly standard DVD player hooked to their projector and audio system. If the movie won't fit on DVD then split it over several discs and allow the theature to rip the DVD to a harddrive and playback.
Content doesn't expire with age. Binaries have to be either ported to the new platform or the platform has to be emulated. Porting usually results in better performance than emulation. Source code availability makes porting a lot easier. :)