Re:Important note about the Japanese DVD set...
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Giant Mecha News
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*throws debris*
I found Eva's dubs to be some of the worst I've heard (though I avoid dubs as much as I can); I tried them out on disc5, around where Shinji is talking about it being a man's responsibility to go first, and it sounded to me like they were recorded in a broom closet. *shudder*
I don't know what windows you're running, but there's an "at" program available at the command line of my Windows 2000 machine to add items into the Windows Task Scheduler. I'm not entirely sure how encompassing it is, but it's certainly better than nothing.
I'm sure most people know someone with an extensive CD and/or DVD collection. For people interested in having digital copies readily available while still preserving quality, ripping their CD's and DVD's into highest-possible quality can use up HD space very quickly. A 2-hour movie encoded at 2200 kbps (not to mention the audio bitrate) can easily go over 2 GB for that one movie. I know at _least_ one person who owns over 50 DVD's, and many of those are a good bit more than 2 hours long;).
Throw in ripping all your audio with lossless codecs and another 50GB isn't hard to come up with for anyone with a lot of CD's.
So it _is_ possible to have 150GB of legal media (assuming fair use rights). Just unlikely;).
IIRC, someone here on slashdot speculated that OSDN was going to attempt to be bought out by Apple, hence the significant number of Mac-only topic icons here on slashdot, plus the dedicated apple.slashdot.org address.
Though it makes plenty of sense for freshmeat to have a dedicated Apple section, this certainly provides more fuel for the Sell-to-Apple hypothesis...
That's why I use WMP 6.4, which still comes with both Win2K and WinXP; it's located in the same directory as WMP7+, but named mplayer2.exe instead. Makes video watching actually bearable.
And for 'playlists' of music/video, I just use Winamp with NiceMC plug-in for playing the video. Still get (nice-looking) skins with consistent buttons and no significant slowdown.
Would you cut off your right hand to become left-handed?
I honestly don't see how this applies at all; it's not like MS would stop becoming an OS vendor and start becoming an applications vendor; it already is an applications vendor. A better analogy might be:
If you were ambidextrous and someone was threatening to kill you unless you chopped off your right arm, would you do so?
It seems odd that some people think this means that suddenly they'll be able to run OS X on a nice cheap x86 box. Using Intel-compatible processors doesn't mean it'll be compatible with a standard Windows PC in any way; it just means there's a different label on the processor (and a different architecture of course).
Apple makes its money on hardware, so no matter which processor is in the box, buying a Mac will be necessary to run OS X, and it will still cost big bucks.
I've heard knowledgeable people say that not enforcing a patent for long enough (when the patent was obviously being infringed) results in the loss of the patent, for the exact reasons you mention.
That's trademark infringement, not patent infringement, and it's a completely different legal situation.
In order to do good rips, you generally want to encode it in VBR in order to get a better balance between slow scenes and high-motion scenes. This currently requires at least two passes, one to determine how bits should be allocated proportionally, and another to figure out what to actually write into the final file.
Of course it could probably be done without putting it on the HD just by issuing a couple of commands, one to write out a "stats" file, and another to use the stats file to actually write the movie. Or if one just creates a frameserving program that'll serve off of the DVD rather than the vob's on a hard drive.
As a couple posters suggested earlier, the 'wizards' seem to be the epitomy of ease-of-use for most people, taking people through the setup process one step at a time. However, like (I'd imagine) most regular computer users, I don't use wizards because I've learned how to do things much more quickly and efficiently without the hand-holding.
It seems (to me) that the best option would be to have devices built with the 'wizard attitude' in mind, that the people using the device have never even imagined reading a manual. In the Tivo case, make sure the remote has a big "exit menu" button readily available that goes straight back to (familiar) normal TV, and have a list of wizards available for the user to choose if they'd like. Then include an areas where advanced users can choose to disable wizards and use the (theoretically) more efficient ways that come when you get to skip hand-holding.
People who don't RTFM are happy, people who do RTFM are happy, and the people selling them like hotcakes are happy : ).
Damn, that is the most blatantly elitist comment I've seen here in a long time. If you read the story the guy obviously isn't someone living off mom, or following any of the other stereotypes you rattled off. He's not going there as his college of choice, he's taking a class. He's not looking for protest marches or art exhibitions (neither of which requires actual college enrollment really).
It almost sounds like you are trying to justify thinking that you really are a better person than any person who'd even consider a community college.
Ugh, I've never wanted to be able to mod as 'flamebait' so much in my life. Attitudes like yours are disgusting.
Representative democracy works best when people actually participate in it.
I think you meant to say that "Representative democracy works best when people actually represent their constituents."
Since campaign contributions are so necessary for reelection, it's fairly easy for moneyed corporations to pay for their voice to be heard above the average constituent's....
(Not to mention the idea of giving up one's job/life just to fight one bill of the multitude that computer/media companies are using to assault our rights is just completely impractical. That's why a lot of us donate to the EFF. You should too.
Re:Not as great as it sounds for OpenGL 2.0
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Doom3 and OpenGL2.0
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Getting them to provide some functionality is better than not getting any at all.
The difference between this situation and that of 3Dfx's minidrivers is that the mini-drivers were made on a per-game basis, with a separate.dll for each game on your system (i.e. a 3dfxgl.dll file in each of your quake, quake2, half-life) rather than on a system-wide basis (one.dll for any game you throw at it). IIRC, Carmack railed against them for this, and with Quake3 discontinued support of the minidriver implementations, requiring 3Dfx to get off its ass and produce a full working OpenGL ICD.
So I really don't think we'll have the same problem as the Voodoo cards had. Thankfully.
Reading the title, I thought it meant you could use your cell-phone to double as an optical mouse for your laptop.
I'm not sure how practical it'd be, but it strikes me as something that might be useful for those business users who'd like to use a mouse with their laptops (especially if they give computer-based presentations); the mouse would be one less extra thing to cart around with them.
Hot damn! It's a form of entertainment I'm allowed to enjoy! Computer games (save for Warcraft3) are one of the last time-wasters I can mention enjoying without bringing out the trolls; on every single story re: music or movies, we get to see some whore modded up restating the classic "you're just lining the (RI|MP)AA's pockets". These zealots seem to argue that I should remove myself from western society entirely, giving up (paying for) any sort of popular music or movies; meanwhile, they complain that most of what comes out of these companies is crap. However, the prospect of encouraging good products through the purchasing of (the few) good products seems to escape them. But damn, they'll repeat that tired phrase every story and get modded to 5 by moderators who think that this time it'll convince someone that paying for their music or movie ticket is wrong, that they must not know what exactly it is they're doing. However, patronizing people seldom convinces them ; ).
Luckily, computer games seem to still be 'acceptable' at the moment. I was beginning to suspect that there were no allowed forms of entertainment left for me.
-A
P.S. I understand that some people do completely avoid RIAA-related music and MPAA-related movies completely, and that is very impressive and respectable; however, not everyone shares the same priorities, and can be expected to meet these standards. And I just despise the hypocrites who troll yet still pirate the stuff they supposedly abhor.
Not to slam the original poster, as dozens of others make the same mistake every time a story is posted regarding the subject, but
Digitial Millenium Copyright Act => DMCA
I've seen this spelled incorrectly far too many times; if we want to argue against something, we should at least know what the hell we are talking about (and look that way).
I've become addicted to the NiceMC plug-in for winamp. It lets you use winamp to play videos as well, so you can use all the normal functions (playlists etc).
But if we no longer use gasoline in our cars, what excuses will movie-makers have to make cars explode upon being fired at? Our kids may never get to see cars in movies that blow up into huge fireballs after being hit by a couple of bullets...
Slashdot Mirror
*throws debris*
I found Eva's dubs to be some of the worst I've heard (though I avoid dubs as much as I can); I tried them out on disc5, around where Shinji is talking about it being a man's responsibility to go first, and it sounded to me like they were recorded in a broom closet. *shudder*
To each their own I suppose...
-A
I don't know what windows you're running, but there's an "at" program available at the command line of my Windows 2000 machine to add items into the Windows Task Scheduler. I'm not entirely sure how encompassing it is, but it's certainly better than nothing.
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I'm sure most people know someone with an extensive CD and/or DVD collection. For people interested in having digital copies readily available while still preserving quality, ripping their CD's and DVD's into highest-possible quality can use up HD space very quickly. A 2-hour movie encoded at 2200 kbps (not to mention the audio bitrate) can easily go over 2 GB for that one movie. I know at _least_ one person who owns over 50 DVD's, and many of those are a good bit more than 2 hours long ;).
;).
Throw in ripping all your audio with lossless codecs and another 50GB isn't hard to come up with for anyone with a lot of CD's.
So it _is_ possible to have 150GB of legal media (assuming fair use rights). Just unlikely
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IIRC, someone here on slashdot speculated that OSDN was going to attempt to be bought out by Apple, hence the significant number of Mac-only topic icons here on slashdot, plus the dedicated apple.slashdot.org address.
Though it makes plenty of sense for freshmeat to have a dedicated Apple section, this certainly provides more fuel for the Sell-to-Apple hypothesis...
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Agreed.
That's why I use WMP 6.4, which still comes with both Win2K and WinXP; it's located in the same directory as WMP7+, but named mplayer2.exe instead. Makes video watching actually bearable.
And for 'playlists' of music/video, I just use Winamp with NiceMC plug-in for playing the video. Still get (nice-looking) skins with consistent buttons and no significant slowdown.
-A
If you were ambidextrous and someone was threatening to kill you unless you chopped off your right arm, would you do so?
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My first thought was "Isn't a dead computer already silent?"
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Apple makes its money on hardware, so no matter which processor is in the box, buying a Mac will be necessary to run OS X, and it will still cost big bucks.
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What's to miss? We're still waiting for the next Duke Nukem ; )
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That's trademark infringement, not patent infringement, and it's a completely different legal situation.
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Of course it could probably be done without putting it on the HD just by issuing a couple of commands, one to write out a "stats" file, and another to use the stats file to actually write the movie. Or if one just creates a frameserving program that'll serve off of the DVD rather than the vob's on a hard drive.
I want to see a Perl keyboard : )
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As a couple posters suggested earlier, the 'wizards' seem to be the epitomy of ease-of-use for most people, taking people through the setup process one step at a time. However, like (I'd imagine) most regular computer users, I don't use wizards because I've learned how to do things much more quickly and efficiently without the hand-holding.
It seems (to me) that the best option would be to have devices built with the 'wizard attitude' in mind, that the people using the device have never even imagined reading a manual. In the Tivo case, make sure the remote has a big "exit menu" button readily available that goes straight back to (familiar) normal TV, and have a list of wizards available for the user to choose if they'd like. Then include an areas where advanced users can choose to disable wizards and use the (theoretically) more efficient ways that come when you get to skip hand-holding.
People who don't RTFM are happy, people who do RTFM are happy, and the people selling them like hotcakes are happy : ).
-A
Damn, that is the most blatantly elitist comment I've seen here in a long time. If you read the story the guy obviously isn't someone living off mom, or following any of the other stereotypes you rattled off. He's not going there as his college of choice, he's taking a class. He's not looking for protest marches or art exhibitions (neither of which requires actual college enrollment really).
It almost sounds like you are trying to justify thinking that you really are a better person than any person who'd even consider a community college.
Ugh, I've never wanted to be able to mod as 'flamebait' so much in my life. Attitudes like yours are disgusting.
-A
I think you meant to say that "Representative democracy works best when people actually represent their constituents."
Since campaign contributions are so necessary for reelection, it's fairly easy for moneyed corporations to pay for their voice to be heard above the average constituent's....
(Not to mention the idea of giving up one's job/life just to fight one bill of the multitude that computer/media companies are using to assault our rights is just completely impractical. That's why a lot of us donate to the EFF. You should too.
Getting them to provide some functionality is better than not getting any at all.
.dll for each game on your system (i.e. a 3dfxgl.dll file in each of your quake, quake2, half-life) rather than on a system-wide basis (one .dll for any game you throw at it). IIRC, Carmack railed against them for this, and with Quake3 discontinued support of the minidriver implementations, requiring 3Dfx to get off its ass and produce a full working OpenGL ICD.
The difference between this situation and that of 3Dfx's minidrivers is that the mini-drivers were made on a per-game basis, with a separate
So I really don't think we'll have the same problem as the Voodoo cards had. Thankfully.
-A
Reading the title, I thought it meant you could use your cell-phone to double as an optical mouse for your laptop.
I'm not sure how practical it'd be, but it strikes me as something that might be useful for those business users who'd like to use a mouse with their laptops (especially if they give computer-based presentations); the mouse would be one less extra thing to cart around with them.
-A
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Luckily, computer games seem to still be 'acceptable' at the moment. I was beginning to suspect that there were no allowed forms of entertainment left for me.
-A
P.S. I understand that some people do completely avoid RIAA-related music and MPAA-related movies completely, and that is very impressive and respectable; however, not everyone shares the same priorities, and can be expected to meet these standards. And I just despise the hypocrites who troll yet still pirate the stuff they supposedly abhor.
Digitial Millenium Copyright Act => DMCA
I've seen this spelled incorrectly far too many times; if we want to argue against something, we should at least know what the hell we are talking about (and look that way).
-A
I've become addicted to the NiceMC plug-in for winamp. It lets you use winamp to play videos as well, so you can use all the normal functions (playlists etc).
-A
You can give orders while paused, at least you could on the last version I played. You only get 3 pauses though, so use them wisely.
-rK
Farming items and selling them to people who don't want to invest the time/energy to acquire them by other means is a service.
-Angron
Won't somebody think of the children?