dumbass, you havent seen the latest TV commercials where they specifically state 'you may just want to listen to mp3s on it'
Yes, and we all know that marketing and engineering ALWAYS know equally much about the product and conduct regular pow-wows to make sure that it stays that way, and that commercials are a realistic view on reality.
I agree with you to some extent. I like IRC as much as the next antisocial geek, but IRC is IMHO dying. The networks are either crap, unstable, or unknown and the worst part is that IRC is not the same as it was when I started back in '95. Nowadays there's lots of morons who think it's "mircing" and insist on using colors and shouting "OMFG!!!!! LOL ROXORS!!!!" all the time.
I prefer IM to this, since then I can use a client such as Miranda and strip away all the pink fluffy bullshit such as animated smileys, shaking windows, etc etc and just get the plain stuff, as well as choosing who I want to communicate with.
I still have the tickets (and lanyard pass) hanging on my cube wall.
Ahem, according to Starfleet medical research... Borg implants can cause severe skin irritations. Perhaps you'd like an analgesic cream?
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So essentially you paid the gangsters when they came around offering "protection" from evil things, even though they themselves were these "evil things"?
I mean, wow, you bought a SCO license and SCO hasn't sued you? That's shocking news.
I haven't RTFA yet (JVC is politely yet firmly denying any connection attempts) but this really seems like a big woofing dog IMHO.
I do a lot of videostuff (documentaries, inane little comedies, etc etc) on a semi-professional basis and this really has no appeal to me.
First off, tapes are very robust. They can take a lot of damage and still be usable. Harddrives are not very robust (at least not in the same way as tape). Also, a camera without replacable storage is in my opinion worthless, especially when it's a fragile harddrive. Tapes are also very cheap (I buy my DV-tapes for about US$2 a piece)
Tape-based DV-cameras are very flexible, and this nonsense about JVC putting editing functions on this camera seems completely pointless to me. Editing should be done on an editing-platform (Mac/Final Cut, or whatever floats your boat). Editing capabilites on a camera is a "feature" that no one will use, since it's likely to be crap.
I don't want a camera that I have to be worried about breaking the storage in. I most assuredly need a camera with replacable storage, since when I'm off shooting a documentary I have no idea as to how much space/tape it will use. Having to limit myself to whatever JVC feels is the norm is completely pointless.
This whole thing seems to me to be a case of "can we make a harddrive-based camcorder? YEAH! is it of any use? NO, but lets do it anyway because there's always morons who want some new toy!"
I'm the webmaster there. Does anyone have a mirror site that we can host the images off? My server is my home machine, a PII 266.
I wouldn't mind hosting your images on my machine, but it's not the most impressive of beasts, running on my old P2-400 on my 10mbit-line to my apartment...
I very muchly doubt it'd withstand a slashdotting very long.
I think I can hear their servers exploding. I gots the text but I don't gots the pictures.
Also, I find it interesting how many ipod-clones are coming out. I guess it's true what Steve J. once said about "imitation being the greatest form of flattery"
Quite a difference there actually. Bridging ties two networks together (actually it works exactly as a hardware-switch) while ICS starts up a NAT-service and acts as such.
I grew up in a small town above the arctic circle in Sweden. I visited my parents who live there about two years ago and ended up being invited to a new-years party by an old acquaintance.
Man is it weird celebrating newyears wearing only your skivvies, standing in hipdeep snow and being quite drunk, all the while gazing up in the sky and gooing "oooh" and "aaah" at the fireworks.
Oh, right. It was about -45 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
Also, they were relatively shortlived and didn't have to stretch out their action. I didn't care much for Firefly, but I must say that Farscape managed to be very fresh for four seasons, and IMHO that's quite a feat.
(haven't seen the new miniseries yet, but I'll get round to it someday)
A department of living and breating people is open source like SpamAssassin?
Well, in a manner of speaking the human species is open-source. It's just that reading the source (i.e. the DNA) is something we haven't quite mastered yet.
But it's not like god (or whoever/whatever deity you may/may not believe in) comes down from the skies and pokes us in the stomach and says "uh-uh-uh!" when we try to reverse-engineer natures (or gods, re: previous parenthesis) own source-code.
And just like open-source software the human being is constantly being developed upon, albeit so very slowly that we cannot see it for ourselves. But each new baby that's born (the nightlies, hahaha) is a little different than the previous generation. Sometimes this backfires on the whole community *cough*georgewbush*cough* but in general there's improvement.
The price is free when you have an Nvidia GPU, which I'm sure a lot of you do.
Yes, you get the software and a trial-subscription.
But you still need a "real" subscription to use it more than 14 days. You can sign up for a free trial-version every 14 days, but that seems like a fair pain in the derriére.
Also if memory serves me Nvidia-users get a slight discount when purchasing a subscription.
On Linux, ext2 has a 2 gig size limit, but ext3 and other modern filesystems don't have such a limit. I'm also fairly sure that Windows XP has no such limit on NTFS.
Funny, I managed to store a 5 gig file on my old EXT2-based server just the other day. Really weird thing is I managed to retrieve it just fine as well! *gasp*
You can always get a new smartcard, you can't get new fingerprints (or retinas, or whatever)... Unless you're Tom Cruise playing a part in a movie called Minority Report, where you get your eyes switched by a creepy swedish doctor.
I also raises the question of how the hell this was discovered.
Did some random Joe Q. Hacker decide to start poking around in some random file in the Windows directory? Did Joe Q. Hacker wake up sweaty in the middle of the night and wonder what the hell was at the end of some obscure wave-files?
This is so true. I remember a few years ago when every other search-engine had fallen prey to the portal-disease. It was horrible, so when I discovered Google sometime around '01 it was a breath of fresh air.
Seriously, I understand the logic behind the portal-philosophy (i.e. to keep the visitor there as long as possible) but I much prefer the Google-cleanliness, it doesn't serve me to get frustrated and confused by a stupid interface distracting me with banners, ads and links to sponsored-god-knows-where.
And IIRC I first tried an alpha of Winamp5 and about three months later it popped up on their site. It shocked the hell out of me, since alpha usually is developer-speak for "yup, in another year or so we might release this, regardless of how 'finished' it is!". It's also quite stable for being such a "quick" development.
As for the "liking" I really don't see much wrong with WA5. WA3 was not good, focus was on skins and not usability, while WA5 managed to combine these two. WA3 was full of really funky stuff (such as the hassle to get hotkeys working) while WA5 worked flawlessly and has a functional AND good-looking default interface. In fact, the default interface is so good that I'm using it, since there's no other skin/theme/hotdog that does what I want.
Athlon 2200+ with SPDIF for digital audio (wether it is for music or AC3-audio makes no difference) as well as a simple mini-teleplug for analog audio. Also a SVIDEO-connector from TV-out on GPU to my crappy 28" widescreen TV.
computer plays everything, divx/xvid/mp3/dvd from server. It runs Windows XP, server is Debian Sarge, samba ties the crap together.
Software for playback is Winamp (music) and Media Player Classic for video. Gonna get me one of those fancy logitech remotes one of these days.
*grammar nazi* one of your only requirements? Excuse me? Am I missing something here?
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I played it for about 30 minutes. Then I got tired of the stupid FOV and the ugly textures and the framerate that insisted on dropping even though I kept dropping the graphics options. After awhile the game was jerking around like Kathryn Hepburn on bad acid.
So finally it looked like crap, played like crap and the only thing cool about it was the music in the menu (you know, the whole "ooohh aaaah" organ choir-thingy)
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dumbass, you havent seen the latest TV commercials where they specifically state 'you may just want to listen to mp3s on it'
Yes, and we all know that marketing and engineering ALWAYS know equally much about the product and conduct regular pow-wows to make sure that it stays that way, and that commercials are a realistic view on reality.
I agree with you to some extent. I like IRC as much as the next antisocial geek, but IRC is IMHO dying. The networks are either crap, unstable, or unknown and the worst part is that IRC is not the same as it was when I started back in '95. Nowadays there's lots of morons who think it's "mircing" and insist on using colors and shouting "OMFG!!!!! LOL ROXORS!!!!" all the time.
I prefer IM to this, since then I can use a client such as Miranda and strip away all the pink fluffy bullshit such as animated smileys, shaking windows, etc etc and just get the plain stuff, as well as choosing who I want to communicate with.
for what it's worth, I heartily agree with the parent poster.
It seems that companies are more intent on curing the symptom than the disease.
I still have the tickets (and lanyard pass) hanging on my cube wall.
Ahem, according to Starfleet medical research... Borg implants can cause severe skin irritations. Perhaps you'd like an analgesic cream?
So essentially you paid the gangsters when they came around offering "protection" from evil things, even though they themselves were these "evil things"?
I mean, wow, you bought a SCO license and SCO hasn't sued you? That's shocking news.
actually the HL2-mod that Piloux built for Valve is IMHO quite a bit more impressive.
Complete thread att bit-tech
Summary, part one
Summary, part two
I haven't RTFA yet (JVC is politely yet firmly denying any connection attempts) but this really seems like a big woofing dog IMHO.
I do a lot of videostuff (documentaries, inane little comedies, etc etc) on a semi-professional basis and this really has no appeal to me.
First off, tapes are very robust. They can take a lot of damage and still be usable. Harddrives are not very robust (at least not in the same way as tape). Also, a camera without replacable storage is in my opinion worthless, especially when it's a fragile harddrive. Tapes are also very cheap (I buy my DV-tapes for about US$2 a piece)
Tape-based DV-cameras are very flexible, and this nonsense about JVC putting editing functions on this camera seems completely pointless to me. Editing should be done on an editing-platform (Mac/Final Cut, or whatever floats your boat). Editing capabilites on a camera is a "feature" that no one will use, since it's likely to be crap.
I don't want a camera that I have to be worried about breaking the storage in. I most assuredly need a camera with replacable storage, since when I'm off shooting a documentary I have no idea as to how much space/tape it will use. Having to limit myself to whatever JVC feels is the norm is completely pointless.
This whole thing seems to me to be a case of "can we make a harddrive-based camcorder? YEAH! is it of any use? NO, but lets do it anyway because there's always morons who want some new toy!"
I'm the webmaster there. Does anyone have a mirror site that we can host the images off? My server is my home machine, a PII 266.
I wouldn't mind hosting your images on my machine, but it's not the most impressive of beasts, running on my old P2-400 on my 10mbit-line to my apartment...
I very muchly doubt it'd withstand a slashdotting very long.
I also think I can hear a bunch of trolls running around preparing for a flamewar...
I think I can hear their servers exploding. I gots the text but I don't gots the pictures.
Also, I find it interesting how many ipod-clones are coming out. I guess it's true what Steve J. once said about "imitation being the greatest form of flattery"
bridging != internet connection sharing.
Quite a difference there actually. Bridging ties two networks together (actually it works exactly as a hardware-switch) while ICS starts up a NAT-service and acts as such.
"Who cares, the latest Humvee looks to be a more capable and greener machine than its predecessors."
Yes, but it sure does look a lot less manly in my opinion.
I grew up in a small town above the arctic circle in Sweden. I visited my parents who live there about two years ago and ended up being invited to a new-years party by an old acquaintance.
Man is it weird celebrating newyears wearing only your skivvies, standing in hipdeep snow and being quite drunk, all the while gazing up in the sky and gooing "oooh" and "aaah" at the fireworks.
Oh, right. It was about -45 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
Also, they were relatively shortlived and didn't have to stretch out their action. I didn't care much for Firefly, but I must say that Farscape managed to be very fresh for four seasons, and IMHO that's quite a feat.
(haven't seen the new miniseries yet, but I'll get round to it someday)
A department of living and breating people is open source like SpamAssassin?
Well, in a manner of speaking the human species is open-source. It's just that reading the source (i.e. the DNA) is something we haven't quite mastered yet.
But it's not like god (or whoever/whatever deity you may/may not believe in) comes down from the skies and pokes us in the stomach and says "uh-uh-uh!" when we try to reverse-engineer natures (or gods, re: previous parenthesis) own source-code.
And just like open-source software the human being is constantly being developed upon, albeit so very slowly that we cannot see it for ourselves. But each new baby that's born (the nightlies, hahaha) is a little different than the previous generation. Sometimes this backfires on the whole community *cough*georgewbush*cough* but in general there's improvement.
The price is free when you have an Nvidia GPU, which I'm sure a lot of you do.
Yes, you get the software and a trial-subscription.
But you still need a "real" subscription to use it more than 14 days. You can sign up for a free trial-version every 14 days, but that seems like a fair pain in the derriére.
Also if memory serves me Nvidia-users get a slight discount when purchasing a subscription.
Funny, I managed to store a 5 gig file on my old EXT2-based server just the other day. Really weird thing is I managed to retrieve it just fine as well! *gasp*
Not if you rig a shitload of cameras to all go off at the same time, and then stitch the result together.
You can always get a new smartcard, you can't get new fingerprints (or retinas, or whatever) ... Unless you're Tom Cruise playing a part in a movie called Minority Report, where you get your eyes switched by a creepy swedish doctor.
I also raises the question of how the hell this was discovered.
Did some random Joe Q. Hacker decide to start poking around in some random file in the Windows directory? Did Joe Q. Hacker wake up sweaty in the middle of the night and wonder what the hell was at the end of some obscure wave-files?
Please mod the parent up, way up.
This is so true. I remember a few years ago when every other search-engine had fallen prey to the portal-disease. It was horrible, so when I discovered Google sometime around '01 it was a breath of fresh air.
Seriously, I understand the logic behind the portal-philosophy (i.e. to keep the visitor there as long as possible) but I much prefer the Google-cleanliness, it doesn't serve me to get frustrated and confused by a stupid interface distracting me with banners, ads and links to sponsored-god-knows-where.
and took ages to get out of beta
And IIRC I first tried an alpha of Winamp5 and about three months later it popped up on their site. It shocked the hell out of me, since alpha usually is developer-speak for "yup, in another year or so we might release this, regardless of how 'finished' it is!". It's also quite stable for being such a "quick" development.
As for the "liking" I really don't see much wrong with WA5. WA3 was not good, focus was on skins and not usability, while WA5 managed to combine these two. WA3 was full of really funky stuff (such as the hassle to get hotkeys working) while WA5 worked flawlessly and has a functional AND good-looking default interface. In fact, the default interface is so good that I'm using it, since there's no other skin/theme/hotdog that does what I want.
Athlon 2200+ with SPDIF for digital audio (wether it is for music or AC3-audio makes no difference) as well as a simple mini-teleplug for analog audio. Also a SVIDEO-connector from TV-out on GPU to my crappy 28" widescreen TV.
computer plays everything, divx/xvid/mp3/dvd from server. It runs Windows XP, server is Debian Sarge, samba ties the crap together.
Software for playback is Winamp (music) and Media Player Classic for video. Gonna get me one of those fancy logitech remotes one of these days.
*grammar nazi*
one of your only requirements? Excuse me? Am I missing something here?
I played it for about 30 minutes. Then I got tired of the stupid FOV and the ugly textures and the framerate that insisted on dropping even though I kept dropping the graphics options. After awhile the game was jerking around like Kathryn Hepburn on bad acid.
So finally it looked like crap, played like crap and the only thing cool about it was the music in the menu (you know, the whole "ooohh aaaah" organ choir-thingy)