Most likely, 3rd party hybrid players will appear on the market just as soon as either or both formats start being released. Then, the likes of SONY and Toshiba will start to make hybrid players also.
From an end user perspective, this makes sense. Then, it won't really matter what format your Disney or MGM title is, as it will just play on your player.
That's the way: - multiregion players have gone; - DVD writers have gone (I have a DVD+/-R(W) drive, for example).
To be honest, the end user doesn't really care about which format wins, or which is better, so long as they can watch the movie, or play the game, or listen to the music.
This car is designed purely for city driving. It's a 2 seater car, and when you actually see them up close, they are really dinky.
Personally, I think they are great. I probably wouldn't have one as an only car, but have it as a second car for city driving only.
Seemingly the majority of cars caught speeding in London are Smart cars. Only in the UK and here they are Mercedes Smart cars (designed by the Swatch people, no less).
I did something similar using Premiere - take a shot from a still camera of someone standing, then have them walk off the shot, and leave the camera rolling for a bit.
In premier, cut out the bit where they are walking away, leaving 2 films, and add one of the transition effects between the 2 films.
The person will then magically disappear using whatever effect you selected.
You can have the 'beam' back in the same way. Much easier than rotoscoping a lightsaber too.
I think it is a sensible thing to do, so long as it is temporary. If this is left as a long term solution, then it is very wrong.
I would agree with the other compromise - redirect to a site stating the error, and proving the correct link - this will both educate people to the correct link, and allow those who want to visit the gay site to be able to do so (though I think that is illegal under Aussie law anyway, isn't it?)
To an extent, it is also their own fault for having the.com.au domain - they probably should have followed the UK way and set the domain to be.co.au - at least that way, if the.au isn't there, the URL just won't work.
I create a folder called 'development', and put all development and test stuff in there. It gets to be a bit of a mess, but it keeps $Home clean.
If I need to create a temp directory somewhere, I put it into 'development'.
I have a docs directory for documents, and a personal directory for personal stuff (like my CV, annual leave forms, etc)
After that, it's really a matter of discipline - getting used to not creating temp folders in $Home, and test files, etc.
Over the years, I discovered that the more organised your $Home is, the better it is in the long run anyway, especially when it comes to finding old files, or moving stuff from one folder to another, or when you leave a job and have to hand over stuff to someone else.
Makes even more sense under Windows - I used to have files all over the C and D drives until I got wise and started being tidy.
I use Spy Assissin. You download it from the ad-aware site, and have to pay for it. I think it's supposed to be better than adaware SE, which is the one tested (that's the free one).
Spy Assissin is cheap, and you get a 5 PC licence for it. Certainly sorted out a few nasty popup problems on my dads PC (though he probably didn't mind some of those lovely ladies popping up, but I'm sure my mother would have if it had gone on any longer).
Spy Assissin is updated regularly, and each time you run it it downloads it's updated (and reinstalled updated software, if required).
The thing is, does Joe Public link Pixar and Disney? If you asked Joe who released Toy Story, and gave him a choice between Pixar and Disney, which would he pick?
Pixar are fantastic. I love everything they do. Disney, on the other hand... I'm wondering what they will come up with with their new CGI studios. I wish they stuck to paint, though. They were so good at that.
Someone said to me that, if you are living in an area where the vote is more or less decided (such as a very strong Bush locale, or a very strong Kerry locale), especially if you are voting the other way from the general populus, then don't waste your vote on either the Bush or Kerry side. Instead, vote for one of the smaller parties - if they receive 5% of the vote, then their funding is increased, and they may be able to work on something good in your area.
This doesn't follow in all counties, just in those that are very very strongly Bush or Kerry, and you are voting the other way. 'Cos if you vote the other way, you vote will more or less be lost.
Finally, no matter which way you are thinking of voting, go out and vote. If you don't know who to vote for, then vote for a 3rd party. But cast your vote!
Astronomers/Astrophysicists always seem to know where to build the best ground-based telescopes (Hawaii, Chile, the Canary Islands...)
Do you think this might have anything to do with the clear skies, and lack of nearby cities (light pollution)?
But you are right - maybe a warmer climate would increase productivity too. It would at least make people feel happier. I'm looking out at the rain outside my window, and thinking that I have to go home in that very soon.
68F = 20C 77F = 25C (for those of use that use Celcius)
25C/77F is very warm. I prefer to work around 21C/70F. Any warmer than that and I'd be falling asleep. Certainly/my/ productivity goes way down when I'm asleep.
I suppose with cheaper hardware, the total cost of purchasing the hardware/windows bundle becomes cheaper too, meaning that MS can sell more copies of Windows. The more copies they sell, the less people will need to copy it. Is that how Steve is thinking, I wonder.
In that case, what happens in the case that, since the hardware is being sold so cheap, it turned out that it is not capable of running Windows. Doesn't XP require 128Mb memory to run? And a few hundres MB of disk space? And a certain level and speed of Processor? Has Steve thought about that, I wonder. Could he, without realising it, be pushing for hardware that will only run another popular OS, and not his own product?
Ah, sure, he knows and appreciates that lots of people hated Weasley. He didn't understand it at the time, but I think he does now.
Weasley got a bit better in the later episodes, though. Especially in the 7th season!:) [just checking - he/did/ leave during the 6th season, didn't he?]
I wonder if Will does read this if he will mention it on his website?
It closed Opera on me. However, it says that it doesn't work with Opera.
I think there must be certain files that it needs to update, and Opera/Firefox/etc may have them locked. perhaps.
It closed Outlook on me too.
Now it's indexing all my files, Outlook, etc. Quite a nifty little thing.
Only works on Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3+, incidently, so worthless if you have Windows ME.
It's handy for me in work (with I have to use Outlook, Office, etc), but at home I use Thunderbird, OO.org, and Trillian, so I don't think I'll be installing it at home. Though I might just for search my files...
I think he means running more than 1 application at a time, not multi-processors.
I probably should have said 'proper multitasking'.
The Palms can do that at the moment, but not very well. You can run an MP3 application, and leave it running in the background while you run something else. But that's about as far as it goes.
Don't know if you really need a fully preemptive OS on the Palm, though. Like, if you really need a lot of power, bring a laptop with you. The Sony Clie ones are not really all that much bigger than a Palm, and run Windows or Linux...
It is excellent, alright. One of their catchphrases is
We do this so you don't have to
They do fun stuff like blowing up cars, putting christmas tree lights into the microwave, testing package materials by wrapping up a TV and throwing it out the back of a van travelling at 50mph, demonstrating the properties on a dilatant compound by filling someone swimming pool with custard (you can walk in custard, just don't stand still or you'll sink and get stuck). Fun stuff like that.
In this series, they also have 4 quite stunning women testing various explosives. Last week, they tested plastic explosive, by blowing up a fridge. And then you can give it marks out of 10!
They also tested brown noise a few weeks ago - it worked!
On Brainiac (on Sky ONE in the UK) last week, they did a demonstration of the 'Invisible Gorilla' expirement, which one.
Basically, they had about 7 or 8 poeple on the screen, and told us to watch how many times a particular parcel was passed around.
The answer was 12 (for anyone who wanted to know).
During this time, someone dress in a bee suit walked onto the screen, stood there for about 10 seconds, and walked off the far side. The parcel even passed across this person.
I didn't see the bee at all, until it was played back. The bee was on the screen for a full 20 seconds in total.
It was quite amazing. Almost as good as trying to get your right foot to rotate clockwise, and your right hand to rotate anti-clockwise...
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Hybrid player
Most likely, 3rd party hybrid players will appear on the market just as soon as either or both formats start being released. Then, the likes of SONY and Toshiba will start to make hybrid players also.
From an end user perspective, this makes sense. Then, it won't really matter what format your Disney or MGM title is, as it will just play on your player.
That's the way:
- multiregion players have gone;
- DVD writers have gone (I have a DVD+/-R(W) drive, for example).
To be honest, the end user doesn't really care about which format wins, or which is better, so long as they can watch the movie, or play the game, or listen to the music.
T.
This car is designed purely for city driving. It's a 2 seater car, and when you actually see them up close, they are really dinky.
Personally, I think they are great. I probably wouldn't have one as an only car, but have it as a second car for city driving only.
Seemingly the majority of cars caught speeding in London are Smart cars. Only in the UK and here they are Mercedes Smart cars (designed by the Swatch people, no less).
T.
I did something similar using Premiere - take a shot from a still camera of someone standing, then have them walk off the shot, and leave the camera rolling for a bit.
In premier, cut out the bit where they are walking away, leaving 2 films, and add one of the transition effects between the 2 films.
The person will then magically disappear using whatever effect you selected.
You can have the 'beam' back in the same way. Much easier than rotoscoping a lightsaber too.
T.
I guess this just goes to show that everyone has his price.
Granted, $9.75m is a nice price to have... don't think I'd be too quick to say no myself.
T.
I think it is a sensible thing to do, so long as it is temporary. If this is left as a long term solution, then it is very wrong.
.com.au domain - they probably should have followed the UK way and set the domain to be .co.au - at least that way, if the .au isn't there, the URL just won't work.
I would agree with the other compromise - redirect to a site stating the error, and proving the correct link - this will both educate people to the correct link, and allow those who want to visit the gay site to be able to do so (though I think that is illegal under Aussie law anyway, isn't it?)
To an extent, it is also their own fault for having the
T.
I create a folder called 'development', and put all development and test stuff in there. It gets to be a bit of a mess, but it keeps $Home clean.
If I need to create a temp directory somewhere, I put it into 'development'.
I have a docs directory for documents, and a personal directory for personal stuff (like my CV, annual leave forms, etc)
After that, it's really a matter of discipline - getting used to not creating temp folders in $Home, and test files, etc.
Over the years, I discovered that the more organised your $Home is, the better it is in the long run anyway, especially when it comes to finding old files, or moving stuff from one folder to another, or when you leave a job and have to hand over stuff to someone else.
Makes even more sense under Windows - I used to have files all over the C and D drives until I got wise and started being tidy.
Discipline is the key, not structure.
T.
I use Spy Assissin. You download it from the ad-aware site, and have to pay for it. I think it's supposed to be better than adaware SE, which is the one tested (that's the free one).
Spy Assissin is cheap, and you get a 5 PC licence for it. Certainly sorted out a few nasty popup problems on my dads PC (though he probably didn't mind some of those lovely ladies popping up, but I'm sure my mother would have if it had gone on any longer).
Spy Assissin is updated regularly, and each time you run it it downloads it's updated (and reinstalled updated software, if required).
Pity it wasn't tested.
T.
The thing is, does Joe Public link Pixar and Disney? If you asked Joe who released Toy Story, and gave him a choice between Pixar and Disney, which would he pick?
Pixar are fantastic. I love everything they do. Disney, on the other hand... I'm wondering what they will come up with with their new CGI studios. I wish they stuck to paint, though. They were so good at that.
T.
Someone said to me that, if you are living in an area where the vote is more or less decided (such as a very strong Bush locale, or a very strong Kerry locale), especially if you are voting the other way from the general populus, then don't waste your vote on either the Bush or Kerry side. Instead, vote for one of the smaller parties - if they receive 5% of the vote, then their funding is increased, and they may be able to work on something good in your area.
This doesn't follow in all counties, just in those that are very very strongly Bush or Kerry, and you are voting the other way. 'Cos if you vote the other way, you vote will more or less be lost.
Finally, no matter which way you are thinking of voting, go out and vote. If you don't know who to vote for, then vote for a 3rd party. But cast your vote!
T.
I suppose if one canditate wins by over 58,000 votes, then it won't really matter.
Chances of that are slim, though.
And either way, if I was one of those 58,000 people, I'd be pretty livid right now. And more so if the other canditate was elected in that county.
T.
I was almost going to complain about the spelling, but I decided to check it first.
oestrogen and estrogen are the same thing. It's spelt with an O on this side of the Atlantic (Ireland/UK).
T.
"all for you too"
:)
The temperature must be too low as I made a typo.
T.
Astronomers/Astrophysicists always seem to know where to build the best ground-based telescopes (Hawaii, Chile, the Canary Islands...)
Do you think this might have anything to do with the clear skies, and lack of nearby cities (light pollution)?
But you are right - maybe a warmer climate would increase productivity too. It would at least make people feel happier. I'm looking out at the rain outside my window, and thinking that I have to go home in that very soon.
T.
Google does that all for you do.
Do a Google search for
'convert 77F to C'
And it will convert almost everything as well.
T.
68F = 20C
/my/ productivity goes way down when I'm asleep.
77F = 25C
(for those of use that use Celcius)
25C/77F is very warm. I prefer to work around 21C/70F. Any warmer than that and I'd be falling asleep. Certainly
T.
I suppose with cheaper hardware, the total cost of purchasing the hardware/windows bundle becomes cheaper too, meaning that MS can sell more copies of Windows. The more copies they sell, the less people will need to copy it. Is that how Steve is thinking, I wonder.
In that case, what happens in the case that, since the hardware is being sold so cheap, it turned out that it is not capable of running Windows. Doesn't XP require 128Mb memory to run? And a few hundres MB of disk space? And a certain level and speed of Processor? Has Steve thought about that, I wonder. Could he, without realising it, be pushing for hardware that will only run another popular OS, and not his own product?
Just a thought.
T.
Ah, sure, he knows and appreciates that lots of people hated Weasley. He didn't understand it at the time, but I think he does now.
:) /did/ leave during the 6th season, didn't he?]
Weasley got a bit better in the later episodes, though. Especially in the 7th season!
[just checking - he
I wonder if Will does read this if he will mention it on his website?
T.
It closed Opera on me. However, it says that it doesn't work with Opera.
I think there must be certain files that it needs to update, and Opera/Firefox/etc may have them locked. perhaps.
It closed Outlook on me too.
Now it's indexing all my files, Outlook, etc. Quite a nifty little thing.
Only works on Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3+, incidently, so worthless if you have Windows ME.
It's handy for me in work (with I have to use Outlook, Office, etc), but at home I use Thunderbird, OO.org, and Trillian, so I don't think I'll be installing it at home. Though I might just for search my files...
T.
Er, yeah, that would be them. The Clie are the Palm devices (hence the mistake).
Really nice little laptops. Expensive, though, IIRC.
T.
I think he means running more than 1 application at a time, not multi-processors.
I probably should have said 'proper multitasking'.
The Palms can do that at the moment, but not very well. You can run an MP3 application, and leave it running in the background while you run something else. But that's about as far as it goes.
Don't know if you really need a fully preemptive OS on the Palm, though. Like, if you really need a lot of power, bring a laptop with you. The Sony Clie ones are not really all that much bigger than a Palm, and run Windows or Linux...
T.
Here it is...
4 /0 9/29/215205&tid=100&tid=215&tid=190&ti d=8
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
Not available on Palm devices themselves, yet. Maybe there will be an upgrade available soon.
T.
So do my Tungsten-T and my m515 - but you have to use a Belkin USB cable to do it. The Palm cable doesn't charge from the USB port.
T.
It is excellent, alright. One of their catchphrases is
We do this so you don't have to
They do fun stuff like blowing up cars, putting christmas tree lights into the microwave, testing package materials by wrapping up a TV and throwing it out the back of a van travelling at 50mph, demonstrating the properties on a dilatant compound by filling someone swimming pool with custard (you can walk in custard, just don't stand still or you'll sink and get stuck). Fun stuff like that.
In this series, they also have 4 quite stunning women testing various explosives. Last week, they tested plastic explosive, by blowing up a fridge. And then you can give it marks out of 10!
They also tested brown noise a few weeks ago - it worked!
T.
er, that should read... ... demonstration of the 'Invisible Gorilla' expirement, which won.
damn.
T.
On Brainiac (on Sky ONE in the UK) last week, they did a demonstration of the 'Invisible Gorilla' expirement, which one.
Basically, they had about 7 or 8 poeple on the screen, and told us to watch how many times a particular parcel was passed around.
The answer was 12 (for anyone who wanted to know).
During this time, someone dress in a bee suit walked onto the screen, stood there for about 10 seconds, and walked off the far side. The parcel even passed across this person.
I didn't see the bee at all, until it was played back. The bee was on the screen for a full 20 seconds in total.
It was quite amazing. Almost as good as trying to get your right foot to rotate clockwise, and your right hand to rotate anti-clockwise...
T.