I think the questioner knows this. What they are saying is that with current display tech, the backlit ones eat prohibitively large amounts of battery for many applications (why the Gameboy kicked the Lynx and Game Gear all over the shop - it was the only one that didn't go through batteries at a rate of knots). Also, to quote them "Non-backlit look better in natural light than a backlit screen in optimal conditions ".
What the question here is is, while this OLED display is a great replacement for anything that uses a backlit display, does the LE part mean that it will use more power or look bad in comparison to a non-backlit normal display.
l-ascorbic deals above with some other issues about dynamic firewall rules and how they can be manipulated, but unfortunately they are by-the-by. In the example the article deals with, and in many others, the problem is really getting your firewall built far enough upstream. If your incoming bandwidth is saturated with malicious packets, then simply knowing to not do anything with them doesn't help the rest of the world speak to you. You need to block these packets before they fill the pipe.
"My friend works for a large film company that has made many Toy and Bug oriented CG films. Since we are both actors, films like FF could really hurt our potential careers"
Call me stupid, and I'm not doubting your sincerity, but I got the impression that Disney animation and in particular Steve Jobs' Pixar act as pretty much autonymous units. Feel free to keep it as vague as you feel necessary (I'm not asking you to get in any trouble), but do you mean that you work for the animation people, or just Buena Vista generally.
Oh, and there will still be jobs to be had if CG films continue to rise in popularity - those pixels don't model and animate themselves you know, nor do the characters speeches spring from a digital voice generation chip.
Besides, even if we do get a few more CG films a year rather than the current 2-4, I can't see Allen, Scorcese or Loach dropping actors from their working methods in a hurry.
This is getting dangerously far from the topic at hand, but if you are referring to the hotly-debated 'The Phantom Edit', check News Askew (except, oops, its down for maintainence as I type) - Kevin has confirmed its existence, but denied being its author. Also, while it doesn't completely remove Jar-Jar (only CG editing on a scale that the topic is considering for FF would do that), it does edit out all the pointless and embarassing slapstick bits with him. No more silly pirouettes on diving into the water, no more standing in alien camel dung.
There is no need to qualify that CTHD statement; I have the original Region 3 DVD, with both English and Mandarin 5.1 mixes, along with a Cantonese 2.0 mix, and other than a quick test to compare, I use the subtitles. The Region 1 disc is already with some reviewers as well, and they have confirmed to me that this also has both subtitle and dub options.
Although I prefer subtitles, I have to say that the dubbing is among the best I've heard, so if you are averse to subs then you can do just fine with that mix.
Oh, and the picture transfer is up to the usual high Sony mastering standard as well, apart from a few flecks on the print. Overall, a really recommended disc.
p.s. It was announced, although I never actually saw the discs, that after the first run of R3 CTHD discs made their way west in huge numbers they dropped all English options, both sub and dub from the Hong Kong disc, so I'd grab the R1 now.
Err, dangerous ground there on the banning things without proof however. Next thing you know, Microsoft will be wanting you to explain why they should have to prove that Linux rots your brain before its banned.
Of course the fact that its only constant Microsoft software upgrades that makes these old computers 'obsolete' brings us back to where we started...
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Given the number of broken picture links in the Themes.org site, it must have been a bit of a risk to go replacing pictures with obscene ones anyway - they may not ever get displayed. Hopefully, while they are fixing the site for all possible damage caused by the crack this will get better as well.
No recorded deaths due to people being hit in the head or whatever, but a family died in Eastern Europe last year when a suspected meteorite crash set fire to their house. Basically, the biggest reason for there being no recorded meteorite deaths is that its blimmin' difficult to prove them as such - eyewitnesses say they saw something fall from the sky onto the thatch roof causing it to set alight, but without definite proof its another unconfirmed.
Actually, many modern mods laugh in the face of RCE and don't fall for this tactic. Mine among many assumes that staying in the current region is fine if it still passes the test. RCE can't put a misleading code on the disc or it would break compatibility on the initial check, so uses 0. This means your previous setting passes the test.
So if the worst comes to the worst, all you do is play a non-RCE disc of that region first, and then it doesn't need a manual help.
Finally, in the cases I've seen so far (Braveheart, Charlies Angels, Hollow Man) even if you get the RCE error message, you can just tell your player to start playing Title 1, Chapter 1 and it obliginly starts the film for you. Some protection there!
Thats a good point, but that does make the Dreamcast port doubly interesting - with a standardised set of hardware, there is a far far smaller requirement to spend your days toiling over device drivers, so we might be able to get this up and running.
It may be defunct hardware, but its all hardware that any self-respecting geek looking to play with a new OS is likely to have lying around. I'm sure he'd love to try a port to the Apple G4 or an S/390, but unless someone has one lying around spare its a rather expensive purchase just to play my little operating system with.
No disrespect to the guy, writing an OS by yourself can't be an easy task, but I get the impression that this is for fun, rather than to destroy Microsoft.
"just about anything you want in a console...on a TV. woot!"
I know you're being funny here, but actually, if this can get up and running with the VGA adaptor then thats fine. According to the feature set its commandline based rather than gui-heavy, so the 640x480 that comes out of the Dreamcast VGA port should be just dandy.
Its just a guess (I don't know the author), but if I wanted to port my new operating system that I'd built as a hobby on my PC to another platform, then the one over there by the TV that I already own, rather than going out and spending a bunch of cash on buying a mac, SPARC, whatever machine. The Dreamcast is turning out to be quite a fun little box for homegrown development - take a look at some of the sites where things like emulation and even a sourceport of Quake have been performed.
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They probably are now. When the domain simply existed, it was a bit of a defamation of character to make it appear to the average web user that they owned the domain insulting their major competitor, and only drew a little traffic to their site. By kicking up a stink, they both bring the site to people's attention (thereby massively increasing their hit count more than leaving it alone for people to find) and simultaneously make sure people know that this wasn't their idea, oh no. They wouldn't say that sort of thing ever.
If GM were the ones suing then speech aspects like this would certainly be involved; however its Ford suing, on the really quite reasonable grounds that to the average person the site would appear to be owned by them, and therefore imply that Ford had that opinion of their competitors.
If I were to post news that made people believe that you claimed torturing cute puppies was fun then you'd have grounds for claiming I was defaming you; speech isn't completely free of limitations.
"C) First person from the general public to kill a teammate, which was quite fun"
err, you do realise that you might want to keep that quiet, don't you? Otherwise "kick the MasterVidBoi TKer" may be a phrase you have to get used to when this comes out...;)
Tell me I'm not the only one that thinks Nintendo's Gamecube looks like the Omni Consumer Products logo?
Anyway, if you've seen the videos and screenshots for Rogue Squadron 2, or heard that a Perfect Dark sequel is coming to Gamecube, then you know what to do. Microsoft may be a big company, and Sony may have that year's head start, but Nintendo are the ones that make the good games. Well, them and Sega - who are also aiming games at it.
DVB is already up and running - one example is the UK's ONdigital service, so it would appear that I will be able to junk my current set-top decoder and replace it with a Linux-based one from Nokia at some point. Of course, if its doing the MPEG2 decoding in software its a blimming good job they plan to use a seperate RTOS for that part. I have enough problems playing DVDs with stuttering from background processes time-slicing, so I wouldn't want to hit that on my set-top.
As others (including actual Microsoft employees) have pointed out on this thread, its true that employees are expected to use Windows, because like many another company around the world they use Outlook and Exchange scheduling services. What isn't enforced, however, is a requirement to keep Linux/Solaris/BSD/whatever off the second box on their desk.
OK, now I've seen the shots I can see that this isn't a repeat of the digital artifact problems seen before, but more likely people suggesting prosaic explanations for the same features that NASA are speculating are caused by either ancient surface water or perhaps liquid nitrogen. In any case, most of the features on the site say 'weathering by liquid and possibly wind' to me.
For more on that moon thing, by the way, Fortean Times still have an old article up about it.
Well, the server is down so I can't confirm for this example, but if I had a fiver for every image enhancement artifact heralded as evidence of Martian (or Lunar, for that matter) Civilization then I could probably mount my own mission to disprove it.
They are artifacts all right, digital imaging ones. As has been pointed out, this is yet another in the long line of Cydonia wishful thinking.
And I used to be 13 as well; I'm guessing that the poster was speaking from personal experience - I know that I had a tendency to occasionally overreact to threats of punishment at that age; I stayed away from school for two days when I got given detention for hurting some poor bully's fist with my head.
Surely even if they do find duplicated errors they then have to prove that freedb.org didn't get them from the same user who entered the CDDB entry? I know if I had any locally stored entries that I'd fired at the CDDB I'd now send them to freedb as well.
Actually, I rather like 4'33". The silence is genuinely eerie, and you end up hearing the absence of the music if that makes sense.
I suppose that the real purpose is the similiar to the strange physics of the article, or exploring the Antarctic; you might not want to experience the results of these musical experiments yourself, but its important that someone tries to find new things. Stockhausen isn't incredibly listenable either, but without these people we would never have found techno for instance.
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I think the questioner knows this. What they are saying is that with current display tech, the backlit ones eat prohibitively large amounts of battery for many applications (why the Gameboy kicked the Lynx and Game Gear all over the shop - it was the only one that didn't go through batteries at a rate of knots). Also, to quote them "Non-backlit look better in natural light than a backlit screen in optimal conditions ".
What the question here is is, while this OLED display is a great replacement for anything that uses a backlit display, does the LE part mean that it will use more power or look bad in comparison to a non-backlit normal display.
l-ascorbic deals above with some other issues about dynamic firewall rules and how they can be manipulated, but unfortunately they are by-the-by. In the example the article deals with, and in many others, the problem is really getting your firewall built far enough upstream. If your incoming bandwidth is saturated with malicious packets, then simply knowing to not do anything with them doesn't help the rest of the world speak to you. You need to block these packets before they fill the pipe.
"My friend works for a large film company that has made many Toy and Bug oriented CG films. Since we are both actors, films like FF could really hurt our potential careers"
Call me stupid, and I'm not doubting your sincerity, but I got the impression that Disney animation and in particular Steve Jobs' Pixar act as pretty much autonymous units. Feel free to keep it as vague as you feel necessary (I'm not asking you to get in any trouble), but do you mean that you work for the animation people, or just Buena Vista generally.
Oh, and there will still be jobs to be had if CG films continue to rise in popularity - those pixels don't model and animate themselves you know, nor do the characters speeches spring from a digital voice generation chip.
Besides, even if we do get a few more CG films a year rather than the current 2-4, I can't see Allen, Scorcese or Loach dropping actors from their working methods in a hurry.
This is getting dangerously far from the topic at hand, but if you are referring to the hotly-debated 'The Phantom Edit', check News Askew (except, oops, its down for maintainence as I type) - Kevin has confirmed its existence, but denied being its author. Also, while it doesn't completely remove Jar-Jar (only CG editing on a scale that the topic is considering for FF would do that), it does edit out all the pointless and embarassing slapstick bits with him. No more silly pirouettes on diving into the water, no more standing in alien camel dung.
There is no need to qualify that CTHD statement; I have the original Region 3 DVD, with both English and Mandarin 5.1 mixes, along with a Cantonese 2.0 mix, and other than a quick test to compare, I use the subtitles. The Region 1 disc is already with some reviewers as well, and they have confirmed to me that this also has both subtitle and dub options.
Although I prefer subtitles, I have to say that the dubbing is among the best I've heard, so if you are averse to subs then you can do just fine with that mix.
Oh, and the picture transfer is up to the usual high Sony mastering standard as well, apart from a few flecks on the print. Overall, a really recommended disc.
p.s. It was announced, although I never actually saw the discs, that after the first run of R3 CTHD discs made their way west in huge numbers they dropped all English options, both sub and dub from the Hong Kong disc, so I'd grab the R1 now.
No, Obscelite is quite clearly the mineral that they make Intel chips out of. Its used a substrate to coat the semiconducting layer of fudenium onto.
;)
Besides, when did Slashdot ever make a mistake?
Err, dangerous ground there on the banning things without proof however. Next thing you know, Microsoft will be wanting you to explain why they should have to prove that Linux rots your brain before its banned.
Of course the fact that its only constant Microsoft software upgrades that makes these old computers 'obsolete' brings us back to where we started...
Given the number of broken picture links in the Themes.org site, it must have been a bit of a risk to go replacing pictures with obscene ones anyway - they may not ever get displayed. Hopefully, while they are fixing the site for all possible damage caused by the crack this will get better as well.
No recorded deaths due to people being hit in the head or whatever, but a family died in Eastern Europe last year when a suspected meteorite crash set fire to their house. Basically, the biggest reason for there being no recorded meteorite deaths is that its blimmin' difficult to prove them as such - eyewitnesses say they saw something fall from the sky onto the thatch roof causing it to set alight, but without definite proof its another unconfirmed.
Actually, many modern mods laugh in the face of RCE and don't fall for this tactic. Mine among many assumes that staying in the current region is fine if it still passes the test. RCE can't put a misleading code on the disc or it would break compatibility on the initial check, so uses 0. This means your previous setting passes the test.
So if the worst comes to the worst, all you do is play a non-RCE disc of that region first, and then it doesn't need a manual help.
Finally, in the cases I've seen so far (Braveheart, Charlies Angels, Hollow Man) even if you get the RCE error message, you can just tell your player to start playing Title 1, Chapter 1 and it obliginly starts the film for you. Some protection there!
Thats a good point, but that does make the Dreamcast port doubly interesting - with a standardised set of hardware, there is a far far smaller requirement to spend your days toiling over device drivers, so we might be able to get this up and running.
It may be defunct hardware, but its all hardware that any self-respecting geek looking to play with a new OS is likely to have lying around. I'm sure he'd love to try a port to the Apple G4 or an S/390, but unless someone has one lying around spare its a rather expensive purchase just to play my little operating system with. No disrespect to the guy, writing an OS by yourself can't be an easy task, but I get the impression that this is for fun, rather than to destroy Microsoft.
"just about anything you want in a console...on a TV. woot!"
I know you're being funny here, but actually, if this can get up and running with the VGA adaptor then thats fine. According to the feature set its commandline based rather than gui-heavy, so the 640x480 that comes out of the Dreamcast VGA port should be just dandy.
Its just a guess (I don't know the author), but if I wanted to port my new operating system that I'd built as a hobby on my PC to another platform, then the one over there by the TV that I already own, rather than going out and spending a bunch of cash on buying a mac, SPARC, whatever machine. The Dreamcast is turning out to be quite a fun little box for homegrown development - take a look at some of the sites where things like emulation and even a sourceport of Quake have been performed.
They probably are now. When the domain simply existed, it was a bit of a defamation of character to make it appear to the average web user that they owned the domain insulting their major competitor, and only drew a little traffic to their site. By kicking up a stink, they both bring the site to people's attention (thereby massively increasing their hit count more than leaving it alone for people to find) and simultaneously make sure people know that this wasn't their idea, oh no. They wouldn't say that sort of thing ever.
If GM were the ones suing then speech aspects like this would certainly be involved; however its Ford suing, on the really quite reasonable grounds that to the average person the site would appear to be owned by them, and therefore imply that Ford had that opinion of their competitors.
If I were to post news that made people believe that you claimed torturing cute puppies was fun then you'd have grounds for claiming I was defaming you; speech isn't completely free of limitations.
"C) First person from the general public to kill a teammate, which was quite fun"
;)
err, you do realise that you might want to keep that quiet, don't you? Otherwise "kick the MasterVidBoi TKer" may be a phrase you have to get used to when this comes out...
Tell me I'm not the only one that thinks Nintendo's Gamecube looks like the Omni Consumer Products logo?
Anyway, if you've seen the videos and screenshots for Rogue Squadron 2, or heard that a Perfect Dark sequel is coming to Gamecube, then you know what to do. Microsoft may be a big company, and Sony may have that year's head start, but Nintendo are the ones that make the good games. Well, them and Sega - who are also aiming games at it.
DVB is already up and running - one example is the UK's ONdigital service, so it would appear that I will be able to junk my current set-top decoder and replace it with a Linux-based one from Nokia at some point. Of course, if its doing the MPEG2 decoding in software its a blimming good job they plan to use a seperate RTOS for that part. I have enough problems playing DVDs with stuttering from background processes time-slicing, so I wouldn't want to hit that on my set-top.
As others (including actual Microsoft employees) have pointed out on this thread, its true that employees are expected to use Windows, because like many another company around the world they use Outlook and Exchange scheduling services. What isn't enforced, however, is a requirement to keep Linux/Solaris/BSD/whatever off the second box on their desk.
For more on that moon thing, by the way, Fortean Times still have an old article up about it.
Well, the server is down so I can't confirm for this example, but if I had a fiver for every image enhancement artifact heralded as evidence of Martian (or Lunar, for that matter) Civilization then I could probably mount my own mission to disprove it.
They are artifacts all right, digital imaging ones. As has been pointed out, this is yet another in the long line of Cydonia wishful thinking.
And I used to be 13 as well; I'm guessing that the poster was speaking from personal experience - I know that I had a tendency to occasionally overreact to threats of punishment at that age; I stayed away from school for two days when I got given detention for hurting some poor bully's fist with my head.
Surely even if they do find duplicated errors they then have to prove that freedb.org didn't get them from the same user who entered the CDDB entry? I know if I had any locally stored entries that I'd fired at the CDDB I'd now send them to freedb as well.
Actually, I rather like 4'33". The silence is genuinely eerie, and you end up hearing the absence of the music if that makes sense.
I suppose that the real purpose is the similiar to the strange physics of the article, or exploring the Antarctic; you might not want to experience the results of these musical experiments yourself, but its important that someone tries to find new things. Stockhausen isn't incredibly listenable either, but without these people we would never have found techno for instance.