There are some _far_ better movies than Fantastic Four on Blu-ray. Personally, I think there are few _worse_ ones, but that might just be me.
Anyway, the point of me replying was to say that if you want Saving Private Ryan, or something like it, head over to Amazon and put in an order for Band Of Brothers, which comes out on Remembrance / Veterans / Armistice Day; I thought it was much better than SPR, personally.
1080p can be sent over component, but very few TVs will take that signal. It's one of the reasons Microsoft caved and put an HDMI port on the XBox 360; no matter how many times they kept saying that the image quality was just fine over component, only a very small number of people could actually use that.
It sees your SPDIF connection to your stereo and pitches a fit.
When did a disc ever do that? Many of the people I know with Blu-ray are running SPDIF to their amps because they haven't bought an HDMI amp yet. I'm running the same with my HD-DVD player. No-one has had a problem.
They don't just work, though. The people who hang out on the forums aren't the ones who were bitten by HDCP.
This may be more of a problem in the US than elsewhere, then. Over here in Euroland, the sort of people who don't hang out on A/V forums didn't buy HDTVs in any kind of numbers until the whole HDCP thing was all sorted out.
Not only are MicroSD to SD converters available, but the one time I bought a card it came with one in the box. Worked just dandy in my son's camera (I needed a card in a hurry, and it was to hand) as well as in the PC.
But could a single keystroke that advances or rewinds the document by 96% of the height of the viewport (fancy for Page Up) NOT be classified as obvious?
But that's not what they have patented. Quite apart from the actual patent being a specific method for doing something more clever, even the summary explains that it's for paging down an exact amount (e.g. a page) of the physical document irrespective of how much of it is visible on the screen itself.
I do know that French Canadian is sufficiently different from Real French that film studios have to specify which one they mean on DVDs, and wouldn't dream of releasing a Quebec-sourced dub or sub track in the cinema in France.
I'm on Virgin Media, one of the Big Six. Their definition of throttling as per the website is to drop my download speed back to what they were giving me for the same money last year anyway. So I can't say I'm that put out by it.
As for these letters, I think they're a good idea. They're not a threat of a lawsuit, they're not a threat of disconnection. That Microsoft study demonstrates that most of the letters will be going to the PARENTS of the infringers, not the kids performing illegal acts themselves, so it should have a fair-sized impact anyway.
"Converting from US to UK English is a non-trivial task"
This is very true. Which would explain why few of the major software companies bother, but just ship their products with 'US English' instead unless it's actually relevant as with Word.
If you really want to "fuck viacom", just let the FBI know they're about to take posession of every video YouTube has ever had to pull for breaking obscenity and kiddie fiddling laws, thanks to another part of this ruling.
I'm not the grandparent, but they're correct; you can thank David Blunkett for that one. My Google-fu is failing me as this is the best link I can find right now but I remember hearing about it on the BBC at the time.
Re: the second point, it's relevant because even an F1 game with current Codies handling will be a massive improvement on what we've had recently. No, I don't expect it to satisfy the rFactor addicts, but Sony Liverpool really should have stuck to the excellent job they do on the wipEout series.
1) How many driving aids did he turn off? My run through the GRID demo didn't seem too bad once I removed all that stuff. But that was in the Mustang, and I was somewhat too excited by the instinctively violent reaction of the internal view to bullying tactics to notice too much.
2) Have you actually played Sony's F1 games? They weren't any better. The PS3 one was very pretty, but the handling was just diabolical.
If you like DIRT and GRID then you'll be happy - F1 '09 is being developed with a further-developed version of the engine they used for those two. So I'm sure the purists will hate the handling (though if it's worse than Sony's F1 '06 I'll be shocked), but it will probably look utterly amazing and come out on more formats.
If you want to pay money for a DRM-free mp3 file of the music, this site will sell it to you for 89 cents. If you want a copy tethered to the website at first, it's 10 cents, and those 10 are redeemable toward the full mp3 file if you change your mind.
I'm REALLY struggling to see why this is in any way worse than the Amazon or iTunes stores, just because there's another option as well.
You could, but it was something of an unexpected surprise and occasional game-breaker. Q2DM* are much better at balancing the health hit against the positional reward of using rocket jumps in the right places.
Shoving it underground is 'only storing' carbon as well. As long as the carbon isn't released into the atmosphere when you cut down lumber to leave more room to grow some fresh trees, you're winning.
Try playing any '06 game from EA over XBox Live. You can't; it insists on speaking to the EA server that isn't there first, despite it not acting as a dedicated host when it was there.
I was about to accuse you of cheating, since they're 4-byte codes. But if 0xCAFEBABE's underwear has an opacity of CA that makes a bizarre amount of sense.
True, but then a Nintendo Wii is 250Euros here in Europe, so the comparison remains 60 somethings vs. 250 somethings, even though our "somethings" are supposed to be worth a lot more.
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There are some _far_ better movies than Fantastic Four on Blu-ray. Personally, I think there are few _worse_ ones, but that might just be me.
Anyway, the point of me replying was to say that if you want Saving Private Ryan, or something like it, head over to Amazon and put in an order for Band Of Brothers, which comes out on Remembrance / Veterans / Armistice Day; I thought it was much better than SPR, personally.
1080p can be sent over component, but very few TVs will take that signal. It's one of the reasons Microsoft caved and put an HDMI port on the XBox 360; no matter how many times they kept saying that the image quality was just fine over component, only a very small number of people could actually use that.
It sees your SPDIF connection to your stereo and pitches a fit.
When did a disc ever do that? Many of the people I know with Blu-ray are running SPDIF to their amps because they haven't bought an HDMI amp yet. I'm running the same with my HD-DVD player. No-one has had a problem.
They don't just work, though. The people who hang out on the forums aren't the ones who were bitten by HDCP.
This may be more of a problem in the US than elsewhere, then. Over here in Euroland, the sort of people who don't hang out on A/V forums didn't buy HDTVs in any kind of numbers until the whole HDCP thing was all sorted out.
Not only are MicroSD to SD converters available, but the one time I bought a card it came with one in the box. Worked just dandy in my son's camera (I needed a card in a hurry, and it was to hand) as well as in the PC.
But could a single keystroke that advances or rewinds the document by 96% of the height of the viewport (fancy for Page Up) NOT be classified as obvious?
But that's not what they have patented. Quite apart from the actual patent being a specific method for doing something more clever, even the summary explains that it's for paging down an exact amount (e.g. a page) of the physical document irrespective of how much of it is visible on the screen itself.
I do know that French Canadian is sufficiently different from Real French that film studios have to specify which one they mean on DVDs, and wouldn't dream of releasing a Quebec-sourced dub or sub track in the cinema in France.
I'm on Virgin Media, one of the Big Six. Their definition of throttling as per the website is to drop my download speed back to what they were giving me for the same money last year anyway. So I can't say I'm that put out by it.
As for these letters, I think they're a good idea. They're not a threat of a lawsuit, they're not a threat of disconnection. That Microsoft study demonstrates that most of the letters will be going to the PARENTS of the infringers, not the kids performing illegal acts themselves, so it should have a fair-sized impact anyway.
"Converting from US to UK English is a non-trivial task"
This is very true. Which would explain why few of the major software companies bother, but just ship their products with 'US English' instead unless it's actually relevant as with Word.
Randy's got the girl, the baddie is dead and they've found the treasure. How much more ending are you looking for, exactly?
If you really want to "fuck viacom", just let the FBI know they're about to take posession of every video YouTube has ever had to pull for breaking obscenity and kiddie fiddling laws, thanks to another part of this ruling.
I'm not the grandparent, but they're correct; you can thank David Blunkett for that one. My Google-fu is failing me as this is the best link I can find right now but I remember hearing about it on the BBC at the time.
Ahh, that's ok then.
Re: the second point, it's relevant because even an F1 game with current Codies handling will be a massive improvement on what we've had recently. No, I don't expect it to satisfy the rFactor addicts, but Sony Liverpool really should have stuck to the excellent job they do on the wipEout series.
1) How many driving aids did he turn off? My run through the GRID demo didn't seem too bad once I removed all that stuff. But that was in the Mustang, and I was somewhat too excited by the instinctively violent reaction of the internal view to bullying tactics to notice too much.
2) Have you actually played Sony's F1 games? They weren't any better. The PS3 one was very pretty, but the handling was just diabolical.
Micro Machines ruled on the Amiga. The most recent ones were pretty terrible.
If you like DIRT and GRID then you'll be happy - F1 '09 is being developed with a further-developed version of the engine they used for those two. So I'm sure the purists will hate the handling (though if it's worse than Sony's F1 '06 I'll be shocked), but it will probably look utterly amazing and come out on more formats.
If you want to pay money for a DRM-free mp3 file of the music, this site will sell it to you for 89 cents. If you want a copy tethered to the website at first, it's 10 cents, and those 10 are redeemable toward the full mp3 file if you change your mind.
I'm REALLY struggling to see why this is in any way worse than the Amazon or iTunes stores, just because there's another option as well.
You could, but it was something of an unexpected surprise and occasional game-breaker. Q2DM* are much better at balancing the health hit against the positional reward of using rocket jumps in the right places.
Shoving it underground is 'only storing' carbon as well. As long as the carbon isn't released into the atmosphere when you cut down lumber to leave more room to grow some fresh trees, you're winning.
Burnout 3 is an exception - they turned that server back on in time for the XBox Classics thing where you can download it for the 360.
Try playing any '06 game from EA over XBox Live. You can't; it insists on speaking to the EA server that isn't there first, despite it not acting as a dedicated host when it was there.
Yeah, sorry about that. I should have used the spoiler tags.
I won't mention the whole Microsoft/Yahoo thing, then.
BSD is Unix.
Linux is not BSD.
Q.E.D.
I was about to accuse you of cheating, since they're 4-byte codes. But if 0xCAFEBABE's underwear has an opacity of CA that makes a bizarre amount of sense.
True, but then a Nintendo Wii is 250Euros here in Europe, so the comparison remains 60 somethings vs. 250 somethings, even though our "somethings" are supposed to be worth a lot more.