Actually, I'd be more than a little surprised if Philips' Ambilight LCD range don't have the same problem; the problem is with the Ambilight circuitry and not that of the TV itself.
Obviously, the plan wasn't to set fire to the TV as part of the lighting run. But when this works properly, it's rather good. The idea is that the light in your peripheral vision both helps reduce eyestrain, and it subjectively enhances image quality by helping to compensate for the contrast limitations of some displays. As such it's of rather more use on LCD than Plasma however.
Of this story, to be precise. To repeat what was said there, this has nothing to do with the actual plasma TV tech, and is purely a problem with the multicoloured lights they have round the back of the TV. Which can be turned off until you get a chance to send it off for the fix.
The difference, and I'd suggest it is a big one, is that the CC license grants the user EXTRA rights over and above the default copyright situation. "Evil" shrinkwrap licenses take them away.
An individual who doesn't know the precise details of the copyright status on file (because they don't have the license that should accompany it) won't get burned by assuming that the default applies. They just aren't aware of all the things they can do.
Without wishing to dismiss the rest of your claim immediately, the GPL's 'restrictive' license requires the posting of the source. Which, if the kernel discussion involves quibbling over details of, they're doing implicitly.
Ultimately, though, NNTP servers by their very design promise to forward your post on to the other servers for public viewing by anyone who wants to search the group. Turning round and complaining that they are doing what they said they would is rather rum. Adding a custom text message with seperate requirements and expecting an automated system that isn't expecting it to interpret them and proceed as requested is bordering on the moronic.
Thank goodness for that, too - I've lost my disc one of Doom 3, due to shuffling it in and out of the drive for other things, and it got put somewhere.
Because with Half Life 2, you can install it over Steam without even putting the DVD near your drive, and use the disc-key that came in the package to register it without paying for the game a second time.
No, it's not exactly right to have to fork out for a DVD, and then download the stuff anyway. But it probably takes less time and money than arguing with support staff for days and buying a new drive.
Anyway, it seems you found another way round, so that's just something to bear in mind for the future.
Actually, I appreciate the fact that all games with Starforce now have it in the demo versions as well.
Partly because I'm armed with the freely-available uninstaller once I'm finished with the demo (and then usually go buy the PS2 or XBox release instead), but also because I'd hate to try a game demo, really like it, and then only find it has a box-killing protection system once I've actually handed over my non-refundable £30.
Umm, I don't get your hostility. Your supposition that "Intel's new chips are kicking AMD's butt" is pretty much what I meant. All I was doing was describing (as asked) why the AMD chip wasn't recognised as a standard one by the BIOS.
They're being sent via the Cape to the Eastern Seaboard, and if the ships leave too late, they'll collide with all those penguins going past Antarctica.
The AMD was overclocked to the timings of the one that won't officially be released until June - unsurprisingly, AMD won't let them have a pre-production chip to demonstrate how their one is even faster.
Many decent surge-protecting multi-way extensions these days (at least here in the UK) have individual power switches for each plug on them. It's a total Godsend when I'm delving around inside the PC or whatever, as well as allowing me to keep my Minidisc player (rarely used, but no hard switch) turned properly off most of the time.
Apply for a warrant? Are you insane? He might get one of those nasty Judges that disagree with Bush's personal opinions and make decisions based on the law instead. Tom DeLay would go batshit again, and then where would we be?
It's a novel. A work of fiction. There really ARE no "objective" standards that can really reliably be used to confirm whether it is any good or not. Saying a novel "sucks" is exactly the same as saying I didn't like it, and not claiming to make any such objective judgement.
When I say that Angels & Demons "sucks" I mean it as a shorthand for "has depressingly predictable twists, cardboard cut-out characterisation, a completely cavalier attitude to things like factual accuracy and basic laws of physics, and an appalling lack of quality in the actual use of the English language and generally let me down from start to finish". I did that because the person I was replying to had already stated that they had read the book and hated it too, so I thought we had common ground on the above.
Finally, even by your own "product X has sold Y, therefore it MUST be better than product Z that has sold W, where WY" argument, Angels & Demons isn't particularly good, as it wasn't selling particularly well until everyone went to buy the prequel to the bestselling Da Vinci Code.
So I stand by my original post - the Da Vinci Code still suffers from painfully poor writing, but the plot is enough fun that it's not nearly as bad as Angels & Demons.
In short, because anyone who really cares that much about a massive one-week wait will be importing from Japan.
If there's a delay in the US release, who cares? You're obviously not bothered about waiting months after the Japanese release to get it, so an extra week shouldn't make any difference.
It wasn't "Angels & Demons" bad, no. The twists are a lot more polished, although the writing hasn't improved much.
Basically, if "Angels & Demons" is a failed script for a dire Jerry Bruckheimer movie turned into a bad novel, then "The Da Vinci Code" is a failed script for a pretty good Jerry Bruckheimer movie turned into a OK novel. It's a fair bit more fun, but it's still sorely lacking in anything approaching literary merit.
Meanwhile, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" is just utterly, utterly terrible. To present that bunch of nonsense as a novel is fine, as long as you can suspend a metric tonne of disbelief. To present it as historical fact is downright outrageous.
My point is that maybe, just maybe there's something decent about this new OS that makes it a new OS, rather than just a new window manager.
Further, that people who want these supposedly decent new OS capabilities might not want to pay extra for bells & whistles that they'll immediately turn off anyway (cf all the people who run XP's GUI in 2000-style mode).
Now, it's entirely possible that there isn't anything else worth upgrading for. But if that's the case, who is going to bother upgrading anyway? Not me.
For "deliberately crappier interface" read "basically XP's interface".
Some of us don't particularly want translucent window borders and all that resource-hungry crap, when the box is going to sit there quietly going about its business doing sensible things.
Similarly in the Linux world, some people want a lightweight WM rather than KDE or Gnome. There's nothing wrong with that.
It's pretty clear that this "PC Doctor" is sufficiently upset that he's created a user to get a front-page link from/. to the website he sells books from.
Nothing to his own advantage of doing that, then misleading people here to get all upset with Murdoch, is there?
As the utterly joyous We Love Katamari points out, the whole game is basically a fancy take on making snowmen anyway. So rolling the whole Snow Day gameworld up has got to be the best option.
Just about any decently budgeted, recently released film will have a surround mix designed with a centre-rear in mind, even if the flags on the disc and the writing on the box don't have the EX logo. So for new releases feel free to enable it manually.
I'm surprised you're finding it difficult to get DTS release discs, though - they're really very common compared to how the situation used to be.
Personally, I'm very dubious about DTS - most of their 'improvements' over DD are achieved through the use of a tweaked and pushy sound mix, rather than superior encoding. But if you do want more DTS, then I highly recommend looking into a multi-region player. Region 3 gets a lot of films released in DTS where regions 1 and 2 only get Dolby.
True, those "5 little things and a sub" systems are very, very much designed that they won't sound anything other than dire if you take the centre out.
I've not disabled my centre for 5.1 mixes in years, and only then really as an experiment, but I flitted back and forth on whether or not to smooth out stereo material before deciding to remove it again and go for a straight output to the two mains.
But then I've got floorstanders on the four corners (the rears were on special offer that day, and so the price above the equivalent bookshelf models was only that of a half-decent pair of stands) and so the centre is actually the smallest speaker in the setup now, so I've not got your average setting.
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Actually, I'd be more than a little surprised if Philips' Ambilight LCD range don't have the same problem; the problem is with the Ambilight circuitry and not that of the TV itself.
Obviously, the plan wasn't to set fire to the TV as part of the lighting run. But when this works properly, it's rather good. The idea is that the light in your peripheral vision both helps reduce eyestrain, and it subjectively enhances image quality by helping to compensate for the contrast limitations of some displays. As such it's of rather more use on LCD than Plasma however.
Of this story, to be precise. To repeat what was said there, this has nothing to do with the actual plasma TV tech, and is purely a problem with the multicoloured lights they have round the back of the TV. Which can be turned off until you get a chance to send it off for the fix.
The difference, and I'd suggest it is a big one, is that the CC license grants the user EXTRA rights over and above the default copyright situation. "Evil" shrinkwrap licenses take them away.
An individual who doesn't know the precise details of the copyright status on file (because they don't have the license that should accompany it) won't get burned by assuming that the default applies. They just aren't aware of all the things they can do.
Without wishing to dismiss the rest of your claim immediately, the GPL's 'restrictive' license requires the posting of the source. Which, if the kernel discussion involves quibbling over details of, they're doing implicitly.
Ultimately, though, NNTP servers by their very design promise to forward your post on to the other servers for public viewing by anyone who wants to search the group. Turning round and complaining that they are doing what they said they would is rather rum. Adding a custom text message with seperate requirements and expecting an automated system that isn't expecting it to interpret them and proceed as requested is bordering on the moronic.
Thank goodness for that, too - I've lost my disc one of Doom 3, due to shuffling it in and out of the drive for other things, and it got put somewhere.
How is your bandwidth?
Because with Half Life 2, you can install it over Steam without even putting the DVD near your drive, and use the disc-key that came in the package to register it without paying for the game a second time.
No, it's not exactly right to have to fork out for a DVD, and then download the stuff anyway. But it probably takes less time and money than arguing with support staff for days and buying a new drive.
Anyway, it seems you found another way round, so that's just something to bear in mind for the future.
Actually, I appreciate the fact that all games with Starforce now have it in the demo versions as well.
Partly because I'm armed with the freely-available uninstaller once I'm finished with the demo (and then usually go buy the PS2 or XBox release instead), but also because I'd hate to try a game demo, really like it, and then only find it has a box-killing protection system once I've actually handed over my non-refundable £30.
Umm, I don't get your hostility. Your supposition that "Intel's new chips are kicking AMD's butt" is pretty much what I meant. All I was doing was describing (as asked) why the AMD chip wasn't recognised as a standard one by the BIOS.
They're being sent via the Cape to the Eastern Seaboard, and if the ships leave too late, they'll collide with all those penguins going past Antarctica.
Possibly.
The AMD was overclocked to the timings of the one that won't officially be released until June - unsurprisingly, AMD won't let them have a pre-production chip to demonstrate how their one is even faster.
Many decent surge-protecting multi-way extensions these days (at least here in the UK) have individual power switches for each plug on them. It's a total Godsend when I'm delving around inside the PC or whatever, as well as allowing me to keep my Minidisc player (rarely used, but no hard switch) turned properly off most of the time.
So I take it that the attitude "look, the idiots signed up for AOL; they deserve all the spam/blocking/insults they get" is no longer in vogue?
Pity.
Apply for a warrant? Are you insane? He might get one of those nasty Judges that disagree with Bush's personal opinions and make decisions based on the law instead. Tom DeLay would go batshit again, and then where would we be?
It's a novel. A work of fiction. There really ARE no "objective" standards that can really reliably be used to confirm whether it is any good or not. Saying a novel "sucks" is exactly the same as saying I didn't like it, and not claiming to make any such objective judgement.
When I say that Angels & Demons "sucks" I mean it as a shorthand for "has depressingly predictable twists, cardboard cut-out characterisation, a completely cavalier attitude to things like factual accuracy and basic laws of physics, and an appalling lack of quality in the actual use of the English language and generally let me down from start to finish". I did that because the person I was replying to had already stated that they had read the book and hated it too, so I thought we had common ground on the above.
Finally, even by your own "product X has sold Y, therefore it MUST be better than product Z that has sold W, where WY" argument, Angels & Demons isn't particularly good, as it wasn't selling particularly well until everyone went to buy the prequel to the bestselling Da Vinci Code.
So I stand by my original post - the Da Vinci Code still suffers from painfully poor writing, but the plot is enough fun that it's not nearly as bad as Angels & Demons.
In short, because anyone who really cares that much about a massive one-week wait will be importing from Japan.
If there's a delay in the US release, who cares? You're obviously not bothered about waiting months after the Japanese release to get it, so an extra week shouldn't make any difference.
Surely anyone unconcerned with the look of the thing wouldn't bother upgrading from the first release of the DS anyway?
It wasn't "Angels & Demons" bad, no. The twists are a lot more polished, although the writing hasn't improved much.
Basically, if "Angels & Demons" is a failed script for a dire Jerry Bruckheimer movie turned into a bad novel, then "The Da Vinci Code" is a failed script for a pretty good Jerry Bruckheimer movie turned into a OK novel. It's a fair bit more fun, but it's still sorely lacking in anything approaching literary merit.
Meanwhile, "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" is just utterly, utterly terrible. To present that bunch of nonsense as a novel is fine, as long as you can suspend a metric tonne of disbelief. To present it as historical fact is downright outrageous.
...which airs on Channel 4 and not the BBC, so he's not going to get it through this system anyway.
Oh well.
My point is that maybe, just maybe there's something decent about this new OS that makes it a new OS, rather than just a new window manager.
Further, that people who want these supposedly decent new OS capabilities might not want to pay extra for bells & whistles that they'll immediately turn off anyway (cf all the people who run XP's GUI in 2000-style mode).
Now, it's entirely possible that there isn't anything else worth upgrading for. But if that's the case, who is going to bother upgrading anyway? Not me.
For "deliberately crappier interface" read "basically XP's interface".
Some of us don't particularly want translucent window borders and all that resource-hungry crap, when the box is going to sit there quietly going about its business doing sensible things.
Similarly in the Linux world, some people want a lightweight WM rather than KDE or Gnome. There's nothing wrong with that.
It's pretty clear that this "PC Doctor" is sufficiently upset that he's created a user to get a front-page link from /. to the website he sells books from.
Nothing to his own advantage of doing that, then misleading people here to get all upset with Murdoch, is there?
As the utterly joyous We Love Katamari points out, the whole game is basically a fancy take on making snowmen anyway. So rolling the whole Snow Day gameworld up has got to be the best option.
Just about any decently budgeted, recently released film will have a surround mix designed with a centre-rear in mind, even if the flags on the disc and the writing on the box don't have the EX logo. So for new releases feel free to enable it manually.
I'm surprised you're finding it difficult to get DTS release discs, though - they're really very common compared to how the situation used to be.
Personally, I'm very dubious about DTS - most of their 'improvements' over DD are achieved through the use of a tweaked and pushy sound mix, rather than superior encoding. But if you do want more DTS, then I highly recommend looking into a multi-region player. Region 3 gets a lot of films released in DTS where regions 1 and 2 only get Dolby.
True, those "5 little things and a sub" systems are very, very much designed that they won't sound anything other than dire if you take the centre out.
I've not disabled my centre for 5.1 mixes in years, and only then really as an experiment, but I flitted back and forth on whether or not to smooth out stereo material before deciding to remove it again and go for a straight output to the two mains.
But then I've got floorstanders on the four corners (the rears were on special offer that day, and so the price above the equivalent bookshelf models was only that of a half-decent pair of stands) and so the centre is actually the smallest speaker in the setup now, so I've not got your average setting.