Of course you can. It's just that some people find the fact that the filenames and subdirectories are structured to be fast and efficient for the player that keeps track info in a seperate database file, rather than easily human readable. Winamp (and indeed anything else) reads the intact header info on the files to get that for you.
There's really a sliding 'geek' scale that goes something like this:
0: doesn't care what they look like on disc, as going looking for the files directory is magic voodoo stuff.
1: annoyed that the filenames are munged up, making it useless for most purposes.
2: not that bothered, since they can work around it with the id3 tags. However, possibly irritated that they should have to anyway.
There was a fair-sized gap at times, but it eventually made it to 10 (or thereabouts) episodes. You're right about it being late '80s, though. There's a trade paper-back of the lot available most places if you want to catch the rest.
The limitation on which countries you could be from isn't just language, actually - it's really, really dull lawyer stuff about contest rules in other countries.
Yep, that's exactly what the fuss is about. Rather than having to either work out how the living feck I set up a cron job to download said file under Windows (sorry, but I'm tied in due to a whole bunch of apps I need), or have to actively go and download it each week.
With Podder, when the RSS announces a new download, it gets uploaded to my iPod automatically so I don't miss it.
The whole "it's amazing"/"it's bollocks" argument really seems to stem from whether or not anyone actually finds any broadcasts they want to listen to. I just use it for the various BBC shows, but that's plenty to keep me going.
I don't know about you, but my PC downloads the hour-long Fighting Talk and 30-minute Kermode film reviews from the BBC every week in about 5 minutes whenever I've turned on the PC before synching it onto my Pod without me even lifting a finger.
Both are shows that I try to catch on Radio 5 Live anyway, but I'm often not in a position to do so.
Sure, there are other methods to achieve the same result (my hi-fi's minidisc recorder on a timer not being the least), but this one is piss-easy to set up and works.
"Podcasting" may be a dumb buzzword for an amalgamation of a couple of fairly standard technologies being strung together in a slightly different way, but the end result definitely works for me.
"I vote that anyone who believes video games are not at least as good as novels as art forms be made to read the entire Harry Potter series and *then* play the entire Final Fantasy series for comparison."
Me too. By the time they're close to finishing trudging their miserable way through 11 Final Fantasy games, they'll either kill themselves to end it all, or it'll be time to elect someone else anyway...
I absolutely agree that it's the Kansas school board's right to be fucking morons. It's also our right to call them fucking morons when that is precisely what they are being.
They're quite welcome to teach religion in a science lesson if that is what they want to do. It only ruins a bunch of Kansas kids' educations; there will be plenty of people from other places to fill all those jobs that require a decent level of scientific knowledge.
Actually, it looks like it is the same people. Nearly everyone agrees that Episode 2 wasn't as bad as Episode 1, but the box-office numbers were much lower due to fewer people doing repeat viewings.
Partly this is down to the fact that people are more used to the idea of seeing things once and then waiting for the DVD, but it seems there are a fair number of geeks who'll see it once then get a rip to tide themselves over until a legit copy can be had, rather than going back to the cinema.
Someone clearly hasn't thought this through very far. How an RFID tag is going to get written for every sale via Amazon, Play and every other mailorder/online retailer out there is a mystery.
I don't pirate films because ordering the real thing is significantly less hassle. Waiting hours for a download, then leaving the box overnight encoding it to a DVD-R is pretty annoying, but it beats having to go into town and wait while they encode my fingerprint for the disc, and then have to be around if anyone else wants to watch it would be a nightmare.
If this isn't just idle shareholder-fluffing, there's only really one obvious way for them to do it. Longhorn not only embedding IE right into the core, but making Google more difficult to get to than MSN Search. Expect a search window right there on the desktop.
It's the way Microsoft have always gone about it - ensure that their product is 'just there' and 'good enough', and fewer people will bother going to the hassle of setting up the 3rd-party version.
Thanks, you're an absolute star. Except that now I've got to stop my wife in her attempts to deliberately destroy her Clie, so she's got an excuse to get one of these things.
I'd settle for something substantially simpler. My wife is considering a new PDA, and wants to continue to run PalmOS for all the software she already has. But I've just spent quite a bit of time ripping our CDs to Apple's AAC format, as I've got an iPod.
If this thing had an AAC player, and not just an mp3 one, then it would be brilliant.
I missed it, but now I'm mentally singing "Is this the way to arm Portillo?" by ex-fellow Tory Cabinet minister, subsequent landmine flogger David Mellor.
No, but they _are_ getting shot at on our behalf (not that I asked them to participate in a possibly illegal invasion of a soverign nation under false pretences, but you know what I mean and/. has been over this enough times already...)
Pissing them off because the resident BOFH doesn't want the hassle of large files moving about isn't a particularly nice thing to do.
"Where once TR featured screenshots of light spaces and beautiful creatures, the game that the site appears to show off is a gritty hell."
Oh Bloody Hell Not Again. What is it with every single producer of games, TV and film deciding that everything has to use the buzzwords Gritty, Dark, Sexy and Noir to pitch itself now. Ubisoft ruining Prince Of Persia is just one of many and varied examples. Even bloody Star Wars has to end on a downer just to keep the Fincher fanboys happy.
Given that it's a slot-loader, and the only DVD-A discs I'd want to play are in the nasty hybrid DualDisc format, the PS3 being unable to play them is fairly irrelevant to me, actually. Slot-Loaders always cover themselves in about 15 different warnings of what could happen to both disc and machine if you shove a DualDisc in them, due to them being thicker than normal discs.
By the way, the latest set of announcements about which audio and video codecs are supported on each format (which are the same) means that the capacity is the ONLY practical difference for consumers between the two HD disc formats.
They've also stated that you'll be able to use your "mp3 player" (which I'm actually reading as WMA player unfortunately, and not my iPod loaded with music in AAC) for custom soundtracks this time, rather than having to do all the playlist generation on the box itself. So while networking with Windows Media Center Edition is one way, it hopefully won't be the only one.
"Proper" 1080p is actually 1920 by 1080, due to the 16/9 aspect ratio, so it's actually a fair bit more than your desktop; not enough to worry a whole second 6800 though, I agree.
But then the XBox's graphics processor isn't that different from ATi's next high-end chipset (i.e. it will fully support version 3 shaders). Just as with a single 6800 versus an X800, I won't be surprised if the PS3's graphics pipeline is notably faster under some engines, but actually slower with others.
I guess you're the one person who's really happy when InstallShield decides to mess up and leave all its temp files lying around, then? After all, we wouldn't want anything cleaning up files without asking you, would we?
Which popular trilogy are you planning, exactly? Fox (Alien, Die Hard) and Lucasfilm (Star Wars, obviously) are on the fence, and Warner/New Line (Matrix and Rings) are on the HD-DVD side. As for 1080p, you've got to find a display that will show it before it becomes of any practical benefit. I also see no practical reason why the 360 wouldn't be able to output that for at least some titles, given the specs - it's just that they're demanding 1080i support for everything from developers.
I agree that BluRay in the PS3 will help the format a hell of a lot, but it's decidedly premature to call it over yet. Plus, Sony can scream 'wait for PS3' all they want, but Halo 3 is a fairly big juggernaut to combat.
Personally, I'm in no desperate rush for either, and I'll probably get both eventually, just as I have all the current formats.
In practice the difference between the graphics chipsets may well be smaller, particularly for those of us running a single 480i display rather than a pair of 1080p ones - the difference between 1080i for 360 and 1080p for PS3 is where I expect most of the extra power will go for cross-platform titles.
As for the CPU power, each individual core looks about the same on both boxes, it's just that with the PS3 you'll be using those additional cores to do the things like dual-screen two-player, software DTS encoding and so on that aren't relevant on 360. Given how long it took for programmers to use both PS2 vector units effectively, Cell is even more of a programming nightmare than 360.
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1) enable your iPod for hard-disc use in the options.
2) look on the disk (on Windows they're in a hidden directory) and copy all those shiny mp3 files off to a temp directory.
3) introduce them to iTunes and ask it to consolidate your library if you want the filenames to be sorted out.
This certainly works on Windows, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't work on OSX as well.
Of course you can. It's just that some people find the fact that the filenames and subdirectories are structured to be fast and efficient for the player that keeps track info in a seperate database file, rather than easily human readable. Winamp (and indeed anything else) reads the intact header info on the files to get that for you.
There's really a sliding 'geek' scale that goes something like this:
0: doesn't care what they look like on disc, as going looking for the files directory is magic voodoo stuff.
1: annoyed that the filenames are munged up, making it useless for most purposes.
2: not that bothered, since they can work around it with the id3 tags. However, possibly irritated that they should have to anyway.
There was a fair-sized gap at times, but it eventually made it to 10 (or thereabouts) episodes. You're right about it being late '80s, though. There's a trade paper-back of the lot available most places if you want to catch the rest.
Well, that and the fact that it's had two phase commit since God knows when, and automatic table partitioning arrived recently as well.
Still, congratulations to Postgres for catching up on those points.
It's not like CA haven't been doing anything with the codeline in the meantime. I'm sure there's ancient bits of code hiding in Oracle, too.
But the same goes for any product, really - what's the oldest comment in the Linux kernel, for instance?
The limitation on which countries you could be from isn't just language, actually - it's really, really dull lawyer stuff about contest rules in other countries.
Yep, that's exactly what the fuss is about. Rather than having to either work out how the living feck I set up a cron job to download said file under Windows (sorry, but I'm tied in due to a whole bunch of apps I need), or have to actively go and download it each week.
With Podder, when the RSS announces a new download, it gets uploaded to my iPod automatically so I don't miss it.
The whole "it's amazing"/"it's bollocks" argument really seems to stem from whether or not anyone actually finds any broadcasts they want to listen to. I just use it for the various BBC shows, but that's plenty to keep me going.
You mean "ITMS to use open formats". Every Podcast I've ever seen comes as a bog-standard unencrypted mp3.
I don't know about you, but my PC downloads the hour-long Fighting Talk and 30-minute Kermode film reviews from the BBC every week in about 5 minutes whenever I've turned on the PC before synching it onto my Pod without me even lifting a finger.
Both are shows that I try to catch on Radio 5 Live anyway, but I'm often not in a position to do so.
Sure, there are other methods to achieve the same result (my hi-fi's minidisc recorder on a timer not being the least), but this one is piss-easy to set up and works.
"Podcasting" may be a dumb buzzword for an amalgamation of a couple of fairly standard technologies being strung together in a slightly different way, but the end result definitely works for me.
"I vote that anyone who believes video games are not at least as good as novels as art forms be made to read the entire Harry Potter series and *then* play the entire Final Fantasy series for comparison."
Me too. By the time they're close to finishing trudging their miserable way through 11 Final Fantasy games, they'll either kill themselves to end it all, or it'll be time to elect someone else anyway...
I absolutely agree that it's the Kansas school board's right to be fucking morons. It's also our right to call them fucking morons when that is precisely what they are being.
They're quite welcome to teach religion in a science lesson if that is what they want to do. It only ruins a bunch of Kansas kids' educations; there will be plenty of people from other places to fill all those jobs that require a decent level of scientific knowledge.
Actually, it looks like it is the same people. Nearly everyone agrees that Episode 2 wasn't as bad as Episode 1, but the box-office numbers were much lower due to fewer people doing repeat viewings.
Partly this is down to the fact that people are more used to the idea of seeing things once and then waiting for the DVD, but it seems there are a fair number of geeks who'll see it once then get a rip to tide themselves over until a legit copy can be had, rather than going back to the cinema.
Someone clearly hasn't thought this through very far. How an RFID tag is going to get written for every sale via Amazon, Play and every other mailorder/online retailer out there is a mystery.
I don't pirate films because ordering the real thing is significantly less hassle. Waiting hours for a download, then leaving the box overnight encoding it to a DVD-R is pretty annoying, but it beats having to go into town and wait while they encode my fingerprint for the disc, and then have to be around if anyone else wants to watch it would be a nightmare.
If this isn't just idle shareholder-fluffing, there's only really one obvious way for them to do it. Longhorn not only embedding IE right into the core, but making Google more difficult to get to than MSN Search. Expect a search window right there on the desktop.
It's the way Microsoft have always gone about it - ensure that their product is 'just there' and 'good enough', and fewer people will bother going to the hassle of setting up the 3rd-party version.
Thanks, you're an absolute star. Except that now I've got to stop my wife in her attempts to deliberately destroy her Clie, so she's got an excuse to get one of these things.
I'd settle for something substantially simpler. My wife is considering a new PDA, and wants to continue to run PalmOS for all the software she already has. But I've just spent quite a bit of time ripping our CDs to Apple's AAC format, as I've got an iPod.
If this thing had an AAC player, and not just an mp3 one, then it would be brilliant.
I missed it, but now I'm mentally singing "Is this the way to arm Portillo?" by ex-fellow Tory Cabinet minister, subsequent landmine flogger David Mellor.
Disturbing.
No, but they _are_ getting shot at on our behalf (not that I asked them to participate in a possibly illegal invasion of a soverign nation under false pretences, but you know what I mean and /. has been over this enough times already...)
Pissing them off because the resident BOFH doesn't want the hassle of large files moving about isn't a particularly nice thing to do.
"Where once TR featured screenshots of light spaces and beautiful creatures, the game that the site appears to show off is a gritty hell."
Oh Bloody Hell Not Again. What is it with every single producer of games, TV and film deciding that everything has to use the buzzwords Gritty, Dark, Sexy and Noir to pitch itself now. Ubisoft ruining Prince Of Persia is just one of many and varied examples. Even bloody Star Wars has to end on a downer just to keep the Fincher fanboys happy.
Given that it's a slot-loader, and the only DVD-A discs I'd want to play are in the nasty hybrid DualDisc format, the PS3 being unable to play them is fairly irrelevant to me, actually. Slot-Loaders always cover themselves in about 15 different warnings of what could happen to both disc and machine if you shove a DualDisc in them, due to them being thicker than normal discs.
By the way, the latest set of announcements about which audio and video codecs are supported on each format (which are the same) means that the capacity is the ONLY practical difference for consumers between the two HD disc formats.
They've also stated that you'll be able to use your "mp3 player" (which I'm actually reading as WMA player unfortunately, and not my iPod loaded with music in AAC) for custom soundtracks this time, rather than having to do all the playlist generation on the box itself. So while networking with Windows Media Center Edition is one way, it hopefully won't be the only one.
"Proper" 1080p is actually 1920 by 1080, due to the 16/9 aspect ratio, so it's actually a fair bit more than your desktop; not enough to worry a whole second 6800 though, I agree.
But then the XBox's graphics processor isn't that different from ATi's next high-end chipset (i.e. it will fully support version 3 shaders). Just as with a single 6800 versus an X800, I won't be surprised if the PS3's graphics pipeline is notably faster under some engines, but actually slower with others.
I guess you're the one person who's really happy when InstallShield decides to mess up and leave all its temp files lying around, then? After all, we wouldn't want anything cleaning up files without asking you, would we?
Which popular trilogy are you planning, exactly? Fox (Alien, Die Hard) and Lucasfilm (Star Wars, obviously) are on the fence, and Warner/New Line (Matrix and Rings) are on the HD-DVD side. As for 1080p, you've got to find a display that will show it before it becomes of any practical benefit. I also see no practical reason why the 360 wouldn't be able to output that for at least some titles, given the specs - it's just that they're demanding 1080i support for everything from developers.
I agree that BluRay in the PS3 will help the format a hell of a lot, but it's decidedly premature to call it over yet. Plus, Sony can scream 'wait for PS3' all they want, but Halo 3 is a fairly big juggernaut to combat.
Personally, I'm in no desperate rush for either, and I'll probably get both eventually, just as I have all the current formats.
In practice the difference between the graphics chipsets may well be smaller, particularly for those of us running a single 480i display rather than a pair of 1080p ones - the difference between 1080i for 360 and 1080p for PS3 is where I expect most of the extra power will go for cross-platform titles.
As for the CPU power, each individual core looks about the same on both boxes, it's just that with the PS3 you'll be using those additional cores to do the things like dual-screen two-player, software DTS encoding and so on that aren't relevant on 360. Given how long it took for programmers to use both PS2 vector units effectively, Cell is even more of a programming nightmare than 360.