I'm sure it looks just spiffing. Of course, you're still watching "End Of Days", and so could be having more fun stabbing yourself in the forehead with a pair of compasses, but at least it's nice and shiny.
Still, there are some less horrifically bad films available too, so I'm probably being harsh.
Who, The Times, for publishing such unfounded speculation as "news", or the story submitter, for considering it the same?
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Actually, that isn't really a concern for me. I certainly think it's an issue in some situations, but I'd be shooting a MAXIMUM of ~100Mb in a day (normally far less than that), and kicking it off for 10 minutes while I go for a shower when I get back to the hotel isn't really a worry.
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Thanks - I've since found mention of it by Reuters.
I can't afford an iPod this month anyway, so I'll wait and see what happens with it. If it _can_ read from my camera, then the 60Gb is going to be hard to resist.
I'd question why you want FLAC support, though. Personally, I don't use a Walkman in any situation where I can tell the difference between mp3 compressed with LAME's --alt_preset_standard (~160kb VBR) and uncompressed material.
Sure, I can through the hi-fi at home, but on headphones, on the move? Never.
Alternatives to the 20Gb+ models? The two main contenders I've been considering are the iRiver H series and the iAudio M3.
Both have features the iPod doesn't (the main one being audio recording without the need to wire your PC into your hifi), but neither have the really nice interface of the iPod.
Apple seem to think it would 'confuse' users. If you look at iPods versus the competition generally, Apple continually sacrifice additional features that they don't think many will use on the altar of making the features they do add as simple to navigate as possible.
Mind you, given that the iRiver sucks at it in comparison to using my PC to record, I can't say I really blame them in this instance.
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Where did you find this? The only options on the site I can find are the two Belkin products, that are rather a lot more.
I guess I should hold off anyway - I've heard very mixed reports about trying to get pics of Sony cameras with similar features on the iRiver players, and I'm not about to buy a different camera just for this.
I'm perfectly happy running SP2 on my XP machine, but my tech-phobe friend is still without it, and vulnerable to all the fun and games that I'd want to put it on for.
However, about the only thing they use their PC for is eBay, and that still hasn't issued an addendum to their statement of last year that SP2 breaks eBay Picture Services. Has anyone actually tried it?
To be fair, he's right - not only eBay, but practically every shopping mall is swamped in dodgy "X in 1" machines.
Further, there are a whole bunch of people making arcade cabs with a PC inside that at least heavily insinuate that they'll help you get all the roms you need; just search - I found one with little effort, using the eBay terms "MAME Cabinet" that outright states that over 4000 ROMs are included.
No, removing all legal guns would not put the murder rate to zero. It wouldn't even reduce the rate of death by firearm to zero. But the evidence from the rest of the world is that it would (a) dramatically reduce it, and (b) make the cops lives easier - if every firearm is an illegal one, you've got the crim on possessing one, even if you can't prove what they're planning on doing with it.
But you're right that a significant spoiler to this ideal-world solution is the sheer number of guns already in private hands in the US. This means that any law banning them would have to face the sudden MONUMENTAL issue of illegal weapons out there. We in the UK have it relatively easy, since criminals have a much harder time getting hold of them.
As for the question of home defence, I kind of take the attitude that cowardice is good. Between the burglar and I, only one of us is a criminal, and so only one of us is likely to know how to hold their own in a fight. Sure, if I could catch them unawares with a large blunt instrument (say, the detachable metal neck of the Dyson that lives in the bedroom, for instance), then that's fine. But I've got insurance, and I'd rather lose my CD player than my life.
Just to put how pitifully cheap the TV License is:
Last year, in amongst all those other hours of great television, the best radio in the world, and one of the most important news sites on the net, we had all the Euro 2004 football matches screened. With no adverts and excellent commentary.
It actually cost my friend in the US MORE MONEY, even given the fact that the dollar is worthless right now, just to watch the matches on pay-per-view, with a really, really crap commentary.
So anyone who likes football (and that's a fairly huge number in the UK) should consider everything else their TV license funded last year as effectively a free bonus.
I'd love to know where these uploaders are getting their HDTV versions from. I live in the UK myself, and there isn't a HD broadcast stream yet.
Unless by "HDTV" you just mean digitally broadcast 16x9. Which we've got free-to-air, if you live in the right place, or anywhere with paid-for satellite. SD resolution, MPEG2, about half (or a bit less) of typical DVD bandwidth.
Actually, I don't really see that my downloading 24, watching it without adverts, really hurts anyone that much when my TV license also entitles me to watch it again a few months later on the BBC, again with no adverts.
Murdoch might not be too happy because I don't watch it with adverts on Sky, but who cares about him? He's already getting the money when I replace my crummy VCDs with legit DVD copies later.
"Countries like England, which have totally banned guns, are still dealing with massive gun violence. How could that be?"
Because you're wrong, basically. The amount of gun crime has gone significantly up recently, but that is from fuck all to very little, if you compare it to US numbers.
"Also, English authorities are telling citizens that they have no right to protect themselves from home invaders and that they will be criminally charged if they do so."
Wrong again. Actually, they've recently been busy reassuring people of just the reverse. The Tony Martin case you're alluding to was a specific instance where a man shot a fleeing alleged attempted burglar in the back with an unlicensed shotgun. The reason it wasn't licensed being that he had lost it after threatening the postman with another shotgun, believing him to be a burglar as well.
If you're going to accuse people of not having their facts straight, I'd suggest you do so too.
The best bit is that it's only by letting someone crack the DRM that you can convert the files to any of the formats that play on the world's most popular range of portable players anyway.
Until then, the ability to put these DRM'd tracks on a tiny, tiny minority of players that understand and support that encryption isn't terribly useful...
Does it not? My GeForce 4Ti runs one monitor at 640x480 and the other at 1024x768 without any complaints, so I didn't realise that wouldn't be the case elsewhere.
I was using the dual-format Medulla album, from Bjork for SACD; I didn't have anything on DVD-A I really wanted to listen to.
Comparisons were between the NAD 521BEE for CD, and the Pioneer DV-575 multi-format player for SACD, all going into a Pioneer 5-channel amp (I forget the model) and Celestion speakers all round.
Just using the Pioneer, the SACD layer did sound better than CD, yes - but the NAD made as much improvement to the sound, if not moreso. Since I'd rather have the discs I already own sound great than just the new ones I buy, there was little contest.
They made a game DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball, in which a bunch of digital women run around in skimpy bikinis while the XBox performs millions of calculations per second to ensure their breasts bounce in just the right way.
Then some people came along and made texture patches for those with chipped XBoxes (so someone else did all the hard copy-protection-removal stuff) that removed said pieces of string. This makes Team Ninja look like the dirty little pervs they clearly are, and it's all rather embarrassing for them.
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I'm sure it looks just spiffing. Of course, you're still watching "End Of Days", and so could be having more fun stabbing yourself in the forehead with a pair of compasses, but at least it's nice and shiny.
Still, there are some less horrifically bad films available too, so I'm probably being harsh.
Who, The Times, for publishing such unfounded speculation as "news", or the story submitter, for considering it the same?
Actually, that isn't really a concern for me. I certainly think it's an issue in some situations, but I'd be shooting a MAXIMUM of ~100Mb in a day (normally far less than that), and kicking it off for 10 minutes while I go for a shower when I get back to the hotel isn't really a worry.
Thanks - I've since found mention of it by Reuters.
I can't afford an iPod this month anyway, so I'll wait and see what happens with it. If it _can_ read from my camera, then the 60Gb is going to be hard to resist.
I'm also considering the iAudio M3.
I'd question why you want FLAC support, though. Personally, I don't use a Walkman in any situation where I can tell the difference between mp3 compressed with LAME's --alt_preset_standard (~160kb VBR) and uncompressed material.
Sure, I can through the hi-fi at home, but on headphones, on the move? Never.
Alternatives to the 20Gb+ models? The two main contenders I've been considering are the iRiver H series and the iAudio M3.
Both have features the iPod doesn't (the main one being audio recording without the need to wire your PC into your hifi), but neither have the really nice interface of the iPod.
According to Reuters, there is going to be a $29 accessory next month to connect to your USB camera, in order to download pics directly.
If it is the same as the equivalent feature on the iRiver H3x0 series, you can also plug in a CF (or in my case Memory Stick) reader.
Apple seem to think it would 'confuse' users. If you look at iPods versus the competition generally, Apple continually sacrifice additional features that they don't think many will use on the altar of making the features they do add as simple to navigate as possible.
Mind you, given that the iRiver sucks at it in comparison to using my PC to record, I can't say I really blame them in this instance.
Where did you find this? The only options on the site I can find are the two Belkin products, that are rather a lot more.
I guess I should hold off anyway - I've heard very mixed reports about trying to get pics of Sony cameras with similar features on the iRiver players, and I'm not about to buy a different camera just for this.
I'm perfectly happy running SP2 on my XP machine, but my tech-phobe friend is still without it, and vulnerable to all the fun and games that I'd want to put it on for.
However, about the only thing they use their PC for is eBay, and that still hasn't issued an addendum to their statement of last year that SP2 breaks eBay Picture Services. Has anyone actually tried it?
To be fair, he's right - not only eBay, but practically every shopping mall is swamped in dodgy "X in 1" machines.
Further, there are a whole bunch of people making arcade cabs with a PC inside that at least heavily insinuate that they'll help you get all the roms you need; just search - I found one with little effort, using the eBay terms "MAME Cabinet" that outright states that over 4000 ROMs are included.
Actually, on that I largely agree with you.
No, removing all legal guns would not put the murder rate to zero. It wouldn't even reduce the rate of death by firearm to zero. But the evidence from the rest of the world is that it would (a) dramatically reduce it, and (b) make the cops lives easier - if every firearm is an illegal one, you've got the crim on possessing one, even if you can't prove what they're planning on doing with it.
But you're right that a significant spoiler to this ideal-world solution is the sheer number of guns already in private hands in the US. This means that any law banning them would have to face the sudden MONUMENTAL issue of illegal weapons out there. We in the UK have it relatively easy, since criminals have a much harder time getting hold of them.
As for the question of home defence, I kind of take the attitude that cowardice is good. Between the burglar and I, only one of us is a criminal, and so only one of us is likely to know how to hold their own in a fight. Sure, if I could catch them unawares with a large blunt instrument (say, the detachable metal neck of the Dyson that lives in the bedroom, for instance), then that's fine. But I've got insurance, and I'd rather lose my CD player than my life.
Just to put how pitifully cheap the TV License is:
Last year, in amongst all those other hours of great television, the best radio in the world, and one of the most important news sites on the net, we had all the Euro 2004 football matches screened. With no adverts and excellent commentary.
It actually cost my friend in the US MORE MONEY, even given the fact that the dollar is worthless right now, just to watch the matches on pay-per-view, with a really, really crap commentary.
So anyone who likes football (and that's a fairly huge number in the UK) should consider everything else their TV license funded last year as effectively a free bonus.
Really? Really, really?
I'd love to know where these uploaders are getting their HDTV versions from. I live in the UK myself, and there isn't a HD broadcast stream yet.
Unless by "HDTV" you just mean digitally broadcast 16x9. Which we've got free-to-air, if you live in the right place, or anywhere with paid-for satellite. SD resolution, MPEG2, about half (or a bit less) of typical DVD bandwidth.
Actually, I don't really see that my downloading 24, watching it without adverts, really hurts anyone that much when my TV license also entitles me to watch it again a few months later on the BBC, again with no adverts.
Murdoch might not be too happy because I don't watch it with adverts on Sky, but who cares about him? He's already getting the money when I replace my crummy VCDs with legit DVD copies later.
"Countries like England, which have totally banned guns, are still dealing with massive gun violence. How could that be?"
Because you're wrong, basically. The amount of gun crime has gone significantly up recently, but that is from fuck all to very little, if you compare it to US numbers.
"Also, English authorities are telling citizens that they have no right to protect themselves from home invaders and that they will be criminally charged if they do so."
Wrong again. Actually, they've recently been busy reassuring people of just the reverse. The Tony Martin case you're alluding to was a specific instance where a man shot a fleeing alleged attempted burglar in the back with an unlicensed shotgun. The reason it wasn't licensed being that he had lost it after threatening the postman with another shotgun, believing him to be a burglar as well.
If you're going to accuse people of not having their facts straight, I'd suggest you do so too.
The best bit is that it's only by letting someone crack the DRM that you can convert the files to any of the formats that play on the world's most popular range of portable players anyway.
Until then, the ability to put these DRM'd tracks on a tiny, tiny minority of players that understand and support that encryption isn't terribly useful...
Does it not? My GeForce 4Ti runs one monitor at 640x480 and the other at 1024x768 without any complaints, so I didn't realise that wouldn't be the case elsewhere.
Minor clarification: Team Ninja is the name of the developer, not the guys who created these mods.
What adverts, by the way? I'm not seeing anything about Google on that site.
Or have I accidentally blocked it with Adblock, without even realising?
If IBM wins, there won't be much of a SCO to counter-sue, frankly.
Which only brings it down to where it was a week ago - certainly not the huge chunk down you might expect.
I was using the dual-format Medulla album, from Bjork for SACD; I didn't have anything on DVD-A I really wanted to listen to.
Comparisons were between the NAD 521BEE for CD, and the Pioneer DV-575 multi-format player for SACD, all going into a Pioneer 5-channel amp (I forget the model) and Celestion speakers all round.
Just using the Pioneer, the SACD layer did sound better than CD, yes - but the NAD made as much improvement to the sound, if not moreso. Since I'd rather have the discs I already own sound great than just the new ones I buy, there was little contest.
"drum & bass for instance, the album concept never really has been a big thing there"
You clearly didn't buy the second Goldie album, Saturnz Return.
You lucky, lucky bastard.
They made a game DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball, in which a bunch of digital women run around in skimpy bikinis while the XBox performs millions of calculations per second to ensure their breasts bounce in just the right way.
Then some people came along and made texture patches for those with chipped XBoxes (so someone else did all the hard copy-protection-removal stuff) that removed said pieces of string. This makes Team Ninja look like the dirty little pervs they clearly are, and it's all rather embarrassing for them.