Really? I watched Two Weeks Notice in widescreen last week, and I thought it looked quite well shot, really. Admittedly half of Hugh Grant on screen would still deliver the same one-liner, but then even if its a film that isn't about stunning cinematography why would you care about resolution loss?
"I see some touting the ease of HTML -- "They can make their own site, it's easy!" Well, no, HTML may be easy for us, but for someone who views computers as mysterious boxes the very idea of general programming concepts is beyond them. "I never was very good at math," they mumble when you suggest they learn HTML. "
My wife manages to cope fine as a finance director, too, but I don't hear people suggesting that everyone should be able to do that without paying a professional.
If these small business people mumble "I never was very good at math" to the IRS they will get told to pay someone who is good to do it, rather than just not bother. I suggest they do the same when it comes to web design if they can't do it themselves.
The last thing this internet needs is for the creation of yet more "here is a picture of my cute pets" sites to be encouraged. Come on, we all did that back in the mid nineties.
FrontPage has done enough harm by making the web 'easy' to design for lazily as it is, thanks.
Why buy them? Because they play really cool games. Thats the only reason. If (as appears to be the case) you don't like the games, then thats fine. Personally, I've got quite the hardware collection, because titles like Super Monkey Ball, GTA3 and Soul Calibur were all good enough for me to buy the machine to play them on.
Really? My PS2 is a dust collector, as all the gaming time is clocked up on Animal Crossing, Monkey Ball or Mario. Which reminds me; I've still not got around to grabbing Metroid, Zelda and co.
Actually the XBox is the only one I'm missing. I've even got a (cheaply grabbed) copy of Halo ready, from when I was about to get one from a mate, but the constant price cuts here in the UK (we just had our 5th since the launch a year ago), the release of a limited-edition model in a different colour, and the rumours of more changes and a new, less ugly, model at E3 have meant that next month has always seemed like the best time to get one.
Since Netscape 2.0, which supports the command, pre-dates the patents anyway, it would be a pretty much open-and-shut case if they DID use frames, really.
Really? I rather suspect it depends on which hotel you're at. Whenever I've wanted a cab at a London hotel, the concierge has flagged down a proper black one for me. Thats admittedly generally the posher end of the market though, where guests might be offended by a tatty minicab. But then I've only done this when I'm there at a conference or event; staying in a hotel in London when I might as well get the tube home would be silly.
So, Mr. Spam organisation head. Remind me again, exactly which ip ranges can be confirmed as Spam that you wouldn't like me to block others from seeing?
Honestly, I won't take this list published and freely available in the court record and encourage the entire planet to use it in their personal block list. Really. Forwarding the entire contents to mefels@aol.com rather than deleting would be even worse, so I definitely won't be doing that one.
Operation Ore is proving a rather overzealous thing, actually. Turns out that the credit card database is from a place that did signups for all sorts of porn sites, not just the ones this bad. The police are working their way through the list, seizing their PCs, and (not very promptly, or with any due course to the damage to reputations they are causing) releasing them once it turns out that they don't have anything actually illegal on them.
Imagine if Worldpay (for example) had been sloppy enough to act for a front for one of these sites, and everyone who had ever bought anything through them found themselves on the list. Thats roughly equivalent to what has happened here.
The only major titles to use the firewire for linkup were GT3 and GT: Concept, as far as I know. Its a bit of a bummer not having that any more, but current rumour suggests that GT4 will see a switch to using the Broadband Adaptor for network races instead, which makes sense now.
Is there anything else I'm missing with the linkup front? I thought Timesplitters 2 was going to use it, but then dropped the idea.
Aaah. It all really boils down to what you want from a media thing, really. I never bother recording stuff off the TV, and just wanted something that would play mp3, CD, DVD and video files off my main PC's hard drive, which the homebrew media player does admirably.
I've been labouring under the impression that one of the reasons why chipping XBoxes (list price £129 as of last Friday) with a mod chip (~£50) or even less thanks to yesterday's/. story is so great is because they do an excellent job as media jukeboxes themselves.
The only part missing is that they don't have the inputs to record your own stuff, unlike these tv-tuner equipped boxes. If you just want to use playback (either from the internal drive or over the local network) then a chipped XBox is much cheaper.
I'm not sure about insightful, but Ashcroft holding a diatribe against the evils of pornography with a breast over his right shoulder is at least mildly amusing, surely?
I don't know anyone who uses an aol.com, yahoo.com or hotmail.com address. If a site I order something online from ever used one to confirm an order I'd be shocked. So I don't see how an email from one of them to me would be anything other than spam, really. Its the same way that blocking *.de would be a daft thing to do on a public server, but as I don't know any Germans its not a problem for my private client.
Given that we can take releases of EA games on Windows XP as a given, and I fail to believe for one minute this means we'll be seeing a port of Potter (or whatever) to Linux, this seems to relate to a statement about XBox. Which, given that EA have famously had a falling out with Microsoft over the 'Our Way or off the Information Highway' Live setup is 'interesting'.
I don't find QuickTime particularly Evil as such, but if anyone has a link to a decent SVCD or even VCD version that would be handy. Watching trailers in crystal clear quality on my monitor is all well and good, but I'd give up a bit of it to be able to sit back and play it on the widescreen telly.
Its a nice theory, but when his two best non-Oscar-pleading films were Jaws and Raiders its more of an indictment of how much the guy has gone downhill, rather than where he was to begin with.
Actually, I really liked Minority Report, including its ending. By a simple twist of changing the colour timing and film stock slightly once he's been captured and 'haloed', you can take the Spielberg ending as much or as little like the end of Brazil as you wish.
Also, I went in fully expecting him to stick to the book ending, so it came out as a nicely unexpected twist this time.
You can go legacy free when you pry my prized ISA SoundBlaster 64 out of my cold fingers - none of the PCI replacements I've tried work properly under DOS games, or configure as nicely in Linux.
It was the Panasonic DMR-HS2, not a Pioneer, if you're still considering it.
The big difference is that the Panasonic product works like an old-fashioned VHS deck and requires you to type recording details in, rather than the Tivo's programme guide method.
So you're not paying a subscription, but you don't get the guide stuff; which is better I'll leave to you.
Aaah, I had a feeling it might be something like that, but the site was slow as hell and my Japanese isn't that great in any case, so I had to trust the writeup.
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Really? I watched Two Weeks Notice in widescreen last week, and I thought it looked quite well shot, really. Admittedly half of Hugh Grant on screen would still deliver the same one-liner, but then even if its a film that isn't about stunning cinematography why would you care about resolution loss?
"I see some touting the ease of HTML -- "They can make their own site, it's easy!" Well, no, HTML may be easy for us, but for someone who views computers as mysterious boxes the very idea of general programming concepts is beyond them. "I never was very good at math," they mumble when you suggest they learn HTML. "
My wife manages to cope fine as a finance director, too, but I don't hear people suggesting that everyone should be able to do that without paying a professional.
If these small business people mumble "I never was very good at math" to the IRS they will get told to pay someone who is good to do it, rather than just not bother. I suggest they do the same when it comes to web design if they can't do it themselves.
The last thing this internet needs is for the creation of yet more "here is a picture of my cute pets" sites to be encouraged. Come on, we all did that back in the mid nineties.
FrontPage has done enough harm by making the web 'easy' to design for lazily as it is, thanks.
Why buy them? Because they play really cool games. Thats the only reason. If (as appears to be the case) you don't like the games, then thats fine. Personally, I've got quite the hardware collection, because titles like Super Monkey Ball, GTA3 and Soul Calibur were all good enough for me to buy the machine to play them on.
Really? My PS2 is a dust collector, as all the gaming time is clocked up on Animal Crossing, Monkey Ball or Mario. Which reminds me; I've still not got around to grabbing Metroid, Zelda and co.
Actually the XBox is the only one I'm missing. I've even got a (cheaply grabbed) copy of Halo ready, from when I was about to get one from a mate, but the constant price cuts here in the UK (we just had our 5th since the launch a year ago), the release of a limited-edition model in a different colour, and the rumours of more changes and a new, less ugly, model at E3 have meant that next month has always seemed like the best time to get one.
Since Netscape 2.0, which supports the command, pre-dates the patents anyway, it would be a pretty much open-and-shut case if they DID use frames, really.
The fact that you've been modded as 'interesting', rather than just 'funny' truly is the icing on the cake. Bravo!
Really? I rather suspect it depends on which hotel you're at. Whenever I've wanted a cab at a London hotel, the concierge has flagged down a proper black one for me. Thats admittedly generally the posher end of the market though, where guests might be offended by a tatty minicab. But then I've only done this when I'm there at a conference or event; staying in a hotel in London when I might as well get the tube home would be silly.
So, Mr. Spam organisation head. Remind me again, exactly which ip ranges can be confirmed as Spam that you wouldn't like me to block others from seeing?
Honestly, I won't take this list published and freely available in the court record and encourage the entire planet to use it in their personal block list. Really. Forwarding the entire contents to mefels@aol.com rather than deleting would be even worse, so I definitely won't be doing that one.
Operation Ore is proving a rather overzealous thing, actually. Turns out that the credit card database is from a place that did signups for all sorts of porn sites, not just the ones this bad. The police are working their way through the list, seizing their PCs, and (not very promptly, or with any due course to the damage to reputations they are causing) releasing them once it turns out that they don't have anything actually illegal on them.
Imagine if Worldpay (for example) had been sloppy enough to act for a front for one of these sites, and everyone who had ever bought anything through them found themselves on the list. Thats roughly equivalent to what has happened here.
The only major titles to use the firewire for linkup were GT3 and GT: Concept, as far as I know. Its a bit of a bummer not having that any more, but current rumour suggests that GT4 will see a switch to using the Broadband Adaptor for network races instead, which makes sense now.
Is there anything else I'm missing with the linkup front? I thought Timesplitters 2 was going to use it, but then dropped the idea.
Aaah. It all really boils down to what you want from a media thing, really. I never bother recording stuff off the TV, and just wanted something that would play mp3, CD, DVD and video files off my main PC's hard drive, which the homebrew media player does admirably.
I've been labouring under the impression that one of the reasons why chipping XBoxes (list price £129 as of last Friday) with a mod chip (~£50) or even less thanks to yesterday's /. story is so great is because they do an excellent job as media jukeboxes themselves.
The only part missing is that they don't have the inputs to record your own stuff, unlike these tv-tuner equipped boxes. If you just want to use playback (either from the internal drive or over the local network) then a chipped XBox is much cheaper.
I'm not sure about insightful, but Ashcroft holding a diatribe against the evils of pornography with a breast over his right shoulder is at least mildly amusing, surely?
I don't know anyone who uses an aol.com, yahoo.com or hotmail.com address. If a site I order something online from ever used one to confirm an order I'd be shocked. So I don't see how an email from one of them to me would be anything other than spam, really. Its the same way that blocking *.de would be a daft thing to do on a public server, but as I don't know any Germans its not a problem for my private client.
Given that we can take releases of EA games on Windows XP as a given, and I fail to believe for one minute this means we'll be seeing a port of Potter (or whatever) to Linux, this seems to relate to a statement about XBox. Which, given that EA have famously had a falling out with Microsoft over the 'Our Way or off the Information Highway' Live setup is 'interesting'.
Whither Battlefield 1942 now?
I don't find QuickTime particularly Evil as such, but if anyone has a link to a decent SVCD or even VCD version that would be handy. Watching trailers in crystal clear quality on my monitor is all well and good, but I'd give up a bit of it to be able to sit back and play it on the widescreen telly.
Its a nice theory, but when his two best non-Oscar-pleading films were Jaws and Raiders its more of an indictment of how much the guy has gone downhill, rather than where he was to begin with.
Actually, I really liked Minority Report, including its ending. By a simple twist of changing the colour timing and film stock slightly once he's been captured and 'haloed', you can take the Spielberg ending as much or as little like the end of Brazil as you wish.
Also, I went in fully expecting him to stick to the book ending, so it came out as a nicely unexpected twist this time.
You can go legacy free when you pry my prized ISA SoundBlaster 64 out of my cold fingers - none of the PCI replacements I've tried work properly under DOS games, or configure as nicely in Linux.
It was the Panasonic DMR-HS2, not a Pioneer, if you're still considering it.
The big difference is that the Panasonic product works like an old-fashioned VHS deck and requires you to type recording details in, rather than the Tivo's programme guide method.
So you're not paying a subscription, but you don't get the guide stuff; which is better I'll leave to you.
"DMR-HS2
Progressive-Scan DVD Video Recorder with 40GB Hard Disk & Time Slip Playback records to DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs
MSRP $999.95 "
Straight from the relevant page of the Panasonic site (which I'm having problems giving a direct link to, sorry).
The drive is only 40Gb in this case, but thats easily enough if you're backing up to DVD regularly.
OK, I answered my own question - despite being a web-based app, it wants to be passed files off my local harddrive, not ones off a website. Odd.
I tried it with two jpgs off my little home site, and the poor thing died with a div by 0 error.
Either I'm doing something wrong with my jpg compression, or this is slightly flakey - a successful pair of test pics would be most helpful.
Aaah, I had a feeling it might be something like that, but the site was slow as hell and my Japanese isn't that great in any case, so I had to trust the writeup.
/. next time...
I'll know better than to trust
WTF? Its a clever device, but if they can't give me at least 24 hours standby then its fairly useless in practical situations.
These days I'm used to several days standby from my mobile phone; a wristwatch that needs to spend half its life tethered to a mains supply is daft.