Is the Low motion and high motion codecs. yeah, its mpeg-4, but the codecs are what make the difference. mpeg-4 is just the way the player talks to the codecs.....
Well I for one am not the least surprised that a branch of our lovely federal governement has decided to do something stupid, or more to the point, not to do something smart. The real reason probably has nothing to do with the preservation of the "reading experience" but more than likely they just don't have the funding and/or the energy. Last time I checked the Library of Congress held a LOT of shit:) Or maybe the guy who was supposed to put the LoC online was using a Microsoft Program to OCR the books and it crashed.
Napster was a great idea, but I think so far its fallen short of what it could of been. If the protocol in cluded some sort of bandwidth saving feature, that looked for the mp3 on local napster clients first, and didn't clog some poor schools T1, it wouldn't have been banned at so many schools. Not to mention the fact that half the time, you can't login to the server.
This is the same guy who stole my garden gnome last week. And I suspect that he stole my bird bath 2 years ago. This man is a menace and I'm glad he was finally caught so he can pay for his debt to society. And my birds.
Doubtful, but if someone figures out how to insall a hard drive in this thing and boot to any OS, we could be in business. Forget the 600mhz Processor, I want that new Nvidia processor. As smoking as my GeForce is, I can't wait for something FASTER.
he wasn't refferring to the number of votes. 31337 is h4x0r speak for "elite" spelling eleet and with letters that resemble the numbers. Yeah, you are right, it IS gay.
I do believe getting Internet access in China has always been pretty tough. Kind of like getting an ISA card to seat right on a riser-board of a Compaq. Or something like that. Wired did a write-up about the shenanigans a while ago, at least now they are letting the public at large HAVE access. Filtered yes. But access none the less. Curious, is/. going to be banned from China? Hmmm, interesting. I'm sure the chinese will discover really powerful encryption and hide their plans to overthrow the government in recipes, its just a matter of time.
Athlon motherboards and Slot1 or socket370 mobo's are TOTALLY different. Athlons use the EV1 bus protocol liscenced(sp?) from digital. Yes, physically, the slot 1 and slot a (athlon) connectors are the same, however, the chipsets are totally different.
But where is my 2 terabyte harddrive with sub millisecond access times ? Where is my virutal reality interface with near infinite resolution? What about a network connection that is bottlenecked by my SYSTEM ? Give me these things, then I shall be happy;) These increases in processor speed really don't mean much to me until we see some developments in interfaces, storage, etc. Nothing major has happened it a LONG time, its all just tweaking. I want my mind BLOWN.
Given NASA's current luck with anything past the moon, a joke about their reliability seems appropraite. Granted, putting something on mars ain't easy.......
Ok i want the laser eye, the unbreakable skeleton, and a suit like spawns. Upgrade? Yeah, i'll go ahead and bump up to the LS model for the sunroof and cd player.
1) I can't have members of the opposite sex in my room, but once every two weeks for four hours. And then with the dorm open so an RA can check up on us, you'd think i was in prison, but in prison, conjugal visits are private.
2) I can't have a toaster, candle, etc. How am I supposed to have my bagel in the morning?
3) I must be in by 12:30 on school nights. ridiculous, yes, it is.
And thats just the beginning. I can't believe i'm paying someone $11000 a year to impose more rules on my life than i live with at home. Sure, i'm in bed by 11:30 most nights anyway, i like to get ALOT of sleep. And I have a toaster, but the point is, Students have no rights, thats why they are students, if they had rights, they would be professors.
What i'm saying is, at 450K, heck even 300k a sec or less, movies are MORE than watchable. Since my tv-out is running at 640x480 anyway, stretching a movie that was designed at half-that with a little hardware compensation (present in most modern video cards) results in a delightful picture. The larger pixels of a TV and the inherent blurriness actually make the picture look BETTER because the artifacts blend in. I still think watching old honk kong movies in chinese is not for me, but then again i am saying that streaming is mroe than possible with todays technology. If you have the bandwidth. I often watch a movie while bulletproff is downloading it If I can get good enough speed from the site (around 40K a sec)
well if you are smart you get a video card with TV out and watch movies from your computer on your 46" tv. i've had friends over to watch VCDs (legit ones) and people who didn't know didn't say anything. Though they did comment on the quality, "looking better than vhs" even modest streams, say 450K a sec can look darn good.
Is this basicly going to be the same thing as broadcast.com where a bunch of movies i'd never want to watch and still more "shows" that i wou;d never watch, are available for me to stream at up to 1 megabit per second? I personally think this is a step towards massive video on demand, but then again, the quality probably can't touch the VCD rips of real movies people with the connections to take advantage of this kind of thing are already doing. Besides, do tons of people in Hong Kong really have the speedy access necessary to do this? Aren't people buying pirated movies because they are BROK to begin with? There surely can't be the people who can afford to pay fopr broadband access in Hong Kong.
Actually Bleem! will do any resolution your D3D card and monitor will support. PSX games start looking PRETTY good at 1600x1200x32 on my computer........
//3000 people are going to be required to download Linux this semester.... 1/4 of them will need to get it during this week, and we need to know that we'll have the bandwidth to handle that.) Well if you know that that many people are going to download the same thing, cache it locally, stay off the internet entirely, DUH.
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its all about the Motorola 68000. Can't be touched.
Given NASA's current luck with anything past the moon, a joke about their reliability seems appropraite. Granted, putting something on mars ain't easy.......
Then again, maybe there is life on Eurpoa, and maybe this is our chance to discover it. Then again, Does it really matter ?
2) I can't have a toaster, candle, etc. How am I supposed to have my bagel in the morning?
3) I must be in by 12:30 on school nights. ridiculous, yes, it is.
And thats just the beginning. I can't believe i'm paying someone $11000 a year to impose more rules on my life than i live with at home. Sure, i'm in bed by 11:30 most nights anyway, i like to get ALOT of sleep. And I have a toaster, but the point is, Students have no rights, thats why they are students, if they had rights, they would be professors.
Actually Bleem! will do any resolution your D3D card and monitor will support. PSX games start looking PRETTY good at 1600x1200x32 on my computer........
//3000 people are going to be required to download Linux this semester.... 1/4 of them will need to get it during this week, and we need to know that we'll have the bandwidth to handle that.) Well if you know that that many people are going to download the same thing, cache it locally, stay off the internet entirely, DUH.
Yeah, stock options that are worth millions that you can't sell for another year, maybe you can buy it with a hot check, or a coupon.