You're not honestly trying to argue that reporting an incorrect run time isn't a bug are you?
Well that depends. I would call a bug an error in code that has been programmed in. I would call something not happening because it was never programmed in a missing feature.
WinAMP used to (still does? I don't listen to very many VBR MP3s) do the same thing. It is just too easy to program in a general case CBR song length checker and never both with the VBR cases that far to many programmers go ahead and do just that.
I will agree that WMP6.x was/is a great media player. Too bad MS had to screw everything up with the later versions.
Windowkey-R "mplayer2"
Though now the Linux players are getting pretty good and can play a lot more than WMP ever will.
Besides Quicktime and Ogg. Ah, wait, nevermind, there is a Direct Show filter for Ogg.
The US could have a good go, but im sorry the sum of every other Nation out there DOES outweigh the US...
This before or AFTER we blow it up all nice and first strike like?
you could destroy a heck of alot, but theres alot of nukes in other countries also,
A good number of which where built with US aid and assistence, or at very least with US 'approval'. China, India, and Pakistan being the three major exceptions. (well, and Russia, but they have changed a wee bit since they had their nuclear program in full swing. ^_^ )
and far bigger armies.
Heh. Have fun getting here.:) Your ships / airplanes wouldn't last half a second in the seas. Heck, for that matter your PORTS wouldn't be around for very long either.
You may have the hi-tech, but it will only last so long.
True, traditionaly technology in war has been a matter of cooperation between various nations in a number of projects with some "other" projects going on within each nation seperatly.
So Yes, we do have nukes/ICMBs,
Some pitifuly small amount.
yes we do have spies in all areas of the world
Any one European nation can not have the number and diversity of spies that the united states has from a pure resources and population point of view.
although the only area to really count is the US so we at least can concentrate on there,
I don't know, the British might be worrying about Ireland at least a bit, and the French seem to be having constant fun just keeping the citizens of their own nation from beating the puddin out of each other.
hell the US was so shocked that someone would attack it on its home turf the aircraft sent up at 9/11 were not even armed.
The US is spoiled, somebody actualy got a hit in on us. Please compare, while we have a royal ton of ICBMs (ah, unforunatly some idiots are working on REDUCING that number, WTF?), and a very high number of other nuclear goodies,
well
screw it
I mean after all that is lauched, the entire world is dead ANYWAYS. So what does it really matter?
Earth
Gone
poof.
Super. Power.
Dont be so arrogant, dont be so ignorant. Have a nice day.
I already have to include -this and -that all the time to get rid of the common junk that I *don't* need to search for.
You think that is bad? You must not remember the web around 96 or so. . ..
IIIIICK!!!
HUUUGE ass searches. Search Engines has basic introductory lessons to Boolean Logic, almost necessary just so users could find something
It
was not
pretty.
And when the first web based forums started showing up (in all their slow loading CGI glory), search results got completely destroyed almost over night.
(thankfully more and more people began to take notice of robots.txt . . . . )
Do you have a network of spies and counter spies embedded in governments and multinational corporations around the world?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have spy satellites capable of taking high accuracy pictures of, oh, just about anything?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have ICMBs, the worlds LARGEST military air force capable of decimating any section of the earth, and nuclear subs submerged beneath all the worlds oceans?
No?
SHUT UP, FUCK OFF, AND GET A GRIP ON REALITY
Maybe nobody ever made it clear to these irritants. The United States is NOT a super power because of its "large world wide voice". The United States is a super power because IT IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO COMPLEATLY DESTORY EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN ANY NUMBER OF NATIONS AT ANY POINT IN TIME IT SHOULD SO CHOOSE TO DO SO
What about books? They aren't 'restricted content' except in that the law prevents unlicensed copying. They are only restricted in this very limited sense.
*COUGH* old argument *COUGH*
They are restricted by The Real World(tm, Patent Pending).
See, there is this thing called paper and it costs money. Along with ink or toner, copying a book becomes a MAJOR PAIN IN THE ARSE.
Books have automatic built in (and for that matter kick ass!) DRM. One copy, one user at a time. No problem. Until somebody invents a selective layer X-Ray machine with OCR that is!:) (thus making scanning in books reallly easy, heh)
How well does the emulation work? If there's any emulator for PC that emulates all the SNES games (or whichever kind) in existence, i've yet to hear about it.
Unfortunately their provider is complaining to them about bandwidth usage, doh!
Luckily you can still download the latest binaries and source from Zophar's Domain
So, yah, the SNES has pretty much been owned by the EMU community.:) With brief periods of mad translation going on (followed by seemingly long fallow periods. . ..) a ton of the Japanese only games have come over to the SNES as well.
And does it have enough processing power to run the non-native code without any slowdown or such?
I know the minimum requirements for most simpler SNES emulation are about a Pentium II 266mhz with 64 megs of RAM, the FPU seems to be rather important as I have heard of users with far faster K6-2s and K6-3s not being able to run very many games full speed.
Of course platform specific optimizations should take those requirements down even further, and obviously it was a fairly long time ago when I was using those system specs, so all the additional speed encasements that have made their way into both SNES9x and ZSNES may have brought the requirements down a tad bit more.
Reading around a bit seems to indicate that there ARE problems getting the SNES emulation on the GP32 up to full speed, and IIRC the GP32 does not have a dedicated graphics unit, making it unlikely to be able to ever accomplish all the nifty real time effects of the GBA or even the SNES.
Then again, it does have that rather fast main CPU.:) Nintendo tends to love their tricked out dedicated co-processors, the GP32 is more of a general purpose machine (as can be seen by the MP3 players and even video players out for it).
One must also take media costs into account though, Memory Cards are expensive!
Then again, at least with the GP32 you have the CHOICE of being able to play MP3s and everything, with the GBA you end up having to buy third party accessories to get those same types of options.
I am so tied to my desktop now days that (and this is a bit of a surprise given how much I used my original Game Boy and my Game Boy color 'back in the day') I do not even own a 'modern' portable gaming system. ^_^
You don't really need a trained compressionist, you just need a high enough bitrate.
Because bandwidth costs money aaand. . ..
much but I'd guess the dividing line for NTSC video is around 5-6 Mbit/sec.
We are talking about resolutions MUCH higher than that. Picture transferring 50 gigabytes VS transferring 40 gigabytes. Now imagine that difference times the hundreds if not thousands of theaters across the nation that would be receiving just that one film in digital format. Multiple this by an even larger number of videos are "streamed on demand" rather than stored locally after being transferred once.
Paying some dude $20 an hour or so to squeeze that extra bit of compression out of the codec all of a sudden becomes well worth it.
Heck, for that matter, just bumping up the bit rate is not always enough. multi-pass VBR encoding kicks ass, as do any of the five gazzilion other new options that keep on appearing in various MPEG4 codecs. If Microsoft wants to truly promote this as a professional standard, then they WILL start adding more and more of the twiddly bits to their compressors, and the movie studios will have to hire somebody who knows exactly how to twiddle those various twiddly bits.
Yes, because WMP can actually figure out how long a VBR MP3 is.
Soooo, your point is? That is not even close to a bug, that is called somebody was too lazy to program that in.
As far as stability goes, WMP works great. Well at least the 6.x versions do, the later versions take away to many options from the user (such as anything related to the various codec configuration options. . ..) so darned if I use'em.:-P
I was job shadowing the dude who does quality engineering or some item such as that for internal MS stuff. Annnnyways. I was asking tons of questions about.Net, on the web I had heard it as being everything from the grandiose freedom from limitations solution to the all encompassing vender lock in dead end to end all dead ends.
What's the benefit of the.Net Development Environment?"
Isn't a development environment just a fancy GUI with a nice command completion button and quick easy access to a compiler? Once again, confusing as hell.:`(
I get that the CLI is (besides an ALREADY TAKEN TLA ) supposed to enable easy use of multiple languages and what not, but what.Net itself is is quite confusing. Then again I distinctly remember it being a programming language thingy, but then the head programming guru over on the ArsT forums about, err, well, in 99 or 00 or so, told me to fuck off and that I was wrong it was NOT that, and indeed I checked all instances of that had been taken down from the MS website, but now,
*sigh*
Once more reason I am doing CompEng not CompSci. Programming is a bitch. . . . Especially when politics get involved. (uh, I thought we where all supposed to be nerds and that we HATED politics damnit!!! WHAT IDIOT LET THE POLITICS SEEP INTO THE FIELD)
Not to mention people who use C# on Windows do it because of the.net runtime which makes all the languages integrate together. Also the built libraries are a big improvement from the awefull MFC and the win32 api.
This is getting confusing. When I talked to a guy at MS who does.Net development he told me that.Net is basicaly a fancy standardized way of doing XML markup.
Actually that would be Gateway who are brazenly copying Apple designs and even made commercials that targeted Apple directly (which is a sure sign for any pc manufacturer that you're desperate if you're targeting Apple vs your own).
Actualy I think that Gateway is trying to target the market that wants a "trendy" looking computer but all the benefits of a PC. In other words, anybody who looks at a Mac and goes "cool" but then goes "err, does it run Windows?"
Surely the best hoax ever perpetrated is the ongoing lies that parents tell to most (western) children - Santa Claus (father christmas/St Nik etc).
This one is probably the longest running one that has sucked up the greatest number of gullible people falling for it.
Did you go to the "special" school or something? Where I lived the biggest gag was the one the children pulled over on their parents in making the parents believe that they, the children, believed in santa clause!
"Well if we tell them we might not get as many presents, grown ups seem to like it when we act all innocent like, so nobody say anything ya hear???"
So, that's ok on my laptop screen, but not on my desktop? How is this?
Perhaps I don't want a 15" 1600x1280 display, perhaps a 16" or 17".... But my point is, we don't see these resultions until we hit 20"+.
As another posted stated above, market demand. There IS sufficient demand for high resolution small LCD screens in the laptop arena, people are willing to put up with some inconvenience, but for the average desktop user, no way. I have encountered many users who still refuse to go above 800x600.
I've been waiting for YEARS to see the pixels get so small you cannot see them.
No you haven't. Trust me. Do you realize how many f*cking idiotic "graphic developers" use 1 or 2 pixel borders? Or specify things in terms of pixels rather than relative sizes?
It
would not
be pretty.
You can find cheapo 14 inch monitors that propose to go up to insanely high resolutions. Get one of those. They are fuzzy and icky. Yuck.
Don't look forward to HDTV for your solution either, the resolution on HDTV sucks in comparison to computer screens. 1040i, heh. Though I do admit that modern de interlacing techniques are worlds better than what we had before, still, 1040i is a craptacular resolution. And even the cheapest consumer computer LCD these days does better then 720p.
TV tuner cards for computers range from $20-$60USD. I picked mine up at a computer swap meet for 20, it is a generic BT chipset and worked just fine until I accidently ended up using my RF cable as ground and a power surge hit. ^_^ (as it is the S-Video and composite in lines still work, yah!)
Huh. I had heard of DVI but was mislead into believing it was just for digital video from cameras and stuff, and not for general purpose graphics.
You are thinking of DV, Digital Video. as talked about here Commonly DV signals are transferred around using Firewire, aka IEEE 1394.
Firewire CAN be used to transfer around general video data in a nice digital format, but that is a rather expensive solution (with the possible exception of a few clever cheapo hacks)
DVI is a completely separate beast.:)
For a fairly old comparison of the various digital standards (thankfully DVI has come a long ways since then!!!) Tom's Hardware has a nice explanation.
If you scroll past the marketing info here you will find a rather nice description of what the various types of DVI cables are and when they each should be used.
Oddly enough, contrary to what many people are posting here on/., most EARLY LCD panels where DVI or DFP only and just recently have they begun to include the HD15 connectors standard.
And that was my "helpful and convenient (none swearing) post of the month.":)
No, I want a 15" 1600x1280 display that I currently have in my Dell 8200 -- but on my desktop.
Why is it that we can't have resolutions like this on a smaller (sub 20") display?
Ummm, because the physical size of the pixels would be freakin dinky as hell and thus hard to see?
Oh yes, and picture everything being at font size 4. Of course you COULD increase the default font size, but then the formatting of everything would get screwed up.
But even that is all minor compared to how freakin small everything would be.
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Well that depends. I would call a bug an error in code that has been programmed in. I would call something not happening because it was never programmed in a missing feature.
WinAMP used to (still does? I don't listen to very many VBR MP3s) do the same thing. It is just too easy to program in a general case CBR song length checker and never both with the VBR cases that far to many programmers go ahead and do just that.
Windowkey-R "mplayer2"
Besides Quicktime and Ogg. Ah, wait, nevermind, there is a Direct Show filter for Ogg.
So, err, besides Quicktime, what can't WMP play?
edit: Snitch that last line, forgot to remove it from the copy paste job I was doing of your post.
This before or AFTER we blow it up all nice and first strike like?
A good number of which where built with US aid and assistence, or at very least with US 'approval'. China, India, and Pakistan being the three major exceptions. (well, and Russia, but they have changed a wee bit since they had their nuclear program in full swing. ^_^ )
Heh. Have fun getting here.
True, traditionaly technology in war has been a matter of cooperation between various nations in a number of projects with some "other" projects going on within each nation seperatly.
Some pitifuly small amount.
Any one European nation can not have the number and diversity of spies that the united states has from a pure resources and population point of view.
I don't know, the British might be worrying about Ireland at least a bit, and the French seem to be having constant fun just keeping the citizens of their own nation from beating the puddin out of each other.
The US is spoiled, somebody actualy got a hit in on us. Please compare, while we have a royal ton of ICBMs (ah, unforunatly some idiots are working on REDUCING that number, WTF?), and a very high number of other nuclear goodies,
well
screw it
I mean after all that is lauched, the entire world is dead ANYWAYS. So what does it really matter?
Earth
Gone
poof.
Super. Power.
Dont be so arrogant, dont be so ignorant. Have a nice day.
You think that is bad? You must not remember the web around 96 or so. . .
IIIIICK!!!
HUUUGE ass searches. Search Engines has basic introductory lessons to Boolean Logic, almost necessary just so users could find something
It
was not
pretty.
And when the first web based forums started showing up (in all their slow loading CGI glory), search results got completely destroyed almost over night.
(thankfully more and more people began to take notice of robots.txt . . . . )
No, but you did violate the "it ain't gonna happen" rule.
I think a system of automated vacuum tubes would be far more realistic, even then it would have to be calibrated to each book separately.
Think of how horrid of a job inkjet sheet feeding mechanisms do on various thicknesses of paper. . . .
"second superpower" my arse.
Listen.
Do you have nukes?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have military installations world wide?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have a network of spies and counter spies embedded in governments and multinational corporations around the world?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have spy satellites capable of taking high accuracy pictures of, oh, just about anything?
No?
SHUT UP
Do you have ICMBs, the worlds LARGEST military air force capable of decimating any section of the earth, and nuclear subs submerged beneath all the worlds oceans?
No?
SHUT UP, FUCK OFF, AND GET A GRIP ON REALITY
Maybe nobody ever made it clear to these irritants. The United States is NOT a super power because of its "large world wide voice". The United States is a super power because IT IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO COMPLEATLY DESTORY EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN ANY NUMBER OF NATIONS AT ANY POINT IN TIME IT SHOULD SO CHOOSE TO DO SO
*COUGH* old argument *COUGH*
They are restricted by The Real World(tm, Patent Pending).
See, there is this thing called paper and it costs money. Along with ink or toner, copying a book becomes a MAJOR PAIN IN THE ARSE.
Books have automatic built in (and for that matter kick ass!) DRM. One copy, one user at a time. No problem. Until somebody invents a selective layer X-Ray machine with OCR that is!
Zsnes
and of course the sourceforge page for it.
Ok ok granted there are like three SNES games it does not fully emulate.
So freakin what.
But for portability you REALLY want snes9x
Unfortunately their provider is complaining to them about bandwidth usage, doh!
Luckily you can still download the latest binaries and source from Zophar's Domain
So, yah, the SNES has pretty much been owned by the EMU community.
I know the minimum requirements for most simpler SNES emulation are about a Pentium II 266mhz with 64 megs of RAM, the FPU seems to be rather important as I have heard of users with far faster K6-2s and K6-3s not being able to run very many games full speed.
Of course platform specific optimizations should take those requirements down even further, and obviously it was a fairly long time ago when I was using those system specs, so all the additional speed encasements that have made their way into both SNES9x and ZSNES may have brought the requirements down a tad bit more.
Reading around a bit seems to indicate that there ARE problems getting the SNES emulation on the GP32 up to full speed, and IIRC the GP32 does not have a dedicated graphics unit, making it unlikely to be able to ever accomplish all the nifty real time effects of the GBA or even the SNES.
Then again, it does have that rather fast main CPU.
One must also take media costs into account though, Memory Cards are expensive!
Then again, at least with the GP32 you have the CHOICE of being able to play MP3s and everything, with the GBA you end up having to buy third party accessories to get those same types of options.
I am so tied to my desktop now days that (and this is a bit of a surprise given how much I used my original Game Boy and my Game Boy color 'back in the day') I do not even own a 'modern' portable gaming system. ^_^
Because bandwidth costs money aaand. . .
We are talking about resolutions MUCH higher than that. Picture transferring 50 gigabytes VS transferring 40 gigabytes. Now imagine that difference times the hundreds if not thousands of theaters across the nation that would be receiving just that one film in digital format. Multiple this by an even larger number of videos are "streamed on demand" rather than stored locally after being transferred once.
Paying some dude $20 an hour or so to squeeze that extra bit of compression out of the codec all of a sudden becomes well worth it.
Heck, for that matter, just bumping up the bit rate is not always enough. multi-pass VBR encoding kicks ass, as do any of the five gazzilion other new options that keep on appearing in various MPEG4 codecs. If Microsoft wants to truly promote this as a professional standard, then they WILL start adding more and more of the twiddly bits to their compressors, and the movie studios will have to hire somebody who knows exactly how to twiddle those various twiddly bits.
Umm. Hell no. Who would WANT to pay to SEE DVD resolution movies?
Big screen? Yah so what. Still a crappy ass resolution. Piiiixillaatteeeedddd
Soooo, your point is? That is not even close to a bug, that is called somebody was too lazy to program that in.
As far as stability goes, WMP works great. Well at least the 6.x versions do, the later versions take away to many options from the user (such as anything related to the various codec configuration options. . .
I was job shadowing the dude who does quality engineering or some item such as that for internal MS stuff. Annnnyways. I was asking tons of questions about
Isn't a development environment just a fancy GUI with a nice command completion button and quick easy access to a compiler? Once again, confusing as hell.
I get that the CLI is (besides an ALREADY TAKEN TLA ) supposed to enable easy use of multiple languages and what not, but what
*sigh*
Once more reason I am doing CompEng not CompSci. Programming is a bitch. . . . Especially when politics get involved. (uh, I thought we where all supposed to be nerds and that we HATED politics damnit!!! WHAT IDIOT LET THE POLITICS SEEP INTO THE FIELD)
Is bill making money off of it?
No? Enemy./
DEADBEEF ....
*sigh*
Newgrounds
JoeCartoon.com
TheRomp
This is getting confusing. When I talked to a guy at MS who does
*sigh*
Actualy I think that Gateway is trying to target the market that wants a "trendy" looking computer but all the benefits of a PC. In other words, anybody who looks at a Mac and goes "cool" but then goes "err, does it run Windows?"
This one is probably the longest running one that has sucked up the greatest number of gullible people falling for it.
Did you go to the "special" school or something? Where I lived the biggest gag was the one the children pulled over on their parents in making the parents believe that they, the children, believed in santa clause!
"Well if we tell them we might not get as many presents, grown ups seem to like it when we act all innocent like, so nobody say anything ya hear???"
make that 1080i.
:-P
Still a crappy res.
Perhaps I don't want a 15" 1600x1280 display, perhaps a 16" or 17".... But my point is, we don't see these resultions until we hit 20"+.
As another posted stated above, market demand. There IS sufficient demand for high resolution small LCD screens in the laptop arena, people are willing to put up with some inconvenience, but for the average desktop user, no way. I have encountered many users who still refuse to go above 800x600.
No you haven't. Trust me. Do you realize how many f*cking idiotic "graphic developers" use 1 or 2 pixel borders? Or specify things in terms of pixels rather than relative sizes?
It
would not
be pretty.
You can find cheapo 14 inch monitors that propose to go up to insanely high resolutions. Get one of those. They are fuzzy and icky. Yuck.
Don't look forward to HDTV for your solution either, the resolution on HDTV sucks in comparison to computer screens. 1040i, heh. Though I do admit that modern de interlacing techniques are worlds better than what we had before, still, 1040i is a craptacular resolution. And even the cheapest consumer computer LCD these days does better then 720p.
(and what IS up with LCD TVs costing so much for just small models? I can get a 15inch computer LCD, a bare bones with video out shuttle systel and some essentials for less than the price of a single new LCD TV set
TV tuner cards for computers range from $20-$60USD. I picked mine up at a computer swap meet for 20, it is a generic BT chipset and worked just fine until I accidently ended up using my RF cable as ground and a power surge hit. ^_^ (as it is the S-Video and composite in lines still work, yah!)
Don't give him any ideas.
Linux Kernel 2.6 to include DRM
[tinfoil hat]
The way things are going, there might not be much choice. . .
[/tinfoil hat]
Slashdot becomes an MSN Featured Site
With all the MS ads, you mean it isn't already?
IBM unveils first 1.0 exabyte ATAPI hard drive
IBM is out of the hard drive business, you should read
RIAA successfully lobbies for $1 tax on every MP3 file on the net
I am sure they are working on it.
You are thinking of DV, Digital Video. as talked about here Commonly DV signals are transferred around using Firewire, aka IEEE 1394.
Firewire CAN be used to transfer around general video data in a nice digital format, but that is a rather expensive solution (with the possible exception of a few clever cheapo hacks)
DVI is a completely separate beast.
For a fairly old comparison of the various digital standards (thankfully DVI has come a long ways since then!!!) Tom's Hardware has a nice explanation.
If you scroll past the marketing info here you will find a rather nice description of what the various types of DVI cables are and when they each should be used.
Oddly enough, contrary to what many people are posting here on
And that was my "helpful and convenient (none swearing) post of the month."
Why is it that we can't have resolutions like this on a smaller (sub 20") display?
Ummm, because the physical size of the pixels would be freakin dinky as hell and thus hard to see?
Oh yes, and picture everything being at font size 4. Of course you COULD increase the default font size, but then the formatting of everything would get screwed up.
But even that is all minor compared to how freakin small everything would be.
laugh