>>>Some games looked far better in EGA with 16 colors than the C64 version simply because of the improved resolution.
You're right. The problem is that EGA didn't really exist yet. Virtually all PC games of that time (pre-1985) used CGA with only 4 colors, so the Atari and C64 versions obviously looked better.
And later when PC games started using the 16-color EGA mode, then the Amiga was on the market, with its ability to do 64 colors simultaneously (out of 4000 color palette). Overall the Atari, C64, or Amiga games of 1990 or earlier looked better than the inferior PC ports. That's why gamers migrated towards those machines.
>>>They took into account that the old TVs couldn't handle 640 width however it will still send the signal so only a few phosphors will get hit in a pixel thus creating color.
Bzzz.
Your explanation is wrong. NTSC televisions can easily handle 640-or-more pixels per line, per the original 1930s design spec. The problem is the addition of color (NTSC-II). Chroma resolution is only 150-160 pixels across due to the color signal beng bandwidth-limited to 2 megahertz. So while a television can display hi-res black and white perfectly, the overlaying of the chroma component leads to color "smear" across the image. It's the same effect as when you watch an old movie and the actress is wearing a striped B&W blouse, but instead it appears to be slightly colored.
Also: There will never be any chroma blur in the up/down direction. The scanlines on a television are sharp and distinct, with 486 visible vertical resolution. I think that's the flaw in the Enduro image, where they showed the sunset rainbow as an orange blur. On a real TV that would never happen.
Trivia - the old Atari console could display 128 colors (16 discrete colors * 8 shades).
In a truly free society you can do whatever drugs you want (at home where you can't harm others). You can even kill yourself if that's what you desire.
But we do not live in a free society. We live in a Serf-Master society
Pirate Bay would probably survive even longer if they made a strict rule - no torrents allowed that can be purchased in stores.
RIAA/MPAA would have little argument for suing if the material is limited in scope. I've often considered creating a tracker with that rule, such that you can get the latest movie or TV episode if you missed it, but once the DVD is released (typically during the summer months) then no more free ride.
Any port.:-( - I'm using dialup now because my DSL mysteriously died. Maybe someone ran into a pole and knocked-out the lines. (checks). Only 5 more hours until V Episode 2 finishes downloading. (sigh)
Really? What does the porn industry offer that Hollywood does not? I mean in terms of technology. Bluray? Hollywood has that?. Multiple angles or extra scenes? Hollywood does that. I'm curious what you had in mind when you uttered that statement.
As for P2P, and piracy in general, I agree people are always searching for new ways. When floppies were sold with deliberate errors, the actual program was rewritten to not check for those errors (cracked). When games came on CD, crackers found ways to copy them to CD-Rs or floppies. And now we have a crackdown on internet distribution, so they've found ways to eliminate the tracker completely, and just let people talk directly to one another.
Especially since megaorp lobbyists can just bribe the lawmakers to make torrent files illegal, regardless of content.
BTW let's stop calling it "copyright". It's not a right. It's a government-granted privilege of monopoly... same as what they granted Comcast and Amtrak. Nothing more
>>>get their clients configured correctly and ports forwarded.
My DSL modem is not port-forwarded (damn verizon has password-protected it), but it still seems to work just fine with torrents and DHT tracking.
As for robustness, when niteshdw.com was taken offline by RIAA threats, the Distributed tracking did keep the files active for awhile but after just six months they were all dead. There was no longer anyway to make the niteshdw.com downloads operate. It will be interesting to see if piratebay.org's files are still active six months from now. (Ditto demonoid which has been down for quite awhile too.)
I'm not familiar with Rtorrent but based-upon my quick read on wikipedia, can't you just save the *.torrent file, open Rtorrent, and then load the torrent? That's what I do with both Azureus and Utorrent
They have, but in order to supply enough energy for the U.S. and EU, you would have to pave over Nevada and Greece with solar cells, and Nevadans/Greeks are not fond of that idea.
So instead we're burning-through the oil and uranium and coal, the same way we burned through all our money.
>>>I just wonder how the hell did some of these people reach adulthood
Government took care of them. (1) School (babysitter). (2) Then the easy diploma (entrance to job). (3) And finally welfare, food stamps, and cheap housing, to add extra money on top of the job earnings.
In our society people don't have to grow-up. They can live in perpetual childhood until the day they die.
You wrote, "Fox News is still on the air". Somebody else wrote, "Because Fox News is still broadcasting." .
That's technically not true. FOX News singlecasts to a satellite which then receives *limited* distribution to paying cable customers. It is neither broadcast nor receivable "over the air"
Anon. Coward wrote: By browsing at '1' you made the choice
No. Nobody "chooses" that option. It's the automatic default for visitors to this site, and the moderators are well-aware of this, which is why they seek to demote people to (0) or (-1). It makes the post invisible.
Also the simple fact is "I disagree" =/= mod "troll". That's not the purpose of the system. If you disagree then hit reply and say so. Don't use false moderations.
>>>The advertisers then charge us extra money for the products they're selling so they can pay for the advertisements,
Flaw in your logic:
(1) As advertising increases, sales increase, and that drives down the per-unit cost. So you actually end-up paying less.
(2) If television became ad-free, that wouldn't stop marketers from spending money. They'd simply move the ads somewhere else.
(3) Also the ad-frre cost of TV would be astronomical. UK viewers pay about $250 for just one network (BBC). We have about 10 networks in the states - how would we pay that enormous $2500/year bill?
IMHO the 400x designs should have fallen into public domain long ago. i.e. The government-granted monopoly on that design revoked after 28 years time (per the original 1790 copyright act).
This presumes that being nudist makes you a "scoundrel".
I see nothing wrong with the naked human body, nor do I feel ashamed to defenmd the practice. Plus I think those cops who arrest teens for taking nudie pics with their cellphones are the True scoundrels. Those cops should spend several weeks in jail.
This is why the States need a Constitutional Council where they can declare, as one body, which laws they consider constitutional or unconstitutional and their decision will be ultimate (yes even over-ruling the U.S.). Had such a thing existed in the 1790s the Sedition Acts would have never taken force, and no prisoners killed as a result.
>>>>>So, is it OK to invite every major news network to an event except FoxNews? >> >>Yes, it's OK.
No it isn't because it then sets the precedent for the White House to block NBC, or ABC, if they make a critical remark about the president. Pretty soon we will have a media that won't report negative facts, for fear of having their WH press pass revoked.
>>>to illustrate that the right of association is an important right.
Yes it is. It also includes the right to bar illegal aliens (or worse: Bin Ladan soldiers) from crossing the Canadian border. Strange how people never make that logical connection.
Your comment still being on slashdot: that is your freedom of speech. Your comment being modded troll: that is everyone else's.
Modding someone "troll" is the equivalent of censorship, because it makes the comment invisible once the score drops below 1. The proper response is not censorship. The proper response is to click reply and say "I disagree".
As for rights, even the ancient greeks and romans recognized their existence. Lock a man in a cage and his first instinct is to search for escape. He has an inalienable desire (what we call a "right") to liberty, not a slave.
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>>>Some games looked far better in EGA with 16 colors than the C64 version simply because of the improved resolution.
You're right. The problem is that EGA didn't really exist yet. Virtually all PC games of that time (pre-1985) used CGA with only 4 colors, so the Atari and C64 versions obviously looked better.
And later when PC games started using the 16-color EGA mode, then the Amiga was on the market, with its ability to do 64 colors simultaneously (out of 4000 color palette). Overall the Atari, C64, or Amiga games of 1990 or earlier looked better than the inferior PC ports. That's why gamers migrated towards those machines.
>>>They took into account that the old TVs couldn't handle 640 width however it will still send the signal so only a few phosphors will get hit in a pixel thus creating color.
Bzzz.
Your explanation is wrong. NTSC televisions can easily handle 640-or-more pixels per line, per the original 1930s design spec. The problem is the addition of color (NTSC-II). Chroma resolution is only 150-160 pixels across due to the color signal beng bandwidth-limited to 2 megahertz. So while a television can display hi-res black and white perfectly, the overlaying of the chroma component leads to color "smear" across the image. It's the same effect as when you watch an old movie and the actress is wearing a striped B&W blouse, but instead it appears to be slightly colored.
Also: There will never be any chroma blur in the up/down direction. The scanlines on a television are sharp and distinct, with 486 visible vertical resolution. I think that's the flaw in the Enduro image, where they showed the sunset rainbow as an orange blur. On a real TV that would never happen.
Trivia - the old Atari console could display 128 colors (16 discrete colors * 8 shades).
In a truly free society you can do whatever drugs you want (at home where you can't harm others). You can even kill yourself if that's what you desire.
But we do not live in a free society.
We live in a Serf-Master society
I'll take anything that's free. It's helps me filter out the crap when I visit Walmart's DVD rack, and only buy the good stuff
Pirate Bay would probably survive even longer if they made a strict rule
- no torrents allowed that can be purchased in stores.
RIAA/MPAA would have little argument for suing if the material is limited in scope. I've often considered creating a tracker with that rule, such that you can get the latest movie or TV episode if you missed it, but once the DVD is released (typically during the summer months) then no more free ride.
Yes.
Any port. :-( - I'm using dialup now because my DSL mysteriously died. Maybe someone ran into a pole and knocked-out the lines. (checks). Only 5 more hours until V Episode 2 finishes downloading. (sigh)
Most Homo erecti (and sapiens) are Ephebophiles
I will seed any female that weighs less than 130 pounds and below age 30.
>>>porn is frequently on the cutting edge
Really? What does the porn industry offer that Hollywood does not? I mean in terms of technology. Bluray? Hollywood has that?. Multiple angles or extra scenes? Hollywood does that. I'm curious what you had in mind when you uttered that statement.
As for P2P, and piracy in general, I agree people are always searching for new ways. When floppies were sold with deliberate errors, the actual program was rewritten to not check for those errors (cracked). When games came on CD, crackers found ways to copy them to CD-Rs or floppies. And now we have a crackdown on internet distribution, so they've found ways to eliminate the tracker completely, and just let people talk directly to one another.
Especially since megaorp lobbyists can just bribe the lawmakers to make torrent files illegal, regardless of content.
BTW let's stop calling it "copyright". It's not a right. It's a government-granted privilege of monopoly... same as what they granted Comcast and Amtrak. Nothing more
>>>get their clients configured correctly and ports forwarded.
My DSL modem is not port-forwarded (damn verizon has password-protected it), but it still seems to work just fine with torrents and DHT tracking.
As for robustness, when niteshdw.com was taken offline by RIAA threats, the Distributed tracking did keep the files active for awhile but after just six months they were all dead. There was no longer anyway to make the niteshdw.com downloads operate. It will be interesting to see if piratebay.org's files are still active six months from now. (Ditto demonoid which has been down for quite awhile too.)
I'm not familiar with Rtorrent but based-upon my quick read on wikipedia, can't you just save the *.torrent file, open Rtorrent, and then load the torrent? That's what I do with both Azureus and Utorrent
They have, but in order to supply enough energy for the U.S. and EU, you would have to pave over Nevada and Greece with solar cells, and Nevadans/Greeks are not fond of that idea.
So instead we're burning-through the oil and uranium and coal, the same way we burned through all our money.
>>>I just wonder how the hell did some of these people reach adulthood
Government took care of them. (1) School (babysitter). (2) Then the easy diploma (entrance to job). (3) And finally welfare, food stamps, and cheap housing, to add extra money on top of the job earnings.
In our society people don't have to grow-up. They can live in perpetual childhood until the day they die.
>>>scale it up to HD resolutions with good results
I guess? I've seen the former but never the latter. To date I've never seen an SD game or SD-DVD that looked as good on LCD as it looks on my CRT.
You wrote, "Fox News is still on the air".
Somebody else wrote, "Because Fox News is still broadcasting."
.
That's technically not true. FOX News singlecasts to a satellite which then receives *limited* distribution to paying cable customers. It is neither broadcast nor receivable "over the air"
Anon. Coward wrote:
By browsing at '1' you made the choice
No. Nobody "chooses" that option. It's the automatic default for visitors to this site, and the moderators are well-aware of this, which is why they seek to demote people to (0) or (-1). It makes the post invisible.
Also the simple fact is "I disagree" =/= mod "troll". That's not the purpose of the system. If you disagree then hit reply and say so. Don't use false moderations.
>>>The advertisers then charge us extra money for the products they're selling so they can pay for the advertisements,
Flaw in your logic:
(1) As advertising increases, sales increase, and that drives down the per-unit cost. So you actually end-up paying less.
(2) If television became ad-free, that wouldn't stop marketers from spending money. They'd simply move the ads somewhere else.
(3) Also the ad-frre cost of TV would be astronomical. UK viewers pay about $250 for just one network (BBC). We have about 10 networks in the states - how would we pay that enormous $2500/year bill?
IMHO the 400x designs should have fallen into public domain long ago. i.e. The government-granted monopoly on that design revoked after 28 years time (per the original 1790 copyright act).
Ignored
Some even called me racist
This presumes that being nudist makes you a "scoundrel".
I see nothing wrong with the naked human body, nor do I feel ashamed to defenmd the practice. Plus I think those cops who arrest teens for taking nudie pics with their cellphones are the True scoundrels. Those cops should spend several weeks in jail.
This is why the States need a Constitutional Council where they can declare, as one body, which laws they consider constitutional or unconstitutional and their decision will be ultimate (yes even over-ruling the U.S.). Had such a thing existed in the 1790s the Sedition Acts would have never taken force, and no prisoners killed as a result.
>>>>>So, is it OK to invite every major news network to an event except FoxNews?
>>
>>Yes, it's OK.
No it isn't because it then sets the precedent for the White House to block NBC, or ABC, if they make a critical remark about the president. Pretty soon we will have a media that won't report negative facts, for fear of having their WH press pass revoked.
>>>to illustrate that the right of association is an important right.
Yes it is. It also includes the right to bar illegal aliens (or worse: Bin Ladan soldiers) from crossing the Canadian border. Strange how people never make that logical connection.
Your comment still being on slashdot: that is your freedom of speech.
Your comment being modded troll: that is everyone else's.
Modding someone "troll" is the equivalent of censorship, because it makes the comment invisible once the score drops below 1. The proper response is not censorship. The proper response is to click reply and say "I disagree".
As for rights, even the ancient greeks and romans recognized their existence. Lock a man in a cage and his first instinct is to search for escape. He has an inalienable desire (what we call a "right") to liberty, not a slave.