spend some time with one of the head coach games. You can get head coach 09 used for like $5 now, and it's a tremendous game. it will tickle all your favorite nerd micromanagement strategy places, while simultaneously giving you an appreciation for football.
I vaguely remember a super bowl from the early 2000's where the Baltimore Ravens defense pretty much -was- the game. They did their job and the offense's job and won the Superbowl all by themselves.
Wikipedia says it was superbowl XXXV, and Ray Lewis (a linebacker!) was named superbowl MVP, if you want an idea just how dominate that D was. All 16 of the Giants possessions ended with punts or interceptions.
Since we're on a "didn't do his research kick", Go look at what charcoal (real charcoal, not briquets) is made out of. (hint: graphene sheets)
While you're out there, do a quick run by of "graphite" and "burn". the stuff doesn't ignite easily, but it burns like a motherfuck once it does. do a look at "graphite" and "Chernobyl" while you're out there for some interesting reading.
I'm a decently strong guy, but I can't rip apart even a fairly thin sheet of something like aluminum (no, not aluminum foil, real sheet metal). I can cut through it with ease with even a moderate pair of scissors though.
actually, if you think about it, this FINALLY makes the game make sense.
who knows what the shearing force resistance of this new stuff is, common scissors may still be able to cut through it. on the other hand, there is finally a good reason why your average rock can't just rip through the center of it, which was always the weak point of the traditional rock-paper-scissors. there was never a good reason that paper could withstand rock. if there was, any houses at the base of mountains or volcanoes would be made out of paper.
As someone pointed out earlier, it is still carbon. Building a plane out of coal will make for interesting-to-contain fires at disaster sites after crashes.
every time I see a cloud article here, I see 3 or 4 people saying "uh, this isn't a good idea. your idea of 'cloud' is basically 'remote file storage', and remote file storage in this context is certainly orders of magnitude slower, very possibly insecure due to rogue employees of the 'cloud' company (and who exactly are they subcontracting to anyway?), it is unclear how secure the cloud storage is to hackers compared to our own tested local network, and it is definitely taking several security measures out of our hands and putting it in hands we can't even see".
That is immediately followed by 30 or 40 people replying more or less with variations on "go away grandpa, this is the 21st century, you need to get with the times or get out of this fast-moving industry".
Android natively supports vorbis. that is a LOT of market penetration right there. As of 4th quarter 2010, 32.9 million androids phones had been sold, and the sales rate is only increasing.
The interface is terrible of course, but winamp for android clears that up nicely. The sound quality is actually pretty damn decent, and it can even drive my Beyerdynamic DT880 600ohm cans to a reasonable volume. The only reason I even still bother with my rockbox'd ipod is because it has more storage space than my droid.
1st gen "classic" support is already in alpha phase. check the builds, it's pretty far along, it's just not "officially supported" yet. As you yourself mention, I'm sure that you know that it is entirely apple's fault that rockbox doesn't support newer ipods yet, as apple has gone out of their way to make it as difficult as they can, on purpose. The tone of your post however, despite your "disclaimer", seems to indicate that you think this is a failing of rockbox. It isn't like nobody is trying to overcome the protection apple put in place on newer hardware. They're trying, the road is just harder than it should be.
As to procuring an ipod on which to load rockbox in the first place, why wouldn't you just pick up an ipod 5.5 off of ebay for dirt cheap to load rockbox on, instead of going out to the apple store and paying them an arm and a leg for a new one? You're just going to do something that (in theory) violates the warranty anyway.
so you'd have no problem listening to it in glorious mono, watching it downsampled to black and white in fantastic state-of-the-art 320x200? hell, why not make it a blank black screen? I mean if your picture quality and sound quality doesn't matter an all... I'm pretty sure we had that, we called it radio. What you're saying is you wish we could go back to radio? good news! it never left! you can still get radio, it's available for free too!
must be a great day for you to finally find this out!... Or perhaps you're trying to pretend that in a visual medium, the quality of the visuals doesn't matter, in order to try and win an argument on the internet?
you know if you make up your own facts and arguments, you can convince yourself of anything.
Assuming you do own a blu-ray player, who is forcing you to re-buy your old titles on blu-ray if you don't want to? A blu-ray player can play your old DVDs just fine. Just buy new titles in blu-ray and keep your old ones if that's what you want to do.
why are you carting around a dvd player? that's a pretty odd thing to carry around.
I've never had a movie ask me for an internet connection. What kind of movies are you watching?
I'm pretty sure that we heard this exact same argument circa 1990, regarding cassette tape and that "Compact Disc" thing. Of course CDs never caught on.
The resolution a movie is distributed in has no bearing on the quality of screenplay, acting, directing, or special effects. No producer-studio conversation goes "well, we can either release in blu-ray, or we can stick solely to DVD and hire Tom Hanks as our actor and Tarrantino to direct." Doesn't work like that.
Given that a movie's content is going to be whatever it is, I'd rather have my viewing session of said movie as nice as possible under the circumstances. It's why I don't download "telesync" or "screener" copies off of the internet. They're horrible. Give me the best possible circumstances to judge the movie under.
Higher Res really is better. Having a 28" 1920x1200 widescreen monitor doesn't make microsoft office a better program than it is on a 17" 1024x768 monitor, but the experience of using it sure is nicer on the big screen.
Beyond the fact that DVDs are good enough for some people, there's actually reasons why DVDs are better than Blu-Rays. For those of us that like to back up our DVD collections onto home media servers, DVDs are quite a bit better. At 6-10 times smaller, you can store significantly more movies..
When you open handbrake, manually change the horizontal resolution for a blu-ray rip from 1920 to 720 if you want output the same size as a dvd. vertical resolution should scale automatically. you'll get the side benefit of having a higher quality source file from which to generate your compressed streaming version, which can only help the resulting output.
if on the other hand you're concerned with file size and you are storing the entire DVD file tree... I have to ask why?
Anything made post 1999 or so, when the digital masters are already in high resolution than (equivalent to 1080p or higher), yes certainly.
Movies from the 80s and earlier where the original film master has degraded and the blu-ray looks the same as the dvd (or worse due to making the transfer 10 years later!), no not at all.
Movies from the 90s? it depends on the movie. some it helps, some it doesn't.
If you are trying to make the argument that 1080p isn't better than 480p, then you go right ahead and download those 700mb pixilated and artifact-laden movie rips off of BT, you don't seem to be able to notice differences in image quality anyways. Those newfangled "eye doctors" who keep trying to sell you glasses or contacts are a scam I tell you! a total scam!
"Normal" NTSC TVs lasted for decades, completely unchanged.
well, except for that whole "composite input" vs "s-video" vs "component input" vs "rf/coax plug" vs "two little screws for an antenna" vs whatever they had before that (my memory only goes back to the early 80s).
This "one-up the previous technology" story has been going on for a lot longer than you seem to thing. you just pick a good TV when you need a TV, and that's that. There's always something new around the corner.
The thing is, we're already at the new standard. It's 1080p and hdmi, which isn't going much of anywhere for a good while. that was the last real upgrade in these standards wars. You're pretty safe buying that. 3d, 120/240hz, etc are all gimmicks. buy into em if you want, but 1080p/hdmi is where it's at for the foreseeable future.
I used to love to fly when I was a kid, and even as a young(er) adult.
Now though... getting there several hours early cause you never know how long security is going to take...
wondering what new hoop I have to jump through. What's that? empty my pockets? ok sure I guess. Huh? take off my belt? what really? ok, let me hold my pants up... take off my shoes? are you kidding? really? well crap, I didn't bring my shoehorn with me it's going to take me awhile to get them back on, no wonder this damn line is moving so fuckin slow. Take my computer out of the computer bag?! are you serious? isn't that what the damn x-ray machine is for? put my deoderant, suntan lotion, and mouthwash in individual plastic baggies? ok fuck it i'm going home this is rediculous... oh what's that? I'm under arrest? well fuck.
fill in the X with your favorite personal privileged that you'd like other people to finance for you.
Me, I'd like fast cars, a big house, and loose women. I mean, those are all things that make me happy and happieness is a basic human right, right?
Moreover, the divide between myself and those who have the sweet cars, fast women, and kickass houses is growing bigger and bigger every year, and I think it's high time that the government stepped in and gave me the crap I'm asking for.
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spend some time with one of the head coach games. You can get head coach 09 used for like $5 now, and it's a tremendous game. it will tickle all your favorite nerd micromanagement strategy places, while simultaneously giving you an appreciation for football.
I vaguely remember a super bowl from the early 2000's where the Baltimore Ravens defense pretty much -was- the game. They did their job and the offense's job and won the Superbowl all by themselves.
Wikipedia says it was superbowl XXXV, and Ray Lewis (a linebacker!) was named superbowl MVP, if you want an idea just how dominate that D was. All 16 of the Giants possessions ended with punts or interceptions.
Yet I am able to spell my own name, which apparently stumps you.
Since we're on a "didn't do his research kick", Go look at what charcoal (real charcoal, not briquets) is made out of. (hint: graphene sheets)
While you're out there, do a quick run by of "graphite" and "burn". the stuff doesn't ignite easily, but it burns like a motherfuck once it does. do a look at "graphite" and "Chernobyl" while you're out there for some interesting reading.
I'll accept your apology once you're back.
but that "very short segment" part truly matters.
I'm a decently strong guy, but I can't rip apart even a fairly thin sheet of something like aluminum (no, not aluminum foil, real sheet metal). I can cut through it with ease with even a moderate pair of scissors though.
actually, if you think about it, this FINALLY makes the game make sense.
who knows what the shearing force resistance of this new stuff is, common scissors may still be able to cut through it. on the other hand, there is finally a good reason why your average rock can't just rip through the center of it, which was always the weak point of the traditional rock-paper-scissors. there was never a good reason that paper could withstand rock. if there was, any houses at the base of mountains or volcanoes would be made out of paper.
As someone pointed out earlier, it is still carbon. Building a plane out of coal will make for interesting-to-contain fires at disaster sites after crashes.
So you wouldn't want to build an airplane or a building out of it... but useful in undersea and outer space applications I bet.
but something that thin, I wonder what the shearing force it can withstand is.
every time I see a cloud article here, I see 3 or 4 people saying "uh, this isn't a good idea. your idea of 'cloud' is basically 'remote file storage', and remote file storage in this context is certainly orders of magnitude slower, very possibly insecure due to rogue employees of the 'cloud' company (and who exactly are they subcontracting to anyway?), it is unclear how secure the cloud storage is to hackers compared to our own tested local network, and it is definitely taking several security measures out of our hands and putting it in hands we can't even see".
That is immediately followed by 30 or 40 people replying more or less with variations on "go away grandpa, this is the 21st century, you need to get with the times or get out of this fast-moving industry".
Android natively supports vorbis. that is a LOT of market penetration right there. As of 4th quarter 2010, 32.9 million androids phones had been sold, and the sales rate is only increasing.
The interface is terrible of course, but winamp for android clears that up nicely. The sound quality is actually pretty damn decent, and it can even drive my Beyerdynamic DT880 600ohm cans to a reasonable volume. The only reason I even still bother with my rockbox'd ipod is because it has more storage space than my droid.
1st gen "classic" support is already in alpha phase. check the builds, it's pretty far along, it's just not "officially supported" yet. As you yourself mention, I'm sure that you know that it is entirely apple's fault that rockbox doesn't support newer ipods yet, as apple has gone out of their way to make it as difficult as they can, on purpose. The tone of your post however, despite your "disclaimer", seems to indicate that you think this is a failing of rockbox. It isn't like nobody is trying to overcome the protection apple put in place on newer hardware. They're trying, the road is just harder than it should be.
As to procuring an ipod on which to load rockbox in the first place, why wouldn't you just pick up an ipod 5.5 off of ebay for dirt cheap to load rockbox on, instead of going out to the apple store and paying them an arm and a leg for a new one? You're just going to do something that (in theory) violates the warranty anyway.
This being slashdot, which loves itself some cloud, I'm amazed you haven't been modded down to -1 hatehatehatedielalalaimnotlistening yet.
When did we suddenly start trusting other people with our important shit?
It's probably because most people, including a lot of the IT industry apparently, still think computers are magic.
so you'd have no problem listening to it in glorious mono, watching it downsampled to black and white in fantastic state-of-the-art 320x200? hell, why not make it a blank black screen? I mean if your picture quality and sound quality doesn't matter an all... I'm pretty sure we had that, we called it radio. What you're saying is you wish we could go back to radio? good news! it never left! you can still get radio, it's available for free too!
must be a great day for you to finally find this out! ... Or perhaps you're trying to pretend that in a visual medium, the quality of the visuals doesn't matter, in order to try and win an argument on the internet?
you know if you make up your own facts and arguments, you can convince yourself of anything.
Assuming you do own a blu-ray player, who is forcing you to re-buy your old titles on blu-ray if you don't want to? A blu-ray player can play your old DVDs just fine. Just buy new titles in blu-ray and keep your old ones if that's what you want to do.
why are you carting around a dvd player? that's a pretty odd thing to carry around.
I've never had a movie ask me for an internet connection. What kind of movies are you watching?
I'm pretty sure that we heard this exact same argument circa 1990, regarding cassette tape and that "Compact Disc" thing. Of course CDs never caught on.
your ignorance of market forces is staggering.
False argument.
The resolution a movie is distributed in has no bearing on the quality of screenplay, acting, directing, or special effects. No producer-studio conversation goes "well, we can either release in blu-ray, or we can stick solely to DVD and hire Tom Hanks as our actor and Tarrantino to direct." Doesn't work like that.
Given that a movie's content is going to be whatever it is, I'd rather have my viewing session of said movie as nice as possible under the circumstances. It's why I don't download "telesync" or "screener" copies off of the internet. They're horrible. Give me the best possible circumstances to judge the movie under.
Higher Res really is better. Having a 28" 1920x1200 widescreen monitor doesn't make microsoft office a better program than it is on a 17" 1024x768 monitor, but the experience of using it sure is nicer on the big screen.
Considering the website we're at, I bet that most people here view a broken piece of hardware as a good excuse for an upgrade.
Beyond the fact that DVDs are good enough for some people, there's actually reasons why DVDs are better than Blu-Rays. For those of us that like to back up our DVD collections onto home media servers, DVDs are quite a bit better. At 6-10 times smaller, you can store significantly more movies. .
When you open handbrake, manually change the horizontal resolution for a blu-ray rip from 1920 to 720 if you want output the same size as a dvd. vertical resolution should scale automatically. you'll get the side benefit of having a higher quality source file from which to generate your compressed streaming version, which can only help the resulting output.
if on the other hand you're concerned with file size and you are storing the entire DVD file tree... I have to ask why?
Does BluRay make a film better?
Anything made post 1999 or so, when the digital masters are already in high resolution than (equivalent to 1080p or higher), yes certainly.
Movies from the 80s and earlier where the original film master has degraded and the blu-ray looks the same as the dvd (or worse due to making the transfer 10 years later!), no not at all.
Movies from the 90s? it depends on the movie. some it helps, some it doesn't.
If you are trying to make the argument that 1080p isn't better than 480p, then you go right ahead and download those 700mb pixilated and artifact-laden movie rips off of BT, you don't seem to be able to notice differences in image quality anyways. Those newfangled "eye doctors" who keep trying to sell you glasses or contacts are a scam I tell you! a total scam!
Of course it's for the playstation generation. The greatest generation don't even have DVDS.They still has 2-head VCRs flashing 12:00, if even that.
Who exactly do you think consumer electronics is FOR if not the young with disposable income?
I used to love to fly when I was a kid, and even as a young(er) adult.
Now though... getting there several hours early cause you never know how long security is going to take...
wondering what new hoop I have to jump through. What's that? empty my pockets? ok sure I guess. Huh? take off my belt? what really? ok, let me hold my pants up... take off my shoes? are you kidding? really? well crap, I didn't bring my shoehorn with me it's going to take me awhile to get them back on, no wonder this damn line is moving so fuckin slow. Take my computer out of the computer bag?! are you serious? isn't that what the damn x-ray machine is for? put my deoderant, suntan lotion, and mouthwash in individual plastic baggies? ok fuck it i'm going home this is rediculous... oh what's that? I'm under arrest? well fuck.
and that's even before the groping.
fill in the X with your favorite personal privileged that you'd like other people to finance for you.
Me, I'd like fast cars, a big house, and loose women. I mean, those are all things that make me happy and happieness is a basic human right, right?
Moreover, the divide between myself and those who have the sweet cars, fast women, and kickass houses is growing bigger and bigger every year, and I think it's high time that the government stepped in and gave me the crap I'm asking for.