That is why all it takes to make the PS3 capable of 3D is a software upgrade.
Actually, the current PS3 will not be certified as Bluray 3D compatible. It can only support a subset of the new standards without hardware changes (it can't implement one of the required modes.. Frame alternative, I believe, but I could be wrong).
You've never seen one explode a tire and send high-velocity rubber chunks flying out the side?
You do NOT want to be beside it when it happens, and with 18 wheels ready to pop, it happens too frequently for me to risk being in the trajectory when it does.
(Disclaimer: My daily drive is the stretch of 403/QEW which connects Niagra Falls (ie, the US) with Toronto (ie, the Canada), and there are a very large number of trucks on that road. Once you see a tire blow in front of you, you will never drive beside a truck again.)
Assuming you've got access to a Windows machine (which is sadly the only platform for which 'hardcore' dvd ripping tools are written for), you should be able to attack the disk with a combination of AnyDVD (installs a device driver that will remove all known protection) and vStrip.
A word of warning: vStrip is NOT an easy tool to use (there are guides all over the place though), but it's by far the most powerful DVD ripping software I have ever found.
I was given a 4GB SDHC card by a friend, frantic that all her photos had disappeared. She did not do anything do physically damage the card, it was sitting in her camera and just suddenly started showing 0 photos one day when she turned it on.
I popped it into my linux machine and started to dd all the data I could get off of it. The first 512MB were fine. The next 512MB were completely unreadable. The last 3GB were fine.
Not sure exactly what could cause this type of partial failure, but it certainly seems like SHDC cards are actually multiple devices internally connected together, and it's possible to have just one fail at a time. Alternate explanations are welcome.
(VirtualBox + XP + Kernel FAT NTFS did the trick by the way, was able to save 80% of the photos).
Techno or any other "music" that requires all the effort of hitting some buttons.
I bet you think yourself mighty insightful, but exactly what do you do in order to play say, a piano? Beethoven was just hitting some buttons.
So how about you get off your high horse, and just admit that you don't like techno simply because you don't like it. This is fine, you are entitled to a personal opinion. Just don't claim your opinion is due to some inherent inferiority of the genre... it's not.
Counter-anecdote: I have a Q6600 / 6GB 800Mhz RAM / 512mb Geforce 8600GT (almost the exact same system as you, with a little less RAM).
Running Ubuntu 8.04, with desktop effects cranked to maximum, at 1920x1200.. everything is both responsive and beautiful. When friends come over and see my desktop, their jaws drop to the floor and they end up leaving with Ubuntu live CDs in their pockets.
I'm curious where your performance problems are coming from, considering our systems are so similar.. what motherboard chipset are you using? Intel ICH9 here (Asus P5K-C).
Btw, how does movies work on it? Do you get unsynced audio? VLC and such can fix that but anyway, maybe you never notice it. Add 30-40 ms delay on the audio as default? =P)
Movies work great, no adjustments required. I believe 80-100ms or so is the minimum noticeable audio delay.
But the problem with S-PVA is that I will want to play sometimes and I wouldn't feel good with 30+ ms input lag, even if it may not affect my performance that much.
I know where you're coming from, and this was almost a deal-breaker for me when I was shopping for monitors. In the end though, I'm very happy that I decided to ignore the S-PVA input-lag naysayers. While I haven't tried anything recent, I can say that UT2k4 runs fantastic (and looks great) at 1920x1200, with no perceivable input lag.
Ultimately, being 1 frame behind is really not nearly as big of a deal as it's made out to be (like any game doesn't double- or triple- buffer anyway). Don't reject an otherwise all-around amazing display technology just because of that one thing.. at least not until you see it for yourself and realize just how stunning the images S-PVA displays can render are:)
I absolutely love my S-PVA Dell 2408WFP. A touch expensive for a 24", but they go on sale often. I got it for $599 CDN.. I've since seen it for $549 CDN, very reasonable considering after you see one, you will never want to look at TN display again.
If you'd actually listened to some of the (admittedly small amount of) material available on SACD then you'd realise that the high cost and format lock-in are small prices to pay for an extraordinary step forwards in high-fidelity music. SACDs sound phenomenal compared to vanilla CDs.
What difference does higher quality make if nobody buys your products? The high cost and format lock-in were clearly not "small" prices to pay, because today the format is pretty much dead.
You are correct in general, but the GP was talking about NOD32.. a virus scanner that's written in Win32 Assembly and specifically designed to be lightweight and un-intrusive.
With that being said, last time I tried it the "network scanner" got very confused when p2p began opening up hundreds of connections and would bog down the system (or worse, start rejecting connections). I've been meaning to NODS32 another go, hopefully this has been fixed..
Can you reproduce the crash on demand? Try launching firefox under gdb ("gdb firefox" from a console, then "run" at the prompt) then making it crash. The console you launched it from should give the gdb> prompt again, where you can do a backtrace ("bt full") to see the exactly where the crash was as well as the sequence of function calls that lead up to it.
Your firefox will be likely dying inside some library, and once you figure out which library that is (based on the backtrace) you can download it's -dbg package and repeat the process to isolate the specific function causing the crash.
This is basically what apport tries to do after the fact, but it's often works better if gdb is attached right from the start.
On a related note, I just looked in synaptec and firefox-3 itself does not have a -dbg package, only firefox-2 does.. I'm hoping this means they've left debug symbols in the binary itself.
I block nothing, and have been running ff3b5 (on x86_64) since the day after Hardy came out without any significant issues, although there was a problem (now resolved) with it crashing on some web pages, but this was actually a bug in ubuntu's nvidia-glx-new package that ff just happened to trigger.
Installed extensions:
- Popup ALT attribute (for web comics) - Chatzilla (for grabbing XBMC binaries) - Greasemonkey (for added functionality on my Digg and Facebook) - Smoothwheel (for sexyness, the built-in smooth scroll is not as nice) - Ubuntu Firefox Mods (for great justice? this came pre-installed)
Almost makes me wonder, are the people having trouble running with ATI or nVidia graphics cards? Firefox can be kinda tough on the drivers..
I have never had Windows fail to install for any reason..
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I think I know what the GP is talking about and have experienced it myself.
There are some known AHCI problems with a common ATI southbridge chipset which made installing Vista impossible unless you first disable AHCI (I assume this is what the GP meant by having to dumb-down BIOS settings).
So, lets try XP I thought. Too bad it has no drivers for the sata controller at all, and I have no floppy drive. I ended up having to inject the controller drivers into the XP CD and re-burn it. The XP installer then saw my disk in IDE mode, but not AHCI mode..
I gave up and left the controller in IDE mode.
For reference, Ubuntu 7.10 had no trouble on the same machine.
I am completely unable to learn while taking notes. I abandoned the practice entirely several weeks into my first university semester.
If I attempt to take notes, I just enter a weird pass-through mode where information comes in via the ears and out via my hands, but not a drop of it will stick anywhere in between.
I suspect it's because I'm a visual learner, and when my visual attention is focused on a blank sheet of paper instead of on the person doing the lecturing, my learning ability is severely impaired.
The implementation language has absolutely nothing to do with architecture, maintainability, or resource use.
I will succeed architecture (Java certainly gives you the tools to do it right), and maybe even maintainability (good code is good code, and bad code is bad code) but I will not accept that resource use is implementation language independent except in the most trivial of cases.
It's that 'entitlement' that feels off to me; no matter what the duration, it still boils down to a law mandating that after some period, everybody (just for existing) becomes entitled to the fruits of my/your efforts. That doesn't feel right.
Can you imagine the world today if Plato, or Aristotle, or Galileo thought like this? This is certainly a valid point of view, but it's both selfish and short sighted.
All that work that you've created, you did not create out of thin air. It was created using a base of knowledge to which an uncountable number of individuals before you created, and left behind for you to build upon.
The only thing those individuals ask (well they're dead, so lets just say 'Society' asks on their behalf) is that after a reasonable amount of time, you too release your work for the next generation to build upon and benefit from such that eventually it's the entirety of the human race which benefits.
It is this trade-off between the rights of the content producer to receive compensation for their contributions and the right of society to ultimately benefit from those contributions that Copyright attempts to capture into law, and the length of time a work is protected is actually very important. Set too short, and the balance swings too far towards society and creators suffer, set too long and the balance is too far towards the creators and as a result society suffers.
It's true that there is no wireless HDMI (due to the enormous bandwidth requirements of uncompressed high definition video), but a new standard is emerging called Wireless HDAV.
In a nutshell, there's a real-time 1080p H264 encoder on one end, then a UWB wireless link (claims of up to 10m) followed by an H264 decoder. Hopefully they will allow one to directly inject H264 content (from a cable/iptv box or from other sources), then use this technology to send it to the TV for decoding. Applications such as video game consoles can pass through the H264 encoder first.
This was just announced so technical details such as video bit rate are anyone's guess, but if this was correctly implemented we may one day be able to get rid of the rat's nest of wires behind our entertainment systems because everything will self-configure wirelessly.
But the Home Office, despite lobbying, refused to withdraw the distribution offense. This leaves the door open to prosecute people who distribute a tool, such as nmap, that's subsequently abused by hackers
According to such a law, as long as the IDE was used to develop a piece of software that was subsequently used in a computer crime, they want to make the IDE developers liable. Now, the law may of course have exceptions for programming environments.. the article doesn't say.
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Actually, the current PS3 will not be certified as Bluray 3D compatible. It can only support a subset of the new standards without hardware changes (it can't implement one of the required modes .. Frame alternative, I believe, but I could be wrong).
You've never seen one explode a tire and send high-velocity rubber chunks flying out the side?
You do NOT want to be beside it when it happens, and with 18 wheels ready to pop, it happens too frequently for me to risk being in the trajectory when it does.
(Disclaimer: My daily drive is the stretch of 403/QEW which connects Niagra Falls (ie, the US) with Toronto (ie, the Canada), and there are a very large number of trucks on that road. Once you see a tire blow in front of you, you will never drive beside a truck again.)
Assuming you've got access to a Windows machine (which is sadly the only platform for which 'hardcore' dvd ripping tools are written for), you should be able to attack the disk with a combination of AnyDVD (installs a device driver that will remove all known protection) and vStrip.
A word of warning: vStrip is NOT an easy tool to use (there are guides all over the place though), but it's by far the most powerful DVD ripping software I have ever found.
I was given a 4GB SDHC card by a friend, frantic that all her photos had disappeared. She did not do anything do physically damage the card, it was sitting in her camera and just suddenly started showing 0 photos one day when she turned it on.
I popped it into my linux machine and started to dd all the data I could get off of it. The first 512MB were fine. The next 512MB were completely unreadable. The last 3GB were fine.
Not sure exactly what could cause this type of partial failure, but it certainly seems like SHDC cards are actually multiple devices internally connected together, and it's possible to have just one fail at a time. Alternate explanations are welcome.
(VirtualBox + XP + Kernel FAT NTFS did the trick by the way, was able to save 80% of the photos).
I bet you think yourself mighty insightful, but exactly what do you do in order to play say, a piano? Beethoven was just hitting some buttons.
So how about you get off your high horse, and just admit that you don't like techno simply because you don't like it. This is fine, you are entitled to a personal opinion. Just don't claim your opinion is due to some inherent inferiority of the genre... it's not.
Counter-anecdote: I have a Q6600 / 6GB 800Mhz RAM / 512mb Geforce 8600GT (almost the exact same system as you, with a little less RAM).
Running Ubuntu 8.04, with desktop effects cranked to maximum, at 1920x1200 .. everything is both responsive and beautiful. When friends come over and see my desktop, their jaws drop to the floor and they end up leaving with Ubuntu live CDs in their pockets.
I'm curious where your performance problems are coming from, considering our systems are so similar.. what motherboard chipset are you using? Intel ICH9 here (Asus P5K-C).
Movies work great, no adjustments required. I believe 80-100ms or so is the minimum noticeable audio delay.
I know where you're coming from, and this was almost a deal-breaker for me when I was shopping for monitors. In the end though, I'm very happy that I decided to ignore the S-PVA input-lag naysayers. While I haven't tried anything recent, I can say that UT2k4 runs fantastic (and looks great) at 1920x1200, with no perceivable input lag.
Ultimately, being 1 frame behind is really not nearly as big of a deal as it's made out to be (like any game doesn't double- or triple- buffer anyway). Don't reject an otherwise all-around amazing display technology just because of that one thing.. at least not until you see it for yourself and realize just how stunning the images S-PVA displays can render are :)
I absolutely love my S-PVA Dell 2408WFP. A touch expensive for a 24", but they go on sale often. I got it for $599 CDN.. I've since seen it for $549 CDN, very reasonable considering after you see one, you will never want to look at TN display again.
If you'd actually listened to some of the (admittedly small amount of) material available on SACD then you'd realise that the high cost and format lock-in are small prices to pay for an extraordinary step forwards in high-fidelity music. SACDs sound phenomenal compared to vanilla CDs.
What difference does higher quality make if nobody buys your products? The high cost and format lock-in were clearly not "small" prices to pay, because today the format is pretty much dead.
You are correct in general, but the GP was talking about NOD32 .. a virus scanner that's written in Win32 Assembly and specifically designed to be lightweight and un-intrusive.
With that being said, last time I tried it the "network scanner" got very confused when p2p began opening up hundreds of connections and would bog down the system (or worse, start rejecting connections). I've been meaning to NODS32 another go, hopefully this has been fixed..
Pffft... Bake'n'Bake!
Without getting into the mechanics of what "truly" broken means, AACS is more then broken enough for practical purposes.
This technology will be no different.
Looks like this bug, which points to this one.
/usr/lib/libflashsupport.so on your system? If so, try renaming it. I checked my machine, and I don't have that library...
Do you have a
Can you reproduce the crash on demand? Try launching firefox under gdb ("gdb firefox" from a console, then "run" at the prompt) then making it crash. The console you launched it from should give the gdb> prompt again, where you can do a backtrace ("bt full") to see the exactly where the crash was as well as the sequence of function calls that lead up to it.
Your firefox will be likely dying inside some library, and once you figure out which library that is (based on the backtrace) you can download it's -dbg package and repeat the process to isolate the specific function causing the crash.
This is basically what apport tries to do after the fact, but it's often works better if gdb is attached right from the start.
On a related note, I just looked in synaptec and firefox-3 itself does not have a -dbg package, only firefox-2 does.. I'm hoping this means they've left debug symbols in the binary itself.
I block nothing, and have been running ff3b5 (on x86_64) since the day after Hardy came out without any significant issues, although there was a problem (now resolved) with it crashing on some web pages, but this was actually a bug in ubuntu's nvidia-glx-new package that ff just happened to trigger.
Installed extensions:
- Popup ALT attribute (for web comics)
- Chatzilla (for grabbing XBMC binaries)
- Greasemonkey (for added functionality on my Digg and Facebook)
- Smoothwheel (for sexyness, the built-in smooth scroll is not as nice)
- Ubuntu Firefox Mods (for great justice? this came pre-installed)
Almost makes me wonder, are the people having trouble running with ATI or nVidia graphics cards? Firefox can be kinda tough on the drivers..
I have never had Windows fail to install for any reason..
While the plural of anecdote is not data, I think I know what the GP is talking about and have experienced it myself.
There are some known AHCI problems with a common ATI southbridge chipset which made installing Vista impossible unless you first disable AHCI (I assume this is what the GP meant by having to dumb-down BIOS settings).
So, lets try XP I thought. Too bad it has no drivers for the sata controller at all, and I have no floppy drive. I ended up having to inject the controller drivers into the XP CD and re-burn it. The XP installer then saw my disk in IDE mode, but not AHCI mode..
I gave up and left the controller in IDE mode.
For reference, Ubuntu 7.10 had no trouble on the same machine.
Are you not aware of the Single, Definitive standard?
I am completely unable to learn while taking notes. I abandoned the practice entirely several weeks into my first university semester.
If I attempt to take notes, I just enter a weird pass-through mode where information comes in via the ears and out via my hands, but not a drop of it will stick anywhere in between.
I suspect it's because I'm a visual learner, and when my visual attention is focused on a blank sheet of paper instead of on the person doing the lecturing, my learning ability is severely impaired.
Anybody else out there like this?
Don't forget TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name
The implementation language has absolutely nothing to do with architecture, maintainability, or resource use.
I will succeed architecture (Java certainly gives you the tools to do it right), and maybe even maintainability (good code is good code, and bad code is bad code) but I will not accept that resource use is implementation language independent except in the most trivial of cases.
Java, for better or worse, has allowed us to produce more code in less time and generally with fewer bugs.
In less time, with fewer bugs BUT poorly (or not at all) architected, unmaintainable, and resource-hogging. I'm not so sure that's an improvement.
It's that 'entitlement' that feels off to me; no matter what the duration, it still boils down to a law mandating that after some period, everybody (just for existing) becomes entitled to the fruits of my/your efforts. That doesn't feel right.
Can you imagine the world today if Plato, or Aristotle, or Galileo thought like this? This is certainly a valid point of view, but it's both selfish and short sighted.
All that work that you've created, you did not create out of thin air. It was created using a base of knowledge to which an uncountable number of individuals before you created, and left behind for you to build upon.
The only thing those individuals ask (well they're dead, so lets just say 'Society' asks on their behalf) is that after a reasonable amount of time, you too release your work for the next generation to build upon and benefit from such that eventually it's the entirety of the human race which benefits.
It is this trade-off between the rights of the content producer to receive compensation for their contributions and the right of society to ultimately benefit from those contributions that Copyright attempts to capture into law, and the length of time a work is protected is actually very important. Set too short, and the balance swings too far towards society and creators suffer, set too long and the balance is too far towards the creators and as a result society suffers.
It's true that there is no wireless HDMI (due to the enormous bandwidth requirements of uncompressed high definition video), but a new standard is emerging called Wireless HDAV.
In a nutshell, there's a real-time 1080p H264 encoder on one end, then a UWB wireless link (claims of up to 10m) followed by an H264 decoder. Hopefully they will allow one to directly inject H264 content (from a cable/iptv box or from other sources), then use this technology to send it to the TV for decoding. Applications such as video game consoles can pass through the H264 encoder first.
This was just announced so technical details such as video bit rate are anyone's guess, but if this was correctly implemented we may one day be able to get rid of the rat's nest of wires behind our entertainment systems because everything will self-configure wirelessly.
From both the article and the summary:
But the Home Office, despite lobbying, refused to withdraw the distribution offense. This leaves the door open to prosecute people who distribute a tool, such as nmap, that's subsequently abused by hackers
According to such a law, as long as the IDE was used to develop a piece of software that was subsequently used in a computer crime, they want to make the IDE developers liable. Now, the law may of course have exceptions for programming environments.. the article doesn't say.