overpriced triple overscan with hyper color and laser definition as well as racing stripes and custom holographic paint to make the picture and audio sound better.
players are generally older models, which simply aren't updated with the same frequency because of the lower volume and longer shelf time. In a year, they'll all play DVD-R as well.
~30% of current set-top players don't work, but you can be sure that future models will, and the DVD format will be around for a long time. Most newer PC DVD-ROMs work as well.
And the media simply isn't expensive. Good blanks can be had for $0.70 in quantities of a hundred.
PS: "The PS2" is comes in many production variants: some play DVD-R; some don't.
Consumer DVD-R is here, but not ready for 4x
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Current Pioneer DVD-R drives keep a list of identification strings for all "2x certified" media in the firmware. For a new media manufacturer to be added to this firmware list, they must pay Pioneer for 2x certification. Few generic manufacturers are willing to do this.
Thus, there is no real standard for "generic" 2x discs; those that claim to be are either re-labeled (and expensive) or (speculation) have "fake" identifiers -- the quality and compatability varies greatly, but suffice to say, most are quite poor.
Though, I did say that consumer DVD-R is here: Princo ($0.66) and Ritek ($1.00) both make fine (and cheap) 1x discs which can be burned at 2x using a "hacked" firmware. My experience suggests that Princo 1x media are good for 2x, although set-top compatability seems to suffer. Many have reported good luck with Riteks, although I've had poor luck with discs over 4.00 GB (full capacity is 4.38 GB).
Here we have yet another boring anti-western rambler who ignores obvious conclusions so he can push his annoying agenda (or whatever). The reason that that point was chosen is simply that Greenland is the only solid land at that longitude. Sorry, I guess you'll have to look somewhere else to bitch about capitalism, imperialism, or whatever else bugs you.
Yep. They changed font scaling... (for better or worse) Try the same fonts 1 or 2 points smaller, and they'll look exactly like they did before. I used to use size 16 for serif, now I use 15. For monospace, I went from 16 to 14. Try a couple and see which looks best for you...
Well, I had the same problem. However, it seems to be a bug more with the machine they compile mozilla binaries on. Maybe. I honestly don't know. I do know, however, that when I compiled mozilla myself (slackware-current / X 4.1.0 / g400) the problem completely went away. Get the source and try building it yourself! It isn't hard...
I had the same problem, starting with a nightly somewhere between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 (using linux). It's pretty easy to fix, they just changed something with the font scaling. Try adjusting your font sizes down one or two points, until you find the size you were at before. Not sure if this is a bug or a fix for an old (OLD!) bug.
Well I hope I don't make you feel any worse U.S. involvement in WW2, but the Nazis (please don't just say "Germans") didn't start killing Jews en masse until the war turned against them.
This movie was made by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, two of the morons responsible for "Armageddon." It's no suprise that both movies have that "bastard child of a comic book and a soap opera" feel to them. For once I agree with Katz, this movie stinks. What bothers me the most was the way that they used/abused the real people involved to pump their garbage movie. The movie's depiction of historic characters is wrong in most parts and downright insulting in others, I don't see how they managed to sign on so many people connected with the real battle to help push this movie...
You're thinking about the "Ride of the Valkyries" from the opening of the 3rd Act of Die Walkure (The Valkyrie), which is the second opera in Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs), by Richard Wagner... which Tolkien himself said has nothing to do with LoTR.
Maybe you're not with the in-crowd on this so I'll fill you in... "Management Partners" is actually a front for a divx group for people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor. And people who click on links posted by people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor... I guess.
Yes, having an open game engine and addon modules is a great idea that has potential. What Golbraith Games is doing is exactly the opposite. They're making a quake mod with GPL'd graphics and models. Yeah, I guess the quake source is GPL'd too... but who wants to see the same artwork and models in 20 "new" games?
As best I can tell this is just a mod for a 5 year old game with GPL'd artwork and sound. If you're going to make an original game, you need to have original artwork and sound... so what good is this?
On the other hand, we, the free-software community, have gained at no cost a nearly complete, commercial quality (in slickness and in bloat) file manager.
Yeah, and would-be investors are going to remember this for a long time.
Yeah, I can blame them: Good faith towards who? I doubt the people who poured 13,000,000 dollars into Eazel perceive good faith. Opensource Darwinism maybe, but Eazel's failure is only going to hurt other open-source companies in the future.
The investor's POV in one sentence:
Eazel came up out of the open-source community, took our money with no intention of paying us back, then gave the product of our investment to the community and dissolved back into it.
That isn't exactly going to encourage future investment.
No, they didn't rob anyone. But what I was trying to stress was the perception that they did. In the eyes of future investors, (especially the recent promises by former Eazel employees to continue work on Nautilus despite the company closing) this company rose from the Open Source Movement, developed a tool using their money, then dissolved back into the movement, taking the product of their investment with them. In the eyes of the media and the investors, Eazel is lumped together with every other open-source company, and them doing this only hurts future credibility for making money on supporting the movement. I believe in Redhat and VA Linux, and I'm sad to see their chances hurt by a company like Eazel.
Look, my post was certainly inflamitory but not a troll by most definitions.
Nautilus is no easier to use than most of the other "big" file managers for X desktops (konqueror, gmc, the old kde file manager, gentoo, etc). As far as I can tell the only real advancement over them is the extensive (yet useless!) previewing capabilities and the MacOS Xesque look. But it is in not an improvement over the old GNOME file manager. The stability is terrible and the "features" are useless for real world work. It chokes on large directories and randomly crashes on small ones. The interface is showy at the expense of both speed and desktop real-estate. Fullscreen icons are great to look at and seem cool for the first 15 minutes, but after that they just get in the way. I don't think you're full of shit, I have no doubts that in 6 months the stability will be there, but that doesn't change the fundamental problem of giving up efficency (both speed and screen-space) for WORK for a few showy features. Nautilus, much like the company who made it, can get your attention but can't deliver what it should have been focusing on.
What's to miss? With all their supposed good intentions they still left an underdeveloped, bloated, unstable file manager (which is now officially part of GNOME! yay). Regardless of the merits of their product, they single-handedly dealt a nice blow to open-source software as a way of making money by getting as much attention as they could then going under without any return on the investments that were made in the company.
But, regardless of it all, we still have Nautilus, right?? Ok, back to the merits of the program for just a minute: It sucks. It single-handedly sets GNOME back a couple years as far as useability goes. But what the community sees in it doesn't matter, look at what future would-be investors in free software see! They see a company that robbed its investors and gives the product of their investments away completely. If this was a closed source project owned by Eazel at least the investors would get that, but nope, they get nothing, and don't think that future investors won't remember Eazel when thinking about other open source companies...
This might shock or confuse you, but it is entirely possible for the same music to be in two different movies...
As for the Ride being used in Apocalypse Now, so? It was only used there because it had the same powerful effect being played along with video of Stuka dive bombers 60 years ago. I was just saying that the Wagner/Nazi impressions that most people have come more from our own side.
And like I said before, Wagner disliked the Jews as a group but you wouldn't know it from the way he interacted with individuals.
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~30% of current set-top players don't work, but you can be sure that future models will, and the DVD format will be around for a long time. Most newer PC DVD-ROMs work as well.
And the media simply isn't expensive. Good blanks can be had for $0.70 in quantities of a hundred.
PS: "The PS2" is comes in many production variants: some play DVD-R; some don't.
Thus, there is no real standard for "generic" 2x discs; those that claim to be are either re-labeled (and expensive) or (speculation) have "fake" identifiers -- the quality and compatability varies greatly, but suffice to say, most are quite poor.
Though, I did say that consumer DVD-R is here: Princo ($0.66) and Ritek ($1.00) both make fine (and cheap) 1x discs which can be burned at 2x using a "hacked" firmware. My experience suggests that Princo 1x media are good for 2x, although set-top compatability seems to suffer. Many have reported good luck with Riteks, although I've had poor luck with discs over 4.00 GB (full capacity is 4.38 GB).
And, I suppose that excessive greenhouse emissions from highly-industrialized East Africa are to blame this time.
Whatever happened to porting OpenOffice to GTK? Was this ever seriously considered or did I just imagine it?
Everything, literally everything is wrong.
Here we have yet another boring anti-western rambler who ignores obvious conclusions so he can push his annoying agenda (or whatever). The reason that that point was chosen is simply that Greenland is the only solid land at that longitude. Sorry, I guess you'll have to look somewhere else to bitch about capitalism, imperialism, or whatever else bugs you.
Yep. They changed font scaling... (for better or worse) Try the same fonts 1 or 2 points smaller, and they'll look exactly like they did before. I used to use size 16 for serif, now I use 15. For monospace, I went from 16 to 14. Try a couple and see which looks best for you...
Well, I had the same problem. However, it seems to be a bug more with the machine they compile mozilla binaries on. Maybe. I honestly don't know. I do know, however, that when I compiled mozilla myself (slackware-current / X 4.1.0 / g400) the problem completely went away. Get the source and try building it yourself! It isn't hard...
I had the same problem, starting with a nightly somewhere between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 (using linux). It's pretty easy to fix, they just changed something with the font scaling. Try adjusting your font sizes down one or two points, until you find the size you were at before. Not sure if this is a bug or a fix for an old (OLD!) bug.
Well I hope I don't make you feel any worse U.S. involvement in WW2, but the Nazis (please don't just say "Germans") didn't start killing Jews en masse until the war turned against them.
This movie was made by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, two of the morons responsible for "Armageddon." It's no suprise that both movies have that "bastard child of a comic book and a soap opera" feel to them. For once I agree with Katz, this movie stinks. What bothers me the most was the way that they used/abused the real people involved to pump their garbage movie. The movie's depiction of historic characters is wrong in most parts and downright insulting in others, I don't see how they managed to sign on so many people connected with the real battle to help push this movie...
Unless you were trying to be funny...
I can just picture people clicking reload a hundred times on Dell's website trying to get a lower price for their new laptop.
Maybe you're not with the in-crowd on this so I'll fill you in... "Management Partners" is actually a front for a divx group for people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor. And people who click on links posted by people who don't check their links before posting bad attempts at humor... I guess.
Yes, having an open game engine and addon modules is a great idea that has potential. What Golbraith Games is doing is exactly the opposite. They're making a quake mod with GPL'd graphics and models. Yeah, I guess the quake source is GPL'd too... but who wants to see the same artwork and models in 20 "new" games?
As best I can tell this is just a mod for a 5 year old game with GPL'd artwork and sound. If you're going to make an original game, you need to have original artwork and sound... so what good is this?
Oh, you mean legal uses? I'll have to think about it...
--Andy Hendrickson, director of systems development at Industrial Light & Magic.
Except watch the movies he makes on DVD! (well legally anyway)
Yeah, and bad for future open-source companies looking for funding...
Yeah, and would-be investors are going to remember this for a long time.
The investor's POV in one sentence:
Eazel came up out of the open-source community, took our money with no intention of paying us back, then gave the product of our investment to the community and dissolved back into it.
That isn't exactly going to encourage future investment.
No, they didn't rob anyone. But what I was trying to stress was the perception that they did. In the eyes of future investors, (especially the recent promises by former Eazel employees to continue work on Nautilus despite the company closing) this company rose from the Open Source Movement, developed a tool using their money, then dissolved back into the movement, taking the product of their investment with them. In the eyes of the media and the investors, Eazel is lumped together with every other open-source company, and them doing this only hurts future credibility for making money on supporting the movement. I believe in Redhat and VA Linux, and I'm sad to see their chances hurt by a company like Eazel.
Nautilus is no easier to use than most of the other "big" file managers for X desktops (konqueror, gmc, the old kde file manager, gentoo, etc). As far as I can tell the only real advancement over them is the extensive (yet useless!) previewing capabilities and the MacOS Xesque look. But it is in not an improvement over the old GNOME file manager. The stability is terrible and the "features" are useless for real world work. It chokes on large directories and randomly crashes on small ones. The interface is showy at the expense of both speed and desktop real-estate. Fullscreen icons are great to look at and seem cool for the first 15 minutes, but after that they just get in the way. I don't think you're full of shit, I have no doubts that in 6 months the stability will be there, but that doesn't change the fundamental problem of giving up efficency (both speed and screen-space) for WORK for a few showy features. Nautilus, much like the company who made it, can get your attention but can't deliver what it should have been focusing on.
But, regardless of it all, we still have Nautilus, right?? Ok, back to the merits of the program for just a minute: It sucks. It single-handedly sets GNOME back a couple years as far as useability goes. But what the community sees in it doesn't matter, look at what future would-be investors in free software see! They see a company that robbed its investors and gives the product of their investments away completely. If this was a closed source project owned by Eazel at least the investors would get that, but nope, they get nothing, and don't think that future investors won't remember Eazel when thinking about other open source companies...
As for the Ride being used in Apocalypse Now, so? It was only used there because it had the same powerful effect being played along with video of Stuka dive bombers 60 years ago. I was just saying that the Wagner/Nazi impressions that most people have come more from our own side.
And like I said before, Wagner disliked the Jews as a group but you wouldn't know it from the way he interacted with individuals.