That game rocks. Great story, amazingly open gameplay. You get to explore the universe and progress through the storyline at your own pace and in whatever order you manage to find the various clues and whatnot. Great sound track too.
You'll be happy to know that the problem is not with your $2000 TV. It is the codec/bitrate/decoder. In other words, it the source and the player.
The highest quality I have every seen was from a direct RGB connection to a professional HD camera.
The highest quality source you are likely to have handy is the high-end video card in your PC. Try running the latest and greatest FPS on your PC connected to your TV. For videos, look for tv/movies with a 15mb/s data rate. (12-15GB movies) Your pc will have to be pretty hard-core to play them smoothly.
Because HDTV's just aren't that great for anything other than sports (mainly only NFL at that).
Hey, this is news for nerds, not jocks. HD is great for sci-fi movies that have fancy special effects.;)
Transformers looks significantly better at 1080p. It is also fantastic for nature documentaries. There is a series called The Planet by the bbc which is absolutely stunningly beautiful in HD.
When considering HD quality you should disregard anything that is broadcast on the cable/sat networks. They compress their stations horribly. Typical broadcast HD should not even be allowed to call itself HD. Drive that behemoth LCD using a bluh-ray player or a computer.
But in this day and age it is enough to simply hear about something called 'mac address spoofing' to be able to do it. even non-tech youngsters can google it a follow the instructions.
hmm, that does not jive with my anecdotal experience. I know the newer suburbs are buried but the glebe, westborough and everything in between is on poles. {99%joking}That is Ottawa-proper, everything else is suburban wasteland or Orleans trailer-park{/99%joking} Perhaps I haven't quite fully accepted Kanata and barhaven into my mental image of the city.
Interestingly, I was reading some of the 20/20 docs on ottawa.ca the other day and noticed that there is a rule requiring telecoms companies to bury an extra 4" conduit when they are installing their own stuff. They are supposed to make it available at market rates for anyone who wants to rent it.
Absolutely, although I would suggest at least neighbourhood level aggregation, not blocks. (depending on what size of blocks we're talking about here)
Also, if this organization is to be a monopoly then it will have to be heavily regulated. A co-op or condo-association model might work better and be more efficient.
i don't think 50mb/s is doable over the air. That is more like the best case performance if you are the only user on the system. Unless you are talking about directional wireless. (which is not as cheap or scalable as you might think)
Wireless is also high latency, lossy, unreliable, easily disrupted by a single mis-configured pc... It is struggling to reach 100mbit ethernet level performace while 100mbit fiber gear is reaching consumer-level cheapness.
to top it all off, wireless still needs fiber for backhaul! in my opinion fiber is literally 1000 times better than wireless.
they are suggesting that BadGuy could upload a 'gif' which is really a jar file to his facebook page. Then any logged-in facebook user who viewed that 'picture' could have their facebook login cookie stolen. BadGuy could then use that cookie to look through the private part of your profile, change your password, etc..
That is not the case here in Canada. All the 'spent' fuel from our reactors is still being stored 'temporarily' in pools of water on the reactor sites. I don't think it is the case in the USA either. Folks are still battling away trying to come up with a long term storage site and system. The 'under a mountain' (yucca mountain or something like that?) plan was the leader last time i checked. It is still a long way from actually happening.
I can understand your confusion though. The 'bury it under a mountain' plan has been 'a decade away' for 50 years.
THERE IS A REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE USE WINDOWS XP! It's because it works pretty well for what it is - SO WHY THE HELL CHANGE FROM IT?
Dude, we would stick with XP if we could. The problem is that MS is dropping it and that means no more security patches. It won't be safe to use it long after the security patches stop flowing.
Thus, if we want to run windows-only apps we have to choose a new MS windows version to install. We have tried vista and it was very unpleasant. We are now looking at server 2008 because it seems to have all the right features. That's not hard to understand.
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True. Rather it is reason and religion that are mutually exclusive and people tend to lump reason in with science.
That game rocks.
Great story, amazingly open gameplay.
You get to explore the universe and progress through the storyline at your own pace and in whatever order you manage to find the various clues and whatnot.
Great sound track too.
I can't, I don't know enough about the PS3.
Maybe the film is poorly or too heavily compressed.
ah yes, that's the one!
You'll be happy to know that the problem is not with your $2000 TV.
It is the codec/bitrate/decoder. In other words, it the source and the player.
The highest quality I have every seen was from a direct RGB connection to a professional HD camera.
The highest quality source you are likely to have handy is the high-end video card in your PC.
Try running the latest and greatest FPS on your PC connected to your TV.
For videos, look for tv/movies with a 15mb/s data rate. (12-15GB movies) Your pc will have to be pretty hard-core to play them smoothly.
Personally I am boycotting bluh-ray because their marketing droids chose to mis-spell blue.
That and the stupid "copy-protection" bullshit.
Because HDTV's just aren't that great for anything other than sports (mainly only NFL at that).
Hey, this is news for nerds, not jocks. ;)
HD is great for sci-fi movies that have fancy special effects.
Transformers looks significantly better at 1080p.
It is also fantastic for nature documentaries.
There is a series called The Planet by the bbc which is absolutely stunningly beautiful in HD.
When considering HD quality you should disregard anything that is broadcast on the cable/sat networks. They compress their stations horribly. Typical broadcast HD should not even be allowed to call itself HD.
Drive that behemoth LCD using a bluh-ray player or a computer.
But in this day and age it is enough to simply hear about something called 'mac address spoofing' to be able to do it.
even non-tech youngsters can google it a follow the instructions.
hmm, that does not jive with my anecdotal experience.
I know the newer suburbs are buried but the glebe, westborough and everything in between is on poles.
{99%joking}That is Ottawa-proper, everything else is suburban wasteland or Orleans trailer-park{/99%joking}
Perhaps I haven't quite fully accepted Kanata and barhaven into my mental image of the city.
Interestingly, I was reading some of the 20/20 docs on ottawa.ca the other day and noticed that there is a rule requiring telecoms companies to bury an extra 4" conduit when they are installing their own stuff.
They are supposed to make it available at market rates for anyone who wants to rent it.
Absolutely, although I would suggest at least neighbourhood level aggregation, not blocks.
(depending on what size of blocks we're talking about here)
Also, if this organization is to be a monopoly then it will have to be heavily regulated.
A co-op or condo-association model might work better and be more efficient.
Here in Ottawa we have the vast majority of our cables on poles.
i don't think 50mb/s is doable over the air.
That is more like the best case performance if you are the only user on the system.
Unless you are talking about directional wireless. (which is not as cheap or scalable as you might think)
Wireless is also high latency, lossy, unreliable, easily disrupted by a single mis-configured pc...
It is struggling to reach 100mbit ethernet level performace while 100mbit fiber gear is reaching consumer-level cheapness.
to top it all off, wireless still needs fiber for backhaul!
in my opinion fiber is literally 1000 times better than wireless.
they are suggesting that BadGuy could upload a 'gif' which is really a jar file to his facebook page.
Then any logged-in facebook user who viewed that 'picture' could have their facebook login cookie stolen.
BadGuy could then use that cookie to look through the private part of your profile, change your password, etc..
It is true, java is great big stack of Fail.
"...when the country is headed full-force into a recession, it's not time for a 5-week vacation..."
Your statement implies that the presence of congress-critters is a positive influence.
I suspect that you would be better off if they all took a 5-year vacation.
The unvarnished truth: this is a political attack by Outside Democrats
Really? how may more purges of the justice department does Bush have to make before the evil democrats lose control of it?
btw, your fear and hatred of the 'Outsiders' is worrying. Seek help.
...productivity tool like OpenOffice.
side-rant: God I hate office/open office. those apps are anti-productivity tools.
bloated irritating crap that should be banned from office computers.
vi forever!
wordpad > office 99.999% of the time.
I've got some +1 informatives to hand out here... somebody go find me some pictures of naked ladies!
That is not the case here in Canada.
All the 'spent' fuel from our reactors is still being stored 'temporarily' in pools of water on the reactor sites.
I don't think it is the case in the USA either.
Folks are still battling away trying to come up with a long term storage site and system.
The 'under a mountain' (yucca mountain or something like that?) plan was the leader last time i checked.
It is still a long way from actually happening.
I can understand your confusion though. The 'bury it under a mountain' plan has been 'a decade away' for 50 years.
Chinese firewall tech is made in the USA
Oh ya? when I was a rural kid we had to walk 5000 to 10000 km to get to the nearest phone and it was uphill both ways!
THERE IS A REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE USE WINDOWS XP! It's because it works pretty well for what it is - SO WHY THE HELL CHANGE FROM IT?
Dude, we would stick with XP if we could.
The problem is that MS is dropping it and that means no more security patches.
It won't be safe to use it long after the security patches stop flowing.
Thus, if we want to run windows-only apps we have to choose a new MS windows version to install. We have tried vista and it was very unpleasant. We are now looking at server 2008 because it seems to have all the right features.
That's not hard to understand.
The $1500 price tag for server 2008 is a bit of a hurdle...