JVC has never officially supported 4-hour LP. Only later did they include playback support, but sometimes features were disabled. T-120 officially supports 120 minutes or 360 minutes in SP and EP modes, respectively.
Well, that's interesting, because as I understand it, PAL VHS never supported 6-hour mode. You only got SP and LP. I got a multi-standard VHS recorder many years ago and it took me a while to figure this out.
This is a persistent myth that has gone on for decades, and has become "accepted wisdom". Betamax did have higher-quality output (though not by much), but it was certainly not a superior format, at least IMHO.
And if you will notice, I never said it was. I just said that some people thought it was. IMHO, that was because back in those days tapes were expensive, so everybody used VHS in 6-hour mode, which was pretty much inferior to everything, especially Beta's long-play mode. And that's what most people saw. You just couldn't make EP betamax look as bad as SLP VHS. But they both had that crappy "color-under" technique that was totally inferior to laserdisc.
And the real reason Beta lost is said by some to be that Sony didn't want it used for porn videos.
For the other replier, really the only thing Betacam has in common with Betamax is that they use the same size tapes. Betacam records the chroma and luma in separate stripes, using up tape twice as fast as Betamax, limiting you to 30 minutes per tape. Fine for TV news reporters, not fine for tape-delaying football games on a timer. (Okay, so maybe a Betacam player can play Betamax tapes, but that's like a DVD player playing CDs.)
Must be that darned New Math they're teaching in the scrools these days. Either that or real American dollars are worth more than Japanese dollars. Or maybe submitter was talking about $800 Canadian after the Canadian dollar passes the US dollar.
Why spend all that time and treasure putting telescopes so far from humans and then spend even more time and treasure putting humans RIGHT NEXT to the damned things?
The telescopes would go on the far side of the moon. Why would tourists want to go there where there isn't the famous view of the earth?
But really, my question is why would they think of a moonbase as something to help us get to Mars? There may be less gravity on the moon, but it's still a gravity well that you have to come back out of. Put a damn station in L4 or L5 already.
At least Betamax had some technical reasons for people to consider it better than VHS. UMDs cost the same as (or more than) DVDs, with less resolution.
# Customer plays game, returns it to retailer for £10
# Retailer sells game to new customer while the game is still hot for £30.
There's your problem right there. If the game was really worth 45 quid in the first place, the customer wouldn't have been done with it in two weeks. Part of the problem, at least in the USA, is the annual sports games -- aside from footy, I guess, which is worldwide. People happily plonk down fifty bucks for esentially the same game, only with the player names changed.
Unless they really do make EA Cricket Test Match 2006, Sticky Wicket Edition. Then you have my sympathies.
I believe that message pretty much says it all. Mozilla/Firefox/Konqueror at the very least will not be affected. Safari/Opera could be another matter.
This affects all active (aka "rich) content in IE. Aside from ActiveX, this includes technologies like Flash, Java, etc.
Wow. And to think I have to use CSS hacks to get Mozilla to not play embedded Flash until I click on it first. It's too bad they aren't supporting IE Mac any more. I hate Flash ads.
The best part is that the guy wraps himself in the I'm-being-persecuted-for-running-Linux flag, which he knows will raise the ire of many the WoW player.
And it's not like you have to run a Microsoft OS to play this game anyhow. They do have an OS X version. "Help, help! I'm bein' opressed!"
There are a TON of games released already with 9.0+ ratings. COD2, PD0, PGR3, GRAW, FNR3, etc. With Elder Scrolls 3 coming out in a week the 360 will have an absolute ton of top-end titles.
Funny how just about every game you mentioned there is a sequel. How does the 360 stack up in the "games without a digit at the end" department?
Maybe they've got a new way of doing it, but I know that online Go servers (and presumably chess servers as well) allow people to observe on-going games.
By handing out shell accounts, he might as well have been handing out the root password to his system.
Indeed. Lots of Unix systems have had and still have local root vulns. Handing out shell accounts and daring people to hack you generally results in you being hacked. I know a couple of tricks that would let me root the average OS X box as long as I could wait for it to reboot or could force it to reboot (such as having local access with a mouse and display). And the crazy part is that I learned these particular tricks by reading Slashdot articles. Imagine what could be done by someone who was actually trying to find local vulns.
It's still not as bad as the broken services with remote vulns turned on by default on Windows installs. Stuff like the RPC bug that goes all the way back to Windows NT, the Slammer bug in MSSQL, and the general swiss cheese nature of IIS, which is usually on by default in Windows Server installs.
The difference is what happens when you install the OS from media (particularly the default installs), plug it in to the internet, and don't touch it.
It runs on a Sega CD, no wonder it never took off.
I downloaded this from usenet a few weeks ago, not realizing it was never released. Hadn't even un-RARed it yet. And not only does it run on Sega CD, it takes two disks!
If I ever get a Sega CD hooked up and running (hey, there's only room to set up so many systems, so I play my Genesis games on a Nomad), I plan to burn this and see what it's all about. But the important question is: is it more fun than snakes on a plane?
ThinkPads help simplify the network connectivity process through ThinkVantage Access Connections 4.1, which helps mobile users set up and automatically switch from one available network connection to the next.
That's very nice that your Stinkpads need help to do that. My Powerbook does automatically it without any help.
If not for the that mistake how much longer would it have taken to crack CSS?
Probably not too much longer after that. A few months later, it was discovered that one of the critical algorithms had a weakness that made DVD encryption crackable in what was esentially a 2^17 brute-force search space.
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Well, that's interesting, because as I understand it, PAL VHS never supported 6-hour mode. You only got SP and LP. I got a multi-standard VHS recorder many years ago and it took me a while to figure this out.
And if you will notice, I never said it was. I just said that some people thought it was. IMHO, that was because back in those days tapes were expensive, so everybody used VHS in 6-hour mode, which was pretty much inferior to everything, especially Beta's long-play mode. And that's what most people saw. You just couldn't make EP betamax look as bad as SLP VHS. But they both had that crappy "color-under" technique that was totally inferior to laserdisc.
And the real reason Beta lost is said by some to be that Sony didn't want it used for porn videos.
For the other replier, really the only thing Betacam has in common with Betamax is that they use the same size tapes. Betacam records the chroma and luma in separate stripes, using up tape twice as fast as Betamax, limiting you to 30 minutes per tape. Fine for TV news reporters, not fine for tape-delaying football games on a timer. (Okay, so maybe a Betacam player can play Betamax tapes, but that's like a DVD player playing CDs.)
Oh wait... I don't have a DVD-A or SACD player.
Must be that darned New Math they're teaching in the scrools these days. Either that or real American dollars are worth more than Japanese dollars. Or maybe submitter was talking about $800 Canadian after the Canadian dollar passes the US dollar.
The telescopes would go on the far side of the moon. Why would tourists want to go there where there isn't the famous view of the earth?
But really, my question is why would they think of a moonbase as something to help us get to Mars? There may be less gravity on the moon, but it's still a gravity well that you have to come back out of. Put a damn station in L4 or L5 already.
At least Betamax had some technical reasons for people to consider it better than VHS. UMDs cost the same as (or more than) DVDs, with less resolution.
# Retailer sells game to new customer while the game is still hot for £30.
There's your problem right there. If the game was really worth 45 quid in the first place, the customer wouldn't have been done with it in two weeks. Part of the problem, at least in the USA, is the annual sports games -- aside from footy, I guess, which is worldwide. People happily plonk down fifty bucks for esentially the same game, only with the player names changed.
Unless they really do make EA Cricket Test Match 2006, Sticky Wicket Edition. Then you have my sympathies.
It's called the "shaken". As in you're getting "shaken down" for more money.
I believe that message pretty much says it all. Mozilla/Firefox/Konqueror at the very least will not be affected. Safari/Opera could be another matter.
Wow. And to think I have to use CSS hacks to get Mozilla to not play embedded Flash until I click on it first. It's too bad they aren't supporting IE Mac any more. I hate Flash ads.
That would be Modula 2, then?
So the Japanese have switched their currency to the Pound Sterling?
Ummmmmm, Atari made more than one system, you know. Oh, I guess you didn't know. Then STFU.
And keep off our lawns!
Seriously, let's just call it the "Xpod". That way we can be sure it'll fail in Japan.
And it's not like you have to run a Microsoft OS to play this game anyhow. They do have an OS X version. "Help, help! I'm bein' opressed!"
It's not an analogy. He's pointing out a fill-in-the-blank troll. (and Netcraft says my Xbox 360 takes 17 minutes to copy a file)
Funny how just about every game you mentioned there is a sequel. How does the 360 stack up in the "games without a digit at the end" department?
Maybe they've got a new way of doing it, but I know that online Go servers (and presumably chess servers as well) allow people to observe on-going games.
Indeed. Lots of Unix systems have had and still have local root vulns. Handing out shell accounts and daring people to hack you generally results in you being hacked. I know a couple of tricks that would let me root the average OS X box as long as I could wait for it to reboot or could force it to reboot (such as having local access with a mouse and display). And the crazy part is that I learned these particular tricks by reading Slashdot articles. Imagine what could be done by someone who was actually trying to find local vulns.
It's still not as bad as the broken services with remote vulns turned on by default on Windows installs. Stuff like the RPC bug that goes all the way back to Windows NT, the Slammer bug in MSSQL, and the general swiss cheese nature of IIS, which is usually on by default in Windows Server installs.
The difference is what happens when you install the OS from media (particularly the default installs), plug it in to the internet, and don't touch it.
There is more than one "truly open format", so using the word "the" is a bit pretentious.
I don't see a Hubble mission anywhere on the list of upcoming shuttle missions.
I downloaded this from usenet a few weeks ago, not realizing it was never released. Hadn't even un-RARed it yet. And not only does it run on Sega CD, it takes two disks!
If I ever get a Sega CD hooked up and running (hey, there's only room to set up so many systems, so I play my Genesis games on a Nomad), I plan to burn this and see what it's all about. But the important question is: is it more fun than snakes on a plane?
That's very nice that your Stinkpads need help to do that. My Powerbook does automatically it without any help.
Probably not too much longer after that. A few months later, it was discovered that one of the critical algorithms had a weakness that made DVD encryption crackable in what was esentially a 2^17 brute-force search space.