With Google Video, the video isn't actually in the flash itself, so what I do is find the.flv URL in the source of the Google Video page, then download the.flv file and play it on VLC. It still generally looks like crap, but it's playable crap.
Also, for those running OS X, a.swf with embedded video may likely be playable in Quicktime Player.
No. Apple doesn't consider itself a hardware company, nor does Apple consider itself a software company. Apple considers itself a Mac company. From this fact springs understanding of all that is Apple, its customers, and its market.
Well, then, it's a good thing they don't consider themselves an iPod company. Because it sure seems like that's what most of their customers think whenever I go to an Apple Store.
The article apparently only links to Gigabyte's home page, and if they do have a deeper link, I couldn't find it.
So here is a link to their Other Peripherals page, where they list all three (!) versions of the board. But you still can't order directly from them anyhow.
I agree with your half-circle idea. It really doesn't look right with the curve the way it is. The only problem is that that this can be multi-line, so it would need to have three graphics, a half-circle for one line, and a top and bottom curve for more than one line.
For a long time I would watch the "17 more" numbers of the Apple and Games sections, but that never worked very well because it was over the past 24 or 48 hours or something like that, and it could decrease while it was increasing. Also, I had to remember the number from last time. And then it got stuck for like two weeks, with Games stuck at "17 more" all that time.
While it needs tweaking (like the wrong direction for the curve), the basic idea is great. It's a much better solution than the old "17 more" number.
And all this without even mentioning the rumored backward compatibility.
As near as I can tell, Nintendo is going to have emulation for all their previous systems (except GC, of which Revolution is an extension, so they run natively), and let you download games (for a small fee, I presume) sort of like Xbox Live Arcade.
The only questions I have about that are: will they come out with cartridge slot acessories (after all, they did have a GB slot accessory for the N64), and will it be possible to get homebrew games put on their download service? (not that there's a lot of homebrew NES action yet, but this could encourage it)
Finally, there's the assumption that the Revolution will use no exotic, hard-to-produce components. You've got to wonder if the little motion-sensor widgets for pitch/roll/yaw are going to be a rate limiting step in production.
What, you think those parts are being made just so Nintendo can make a cool controller? You've got it backwards. There are apparently lots of uses for motion-sensor chips (hell, Apple is putting them into all their newer Powerbooks primarily for the mundane task of parking the hard drive during a fall), and Nintendo is just taking advantage of this new technology. I'd bet that Nintendo won't even account for 10% of the market for motion-sensor chips.
I don't know who gave you that idea, but software is very much copy protected still, and it even gets more and more agressive.
This happened in the late '80s, after floppy disc protection got worse and worse, making it truly impossible to back up master discs, then finally after a firm stand against it, it basically went away, aside from "doc protection" where you had to look up code words in a booklet.
It has come back again as protections on CD-ROM discs. So the GP is right, it did go away. But it has come back and we are at a high point in the cycle again.
Why not make the "nofollow" a matter of karma? Those with por karma have a nofollow added to their link, just as their comments are started at score 0 or -1.
Although you haven't been able to see the effects for a long time since they hid karma behind a vague description, you do realize that getting a submission posted is worth 3 karma points, right?
I don't see why links for the submitter's name shouldn't always be nofollow links. The submitter's home web site is not the subject of the article, so there's no reason Google should be able to associate it with the article. Hey, if he's got a worthwhile page on george-harrison.info that's worth linking to as the point of the article, I've got no problem with that. It's just the automatic link to the same site attached to his name that is the problem here.
Also, web site links in the headers of posted replies should be nofollow links as well. The whole point of this BeatlesBeatles controversy is a link to his web site which is not part of the topic. The same should apply not just to "george-harrison.info", but also to "(http://www.ourmedia.org/user/38299)" (<--hey, check it out, a nofollow link, CmdrTaco is censoring me! Help help, I'm bein' opressed!) and other such links in the comment headers and signatures. Okay, so he's got his link on the front page, but the idea is the same. Links to a submitter's / comment poster's websites are off-topic, and should be rel=nofollow. If nofollow is good enough for comment text, it should be good enough for home page links, too.
The same should probably apply to links in signature lines as well.
So for some strange reason, we can't post links in comments without getting a nofollow slapped on it, but we can set our homepage and it won't get a nofollow, and every time we post a message, we're doing the same thing as BeatlesBeatles! Oh man, I feel so dirty. Oh wait, I don't have a home page set up. But look at the HTML source to any message you've posted and you'll see what I mean.
He spends most of his time on this topic just ranting about "wahhh wahhh wahhh racism racism look here the japanese buy lots of american stuff" and only a little time on the real reasons why the Xbox failed in Japan and why the 360 is gonna fail along with it.
And all that without even going on about the badly chosen name. To someone in Japan, "X" means failure, and is pronounced "batsu", which is a penalty you have to take after a failure. And the kanji for bad luck (kyou) is an "X" in a box. Yeah, let's slap a 360 on it, to make it sound like "failure comes around again". And release it with weak software support so that it really is the "penalty box".
Hell, if no other reason, they should have delayed the Japanese release to make sure there weren't any hardware problems, like, say, overheating? Hardware problems with the initial run of Xbox systems, and Microsoft's failure to respond properly, was one reason the main reasons behind the Xbox failure.
I see one small problem with this idea of super-insertion commercials on TV.
Who is going to film the ads? Who is going to edit the ads? Who is going to appear in the ads and do voice-overs?
With text ads, just about anybody can make one quickly and easily. With picture ads, you don't even really need to be an artist as long as you can paste a picture of your product next to some text in Photoshop. Flash ads are a bit more work, but even then, it's little more than animating and scripting a bunch of pictures and text.
But with narrowcast video ads, how are they going to look when they are filmed by amateurs? Think about stereotypical used car dealer ads from movies and go down from there. Way down. It's a brave new world, and we're going to run out of pancake makeup pretty quick.
Since I started watching american television this is something that is especially noticeable. Where I come from a series is aired once a week, from ep 1 to end, at the same time, every week, very predicatably.
It used to be that way over here, too. But then some brainiac in the networks figured out that if they run incremental reruns, they can always put new episodes on during the sweeps week. It also let them have a looser production schedule, so that they would have an extra couple of days to make each one.
Buy two radios and you can both listen to the *same* station at the *same* time
Hell, I can buy *one* radio, and listen to the *same* song *all* the time!
(seriously, though, I haven't listened to the radio for music in years because all the record companies can come out with these days is crap-flavored crap, but I do listen to talk radio quite a lot)
I wonder how well it will deal with unexpected random events, such as people who don't put on their turn signal when changing lanes.
I'm sure that with sufficient AI, it'll know that other driver is about to change lanes even before he does. I know I can do that just by noticing the "body english" of other vehicles on the road, so I figure a properly trained AI can do it, too.
Windows HGI also says that if all you're installing is link(s) to your executable(s), you should put them directly in the start menu root instead of into a subfolder.
Yeah, that's really fun when a program installs itself in the start menu as a subfolder with two items: the program itself and "uninstall program". Because of course I should be able to uninstall their program quickly at all times in case I decide to remove it on a whim. Or in case I miss the program's menu line and hit uninstall by accident.
The executables as still signed. It is common for supporting data files to be un-signed. The executable usually does a hash check on its datafiles to make sure they haven't been messed with.
All it takes is one buffer overflow in an executable reading a corrupted data file (which will probably be verified with something less than MD5), and this could be turned into a "boot key" allowing the loading of arbitrary code... at least until Microsoft uploads a patch to everybody locking out the executable if you don't have a demo unit. Since this is a demo disc, that means a lot less people can complain if it stops working. Only the few who never hook their 360 up to the network, and never run games which force an upgrade, may have a chance of running hacks in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, for those running OS X, a .swf with embedded video may likely be playable in Quicktime Player.
Well, then, it's a good thing they don't consider themselves an iPod company. Because it sure seems like that's what most of their customers think whenever I go to an Apple Store.
So here is a link to their Other Peripherals page, where they list all three (!) versions of the board. But you still can't order directly from them anyhow.
I agree with your half-circle idea. It really doesn't look right with the curve the way it is. The only problem is that that this can be multi-line, so it would need to have three graphics, a half-circle for one line, and a top and bottom curve for more than one line.
While it needs tweaking (like the wrong direction for the curve), the basic idea is great. It's a much better solution than the old "17 more" number.
As near as I can tell, Nintendo is going to have emulation for all their previous systems (except GC, of which Revolution is an extension, so they run natively), and let you download games (for a small fee, I presume) sort of like Xbox Live Arcade.
The only questions I have about that are: will they come out with cartridge slot acessories (after all, they did have a GB slot accessory for the N64), and will it be possible to get homebrew games put on their download service? (not that there's a lot of homebrew NES action yet, but this could encourage it)
What, you think those parts are being made just so Nintendo can make a cool controller? You've got it backwards. There are apparently lots of uses for motion-sensor chips (hell, Apple is putting them into all their newer Powerbooks primarily for the mundane task of parking the hard drive during a fall), and Nintendo is just taking advantage of this new technology. I'd bet that Nintendo won't even account for 10% of the market for motion-sensor chips.
This happened in the late '80s, after floppy disc protection got worse and worse, making it truly impossible to back up master discs, then finally after a firm stand against it, it basically went away, aside from "doc protection" where you had to look up code words in a booklet.
It has come back again as protections on CD-ROM discs. So the GP is right, it did go away. But it has come back and we are at a high point in the cycle again.
And then they could port Doom 3, and you could do the "duct tape" hack with real duct tape!
Although you haven't been able to see the effects for a long time since they hid karma behind a vague description, you do realize that getting a submission posted is worth 3 karma points, right?
I don't see why links for the submitter's name shouldn't always be nofollow links. The submitter's home web site is not the subject of the article, so there's no reason Google should be able to associate it with the article. Hey, if he's got a worthwhile page on george-harrison.info that's worth linking to as the point of the article, I've got no problem with that. It's just the automatic link to the same site attached to his name that is the problem here.
Also, web site links in the headers of posted replies should be nofollow links as well. The whole point of this BeatlesBeatles controversy is a link to his web site which is not part of the topic. The same should apply not just to "george-harrison.info", but also to "(http://www.ourmedia.org/user/38299)" (<--hey, check it out, a nofollow link, CmdrTaco is censoring me! Help help, I'm bein' opressed!) and other such links in the comment headers and signatures. Okay, so he's got his link on the front page, but the idea is the same. Links to a submitter's / comment poster's websites are off-topic, and should be rel=nofollow. If nofollow is good enough for comment text, it should be good enough for home page links, too.
The same should probably apply to links in signature lines as well.
So for some strange reason, we can't post links in comments without getting a nofollow slapped on it, but we can set our homepage and it won't get a nofollow, and every time we post a message, we're doing the same thing as BeatlesBeatles! Oh man, I feel so dirty. Oh wait, I don't have a home page set up. But look at the HTML source to any message you've posted and you'll see what I mean.
What's Dougway? (about 250 pounds! *rimshot*)
And all that without even going on about the badly chosen name. To someone in Japan, "X" means failure, and is pronounced "batsu", which is a penalty you have to take after a failure. And the kanji for bad luck (kyou) is an "X" in a box. Yeah, let's slap a 360 on it, to make it sound like "failure comes around again". And release it with weak software support so that it really is the "penalty box".
Hell, if no other reason, they should have delayed the Japanese release to make sure there weren't any hardware problems, like, say, overheating? Hardware problems with the initial run of Xbox systems, and Microsoft's failure to respond properly, was one reason the main reasons behind the Xbox failure.
Who is going to film the ads? Who is going to edit the ads? Who is going to appear in the ads and do voice-overs?
With text ads, just about anybody can make one quickly and easily. With picture ads, you don't even really need to be an artist as long as you can paste a picture of your product next to some text in Photoshop. Flash ads are a bit more work, but even then, it's little more than animating and scripting a bunch of pictures and text.
But with narrowcast video ads, how are they going to look when they are filmed by amateurs? Think about stereotypical used car dealer ads from movies and go down from there. Way down. It's a brave new world, and we're going to run out of pancake makeup pretty quick.
They're all on DVD. Which Max Headroom still isn't. (except on bootleg DVD)
It used to be that way over here, too. But then some brainiac in the networks figured out that if they run incremental reruns, they can always put new episodes on during the sweeps week. It also let them have a looser production schedule, so that they would have an extra couple of days to make each one.
Hell, I can buy *one* radio, and listen to the *same* song *all* the time!
(seriously, though, I haven't listened to the radio for music in years because all the record companies can come out with these days is crap-flavored crap, but I do listen to talk radio quite a lot)
Mac OS X 9.3 Sabretooth
Known for being a fossil.
It looks like we have problem here with over bra-ed patents.
What's a boarfix? Not much until he's taken night school classes. (rimshot)
I'm sure that with sufficient AI, it'll know that other driver is about to change lanes even before he does. I know I can do that just by noticing the "body english" of other vehicles on the road, so I figure a properly trained AI can do it, too.
...and Turbo Boost. Gotta have that Turbo Boost.
"I'm sorry, Michael, we've already used Turbo Boost today and you know we're only allowed to use it once per episode."
That's nice. But saying and doing are two different things.
Yeah, that's really fun when a program installs itself in the start menu as a subfolder with two items: the program itself and "uninstall program". Because of course I should be able to uninstall their program quickly at all times in case I decide to remove it on a whim. Or in case I miss the program's menu line and hit uninstall by accident.
All it takes is one buffer overflow in an executable reading a corrupted data file (which will probably be verified with something less than MD5), and this could be turned into a "boot key" allowing the loading of arbitrary code... at least until Microsoft uploads a patch to everybody locking out the executable if you don't have a demo unit. Since this is a demo disc, that means a lot less people can complain if it stops working. Only the few who never hook their 360 up to the network, and never run games which force an upgrade, may have a chance of running hacks in the future.
The first step in breaking the Dreamcast was finding a loophole that let it boot from plain CD-R.