Just FYI, I had lots of problems on DVDFab using Intel-based GPU acceleration, such as temporal misalignment frames and lots of juddering; the video seemed to speed up and slow down around 2-3x per second. I ended up leaving DVDFab entirely and switching to Handbrake to take advantage of the queue features. DVDFab has some nice features for breaking the encryption on DVDs though, so may be worth keeping around for that now that Handbrake has removed support for it.
What he's saying is that if the MAFIAA bothered to make a home-viewing version available, he'd be willing to PAY for it. Unfortunately the only people who offer that service is pirates, so... pirates it is.
Yeah, but the entry cost for pirating is a lot lower (ie, 0) than the cost for the actual product. So because costs went down, volume goes up, right? Basic economics? There are LOTS of people who would pirate something but wouldn't pay for it if piracy wasn't an option.
THAT is the effective (to the 'owner') difference between copyright and theft.
Oh, and watching a cam vid instead of the real movie theatre is crappy anyways, so unless the price for the theatre is super high, or the movie isn't good enough to warrant the cost of going to the theatre, piracy isn't really a big deal. Both of those problems are caused by inadequacies of the MAFIAA, not the pirates. That the pirates even exist is simply a symptom of overpriced, crappy movies.
A hash of the OS/font/IP provides a lot of unique info... turn it into a hash and you have a unique, untraceable ID. I like your thinking.
If people are going to bother with multiple OS/computer setups they might as well have multiple *real* accounts, so all that has to happen is for it to be as difficult as having two separate accounts and the incentive to post AC for nefarious reasons goes away.
Yeah, but you know what they meant. Besides, your example would make a terrible headline, it has subclauses (although not much worse than/.'s usual standard).
This change in frequency is measured by your computer's built-in microphone, and then some fairly complex software works out your motion/gesture.
Complex software my ass. Take a FFT, find the peak in the 18-20kHz range and add it to the list. Check what the pattern in the list was over the last X seconds, see if that pattern matches one of the stored patterns. Initiate gesture action.
This could also be used to see if you are sitting at your laptop... very sneaky.
There's a difference between ionising radiation and non-ionising radiation. Anything with a ultra-violet and up can give you cancer. Anything below, well, it can make you warm... but that's about it. Of course, being repeatedly burned can also give you cancer, so non-ionising radiation can, eventually, give you cancer. Just like standing too close to a fire for too long can give you cancer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
If Forrest Gump can make a loss, then Hollywood making a loss means ever increasing profits.
Change? Just layer it over...
1. Buy cheap house near antenna
2. Wallpaper
3. Sell 'antenna proof' house for full antenna-free value (AKA ???)
4. Profit!!!
Unfortunately that only boosts transmissions. My laptop, phone and ebook aren't going to magically boost along with the router...
Fascists.
Just FYI, I had lots of problems on DVDFab using Intel-based GPU acceleration, such as temporal misalignment frames and lots of juddering; the video seemed to speed up and slow down around 2-3x per second. I ended up leaving DVDFab entirely and switching to Handbrake to take advantage of the queue features. DVDFab has some nice features for breaking the encryption on DVDs though, so may be worth keeping around for that now that Handbrake has removed support for it.
The primary reason for not doing it this way is that it muddies your cache. Working on one slice at a time means you have many more cache hits.
So they controlled the real roads? Please take off your tinfoil hat.
Hah! Avengers released for me 8 days before the US (I'm in South Africa). Aus/NewZ got it even earlier...
What he's saying is that if the MAFIAA bothered to make a home-viewing version available, he'd be willing to PAY for it. Unfortunately the only people who offer that service is pirates, so... pirates it is.
Yeah, but the entry cost for pirating is a lot lower (ie, 0) than the cost for the actual product. So because costs went down, volume goes up, right? Basic economics? There are LOTS of people who would pirate something but wouldn't pay for it if piracy wasn't an option.
THAT is the effective (to the 'owner') difference between copyright and theft.
Oh, and watching a cam vid instead of the real movie theatre is crappy anyways, so unless the price for the theatre is super high, or the movie isn't good enough to warrant the cost of going to the theatre, piracy isn't really a big deal. Both of those problems are caused by inadequacies of the MAFIAA, not the pirates. That the pirates even exist is simply a symptom of overpriced, crappy movies.
Yeah, interesting that allergies and asthma are both linked to immune response. So are autoimmune diseases, which are also on the rise.
Spying != killing
And why the hell would the car allow remote control at all? That would be a terrible design. Have you forgotten to take your pills today?
150k miles on real roads.
Including all of his erotica e-books. Tough life, dude.
Had mod points, browsed at 0...
Besides, putting correct, useful information out there never hurt anybody.
A hash of the OS/font/IP provides a lot of unique info... turn it into a hash and you have a unique, untraceable ID. I like your thinking.
If people are going to bother with multiple OS/computer setups they might as well have multiple *real* accounts, so all that has to happen is for it to be as difficult as having two separate accounts and the incentive to post AC for nefarious reasons goes away.
CRC is faster than md5, and for random corruption just as effective.
How do the numbers look accounting for inflation?
Yeah, but you know what they meant. Besides, your example would make a terrible headline, it has subclauses (although not much worse than /.'s usual standard).
OK, bad example. But dismissing an argument because the poster is AC is one of the finer examples of ad hominem...
mastered
I see what you did there.
This change in frequency is measured by your computer's built-in microphone, and then some fairly complex software works out your motion/gesture.
Complex software my ass. Take a FFT, find the peak in the 18-20kHz range and add it to the list. Check what the pattern in the list was over the last X seconds, see if that pattern matches one of the stored patterns. Initiate gesture action.
This could also be used to see if you are sitting at your laptop... very sneaky.
I haven't had asthma and I can hear CRT TV's. Do I get a prize?
There's a difference between ionising radiation and non-ionising radiation. Anything with a ultra-violet and up can give you cancer. Anything below, well, it can make you warm... but that's about it. Of course, being repeatedly burned can also give you cancer, so non-ionising radiation can, eventually, give you cancer. Just like standing too close to a fire for too long can give you cancer.