I wouldn't worry about family guy. It gets cancelled every year, but then they promise to behave and not get in trouble with the censors. So fox orders more episodes. Naturally the FG team ignores their earlier promises and does what they want. So fox cancels them.
The bottom line is that they are still airing new episodes, and most of my friends watch it. At least they do when we can find them.
Futurama OTOH has trouble reaching people who don't get all the sci-fi references. And some of the episodes suffer from too many jokes about the sixties (Nixon isn't that funny to people under 30). But I can always forgive a show that gave us the line "Woah, I think that hippie's kicking in".
I have VHS editions of most Bruce Lee movies, and trust me, those scratches you see were on the negatives.
For bonus fun, the scratches you see in Return of the Dragon are in a shot they reused for The Game of Death.
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Wine is not GNUGPLed, and closed source forks are allowed by their license. Deal with it.
VCDs are MPEG-1 encoded. That's why they have so many artefacts. However MPEG-1 holds up very well under motion, and almost all video cards can accelerate it so it runs fullscreen smoothly (I used to do it on my P120, but it doesn't work as well under X).
Also, the reason that MPEG-4 (at least the Divx implementation) often looks worse than the MPEG-1 files is that they were encoded from the MPEG-1 files and naturally there is some quality loss in the encoding process. Then there is the fact that they are encoded as much lower bit rate files.
So to sum it all up, VCD=MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 will look much better when it's encoded by professionals using actual copies of the film.
Have you even played Civ II? They fixed a lot of problems.
+ Ridiculous AI cheats
These were toned down (computer civs have to build wonders too - they aren't just given them). But I'll admit, knowing which of your cities have SDI defences is a bit much.
+ Spending hours moving around settler units is not fun.
You can always hit 'shift + a' to automate a settler.
+ Having your bomber shot down by a spearchucker over and over again is stupid.
Again, this was fixed in civ II by introducing hit points. A spearguy might hurt a bomber, but he's not going to kill it.
but for humans, its more humane to only wound them two or three times and let them bleed to death on the battlefield.
Basic Military Fact:
If you kill a soldier you stop one man from shooting, if you wound a soldier you stop the soldier, and his friends who carry him away, from shooting.
The I Love You virus spreads due to the Autorun code, so rather than give the customer the OPTION to say 'yes, run this', their bug fix is to outright disable it. Some fix, considering that autorun feature was touted by Microsoft as being an ideal way for something or other. Never did quite understand it.
Well, let me put this descition in perspective. As 'I Love You.vbs' proved, there are a -lot- of Outlook users out there. Now, take that number and multiply it by the probability of a typical office worker clicking on 'Yes, run the unknown code' when the file is named 'I love you!', 'Important!', or something similarly fluffy.
All my experience with typical computer users tells me that you would still have a major network problem on your hands.
Personally I think a better solution would be to prevent macros from sending emails without confirmation. However, MS probably implemented mailing lists, or some other feature, by using that function. I heard in the newer version they plan to ask before letting a macro access your Address Book, which seems like a good idea.
Odd really, lots of companies would be pleased if someone wrote software to support their product, especially if it didn't cost them a cent.
The problem was that the linux software was usefull for much more than the windows software. Their entire business plan (and I use that term loosely) was based on the idea of charging advertisers to use the barcodes. They lose money on each CueCat they give away, if the CueCat's have some other purpose than reading barcodes in adds then they stand to lose a _lot_ of money.
The truely frightening thing is that these investors fell for such a bad idea... if it's really this easy to get 2 million from Steve Forbes you'd think he'd be broke by now.
running your games (oh wait, that's CPU/GPU intensive not HD).
If these come into popular use, then games will be able to take advantage of them. Currently HD access is too slow to only read the current section of a level. With something like this, you could have a 3d game set up as one huge city without ever having to see an in game loading screen. I don't think it's likely to happen, because drive speed is something most gamers forget about, plus it would require low level optimizations to be done by MS (let's not get into the 'linux as a gaming platform' debate right now).
But you're insisting on including redundant informantion. If I say I'm using Win98 people know I'm using Microsoft Windows 98 on an x86 based system.
Similarly, if I say I'm using Linux people know that I'm using a Linux kernel with GNU libs and utils.
You might argue that people should call it GNU but there's GNU/Hurd to cause confusion. Also if you use the word GNU too much someone walking by might jump in with a random wildebeest story.
From the man who introduced you to Sci Fi terror with Alien
then redefined action with Terminator
and introduced big budget special effects to romance movies with Titanic
It's possible to read raw sectors, error correction bits and all, off the CD. This meathod of copy protection will be fixable using lower level software to read the CD, however it does break most existing ripping software. I'm guessing that they'll use the DMCA to go after any commercial programs that correct for it.
Space travel in it's current form is a pollitical symbol and a romantic dream, not a well designed scientific program. Nasa knows this, and that's why they are so strongly opossed to Tito's paid visit.
It's really more of a risk assesment. It's not easy for a poor importing company to produce a decent dub. It's much easier for them to do a subtitling job.
Also, a dub changes the voices of all the actors. Often the dubbing voice sounds nothing like the origional... and it looks very strange when a 20 yr old has a 40 yr old voice. Plus you loose the characters origional personality when you do a new voice.
Something tells me you've never used divx. The high quality movies (600-800 megs) are near dvd quality. There much better than what you need to match most televisions.
What you're doing is like bashing mp3s based on the poor quality of RealAudio. The large movies chew up a lot of cpu cycles, but the quality is amazing.
The often quoted article from an SGI employee said that he found that people couldn't see any difference above 60fps.
However, he was talking about pre-rendered animations. So each frame was displayed 1/60th of a second apart. In a game each frame takes a different length of time to render, and if any frame takes more than 1/60th of a second to render then you can see a slight blip.
If your card is rendering 200fps you may never see most of the frames, but the important thing is that none of the slow frames takes more than 1/60th of a second to render.
Acctually gtk is covered by the LGPL. That means you can use it for closed source apps as long as you share changes to the library, and you dynamically link it.
This is very important, because it's the entire basis for the gnome/kde flamewar.
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And we all know how hackers love modeling and hate coding!
I wouldn't worry about family guy. It gets cancelled every year, but then they promise to behave and not get in trouble with the censors. So fox orders more episodes. Naturally the FG team ignores their earlier promises and does what they want. So fox cancels them.
The bottom line is that they are still airing new episodes, and most of my friends watch it. At least they do when we can find them.
Futurama OTOH has trouble reaching people who don't get all the sci-fi references. And some of the episodes suffer from too many jokes about the sixties (Nixon isn't that funny to people under 30). But I can always forgive a show that gave us the line "Woah, I think that hippie's kicking in".
I have VHS editions of most Bruce Lee movies, and trust me, those scratches you see were on the negatives.
For bonus fun, the scratches you see in Return of the Dragon are in a shot they reused for The Game of Death.
Also, the reason that MPEG-4 (at least the Divx implementation) often looks worse than the MPEG-1 files is that they were encoded from the MPEG-1 files and naturally there is some quality loss in the encoding process. Then there is the fact that they are encoded as much lower bit rate files.
So to sum it all up, VCD=MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 will look much better when it's encoded by professionals using actual copies of the film.
What was that line from futurama?
The Moon, it's not just a barren airless desert anymore.
The rounds were stored as an unsigned 32 bit integer. It rolled over last night.
+ Ridiculous AI cheats
These were toned down (computer civs have to build wonders too - they aren't just given them). But I'll admit, knowing which of your cities have SDI defences is a bit much.
+ Spending hours moving around settler units is not fun.
You can always hit 'shift + a' to automate a settler.
+ Having your bomber shot down by a spearchucker over and over again is stupid.
Again, this was fixed in civ II by introducing hit points. A spearguy might hurt a bomber, but he's not going to kill it.
If you kill a soldier you stop one man from shooting, if you wound a soldier you stop the soldier, and his friends who carry him away, from shooting.
Well, let me put this descition in perspective. As 'I Love You.vbs' proved, there are a -lot- of Outlook users out there. Now, take that number and multiply it by the probability of a typical office worker clicking on 'Yes, run the unknown code' when the file is named 'I love you!', 'Important!', or something similarly fluffy.
All my experience with typical computer users tells me that you would still have a major network problem on your hands.
Personally I think a better solution would be to prevent macros from sending emails without confirmation. However, MS probably implemented mailing lists, or some other feature, by using that function. I heard in the newer version they plan to ask before letting a macro access your Address Book, which seems like a good idea.
The problem was that the linux software was usefull for much more than the windows software. Their entire business plan (and I use that term loosely) was based on the idea of charging advertisers to use the barcodes. They lose money on each CueCat they give away, if the CueCat's have some other purpose than reading barcodes in adds then they stand to lose a _lot_ of money.
The truely frightening thing is that these investors fell for such a bad idea... if it's really this easy to get 2 million from Steve Forbes you'd think he'd be broke by now.
running your games (oh wait, that's CPU/GPU intensive not HD).
If these come into popular use, then games will be able to take advantage of them. Currently HD access is too slow to only read the current section of a level. With something like this, you could have a 3d game set up as one huge city without ever having to see an in game loading screen. I don't think it's likely to happen, because drive speed is something most gamers forget about, plus it would require low level optimizations to be done by MS (let's not get into the 'linux as a gaming platform' debate right now).
Passport.Hotmail.DisableSecurity();
This is a valuble feature for programmers and it's not MS's fault that malicius hackers are abusing it.
But you're insisting on including redundant informantion. If I say I'm using Win98 people know I'm using Microsoft Windows 98 on an x86 based system.
Similarly, if I say I'm using Linux people know that I'm using a Linux kernel with GNU libs and utils.
You might argue that people should call it GNU but there's GNU/Hurd to cause confusion. Also if you use the word GNU too much someone walking by might jump in with a random wildebeest story.
Assuming anyone cared, it would be simple to replace some junk DNA with a serial number.
From the man who introduced you to Sci Fi terror with Alien
then redefined action with Terminator
and introduced big budget special effects to romance movies with Titanic
It's possible to read raw sectors, error correction bits and all, off the CD. This meathod of copy protection will be fixable using lower level software to read the CD, however it does break most existing ripping software. I'm guessing that they'll use the DMCA to go after any commercial programs that correct for it.
Don't forget that we all also get to comment on his articles. It's really sort of like Mystery Science Theatre.
But seriously, ISS is more of a pollitical symbol than an acctuall scientific project. The economist has a story on this subject http://vh1.economist.com/editorial/justforyou/4-10 -97/st4370.html
Space travel in it's current form is a pollitical symbol and a romantic dream, not a well designed scientific program. Nasa knows this, and that's why they are so strongly opossed to Tito's paid visit.
Also, a dub changes the voices of all the actors. Often the dubbing voice sounds nothing like the origional... and it looks very strange when a 20 yr old has a 40 yr old voice. Plus you loose the characters origional personality when you do a new voice.
What you're doing is like bashing mp3s based on the poor quality of RealAudio. The large movies chew up a lot of cpu cycles, but the quality is amazing.
However, he was talking about pre-rendered animations. So each frame was displayed 1/60th of a second apart. In a game each frame takes a different length of time to render, and if any frame takes more than 1/60th of a second to render then you can see a slight blip.
If your card is rendering 200fps you may never see most of the frames, but the important thing is that none of the slow frames takes more than 1/60th of a second to render.
This is very important, because it's the entire basis for the gnome/kde flamewar.
Also, those multi page memory cards that companies sold randomly formated themselves every few months.
My point is that early adopters will often put up with a lot if the games are good.