if you are a fan then buy now and november!. Yes they are milking you, yes it sucks they didn't release them both at the same time, yes you are going to have to buy them both if you have to ask the question. It's not really much of a choice.
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Do you have any of the "Bad news" stuff? I have the tape but it has fallen apart long ago:( Couldn't find them on napster when it existed
Well I was a 'ST fanatic' and I never heard anyone make that claim and I attended the user groups for about 4 years. Mabye it was spread about by Atari? although that would be kind of silly since they were touting the STE's colours over the STFM's.
OTOH on old TV's mabye the differences weren't that much? hmmm, on a tangent ever remember a game called Damocles (mercenery II) ? I can't believe that was never ported to the PC, tradgedy.
Well it should be possible but there are a few extra factors that need to be considered.
Firstly when you "rip" a dvd you get a whole bunch of files. Some are the movie, some are the menus, some are the specials, info files etc... So you really need to rip 4 or 5 seperate (but combined by the encoder, not the ripper) movie files (max size 1GB) then encode on those files.
Next (I'm just talking about pal here not ntsc, i believe you may need to do more for ntsc) you need to crop and resize the picture, cropping is neccessary because of the black bars at the bottom of the screen, they take up a lot of bandwidth believe it or not. Also I like to chop a bit of each edge to give it a 640 horizontal res. The cropping process is usually a manual and visual one which is not well suited to the command line. You also need to rip and encode the audio. It's stored in AC3 format in the same files as the video, I like to process the audio seperatly from the video, obviously this requires me to have previously ripped the files. You then need to combine the audio and video and you may wish to rip the subtitles.
Subtitles are stored as pictures (!) on the dvd not text, for reasons of filesize you will probably want to convert them to text though. This is an interactive process using OCR (like scanner software) but you have to sit there and type letters into the OCR software. The subtitles also come from the same files as the audio and video so again using pipes is not a particularly viable option.
What I would absolutly freeking love would be would be a set of scripts to rip a dvd, this should be possible since someone else has already done the work. Take for example when I buy the next set of star-trek dvd's that is a lot of work to rip the whole season. I'd love for someone that has already done it to make some scripts available.
Anyone can see that the sensible approach for HP would be to save the last of the company's crown jewels, the printer business, by simply exiting the consumer and small business PC markets, both HP and Compaq brands
Except that since HP often gets the cash for it's products upfront yet pays it's expenses in arrears the PC market generates a massive amount of cashflow, even if it doesn't have high margins.
OK so you collect trolls, thanks for the link to the trolls you have collected. Look at this troll on your site. Look at this post of yours, well case closed I'd say, you are definately a troll.
Before you come back with a (I'm sure very witty) YHBT post, I'd like to point out I was really really really bored, but have just spent the last half hour laughing my head off at those trolls. cheers
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Seriously folks, integrated video is not always a bad thing.
I agree, infact I'm reading this on my onboard prosavage. Of course I wouldn't need to do that if my GeForce2 fan hadn't seized last week! Damn you Nvidia, Damn You.
personally I don't like the 64M limit. If this could be modded to 256 or 512 I would be very happy having it as a server/pc but with 64 it's very lightweight.
How log until law states you are not actually buying hardware, but somethng like renting it for some purposes?
Interesting question, look into a bit of computing history and you'll see that this is exactly what IBM used to do when it had no competition. One of the advantages was no second hand market means more profit.
I had to crack civ3 because it didn't work well with my DVD-rom:( They made a patch available but only to people in the us, not to mention you had to give your phone number and street address before you could donload the dame thing!
Not that I play it anymore, not until the multiplayer/scenario patch is out. But I bet we'll have to pay for it.
Then you have the marketing figures that say that these boxes are flying off of the shelves.
I disagree, I expect that if every slashdotter and their dog boycotted it still wouldn't make a dent in the sales figures. Most people couldn't give a shit about whether MS has a monopoly or not, these pwople will buy the xbox if they see it can run shiny new games.
Game producers will jump on the xbox bandwagon when they see the sales figures for the current games, not the sales figures for the xbox. Personally I'd pick up a few xboxes if they could run linux, turn them into a dvd/divx/mp3 player, whatever I felt like at the time. Come to think of it my dad needs a new PC, he's still got a P100:-O
You could do just as well with the keyboard as you could do with the mouse
I have to disagree, I played a lot of multiplayer doom in my time and when I switched to mouse control it did make a big difference. Actually now that I think about it it's the first game that I started using a mouse with. Also it's the first game that I built my own contoller for, well actually it was just a bent paperclip to hold down the shift key to keep running:)
I had a similar experience with the original diablo. When I woke up in the middle of the night and started trying to kill the bats flying around the room. After that I decided to get some real sleep instead of just 6 hours between bouts of diablo:)
Also 7th guest creeped me out one time when I was playing it about 4am, surprising since it's a puzzle game, guess it was the sound fx
Personally I'd rate Political Science lower on the rung than working at a supermarket. In my university days I had a flatmate who was heavily involved with political science and also politics itself (he was high up in one of my Countries youth-party movements).
I had never met such a bunch of idiots in my life, they would spend the whole fucking day arguing over and over the most inane things. As an example when I left for uni and work one morning, they were having a discussion about whether or not taking a cell-phone on a camping trip was a good idea. When I came home 6 hours later they were still arguing over it! It was like this for the entire year! To top things off, he couldn't afford to pay his rent but thought nothing of using the flat bank account for buying fresh basil plants. Yes basil. At least I know why Governments are so slow to get things done.
I won't say anything about business management as my girlfriend has an MBA:-/
I've used a much earlier version when I started using divx;-) However it was quickly given up for BSPlayer (yeah, great name:) which has done nicely until now. Apparently it's not spyware.
I think at the time the only advantage Redlight had was to do with subtitles but I could be wrong.
not that it matters too much at the moment as telecoms most popular "high-speed" package is 128kb ADSL connection (about $30 US BTW), oh and apparently 128kb is too much for any single connection so they limit you on each particular file you download to about 56kb!!
I used to have a high speed satellite connection through IHUG which would peek at about 2500kbps but then they did the stupidist thing they could do and capped it at 512MB per month! Thats write the high-speed, high bandwidth connection was capped at 512MB, which meant you could use your month quota in under 30 minutes, and still not get a single ISO.
We are getting some faster connections through cable company saturn, they offer you higher speed connections such as 256kb or 512kb, however even though these cost more, the monthly data cap is a lot less. IIRC 128 was capped at 10GB and then the 256 (which costs more) was capped at 5GB. Saturn mainly targets businesses. Again that's not such a problem since only a small proportion of people are connected by this anyway. So in short, sure it's a hassle but the bandwidth here is so limited that it's no big deal anyway.
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if your not really a fan then buy Now
if you are a fan then buy now and november!. Yes they are milking you, yes it sucks they didn't release them both at the same time, yes you are going to have to buy them both if you have to ask the question. It's not really much of a choice.
Do you have any of the "Bad news" stuff? I have the tape but it has fallen apart long ago :( Couldn't find them on napster when it existed
Well I was a 'ST fanatic' and I never heard anyone make that claim and I attended the user groups for about 4 years. Mabye it was spread about by Atari? although that would be kind of silly since they were touting the STE's colours over the STFM's.
OTOH on old TV's mabye the differences weren't that much? hmmm, on a tangent ever remember a game called Damocles (mercenery II) ? I can't believe that was never ported to the PC, tradgedy.
Well it should be possible but there are a few extra factors that need to be considered.
Firstly when you "rip" a dvd you get a whole bunch of files. Some are the movie, some are the menus, some are the specials, info files etc... So you really need to rip 4 or 5 seperate (but combined by the encoder, not the ripper) movie files (max size 1GB) then encode on those files.
Next (I'm just talking about pal here not ntsc, i believe you may need to do more for ntsc) you need to crop and resize the picture, cropping is neccessary because of the black bars at the bottom of the screen, they take up a lot of bandwidth believe it or not. Also I like to chop a bit of each edge to give it a 640 horizontal res. The cropping process is usually a manual and visual one which is not well suited to the command line. You also need to rip and encode the audio. It's stored in AC3 format in the same files as the video, I like to process the audio seperatly from the video, obviously this requires me to have previously ripped the files. You then need to combine the audio and video and you may wish to rip the subtitles.
Subtitles are stored as pictures (!) on the dvd not text, for reasons of filesize you will probably want to convert them to text though. This is an interactive process using OCR (like scanner software) but you have to sit there and type letters into the OCR software. The subtitles also come from the same files as the audio and video so again using pipes is not a particularly viable option.
What I would absolutly freeking love would be would be a set of scripts to rip a dvd, this should be possible since someone else has already done the work. Take for example when I buy the next set of star-trek dvd's that is a lot of work to rip the whole season. I'd love for someone that has already done it to make some scripts available.
I'd say they were refering to the www not the underpants gnomes.
Anyone can see that the sensible approach for HP would be to save the last of the company's crown jewels, the printer business, by simply exiting the consumer and small business PC markets, both HP and Compaq brands
Except that since HP often gets the cash for it's products upfront yet pays it's expenses in arrears the PC market generates a massive amount of cashflow, even if it doesn't have high margins.
I think you will find the 4GB memory limit quite irritating when the rest of us our running our terrabyte machines in 2015.
OK so you collect trolls, thanks for the link to the trolls you have collected. Look at this troll on your site. Look at this post of yours, well case closed I'd say, you are definately a troll.
Before you come back with a (I'm sure very witty) YHBT post, I'd like to point out I was really really really bored, but have just spent the last half hour laughing my head off at those trolls. cheers
Seriously folks, integrated video is not always a bad thing.
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I agree, infact I'm reading this on my onboard prosavage. Of course I wouldn't need to do that if my GeForce2 fan hadn't seized last week! Damn you Nvidia, Damn You.
I will still buy a GF4 thou
personally I don't like the 64M limit. If this could be modded to 256 or 512 I would be very happy having it as a server/pc but with 64 it's very lightweight.
So what if someone ... finds a security hole ina networkable game and kills thousands of "normal" xboxes?
We laugh. Hard.
How log until law states you are not actually buying hardware, but somethng like renting it for some purposes?
Interesting question, look into a bit of computing history and you'll see that this is exactly what IBM used to do when it had no competition. One of the advantages was no second hand market means more profit.
CIV3
:( They made a patch available but only to people in the us, not to mention you had to give your phone number and street address before you could donload the dame thing!
I had to crack civ3 because it didn't work well with my DVD-rom
Not that I play it anymore, not until the multiplayer/scenario patch is out. But I bet we'll have to pay for it.
Hmmm, I haven't flown in a while but I'm pretty sure every plane I've ever been on forbids CD drives anyway? Mabye I'm imagining it...
Of course, the clients could be hacked to NOT encrypt their network data
Or a more elegant way may be to patch the client with new public keys, on the fly. It would be a bitch to packet sniff though.
Then you have the marketing figures that say that these boxes are flying off of the shelves.
:-O
I disagree, I expect that if every slashdotter and their dog boycotted it still wouldn't make a dent in the sales figures. Most people couldn't give a shit about whether MS has a monopoly or not, these pwople will buy the xbox if they see it can run shiny new games.
Game producers will jump on the xbox bandwagon when they see the sales figures for the current games, not the sales figures for the xbox. Personally I'd pick up a few xboxes if they could run linux, turn them into a dvd/divx/mp3 player, whatever I felt like at the time. Come to think of it my dad needs a new PC, he's still got a P100
You could do just as well with the keyboard as you could do with the mouse
:)
I have to disagree, I played a lot of multiplayer doom in my time and when I switched to mouse control it did make a big difference. Actually now that I think about it it's the first game that I started using a mouse with. Also it's the first game that I built my own contoller for, well actually it was just a bent paperclip to hold down the shift key to keep running
I had a similar experience with the original diablo. When I woke up in the middle of the night and started trying to kill the bats flying around the room. After that I decided to get some real sleep instead of just 6 hours between bouts of diablo :)
Also 7th guest creeped me out one time when I was playing it about 4am, surprising since it's a puzzle game, guess it was the sound fx
hi, wtf does your sig mean?
Will LOTR be taxed? (Aliens)
Ermmm, aliens, yeah...
I personally favour the idiot tax
I think you just qualified for that yourself buddy.
Personally I'd rate Political Science lower on the rung than working at a supermarket. In my university days I had a flatmate who was heavily involved with political science and also politics itself (he was high up in one of my Countries youth-party movements).
:-/
I had never met such a bunch of idiots in my life, they would spend the whole fucking day arguing over and over the most inane things. As an example when I left for uni and work one morning, they were having a discussion about whether or not taking a cell-phone on a camping trip was a good idea. When I came home 6 hours later they were still arguing over it! It was like this for the entire year! To top things off, he couldn't afford to pay his rent but thought nothing of using the flat bank account for buying fresh basil plants. Yes basil. At least I know why Governments are so slow to get things done.
I won't say anything about business management as my girlfriend has an MBA
I've used a much earlier version when I started using divx ;-) However it was quickly given up for BSPlayer (yeah, great name :) which has done nicely until now. Apparently it's not spyware.
I think at the time the only advantage Redlight had was to do with subtitles but I could be wrong.
I do actually boil eggs in the microwave so there. I also do it in an aluminum container, and I'm not joking.
not that it matters too much at the moment as telecoms most popular "high-speed" package is 128kb ADSL connection (about $30 US BTW), oh and apparently 128kb is too much for any single connection so they limit you on each particular file you download to about 56kb!!
I used to have a high speed satellite connection through IHUG which would peek at about 2500kbps but then they did the stupidist thing they could do and capped it at 512MB per month! Thats write the high-speed, high bandwidth connection was capped at 512MB, which meant you could use your month quota in under 30 minutes, and still not get a single ISO.
We are getting some faster connections through cable company saturn, they offer you higher speed connections such as 256kb or 512kb, however even though these cost more, the monthly data cap is a lot less. IIRC 128 was capped at 10GB and then the 256 (which costs more) was capped at 5GB. Saturn mainly targets businesses. Again that's not such a problem since only a small proportion of people are connected by this anyway. So in short, sure it's a hassle but the bandwidth here is so limited that it's no big deal anyway.
I'm undecided on whether this is "Funny" or "Informative".