How about YAY USER ERROR! I have NEVER gotten a virus in my life, and I have three email accounts all going through outlook. All it takes is a little bit of common sense to avoid them. Hell, I don't even have a virus scan installed.. I check once a month or so using an online scan.
On another note, just push your mail providers to install a virus scanner on ther mailer daemon side... my school recently did this and it seems to be working very well.
What it all really comes down to is this: people pirate things because they can. CD Burners are cheap, more people have broadband than ever, and mp3s are only ~5MB each for high quality (192kbps is the "release" standard nowadays) singles.
I personally have bought MORE cds since I began using mp3s way back when (97ish). But, not everyone does this. Also, my taste in music has broadened, but I feel I do save money as a result of mp3s. This is because instead of buying a cd for one single, I can now preview the cds and buy only ones that I really do like.
Now for DVDs. The only thing that I have seen that approaches DVD quality picture is an SVCD rip. These are usually in 3 parts at 700mb per part. 2.1 gigs for a movie. That is only if you're lucky enough to have the "hookups" to get it or find a good warez samaritan. DivX rips CAN be good quality video, but more often then not, they are sub par, especially at fullscreen on the pc (which is at least a few times bigger than normal tv resolution). Now what about the audio? It is encoded in vbr (variable bitrate) mp3 format... there goes all the surround sound and other special features you pay for in a DVD. Personally, I enjoy watching my DVDs on a big TV and through a home theatre sound system, not on a 17" monitor with pixelation.
Call me crazy, but the only reason that DVDs arent being hit as hard is because the technology to copy then conveniently and near-perfectly is not readily available. CDs were around for years before mp3s... just give it a little while and DVDs will fall to the same fate.
But are those people manufacturing it for the masses? not everyone can build their own setup, but everyone does want broadband... motorola are just trying to fill a market demand.
Hell, my 2.4ghz cordless phone still gets static when I'm in the next room. I'm still somewhat skeptical of wireless internet, it seems your speed would be degraded significantly by small obstacles. I mean, sure, if you're right next to the AP. But what if you're at the outside limit of the range? What if your pc is in a concrete basement? What if there are tons of trees around? etc... Someone dispell all of my skepticism please;)
the cost is in the implementation, not the cable itself. you'd have to replace all the cabling, and re-do the whole network setup... the man hours and downtime and glitches would cost, even for a school, let alone a business
Are there any windows programs that do this? if i weren't such a n00b i'd attempt to mess with the source but alas i wouldn't get very far. this looks cool, i need to try it on my linux box when i get home... unless someone finds a win ver:)
i feel the same, except that lucas had the scripts finished BEFORE the first "trilogy" came out, and decided to put out the ones he did because they were the best, good call by him.
find something that you would like to see made or that you are interested in... then start coding. it will be much more fun if you are doing something for yourself rather than yet another linked list to solve the sums of 5 numbers;)
you people want this to spread? then share this file on morpheus or kazaa? you talk about p2p and not restricting free sharing, but the file isnt on there, except for 2 people.. out of 65k+ people?
share the original file, then it will spread quickly!
in the main post, it claims no linux support, and not that i support this format, they do have a linux plug-in viewer, just no authoring/encoding software for linux:o)
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How about YAY USER ERROR! I have NEVER gotten a virus in my life, and I have three email accounts all going through outlook. All it takes is a little bit of common sense to avoid them. Hell, I don't even have a virus scan installed.. I check once a month or so using an online scan.
On another note, just push your mail providers to install a virus scanner on ther mailer daemon side... my school recently did this and it seems to be working very well.
What it all really comes down to is this: people pirate things because they can. CD Burners are cheap, more people have broadband than ever, and mp3s are only ~5MB each for high quality (192kbps is the "release" standard nowadays) singles.
I personally have bought MORE cds since I began using mp3s way back when (97ish). But, not everyone does this. Also, my taste in music has broadened, but I feel I do save money as a result of mp3s. This is because instead of buying a cd for one single, I can now preview the cds and buy only ones that I really do like.
Now for DVDs. The only thing that I have seen that approaches DVD quality picture is an SVCD rip. These are usually in 3 parts at 700mb per part. 2.1 gigs for a movie. That is only if you're lucky enough to have the "hookups" to get it or find a good warez samaritan. DivX rips CAN be good quality video, but more often then not, they are sub par, especially at fullscreen on the pc (which is at least a few times bigger than normal tv resolution). Now what about the audio? It is encoded in vbr (variable bitrate) mp3 format... there goes all the surround sound and other special features you pay for in a DVD. Personally, I enjoy watching my DVDs on a big TV and through a home theatre sound system, not on a 17" monitor with pixelation.
Call me crazy, but the only reason that DVDs arent being hit as hard is because the technology to copy then conveniently and near-perfectly is not readily available. CDs were around for years before mp3s... just give it a little while and DVDs will fall to the same fate.
But are those people manufacturing it for the masses? not everyone can build their own setup, but everyone does want broadband... motorola are just trying to fill a market demand.
Hell, my 2.4ghz cordless phone still gets static when I'm in the next room. I'm still somewhat skeptical of wireless internet, it seems your speed would be degraded significantly by small obstacles. I mean, sure, if you're right next to the AP. But what if you're at the outside limit of the range? What if your pc is in a concrete basement? What if there are tons of trees around? etc... ;)
Someone dispell all of my skepticism please
the cost is in the implementation, not the cable itself. you'd have to replace all the cabling, and re-do the whole network setup... the man hours and downtime and glitches would cost, even for a school, let alone a business
too bad i still can't afford gig-e
too bad my pc couldn't take advantage of 10gig-e either
heh
still nice to dream...
Have'nt you guys ever play SimCity? Airports are much more than railroads ;)
Are there any windows programs that do this? if i weren't such a n00b i'd attempt to mess with the source but alas i wouldn't get very far. this looks cool, i need to try it on my linux box when i get home... unless someone finds a win ver :)
i feel the same, except that lucas had the scripts finished BEFORE the first "trilogy" came out, and decided to put out the ones he did because they were the best, good call by him.
find something that you would like to see made or that you are interested in... then start coding. it will be much more fun if you are doing something for yourself rather than yet another linked list to solve the sums of 5 numbers ;)
you people want this to spread? then share this file on morpheus or kazaa? you talk about p2p and not restricting free sharing, but the file isnt on there, except for 2 people.. out of 65k+ people?
share the original file, then it will spread quickly!
fellowshipoftherings_fs.mov
in the main post, it claims no linux support, and not that i support this format, they do have a linux plug-in viewer, just no authoring/encoding software for linux :o)