My loose understanding is that this won't work for HBO via CableCARD, which means I for one am still dead in the water / stuck on Windows 7. I'd be happy to hear that that's solved, but until that point MS asking me to upgrade is pointless/annoying.:\
I didn't start blocking ads until lazy ad networks started allowing malware into their system. If you can't be responsible enough to not try to destroy my system, you shouldn't be on my system at all.
I went to WWU. Everybody in my peer CS group either had an excellent job either during or shortly after college. Many of my extended non-CS peer group also ended up buoyed by the CS department's influence and ended up in tech jobs.
My college girlfriend, who went through Woodring (the ed. department at WWU) and was expecting to teach high school Spanish, ended up as director for a major PNW tech company, making about quintuple what she was expecting to make.
WWU, a liberal arts college, does not have its core strength nor focus in CS, but perhaps the ROI there is high enough to merit some serious discussion.
I got the point of the original parent and was merely making clear the disconnect. The definition of "accordingly priced" seems in your view to need to be set by (or heavily influenced by) the consumer. If that's the expectation, we should enforce that expectation.
I don't know anything about the design of your DVD player, its regionality, or any of the other fun aspects of modern technology. Most Super Audio CDs probably also don't play on your CD player: do you have a moral or commercial right to make that work? What about if your CD player doesn't support HTOA? You're not getting all of the CD: what are your rights then? If a particular bitstream doesn't work because your DVD player uses an old decoder, what are your rights then? Introducing hardware into the discussion seems to cloud an already viciously murky issue.
If you're only obtaining it under the given terms, great. If (as with the OP example) you're obtaining it under... alternative terms, perhaps that whole "compulsory licensing" notion makes one ton of sense.
That anecdote presumes that she has a right to obtain the content on her terms or prices.
If we're going to assume that her (thrifty) needs trump the plans (or lack thereof) of the copyright holders, then perhaps the law of the land should reflect that.
That's a heckuva drive. And other areas do have GameWorks or Dave & Buster's or etc... but CTF is on another level.
ChinaTown Fair (CTF) is the legendary training ground for a large chunk of the East Coast's best fighting game players. It is a hole in the wall, but you could go there and compete against some of the finest players in the world. It's been a fun stop each time I head out to NYC.
The libavcodec library is indeed excellent and very useful. I'm not knocking nor would I knock that in any fashion. I was just pointing out that most/500+ is still just "most", not "all". As a hobby/side project at work (the M, but I speak for myself only always) I've been tracking down and trying to get fixed codec issues for the past long while... so that differentation is sadly important.
Better ""integration"" of libav or more/better out of box codec support is excellent. You might not *currently* need to play G2M3 or MetaSound content, but it'd be nice if it just worked when you decided you needed it to. I'm a huge fan of VLC and other players that makes things just work.
Meta: This is slashdot, where I would expect that most of us are remotely technically competent. The statement "any codec hassles on any computer" is flat wrong, technically. Whomever moderated my comment as "troll": shame on you. It's cool if you don't understand an issue, but don't inflict your technical blind spots on others. It's that ignorant mentality (the notion that there's one magic pill for codecs) that led to the proliferation of codec packs and thus led to most of the multimedia-related system destabilization of the past six years or so.
I work at the big M and knows most of the stats. I've helped out the VLC team (and many others) repeatedly and have nothing against them (nor anyone else). I do however care that nobody is ignorant enough to believe that there is *any* magic codec pill. It's a misleading concept that's proven destructive.
Naw. It works well with the content you use it to play. There's 500+ video codecs, many many of which it doesn't work with.
Generally all players are at the mercy of the content creator. Having good codec support out of box is excellent, but you'll still hit problem scenarios (Duck, L&H, Indeo, latest screen codec, latest vendor codec, etc.) with every player.
Balloons and streamers came in the continental US version of the Party Pack. I got them in mine. They weren't branded balloons and streamers, mind you, but they were there.
I lost $40 playing poker with the Windows 7 cards: that's probably a bug.
It's probably an excellent idea to point out that some of the best fighting games made for the Saturn (Capcom's Vs series, including X-Men vs Street Fighter) required an additional RAM cart. So you could easily buy a crippled version of XvSF for the Playstation - but to get the super excellent Saturn version you had to jump through huge hoops and probably an import shop.
To each their own. MvC2's gameplay is much more free-flowing, and you don't have to worry so much about the infinites and dual team combos that dominante higher level play. MvC2 is broken in its own way, but it generally requires a lot more skill, though, and execution.
Look up IFCYipes online to see top MvC2 play - I can't think of any comparable examples of MvC1 skilled play. MagnetoManiac has some good MvC1 videos up, but -- the evolution from MvC1 to MvC2 is pretty breathtaking.:)
It's generally believed that the only 'perfect' port of Marvel vs Capcom 2 is on the Dreamcast. This is why I have a stack of those shoddy systems hanging around.
After the (Dreamcast) Marvel vs Capcom 2 national finals this year, they destroyed a Dreamcast on stage. The DC is great, but they'll make you angry over the years.
Right, but that's rather the current suggestions on the table. The consensus appears to be that there's no good solution with regards to stock/system codecs, so some external factor needs to be involved. It's either Flash, Silverlight, or browser-bundle or download-to-browser.
I believe Firefox currently goes the bundle-FFDShow route.
Because the system codecs vary between systems. So on a Win XP machine you have baseline X (Windows Media, a handful of old AVI codecs, MPEG1), on Windows 7 you have baseline Y (MPEG1/2/4 support, Windows Media, most popular AVI codecs). The commonality between *those* stock systems doesn't correlate to a stock OSX or Linux install... so either you'd have to use really old "common" codecs (Cinepak, maybe?) or install the codecs required.
So it's interesting, but there's no meaningful or useful "common" set of system codecs that a site vendor could rely upon. Hence Flash and Silverlight.
I thought the comparison was to first-run theaters? They're not really designed to be downloadable or in your living room. Plus, hey, I think the larger part of the issue isn't just "ease of use", it's that you have a really hard time beating the price advantage given by people offering you free/stolen goods.
I have to this point been completely unaware of news web sites where you sat through 3-5 minutes of advertising interrupting the web site repeatedly throughout the hour. Plus you have people doing real-time stripping out of any ads anyways.
Your comparison is interesting, but it's an apples-to-oranges market comparison.
It doesn't bother you, but how enticed are you? How relevant is it? When everybody has ads, we get inured and stop paying attention.
Your post implies to me that there's no longer a viable concept of primary value, and that is the frighteningly dangerous concept across all non-physical media.
Or I go to Scarecrow Video in Seattle and rent them, paying a small fee to that store for building up a library of commercially valuable content. Or I help campaign for their release upon some new format, helping build with others a market for the release of that material.
p2p in this case helps destroy your commercial marketplace for both rental agencies and (re)releases and thus adversely affects your interests in the longer term.
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My loose understanding is that this won't work for HBO via CableCARD, which means I for one am still dead in the water / stuck on Windows 7. I'd be happy to hear that that's solved, but until that point MS asking me to upgrade is pointless/annoying. :\
I didn't start blocking ads until lazy ad networks started allowing malware into their system. If you can't be responsible enough to not try to destroy my system, you shouldn't be on my system at all.
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I was about to tell you to RTFA but then I realized that the submitter used a really poor article. His bad.
It is reportedly confirmed for Xbox 360, PS3, and "others":
* http://www.gamezone.com/products/destiny/news/bungie-s-destiny-confirmed-for-xbox-360-ps3-and-future-console-platforms
There's been mention of the 2/12 response from Broder (previous to Musk's rebuttal), but the first post-rebuttal articles are now showing up:
* http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/conflicting-assertions-over-an-electric-car-test-drive/?smid=tw-share
Plus a general line by line analysis of Musk's comments:
* http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/02/elon-musks-data-doesnt-back-his-claims-new-york-times-fakery/62149/
If you bought a GM car and it was in perfect condition with zero miles on it forever, then your comparison would be rock star awesome.
Other purchases degrade. Software really doesn't.
Just flew this weekend and made sure to ask for a groping so I knew how it went. Wasn't that bad.
The larger question of whether they should be doing it at all definitely remains, though.
I went to WWU. Everybody in my peer CS group either had an excellent job either during or shortly after college. Many of my extended non-CS peer group also ended up buoyed by the CS department's influence and ended up in tech jobs.
My college girlfriend, who went through Woodring (the ed. department at WWU) and was expecting to teach high school Spanish, ended up as director for a major PNW tech company, making about quintuple what she was expecting to make.
WWU, a liberal arts college, does not have its core strength nor focus in CS, but perhaps the ROI there is high enough to merit some serious discussion.
I got the point of the original parent and was merely making clear the disconnect. The definition of "accordingly priced" seems in your view to need to be set by (or heavily influenced by) the consumer. If that's the expectation, we should enforce that expectation.
I don't know anything about the design of your DVD player, its regionality, or any of the other fun aspects of modern technology. Most Super Audio CDs probably also don't play on your CD player: do you have a moral or commercial right to make that work? What about if your CD player doesn't support HTOA? You're not getting all of the CD: what are your rights then? If a particular bitstream doesn't work because your DVD player uses an old decoder, what are your rights then? Introducing hardware into the discussion seems to cloud an already viciously murky issue.
If you're only obtaining it under the given terms, great. If (as with the OP example) you're obtaining it under ... alternative terms, perhaps that whole "compulsory licensing" notion makes one ton of sense.
That anecdote presumes that she has a right to obtain the content on her terms or prices.
If we're going to assume that her (thrifty) needs trump the plans (or lack thereof) of the copyright holders, then perhaps the law of the land should reflect that.
That's a heckuva drive. And other areas do have GameWorks or Dave & Buster's or etc... but CTF is on another level.
ChinaTown Fair (CTF) is the legendary training ground for a large chunk of the East Coast's best fighting game players. It is a hole in the wall, but you could go there and compete against some of the finest players in the world. It's been a fun stop each time I head out to NYC.
The libavcodec library is indeed excellent and very useful. I'm not knocking nor would I knock that in any fashion. I was just pointing out that most/500+ is still just "most", not "all". As a hobby/side project at work (the M, but I speak for myself only always) I've been tracking down and trying to get fixed codec issues for the past long while... so that differentation is sadly important.
Better ""integration"" of libav or more/better out of box codec support is excellent. You might not *currently* need to play G2M3 or MetaSound content, but it'd be nice if it just worked when you decided you needed it to. I'm a huge fan of VLC and other players that makes things just work.
Meta: This is slashdot, where I would expect that most of us are remotely technically competent. The statement "any codec hassles on any computer" is flat wrong, technically. Whomever moderated my comment as "troll": shame on you. It's cool if you don't understand an issue, but don't inflict your technical blind spots on others. It's that ignorant mentality (the notion that there's one magic pill for codecs) that led to the proliferation of codec packs and thus led to most of the multimedia-related system destabilization of the past six years or so.
I work at the big M and knows most of the stats. I've helped out the VLC team (and many others) repeatedly and have nothing against them (nor anyone else). I do however care that nobody is ignorant enough to believe that there is *any* magic codec pill. It's a misleading concept that's proven destructive.
Naw. It works well with the content you use it to play. There's 500+ video codecs, many many of which it doesn't work with.
Generally all players are at the mercy of the content creator. Having good codec support out of box is excellent, but you'll still hit problem scenarios (Duck, L&H, Indeo, latest screen codec, latest vendor codec, etc.) with every player.
I thought turbo controllers were legit, as you can buy licensed peripherals with that functionality...
Balloons and streamers came in the continental US version of the Party Pack. I got them in mine. They weren't branded balloons and streamers, mind you, but they were there.
I lost $40 playing poker with the Windows 7 cards: that's probably a bug.
It's probably an excellent idea to point out that some of the best fighting games made for the Saturn (Capcom's Vs series, including X-Men vs Street Fighter) required an additional RAM cart. So you could easily buy a crippled version of XvSF for the Playstation - but to get the super excellent Saturn version you had to jump through huge hoops and probably an import shop.
To each their own. MvC2's gameplay is much more free-flowing, and you don't have to worry so much about the infinites and dual team combos that dominante higher level play. MvC2 is broken in its own way, but it generally requires a lot more skill, though, and execution.
Look up IFCYipes online to see top MvC2 play - I can't think of any comparable examples of MvC1 skilled play. MagnetoManiac has some good MvC1 videos up, but -- the evolution from MvC1 to MvC2 is pretty breathtaking. :)
It's generally believed that the only 'perfect' port of Marvel vs Capcom 2 is on the Dreamcast. This is why I have a stack of those shoddy systems hanging around.
After the (Dreamcast) Marvel vs Capcom 2 national finals this year, they destroyed a Dreamcast on stage. The DC is great, but they'll make you angry over the years.
Right, but that's rather the current suggestions on the table. The consensus appears to be that there's no good solution with regards to stock/system codecs, so some external factor needs to be involved. It's either Flash, Silverlight, or browser-bundle or download-to-browser.
I believe Firefox currently goes the bundle-FFDShow route.
Because the system codecs vary between systems. So on a Win XP machine you have baseline X (Windows Media, a handful of old AVI codecs, MPEG1), on Windows 7 you have baseline Y (MPEG1/2/4 support, Windows Media, most popular AVI codecs). The commonality between *those* stock systems doesn't correlate to a stock OSX or Linux install... so either you'd have to use really old "common" codecs (Cinepak, maybe?) or install the codecs required.
So it's interesting, but there's no meaningful or useful "common" set of system codecs that a site vendor could rely upon. Hence Flash and Silverlight.
I thought the comparison was to first-run theaters? They're not really designed to be downloadable or in your living room.
Plus, hey, I think the larger part of the issue isn't just "ease of use", it's that you have a really hard time beating the price advantage given by people offering you free/stolen goods.
I have to this point been completely unaware of news web sites where you sat through 3-5 minutes of advertising interrupting the web site repeatedly throughout the hour. Plus you have people doing real-time stripping out of any ads anyways.
Your comparison is interesting, but it's an apples-to-oranges market comparison.
It doesn't bother you, but how enticed are you? How relevant is it? When everybody has ads, we get inured and stop paying attention.
Your post implies to me that there's no longer a viable concept of primary value, and that is the frighteningly dangerous concept across all non-physical media.
Or I go to Scarecrow Video in Seattle and rent them, paying a small fee to that store for building up a library of commercially valuable content.
Or I help campaign for their release upon some new format, helping build with others a market for the release of that material.
p2p in this case helps destroy your commercial marketplace for both rental agencies and (re)releases and thus adversely affects your interests in the longer term.