and since DVD players don't have firewire output, what's the incentive for people to get digital tvs or HDTVs (and the way to get manuf. prices down) if they can't provide them with the best signal possible! It's not just the broadcasters, it's Hollywood studios! This will just go 'round and 'round and nobody wins.
I won't go over the things the above posters have already pointed out, but... To really understand what they mean when they say "43% of the picture is gone" try watching a few scenes of, say, Ghostbusters in Pan&Scan and Widescreen for examples - they even talk about this in the commentary for that movie. There are scenes where one of the characters is COMPLETELY CUT OFF for the entire shot in pan&scan. Other times, when there are three people in one shot talking and you get this cheesy slow pan across the shot when voices change (see the scene where Dan, Harold, and Bill are going up in the elevator in the hotel early on) My point is that people don't realize how bad Pan&Scan can be until they actually compare scenes directly to the Widescreen version. You'd be almost crazy to prefer the pan&scan!
the only problem with that winamp plugin is that you have to install Real Player for it to work!!!
Besides that, Winamp with the plugin has a hard time with the streaming Real Player content - I finally broke down and removed it and just used Real for those audio streams that don't come in mp3.
You can still get the super basic model - but it's not easy. Just be very careful when you're picking the options you want (I think there are 3 places on the website where you can go astray).
Also - during the install, de-select all of the "helpful" things real player wants to add and put bogus info wherever you can. Oh, and of course you have to de-select a bunch of things in the options once you run it (systray!), but when it's all done you can have a nice, minimized player that plays low-quality music! Sweet.
If only those radio stations *COUGH*WFNX*COUGH* wouldn't insist on using real for their online broadcasts.
Yeah, the documentation is pretty sparse (and the text log is nice, but it doesn't really give you that much info).
OTOH, is there really much more you want to do if you are being pinged/scanned? From what I can tell, ZoneAlarm reacts to those requests as if there were no computer present - so the people scanning are just getting no response back. (this is just what i got from testing at grc.com - I could be wrong!)
I have tried tracking down some IPs, but they are usually spoofed or just belong to some hapless cable modem user who doesn't even realize they have a trojan running on their machine. Now I just ignore them and just make sure nothing weird is being sent out.
As far as the client/server thing, I just downloaded RealPlayer super basic bare bones (I broke down and got it because two fav. radio stations only use real player format for their online broadcast). I told ZA to let it access the internet but NOT act as a server - I can still listen to music, so I guess that works - could work with netzip - don't know since I got the most basic real player I could.
just wanted to add more positive feedback on ZoneAlarm - very happy with it.
Not that this is the best test for it, but if you go to GRC you can use their "sheilds up" section to test what info your Windows machine is giving out. Using it before and after installing ZoneAlarm was very informative. (of course, you could always run the portscans yourself from another machine, but I'm lazy!).
I recommend this software to all my windows friends with cable modems - script kiddies just love to target those @home & roadrunner IP blocks! I get at least 2-3 scans a day looking for trojans.
There's nothing worse than having to wait through a silly twenty second Flash animation just to get to the actual information I am looking for on a corporate web site. Is it too much to ask for a "skip animation" option? But I guess that would work against the whole "image" the company is trying to get across by creating the animation in the first place.
How many websites (corporate or otherwise) still have a complete "text-only" version of their site? I don't really see that too much anymore. I understand it's a lot of work to duplicate the whole site, but I seem to recall back in the old days (about 1995 or so) when the web was really starting to get popular with the general public, it seemed normal for websites to have the "text-only version" link right on the home page. Maybe that's just because back then there were more people using text browsers than there are now. Any web designers out there still doing this for their clients? Just curious.
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and since DVD players don't have firewire output, what's the incentive for people to get digital tvs or HDTVs (and the way to get manuf. prices down) if they can't provide them with the best signal possible! It's not just the broadcasters, it's Hollywood studios! This will just go 'round and 'round and nobody wins.
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I won't go over the things the above posters have already pointed out, but... To really understand what they mean when they say "43% of the picture is gone" try watching a few scenes of, say, Ghostbusters in Pan&Scan and Widescreen for examples - they even talk about this in the commentary for that movie. There are scenes where one of the characters is COMPLETELY CUT OFF for the entire shot in pan&scan. Other times, when there are three people in one shot talking and you get this cheesy slow pan across the shot when voices change (see the scene where Dan, Harold, and Bill are going up in the elevator in the hotel early on) My point is that people don't realize how bad Pan&Scan can be until they actually compare scenes directly to the Widescreen version. You'd be almost crazy to prefer the pan&scan!
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Besides that, Winamp with the plugin has a hard time with the streaming Real Player content - I finally broke down and removed it and just used Real for those audio streams that don't come in mp3.
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Also - during the install, de-select all of the "helpful" things real player wants to add and put bogus info wherever you can. Oh, and of course you have to de-select a bunch of things in the options once you run it (systray!), but when it's all done you can have a nice, minimized player that plays low-quality music! Sweet.
If only those radio stations *COUGH*WFNX*COUGH* wouldn't insist on using real for their online broadcasts.
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OTOH, is there really much more you want to do if you are being pinged/scanned? From what I can tell, ZoneAlarm reacts to those requests as if there were no computer present - so the people scanning are just getting no response back. (this is just what i got from testing at grc.com - I could be wrong!)
I have tried tracking down some IPs, but they are usually spoofed or just belong to some hapless cable modem user who doesn't even realize they have a trojan running on their machine. Now I just ignore them and just make sure nothing weird is being sent out.
As far as the client/server thing, I just downloaded RealPlayer super basic bare bones (I broke down and got it because two fav. radio stations only use real player format for their online broadcast). I told ZA to let it access the internet but NOT act as a server - I can still listen to music, so I guess that works - could work with netzip - don't know since I got the most basic real player I could.
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Not that this is the best test for it, but if you go to GRC you can use their "sheilds up" section to test what info your Windows machine is giving out. Using it before and after installing ZoneAlarm was very informative. (of course, you could always run the portscans yourself from another machine, but I'm lazy!).
I recommend this software to all my windows friends with cable modems - script kiddies just love to target those @home & roadrunner IP blocks! I get at least 2-3 scans a day looking for trojans.
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umm, after reading these comments I'm beginning to wonder whether or not you people realize that bedope is a joke news website?
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I can't believe they didn't compare the guiness loss to the amount of food lost each year in people's beards. Watch out for that peanut butter!
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There's nothing worse than having to wait through a silly twenty second Flash animation just to get to the actual information I am looking for on a corporate web site. Is it too much to ask for a "skip animation" option? But I guess that would work against the whole "image" the company is trying to get across by creating the animation in the first place.
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How many websites (corporate or otherwise) still have a complete "text-only" version of their site? I don't really see that too much anymore. I understand it's a lot of work to duplicate the whole site, but I seem to recall back in the old days (about 1995 or so) when the web was really starting to get popular with the general public, it seemed normal for websites to have the "text-only version" link right on the home page. Maybe that's just because back then there were more people using text browsers than there are now. Any web designers out there still doing this for their clients? Just curious.
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I think this is what you meant to put in for the Adbusters link.
Otherwise, couldn't agree more. There ARE good magazines out there, you just have to know where to look.
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"Plus, tag-team robot wrestling! It's the mighty robots of
I know this may be hard to believe, but I do think he was joking...
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"Plus, tag-team robot wrestling! It's the mighty robots of