If he made such an announcement, it was probably on April 1. The last.plan I've seen is dated June 27 and there's no indication whatsoever of him dumping OpenGL.
Note: I'm aware that the original post was very likely a troll, but I thought that I'd quell the fears of those who took it seriously.
That's odd...I thought that all of the additional footage (including the extended podrace scene) was in the "deleted" scenes of the bonus disc. I'm not too observant, I guess.
Actually, the SVCD rip from the screener DVD (four discs) is of decent quality. Not on par with most DVD video, but I've honestly seen some DVDs with significantly lower quality video than this SVCD rip. I have no problem watching it on my big TV. Of course, there is the "get up to change the disc" thing that must be done three times during the movie.
It isn't in 5.1 surround and it isn't 16x9 enhanced, but it will hold me over until November.
Cheap Divx;) version? I've heard of that -- and I've heard that it even features 5.1 audio. I have the 4-disc SVCD screener rip (with 2.0 audio), and it's hardly "cheap", it's actually very nice for a bootleg. True, the video isn't anamorphic (grumble) and its inadequacies show up when viewed on my 57" TV, but it looks great on smaller screens and it will hold me over until November.
You could always look for the DVD screener SVCD rip to hold you over. It's decent quality (though not 16:9 enhanced and not perfect, especially on a large-screen TV) and it's holding me over until the November release.
I for some reason thought it was "Kommon Desktop Environment" (what with the use of "k" in front of everything and using it in place of "c" or "q"). Perhaps it means KDE Desktop Environment, because we could always use more recursive acronyms (presumably it would be pronounced "de", as the "k" is silent).
The suggestion was made to someone who admitted warezing Photoshop for amature graphics work, not professional graphics design. For casual users needing an image manipulation program, the Gimp works quite nicely.
I think that the only solution is to legalize killing of spammers. It does not matter what methods are employed, it should be legal to kill any person who can be demonstratedly linked to a fax or e-mail spam run (so long as no one other than the spammer is harmed and no property is damaged apart from a minimum allowance of the spammer's property).
...but it might have been another comedy sketch show (and this was long ago) with a comedy skit about a conversion to "metric time", moving to a "100-hour day". While the "hour" would be altered by changes to the minutes and seconds, one "day" amounted to three sunrise/sunset periods.
Wish I could find an MPG of that. Wonder why no one else seems to remember it...
The problem there is that some people might not use those devices and then Microsoft and "content owners" would not be able to control those computers.
Great...so in order to increase ad revenue they will distort and deform the TV picture. It won't be so bad when everything is filmed wide (and I can just hit "zoom" on my TV), but Star Trek looks awful with everything so squashed.
There comes a problem when using the new auto-update feature. It will automatically download and install updates with few or no prompts at all. When I updated Media Player, I didn't have to go to any websites nor did I have to click on any agreements. As such, my EULA was changed without any notice.
Well, someone else commented on the CHITIN.KEY's non keyfile nature. I happen to know that the actual keyfile is not encrypted -- it is a plaintext file. As such, if you are transferring a keyfile you can simply open it up with emcas or pico and swap out the old with the new.
While I'm certainly not going to excuse the problem you are reporting, I should note that I don't have that problem and that you really shouldn't be running under an Administrator account for extended periods of time.
(I run an Admin account at work because that's how the brilliant network admins set things up -- at home I have a "Standard User" account that I use for normal activities).
These "mod chips" are all about piracy, pure and simple. No legit user would ever want or need to open up their console to play games
I would comment on the need to use modchips in order to play imported games (and the supply of "import only" modchips for the PSX that would allow the console to boot and run imported games, but would not allow the console to boot with CD-R media) but since your post is definitely going to be modded down as flamebait, trolling or both (and deservedly so), I'll not bother.
The "official" explanation around alt.atheism is thus:
Atheism implies a lack of belief in deities. "Weak" atheism implies nothing more than withheld belief based on lack of evidence or ignorance of the concept. "Strong" atheism implies the outright assertion "there are no gods". Many monotheistic people incorrectly assume that atheism is the assertion that "there is no God", ignoring that an atheist lacks belief in all deities, not just one popular one.
Agnosticism is the belief that there is no way to know if a god exists or not. It is thus orthagonal to atheism/theism, an agnostic could have "faith" that a deity exists and be a theist or an agnostic could lack "faith" in any deities and thus be an atheist.
It's fun educating new fundies who barge into the newsgroup to tell us what we "believe" when in truth the only commonality amongst atheists is a lack of a belief.
I've seen figures that range between 1% and 10%, so I'm not sure if there really is a good answer.
One problem might be atheists who don't quite realise it -- they've bought into the false definition of atheism presented by theists who try to attach all kinds of trappings like an anti-Christian attitude or acceptance of specific philisophical tenets, and because they simply lack belief in any gods (which is the only defining quality of an atheist) they call themselves "agnostic" or "no answer".
Just a guess, though.
Personally I'm not shy about my lack of belief in gods. That is, I won't pretend to believe just to make other people comfortable; I don't go out of my way to mention it but if someone asks about my relationship with $DEITY I won't hesitate to tell them that I don't accept the existence of $DEITY as fact.
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If he made such an announcement, it was probably on April 1. The last .plan I've seen is dated June 27 and there's no indication whatsoever of him dumping OpenGL.
Note: I'm aware that the original post was very likely a troll, but I thought that I'd quell the fears of those who took it seriously.
That's odd...I thought that all of the additional footage (including the extended podrace scene) was in the "deleted" scenes of the bonus disc. I'm not too observant, I guess.
Er, I'm confused. I have TPM on DVD and I'm not aware of any additional footage within the movie itself.
Well I do need a new car and I've heard someone report that Kia's are surprisingly decent vehicles...
Actually, the SVCD rip from the screener DVD (four discs) is of decent quality. Not on par with most DVD video, but I've honestly seen some DVDs with significantly lower quality video than this SVCD rip. I have no problem watching it on my big TV. Of course, there is the "get up to change the disc" thing that must be done three times during the movie.
It isn't in 5.1 surround and it isn't 16x9 enhanced, but it will hold me over until November.
Cheap Divx ;) version? I've heard of that -- and I've heard that it even features 5.1 audio. I have the 4-disc SVCD screener rip (with 2.0 audio), and it's hardly "cheap", it's actually very nice for a bootleg. True, the video isn't anamorphic (grumble) and its inadequacies show up when viewed on my 57" TV, but it looks great on smaller screens and it will hold me over until November.
You could always look for the DVD screener SVCD rip to hold you over. It's decent quality (though not 16:9 enhanced and not perfect, especially on a large-screen TV) and it's holding me over until the November release.
Um, you need to learn the difference between "crack team" and "crack-smoking team". Those two phrases have very different meanings.
I knoe CDE, it's used at the university I attend. I prefer KDE...or actually just about anything to it :)
I for some reason thought it was "Kommon Desktop Environment" (what with the use of "k" in front of everything and using it in place of "c" or "q"). Perhaps it means KDE Desktop Environment, because we could always use more recursive acronyms (presumably it would be pronounced "de", as the "k" is silent).
The suggestion was made to someone who admitted warezing Photoshop for amature graphics work, not professional graphics design. For casual users needing an image manipulation program, the Gimp works quite nicely.
I think that the only solution is to legalize killing of spammers. It does not matter what methods are employed, it should be legal to kill any person who can be demonstratedly linked to a fax or e-mail spam run (so long as no one other than the spammer is harmed and no property is damaged apart from a minimum allowance of the spammer's property).
...but it might have been another comedy sketch show (and this was long ago) with a comedy skit about a conversion to "metric time", moving to a "100-hour day". While the "hour" would be altered by changes to the minutes and seconds, one "day" amounted to three sunrise/sunset periods.
Wish I could find an MPG of that. Wonder why no one else seems to remember it...
The problem there is that some people might not use those devices and then Microsoft and "content owners" would not be able to control those computers.
Great...so in order to increase ad revenue they will distort and deform the TV picture. It won't be so bad when everything is filmed wide (and I can just hit "zoom" on my TV), but Star Trek looks awful with everything so squashed.
There comes a problem when using the new auto-update feature. It will automatically download and install updates with few or no prompts at all. When I updated Media Player, I didn't have to go to any websites nor did I have to click on any agreements. As such, my EULA was changed without any notice.
Well, someone else commented on the CHITIN.KEY's non keyfile nature. I happen to know that the actual keyfile is not encrypted -- it is a plaintext file. As such, if you are transferring a keyfile you can simply open it up with emcas or pico and swap out the old with the new.
I don't mind people answering a cell phone during a movie if they suspect that it might be an emergency...
...provided that they leave the theater before doing so.
While I'm certainly not going to excuse the problem you are reporting, I should note that I don't have that problem and that you really shouldn't be running under an Administrator account for extended periods of time.
(I run an Admin account at work because that's how the brilliant network admins set things up -- at home I have a "Standard User" account that I use for normal activities).
These "mod chips" are all about piracy, pure and simple. No legit user would ever want or need to open up their console to play games
I would comment on the need to use modchips in order to play imported games (and the supply of "import only" modchips for the PSX that would allow the console to boot and run imported games, but would not allow the console to boot with CD-R media) but since your post is definitely going to be modded down as flamebait, trolling or both (and deservedly so), I'll not bother.
Well, I don't claim with certainty that absolutely no gods of any kind exist. Barring any evidence for any, however, I assume the existence of none.
That makes me a "weak" atheist by the definitions that I provided above. That is how I "justify" my atheism.
The "official" explanation around alt.atheism is thus:
Atheism implies a lack of belief in deities. "Weak" atheism implies nothing more than withheld belief based on lack of evidence or ignorance of the concept. "Strong" atheism implies the outright assertion "there are no gods". Many monotheistic people incorrectly assume that atheism is the assertion that "there is no God", ignoring that an atheist lacks belief in all deities, not just one popular one.
Agnosticism is the belief that there is no way to know if a god exists or not. It is thus orthagonal to atheism/theism, an agnostic could have "faith" that a deity exists and be a theist or an agnostic could lack "faith" in any deities and thus be an atheist.
It's fun educating new fundies who barge into the newsgroup to tell us what we "believe" when in truth the only commonality amongst atheists is a lack of a belief.
Does Godwin's Law apply on web forum discussions? I thought that it was an observation of USENET -- are web forums a proper extension?
I've seen figures that range between 1% and 10%, so I'm not sure if there really is a good answer.
One problem might be atheists who don't quite realise it -- they've bought into the false definition of atheism presented by theists who try to attach all kinds of trappings like an anti-Christian attitude or acceptance of specific philisophical tenets, and because they simply lack belief in any gods (which is the only defining quality of an atheist) they call themselves "agnostic" or "no answer".
Just a guess, though.
Personally I'm not shy about my lack of belief in gods. That is, I won't pretend to believe just to make other people comfortable; I don't go out of my way to mention it but if someone asks about my relationship with $DEITY I won't hesitate to tell them that I don't accept the existence of $DEITY as fact.
I recall Nintendo and Sega using similar arguments to go after sites distributing console emulators.
True. That's why you can't find any console emulators anywhere anymore.