Mozilla figures out how to render "made for IE" sites in some fashion. Have this an option that can be enabled that by default is turned off.
Label the option "enable broken website compatibility". Describe it as enabling support to view websites that violate accepted HTML design standards and that these websites normally do not appear correctly because of bad design. Have big warnings about how enabling might cause problems in viewing websites that were designed properly. See what happens when people who have sites "designed for IE" find out about it.
There's something amusing about that line of reasoning: open source can't be used, not because it's necessarily inferior to closed source but because if something goes wrong we won't be able to blame anyone...
...anyway, you're confusing open source with anonymous development. Open source simply means that the source is available for modification if necessary. If you keep track of who makes what mods, then you could track a mistake either to the original author or to someone who screwed up some code in their revision of the software.
Way back when I was in high school (okay, so I graduated in 1996) the "best" computers were a 486/25SX in the physics teacher's room (it was his) and a 386/16 (or something similar) in a computer lab filled with Apples. I would use the 486 during physics class to play Freecell (I could get away with it because I was getting an A in the course) and during my free periods I would play Doom on the 386. Naturally there was no network connection, but I did bring in and install a sound card (I couldn't use it in the IBM piece of shit I had at home thanks to Microchannel) to "enhance" my performance.
I never said that I was taking full advantage of my set, just advantage. A 57" 16x9 screen capable of displaying a 480p image (note: it does support higher resolutions, I just don't have any video sources that come in better than that) is going to show DVD movies with far better image clarity than a 27" 4:3 monitor showing at 480i. True, that "image clarity" often means that I can actually notice the artifacting or pixelization, but it's the principle of the thing.
Also, all televisions have some level of overscan (at least NTSC ones, I don't know about PAL), but I was able to determine that the overscan on my model is minimal (comparing information on the sides of the image in 4:3 mode versus information on the sides when stretching to 16:9 revealed that very few pixels went missing -- not enough to be noticed when sitting six feet away)
I'm aware of the higher resolution afforded by PAL. I don't have any control over that.
I got the television because I wanted to watch DVD movies in higher quality than I'd been seeing before. When I refer to "taking advantage", I'm speaking of the potential to receive and view digital HD broadcasts on the set.
i=interlace, p=progressive. I am not sure of 1080i would look better or worse than 480p -- it would be more detailed, but you still might have the "interlace flicker" problem. I've also heard (from someone who may well not have known what he was talking about) that there was a rarely-mentioned 540p standard; basically an alternate method for the 1080i resolution.
Well, I don't have a digital television, but I do have an HD monitor (unfortunately it uses the analogue component inputs which means that it might not be compatable by the time the entertainment industry has utterly destroyed the existing competing HD formats through their paranoia over me sending the most recent Buffy episode to a friend of mine). I wanted something big and wide for DVDs so I saved up...for about five years.
Some of us like these luxuries and enjoy being able to take advantage of them.
I wasn't aware of this. While I did consider hackability when choosing a new player, I was far more interested in a model that could output a good progressive scan image (and play SVCDs) and I was willing to sacrifice region selection for that.
I'm pretty sure that it's a physical issue with the laser -- however it has been confirmed that several brands of CD-RW media will work with the console.
Keep in mind that something like Monsters Inc is going to be transferred from a digital work to film, as with any completely CG movie or movies that were shot completely digitally (Episode 2, Jason X). Movies shot on traditional film would have to be converted to digital from the film masters. Dunno what that would do for the quality but I bet it would result in less of a difference when comparing reel v. digital (though not completely, since you can get all kinds of scratches on the reel film), and it is an argument for filmmakers to switch to digital.
I'm not sure how it translates to full pixel resolutions, but HDTV comes in three flavors: 480p, 1080i and 720p. That, of course, refers only to the vertical resolution and not the horizontal (I'm not sure how that translates), but I'm assuming that digital projectors aren't using interlaced video output so it's pointless to compare it to 1080i.
I can't imagine using a digital projector even on par with 720p. Sure, it looks absolutely beautiful on a 56" HDTV, but blow it up to a giant theatre-sized screen and you're going to notice the pixels.
Don't use Morrowind as a benchmark test for any video card. It doesn't matter if you have a PII400 with a TNT2 or a AMD 1900+ with a GeForce 4 Ti4600, you get about the same framerate.
I thought that the DVD playback method wasn't covered by a patent. I thought that MPEG-2 decoding wasn't covered under any patents and that the MPAA wanted the CSS method to be a trade secret and thus never had it patented (because patents must be disclosed)...that was what the lawsuit in California over DeCSS was all about (the MPAA wanted to have a "trade secret" and then claim infringement when someone reverse-engineered and implemented it, even though that's perfectly legal.
I'm an advocate of the "bullet to the brain of the spammer" removal request method myself. We just need laws to make it legal.
I've lost important e-mails because they got mixed up in a big mess of junk e-mail. I want to personally beat to death the sender of every junk e-mail I've received...well, not beat them to death. Just beat them until they're barely conscious then set them on fire.
I do worry though about legal remedies just moving the problem to where the laws don't exist.
So do I. Unfortunately I don't think that the proper solution, vigilantism (stringing up spammers, beating and killing them brutally) will be smiled upon by the courts.
But that means that all those sci fi movies lied to us!
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Someone in the media industry (I don't know if it came directly from the MPAA) stated that one of the factors in AotC's "poor" box office performance is the bootleg that was released a week before the movie. Fans downloaded and watched the movie, saw that it sucked (or even if it didn't quite "suck" it wasn't worth the price of admission in a theater) and decided not to go. That's their "proof" that movie piracy is destroying the entertainment industry.
I really don't see this as a possiblity. Dialup simply requires that you be able to dial into a machine on another end over your phone line. You would still need a connection from your phone company to dial out, but the issue at hand is over a specific service provided through the line...dial-up simply uses the normal analogue line, which you're already paying the phone company for, not your ISP.
Your local phone company trying to do something so that you couldn't dial out to another ISP would go into anti-trust and anti-competetive. I don't think that would go over well, at least not with some of the less corrupt government agencies our there.
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Given that there already exists a commercial product for connecting the GBA to a television, I'm not surprised...
...of course, it uses a composite video signal. Creating a device that uses S-video or even component would be impressive.
Why not inform Valve of this and give them the hacked opengl files so they can add it to their checksums?
Here's an idea I just had.
Mozilla figures out how to render "made for IE" sites in some fashion. Have this an option that can be enabled that by default is turned off.
Label the option "enable broken website compatibility". Describe it as enabling support to view websites that violate accepted HTML design standards and that these websites normally do not appear correctly because of bad design. Have big warnings about how enabling might cause problems in viewing websites that were designed properly. See what happens when people who have sites "designed for IE" find out about it.
There's something amusing about that line of reasoning: open source can't be used, not because it's necessarily inferior to closed source but because if something goes wrong we won't be able to blame anyone...
...anyway, you're confusing open source with anonymous development. Open source simply means that the source is available for modification if necessary. If you keep track of who makes what mods, then you could track a mistake either to the original author or to someone who screwed up some code in their revision of the software.
...If we can't crash our airplanes into buildings accidentally before the terrorists do it deliberately then the terrorists have already won.
Way back when I was in high school (okay, so I graduated in 1996) the "best" computers were a 486/25SX in the physics teacher's room (it was his) and a 386/16 (or something similar) in a computer lab filled with Apples. I would use the 486 during physics class to play Freecell (I could get away with it because I was getting an A in the course) and during my free periods I would play Doom on the 386. Naturally there was no network connection, but I did bring in and install a sound card (I couldn't use it in the IBM piece of shit I had at home thanks to Microchannel) to "enhance" my performance.
I never said that I was taking full advantage of my set, just advantage. A 57" 16x9 screen capable of displaying a 480p image (note: it does support higher resolutions, I just don't have any video sources that come in better than that) is going to show DVD movies with far better image clarity than a 27" 4:3 monitor showing at 480i. True, that "image clarity" often means that I can actually notice the artifacting or pixelization, but it's the principle of the thing.
Also, all televisions have some level of overscan (at least NTSC ones, I don't know about PAL), but I was able to determine that the overscan on my model is minimal (comparing information on the sides of the image in 4:3 mode versus information on the sides when stretching to 16:9 revealed that very few pixels went missing -- not enough to be noticed when sitting six feet away)
I'm aware of the higher resolution afforded by PAL. I don't have any control over that.
I got the television because I wanted to watch DVD movies in higher quality than I'd been seeing before. When I refer to "taking advantage", I'm speaking of the potential to receive and view digital HD broadcasts on the set.
i=interlace, p=progressive. I am not sure of 1080i would look better or worse than 480p -- it would be more detailed, but you still might have the "interlace flicker" problem. I've also heard (from someone who may well not have known what he was talking about) that there was a rarely-mentioned 540p standard; basically an alternate method for the 1080i resolution.
Well, I don't have a digital television, but I do have an HD monitor (unfortunately it uses the analogue component inputs which means that it might not be compatable by the time the entertainment industry has utterly destroyed the existing competing HD formats through their paranoia over me sending the most recent Buffy episode to a friend of mine). I wanted something big and wide for DVDs so I saved up...for about five years.
Some of us like these luxuries and enjoy being able to take advantage of them.
I wasn't aware of this. While I did consider hackability when choosing a new player, I was far more interested in a model that could output a good progressive scan image (and play SVCDs) and I was willing to sacrifice region selection for that.
I'm pretty sure that it's a physical issue with the laser -- however it has been confirmed that several brands of CD-RW media will work with the console.
Keep in mind that something like Monsters Inc is going to be transferred from a digital work to film, as with any completely CG movie or movies that were shot completely digitally (Episode 2, Jason X). Movies shot on traditional film would have to be converted to digital from the film masters. Dunno what that would do for the quality but I bet it would result in less of a difference when comparing reel v. digital (though not completely, since you can get all kinds of scratches on the reel film), and it is an argument for filmmakers to switch to digital.
I'm not sure how it translates to full pixel resolutions, but HDTV comes in three flavors: 480p, 1080i and 720p. That, of course, refers only to the vertical resolution and not the horizontal (I'm not sure how that translates), but I'm assuming that digital projectors aren't using interlaced video output so it's pointless to compare it to 1080i.
I can't imagine using a digital projector even on par with 720p. Sure, it looks absolutely beautiful on a 56" HDTV, but blow it up to a giant theatre-sized screen and you're going to notice the pixels.
I thoght that it was
"Let's go out to the movies"...x3 and then "to have ourselves a snack". But I could be wrong.
Well, if you're using an Xbox or Gamecube you can get up to 480p (possibly even 1080i).
Don't use Morrowind as a benchmark test for any video card. It doesn't matter if you have a PII400 with a TNT2 or a AMD 1900+ with a GeForce 4 Ti4600, you get about the same framerate.
I thought that the DVD playback method wasn't covered by a patent. I thought that MPEG-2 decoding wasn't covered under any patents and that the MPAA wanted the CSS method to be a trade secret and thus never had it patented (because patents must be disclosed)...that was what the lawsuit in California over DeCSS was all about (the MPAA wanted to have a "trade secret" and then claim infringement when someone reverse-engineered and implemented it, even though that's perfectly legal.
I could be wrong. I usually am.
I'm an advocate of the "bullet to the brain of the spammer" removal request method myself. We just need laws to make it legal.
I've lost important e-mails because they got mixed up in a big mess of junk e-mail. I want to personally beat to death the sender of every junk e-mail I've received...well, not beat them to death. Just beat them until they're barely conscious then set them on fire.
I do worry though about legal remedies just moving the problem to where the laws don't exist.
So do I. Unfortunately I don't think that the proper solution, vigilantism (stringing up spammers, beating and killing them brutally) will be smiled upon by the courts.
But that means that all those sci fi movies lied to us!
Someone in the media industry (I don't know if it came directly from the MPAA) stated that one of the factors in AotC's "poor" box office performance is the bootleg that was released a week before the movie. Fans downloaded and watched the movie, saw that it sucked (or even if it didn't quite "suck" it wasn't worth the price of admission in a theater) and decided not to go. That's their "proof" that movie piracy is destroying the entertainment industry.
Not quite, actually. It's somewhere between the Celeron and the Pentium 3. Too scaled up to be a Celeron but too stripped down to be a P3.
I've heard the same thing about the GameCube which leads me to suspect that it's a false rumour.
I really don't see this as a possiblity. Dialup simply requires that you be able to dial into a machine on another end over your phone line. You would still need a connection from your phone company to dial out, but the issue at hand is over a specific service provided through the line...dial-up simply uses the normal analogue line, which you're already paying the phone company for, not your ISP.
Your local phone company trying to do something so that you couldn't dial out to another ISP would go into anti-trust and anti-competetive. I don't think that would go over well, at least not with some of the less corrupt government agencies our there.
The PalmOS. Could that be done?
Yeah, it's a lame joke but someone had to do it.