As someone with a CX700/M2, I welcome our new open-sourced overlords.
Seriously, this integrated media chip is capable of accelerated playback of MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, including HD-sized MPEG-2 frames. My board even has component out! What a (potentially) wonderful MythTV front end! However, with the current OpenChrome drivers, I feel grateful to have a working framebuffer. I'm just glad that I have the 1.5Ghz version, which makes it capable of SD-res MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 in software. If I had the 1Ghz version, I'd be screwed for pretty much any useful playback.
If you can get past the attempts at sarcasm and poor analogies, the poster actually has valid points. Not everyone can write like Tycho and get their point across. Doesn't change the fact that the grandparent poster made a lot of hard statements for which there's a lot of grey area.
Modern filesharing tools don't match only based on the filename. They also match based on checksums. This is why sometimes when you go searching for pr0n on eDonkey and often get distasteful things like that Spears mp3 even though your search specified erotic results only.
They don't have to have a copy downloaded directly from the defendant. I would have to think another copy of the same checksum'd (and verified) file from one of their other many defendants would probably pass muster in court. Then you'd just need to show the logs.
(and yes, I know that my example shows how checksums can miss in a big way, but such a thing is much less likely when you're using the checksum in addition to the filename as proof)
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Even so, I can't wait until 02:06:53.58979 May 9, A.D. 3141.
Sorry. I think you're going to have to. Might also want to consider doing a Ted Williams with the 'ol grey matter, too.;-)
Just because your mind has evolved it doesn't mean the rest of you has and I think the jury might still be out on your mental evolution. The fact that you're 18 and only 120 means that either you're 5'4" or your metabolism is still set at "puberty". Give it a bit of time. Wait 'til you hit 25 and come to the realization that the flight of stairs you just climbed kicked your ass.
They're not asking every soldier to make his/her body into a temple--just keep it from turning into a Phillipine brothel.
That's a githyanki. Didn't even have to look it up.;-)
D&D, specifically first edition rules, were a huge part of my childhood, too. I remember my first introduction. Being six or seven, my cousin had me take over for him while he was up from the table. Killed his shiny new cavalier (Unearthed Arcana had just come out) with a 1/1.
Wow. Until just now, I had almost forgotten. Some 10 years later, I set fire to his '90-ish Cavalier. It was a completely freak electrical fire in the dash, but it was me, just the same.:-D
Anyway, Gary started an avalanche and I'm glad I got caught up in it.
Take it easy on the FUD. To the best of my knowledge, no discs (Blu or HDDVD) have yet shipped with the image constraint token enabled specifically because of the number of playback devices that are hampered. Until the ICT is flipped on, you state a non-issue.
You're making the very large assumption that the TV is the center of attention for the room. If the room is dedicated to media and home theater, then sure. Go massive. But if the room has other purposes, sizing the screen to SMPTE or THX projection recommendations (which is what you linked) is absurd. You've got to live with the thing. If you also use the space for chatting with people and entertaining, a screen like that really dominates the space in an uncomfortable way. I thought this issue would go away as we transitioned from CRT RPTVs to nice flat panel jobs, but it really hasn't had as much an effect as I was hoping.
Also, a massive screen sitting plainly in your living room makes you look like a tool the way owning a European sports car does.
"Just because someone disagrees with you it doesn't mean they are smarter then you. The converse is true too."
What, if someone's smarter than me it doesn't mean they disagree? Or is it that if someone agrees with me, it DOES mean they're smarter? I don't get it.
Didn't I read something around Christmas that Wiis were flying off the shelves with a much lower attachment rate than the 360s or PS3s? If so, then big fscking deal.
My 70yo grandfather used to have a NES. Why? Just to play golf. It was kind of endearing and in a way is similar to this Wii phenomenon. But that was the only game he ever had (aside from Mario 3, which came with it).
You may have 50 million "new old gamers" out there because of the Wii. Let's say that they buy 3 games over the lifecycle of the console. Personally, I think that sounds high, but I'm being generous. Compare that to a COMBINED 50 million PS3 or 360 owners (combined because so few games are exclusive these days), who probably buy 6 games over the lifecycle of their consoles. These numbers are made up, but if you find real stats I bet they're mighty telling.
So I don't care how many of these new converts there are. They don't buy as many software titles, don't buy as many peripherals and aren't going to buy the NEXT new console "just to have it". The old gamers may have a lot more disposable income in total, but they're less likely to blow thousands on this particular hobby. For another ten years, at least...when the "Nintendo generation" hits their forties.:-)
Armed with that, it's still wrong. In "TLORT", we have The Lord Of the Rings Trilogy. If you're going to include the leading article "the", you best include the latter one. "TLOTRT". Hrm. I'm going to have to remember that word next time I GM Cthuluhu.
Anyway, back to pedantics. I say he just fat-fingered it.
The problem was that the original signall was clipped all to hell. I don't know what introduced it, mic or recorer, but you can hear the squared-off noise of peak voltage being ridden by something. The math guy got rid of most of that, which opened a lot of headroom to increase the volume.
That doesn't change the fact that, all things being equal, a louder signal will sound better to the human ear. But you couldn't have listened to the first one at higher SPL without grinding your teeth. So I suppose it is an improvement.
Heinlein had something like this on the moon in "Cat Who Walked Through Walls." It slung you into orbit inside of a tunnel. You know, in the first half of the book before it all went bat-shiat crazy.
Dunno how well that particular trick would work on earth, though. The significantly higher escape velocity would probably put the kabosh on his design.
"Alternately, if you really are using a ton of bandwidth, you'll have to pay for it. Which is fair, because I don't feel like subsidizing anybody's internet connection. "
You're making the faulty assumption that a 5GB/mo account would be significantly less than what you pay right now.
No, for me, everything stops working for some indeterminate amount of time.
And I just use the limiter in Azeureus. I set it to 22KB, which slows ALL my torrenting down and makes it nearly impossible to maintain a respectable ratio, but it leaves enough room for normal usage on top (like if I want to dump a bunch of pics on flickr, etc). Still sucks hard.
I really need to convince AT&T that they can run DSL to me.
So I currently pay TW $40/mo for my internet access via cable modem. I could be called a "heavy bandwidth" user, so let's run out the math. I routinely see 850KB/sec downloads from fast sites, like SourceForge mirrors. We'll not expect that level of throughput 24/7. Let's be nice and say it's 200KB/sec. And let's futher cut that in half and say that we only use it half the time. So that's about 13% of what we're CAPABLE of using. 200KB/sec for thirty 12-hour days comes out to 259GB/mo.
So by your rationale, a 5GB/mo user should get their internet access for about $.80.
Yeah, MY prices won't be going up. Uh-huh.
And to make matters worse, TW ALREADY sucks. Upload speed is about 55KB/sec. But if I'm seeding a torrent and I let the upload exceed about 25KB, my cable modem mysteriously starts cutting in and out. The bastards are already throttling me and they've been doing that for about a year and a half now. Utter bullshit.
Also sucky? *I* can't get DSL, which shocks me since I live in an established neighborhood in a town of 30,000 people. I'm also within 500 yards of half a dozen $500k houses.
So even if I WANTED to go to AT&T's craptastic service, I couldn't. The world is full of cock-gobblers.
You're 100% right. We need policy change. The US Govt bleeds money out its arsehole. We all know the story of the fabled "$500 toilet seat". And government-sponsored "oversight committees" are a joke, both in results and timeliness. What we need are a hundred thousand public eyes able to scrutinize what our government does for us. Instituting THAT would be a HUGE policy change.
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As someone with a CX700/M2, I welcome our new open-sourced overlords.
Seriously, this integrated media chip is capable of accelerated playback of MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, including HD-sized MPEG-2 frames. My board even has component out! What a (potentially) wonderful MythTV front end! However, with the current OpenChrome drivers, I feel grateful to have a working framebuffer. I'm just glad that I have the 1.5Ghz version, which makes it capable of SD-res MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 in software. If I had the 1Ghz version, I'd be screwed for pretty much any useful playback.
If you can get past the attempts at sarcasm and poor analogies, the poster actually has valid points. Not everyone can write like Tycho and get their point across. Doesn't change the fact that the grandparent poster made a lot of hard statements for which there's a lot of grey area.
Modern filesharing tools don't match only based on the filename. They also match based on checksums. This is why sometimes when you go searching for pr0n on eDonkey and often get distasteful things like that Spears mp3 even though your search specified erotic results only.
They don't have to have a copy downloaded directly from the defendant. I would have to think another copy of the same checksum'd (and verified) file from one of their other many defendants would probably pass muster in court. Then you'd just need to show the logs.
(and yes, I know that my example shows how checksums can miss in a big way, but such a thing is much less likely when you're using the checksum in addition to the filename as proof)
Even so, I can't wait until 02:06:53.58979 May 9, A.D. 3141.
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Sorry. I think you're going to have to. Might also want to consider doing a Ted Williams with the 'ol grey matter, too.
Just because your mind has evolved it doesn't mean the rest of you has and I think the jury might still be out on your mental evolution. The fact that you're 18 and only 120 means that either you're 5'4" or your metabolism is still set at "puberty". Give it a bit of time. Wait 'til you hit 25 and come to the realization that the flight of stairs you just climbed kicked your ass.
They're not asking every soldier to make his/her body into a temple--just keep it from turning into a Phillipine brothel.
That's not the point, and you know it. Creationists , with their view of an anthropomorphic god, assume OUR frame of reference.
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That's a githyanki. Didn't even have to look it up.
D&D, specifically first edition rules, were a huge part of my childhood, too. I remember my first introduction. Being six or seven, my cousin had me take over for him while he was up from the table. Killed his shiny new cavalier (Unearthed Arcana had just come out) with a 1/1.
Wow. Until just now, I had almost forgotten. Some 10 years later, I set fire to his '90-ish Cavalier. It was a completely freak electrical fire in the dash, but it was me, just the same.
Anyway, Gary started an avalanche and I'm glad I got caught up in it.
I can't seem to get to it. Youtube having issies?
Woo-hoo - we have a winner. Not!
1993 called. It wants its catch-phrase back.
Take it easy on the FUD. To the best of my knowledge, no discs (Blu or HDDVD) have yet shipped with the image constraint token enabled specifically because of the number of playback devices that are hampered. Until the ICT is flipped on, you state a non-issue.
You're making the very large assumption that the TV is the center of attention for the room. If the room is dedicated to media and home theater, then sure. Go massive. But if the room has other purposes, sizing the screen to SMPTE or THX projection recommendations (which is what you linked) is absurd. You've got to live with the thing. If you also use the space for chatting with people and entertaining, a screen like that really dominates the space in an uncomfortable way. I thought this issue would go away as we transitioned from CRT RPTVs to nice flat panel jobs, but it really hasn't had as much an effect as I was hoping.
Also, a massive screen sitting plainly in your living room makes you look like a tool the way owning a European sports car does.
No, it means that I know what "converse" means and he doesn't. And that you must not, either.
I wish I could meta-mod so I could bitch-slap the guy that gave you a +1 insight.
I got the base wit of his post--that wasn't my point. It was his use of the word "converse".
"Just because someone disagrees with you it doesn't mean they are smarter then you. The converse is true too."
What, if someone's smarter than me it doesn't mean they disagree? Or is it that if someone agrees with me, it DOES mean they're smarter? I don't get it.
Didn't I read something around Christmas that Wiis were flying off the shelves with a much lower attachment rate than the 360s or PS3s? If so, then big fscking deal.
:-)
My 70yo grandfather used to have a NES. Why? Just to play golf. It was kind of endearing and in a way is similar to this Wii phenomenon. But that was the only game he ever had (aside from Mario 3, which came with it).
You may have 50 million "new old gamers" out there because of the Wii. Let's say that they buy 3 games over the lifecycle of the console. Personally, I think that sounds high, but I'm being generous. Compare that to a COMBINED 50 million PS3 or 360 owners (combined because so few games are exclusive these days), who probably buy 6 games over the lifecycle of their consoles. These numbers are made up, but if you find real stats I bet they're mighty telling.
So I don't care how many of these new converts there are. They don't buy as many software titles, don't buy as many peripherals and aren't going to buy the NEXT new console "just to have it". The old gamers may have a lot more disposable income in total, but they're less likely to blow thousands on this particular hobby. For another ten years, at least...when the "Nintendo generation" hits their forties.
Armed with that, it's still wrong. In "TLORT", we have The Lord Of the Rings Trilogy. If you're going to include the leading article "the", you best include the latter one. "TLOTRT". Hrm. I'm going to have to remember that word next time I GM Cthuluhu.
Anyway, back to pedantics. I say he just fat-fingered it.
The problem was that the original signall was clipped all to hell. I don't know what introduced it, mic or recorer, but you can hear the squared-off noise of peak voltage being ridden by something. The math guy got rid of most of that, which opened a lot of headroom to increase the volume.
That doesn't change the fact that, all things being equal, a louder signal will sound better to the human ear. But you couldn't have listened to the first one at higher SPL without grinding your teeth. So I suppose it is an improvement.
Heinlein had something like this on the moon in "Cat Who Walked Through Walls." It slung you into orbit inside of a tunnel. You know, in the first half of the book before it all went bat-shiat crazy.
Dunno how well that particular trick would work on earth, though. The significantly higher escape velocity would probably put the kabosh on his design.
Please see your psychiatrist or nurse subscriber soon. I think the Welbutrin ain't working no more.
"Alternately, if you really are using a ton of bandwidth, you'll have to pay for it. Which is fair, because I don't feel like subsidizing anybody's internet connection. "
You're making the faulty assumption that a 5GB/mo account would be significantly less than what you pay right now.
No, for me, everything stops working for some indeterminate amount of time.
And I just use the limiter in Azeureus. I set it to 22KB, which slows ALL my torrenting down and makes it nearly impossible to maintain a respectable ratio, but it leaves enough room for normal usage on top (like if I want to dump a bunch of pics on flickr, etc). Still sucks hard.
I really need to convince AT&T that they can run DSL to me.
So I currently pay TW $40/mo for my internet access via cable modem. I could be called a "heavy bandwidth" user, so let's run out the math. I routinely see 850KB/sec downloads from fast sites, like SourceForge mirrors. We'll not expect that level of throughput 24/7. Let's be nice and say it's 200KB/sec. And let's futher cut that in half and say that we only use it half the time. So that's about 13% of what we're CAPABLE of using. 200KB/sec for thirty 12-hour days comes out to 259GB/mo.
So by your rationale, a 5GB/mo user should get their internet access for about $.80.
Yeah, MY prices won't be going up. Uh-huh.
And to make matters worse, TW ALREADY sucks. Upload speed is about 55KB/sec. But if I'm seeding a torrent and I let the upload exceed about 25KB, my cable modem mysteriously starts cutting in and out. The bastards are already throttling me and they've been doing that for about a year and a half now. Utter bullshit.
Also sucky? *I* can't get DSL, which shocks me since I live in an established neighborhood in a town of 30,000 people. I'm also within 500 yards of half a dozen $500k houses.
So even if I WANTED to go to AT&T's craptastic service, I couldn't. The world is full of cock-gobblers.
You're 100% right. We need policy change. The US Govt bleeds money out its arsehole. We all know the story of the fabled "$500 toilet seat". And government-sponsored "oversight committees" are a joke, both in results and timeliness. What we need are a hundred thousand public eyes able to scrutinize what our government does for us. Instituting THAT would be a HUGE policy change.
I leaned C under QNX. It sure felt just like any other Unix of that time (late 80s).
That's like saying a Tranny is a chick because you never stuck your hand down her pants.