There's a very simple method which the parent poster even mentioned in passing. Basically, there's a text display somewhere along the back wall underneath the projector running the captions. If you need them you just ask an usher for one of the mirrors that hooks into the seats somehow in such equiped theatres and you just angle it so that you can read the captions in the mirror.
Does anyone know if the accelerator gives you the option to omit certain webpages from your accelerating experience
Yes, it lets you specify what pages/domains you don't want it to cache. I just installed it and they made it quite clear this was as option.
What I found annoying was it's insistance on placing yet another icon in my system tray. I've already got like half a dozen icons down there, and that's after weeding out the stuff I don't need/want running down there. I couldn't see how to disable the tray icon while keeping the accellerator enabled, so it didn't last 5 minutes on my machine before I was hitting the uninstall.
Most small computer shops I'm aware of, in my neck of the woods at least, offer the cheap unbranded PSUs as well, basically the same ones you'd find in those cheap cases but obviously without the deadweight.
I mean I recently spent ~$40 (Canadian, with tax) for a nice new 500 watt PSU to replace the old one that blew out on me... while I was running Prime95 to see if my CPU could take those extra few Mhz after I upped the CPU core voltage setting an eensy weensy bit... box is running more stable now than it did at the slower speed with the old PSU *lol*
Ironically, I had just finally got around to aquiring a consumer grade UPS for my own system, installed it, and posted on LJ about it shortly before all of this happened. Go figure.
First thing that popped into my head too, haven't used Divx in ages but that hasn't stopped me from watching any divx clips;'>
Including a link to get it from is always a Good Thing(tm) BTW
I've been happy with my Norcent DP-300 in this regard. Cheap as anything (I got it for $90 CND, I think it's about $60 USD south of the border, Walmart carries it) and it'll play just about anything you throw at it so long as it's of the mpeg1 or 2 variety, or mp3, or jpg.
Got CDs with mpg files burned as just files instead of (X)S/VCD tracks? It'll play em. MP3s burned on a DVD? It'll play em. Got mpg files encoded with nonstandard resolutions? (512x384, 352x176, etc) It'll play em. I can personally sttest to it's smooth playback of both PAL DVD and SVCD content on NTSC hardware
With several revisions floating around, region coding can be disabled on all models, just requiring a different code to be punched in depending on which model you have. Easily looked up based on the serial number of the unit.
Early, 'golden' models were just using an IDE DVD drive, which some industrious users have managed to hack the firmware for to allow dropping in a HD instead. Macrovision can only be disabled on these early 'golden' models as well, which are sadly hard to find nowadays. Granted, the playback hardware was less powerful in the 'golden' models than the other variants to pop up since, but I'd still like to be able to just pop in a big HD worht of MP3s & JPGs, load up the undocumented 'musical slideshow' feature, and just leave it running:'>
CDRs are like 40-50 cents a piece (Canadian!!!), with the levy (well, if you buy in bulk/spindles). I'm not too crazy about the levy myself, but God man its only a few cents per disc, overstating it to such proportions does nothing but breed hysteria.
//or a DVD player and TV that has component video (e.g. RGB) which doesn't use PAL/NTSC to encode the colour information
Actually, many newer mid-sized and large screen TVs and mid-ranged to high quality DVD players over here have component video as an option, it's just the cheap stuff that leaves component out nowadays. Just last month picked up a 25' Samsung TV for $350 Canadian and while it lacks S-Video input, its got Component, figure that one out!
*nod* Sword is definitely a mediocre knock-off of LOTR, no denying it, but Terry Brook's later works quickly shift from mediocre xerox to interesting, well developed fantasy. I would strongly suggest to anyone interested in reading Brooks' Shannara series that you only bother skiming through Sword to get to the other two books in the first trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, and Wishsong) or skip the first trilogy and go straight into the 4 part Heritage of Shannara series (Scions, Druid, Elf Queen, and Talismans). Just remember, skipping books in a long running series is generally a bad thing to do if there's a certain chronology at work: you can skip the original trilogy entirely and not be too out of place but if you ever go back to read those first books certain things which are stated openly in later books are big nasty spoilers for those earlier books. The most recent Shannara series (The Voyage of the Jeryl Shannara) is hands down my favorite fantasy to have come out over the past few years, and I anxiously await the next series.
Brooks' non-Shanarra series are also good for a read: Magical Kingdom of Landover is good for a laugh early on and gets more serious towards books 4 and 5 after the cheep gags are mostly over and done with while this interesting setting has been developed somewhat, while his Word and Void trilogy is just captivating.
Basically what I'm saying is, don't ignore the guy just because his first book, from some 25 years ago, was a bad Tolkien knock-off. He's consistently gotten more skilled in his craft with each book he's released, and with a quarter century of steady improvement he's simply at the top of his game and while still no Tolkien, he's simply one of the best fantasy authors writing today.
British Regulars out of Halifax Nova Scotia, who just wanted in on all the action going on around the interior. So it was still 50+ years before Canada became a country, their decendants still populate military towns across Eastern & Atlantic Canada
Actually, I find with a good 4 head VCR recording in SP you can re-record over the same tape easily 15-20+ times before quality issues start cropping up, and then usually in the audio. That's my experience anyway.
Oh Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell don't have a distributor for "Bubba Hotep" yet, so it could be a while before to see an 80-something elvis team up with a geriatric, black JFK tangling with a mummy stealing the souls of the elderly from their Texas retirement home.
And by locking Morepheus out of the network, Kazaa proved that the network isn't really a true P2P network, and that you can shut it down if order to by a court of law. Good job guys...
No, it's still true P2P, it's just not truely decentralized, which I'm sure is what you meant anyway
Doesn't anyone use IRC anymore? You can get just as much, if not more, on any of the large networks. Bob.
True, but most people I know who don't use IRC tend to shy away from it because of the learning curve, as pitifully small as it is compared to more point n' click file sharing.
But what are you going to do in a few years (2006-2007 IIRC) when TV stations will be forced to go all-digital?
As far as I'm aware (and correct me if I'm wrong) but all HDTV broadcasts are digital. What *is* analogue would be the connection between the external decoder box and the HDTV-ready TV set. If Digital TV is available in you're area it's the same idea, but instead of an MPEG2 720x480i image being digitally routed over the cable line and decoded by an external box, it would be a 1920x1040i digital signal. That just means you need to spend a few hundred on the new decoder box, the money grubbers, grrr....
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There's a very simple method which the parent poster even mentioned in passing. Basically, there's a text display somewhere along the back wall underneath the projector running the captions. If you need them you just ask an usher for one of the mirrors that hooks into the seats somehow in such equiped theatres and you just angle it so that you can read the captions in the mirror.
Oh no! A quarter! He'll be at it for hours!
My bad.
Watched it this morning, loved it, and will definitely be tuning in to CBCs broadcasts of this one. :'>
In England if you have a TV you have to pay a license fee, which then in turn funds the BBC. At least that's how it's supposed to work...
Well I grabbed it via Bittorrent myself, my ISP's usenet server sucks and I'm too damn cheap to pay for access to a decent 3rd party server.
Most small computer shops I'm aware of, in my neck of the woods at least, offer the cheap unbranded PSUs as well, basically the same ones you'd find in those cheap cases but obviously without the deadweight.
I mean I recently spent ~$40 (Canadian, with tax) for a nice new 500 watt PSU to replace the old one that blew out on me... while I was running Prime95 to see if my CPU could take those extra few Mhz after I upped the CPU core voltage setting an eensy weensy bit... box is running more stable now than it did at the slower speed with the old PSU *lol*
Ironically, I had just finally got around to aquiring a consumer grade UPS for my own system, installed it, and posted on LJ about it shortly before all of this happened. Go figure.
My own invite came in to my hotmail account yesterday as well.
First thing that popped into my head too, haven't used Divx in ages but that hasn't stopped me from watching any divx clips ;'>
Including a link to get it from is always a Good Thing(tm) BTW
Got CDs with mpg files burned as just files instead of (X)S/VCD tracks? It'll play em. MP3s burned on a DVD? It'll play em. Got mpg files encoded with nonstandard resolutions? (512x384, 352x176, etc) It'll play em. I can personally sttest to it's smooth playback of both PAL DVD and SVCD content on NTSC hardware
With several revisions floating around, region coding can be disabled on all models, just requiring a different code to be punched in depending on which model you have. Easily looked up based on the serial number of the unit.
Early, 'golden' models were just using an IDE DVD drive, which some industrious users have managed to hack the firmware for to allow dropping in a HD instead. Macrovision can only be disabled on these early 'golden' models as well, which are sadly hard to find nowadays. Granted, the playback hardware was less powerful in the 'golden' models than the other variants to pop up since, but I'd still like to be able to just pop in a big HD worht of MP3s & JPGs, load up the undocumented 'musical slideshow' feature, and just leave it running :'>
CDRs are like 40-50 cents a piece (Canadian!!!), with the levy (well, if you buy in bulk/spindles). I'm not too crazy about the levy myself, but God man its only a few cents per disc, overstating it to such proportions does nothing but breed hysteria.
guess he should be just about ready for Oktoberfest come the fall considering how much homebrew he's allowed to make :>
//or a DVD player and TV that has component video (e.g. RGB) which doesn't use PAL/NTSC to encode the colour information
Actually, many newer mid-sized and large screen TVs and mid-ranged to high quality DVD players over here have component video as an option, it's just the cheap stuff that leaves component out nowadays. Just last month picked up a 25' Samsung TV for $350 Canadian and while it lacks S-Video input, its got Component, figure that one out!
*nod* Sword is definitely a mediocre knock-off of LOTR, no denying it, but Terry Brook's later works quickly shift from mediocre xerox to interesting, well developed fantasy. I would strongly suggest to anyone interested in reading Brooks' Shannara series that you only bother skiming through Sword to get to the other two books in the first trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, and Wishsong) or skip the first trilogy and go straight into the 4 part Heritage of Shannara series (Scions, Druid, Elf Queen, and Talismans). Just remember, skipping books in a long running series is generally a bad thing to do if there's a certain chronology at work: you can skip the original trilogy entirely and not be too out of place but if you ever go back to read those first books certain things which are stated openly in later books are big nasty spoilers for those earlier books. The most recent Shannara series (The Voyage of the Jeryl Shannara) is hands down my favorite fantasy to have come out over the past few years, and I anxiously await the next series. Brooks' non-Shanarra series are also good for a read: Magical Kingdom of Landover is good for a laugh early on and gets more serious towards books 4 and 5 after the cheep gags are mostly over and done with while this interesting setting has been developed somewhat, while his Word and Void trilogy is just captivating. Basically what I'm saying is, don't ignore the guy just because his first book, from some 25 years ago, was a bad Tolkien knock-off. He's consistently gotten more skilled in his craft with each book he's released, and with a quarter century of steady improvement he's simply at the top of his game and while still no Tolkien, he's simply one of the best fantasy authors writing today.
Very good I found a new band that I might like. They are called Switchblade Symphony.
;'
Too bad they broke up a few years back
But as a side note I fist discovered them myself a few years back via Napster.
Hey! We haven't had an out and out Communist member of Parliament in decades!
British Regulars out of Halifax Nova Scotia, who just wanted in on all the action going on around the interior. So it was still 50+ years before Canada became a country, their decendants still populate military towns across Eastern & Atlantic Canada
Actually, I find with a good 4 head VCR recording in SP you can re-record over the same tape easily 15-20+ times before quality issues start cropping up, and then usually in the audio. That's my experience anyway.
Oh Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell don't have a distributor for "Bubba Hotep" yet, so it could be a while before to see an 80-something elvis team up with a geriatric, black JFK tangling with a mummy stealing the souls of the elderly from their Texas retirement home.
Yeah, like the script, which he reviewed. Actually, it was Moriarty that read & reviewed the script, not Harry.
And by locking Morepheus out of the network, Kazaa proved that the network isn't really a true P2P network, and that you can shut it down if order to by a court of law. Good job guys... No, it's still true P2P, it's just not truely decentralized, which I'm sure is what you meant anyway
Doesn't anyone use IRC anymore? You can get just as much, if not more, on any of the large networks. Bob. True, but most people I know who don't use IRC tend to shy away from it because of the learning curve, as pitifully small as it is compared to more point n' click file sharing.
But what are you going to do in a few years (2006-2007 IIRC) when TV stations will be forced to go all-digital? As far as I'm aware (and correct me if I'm wrong) but all HDTV broadcasts are digital. What *is* analogue would be the connection between the external decoder box and the HDTV-ready TV set. If Digital TV is available in you're area it's the same idea, but instead of an MPEG2 720x480i image being digitally routed over the cable line and decoded by an external box, it would be a 1920x1040i digital signal. That just means you need to spend a few hundred on the new decoder box, the money grubbers, grrr....