Don't worry, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia! I know your Internet access hangs rather perilously, but calm yourself! I've written a song about it!
(somber, drum beat a la "Ballad of the Green Berets")
O Brave Achilles Your packets spill Through the Black Sea and the Dardanelles
A hero bold So proud and true The finest bits Traverse his tubes
But when the Fates Judge the big wet Will their fell looms Cut the Internet?
I'd love if that were the case, but I doubt the official PS3 OS will run it.
You could try running PS3 ubuntu with the custom mplayer that uses the PS3's SPUs for color conversion, I believe with that optimization the PS3 can play HD MKV files without a hiccup, but I haven't taken the time to try it myself yet.
The thing is, Yamauchi is right about RPG players. That shit is seriously boring. And a game that plays itself is even more boring! Let's have more Mario Galaxy.
HDTV lag has yet to be solved, meaning tons of old game consoles must be played with input delay.
You're exaggerating. Get an analog HDTV (directview CRT or rear projection CRT) if you're that worried. Frankly, I've only seen significant lag on DLP sets, and they're getting better all the time.
My mom or little sister installing P2P spyware or toolbars they voluntarily downloaded IS the problem, most of the time.
And no, I don't consider having my family call me every time they want to install something a "win win." More like a "lose lose." That's why I'm happy my mom decided to get a Mac. Not that it "just works" like the Mac guys always say, but it has completely eliminated the "OMG I'm getting a message that says my computer is infected" phone calls.
I love UAC. On XP, I used to have to de-malware my [anonymized family member]'s computer every couple of months. On Vista, I'm watching them use their machine, and UAC pops up with some spyware wanting to install. Box read, permission declined, no infestation I have to clean up.
Average users compulsively click "yes" to any nagging dialog box without a second thought. That is what they have been conditioned to do. UAC doesn't change that, it's just one more box to click "yes" to. That's why it sucks.
I remember seeing these at the bank a few years back (2003) when applying for an auto loan. The loan officer was typing on a keyboard that looked a little wide. Upon closer inspection I noticed it had a VGA and a couple of USB ports. It was one of these self-contained keyboard computers!
I asked about it but of course the loan officer wasn't interested in technological minutia. I never remembered about it until I saw this thread!
And in case you were worried, I got the loan! And I'm about to pay it off (I'm a contributing member of society)!!!!
Steve Jobs died in a car wreck in 1988. The current "Steve Jobs" is San Jose session musician, Roland Trisk. Trisk, who often doubled for Steve Jobs before his death in sales meetings and conferences, had plastic surgery in order closely resemble Jobs. There are hints everywhere-in the enclosure of the Mac LCII, the first NeXT CUBE, even Pixar's first full-length film, Toy Story. Wake up people! The truth is out there!
Term limits just give the people behind the throne more power. No thanks, I'd rather the politicians be powerful and visible, rather than the lobbyists and influence-peddlers in the background. The same thinking goes for a legislature with thousands of representatives vs. a legislature with 25-50 representatives. The "machine" politicians of the 19th century loved huge state legislatures and city councils, it served their interest to have a bunch of unremarkable interchangeable cogs.
I have a fun question to ask all you slashheads out there. If you actually did have to execute someone with a text editor (let's say Stallman and Linus Torvalds overthrew the government, and you were the executioner), which one would you use?
I disagree 100%. Over the past 70 years, the NTSC standard has evolved from a mono sound, black & white picture to include color, stereo sound, second audio program and closed captions. These non-trivial changes were done without breaking backward compatibility with the original standard, not because of government protection, but because of market forces.
You're absolutely wrong. The NTSC color standard was mandated by the FCC. It was developed to be 100% compatible with monochrome sets, which is why the color is "funky" compared to PAL or ATSC (broadcasters used to joke that NTSC stood for "never the same color"). The closed captioning was also mandated by the FCC, and was fought against by the TV manufacturers because "it would significantly increase costs." Surprise, surprise, it didn't, but the "free market" was happily selling expensive closed captioning equipment for years before that! FM radio was also mandated by the FCC.
There's really no other way to get the broadcasting world to move forward. The only problem this time is that the ATSC standard is not backwards compatible with NTSC color as all previous standards were. Signal reception is also iffy compared to good old NTSC. They could have made a much better standard.
This is the entertainment equivalent of that. Everybody's old TVs that work fine are being obsoleted, not by the market, but by the government saying, essentially, "Your old TV is now illegal."
This isn't the first time the government has mandated new tech. They did it with color TV, and they did it with FM radio. The difference is that they did it without breaking the older standards (monochrome TV and AM radio). Also, color TV and FM radio were superior to their predecessors in almost every way. Digital TV is inferior in one important way-it doesn't degrade gracefully. Signal reception is also a bit more prone to multi-path interference. All and all, the ATSC standard could have been a lot better...
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Don't worry, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia! I know your Internet access hangs rather perilously, but calm yourself! I've written a song about it!
(somber, drum beat a la "Ballad of the Green Berets")
O Brave Achilles
Your packets spill
Through the Black Sea
and the Dardanelles
A hero bold
So proud and true
The finest bits
Traverse his tubes
But when the Fates
Judge the big wet
Will their fell looms
Cut the Internet?
(LUTE SOLO)
Ram it up your ass, blowhard.
Splooging all over a message board about how much you hate Sony does jack shit to change their habits. It's impotent, and so are you!
having brains in the field is more often a detriment than a benefit.
Especially if it's a field full of...zombies!
It's flamebait, it's been said ten thousand times already, and it adds nothing to a conversation about OLED screens. Why don't you shove off?
I dunno, but MKV sucks on the Mac at the moment, unfortunately.
I'd love if that were the case, but I doubt the official PS3 OS will run it.
You could try running PS3 ubuntu with the custom mplayer that uses the PS3's SPUs for color conversion, I believe with that optimization the PS3 can play HD MKV files without a hiccup, but I haven't taken the time to try it myself yet.
The thing is, Yamauchi is right about RPG players. That shit is seriously boring. And a game that plays itself is even more boring! Let's have more Mario Galaxy.
The lamp will glow once to bring death, once to bring life, and a third time to bring...power!
The Chinese scientists may have discovered the secret of Green Lantern's ring!
HDTV lag has yet to be solved, meaning tons of old game consoles must be played with input delay.
You're exaggerating. Get an analog HDTV (directview CRT or rear projection CRT) if you're that worried. Frankly, I've only seen significant lag on DLP sets, and they're getting better all the time.
JUST FEED the traffic from EWR/JFK you would need to convert most of northern NJ into one giant goo pile
So...no changes would be necessary, then?
Similar joke:
Q: What's the difference between a Hoover and a Harley?
A: The position of the dirt bag.
What about the IBM PowerPC 980?
My mom or little sister installing P2P spyware or toolbars they voluntarily downloaded IS the problem, most of the time.
And no, I don't consider having my family call me every time they want to install something a "win win." More like a "lose lose." That's why I'm happy my mom decided to get a Mac. Not that it "just works" like the Mac guys always say, but it has completely eliminated the "OMG I'm getting a message that says my computer is infected" phone calls.
I love UAC. On XP, I used to have to de-malware my [anonymized family member]'s computer every couple of months. On Vista, I'm watching them use their machine, and UAC pops up with some spyware wanting to install. Box read, permission declined, no infestation I have to clean up.
Average users compulsively click "yes" to any nagging dialog box without a second thought. That is what they have been conditioned to do. UAC doesn't change that, it's just one more box to click "yes" to. That's why it sucks.
I remember seeing these at the bank a few years back (2003) when applying for an auto loan. The loan officer was typing on a keyboard that looked a little wide. Upon closer inspection I noticed it had a VGA and a couple of USB ports. It was one of these self-contained keyboard computers!
I asked about it but of course the loan officer wasn't interested in technological minutia. I never remembered about it until I saw this thread!
And in case you were worried, I got the loan! And I'm about to pay it off (I'm a contributing member of society)!!!!
Nothing to be ashamed of...it's been so long since I wrote a substantial program, I can barely scrape together "Hello World" these days...
Steve Jobs died in a car wreck in 1988. The current "Steve Jobs" is San Jose session musician, Roland Trisk. Trisk, who often doubled for Steve Jobs before his death in sales meetings and conferences, had plastic surgery in order closely resemble Jobs. There are hints everywhere-in the enclosure of the Mac LCII, the first NeXT CUBE, even Pixar's first full-length film, Toy Story. Wake up people! The truth is out there!
Term limits just give the people behind the throne more power. No thanks, I'd rather the politicians be powerful and visible, rather than the lobbyists and influence-peddlers in the background. The same thinking goes for a legislature with thousands of representatives vs. a legislature with 25-50 representatives. The "machine" politicians of the 19th century loved huge state legislatures and city councils, it served their interest to have a bunch of unremarkable interchangeable cogs.
QuantumG, you didn't have to post anonymous. We all know it was you, you self-promoting hack!
Now...prepare to be destroyed!
So Wii Sports isn't helping to sell Wiis? The Wii would sell just as well if it had a knitting game instead?
Interesting logic you have there.
I have a fun question to ask all you slashheads out there. If you actually did have to execute someone with a text editor (let's say Stallman and Linus Torvalds overthrew the government, and you were the executioner), which one would you use?
I'd definitely use vi.
I disagree 100%. Over the past 70 years, the NTSC standard has evolved from a mono sound, black & white picture to include color, stereo sound, second audio program and closed captions. These non-trivial changes were done without breaking backward compatibility with the original standard, not because of government protection, but because of market forces.
You're absolutely wrong. The NTSC color standard was mandated by the FCC. It was developed to be 100% compatible with monochrome sets, which is why the color is "funky" compared to PAL or ATSC (broadcasters used to joke that NTSC stood for "never the same color"). The closed captioning was also mandated by the FCC, and was fought against by the TV manufacturers because "it would significantly increase costs." Surprise, surprise, it didn't, but the "free market" was happily selling expensive closed captioning equipment for years before that! FM radio was also mandated by the FCC.
There's really no other way to get the broadcasting world to move forward. The only problem this time is that the ATSC standard is not backwards compatible with NTSC color as all previous standards were. Signal reception is also iffy compared to good old NTSC. They could have made a much better standard.
The government mandated the change to color TV and FM radio. They did it without breaking monochrome TV and AM radio.
They could have come up with a standard that was forward-compatible with NTSC. But they chose not to.
This is the entertainment equivalent of that. Everybody's old TVs that work fine are being obsoleted, not by the market, but by the government saying, essentially, "Your old TV is now illegal."
This isn't the first time the government has mandated new tech. They did it with color TV, and they did it with FM radio. The difference is that they did it without breaking the older standards (monochrome TV and AM radio). Also, color TV and FM radio were superior to their predecessors in almost every way. Digital TV is inferior in one important way-it doesn't degrade gracefully. Signal reception is also a bit more prone to multi-path interference. All and all, the ATSC standard could have been a lot better...