I have a hearing loss and need subtitles/captions to properly follow dialogue in TV/movies without having the volume unacceptably loud. As a sci-fi fan, this becomes especially true as it is much harder to guess what a word you didn't hear was when the word is made up.
Some of the Australian distributors of DVDs have a very annoying habit of releasing TV shows without subtitles, even when the original release had them. This leaves me the choice of spending money on a product that I would like but not be able to fully enjoy, or find it for download with readily available subtitles for free. As much as I'd like to support good (IMHO) television, I'd be much more inclined to support it being released in a format I enjoy.
3ivX's progress has been rather slow throughout the year. Just in time for the comparison, I got a prerelease of the upcoming 3ivX 5.0 release. It now has a quality / speed slider that allows you a tradeoff between quality and speed, and B-frames are also supported. In addition, 3ivX has been working on an AVC codec, but which was not ready to be included in the comparison.
Fantasy is Sci-Fi though... they just replace every occurence of something which could be explained as science as 'magic'. What's so different about fantasy as compared to some of the more fantastic science fiction stories?
Umm, is it just me, or is this depend on working electronics to a frightening level? I can see it taking not much more than a good EMP blast to take the suits out of action? I mean, it'd be hard to have to add EMP shielding to them, on top of everything else... soldiers can only carry so much.
Couple that with the fact that they're bound to be very lax when it comes to training in what to do when the suit fails, and this will be a very distinct disadvantage, more than anything.
I think it's pretty easy to argue the whole thing is supporting Jobs' statement rather than going against it:
Instead of wasting precious time and money to implement a more involved protection system, which would "be broken sooner or later", they did the whole thing with a single, deletable file.
Are no-CD cracks hard to find? Not if you look. Are these instructions hard to find? Not if you look. That doesn't change anything; it's illegal to use the update cd - or a modified version - without owning the full version of OS X just like it's illegal to use a no-CD crack when you don't own the original game.
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I have a hearing loss and need subtitles/captions to properly follow dialogue in TV/movies without having the volume unacceptably loud. As a sci-fi fan, this becomes especially true as it is much harder to guess what a word you didn't hear was when the word is made up.
Some of the Australian distributors of DVDs have a very annoying habit of releasing TV shows without subtitles, even when the original release had them. This leaves me the choice of spending money on a product that I would like but not be able to fully enjoy, or find it for download with readily available subtitles for free. As much as I'd like to support good (IMHO) television, I'd be much more inclined to support it being released in a format I enjoy.
From the codec shoot-out article itself:
3ivX's progress has been rather slow throughout the year. Just in time for the comparison, I got a prerelease of the upcoming 3ivX 5.0 release. It now has a quality / speed slider that allows you a tradeoff between quality and speed, and B-frames are also supported. In addition, 3ivX has been working on an AVC codec, but which was not ready to be included in the comparison.
Fantasy is Sci-Fi though... they just replace every occurence of something which could be explained as science as 'magic'. What's so different about fantasy as compared to some of the more fantastic science fiction stories?
Umm... didn't they do something nasty to the OpenGL project with their pixel/vertex shader patents, or try to, or something?
Looks like someone's got bad aim...
Umm, is it just me, or is this depend on working electronics to a frightening level? I can see it taking not much more than a good EMP blast to take the suits out of action? I mean, it'd be hard to have to add EMP shielding to them, on top of everything else... soldiers can only carry so much.
Couple that with the fact that they're bound to be very lax when it comes to training in what to do when the suit fails, and this will be a very distinct disadvantage, more than anything.
I think it's pretty easy to argue the whole thing is supporting Jobs' statement rather than going against it:
Instead of wasting precious time and money to implement a more involved protection system, which would "be broken sooner or later", they did the whole thing with a single, deletable file.
Are no-CD cracks hard to find? Not if you look. Are these instructions hard to find? Not if you look. That doesn't change anything; it's illegal to use the update cd - or a modified version - without owning the full version of OS X just like it's illegal to use a no-CD crack when you don't own the original game.