The average Joe backing up his movie is NOT where the main concern should be. If Hollywood wins this battle is that going to stop the illegal selling or uploading / downloading of movies? Heck no, it'll just punish the average person from legally making a personal DVD backup
You're right about the average Joe who bought a DVD burner not being interested in irc, p2p etc. However he isn't interested in backing up his own DVDs either - he want's to backup Blockbuster's DVDs.
But this is a full-bodied classic of 2002 vintage from the cellars of the maestro (The trademark 'Gentlemen' introduction gives it away). The google groups link is well worth following to see just how many supposedly clever biters he reeled in!
Apple claim that OS X is 'UNIX based' and that it can run UNIX applications. They don't say OS X is UNIX just that it does everything that UNIX should.
Ford owns Land Rover after BMW ditched the Rover group. Vickers, who own Rolls-Royce aeroengines, owns the RR name and they licence it to BMW for cars. VW bought the RR factory but were outsmarted by BMW on the licensing aspect and they were left with the Bentley name and -$$$.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the stupid director's commentary. I would much rather see them spend their bandwidth on less-compressed video and audio streams.
I quite like commentaries - providing the commentators have something worth saying of course. Some of my favourite ones are Ridley Scott on Alien, Tom Baker on some of the BBC Dr Who DVDs and Sam Raimi on the Evil Dead. Actually Evil Dead has two commentaries one by Raimi/Tabert (producer) and the other by Bruce Campbell the lead actor. Both commentraies are pretty interesting - you find out that someone's sister got roped in because the original actress pissed off halfway through filming when the money ran out.
The ones that tend to suck are the recent main stream Hollywood movies - lots of gushing about how wonderful everyone is. Even then you're not sacrificing that much video quality for the 150MB that a plain stereo commentary track costs so I don't really mind. Anyway Region 2 DVD's tend to have half a dozen European language tracks and a dozen subtitle tracks so we're used to non-video things filling the disc.
I've got an Apple 17" LCD and it plays movies, various Quakes and RtCW just fine. I'm currently into a DooM-Legacy at the moment - retro with a shiny polish!
Was that the most ill-informed comment on Slashdot evah? You certainly don't know much about QuickTime - come back once you've done some reading. I guess you think the Mercedes S-Class is a hunk of steel with an engine?
I'm using the new rc5-72 client and getting about 19 million keys per second on a dual 1.0GHz tower. A cluster of XServes would be awesome at this task.
No it's not! The grandparent is correct, the XML file does not exist, it is faked by OS X. When you mount a CD there is only one volume and it contains the music and the xml file.<br>
Here's what you get - notice the file '.TOC.plist' lives in the same place as the tracks and also note that it contains references to www.apple.com making it unlikely to have been put there by whoever made the disc. Also note that the CD itself is pre-OS X...
bash-2.05a$ ls -la/Volumes/The\ Rocky\ Horror\ Show\ -\ Original\ London\ Cast/ total 771530 dr-xr-xr-x 2 unknown unknown 4224 Mar 18 07:38. drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 170 Mar 18 07:38.. -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 3744 Mar 18 07:38.TOC.plist -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 37154624 Mar 18 07:38 1 Science Fiction - Double Feature.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 63640496 Mar 18 07:38 10 Rose Tint My World.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23030864 Mar 18 07:38 11 I??m Going Home.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23120240 Mar 18 07:38 12 Superheroes.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 13331216 Mar 18 07:38 13 Science Double Feature.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 26114336 Mar 18 07:38 2 Damn It, Janet.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 35562320 Mar 18 07:38 3 Over At The Frankenstein Place.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 35813984 Mar 18 07:38 4 Sweet Transvestite.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 37098176 Mar 18 07:38 5 Time Warp.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 27617264 Mar 18 07:38 6 Sword Of Damocles.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 22332320 Mar 18 07:38 7 Hot Patootie.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 26502416 Mar 18 07:38 8 Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me.aiff -r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23701184 Mar 18 07:38 9 Once In A While.aiff bash-2.05a$ more/Volumes/The\ Rocky\ Horror\ Show\ -\ Original\ London\ Cast/.TOC.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple. com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd" > <plist version="1.0"> <dict> [snip XML...]
I'm guessing that the Commander Keen source will be x86 assembly. Might be interesting to those in the know but a lot less useful than C source - no porting to other platforms. Does anyone know for sure what it was written in? Come on JohnC - get away from the rocketry for a few minutes and talk about some important stuff!
To get an exmpale of the RealBASIC horrors that await you Windows users get over to perversiontracker. The URL is safe - it's a play on versiontracker and not some fetish update site...
Heh - the rest of the solar system isn't 1% of the Sun's size! The Sun contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System with Jupiter making up most of what's left. - source.
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Sorry, but that honour belongs to Klerck who created some mighty wide pages here on slashdot.
The average Joe backing up his movie is NOT where the main concern should be. If Hollywood wins this battle is that going to stop the illegal selling or uploading / downloading of movies? Heck no, it'll just punish the average person from legally making a personal DVD backup
You're right about the average Joe who bought a DVD burner not being interested in irc, p2p etc. However he isn't interested in backing up his own DVDs either - he want's to backup Blockbuster's DVDs.
But this is a full-bodied classic of 2002 vintage from the cellars of the maestro (The trademark 'Gentlemen' introduction gives it away). The google groups link is well worth following to see just how many supposedly clever biters he reeled in!
Apple claim that OS X is 'UNIX based' and that it can run UNIX applications. They don't say OS X is UNIX just that it does everything that UNIX should.
Ford owns Land Rover after BMW ditched the Rover group. Vickers, who own Rolls-Royce aeroengines, owns the RR name and they licence it to BMW for cars. VW bought the RR factory but were outsmarted by BMW on the licensing aspect and they were left with the Bentley name and -$$$.
You have plenty of time to think about switching lanes whilst your car is parked on the ferry or train. You did know that Britain is an island right?
Personally, I couldn't care less about the stupid director's commentary. I would much rather see them spend their bandwidth on less-compressed video and audio streams.
I quite like commentaries - providing the commentators have something worth saying of course. Some of my favourite ones are Ridley Scott on Alien, Tom Baker on some of the BBC Dr Who DVDs and Sam Raimi on the Evil Dead. Actually Evil Dead has two commentaries one by Raimi/Tabert (producer) and the other by Bruce Campbell the lead actor. Both commentraies are pretty interesting - you find out that someone's sister got roped in because the original actress pissed off halfway through filming when the money ran out.
The ones that tend to suck are the recent main stream Hollywood movies - lots of gushing about how wonderful everyone is. Even then you're not sacrificing that much video quality for the 150MB that a plain stereo commentary track costs so I don't really mind. Anyway Region 2 DVD's tend to have half a dozen European language tracks and a dozen subtitle tracks so we're used to non-video things filling the disc.
Trust me, Goran, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is great family entertainment.
No, trust me - John Water's Pink Flamingos is the ideal entertaining family movie.
This poll isn't worth the paper its printed on.
Maybe that's beacuse this poll isn't printed on paper? (or was that an attempt at a joke?)
It was an allusion to Sam Goldwyn's quip about verbal contracts not being worth the paper they're written on.
Yeah, most folk don't seem to realise you can upgrade the mouse to more than one button...
I've got an Apple 17" LCD and it plays movies, various Quakes and RtCW just fine. I'm currently into a DooM-Legacy at the moment - retro with a shiny polish!
It's just a media player with a codec
Was that the most ill-informed comment on Slashdot evah? You certainly don't know much about QuickTime - come back once you've done some reading. I guess you think the Mercedes S-Class is a hunk of steel with an engine?
Yeah - I use C++ most the time which is where C99 gets most of its good ideas from so I definitely think C99 when I think C.
ANSI states that main() must return int though...
And I can refute your ICM poll with a YouGov poll commissioned by the Daily Telegraph and ITN which shows 50% back the US/UK.
Yeah - and the Daily Telegraph's YouGov (pdf) poll showed 50% in favour.
I'm using the new rc5-72 client and getting about 19 million keys per second on a dual 1.0GHz tower. A cluster of XServes would be awesome at this task.
That would explain why it's full of pr0n, warez and tunez then.
*its on an hfs partion*
/Volumes/The\ Rocky\ Horror\ Show\ -\ Original\ London\ Cast/ . .. .TOC.plist /Volumes/The\ Rocky\ Horror\ Show\ -\ Original\ London\ Cast/.TOC.plist" >
No it's not! The grandparent is correct, the XML file does not exist, it is faked by OS X. When you mount a CD there is only one volume and it contains the music and the xml file.<br>
Here's what you get - notice the file '.TOC.plist' lives in the same place as the tracks and also note that it contains references to www.apple.com making it unlikely to have been put there by whoever made the disc. Also note that the CD itself is pre-OS X...
bash-2.05a$ ls -la
total 771530
dr-xr-xr-x 2 unknown unknown 4224 Mar 18 07:38
drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 170 Mar 18 07:38
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 3744 Mar 18 07:38
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 37154624 Mar 18 07:38 1 Science Fiction - Double Feature.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 63640496 Mar 18 07:38 10 Rose Tint My World.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23030864 Mar 18 07:38 11 I??m Going Home.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23120240 Mar 18 07:38 12 Superheroes.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 13331216 Mar 18 07:38 13 Science Double Feature.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 26114336 Mar 18 07:38 2 Damn It, Janet.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 35562320 Mar 18 07:38 3 Over At The Frankenstein Place.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 35813984 Mar 18 07:38 4 Sweet Transvestite.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 37098176 Mar 18 07:38 5 Time Warp.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 27617264 Mar 18 07:38 6 Sword Of Damocles.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 22332320 Mar 18 07:38 7 Hot Patootie.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 26502416 Mar 18 07:38 8 Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me.aiff
-r--r--r-- 1 unknown unknown 23701184 Mar 18 07:38 9 Once In A While.aiff
bash-2.05a$ more
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.
com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
[snip XML...]
I'm guessing that the Commander Keen source will be x86 assembly. Might be interesting to those in the know but a lot less useful than C source - no porting to other platforms. Does anyone know for sure what it was written in? Come on JohnC - get away from the rocketry for a few minutes and talk about some important stuff!
Well, the URL is very safe - it doesn't work! Try this one instead.
To get an exmpale of the RealBASIC horrors that await you Windows users get over to perversiontracker. The URL is safe - it's a play on versiontracker and not some fetish update site...
Heh - the rest of the solar system isn't 1% of the Sun's size! The Sun contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System with Jupiter making up most of what's left. - source.
fairly portable (so long as you stuck to x86 chips)
How does being limited to a single CPU family equate to any sensible meaning of 'portable'?
Heh! Except the trolls - a Katz story would get about 500 (well deserved) flames before a vaguely ontopic reply was posted!