Where's my grandmother's clamp-on-the-counter hand-cranked apple peeler? That thing could peel an apple in 5 seconds flat. Certainly more innovative than half the stuff on that list.
I wouldn't actually mind so much playing movies from the DVD if they didn't force me to sit through trailers every time (are you listening, Disney?), not to mention an ugly 30-second animated intro to the menu, with which I can't actually choose "play" until I've sat through the whole goddamned intro.
Yeah, but so are my (in Canada) national phone/internet/satellite TV company, and cable company. Why bother having 4 different services, with 4 different modes of transmission (cable TV, phone, satellite TV, dls internet), and 4 separate bills, when everything can just go over the internet?
How does it work now? Do the producers of shows see some of the ad profits, or just the networks/cable companies?
What's to stop the show's producers from posting their content directly online in some sort of pay per episode scheme? That would seem the ideal thing to me, cut out the money-sucking middlemen, and deliver a high-quality version of the show directly to the consumer via the internet for, say, $1 an episode.
No, Disney DVDs need to be ripped and re-burned so that we're not forced to sit through 10 minutes of trailers and ads (for which they've so kindly disabled ff/next chapter) every time we want to watch the movie.
Hmmm, maybe it wasn't his TV. Some of the older illegal satellite TV decoder cards cause a signal to be radiated on that frequency.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/insmt-gs t. nsf/en/sf05757e.html
and I quote:
"In another case, the interfering signals led Search and Rescue personnel to believe that an aircraft had crashed. They immediately launched a search and rescue mission that was not only costly and unnecessary, but it tied up critical limited resources that might have been needed at a real crash site elsewhere."
Not sure how this is any better than running SnapStream's BeyondTV on an existing PC, and using an older PC (say a P3-800) as a client attached to your TV.
Hmmm, but isn't one of the reasons for DVI so that they can actually do things like have a broadcast flag, that they couldn't do on regular component video connections?
What I don't get is, why do none of these media player units have bigger screens? I was thinking of getting a portable DVD player for the kids in the car, and they all come with at least 7" screens. I'd much rather get something like this that I can also use for playing my MP3s and taking on non-car trips, but the screen is way too small for anything other than hold-it-in-your-hands-in-front-of-your-face.
Wow, actually, reading this, I hadn't realized that these games had this sort of detailed characters (from a graphics standpoint). Are these all live-action shots from the games, or are they from pre-rendered sequences?
Think about it... it's easy enough to stick two camcorders together at about eye-distance apart, record nice high quality video either on separate tapes or directly into some sort of dual-feed capture card (or maybe 2 computers). Any modern computer should have the ability to red-filter one feed and green-filter the other feed and combine them on the fly at the display, or feed them out to two separate screens in some glasses-style eyeware. Imagine watching some extreme skiing, biking, any sort of sports (or of course porn) this way!
Pentax Optio 430RS has a 3D photo mode which splits the screen with a grid, you take the first picture, it shows it on the left of the viewfinder, and then you can line up the 2nd picture. It ends up being 2 shots side by side on the same frame, then you use the included viewer (not red/green) to look at the 3d image (required you to print it out first though).
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Where's my grandmother's clamp-on-the-counter hand-cranked apple peeler? That thing could peel an apple in 5 seconds flat. Certainly more innovative than half the stuff on that list.
I wouldn't actually mind so much playing movies from the DVD if they didn't force me to sit through trailers every time (are you listening, Disney?), not to mention an ugly 30-second animated intro to the menu, with which I can't actually choose "play" until I've sat through the whole goddamned intro.
was talk about what he was doing.
The first rule of adsense is you don't talk about adsense.
If you're making money, keep it to yourself or the next day, a million people will be doing the same thing.
Yeah, but so are my (in Canada) national phone/internet/satellite TV company, and cable company. Why bother having 4 different services, with 4 different modes of transmission (cable TV, phone, satellite TV, dls internet), and 4 separate bills, when everything can just go over the internet?
How does it work now? Do the producers of shows see some of the ad profits, or just the networks/cable companies?
What's to stop the show's producers from posting their content directly online in some sort of pay per episode scheme? That would seem the ideal thing to me, cut out the money-sucking middlemen, and deliver a high-quality version of the show directly to the consumer via the internet for, say, $1 an episode.
Archon, M.U.L.E., Bruce Lee...
And it's been 20 years, and I still can't get that damn Forbidden Forest theme song out of my head.
No, Disney DVDs need to be ripped and re-burned so that we're not forced to sit through 10 minutes of trailers and ads (for which they've so kindly disabled ff/next chapter) every time we want to watch the movie.
http://www.technologyowl.com/ has tech-related feeds organized by topic.
Similarly, http://www.securityowl.com/ has security-related feeds
When the office is too cold, my fingers are too stiff to type efficiently.
Hmmm, maybe it wasn't his TV. Some of the older illegal satellite TV decoder cards cause a signal to be radiated on that frequency.
s t. nsf/en/sf05757e.html
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/insmt-g
and I quote:
"In another case, the interfering signals led Search and Rescue personnel to believe that an aircraft had crashed. They immediately launched a search and rescue mission that was not only costly and unnecessary, but it tied up critical limited resources that might have been needed at a real crash site elsewhere."
Two reasons:
1) Now you can get pissed off at your cow-orkers for not pulling their weight both in the office and on the bike
2) Try not getting fired when you accidentally steer your entire team, including your boss and his boss, into a tree
Not sure how this is any better than running SnapStream's BeyondTV on an existing PC, and using an older PC (say a P3-800) as a client attached to your TV.
Hmmm, but isn't one of the reasons for DVI so that they can actually do things like have a broadcast flag, that they couldn't do on regular component video connections?
What I don't get is, why do none of these media player units have bigger screens? I was thinking of getting a portable DVD player for the kids in the car, and they all come with at least 7" screens. I'd much rather get something like this that I can also use for playing my MP3s and taking on non-car trips, but the screen is way too small for anything other than hold-it-in-your-hands-in-front-of-your-face.
This is almost as bad as the IT guy who never puts the screws back in the computer cases when he's done.
A piece of malware on a Mac? That's unpossible! /glad I run Windows...
Where did my Electronic Quarterback go?
1. M.U.L.E.
2. Archon
3. Omega Race (the Vic-20 version was awesome)
Wow, actually, reading this, I hadn't realized that these games had this sort of detailed characters (from a graphics standpoint). Are these all live-action shots from the games, or are they from pre-rendered sequences?
Now, if one could update the messages from the underworld, that might be something worth investing in.
$300 full-speed "pro" version coming in 5-4-3-2-1
Yes, I'm being sarcastic...
Think about it... it's easy enough to stick two camcorders together at about eye-distance apart, record nice high quality video either on separate tapes or directly into some sort of dual-feed capture card (or maybe 2 computers). Any modern computer should have the ability to red-filter one feed and green-filter the other feed and combine them on the fly at the display, or feed them out to two separate screens in some glasses-style eyeware. Imagine watching some extreme skiing, biking, any sort of sports (or of course porn) this way!
Pentax Optio 430RS has a 3D photo mode which splits the screen with a grid, you take the first picture, it shows it on the left of the viewfinder, and then you can line up the 2nd picture. It ends up being 2 shots side by side on the same frame, then you use the included viewer (not red/green) to look at the 3d image (required you to print it out first though).
Oh, how I miss poking a value into a location to change the screen and border colours...
It says I've searched 3,307,998,701 times... oh, wait... never mind.