So, how does a link to google search results affect pageranks...? I wonder if it's possible to get google to return a link to the very same page it's displaying!
I know that a lot of the software players will do pan and scan. I have seen 'aspect ratio conversion' in feature lists for hardware players, though since I've never used a hardware player I wouldn't know for sure.
Certainly in the UK, broadcast digital television allows a choice of aspect ratio (changed in the setup menus of the set-top box), so it would seem a bit strange for DVD video to be any different. I don't really know how that would display a 2.35 picture though, it might just be for 16:9 to 4:3 conversion.
I can't find any references about how the player decides which part of the picture to zoom in on, it would be most sensible for the position information to be encoded on the disk, but I don't know if that's actually the case.
The 2.35 releases are just giving you the film as it was shot, to keep the composition correct. Unless the TV screen is the same shape as the original film, there's no single way of displaying the image that will please everyone.
At least if the DVD is released at 2.35, you can have your own equipment do the pan-and-scan if you don't like letterboxing. If it was released in 16:9 with parts of the original picture removed, there would be no way to recover them.
If you use the Matrox Technical Support Tweak Utility you can choose the horizontal resolution in steps of 8 pixels and the vertical in steps of 2 pixels. Unfortunately 1366 isn't on the list, the nearest choice is 1368 (though PowerStrip does no better, it has the exact same choice of resolutions with the G450: I wonder if the list changes for different cards though).
(Not quite what's asked for here, but worth a mention anyway: the dual-head 'DVDMax' output in the Matrox Windows drivers, which displays a video overlay full-screen on a second monitor, is absolutely excellent, and works with the video window in the background: quite useful for displaying video on a larger monitor while using a smaller one to operate the computer, which is ideal for certain residents of Betelgeuse 5).
Nope, first-hand experience. I was staying with a friend in Lanzarote who has an English tv with no sound (unless connected by SCART to a locally purchased video).
The UK (PAL I) uses a 6MHz offset for audio, the continental European countries using PAL (B/G/H) are at 5,5MHz. I suppose it might be possible to modify the tuner though.
S.American PAL is different again (Uruguay/Paraguay/Argentina has one standard, Brasil has another for 60Hz). Where it's used in Asia it's often with European frequencies/offsets.
It's fairly similar to the US NTSC, except the phase changes each line, which means the colours don't fsck up so badly.
You can get quite a long way with a standard mobile phone (not one of the new and expensive phone/PDAs). Most recent Nokias, for example, hold around 500 names along with space for email address, up to 4 phone numbers, address and notes, quite usable calendars, and big enough SMS memory to write yourself plonty of notes which can be organised into folders.
Much smaller than a PDA and when you're used to the keypad, typing on them is pretty fast. I'm sure other manufacturers have similar functions too.
Though an iPod would be a pretty cool thing to have too <grin>
I don't know about the schedules, but you may have to watch out for sound too - apparently UK TVs in Spain get picture but no sound, so I wonder if this may be a problem in other countries too.
It's recommended that people taking certain recreational pharmaceuticals put a limit on their water consumption, since some have an anti-diuretic effect.
I think they do want people to listen to their music, that's the whole point. What they don't want is for people to learn about and start to like other types of music which the RIAA members aren't involved in, something which is more likely to happen with a broad base of internet radio stations.
There's not much point in paying to setup an internet radio station which broadcasts exactly the same as the broadcast stations: there's a lot of work involved (and I think a lot of people listening to mass-market media aren't really inclined to do that kind of thing).
So you tend to find a much wider variety of music on 'net radio, which gives people choice of music from different countries, and genres not traditionally represented by RIAA members. Not really conducive to having member's music heard all the time.
I think another part of it is that it's quite a bit harder to push music to a large number of online stations, all run by different people, than it is to promote to the normal broadcast stations, which are often represented by a few parent companies, and I'd guess probably common playlists.
Compare with some of the reasons people came up with as to why they thought the RIAA went so hard after AudioGalaxy. (AG really went out of their way to filter mp3s of artists who didn't want their wusic shared, not just RIAA members but everyone, so I don't think the copyright-violation claims by the RIAA entirely ring true there).
If you want to buy used cds from stores they cost just as much as it would new.
True (most of the time), though if you're doing it as a protest, that doesn't really matter: the point is that the money goes to someone other than the RIAA labels.
If you're helping to support a small independent music store, which might otherwise not be able to afford to stay in business, all the better.
I recommend that anyone who does use them to switch elsewhere.
If anyone's thinking of switching from Verisign, don't wait until your domain is up for renewal.
Make sure there's plenty of time left before it expires in case you need to iron out any problems in the transfer process so you don't lose the name...
To add to the recommendations in other comments on this story, easyDNS deserves a mention. Their web interface is pretty good, better still they'll secondary from your master nameserver. Quite useful if you want to run your own DNS but only have ADSL.
That's good, the more ways of saving realaudio streams to disk the better - maybe it will encourage the BBC to start their Ogg Vorbis broadcasts again!
4. Well, there's stty com1:, but it doesn't work with too many programs, and NT doesn't know about it (either in cmd or command). Other than that you can use one of the programs used on BBS that allow standard programs to run as doors (like Gateway) or something like PCAnywhere...
Vcool doesn't seem to want to work on KT333 boards (maybe KT266 as well). But you can download WPCREDIT and WPCRSET , and set register 95 bit 1, and register 92 bit 7, to 1. This makes quite a difference (have motherboard monitor running so you can see how far the idle temperature drops - that should give you some indication!). Some people have problem with sound stuttering if they use this, it seems Creative soundcards are the most affected. Well worth trying though. (RPCEdit makes changes for the current boot, RPCSet makes them permanent. You also need the KT266 plug file, which also works on KT333. You can find it all at viahardware.com).
What I'd like to see, though, is something that let *some* people hop REALLY huge distances, broadband. That would let 'clouds' link up
Kind-of like gif, l2tp, cipe, pptp, [...]
No carrier fees for bandwidth (since I said 'broadband')
There are always carrier fees for bandwidth unless you're building your own backbone. If you're not paying for the bandwidth you're using directly yourself, it's being subsidised by someone else (like lighter users of the same ISP).
Try looking for corporates who are upgrading old kit, you can often pick up a job lot of identical or nearly-identical machines for a lot less than buying new. You might well find something around the PPro-200 mark at the moment which is ideal (much better I/O bandwidth than P5 systems).
Seems there is an extension to DHCP to provide a URL: rfc2485 (thanks Matt). The actual authentication in that case is by UAP. (Now we just need some client support)...
Take a look at traceroutes to the various national Yahoo domains (take.co.in,.co.uk,.com.au,.com.sg, and.com.cn for example).
Seems that Yahoo, at least, are already quite prepared to pay to have content presented to their customers.
Now, try traceroutes to msn and ebay in those domains, and you'll find that most of them (where they have the domain) are hosted in the US.
Seems to me that the ISPAI should go a bit easier on Yahoo than the other two, since it costs the ISPs a lot less for someone to be a user of yahoo.co.in than msn.co.in (especially when you factor in the extra traffic from IE DNS errors and so on...yeuch!)
That's irrelevant. Net access can also be obtained at internet cafés and over mobile networks. Many countries who didn't already have a large infrastructure of landlines have gone straight to mobile.
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So, how does a link to google search results affect pageranks...? I wonder if it's possible to get google to return a link to the very same page it's displaying!
Well, at least ODP is better than Yahoo...
Not necessarily: there's always PATH_INFO.
Certainly in the UK, broadcast digital television allows a choice of aspect ratio (changed in the setup menus of the set-top box), so it would seem a bit strange for DVD video to be any different. I don't really know how that would display a 2.35 picture though, it might just be for 16:9 to 4:3 conversion.
I can't find any references about how the player decides which part of the picture to zoom in on, it would be most sensible for the position information to be encoded on the disk, but I don't know if that's actually the case.
At least if the DVD is released at 2.35, you can have your own equipment do the pan-and-scan if you don't like letterboxing. If it was released in 16:9 with parts of the original picture removed, there would be no way to recover them.
Of course 1.85 isn't quite 16:9 either..
(Not quite what's asked for here, but worth a mention anyway: the dual-head 'DVDMax' output in the Matrox Windows drivers, which displays a video overlay full-screen on a second monitor, is absolutely excellent, and works with the video window in the background: quite useful for displaying video on a larger monitor while using a smaller one to operate the computer, which is ideal for certain residents of Betelgeuse 5).
The UK (PAL I) uses a 6MHz offset for audio, the continental European countries using PAL (B/G/H) are at 5,5MHz. I suppose it might be possible to modify the tuner though.
S.American PAL is different again (Uruguay/Paraguay/Argentina has one standard, Brasil has another for 60Hz). Where it's used in Asia it's often with European frequencies/offsets.
It's fairly similar to the US NTSC, except the phase changes each line, which means the colours don't fsck up so badly.
A few pointers here and here.
Much smaller than a PDA and when you're used to the keypad, typing on them is pretty fast. I'm sure other manufacturers have similar functions too.
Though an iPod would be a pretty cool thing to have too <grin>
I don't know about the schedules, but you may have to watch out for sound too - apparently UK TVs in Spain get picture but no sound, so I wonder if this may be a problem in other countries too.
It's recommended that people taking certain recreational pharmaceuticals put a limit on their water consumption, since some have an anti-diuretic effect.
'Fair use' doesn't apply either. We get charged a levy on blank media but don't get any fair use rights in exchange.
There's not much point in paying to setup an internet radio station which broadcasts exactly the same as the broadcast stations: there's a lot of work involved (and I think a lot of people listening to mass-market media aren't really inclined to do that kind of thing).
So you tend to find a much wider variety of music on 'net radio, which gives people choice of music from different countries, and genres not traditionally represented by RIAA members. Not really conducive to having member's music heard all the time.
I think another part of it is that it's quite a bit harder to push music to a large number of online stations, all run by different people, than it is to promote to the normal broadcast stations, which are often represented by a few parent companies, and I'd guess probably common playlists.
Compare with some of the reasons people came up with as to why they thought the RIAA went so hard after AudioGalaxy. (AG really went out of their way to filter mp3s of artists who didn't want their wusic shared, not just RIAA members but everyone, so I don't think the copyright-violation claims by the RIAA entirely ring true there).
If you're helping to support a small independent music store, which might otherwise not be able to afford to stay in business, all the better.
Make sure there's plenty of time left before it expires in case you need to iron out any problems in the transfer process so you don't lose the name...
To add to the recommendations in other comments on this story, easyDNS deserves a mention. Their web interface is pretty good, better still they'll secondary from your master nameserver. Quite useful if you want to run your own DNS but only have ADSL.
That's good, the more ways of saving realaudio streams to disk the better - maybe it will encourage the BBC to start their Ogg Vorbis broadcasts again!
like this..?
4. Well, there's stty com1:, but it doesn't work with too many programs, and NT doesn't know about it (either in cmd or command). Other than that you can use one of the programs used on BBS that allow standard programs to run as doors (like Gateway) or something like PCAnywhere...
The rating on the power supply is usually a maximum. You'd probably need to measure it to tell what it's using.
Vcool doesn't seem to want to work on KT333 boards (maybe KT266 as well). But you can download WPCREDIT and WPCRSET , and set register 95 bit 1, and register 92 bit 7, to 1. This makes quite a difference (have motherboard monitor running so you can see how far the idle temperature drops - that should give you some indication!). Some people have problem with sound stuttering if they use this, it seems Creative soundcards are the most affected. Well worth trying though. (RPCEdit makes changes for the current boot, RPCSet makes them permanent. You also need the KT266 plug file, which also works on KT333. You can find it all at viahardware.com).
The zip comes with a jpeg showing a little piezo emitter connected up to a plug to fit into a soundcard output.
Try looking for corporates who are upgrading old kit, you can often pick up a job lot of identical or nearly-identical machines for a lot less than buying new. You might well find something around the PPro-200 mark at the moment which is ideal (much better I/O bandwidth than P5 systems).
Seems there is an extension to DHCP to provide a URL: rfc2485 (thanks Matt). The actual authentication in that case is by UAP. (Now we just need some client support)...
Seems that Yahoo, at least, are already quite prepared to pay to have content presented to their customers.
Now, try traceroutes to msn and ebay in those domains, and you'll find that most of them (where they have the domain) are hosted in the US.
Seems to me that the ISPAI should go a bit easier on Yahoo than the other two, since it costs the ISPs a lot less for someone to be a user of yahoo.co.in than msn.co.in (especially when you factor in the extra traffic from IE DNS errors and so on...yeuch!)