...the DVD set for Josh Whedon's ill fated Wester-Space-Opera...
Ill fated? If it were more than a juvenile Saturday morning style (think Far Out Spacenuts) show, then maybe ill-fated would fit.
Given what it was, I would say "...the DVD set for Josh Whedon's doomed Wester-Space-Opera..."
It's amazing that we keep getting "shows" like Firefly and the new "Battlestar Galactica", but no one can be bothered to do a good science fiction series.
I mean, we haven't had one since Babylon 5.
I'm not even necessarily picky. I can watch and episode of Andromeda now an then.
As sad as it is to say, Andromeda is heads above Firefly and Andromeda isn't great shakes.
I found DS9 to be one of the best of the StarTreks
Which proves my point. They show was only Star Trek related because they named it Star Trek: DS9. If it didn't have that as part of the title (and a couple of throwaway characters from ST:TNG) it would basically be as much a part of Star Trek as Andromeda is(n't).
Its an entirely different animal, it is in fact so different that I suspect that the only reason its title is BSG is to get the built in audience...
panxerox,
I agree completely. Same thing with Enterprise. The show is so lackluster and not "Star Trek" that Paramount was finally forced to prepend "Star Trek:" to the title to boost ratings. Had DS9 and Voyager not had Star Trek in the title, it's likely they would have died unlamented deaths for the same reasons.
To my knowledge, there ahas been no change to HPs decision to drop their line of calculators. These models were already in the pipeline and were mentioned in HPs "we're out of here" announcement.
So, while it's good news, for these three models, I'm still pretty sure it's the end of the line for HP.
They don't necessarily need to 'move to' x86, they can 'move alongside' x86.
This would be an even worse idea than simply switching to Intel completely. Even MSFT with its unlimited coffers gave up on multi-CPU-platform support years ago.
And what sense would it make for Apple to allow MacOS X to run on Intel? So they can have the same headaches MSFT does with hardware compatibility?
The only scenario I could ever see for an Intel-based Mac platform would be for an Intel-based Apple product (it'll never happen) that they have absolute control over, the same way they handle their stuff now. No bozo clones, no "Fred's LAN Party"-box, etc. And I wouldn't blame them.
I'm not sure why people think that by switching to an Intel CPU that Apple would support MacOS X on anything other than its own hardware.
Again, as the original post to which I replied pointed out, switching CPU platform at this time would be the death knell for Mac software developement.
I agree with your reasoning. Moving to x86 at this point would be the death knell for Apple. Similar forces contributed to the demise of Be. Had they stuck with their own proprietary systems, I think Be would still bea round today (maybe in a audio/vidio niche, but still around none-the-less.)
This sounds suspiciously like a print that has been run too many times through a projector whose lamphouse isn't adjusted properly.
If the lamphouse is running too hot (say someone changed the bulb and forgot to drop the output of the rectifier), then the print will get a nice "blob" in the middle. It's actually more noticeable in dark areas, but this still sounds like it.
Given that distribution houses routinely mix and match film reels in order to get a shippable unit together, I can see where it would be easy to get one bad real out of 5.
What? I know a lot of people claim Divx is MPEG-4, but I'm unable to play it in an IMSA-1 compliant player WITHOUT adding their proprietary compression codec. They may use an MPEG-4 style container, but they certainly don't use standard MPEG-4 compression.
Also, Windows Media is in no way MPEG-4. In fact, Windows Media does not even (to my knowledge) play MPEG-4 video.
One of the problem we have in our society is letting kids off the hook because they're kids.
If she were thieving from a supermarket or record store, shouldn't she be held accountable? Why is this any different? And please, no pedantic arguments about "fair use" or "music should be free because it costs too much". I don't buy into those spiels.
Seems to me you're the idiot since you don't seem to understand that "PC hardware emulation" and "virtual machine" are the same thing.
Back to school kiddie...
Was this reply to me? If so, where in my message did I say that they were different?
VMWare is another PC hardware emulation product that is hosted on Windows and Linux boxes. It can run various Intel-based operating systems, including all the WIndows flavors and Linux.
In light of the RealPC and VirtualPC problems, people may want to politely request that VMWare make their Workstation product available for Mac OS X:
It's bad enough I have to hear one side of an inane cellphone conversation, but to be subjected to both sides in a checkout line just because the person is:
Too stupid to find out what kind of Pop-Tarts the S.O. wanted before going to the market.
Too lazy to hold the freakin' phone to her/his ear.
The feature may be useful in the construction industry, but it has zero use otherwise (for otherwise normal people).
HAVi devices are available now, with HD sets and Digital VHS decks from Mitsubishi to name a couple.
Simply plug the D-VHS deck into a Mits NetCommander enabled set and your D-VHS controls and features are automatically added to the onscreen menus of the HD set AND to the TV remote.
Many other devices that currently use proprietary IEEE1394 control interfaces are getting ready to switch to HAVi, particularly since the cable industry finally opted for Firewire connections for recording devices.
"My only beef with DVD-R is that there's no official standard for 4x media, which makes it somewhat hard to come by and fairly expensive."
What?!?
First off, there is no such thing as 2x DVD-R discs, though there is a 4x specification. Do any of you ever bother to check the DVD FOrum page before posting?
Hopefully, Red Hat will be shipping the JDK, not just the JRE. Generally, the only thing I have to do to a system after installation (aside from system updates) is installing Sun's JDK.
It's too bad Red Hat didn't do this previously as it would have saved people a lot of trouble (particularly when they didn't realize they were using kaffe rather than Sun for java).
I should have been clear I was talking about the substrate, not the laser wavelength. I don't think I mentioned wavelength at all, but I definitely wasn't clear. Though you're definitely correct that I fat fingered the units.
Note that of the two major blue laser groups, Blu-Ray uses 0.1mm, while NEC/Toshiba use a 0.6mm substrate. That's why the NEC/Toshiba proposal fits better in the current model.
Still, the actual point is valid, that the Blu-Ray consortium has yet to submit a proposal for its use in the DVD-Video spec. It kind of looks like they're staking their claim in the recordable data DVD area, rather than the pre-recorded DVD-Video arena.
None of this really has anything to do with DVD-Video, which is a completely different beast and managed by the DVD Forum. To my knowledge, the Blu-Ray group (0.1nm) has never submitted a proposal to the DVD Forum for consideration in the next generation of DVD-Video.
And the NEC/Toshiba thing (AOD, or Advanced Optical Disc using 0.6nm) isn't new, it's been under discussion for some time. Frankly, they have the better system as it applies to DVD-Video, since it fits well in the current fabrication process. It admittedly has a lower storage capacity than Blu-Ray, but it's not significant and with a recent dual layer announcement from NEC/Toshiba, there should be no reason an HD movie would not fit on a single AOD platter.
So for now, unless the 0.1nm group (Blu-Ray) gets going, they're going to get shut out of the DVD-Video NG spec (not that they have a significant chance anyhow, due to startup costs.)
One of these will simply allow you to hook your VCR directly to the DVD recorder, hit record on the DVD recorder deck, and then play on the VCR. Simple and easy. These decks also record using the official DVD Forum format, so you won't have to worry about compatibility (all new players are required to play DVD-R).
Any type of PC (or Mac)-based system requires a much more significant time investment.
Impressive considering the connection problems people were having.
I hardly think the connection problems were widespread. I used the service within minutes of it's being available AND later in the evening and had zero connection problems. So, I can see how they were easily able to service several hundred thousand downloads successfully.
-David
Well, OS/2 for the PowerPC wasn't vaporware, as I ran it. And so did several other people at CompuServe, who were all working on the "CompuServe Information Manager for OS/2 for the PowerPC" (how's that for a name?). I also was in Boca Raton on loan from CompuServe working with IBM to fix a couple of IOCTL problems in the kernel.
That's not to say that it ever got released, but it definitely wasn't vapor.
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Ill fated? If it were more than a juvenile Saturday morning style (think Far Out Spacenuts) show, then maybe ill-fated would fit.
Given what it was, I would say "...the DVD set for Josh Whedon's doomed Wester-Space-Opera..."
It's amazing that we keep getting "shows" like Firefly and the new "Battlestar Galactica", but no one can be bothered to do a good science fiction series.
I mean, we haven't had one since Babylon 5.
I'm not even necessarily picky. I can watch and episode of Andromeda now an then. As sad as it is to say, Andromeda is heads above Firefly and Andromeda isn't great shakes.
Which proves my point. They show was only Star Trek related because they named it Star Trek: DS9. If it didn't have that as part of the title (and a couple of throwaway characters from ST:TNG) it would basically be as much a part of Star Trek as Andromeda is(n't).
I agree completely. Same thing with Enterprise. The show is so lackluster and not "Star Trek" that Paramount was finally forced to prepend "Star Trek:" to the title to boost ratings. Had DS9 and Voyager not had Star Trek in the title, it's likely they would have died unlamented deaths for the same reasons.
So, while it's good news, for these three models, I'm still pretty sure it's the end of the line for HP.
And what sense would it make for Apple to allow MacOS X to run on Intel? So they can have the same headaches MSFT does with hardware compatibility?
The only scenario I could ever see for an Intel-based Mac platform would be for an Intel-based Apple product (it'll never happen) that they have absolute control over, the same way they handle their stuff now. No bozo clones, no "Fred's LAN Party"-box, etc. And I wouldn't blame them.
I'm not sure why people think that by switching to an Intel CPU that Apple would support MacOS X on anything other than its own hardware.
Again, as the original post to which I replied pointed out, switching CPU platform at this time would be the death knell for Mac software developement.
-David
I agree with your reasoning. Moving to x86 at this point would be the death knell for Apple. Similar forces contributed to the demise of Be. Had they stuck with their own proprietary systems, I think Be would still bea round today (maybe in a audio/vidio niche, but still around none-the-less.)
If the lamphouse is running too hot (say someone changed the bulb and forgot to drop the output of the rectifier), then the print will get a nice "blob" in the middle. It's actually more noticeable in dark areas, but this still sounds like it.
Given that distribution houses routinely mix and match film reels in order to get a shippable unit together, I can see where it would be easy to get one bad real out of 5.
-David
What? I know a lot of people claim Divx is MPEG-4, but I'm unable to play it in an IMSA-1 compliant player WITHOUT adding their proprietary compression codec. They may use an MPEG-4 style container, but they certainly don't use standard MPEG-4 compression.
Also, Windows Media is in no way MPEG-4. In fact, Windows Media does not even (to my knowledge) play MPEG-4 video.
-David
If she were thieving from a supermarket or record store, shouldn't she be held accountable? Why is this any different? And please, no pedantic arguments about "fair use" or "music should be free because it costs too much". I don't buy into those spiels.
This TV show had to have been one of the worst things I've ever seen.
Ignore my other message. I just saw the ACs earlier post that you were responding to, but the low mod on his message dropped it from my radar. ;)
-David
Was this reply to me? If so, where in my message did I say that they were different?
In light of the RealPC and VirtualPC problems, people may want to politely request that VMWare make their Workstation product available for Mac OS X:
feature-request@vmware.com
VMWare
- Too stupid to find out what kind of Pop-Tarts the S.O. wanted before going to the market.
- Too lazy to hold the freakin' phone to her/his ear.
The feature may be useful in the construction industry, but it has zero use otherwise (for otherwise normal people).Simply plug the D-VHS deck into a Mits NetCommander enabled set and your D-VHS controls and features are automatically added to the onscreen menus of the HD set AND to the TV remote.
Many other devices that currently use proprietary IEEE1394 control interfaces are getting ready to switch to HAVi, particularly since the cable industry finally opted for Firewire connections for recording devices.
What?!?
First off, there is no such thing as 2x DVD-R discs, though there is a 4x specification. Do any of you ever bother to check the DVD FOrum page before posting?
As the subject says, I hope they don't make it a lame 20-something show as seems to be the trend when doing follow-ons.
If they handle it like the Alien Nation movies, then I'll be happy, since those stayed true to what had been setup in the series.
-David
Hopefully, Red Hat will be shipping the JDK, not just the JRE. Generally, the only thing I have to do to a system after installation (aside from system updates) is installing Sun's JDK.
It's too bad Red Hat didn't do this previously as it would have saved people a lot of trouble (particularly when they didn't realize they were using kaffe rather than Sun for java).
-David
Note that of the two major blue laser groups, Blu-Ray uses 0.1mm, while NEC/Toshiba use a 0.6mm substrate. That's why the NEC/Toshiba proposal fits better in the current model.
Still, the actual point is valid, that the Blu-Ray consortium has yet to submit a proposal for its use in the DVD-Video spec. It kind of looks like they're staking their claim in the recordable data DVD area, rather than the pre-recorded DVD-Video arena.
And the NEC/Toshiba thing (AOD, or Advanced Optical Disc using 0.6nm) isn't new, it's been under discussion for some time. Frankly, they have the better system as it applies to DVD-Video, since it fits well in the current fabrication process. It admittedly has a lower storage capacity than Blu-Ray, but it's not significant and with a recent dual layer announcement from NEC/Toshiba, there should be no reason an HD movie would not fit on a single AOD platter.
So for now, unless the 0.1nm group (Blu-Ray) gets going, they're going to get shut out of the DVD-Video NG spec (not that they have a significant chance anyhow, due to startup costs.)
-David
One of these will simply allow you to hook your VCR directly to the DVD recorder, hit record on the DVD recorder deck, and then play on the VCR. Simple and easy. These decks also record using the official DVD Forum format, so you won't have to worry about compatibility (all new players are required to play DVD-R).
Any type of PC (or Mac)-based system requires a much more significant time investment.
Well, OS/2 for the PowerPC wasn't vaporware, as I ran it. And so did several other people at CompuServe, who were all working on the "CompuServe Information Manager for OS/2 for the PowerPC" (how's that for a name?). I also was in Boca Raton on loan from CompuServe working with IBM to fix a couple of IOCTL problems in the kernel.
That's not to say that it ever got released, but it definitely wasn't vapor.
-David
Nowhere in the Plasmon information does it call this a DVD drive. In fact, the CDR-Info page specifically points out that this is NOT DVD.
It would be nice if the people releasing submissions would check the article titles for accuracy.
You're right, for whatever reason I read NTSC as ATSC. D'OH!