3.-Have some good and original content based on franchises which are not 20+ years old! and that dont look to be made for preeschoolers
You know what? Mario maybe 20+ years old, but he still sells very well, no need to retire him. The same goes for the rest of Nintendos characters (Samus, Kirby, Megaman, Link, Capt. Falcon, Pokemon, etc).
Nintendo says in bussiness and is profitable because they sell franchises and characters that Nintendo fans want. Nintendo doesn't need to alienate their existing customers with GTA style games; They are already profitable from what they currently sell. Which is more than you can say about some companies *cough*xbox*cough*
If anything, I'm sure it is you "mainstreamers" who are jelous that you don't have better characters to represent your version of SoulCalibur 2. Like I said, Nintendo is having no problems selling 20+ year old characters.
Also, the Real codecs are really quite nice. RealVideo 9 is second only to Windows Media Video 9 in terms of compression efficiency, and performs better on lower end machines. The audio codecs are getting a little long in the tooth, but are still more than adequate for real-time streaming applications.
Check out doom9.org forums, specifically, the "new A/V format" forum. THE Senior Codec Engineer of RealNetworks posts daily there. He does it on his own free time and even lets the forum readers in on pre-release fuctions and code.
Specifically, EHQ encode mode, RealAudio 5.1 audio, and the Animation DropDupe Pre-filter are all new capabilites being discussed there.
EHQ mode gives upto 30% improved compression efficiencey and the DropDupe pre-filter provides for variable frame rate encodeing of animation/cartoons, that plays back as if encoded at 24/30 fps, so since repeated frames are droped instead of being encoded, you save diskspace.
Also a lot of discussion has gone on about the marketing department of RealNetworks being utterly retarded, which from as a result of the forum and internal pressure, has been made to relize a lot of their faults. Version 3 of the RealOne player we are told will be really nice (as in getting rid of ads and such).
The U.S. Constitution is probably the grand daddy of all things listed here. As far as I remember from my U.S. History and U.S. Government high school classes the constitution was really only intended to be used as a temporary government, to be replaced by a perminant one later. But, I doubt, though, that the founding fathers expected the constitution to last for 200+ years.
Now if only certainother booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here.
What keeps me coming back to Amazon.com (and countless more people) is their record keeping.
Every order is organized by year newest to oldest. Every order is clickable to bring up the exact specifics of what was ordered: the number of shipments, the tracking numbers, what was order, it's price, and totals (shipping, tax, subtotal, grand total).
Attack the source problem *cough* Patriot Act *cough* not Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or whoever you want to smear because of some hivemind mentality.
If you don't want even record of the sale you need not shop at all, online or offline.
There is always going to be some paper trail; no matter if its a reciept, a CC statment, or the cashier remembering you.
We should: Pick people at random, elect people who aren't running for office.
Well then you run the problem having to have an "advisor(s)" for the randomly chosen person. It's been in movies a million times the advisor is always corrupt. Or take the stock market and "Financial advisors" or "Investment advisors". Their advice is always going to be what either 1) Makes them the most money. or 2) What the Company/Boss wants them to say.
So unfortunatly, we can't just elect any random dolt of the street. Politicians have to be career politicans.
As far as the president... I'm all for free choice and voting, except for the stipulation that anyone who want to be president has to have been an officer in the one of the armed forces.
Nintendo has repeatedly told the kids that read Nintendo Power that emulation, the act of imitating hardware via software to use another piece of software, is categorically illegal. No "if you don't own the rights to it" or "if you didn't buy the game" qualifier, just ILLEGAL.
Any game that has a specific "please wait, loading..." type of screen was ported. No "programed for" GameCube game will ever have a "please wait" screen.
Some GameCube games do have load time though, but it is always hidden. Look at Metroid Prime, pop the game in turn on the console and it will hide its initial (very short) load time by displaying the Dolby logo and Retro Studio's logo. Also in-game load time is hidden by the doors not immeadiatly opening once shot. But never, never, ever will there be a "please wait" type screen.
but it has the worst video quality of any of the most popular options; this has been true pretty much throughout its life. Even at higher bitrates it tends to look like crap.
Well, then you have not seen RV9 rips. Period. End of story.
Both DivX AND XviD get their asses handed to them and especially at low bitrates (200 - 300kbps).
Something that you can't do with EITHER divx or xvid is encode anamorphicly. Both the current RealProducer and the new Helix Producer will take anamorphic source and upon playback do the anamorphic squeeze.
Go take a read in Doom9's fourm. (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumi d=54)
>While there is legacy support for the 1995 >RealAudio codecs, the modern stuff is really >very good.
A friend of mine ridiculed me for using RA8 for my music, until he heard it for himself.
But only because you have to licence the (latest) Windows OS from them. You see microsoft's streaming software only runs on Windows. In microsofts case they can give away both the server and client, because their goal is to sell Windows.
If Microsoft can't sell Windows 100% of their business dries up because no Microsoft software runs on anything but Windows.
Uh... they never charge you more than the original total shipping charge. The first partial shipment will have the Per Order charge as well as per item (or per lb) charge for items in the order. The rest of the partial shipments will only have the per item (or per lb) charge.
If you change the shipping speed or request "on-hand" items shipped (after a partial shipmet) Amazon is going to charge you another per order charge. Don't like that? Tough luck. It's the same everywhere.
And I also said in another post Slashdot readers are quick to judge. Do I like RealPlayer and RV9? Sure, I do. That doesn't precude me though from lso liking Divx and Xvid too. Which are wonderful as well.
Your post only proves how onesided discussion are on Slashdot. Thank you for proving my point.
It's your post that many RealNetworks employees are going to read, and they are going to say "why are we even bothering?" The longtime open source fans here get demoralized, and the others just flip the idiot bit on the "Slashdot crowd".
Understand, opinions can't be changed overnight nor is Slashdot really the best place to try to convert people. Opinions are concrete and single sided here. Posting to the contrary on slashdot is like covering yourself in honey and giving a momma Grizzly bear (with baby cubs) a good kick in the ass.
Developer and fansites would be much friendly and welcoming. A couple would be Doom9's forums (http://forum.doom9.org/) and the forums on Animemusicvideos.org
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As long as we can agree a CD player and DVD player are not manditory or nessary.
You know what? Mario maybe 20+ years old, but he still sells very well, no need to retire him. The same goes for the rest of Nintendos characters (Samus, Kirby, Megaman, Link, Capt. Falcon, Pokemon, etc).
Nintendo says in bussiness and is profitable because they sell franchises and characters that Nintendo fans want. Nintendo doesn't need to alienate their existing customers with GTA style games; They are already profitable from what they currently sell. Which is more than you can say about some companies *cough*xbox*cough*
If anything, I'm sure it is you "mainstreamers" who are jelous that you don't have better characters to represent your version of SoulCalibur 2. Like I said, Nintendo is having no problems selling 20+ year old characters.
Wow, are we going to see a re-vival of DP, the Disk Protector? What's his catch line going to be this time?
Check out doom9.org forums, specifically, the "new A/V format" forum. THE Senior Codec Engineer of RealNetworks posts daily there. He does it on his own free time and even lets the forum readers in on pre-release fuctions and code.
Specifically, EHQ encode mode, RealAudio 5.1 audio, and the Animation DropDupe Pre-filter are all new capabilites being discussed there. EHQ mode gives upto 30% improved compression efficiencey and the DropDupe pre-filter provides for variable frame rate encodeing of animation/cartoons, that plays back as if encoded at 24/30 fps, so since repeated frames are droped instead of being encoded, you save diskspace.
The cream of the crop, so to say, though would be the DirectShow filter for RealMedia.
Also a lot of discussion has gone on about the marketing department of RealNetworks being utterly retarded, which from as a result of the forum and internal pressure, has been made to relize a lot of their faults. Version 3 of the RealOne player we are told will be really nice (as in getting rid of ads and such).
Thanks
quick question, how do you pronouce dvorak? dev-o-rak?
The U.S. Constitution is probably the grand daddy of all things listed here. As far as I remember from my U.S. History and U.S. Government high school classes the constitution was really only intended to be used as a temporary government, to be replaced by a perminant one later. But, I doubt, though, that the founding fathers expected the constitution to last for 200+ years.
I'd also mandate the president be smart.
Typical slashdot....
I certainly don't want some draft dodging mophead as president.
Heh, yea, it's halarious it is on the list :)
Every order is organized by year newest to oldest. Every order is clickable to bring up the exact specifics of what was ordered: the number of shipments, the tracking numbers, what was order, it's price, and totals (shipping, tax, subtotal, grand total).
Attack the source problem *cough* Patriot Act *cough* not Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or whoever you want to smear because of some hivemind mentality.
If you don't want even record of the sale you need not shop at all, online or offline.
There is always going to be some paper trail; no matter if its a reciept, a CC statment, or the cashier remembering you.
Well then you run the problem having to have an "advisor(s)" for the randomly chosen person. It's been in movies a million times the advisor is always corrupt. Or take the stock market and "Financial advisors" or "Investment advisors". Their advice is always going to be what either 1) Makes them the most money. or 2) What the Company/Boss wants them to say.
So unfortunatly, we can't just elect any random dolt of the street. Politicians have to be career politicans.
As far as the president... I'm all for free choice and voting, except for the stipulation that anyone who want to be president has to have been an officer in the one of the armed forces.
I'm guessing you made the same stink about the n64 memory expantion pak thing. Poor baby.
Oh and I suppose that not having the same options available in singlepak link mode that are available in multipak link mode is more "chiding".
Get over yourself.
Uh... Real has linux and unix and sun binaries.... If you want to stream Real on Windows you can, but why?
Some GameCube games do have load time though, but it is always hidden. Look at Metroid Prime, pop the game in turn on the console and it will hide its initial (very short) load time by displaying the Dolby logo and Retro Studio's logo. Also in-game load time is hidden by the doors not immeadiatly opening once shot. But never, never, ever will there be a "please wait" type screen.
Both DivX AND XviD get their asses handed to them and especially at low bitrates (200 - 300kbps).
Something that you can't do with EITHER divx or xvid is encode anamorphicly. Both the current RealProducer and the new Helix Producer will take anamorphic source and upon playback do the anamorphic squeeze. Go take a read in Doom9's fourm. (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumi d=54)
>While there is legacy support for the 1995 >RealAudio codecs, the modern stuff is really >very good. A friend of mine ridiculed me for using RA8 for my music, until he heard it for himself.
But only because you have to licence the (latest) Windows OS from them. You see microsoft's streaming software only runs on Windows. In microsofts case they can give away both the server and client, because their goal is to sell Windows.
If Microsoft can't sell Windows 100% of their business dries up because no Microsoft software runs on anything but Windows.
Uh... they never charge you more than the original total shipping charge. The first partial shipment will have the Per Order charge as well as per item (or per lb) charge for items in the order. The rest of the partial shipments will only have the per item (or per lb) charge. If you change the shipping speed or request "on-hand" items shipped (after a partial shipmet) Amazon is going to charge you another per order charge. Don't like that? Tough luck. It's the same everywhere.
And I also said in another post Slashdot readers are quick to judge. Do I like RealPlayer and RV9? Sure, I do. That doesn't precude me though from lso liking Divx and Xvid too. Which are wonderful as well. Your post only proves how onesided discussion are on Slashdot. Thank you for proving my point.
Understand, opinions can't be changed overnight nor is Slashdot really the best place to try to convert people. Opinions are concrete and single sided here. Posting to the contrary on slashdot is like covering yourself in honey and giving a momma Grizzly bear (with baby cubs) a good kick in the ass.
Developer and fansites would be much friendly and welcoming. A couple would be Doom9's forums (http://forum.doom9.org/) and the forums on Animemusicvideos.org
Hey, did I already mention that slashdot readers are quick to judge? *confused expression*