Starship Troopers has one of the best director commentaries I've heard.
He actually scared the hell out of me when he started screaming.
The best commentary I've heard was for The Big Hit. The director was hilarious.. "Even though this is stupid and no one would ever do this.. I made him do it anyway because it looked cool"
Unfortunately for me, the only reliable broadband in my area is from Comcast, who charges you an extra $15/month for broadband if you don't get it bundled with their $15/month basic cable.
Cox is the same. The difference between Internet and Internet + Basic Cable TV is $3.
OSX is riddled with undocumented APIs.. like the transition effects used in fast user switching, the dock uses an undocumented API to do minimization, etc.
And Apple is not a monopoly, since the consumer is free to choose some other computer instead.
I was just kidding.. I don't think Apple has a monopoly on computers. I also don't think Microsoft has a monopoly anymore either. OSX is a viable alternative.
Not really. We have an icecast server that streams from 5 different soundcards. This won't run on OSX because OSX doesn't provide/dev/ access to hardware.
1. typefaces: a designer uses a 'faux bold' and 'faux italic' in there design, when printed, those are reverted to the normal face of the font reason: extended windows features that are not typographically correct, and do not translate correctly in postscript
You see the reverse problem on OSX. When printed it looks fine.. but when translated into XML and sent to syndication, all of a sudden, that movie that previously got 3 stars now gets 3 H's because, instead of using UTF-8, Quark and most other OSX typesetting apps still use Mac Roman character set and dingbats fonts for special characters.
A Wii and a DVD player take up less space than a PS3. By far. And you need a controller + remote anyway. Controlling DVDs with a PS2 controller is tedious and my wife can't do it.
Slashdot appears to hate the PS3 and love Linux... yet which console runs Linux out of the box as a freaking menu option?
I love Linux. However, I expect my consoles to play games. I don't see any appeal to a $600 linux box with only 256 megs of ram and VESA video drivers. I think the Cell processor overrated, and certainly not "the future" any more than transmeta's Crusoe was "the future".
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He actually scared the hell out of me when he started screaming.
The best commentary I've heard was for The Big Hit. The director was hilarious.. "Even though this is stupid and no one would ever do this.. I made him do it anyway because it looked cool"
Did you even read the article? The whole article was about how Children of Men isn't being marketed as "sci-fi" because of the stigma.
Cox is the same. The difference between Internet and Internet + Basic Cable TV is $3.
AppleTV doesn't support 1080i either.. and its support for 720p is limited to 24fps.
Plus AppleTV only supports h.264, which has an excruciatingly slow encoder.
It only supports 720p24. Broadcast HD is 720p60... you're looking at 1/3rd the framerate of current HD programming in the US.
That's strange. So it can't even do 720p?
Idiocracy may be the greatest satire for the past decade.
Except volume control... and powering your TV.
My TiVo remote is trained to adjust my TV's volume and turn it on and off. I don't even know where my TV's remote is.
Why not? You can purchase content from Amazon unbox on TiVo. It can stream content to and from your PC. What does iTV do that Tivo doesn't?
The hardware requirements to decode it are nasty compared to xvid. My 600mhz ibook isn't fast enough to decode 640x480 h.264, let alone full screen.
OSX is riddled with undocumented APIs.. like the transition effects used in fast user switching, the dock uses an undocumented API to do minimization, etc.
I'd say the market is competitive. Unless you play tricks and exclude Macs as being part of the same market (as they did in the original US case).
Slashdotters have been claiming for years that OSX isn't only a viable alternative, but a better one.
Nope, and the slimline PS2 has even worse compatibility compared to the fat PS2.
What a coincidence. I was just drafting legislation that would fine Fred Upton for being a douchebag.
I was just kidding.. I don't think Apple has a monopoly on computers. I also don't think Microsoft has a monopoly anymore either. OSX is a viable alternative.
Not really. We have an icecast server that streams from 5 different soundcards. This won't run on OSX because OSX doesn't provide
So the Mac can see what type of lights I'm using and adjust the color temperature accordingly?
You see the reverse problem on OSX. When printed it looks fine.. but when translated into XML and sent to syndication, all of a sudden, that movie that previously got 3 stars now gets 3 H's because, instead of using UTF-8, Quark and most other OSX typesetting apps still use Mac Roman character set and dingbats fonts for special characters.
Mac Roman needs to be abolished from OSX.
Ironically, the year after they lost both the Polar Lander and the Mars Orbiter due to math problems.
Um, SMB was made by Microsoft, and Active Directory uses LDAP.
Macintosh Computers
(Hey, if you can exclude Macs as being in a different market in order to make MS a monopoly.. it cuts both ways)
A Wii and a DVD player take up less space than a PS3. By far. And you need a controller + remote anyway. Controlling DVDs with a PS2 controller is tedious and my wife can't do it.
I hope you're not comparing the PS2 launch with the PS3 launch.. they couldn't be more different.
The PS2 launched a year before Nintendo and MS and it was $100 cheaper than the Dreamcast.
I love Linux. However, I expect my consoles to play games. I don't see any appeal to a $600 linux box with only 256 megs of ram and VESA video drivers. I think the Cell processor overrated, and certainly not "the future" any more than transmeta's Crusoe was "the future".
Does that mean you no longer watch DVDs?