So. At what point did I miss anything? Exactly where did I go wrong? 50 interlaced frames pr. second = 25 full frames pr. second. So, what are you complaining about?
You got to be trolling. Oh wait. Anynymous coward. Right. You are.
Since NTSC effectively has arprox 30 frames pr. second, that means movies (which are natively around 24fps) are encoded using some interlacing tricks, and has the exact same timing as the original movie.
PAL however has 25 fps, and no interlacing tricks in the world will allow you to get a 24fps source looking good & smooth while remaining proper timing. Thus movies in PAL format actually play faster.
The PAL version of a movie is effectively shorter/faster than the NTSC version. The GP has a valid complaint.
What papers did I recieve? What papers did I sign? Just where in this huge universe can I actually find this license you are talking about?
The answers are ofcourse: No, no, nowhere. So what license are you guys even talking about?
I buy it. The game is mine. Sure, the copyright ain't, but that's an entirely different matter. The game is mine, I own it. Stop perpetuating this goddamn bullshit. Stop being the entertainment industries bitches who are mindlessly brainwashing people who still know better.
I don't know how stuff works in the US, but here in Norway if I buy anything, it is mine. Anyone trying to pull any tricks on that, can be taken to court.
As it should be.
Repeat after me: There is no license.
This might be mod'ed down to GNAA levels. I don't care. I have plenty of karma.
Plus trying to get the entire internet to change one of its key components is a rather ambitious attempt.
The guy even admits that the current phishing and scamming attempts are a social problem, not a technological one. Who's to say this new system won't be abused?
This was a private person working against corporations, and it was shot down. When the corporations with their army of lawyers and legal fud wants to persuit this against people, expect it to be fully enforcable. They will have no problems what so ever.
Ok, so I don't know that, but I'm pretty sure that's how it will turn out.
In all fairness, this differs from the old VB runtime just how?
Currently there are 3 versions of the.NET Framework. v1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. I would assume any newer Windows installation at least comes with v1.1 by default, which most current.NET-applications depend on. Oh noes! I have to click "Windows update" and wait 30 seconds! My, oh my.
As for "refusing to install it". How zelous can you get? Do you refuse to install Sun's JVM as well? Yes, I see you think java ain't a real platform as well. Do you refuse to install perl or php when you write web-applications as well?
Now let me tell you about the real world: If an application does useful stuff, and uses a framework that cut development time to a tenth, that is not just a real application, but anyone remotely interested in costs will find that framework great. So will probably most realworld developers who care about getting stuff done without wasting their time on rewriting the same generic code 50 times per project.
Since it sounds like this is a product that will be used outside of a controlled environment (ie withing a specific company, you know what you are running the app on), then you are asking for a technical support nightmare.
"Install the.NET Framework version 2.0 available at Windows Update or download it from this link.". Yeah, that was, like, you know, the worst of technical support nightmares.
I know this is slashdot, but I can't believe this zealous rubbish got mod'ed "Insightful" and not "Troll".
Grace Park is fine with me. She can have prior clones! (Here's hoping)
Anyway, there's not really much explaining needed for those who has seen the BattleStar Galactica MiniSeries (A mini-prequel to the actual series, which explains quite a few things.)
Weird. I remember having a few issues getting daemon tools installed (like having to reboot), but that was all it took. After that accessing virtual CD-ROMs worked like usual. No special tweaking required. I might have been lucky. Who knows?
In case you are wondering... This was the lastest CTP release prior to the Febraury 2006 one, the one prior to the official "feature complete" release.
Funny. Deamon tools works fine on my legal beta-copy.
Your paranoia amuses me. To assume freeware wont run, is to assume that Microsoft is bad at business. Which we by now should know they most definitely are not.
I have plenty asian HD stuff well above any DVD specs. That goes for resolution and framerate.
Watching video at 1152x768 (or something) at 60fps is pretty neat. It makes any SDTV quality video seem like choppy crap. Too bad big business is to busy screwing themselves over instead of bringing us this goodness in the way we want it.
Since you happen to think the worst about everyone, even when I make it clear that, yes there are 100% freeloaders, but point out that there are other kind of users... I'll offer a reply.
The music I'm interested in ain't sold around here. If I want it, I must download it using various P2P systems, and if I like it, then I can order it online. As I said, try before you buy. And since I already said I didn't support the RIAA and MPAA, let me just clarify in advance: This ain't european nor american music.
As for movies? Same deal. As for TV-shows. If they are even aired here, expect a 6 month delay minimum. And that's a big "if". Battlestar Galactica? Still not aired. You can always say "Buy the DVDs if you want it", but I'm not paying over 100USD for a show I haven't seen yet, nor am I willing to wait 2 years after it was aired.
You may disagree on weather I'm entitled to this content in the first place, but as my moral standings on this goes, none of the uses mentioned above is "illegitemate" or "wrong" in any way.
If you find all this unreasonable, just bear in mind that there's this thing called "free market" and "supply and demand". If there ain't no legitemate way to get something a lot of people want, there will be illegal suppliers instead. It's one of the oldest laws of mankind. Trying to avoid that is as futile as futile gets.
Yes. "Try before you buy" is such a horrible concept. I hope they get those pesky CD players out of the music stores soon. Personally I blame the music stores for bringing this absolutely irrefutable need for DRM.
Here's a hint: DRM only hastles legitemate customers, while the pirates get the full freedom. Leak once, pirate infinitely. And that's why DRM will never work.
Plus its called copyright infringement, not stealing. Tool.
keeping up with their TV shows before they are broadcast in their country.
This just sounds so illegitemate, you know. To think that people actually want to keep up with shows they enjoy and which is discussed all around the web without recieving spoilers 6 months in advance! Oh, the horror! They must be terrorists or something.
As for your main point... This "mass infringement movement" is (for some) about "getting stuff for free", while for others its all about protesting against the insanity that the current form of copyright law has changed into.
As much as I'd love to support my favorite artists, I refuse to feed the corporate beast that the recording industry represents. They want to take away all our freedoms, just so they can profit even more. I refuse to support that, and thus my favorite artists get to suffer. It may be sad, but that's the choices I've made in reposonse to RIAA's and MPAA's actions the last few years.
A thief steals. Copyright infringement is not stealing. Communism is a political ideology. Calling people communists as an insult may work well in the US, but keep in mind the rest of the world sees the US as right-wing neonazis.
What you call "communism" is probably what most of the world calls "in between left and right". But I guess calling people names is the only form of "political discussion" you guys know.
Not saying that parent poster was particulary insightful or anything, but calling people "thiefs" and "communists" ain't particulary classy either.
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So what percentage of journalists are bloggers?
I don't know about that, but in other news 95% of the bloggers' feelings just got hurt, and they are now whining about it on LiveJournal and MySpace.
So. At what point did I miss anything? Exactly where did I go wrong? 50 interlaced frames pr. second = 25 full frames pr. second. So, what are you complaining about?
You got to be trolling. Oh wait. Anynymous coward. Right. You are.
That is actually wrong.
Since NTSC effectively has arprox 30 frames pr. second, that means movies (which are natively around 24fps) are encoded using some interlacing tricks, and has the exact same timing as the original movie.
PAL however has 25 fps, and no interlacing tricks in the world will allow you to get a 24fps source looking good & smooth while remaining proper timing. Thus movies in PAL format actually play faster.
The PAL version of a movie is effectively shorter/faster than the NTSC version. The GP has a valid complaint.
So what OS does most machines in the world run? Right.
Here. Have a cup of STFU.
Forget that silly wiki link. This article explains stuff in a much more amusing way.
So you want more botnets and spamzombies on the net, do you?
I think we should put more research money into looking into other stuff that there isn't any evidence for either.
Stuff like Pink Unicorns, Fairies, Flying spaghetti monsters and Norse Gods.
I repeat: What fucking license?
What papers did I recieve? What papers did I sign? Just where in this huge universe can I actually find this license you are talking about?
The answers are ofcourse: No, no, nowhere. So what license are you guys even talking about?
I buy it. The game is mine. Sure, the copyright ain't, but that's an entirely different matter. The game is mine, I own it. Stop perpetuating this goddamn bullshit. Stop being the entertainment industries bitches who are mindlessly brainwashing people who still know better.
I don't know how stuff works in the US, but here in Norway if I buy anything, it is mine. Anyone trying to pull any tricks on that, can be taken to court.
As it should be.
Repeat after me: There is no license.
This might be mod'ed down to GNAA levels. I don't care. I have plenty of karma.
Second that.
Plus trying to get the entire internet to change one of its key components is a rather ambitious attempt.
The guy even admits that the current phishing and scamming attempts are a social problem, not a technological one. Who's to say this new system won't be abused?
I'll save my enthusiasm for something else.
This was a private person working against corporations, and it was shot down. When the corporations with their army of lawyers and legal fud wants to persuit this against people, expect it to be fully enforcable. They will have no problems what so ever.
Ok, so I don't know that, but I'm pretty sure that's how it will turn out.
In all fairness, this differs from the old VB runtime just how?
Currently there are 3 versions of the .NET Framework. v1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. I would assume any newer Windows installation at least comes with v1.1 by default, which most current .NET-applications depend on. Oh noes! I have to click "Windows update" and wait 30 seconds! My, oh my.
As for "refusing to install it". How zelous can you get? Do you refuse to install Sun's JVM as well? Yes, I see you think java ain't a real platform as well. Do you refuse to install perl or php when you write web-applications as well?
Now let me tell you about the real world: If an application does useful stuff, and uses a framework that cut development time to a tenth, that is not just a real application, but anyone remotely interested in costs will find that framework great. So will probably most realworld developers who care about getting stuff done without wasting their time on rewriting the same generic code 50 times per project.
Since it sounds like this is a product that will be used outside of a controlled environment (ie withing a specific company, you know what you are running the app on), then you are asking for a technical support nightmare.
"Install the .NET Framework version 2.0 available at Windows Update or download it from this link.". Yeah, that was, like, you know, the worst of technical support nightmares.
I know this is slashdot, but I can't believe this zealous rubbish got mod'ed "Insightful" and not "Troll".
If you don't mind me asking... Do you run all your bash-scripts as root? :)
Grace Park is fine with me. She can have prior clones! (Here's hoping)
Anyway, there's not really much explaining needed for those who has seen the BattleStar Galactica MiniSeries (A mini-prequel to the actual series, which explains quite a few things.)
Try TweakUI on Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows XP page.
Mighty useful tool, if I may say so.
Nice. Now I only need to compromise one password to own your cyberidentity.
Neither does bad analogies. Should we stop? Yes.
Weird. I remember having a few issues getting daemon tools installed (like having to reboot), but that was all it took. After that accessing virtual CD-ROMs worked like usual. No special tweaking required. I might have been lucky. Who knows?
In case you are wondering... This was the lastest CTP release prior to the Febraury 2006 one, the one prior to the official "feature complete" release.
Funny. Deamon tools works fine on my legal beta-copy.
Your paranoia amuses me. To assume freeware wont run, is to assume that Microsoft is bad at business. Which we by now should know they most definitely are not.
Whatever your point was, I'd like to point out that there are keys for punctuation on keyboards these days.
It's called XviD/MPEG4 and there are plenty asian torrent sites :P
There's a reason I said "too bad big business is too busy screwing themselves", as they aren't the ones delivering this.
I have plenty asian HD stuff well above any DVD specs. That goes for resolution and framerate.
Watching video at 1152x768 (or something) at 60fps is pretty neat. It makes any SDTV quality video seem like choppy crap. Too bad big business is to busy screwing themselves over instead of bringing us this goodness in the way we want it.
Since you happen to think the worst about everyone, even when I make it clear that, yes there are 100% freeloaders, but point out that there are other kind of users... I'll offer a reply.
The music I'm interested in ain't sold around here. If I want it, I must download it using various P2P systems, and if I like it, then I can order it online. As I said, try before you buy. And since I already said I didn't support the RIAA and MPAA, let me just clarify in advance: This ain't european nor american music.
As for movies? Same deal. As for TV-shows. If they are even aired here, expect a 6 month delay minimum. And that's a big "if". Battlestar Galactica? Still not aired. You can always say "Buy the DVDs if you want it", but I'm not paying over 100USD for a show I haven't seen yet, nor am I willing to wait 2 years after it was aired.
You may disagree on weather I'm entitled to this content in the first place, but as my moral standings on this goes, none of the uses mentioned above is "illegitemate" or "wrong" in any way.
If you find all this unreasonable, just bear in mind that there's this thing called "free market" and "supply and demand". If there ain't no legitemate way to get something a lot of people want, there will be illegal suppliers instead. It's one of the oldest laws of mankind. Trying to avoid that is as futile as futile gets.
Yes. "Try before you buy" is such a horrible concept. I hope they get those pesky CD players out of the music stores soon. Personally I blame the music stores for bringing this absolutely irrefutable need for DRM.
Here's a hint: DRM only hastles legitemate customers, while the pirates get the full freedom. Leak once, pirate infinitely. And that's why DRM will never work.
Plus its called copyright infringement, not stealing. Tool.
keeping up with their TV shows before they are broadcast in their country.
This just sounds so illegitemate, you know. To think that people actually want to keep up with shows they enjoy and which is discussed all around the web without recieving spoilers 6 months in advance! Oh, the horror! They must be terrorists or something.
As for your main point... This "mass infringement movement" is (for some) about "getting stuff for free", while for others its all about protesting against the insanity that the current form of copyright law has changed into.
As much as I'd love to support my favorite artists, I refuse to feed the corporate beast that the recording industry represents. They want to take away all our freedoms, just so they can profit even more. I refuse to support that, and thus my favorite artists get to suffer. It may be sad, but that's the choices I've made in reposonse to RIAA's and MPAA's actions the last few years.
A thief steals. Copyright infringement is not stealing. Communism is a political ideology. Calling people communists as an insult may work well in the US, but keep in mind the rest of the world sees the US as right-wing neonazis.
What you call "communism" is probably what most of the world calls "in between left and right". But I guess calling people names is the only form of "political discussion" you guys know.
Not saying that parent poster was particulary insightful or anything, but calling people "thiefs" and "communists" ain't particulary classy either.