Atari didn't invent the console market, sorry. You might say they were the first to be highly successful, but they certainly weren't the first.Game consoles.
I looked at the bottom row, and it had the highest score there. My thinking was that this was the 'total' row, but in fact it was not. It was just for 'On-demand detection of polymorphic viruses,' for which it scored 100. The two rows above that were actually the total scores, in which AVK did indeed get the highest.
how does having plugins for various IM/P2P clients a plus? When something gets written to disk, it gets written to disk. It shouldn't matter what's writing it to disk, any new files written should be scanned. Does it not scan all new files that are written? Is that why it has (needs?) plugins for various IM/P2P clients in the first place? Makes no sense at all to me, disk activity is disk activity, and it should be taken care of regardless of what's doing the writing. If it isn't, well, sounds like a PoS to me.
oh please, the patent is beyond bad. A computer stores data, that's its job. And it allows you to do stuff with that data based on interactions with you. Hey! I know! Let's patent a computer storing data! And patent doing stuff with that data based on user interactions! Nobody's ever thought of that before!
This was definitely one of the more stupid patents, how on earth does it make sense that you can patent an amount of clicks? So, can I go patent two-click purchases? And three-click purchases? Right on up to 1,000,000-click purchases? So that nobody can buy anything without my piece of the pie coming my way? Freakin' ridiculous.
it's not, it's a dvd version of the theatrical releases. The vhs versions were different than the theatrical releases. Although it could very well be of the same edits as were on the vhs releases, but we won't know until they're out there I guess.
the original wasn't in 5.1, cuz there was no 5.1 yet. I thought SW was one of the first Dolby Stereo (Dolby System) movies, no? Not *the* first, but one of the first handful, and likely the biggest release to date anyway. It was very similar to what became Dolby Surround in the home. Left, Center, Right, and Surround channels matrixed into a stereo signal. According to this even the 6-track 70mm release was derived from the same four-channel mix that would, today, be considered 2.0 sound. So it would seem to me that the original theatrical release would indeed be 2.0, and not anything else.
THX isn't an audio format, it is specifications for audio reproduction. It isn't 5.1, or 6.1, or 7.1, or any other digit.digit for that matter. THX is just a guarantee that it meets certain qualities. Nothing is "in THX." www.thx.com
bah, the voice-overs were unnecessary, unless you were a complete moron who couldn't follow along without them, in which case you'll barely understand the meaning of the movie even with that much spoon-feeding anyway. The movie is far better without them, the mood carries across much better, among other things. They weren't supposed to be in there in the first place, they were only added because of pressure from moronic higher-ups who couldn't pay attention for more than a minute and follow the story. They aren't needed, and the movie has a much better, and intended, feel without them.
I don't know how anyone could like the version with the voice-overs. But, I also don't know how anyone can like a TV show like CSI, but look how successful it is. Every episode of CSI: present mystery...present ending/answer very obviously several times while pretending as though you're only giving vague clues...present ending as though it is a huge surprise that you didn't already give away several times so the extremely retarded viewer thinks he figured it out. So insulting. Yet insanely popular. Go figure. While not exactly what the voice-overs in Blade Runner are doing, it's still another example of completely unnecessarily going overboard with narration/description. Since when did condescension become the welcome norm?
so, I wonder if this means that they will be the versions that actually were shown in the theatres, of if they'll be the cuts that are on the original VHS releases?
I'm not sure why the movie industry doesn't get that one of the reasons (besides movie/story quality) that attendance is going down is because tickets cost too much, and snacks cost way too much. Price everything reasonably, and you'll get more volume. I don't need 17.3 gallons of Coca-Cola for ONLY $25!!! I want a reasonable serving that you don't gouge me for. And the same goes for everything else you're selling. Why do you think so many people cruise right on by the snack bar and straight into the theater? And why so many more don't even bother showing up at all?
we've been paying this tariff for years now, how can it possibly be in the proposal stage if it's already been collected all this time? I remember prices going up when it was introduced, though at the time it wasn't nearly as big of a chunk as it is now because prices back then were still fairly steep.
a few bits here and there being wrong in video files isn't going to cause much of a problem, so I wouldn't be too concerned there. There are plenty of CD data recovery utilities that will allow you to make copies of files that still contain all readable data, where a regular 'file copy' would abort due to a CRC error. The file you're left with should still play just fine, and probably just a very small glitch where the bad data was. May not even be noticable.
when they first gave us CD burners *all* blanks used gold for the reflective layer, this isn't new. They used gold for a reason, but this reason escapes me now. One would guess that it had something to do with gold's resistance to oxidizing. I remember being quite surprised when I first saw blanks that did *not* use gold as the reflective layer, and very quickly avoided them like the plague as they coastered like mad. Yeah, that's a verb, honest.
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Atari didn't invent the console market, sorry. You might say they were the first to be highly successful, but they certainly weren't the first.Game consoles.
haha, $4,250 for it. Freakin' hilarious! I'm sure I'm not alone in the "like I even give a rat's ass about this supposed game anymore" club.
The Homer.
hmm, nope, well past April 1st...
I looked at the bottom row, and it had the highest score there. My thinking was that this was the 'total' row, but in fact it was not. It was just for 'On-demand detection of polymorphic viruses,' for which it scored 100. The two rows above that were actually the total scores, in which AVK did indeed get the highest.
actually, Norton Antivirus ranked best there, everything else, including AVK, got lower scores.
how does having plugins for various IM/P2P clients a plus? When something gets written to disk, it gets written to disk. It shouldn't matter what's writing it to disk, any new files written should be scanned. Does it not scan all new files that are written? Is that why it has (needs?) plugins for various IM/P2P clients in the first place? Makes no sense at all to me, disk activity is disk activity, and it should be taken care of regardless of what's doing the writing. If it isn't, well, sounds like a PoS to me.
oh please, the patent is beyond bad. A computer stores data, that's its job. And it allows you to do stuff with that data based on interactions with you. Hey! I know! Let's patent a computer storing data! And patent doing stuff with that data based on user interactions! Nobody's ever thought of that before!
This was definitely one of the more stupid patents, how on earth does it make sense that you can patent an amount of clicks? So, can I go patent two-click purchases? And three-click purchases? Right on up to 1,000,000-click purchases? So that nobody can buy anything without my piece of the pie coming my way? Freakin' ridiculous.
it's not, it's a dvd version of the theatrical releases. The vhs versions were different than the theatrical releases. Although it could very well be of the same edits as were on the vhs releases, but we won't know until they're out there I guess.
the original wasn't in 5.1, cuz there was no 5.1 yet. I thought SW was one of the first Dolby Stereo (Dolby System) movies, no? Not *the* first, but one of the first handful, and likely the biggest release to date anyway. It was very similar to what became Dolby Surround in the home. Left, Center, Right, and Surround channels matrixed into a stereo signal. According to this even the 6-track 70mm release was derived from the same four-channel mix that would, today, be considered 2.0 sound. So it would seem to me that the original theatrical release would indeed be 2.0, and not anything else.
THX isn't an audio format, it is specifications for audio reproduction. It isn't 5.1, or 6.1, or 7.1, or any other digit.digit for that matter. THX is just a guarantee that it meets certain qualities. Nothing is "in THX." www.thx.com
bah, the voice-overs were unnecessary, unless you were a complete moron who couldn't follow along without them, in which case you'll barely understand the meaning of the movie even with that much spoon-feeding anyway. The movie is far better without them, the mood carries across much better, among other things. They weren't supposed to be in there in the first place, they were only added because of pressure from moronic higher-ups who couldn't pay attention for more than a minute and follow the story. They aren't needed, and the movie has a much better, and intended, feel without them. I don't know how anyone could like the version with the voice-overs. But, I also don't know how anyone can like a TV show like CSI, but look how successful it is. Every episode of CSI: present mystery...present ending/answer very obviously several times while pretending as though you're only giving vague clues...present ending as though it is a huge surprise that you didn't already give away several times so the extremely retarded viewer thinks he figured it out. So insulting. Yet insanely popular. Go figure. While not exactly what the voice-overs in Blade Runner are doing, it's still another example of completely unnecessarily going overboard with narration/description. Since when did condescension become the welcome norm?
so, I wonder if this means that they will be the versions that actually were shown in the theatres, of if they'll be the cuts that are on the original VHS releases?
but...all my electricity comes from gravity, not from burning some type of gas.
hmm, helps if you don't check those boxes...anyway, link is to a neat little parking trick done by some guy in a Civic
just need a working parking brake. Why do you think they call it a PARKING brake?!?! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-642499665 1641918737&q=civic+parking+trick&pl=true
Exactly why you set that kind of software to prompt you for the action, if any, you'd like it to take. Get what you deserve.
I'm not sure why the movie industry doesn't get that one of the reasons (besides movie/story quality) that attendance is going down is because tickets cost too much, and snacks cost way too much. Price everything reasonably, and you'll get more volume. I don't need 17.3 gallons of Coca-Cola for ONLY $25!!! I want a reasonable serving that you don't gouge me for. And the same goes for everything else you're selling. Why do you think so many people cruise right on by the snack bar and straight into the theater? And why so many more don't even bother showing up at all?
we've been paying this tariff for years now, how can it possibly be in the proposal stage if it's already been collected all this time? I remember prices going up when it was introduced, though at the time it wasn't nearly as big of a chunk as it is now because prices back then were still fairly steep.
or a consumer could just stick with their own music sources that require no DRM at all. That's what I'll be doing, no thanks Apple/MS/anyone else.
not enough yet, apparently, since we're still getting dupes :P
a few bits here and there being wrong in video files isn't going to cause much of a problem, so I wouldn't be too concerned there. There are plenty of CD data recovery utilities that will allow you to make copies of files that still contain all readable data, where a regular 'file copy' would abort due to a CRC error. The file you're left with should still play just fine, and probably just a very small glitch where the bad data was. May not even be noticable.
when they first gave us CD burners *all* blanks used gold for the reflective layer, this isn't new. They used gold for a reason, but this reason escapes me now. One would guess that it had something to do with gold's resistance to oxidizing. I remember being quite surprised when I first saw blanks that did *not* use gold as the reflective layer, and very quickly avoided them like the plague as they coastered like mad. Yeah, that's a verb, honest.
so, how exactly do the sectors get remapped etc when they're sitting on the shelf nowhere near a computer? ;)