I'd like to chime in a add to the group of people who think these video were not funny, and in fact a poor attempt at being so. I use FireFox on PC + Mac, I like it. Stick with the FireFox development. Stop making lame commercials.
No, because Michigan has an option to say "I bought stuff out of state, and do not have receipts" and it automatically guesses how much taxes I need to pay. I pick that option each year, I paid my dues.
I don't think there is anything wrong with them, so there's nothing to fix. The two examples you gave are examples of open matte movies. The full aperture of the film is exposed during shooting, giving an image aspect ratio approx 1.33 (fullscreen). But the director often means for it to be composed at 1.85 or so, and FX will often be done at the ratio it's intended to be seen at.
What I'm thinking the problem stems from is a little picture MGM has on several of their DVDs. It shows a clip from the movie in widescreen, with a 1.33 AR box over part of it, this is to illustrate how the widescreen version is better. The problem is, it's only factual for movies hard-shot in a widescreen format (usu 2.35). The Star Wars films are a good example. The original trilogy became a new experience for me when I first saw them letterboxed, because the panandscan process cuts off about 40% of the picture. For softmatte movies though, this little diagram is actually false. There is actually more image in the fullscreen version.
However, as my sig points out, it's not always right. One that comes to mind is Spaceballs, in the fullscreen version you used to be able to see the puppet rods of the alien towards the end of the film. In the widescreen version, the mattes cover this up. Also, for heavy FX movies, any FX are usually just done for the theatrical aspect ratio. So when making a 1.33 transfer, you could open up the mattes for a scene of two people talking (although now you could see boom mikes) but for the next scene of the CGI ghost, if the ghost wasn't rendered in the full 1.33 image, that part of the movie would have to be cropped on the sides to fit. This is why you can't always just use "zoom" on a widescreen tv to fix an open matte transfer.
So it comes down to two possibilites. If the person sued because they think MGM matted the tops and bottoms of already panandscanned movies, then a quick lesson in filmmaking would have straigtened him out. You'd think someone that into DVDs might take a trip to the World Wide Web to learn something new.
On the other hand, if he's suing over the diagram being false for softmatte movies, he's a pedantic ass, along with the lawyer who took the case, and the judge who made ruling.
1. The DVDs they list are not all "wrong" they simply lumped in all DVDs within a certain time period and aspect ratio in. For instance checking UHF which has both Widescreen and Pan/Scan on one disc you can see the Widescreen has more picture to the right and left.
2. The DVDs that are "wrong" are NOT wrong. The movie was originally shot in square format and the director cut the top and bottom off to make the widescreen version. Technically the "pan and scan" version is wrong as it shows more then the director originally intended.
Yeah, but you know what... when your other choice for TV is Comcast (our apartment has no line of sight for satellite) then ANY other television provider looks appealing. It is hard for me to think how SBC and Microsoft could provide a worse quality picture and service then the mega-giant atrocity called Comcast.
WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? It doesn't matter, you're fired... well soon you will be! Releasing microsoft's super secrets is naughty, an we will find a way to get you fired, even if it means buying the company you work for!
We're gonna fire everyone with blogs that work for us too, just to be safe.
Who cares. Apple didn't switch to an Intel chip, Apple stayed with Moto's chips (until now). If you are going to play the what-if game, you should be asking:
What if Apple had switched to the super-cheap, now known to be poor performing, but highly tasty Dorito Chip? They would have used the Doritos cool ranch for the laptops, and the always popular Nacho favor for the desktops (Nacho is hotter).
I understand where he was going: people using the [object] the wrong way ends up in the government taking away prvilages of that [object] from everyone even though not everyone has abused it. I am saying that the majority of people misused the Thompson gun whereas a minority misused CD burning technology. Anyway you can buy a Thompson gun for collectors sake if it's disabled (like the firing pin is removed)... and that would have been a better comparison: CD Burners cannot copy copyrighted material because a function was disabled in the software and Thompson guns have to have their firing pin removed so one it's functions (aka shooting bullets) is removed. They still then serve a function, collectability and burning of personal non-copyrighted data.
Okay all of you NRA nuts, are you really going to use a automatic weapon to protect yourself in your own house? You have a good chance of killing your family, or someone else who doesn't deserve to be dead. The lack of control over that weapon an average person would have makes it useless as home defense. I think I still have a point though. A Thompson gun is meant to shoot bullets (main purpose), and a cd-burner is meant to store data (generic use). Both can be used for harm, but in the case of a burner most people are using it at least semi-legally (purchased for legitimate use), and I would guess (although I don't have statistics) that most thompson guns were purchased for bad things (criminals or the mob if you will). On a side note killing anyone for any reason is never a good thing... it may be the best of two bad choices, but I would say negativity lies heavily with the gun killing someone over the burner copying copyrighted material.
You can't compare Thompson machine guns to copying cds. That's just ridiculous. A Thompson machine gun was made to kill people, and it is used for violence (no matter if you are shooting a target or shooting another person) it is a tool designed to do harm. CD burners were designed so people can easily put large amounts of data on a medium other than floppy, and that includes illegal copying, but it was not made for doing harm. The people who made the Thompson machine gun knew damn well what people would be doing with it, and they made sure it did it's job (anotherwords be able to kill). These are two completely different things.
Uh, actually what really has happened is PM Towers are not selling and so every distributor has tons and every reseller has tons so there is no reason to let stores order more. There is a reason apple is giving you $500 off for buying a tower and a LCD 17in or higher, and it's not because apple doesn't like money. Apple has huge overstock of these comptuers.. I agree, no new Towers, especially because of the $500 off, it just started and 6 days is not enough to clear out the extras.
However, the lowest emissions vehicle around is a bicycle.
I don't want to be captain obvious, but in Michigan you simply cannot ride your bike to work because (A) the weatherpeople are rarely even close to correct about what tomorrow's weather will be like and (B) Snow, hail, heavy rain, ice, etc. I know many people who tried biking to work every day and most stopped because every other week at least they would end up biking home in heavy rain, plus some people live at least a half-hour away in a car-- talk about cutting down on family time if you took your bike instead. Suits, presentation materials, laptops can be troublesome as well. For a lot of people biking is not the solution.
So how does people using IM (practically everyone in the entire world) to "hunt down" your friends equate to, as you put it, "slashdorks" stalking your friends?
I'm sure there are stalkers out there, and even people who use the internet to stalk but I highly doubt that qualifies using broad (most likely untrue) generalizations about Slashdot readers. Just because someone uses IM does not make them a geek or even a "slashdork".
I have friend who got a counter offer and brought the counter offer to the new company who re-countered and he brought the second counter offer back to his original company who said "F-off" essentially because they pissed with his tactics.
When he went back to the new company to accept they had hired someone in all the time it took him to go back and forth. He lost both jobs and was without one for a month.
I think there is a point where you can be too greedy, and this is it.
Know what is funny I mentioned that vlc played MPEG2... now that I have installed QT6 it does not play MPEG2 video anymore. Blarg! I do hope they implement it in Jaguar that would be sweet!
It still can't play MPEG2 files though (at least in my OSX QT6 vers). I was hoping for at least that in the new release. MPEG2 is being used more and more at work and macs are getting passed over because of this limitation. How hard could it be to implement MPEG2?? VLC and MPlayerOSX can play MPEG2. Argh!
Yup... I registered macslash.org cause I thought macslash.com was squatted. (please don't disembowel me) I have contacted the real owners of macslash and I will be transfering the domain and hopefully forwarding.org to their IP address in the meantime.
Of course to play DVDs on the xbox you need to buy extra hardware ($30 or so) which makes it a $80 difference.
I would personaly buy a stand alone DVD player rather than a console for DVD playing. The players offer easier hookup, and don't require the purchase of a remote control, and they very cheap. I have a PS2 and would really dislike using it for my main DVD player. Just my 2cents.
Registering the cable modem has nothing to do with installing a router. The router is on the LAN side of the cable modem and justs looks like a single PC to the outside world.
I am not an idiot, I know how a router works. The point, if you had bothered to read the original message, was that the TOS/EULA does not allow routers. Yes I can use a router, and yes I do. The agreement however says you can't have one without paying them 4.95 per computer per month. My orginal point was that sometimes TOS/EULA etcs may say something is wrong, but that does not mean you should follow it.
You can choose to not install their software, and you can register the modem over their website, but doing so forces you to still click an "I agree" button after 56 pages of crap where they mark out exactly what you can and cannot do.
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Or: "Based on vocal patterns and poor video quality you seem to be watching porn. Click here to order more lubricant!"
That's funny because Apple's Shake requires a 3-button mouse.
It is possible! It takes hardwork and planning, but what doesn't?
A Mac network. Even one where all the users have admin access to their own computer, no proxy filter, no disabled whatever-services.
I'd like to chime in a add to the group of people who think these video were not funny, and in fact a poor attempt at being so. I use FireFox on PC + Mac, I like it. Stick with the FireFox development. Stop making lame commercials.
No, because Michigan has an option to say "I bought stuff out of state, and do not have receipts" and it automatically guesses how much taxes I need to pay. I pick that option each year, I paid my dues.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showpost.php?s=eb73f
I don't think there is anything wrong with them, so there's nothing to fix. The two examples you gave are examples of open matte movies. The full aperture of the film is exposed during shooting, giving an image aspect ratio approx 1.33 (fullscreen). But the director often means for it to be composed at 1.85 or so, and FX will often be done at the ratio it's intended to be seen at.
What I'm thinking the problem stems from is a little picture MGM has on several of their DVDs. It shows a clip from the movie in widescreen, with a 1.33 AR box over part of it, this is to illustrate how the widescreen version is better. The problem is, it's only factual for movies hard-shot in a widescreen format (usu 2.35). The Star Wars films are a good example. The original trilogy became a new experience for me when I first saw them letterboxed, because the panandscan process cuts off about 40% of the picture. For softmatte movies though, this little diagram is actually false. There is actually more image in the fullscreen version.
However, as my sig points out, it's not always right. One that comes to mind is Spaceballs, in the fullscreen version you used to be able to see the puppet rods of the alien towards the end of the film. In the widescreen version, the mattes cover this up. Also, for heavy FX movies, any FX are usually just done for the theatrical aspect ratio. So when making a 1.33 transfer, you could open up the mattes for a scene of two people talking (although now you could see boom mikes) but for the next scene of the CGI ghost, if the ghost wasn't rendered in the full 1.33 image, that part of the movie would have to be cropped on the sides to fit. This is why you can't always just use "zoom" on a widescreen tv to fix an open matte transfer.
So it comes down to two possibilites. If the person sued because they think MGM matted the tops and bottoms of already panandscanned movies, then a quick lesson in filmmaking would have straigtened him out. You'd think someone that into DVDs might take a trip to the World Wide Web to learn something new.
On the other hand, if he's suing over the diagram being false for softmatte movies, he's a pedantic ass, along with the lawyer who took the case, and the judge who made ruling.
1. The DVDs they list are not all "wrong" they simply lumped in all DVDs within a certain time period and aspect ratio in. For instance checking UHF which has both Widescreen and Pan/Scan on one disc you can see the Widescreen has more picture to the right and left.
2. The DVDs that are "wrong" are NOT wrong. The movie was originally shot in square format and the director cut the top and bottom off to make the widescreen version. Technically the "pan and scan" version is wrong as it shows more then the director originally intended.
Yeah, but you know what... when your other choice for TV is Comcast (our apartment has no line of sight for satellite) then ANY other television provider looks appealing. It is hard for me to think how SBC and Microsoft could provide a worse quality picture and service then the mega-giant atrocity called Comcast.
Not me, I live in a blue state! w00t!
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All the info you need to know this is probably fake.
WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? It doesn't matter, you're fired... well soon you will be! Releasing microsoft's super secrets is naughty, an we will find a way to get you fired, even if it means buying the company you work for!
We're gonna fire everyone with blogs that work for us too, just to be safe.
*sigh*
Who cares. Apple didn't switch to an Intel chip, Apple stayed with Moto's chips (until now). If you are going to play the what-if game, you should be asking:
What if Apple had switched to the super-cheap, now known to be poor performing, but highly tasty Dorito Chip? They would have used the Doritos cool ranch for the laptops, and the always popular Nacho favor for the desktops (Nacho is hotter).
I understand where he was going: people using the [object] the wrong way ends up in the government taking away prvilages of that [object] from everyone even though not everyone has abused it. I am saying that the majority of people misused the Thompson gun whereas a minority misused CD burning technology. Anyway you can buy a Thompson gun for collectors sake if it's disabled (like the firing pin is removed)... and that would have been a better comparison: CD Burners cannot copy copyrighted material because a function was disabled in the software and Thompson guns have to have their firing pin removed so one it's functions (aka shooting bullets) is removed. They still then serve a function, collectability and burning of personal non-copyrighted data.
Okay all of you NRA nuts, are you really going to use a automatic weapon to protect yourself in your own house? You have a good chance of killing your family, or someone else who doesn't deserve to be dead. The lack of control over that weapon an average person would have makes it useless as home defense. I think I still have a point though. A Thompson gun is meant to shoot bullets (main purpose), and a cd-burner is meant to store data (generic use). Both can be used for harm, but in the case of a burner most people are using it at least semi-legally (purchased for legitimate use), and I would guess (although I don't have statistics) that most thompson guns were purchased for bad things (criminals or the mob if you will). On a side note killing anyone for any reason is never a good thing... it may be the best of two bad choices, but I would say negativity lies heavily with the gun killing someone over the burner copying copyrighted material.
You can't compare Thompson machine guns to copying cds. That's just ridiculous. A Thompson machine gun was made to kill people, and it is used for violence (no matter if you are shooting a target or shooting another person) it is a tool designed to do harm. CD burners were designed so people can easily put large amounts of data on a medium other than floppy, and that includes illegal copying, but it was not made for doing harm. The people who made the Thompson machine gun knew damn well what people would be doing with it, and they made sure it did it's job (anotherwords be able to kill). These are two completely different things.
The same could be said about the G4 iMacs.
Yeah but there is no rebate program for iMacs, and iMacs are still out selling the tower machines.
Uh, actually what really has happened is PM Towers are not selling and so every distributor has tons and every reseller has tons so there is no reason to let stores order more. There is a reason apple is giving you $500 off for buying a tower and a LCD 17in or higher, and it's not because apple doesn't like money. Apple has huge overstock of these comptuers.. I agree, no new Towers, especially because of the $500 off, it just started and 6 days is not enough to clear out the extras.
However, the lowest emissions vehicle around is a bicycle.
I don't want to be captain obvious, but in Michigan you simply cannot ride your bike to work because (A) the weatherpeople are rarely even close to correct about what tomorrow's weather will be like and (B) Snow, hail, heavy rain, ice, etc. I know many people who tried biking to work every day and most stopped because every other week at least they would end up biking home in heavy rain, plus some people live at least a half-hour away in a car-- talk about cutting down on family time if you took your bike instead. Suits, presentation materials, laptops can be troublesome as well. For a lot of people biking is not the solution.
So how does people using IM (practically everyone in the entire world) to "hunt down" your friends equate to, as you put it, "slashdorks" stalking your friends?
I'm sure there are stalkers out there, and even people who use the internet to stalk but I highly doubt that qualifies using broad (most likely untrue) generalizations about Slashdot readers. Just because someone uses IM does not make them a geek or even a "slashdork".
I have friend who got a counter offer and brought the counter offer to the new company who re-countered and he brought the second counter offer back to his original company who said "F-off" essentially because they pissed with his tactics.
When he went back to the new company to accept they had hired someone in all the time it took him to go back and forth. He lost both jobs and was without one for a month.
I think there is a point where you can be too greedy, and this is it.
Know what is funny I mentioned that vlc played MPEG2... now that I have installed QT6 it does not play MPEG2 video anymore. Blarg! I do hope they implement it in Jaguar that would be sweet!
It still can't play MPEG2 files though (at least in my OSX QT6 vers). I was hoping for at least that in the new release. MPEG2 is being used more and more at work and macs are getting passed over because of this limitation. How hard could it be to implement MPEG2?? VLC and MPlayerOSX can play MPEG2. Argh!
Yup... I registered macslash.org cause I thought macslash.com was squatted. (please don't disembowel me) I have contacted the real owners of macslash and I will be transfering the domain and hopefully forwarding .org to their IP address in the meantime.
Of course to play DVDs on the xbox you need to buy extra hardware ($30 or so) which makes it a $80 difference.
I would personaly buy a stand alone DVD player rather than a console for DVD playing. The players offer easier hookup, and don't require the purchase of a remote control, and they very cheap. I have a PS2 and would really dislike using it for my main DVD player. Just my 2cents.
Registering the cable modem has nothing to do with installing a router. The router is on the LAN side of the cable modem and justs looks like a single PC to the outside world.
/EULA does not allow routers. Yes I can use a router, and yes I do. The agreement however says you can't have one without paying them 4.95 per computer per month. My orginal point was that sometimes TOS/EULA etcs may say something is wrong, but that does not mean you should follow it.
I am not an idiot, I know how a router works. The point, if you had bothered to read the original message, was that the TOS
You can choose to not install their software, and you can register the modem over their website, but doing so forces you to still click an "I agree" button after 56 pages of crap where they mark out exactly what you can and cannot do.