Maybe they could instead, ban energy inefficient lighting, push more aggressively for solar panels on homes, actually raise CAFE standards, and holy hell end up saving more than a drop in a barrel in the long run!
Then we could actually dig out of the hole instead of delaying it getting bigger.
But again, this is B-USA-H. We don't look in the long term for the exit strategy.
With that kind of money, "lady friends" will smarm out of the dark caves they come from to mug you automatically. Even if you smell, and have the glow of bad white skin.
This distributed par2 idea seems really obvious now after all..:)
Wait until they figure out how to send just qubits where you can apply a function and collapse it into the file you wanted.:) It'll be FTBT transfering.
Re:Does anyone still actually prefer divx over xvi
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Probably more accurate to compare it as BSD versus SunOS pre-AT&T lawsuit at the time of the split. It's more like BSD v Linux now.
XviD doesn't pay fees to the mp4 people so it's not legal as an executable.
I think you missed my point. I'm talking about putting 2-3 30-minute episodes per DVD for a 100+ episode series, esp when it comes in boxsets.
How many anti-shoplifting cases can you fit on the shelf in that fashion in the store and at home? How is it gonna sell when there's plenty of competing products?
Some companies got a clue and are stuffing 4+ per disk, or putting more disks in per packaging, but who knows if it will get any better with BD/HD-DVD.
I get your point that packaging is too big, and at least for software packages, they've shrunk recently. The switch from LD/VHS to DVD was a "large" size difference too.:)
Considering if you're on/., you might be somebody who watches anime, or other videos, and much of what's available out there is pretty much only xvid or divx so...
Re:DivX give better quality than XviD
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Is the quality upgrade worth it versus time encoding it? If it's going to take 5x longer to get the same size/quality, what's the point?! unless you're obsessive about archival quality esp in these days of fat HDs, and DVD burning.
The advantage of XviD is it's faster on AMD processors, and it is consistent with quality, size, and time needed versus DivX.
And same question versus H.264 with the h264 encoder, or Nero Digital AVC.
I started with DivX4, but have been turned off by the adware and lack of significant quality & speed versus XviD by DivX5.
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It's fully available for Mac also, and can be played back with FFDshow which is open-source cross-platform.
mplayer supports it someway (probably using FFDshow) also.
So, it's just the wait for FFDshow to update to support any "new" features of 6.
XviD is something like the forked version of DivX4 during the Mayonnaise? project before the DivX people went closed-source a few years ago.
Since then, they're pretty much entirely 2 different products.
The output format is a form of mpeg4 is should be already cross-compatible between the 2 except for new features requiring post-processing cpu support.
And now DivX has to compete against AVC (h264), the next generation codec, which is already available as part of Quicktime 7?, the opensource h264 encoder that's currently in development, and Nero Digital.
All of these are supposed to produce HD quality video in still small sizes, so you can put your Blu-Ray/HD-DVD video on a normal DVD. That's what I'm waiting for.
It wouldn't be so bad that Apple abandons EVERYTHING they do if their shit didn't cost so much.
When you give an arm and a leg to get Apple shit, it better last quite a while.
Ref: iPod battery lawsuits, Newton, etc etc.
Otherwise, so much better to buy a commodity PC you can mix and match pieces for that gives you performance now, maintains continuity, and no single vendor point of failure.
girls, especially Asian ones, have no interest in guys with those skills.
The reality is they're more interested in: 1 he is ambitious and has money 2 he is a jerk (translation of 1) 3 he likes to show her off 4 he could beat her up (derivation of 2) 5 he looks good with a fit body and dress style doing all of the above
I don't know if this is how they're raised, the environment that pushes them to chase this, the brainwashing from TV and advertising, but this is what the major percentage demonstratively want and actively chase. Just look at the usual school experiences, club/bar scene, stories from friends, etc.
If they really wanted better lovers or partners, they WOULD be chasing those people including the geeks, nerds, etc etc.
So, then after they're in a dead-end marriage, THEN they realize their folly, and do the divorce dance. Serves them right.
I must mock all of you Mac people with "TOLD YOU SO!".
Just when you think you're comfortable with their products and things are getting settled and all good, just like Jason or Freddy, always trust Apple to come up with a way to GIVE YOU THE SHAFT! Sony does it too but they're proud of it.
Is it like every n*X years that Apple ditches all the customer base that bought their custom hardware? Apple goes: 1. create and sell NEW incompatible and proprietary product line 2. create loyal and fanatical customer base who will buy anything 3.... 4. ditch product line 5. create NEWER and completely incompatible product line from previous product line which blind loyal and fanatical customer base will continue to buy 6. rinse and repeat... 7. profit!
"Hey, we can grow our bottomline by making all of them 'loyal' and fanatical customers rebuy our hardware and associated software AGAIN!".
It's another soap-opera day with Deep Throat out of the closet to catch Microsoft in bed with IBM & Apple, and Apple swinging with Intel whom Microsoft is still in a long marriage with.
In the long run, would this mean more easy to port games and apps for MacOSX, or it's still about the OS?
Oh Apple.. you have denied the power of the dark side for far too long. Resistance is futile...
It's not quite a dupe because it looks more like Jay Leno read the original story, and decided to duplicate the test for the American late-night tv audience.
SMS on a phone keypad is already a morse code. It just happens to involve somewhere around 10 different keys instead of 2.
You would think it's easier to memorize coding that involves 2 buttons rather than one that involves 10 buttons.
Like what's L? Well, that's button 5 tap 3 times on the phone. With Morse, it's dot-dash-dot-dot with two keys. Both require quite a bit of memorization to become natural.
Between the two, I rather have an on-screen touch-keyboard, or Graffiti.:P
All get to display on the screen what it thinks you put in so you get the same feedback.
It just seems morse loses only because it's not intuitive, otherwise it sure is faster to key-in.
How about a Prius? It fulfills some of those requirements:
* uses no gas when stopped in heavy traffic (until the traction battery drains) * can be used in remote areas (for up to 500+ miles) without expensive (hydrogen) infrastructure for fuel, just gas and 10% ethanol * has no: timing belt, serpentine belt, starter motor, alternator; brakes are self-adjusting and the front-discs don't get used much; just needs oil change and tire rotation over 20K miles
According to the PnP game rule books, dark side powers have varying levels of distorting/twisting your body. Force lightning attack ranks up there for "doing the twist", and going by Naruto terminology, it's a forbidden technique for the obvious reasons.
Now if Lucas was reading this same rulebook, this would imply that Palpatine never used his dark side powers much, and never force lightning ever before.
Assuming the above is true, Palpatine used this knowledge to lie to Anakin about what Mace Windu did to Palpatine instead of it being a natural occurance of using force lightning for such a duration.
Here's a tip to save your precious two color-blind eyes:
a. cover keyboard and hands with a towel b. tape blinders to the bottom of your eyes c. if you have a underdesk sliding keyboard, slide the keyboard back under and slide your hands onto the keyboard or d. stick keyboard in a box and do the gom jabbar test
Oooh.. sounds like the old Apple, the old IBM, or any dotbomb actually.
If you still got any Palm(*) stock, or hardware, it would seem smart to dump it. Things are gonna end up high and dry in abandoned niche product, such as the Newton, seems coming again.
Sony (even though they kept making throw away models) was the only other real innovator in PalmOS field besides Handspring, and they're both gone now.
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Maybe they could instead, ban energy inefficient lighting, push more aggressively for solar panels on homes, actually raise CAFE standards, and holy hell end up saving more than a drop in a barrel in the long run!
Then we could actually dig out of the hole instead of delaying it getting bigger.
But again, this is B-USA-H. We don't look in the long term for the exit strategy.
With that kind of money, "lady friends" will smarm out of the dark caves they come from to mug you automatically. Even if you smell, and have the glow of bad white skin.
Instead of seeding the actual file(s), seed an archive that's been broken up into a multiple-files by par2 as the torrent, just like in newsgroups.
Then when you're x > 7x% done downloading all the subpar sections, just run par2 to let repair/reassemble any of the sections you don't have yet.
So what you said above, just not automatic.
Done!
This distributed par2 idea seems really obvious now after all.. :)
:) It'll be FTBT transfering.
Wait until they figure out how to send just qubits where you can apply a function and collapse it into the file you wanted.
Probably more accurate to compare it as BSD versus SunOS pre-AT&T lawsuit at the time of the split. It's more like BSD v Linux now.
XviD doesn't pay fees to the mp4 people so it's not legal as an executable.
I think you missed my point. I'm talking about putting 2-3 30-minute episodes per DVD for a 100+ episode series, esp when it comes in boxsets.
:)
How many anti-shoplifting cases can you fit on the shelf in that fashion in the store and at home? How is it gonna sell when there's plenty of competing products?
Some companies got a clue and are stuffing 4+ per disk, or putting more disks in per packaging, but who knows if it will get any better with BD/HD-DVD.
I get your point that packaging is too big, and at least for software packages, they've shrunk recently. The switch from LD/VHS to DVD was a "large" size difference too.
or...
backup all your DVDs to one dvd disk, or your tv episodes from your MythTV/TiVo/anime to again one dvd disk.
26-half hour episodes per disk. Can you imagine the marathon conveniences, or the bathroom nightmares?
Shelf-space is a premium in stores and at home these days too.
and I forgot VLC, and ffmpeg, which also support playback of xvid/divx files.
/., you might be somebody who watches anime, or other videos, and much of what's available out there is pretty much only xvid or divx so...
DivX networks also provides native libraries for DivX 5 too.
Considering if you're on
Is the quality upgrade worth it versus time encoding it? If it's going to take 5x longer to get the same size/quality, what's the point?! unless you're obsessive about archival quality esp in these days of fat HDs, and DVD burning.
The advantage of XviD is it's faster on AMD processors, and it is consistent with quality, size, and time needed versus DivX.
And same question versus H.264 with the h264 encoder, or Nero Digital AVC.
I started with DivX4, but have been turned off by the adware and lack of significant quality & speed versus XviD by DivX5.
It's fully available for Mac also, and can be played back with FFDshow which is open-source cross-platform.
mplayer supports it someway (probably using FFDshow) also.
So, it's just the wait for FFDshow to update to support any "new" features of 6.
XviD is something like the forked version of DivX4 during the Mayonnaise? project before the DivX people went closed-source a few years ago.
Since then, they're pretty much entirely 2 different products.
The output format is a form of mpeg4 is should be already cross-compatible between the 2 except for new features requiring post-processing cpu support.
And now DivX has to compete against AVC (h264), the next generation codec, which is already available as part of Quicktime 7?, the opensource h264 encoder that's currently in development, and Nero Digital.
All of these are supposed to produce HD quality video in still small sizes, so you can put your Blu-Ray/HD-DVD video on a normal DVD. That's what I'm waiting for.
FreeBSD has been running on AMD64 for over a year.
Again, Linux-weenies (much like Windows-weenies) see their OS as the "only" world view worth noting.
It wouldn't be so bad that Apple abandons EVERYTHING they do if their shit didn't cost so much.
When you give an arm and a leg to get Apple shit, it better last quite a while.
Ref: iPod battery lawsuits, Newton, etc etc.
Otherwise, so much better to buy a commodity PC you can mix and match pieces for that gives you performance now, maintains continuity, and no single vendor point of failure.
maybe he's just going on a long drive to Whitecastle for a while...
girls, especially Asian ones, have no interest in guys with those skills.
The reality is they're more interested in:
1 he is ambitious and has money
2 he is a jerk (translation of 1)
3 he likes to show her off
4 he could beat her up (derivation of 2)
5 he looks good with a fit body and dress style doing all of the above
I don't know if this is how they're raised, the environment that pushes them to chase this, the brainwashing from TV and advertising, but this is what the major percentage demonstratively want and actively chase. Just look at the usual school experiences, club/bar scene, stories from friends, etc.
If they really wanted better lovers or partners, they WOULD be chasing those people including the geeks, nerds, etc etc.
So, then after they're in a dead-end marriage, THEN they realize their folly, and do the divorce dance. Serves them right.
And their Sony only batteries that cost $50 each no matter if it's 1/2 the capacity of another $50 battery of theirs
I must mock all of you Mac people with "TOLD YOU SO!".
... ...
Just when you think you're comfortable with their products and things are getting settled and all good, just like Jason or Freddy, always trust Apple to come up with a way to GIVE YOU THE SHAFT! Sony does it too but they're proud of it.
Is it like every n*X years that Apple ditches all the customer base that bought their custom hardware? Apple goes:
1. create and sell NEW incompatible and proprietary product line
2. create loyal and fanatical customer base who will buy anything
3.
4. ditch product line
5. create NEWER and completely incompatible product line from previous product line which blind loyal and fanatical customer base will continue to buy
6. rinse and repeat
7. profit!
"Hey, we can grow our bottomline by making all of them 'loyal' and fanatical customers rebuy our hardware and associated software AGAIN!".
It's another soap-opera day with Deep Throat out of the closet to catch Microsoft in bed with IBM & Apple, and Apple swinging with Intel whom Microsoft is still in a long marriage with.
In the long run, would this mean more easy to port games and apps for MacOSX, or it's still about the OS?
Oh Apple.. you have denied the power of the dark side for far too long. Resistance is futile...
It's not quite a dupe because it looks more like Jay Leno read the original story, and decided to duplicate the test for the American late-night tv audience.
Same idea, different event.
SMS on a phone keypad is already a morse code. It just happens to involve somewhere around 10 different keys instead of 2.
:P
You would think it's easier to memorize coding that involves 2 buttons rather than one that involves 10 buttons.
Like what's L? Well, that's button 5 tap 3 times on the phone. With Morse, it's dot-dash-dot-dot with two keys. Both require quite a bit of memorization to become natural.
Between the two, I rather have an on-screen touch-keyboard, or Graffiti.
All get to display on the screen what it thinks you put in so you get the same feedback.
It just seems morse loses only because it's not intuitive, otherwise it sure is faster to key-in.
How about a Prius? It fulfills some of those requirements:
* uses no gas when stopped in heavy traffic (until the traction battery drains)
* can be used in remote areas (for up to 500+ miles) without expensive (hydrogen) infrastructure for fuel, just gas and 10% ethanol
* has no: timing belt, serpentine belt, starter motor, alternator; brakes are self-adjusting and the front-discs don't get used much; just needs oil change and tire rotation over 20K miles
doing?
I can't do that Dave...
Supposedly, Yoda is basically speaking Japanese. Same grammar form and syntax, just with English words.
An artifact from the early days when Star Wars was all about alien "races" and languages.
According to the PnP game rule books, dark side powers have varying levels of distorting/twisting your body. Force lightning attack ranks up there for "doing the twist", and going by Naruto terminology, it's a forbidden technique for the obvious reasons.
Now if Lucas was reading this same rulebook, this would imply that Palpatine never used his dark side powers much, and never force lightning ever before.
Assuming the above is true, Palpatine used this knowledge to lie to Anakin about what Mace Windu did to Palpatine instead of it being a natural occurance of using force lightning for such a duration.
Here's a tip to save your precious two color-blind eyes:
a. cover keyboard and hands with a towel
b. tape blinders to the bottom of your eyes
c. if you have a underdesk sliding keyboard, slide the keyboard back under and slide your hands onto the keyboard
or
d. stick keyboard in a box and do the gom jabbar test
Oooh.. sounds like the old Apple, the old IBM, or any dotbomb actually.
If you still got any Palm(*) stock, or hardware, it would seem smart to dump it. Things are gonna end up high and dry in abandoned niche product, such as the Newton, seems coming again.
Sony (even though they kept making throw away models) was the only other real innovator in PalmOS field besides Handspring, and they're both gone now.
It's now the time of complacency and rot.