FYI - this effects all of our competitors as well.
Can anyone confirm this? Making cries of "I'm not going to buy a Dell now" are silly unless you're willing to expand your list to (probably) Gateway, Compaq, HP, E-machines(are they a competitor?) if this is actually the case.
There's a feature on the Ghostbusters DVD that has a printed commentary to accompany the movie that's kinda like that Pop-Up Video show. It gives facts about locations and ideas for scenes and so forth that are actually really interesting. That might be one of the best features I've seen on a DVD to date (although I suppose it doesn't really harness the power of the medium...).
With the exception of that one shining example, I agree with you completely. Most special features are junk. I buy DVDs for the picture quality and longevity of the medium as opposed to VHS. I'm not a huge film buff, though, so what do I know.
Interesting about the workout videos. I would've never thought of that.
...are you buying the DVD for the movie or for the extras? I just got the Aug. 6th release because I wanted a copy of the movie. I don't need a National Geographic special or extra footage inserted into the movie. I liked what I saw in the theater well enough, and that's what I wanted to get. Plus it was free.
If you feel that these extra things are for you, then wait. It's not like if you change your mind the version that just came out will be out of print. If you absolutely *have* to watch Lord of the Rings right now but want to wait to buy the super-duper special version, JUST RENT IT.
I suppose DirectX does push new features of video cards, and that's something I can appreciate. It's all well and good to have the portability of OpenGL, but there has to be something that motivates hardware sales and keeps innovation going (I'm of the mind that the gaming community is a big part of the reason the hardware manufacturers are able to stay alive in the consumer market, but what do I know). In theory it would probably be best for *all* game makers to use OpenGL to help motivate the developers, but in practice I realize that must be impractical considering target market/budget/timeframe concerns. It just bothers me to see OpenGL get so frequently ignored in favor of DirectX.
However, I can only wonder how accepted DirectX would be if it were ported to Linux by Microsoft. For the record I've never played with WineX, but I heard it could run Warcraft III not too long after its release. That's pretty gosh durn impressive.
I'm already not crazy about having more than a couple soldering points on something I can hardly afford. For my original Playstation I had to figure out exactly how much to drink to calm my shaking hands but not too much as to distort my accuracy. And there were only like 4 or 5 places to solder. Then my roommate at the time decided it would be hilarious to push my arm when I'd get close to a solder point. That was a fun day.
Now I have a V7 (new version) PS2 and I'm too chicken to mess with these new-fangled hardly-tested (or so I hear) modchips. *sigh* So much for imports.
Ahhh... this is what throw away web mail accounts are for.
From: [withheld - I don't need more spam]@popstar.com (yep, popstar). To: jetonia@yahoo.com Subject: NeoAudio ripping off CDex
I am writing in regards to your claim that NeoAudio is not a rip off of CDex. You said to write if we wanted more proof (more than the zero proof provided on the download.com talkbacks), so I'm writing. Please provide at your soonest convenience.
While I doubt I'll recieve anything back (coughtrollcough), what the hey. I'm at work and I've got nothing else to do.
Somewhere, some lover of puns is trying desperately to post a Natalie Portman joke in response to this. Unfortunately, I have stolen his/her thunder.
Finish this statement: Yes, you'd make a cool Portman too if...
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Unfortunately the Interface Hall of Shame hasn't been updated in over two years, so they managed to miss major releases from virtually everyone in the game (OSX, KDE, Gnome, Windows 2000/XP), not to mention the fact that a lot of the things they praise (password reminders, image previews) are more or less standard issue now-a-days. I'd like to see more recent critiques. Any updated site links?
Not to be an ass, but your piracy example is awful. In any dictionary worth its weight, piracy is defined as robbery (often at sea), which is where the term for software piracy originated (robbery of software).
...and in an effort to stay on-topic...
I agree with you on the "trusted computing" bit, but that doesn't make the parent poster's point any less valid. In fact, I would say that what you said supports it because Microsoft's "trusted computing" objectives also appeal to emotion as opposed to logic and reason. Ya know, FUD and all that jazz. At the risk of sounding trollish, I would say that in methodology alone, Microsoft and RMS aren't that dissimilar.
I was just reading this thread and everything was +2/+3 informative. Suddenly everything has been knocked to 0/-1. Did we discover some relevant piece of information about the posting ACs that made that a wise decision? This sounds like it's at least kind of important. What's going on?
Here's the 'press release' anyways. They sure as hell didn't have that when _I_ was in college. I don't imagine I had $5 bucks then either, so I suppose it doesn't matter.
Well, getting away from pc100 would be a good start. Just moving up to PC133 would make a noticable difference; moving to DDR would make an even more noticable difference.
Also, regarding the AGPSize (which I thought referred to the AGP aperture in BIOS), I once read that setting it higher than 64mb in Linux was useless because of some X limitation. Perhaps someone with more experience can enlighten me as to why...?
The text appears over the ad in Mozilla Build ID 2002070819 under Linux running the Gentoo kernel 2.4.19r7 in Gnome 2.0. Other people's experiences with its ability to display this particular block of text over the ad in other environments may vary.
Mozilla just writes the text over the ad picture so you can still read it. Not that I would ever be one of those people to push one browser over another on people...
I agree that the ads shouldn't be uber-obtrusive to the point where they hurt the site, though.
Overrated my ass. That's a quality suggestion. I'll bet someone from the RIAA modded it down.
Anyways, I really like the sound of that. Expanding it beyond the bookstore/coffee shop to radio station ID tags (i.e. listening to the radio if you can remember the time and station you can add it to a collection via the station's website and get radio station burnt CDs for a fee or something) is another possibility (whether it's feasible or not is another story).
I would say that your drawback regarding the extras of a CD (art, etc.) are actually incentives to purchase the actual product, not disadvantages to burning your own. That would justify a slightly higher price for the complete product. Hopefully by the time something like this could be implemented we'll have something that can alleviate those concerns about bandwidth.
No kidding. I wouldn't want to buy this thing for $300+ and have it kill my bandwidth cap and cost me more money every single month.
Would it even be possible to develop some sort of loopback device that plugs into the network port to make the thing usable while not connected? Or route it into a dummy home network?
"with the sole reservation that they can't run Final Fantasy any more"
Let them have reservations no more! Just plop down a couple bucks for the Playstation version and download epsxe. FF7,8 and 9 all run like a dream on my Gentoo box (Tactics runs very well with some weird map oddities, but doesn't bother me). Need to play the SNES versions? They run picture perfect on ZSNES or SNES9x which both have excellent Linux ports and it's trivial to find the roms for FF2 - 6. NES emulators for Linux can get you the first one. After all, the PC versions of FF are just ports.:)
"Because what you suggest is a basically stupid idea. Look at the grief Mac users got when they inserted one of damnable copy-protected cdroms."
Bah. Don't condemn a perfectly good feature (which has worked just fine for nearly a decade on Windows) because of a some shitty think tank's music copy protection sc(am)heme. At least place blame where it belongs, not on Apple's (somewhat ill-conceived but still very usable) automount system.
"Many commercials rely on the "sex sells" rule. While it gets many a person interested in it, who actually focuses on the product?"
That made me think of something: what happens when the ideals of the commercial pop-up goes against the ideals of the show? For example:
Parent is watching some fuzzy bunny cartoon with child. It is a nice, non-violent show. Up pops and ad for something the parent is against like, say, a toy with a gun or perhaps a Teletubbie (hey - maybe the parent thinks they promote drug use) or something. Child is no longer allowed to watch the show, but not because of the show itself. Because of the advertiser. And how will this affect the V-chip? The shows could be punished because of the ads. Seems a little off to me.
I'm totally against the concept of TV pop-ups, but at least TBS and these advertisers are examining new routes of revenue and different business models instead of trying to destroy whatever they believe is hurting their current system (*cough* (RI/MP)AA *cough*). Give them a little bit of credit for that. Hopefully they'll just find a different less insane route. Just because they "haven't ruled it out" doesn't mean they'll use it. Besides, a big ad for Folger's or something popping up over Friends couldn't possibly make the show any worse.
Did anyone actually see these things? They said they tested them over the summer...
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FYI - this effects all of our competitors as well.
Can anyone confirm this? Making cries of "I'm not going to buy a Dell now" are silly unless you're willing to expand your list to (probably) Gateway, Compaq, HP, E-machines(are they a competitor?) if this is actually the case.
There's a feature on the Ghostbusters DVD that has a printed commentary to accompany the movie that's kinda like that Pop-Up Video show. It gives facts about locations and ideas for scenes and so forth that are actually really interesting. That might be one of the best features I've seen on a DVD to date (although I suppose it doesn't really harness the power of the medium...).
With the exception of that one shining example, I agree with you completely. Most special features are junk. I buy DVDs for the picture quality and longevity of the medium as opposed to VHS. I'm not a huge film buff, though, so what do I know.
Interesting about the workout videos. I would've never thought of that.
...are you buying the DVD for the movie or for the extras? I just got the Aug. 6th release because I wanted a copy of the movie. I don't need a National Geographic special or extra footage inserted into the movie. I liked what I saw in the theater well enough, and that's what I wanted to get. Plus it was free.
If you feel that these extra things are for you, then wait. It's not like if you change your mind the version that just came out will be out of print. If you absolutely *have* to watch Lord of the Rings right now but want to wait to buy the super-duper special version, JUST RENT IT.
You're right, that's not really a ringwold. This is a ringwold.
I realize I'm an ass for picking on your typo. I just thought it was funny. Sorry.
That's a good point.
I suppose DirectX does push new features of video cards, and that's something I can appreciate. It's all well and good to have the portability of OpenGL, but there has to be something that motivates hardware sales and keeps innovation going (I'm of the mind that the gaming community is a big part of the reason the hardware manufacturers are able to stay alive in the consumer market, but what do I know). In theory it would probably be best for *all* game makers to use OpenGL to help motivate the developers, but in practice I realize that must be impractical considering target market/budget/timeframe concerns. It just bothers me to see OpenGL get so frequently ignored in favor of DirectX.
However, I can only wonder how accepted DirectX would be if it were ported to Linux by Microsoft. For the record I've never played with WineX, but I heard it could run Warcraft III not too long after its release. That's pretty gosh durn impressive.
I'm already not crazy about having more than a couple soldering points on something I can hardly afford. For my original Playstation I had to figure out exactly how much to drink to calm my shaking hands but not too much as to distort my accuracy. And there were only like 4 or 5 places to solder. Then my roommate at the time decided it would be hilarious to push my arm when I'd get close to a solder point. That was a fun day.
Now I have a V7 (new version) PS2 and I'm too chicken to mess with these new-fangled hardly-tested (or so I hear) modchips. *sigh* So much for imports.
Ahhh... this is what throw away web mail accounts are for.
From: [withheld - I don't need more spam]@popstar.com (yep, popstar).
To: jetonia@yahoo.com
Subject: NeoAudio ripping off CDex
I am writing in regards to your claim that NeoAudio is not a rip off of CDex. You said to write if we wanted more proof (more than the zero proof provided on the download.com talkbacks), so I'm writing. Please provide at your soonest convenience.
While I doubt I'll recieve anything back (coughtrollcough), what the hey. I'm at work and I've got nothing else to do.
Going to the main site (broswer experiments), you can quickly find yourself face to face with an online version of that Microsoft paperclip thingy. Great.
"Hey, you made a cool portmanteau!"
Somewhere, some lover of puns is trying desperately to post a Natalie Portman joke in response to this. Unfortunately, I have stolen his/her thunder.
Finish this statement:
Yes, you'd make a cool Portman too if...
Unfortunately the Interface Hall of Shame hasn't been updated in over two years, so they managed to miss major releases from virtually everyone in the game (OSX, KDE, Gnome, Windows 2000/XP), not to mention the fact that a lot of the things they praise (password reminders, image previews) are more or less standard issue now-a-days. I'd like to see more recent critiques. Any updated site links?
Thank you for posting a useful response instead of an asinine flame. I appreciate the link.
Not to be an ass, but your piracy example is awful. In any dictionary worth its weight, piracy is defined as robbery (often at sea), which is where the term for software piracy originated (robbery of software).
...and in an effort to stay on-topic...
I agree with you on the "trusted computing" bit, but that doesn't make the parent poster's point any less valid. In fact, I would say that what you said supports it because Microsoft's "trusted computing" objectives also appeal to emotion as opposed to logic and reason. Ya know, FUD and all that jazz. At the risk of sounding trollish, I would say that in methodology alone, Microsoft and RMS aren't that dissimilar.
I was just reading this thread and everything was +2/+3 informative. Suddenly everything has been knocked to 0/-1. Did we discover some relevant piece of information about the posting ACs that made that a wise decision? This sounds like it's at least kind of important. What's going on?
Nuts, you beat me to it.
Here's the 'press release' anyways. They sure as hell didn't have that when _I_ was in college. I don't imagine I had $5 bucks then either, so I suppose it doesn't matter.
Well, getting away from pc100 would be a good start. Just moving up to PC133 would make a noticable difference; moving to DDR would make an even more noticable difference.
Also, regarding the AGPSize (which I thought referred to the AGP aperture in BIOS), I once read that setting it higher than 64mb in Linux was useless because of some X limitation. Perhaps someone with more experience can enlighten me as to why...?
Okay, I'll be more specific.
The text appears over the ad in Mozilla Build ID 2002070819 under Linux running the Gentoo kernel 2.4.19r7 in Gnome 2.0. Other people's experiences with its ability to display this particular block of text over the ad in other environments may vary.
Mozilla just writes the text over the ad picture so you can still read it. Not that I would ever be one of those people to push one browser over another on people...
I agree that the ads shouldn't be uber-obtrusive to the point where they hurt the site, though.
Overrated my ass. That's a quality suggestion. I'll bet someone from the RIAA modded it down.
Anyways, I really like the sound of that. Expanding it beyond the bookstore/coffee shop to radio station ID tags (i.e. listening to the radio if you can remember the time and station you can add it to a collection via the station's website and get radio station burnt CDs for a fee or something) is another possibility (whether it's feasible or not is another story).
I would say that your drawback regarding the extras of a CD (art, etc.) are actually incentives to purchase the actual product, not disadvantages to burning your own. That would justify a slightly higher price for the complete product. Hopefully by the time something like this could be implemented we'll have something that can alleviate those concerns about bandwidth.
The Edison article seems to make it pretty clear right away that the people not part of the "thieving" %10.1 are purchasing music:
...but maybe I'm reading it wrong(?)
"*A majority of downloaders have gone on to buy an artist's CD after downloading a track for free from the Internet."
No kidding. I wouldn't want to buy this thing for $300+ and have it kill my bandwidth cap and cost me more money every single month.
Would it even be possible to develop some sort of loopback device that plugs into the network port to make the thing usable while not connected? Or route it into a dummy home network?
I'm still trying to figure out if he meant stool as in a seat or stool as in poop. It's funny either way, though.
"with the sole reservation that they can't run Final Fantasy any more"
:)
Let them have reservations no more! Just plop down a couple bucks for the Playstation version and download epsxe. FF7,8 and 9 all run like a dream on my Gentoo box (Tactics runs very well with some weird map oddities, but doesn't bother me). Need to play the SNES versions? They run picture perfect on ZSNES or SNES9x which both have excellent Linux ports and it's trivial to find the roms for FF2 - 6. NES emulators for Linux can get you the first one. After all, the PC versions of FF are just ports.
"Because what you suggest is a basically stupid idea. Look at the grief Mac users got when they inserted one of damnable copy-protected cdroms."
Bah. Don't condemn a perfectly good feature (which has worked just fine for nearly a decade on Windows) because of a some shitty think tank's music copy protection sc(am)heme. At least place blame where it belongs, not on Apple's (somewhat ill-conceived but still very usable) automount system.
That made me think of something: what happens when the ideals of the commercial pop-up goes against the ideals of the show? For example:
Parent is watching some fuzzy bunny cartoon with child. It is a nice, non-violent show. Up pops and ad for something the parent is against like, say, a toy with a gun or perhaps a Teletubbie (hey - maybe the parent thinks they promote drug use) or something. Child is no longer allowed to watch the show, but not because of the show itself. Because of the advertiser. And how will this affect the V-chip? The shows could be punished because of the ads. Seems a little off to me.
I'm totally against the concept of TV pop-ups, but at least TBS and these advertisers are examining new routes of revenue and different business models instead of trying to destroy whatever they believe is hurting their current system (*cough* (RI/MP)AA *cough*). Give them a little bit of credit for that. Hopefully they'll just find a different less insane route. Just because they "haven't ruled it out" doesn't mean they'll use it. Besides, a big ad for Folger's or something popping up over Friends couldn't possibly make the show any worse.
Did anyone actually see these things? They said they tested them over the summer...