Yeah, i never really looked for anything specific but i managed to get all of; Day Of The Daleks, The Sontaran Experiment, The Ark in Space, Black Orchid, The Hand of Fear, The Androids of Tara and that crappy recent movie The Enemy Within. Looking through these though most of them are one big divx'd avi with all 4 episodes in it. A pain if your into VCDs, but i have everything on my hard drive and in a huge playlist on shuffle.
But still a great movie. Not entirley original, had the obvious old pulp stories inspiration. Not that i cared at the time, i was just a little kid, even went as the Rocketeer for halloween. Spray painted 2 litre bottles and all...
For a lot of classic shows you can find them on kazaa if the dvds not out yet (eventually every show ever will be avalible on dvd). I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows. And before anyone starts a flamewar, yes it is copyright infingment, but where else am i going to find Daria or Greg the Bunny or Roswell with the original soundtrack intact. It all evens out since i own the first 2 seasons of Farscape on DVD, both Family Guy sets, Chappelles Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop (i do feel a little guilty because my cowboy bebop set is a bootleg, but i bought it from amazon, so i blame them.) and some others...
You can get a graphics card that'll run Vice City just fine for under $100. Runs ok on my circa '00 nVidia Vanta 16mb card, cut any processes that eat extraneous memory before you start it though. I am working on a system now however and plan to put a $300 card in it. Mostly for its other features, but 128mb and a Radeon 9800 aren't bad either...
Games will continue to look more and more "real" (as real as a rocket jump can:p), just as movie CGI and completly CGI things have. Look at the Final Fantasy movie, or the Starship Troopers show. Both are still beyond what we can do in games, mostly because they're not dynamic, but games could look that good. Even if games could be photorealistic, not everyone would go that route. From what i hear XIII is a decent game, but the interesting thing to me is the style, that its sort of a cartoony look. And as unrealistic as that looks it still has all the shadowing and textures and other things that eat up (some) GPU power. Simpsons hit and run is a great game, but they went too far with the graphics, it would have been amazing, but probably extremly difficult, to render it in 2.5D like the show is, instead it ends up looking like that one halloween ep where homer ended up in that place that looked like that tron movie nobody saw. But even that looked better than the game does. We have a long way that we're still able to go, but there are also so many directions too.
Mini ITX board, a small lcd display and a bigass hard drive. Bam, car mp3 player. Get a usb hard drive or rig something cool to synch via wi-fi. My friend did this for uner $400 i think, it turned out amazing.
Maxtor always releases the biggest drives first, but only at 5400 RPM, then a few months later they release a drive of the same capacity but at 7200. 7200 has been around for a couple of years, the 80gb WD i got 3 years ago was 7200 RPM.
Computer with big screen, surround sound, a tv tuner and not even owning a tv... I'm not buying a tv and a dvd player for college next year, and even though the dorms dont alow hotplates i should be able to cook over my athlon....
HDs are cheap enough now that raid1 isn't all that expensive. I'm building a computer now (slowly) and i'm buying the HDs last because they drop in price so quickly. If i can get the drives cheap enough i'm getting 4 250GB SATA drives, and doing raid 10. It seems like a waste, but its the simplest backup solution, if a little pricey. I'd rather spend an extra $300 initially and never worry about my data than burn dvds of my important files (and have to decide whats important) every week. One of the drives goes bad, i pop in another one and it rebuilds. Makes me less nevous about running raid 0. Although personally i've never had a drive fail (killed a few, all my fault, but nothing important), but all the horror stories here on/. have made me paranoid.:p
If you live on the east coast fear the half kilometer tall super-tsunami thats set to slam into the east coast as far as 12 miles inland when one of the canary islands collapses into the ocean during its next eruption, which could be any day now. Just something to think about.:)
I already do this with AOL cds with my airsoft guns. You have to aim a bit wide or else you'll go through the holes like sibling posters pointed out, but seeing those explode in a silvery shower of plastic bits is always fun. They're also fun with dremels...
Over 80 percent of television is devoted to commercials and stories about
violence and war
I wonder what that percantage is minus the commercials. Thats a pretty strange grouping for a statisctic. I'm curious how much of that percent of 80% thats about war etc is either the news (there was a war last year, and there are a tens of news channels) or something like the history channel. Yes, kids see too much violence on tv, but that statistic is obviously skewed. Not that i disbelieve it, but i wonder what the break down of advertising/news/documentaries/entertainment programming, thats a pretty broad crossection that encompases commercials and violent/war programing. Also, so what if.7% of tv is PSAs. 'P'SAs are usually pushing someones agenda, wheither its promoting an untrue link between marijuana and terrorism (i'm not a pothead, this isn't one of those rants about 'the man', just stating facts) or anti-smoking ads that twist the facts just as much as the tobacco companies, or even anti-drunk driving ads. Those "accidents involving alcohol" statistics include instances where an intoxicated padestrian is hit, or a passenger is intoxicated(thats right, dont be a designated driver, your drunk friends will get you in an accident too) or a bottle of wine with the rest of the groceries in the trunk. I admit i'm playing devils advocate here, but any claim will be taken much more credibly if the statistics backing it up are specifically true and not twisted to a degree to make a point. It would be better, and make a more convincing point, to state that 25-30% of televison is advertising and (off the top of my head) 20% is violent entertainment programming, which could still be a broad enough category to include law and order and professional wrestling. Keep in mind however, that 86.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Yeah, sign its time to go to bed... in your paragraph about girls i read "show interest in their hobbies" as show interest in their boobies. I'm thinking, he is a straight male teen, right?
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...even the paid-for versions of RealPlayer nag you incessantly about upgrading...
You yourself have or have worked at a computer whos owner had paid for realplayer?!?!
Winamp 2.x, wonderful player, who didn't/doesn't have this. Winamp 3, terrible, bloated, slow, just crappy, but, decent video support and cool skins. Winamp 5, everything you love about 2, nothing you hate about 3. Plus the video version of shoutcast is pretty cool if you cam find a decent stream. Winamp 5 adresses everyone grievences with 3, forever to load, instability, resource hog, etc, its a really great player, and for $15 more you get all sorts of other features like ripping/burning cds. This sounds like astroturf, but i just really love Winamp 5, it restored my faith in nullsofts llama ass whupping abilities.
People are smart enough to sip hot coffee untill it cools down, but not smart enough to not fumble with the top while its in their lap... and i think you forgot to close your i tag:p
People like their floppys. I have teachers at my school who save to a floppy or even a (retch) zip disk instead of the network storage. Also, as you mentioned, the fragmentation of standards. I have a sony camera, it takes memory sticks, try finding a computer that ships with a built in (like floppys are built in) "magic gate" slot thats not a vaio. Also, eveyones computer has several usb ports and probably one or two on the front. Everyone and their mother has a usb drive nowadays, hell, i have one on my watch. You can even boot from those if you want. Lastly, the floppy killer and any solid state removble memory at the moment, the CD-R. CD writers are cheap, less than $20 after rebates. The medias even cheaper...
All figues from office max...
Lexar 64MB CF Card, $39.98, $/Mb = $.62
50 pack of floppies, $14.98, $/Mb = $.21.
Lexar 256mb USB "Jump Drive", $49.98 after rebate, $/Mb = $.19.
50 Spindle 48x CD-R, Free after rebate, $/Mb = $0.00.
Even without rebates, the cds stay the cheapest and the usb drive, while slightly more than the floppies, retains its edge over them with portability, speed, and ease of use.
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Yeah, i never really looked for anything specific but i managed to get all of; Day Of The Daleks, The Sontaran Experiment, The Ark in Space, Black Orchid, The Hand of Fear, The Androids of Tara and that crappy recent movie The Enemy Within. Looking through these though most of them are one big divx'd avi with all 4 episodes in it. A pain if your into VCDs, but i have everything on my hard drive and in a huge playlist on shuffle.
But still a great movie. Not entirley original, had the obvious old pulp stories inspiration. Not that i cared at the time, i was just a little kid, even went as the Rocketeer for halloween. Spray painted 2 litre bottles and all...
For a lot of classic shows you can find them on kazaa if the dvds not out yet (eventually every show ever will be avalible on dvd). I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows. And before anyone starts a flamewar, yes it is copyright infingment, but where else am i going to find Daria or Greg the Bunny or Roswell with the original soundtrack intact. It all evens out since i own the first 2 seasons of Farscape on DVD, both Family Guy sets, Chappelles Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop (i do feel a little guilty because my cowboy bebop set is a bootleg, but i bought it from amazon, so i blame them.) and some others...
You can get a graphics card that'll run Vice City just fine for under $100. Runs ok on my circa '00 nVidia Vanta 16mb card, cut any processes that eat extraneous memory before you start it though. I am working on a system now however and plan to put a $300 card in it. Mostly for its other features, but 128mb and a Radeon 9800 aren't bad either...
Games will continue to look more and more "real" (as real as a rocket jump can :p), just as movie CGI and completly CGI things have. Look at the Final Fantasy movie, or the Starship Troopers show. Both are still beyond what we can do in games, mostly because they're not dynamic, but games could look that good. Even if games could be photorealistic, not everyone would go that route. From what i hear XIII is a decent game, but the interesting thing to me is the style, that its sort of a cartoony look. And as unrealistic as that looks it still has all the shadowing and textures and other things that eat up (some) GPU power. Simpsons hit and run is a great game, but they went too far with the graphics, it would have been amazing, but probably extremly difficult, to render it in 2.5D like the show is, instead it ends up looking like that one halloween ep where homer ended up in that place that looked like that tron movie nobody saw. But even that looked better than the game does. We have a long way that we're still able to go, but there are also so many directions too.
Is this why Vice City loads groundwater instead of roads sometimes?
'The Sun' is Sol, and 'The Moon' is Luna. Simple enough.
Mini ITX board, a small lcd display and a bigass hard drive. Bam, car mp3 player. Get a usb hard drive or rig something cool to synch via wi-fi. My friend did this for uner $400 i think, it turned out amazing.
Ha ha ha, you dumb bastard, its a schooner...
Maxtor always releases the biggest drives first, but only at 5400 RPM, then a few months later they release a drive of the same capacity but at 7200. 7200 has been around for a couple of years, the 80gb WD i got 3 years ago was 7200 RPM.
Computer with big screen, surround sound, a tv tuner and not even owning a tv... I'm not buying a tv and a dvd player for college next year, and even though the dorms dont alow hotplates i should be able to cook over my athlon....
HDs are cheap enough now that raid1 isn't all that expensive. I'm building a computer now (slowly) and i'm buying the HDs last because they drop in price so quickly. If i can get the drives cheap enough i'm getting 4 250GB SATA drives, and doing raid 10. It seems like a waste, but its the simplest backup solution, if a little pricey. I'd rather spend an extra $300 initially and never worry about my data than burn dvds of my important files (and have to decide whats important) every week. One of the drives goes bad, i pop in another one and it rebuilds. Makes me less nevous about running raid 0. Although personally i've never had a drive fail (killed a few, all my fault, but nothing important), but all the horror stories here on /. have made me paranoid. :p
Shes worth $300m, if that makes it any hotter... :p
good to know things wont change much :p
If you live on the east coast fear the half kilometer tall super-tsunami thats set to slam into the east coast as far as 12 miles inland when one of the canary islands collapses into the ocean during its next eruption, which could be any day now. Just something to think about. :)
heh, the high-school trade... porn dvds, alcohol, maybe a little weed... he who controls the porn controls the universe, the booze must flow...
I already do this with AOL cds with my airsoft guns. You have to aim a bit wide or else you'll go through the holes like sibling posters pointed out, but seeing those explode in a silvery shower of plastic bits is always fun. They're also fun with dremels...
crap-sack
Yeah, sign its time to go to bed... in your paragraph about girls i read "show interest in their hobbies" as show interest in their boobies. I'm thinking, he is a straight male teen, right?
Winamp 2.x, wonderful player, who didn't/doesn't have this. Winamp 3, terrible, bloated, slow, just crappy, but, decent video support and cool skins. Winamp 5, everything you love about 2, nothing you hate about 3. Plus the video version of shoutcast is pretty cool if you cam find a decent stream. Winamp 5 adresses everyone grievences with 3, forever to load, instability, resource hog, etc, its a really great player, and for $15 more you get all sorts of other features like ripping/burning cds. This sounds like astroturf, but i just really love Winamp 5, it restored my faith in nullsofts llama ass whupping abilities.
People are smart enough to sip hot coffee untill it cools down, but not smart enough to not fumble with the top while its in their lap... and i think you forgot to close your i tag :p
All figues from office max...
.62
.21.
.19.
Even without rebates, the cds stay the cheapest and the usb drive, while slightly more than the floppies, retains its edge over them with portability, speed, and ease of use.Lexar 64MB CF Card, $39.98, $/Mb = $
50 pack of floppies, $14.98, $/Mb = $
Lexar 256mb USB "Jump Drive", $49.98 after rebate, $/Mb = $
50 Spindle 48x CD-R, Free after rebate, $/Mb = $0.00.
Weren't they bought by SBC not too long ago? Is this "upgrade" because they're becoming Cingular, which is GSM?