1) Declare Linux is safe, offer insurance
2) People pay insurance
3) CEOs of insurance place take in huge salaries
4) Someone claims ownership of part of linux
5) Insurance place goes bankrupt, screwing all of its clients. CEOs still rich.
6) ???
7) PROFIT!!!
I love Futurama, it really was the best show on television, but I think the reference to its "revival" in this article is just some stupid reporter misinterpreting some stuff somebody told them. We'd have gotten a more official, specific news article about this if the show was really being revived.
Now, Family Guy, on the other hand, has a shot - I've seen articles about its possible revival thanks to strong DVD sales.
Everyone, put your CSS and region-control concerns behind you, and buy a fuckload of Futurama DVDs.
Dolby Surround (the type found on VHS tapes) works similarly. It just contains data on what frequencies to spread out to what speakers or something. It's not true surround sound.
QuickTime's AVI support is limited - it only supports a few codecs, one of which is Indeo. Still, there is a MPEG2 codec for it available, which they definately should have used.
Note that video codecs are usually optimized to look right when in motion, and sometimes artifacts that are noticeable in a still shot can't be seen, or are far less noticeable, when the clip is playing. Be sure to pay attention to the text of our analysis as well as the comparison screenshots, as we'll cover the in-motion visual quality as well.
They only used Indeo for their codec performance -eg encoding speed - comparisons. Still, as I've said in my above post, they did not need to convert to indeo, and indeo is NOT a typical codec to convert video from. MPEG2 is a much more realistic choice, since that will almost always be the format of the source material. The converting software's ability to decode MPEG2 quickly, in fact, is extremely important. While you can create AVIs in pretty much anything, if QuickTime were to have a shitty MPEG2 codec, it could affect its practicality as a video compression system.
We therefore took the uncompressed clips and created new "master clips" by encoding them to very high bitrate (around 8 megabit) files using Indeo 5.1 compression, as all our test applications could easily read this format.
Indeo? INDEO!??!? Yes, I know if you make every frame a keyframe or whatever, maybe it would look almost decent. But seriously - why not use a JPEG series or something instead? I'm sure both QuickTime and VDub can handle that. In fact, if you had bothered to discover VirtaulDubMod and the QuickTime MPEG-2 playback component, you could have just plugged in the MPEG-2 streams directly.
Let's see. The spammers have already defeated those little type-the-words-in-the-distorted-image things by putting them on porn sites and forcing people to solve them to get to the porn. CPU cycles will probably end up the same way.
I have Win2k running on an 133MHz Pentium (sans-MMX) HP Vectra sitting right next to me. It works fine. I know it lacks MMX because the Winamp AVS refuses to run (not as if the AVS would be very good on that slow CPU anyway).
I love my modelm too. If you want something that's not used and has 15 years worth of god-knows-what in the keyboard, get a keyboard from PCKeyboard.com - they bought the ModelM design from Lexmark (who had bought IBM's keyboard division), and still manufacture the Model M under the title "Classic 101" (there's also a 104 key version with those dumb Windows keys, but of course you wouldn't want that). They also sell an extra-badass black version. Both of those keyboards are pricey, but you definately get what you pay for.
Slashdot allows the ampersand: & <--I didn't type in & here - this is just an ampersand
Slashdot allows the word copy: copy
Slashdot allows the semicolon:;
The point is that the consumers should not have to spend money to have restrictions put in their software that prevents them from being able to fully use their product, but can be easily circumvented by even the most slightly determined malicious user.
There is an adage that goes something like this: "If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption." Replace "encryption" with "scanning money into Photoshop" and you'll get my idea.
Photoshop CS's filters only apply to images scanned using photoshop - e.g. you go to File-->Import-->(scanner name) and scan it directly into photoshop. Opening a digital image from your hard drive is not affected. In fact, you can just scan the bill using a different program, save it to disk, then open it in Photoshop CS.
I did a find for "rulesforuse" and then didnt see it. Then I clicked that link and did it again, and i saw THIS!!!!!!!!! Obviously that page secretly added currency detection TO MY MOZILLA CACHE FILE!!
It's just like those bastards who added SULFNBK.EXE to my windows folder!
Yeah, but there's still a hard line to the UK. Is there a wired internet connection to Iraq, or is it a sattelite connection? I know someone who's on a sattelite connection in Tanzania, and they have about 5 seconds of lag from my computer.
Didn't X[something] release a PC-card sized PDA a long time ago? About the same size. It was cool because it could sync with the PC card slot in a laptop
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1) Declare Linux is safe, offer insurance 2) People pay insurance 3) CEOs of insurance place take in huge salaries 4) Someone claims ownership of part of linux 5) Insurance place goes bankrupt, screwing all of its clients. CEOs still rich. 6) ??? 7) PROFIT!!!
Now, Family Guy, on the other hand, has a shot - I've seen articles about its possible revival thanks to strong DVD sales.
Everyone, put your CSS and region-control concerns behind you, and buy a fuckload of Futurama DVDs.
Text not found: pr0n
Okay, maybe they spelled it differently...
Text not found: porn
Holy shit. Nobody has thought of that yet. What is (not?) wrong with you folks?!??!?! this is slashdot, for crissake!
Dolby Surround (the type found on VHS tapes) works similarly. It just contains data on what frequencies to spread out to what speakers or something. It's not true surround sound.
Is that even possible?
They were testing the ability of the codecs to encode, not their ability to do VBR efficiently.
All of the codecs were tested in CBR mode, so the comparison was fair. Putting DivX in VBR would give it an unfair advantage.
QuickTime's AVI support is limited - it only supports a few codecs, one of which is Indeo. Still, there is a MPEG2 codec for it available, which they definately should have used.
They only used Indeo for their codec performance -eg encoding speed - comparisons. Still, as I've said in my above post, they did not need to convert to indeo, and indeo is NOT a typical codec to convert video from. MPEG2 is a much more realistic choice, since that will almost always be the format of the source material. The converting software's ability to decode MPEG2 quickly, in fact, is extremely important. While you can create AVIs in pretty much anything, if QuickTime were to have a shitty MPEG2 codec, it could affect its practicality as a video compression system.
STUPID! YOU'RE SO STUPID!!!
Trust me, people will do anything for porn.
I have Win2k running on an 133MHz Pentium (sans-MMX) HP Vectra sitting right next to me. It works fine. I know it lacks MMX because the Winamp AVS refuses to run (not as if the AVS would be very good on that slow CPU anyway).
I love my modelm too. If you want something that's not used and has 15 years worth of god-knows-what in the keyboard, get a keyboard from PCKeyboard.com - they bought the ModelM design from Lexmark (who had bought IBM's keyboard division), and still manufacture the Model M under the title "Classic 101" (there's also a 104 key version with those dumb Windows keys, but of course you wouldn't want that). They also sell an extra-badass black version. Both of those keyboards are pricey, but you definately get what you pay for.
Slashdot allows the ampersand: & <--I didn't type in & here - this is just an ampersand ;
Slashdot allows the word copy: copy
Slashdot allows the semicolon:
So that's not the cause of it.
There is an adage that goes something like this: "If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption." Replace "encryption" with "scanning money into Photoshop" and you'll get my idea.
Photoshop CS's filters only apply to images scanned using photoshop - e.g. you go to File-->Import-->(scanner name) and scan it directly into photoshop. Opening a digital image from your hard drive is not affected. In fact, you can just scan the bill using a different program, save it to disk, then open it in Photoshop CS.
I did a find for "rulesforuse" and then didnt see it. Then I clicked that link and did it again, and i saw THIS!!!!!!!!! Obviously that page secretly added currency detection TO MY MOZILLA CACHE FILE!!
It's just like those bastards who added SULFNBK.EXE to my windows folder!
holy shit!
Yeah, but there's still a hard line to the UK. Is there a wired internet connection to Iraq, or is it a sattelite connection? I know someone who's on a sattelite connection in Tanzania, and they have about 5 seconds of lag from my computer.
Wouldn't lag be a problem for the gaming aspect of this? Iraq is pretty far away from the US...
Beta lost because SONY refused to allow pornography to be released on Beta when they first released the format (I think they changed this later). :)
Reminds me of a Computer Stew episode.
My Sony CLIE PEG-S320 went in the washing machine. It survived. I still use it :D
Didn't X[something] release a PC-card sized PDA a long time ago? About the same size. It was cool because it could sync with the PC card slot in a laptop
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