If some zoombie steps out from behind a 4WD with their ipods blaring to the point where they think my GSXR600's horn and front tyre screeching is part of the background chorus, I really don't want to be part of their natural selection process experiements....:P
(Why is it that said group rarely look both ways before crossing the street? Is a generation of dopey crackheads growing up or what's happening? I'm only 34 but just can't help shake the feeling that people used to be a lot more responsible and on to it when I was growing up.)
Ignore this post; moderator box got focus and for some reason "underrated" rather than "off topic" got focus and was submitted as I tried to cancel out. Posting here to undo. (Am happy to hear Apple's legal dudes got nerfed in the court. We need more stories like these..)
Slightly off topic, but I found Microsoft's current advertisement on http://news.com.au/ (a major Aussie news site, go figure) quite interesting. They've integrated what looks like the Vista desktop into the actual template of the site. Quite novel, it must have taken quite a bit of work to make that happen.
Agree on scanning media; this is what I remember from past experiences.
So in order to install the upgrade version of Vista on a freshly formatted HD, given that your WinXP is an update version of WinME, which could be an upgrade version of Win95.... you're looking at quite a stack of CDs and DVDs that need keeping in order. Good luck to you if that old Windows 95/ME one is scratched or lost.
This article is of extreme interest to me. I am (or have been) planning on getting a HTPC with Vista on it to play HDDVDs (not BR) onto my Viera 50PV60A - a 1280p processing 1366x768 plasma display. I have just been waiting for a HDDVD ROM player with full vista support that can be easily put into a HTPC box.
Having read this though, my Dolby Digital decoder is an old standalone Rotel RDA975 which is again connected to their RSP980 and ultimately the RB985. This accepts coaxial inputs only, so basically with SPDIF quality being nerfed I'd be SOL and have to replace the perfectly well functioning RDA975 and RSP980 to replace it with a new preprocessor. Rotel don't even have a HDMI one yet.
Ironically Toshiba's new HD-XA1 mentions no such concerns and features a coax out on its back. I may need to revise whether I plunge down the Vista route after reading this.
I find this a pity, because having been running Vista Ultimate on my 2gb 2.13ghz Dell 9300 laptop for a month I've really grown to like it; media centre is certainly slick as. This would mean that a HDDVD player would take the 2nd HDMI input and leave me having to go component for the now-nerfed HTPC functionality (playing back torrented telly, basically).
Can anyone confirm whether currently available HDDVD titles will have coax sound output nerfed if played back on a Vista HDDVD player? Thanks in advance, Funky.
... because everyone (or at least Sony) knows that watching people blow each other brains out, that is using bullets, knives, chainsaws and the like, as opposed to, uh, the word of mouth, is a whole lot healthier.
Thanks Sony for making the choice an even easier to make. I have a Panasonic 50PV60A that is in dire need of more HD content, other than the FTA stuff we get here in Australia.
Well, will pay with my virtual gold coins then. If I could ever be bothered to hang up my sim racing gear long enough to reactivate my Level 60 Paladin.;)
Well sorry my bum. If a kengaroo/deer/elk/icebear was to jump out in front of car #1, car #2 would slam into his rear as #1 hit the emergency brakes. Therefore #2 was immorally exposing #1 to increased risk for the entire duration of the session. It is not #1s fault that #2 was a POS driver. #2 got what he or she deserved, nothing else. That's why I wrote "poetic justice". Who knows, maybe this prevented #2 from tailgating, slamming into and killing (yep, not a fender bender that one) a motorbike rider in an alternate reality.
I must admit the story I read here sometimes before about the local who was in a sport car being tailgated by a SUV/4WD, knew a sharp bend came up, proceeded to take it at maximum corner velocity without giving away it was coming. Needless to say the idiot behind him couldn't quite make it and hit the guard rails probably causing thousands of cosmetic damage to the car. Poetic justice.
I thought tailgating would be illegal over yonder. Worthy of filing a report I'd say. I would for sure if it happened to me. I'd certainly take it to court if an officer "busted" me for speeding if he was pushing me to go faster by tailgating. Then again I live in Australia. Not sure if we got more human rights or anything down here, but I'd be very surprised to see a tailgater win that one in court.
The very day these helmets get Aussie approval I'm getting one: http://www.reevu.com/
I need to do the chicken thing with my Dainese armored leather jacket to see straight back in my GSXR600k4's mirrors.
That's why I always without fail filter to the front of the traffic to avoid the possibility of being rear ended. Sure my bike is bright yellow with intense red leds but still I'm much smaller than a car. And cars get rear ended often enough --- this is potentially fatal on a bike.
When coming up on slow traffic that I can't comfortably split into I will leave tonnes of space to the front, and drive watching the rear mirror until I see that the driver behind is slowing down.
I for one welcome our new laser equipped tailgater booking overlords. With open arms.
I find it easier to torrent a television episode that I'm meant to tape for my wife than to set up the VCR to do it for me. Plus, when she gets home from work, that's 15 minutes of ads she doesn't have to forward past. Haven't taken the DVR plunge yet as there's no "the one" system in Australia and I'm holding back until HDDVDs are available for HTPC purchase. Would use that to record digitally.
This makes me think of the the argument about "uncrackable" car systems in medium end cars [e.g. my Honda Accord Euro]. Of course they are crackable. But those having access to the technology would go for something a lot juicier than my 45000AUD car. I can't see anyone with this kind of equipment scanning from a medium end store - plus as someone else pointed out, they'd need to compromise their database as well, as the tag is just a MacID/PK for the lookup. Actually this entire thought is just plain silly.
Ditto that. I've had a look for HDDVD players for putting together a HTPC to play HDDVDs on my Viera 50PV60A, but so far zilch, nill, de nada, ingenting, nothing, keines.
(not too difficult), I think this was a good effort. A lot of kids or even adults do not have the required know-how about this. Personally I don't care too much [if people can identify me] but with what some people are posting they certainly should.
I had to call Microsoft last year to unlock my WinXP PRO installation after it got "locked out". It was not an issue, I just simple explained that I had reinstalled due to moving my WinXP to a new box and installing Linux on the old. This was probably after having activated the old license code around 3 times (it's been a few years since the release). The biggest issue was probably getting that 200 character (or so it seemed) code right over the phone.:) Have done a couple of reinstalls with changed hardware after that, no problem at all.
... wondering about what a weird place New York must be for it to be having a bunch of lawyers sitting around in their favourite bar blogging about on their wifi laptops. And that they were soon about to be kicked out of this haven of theirs, possibly as they were annoying the rest of the patrons with their asocial behaviour.
I can confirm the sideways action bit - and not waking up until after a couple of hours of getting out of bed. Whilst on a trip from Australia to Norway to visit the rellies, on such a morning shave whilst putting a fair amount of pressure on it just went sideways and cut deeply into the area just above and to the side of my mouth. I had three distinct slices with skin hanging off in between. Needless to say I bled profusely, all over my brother's bathroom floor, the scars took several months to heal. Family photos turned out quite funny from then on.
These days I like the Schmick quatro power thing...
I just replied in the other Weird Al thread how I was going to make my first CD purchase in ages. Learning that the CD potentially comes with malware (can anyone please confirm if it is copy protected), your suggestion makes excellent sense. Hope he takes paypal...:)
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If some zoombie steps out from behind a 4WD with their ipods blaring to the point where they think my GSXR600's horn and front tyre screeching is part of the background chorus, I really don't want to be part of their natural selection process experiements.... :P
(Why is it that said group rarely look both ways before crossing the street? Is a generation of dopey crackheads growing up or what's happening? I'm only 34 but just can't help shake the feeling that people used to be a lot more responsible and on to it when I was growing up.)
Ignore this post; moderator box got focus and for some reason "underrated" rather than "off topic" got focus and was submitted as I tried to cancel out. Posting here to undo.
(Am happy to hear Apple's legal dudes got nerfed in the court. We need more stories like these..)
Hehe :)
Ad is taken off now, guess it was a one day special.
Try moving to Victoria, Australia mate... ;P
Slightly off topic, but I found Microsoft's current advertisement on http://news.com.au/ (a major Aussie news site, go figure) quite interesting. They've integrated what looks like the Vista desktop into the actual template of the site. Quite novel, it must have taken quite a bit of work to make that happen.
I guess the slashdot editors, uh, miss'd that one.
Agree on scanning media; this is what I remember from past experiences.
So in order to install the upgrade version of Vista on a freshly formatted HD, given that your WinXP is an update version of WinME, which could be an upgrade version of Win95.... you're looking at quite a stack of CDs and DVDs that need keeping in order. Good luck to you if that old Windows 95/ME one is scratched or lost.
This article is of extreme interest to me. I am (or have been) planning on getting a HTPC with Vista on it to play HDDVDs (not BR) onto my Viera 50PV60A - a 1280p processing 1366x768 plasma display. I have just been waiting for a HDDVD ROM player with full vista support that can be easily put into a HTPC box.
Having read this though, my Dolby Digital decoder is an old standalone Rotel RDA975 which is again connected to their RSP980 and ultimately the RB985. This accepts coaxial inputs only, so basically with SPDIF quality being nerfed I'd be SOL and have to replace the perfectly well functioning RDA975 and RSP980 to replace it with a new preprocessor. Rotel don't even have a HDMI one yet.
Ironically Toshiba's new HD-XA1 mentions no such concerns and features a coax out on its back. I may need to revise whether I plunge down the Vista route after reading this.
I find this a pity, because having been running Vista Ultimate on my 2gb 2.13ghz Dell 9300 laptop for a month I've really grown to like it; media centre is certainly slick as. This would mean that a HDDVD player would take the 2nd HDMI input and leave me having to go component for the now-nerfed HTPC functionality (playing back torrented telly, basically).
Can anyone confirm whether currently available HDDVD titles will have coax sound output nerfed if played back on a Vista HDDVD player? Thanks in advance, Funky.
... because everyone (or at least Sony) knows that watching people blow each other brains out, that is using bullets, knives, chainsaws and the like, as opposed to, uh, the word of mouth, is a whole lot healthier.
Thanks Sony for making the choice an even easier to make. I have a Panasonic 50PV60A that is in dire need of more HD content, other than the FTA stuff we get here in Australia.
Speaking as a Norwegian, I like his t-shirt. :D
Well, will pay with my virtual gold coins then. If I could ever be bothered to hang up my sim racing gear long enough to reactivate my Level 60 Paladin. ;)
Well sorry my bum. If a kengaroo/deer/elk/icebear was to jump out in front of car #1, car #2 would slam into his rear as #1 hit the emergency brakes. Therefore #2 was immorally exposing #1 to increased risk for the entire duration of the session. It is not #1s fault that #2 was a POS driver. #2 got what he or she deserved, nothing else. That's why I wrote "poetic justice". Who knows, maybe this prevented #2 from tailgating, slamming into and killing (yep, not a fender bender that one) a motorbike rider in an alternate reality.
I must admit the story I read here sometimes before about the local who was in a sport car being tailgated by a SUV/4WD, knew a sharp bend came up, proceeded to take it at maximum corner velocity without giving away it was coming. Needless to say the idiot behind him couldn't quite make it and hit the guard rails probably causing thousands of cosmetic damage to the car. Poetic justice.
I thought tailgating would be illegal over yonder.
Worthy of filing a report I'd say.
I would for sure if it happened to me.
I'd certainly take it to court if an officer "busted" me for speeding if he was pushing me to go faster by tailgating.
Then again I live in Australia.
Not sure if we got more human rights or anything down here, but I'd be very surprised to see a tailgater win that one in court.
The very day these helmets get Aussie approval I'm getting one: http://www.reevu.com/
I need to do the chicken thing with my Dainese armored leather jacket to see straight back in my GSXR600k4's mirrors.
That's why I always without fail filter to the front of the traffic to avoid the possibility of being rear ended. Sure my bike is bright yellow with intense red leds but still I'm much smaller than a car. And cars get rear ended often enough --- this is potentially fatal on a bike.
When coming up on slow traffic that I can't comfortably split into I will leave tonnes of space to the front, and drive watching the rear mirror until I see that the driver behind is slowing down.
I for one welcome our new laser equipped tailgater booking overlords.
With open arms.
I find it easier to torrent a television episode that I'm meant to tape for my wife than to set up the VCR to do it for me. Plus, when she gets home from work, that's 15 minutes of ads she doesn't have to forward past.
Haven't taken the DVR plunge yet as there's no "the one" system in Australia and I'm holding back until HDDVDs are available for HTPC purchase. Would use that to record digitally.
Now all I need is a 100Gb/s hard disk!
Hell, I'd settle for a 1GB/s one!!
This makes me think of the the argument about "uncrackable" car systems in medium end cars [e.g. my Honda Accord Euro]. Of course they are crackable. But those having access to the technology would go for something a lot juicier than my 45000AUD car. I can't see anyone with this kind of equipment scanning from a medium end store - plus as someone else pointed out, they'd need to compromise their database as well, as the tag is just a MacID/PK for the lookup. Actually this entire thought is just plain silly.
Ditto that. I've had a look for HDDVD players for putting together a HTPC to play HDDVDs on my Viera 50PV60A, but so far zilch, nill, de nada, ingenting, nothing, keines.
You obviously never watched goatse.cx ...
Virus for me too, please.
(not too difficult), I think this was a good effort. A lot of kids or even adults do not have the required know-how about this. Personally I don't care too much [if people can identify me] but with what some people are posting they certainly should.
I had to call Microsoft last year to unlock my WinXP PRO installation after it got "locked out". It was not an issue, I just simple explained that I had reinstalled due to moving my WinXP to a new box and installing Linux on the old. This was probably after having activated the old license code around 3 times (it's been a few years since the release). The biggest issue was probably getting that 200 character (or so it seemed) code right over the phone. :) Have done a couple of reinstalls with changed hardware after that, no problem at all.
... wondering about what a weird place New York must be for it to be having a bunch of lawyers sitting around in their favourite bar blogging about on their wifi laptops. And that they were soon about to be kicked out of this haven of theirs, possibly as they were annoying the rest of the patrons with their asocial behaviour.
I can confirm the sideways action bit - and not waking up until after a couple of hours of getting out of bed. Whilst on a trip from Australia to Norway to visit the rellies, on such a morning shave whilst putting a fair amount of pressure on it just went sideways and cut deeply into the area just above and to the side of my mouth. I had three distinct slices with skin hanging off in between. Needless to say I bled profusely, all over my brother's bathroom floor, the scars took several months to heal. Family photos turned out quite funny from then on.
These days I like the Schmick quatro power thing...
I just replied in the other Weird Al thread how I was going to make my first CD purchase in ages. Learning that the CD potentially comes with malware (can anyone please confirm if it is copy protected), your suggestion makes excellent sense. :)
Hope he takes paypal...