You could simply wait till the old goat is a asleep then jerk the god damn thing off the wall. Then giving it three hard wacks with a bat should do it. Since the fucker costs a 1000 bucks the old goat wouldn't be in a hurry to buy another one. Since the old fart is paranoid you might want to dress in all black and wear a hood on your mission. Think ninja. He might have security cameras up.
I'm going to have to wait and see what comes out of it. My aging DVD is about 2 years old. Its one of those sony 400 dvd changers that I have my entire dvd collection stuffed into it. I think I will wait till I can get a drive that I can stick in to my HTPC that does it all.
Yeah. Anyone who didn't see this as coming is just brain dead and plan stupid. It was just a matter of time before someone combine all formats into one device. To tell the truth I'm grateful. I don't see a HD player in my future anytime soon but I don't have the room on any shelves for it anyway.
I rushed out and bought a HD reciever some 3 years ago. Paid 800 bucks for it. Got home plugged it and had to look in the mirror to see if sucker was tattooed across my forehead. Yeah, HD movies do look clearer, but compaired to DVD, I don't think its worth it. I managed to sync up a DVD and a HD movie that was playing on at the time. Yeah, you could see a difference but you had to be looking for it.
Now between HD and regular TV if the source is recorded in HD there is a difference and you can notice it.
Yeah, going to agree its a dumb mood. I have a computer, don't want another one. I bought my ps2 to play games on without having to worry about hardware shit. I bought a game, took it home, and played it. It looked the same on my PS2 as it did on all the others.
How about pubic humiliation? That used to be a damn good way to punish people who broke the law but their crimes are relatively minor or not worth the prison time. In the old days they locked you in the stocks in the middle of town square public drunkeness.
Today we could fine them an ammount they tried to defraid people out of. I don't know how much a jpeg patent would be worth but I can imagine a shit load there. Then we could inflict the modern version of public humiliation on them by posting their names, faces, and crimes to magazines, tv, and public airwaves.
OR a bullet in the back of the head would work just as well.....
Well whos fucking fault is that asswipe? If you wasn't such an asshole you might have other things to do than sit at home masturbating to porn on your computer or watching a movie all by yourself.
Gezz, fuck wad, get a life. There are over 50,000 movies at netflix, build you a queue and be happy like the rest of us.
Who really cares if they are throttling or not? The way I've look at it I've already waited an average of six months for the movie to come out on dvd. I can afford to wait a few extra weeks to get the movie. Its not like its a book and someone is going to spoil the movie for me.
Compared to MP3 players, the sound quality is vastly better
This is just FUD, nothing else. It would depend on the player and the MP3, for sure, but trust me, I can get you an MP3 that you will be just unable to tell from the source
Not only its it FUD but is pure bullshit to boot. I think the myth of poor quality mp3's is left over from the old encoder days a few years ago. Back when mp3's where just taking off a lot of hackers where trying to backwards engineer the mp3 format for the free encoders. Since the real encoder cost money and the free encoders where just good enough people went with the free encoders. The where good enough but not perfect. You could tell the difference between the original and the mp3 because the mp3 would have compression artifacts and distortion.
Nobody was using the real encoders that cost money because the free encoders where, well free and mp3 wasn't a standard yet. So people only heard mp3's from these poor quality encoders. As mp3's became the standard and people started using the real encoders mp3's all the problems with them have been cleared up.
Also this was 15 years ago and a lot has changed since then. The poor quality free encoders that couldn't get it right have been abandoned. While the ones that did get it right, lame, have gotten good, damn good. So good that there is no difference in quality any more. I personally can't tell the difference between a mp3 encoded with lame, musicmatch, or windows mediaplayer.
The there are so many other variables in listening to music that make these comparisons almost foolish. Since everyones ears are different what sounds good to one person might sound like crap to someone else. To me those ear buds they send out now with just about any mp3 sound like crap. But to some people they sound wonderful. For me the best head phones I used to have where a $9 par of maxwells that came as a free gift when I bought a set of cdr at walmart. They sounded like crap to other people but they where fine for me.
I just replaced them with a set of these active noise filtering head phones that I paid 70 bucks for. People where right, those maxwells where crap.
You are (were) eather smoking crack or don't remember cassette tapes very well.
I'm going to have to go with the smoking crack option myself. I have 3000 bucks invested in my home theater system with 7 klipsch speakers (Yeah, I think I paid to much for it too.) Well over priced or not it sounds damn good. I can run 256k mp3 through it or play it off of CD and I, nor anyone else I know, can tell the difference. Now playing DVD audio, DTS and SACD of the son of a bitch, the difference it like a slap to the face with a pillow and a coal shovel.
The volcano gods are gonna be so angered when they find out Iceland is mooching the heat. If I know my mythology, nothing (and I mean nothing) pisses a god off like free stuff for humans.
Who said anything about mooching or getting stuff for free? They are just going to toss in a virgin every now and then, problem solved. I bet there will be a shortage of virgin real damn quick, followed real soon by a population increase.
As the saying goes extra ordinary clams require extra ordinary proof. I'll have to believe this one when my feet are propped up next to it keeping my feet warm. Maybe it will be small enough that I can toss it under my desk like my old C64 power supply.
What does this give you that a small micro cassette doesn't? Sounds like it would be more of a pain too with the proprietary format of the recording. Since now most computers come with a line in all you would have to do is plug in a standard patch cord and push play. It might take longer but you don't have to deal with the proprietary bullshit.
If you didn't want to bother to transfer it to computer like that, just keep it on cassette. I kept 3 years of computer science lectures in a shoe box so space isn't an issue. Even back in '90s when I was in college a micro recorder was 39 bucks and the tapes where a buck each. I would just toss it and a few tapes in my pack when I left for class. Five bucks in tapes would be enough for a week or two worth of lectures too at 2 hours a tape.
Why would you want a laptop to record what was said? A micro recorder is cheaper and doesn't weigh as much. I never bothered to conceal it ether. I just walked into class and set it on the desk. I would use it later that night to review the notes I had taken.
Personally, I would never bother to carry a laptop to school unless I had all the books in pdf, or some other format, on it. I was averaging between 20 and 30 pounds of books between classes. Adding another 6 to 10 pounds? No thanks.
To bad someone can't come out with a nice ebook reader about the size of a good text book, a standard ebook format for all the books, and sell it for under 200 bucks.
The reason I like ebooks on my palm is I can carry almost my entire library in my pocket. I can also carry my books in my pocket when I head to the shitter at work. Looks pretty funny when you head for the can with a 800+ page book under your arm. Nobody, the boss, notices my palmpilot in my pocket.
If the DRM pisses you off just simply remove it. There are plenty of tools out there to do so. Buy the book then strip it off. Then you can translate it to any format you want too.
To much work. Just do what we did when they installed these things in our break room for no reason. Just jerk the god damn thing off the wall. Find its blind spot, sneak in there, and break the god damn thing. We did that to 3 of the fuckers and they got the message.
Of course this is highly illegal and if you get caught, you'll get fired and send to jail. In this case I don't know you and I didn't write this. I'll denigh it till my dieing day.
the short term, I think consumers will ignore HD-DVD and BluRay, and will just purchase standard DVDs. The increase in quality isn't all that perceptible on most people's equipment,
That is pretty much the way I see it. I was happy as a pig in shit a few years ago when I got all my HD shit installed. Couldn't wait to watch a movie in HD. Well once the newness wore off I decided to do an experiment. I synced up two movies, on in HD and one on DVD.
To be honest the HD movie was better than the DVD. There was a row of book shelves in the background. On the HD video you could make out the names just a little better than you could the DVD.
So no, I will not be hot shitty over HD DVD's. I will buy one eventually, like everyone else will if they survive, but it will be a few years. But till then I will be fat and happy with my DVD's
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You could simply wait till the old goat is a asleep then jerk the god damn thing off the wall. Then giving it three hard wacks with a bat should do it. Since the fucker costs a 1000 bucks the old goat wouldn't be in a hurry to buy another one. Since the old fart is paranoid you might want to dress in all black and wear a hood on your mission. Think ninja. He might have security cameras up.
I'm going to have to wait and see what comes out of it. My aging DVD is about 2 years old. Its one of those sony 400 dvd changers that I have my entire dvd collection stuffed into it. I think I will wait till I can get a drive that I can stick in to my HTPC that does it all.
Yeah. Anyone who didn't see this as coming is just brain dead and plan stupid. It was just a matter of time before someone combine all formats into one device. To tell the truth I'm grateful. I don't see a HD player in my future anytime soon but I don't have the room on any shelves for it anyway.
They make a black ipod? Sweet.
" If there are that many people that desperate to get into a university, the obvious question would be, why don't they just open more schools?"
Because you need someone to dig the ditches.
I rushed out and bought a HD reciever some 3 years ago. Paid 800 bucks for it. Got home plugged it and had to look in the mirror to see if sucker was tattooed across my forehead. Yeah, HD movies do look clearer, but compaired to DVD, I don't think its worth it. I managed to sync up a DVD and a HD movie that was playing on at the time. Yeah, you could see a difference but you had to be looking for it.
Now between HD and regular TV if the source is recorded in HD there is a difference and you can notice it.
Yeah, going to agree its a dumb mood. I have a computer, don't want another one. I bought my ps2 to play games on without having to worry about hardware shit. I bought a game, took it home, and played it. It looked the same on my PS2 as it did on all the others.
How about pubic humiliation? That used to be a damn good way to punish people who broke the law but their crimes are relatively minor or not worth the prison time. In the old days they locked you in the stocks in the middle of town square public drunkeness.
Today we could fine them an ammount they tried to defraid people out of. I don't know how much a jpeg patent would be worth but I can imagine a shit load there. Then we could inflict the modern version of public humiliation on them by posting their names, faces, and crimes to magazines, tv, and public airwaves.
OR a bullet in the back of the head would work just as well.....
Well whos fucking fault is that asswipe? If you wasn't such an asshole you might have other things to do than sit at home masturbating to porn on your computer or watching a movie all by yourself.
Gezz, fuck wad, get a life. There are over 50,000 movies at netflix, build you a queue and be happy like the rest of us.
Who really cares if they are throttling or not? The way I've look at it I've already waited an average of six months for the movie to come out on dvd. I can afford to wait a few extra weeks to get the movie. Its not like its a book and someone is going to spoil the movie for me.
Yes they do. You just don't know where to look, who to call, and the secret password.
Compared to MP3 players, the sound quality is vastly better This is just FUD, nothing else. It would depend on the player and the MP3, for sure, but trust me, I can get you an MP3 that you will be just unable to tell from the source
Not only its it FUD but is pure bullshit to boot. I think the myth of poor quality mp3's is left over from the old encoder days a few years ago. Back when mp3's where just taking off a lot of hackers where trying to backwards engineer the mp3 format for the free encoders. Since the real encoder cost money and the free encoders where just good enough people went with the free encoders. The where good enough but not perfect. You could tell the difference between the original and the mp3 because the mp3 would have compression artifacts and distortion. Nobody was using the real encoders that cost money because the free encoders where, well free and mp3 wasn't a standard yet. So people only heard mp3's from these poor quality encoders. As mp3's became the standard and people started using the real encoders mp3's all the problems with them have been cleared up.
Also this was 15 years ago and a lot has changed since then. The poor quality free encoders that couldn't get it right have been abandoned. While the ones that did get it right, lame, have gotten good, damn good. So good that there is no difference in quality any more. I personally can't tell the difference between a mp3 encoded with lame, musicmatch, or windows mediaplayer.
The there are so many other variables in listening to music that make these comparisons almost foolish. Since everyones ears are different what sounds good to one person might sound like crap to someone else. To me those ear buds they send out now with just about any mp3 sound like crap. But to some people they sound wonderful. For me the best head phones I used to have where a $9 par of maxwells that came as a free gift when I bought a set of cdr at walmart. They sounded like crap to other people but they where fine for me.
I just replaced them with a set of these active noise filtering head phones that I paid 70 bucks for. People where right, those maxwells where crap.
You are (were) eather smoking crack or don't remember cassette tapes very well.
I'm going to have to go with the smoking crack option myself. I have 3000 bucks invested in my home theater system with 7 klipsch speakers (Yeah, I think I paid to much for it too.) Well over priced or not it sounds damn good. I can run 256k mp3 through it or play it off of CD and I, nor anyone else I know, can tell the difference. Now playing DVD audio, DTS and SACD of the son of a bitch, the difference it like a slap to the face with a pillow and a coal shovel.
Errr.. yeah... works for me....
The volcano gods are gonna be so angered when they find out Iceland is mooching the heat. If I know my mythology, nothing (and I mean nothing) pisses a god off like free stuff for humans.
Who said anything about mooching or getting stuff for free? They are just going to toss in a virgin every now and then, problem solved. I bet there will be a shortage of virgin real damn quick, followed real soon by a population increase.
As the saying goes extra ordinary clams require extra ordinary proof. I'll have to believe this one when my feet are propped up next to it keeping my feet warm. Maybe it will be small enough that I can toss it under my desk like my old C64 power supply.
What does this give you that a small micro cassette doesn't? Sounds like it would be more of a pain too with the proprietary format of the recording. Since now most computers come with a line in all you would have to do is plug in a standard patch cord and push play. It might take longer but you don't have to deal with the proprietary bullshit.
If you didn't want to bother to transfer it to computer like that, just keep it on cassette. I kept 3 years of computer science lectures in a shoe box so space isn't an issue. Even back in '90s when I was in college a micro recorder was 39 bucks and the tapes where a buck each. I would just toss it and a few tapes in my pack when I left for class. Five bucks in tapes would be enough for a week or two worth of lectures too at 2 hours a tape.
Why would you want a laptop to record what was said? A micro recorder is cheaper and doesn't weigh as much. I never bothered to conceal it ether. I just walked into class and set it on the desk. I would use it later that night to review the notes I had taken.
Personally, I would never bother to carry a laptop to school unless I had all the books in pdf, or some other format, on it. I was averaging between 20 and 30 pounds of books between classes. Adding another 6 to 10 pounds? No thanks.
To bad someone can't come out with a nice ebook reader about the size of a good text book, a standard ebook format for all the books, and sell it for under 200 bucks.
The reason I like ebooks on my palm is I can carry almost my entire library in my pocket. I can also carry my books in my pocket when I head to the shitter at work. Looks pretty funny when you head for the can with a 800+ page book under your arm. Nobody, the boss, notices my palmpilot in my pocket.
If the DRM pisses you off just simply remove it. There are plenty of tools out there to do so. Buy the book then strip it off. Then you can translate it to any format you want too.
Simple
To much work. Just do what we did when they installed these things in our break room for no reason. Just jerk the god damn thing off the wall. Find its blind spot, sneak in there, and break the god damn thing. We did that to 3 of the fuckers and they got the message.
Of course this is highly illegal and if you get caught, you'll get fired and send to jail. In this case I don't know you and I didn't write this. I'll denigh it till my dieing day.
You pissed off some french grammer nazi too huh?
Or they will be cracked by someone in a country where stupid shit like the DMCA doesn't apply.
the short term, I think consumers will ignore HD-DVD and BluRay, and will just purchase standard DVDs. The increase in quality isn't all that perceptible on most people's equipment,
That is pretty much the way I see it. I was happy as a pig in shit a few years ago when I got all my HD shit installed. Couldn't wait to watch a movie in HD. Well once the newness wore off I decided to do an experiment. I synced up two movies, on in HD and one on DVD.
To be honest the HD movie was better than the DVD. There was a row of book shelves in the background. On the HD video you could make out the names just a little better than you could the DVD.
So no, I will not be hot shitty over HD DVD's. I will buy one eventually, like everyone else will if they survive, but it will be a few years. But till then I will be fat and happy with my DVD's
Fuck that. Just burn one and copy it till the cows come home. Hell, just burn one, convert it to MP3 and delete the DRM crap.