Even crappy content looks pretty good on XBox 360, since it has a dedicated hardware scalar, and everything comes out 1080P (if thats what you choose). I'm talking about display on a 42" sony bravia.
Even streamed content from internet sources, reencoded to wmv on-the-fly by TVersity, looks pretty damn good. Crappy old mpegs and divx files from bittorrent (again, reencoded on the fly) look pretty damn good.
It looks better than when I had my PC (using radeon x800 vga output) hooked up playing the video. That scaling chip is the chinese wonder-powder that makes it go.
If the issue is scaling artifacts, it sounds like the Apple TV is decoding, and scaling on it's CPU. Does it have a seperate, dedicated scaling chip?
Try and find a well balanced discussion of anything here, I dare you.
I guess for a corporate website, where the whole point is to only show one point of view (the one good for the corporation), it'd be good. It's definately prudent to get a handle on dissenting opinions.
Fostering an open and honest discussion of tech? Hahaha... Ya, now lets pretend vista "bluescreens" every 5 minutes, and macs do everything out of the box.
"IPCC Scientists" sounded pretty official, so I googled it up.
established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the IPCC is the authoritative international body charged with studying climate change. The IPCC surveys the worldwide technical and scientific literature on climate change and publishes assessment reports.
Ok, so they dont conduct their own research. They aren't really scientists, are they?
Sounds like one could make an argument they spend their days digging up reasons for themselves to even exist. I mean, surely a task force set up to "survey global warming research" doesn't have it in their best interests to conclude anything less than doom and gloom.
Being UN funded, no doubt they are highly politically motivated, and likely corrupt from the top down. I'm sure this is all fronting up another Kyoto-like scheme to redisperse US money around the world.
But hey, maybe if we all jerk our knees hard enough at the same time, the earth will cool down a lil bit.
Also, (most) people are smart enough to move when their land floods or dries out. The entire population of a geographic area doesn't have to die, most will relocate and/or adapt, as we've always done.
Homebrew! Plus, that little system can run virtually ALL of your old console and arcade games. This feature alone (if you don't mind using a firmware downgrader) is worth $169.
The downgrader/modchip/whatever you want to call it isnt free.
And there's homebrew on the DS, and every other console out there. It's a pretty dopey argument.
My Treo does all of the emulation biz pretty well, and I'm ALLOWED to code homebrew for it out of the box.
Wow, that was a quick down-mod. I'll take that as a "yes" to my "is sony paying you to pimp their shit" question.
It's amazing how Sony releases - by no means superior - consoles (PSP and PS3), jacks the cost up to the moon and expects them to sell on the virtue of "can play movies in a new format so you can buy all new movies".
Then they get all shocked when they don't sell, and use silly "subversive advertising" schemes to generate "buzz".
They need to know that those types of schemes only generate "buzz" when there's "buzz" to be generated. Ilovebees.com worked for MSFT because Halo was a great game. The same scheme wouldn't have sold any copies of "mike tyson boxing", because it was a pile of shit.
Pro-tip to Sony: It isnt the 90s, people have owned video game consoles in the past. They know what shit is when they see it. They know that when all you can do is read off theoretical tech specs, you are talking shit.
Proof? The PS3 marks the SECOND time in the last few years that Nintendo has kicked your ass with a "technically inferior" offering.
Google has no beef censoring for China, and helping track down dissidents, so it's absolutely reasonable for Japan to expect them to respect their laws re: political messages.
It's not "levelling the playing field". Quit applying American ideals to other countries. The playing field WAS LEVEL, until YouTube entered the picture. Everyone got their alotted portion of media face-time.
This may be because they don't want Hillaries, Dubyas and Gores buying their way to the top with their 50 zillion dollar war-chests.
Agree or disagree, it's their system, and its nobodies business but Japans.
If you dont believe the US military has the right to interfere in Iraq's politics, what makes you think Google would have the right to interfere in Japans?
Offtopic: has anyone noticed that the turing-test you have to pass to post something has more and more sexually suggestive and homosexual terms? I just had to type "felch" to get this message online. Weird.
Speed is hard to say, its all up to the server. They advertise 6mbps/1.5mnps, and I'm sure I get somewhere around that.
I usually have torrents going about 150KBs down/30Kbs up all the time - but I shape the traffic to leave a little upstream left over for everything else.
I have kids who routinely use skype, WoW, XBox live, iTunes, etc, etc..
I've really had no problems, or reasons to complain up to this point.
The rep that came out didnt even have a problem with my linux router, in fact he thought it was cool when I told him an old P100 and 16 megs of ram will pull it off, and asked some questions about setting up his own.
From what I can tell it all varies office to office, so YMMV.
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Even crappy content looks pretty good on XBox 360, since it has a dedicated hardware scalar, and everything comes out 1080P (if thats what you choose). I'm talking about display on a 42" sony bravia.
Even streamed content from internet sources, reencoded to wmv on-the-fly by TVersity, looks pretty damn good. Crappy old mpegs and divx files from bittorrent (again, reencoded on the fly) look pretty damn good.
It looks better than when I had my PC (using radeon x800 vga output) hooked up playing the video. That scaling chip is the chinese wonder-powder that makes it go.
If the issue is scaling artifacts, it sounds like the Apple TV is decoding, and scaling on it's CPU. Does it have a seperate, dedicated scaling chip?
Obviously he didn't put on his Steve Jobs signature edition blindfold, like a real Apple user.
If he wants to "look at things objectively" maybe he should be running Vista like the rest of the lusers!
"Intellectual property" lol
How many Carleton undergrads does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Just one, but he gets 3 credits for it.
LOL
(Seriously, it's like Canada's DeVry, except with lower standards)
Try and find a well balanced discussion of anything here, I dare you.
I guess for a corporate website, where the whole point is to only show one point of view (the one good for the corporation), it'd be good. It's definately prudent to get a handle on dissenting opinions.
Fostering an open and honest discussion of tech? Hahaha... Ya, now lets pretend vista "bluescreens" every 5 minutes, and macs do everything out of the box.
Hours after the initial verdict was handed down (probably before /. posted the news for nerds)
Can someone firehose that? my submissions arent no good
..question the principles of the Turkish secular system, and the unity of the Turkish state.
And I think the founder of modern Turkey is a turkey haha
Freedom of speech is pretty cool
I also question the principles of the American secular system, and i pretty much question the fuck out of everybody I see.
"Supporters of the new tax say the spaceport will bring thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in space tourism revenue to the area.
That sounds like the feelgood message behind every porkbarrel project.
Not that this is one of those. America really needs to subsidize a commercial spaceport where you can go to space for 2 hours for 200 grand.
And don't get me started about "bleak swath of dessert." To know the dessert is to love it.
I love dessert! Mmmmm ice cream, cake, doughnuts, creme broulet, chocolate pudding with smashed up oreos in it.
MMMMMMMMMM yummy
I wonder how many coders actually read slashdot.
I can see two seperate bugs causing the same result, I've dealt with it tons of times.
"the bug is back, you didn't fix it"
and I say, "no this one is different"
Meh
Who really fucking cares?
Do you really think Leapord is going to break OSX into the mainstream, any more than any of the previous cat-themed service packs have?
Wow, I wonder what it's like to live like that.
One corporate copy could easily account for thousands of machines.
Al Jazeera, slashdot, anything published in france or germany.
Basically anything that has an obvious anti-US bias. I can't grep information from any source that doesn't reinforce my black and white world view.
"IPCC Scientists" sounded pretty official, so I googled it up.
established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the IPCC is the authoritative international body charged with studying climate change. The IPCC surveys the worldwide technical and scientific literature on climate change and publishes assessment reports.
Ok, so they dont conduct their own research. They aren't really scientists, are they?
Sounds like one could make an argument they spend their days digging up reasons for themselves to even exist. I mean, surely a task force set up to "survey global warming research" doesn't have it in their best interests to conclude anything less than doom and gloom.
Being UN funded, no doubt they are highly politically motivated, and likely corrupt from the top down. I'm sure this is all fronting up another Kyoto-like scheme to redisperse US money around the world.
But hey, maybe if we all jerk our knees hard enough at the same time, the earth will cool down a lil bit.
Also, (most) people are smart enough to move when their land floods or dries out. The entire population of a geographic area doesn't have to die, most will relocate and/or adapt, as we've always done.
Homebrew! Plus, that little system can run virtually ALL of your old console and arcade games. This feature alone (if you don't mind using a firmware downgrader) is worth $169.
The downgrader/modchip/whatever you want to call it isnt free.
And there's homebrew on the DS, and every other console out there. It's a pretty dopey argument.
My Treo does all of the emulation biz pretty well, and I'm ALLOWED to code homebrew for it out of the box.
Dude, check this.
+5 Insightful, while saying "Apple sucks and everyone who owns a Mac is a faggot".
I know, I'm awesome.
America needs more propoganda like this.
They got any plans to start respecting human rights?
Punch Out is awesome, I have it in my Playchoice 10. In fact, it's the only game card I have in it.
It's more of a Playchoice 1 really.
Wow, that was a quick down-mod. I'll take that as a "yes" to my "is sony paying you to pimp their shit" question.
It's amazing how Sony releases - by no means superior - consoles (PSP and PS3), jacks the cost up to the moon and expects them to sell on the virtue of "can play movies in a new format so you can buy all new movies".
Then they get all shocked when they don't sell, and use silly "subversive advertising" schemes to generate "buzz".
They need to know that those types of schemes only generate "buzz" when there's "buzz" to be generated. Ilovebees.com worked for MSFT because Halo was a great game. The same scheme wouldn't have sold any copies of "mike tyson boxing", because it was a pile of shit.
Pro-tip to Sony: It isnt the 90s, people have owned video game consoles in the past. They know what shit is when they see it. They know that when all you can do is read off theoretical tech specs, you are talking shit.
Proof? The PS3 marks the SECOND time in the last few years that Nintendo has kicked your ass with a "technically inferior" offering.
Clue the fuck in.
It costs too much.
Its load times are obnoxious for a portable.
It's too big to stick in your pocket.
The control scheme is awkward.
The games suck.
The battery life sucks.
Nobody wants to buy movies again on UMD.
It is a steaming pile of dogshit. The fact that they have to resort to slashvertisement phony-news articles to sell it is proof of that.
And c'mon now, daddy pants, own up to it.. All the PSP stories you post are part of the paid "all i want for xmas" campaign aren't they?
I mean, I cant understand a geek site giving a fuck about it. It's an n-gage that cant make phone calls.
Google has no beef censoring for China, and helping track down dissidents, so it's absolutely reasonable for Japan to expect them to respect their laws re: political messages.
It's not "levelling the playing field". Quit applying American ideals to other countries. The playing field WAS LEVEL, until YouTube entered the picture. Everyone got their alotted portion of media face-time.
This may be because they don't want Hillaries, Dubyas and Gores buying their way to the top with their 50 zillion dollar war-chests.
Agree or disagree, it's their system, and its nobodies business but Japans.
If you dont believe the US military has the right to interfere in Iraq's politics, what makes you think Google would have the right to interfere in Japans?
Offtopic: has anyone noticed that the turing-test you have to pass to post something has more and more sexually suggestive and homosexual terms? I just had to type "felch" to get this message online. Weird.
ask your mom, she'd know better than me
badump ching
Regular old home internet.
Speed is hard to say, its all up to the server. They advertise 6mbps/1.5mnps, and I'm sure I get somewhere around that.
I usually have torrents going about 150KBs down/30Kbs up all the time - but I shape the traffic to leave a little upstream left over for everything else.
I have kids who routinely use skype, WoW, XBox live, iTunes, etc, etc..
I've really had no problems, or reasons to complain up to this point.
The rep that came out didnt even have a problem with my linux router, in fact he thought it was cool when I told him an old P100 and 16 megs of ram will pull it off, and asked some questions about setting up his own.
From what I can tell it all varies office to office, so YMMV.
What a retarded article. They were (and still are) the first great software company.
I remember cheering Microsoft for toppling their monopoly.
I use tons of bandwidth, torrents run constantly, I'm always vpn'ing to work from home, and to home from work.
In fact, they just came around to lower my bill, upgrade me to digital, hook me up with an HD-PVR, and free HBO.
(By a strange coincidence, verizon has started passing out FIOS flyers..)
I'm not defending Comcast or anything, just facting up some statements.
FF Crystal Chronicls, Four Swords adventures, multiplayer donkey-bongo.
Yah, you're an exception. These types of schemes always fail though.