You know it is possible to have DivX encoded video and the AC3 soundtrack in an AVI? Of course its a little bigger... (not that I have anything like that of course - just stating a fact)
That being said, I would much prefer to have the full quality version especially for such a great movie.
I'm personally waiting for the complete box set. I hope it will include all the extended versions of the three movies with all the extras, i.e greater than the sum of these intermediate special edition releases.
It also doesn't have a full screen option (unless you register/buy it) so its HTPC unfriendly. At least using another format (avi) would allow it to be played by a large number of different players.
I'm still running 2.2 because I'm afraid what will happen to the software RAID support in a newer version. I have patched in the raidtools kernel patches, but still - its risky.
The only real advantage to running a newer kernel would be improved large file support. Currently 2.2 supports max 2GB files, which for a file server is a bit limiting (for example digital video captures from DV can be any size on NTFS/Win2K/XP).
If you're going to sue someone then you obviously believe they've harmed your business etc in some way. You accuse them of something.
You don't walk up to someone and say: "You allegedly kicked a dent in my car, I'm going to sue you!", you say: "You mofo! I saw you kick a dent in my car, I'm going to sue you!".
Anyway, I thought SCO's quote was funny anyway - lets just leave it that.
"We are alleging they have contaminated their Linux work with inappropriate knowledge from Unix," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president of operating systems at SCO
From dictionary.com:
allege: To assert without or before proof
So they're alleging, they're not actually accusing because they have no idea! Just trying to see if they can make a quick buck.
Not to be picky, but for a botmatch the CPU needs to do the bot AI so its not just about gfx power now. A better benchmark would be pure rendering performance without any background AI calculations.
I think its time the whole CC system is overhauled!
The lack of authentication is the biggest problem with it. And no, the PVV is not good enough for authentication either, its also printed on the card and some online stores require that number but store it with the CC# anyway.
I'm sure the banks have a huge amount of fraud on cards and eventually these costs get passed on to the customers.
Debit cards with PINs / Smartcards are the way to go.
The point here is that not ALL of the uses for CDRs involve copyright violation therefore its wrong/unfair/illegal? for them to charge a levy on such CDRs.
Maybe someone should tell them that CDR's are not only used for Music burning but for DATA backup!
And besides that, most people that download mp3s from the internet are not going to burn CDRs from them, they're going to keep it on their hard disks. Thats the whole point of mp3, play it on your PC instead.
The difference is that telecommunications are a fundamental part of any country's economy, which is why governments get involved in protecting them. This is also one of the reasons why most telecommunication companies are either state owned, monopolies or both.
When PC games were written for DOS, they had the complaint of having to write in support for all the various graphics and sound cards, joysticks, you name it. It was a huge undertaking to get a game out that would run on most user's systems.
However when Windows was becoming popular, game developers moved in that direction because of the abstracted support for many different hardware devices, this was even before the DirectX API that we have today. Unfortunately, things have started to go wrong. Hardware drivers written for Windows and DirectX aren't fully complaint with DirectX or are bugging because they're rushed out the door before they're fully tested. Combine this with ever changing DirectX versions and we are back to the same issues as we had with DOS games.
I'm very much a PC gamer supporter. I don't even own a console. I really hope that the PC hardware industry will get their act together and make sure they release hardware and drivers that work 100% correctly with Windows and DirectX. This includes motherboard manufacturers such as VIA with their unbelievably buggy KT133 etc chipsets.
If they don't then its just a matter of time before game producers move to console development.
Eh, in case you didnt notice the US economy has collapsed;)
But seriously I don't know why the MPAA et al are so concerned about P2P, DVD rips etc. Due to file size limitations the quality of the copies are quite bad in comparison to the original DVD video (i.e its not a 'perfect digital copy').
They should really focus their attention on the real 'pirates' that actually make money selling illegal copies instead of the small number of ppl using P2P to swap crappy quality divx rips with each other - they probably wouldn't have bought the dvd in the first place!
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You know it is possible to have DivX encoded video and the AC3 soundtrack in an AVI? Of course its a little bigger... (not that I have anything like that of course - just stating a fact)
That being said, I would much prefer to have the full quality version especially for such a great movie.
I'm personally waiting for the complete box set. I hope it will include all the extended versions of the three movies with all the extras, i.e greater than the sum of these intermediate special edition releases.
I agree.
It also doesn't have a full screen option (unless you register/buy it) so its HTPC unfriendly. At least using another format (avi) would allow it to be played by a large number of different players.
Well not anymore!
The next address harvester scouring slashdot is going to pick up your email address now.
I'm surprised you made it this far.
I'm still running 2.2 because I'm afraid what will happen to the software RAID support in a newer version. I have patched in the raidtools kernel patches, but still - its risky.
The only real advantage to running a newer kernel would be improved large file support. Currently 2.2 supports max 2GB files, which for a file server is a bit limiting (for example digital video captures from DV can be any size on NTFS/Win2K/XP).
If you're going to sue someone then you obviously believe they've harmed your business etc in some way. You accuse them of something.
You don't walk up to someone and say: "You allegedly kicked a dent in my car, I'm going to sue you!", you say: "You mofo! I saw you kick a dent in my car, I'm going to sue you!".
Anyway, I thought SCO's quote was funny anyway - lets just leave it that.
Not to be picky, but for a botmatch the CPU needs to do the bot AI so its not just about gfx power now. A better benchmark would be pure rendering performance without any background AI calculations.
I think its time the whole CC system is overhauled!
The lack of authentication is the biggest problem with it. And no, the PVV is not good enough for authentication either, its also printed on the card and some online stores require that number but store it with the CC# anyway.
I'm sure the banks have a huge amount of fraud on cards and eventually these costs get passed on to the customers.
Debit cards with PINs / Smartcards are the way to go.
Not to nit pick or anything but should that be 'person x was killed so kill project y?
The point here is that not ALL of the uses for CDRs involve copyright violation therefore its wrong/unfair/illegal? for them to charge a levy on such CDRs.
Maybe someone should tell them that CDR's are not only used for Music burning but for DATA backup!
And besides that, most people that download mp3s from the internet are not going to burn CDRs from them, they're going to keep it on their hard disks. Thats the whole point of mp3, play it on your PC instead.
Sign, when will these people get a clue?
The difference is that telecommunications are a fundamental part of any country's economy, which is why governments get involved in protecting them. This is also one of the reasons why most telecommunication companies are either state owned, monopolies or both.
;)
No one gives a damn about hammer makers
When PC games were written for DOS, they had the complaint of having to write in support for all the various graphics and sound cards, joysticks, you name it. It was a huge undertaking to get a game out that would run on most user's systems.
However when Windows was becoming popular, game developers moved in that direction because of the abstracted support for many different hardware devices, this was even before the DirectX API that we have today. Unfortunately, things have started to go wrong. Hardware drivers written for Windows and DirectX aren't fully complaint with DirectX or are bugging because they're rushed out the door before they're fully tested. Combine this with ever changing DirectX versions and we are back to the same issues as we had with DOS games.
I'm very much a PC gamer supporter. I don't even own a console. I really hope that the PC hardware industry will get their act together and make sure they release hardware and drivers that work 100% correctly with Windows and DirectX. This includes motherboard manufacturers such as VIA with their unbelievably buggy KT133 etc chipsets.
If they don't then its just a matter of time before game producers move to console development.
Actually, if you're using windows you can use directx / directshow to access a firewire DV camera.
So virtualdub could've implemented support for streaming video to and from a DV camera.
Eh, in case you didnt notice the US economy has collapsed ;)
But seriously I don't know why the MPAA et al are so concerned about P2P, DVD rips etc. Due to file size limitations the quality of the copies are quite bad in comparison to the original DVD video (i.e its not a 'perfect digital copy').
They should really focus their attention on the real 'pirates' that actually make money selling illegal copies instead of the small number of ppl using P2P to swap crappy quality divx rips with each other - they probably wouldn't have bought the dvd in the first place!