Oooops. I sort of jumped my guns.
I was thinking specifically of trying to transfer the DVD video+audio to a cd to where it would play in a DVD player. It wouldn't be a VCD or a DivX, where essentially it'd be a dvd.
Now going back and re-reading the origial article, and some of the posts I realized that I was way off.
I use DivX (well, watch) movies all the time.
Since the subject of sleep and Bill Gates came up, the hack jungian psychoanalyst in me had a disturbing thought. Do you think Bill Gates' Shadow is Tux the Penguin?
To fit a dvd movie on a cd you'd have to compress it/encode it in such a way that it'd almost be pointles...unless you wanted to spread it out over 6 cd's or so...
Dammit, I already have too many books to read right now...but you've gone and done it! Now I gotta read something else:-)
thanks for the link, i'm checking it out right now.
I was looking forward to some ingenious ideas the more tech-savy slashdotter's would present in light of the question. Instead, I've found a handful of real suggestions and A BUNCH of slagging on the Father and Son's very character.
My theory is that the people who are objecting most are insanely bitter. I postulate that hey likewise wanted something similar when they were 17 and their family wouldn't/couldn't get it for them.
Who cares if some 17 year old kid isn't getting his (supposed) social experience? I guarantee this though: as long as he's not a selfish prick, he's gonna make a gang of acquaintances if he's got the game hook-up. "Turn the system on and they will come." What could be a better ice breaker or social catalyst than holding that which I'm sure other (not all, but at least some) kids his age would want.
"A government-sponsored software development group in China unveiled a version of the Linux operating system it has developed that it said will eventually replace Windows and Unix on all of its government PCs and servers."
While this is certain to bring about certain debates or threads of thought (and this poster is not against dialogue), this is just what one company "said" their version of Linux would do, whether government sponsored or not. Time will tell...
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As far as I know comparing the mhz of Macs and Windows machines is like comparing apples and oranges.
it said 1986 next to the ad, but I don't remember lame "rapping" ads until later a little later on. Maybe I just blocked it out.
Oooops. I sort of jumped my guns.
I was thinking specifically of trying to transfer the DVD video+audio to a cd to where it would play in a DVD player. It wouldn't be a VCD or a DivX, where essentially it'd be a dvd.
Now going back and re-reading the origial article, and some of the posts I realized that I was way off.
I use DivX (well, watch) movies all the time.
yeah, but how many DVD players have DivX encoding?
Since the subject of sleep and Bill Gates came up, the hack jungian psychoanalyst in me had a disturbing thought. Do you think Bill Gates' Shadow is Tux the Penguin?
To fit a dvd movie on a cd you'd have to compress it /encode it in such a way that it'd almost be pointles...unless you wanted to spread it out over 6 cd's or so...
Guy: Mountain Dew or Crab Juice? Homer: Blugh oh geez!... I'll take the crab juice
...and you can't forget Rockstar...
Dammit, I already have too many books to read right now...but you've gone and done it! Now I gotta read something else :-)
thanks for the link, i'm checking it out right now.
I was looking forward to some ingenious ideas the more tech-savy slashdotter's would present in light of the question. Instead, I've found a handful of real suggestions and A BUNCH of slagging on the Father and Son's very character. My theory is that the people who are objecting most are insanely bitter. I postulate that hey likewise wanted something similar when they were 17 and their family wouldn't/couldn't get it for them. Who cares if some 17 year old kid isn't getting his (supposed) social experience? I guarantee this though: as long as he's not a selfish prick, he's gonna make a gang of acquaintances if he's got the game hook-up. "Turn the system on and they will come." What could be a better ice breaker or social catalyst than holding that which I'm sure other (not all, but at least some) kids his age would want.
While this is certain to bring about certain debates or threads of thought (and this poster is not against dialogue), this is just what one company "said" their version of Linux would do, whether government sponsored or not. Time will tell...
Exactly, while they're at it they might as well crack down on the Bellary Zilla Panchayat. Or, beyond that, get rid of the book A Friend Like Zilla. Better yet, wipe out the Zilla Dioda spider.
Yeah, why don't they go after Go!zilla? Get rid of a crappy download manager and the spyware that comes with it.