Sure...I bet most people hiding behind Slashdot anonymity are cute 25 year old women.
I of course believe anything on the internet and bring it up later in conversation...
Somebody : All computer geeks are ugly males. Me : Not true, there are some hot 25 year old server admins all over the place. I saw one post anonymously without posting a picture the other day.
Seriously, either post a picture of a hot girl wearing a real nerdy admin t-shirt doing some admin stuff or shut the hell up. I'll spare the whole "living in the parent's basement" rant here....
You're probably sitting there right now, in your mother's basement, amidst week old pizza and layers of germ covered trash that's starting to develop more culture than you, thinking about how stupid you made "those stuck up mac users" look by imitating them. Flies circling lazily about your head, drawn to the smell of festering unwashed bedsores and week old semen. Folds of fat jiggling hypnotically as you giggle over another troll post.
Looks like he forgot to mention "Rating Paris Hilton songs 5 out or 5 on iTunes".
I would have blurred that out too as it is more embarrassing than any of the other stuff mentioned.
I've wired 3 houses before and this is somewhat true. You start running into problems when the wall you want the jack on has insulation in it or it is at the edge of a vaulted ceiling.
I have a 60" 1080p widescreen TV. I know what HD is and I know that I want it. But I don't want to lose the functionality I currently have with SD movies. So when I'm in the store...I will buy a SD movie and use my upconverting DVD player because the content is more portable. I'd love for the HD content to be portable too. Thats all.
The point was that I watch those movies on my iPod now. If a new DVD comes out it would be nice to be able to buy the HD version of the movie and still get the same functionality as if I bought the SD version. I know its not HD anymore once its on my iPod but thats not the only place I watch it.
Well, I didn't read the article yet, but it sounds like crap. My tv is 1080p/60fps anyway. So either the playstation has to decide how to fill in those other 36 frames or the display does.
...I'll get a blu-ray player when I can easily rip the movies and do what I want with them including making standard def dvd backups, or transcode it for my video iPod.
Right now I can do a lot with standard def DVDs fairly easily. I'll need that functionality before I buy into any HD format. To me that functionality is worth a lot more than the extra resolution.
Even used, they're guaranteed for a year by most places.
take the time to modify it myself
worth every second, have you seen xbmc in action?
and come up with a box that doesn't include a remote, support, or warranty
The "Half the cost" included buying the cheap remote for the xbox
doesn't sync with or stream from iTunes
If you're one of those idiots that lets iTunes control their life, then you have some serious problems.
I have a library independent of iTunes yet works with it, they're called mp3 files organized on the filesystem by folders! Works with iTunes, works with the other computers on my network, works with Xbox Media Center
doesn't sync my photo library
Same as above. Use independent folders for you photo library. Hell, you can even use it with Gallery. Basically, I use Gallery as my photo album. Its web enabled and guess what....on the hard drive, the pictures are right there organized into the same folders you created in Gallery.
doesn't have wireless
Later on you mention playing back HD video....you plan on using wireless for that??? HAHAHAHA You must be kidding. Anyway, there are solutions for wireless. You can get the "Xbox" branded version or a netgear version for cheap.
is about five hundred times larger
Still small enough to fit anywhere you need it to, and for the functionality it is totally worth it.
has 1/5th the capacity
upgrade the hard drive, can you do that on your Apple TV?
doesn't actually support playing back HD video
It plays back 720p and 1080i. Neither AppleTV or an XBOX play 1080p. Guess that depends on your def. of HD.
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OT too, but maybe you should use a DVD player that costs more than a DVD?
Sure...I bet most people hiding behind Slashdot anonymity are cute 25 year old women.
I of course believe anything on the internet and bring it up later in conversation...
Somebody : All computer geeks are ugly males.
Me : Not true, there are some hot 25 year old server admins all over the place. I saw one post anonymously without posting a picture the other day.
Seriously, either post a picture of a hot girl wearing a real nerdy admin t-shirt doing some admin stuff or shut the hell up. I'll spare the whole "living in the parent's basement" rant here....
my apologies
Looks like he forgot to mention "Rating Paris Hilton songs 5 out or 5 on iTunes".
I would have blurred that out too as it is more embarrassing than any of the other stuff mentioned.
I run fairly modern hardware and I don't use a firewall.
I haven't ran a firewall since I got a router.
What does a firewall give you that a router doesn't do by default?
I've wired 3 houses before and this is somewhat true.
You start running into problems when the wall you want the jack on has insulation in it or it is at the edge of a vaulted ceiling.
(replying to self)
...Does this mean that the firmware of the GPU will not be able to be updated?
What will this mean if the GPU is integrated with the CPU?
Will we still need drivers? If we do, hopefully there will be open source versions since it is Intel and all.
wrong. -1 redundant
I have a 60" 1080p widescreen TV. I know what HD is and I know that I want it. But I don't want to lose the functionality I currently have with SD movies. So when I'm in the store...I will buy a SD movie and use my upconverting DVD player because the content is more portable. I'd love for the HD content to be portable too. Thats all.
The point was that I watch those movies on my iPod now. If a new DVD comes out it would be nice to be able to buy the HD version of the movie and still get the same functionality as if I bought the SD version. I know its not HD anymore once its on my iPod but thats not the only place I watch it.
Actually, they have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RipGuard#RipGuard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS_Protection
Well, I didn't read the article yet, but it sounds like crap. My tv is 1080p/60fps anyway. So either the playstation has to decide how to fill in those other 36 frames or the display does.
Maybe the TV should be doing the de-interlacing. Can you turn off the progressive scan option on the Playstation to allow the TV to handle it?
Is the playback supposed to be better or worse?
I went to a Sony store before you could even buy a blu-ray player and I asked him why anyone would buy a standalone player vs. the PS3?
His answer was that the standalone player was higher quality and made with better components and only played movies.
This of course sounded like a general answer to something the guy hadn't a clue about.
Seriously, why would you pay $1,000 for a standalone unit when you can get a PS3 for $500 or $600?
With HDMI everything is digital, but it is uncompressed. Could it be that one player decompresses the video better before sending it off to the TV?
...I'll get a blu-ray player when I can easily rip the movies and do what I want with them including making standard def dvd backups, or transcode it for my video iPod.
Right now I can do a lot with standard def DVDs fairly easily. I'll need that functionality before I buy into any HD format. To me that functionality is worth a lot more than the extra resolution.
I also read somewhere on the internet that everything on the internet is true
You've got a point. They could just "bring their work home with them" and duct-tape it to their OLPC laptop.
Yes. But then it would be a $999,200 laptop.
That doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.
Mmmm... an Ivory keyboard
I'll save a link to this and visit it in 10 years and laugh at it.
They could have made a million dollar laptop 10 years ago too.
Or in the early 90's a million dollar Zach Moris Saved by the Bell-type cell phone that is laughable a couple of years later.
Wow, so you're saying if you think about your code and write it decent it will perform decent?
I thought you were supposed to get that for free.</sarcasm>
If the song and artist and such were inside of ID3 tags he could have used Tag&Rename or some other type of tool to generate filenames based on ID3s.
Works great the otherway around too...I generate ID3s based on filenames so that my stupid iPod will show them in the list.