i think (tin foil hat on) the plan has been to compress (dynamically compress) the fuck out of audio cds for the last few years so that the new formats DO sound better - if only because they are mastered properly (rather than clipped to hell). it's like what i've heard about the DTS track on some DVDs having the bass turned up to fool people into thinking it sounds better than the AC3 (this may be true anyway, i don't know).. or maybe that's just a byproduct of the loudness race, whatever, it's convenient: they've got a whole market for selling things again right there, cunning bastards.
maybe horse porn lovers like garage sales? or, much more worrying, a much larger % of the pop than we thought. is into horse porn. thanks for the comic goldmine of a post btw.
phew, good thing you dissolved that platter dust! otherwise, obviously, we'd have terrorists glueing the bits* back together and getting the data back. i mean, if you'd stopped after grinding them down with the belt sander, i dread to think where we'd be..
*excuse the pun, but it's kind of fitting. but please note the sarcasm.
"who attempt to access illegal sites will receive an error message as if the page was unavailable."
Riight. is this the best way to do this? What's to stop them adding political sites or anything else they don't like to this, either officially (management endorsed) or surreptitiously from someone inside BT, or someone inside taking money from someone outside with a vested interest.. i don't wear a tinfoil hat but it's not that unlikely. Shouldn't there be a standard page saying something like "this page has been blocked by BT for x reason. if you believe it has been blocked in error, contact...." etc.? it could be that the page won't just time out or look like it never existed and this is sloppy newspaper reporting.. anyone?
Another point/question, BT is the carrier for a large number of ADSL suppliers (like um, mine for instance), will they be effected? My first reaction to this story was "i don't care", then "good, stop the pedophiles" and then "wait a minute, how's this going to work, is it a publicity/goodwill stunt, could it have negative affects even"
yes, you are actually more right than you think to include the N64 - its games were nearly all 32bit code - the 64 was basically a marketing gimmick:) (for evidence of this, see that most N64 games can run on a 32-bit emulated r4300i core). So feel free to add Zelda OoT and the other classics from that system (Goldeneye? Mario Kart? Wipeout64 was basically the Playstation version with analogue control, w00t) to the list for this era;)
exactly.. and because of this arms race and inability for people in charge to see the wood for the trees, it'll end up like the situation we have with audio CDs (or is consumer opposition reversing the tide yet?), where they're f**ing up quality that humans can perceive in the name of "copy protection", but all that's happening is they're pissing of their customers (you know, the people who pay to go see movies) and not stopping piracy, as someone gets a clean un-fucked-up copy (either before the protection is applied, or by figuring out how to remove it). I already find the dots ("crap codes") annoying - i go to the cinema for the great picture and sound - if you take that away, what's the point? i urge the industry, just in case anyone's reading, not to get into this arms race, for their sake and ours (speaking for the movie-going public, not for pirates). While you're at it, remove the damn "don't copy" messages, and do more simultaneous worlwide releases, please.
very interesting reply thanks a lot. you should have got modded up higher, we need more discussion on this because it's such a fundamental point, and you're right very sadly legal downloads seem to be doing nothing about it. when they could, because the excuse/chicken egg problem of limited sales/stock hardly counts any more.
this comes back to something i was thinking long ago, that the real reason the industry hated P2P is the loss of control, the failure of the one-size-fits promotion/mega-hit that would come from more educated consumers with wide interests. We can't totally blame the industry though. i get the impression joe six-pack doesn't want to know what's going on in the rest of the world. the attituate to foreign languages & cultures seems a big part of it. it's a damn shame. all we can do is keep exploring & pushing our favourite bands and wait for the industry to kill itself:)
"none of it would have been possible with free (in both senses) P2P networks."
should read WITHOUT of course! stupid typo sorry. i rely on soulseek, emule and other free networks where people from all over the world can come together and browse each other's music. and it just seems so right to do that for your own pleasure. no paid service can offer anything like this. damn i need sleep:/. i've actually tried to buy some of this music and failed to find the albums i love in shops... i should try harder or complain to the industry or something..
i used to think that until about 3 years ago
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Can I make a small correction? There is a lack of innovation in the mainstream. In what record companies in your part of the world are trying to sell to you!
You just have
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looka bitharder if you want to turn yourself on.
(I won't link to audioscrobbler because they're having server problems atm and that would just be mean if I got modded up!). Most of my favourite music now is coming out of non-english speaking parts of the world - south america and the basque region are particularly juicy atm imho, and there's many more places producing great innovative music. speaking multiple languages is optional:) you just haven't heard any of it, most likely.. what i find incredible is if you go to these places you can buy "our" (usa/uk) music everywhere, and yet the most you get in a music store here is a pathetic little "world" section, that in no way reflects what the people there are actually listening to. why is this? are we (as a race of white caucasion middle class brits/americans) so close minded? what the %*^%& has gone wrong?! I was utterly bored with music until I discovered this. Seriously recommend others do the same. none of it would have been possible with free (in both senses) P2P networks. Right, i'm really tired and it took ages to write this but hope it inspires someone to go hunting.. listen to Cafe Tacuba, listen to Fermin Muguruza, heh well that's just where i started i dont' want to get into specific bands 'cos it's all a matter of taste but there's something for everyone with an open mind i swear:)
/me whacks parent with clue stick. if you've ever watched a young kid or even average middle aged or old person trying to play a game, you'd know that many buttons are confusing. whether they are used in the game or not is irrelevant, they'll be trying to push them anyway, and that includes wondering why some aren't doing anything.
Exposing the ridiculousness with good humour works much better than some feminist ranting. I'm a guy and find that funny.
".....let's just have the girls dance around on stage for a while.."
Exactly.. this is the kind of thing that would make me feel a plonker for going to this show.. it's not the girls that are sad, they're probably being well paid and have nothing to fear, it's the guys standing around photographing them (i realise some of those are for magazines, that's a whole other rant)... i mean come on, whack off/have sex *before* you go to E3 and maybe next year the companies can concentrate on the games... we can have an agreement sort of thing. never mind what the gamer girls think, it just makes more sense aiight guys;)
i had no idea the sun was so powerful. what would happen with.. a beowulf (sp.?) cluster of these?:p shame the good ones cost 224 USD:/. probably a good thing. i'd only damage my eyes, wallet and god knows what else.
PLUS... i live in Britain. just how often could i use this (and how much less power would i have?). i've often been to Australia & NZ and have seen how much more powerful the sun is out there...
"Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose." I believe the saying goes. No prize for guessing which side of the debate i'm on. I just got my first penis enlargement spam! "Hahahha, Little Pe-nis U Have scup docket view" it said. After ~7 years online, I feel like a real internet user at last!;)
> hymn (the tool talked about in this walk through) is PlayFair. It's been renamed and a new author is working on it. Also, the latest release keeps your Apple ID in the file so if you have it on a P2P network your asking for trouble.
It seems like only a small step to remove the Apple ID from the decrypted file, hmm? I'm not advocating piracy but.. someone has to say this, 'cos it's what's going through plenty of people's minds.
This method (the one discussed in the article) is superior* because it doesn't involve transcoding.
*from an audiophile (i.e. not legal) perspective
update 17/05/04 14:00 GMT
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Currently the site carries this message:
2004/05/17 -- XVID site cracked. Unfortunately, right after we released the long-awaited XviD 1.0 final, the XviD web server got cracked and many files were deleted. Whoever did this, we actually don't find this funny at all. We're currently working hard to recover from this attack. However it will take us (at least) a couple of days to be back. Meanwhile, we've mirrored the 1.0 final announcement below and you can still download all the XviD 1.0 final source code packages from the files section at the bottom of this page.
We're very sorry for this inconvenience!
The XVID team
I find this very sad and pointless. (I hope it doesn't do the Xvid credibility any harm). What a shame after all that work they've put in to get to v1.0, to have someone **** all over them like that. Not only did they replace the front page, they messed about in there, making it hard to get it back online. Thumbs down to the cracker, shame on you. Pick on some org that's not using its own free time to run a project for everyone else's benefit.
i think his question was "are they playable in a DVD player that has MPEG-4 compatibility"
The answer is: that depends which encoding options were used, and which the player supports!. There are a vast number of options, but to make this understandable to the user, we have what are called "profiles". a common target is "advanced simple profile", IIRC, which is a base level of features that most players support. these can be selected as presets within the encoder config, to make things easier. many players, for example, do not support GMC or Qpel. this is not a disaster. for more details on what this means please see a good site such as Doom9. some players also have stuttering problems when certain parameters are exceeded. to avoid this i'd recommended to make encodes yourself (which you should be doing from your own DVDs under fair use anyway!) to ensure quality control and playback on your systems. Doom9 have an excellent forum for asking questions such as this, but your Q will probably mostly be answered in the FAQs first:) be warned there's quite a learning curve. I don't yet have a standalone player but i have some experience encoding for PCs and am considering purchasing one when I next buy a DVD player.
hey, this is great publicity. it'll probably work out for the best for them. I didn't even know there was an MGS3 coming out until i read this story.. but that could be cause i'm not really a gamer:p Assuming the demo is leaked on the 'Net, I still can't see how it'll hurt sales.
hmm, i'm looking at that pic on LikSang of the iQue mulitplayer adapter, which costs 70 USD, and wondering how is that better than an N64? Why not just put the console in that box and plug it into the TV - it looks like the multiplayer adapter does plug into the TV (rather than controller->TV) anyway! You can get N64 game carts for very little on eBay now. Apart from the "gee-wiz" factor and nice design what other reasons are there to spend so much (relatively) for this kit? I mean if you live in a country with the N64 available (and now officially "dead", although i remain a fan & user), which most of us do? (although eBay gets about everywhere, even poor countries, doesn't it).
Also note that the z-trigger isn't on the back of this and it's probably heavier to hold.. all stuff that interests me anyway:)
Despite all this negativity i applaud Nintendo for re-inventing their old hardware in smaller, neater designs... now can we just have a built in screen and call it a proper portable N64 please:) (j/k, the future is the GBA 2, or whatever they call it, with low power processor).
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i think (tin foil hat on) the plan has been to compress (dynamically compress) the fuck out of audio cds for the last few years so that the new formats DO sound better - if only because they are mastered properly (rather than clipped to hell). it's like what i've heard about the DTS track on some DVDs having the bass turned up to fool people into thinking it sounds better than the AC3 (this may be true anyway, i don't know).. or maybe that's just a byproduct of the loudness race, whatever, it's convenient: they've got a whole market for selling things again right there, cunning bastards.
maybe horse porn lovers like garage sales? or, much more worrying, a much larger % of the pop than we thought. is into horse porn. thanks for the comic goldmine of a post btw.
*excuse the pun, but it's kind of fitting. but please note the sarcasm.
Step2: ???
Step3: profit
let's discuss Step2
Riight. is this the best way to do this? What's to stop them adding political sites or anything else they don't like to this, either officially (management endorsed) or surreptitiously from someone inside BT, or someone inside taking money from someone outside with a vested interest.. i don't wear a tinfoil hat but it's not that unlikely. Shouldn't there be a standard page saying something like "this page has been blocked by BT for x reason. if you believe it has been blocked in error, contact...." etc.? it could be that the page won't just time out or look like it never existed and this is sloppy newspaper reporting.. anyone?
Another point/question, BT is the carrier for a large number of ADSL suppliers (like um, mine for instance), will they be effected? My first reaction to this story was "i don't care", then "good, stop the pedophiles" and then "wait a minute, how's this going to work, is it a publicity/goodwill stunt, could it have negative affects even"
yes, you are actually more right than you think to include the N64 - its games were nearly all 32bit code - the 64 was basically a marketing gimmick :) (for evidence of this, see that most N64 games can run on a 32-bit emulated r4300i core). So feel free to add Zelda OoT and the other classics from that system (Goldeneye? Mario Kart? Wipeout64 was basically the Playstation version with analogue control, w00t) to the list for this era ;)
exactly.. and because of this arms race and inability for people in charge to see the wood for the trees, it'll end up like the situation we have with audio CDs (or is consumer opposition reversing the tide yet?), where they're f**ing up quality that humans can perceive in the name of "copy protection", but all that's happening is they're pissing of their customers (you know, the people who pay to go see movies) and not stopping piracy, as someone gets a clean un-fucked-up copy (either before the protection is applied, or by figuring out how to remove it). I already find the dots ("crap codes") annoying - i go to the cinema for the great picture and sound - if you take that away, what's the point? i urge the industry, just in case anyone's reading, not to get into this arms race, for their sake and ours (speaking for the movie-going public, not for pirates). While you're at it, remove the damn "don't copy" messages, and do more simultaneous worlwide releases, please.
this true? that's amazing if it is.. your profile doesn't have a history of taking the piss, so :)
this comes back to something i was thinking long ago, that the real reason the industry hated P2P is the loss of control, the failure of the one-size-fits promotion/mega-hit that would come from more educated consumers with wide interests. We can't totally blame the industry though. i get the impression joe six-pack doesn't want to know what's going on in the rest of the world. the attituate to foreign languages & cultures seems a big part of it. it's a damn shame. all we can do is keep exploring & pushing our favourite bands and wait for the industry to kill itself :)
should read WITHOUT of course! stupid typo sorry. i rely on soulseek, emule and other free networks where people from all over the world can come together and browse each other's music. and it just seems so right to do that for your own pleasure. no paid service can offer anything like this. damn i need sleep :/. i've actually tried to buy some of this music and failed to find the albums i love in shops... i should try harder or complain to the industry or something..
You just have to look a bit harder if you want to turn yourself on. (I won't link to audioscrobbler because they're having server problems atm and that would just be mean if I got modded up!). Most of my favourite music now is coming out of non-english speaking parts of the world - south america and the basque region are particularly juicy atm imho, and there's many more places producing great innovative music. speaking multiple languages is optional :) you just haven't heard any of it, most likely.. what i find incredible is if you go to these places you can buy "our" (usa/uk) music everywhere, and yet the most you get in a music store here is a pathetic little "world" section, that in no way reflects what the people there are actually listening to. why is this? are we (as a race of white caucasion middle class brits/americans) so close minded? what the %*^%& has gone wrong?! I was utterly bored with music until I discovered this. Seriously recommend others do the same. none of it would have been possible with free (in both senses) P2P networks. Right, i'm really tired and it took ages to write this but hope it inspires someone to go hunting.. listen to Cafe Tacuba, listen to Fermin Muguruza, heh well that's just where i started i dont' want to get into specific bands 'cos it's all a matter of taste but there's something for everyone with an open mind i swear :)
(pro-OSS, but anti-US. What will the mods do?! ;)
/me whacks parent with clue stick. if you've ever watched a young kid or even average middle aged or old person trying to play a game, you'd know that many buttons are confusing. whether they are used in the game or not is irrelevant, they'll be trying to push them anyway, and that includes wondering why some aren't doing anything.
glad /. managed to get to the bottom of that one. /. should have checked with me before posting this story. quite the fuckin' Clouseau.
(note to mods: this is not a troll, it's 'informative', or 'funny')
Exposing the ridiculousness with good humour works much better than some feminist ranting. I'm a guy and find that funny. ;)
".....let's just have the girls dance around on stage for a while.."
Exactly.. this is the kind of thing that would make me feel a plonker for going to this show.. it's not the girls that are sad, they're probably being well paid and have nothing to fear, it's the guys standing around photographing them (i realise some of those are for magazines, that's a whole other rant)... i mean come on, whack off/have sex *before* you go to E3 and maybe next year the companies can concentrate on the games... we can have an agreement sort of thing. never mind what the gamer girls think, it just makes more sense aiight guys
PLUS... i live in Britain. just how often could i use this (and how much less power would i have?). i've often been to Australia & NZ and have seen how much more powerful the sun is out there...
very geeky btw.
"Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose." ;)
I believe the saying goes. No prize for guessing which side of the debate i'm on. I just got my first penis enlargement spam! "Hahahha, Little Pe-nis U Have scup docket view" it said. After ~7 years online, I feel like a real internet user at last!
It seems like only a small step to remove the Apple ID from the decrypted file, hmm? I'm not advocating piracy but.. someone has to say this, 'cos it's what's going through plenty of people's minds.
*from an audiophile (i.e. not legal) perspective
I find this very sad and pointless. (I hope it doesn't do the Xvid credibility any harm). What a shame after all that work they've put in to get to v1.0, to have someone **** all over them like that. Not only did they replace the front page, they messed about in there, making it hard to get it back online. Thumbs down to the cracker, shame on you. Pick on some org that's not using its own free time to run a project for everyone else's benefit.
The answer is: that depends which encoding options were used, and which the player supports!. There are a vast number of options, but to make this understandable to the user, we have what are called "profiles". a common target is "advanced simple profile", IIRC, which is a base level of features that most players support. these can be selected as presets within the encoder config, to make things easier. many players, for example, do not support GMC or Qpel. this is not a disaster. for more details on what this means please see a good site such as Doom9. some players also have stuttering problems when certain parameters are exceeded. to avoid this i'd recommended to make encodes yourself (which you should be doing from your own DVDs under fair use anyway!) to ensure quality control and playback on your systems. Doom9 have an excellent forum for asking questions such as this, but your Q will probably mostly be answered in the FAQs first :) be warned there's quite a learning curve. I don't yet have a standalone player but i have some experience encoding for PCs and am considering purchasing one when I next buy a DVD player.
ah, wait a sec (while i fetch me textbook of /. answers).. yes... i see, "it was not stolen... it was copy-right in-fringe-ment".. how was that? :)
hey, this is great publicity. it'll probably work out for the best for them. I didn't even know there was an MGS3 coming out until i read this story.. but that could be cause i'm not really a gamer :p Assuming the demo is leaked on the 'Net, I still can't see how it'll hurt sales.
Also note that the z-trigger isn't on the back of this and it's probably heavier to hold.. all stuff that interests me anyway :)
Despite all this negativity i applaud Nintendo for re-inventing their old hardware in smaller, neater designs... now can we just have a built in screen and call it a proper portable N64 please :) (j/k, the future is the GBA 2, or whatever they call it, with low power processor).