well said. i *never* liked The Matrix, and it seems it's finally safe to say that around here. in my opinion this series is/was the *worst* kind of movie - that which thinks it's clever, but really isn't. This is why i think even ummm risking destroying my credibility Charlie's Angels ('stupid, knows it's stupid') is a better movie than the Matrix and something like Blade Runner is a far better movie if you want sci-fi (really has some clever and sensible ideas underneath). Despite being a 'geek' I actually don't like Sci-Fi as a genre so i can't make better recommendations.
Turning out this bad (i was expecting it to be bad, just not to get this bad a reaction) just proves to me i was right all along - the much-hailed Wachowski (sp?) brothers never did have anything worth saying anyway. Shame. a huge waste of everyone's time, money and lives - it takes no more effort from most of the crew to make a movie from a good plot than a bad one, but the people at the top seem to forget you can't polish a turd. these movies, if you will, are turds.
...that it doesn't 'remove them from the species' or whatever, it just makes them a bit poorer AND encourages these people to try it again.. maybe on you! and waste some of your time. bit like all this slashdot posting.
at least not before checking the headers. the 'from' address should match mail server(s) passed through (someone correct me if this is way out, i'm no mail expert). otherwise you could just be adding to the spam problem... i used to make this mistake and bounce everything i could, thinking it was "revenge". Oops. shameful.
and if this is too far OT, mod me down. just trying to make a constructive post vis-a-vis this topic.
who modded the conspiracy theorist up?!:p heh, well fair enough, but we've gone OT. i dunno what there really is to discuss about this article. i guess it could be interesting for anyone who got one of these spams and read it to find out he really was serious.
yep this has been happening to me but until today i didn't know there was a name for it. i just called it "some bastard using my domain in his from address". it's regular and automated, but not on this scale though, thank lord.
i kind of feel slightly better now. knowing there's a name for it.
definition linked to in Wired article:
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid 19_gci917469,00.html
part of the problem (and i feel like i should be careful what i say eh ain't this silly) is that many ISPs tout an "unlimited addresses" feature allow anything@username.isp.com - and some spammers are realising this. or trying everything to get around filters...:/ a right pain in the behind!
i'd never heard of this but after reading the two wired articles i feel sorry for everyone... really, the guy needs medical help, and probably shouldn't be allowed onto a public network (computer, mail, whatever).. and the people taking the piss, well.. it teaches you to be careful, there really are nutters out there, and the internet just lets them fulfil their full nutty potential:o
(off topic, but you'd think it obvious that any time machine breakthrough would be all over the news right! ; i guess basic rationality doesn't come into this though. scary.)
first into my head was clara.net, a reputable UK (now European) ISP which is probably also now noticing an unfortunate similarity... bummer eh:/ Still I'm not the sort of/. nut who's gonna suggest "similar names shouldn't be allowed", 'cos we all know that's just a slippery slope..
I wonder how strong an association is really formed in peoples' minds by these sorts of name "similarities".. probably little, unless the word is already an adjective in the language. Hmmm, deep!:p
There's probably loads and loads of companies with similar names to claria if you start looking (which i'm not gonna do eh).
no it's not worse, because you can always compress a wide dynamic range (the player can do it!), but you can't uncompress one that's been compressed (only the studio can do it, unless details of the original levels are saved in the stream somehow).
I recently replaced an Epson 800 with a Canon i850, and have been very pleased with it.
Unlike Epson et all, which use chips or drivers to tell you/guess where the ink level is, Canon printers (possibly uniquely? i don't know) actually have a prism in the bottom of each cartridge, and shine a light through this. depending on whether this is covered with ink or not, from the refraction changes it can deduce how much ink is in there. thus it's actially *looking*, which seems to be the right way to do things...
Anyway, i bought a big pack of ink and when they run out i'll be squirting more in with a syringe.. i've done it on someone else's printer and they never complained so i guess it worked:)
don't be silly.. neither of those things "completely invalidate the results".
postprocessing - it's a real world test of how these codecs are going to be used by most people.
"special version" - there are thousands of "special versions" of Xvid, every build by every person who releases builds is a special version... it's in development, that's what CVS is for. You can pick up a build of Xvid now and get results like he got there, there's no fraud like you seem to imply.
Having said all that, i think Doom9 is probably biased towards Xvid, but for good reasons. It's forum is really the 2nd home of Xvid.
nice idea, and you're right, but all the attention seems to be on (re)compressing commercial DVD movies, and no one has the original uncompressed source to those apart from the movie studios... i'm not sure how useful an MPEG4 codec that's great at such material would be, assuming everyone is using it for warezy purposes (i guess the video coming out of camcorders etc is also compressed in a similar way?). Anyway in case you don't know it's normal to apply some pre-processing to DVD source with filter like Convolution3D (see the doom9 forum for more info). IMHO such pre-processing needs to be built into XviD to make it more accessible, but i digress.
i would suggest ffdshow. i believe it is generally regarded as the least cpu-intensive MPEG4 decoder (depending of course on the configuration, of which it has lots!)
yay, the good guys won (or something)
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I'm really happy to see XviD come out on top (well, i think it did anyway:p). The devs really deserve it, with all the work they've put in, and the problems they've had with commercial companies ripping their code off, users whining, the brain numbing difficulty of what they're trying to do, not getting paid for it, and so on and so forth.
I've been semi-following XivD for about a year, occasionally compressing one of my DVDs to see how it's doing. (which always seems to be: Great, but better the next week (i.e. a severe double-edged sword!).
One thing you know about Xvid is that those problems (the ones Doom9 found) will get addressed. Cheers XviD team.
... jet engines vs. propellors did for 'planes, we got a winner. But if i remember rightly (no expert here, don't hurt me), the advantages to aircraft are higher power to weight ratio and lower maintanance costs. Only one of these (the latter) seems to be really relevant in the water:( Any thoughts?
BTW when checking this with google, look at the first link i got: http://www.dkgroup.dk/hydro2.html - the "Hydro Air Drive", yet another related idea.
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Amazing.
well said. i *never* liked The Matrix, and it seems it's finally safe to say that around here. in my opinion this series is/was the *worst* kind of movie - that which thinks it's clever, but really isn't. This is why i think even ummm risking destroying my credibility Charlie's Angels ('stupid, knows it's stupid') is a better movie than the Matrix and something like Blade Runner is a far better movie if you want sci-fi (really has some clever and sensible ideas underneath). Despite being a 'geek' I actually don't like Sci-Fi as a genre so i can't make better recommendations. Turning out this bad (i was expecting it to be bad, just not to get this bad a reaction) just proves to me i was right all along - the much-hailed Wachowski (sp?) brothers never did have anything worth saying anyway. Shame. a huge waste of everyone's time, money and lives - it takes no more effort from most of the crew to make a movie from a good plot than a bad one, but the people at the top seem to forget you can't polish a turd. these movies, if you will, are turds.
lol. how does this happen?
...that it doesn't 'remove them from the species' or whatever, it just makes them a bit poorer AND encourages these people to try it again.. maybe on you! and waste some of your time. bit like all this slashdot posting.
at least not before checking the headers. the 'from' address should match mail server(s) passed through (someone correct me if this is way out, i'm no mail expert). otherwise you could just be adding to the spam problem... i used to make this mistake and bounce everything i could, thinking it was "revenge". Oops. shameful. and if this is too far OT, mod me down. just trying to make a constructive post vis-a-vis this topic.
who modded the conspiracy theorist up?! :p heh, well fair enough, but we've gone OT. i dunno what there really is to discuss about this article. i guess it could be interesting for anyone who got one of these spams and read it to find out he really was serious.
i kind of feel slightly better now. knowing there's a name for it.
definition linked to in Wired article: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid 19_gci917469,00.html
part of the problem (and i feel like i should be careful what i say eh ain't this silly) is that many ISPs tout an "unlimited addresses" feature allow anything@username.isp.com - and some spammers are realising this. or trying everything to get around filters... :/ a right pain in the behind!
(off topic, but you'd think it obvious that any time machine breakthrough would be all over the news right! ; i guess basic rationality doesn't come into this though. scary.)
first into my head was clara.net, a reputable UK (now European) ISP which is probably also now noticing an unfortunate similarity... bummer eh :/ Still I'm not the sort of /. nut who's gonna suggest "similar names shouldn't be allowed", 'cos we all know that's just a slippery slope..
I wonder how strong an association is really formed in peoples' minds by these sorts of name "similarities".. probably little, unless the word is already an adjective in the language. Hmmm, deep! :p
There's probably loads and loads of companies with similar names to claria if you start looking (which i'm not gonna do eh).
no it's not worse, because you can always compress a wide dynamic range (the player can do it!), but you can't uncompress one that's been compressed (only the studio can do it, unless details of the original levels are saved in the stream somehow).
I recently replaced an Epson 800 with a Canon i850, and have been very pleased with it. Unlike Epson et all, which use chips or drivers to tell you/guess where the ink level is, Canon printers (possibly uniquely? i don't know) actually have a prism in the bottom of each cartridge, and shine a light through this. depending on whether this is covered with ink or not, from the refraction changes it can deduce how much ink is in there. thus it's actially *looking*, which seems to be the right way to do things... Anyway, i bought a big pack of ink and when they run out i'll be squirting more in with a syringe.. i've done it on someone else's printer and they never complained so i guess it worked :)
don't be silly.. neither of those things "completely invalidate the results". postprocessing - it's a real world test of how these codecs are going to be used by most people. "special version" - there are thousands of "special versions" of Xvid, every build by every person who releases builds is a special version... it's in development, that's what CVS is for. You can pick up a build of Xvid now and get results like he got there, there's no fraud like you seem to imply. Having said all that, i think Doom9 is probably biased towards Xvid, but for good reasons. It's forum is really the 2nd home of Xvid.
did you really expect them to produce the works of Shakespeare? Lord. :)
good one. just need to make it a little more snappy.
thanks Google. The world makes sense again.
(/me gets out a map and looks up Turville.)
Also i thought from the picture they were blaming natural keyboards for spam... phew, i have one of those.
sorry to be an arse, but the article discusses video codecs and this has really no relation.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=53761
use the latest alpha version.
nice idea, and you're right, but all the attention seems to be on (re)compressing commercial DVD movies, and no one has the original uncompressed source to those apart from the movie studios... i'm not sure how useful an MPEG4 codec that's great at such material would be, assuming everyone is using it for warezy purposes (i guess the video coming out of camcorders etc is also compressed in a similar way?). Anyway in case you don't know it's normal to apply some pre-processing to DVD source with filter like Convolution3D (see the doom9 forum for more info). IMHO such pre-processing needs to be built into XviD to make it more accessible, but i digress.
i would suggest ffdshow. i believe it is generally regarded as the least cpu-intensive MPEG4 decoder (depending of course on the configuration, of which it has lots!)
I've been semi-following XivD for about a year, occasionally compressing one of my DVDs to see how it's doing. (which always seems to be: Great, but better the next week (i.e. a severe double-edged sword!).
One thing you know about Xvid is that those problems (the ones Doom9 found) will get addressed. Cheers XviD team.
... jet engines vs. propellors did for 'planes, we got a winner. But if i remember rightly (no expert here, don't hurt me), the advantages to aircraft are higher power to weight ratio and lower maintanance costs. Only one of these (the latter) seems to be really relevant in the water :( Any thoughts?
BTW when checking this with google, look at the first link i got: http://www.dkgroup.dk/hydro2.html - the "Hydro Air Drive", yet another related idea.
Arg! It's "Better the devil you know."
I hope
parent is funniest thing i've read on here today, cheers :D (to the guys going "Duh!"... Waffle Iron was _joking_).
:p
I hope