By converting it internally before the digital stream is converted to analog, you should get a better conversion, or in theory you can add an external scaler (say an iScan or anything from Faroudja) and output a digital 480p signal for it to scale instead of an analog one.
I'm pretty sure that the best results could be achieved by having the DVD player decompress into a higher resolution rather than first decompressing and then scaling. Due to the nature of mpeg compression interpolation between pixels can be done more accurately from the compressed stream, especially at high bitrates.
And Samsung does make some excellent hardware overall. When I bought my DVD player the shop even provided instructions on how to make it region-free and on how to change it to any region (which guarantees that any enhanced region coding can be circumvented). The UI of Samsung products can sometimes be a little different than on other equipment, but I am yet to see one where the change is not for the better. If Samsung made cars they'd probably shuffle the pedals for a more ergonomic interface:)
You do have to contend with bandwidth charges though
Is this really necessary? As I've posted before I think a different approach is possible. Set up a site where people can select songs and pay for these using whatever method you prefer: credit card, paypal...
Once they have paid they are free to acquire the song any way they can. This could include you providing a torrent or a slow download, but users are equally free to get the song from any P2P network or by copying from a friend, relieving you of much of the bandwidth costs
This has the effect of legitimizing P2P networks which is why big brands are not going to go for it for a very long time. It does however give small brands an easy entry to online sales. Users take care of the distribution and you only have to provide them with a way of paying.
I was thinking about this the other day. I propose a business model where users
1. Go to an internet site 2. Pick songs to buy 3. Pay (credit car, paypal, whatever) 4. Have the right to use those songs 5. Download said songs through any P2P software, copy from a friend, or acquire it otherwise 6. Make any number of copies for personal use.
Basically this removes the distribution from the equation entirely. The record companies only have to gather the cash and don't spend money on bandwidth and/or other means of distribution. If this became widespread they might have to get some seeds for torrents up to make the songs available initially.
In practice people would probably move step 5 to step 0, and only pay if they think it's worth the money, which is exactly why it's not going to happen any day soon. A small label might try this as it is a very simple way of making money: just have people pay you and let them worry about getting the merchandise any which way they can.
What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
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How about good ol' walking ?!
The operative word was "fast". Walking speed is 5-6 km/h tops. In a crowded area such as a train station carrying luggage probably closer to 3-4 km/h. The current high speed travelators go at 9, and you can walk on them for a total of something like 12-15 km/h, a significant increase.
If you would RTFA you could see that these are about three times as fast, which presents a problem when people have to get on or off. So all the magic lies in the acceleration and deceleration zones. The rest is more or less an ordinary travelator at high speed.
Spam was not all they got. I was watchig a documentary on Stalin and WW2 the other day. The first half of the episode was on the siege of Leningrad. The food was pretty much gone (they were putting sawdust into the bread so that there would be bread to distribute), when the Ladoga froze over so that trucks could bring supplies and evacuate children over the ice. Some of the trucks rolling in to the city were carrying huge crates of American bacon. There was probably some spam as well, but the pictures I saw were of bacon, probably shipped in to Murmansk.
I paid just below 50, which was about the same in $US. amazon.co.uk is currently selling the 5-disc set at £24.99 (plus postage) which should be just over 40$US.
Because a DRM is invariably futile and only serves as a temporay hinderance. Sure, it may stop Joe (L)user from ripping it, but he will just download it from the net, since someone else with the software and/or equipment will share it on Kazaa. In fact it will in some cases stop him from buying it because he doesn't know how to make back-ups nor can he be sure that it will work in his equipment or in the car stereo that he plans to buy in a few months. He probably finds it easier to download and burn.
If the industry provided standard CDs for purchase and used the money saved on DRM R&D and licensing to actually produce better music Joe would buy the products and could make a copy to use in the car. That he also copies it to his friends does not matter in the equation: these friends are not buying the CDs either way.
(Un)fortunatelly that is impossible; if you can listen to it you can copy it.
I wish the industry could get that into their heads and stop throwing away money on DRM schemes and concentrate on making products actually worth buying.
> 4. Ass
Actually, no. The meaning is not directly derived from the others nor a common parent therefore it is:
booÂty 2
n. pl. booÂties, also booÂdies
Slang
The buttocks.
Vulgar Slang
1. The vulva or vagina.
2. Sexual intercourse.
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Who moderated this as Interesting? Please connect brain before moderating. Moderating as Funny I can maybe accept, but Interesting?
The stuff humans account for is miniscule compared to everything else. Think of it in terms of height; human constructions are is in the range of tens of meters, not particularly dense and quite spread out, while the ground below consists of kilometers of rock. It will make no difference whatsoever, at least not by pure weight. Erosion and other effects could be significant.
I disagree. the maps I've used when orienteering (see posts with same parent), could easily get you within 3 meters of the location unless the cache is deliberatly placed far (more than 30-50 meters, depending on terrain) from any landmark on the map (boulders, ditches, steep elevation changes, paths or anything else on the map).
The flags used in orienteering are red and white and can usually be spotted from 2 to 20 meters depending on foliage and direction, which makes it easier, and in 4 out of 5 cases it's just a matter of runnig directly at it. The pros can probably take 49 out of 50 without going more than 2 meters off the target while running at full speed.
I know all about orienteering and I'm not half bad at it actually, if I may say so myself, based on my performance in some army training. (Being the Finnish military, we can't depend on GPS, so everyone who has done military service (which is practically every able male) can navigate with a map to some degree.)
But orienteering is not for me, you really can't do it at your own leisure because the flags have to be placed and maps organized and all that. I think geocaching (with a map) would be more to my liking. And that is not because I dislike running or anything like that, it's more a question of scheduling the activity. I actually prefer running off the beaten path since you really have to concentrate on the running, whereas running on track ususally leads to the mind wandering to the things you are trying to get away from in the first place (work related etc).
Once a path is there, what's the point of a GPS? You follow the path right to the cache. [...] Perhaps people can show some sportsman ship and pick random places to start their trek to the cache.
What's with the GPS devices? How hard is it to input some coordinates and go where the arrow points? Can't people show some sportsmanship and use a good oldfashioned map?
I'm somewhat serious here; it's all about how hard you want it to be. Some people might enjoy just walking along paths with GPS, some may want to go where no man has gone before with only a map.
Just in case someone is going to do the old "I remember when we didn't have any maps, and it was uphill both ways, in the snow, against the wind"; it's really not that hard to use a map and you really should know how to use one when your GPS fails. Any normal 12 year old should be able to learn how to navigate using only a map, I know I did at that age.
I guess they are doing it mostly so they can say that they've done it and to prepare for a mission to Mars. But it could come in very handy if we find out that some huge lump of rock (the size of many, many VW beetles), is about to collide with earth and wipe out all life. At that point it can be very handy to have tried technology that can be used to establish a large base on the moon.
Ok, the odds are miniscule, but it could happen tomorrow as well as thousands of years from now.
This could be applied to another virus: Windows. 1. Hack the "secure" automatic update system. 2. Add/modify critical update. 3. Have said update uninstall Windows when executed. 3. Wait for machines to update themselves and auto-destruct. 4. ??? 5. Profit.
That is an urban legend. This story started it. Or rather, the events portrayed in the story led to the urban legend; the story was written long after the urban legend started flourishing.
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By converting it internally before the digital stream is converted to analog, you should get a better conversion, or in theory you can add an external scaler (say an iScan or anything from Faroudja) and output a digital 480p signal for it to scale instead of an analog one.
I'm pretty sure that the best results could be achieved by having the DVD player decompress into a higher resolution rather than first decompressing and then scaling. Due to the nature of mpeg compression interpolation between pixels can be done more accurately from the compressed stream, especially at high bitrates.
And Samsung does make some excellent hardware overall. When I bought my DVD player the shop even provided instructions on how to make it region-free and on how to change it to any region (which guarantees that any enhanced region coding can be circumvented). The UI of Samsung products can sometimes be a little different than on other equipment, but I am yet to see one where the change is not for the better. If Samsung made cars they'd probably shuffle the pedals for a more ergonomic interface :)
You do have to contend with bandwidth charges though
Is this really necessary? As I've posted before I think a different approach is possible. Set up a site where people can select songs and pay for these using whatever method you prefer: credit card, paypal...
Once they have paid they are free to acquire the song any way they can. This could include you providing a torrent or a slow download, but users are equally free to get the song from any P2P network or by copying from a friend, relieving you of much of the bandwidth costs
This has the effect of legitimizing P2P networks which is why big brands are not going to go for it for a very long time. It does however give small brands an easy entry to online sales. Users take care of the distribution and you only have to provide them with a way of paying.
I was thinking about this the other day. I propose a business model where users
1. Go to an internet site
2. Pick songs to buy
3. Pay (credit car, paypal, whatever)
4. Have the right to use those songs
5. Download said songs through any P2P software, copy from a friend, or acquire it otherwise
6. Make any number of copies for personal use.
Basically this removes the distribution from the equation entirely. The record companies only have to gather the cash and don't spend money on bandwidth and/or other means of distribution. If this became widespread they might have to get some seeds for torrents up to make the songs available initially.
In practice people would probably move step 5 to step 0, and only pay if they think it's worth the money, which is exactly why it's not going to happen any day soon. A small label might try this as it is a very simple way of making money: just have people pay you and let them worry about getting the merchandise any which way they can.
What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
How about good ol' walking ?!
The operative word was "fast". Walking speed is 5-6 km/h tops. In a crowded area such as a train station carrying luggage probably closer to 3-4 km/h. The current high speed travelators go at 9, and you can walk on them for a total of something like 12-15 km/h, a significant increase.
If you would RTFA you could see that these are about three times as fast, which presents a problem when people have to get on or off. So all the magic lies in the acceleration and deceleration zones. The rest is more or less an ordinary travelator at high speed.
Spam was not all they got. I was watchig a documentary on Stalin and WW2 the other day. The first half of the episode was on the siege of Leningrad. The food was pretty much gone (they were putting sawdust into the bread so that there would be bread to distribute), when the Ladoga froze over so that trucks could bring supplies and evacuate children over the ice. Some of the trucks rolling in to the city were carrying huge crates of American bacon. There was probably some spam as well, but the pictures I saw were of bacon, probably shipped in to Murmansk.
At $80 you are paying way too much.
I paid just below 50, which was about the same in $US. amazon.co.uk is currently selling the 5-disc set at £24.99 (plus postage) which should be just over 40$US.
Because a DRM is invariably futile and only serves as a temporay hinderance. Sure, it may stop Joe (L)user from ripping it, but he will just download it from the net, since someone else with the software and/or equipment will share it on Kazaa. In fact it will in some cases stop him from buying it because he doesn't know how to make back-ups nor can he be sure that it will work in his equipment or in the car stereo that he plans to buy in a few months. He probably finds it easier to download and burn.
If the industry provided standard CDs for purchase and used the money saved on DRM R&D and licensing to actually produce better music Joe would buy the products and could make a copy to use in the car. That he also copies it to his friends does not matter in the equation: these friends are not buying the CDs either way.
(Un)fortunatelly that is impossible; if you can listen to it you can copy it.
I wish the industry could get that into their heads and stop throwing away money on DRM schemes and concentrate on making products actually worth buying.
Note to self: always use preview.
> 4. Ass
Actually, no. The meaning is not directly derived from the others nor a common parent therefore it is:
booÂty 2
n. pl. booÂties, also booÂdies
Slang
The buttocks.
Vulgar Slang
1. The vulva or vagina.
2. Sexual intercourse.
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> 4. Ass Actually, no. The meaning is not directly derived from the others nor a common parent therefore it is: booÂty 2 n. pl. booÂties, also booÂdies Slang The buttocks. Vulgar Slang 1. The vulva or vagina. 2. Sexual intercourse. This message brought to you by Nitpickers Inc.
booÂty 1
n. pl. booÂties
1. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war.
2. Goods or property seized by force or piracy.
3. A valuable prize, award, or gain.
Who moderated this as Interesting? Please connect brain before moderating. Moderating as Funny I can maybe accept, but Interesting?
The stuff humans account for is miniscule compared to everything else. Think of it in terms of height; human constructions are is in the range of tens of meters, not particularly dense and quite spread out, while the ground below consists of kilometers of rock. It will make no difference whatsoever, at least not by pure weight. Erosion and other effects could be significant.
I disagree. the maps I've used when orienteering (see posts with same parent), could easily get you within 3 meters of the location unless the cache is deliberatly placed far (more than 30-50 meters, depending on terrain) from any landmark on the map (boulders, ditches, steep elevation changes, paths or anything else on the map).
The flags used in orienteering are red and white and can usually be spotted from 2 to 20 meters depending on foliage and direction, which makes it easier, and in 4 out of 5 cases it's just a matter of runnig directly at it. The pros can probably take 49 out of 50 without going more than 2 meters off the target while running at full speed.
I know all about orienteering and I'm not half bad at it actually, if I may say so myself, based on my performance in some army training. (Being the Finnish military, we can't depend on GPS, so everyone who has done military service (which is practically every able male) can navigate with a map to some degree.)
But orienteering is not for me, you really can't do it at your own leisure because the flags have to be placed and maps organized and all that. I think geocaching (with a map) would be more to my liking. And that is not because I dislike running or anything like that, it's more a question of scheduling the activity. I actually prefer running off the beaten path since you really have to concentrate on the running, whereas running on track ususally leads to the mind wandering to the things you are trying to get away from in the first place (work related etc).
Once a path is there, what's the point of a GPS? You follow the path right to the cache. [...] Perhaps people can show some sportsman ship and pick random places to start their trek to the cache.
What's with the GPS devices? How hard is it to input some coordinates and go where the arrow points? Can't people show some sportsmanship and use a good oldfashioned map?
I'm somewhat serious here; it's all about how hard you want it to be. Some people might enjoy just walking along paths with GPS, some may want to go where no man has gone before with only a map.
Just in case someone is going to do the old "I remember when we didn't have any maps, and it was uphill both ways, in the snow, against the wind"; it's really not that hard to use a map and you really should know how to use one when your GPS fails. Any normal 12 year old should be able to learn how to navigate using only a map, I know I did at that age.
I guess they are doing it mostly so they can say that they've done it and to prepare for a mission to Mars. But it could come in very handy if we find out that some huge lump of rock (the size of many, many VW beetles), is about to collide with earth and wipe out all life. At that point it can be very handy to have tried technology that can be used to establish a large base on the moon. Ok, the odds are miniscule, but it could happen tomorrow as well as thousands of years from now.
Well, that's one thing I never expected: being moderated to +5, Informative for my knowledge of opera. I guess anything is possible on /. =)
It's not that novel an idea. A few years ago the Finnish National Opera had a ballet version of The Hobbit for quite a while. Proof
This could be applied to another virus: Windows.
1. Hack the "secure" automatic update system.
2. Add/modify critical update.
3. Have said update uninstall Windows when executed.
3. Wait for machines to update themselves and auto-destruct.
4. ???
5. Profit.
Maybe it is the infamous .cx?
No, I won't post a link.
pick up some free comics, and support the comic industry 1. Give away free comics 2. ?? 3. Profit!
That is an urban legend. This story started it. Or rather, the events portrayed in the story led to the urban legend; the story was written long after the urban legend started flourishing.
That's about the worst thing they could have used for size comparison. They should've used something with a standard size, for example a Coke can.