If you rip the DVDs you can watch the video from any device that can play the video format. That means you can start a DVD in the living room, and finish it in the bedroom -- an issue that arises quite often with me as with kids I can't devote two whole hours of an evening to watching a movie. And there's no danger of the DVD getting scratched or lost if it stays in the box.
Also, most video game consoles now can play reasonably encoded video.
And you can take your videos with you on your portable media player, or in your laptop.
And since DVDs are normally higher quality video than will play on a standard definition TV, you can use the transcoded video to playback on a HDTV without some fancy upsampling DVD player.
And a lot of other stuff...
You can store about 500 hours of video on one 500GB hard drive that costs $140, at a cost of about $0.70 a movie.
The firm estimated that, with around 600 million Windows-based computers worldwide, this works out at between $281 to $340 worth of damage per machine.
Wow. That is a lot of money per Windows box, per year. To do as badly in sum, every linux box on the interweb would pretty much have to commit fusion.
"Windows computers in over 200 countries were infected. Judging by events which unfolded between January and April 2004, there could be a choppy cyber-sea ahead, made all the more complex by new and more dangerous malware families yet to emerge."
The top 10 malware programs of all time, according to mi2g, are MyDoom, Netsky, Sobig, Klez, Sasser, Mimial, Yaha, Swen, Love Bug and Bagle.
Of course, none of those programs run on OSX or linux.
"It serves the purpose of the vendors to blame the users or the virus writers and not themselves for designing 'Swiss cheese' software."
Well at least they got something right.
Don't you MS bloggers have anything better to do? Could you maybe have a look at that virgin Vista IP stack for us? We're a little worried you guys were trolling slashdot and not FIXING THE DAMNED BUGS.
Transcoded a movie from DVD to this format using the script to which you refer. It uses mencoder. The movie was about 2 hours and widescreen format. Output file was 400MB.
I can't speak to how good this looks on the device, but it looks ok and sounds ok for TV output on my linux box.
I use ffmpeg to transcode DVDs to mpeg to play on my Treo 650. The Treo is not an ideal platform for video playback.
Completely separate subject, I'm having trouble getting matrixview to work. I think reencoding a video in matrixview for this device would be sorta cool.
Most people lack the initiative to depart from a situation that's familiar, but goes nowhere, to go somewhere that has opportunity and the risk of the unknown. The immigrants that come to America are thus self-selecting for initiative. Since getting here is also challenging, the filter also includes risk-taking, resourcefulness and determination.
Contrast this with some Americans' idiot nephews who are determined to avoid doing anything useful, or leaving home, ever. Unless you can get them drunk and wheelchair them into the Army recruiter's office, there's no getting rid of them.
So for those of you abroad who can read this, come on over to the US. We could use your initiative.
Oh, but don't come to my neighborhood. Very bad here, and we're full.
I find that with my solar powered walkway lights, CF porchlights and the 1KW sodium (security) lamp over the driveway, I can afford to completely prevent my neighbors' kid from using the telescope he got for Christmas.
Of corporate presidents and high powered lawyers over to Russia to "Negotiate". Once those lawyers apply their legal acumen in the new enterprising Russian venue I'm sure the corporate suits will get a resolution they deserve.
When a document is classified, that doesn't mean it's pressed on thick orange cardboard with brown ink to prevent photocopying. The government has millions of classified documents and some of the most wonderful document scanners you've ever seen. The original documents were all probably scanned and archived long ago. If they want to, they can release the documents on DVD.
It seems likely they won't want to.
I imagine google will do a nice index and we'll know why Kennedy had the CIA assassinate the guy who invented the 100MPG on tapwater carbeurator shortly.
If I paid for the content, I feel I'm entitled to play it when and where I want. That includes on my cell phone, my mp4 video player, streaming onto one of my pc's from my server, or even on a monitor that's attached with a VGA cable instead of a HDRM cable. And I feel I'm entitled to keep it safe from harm, watching the related movie while the shipping container disc is secure in its plastic box. I'm also entitled to watch just the content and skip the advertising, FBI threats, extras, menus and other crap that detract from the movie experience I paid for. Being threatened with prison for exercising my rights under fair use is distasteful to me, and doesn't leave me in a good mood to enjoy the dramatic experience.
People are backing these things up to their USB external HDDs so they can take their movies with them, or watch them how they like. The cracks for both of these formats will be available and people will transcode them to open formats. That's the way it is because the studios won't sell us content in the format we want, or their terms are otherwise unacceptable. I don't approve of people sharing the content with people who haven't paid for it, but, well, the penalty doesn't get any worse does it?
Oh, and usenet was cool once. I wonder what it's like to download a 25GB movie. That SSL encrypted subscription looks like a winner. Maybe it's time to look into that again.
The fact that Novell had guidelines for option grants -- and that directors strayed from them -- is particularly disturbing, said lawyers and academics.
"It should be an issue of shareholder concern whenever a board changes its own compensation," said Kirk Hanson, the director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and a former Stanford University business professor.
While directors are generally permitted to award themselves whatever they want as long as it is publicly disclosed, Hanson said basic principles of corporate governance hold that they should avoid giving themselves pieces of the company just because they can.
They owed a ton of cash that was due in 2024, but callable in the event they failed timely filing of reports with the SEC. Apparently that Microsoft money saved their bacon on that one, since immediately after the deal was done it was reported the money had already been paid out to debtors. Their SEC reports should make interesting reading for some time to come.
Being paranoid, though, I wonder if their accountants or the debtor or both aren't beholden to Microsoft's business interests in some way. That would be really scary.
778,470 @ $6.20 is $4,826,514. No doubt he was hoping for more presents under his tree. Perhaps there will be more for him after the dust settles. Certainly would have been nice for him if the Street had liked the deal and he got a good bump. Too bad.
It's interesting that seven of ten managers listed here are new to the company in 2006, and almost all are new in the last 18 months: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NOVL
If I were a stockholder looking at that, and the recent change of course in the company, I might be concerned. The theme is familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it before... Maybe someone else will reply with that answer.
Slashdot Mirror
who's got a billion light years long spool of fiber optic cable anyway?
Yes. That has a specific meaning in HTTP. It's not an error.
Apparently Dell is fixing the problem with this link. It now works in FF, but not in IE.
To answer your question though, west coast US, firefox2 and IE6 for me.
If you're getting a good link, try using a proxy, and track it back from there if it's your job to fix this.
hmm...
The desktop link still works right now though.
With really tiny tweezers.
Also, most video game consoles now can play reasonably encoded video.
And you can take your videos with you on your portable media player, or in your laptop.
And since DVDs are normally higher quality video than will play on a standard definition TV, you can use the transcoded video to playback on a HDTV without some fancy upsampling DVD player.
And a lot of other stuff...
You can store about 500 hours of video on one 500GB hard drive that costs $140, at a cost of about $0.70 a movie.
That would be fun. Any of the content you own, without getting up from the sofa, and the Internet too.
Seeing as how the word "kid" has multiple mutually exclusive meanings even in english.
As do theregister, theregister, attrition.org, attrition.org, grok.org.uk,
Even mi2g's own research FTA:
Wow. That is a lot of money per Windows box, per year. To do as badly in sum, every linux box on the interweb would pretty much have to commit fusion.
Of course, none of those programs run on OSX or linux.
Well at least they got something right.Don't you MS bloggers have anything better to do? Could you maybe have a look at that virgin Vista IP stack for us? We're a little worried you guys were trolling slashdot and not FIXING THE DAMNED BUGS.
I can't speak to how good this looks on the device, but it looks ok and sounds ok for TV output on my linux box.
I use ffmpeg to transcode DVDs to mpeg to play on my Treo 650. The Treo is not an ideal platform for video playback.
Completely separate subject, I'm having trouble getting matrixview to work. I think reencoding a video in matrixview for this device would be sorta cool.
Most people lack the initiative to depart from a situation that's familiar, but goes nowhere, to go somewhere that has opportunity and the risk of the unknown. The immigrants that come to America are thus self-selecting for initiative. Since getting here is also challenging, the filter also includes risk-taking, resourcefulness and determination.
Contrast this with some Americans' idiot nephews who are determined to avoid doing anything useful, or leaving home, ever. Unless you can get them drunk and wheelchair them into the Army recruiter's office, there's no getting rid of them.
So for those of you abroad who can read this, come on over to the US. We could use your initiative.
Oh, but don't come to my neighborhood. Very bad here, and we're full.
You're not going to win this one.
Seriously, where are we supposed to find these "women"? Are they over on Usenet? Fark? Digg? Homestarrunner? Where?
I find that with my solar powered walkway lights, CF porchlights and the 1KW sodium (security) lamp over the driveway, I can afford to completely prevent my neighbors' kid from using the telescope he got for Christmas.
you configured your webserver, Ed.
Of corporate presidents and high powered lawyers over to Russia to "Negotiate". Once those lawyers apply their legal acumen in the new enterprising Russian venue I'm sure the corporate suits will get a resolution they deserve.
It seems likely they won't want to.
I imagine google will do a nice index and we'll know why Kennedy had the CIA assassinate the guy who invented the 100MPG on tapwater carbeurator shortly.
If I paid for the content, I feel I'm entitled to play it when and where I want. That includes on my cell phone, my mp4 video player, streaming onto one of my pc's from my server, or even on a monitor that's attached with a VGA cable instead of a HDRM cable. And I feel I'm entitled to keep it safe from harm, watching the related movie while the shipping container disc is secure in its plastic box. I'm also entitled to watch just the content and skip the advertising, FBI threats, extras, menus and other crap that detract from the movie experience I paid for. Being threatened with prison for exercising my rights under fair use is distasteful to me, and doesn't leave me in a good mood to enjoy the dramatic experience.
People are backing these things up to their USB external HDDs so they can take their movies with them, or watch them how they like. The cracks for both of these formats will be available and people will transcode them to open formats. That's the way it is because the studios won't sell us content in the format we want, or their terms are otherwise unacceptable. I don't approve of people sharing the content with people who haven't paid for it, but, well, the penalty doesn't get any worse does it?
Oh, and usenet was cool once. I wonder what it's like to download a 25GB movie. That SSL encrypted subscription looks like a winner. Maybe it's time to look into that again.
I don't know why we don't hear more about things like this: http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1159 567622720
FTA:
And then there's the spectre of delisting: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3941903118.html
Also, the company is having some trouble filing reports with the SEC, presumably because of options grants. http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=24382
Just days before this deal was announced they had an interesting 8K report filed: http://money.cnn.com/quote/sec/sec.html?symb=NOVL& sequenceid=1&guid=4732459
They owed a ton of cash that was due in 2024, but callable in the event they failed timely filing of reports with the SEC. Apparently that Microsoft money saved their bacon on that one, since immediately after the deal was done it was reported the money had already been paid out to debtors. Their SEC reports should make interesting reading for some time to come.
Being paranoid, though, I wonder if their accountants or the debtor or both aren't beholden to Microsoft's business interests in some way. That would be really scary.
He received 778,470 shares of stock awarded 12/20/06. http://money.cnn.com/quote/insiders/insiders.html? symb=NOVL
From this page you can see he's historically not a big holder: http://money.cnn.com/quote/insiders/insiders.html? symb=NOVL&mode=person&pid=101687
778,470 @ $6.20 is $4,826,514. No doubt he was hoping for more presents under his tree. Perhaps there will be more for him after the dust settles. Certainly would have been nice for him if the Street had liked the deal and he got a good bump. Too bad.
It's interesting that seven of ten managers listed here are new to the company in 2006, and almost all are new in the last 18 months: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NOVL
If I were a stockholder looking at that, and the recent change of course in the company, I might be concerned. The theme is familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it before... Maybe someone else will reply with that answer.