Every DVD player I've seen in the last 5 years has a dynamic range compressor built right in, as well it should be. I listen to my movies with full dynamic range and have the volume adjusted so dialogue is audible at low volumes and explosions are as earth-shattering as they ought to be. My wife on the other hand watches movies with the compression on full so that nothing gets too loud for her at any point.
'Night mode' on my Yamaha receiver also adds a large amount of compression, making quiet sounds much louder and loud parts much quieter and removes almost all deep bass entirely.
Just to ruin your assumptions, some of the best audio recording I've heard lately is from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Grab his latest recording in DTS or SACD and enjoy quite good quality dynamic range and very interesting use of multi-channel audio too.
You can't generate information that does not exist.
Sure you can make quiet parts even quieter and loud parts even louder, but the compression of dynamic range is an easy task where the expansion of it can completely ruin the music. Dynamic range compression on DVD players is normal, and should be on MP3 players as well for the sake of people who want to listen to their music that way, but the studios shouldn't be compressing the range on the storage device -- it should be done (and is easily handled) by the playing device.
Unless Microsoft is stupid, the HD-DVD drive will never be used for loading games. Games may be able to optionally load additional data via the drive (although I doubt that any would), but requiring a peripheral not 100% of the market has is a surefire way to end up annoying customers in the end. Just look at how (un)popular the hard drive was on the PS2 for games. Sure, it existed, but it wasn't standard, and something less than a tenth of a percent of games used it?
Because major corporations have no chance at ruining peoples' lives the way engineers do? Ask yourself why professional engineers are held to such a standard in society, then ask yourself what effect other private corporations can have on peoples' lives.
Large corporate decision makers should not be immune from blame for their mistakes -- with great power and all that.
You don't need to provide a working example to explain the details. They could be saying something like:
if you've installed vulnerable 3rd party url handlers, clicking malformed urls could lead to exploits
in which case I don't care at all.
I'm sure there are people who install 3rd party URL handlers as willy nilly as they install free screensavers and weather applets, but I don't, and neither should they, so again, I don't care.
If on the other hand they're saying there's a URI parsing error in major browsers that is itself exploitable, that's different. Details are important. You could yell "fire" in a crowded theatre because you saw someone light a lighter, and you wouldn't be lying, but you left out a few good details.
How about "Warning, this perfectly functional 1080p display device will not play back some high definition content because the content providers are jerks and won't let you"
Hardly anyone thinks the Wii is a "next-gen" console. Sony released a new version of the PS2 this generation, does that make it next-gen too? If they change the name, then does it? The Wii is a rebuilt and slightly faster Gamecube with new controllers and games. I have no problem with the Wii's success, I have a problem with it being called a next-gen console -- its not.
Its interesting if you go back to a parts break-down of the PS3 and see that the BD components only add about $20 to the cost of making a PS3 IIRC. I'd like to see a comparison break-down on the 360's components and then work out how much Microsoft is losing on every console sold. Yay, so Sony loses money on initial consoles, they did with the PS2 too. But Microsoft lost money on EVERY Xbox ever sold, EVER. Microsoft could be selling you that "cheaper" 360 and losing more money per unit than Sony is. We can't know, because they won't tell you.
PS, Microsoft themselves admitted their one fear this generation was in Sony's hardware capabilities -- that is their ability to continually refine the manufacturing of their consoles to turn a profit. Look at how many PS2 generations Sony built.
Sorry for the wild speculation here, but are you an armchair game developer, or have you ACTUALLY used the PS3's SDKs? Last I heard from industry sources, the PS3 dev kits come with amazing APIs, its just that Microsoft's dev environment is more familiar to Windows game developers. Sony also promised to work on these issues, I'm not denying them, but what's your source exactly? Or are you just repeating FUD you read somewhere else?
I rented F.E.A.R. after hearing all the "you have to play this game" hype. I played it. I was bored half way through. I looked up a walk-through to read the rest of the plot without dragging my fingers through the game. I read the reviews... yeah, the enemy AI was kinda cool, but oh well, I didn't care much after chapter 4 of the same old same old.
When I go to Blockbuster and rent Blu-Ray movies they stop me at the desk and confirm that I have a Blu-Ray disc player every time (please add it to my customer profile). The one person I told I had a PS3 then replied "but you need a Blu-Ray disc player" which precipitated my explaining that the PS3 in fact included one.
I'm not surprised by the findings at all from my experience. Sony needs a better marketing campaign, not a new price tag (although I'm all for cheaper).
The controller works very well as a remote when watching both DVD and BD movies.
The PS3 does not have built-in IR, although people with universal remotes have been known to use a PS2/PS3 controller adapter coupled with a PS2 remote IR receiver
The quality and performance are covered by several reviews, including Audioholics I believe. Personally, its incredible (go watch a demo at the Sony Store running on a good sized Bravia TV).
The PS3 comes with a digital optical TOSLink connector as well as the HDMI 1.3 connector. For full range PCM uncompressed 7.1, I recommend a receiver with HDMI support of course
The PS3 does play and upscale DVDs (with configurable options)
A) The Wii is not a next-gen gaming platform by most respects B) If you're going to include non-HD platforms, the PS2 is winning, not the Wii
Sorry to break it to you, the PS2 has more units installed and has more games than the Wii. The XBox is NOT an actively sold console, the Gamecube is retired, so you've got the PS2, PS3, 360 and Wii competing right now. The Wii having arrived within the last year is about as relevant as the 360 being two years old now.
Students who allegedly "pirate" RIAA protected material are clearly not in compliance with our campus computing policy.
Students who allegedly do something have only allegedly done it, they are not clearly in non-compliance with anything as a result. Only if they were convicted would they be non-compliant, or does your computing policy include being "accused" of doing something wrong (which would be absolutely impossible to maintain the first time Joe Student accuses every other student of pirating his music).
I've had excellent results myself with submitting unknown suspicious files to McAfee. Sure, their software isn't what it used to be, but they've been very fast at getting back to me with virus definition "extra.dat" files to detect the virus/trojan in the field.
Except that the article text version will work in all the recent browsers, not just unnamed versions of the future, whereas
text will cause problems in older browsers.
You do realize Copyright violation is illegal. Its not just a civil issue, its a criminal one. You can be charged by the police whether or not there are damages.
The GPL isn't signed off on -- if you don't use it, you've broken Copyright law by distributing the software. You have no right to DOS Box, nor does ID software unless they abide by the GPL. They don't forfeit any rights -- they had none to begin with, that's the whole point of the GPL.
Now will anyone sue them for it? That's the key. In this case if ID Software says "oops" and corrects the mistake, I seriously doubt the Copyright holder will get very upset with them, but the GP is right in that you have no rights to GPL software unless you abide the GPL at all times.
He was only as condescending as your mechanic would be when you told him your car is too hard to drive because you couldn't find the spark plugs.
You don't need to know how to install an OS very often as a user, you need to use the OS. If you want condescending, go talk to a Windows technician, they've already lost all their kindness toward users by this point.
Here's an idea, download a Live CD of Ubuntu or something else and just run it on your PC -- no installation required. If you want to install it, find a Linux geek to do that part for you. Have fun, you might even like it.
... because of course, its the knock that made him kill himself. Of course not, its the lead-up to it, its the combination of things.
If you got accused of being a child molestor and actually thought through the social consequences of it, I dare you to believe you'd want to continue living. I'm not (nor are you) the man's shrink, I'm just saying the OP had a point.
Also note, it is not illegal to have sexual conversations with a minor in all places, nor should it be. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to explain to kids how condoms are used, nor any other valid sexual health discourse.
Don't give me the "that's different" garbage either, because although it is, to you and I perhaps, its not to the law. The law needs to be clear in what is and is not illegal, and making sexual conversations illegal would be stupid for the reasons above -- sexual invitations are different, luring is different, etc. Many places simply leave it at strange laws like sexual interference which is left up to judges and juries to interpret.
Sex laws in some countries (or states) are pretty convoluted in fact.
PS, I'm in Canada, so its a whole world different here too.
Here's a bigger news flash: a lack of exploited vulnerabilities is not the same thing as having better security.
For example: the fact that nobody has ever put a sniper bullet through a sheet of plastic wrap in the battlefield does not mean you should wrap your soldiers in it.
OS X may or may not be more secure than other systems, but that should be on the basis of something tangible, like good design, or security audits and not based on a lack of interest in attacking it.
Nobody ever proved he was a pervert, nobody witnessed him committing a crime, and arguably someone else's actions caused him harm. Sounds like you need your brain wiring fixed.
Just because someone can be almost entrapped (he didn't show up) doesn't mean they're a criminal, that's why entrapment's illegal in the first place. Take a psychology course, then one in ethics and come back to the argument with your neurons working at full speed.
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Every DVD player I've seen in the last 5 years has a dynamic range compressor built right in, as well it should be. I listen to my movies with full dynamic range and have the volume adjusted so dialogue is audible at low volumes and explosions are as earth-shattering as they ought to be. My wife on the other hand watches movies with the compression on full so that nothing gets too loud for her at any point.
'Night mode' on my Yamaha receiver also adds a large amount of compression, making quiet sounds much louder and loud parts much quieter and removes almost all deep bass entirely.
Just to ruin your assumptions, some of the best audio recording I've heard lately is from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Grab his latest recording in DTS or SACD and enjoy quite good quality dynamic range and very interesting use of multi-channel audio too.
You can't generate information that does not exist.
Sure you can make quiet parts even quieter and loud parts even louder, but the compression of dynamic range is an easy task where the expansion of it can completely ruin the music. Dynamic range compression on DVD players is normal, and should be on MP3 players as well for the sake of people who want to listen to their music that way, but the studios shouldn't be compressing the range on the storage device -- it should be done (and is easily handled) by the playing device.
Unless Microsoft is stupid, the HD-DVD drive will never be used for loading games. Games may be able to optionally load additional data via the drive (although I doubt that any would), but requiring a peripheral not 100% of the market has is a surefire way to end up annoying customers in the end. Just look at how (un)popular the hard drive was on the PS2 for games. Sure, it existed, but it wasn't standard, and something less than a tenth of a percent of games used it?
Because major corporations have no chance at ruining peoples' lives the way engineers do? Ask yourself why professional engineers are held to such a standard in society, then ask yourself what effect other private corporations can have on peoples' lives.
Large corporate decision makers should not be immune from blame for their mistakes -- with great power and all that.
I'm sure there are people who install 3rd party URL handlers as willy nilly as they install free screensavers and weather applets, but I don't, and neither should they, so again, I don't care.
If on the other hand they're saying there's a URI parsing error in major browsers that is itself exploitable, that's different. Details are important. You could yell "fire" in a crowded theatre because you saw someone light a lighter, and you wouldn't be lying, but you left out a few good details.
How about "Warning, this perfectly functional 1080p display device will not play back some high definition content because the content providers are jerks and won't let you"
He also got rid of the Newton project and all the related engineers went to Palm instead.
I'm sorry, is one good market prediction is enough?
Hardly anyone thinks the Wii is a "next-gen" console. Sony released a new version of the PS2 this generation, does that make it next-gen too? If they change the name, then does it? The Wii is a rebuilt and slightly faster Gamecube with new controllers and games. I have no problem with the Wii's success, I have a problem with it being called a next-gen console -- its not.
Its interesting if you go back to a parts break-down of the PS3 and see that the BD components only add about $20 to the cost of making a PS3 IIRC. I'd like to see a comparison break-down on the 360's components and then work out how much Microsoft is losing on every console sold. Yay, so Sony loses money on initial consoles, they did with the PS2 too. But Microsoft lost money on EVERY Xbox ever sold, EVER. Microsoft could be selling you that "cheaper" 360 and losing more money per unit than Sony is. We can't know, because they won't tell you.
PS, Microsoft themselves admitted their one fear this generation was in Sony's hardware capabilities -- that is their ability to continually refine the manufacturing of their consoles to turn a profit. Look at how many PS2 generations Sony built.
Sorry for the wild speculation here, but are you an armchair game developer, or have you ACTUALLY used the PS3's SDKs? Last I heard from industry sources, the PS3 dev kits come with amazing APIs, its just that Microsoft's dev environment is more familiar to Windows game developers. Sony also promised to work on these issues, I'm not denying them, but what's your source exactly? Or are you just repeating FUD you read somewhere else?
I rent.
... yeah, the enemy AI was kinda cool, but oh well, I didn't care much after chapter 4 of the same old same old.
I rented F.E.A.R. after hearing all the "you have to play this game" hype. I played it. I was bored half way through. I looked up a walk-through to read the rest of the plot without dragging my fingers through the game. I read the reviews
When I go to Blockbuster and rent Blu-Ray movies they stop me at the desk and confirm that I have a Blu-Ray disc player every time (please add it to my customer profile). The one person I told I had a PS3 then replied "but you need a Blu-Ray disc player" which precipitated my explaining that the PS3 in fact included one.
I'm not surprised by the findings at all from my experience. Sony needs a better marketing campaign, not a new price tag (although I'm all for cheaper).
A) The Wii is not a next-gen gaming platform by most respects
B) If you're going to include non-HD platforms, the PS2 is winning, not the Wii
Sorry to break it to you, the PS2 has more units installed and has more games than the Wii. The XBox is NOT an actively sold console, the Gamecube is retired, so you've got the PS2, PS3, 360 and Wii competing right now. The Wii having arrived within the last year is about as relevant as the 360 being two years old now.
Students who allegedly do something have only allegedly done it, they are not clearly in non-compliance with anything as a result. Only if they were convicted would they be non-compliant, or does your computing policy include being "accused" of doing something wrong (which would be absolutely impossible to maintain the first time Joe Student accuses every other student of pirating his music).
I've had excellent results myself with submitting unknown suspicious files to McAfee. Sure, their software isn't what it used to be, but they've been very fast at getting back to me with virus definition "extra.dat" files to detect the virus/trojan in the field.
Except that the article text version will work in all the recent browsers, not just unnamed versions of the future, whereas text will cause problems in older browsers.
You do realize Copyright violation is illegal. Its not just a civil issue, its a criminal one. You can be charged by the police whether or not there are damages.
The GPL isn't signed off on -- if you don't use it, you've broken Copyright law by distributing the software. You have no right to DOS Box, nor does ID software unless they abide by the GPL. They don't forfeit any rights -- they had none to begin with, that's the whole point of the GPL.
Now will anyone sue them for it? That's the key. In this case if ID Software says "oops" and corrects the mistake, I seriously doubt the Copyright holder will get very upset with them, but the GP is right in that you have no rights to GPL software unless you abide the GPL at all times.
He was only as condescending as your mechanic would be when you told him your car is too hard to drive because you couldn't find the spark plugs.
You don't need to know how to install an OS very often as a user, you need to use the OS. If you want condescending, go talk to a Windows technician, they've already lost all their kindness toward users by this point.
Here's an idea, download a Live CD of Ubuntu or something else and just run it on your PC -- no installation required. If you want to install it, find a Linux geek to do that part for you. Have fun, you might even like it.
How about you go read "Les Miserables" (or watch the play / movie, but the book is better). Just a thought.
PS, if you think France in the era of the book is bad, look around at current US laws.
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... because of course, its the knock that made him kill himself. Of course not, its the lead-up to it, its the combination of things.
If you got accused of being a child molestor and actually thought through the social consequences of it, I dare you to believe you'd want to continue living. I'm not (nor are you) the man's shrink, I'm just saying the OP had a point.
Also note, it is not illegal to have sexual conversations with a minor in all places, nor should it be. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to explain to kids how condoms are used, nor any other valid sexual health discourse.
Don't give me the "that's different" garbage either, because although it is, to you and I perhaps, its not to the law. The law needs to be clear in what is and is not illegal, and making sexual conversations illegal would be stupid for the reasons above -- sexual invitations are different, luring is different, etc. Many places simply leave it at strange laws like sexual interference which is left up to judges and juries to interpret.
Sex laws in some countries (or states) are pretty convoluted in fact.
PS, I'm in Canada, so its a whole world different here too.
Here's a bigger news flash: a lack of exploited vulnerabilities is not the same thing as having better security.
For example: the fact that nobody has ever put a sniper bullet through a sheet of plastic wrap in the battlefield does not mean you should wrap your soldiers in it.
OS X may or may not be more secure than other systems, but that should be on the basis of something tangible, like good design, or security audits and not based on a lack of interest in attacking it.
Nobody ever proved he was a pervert, nobody witnessed him committing a crime, and arguably someone else's actions caused him harm. Sounds like you need your brain wiring fixed.
Just because someone can be almost entrapped (he didn't show up) doesn't mean they're a criminal, that's why entrapment's illegal in the first place. Take a psychology course, then one in ethics and come back to the argument with your neurons working at full speed.