Nope, these players fail to play *new features* on new discs. The original movie format should work just fine, but things like Picture-in-Picture and the persistent storage thing doesn't. This only means that some extras are unavailable. Thus, his player does what he paid for, but doesn't do what someone with a newer player paid for.
In the end, we'll probably see Sony screw it up in another way to make his older player break completely, but that's a different story. BD+ will probably be on the receiving end of a lot of curses...
When i was in Colorado a few years ago, a very enthusiastic cell phones salesman tried to sell me "the brand new Sony Ericsson Z600!", which i'd had for well over a year from my danish provider. He looked at my colleague funny when he pulled out a brand new European Nokia that he hadn't even heard of yet.
Oh, and our phones aren't artificially limited from tethering, using bluetooth or any other such BS. They all come with the stock software and all features enabled.
He's not talking about mainframes or even computers. He's talking about tabulating machines that sort punch cards (containing information about all german citizens) according to a hardwired "programming". These machines were apparently sold through IBM Germany, even after trading with them stopped.
Whether or not it's true or IBM was being evil in this case is decision i'll leave to you.
No, there's also the option that many joe sixpack users take: Leave it the way it is until it gets bad enough, then throw it away and buy a new one with a clean XP preinstalled.
Fortunately, almost everything ignores the problem of protecting hi-def audio and still sends out the clear signal on SPDIF. The only thing that does anything is Vista, AFAIK.
Close. HDMI is DVI with sound (basically good old SPDIF). DVI supports HDCP (on some devices) and HDCP isn't a requirement on HDMI.
The problem is that some things require HDCP on high quality video signals, thus needing HDCP-enabled DVI or HDMI devices. The same goes for high quality sound, but since there's no protection on SPDIF, you're just out of luck. I believe that Vista will destroy your sound quality if DRM-infested media is played with an SPDIF output.
Ours are in a separate building out back, underground, with good cooling and ventilation. The tank itself is in a separate room, also vented. We're in a commercial area on the outskirts of a major city. The building has argonite fire suppression.
The building is placed fairly high, so flooding is not very likely.
The only problem with diesel is that it goes bad after a while. We provide emergency power with three V12 diesel engines (providing roughly 300 kW at full capacity), but only keep about four days worth of diesel in the tank so we don't have to replace as much when it degrades. We do have special agreements with the gas companies, being a vital infrastructure site, though.
IANAS (scientist), but i believe it is microbial growth in the fuel that ruins it.
I know that it's not a blizzivision product and i agree that supernazis (Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Supernazi!) work very well in Wolf3D. However, MOH:A is just a stunningly beautiful and realisticly feeling WW2 shooter, and the mood is completely ruined by them.
You mean like the stupid "supernazis" in Medal of Honor: Airborne? After clearing the bridge of gas mask wearing, rocket launcher wielding "tanks", i quit the game and haven't played it since.
Heheh. Let's see you pedal 50 lbs of groceries ten miles, drop Grandma off at the doctor, and run by the bank to deposit a check to cover the mortgage, all in an hour. Then we'll talk about skateboards replacing motorized transport. http://www.christianiabikes.com/english/uk_main.htm - done, it even comes in a handicap accessible version:)
Now if only they'd all worked together and stuck with one serial standard instead of two very slightly different ones so we wouldn't have cheap SATA (that won't work with the good drives) and expensive SATA+SAS controllers...
I want a couple of SAS (well, faster 10k) drives for my OS and SATA (well, slower, high capacity)drives for my bulk data, using one of the cheapish controllers...
The whole distinction between SATA and SAS is silly anyway, since the interface makes little difference. We had the possibility of getting rid of that stupid "SCSI drives are better than IDE" notion once and for all, making way for interchangable drives of varying prices, qualities and speeds, all using the same interface, but someone blew it... again. SATA just shouldn't exist, really.
Please, storage vendors, kill SATA. Quickly, before it's too late.
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They're not killing the engine, just the drivers ability to control the throttle. Basically, they're just cutting the accelerator pedal wire.
Because, unfortunately, the newest software is written for the newest versions of Windows. And, as much as I would love to never touch Windows Vista, I know that, eventually, some piece of software I need to run for work will only run on Windows Vista. With the rate of adoption by businesses we're seeing now, that'll hopefully be a while. DirectX 10 games is probably the first thing that people will notice.
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Nope, these players fail to play *new features* on new discs. The original movie format should work just fine, but things like Picture-in-Picture and the persistent storage thing doesn't. This only means that some extras are unavailable. Thus, his player does what he paid for, but doesn't do what someone with a newer player paid for.
In the end, we'll probably see Sony screw it up in another way to make his older player break completely, but that's a different story. BD+ will probably be on the receiving end of a lot of curses...
In that case, the important one to skip was WinME. 2000 was certainly an upgrade from 98.
When i was in Colorado a few years ago, a very enthusiastic cell phones salesman tried to sell me "the brand new Sony Ericsson Z600!", which i'd had for well over a year from my danish provider. He looked at my colleague funny when he pulled out a brand new European Nokia that he hadn't even heard of yet.
Oh, and our phones aren't artificially limited from tethering, using bluetooth or any other such BS. They all come with the stock software and all features enabled.
He's not talking about mainframes or even computers. He's talking about tabulating machines that sort punch cards (containing information about all german citizens) according to a hardwired "programming". These machines were apparently sold through IBM Germany, even after trading with them stopped.
Whether or not it's true or IBM was being evil in this case is decision i'll leave to you.
No, there's also the option that many joe sixpack users take: Leave it the way it is until it gets bad enough, then throw it away and buy a new one with a clean XP preinstalled.
There are actually two FreeBSD-releases within a few weeks. Both 6.3 and 7.0 are due out "any day now".
Yum, ZFS!
In principle, this is how stupidly it works, yes.
Fortunately, almost everything ignores the problem of protecting hi-def audio and still sends out the clear signal on SPDIF. The only thing that does anything is Vista, AFAIK.
Close. HDMI is DVI with sound (basically good old SPDIF). DVI supports HDCP (on some devices) and HDCP isn't a requirement on HDMI.
The problem is that some things require HDCP on high quality video signals, thus needing HDCP-enabled DVI or HDMI devices. The same goes for high quality sound, but since there's no protection on SPDIF, you're just out of luck. I believe that Vista will destroy your sound quality if DRM-infested media is played with an SPDIF output.
I sensed a disturbance in the force.
Ours are in a separate building out back, underground, with good cooling and ventilation. The tank itself is in a separate room, also vented. We're in a commercial area on the outskirts of a major city. The building has argonite fire suppression.
The building is placed fairly high, so flooding is not very likely.
The only problem with diesel is that it goes bad after a while. We provide emergency power with three V12 diesel engines (providing roughly 300 kW at full capacity), but only keep about four days worth of diesel in the tank so we don't have to replace as much when it degrades. We do have special agreements with the gas companies, being a vital infrastructure site, though.
IANAS (scientist), but i believe it is microbial growth in the fuel that ruins it.
I know that it's not a blizzivision product and i agree that supernazis (Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Supernazi!) work very well in Wolf3D. However, MOH:A is just a stunningly beautiful and realisticly feeling WW2 shooter, and the mood is completely ruined by them.
You mean like the stupid "supernazis" in Medal of Honor: Airborne? After clearing the bridge of gas mask wearing, rocket launcher wielding "tanks", i quit the game and haven't played it since.
To be honest, i'd rather have a ride on Seven of Nine...
SCO used to produce fairly useful products too... :)
The original iPhones were glued together with the tears of fanboys who couldn't wait to get an iPhone.
SAS for the win.
Now if only they'd all worked together and stuck with one serial standard instead of two very slightly different ones so we wouldn't have cheap SATA (that won't work with the good drives) and expensive SATA+SAS controllers...
I want a couple of SAS (well, faster 10k) drives for my OS and SATA (well, slower, high capacity)drives for my bulk data, using one of the cheapish controllers...
The whole distinction between SATA and SAS is silly anyway, since the interface makes little difference. We had the possibility of getting rid of that stupid "SCSI drives are better than IDE" notion once and for all, making way for interchangable drives of varying prices, qualities and speeds, all using the same interface, but someone blew it... again. SATA just shouldn't exist, really.
Please, storage vendors, kill SATA. Quickly, before it's too late.
They're not killing the engine, just the drivers ability to control the throttle. Basically, they're just cutting the accelerator pedal wire.
How much would you bid for a 4-digit ID if i put it up on ebay? :)
That's Alotta Fagina!
Yeah baby, yeah!
Well, at least one danish bank allows you to put any image on your credit card. One guy put the Goatse Halloween pumpkin on his.
Jyske Bank (Bank of Jutland) is one place that offers this service, at $10 per card.