The format owners should really pay those who crack their security for the improvement it represents, for making their formats much more accessible for everyone.
Improved like Bart's shortcut through Groundskeeper Willie's hedge maze.
So, how many times its own atomic weight can one of these things carry? Basically, how heavy of a load can it take without breaking the chemical bonds in the molecule's legs? And can you spread the load across several of them?
If you sprayed a bunch of them on the underside of a paperweight (in a way that assured uniform orientation), could it then walk off by itself?
I don't understand why, when you're trying to understand asteroid collisions with the Earth, you don't perform asteroid collisions with other planets?
Shoemaker-Levy-9, meet Jupiter.
Oh right, that was a comet and a gas giant, not an asteroid and an iron core rock-and-water ball.
Come to think of it, why not set up durable monitoring posts around Jupiter's moons? That should be a more impact-rich scenario. Save money by recording natural impact phenomena.
There's also the point that those running Tiger on Intel got it by getting it for free with the computer. Leopard will be the first unbundled version of Mac OS X that can run on Apple's Intel hardware. (I'll leave that for someone else to make a point with.)
I'm more concerned whether Leopard will run on G3 and G4 hardware and whether it will be a single universal package or separate Intel and PPC packages. It impacts my upgrade decision on whether I will/can buy a multi-seat license. I just know that I will be upgrading my Mac Pro to Leopard and Boot Camp won't run on the PPC platforms whether they're Tiger or Leopard.
The only way this could impact me is if the Boot Camp beta expires before I can upgrade to Leopard, locking me out of my XP installation. I wouldn't want Apple to become a gatekeeper over whether or not I can exercise my Windows license.
Another thing to keep in mind was that Apple didn't even release Boot Camp into beta until after others came up with their own solution. Making Boot Camp free pretty muck killed off interest in their version. (Has it seen any further development?)
Apple is now in the position of having eliminated its competition with a long-time free beta and about to charge for their release version. Not that competition may come forward now, but there's the development time lost and those who were motivated earlier having moved on.
What if Apple did this with X11? What if Microsoft did it with Internet Explorer, charging users of 2000 for what XP gets for free, or charging XP users for DirectX 10 that Vista gets for free?
Again, it doesn't matter much to me, apart from that beta expiry thing. (I haven't been using that XP installation that regularly; I'd planned to do some LAN gaming against my other PC until my Macs' 21" Studio Display died. Nothing critically work-related.) But if it was something that did matter to me, yeah, I'd probably be a bit upset.
I tried activating Javascript for the site temporarily and got no redirect to the front page. There is a script to redirect to the framed page if you try to access it unframed, but that's all I can see. There is some content for which I don't have the plug-in, so perhaps the redirect is being performed through one of them.
Maybe they thought there might be people with guns inside who were willing to use them. I have no idea where they could have gotten that idea, but that's usually why you have a SWAT raid rather than a polite knock and serving of a warrant.
Funny, last I knew Both BluRay and HDDVD refused to play unencrypted and authenticated discs. My content will not play on any unless I pay to get it blessed with my own encryption key.
I was curious about this, so I did some research on the Blu-Ray side and found this posting at Roxio Community:
SS Scott Dec 11 2006, 03:22 PM
Your assessment is correct. BDMV = True Blu authoring. BDAV = HD video on a disc.
Also, I am not an expert in BDAV, but my understanding is the the maximum bit rate is 15mbs as opposed to 40mbs for BDMV. So while you might be able to do justice to 720p in BDAV, 1080p which really should have an MPEG-2 bitrate of at least 24mbs would be a stretch.
I can't comment on the HDV. I don't think that works in BDMV.
Something else to be aware of. Different settops have differing levels of support at this time. Panasonic and 1st gen Samsung player support BDMV on BD-R. First gen Samsung's don't support BDAV, firmware updated Samsung's don't support BDMV on BD-R. You'll have to check the status of other machines support.
Of course this will all even out over time, but in these early days, the status is not too different from that of DVD ten years ago when there was spotty support for DVD-R.
This to me suggests that one can master Blu-Ray BDMV movies without encryption keys, but that some players refuse to play them, and perhaps being revised to disallow them. However, you may need Sony's Blu-Print software to do it which is $50,000 per license or free for a 30-day trial.
They should allow BDAV, a lesser standard, to be played for your home movies (not for commercial distribution). BDAV sounds insufficient to reproduce a commercial Blu-Ray (BDMV) disk.
Also, like DVD-Rs used to be, blanks cost more than commercial DVDs.
The big difference between surgeons and electricians on one side, and entertainment and button-makers on the other side, is that even minute faults in the former's practices can lead directly to loss of life and property, while no such fatal consequences are possible for entertainers or button-makers.
Maybe not fatal, but a single wardrobe malfunction could irrevocably damage the minds of the children! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
You say that now, but when there's a rash of punks smashing down walls, don't think they'll start banning the sale of games glorifying property destruction like Tetris!
"Just last year, my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory, of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?" -- Henry Van Statten, Doctor Who "Dalek"
What about Jeffries Tubes for maintaining the theater's wiring? Only composite, component, and stereo RCA connections for game console hookups? Where are the S-Video, Firewire, VGA, DVI, HDMI, TOSlink, S/PDIF, and Laser-7 ports?
Reminds me of the last episodes of ST:TNG. I'd considered the anomaly as effectively breaking the whole timeline into an infinite number of alternate timelines nearly parallel to each other but actually intersecting inside the anomaly.
Something, like I don't know, the aliens being allergic to water so they come to a planet with a shit load of water to do their shit. That or it would just suck out right.
I've seen worse: Earth-invading aliens that can be killed by light.
Movies based on a TV show based on a movie. What'll they think of next?
Video games based on movies based on a TV show based on a movie.
I was about to suggest it had already been done, but according to IMDb, the The Dukes of Hazzard games predate the 2005 movie, and the most recent game used voice talent from the series. (The series was adapted from the movie Moonrunners.)
Is that the King Kong that's bundled with the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive (which, when I wanted to put it in Delicious Library, I noticed has no bar code) or the one that is sold separately? Or are they actually the same?
Thing is, most of these I either already own on DVD, aren't interested in acquiring, or are already on their way to me on DVD. But being able to copy them actually makes me want to buy them. (At least then it would mean I could play them on my Mac.)
Thing is, being able to copy DVDs is the reason I started buying DVDs. I don't make copies, but I feel better knowing I can. (Except I have at least one player that won't play my DVD-Rs. Sony, of course. Digitized wedding video.)
I now have over 700 commercially bought titles in my collection, excluding repeats due to mistakes and special editions. Most are complete TV seasons. Many titles in my DVD collection replace VHS tapes I'd recorded off broadcast TV and HBO, and some are PAL due to no availability in the US (some are Region 2, some are Region 0).
There are very few among them I'd consider repurchasing in HD, but the ability to copy them, even if not exercised, makes me more likely to buy.
(If they stop making DVDs, I doubt I'll ever get some of the movies I want. Some are just too bad, obscure, or both to warrant an HD transfer: Moontrap, Prime Risk, Deadly Friend, The Squeeze, Terminal Entry... your typical 1980's HBO-filler fare.)
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The format owners should really pay those who crack their security for the improvement it represents, for making their formats much more accessible for everyone.
Improved like Bart's shortcut through Groundskeeper Willie's hedge maze.
So, how many times its own atomic weight can one of these things carry? Basically, how heavy of a load can it take without breaking the chemical bonds in the molecule's legs? And can you spread the load across several of them?
If you sprayed a bunch of them on the underside of a paperweight (in a way that assured uniform orientation), could it then walk off by itself?
What is their horsepower equivalent?
I don't understand why, when you're trying to understand asteroid collisions with the Earth, you don't perform asteroid collisions with other planets?
Shoemaker-Levy-9, meet Jupiter.
Oh right, that was a comet and a gas giant, not an asteroid and an iron core rock-and-water ball.
Come to think of it, why not set up durable monitoring posts around Jupiter's moons? That should be a more impact-rich scenario. Save money by recording natural impact phenomena.
I hope they asplode before they turn against us.
There are many copies. And they have a plan.
Personally, I'd have included the "L" in "Overlords" in that acronym.
There's also the point that those running Tiger on Intel got it by getting it for free with the computer. Leopard will be the first unbundled version of Mac OS X that can run on Apple's Intel hardware. (I'll leave that for someone else to make a point with.)
I'm more concerned whether Leopard will run on G3 and G4 hardware and whether it will be a single universal package or separate Intel and PPC packages. It impacts my upgrade decision on whether I will/can buy a multi-seat license. I just know that I will be upgrading my Mac Pro to Leopard and Boot Camp won't run on the PPC platforms whether they're Tiger or Leopard.
The only way this could impact me is if the Boot Camp beta expires before I can upgrade to Leopard, locking me out of my XP installation. I wouldn't want Apple to become a gatekeeper over whether or not I can exercise my Windows license.
Another thing to keep in mind was that Apple didn't even release Boot Camp into beta until after others came up with their own solution. Making Boot Camp free pretty muck killed off interest in their version. (Has it seen any further development?)
Apple is now in the position of having eliminated its competition with a long-time free beta and about to charge for their release version. Not that competition may come forward now, but there's the development time lost and those who were motivated earlier having moved on.
What if Apple did this with X11? What if Microsoft did it with Internet Explorer, charging users of 2000 for what XP gets for free, or charging XP users for DirectX 10 that Vista gets for free?
Again, it doesn't matter much to me, apart from that beta expiry thing. (I haven't been using that XP installation that regularly; I'd planned to do some LAN gaming against my other PC until my Macs' 21" Studio Display died. Nothing critically work-related.) But if it was something that did matter to me, yeah, I'd probably be a bit upset.
250 microns? That's a huge amount of space for the nanobot to work in! You can't even get readings that far away on DRADIS.
Oh wait, this is not in Caprican units? Nevermind.
I tried activating Javascript for the site temporarily and got no redirect to the front page. There is a script to redirect to the framed page if you try to access it unframed, but that's all I can see. There is some content for which I don't have the plug-in, so perhaps the redirect is being performed through one of them.
Maybe they thought there might be people with guns inside who were willing to use them. I have no idea where they could have gotten that idea, but that's usually why you have a SWAT raid rather than a polite knock and serving of a warrant.
I was curious about this, so I did some research on the Blu-Ray side and found this posting at Roxio Community:
This to me suggests that one can master Blu-Ray BDMV movies without encryption keys, but that some players refuse to play them, and perhaps being revised to disallow them. However, you may need Sony's Blu-Print software to do it which is $50,000 per license or free for a 30-day trial.
They should allow BDAV, a lesser standard, to be played for your home movies (not for commercial distribution). BDAV sounds insufficient to reproduce a commercial Blu-Ray (BDMV) disk.
Also, like DVD-Rs used to be, blanks cost more than commercial DVDs.
The big difference between surgeons and electricians on one side, and entertainment and button-makers on the other side, is that even minute faults in the former's practices can lead directly to loss of life and property, while no such fatal consequences are possible for entertainers or button-makers.
Maybe not fatal, but a single wardrobe malfunction could irrevocably damage the minds of the children! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
How is the parent Redundant? No one else posted that FFVII was a turn-based RPG or referenced RPG Radiculopathy before it did.
This, just days after two Final Fantasy VII fans were arrested in connection with a series of killings.
They're calling Final Fantasy VII "Killerspiele" ("killer game") because two killers used aliases from the game.
They think the game inspired them to kill. How? Did they take turns?
Did someone translate the X-Play skit for "RPG Radiculopathy" into German and leave out the humor?
You say that now, but when there's a rash of punks smashing down walls, don't think they'll start banning the sale of games glorifying property destruction like Tetris!
Indeed, someone who persuades voters should be called a campaigner.
"Just last year, my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory, of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?" -- Henry Van Statten, Doctor Who "Dalek"
Let me know when someone designs a home theater based on the bridge of Blakes 7's DSV-2 (The Liberator).
What about Jeffries Tubes for maintaining the theater's wiring? Only composite, component, and stereo RCA connections for game console hookups? Where are the S-Video, Firewire, VGA, DVI, HDMI, TOSlink, S/PDIF, and Laser-7 ports?
Anyone show up in^H^H out of their Betazoid costumes at that wedding?
Reminds me of the last episodes of ST:TNG. I'd considered the anomaly as effectively breaking the whole timeline into an infinite number of alternate timelines nearly parallel to each other but actually intersecting inside the anomaly.
Something, like I don't know, the aliens being allergic to water so they come to a planet with a shit load of water to do their shit. That or it would just suck out right.
I've seen worse: Earth-invading aliens that can be killed by light.
I was about to suggest it had already been done, but according to IMDb, the The Dukes of Hazzard games predate the 2005 movie, and the most recent game used voice talent from the series. (The series was adapted from the movie Moonrunners
(Ew, they're making a prequel movie.)
Is that the King Kong that's bundled with the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive (which, when I wanted to put it in Delicious Library, I noticed has no bar code) or the one that is sold separately? Or are they actually the same?
Thing is, most of these I either already own on DVD, aren't interested in acquiring, or are already on their way to me on DVD. But being able to copy them actually makes me want to buy them. (At least then it would mean I could play them on my Mac.)
Thing is, being able to copy DVDs is the reason I started buying DVDs. I don't make copies, but I feel better knowing I can. (Except I have at least one player that won't play my DVD-Rs. Sony, of course. Digitized wedding video.)
I now have over 700 commercially bought titles in my collection, excluding repeats due to mistakes and special editions. Most are complete TV seasons. Many titles in my DVD collection replace VHS tapes I'd recorded off broadcast TV and HBO, and some are PAL due to no availability in the US (some are Region 2, some are Region 0).
There are very few among them I'd consider repurchasing in HD, but the ability to copy them, even if not exercised, makes me more likely to buy.
(If they stop making DVDs, I doubt I'll ever get some of the movies I want. Some are just too bad, obscure, or both to warrant an HD transfer: Moontrap, Prime Risk, Deadly Friend, The Squeeze, Terminal Entry... your typical 1980's HBO-filler fare.)
Interest?