I'm not much of a movie buff, but I rent a few once in a while. I have a 6.1 setup, and the only movie I've seen in 6.1 was Saw. For me, the selling point is actually with music. Stereo CDs sound a lot better (to me) with that extra rear channel. With a 5.1 source, the rear center just mixes the two surrounds, so there's not a whole lot of difference.
Pedants? If I stabbed you in the eye, should I be charged with jaywalking? Or am I misunderstanding your little dig? Copyright infringement and theft are not the same. They never have been. They never will be.
That's a good one. I started forgetting planet order right about the time I lost the name of every dinosaur. Funny how the mind works.
I still remember a great one from when the USSR blew up. I think it was a contest in Games magazine or something. Anyway, it goes Gorbachev's khaki underwear always tends to ride up at long lines exiting boring Kremlin meetings. Compare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Sovi et_Union. Amaze your friends! Fool your enemies!
Try shelling out for a decent folding knife. Scissors are pretty useless, as you describe, and razor blades are often too thin, but a sharp knife with a good blade will go right through just about any plastic packaging.
Something like this is nice because you can find 'em on sale and they're good enough to do the job.
I know I'll be mocked mercilessly for this around here, but the Wii is actually the first console I'll be buying EVER. If only it had Burnout... *sigh*
And you can see by the idiotic punctuation style what side the writer's on. Just because people use "would of" all the time doesn't make it correct. It just makes you look like a retard.
I'd hesitate to use Wikipedia as any sort of language guide.
Each of those hashes are (supposed to be) a completely different disc, and in the case of all these different hashes, I suspect that they're from people who got a copy "ripped" from their friend, except instead of an actual copy, the guy tooks some mp3s from kazaa and burnt a cd from them. Recipient discovered that freedb didn't have an entry for this bogus disc and made one.
Sure, sometimes. That's not always the case though. Different pressings of the same album often have different track splits, which will (obviously) give you different hashes.
Personally, I've been wishing for a long time for cddb/freedb to just die already so we can re-standardize on a system that doesn't use a collision-prone hash
How do you propose that be done? The only standard readable info on a CD is track length and splits. If two different albums have the same length/splits, they'll give you basically the same hash. What's the magic bullet? Audio fingerprinting?
with absolutely no way to deal with collisions
Huh? Like the little pop-up box that tells you the albums it matched, so you can pick the right one?
TV and movies are not like music, where the artists make most of their money outside of sales of the music (e.g., bands make their money from their concerts).
Hmm. I don't know what dreamworld you live in, but a successful tour is one where you break even. The money comes from merchandise - shirts and music sales, not from tickets. The whole financial point of a tour is to get your name out there so people buy more product.
Microsoft has never shown themselves to be worried about breaking backward compatibility.
I don't agree with that at all. There's nothing a developer would like more than to be able to completely ignore backwards compatibility, and there are few things more important to people. Microsoft would LOVE to just break everything and start fresh, but there's no way anybody would upgrade if none of their programs ran on the new OS. Whether or not they're successful is a completely different issue.:-) I guarantee they spend a tremendous amount of time on it though.
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5.1 source, like on a DVD -> 6.1 system, with a rear center.
I'm not much of a movie buff, but I rent a few once in a while. I have a 6.1 setup, and the only movie I've seen in 6.1 was Saw. For me, the selling point is actually with music. Stereo CDs sound a lot better (to me) with that extra rear channel. With a 5.1 source, the rear center just mixes the two surrounds, so there's not a whole lot of difference.
Pedants? If I stabbed you in the eye, should I be charged with jaywalking? Or am I misunderstanding your little dig? Copyright infringement and theft are not the same. They never have been. They never will be.
That's a good one. I started forgetting planet order right about the time I lost the name of every dinosaur. Funny how the mind works.
i et_Union. Amaze your friends! Fool your enemies!
I still remember a great one from when the USSR blew up. I think it was a contest in Games magazine or something. Anyway, it goes Gorbachev's khaki underwear always tends to ride up at long lines exiting boring Kremlin meetings. Compare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Sov
That they sent a credit agency after him for the money?
"Honey, I'm sooo sorry. I forgot our annivers-"
"I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck!"
Try shelling out for a decent folding knife. Scissors are pretty useless, as you describe, and razor blades are often too thin, but a sharp knife with a good blade will go right through just about any plastic packaging. Something like this is nice because you can find 'em on sale and they're good enough to do the job.
No kidding. He was elected YEARS ago!
I know I'll be mocked mercilessly for this around here, but the Wii is actually the first console I'll be buying EVER. If only it had Burnout... *sigh*
Profit?
And you can see by the idiotic punctuation style what side the writer's on. Just because people use "would of" all the time doesn't make it correct. It just makes you look like a retard.
I'd hesitate to use Wikipedia as any sort of language guide.
Chris Rock is your mom?!
*snort*
What do you think the US reaction would be if NK asked if they could do an ICBM test?
India and Pakistan having nukes is a fuck of a lot scarier to me than Korea having them.
A Sadist and a Masochist are making love.
The Masochist moans, "Hurt me!"
The Sadist replies, "No."
Like what Creative's been putting out for years now?
(proud owner of a 120G Xtra, and three extra batteries)
I just got this image in my head of the Popemobile cruising around and Benedict standing there with a leaky garden hose.
At a gas station! Duh!
Each of those hashes are (supposed to be) a completely different disc, and in the case of all these different hashes, I suspect that they're from people who got a copy "ripped" from their friend, except instead of an actual copy, the guy tooks some mp3s from kazaa and burnt a cd from them. Recipient discovered that freedb didn't have an entry for this bogus disc and made one.
Sure, sometimes. That's not always the case though. Different pressings of the same album often have different track splits, which will (obviously) give you different hashes.
Personally, I've been wishing for a long time for cddb/freedb to just die already so we can re-standardize on a system that doesn't use a collision-prone hash
How do you propose that be done? The only standard readable info on a CD is track length and splits. If two different albums have the same length/splits, they'll give you basically the same hash. What's the magic bullet? Audio fingerprinting?
with absolutely no way to deal with collisions
Huh? Like the little pop-up box that tells you the albums it matched, so you can pick the right one?
Yeah, but the book was pretty good: Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Novel. Classic stuff!
Zenny coins.
Didn't you hear? It's over. KDE won. :-P
Lots of companies do that. Speakeasy did the same thing to me, and people rave about them.
TV and movies are not like music, where the artists make most of their money outside of sales of the music (e.g., bands make their money from their concerts).
Hmm. I don't know what dreamworld you live in, but a successful tour is one where you break even. The money comes from merchandise - shirts and music sales, not from tickets. The whole financial point of a tour is to get your name out there so people buy more product.
That's no dog! That's my wife!
Microsoft has never shown themselves to be worried about breaking backward compatibility.
:-) I guarantee they spend a tremendous amount of time on it though.
I don't agree with that at all. There's nothing a developer would like more than to be able to completely ignore backwards compatibility, and there are few things more important to people. Microsoft would LOVE to just break everything and start fresh, but there's no way anybody would upgrade if none of their programs ran on the new OS. Whether or not they're successful is a completely different issue.