What difference will the end user see? likely none. im guessing they both hold about the same as far as movie content(anyone want to bother with the math?). yeah the MPEG-4 has the better compression. not only that its my choice because most MPEG-4 codecs can play information that was encoded with another MPEG-4 codec, and I believe that HD-DVDs will have the same functionality. So finally all that anime I have downloaded can be watched on a TV, not just computer. though im not completly certain on this, and im not sure how formats such as Vorbis are handeled, if at all.
as far as the re-encoding debate, well who really cares? its only a few hours for a desktop, and a cluster can do it a whole lot faster. at lease thats what i have experienced with converting MPEG-2 into an MPEG-4 codec, such as XviD
for computers, storage is a big deal, however does that 54 gig actually equal 54gig? just take a look at CDs, as we all know a 700mb disk can hold 800mb of MPEG-2, ok so the same doesnt hold true for DVDs to my knowledge, but what about blue-ray?
So to put this in perspective it seems to me that this is like a book publisher suing another book publisher cause an author wrote several books that share similar words, with one being published by one company and different book by another publisher. Hey thats computers for you, its thinking like this that leads to the DMCA. Sure it might seem like a good idea, if you have no idea what you are talking about...
Its all the transmission. Automatic transmissions are clumsy, they shift at the wrong times, dont shift at all sometimes, and generally cause you to curse when you try to pass a slower driver because they lack the necessary. Thats not completly true, as they do make them better nowdays. However no automatic transmission can predict whats about to happen on the higher, something you can do. With a manual transmission you can adjust for event before they happen, reducing the wasted fuel from stuggling in a higher higher gear too long, or failing to stay in a higher gear for a moderate hill. Im not saying an automatic transmission cant get good feul effenciency, just that it is easier to get better milage from a manual.
There are of course other factors, ranging from the time of day you get your gas (gas expands when its hot). How much you drive on the highway, nice long stretches of high rpm helps keep many of the parts clean. However I still say nothing can beat a manual transmission -- I won't buy an automatic.
Works for me too. I rarely get calls anymore. Though I am not signed up on the Do not call list. I just say, "I am on the Do not call list, please remove my number as it is against the law to call me." Hey it works just as well.
Im trolling here, but no. Look up the rave act. If you are even near a place where they have reasonable suspicion, or even unreasonable suspicion they can search you and arrest you, whether you commited a crime or not, whether they suspect you have or not.
Many of us know that the constition is basically no longer valid here. My house was searched by the police, when I asked for a warrent, they said they didnt need one. It was true, I could not win the case in court, they didnt need a warrent. look at gun laws. look at drug testing. look at the laws against drugs. the first, second, forth, and fifth admendment hold no weight anymore. im sure the others are just as defunct.
People have been going to Canada to evade the oppression of the United States since before the Civil War. If you recall the underground railroad for black slaves went up to canada, because slaves could legally be tracked down in any state, northern territory or not. The only option for them was Canada. During the draft dodger era, where many Americans were called to fight for a cause that they did not support many fled to canada. And many people flee every day to canada for numerous reasons. Just look up Steve Kuby, a family man with cancer who became a criminal in the US because the government doesnt want him to have his medication. He would be dead now if he did not flee the US. I plan to leave too to be rid of this oppressive country, but im in no rush.
speaking of repair. Anyone who takes their computer to a repair place and forks over $100 just to reformat their computer is definitly below average. trust me, I have known some of these people. They would rather pay someone than let me do it for free cause I might mess something up. Maybe I should go get my A+ ceritfication just so i can point at something to say im not a moron.
anyway, I had a point here, oh yeah. its a bell curve like everything else. most of us have 0 spyware, maybe a dozen or fewer items for some of us if you count the cookies. its people like us who skew the curve over so much, because so many of us have no spyware. I have seen computers with over 100 items of spyware programs, plus the registry entries to keep these programs alive if you try to delete them. i have known people to ententionally install spyware like gator because it has some useful feature, far be it from me to know what that was, but they would insist they needed it. and most people think who cares when i tell them they have spyware, they seem to think that its ok to have someone watch what they do on the net, to slow down thier computers, and waste space on thier hard drive.
the fact that we need legilation to protect some of us from our own stupidity is just frightening.
"How will your contribution benifit everyone in the company?"
its kinda along the lines of moral/productivity. i would like to add that if you gave the canidates a list of questions before the interview then they will have time to formulate a better answer, something i dont get when im on an interview, but would like if being asked anything particular and difficult.
so geek = uncool? basically we are all social outcasts and only find comfort and friends in our computers? so we are super smart and maintain a high gpa because we are social outcasts and as such have nothing better to do than study? i should ask wtf are you on about?
I think i had an average gpa of 3.8 through high school and college, could have had a 4.0 in high school but i just didnt feel like doing one of my classes at all. i never understood math until i started using computers, in elementary i failed a lot, got Cs and Ds. in high school i started smoking the ganja, got interested in computers and started making good grades. i never really fit in with everyone else, but thats cause i simply didnt like a lot of people. i went to parties, slept in school (in fact that was about all i did), even showed up baked out of my mind a few times. its just after smoking cannabis things began to make more sense, i was a dumbass before i started smoking.
a friend of mine said the other day, there are cowboys, hicks, and posers. he said cowboys are cool, hicks are the scum of the earth, and posers are just lame, or something to that effect. i suppose the same is true with geeks, with the true geeks being the ones who smoke, inmho.
Weed. Face it we couldnt be geeks without smoking the herb. Well I guess it is possible to not smoke the herb and be a computer geek, but everyone that I have met was a pothead too, especially those with degrees in computers.
Yes a remote control is a good option, one I use myself -- when it works. Right now its not working, it just quit a few weeks ago and I spent a few hours trying to figure it out before I gave up. I need to try again, but its a pain in the ass to set up. I use girder as it is just about the only solution out there, but Ive had it just quit on me several times before for no reason. Works great, when it works.
For the remote solution you need something with a mouse like device in it. This is very important, although you can go without it I find it annoying to have to switch to a wireless mouse if I want to do many things. Also since the remote will have a mouse, and the keyboard will have a mouse, and there will likely still be a mouse then I would advise getting multiple pointers on the screen too. I find it annoying when im using my wired mouse and then accidentally bump the the wireless one and send my pointer off from where I needed it(sorry can't use a wireless mouse for games, issues with batteries dying). Imagine three mice controlling one pointer, now imagine three people playing with the mice.
Personally I think it is very important to have a remote, its already intergrated somehow into our society to the point where you can't have TV or radio without it. Now if these device can't be without it then why should the computer, especially one geared for multimedia.
I really don't like microsoft either, but just because they make something doesn't mean it's not worth getting.
Take a look at the Xbox, its the best gaming console currently on the market. Sure it doesnt have as many games as PS2, but the PS2 gets more games because it already has its nitch in the market because it was out for over a year before the Xbox.
Yeah windows does have its problems, but would computers be as widely used as they are now without it? I highly doubt it; If not for windows computers would still be mostly a geek and business thing. Yeah Linux is great, but its not very good for being user friendly.
Everything from microsoft is a lot like other software in that it has bugs, even some major flaws, but it has a clean look, and it gets the job done (most of the time). They don't make the best software out there, but they get that clean look down so thats why they are so wealthy, but is that any reason to hate them?
He didn't waste a colon, he butchered it and left its rotting corpse on display -- hanging from a rope tied to the rafters -- for all to see. Some of us are reading in horror the abuse done to the once useful and rarely used colon. He used a colon more in a sentence than it should be used in an entire paragraph! I pray, commas and periods, semi-colons and hyphens, and all other punction marks please hide your children, keep them safe from mad butchers who mutilate the english language!
thats all about religion. when it comes to religion people will believe anything. point me to a poll where they do cover the face on mars, alien ubductions, or the faked moon landings.
well aparently she believes that we are incapable from telling fact from fiction. I suppose some people could be folled by pseudo-science and believe that in the 24th century earth will be perfect and we will have to trek around the galexy finding other species so we can help solve all their problems, ala star trek. but i dont know, i think most people realize that tv shows have no bearing or relivence to reality, except for the discussions they spawn at the workplace.
yes i know im not as smart as this edna may be, but that doesnt mean that im only barely existing slightly above the level of intelligence of the apes. as for other people out there, well i have faith that they too are able to realize that Area51 is just your typical every day military base, that we humans are capable of coming up with velcro on our own and didnt get it form the aliens that crashed near roswell, and that 35 years ago we did possess the technology to land a man on the moon.
for all her knowledge this edna lacks the common sense to see that people are not sheep. ok so maybe a few people are, but they dont reflect the majority, in fact i have yet to meet someone who reads tabloids and believes them, or believes that the moon landing was faked, or that area 51 is a base for research on actual alien life.
That is completely true. In fact by releasing SP1 so that it would not install on pirated systems Microsoft inadvertently caused the key gen to become more widespread.
Also with the SP1 patch the main target was the DevilsOwn version of XP, although many other pirated versions of windows were targeted, it was clear to me at the time that most of the people on various message boards complaining about it had the DevilsOwn release. Now I do not believe it is as easy to target the pirates because of the proliferation of the key gen. It is theoretical possible that many people ended up with legit keys, and as many people know Windows can be installed on more than one PC using the same key and still not encounter any activation problems.
Trying to release SP2 with the same anti-piracy check that was present in SP1 would have signaled to many pirates that they did get away with it, they did make a good illegal copy. That is something Microsoft would rather not do. Better to say, "I know who you are, but I don't really care", than it is to say, "I know who a small fraction of you are, and I'm going to stop you".
If you cut off the end of your fingernails, you dont feel pain, or if you cut your hair you wont feel pain. Oh how annoying it is when you stop brushing your teeth and get a cavity that suddenly you feel pain! I mean come on evolution! Why can't I just let my teeth rot away and be none the wiser?
Anyway on the serious side I see this as a great first step. Perhaps at 40 I could get a shot that would cause me to start losing my teeth and have new ones growing in to replace them. And I dont know about you, but I like having some feeling in my teeth.
optionally you could create a custom WinXP CD to install all the hotfixes (http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/), and install all your favorite programs. you can do this all with an unattended install (http://unattended.msfn.org/), so you dont have to sit there and click buttons and monitor the installation for when it requires input.
while your at it, why not build a custom version of windows that can boot off of a CD so you can diagnose and fix many windows problem even if you cant boot windows on your hard drive (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).
Just give it to the schools, thats what they should of done in the first place! Just look at how many people actually bother with mail in rebates, and thats nowhere near the hassle of getting settlement money. I don't bother with a mail in rebate unless its worth $20 or more. Most of these settlements only count for a few dollars, like someone else posted they only got $10. I did look into the settlement a while back, although I don't remember how much it was I know it was under $30. So why bother?
As for the Anti-trust case I have to ask who the hell gives a shit? Now if someone files an Anti-trust suit against Real then hell yeah im hopping on the bandwagon. I'll fill out every form I have to to get money from that BS company. Who's with me?
but I can't play music I've bought from Real on it
yeah, too bad I cant use that music I bought from Real... errr ummm wait, people buy music from real? Next you will be telling me that people use the real player willingly for umm I dont know, maybe its grandeos feature set.
I find it amazing that NASA put something together that can last 3x as long as they required it to last. I never expected it to last the full 90 days, thought at least one of them would have just died out by now and the other would be moving along at a crippled pace trying to get everything done. But it appears my early misgivings about the mission were completly unfounded.
So far everything about this mission has shocked me, at least to some extent. We havnt just been rovering around mars to say we could do it. Thats what the previous mission felt like. But we have found amazing signs of water and the conversations around what has been found has sparked for many a rekindeled interest in our favorite planet. Since the rovers have gone up I have been watching slashdot more closly for news from these bots.
I have seen reports of evidence of water and watched as we all ooo and aaa over what that could mean. I have read the debates on the possibility of methane producing microbes in the soil of mars, or the cows hiding out in a hidden green pasture. We have all wondered about the possibility that we could jumpstart the life on mars or make it inhabitable for us with teraforming. Basically I have seen more interest in the red planet in the last few months than ever before. I cant wait to see what another 160 days can do for our imaginations. Do you think anything new and amazing will be found as this trek on the red planet continues, I certanly do.
I completely agree that the majority of people who use mod chips do them for experiments, such as Linux on the PS2 or the Xbox; some do use them for legitimate uses, such as playing a game they legally own, but is from Japan. Why do I agree? It is because that is also what I want. I would also like to see if anyone replies and tells me that they want to pirate games. I think most people don't want to break the law, especially if they have a moral code.
Now that the Xbox is $150 I am going to go buy two, one now and one in a few months. I will start by putting Linux on one, and using it for its computer abilities, its not a good computer, part of it is the novelty factor for me. I will also use that console for domestic and foreign games. I imagine I would want to keep that console with me and with my computer at all times. Eventually I may want to replace the hard drive; let it be the game server at a LAN, so we can use it for a match of UT2004.
The second one I get will be just for games. It will be used primarily as the typical game console. I would use Xbox live, a feature a modded console would lose. I would play head-2-head against friends with this console.
I don't think that there is anything illegal with my intended uses of this console system. It may not be what was completely intended, but it is completely legal. If Microsoft gave me an alternative method to use Linux or foreign games that would not void my warranty then you could bet I would go for it.
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What difference will the end user see? likely none. im guessing they both hold about the same as far as movie content(anyone want to bother with the math?). yeah the MPEG-4 has the better compression. not only that its my choice because most MPEG-4 codecs can play information that was encoded with another MPEG-4 codec, and I believe that HD-DVDs will have the same functionality. So finally all that anime I have downloaded can be watched on a TV, not just computer. though im not completly certain on this, and im not sure how formats such as Vorbis are handeled, if at all.
as far as the re-encoding debate, well who really cares? its only a few hours for a desktop, and a cluster can do it a whole lot faster. at lease thats what i have experienced with converting MPEG-2 into an MPEG-4 codec, such as XviD
for computers, storage is a big deal, however does that 54 gig actually equal 54gig? just take a look at CDs, as we all know a 700mb disk can hold 800mb of MPEG-2, ok so the same doesnt hold true for DVDs to my knowledge, but what about blue-ray?
So to put this in perspective it seems to me that this is like a book publisher suing another book publisher cause an author wrote several books that share similar words, with one being published by one company and different book by another publisher. Hey thats computers for you, its thinking like this that leads to the DMCA. Sure it might seem like a good idea, if you have no idea what you are talking about...
There are of course other factors, ranging from the time of day you get your gas (gas expands when its hot). How much you drive on the highway, nice long stretches of high rpm helps keep many of the parts clean. However I still say nothing can beat a manual transmission -- I won't buy an automatic.
Works for me too. I rarely get calls anymore. Though I am not signed up on the Do not call list. I just say, "I am on the Do not call list, please remove my number as it is against the law to call me." Hey it works just as well.
Im trolling here, but no. Look up the rave act. If you are even near a place where they have reasonable suspicion, or even unreasonable suspicion they can search you and arrest you, whether you commited a crime or not, whether they suspect you have or not. Many of us know that the constition is basically no longer valid here. My house was searched by the police, when I asked for a warrent, they said they didnt need one. It was true, I could not win the case in court, they didnt need a warrent. look at gun laws. look at drug testing. look at the laws against drugs. the first, second, forth, and fifth admendment hold no weight anymore. im sure the others are just as defunct.
People have been going to Canada to evade the oppression of the United States since before the Civil War. If you recall the underground railroad for black slaves went up to canada, because slaves could legally be tracked down in any state, northern territory or not. The only option for them was Canada. During the draft dodger era, where many Americans were called to fight for a cause that they did not support many fled to canada. And many people flee every day to canada for numerous reasons. Just look up Steve Kuby, a family man with cancer who became a criminal in the US because the government doesnt want him to have his medication. He would be dead now if he did not flee the US. I plan to leave too to be rid of this oppressive country, but im in no rush.
Isnt this the software that you can avoid installing by just holding the Shift key?
anyway, I had a point here, oh yeah. its a bell curve like everything else. most of us have 0 spyware, maybe a dozen or fewer items for some of us if you count the cookies. its people like us who skew the curve over so much, because so many of us have no spyware. I have seen computers with over 100 items of spyware programs, plus the registry entries to keep these programs alive if you try to delete them. i have known people to ententionally install spyware like gator because it has some useful feature, far be it from me to know what that was, but they would insist they needed it. and most people think who cares when i tell them they have spyware, they seem to think that its ok to have someone watch what they do on the net, to slow down thier computers, and waste space on thier hard drive.
the fact that we need legilation to protect some of us from our own stupidity is just frightening.
"How will your contribution benifit everyone in the company?"
its kinda along the lines of moral/productivity. i would like to add that if you gave the canidates a list of questions before the interview then they will have time to formulate a better answer, something i dont get when im on an interview, but would like if being asked anything particular and difficult.
I think i had an average gpa of 3.8 through high school and college, could have had a 4.0 in high school but i just didnt feel like doing one of my classes at all. i never understood math until i started using computers, in elementary i failed a lot, got Cs and Ds. in high school i started smoking the ganja, got interested in computers and started making good grades. i never really fit in with everyone else, but thats cause i simply didnt like a lot of people. i went to parties, slept in school (in fact that was about all i did), even showed up baked out of my mind a few times. its just after smoking cannabis things began to make more sense, i was a dumbass before i started smoking.
a friend of mine said the other day, there are cowboys, hicks, and posers. he said cowboys are cool, hicks are the scum of the earth, and posers are just lame, or something to that effect. i suppose the same is true with geeks, with the true geeks being the ones who smoke, inmho.
Weed. Face it we couldnt be geeks without smoking the herb. Well I guess it is possible to not smoke the herb and be a computer geek, but everyone that I have met was a pothead too, especially those with degrees in computers.
For the remote solution you need something with a mouse like device in it. This is very important, although you can go without it I find it annoying to have to switch to a wireless mouse if I want to do many things. Also since the remote will have a mouse, and the keyboard will have a mouse, and there will likely still be a mouse then I would advise getting multiple pointers on the screen too. I find it annoying when im using my wired mouse and then accidentally bump the the wireless one and send my pointer off from where I needed it(sorry can't use a wireless mouse for games, issues with batteries dying). Imagine three mice controlling one pointer, now imagine three people playing with the mice.
Personally I think it is very important to have a remote, its already intergrated somehow into our society to the point where you can't have TV or radio without it. Now if these device can't be without it then why should the computer, especially one geared for multimedia.
I really don't like microsoft either, but just because they make something doesn't mean it's not worth getting.
Take a look at the Xbox, its the best gaming console currently on the market. Sure it doesnt have as many games as PS2, but the PS2 gets more games because it already has its nitch in the market because it was out for over a year before the Xbox.
Yeah windows does have its problems, but would computers be as widely used as they are now without it? I highly doubt it; If not for windows computers would still be mostly a geek and business thing. Yeah Linux is great, but its not very good for being user friendly.
Everything from microsoft is a lot like other software in that it has bugs, even some major flaws, but it has a clean look, and it gets the job done (most of the time). They don't make the best software out there, but they get that clean look down so thats why they are so wealthy, but is that any reason to hate them?
He didn't waste a colon, he butchered it and left its rotting corpse on display -- hanging from a rope tied to the rafters -- for all to see. Some of us are reading in horror the abuse done to the once useful and rarely used colon. He used a colon more in a sentence than it should be used in an entire paragraph! I pray, commas and periods, semi-colons and hyphens, and all other punction marks please hide your children, keep them safe from mad butchers who mutilate the english language!
thats all about religion. when it comes to religion people will believe anything. point me to a poll where they do cover the face on mars, alien ubductions, or the faked moon landings.
yes i know im not as smart as this edna may be, but that doesnt mean that im only barely existing slightly above the level of intelligence of the apes. as for other people out there, well i have faith that they too are able to realize that Area51 is just your typical every day military base, that we humans are capable of coming up with velcro on our own and didnt get it form the aliens that crashed near roswell, and that 35 years ago we did possess the technology to land a man on the moon.
for all her knowledge this edna lacks the common sense to see that people are not sheep. ok so maybe a few people are, but they dont reflect the majority, in fact i have yet to meet someone who reads tabloids and believes them, or believes that the moon landing was faked, or that area 51 is a base for research on actual alien life.
Also with the SP1 patch the main target was the DevilsOwn version of XP, although many other pirated versions of windows were targeted, it was clear to me at the time that most of the people on various message boards complaining about it had the DevilsOwn release. Now I do not believe it is as easy to target the pirates because of the proliferation of the key gen. It is theoretical possible that many people ended up with legit keys, and as many people know Windows can be installed on more than one PC using the same key and still not encounter any activation problems.
Trying to release SP2 with the same anti-piracy check that was present in SP1 would have signaled to many pirates that they did get away with it, they did make a good illegal copy. That is something Microsoft would rather not do. Better to say, "I know who you are, but I don't really care", than it is to say, "I know who a small fraction of you are, and I'm going to stop you".
If you cut off the end of your fingernails, you dont feel pain, or if you cut your hair you wont feel pain. Oh how annoying it is when you stop brushing your teeth and get a cavity that suddenly you feel pain! I mean come on evolution! Why can't I just let my teeth rot away and be none the wiser? Anyway on the serious side I see this as a great first step. Perhaps at 40 I could get a shot that would cause me to start losing my teeth and have new ones growing in to replace them. And I dont know about you, but I like having some feeling in my teeth.
optionally you could create a custom WinXP CD to install all the hotfixes (http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/), and install all your favorite programs. you can do this all with an unattended install (http://unattended.msfn.org/), so you dont have to sit there and click buttons and monitor the installation for when it requires input. while your at it, why not build a custom version of windows that can boot off of a CD so you can diagnose and fix many windows problem even if you cant boot windows on your hard drive (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).
Just give it to the schools, thats what they should of done in the first place! Just look at how many people actually bother with mail in rebates, and thats nowhere near the hassle of getting settlement money. I don't bother with a mail in rebate unless its worth $20 or more. Most of these settlements only count for a few dollars, like someone else posted they only got $10. I did look into the settlement a while back, although I don't remember how much it was I know it was under $30. So why bother? As for the Anti-trust case I have to ask who the hell gives a shit? Now if someone files an Anti-trust suit against Real then hell yeah im hopping on the bandwagon. I'll fill out every form I have to to get money from that BS company. Who's with me?
yeah, too bad I cant use that music I bought from Real... errr ummm wait, people buy music from real? Next you will be telling me that people use the real player willingly for umm I dont know, maybe its grandeos feature set.
So far everything about this mission has shocked me, at least to some extent. We havnt just been rovering around mars to say we could do it. Thats what the previous mission felt like. But we have found amazing signs of water and the conversations around what has been found has sparked for many a rekindeled interest in our favorite planet. Since the rovers have gone up I have been watching slashdot more closly for news from these bots.
I have seen reports of evidence of water and watched as we all ooo and aaa over what that could mean. I have read the debates on the possibility of methane producing microbes in the soil of mars, or the cows hiding out in a hidden green pasture. We have all wondered about the possibility that we could jumpstart the life on mars or make it inhabitable for us with teraforming. Basically I have seen more interest in the red planet in the last few months than ever before. I cant wait to see what another 160 days can do for our imaginations. Do you think anything new and amazing will be found as this trek on the red planet continues, I certanly do.
I completely agree that the majority of people who use mod chips do them for experiments, such as Linux on the PS2 or the Xbox; some do use them for legitimate uses, such as playing a game they legally own, but is from Japan. Why do I agree? It is because that is also what I want. I would also like to see if anyone replies and tells me that they want to pirate games. I think most people don't want to break the law, especially if they have a moral code.
Now that the Xbox is $150 I am going to go buy two, one now and one in a few months. I will start by putting Linux on one, and using it for its computer abilities, its not a good computer, part of it is the novelty factor for me. I will also use that console for domestic and foreign games. I imagine I would want to keep that console with me and with my computer at all times. Eventually I may want to replace the hard drive; let it be the game server at a LAN, so we can use it for a match of UT2004.
The second one I get will be just for games. It will be used primarily as the typical game console. I would use Xbox live, a feature a modded console would lose. I would play head-2-head against friends with this console.
I don't think that there is anything illegal with my intended uses of this console system. It may not be what was completely intended, but it is completely legal. If Microsoft gave me an alternative method to use Linux or foreign games that would not void my warranty then you could bet I would go for it.