1) Use pirate versions of Vista, mostly in Latinoamerica and Asia. 2) Downgrade right away to XP or Ubuntu, usually wasting the license that came with the PC.
All this talking made me remember those funny flash cartoon videos back in y2k that made fun of Lars and his quest against P2P and their "criminal" users:
This is great news for people in developing countrys with little or no HDTV content available and download (pirated) HD content that can't be otherwise obtained, specially HD shows like Lost or T:TSCC. At least here in Argentina a lot of people have HDTV-ready TV sets, high-end PCs or next-gen consoles but we don't have HD supported cable, Directv or even a OTA digital tv format (We may get ATSC as standard next year). If we could get HD downloads for cheap (let's say $2 an episode) I would gladly pay it. Same thing for movies, imported from USA Blu-ray movies cost 60 dollars here and there is no local production like DVDs yet.
Postdata: I know Apple TV/Itunes has been doing this for a few months, but this device it's not popular over here. PS3 is.
Sorry, the right name was Transformers.2007.1080p.HDDVD.x264-snoopy.mkv so I guess it was ripped straight from HD-DVD 300 was the blu-ray ripped one. Frankly until I get a player I will just call them HD movies or MKVs since they are all just data in my HDD.
Last night I played Transformers 1080P Blu-ray rip (10GB MKV file) in my Vaio VGN-FZ340E. I used "Media Player Classic" with latest K-lite codecs, using the just the stock battery and a medium power saving mode and everthing went fine for the entire movie. Yes, playing this files may not be legal but I just don't see a better or legal way to do HD with my current hardware. Same thing happens if you try to play a Blu-ray movie (Assuming you have a drive) with Linux.
That's true. Verbatim basic DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs a few month ago used to be top quality Mitsubishi Chemicals (Singapur - Taiwán). Now they outsourced production to Moser Baer (India) and the quality has decreased. You can expect burning failures or disk read errors.
Newsreel announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser... Lt. Lumbreiser: Over the target area now, Captain. Newsreel announcer:...and Captain Carmen Ibanez. Carmen: This is the captain speaking. All personnel prepare for drop. Newsreel announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico. Johnny Rico: Come on you apes, you wanna live forever? Newsreel announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.
Meh, it doesn't really matter at this point. Digital Distribution is going to end this format war a lot faster than Sony's or Toshiba's corporate posturing.
Maybe with tv series, in fact I just downloaded Terminator SCC S01EP1 last night from mininova, watched and deleted it, but I don't think people would replace their full, tangible movie collection with a 500GB HDD full of movies that may fail and leave you with nothing (Even if you have the option to re-download the stuff for free it's a hassle).
Not only Skype gives us free, multiuser lag-free video conference with excellent quality, now we know our conversations are private. I have nothing to hide, but nothing to share either.
I love Nokia and my 6131 but let's face it, anything game related they would do it just won't compare against DS. We are talking dual screen, touchscreen, mic, hundreds of cool games, etc.
Installing Vista slows Vista performance. Still don't see any reason why someone would use this as an OS over XP right now./
To play Bioshock with DX10 support.
Yes, it did. That's why that Argentinian station moved to YouTube It wasn't Argentinian, it was from Venezuela.
It doesn't solve the problem
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We hardcore and tech savvy users usually crack, mod or unlock any device we got ours hand into (Ipods, cell phones, DVD Players, Apple TV, etc) but it doesn't solve Six pack Joe's DRM problems. He will get a Zune, won't bother or know how to crack it and play along MS and MAFIAA's rules. The same thing will happen with our parents and most people. The solution is buying products that are open and DRM free in the first place.
Software solutions/Dial home won't do it. Any respectable thief will instantly power off the device, put it in a metal briefcase, then when he is in a secure location will format/restore to default the stolen device in a matter of minutes and then sell it to the black market.
A jedi knight in Star Wars can be compared to a "Commando" unit in Command and Conquer 3. Yes, a few bullets or any armored vehicle can kill him, but he still is an elite unit that, if unnoticed, can take down an entire base down in seconds. Clone Wars was about that: Infiltration, stealth, supremacy. EPIII was about Anakin becoming Darth Vader and that's it. They totally wasted Mace Windu and the other cool Jedi knights that they fought so well during clone wars.
The only Amiga game that interested me back in the 90's that wasn't on the PC or SNES/Genesis is Alien Breed. There is a freeware remake available for Windows:
Back when everybody called Nintendo's upcoming console "Revolution", everybody hated "Wii" when it got announced as the official name. Some months later, everybody loves Wii (Except maybe Sony fanboys).
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If you have time there are some interesting points here:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Keep in mind that a lot of people:
1) Use pirate versions of Vista, mostly in Latinoamerica and Asia.
2) Downgrade right away to XP or Ubuntu, usually wasting the license that came with the PC.
So I wouldn't take sales as a factor here.
Maybe they are also allergic to the greatest source of radiation: THE SUN!
We should ban it like Mr Burns wanted.
All this talking made me remember those funny flash cartoon videos back in y2k that made fun of Lars and his quest against P2P and their "criminal" users:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster_Bad!
This is great news for people in developing countrys with little or no HDTV content available and download (pirated) HD content that can't be otherwise obtained, specially HD shows like Lost or T:TSCC.
At least here in Argentina a lot of people have HDTV-ready TV sets, high-end PCs or next-gen consoles but we don't have HD supported cable, Directv or even a OTA digital tv format (We may get ATSC as standard next year).
If we could get HD downloads for cheap (let's say $2 an episode) I would gladly pay it.
Same thing for movies, imported from USA Blu-ray movies cost 60 dollars here and there is no local production like DVDs yet.
Postdata: I know Apple TV/Itunes has been doing this for a few months, but this device it's not popular over here. PS3 is.
Sorry, the right name was Transformers.2007.1080p.HDDVD.x264-snoopy.mkv so I guess it was ripped straight from HD-DVD
300 was the blu-ray ripped one.
Frankly until I get a player I will just call them HD movies or MKVs since they are all just data in my HDD.
Last night I played Transformers 1080P Blu-ray rip (10GB MKV file) in my Vaio VGN-FZ340E.
I used "Media Player Classic" with latest K-lite codecs, using the just the stock battery and a medium power saving mode and everthing went fine for the entire movie.
Yes, playing this files may not be legal but I just don't see a better or legal way to do HD with my current hardware.
Same thing happens if you try to play a Blu-ray movie (Assuming you have a drive) with Linux.
That's true. Verbatim basic DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs a few month ago used to be top quality Mitsubishi Chemicals (Singapur - Taiwán). Now they outsourced production to Moser Baer (India) and the quality has decreased. You can expect burning failures or disk read errors.
Remember the Gamecube car test we posted a few years ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvlWQ5ULCg
Same with original Nintendo DS, when closed mode it will withstand most drops.
Newsreel announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser... ...and Captain Carmen Ibanez.
Lt. Lumbreiser: Over the target area now, Captain.
Newsreel announcer:
Carmen: This is the captain speaking. All personnel prepare for drop.
Newsreel announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico.
Johnny Rico: Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?
Newsreel announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.
For $400 you can get an Asus EEE and read DRM-free PDF files.
Not only Skype gives us free, multiuser lag-free video conference with excellent quality, now we know our conversations are private.
I have nothing to hide, but nothing to share either.
While there are tons of trackers like TPB or Mininova, Demonoid was the best comic book's scans source.
Let's hope they manage to get back online.
I love Nokia and my 6131 but let's face it, anything game related they would do it just won't compare against DS.
We are talking dual screen, touchscreen, mic, hundreds of cool games, etc.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/features/33940/Direc
We hardcore and tech savvy users usually crack, mod or unlock any device we got ours hand into (Ipods, cell phones, DVD Players, Apple TV, etc) but it doesn't solve Six pack Joe's DRM problems. He will get a Zune, won't bother or know how to crack it and play along MS and MAFIAA's rules.
The same thing will happen with our parents and most people. The solution is buying products that are open and DRM free in the first place.
You can do manually whatever this GUI does and for free:
http://www.speedyvista.com/
Software solutions/Dial home won't do it. Any respectable thief will instantly power off the device, put it in a metal briefcase, then when he is in a secure location will format/restore to default the stolen device in a matter of minutes and then sell it to the black market.
there are some 2007 PC games that offer solid single player experience:
_ Command and Conquer 3
_ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
_ Tomb Raider 10th anniversary edition
A jedi knight in Star Wars can be compared to a "Commando" unit in Command and Conquer 3. Yes, a few bullets or any armored vehicle can kill him, but he still is an elite unit that, if unnoticed, can take down an entire base down in seconds.
Clone Wars was about that: Infiltration, stealth, supremacy. EPIII was about Anakin becoming Darth Vader and that's it. They totally wasted Mace Windu and the other cool Jedi knights that they fought so well during clone wars.
Less ads:
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http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,13193
The only Amiga game that interested me back in the 90's that wasn't on the PC or SNES/Genesis is Alien Breed.
There is a freeware remake available for Windows:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/xavnet/alienbreed/
Back when everybody called Nintendo's upcoming console "Revolution", everybody hated "Wii" when it got announced as the official name. Some months later, everybody loves Wii (Except maybe Sony fanboys).