Actually DV is not intended to be any "closer" to the original than MPEG necessarily. The main difference in optimization is that the DV format is optimized for editing, whereas the MPEG formats tend to be a pain in the butt as editing formats. For a similar level of compression from raw, uncompressed video, you will probably find fairly similar quality levels between MPEG-2 and DV.
Most of the time people notice MPEG-2 looking "worse" because they are starting from a DV source like a camcorder and then re-encoding to MPEG to burn to DVD. Of course the re-encoded video is going to lose some quality. This is just like making an MP3 file from a compressed WMA file or vice versa.
They did release a Fire Emblem for the GBA at least, but that probably doesn't really count as a true console release. I don't have a GC, so I wouldn't know if there have been any US releases set in that world.
The commandments are recognized by religons other than Christianity. Certainly. I didn't mean to imply that the commandments were the exclusive province of Christianity.
WRT someone elses comments about "when people weren't concerned about separation of church and state", I guess that pretty much refers to the whole existence of the U.S. then? Lest we forget, our very first POTUS was sworn in on a Bible.
"What does the OT have to do with Jesus? By definition, it was before his time."
He didn't seem to think so. John 8:58 quotes him as follows "...before Abraham was I AM". The listeners were pretty sure of what he was referring to here, since they all started looking around for nice, throwing-sized rocks right about then.
"Christianity makes no sense and has nothing to do with Jesus". I imagine you were just going with some nice hyperbole here, because surely even as a non-Christian you can recognize that as a belief system it has *everything* to do with Jesus Christ.
Also, who is apoplectic? The ACLU, spending millions of dollars raising an issue over the Ten Commandments being in courthouses as they have been for decades/centuries, or Christians/Jews/whoever being content to leave them as they have pretty much always been.
Uh, how do you go about keeping your music on the iPod, but *not* on the "host" computer? That seems pretty darn inconvenient, and pretty much would make iTunes useless.
I'm pretty sure you have to fork over the $30 bucks for a QuickTime Pro license to get the "Full Screen" option in the view menu.
That's why some of the arguments about the nagware version being a player vs the pro version being an editor/transcoder/whatever are kind of bogus. The nagware version is more like a purposely crippled player (along the same lines as the free RealPlayer).
For me it was worth the $30 to get full screen viewing and the ability to easily save a stream as a.mov file, but it's certainly not worth that much to everyone.
instead of a PC-based video capture system...it will just all work.
Um, yes, all except the *video capture* part. The Mini has no intrinsic video capture capability and a small hard drive. In my book that makes it a pretty poor video capture system.
Well, for something intended for HDTV and/or movie usage, there is one really freaking annoying glitch I have noticed so far (typing this on my mini hooked up to a Samsung DLP projection TV).
The native resolution of my TV is 1280x720, which the Mini was nice enough to default to upon setup. This keeps the aspect ratio from looking all screwy, as happens when trying to run a non-widescreen resolution (e.g. 1024x768).
So, I plug in my mini-DV camcorder and figure I'll try playing with iMovie. But noooooo, iMovie won't even run with the resolution set to 1280x720. It just says "Sorry sucker, you need 1024x768 to run this fine movie editor".
Being an OS X/iLife newb, maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious, but this seems like a pretty serious oversight if the intent is to hook these up to HDTVs.
BTW, please reply if you know of a way to work around this restriction.
Time to re-calibrate the dial on ye olde time machine dude.
For at least a decade there have been "Windows-based systems" with file system access control much more sophisticated than anything offered by Linux (at least in typical configurations using rwxrwxrwx style permissions) even today.
Not to say the hard shell on most Windows systems doesn't more closely resemble swiss cheese, but you don't need to resort to inaccurate statements to make that case.
Are you saying you think the proxy server itself is requiring NTLM credentials? If you're using Squid that doesn't seem right, although I'm pretty sure there are other proxy servers that do this.
The only place I can remember in IE that controls this stuff at all is in the Security tab of Internet Options. If you go to define a "Custom" security level, there should be a user authentication section somewhere at the bottom, where you can define which zones get NTLM creds assigned to them.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet actually. You just need to edit your prefs.js file to tell it which sites to provide NTLM credentials to. No "friendly" interface for doing this yet though I don't think (or maybe I just missed it).
Something like this (not that I'm recommending this as a good config), will allow the creds to be sent to all web servers: user_pref("network.negotiate-auth.delega tion-uris" , "http://,https://"); user_pref("network.negotiate -auth.trusted-uris", "http://,https://");
If you use a proxy server, it's probably not *too* unsafe, since NTLM can't really be proxied via HTTP proxies anyway (AFAIK).
50% faster?! Give me a friggin break. No general purpose, modern OS is going to be 50% faster across the board then another one on the same hardware. This is even less likely when you are basically talking about slightly different flavors of the same OS.
The "look there are drug companies that make a lot of money, so the drug business must be exploitative" is a completely bogus argument.
This would be like me saying "What problem with minority wages, minorities are the best paid people in the country. Look at Shaquille O'Neal, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Kobe Bryant".
The problem is you are looking a the few "winners" in a big lottery of a market/industry and making generalizations about the whole industry. Hundreds of startup biotechs and other drug companies fail while *spending* millions/billions of dollars and never managing to get a drug to market.
The only reason any sane person or investment group is willing to dump that kind of money into doing research and clinical development that is almost assuredly not going to succeed (except in a small minority of cases) is that they have a very large potential payoff.
As a counter argument though, I present the huge list of life saving and quality-of-life improving therapeutics developed outside the US in the last decade or so:
Um,
Oh wait that's a pretty hard list to come up with, since pretty much everything is developed in the U.S.
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This is hardly an innovative idea, and usually by the time you end up considering all the issues you wind up with something that looks a lot more like TCP than you had originally intended.
Plus there are already protocol stacks that work around most of their gripes about TCP (slow performance over long pipes, etc).
Hmm, except that it *does* work with at least one non-IE browser (Firefox), so I guess that must not be it. It may not index the local page cache for Firefox, but it does let you do an "integrated" desktop + big Google search.
Riiiiiight, the HD Tivo owners will be out of luck, except they will have had the best HD recording product available for a couple of years, which will still be working fine (what the HD standard is going to change soon, I think not).
On the other hand, cable owners will get whatever the low-bid hardware vendor was at the time.
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Hmm, you mean like this:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
Actually DV is not intended to be any "closer" to the original than MPEG necessarily. The main difference in optimization is that the DV format is optimized for editing, whereas the MPEG formats tend to be a pain in the butt as editing formats. For a similar level of compression from raw, uncompressed video, you will probably find fairly similar quality levels between MPEG-2 and DV.
Most of the time people notice MPEG-2 looking "worse" because they are starting from a DV source like a camcorder and then re-encoding to MPEG to burn to DVD. Of course the re-encoded video is going to lose some quality. This is just like making an MP3 file from a compressed WMA file or vice versa.
They did release a Fire Emblem for the GBA at least, but that probably doesn't really count as a true console release. I don't have a GC, so I wouldn't know if there have been any US releases set in that world.
Without a standard of good, the terms good and evil are pretty much meaningless.
In the absence of some objective standard, really we are just talking popular ideas vs unpopular ideas.
So, every president in our 200+ year history has shared the belief system of the Bible?
That's a pretty interesting coincidence, don't you think?
The commandments are recognized by religons other than Christianity.
Certainly. I didn't mean to imply that the commandments were the exclusive province of Christianity.
WRT someone elses comments about "when people weren't concerned about separation of church and state", I guess that pretty much refers to the whole existence of the U.S. then? Lest we forget, our very first POTUS was sworn in on a Bible.
"What does the OT have to do with Jesus? By definition, it was before his time."
He didn't seem to think so. John 8:58 quotes him as follows "...before Abraham was I AM". The listeners were pretty sure of what he was referring to here, since they all started looking around for nice, throwing-sized rocks right about then.
Just to pick a very small nit, I believe it was held in NY city after the 9/11 attacks.
Otherwise, I believe you are right that Davos is the normal host town.
"Christianity makes no sense and has nothing to do with Jesus".
I imagine you were just going with some nice hyperbole here, because surely even as a non-Christian you can recognize that as a belief system it has *everything* to do with Jesus Christ.
Also, who is apoplectic? The ACLU, spending millions of dollars raising an issue over the Ten Commandments being in courthouses as they have been for decades/centuries, or Christians/Jews/whoever being content to leave them as they have pretty much always been.
Uh, how do you go about keeping your music on the iPod, but *not* on the "host" computer? That seems pretty darn inconvenient, and pretty much would make iTunes useless.
I'm pretty sure you have to fork over the $30 bucks for a QuickTime Pro license to get the "Full Screen" option in the view menu.
.mov file, but it's certainly not worth that much to everyone.
That's why some of the arguments about the nagware version being a player vs the pro version being an editor/transcoder/whatever are kind of bogus. The nagware version is more like a purposely crippled player (along the same lines as the free RealPlayer).
For me it was worth the $30 to get full screen viewing and the ability to easily save a stream as a
instead of a PC-based video capture system...it will just all work.
Um, yes, all except the *video capture* part. The Mini has no intrinsic video capture capability and a small hard drive. In my book that makes it a pretty poor video capture system.
Well, for something intended for HDTV and/or movie usage, there is one really freaking annoying glitch I have noticed so far (typing this on my mini hooked up to a Samsung DLP projection TV).
The native resolution of my TV is 1280x720, which the Mini was nice enough to default to upon setup. This keeps the aspect ratio from looking all screwy, as happens when trying to run a non-widescreen resolution (e.g. 1024x768).
So, I plug in my mini-DV camcorder and figure I'll try playing with iMovie. But noooooo, iMovie won't even run with the resolution set to 1280x720. It just says "Sorry sucker, you need 1024x768 to run this fine movie editor".
Being an OS X/iLife newb, maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious, but this seems like a pretty serious oversight if the intent is to hook these up to HDTVs.
BTW, please reply if you know of a way to work around this restriction.
Time to re-calibrate the dial on ye olde time machine dude.
For at least a decade there have been "Windows-based systems" with file system access control much more sophisticated than anything offered by Linux (at least in typical configurations using rwxrwxrwx style permissions) even today.
Not to say the hard shell on most Windows systems doesn't more closely resemble swiss cheese, but you don't need to resort to inaccurate statements to make that case.
Are you saying you think the proxy server itself is requiring NTLM credentials? If you're using Squid that doesn't seem right, although I'm pretty sure there are other proxy servers that do this.
The only place I can remember in IE that controls this stuff at all is in the Security tab of Internet Options. If you go to define a "Custom" security level, there should be a user authentication section somewhere at the bottom, where you can define which zones get NTLM creds assigned to them.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet actually. You just need to edit your prefs.js file to tell it which sites to provide NTLM credentials to. No "friendly" interface for doing this yet though I don't think (or maybe I just missed it).
a tion-uris" , "http://,https://");e -auth.trusted-uris", "http://,https://");
Something like this (not that I'm recommending this as a good config), will allow the creds to be sent to all web servers:
user_pref("network.negotiate-auth.deleg
user_pref("network.negotiat
If you use a proxy server, it's probably not *too* unsafe, since NTLM can't really be proxied via HTTP proxies anyway (AFAIK).
I call shenanigans!
Where does the alleged "evidence" you link to say *anything* about Fox calling a 2000 election first?
"But the big house isn't so bad.
You get to lift weights, take long showers, right up appeals, left weights... You get used to it."
If that's not where you were going, I apologize for the random Pee Wee's Big Adventure reference.
50% faster?! Give me a friggin break. No general purpose, modern OS is going to be 50% faster across the board then another one on the same hardware. This is even less likely when you are basically talking about slightly different flavors of the same OS.
The "look there are drug companies that make a lot of money, so the drug business must be exploitative" is a completely bogus argument.
This would be like me saying "What problem with minority wages, minorities are the best paid people in the country. Look at Shaquille O'Neal, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Kobe Bryant".
The problem is you are looking a the few "winners" in a big lottery of a market/industry and making generalizations about the whole industry. Hundreds of startup biotechs and other drug companies fail while *spending* millions/billions of dollars and never managing to get a drug to market.
The only reason any sane person or investment group is willing to dump that kind of money into doing research and clinical development that is almost assuredly not going to succeed (except in a small minority of cases) is that they have a very large potential payoff.
As a counter argument though, I present the huge list of life saving and quality-of-life improving therapeutics developed outside the US in the last decade or so:
Um,
Oh wait that's a pretty hard list to come up with, since pretty much everything is developed in the U.S.
This is hardly an innovative idea, and usually by the time you end up considering all the issues you wind up with something that looks a lot more like TCP than you had originally intended.
Plus there are already protocol stacks that work around most of their gripes about TCP (slow performance over long pipes, etc).
"that must not be it".
At least for FireFox I mean, unless it somehow uses IE's BHO's?
Hmm, except that it *does* work with at least one non-IE browser (Firefox), so I guess that must not be it.
It may not index the local page cache for Firefox, but it does let you do an "integrated" desktop + big Google search.
Oh, well that pretty much locks it up in everyone's mind. No further need for debate.
You get sunburned, so their must be a problem with the ozone layer.
Riiiiiight, the HD Tivo owners will be out of luck, except they will have had the best HD recording product available for a couple of years, which will still be working fine (what the HD standard is going to change soon, I think not).
On the other hand, cable owners will get whatever the low-bid hardware vendor was at the time.
To each his own.