think they should just utilize existing rules and regulations. Doom 3 and GTA should be rated "Adult".
Why the hell for? Did you forget your frame of mind as a teenager? Do you really think a 17 year old, or hell, even a 14 year old, can't handle a game like GTA?
As far as I'm concerned, 14 year olds aren't "children" by any means. They are capable of playing GTA without becoming psychopathic killers or having emotional trauma.
Wow, a reply from the man himself? I honestly didn't think you'd be reading & responding to this.
Look, the guy below me (aardvarkjoe) said it better than I could have. I don't want you to come over to my side, and I'm not interested in a religious debate with you or anyone. Religion is a highly personal subject and I have zero problem with your belief in evolution.
Further, I really didn't see the need to include these comments in the answer to a question about special effects. Randomly throwing that sort of talk out reminds me of that stupid movie - what was it, Two Weeks Notice? My wife used to love Sandra Bullock. She owned most every movie Bullock was in. That is, until they randomly came up with that anti-Bush talk in the middle of an otherwise acceptable chick-flick. It served no purpose, and my wife now wants nothing to do with any of Bullock's movies (which is just great as far as I'm concerned).
But I wish the conservatives currently in power were more interested in funding NASA than corporate tax breaks.
Well, so do I, Roger, but the liberals haven't done us any better. What did Clinton do for NASA during his 8 years? Nothing great that I know of.
It comes down to this: Painting it as a "conservatives & religious people vs. the rest of us" matter is simply ridiculous. I know an awful lot of religious conservatives that support space exploration.
Lastly, I must apologize for calling you an idiot and an asshole. It's easy to get caught up in a brief moment of frustration, and even easier to use such words when talking about someone who you don't think will ever read it. Those words were inappropriate and not the words a Christian should be using.
So Mr. Nygard doesn't get to express his opinion on Slashdot because he's a filmmaker
I didn't say that. He can express whatever he wants, it's a free country and I support that. But if him and other people in any sort of "spotlight" knew what was good for them, they wouldn't insert their political & religious propaganda into public conversation.
If I had a movie to sell I sure wouldn't go around slamming more than half the people in the country.
Something to keep in mind, post presidential election, is that in the long run conservatives always lose. If this statement were not true, we would still be living in caves. We wouldn't have cell phones, vaccines, and rockets. Conservatives will never go to the stars. They are too busy trying to hold society back.
Every new idea that is introduced is liberal at first. The idea that the Earth is round and revolves around the Sun was denounced by conservative leaders at the time. Fact-based evolution is currently being denounced and taken out of some school curriculums, to be replaced, or taught side-by-side, with faith-based creationism. Faith has it's place for some people in society, but it didn't get us to the moon and beyond.
I was thinking of buying these documentaries - it's the first I've heard of them - but now, count me out. Why do you people always feel the need to get in a political or religious jab? I am a conservative leaning Libertarian, a Christian, and a Star Trek fan. I fully support any and all investment into space based technology. Then assholes like you come along with comments like this?
Screw that. I won't support your idiocy. Just like these Hollywood idiots who think they're politicians, you can't keep your mouth shut. Well, that's two lost sales.
There is no bed, because he turned the sleeping area into transporter pads (which are functional, BTW)
What the fuck? (Sorry, still have the GORN song in my head).. Please describe the level of functionality. I can only assume they light up so this dork(*) can pretend he's beaming himself somewhere. People should really be more careful in their choice of words... functional transporter pads, LOL...
(*) Yeah, I know, if I'm posting here then I'm one too, yadda yadda...
I don't think you belong here. This is Slashdot. Nobody on Slashdot watches football. Football is a "jock thing", and Slashdot members are the anti-jock.
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Because Xserve raid is a piece of shit.
Sorry, I played with one. They suck. 14 drives spread across 2 channels and no way to make a single raid volume. Take away a disk for parity and one for hot sparing per volume and you now only have 10 drives usable in the config. What the hell good is that?
Winamp Pro is a different product from Winamp, which your key is still valid for.
Fucking asshole corporations, always screwing with customers. It's not a different fucking product. They just made it one to screw the few people who supported them early on.
How long until someone puts all that in a cheap appliance (say a cordless phone base) so that the base screens calls and only rings the handsets if the caller is authorized? Or do they have that now?
They did have it now. Microsoft made a 900Mhz cordless phone with this feature. It relied on computer software (the phone base had an RS232 port), but worked very well. I still have it laying around, but don't use it anymore as the software doesn't run on anything later than Windows 98.
Microsoft should really concentrate on what they're good at: Hardware.
I can't afford them as I'm sure many other disabled/handicapped are on very tight budgets like myself.
You can't afford the Robomaid? It's $10.00. Ten whole dollars.
See, it's not that you can't afford it, it's that you don't want to afford it. You have a large dog, I bet he eats $20-$40 worth of food every month. Not to mention all of the other costs associated with a dog.
I'm not ragging on you - Being disabled can't be much fun. But claiming you can't afford a $10 product while simultaneously owning a dog isn't exactly true. I can understand your not being able to afford a $250 Roomba...
You're going to worry about saving 50% HD space (FLAC vs 320kb MP3) when 200GB drives are $100 or less? Many portable consumer devices choke on high-bit-rate (and low- for that matter) MP3s. It will take hours of time to rip a decent collection, there's no need to take shortcuts.
I have over 30GB of MP3s. Let's say I double that to 60GB with FLAC. Now, what happens when I want to sync my iPod? Tell me, how long will it take to convert 60GB of music to MP3 format? I'm thinking the time would be measured in days, even on my dual 2.4Ghz Xeon.
So then I have to keep two copies of my collection, one in FLAC and one in MP3 for my iPod. And since I like the music on my iPod in high quality, the MP3s would be 320kbit VBR. So now my 30GB music collection is (60GB FLAC + 30GB MP3) = 90GB.
No thanks. The MP3s are indistinguishable from the CD at this bit rate. And I don't want to convert them to another format - why would I? They're just fine. In 10 years I'll still be able to buy devices that support MP3 playback; MP3 is not going away. If it does, it will be in favor of a lossless format, in which case I can convert my "lossy" MP3s to the new lossless format and they will still sound identical to the CD.
However, where more-than-two channels does matter, you described as the most likely situations in which to listen to music - Moving around the house (better position independant spatial reproduction), in a noisy environment (better resistance to directional noise), etc.
Right, but if you're moving around the house, you're not getting the benefit of 5.1 channels. There are a few general places within a 5.1 equipped room that are good for listening. Once you leave that room or go to an extreme location within the room relative to the speakers, you might as well be listening in mono.
I have speakers in nearly every room of my home connected to a housewide amplification & control system, so I can actually listen to music everywhere. I'm also the only person I know who took the time to do this, or even cares for that matter. "Normal" people have a stereo or two, maybe a clock radio or little boombox in a couple of rooms, but that's it.
I certainly would not install 5.1 audio throughout my house; I think it's a waste, only good when you're sitting in a fixed location, ie when watching movies. Considering most people won't even install a set of stereo speakers throughout, getting the benefits of 5.1 while working in the kitchen or doing other household tasks just isn't going to happen.
Maybe not, but it's quite a different story when you decide you want to re-encode those mp3's into another lossy format. For archiving purposes, there is no substitute for lossless compression.
Uhm, isn't that what the original CDs are for? Why archive something you already have a hard copy of?
I rip everything to 320k max VBR MP3. Can't tell the difference between that and the CD at all. Why would I re-encode from that MP3? First, if I wanted to re-encode, I'd just do it from the CDs again. Second, why would I want to do this at all? The MP3s are already indiscernible from the CDs. Everything supports them. Why re-encode?
What, are you talking about the far flung future when we have lossless compression better than MP3? Fine, I'll convert my MP3s then. It's lossless, so no biggie.
The ONLY reasons to convert your MP3 collection to something else would be (1) Lack of support for MP3, (2) Better quality, or (3) Reduced disk space. #1 won't be an issue for decades. #2 will never be an issue for people like me who encode them right to begin with. #3 will never be an issue because, every time I fill up my hard drive, I can buy one that's double the size for half the cost. I just added a 250GB to go with my 120, and I hear you can get 400GB drives now.
Now, of course, 5.1ch 24bps@192KHz will become the dominant PCM format
OK, here's the deal: 5.1 music is a fucking joke. Why? Well, how many people do you know that have 5.1 surround to begin with? I know three, including myself. Everyone else could care less. So right there, your target market is limited.
Let's take this a step further: How many people do you know who have a 5.1 system and would sit down and actually listen to music in that environment? I mean, come on. Nobody sits on their ass and just listens to music. We do other things. Clean the house, work on a project, exercise, use the computer, drive, etc. How many 5.1 systems are installed in cars again? How many homes have 5.1 in the kitchen or the exercise room? How many people are going to rush out and equip these rooms with 5.1 just so they can listen to some fake music (it's fake because live music doesn't come from BEHIND YOU, for crying out loud)?
The whole thing is silly and won't catch on. Surround sound is for home theaters. It just doesn't work with music, except perhaps for those 5 weirdos in the world who actually sit in silence on their couch and listen to music.
Spoken like someone who knows jack shit about noise cancelling headphones.
Hint: They won't do a damn thing to stop the TV. They're designed to block out a relatively steady background noise, like the noise of an aircraft engine. You can still hold a nice conversation with these things on.
There were several other reasons why the jet engine will never be put in a rice burner
It's already been done. What, you missed the Jet powered MR-2 on eBay? I saw that sucker listed a few years back. As I recall it went for some amazingly low price - a few grand, about the normal blue book value of the car.
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think they should just utilize existing rules and regulations. Doom 3 and GTA should be rated "Adult".
Why the hell for? Did you forget your frame of mind as a teenager? Do you really think a 17 year old, or hell, even a 14 year old, can't handle a game like GTA?
As far as I'm concerned, 14 year olds aren't "children" by any means. They are capable of playing GTA without becoming psychopathic killers or having emotional trauma.
Then you're very much like me, except we differ on religion. You'd probably appreciate the Libertarian party.
Wow, a reply from the man himself? I honestly didn't think you'd be reading & responding to this.
Look, the guy below me (aardvarkjoe) said it better than I could have. I don't want you to come over to my side, and I'm not interested in a religious debate with you or anyone. Religion is a highly personal subject and I have zero problem with your belief in evolution.
What I do have a problem with is the whole idea that conservatives would like to have us living in caves and are too busy trying to hold society back. Do you honestly believe major technological achievements were all performed by liberals? Conservatives have supported space exploration. Richard Nixon certainly was more conservative than liberal and was a religious man, yet "On January 5, 1972 Nixon approved the development of the Space Shuttle program, a decision that profoundly influenced U.S. efforts to explore and develop space for several decades thereafter."
Further, I really didn't see the need to include these comments in the answer to a question about special effects. Randomly throwing that sort of talk out reminds me of that stupid movie - what was it, Two Weeks Notice? My wife used to love Sandra Bullock. She owned most every movie Bullock was in. That is, until they randomly came up with that anti-Bush talk in the middle of an otherwise acceptable chick-flick. It served no purpose, and my wife now wants nothing to do with any of Bullock's movies (which is just great as far as I'm concerned).
But I wish the conservatives currently in power were more interested in funding NASA than corporate tax breaks.
Well, so do I, Roger, but the liberals haven't done us any better. What did Clinton do for NASA during his 8 years? Nothing great that I know of.
It comes down to this: Painting it as a "conservatives & religious people vs. the rest of us" matter is simply ridiculous. I know an awful lot of religious conservatives that support space exploration.
Lastly, I must apologize for calling you an idiot and an asshole. It's easy to get caught up in a brief moment of frustration, and even easier to use such words when talking about someone who you don't think will ever read it. Those words were inappropriate and not the words a Christian should be using.
So Mr. Nygard doesn't get to express his opinion on Slashdot because he's a filmmaker
I didn't say that. He can express whatever he wants, it's a free country and I support that. But if him and other people in any sort of "spotlight" knew what was good for them, they wouldn't insert their political & religious propaganda into public conversation.
If I had a movie to sell I sure wouldn't go around slamming more than half the people in the country.
Perhaps he meant sales of two movies, maybe Trekkies 1 AND 2?
Yep, that's exactly what I meant.
Something to keep in mind, post presidential election, is that in the long run conservatives always lose. If this statement were not true, we would still be living in caves. We wouldn't have cell phones, vaccines, and rockets. Conservatives will never go to the stars. They are too busy trying to hold society back.
Every new idea that is introduced is liberal at first. The idea that the Earth is round and revolves around the Sun was denounced by conservative leaders at the time. Fact-based evolution is currently being denounced and taken out of some school curriculums, to be replaced, or taught side-by-side, with faith-based creationism. Faith has it's place for some people in society, but it didn't get us to the moon and beyond.
I was thinking of buying these documentaries - it's the first I've heard of them - but now, count me out. Why do you people always feel the need to get in a political or religious jab? I am a conservative leaning Libertarian, a Christian, and a Star Trek fan. I fully support any and all investment into space based technology. Then assholes like you come along with comments like this?
Screw that. I won't support your idiocy. Just like these Hollywood idiots who think they're politicians, you can't keep your mouth shut. Well, that's two lost sales.
There is no bed, because he turned the sleeping area into transporter pads (which are functional, BTW)
.. Please describe the level of functionality. I can only assume they light up so this dork(*) can pretend he's beaming himself somewhere. People should really be more careful in their choice of words... functional transporter pads, LOL...
What the fuck? (Sorry, still have the GORN song in my head)
(*) Yeah, I know, if I'm posting here then I'm one too, yadda yadda...
... and they wonder why people like me quit buying DVDs and just download them instead.
Seriously, I have many DVDs already that won't let you skip past the crap at the beginning. They lock out my skip button and I have to wait for it.
I don't think you belong here. This is Slashdot. Nobody on Slashdot watches football. Football is a "jock thing", and Slashdot members are the anti-jock.
Because Xserve raid is a piece of shit.
Sorry, I played with one. They suck. 14 drives spread across 2 channels and no way to make a single raid volume. Take away a disk for parity and one for hot sparing per volume and you now only have 10 drives usable in the config. What the hell good is that?
Winamp Pro is a different product from Winamp, which your key is still valid for.
Fucking asshole corporations, always screwing with customers. It's not a different fucking product. They just made it one to screw the few people who supported them early on.
Careful. I was threatened by MGM for downloading Stargate Atlantis episodes via BitTorrent.
How long until someone puts all that in a cheap appliance (say a cordless phone base) so that the base screens calls and only rings the handsets if the caller is authorized? Or do they have that now?
They did have it now. Microsoft made a 900Mhz cordless phone with this feature. It relied on computer software (the phone base had an RS232 port), but worked very well. I still have it laying around, but don't use it anymore as the software doesn't run on anything later than Windows 98.
Microsoft should really concentrate on what they're good at: Hardware.
I can't afford them as I'm sure many other disabled/handicapped are on very tight budgets like myself.
You can't afford the Robomaid? It's $10.00. Ten whole dollars.
See, it's not that you can't afford it, it's that you don't want to afford it. You have a large dog, I bet he eats $20-$40 worth of food every month. Not to mention all of the other costs associated with a dog.
I'm not ragging on you - Being disabled can't be much fun. But claiming you can't afford a $10 product while simultaneously owning a dog isn't exactly true. I can understand your not being able to afford a $250 Roomba...
You're going to worry about saving 50% HD space (FLAC vs 320kb MP3) when 200GB drives are $100 or less? Many portable consumer devices choke on high-bit-rate (and low- for that matter) MP3s. It will take hours of time to rip a decent collection, there's no need to take shortcuts.
I have over 30GB of MP3s. Let's say I double that to 60GB with FLAC. Now, what happens when I want to sync my iPod? Tell me, how long will it take to convert 60GB of music to MP3 format? I'm thinking the time would be measured in days, even on my dual 2.4Ghz Xeon.
So then I have to keep two copies of my collection, one in FLAC and one in MP3 for my iPod. And since I like the music on my iPod in high quality, the MP3s would be 320kbit VBR. So now my 30GB music collection is (60GB FLAC + 30GB MP3) = 90GB.
No thanks. The MP3s are indistinguishable from the CD at this bit rate. And I don't want to convert them to another format - why would I? They're just fine. In 10 years I'll still be able to buy devices that support MP3 playback; MP3 is not going away. If it does, it will be in favor of a lossless format, in which case I can convert my "lossy" MP3s to the new lossless format and they will still sound identical to the CD.
As you can guess, I suck at higher math...and lower math for that matter.
You're amongst friends. I can add and subtract... with my fingers...
However, where more-than-two channels does matter, you described as the most likely situations in which to listen to music - Moving around the house (better position independant spatial reproduction), in a noisy environment (better resistance to directional noise), etc.
Right, but if you're moving around the house, you're not getting the benefit of 5.1 channels. There are a few general places within a 5.1 equipped room that are good for listening. Once you leave that room or go to an extreme location within the room relative to the speakers, you might as well be listening in mono.
I have speakers in nearly every room of my home connected to a housewide amplification & control system, so I can actually listen to music everywhere. I'm also the only person I know who took the time to do this, or even cares for that matter. "Normal" people have a stereo or two, maybe a clock radio or little boombox in a couple of rooms, but that's it.
I certainly would not install 5.1 audio throughout my house; I think it's a waste, only good when you're sitting in a fixed location, ie when watching movies. Considering most people won't even install a set of stereo speakers throughout, getting the benefits of 5.1 while working in the kitchen or doing other household tasks just isn't going to happen.
and I can listen to it anywhere thanks to icecast+OpenVPN.
What about the moon? Can you listen to it on the moon?
Not that I download any, mind you. Unless I'm already licensed to possess a copy of them.
Uhm, yeah. Me too.
Maybe not, but it's quite a different story when you decide you want to re-encode those mp3's into another lossy format. For archiving purposes, there is no substitute for lossless compression.
Uhm, isn't that what the original CDs are for? Why archive something you already have a hard copy of?
I rip everything to 320k max VBR MP3. Can't tell the difference between that and the CD at all. Why would I re-encode from that MP3? First, if I wanted to re-encode, I'd just do it from the CDs again. Second, why would I want to do this at all? The MP3s are already indiscernible from the CDs. Everything supports them. Why re-encode?
What, are you talking about the far flung future when we have lossless compression better than MP3? Fine, I'll convert my MP3s then. It's lossless, so no biggie.
The ONLY reasons to convert your MP3 collection to something else would be (1) Lack of support for MP3, (2) Better quality, or (3) Reduced disk space. #1 won't be an issue for decades. #2 will never be an issue for people like me who encode them right to begin with. #3 will never be an issue because, every time I fill up my hard drive, I can buy one that's double the size for half the cost. I just added a 250GB to go with my 120, and I hear you can get 400GB drives now.
Now, of course, 5.1ch 24bps@192KHz will become the dominant PCM format
OK, here's the deal: 5.1 music is a fucking joke. Why? Well, how many people do you know that have 5.1 surround to begin with? I know three, including myself. Everyone else could care less. So right there, your target market is limited.
Let's take this a step further: How many people do you know who have a 5.1 system and would sit down and actually listen to music in that environment? I mean, come on. Nobody sits on their ass and just listens to music. We do other things. Clean the house, work on a project, exercise, use the computer, drive, etc. How many 5.1 systems are installed in cars again? How many homes have 5.1 in the kitchen or the exercise room? How many people are going to rush out and equip these rooms with 5.1 just so they can listen to some fake music (it's fake because live music doesn't come from BEHIND YOU, for crying out loud)?
The whole thing is silly and won't catch on. Surround sound is for home theaters. It just doesn't work with music, except perhaps for those 5 weirdos in the world who actually sit in silence on their couch and listen to music.
Spoken like someone who knows jack shit about noise cancelling headphones.
Hint: They won't do a damn thing to stop the TV. They're designed to block out a relatively steady background noise, like the noise of an aircraft engine. You can still hold a nice conversation with these things on.
No, you're thinking of a "mute" button. If you're talking on/off, I'd think a turn ON button would be more appropriate.
Yes they do. It's their damned airport.
Aren't most airports taxpayer funded?
There were several other reasons why the jet engine will never be put in a rice burner
It's already been done. What, you missed the Jet powered MR-2 on eBay? I saw that sucker listed a few years back. As I recall it went for some amazingly low price - a few grand, about the normal blue book value of the car.