I used to write all my HTML in notepad, save as and then open in Netscape Communicator 4.7. It practically never closed when I had learned about half of HTML 3.
"So how do countless DVD manufacturers get away with xvid-capable players?"
Because xvid is an open source compatible four-cc codec BASED upon the MPEG-4 ISO standard and not exactly copying the original codec itself?
Implementing a standard is trivial - using software produced by the standards operating body is not, so making your own compatible format is the way to go.
How do you think a lot of MP3 players get made? I know of two major companies that use their own MP3 codec, not the official Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft one - they just follow the standards and make a compatible codec.
"Also relevant: Slashdot doesn't feature ways to crack Windows activation, but it does feature workarounds to Apple restrictions. Why?"
If you don't have the brains to figure this one out, you don't belong here. Any moron can crack windows. Apple is bit more difficult, and also Apple is becomign Microsoft - usually more helpful to bite the company in the ass first rather than letting it bite you in the ass.
Read the Telecomunications act of 1996, and lo and behold, we're supposed to have had 45mbit symmetrical to every household already.
They have not delivered, I say the people should sue for failing to provide contractual obligations in a timely manner, and we file a lien on their entire infrastructure and provide everyone with free service until they deliver on their obligations?
Mine were gold master archival discs used in music studios - what's eating it is a bacteria, I've already made cultures of the stuff. There are corresponding pits in the plastic that tell me I've got some kind that screws up both metal and plastic.
that is such bullshit. I paid taxes on it once where I bought it. So if I pay for a meal on teh border, eat it, and go into another state (i'm still using it) I'd have to pay any higher sales tax on that as well? That's what I'm pulling from this conversation. What a load of nonsense.
You know for a fact nothing. The minimum x86 requirements for mpeg-2 1080p video decoding are a P4 2.0 GHz. I got lucky and managed 20fps with my 1.8, but I have a 2.8 with hyperthreading now and it doesn't even skip, pulling a full 60 fps easily at 1080p, using crap onboard intel video, with a DVI-HDMI adapter.
Let me guess, you use VLC for video playing? That would explain half your problems. I used to love VLC, until I tried HD video on it - it just chokes. Zoom Player wins.
The PC sits behind the 32" 1080p LCD it's connected to.:) The joys of non-CRT screens. There's room for two full towers behind my TV in its little stand. You wouldn't even notice it unless you looked behind the TV, the stand just blends in with the case.
No matter the magnification device, telescope, microscope, a smaller objective ocular piece will make for a more magnified image, sure there is less light imput but the image is always larger with smaller lenses. This doesn't hold true for anything that uses a mirror as a magnification device, only glass prisms, but even mirror-based telescopes (like my 6" meade) have eyepieces with smaller optics for higher magnification.
You are wrong. The smaller 50mm lens, with EVERYTHING from 2 feet to infinity, has a greater zoom range than the 62mm, which starts out at 5ft and goes out to infinity, by 3 feet - 2ft vs 5ft out from the lens. Your math sucks.
I'm correct. Smaller lenses = greater magnification at closer and further distances with proper lens distance. This is why microscopes use TINY LENSES, and telescopes (my 14" is a good example) use tiny lenses for the eyepiece - the one I'm using right now is 6mm. Makes for AWESOME views of Saturn's rings compared with the default 15mm lens that comes standard with the telescope.
Try again when you actually take a class on the subject, mmmkay?
but is guaranteed to have a century-plus shelf life after writing to it."
Which is why some of my discs have this strange thing eating away the metal backing on the disc, burned once, put in a case, and never touched again. That data is irrecoverable.
Even when it's not touched, it's shit. Until they lose the need for a reflective backing, it will always suck.
theoretically, you could fit that 1GB file onto a 600mb disc. It's possible to take one byte of data and with proper multi-level decompression algorithms and the stored tables recreate the exact same compressed data.
I've only been able to do this to about 2:1 ratio, though. The tables eventually outweigh the file and it becomes pointless, it begins swelling in size again.
Maybe when I get a little better at math and data structures I can do better. But yes, you CAN still fit that 1GB compressed image onto a smaller disk. In theory.
"You could build a capable HTPC for much less than the cost of a PS3.
Wrong."
Hah! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man you're so full of shit. My CURRENT system can work as an HTPC, with medium gaming capability, and it only cost me $150 to build.
Capable of 1080p HD? Shit, my PENTIUM FOUR is capable of doing that, at 2.0 GHz, with 512MB RAM and a proper video player. That machine is probably worth.. $75 now?
Spit out a window - notice how it gets out a distance before speed catches up and it whips out of sight.
I've done this plenty of times in my misguided youth with loogies and rocks lobbed from windows at 100+ MPH speeds down the interstate.
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Most decent martial artists have to force themselves to slow down because film usually isn't fast enough to see something taking only 1/100th of a second to move and impact. That's how much speed can be present in stiff martial arts like gung fu and tae kwon do, in kung fu movement is a bit more fluid so it's easier to capture.
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They had to ask Jet Li to slow down in many movies because he was so fast with his movements that most couldn't be caught by camera. He was making 120FPS high speed film look slow.
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I used to write all my HTML in notepad, save as and then open in Netscape Communicator 4.7. It practically never closed when I had learned about half of HTML 3.
"The one hour limit was Beta's main downfall."
Please explain this 94 minute Sid Vicious video I have on Betamax. It's called D.O.A.
Yea, thought so - they did increase their time limit around the early 80s from one hour to two.
Anything works on PSP - just get the PSP9 software and anything gets converted into PSP-compatible format.
In a world where Droid claims to do, the PSP has been doing it since before the iPhone - minus touchscreen related stuff.
I've used my PSP as a server. And I know the Droid can't control my PS3 from the internet or even from my kitchen.
"You can pick up a 1.5 terabyte HD, So why bother with removable media?"
Technically, that is removable media, since we've pretty much moved to SATA, and SATA is hot-swappable.
Anything using SCSI host commands should be hot-swappable. I've got two front-loading bays just for making hot-swappable diff backups.
"So how do countless DVD manufacturers get away with xvid-capable players?"
Because xvid is an open source compatible four-cc codec BASED upon the MPEG-4 ISO standard and not exactly copying the original codec itself?
Implementing a standard is trivial - using software produced by the standards operating body is not, so making your own compatible format is the way to go.
How do you think a lot of MP3 players get made? I know of two major companies that use their own MP3 codec, not the official Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft one - they just follow the standards and make a compatible codec.
Yep, growing fodder too :P
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Slashdot doesn't feature ways to crack Windows activation, but it does feature workarounds to Apple restrictions. Why?"
If you don't have the brains to figure this one out, you don't belong here. Any moron can crack windows. Apple is bit more difficult, and also Apple is becomign Microsoft - usually more helpful to bite the company in the ass first rather than letting it bite you in the ass.
"Then instead of ranting about DirectX, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and make a competitor for DirectX?"
Sure, as soon as you teach me how to program such a thing!
Hey, you asked.
"Bestiality is illegal"
Not in several states, actually. Washington was one, I think. Florida is another, IIRC.
last I checked broadband was considered anything over 256 kbit. Maybe they updated since my last check was a couple years ago.
Read the Telecomunications act of 1996, and lo and behold, we're supposed to have had 45mbit symmetrical to every household already.
They have not delivered, I say the people should sue for failing to provide contractual obligations in a timely manner, and we file a lien on their entire infrastructure and provide everyone with free service until they deliver on their obligations?
Mine were gold master archival discs used in music studios - what's eating it is a bacteria, I've already made cultures of the stuff. There are corresponding pits in the plastic that tell me I've got some kind that screws up both metal and plastic.
that is such bullshit. I paid taxes on it once where I bought it. So if I pay for a meal on teh border, eat it, and go into another state (i'm still using it) I'd have to pay any higher sales tax on that as well? That's what I'm pulling from this conversation. What a load of nonsense.
You know for a fact nothing. The minimum x86 requirements for mpeg-2 1080p video decoding are a P4 2.0 GHz. I got lucky and managed 20fps with my 1.8, but I have a 2.8 with hyperthreading now and it doesn't even skip, pulling a full 60 fps easily at 1080p, using crap onboard intel video, with a DVI-HDMI adapter.
Let me guess, you use VLC for video playing? That would explain half your problems. I used to love VLC, until I tried HD video on it - it just chokes. Zoom Player wins.
The PC sits behind the 32" 1080p LCD it's connected to. :) The joys of non-CRT screens. There's room for two full towers behind my TV in its little stand. You wouldn't even notice it unless you looked behind the TV, the stand just blends in with the case.
Targus Bluetooth adapter and HDMI on the video card, yes.
No matter the magnification device, telescope, microscope, a smaller objective ocular piece will make for a more magnified image, sure there is less light imput but the image is always larger with smaller lenses. This doesn't hold true for anything that uses a mirror as a magnification device, only glass prisms, but even mirror-based telescopes (like my 6" meade) have eyepieces with smaller optics for higher magnification.
You are wrong. The smaller 50mm lens, with EVERYTHING from 2 feet to infinity, has a greater zoom range than the 62mm, which starts out at 5ft and goes out to infinity, by 3 feet - 2ft vs 5ft out from the lens. Your math sucks.
I'm correct. Smaller lenses = greater magnification at closer and further distances with proper lens distance. This is why microscopes use TINY LENSES, and telescopes (my 14" is a good example) use tiny lenses for the eyepiece - the one I'm using right now is 6mm. Makes for AWESOME views of Saturn's rings compared with the default 15mm lens that comes standard with the telescope.
Try again when you actually take a class on the subject, mmmkay?
but is guaranteed to have a century-plus shelf life after writing to it."
Which is why some of my discs have this strange thing eating away the metal backing on the disc, burned once, put in a case, and never touched again. That data is irrecoverable.
Even when it's not touched, it's shit. Until they lose the need for a reflective backing, it will always suck.
theoretically, you could fit that 1GB file onto a 600mb disc. It's possible to take one byte of data and with proper multi-level decompression algorithms and the stored tables recreate the exact same compressed data.
I've only been able to do this to about 2:1 ratio, though. The tables eventually outweigh the file and it becomes pointless, it begins swelling in size again.
Maybe when I get a little better at math and data structures I can do better. But yes, you CAN still fit that 1GB compressed image onto a smaller disk. In theory.
"You could build a capable HTPC for much less than the cost of a PS3.
Wrong."
Hah! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man you're so full of shit. My CURRENT system can work as an HTPC, with medium gaming capability, and it only cost me $150 to build.
Capable of 1080p HD? Shit, my PENTIUM FOUR is capable of doing that, at 2.0 GHz, with 512MB RAM and a proper video player. That machine is probably worth.. $75 now?
Wait, so if I buy a PS3 in Tennessee, and with it in my possession move to another state and use it there, I have to pay another tax on it?
Spit out a window - notice how it gets out a distance before speed catches up and it whips out of sight.
I've done this plenty of times in my misguided youth with loogies and rocks lobbed from windows at 100+ MPH speeds down the interstate.
Most decent martial artists have to force themselves to slow down because film usually isn't fast enough to see something taking only 1/100th of a second to move and impact. That's how much speed can be present in stiff martial arts like gung fu and tae kwon do, in kung fu movement is a bit more fluid so it's easier to capture.
They had to ask Jet Li to slow down in many movies because he was so fast with his movements that most couldn't be caught by camera. He was making 120FPS high speed film look slow.