From what I understand, if the source material is 1080P but your TV is 1080i, you most likely won't see any difference unless you have a very poor deinterlacer.
If the source material is progressive and your television can only produce an interlaced image, there is no deinterlacing going on. It's the opposite, where you have to throw out half of the data because it can't all be drawn at the same time. 1080i or 1080p content will both look exactly the same when displayed on a 1080i set.
This reminds me of a lawsuit that happened years ago with Sega. Some company wanted to publish unlicensed games for the system. In order to do so, it had to call up some function that displayed the SEGA(tm) logo at the beginning of each game. If I remember correctly, Sega successfully sued the unlicensed publisher because in order to make the cartridge boot on the system they had to display Sega's trademark.
Their blatent disregard for standards. Sometimes it goes further than that, where they purposely ignore or mangle standards (Java anyone? How about CSS?) to prevent you from switching to anyone else who plays on a level field.
Did you try clicking on the Subject of his post? I think it used to take me to another page, but since the Javascript stuff came in it simply expands the thread.
Gamers aren't misusing the product when they swing the remote control around. It's what you're supposed to do with the thing. Nintendo has been very adament about using the seatbelts provided with the controller, but the seatbelts break anyways and take out thousand dollar TVs with them. I'm not sure why you're laughing.
I personally hated the N64 version of Zelda and found my first two days on Twilight Princess to be horribly similar to the older experience. Fortunately most of the things I decided to hate had gone away the moment they put a sword in my hand. I think swinging the remote (which can be done with minute hand guestures) feels VERY natural and adds a large amount of fun factor to the game.
I would agree with just about everything said in the review except for the graphics being even considered "decent." The game to me looks like I would be calling it ugly even if it were running on a Gamecube. The textures look pre-Xbox (original) which probably stems from the fact the game was developed with the Cube in mind, not the more powerful Wii. My video game time has began to suffer as a result of leaving my college years. I have not been very excited about playing games, nor have I been playing very much. Thankfully a title so wonderful as Zelda:TP has come to sweep away hours of my life, I have no problem playing this thing for even two hours at a time while chores and life continue to pass me by. The gaming experience is simply beautiful, thank you Nintendo!
I really didn't, I thought that Novell would do better than sell out the last of their dedicated fans. I love administrating our Novell network. I loved SUSE Linux before Novell bought them, even more afterwards! And now Steve Ballmer has ME ready to throw some chairs over his statements.
I don't feel we as a community have taken ANYTHING away from those pretentious bastards, things are quite the opposite. I would be forever hurt to watch something as stupid and ineffective as government crush the open source movement over something as silly and wrong as the claims MS is making.
So I'm going to throw out SUSE today in light of this article. Companies who put their effort into FOSS aren't supposed to be making money anyways, right guys? I'd rather make a deal with the devil than give way to Red Hat and Oracle without a fight.
Why he is sitting at score:0 I don't know. He's right, not friendly, but right. Wish I had a few to hand out today, because +1 informative seems to hit the spot on parent post.
When you invest $250 on an iPod you are probably less attached to the company than if you dropped $2500 on those shiney MacBook Pros. That seems like an obvious factor to me, but to think these consumers would go out and buy a second Zune device just doesn't seem right.
Maybe your customers aren't buying CDs OR pirating music. I'd bet there's a good chance they took their money online to iTunes or Napster. That's not piracy, it's just a newer and more preferred method of buying music. Besides they don't have to deal with asshole clerks at the counter, either.
You may disclose the results of any benchmark test of those components, provided that you comply with the conditions set forth at http://go.microsoft/fwlink/?LinkID=66406.
So if I agree to the EULA and the limitations provided on that webpage at the time of agreement and it changes, am I bound to that ever-changing webpage? How could they possibly hold me to newer changes that I couldn't read about before I agreed, or is this just as laughable in court as I'm seeing it now?
Doctor / patient relationships have nothing to do with the court system either.
They don't want reporters to be "above the law" - they want these laws changed to make it fair for journalists to report on shady topics without risking jailtime for themselves or their sources.
If I recall correctly reverse engineering is allowed it if is done without infringing any copyrights. That is if you own the music and strip the DRM to keep it to yourself, then it's probably legal. I say probably because there hasn't been a definitive case on this yet.
I understand that MySQL is in fact designed to make programming easier, but I've found SQL to be very easy and understandable. We're using MSSQL where I work (it might be the only Microsoft product I have respect for) but found the language quick and easy to pick up.
I do agree it's mostly laziness that gets people (not bothering to research enough on SQL injections) but it is hard to test my own code for all possible attacks.. If one of my apps were to be SQL-Injected I would not chalk that one up to laziness, but possibly incompetence. I've done my homework, the only suggestions I've ingored are parameterized stored-proc calls.. I'm not even sure *they* could prevent an attack.
I am pretty new at PHP development, but not new to programming. I had to learn SQL on-the-spot and I'm aware of SQL injection attacks and the risks they pose.
We have implemented a DB wrapper that "escapes" user input for things like ' that would break out of the input. I also check the length on the server side to make sure they're not trying to overflow any of the variables. By the looks of many of these posts, that isn't an "acceptable" amount of protection and that procedures are a must.. Anyone care to inform me or refer me to a good website?
Slackware taught me Linux. I had used distros before and after Slack (I'm on SUSE now) but none forced me to understand Linux more. I learned how to compile a kernel, modify X*.conf files, load driver modules and./configure, make, make install.
I switched to SUSE for laziness reasons, but because of Slack I've yet to have a problem that was too much for me to solve.
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This reminds me of a lawsuit that happened years ago with Sega. Some company wanted to publish unlicensed games for the system. In order to do so, it had to call up some function that displayed the SEGA(tm) logo at the beginning of each game. If I remember correctly, Sega successfully sued the unlicensed publisher because in order to make the cartridge boot on the system they had to display Sega's trademark.
Maybe you could write a few more to catch the joke for you as well. =)
Their blatent disregard for standards. Sometimes it goes further than that, where they purposely ignore or mangle standards (Java anyone? How about CSS?) to prevent you from switching to anyone else who plays on a level field.
If I smash my thumb in with a hammer, can I blame that tool as well? Sounds like a glitch in the hammer by your standards.
Did you try clicking on the Subject of his post? I think it used to take me to another page, but since the Javascript stuff came in it simply expands the thread.
Gamers aren't misusing the product when they swing the remote control around. It's what you're supposed to do with the thing. Nintendo has been very adament about using the seatbelts provided with the controller, but the seatbelts break anyways and take out thousand dollar TVs with them. I'm not sure why you're laughing.
I personally hated the N64 version of Zelda and found my first two days on Twilight Princess to be horribly similar to the older experience. Fortunately most of the things I decided to hate had gone away the moment they put a sword in my hand. I think swinging the remote (which can be done with minute hand guestures) feels VERY natural and adds a large amount of fun factor to the game.
I would agree with just about everything said in the review except for the graphics being even considered "decent." The game to me looks like I would be calling it ugly even if it were running on a Gamecube. The textures look pre-Xbox (original) which probably stems from the fact the game was developed with the Cube in mind, not the more powerful Wii. My video game time has began to suffer as a result of leaving my college years. I have not been very excited about playing games, nor have I been playing very much. Thankfully a title so wonderful as Zelda:TP has come to sweep away hours of my life, I have no problem playing this thing for even two hours at a time while chores and life continue to pass me by. The gaming experience is simply beautiful, thank you Nintendo!
I really didn't, I thought that Novell would do better than sell out the last of their dedicated fans. I love administrating our Novell network. I loved SUSE Linux before Novell bought them, even more afterwards! And now Steve Ballmer has ME ready to throw some chairs over his statements.
I don't feel we as a community have taken ANYTHING away from those pretentious bastards, things are quite the opposite. I would be forever hurt to watch something as stupid and ineffective as government crush the open source movement over something as silly and wrong as the claims MS is making.
..if the cost of my product already goes to pay for the music I steal on it, does that make stealing music on a Zune device legitimate?
So I'm going to throw out SUSE today in light of this article. Companies who put their effort into FOSS aren't supposed to be making money anyways, right guys? I'd rather make a deal with the devil than give way to Red Hat and Oracle without a fight.
Why he is sitting at score:0 I don't know. He's right, not friendly, but right. Wish I had a few to hand out today, because +1 informative seems to hit the spot on parent post.
When you invest $250 on an iPod you are probably less attached to the company than if you dropped $2500 on those shiney MacBook Pros. That seems like an obvious factor to me, but to think these consumers would go out and buy a second Zune device just doesn't seem right.
Maybe your customers aren't buying CDs OR pirating music. I'd bet there's a good chance they took their money online to iTunes or Napster. That's not piracy, it's just a newer and more preferred method of buying music. Besides they don't have to deal with asshole clerks at the counter, either.
So if I agree to the EULA and the limitations provided on that webpage at the time of agreement and it changes, am I bound to that ever-changing webpage? How could they possibly hold me to newer changes that I couldn't read about before I agreed, or is this just as laughable in court as I'm seeing it now?
Use a hardware firewall, much harder to compromise than any software on a Windows box.
So a punchline isn't even required for this joke any longer but it's still +4 Funny? Or are the mods referring to the smell of this stale reference?
Doctor / patient relationships have nothing to do with the court system either.
They don't want reporters to be "above the law" - they want these laws changed to make it fair for journalists to report on shady topics without risking jailtime for themselves or their sources.
If I recall correctly reverse engineering is allowed it if is done without infringing any copyrights. That is if you own the music and strip the DRM to keep it to yourself, then it's probably legal. I say probably because there hasn't been a definitive case on this yet.
Not funny anymore, I move to retire "chair" jokes on Slashdot.
OEM Licenses are bound to the hardware they came with. You can't move those even once without violating the terms.
This whole artical is about what they plan to do when things DON'T go perfectly.
I understand that MySQL is in fact designed to make programming easier, but I've found SQL to be very easy and understandable. We're using MSSQL where I work (it might be the only Microsoft product I have respect for) but found the language quick and easy to pick up.
I do agree it's mostly laziness that gets people (not bothering to research enough on SQL injections) but it is hard to test my own code for all possible attacks.. If one of my apps were to be SQL-Injected I would not chalk that one up to laziness, but possibly incompetence. I've done my homework, the only suggestions I've ingored are parameterized stored-proc calls.. I'm not even sure *they* could prevent an attack.
I am pretty new at PHP development, but not new to programming. I had to learn SQL on-the-spot and I'm aware of SQL injection attacks and the risks they pose.
We have implemented a DB wrapper that "escapes" user input for things like ' that would break out of the input. I also check the length on the server side to make sure they're not trying to overflow any of the variables. By the looks of many of these posts, that isn't an "acceptable" amount of protection and that procedures are a must.. Anyone care to inform me or refer me to a good website?
Slackware taught me Linux. I had used distros before and after Slack (I'm on SUSE now) but none forced me to understand Linux more. I learned how to compile a kernel, modify X*.conf files, load driver modules and ./configure, make, make install.
I switched to SUSE for laziness reasons, but because of Slack I've yet to have a problem that was too much for me to solve.