used XBOX game console, $120. used game with software exploit, $5. recent build of XMBC, free.
flawlessly playing every codec you've ever heard of and most ones you haven't?
priceless.
some people have a lot of money to burn......for the rest of us, there are inexpensive gaming consoles which are actually just PC's with component video and 5.1 digital audio waiting to run some powerful open source software.:)
Is the sharing of "handycam" pirated movies really so much of a problem? This smells to me like a smart company marketing a product to an industry that still doesn't seem to "get" what's happening.
I see news stories all the time about these "bandits" being caught in cinemas with recording devices - but anyone I know who downloads movies deletes anything that turns out to have been recorded this way. Instead, the vast, vast majority of the content available on p2p networks are high quality rips from the screener DVD produced to market the film before its release.
Most of the time, these versions are not only of far higher quality but are available online days or even weeks before the film is even in theaters.
If the cinemas really want to "solve" this problem, maybe they should lean on their distributors a little to change their obscene pricing so the tickets don't need to cost so much and the establishments don't need to inflate refreshments so ludicrously to maintain profitability.
Let's think about this for a second? Is this a wonderful move for the environment? Or is it a shrewd move for an industry that deperately wants you to rebuy the same content over and over whether you feel like it or not?
If these discs will be usable for 100 years or more, then it's a very nice move I suppose. However if they start degrading within a lifetime, it's a pretty crappy situation for someone who wanted to hang on to them. Especially if it's less like 100 and more like 10.
I saw reported elsewhere yesterday and I'm still thinking the same thing - why pay $5000 for something the XBOX can already do, by itself, for free?
I must be missing something because I don't see a lot of functionality that my existing modded XBOX running XBMC lacks, in fact, I see fewer codecs being supported this way.
AVP, hands down. Consider this, Aliens, Predators, but no Arnie and no Sigourney and on top of all this, a PG-13 rating. Why on earth did I go see this you ask? I had a free ticket from a DVD I bought. But was it worth it? No! I want my two hours back.;)
Can anyone find and point me to a definitive package listing for the various flavors of RHEL?
I don't mean a relative listing, like a table of information that includes a short line of "includes this, this, and that" I mean a complete listing of all packages and versions, such as was provided with previous versions of Red Hat Linux.
I know Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are different products, but how can one make an informed choice about the three versions of RHEL without knowing exactly what packages they do and do not include?
Someone please mod these up! Here are the actual URL's for the Quicktime files of episode one. Since the site is pegged at the moment, few people can even navigate the pages. However these links should feed you the movies directly, at least until The Slashdot Effect inspires WB or Apple to move them, hehe.
I would reccomend using a tool like wget or lftp to grab them, as my connection reset several times while downloading (due to the traffic I imagine).
With due respect, I think you might have been misunderstanding that census data a little bit!
One twenty-fifth the size of China, the entire nation of Japan is just slightly smaller than the state of California. Encompassing a total land area of 145,843 square miles, this small nation of over 123 million people has one of the highest population densities in the world, 846 people per square mile.
It's still a very impressive number of complaints for a company to get about a DVD. You have to keep in mind that Miyazaki's last several works have each eclipsed each other as the most popular Japanese films of all time...
On the page http://www.mozilla.org/releases/, the download links are broken. They appear to have the wrong filenames, and in addition the files on the FTP server have mispelled names ("install" missing the last "l"). I was able to figure this out but lots of other MacOS users might not - if you value your enthusiastic MacOS fans, get this fixed pronto!
no rpm's for Red Hat available yet, anything else?
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Taking a look at http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Red% 20Hat/i386/ just now, it doesn't appear that there's anything there yet, or even in the src directory. Is this really out or is this just slashdot jumping the gun because someone created a 3.0 directory structure under stable?
Interesting, I never noticed that before myself but now I'll have to look back over my Arnold collection. I think you mean Eraser with Vanessa Williams though, not The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner. SAVE THE BATS
My goodness, let's immediately suspend students who are seeking non-violent means to bring awareness to the same issues which caused Columbine, after all, "freaks and geeks" should snap and use automated weaponry, or else we might be forced as a culture at large to identify them as PEOPLE...*sigh*
I have to fully support this kid, whether he speeched or not, because frankly, he's a KID. Come on now, how perfect were any of us in high school. The point here is not that he was some kind of well prepared Ghandi, it's that he cared enough to try at all to make a statement. I say rally to support this guy immediately. Create as much attention to the situation as possible, and let the media soak in their own stupidity over the school-shootings-craze for once.
When I went to high school, I'm not even sure we had a homecoming king, I certainly don't remember ever seeing or hearing of one. But we did have a queen, and as someone mentioned above there was no "nomination" - people just automatically chose. And of course the same thing happened every year. The school elected a rich, white, popular girl and usually it was whoever slept with the most members of the "A-list." It was basically a racist, classist celebration of frat whores to be.
My year, for the first time in rememberable history (I was well aware of my high school's culture thought older friends before I had gone there) my senior class elected an incredibly sweet person who cared about lots of people and actually did a lot to effect positive change in the community. It was probably the single moment in my public education I ever felt proud about anything. Of course the preps complained and I'm sure they though some computer geek fixed the election somehow, but the fact remains for 5 minutes I actually gave a darn about my hich school and I'll never forget it. What this kid did was awesome, and I hope nobody ever lets anyone forget this either.
The article isn't that bad, at least, it's more informative than most of the crap you usually have to read looking for real information in an industry typically reported on by twits who know nothing of it.
Personally, despite some of the valid criticism people will make of this technology I am just pleased about what it means to the processor scene - at last x86 systems will be able to be built with multiple CPU's using non-Intel CPU's!
Now personally, yes, I have always been a big fan of AMD, I have several machines at home running on K6 series chips right now, but AMD zeal is not why this makes me happy. This makes me happy simply because I want to see more competition in the higher end x86 system market where chips are concerned. For years typical home and office single user PC builders have had choices and competition which has driven down prices. Hopefully, this kind of technology and the possibilities it opens will create more competition and freedom of choice in the higher end markets for the serverheads and rendermonkeys who need the heavy multiple CPU horsepower but until now have had little choice where x86 architechture was concerned.
Before giving Creative all the credit for PC sound's initial evolution, how about taking a look at (just some of the) cards that came before (and after) the Sound Blaster that kicked ass.
Hailing Creative products, especially their early ones, is a tribute to their market share, not their quality. Watch it Hemos. You'll be reminiscing about what WFW 3.11 did for networking next.
I hear Lucas is making a new Star Wars movie, the first Episode of the saga! It's gonna be out like, sometime in 1999 from what I heard! Amazing!
Sigh.
The "Emotion Engine" and other stories...
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Playstation 2 Specs
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OK, I'm extremely pleased to see what Sony's putting under the hood, but my two biggest questions are left unanswered: 1.Will Sony have the marketing saavy to take the obviously available step, since the system will likely be DVD-ROM based and as we now also know, will include a decoder? I hope so. In 1984, Nintendo was able to completely saturate what was thought at the time to be a dry market, the home video game system, by marketing their NES as an "entertainment system." If the next Sony console could double as a DVD player, much the same as today's PSX can double as a CD player and even a Video CD player (with an accessory), it would roll out the red carpet for it to waltz into every living room in the US, after all it would be optimal timing, the US is still catching on to DVD... 2. Will Sony give gamers the one feature they've been crying out for since the Atari 7800 in 1985? Backwards compatibility! Come on Sony, a DVD-ROM drive will read those old PSX games, and there's a huge market full of them. Imagine the boost the new system would get at launch from kids being able to play hundreds of games already in rental stores and their own collections! And even if they just ran in soft emulation, it sounds like the new machine would have plenty of horsepower left over. Sony has dominated the market for over 3 years now, and they've obviously stil got the ball. Now let's see them run with it. SAVE THE BATS -Khyron
Okay, let's go over this again..."appears as a ghost," as in, gee, that would mean his character dies in the film we're all waiting to see. Gee, um, THANKS. That was really minor though. Or something.
SAVE THE BATS
-Khyron
This is some of the worst writing I've ever seen.
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Net Addiction
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You know, I thought after going to college I'd seen the worst writing of my life - but no, in the "published" world there's still worse. What the hell does this shit mean? "I log on to the web," yeah, sure you do buddy. Is this translated from another language or something? Other favorites of mine include "my e-mail is a piece of art," "my realization came to me," and my personal favorite "realizing that as I continue, I'm realizing..." I don't think this guy knows much english, let alone what in the hell he's talking about. Let's face it, this guy is so lame he can't even communicate well enough to tell us about his lame life.
Okay look folks, this is getting seriously out of hand. Before you know it, someone is going to go digging through Moriarity's trash or break into his house, and bang, overnight the full script is going to be on more websites than the damn Monica and Bill cigar melodrama.
Stop it now, stop it forever...please Ralph, no more Star Wars updates except those intended by Lucasfilm for public release?
From the various articles I've read over the past few days regarding the new iMac flavors and their impact on the personal computer market as a whole, I've gleaned one sensible comment - that the personal computer has reached a level, as a commodity, at which it can be considered a standard home appliance.
As such, certainly visual appeal and functional design are sure to become more influential factors in choosing a PC than they have ever been before. But my question is, why only now, and in particular, why has the iMac triggered this media blitz (which is sure in turn to trigger new product lines from everyone under the sun, who will say they all had it under development anyway)?
PC users have cried out against their cases for years. If those of us who build our own machines weren't screaming about the ugliness of beige, surely we were complaining to each other about the difficulty we had with working (physically) in our machines, the odd tools often required, and even the injuries we had sustained (no one who's done any sort of PC maintenace extensively has escaped some level of personal injury, ranging from scrapes and bruises to the deaded "slot bite" which results from inadvertenly inserting a finger through a case expansion slot and attempting to retreive it).
In fact, years ago PC makers took a great deal of effort to make it damn near impossible to work on your machine. And Apple lead the pack. In high school, I once had to repair a Mac in newspaper class because the school system lacked the funding to call a certified technician. Not only was it put together with torx screws, but they were so deeply seated as to require an obscure driver (luckily the same sort of driver is sold at auto stores for replacing headlamps in automobiles). IBM also contributed to the nonsense by putting together all of their earlier home systems (especially all the microchannel ones) with screws capped by a trademarked nonstandard head design, much like the gamebit screws which close Nintendo systems and cartridges.
While I'm happy that in the past several years, "screwless" PC cases such as those made by Enlight have seemed to dominate the market, and proprietary systems like Dell's now come standard with easy open cases which facilitate adding peripheral cards and internal devices, I do not share the media's apparent bliss over the iMac inspired "form over function" design revolution at all, because aside from it's transparent plastic gumball appeal, the iMac case represents a step backward in usability.
Now granted, that's part of the iMac's purpose, and the Macintosh mentality in general - make it pretty, make it easy, make it simple, I don't want to know how to work inside it or configure it myself (right down to the single button mouse). But is this sort of design implementation really what PC consumers want?
Take the bloated looking latest generation proprietary machines you see at Comp USA and Circuit City these days. You know, the latest line from Compaq, Gateway, et al. Large, heavy cases covered in pretty plastic shells which bend and buckle when you try to pick the machine up and move it, feeling more like packaging material than sturdy construction. And look at the way the plastic elements of these cases "snap" together, rnedering them useless if a single plastic bar should bend, warp or break off (versus a screw hole which you could at least attempt to re-tread).
Perhaps, this overhyped new design evolution will include remedies to such existant PC problems as well as relief from the ever boring beige regime we have all become far too sickened of, but I am skeptical that this will happen. Personally, I'll stay where I am for now, with my screwless Enlight tower, spray painted black by hand.
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used XBOX game console, $120.
...for the rest of us, there are inexpensive gaming consoles which are actually just PC's with component video and 5.1 digital audio waiting to run some powerful open source software. :)
used game with software exploit, $5.
recent build of XMBC, free.
flawlessly playing every codec you've ever heard of and most ones you haven't?
priceless.
some people have a lot of money to burn...
Is the sharing of "handycam" pirated movies really so much of a problem? This smells to me like a smart company marketing a product to an industry that still doesn't seem to "get" what's happening.
I see news stories all the time about these "bandits" being caught in cinemas with recording devices - but anyone I know who downloads movies deletes anything that turns out to have been recorded this way. Instead, the vast, vast majority of the content available on p2p networks are high quality rips from the screener DVD produced to market the film before its release.
Most of the time, these versions are not only of far higher quality but are available online days or even weeks before the film is even in theaters.
If the cinemas really want to "solve" this problem, maybe they should lean on their distributors a little to change their obscene pricing so the tickets don't need to cost so much and the establishments don't need to inflate refreshments so ludicrously to maintain profitability.
Let's think about this for a second? Is this a wonderful move for the environment? Or is it a shrewd move for an industry that deperately wants you to rebuy the same content over and over whether you feel like it or not?
If these discs will be usable for 100 years or more, then it's a very nice move I suppose. However if they start degrading within a lifetime, it's a pretty crappy situation for someone who wanted to hang on to them. Especially if it's less like 100 and more like 10.
Just a thought...
Just in case the Empire diabled your Hyperspace account... http://notendur.centrum.is/~arnari/epi3.mov Enjoy!
I saw reported elsewhere yesterday and I'm still thinking the same thing - why pay $5000 for something the XBOX can already do, by itself, for free?
I must be missing something because I don't see a lot of functionality that my existing modded XBOX running XBMC lacks, in fact, I see fewer codecs being supported this way.
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Cowboy Neal!
AVP, hands down. Consider this, Aliens, Predators, but no Arnie and no Sigourney and on top of all this, a PG-13 rating. Why on earth did I go see this you ask? I had a free ticket from a DVD I bought. But was it worth it? No! I want my two hours back. ;)
Can anyone find and point me to a definitive package listing for the various flavors of RHEL?
I don't mean a relative listing, like a table of information that includes a short line of "includes this, this, and that" I mean a complete listing of all packages and versions, such as was provided with previous versions of Red Hat Linux.
I know Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are different products, but how can one make an informed choice about the three versions of RHEL without knowing exactly what packages they do and do not include?
Yes I am well aware that condoms are not a 100% effective protection against anything, and if you were about to say so, you're missing my point.
I would reccomend using a tool like wget or lftp to grab them, as my connection reset several times while downloading (due to the traffic I imagine).
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Medium (90MB+):p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl.m ov
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One twenty-fifth the size of China, the entire nation of Japan is just slightly smaller than the state of California. Encompassing a total land area of 145,843 square miles, this small nation of over 123 million people has one of the highest population densities in the world, 846 people per square mile.
It's still a very impressive number of complaints for a company to get about a DVD. You have to keep in mind that Miyazaki's last several works have each eclipsed each other as the most popular Japanese films of all time...
On the page http://www.mozilla.org/releases/, the download links are broken. They appear to have the wrong filenames, and in addition the files on the FTP server have mispelled names ("install" missing the last "l"). I was able to figure this out but lots of other MacOS users might not - if you value your enthusiastic MacOS fans, get this fixed pronto!
Taking a look at http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Red% 20Hat/i386/ just now, it doesn't appear that there's anything there yet, or even in the src directory. Is this really out or is this just slashdot jumping the gun because someone created a 3.0 directory structure under stable?
Virus? Why do I have a feeling this is another one of those many things users of pine and mutt don't need to be worried about...
-Khyron
Interesting, I never noticed that before myself but now I'll have to look back over my Arnold collection. I think you mean Eraser with Vanessa Williams though, not The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner.
SAVE THE BATS
I have to fully support this kid, whether he speeched or not, because frankly, he's a KID. Come on now, how perfect were any of us in high school. The point here is not that he was some kind of well prepared Ghandi, it's that he cared enough to try at all to make a statement. I say rally to support this guy immediately. Create as much attention to the situation as possible, and let the media soak in their own stupidity over the school-shootings-craze for once.
When I went to high school, I'm not even sure we had a homecoming king, I certainly don't remember ever seeing or hearing of one. But we did have a queen, and as someone mentioned above there was no "nomination" - people just automatically chose. And of course the same thing happened every year. The school elected a rich, white, popular girl and usually it was whoever slept with the most members of the "A-list." It was basically a racist, classist celebration of frat whores to be.
My year, for the first time in rememberable history (I was well aware of my high school's culture thought older friends before I had gone there) my senior class elected an incredibly sweet person who cared about lots of people and actually did a lot to effect positive change in the community. It was probably the single moment in my public education I ever felt proud about anything. Of course the preps complained and I'm sure they though some computer geek fixed the election somehow, but the fact remains for 5 minutes I actually gave a darn about my hich school and I'll never forget it. What this kid did was awesome, and I hope nobody ever lets anyone forget this either.
SAVE THE BATS
Personally, despite some of the valid criticism people will make of this technology I am just pleased about what it means to the processor scene - at last x86 systems will be able to be built with multiple CPU's using non-Intel CPU's!
Now personally, yes, I have always been a big fan of AMD, I have several machines at home running on K6 series chips right now, but AMD zeal is not why this makes me happy. This makes me happy simply because I want to see more competition in the higher end x86 system market where chips are concerned. For years typical home and office single user PC builders have had choices and competition which has driven down prices. Hopefully, this kind of technology and the possibilities it opens will create more competition and freedom of choice in the higher end markets for the serverheads and rendermonkeys who need the heavy multiple CPU horsepower but until now have had little choice where x86 architechture was concerned.
SAVE THE BATS
Hailing Creative products, especially their early ones, is a tribute to their market share, not their quality. Watch it Hemos. You'll be reminiscing about what WFW 3.11 did for networking next.
SAVE THE BATS
-Khyron
SAVE THE BATS
Sigh.
OK, I'm extremely pleased to see what Sony's putting under the hood, but my two biggest questions are left unanswered: 1.Will Sony have the marketing saavy to take the obviously available step, since the system will likely be DVD-ROM based and as we now also know, will include a decoder? I hope so. In 1984, Nintendo was able to completely saturate what was thought at the time to be a dry market, the home video game system, by marketing their NES as an "entertainment system." If the next Sony console could double as a DVD player, much the same as today's PSX can double as a CD player and even a Video CD player (with an accessory), it would roll out the red carpet for it to waltz into every living room in the US, after all it would be optimal timing, the US is still catching on to DVD... 2. Will Sony give gamers the one feature they've been crying out for since the Atari 7800 in 1985? Backwards compatibility! Come on Sony, a DVD-ROM drive will read those old PSX games, and there's a huge market full of them. Imagine the boost the new system would get at launch from kids being able to play hundreds of games already in rental stores and their own collections! And even if they just ran in soft emulation, it sounds like the new machine would have plenty of horsepower left over. Sony has dominated the market for over 3 years now, and they've obviously stil got the ball. Now let's see them run with it. SAVE THE BATS -Khyron
SAVE THE BATS
-Khyron
SAVE THE BATS
-Khyron
Stop it now, stop it forever...please Ralph, no more Star Wars updates except those intended by Lucasfilm for public release?
SAVE THE BATS
-Khyron
As such, certainly visual appeal and functional design are sure to become more influential factors in choosing a PC than they have ever been before. But my question is, why only now, and in particular, why has the iMac triggered this media blitz (which is sure in turn to trigger new product lines from everyone under the sun, who will say they all had it under development anyway)?
PC users have cried out against their cases for years. If those of us who build our own machines weren't screaming about the ugliness of beige, surely we were complaining to each other about the difficulty we had with working (physically) in our machines, the odd tools often required, and even the injuries we had sustained (no one who's done any sort of PC maintenace extensively has escaped some level of personal injury, ranging from scrapes and bruises to the deaded "slot bite" which results from inadvertenly inserting a finger through a case expansion slot and attempting to retreive it).
In fact, years ago PC makers took a great deal of effort to make it damn near impossible to work on your machine. And Apple lead the pack. In high school, I once had to repair a Mac in newspaper class because the school system lacked the funding to call a certified technician. Not only was it put together with torx screws, but they were so deeply seated as to require an obscure driver (luckily the same sort of driver is sold at auto stores for replacing headlamps in automobiles). IBM also contributed to the nonsense by putting together all of their earlier home systems (especially all the microchannel ones) with screws capped by a trademarked nonstandard head design, much like the gamebit screws which close Nintendo systems and cartridges.
While I'm happy that in the past several years, "screwless" PC cases such as those made by Enlight have seemed to dominate the market, and proprietary systems like Dell's now come standard with easy open cases which facilitate adding peripheral cards and internal devices, I do not share the media's apparent bliss over the iMac inspired "form over function" design revolution at all, because aside from it's transparent plastic gumball appeal, the iMac case represents a step backward in usability.
Now granted, that's part of the iMac's purpose, and the Macintosh mentality in general - make it pretty, make it easy, make it simple, I don't want to know how to work inside it or configure it myself (right down to the single button mouse). But is this sort of design implementation really what PC consumers want?
Take the bloated looking latest generation proprietary machines you see at Comp USA and Circuit City these days. You know, the latest line from Compaq, Gateway, et al. Large, heavy cases covered in pretty plastic shells which bend and buckle when you try to pick the machine up and move it, feeling more like packaging material than sturdy construction. And look at the way the plastic elements of these cases "snap" together, rnedering them useless if a single plastic bar should bend, warp or break off (versus a screw hole which you could at least attempt to re-tread).
Perhaps, this overhyped new design evolution will include remedies to such existant PC problems as well as relief from the ever boring beige regime we have all become far too sickened of, but I am skeptical that this will happen. Personally, I'll stay where I am for now, with my screwless Enlight tower, spray painted black by hand.
SAVE THE BATS,
-Khyron
SAVE THE BATS -Khyron