Cool, thanks, I'll download it soon. I wonder why they didn't make it 720p though, would be better for those with such screens. I have 1440x900 display so I don't care about exact resolution anyway:) Scene should standarise HD rips, they should fit on a DVD.
This movie was pure science fiction, in "what if this happened" sense. Other than the main theme from the movie the future was quite believable. Western Europe is already stormed by immigration waves from it's eastern parts and Africa, hundreds of thousands of people from my country left to England and Ireland in hopes for employment because with our current government and trends there's little hope. That's not the point, the movie was about moral decay, it could be P.K. Dick's novel if he lived today. It's not a movie about USA but right-wing is usually paranoid so I'm not surprised that you're offended by anything that resembles critique.
At the time Jesus was living he could supposedly do amazing stuff, make dead people alive, change water into wine and he couldn't explain shit? Did he have to resort to vague stories that could mean anything? We're talking about stuff that human being can understand after all. This doesn't make sense, your religion sucks. The methapor thing is the way church wants to stay relevant.
Depends on a country, I guess. Different distributors use different copy protections, scene groups usually look for release without one or with the weak one (like Securom) for example.
My friend's girlfriend bought a MacBook yesterday. The better white one, it cost her about 1600$ (that's after 10% student discount). Quick googling revealed that you can get the same/better hardware (GeForce Go7300, less weight) from Asus for 1300$ (yeah, with a built-in camera and remote). I don't know if the looks and ability to run OSX without hacks are worth that much. With low-end MacBook comparison would be devastating. I live in Poland btw.
For instance, voice across the entire system (not just in-game chat) without having to worry whether the person is using TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, or Skype.
Would be more like:
For instance, voice across the entire system (not just in-game chat) without having to worry whether the person is using TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, Skype or Live.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly like on their console. They may be offering something slightly better but with such a price and already developed and estabilished alternative solutions they'll have a hard time getting marketshare.
I've just installed PC version of RE4 and after few minutes of gameplay I've felt kinda threatened. One part was creepy villagers trying to kill me, the second part was terrible controls (directly ported from GC, even manual images and text refer to a GC gamepad)
How hard is it to implement a USB MSD-like driver for Firewire? This is not an excuse.
iTunes is not better than average software, it is crap, all other mentioned apps are crap. The difference is that Creative doesn't force you to use this shit, it doesn't screw up directory structure or file names. iTunes way is not easy-enough-for-a-moron, it's designed-for-a-moron and most likely will drive other people crazy.
Amarok does have this kind of as-you-type searching. The problem with iTunes is that I can't just put the song/album/artist I like to be the next one to be played with just one drag and drop move, I don't use any saved playlists, it's not a very flexible concept for very big collections. I just want to load an album or a song, then if I feel like it add something other to be played after that or maybe after the current song. Most of the media players have very awkward ways to to this (well, today most of them are just iTunes rip-offs), Windows Media Player (9 and 10) almost got this right but WMP11 doesn't have this functionality anymore.
I've found iTunes on OSX to be faster than on Windows too but that wasn't my point. My biggest problem with iTunes is playlist management. It doesn't scale well when you have over 10000 songs. After having a tree view (artist - year/album) with current playlist next to it I can't go back to iTunes way of doing it. There are many other thing that bother me in iTunes but I'm using Linux mostly and I'm too lazy to reboot or try running it in Wine just to make a list;)
Oh my god. Are you saying that there's something better than Amarok AND it's for a Mac? I want to know it, seriously, because from what I see most people with OSX use iTunes which has no real alternatives and is just so clunky, unintuitive and counter-productive it makes me wish I could listen to my only infant child choking on vomit if it only was played through Amarok.
Maybe you're referring to some obscure piece of shareware that is a Winamp clone with pretty interface and costs $49? I absolutely despise Mac shareware market, most of this apps are trivial and cost way too much. I've looked for a guitar tabulature editor with support for Guitar Pro or Powertab files. The only native stuff I've found used MIDI import feature at best and was ridiculously overpriced. I can get TuxGuitar on Linux or Powertab on Windows for free FFS.
BTW, media playback is not really a problem on any platform since ffmpeg (used by VLC for example) plays nearly anything you throw at it. Those Sony propertiary format are likely to be a problem though.
BTW2, Linux is perfectly fine with fonts unless you use Suse or some other braindead distro. Ubuntu does fonts well without any tweaking, maybe that's why it's most popular distro currently. BTW3, I hate OSX font rendering:)
We expect OS to support unicode and various input methods, it would be laughed at if it wouldn't. I think author meant translations and OSX should be ashamed with really low amount of them, there's 15 supported languages (mine is not among them even though over 50 million people use it). Linux is clearly superior in this matter with Gnome and KDE supporting far more languages.
Ummm, I guess you're thinking 720p. 1080p is really intensive on computers, especially if it's encoded with high-quality VC-1 or H.264. I've recently seen 10,4GB version of Serenity (1080i, mpgv codec) and my PC (Athlon64 3500+ @ 2.4GHz) was barely powerful enough to play it with deinterlacing enabled. I guess part of the problem was VLC/ffmpeg and therefore no help from graphics card.
While initial production volumes are low and demand exceeds supply, then the price goes up. That's basic economics and will be driven by early adopters with deep pockets. As production moves into the millions and the competition responds, then prices will come down. In fact we want the competition to respond so that Apple are forced to re-asses their prices at the earliest opportunity. That's good for the consumer.
iPhone is not such a novelty to justify very high price. The competition in the cell phone market is very strong, Nokia and Sony will surely respond and they have very big advantage of having lots of experience, big market share (support from 3rd party companies) and wide range of products. You can have a Symbian phone very cheap now, if you want some high-end features, there are phones that have them. Apple has placed itself in a very uncomfortable position.
But it's the same OS as their PCs and there are many thousands of developers on that platform already. I bet that when Leopard is released there is also an SDK for the iPhone that's integrated with Xcode (the Mac OS X IDE). Apple would be nuts not to do this and leverage their existing development talent for iPhone apps. One year from now you'll have iPhone apps coming out of your ears.
Most of the current phones can run J2ME and Symbian apps, there are tons useful apps out there, like offline maps that don't require accessing Google Maps over EDGE. During the keynote and in the technical specs there is no mention of J2ME and this will be a problem. Apple aims to get 1% market share in 2008, this is way too small for most companies to even acknowledge the existence of iPhone.
Seems that everybody is missing that the prices (500$ for 4GB, 600$ for 8GB one) are not true retail prices. You have to sign for 2 year subscription with cell phone operator and it's not available for next half of a year. iPhone looks really good but as always with Apple products it's a bit overpriced (I can't wait to see what Europe-tax will be this time...). Sony is already making similar phones (4GB walkman phone) and ones with big touchscreen (m600i), it's a matter of time until other companies will come up with something similar and cheaper. Apple has also a disadvantage of not using a common smartphone OS.
I like the part where developer talks about how little we know about assassins and that they are sort of the good guys in the game. To my knowledge they were bunch of fanatical hashish addicts controlled by muslim fundamentalists that were so powerful that even Saladin was scared of them.
Oh, you can make everything a belief. You can claim that the fact that me thinking that pope isn't in my bathroom at this moment makes me a follower of "No pope in the bathroom" religion.
Nazi Germany. Revolutionary France. Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Communist Poland, and many other communist countries. Just to name a few. Many times throughout history religion through its fundimental beliefs and hold over the populace has posed serious opposition to totalitarian regeims. Lack of a religion, for better or worse, leave people without a basis for strong moral center (morality becomes relative) thus more moldible into an automiton for the state. This does not mean that religion cannot be misused nor that there are not moral (assuming the general Judao-Christian moral traits of peace, justice, brotherhood, etc. or the like) aeteists out there. However, just as with religion, atheism can be as deadly or destructive to the general peace as any other ideology.
See? People were not killed in the name of atheism but because of opposition to the authoritarian/totalitarian regime. Now compare it to the conflicts with Bible/Koran/whatever as a main reason for war or just oppression of anybody who dares to question the beliefs. There's something seriously wrong with people being moral just because of religion because it means they would have problems with rational reasoning of christian morality which is supposed to be a set of rules that make everything live happily. And they have problems as seen in example of catholic church saying that gays or divorced people are going to burn in hell for eterninty (what will they do in spare time?). There are no serious explanations but people follow these rules just because Bible says so (or more likely, priest says so).
Atheism is far more harder to exploit because there's no official teachings written by people more than 1000 years ago that you can interpret in thousands of ways because stuff is no more actual and in the meantime many internal inconsistencies were found and must be treated as a metaphor to have any grounds to be treated as something serious.
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Cool, thanks, I'll download it soon. I wonder why they didn't make it 720p though, would be better for those with such screens. I have 1440x900 display so I don't care about exact resolution anyway :) Scene should standarise HD rips, they should fit on a DVD.
Yup, although Chanka seems to be dead nullDC public beta was released just yesterday and Makaron shows much promise.
This movie was pure science fiction, in "what if this happened" sense. Other than the main theme from the movie the future was quite believable. Western Europe is already stormed by immigration waves from it's eastern parts and Africa, hundreds of thousands of people from my country left to England and Ireland in hopes for employment because with our current government and trends there's little hope. That's not the point, the movie was about moral decay, it could be P.K. Dick's novel if he lived today. It's not a movie about USA but right-wing is usually paranoid so I'm not surprised that you're offended by anything that resembles critique.
Then leave WTO and stop using it to harass AllofMP3.
At the time Jesus was living he could supposedly do amazing stuff, make dead people alive, change water into wine and he couldn't explain shit? Did he have to resort to vague stories that could mean anything? We're talking about stuff that human being can understand after all. This doesn't make sense, your religion sucks. The methapor thing is the way church wants to stay relevant.
Depends on a country, I guess. Different distributors use different copy protections, scene groups usually look for release without one or with the weak one (like Securom) for example.
My friend's girlfriend bought a MacBook yesterday. The better white one, it cost her about 1600$ (that's after 10% student discount). Quick googling revealed that you can get the same/better hardware (GeForce Go7300, less weight) from Asus for 1300$ (yeah, with a built-in camera and remote). I don't know if the looks and ability to run OSX without hacks are worth that much. With low-end MacBook comparison would be devastating. I live in Poland btw.
For instance, voice across the entire system (not just in-game chat) without having to worry whether the person is using TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, Skype or Live.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly like on their console. They may be offering something slightly better but with such a price and already developed and estabilished alternative solutions they'll have a hard time getting marketshare.
all Mac apps from worst to best.
Windows only. It's using .Net and DirectX so I wouldn't expect port anytime soon.
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Jesus fuck, PC stands for personal computer, not Windows (hint: Apple commercials lie)
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I've just installed PC version of RE4 and after few minutes of gameplay I've felt kinda threatened. One part was creepy villagers trying to kill me, the second part was terrible controls (directly ported from GC, even manual images and text refer to a GC gamepad)
I tried to run games in Vista from my old XP partition and games complained about missing dx dlls.
How hard is it to implement a USB MSD-like driver for Firewire? This is not an excuse.
iTunes is not better than average software, it is crap, all other mentioned apps are crap. The difference is that Creative doesn't force you to use this shit, it doesn't screw up directory structure or file names. iTunes way is not easy-enough-for-a-moron, it's designed-for-a-moron and most likely will drive other people crazy.
Broaden your definition of a nerd. If it's science, it matters.
Amarok does have this kind of as-you-type searching. The problem with iTunes is that I can't just put the song/album/artist I like to be the next one to be played with just one drag and drop move, I don't use any saved playlists, it's not a very flexible concept for very big collections. I just want to load an album or a song, then if I feel like it add something other to be played after that or maybe after the current song. Most of the media players have very awkward ways to to this (well, today most of them are just iTunes rip-offs), Windows Media Player (9 and 10) almost got this right but WMP11 doesn't have this functionality anymore.
I've found iTunes on OSX to be faster than on Windows too but that wasn't my point. My biggest problem with iTunes is playlist management. It doesn't scale well when you have over 10000 songs. After having a tree view (artist - year/album) with current playlist next to it I can't go back to iTunes way of doing it. There are many other thing that bother me in iTunes but I'm using Linux mostly and I'm too lazy to reboot or try running it in Wine just to make a list ;)
Oh my god. Are you saying that there's something better than Amarok AND it's for a Mac? I want to know it, seriously, because from what I see most people with OSX use iTunes which has no real alternatives and is just so clunky, unintuitive and counter-productive it makes me wish I could listen to my only infant child choking on vomit if it only was played through Amarok.
Maybe you're referring to some obscure piece of shareware that is a Winamp clone with pretty interface and costs $49? I absolutely despise Mac shareware market, most of this apps are trivial and cost way too much. I've looked for a guitar tabulature editor with support for Guitar Pro or Powertab files. The only native stuff I've found used MIDI import feature at best and was ridiculously overpriced. I can get TuxGuitar on Linux or Powertab on Windows for free FFS.
BTW, media playback is not really a problem on any platform since ffmpeg (used by VLC for example) plays nearly anything you throw at it. Those Sony propertiary format are likely to be a problem though.BTW2, Linux is perfectly fine with fonts unless you use Suse or some other braindead distro. Ubuntu does fonts well without any tweaking, maybe that's why it's most popular distro currently. BTW3, I hate OSX font rendering
Bad mood, sorry, I could wrap it in nicer words
We expect OS to support unicode and various input methods, it would be laughed at if it wouldn't. I think author meant translations and OSX should be ashamed with really low amount of them, there's 15 supported languages (mine is not among them even though over 50 million people use it). Linux is clearly superior in this matter with Gnome and KDE supporting far more languages.
Heard of nspluginwrapper?
Ummm, I guess you're thinking 720p. 1080p is really intensive on computers, especially if it's encoded with high-quality VC-1 or H.264. I've recently seen 10,4GB version of Serenity (1080i, mpgv codec) and my PC (Athlon64 3500+ @ 2.4GHz) was barely powerful enough to play it with deinterlacing enabled. I guess part of the problem was VLC/ffmpeg and therefore no help from graphics card.
iPhone is not such a novelty to justify very high price. The competition in the cell phone market is very strong, Nokia and Sony will surely respond and they have very big advantage of having lots of experience, big market share (support from 3rd party companies) and wide range of products. You can have a Symbian phone very cheap now, if you want some high-end features, there are phones that have them. Apple has placed itself in a very uncomfortable position.
Most of the current phones can run J2ME and Symbian apps, there are tons useful apps out there, like offline maps that don't require accessing Google Maps over EDGE. During the keynote and in the technical specs there is no mention of J2ME and this will be a problem. Apple aims to get 1% market share in 2008, this is way too small for most companies to even acknowledge the existence of iPhone.
Seems that everybody is missing that the prices (500$ for 4GB, 600$ for 8GB one) are not true retail prices. You have to sign for 2 year subscription with cell phone operator and it's not available for next half of a year. iPhone looks really good but as always with Apple products it's a bit overpriced (I can't wait to see what Europe-tax will be this time...). Sony is already making similar phones (4GB walkman phone) and ones with big touchscreen (m600i), it's a matter of time until other companies will come up with something similar and cheaper. Apple has also a disadvantage of not using a common smartphone OS.
I like the part where developer talks about how little we know about assassins and that they are sort of the good guys in the game. To my knowledge they were bunch of fanatical hashish addicts controlled by muslim fundamentalists that were so powerful that even Saladin was scared of them.
Oh, you can make everything a belief. You can claim that the fact that me thinking that pope isn't in my bathroom at this moment makes me a follower of "No pope in the bathroom" religion.
See? People were not killed in the name of atheism but because of opposition to the authoritarian/totalitarian regime. Now compare it to the conflicts with Bible/Koran/whatever as a main reason for war or just oppression of anybody who dares to question the beliefs. There's something seriously wrong with people being moral just because of religion because it means they would have problems with rational reasoning of christian morality which is supposed to be a set of rules that make everything live happily. And they have problems as seen in example of catholic church saying that gays or divorced people are going to burn in hell for eterninty (what will they do in spare time?). There are no serious explanations but people follow these rules just because Bible says so (or more likely, priest says so).
Atheism is far more harder to exploit because there's no official teachings written by people more than 1000 years ago that you can interpret in thousands of ways because stuff is no more actual and in the meantime many internal inconsistencies were found and must be treated as a metaphor to have any grounds to be treated as something serious.