about sony: I don't care... I think both formats will fail and deserve to...
anyways - thanks for the technical information...
I'm not a multimedia-format-expert, just thought about keyframes and motion-information which might be put together... in theory it's possible and theory is my field of activity (computability, turing machines, complexity, discrete math)
learned something new again =)
now I read many comments saying that both, the HD-DVD and the DVD part will suffer because they steal disk space from each other, but this isn't neccessarily so...
you know you could use the same motion-data for both of them (you'd have to put them on the dvd-layer) and put key-frames with higher resolutions on the HD-DVD layers...
infact you might only need to put additional information in there (like gif files that start blurry and increase resolution later on in the loading process, since the pixels aren't stored sequentially
now this is very technical stuff, but it quite surely would work - you just have to read the different layers simultaneously and mix the data back together... I think I'll suggest that to toshiba, since I hate sony (those rootkit and DRM freaks) and want them to lose the HD-war...
this way you could have DVD and HD-DVD compatible discs, without much loss of disc space...
alright, this looks like it was heading for flaming...
stop it, let's concentrate on the main point:
if someone uses tor, this doesn't automatically mean he is breaking any rules!
otherwise I'd have to raid your house for chatlogs, because you must have connections to al-quaeda, because why else wouldn't you do your cybersex with your girlfriend on public IRC chatrooms?
so this book is called "the hobbit" in english? in germany it's called "der kleine hobbit" which means "the little hobbit"... I'd bet some marketing jerk came up with this additional word... "the hobbit? that sounds like nothing!... noone will buy it!... I'll put a 'little' in, so maybe people buy it for their kids, cause this sounds like a cute book for children..."
as far as I understand TOR - this whole network exists for users to remain absolutely anonymous. because of many many many proxies there should nowhere be evidence for who did what (correct me if I'm wrong)
SO if there is no evidence at all for any special activity, then this must mean that the police seized the servers just because they suspected the owners of doing illegal activities, based on nothing but the fact that they used anonymization software...
BUT in germany it is illegal for the police to raid a house without a strong suspicion (and I don't think "using anonymization software" is a strong reason - yepp, asked my lawyer, using anonymization software wouldn't even hold as indication
SO I'd say this whole raid was illegal...
and it's just another reason for me to vote the german pirate-party next time http://piratenpartei.de/
I use it and I love it =)
I tried ubuntu some month ago - I didn't like it, although I can't remember why I didn't like it... might have been hardware issues... I'll defenitely try ubuntu 6 before installing mandriva 2007 final (when that's done)
windows XP also doesn't come with ati or nvidia drivers... it uses a vesa driver by default, too
this whole graphics-card driver disaster is not mandrivas fault by the way... the thing is that ati and nvidia don't allow linux distros to include the binary drivers - they don't even allow them to include self-written open drivers...
anyhow, to get nvidia drivers running in mandriva, do this:
download the driver (i'll assume it's in root's home directory)
in a shell: urpmi kernel-source
init 3
(you are now in text mode)
login as root
cd ~
sh NVIDIA[tab-key to complete the filename of the driver installer]
after reading some comments I now see that this guy didn't fall for this old psycho-trick, but is using it against his readers, because he works at McAfee...
in a book about psychology i read that "expensive products must be better than cheap products" is a thought that has been burned into our brains. In times of our parents and grandparents this was true (thats why they taught us that) but today it is just not true anymore
today this thought is exploited by greedy companies that take more money for their products than comparable products cost, so people will think it was better
I read a test once. a cheap noname dish liquid was place 1... I don't know about you, but today I buy cheap noname products. I don't recognize any difference to the expensive products and save lots of money, because I don't fall for this psycho-trick anymore...
The idea is nice but it reveals some of the internals which are NOT pleasant. What do I mean? "Player gets rewarded by the view of...", "Here we get an opportunity to display some Alex's emotions, making her more believable", "we tried [some horrible, really dumb idea] but we got reports from betatesters that they didn't like it, so we changed it." "It is important to reward the player with praises from Alex"
Movies are shown to test-viewers and scripts are changed according to their suggestions
so: no difference to movies there
The story is not a result of a talent. Talent makes the story feel real, be believable because it feels like "if it ever happened, it would happen just like this". But both HL2 and EP1 felt simply fake - engineered, where characters follow script and play emotions, where events happen from script, because you entered a trigger area, not because they should happen about then. When you enter the car you -know- the crane will fail. When you enter the house and see the lift down and a button by it, it's like it was labelled "call lift and zombies". Places, devices, locations, layouts that make no sense but play well as puzzles. (HL1 is guilty of this heavily too).
there are lame an predictable movies, too. there are movies that don't feel real and beleivable
want proof? watch the house of the 1000 corpses... at one point i even thought "that girl in the dark tunnel will get a shocking event in THREE, TWO, ONE" bojeah, a corpse fell in front of her feet
want more proof? see "Cutthroat Island" (the movie that bankrupted carolco) you know EXACTLY that the whole gunpowder will explode just in the moment when Geena Davis and Matthew Modine jump off the ship
The underlying script - the concept - is good. But when it left hands of the writer, it wasn't implemented with the game written around it. It got in hands of game designers and they hammered it into the concept of a game, mangling it beyond recognition. Real world isn't split into physics puzzles, vistas, combat arenas and storytelling locations. The commentary track just makes it painfully obvious.
There are screenplays that are brilliant, but must be changed, because producers want it to be hollywood-like... happy ends, the bad guy survives in horror films, the good guy doesn't kill the bad guy intentionally - only in self-defense, bankrobbery mustn't be successful unless the "bad guy" has to invest VERY MUCH money and skills, the bad guy may only win if the police are crooks or he has good intentions, romance, trouble in the romance...
watch the commentary on 12 monkeys... terry gilliam talks very openly about how producers tried to force him to make a happy end for "brazil"
and what happens then is that you get three damn phone calls every day by someone who asks you if you want to play the lottery (95% of your money are administrative charges, if it were 100% then it was fraud, but this way it is legal) or they ask you about your phone bill, you can save money with them! and if you want a broshure, you get a letter "thank you for signing up AND SO ON
man, I hate these a$$holes... there really should be a new law, because these crooks slip through the holes in the current law - public gambling is illegal, but if you have to answer a question like "who is president of the USA, george w bush or elmo from sesame street?" it is not gambling, but a quiz...
it should be completely illegal to pass someones personal data on for money...
in germany it is illegal to pass someones name,adress,phonenumber,etc on without his approval...
thats why there are always guys on the street asking people if they want to win this and that - they only have to answer the quiz question (like 2+2=4 or 60000000000000?) where the damn answer is somewhere on the pamphlet and if you don't know, then they tell you the answer BECAUSE they only want you to fill out the form (name, adress, phone number) and SIGN that you agree to the conditions of the tombola
the conditions are on the back side of the form, written in light gray in font size 0.1 and CLEARLY contain the condition that they are allowed to sell your personal data....
which enable the play of import software and/or back up versions of software
wouldn't this also affect virtualisation software? many copy protections detect virtual cd-drives by looking through the running processes, but if you run the games in virtual PCs, then such copy protections can't look at the processes that run on the real PC - only at those running on the virtual one, which wouldn't contain a virtual cd-drive software...
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about sony: I don't care... I think both formats will fail and deserve to...
anyways - thanks for the technical information...
I'm not a multimedia-format-expert, just thought about keyframes and motion-information which might be put together... in theory it's possible and theory is my field of activity (computability, turing machines, complexity, discrete math)
learned something new again =)
now I read many comments saying that both, the HD-DVD and the DVD part will suffer because they steal disk space from each other, but this isn't neccessarily so...
you know you could use the same motion-data for both of them (you'd have to put them on the dvd-layer) and put key-frames with higher resolutions on the HD-DVD layers...
infact you might only need to put additional information in there (like gif files that start blurry and increase resolution later on in the loading process, since the pixels aren't stored sequentially
now this is very technical stuff, but it quite surely would work - you just have to read the different layers simultaneously and mix the data back together... I think I'll suggest that to toshiba, since I hate sony (those rootkit and DRM freaks) and want them to lose the HD-war...
this way you could have DVD and HD-DVD compatible discs, without much loss of disc space...
because sony has nothing to do with hd-dvd... they are the ones with blu-ray...
alright, this looks like it was heading for flaming...
stop it, let's concentrate on the main point:
if someone uses tor, this doesn't automatically mean he is breaking any rules!
otherwise I'd have to raid your house for chatlogs, because you must have connections to al-quaeda, because why else wouldn't you do your cybersex with your girlfriend on public IRC chatrooms?
man, this sounds like a railgun =)
It'll say "earth WILL end tomorrow" (subheading: "many scientists agree")
but this gives me an idea for making money... I'll sell t-shirts that say "I survived the armageddon - and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
so this book is called "the hobbit" in english? in germany it's called "der kleine hobbit" which means "the little hobbit"... I'd bet some marketing jerk came up with this additional word... "the hobbit? that sounds like nothing!... noone will buy it!... I'll put a 'little' in, so maybe people buy it for their kids, cause this sounds like a cute book for children..."
kiddie porn, terrorism and copyright aside:
as far as I understand TOR - this whole network exists for users to remain absolutely anonymous. because of many many many proxies there should nowhere be evidence for who did what (correct me if I'm wrong)
SO if there is no evidence at all for any special activity, then this must mean that the police seized the servers just because they suspected the owners of doing illegal activities, based on nothing but the fact that they used anonymization software...
BUT in germany it is illegal for the police to raid a house without a strong suspicion (and I don't think "using anonymization software" is a strong reason - yepp, asked my lawyer, using anonymization software wouldn't even hold as indication
SO I'd say this whole raid was illegal...
and it's just another reason for me to vote the german pirate-party next time http://piratenpartei.de/
I use it and I love it =)
I tried ubuntu some month ago - I didn't like it, although I can't remember why I didn't like it... might have been hardware issues... I'll defenitely try ubuntu 6 before installing mandriva 2007 final (when that's done)
windows XP also doesn't come with ati or nvidia drivers... it uses a vesa driver by default, too
this whole graphics-card driver disaster is not mandrivas fault by the way... the thing is that ati and nvidia don't allow linux distros to include the binary drivers - they don't even allow them to include self-written open drivers...
anyhow, to get nvidia drivers running in mandriva, do this:
download the driver (i'll assume it's in root's home directory)
in a shell: urpmi kernel-source
init 3
(you are now in text mode)
login as root
cd ~
sh NVIDIA[tab-key to complete the filename of the driver installer]
follow the instructions of the installer
after reading some comments I now see that this guy didn't fall for this old psycho-trick, but is using it against his readers, because he works at McAfee...
not Symantec - the author of this fud works at McAfee...
in a book about psychology i read that "expensive products must be better than cheap products" is a thought that has been burned into our brains. In times of our parents and grandparents this was true (thats why they taught us that) but today it is just not true anymore
today this thought is exploited by greedy companies that take more money for their products than comparable products cost, so people will think it was better
I read a test once. a cheap noname dish liquid was place 1... I don't know about you, but today I buy cheap noname products. I don't recognize any difference to the expensive products and save lots of money, because I don't fall for this psycho-trick anymore...
besides I also use linux today...
so: no difference to movies there there are lame an predictable movies, too. there are movies that don't feel real and beleivable
want proof? watch the house of the 1000 corpses... at one point i even thought "that girl in the dark tunnel will get a shocking event in THREE, TWO, ONE" bojeah, a corpse fell in front of her feet
want more proof? see "Cutthroat Island" (the movie that bankrupted carolco) you know EXACTLY that the whole gunpowder will explode just in the moment when Geena Davis and Matthew Modine jump off the ship There are screenplays that are brilliant, but must be changed, because producers want it to be hollywood-like... happy ends, the bad guy survives in horror films, the good guy doesn't kill the bad guy intentionally - only in self-defense, bankrobbery mustn't be successful unless the "bad guy" has to invest VERY MUCH money and skills, the bad guy may only win if the police are crooks or he has good intentions, romance, trouble in the romance...
watch the commentary on 12 monkeys... terry gilliam talks very openly about how producers tried to force him to make a happy end for "brazil"
I'm sorry, but "Microsoft(TM) Minesweeper© 2007(TM) Enterprise(TM) Server(TM) build(TM) 2576" requires Windows Vista to run. please upgrade
and what happens then is that you get three damn phone calls every day by someone who asks you if you want to play the lottery (95% of your money are administrative charges, if it were 100% then it was fraud, but this way it is legal) or they ask you about your phone bill, you can save money with them! and if you want a broshure, you get a letter "thank you for signing up AND SO ON
man, I hate these a$$holes... there really should be a new law, because these crooks slip through the holes in the current law - public gambling is illegal, but if you have to answer a question like "who is president of the USA, george w bush or elmo from sesame street?" it is not gambling, but a quiz...
it should be completely illegal to pass someones personal data on for money...
in germany it is illegal to pass someones name,adress,phonenumber,etc on without his approval...
thats why there are always guys on the street asking people if they want to win this and that - they only have to answer the quiz question (like 2+2=4 or 60000000000000?) where the damn answer is somewhere on the pamphlet and if you don't know, then they tell you the answer BECAUSE they only want you to fill out the form (name, adress, phone number) and SIGN that you agree to the conditions of the tombola
the conditions are on the back side of the form, written in light gray in font size 0.1 and CLEARLY contain the condition that they are allowed to sell your personal data....
and that was within 3 days either iirc
I've read that this "fixed" drm is already cracked again...
sorry, didn't read the linked article and misunderstood this one
;)
my bad
still i don't like apple
unlike winXP...
you may find this funny, but the english government is really doing this already!