Does your Dell use Toshiba bluetooth hardware? Many do (e.g. D620), and it is utter crap. Honestly, I've been through several BT stacks and HW implementations, and nothing comes close to the utter ********** that is Toshiba Bluetooth. Actually impressive that they can get it THAT wrong. Even the older Linux releases would come out ahead of the latest stack from Toshiba (at least in some areas).
Bluetooth? Stay away from Toshiba and Apple (since Apple seems to think it is only for mice, keyboards and phone-headsets)
VLC 0.8.6 added WMV playback support, including VC-1. It's got some glitches around playing back B-frames, but I'm sure they'll address those. I haven't tried WMA Pro in it yet, I must admit.
Shame that WMV is not so commercial as to warrent the original developers spending time to get it out to all platforms.
now, if you'll all excuse me, I'll go (and not) look at my national TV station transmitting in WMV online, and thus failing misserably in living up to their charter about Public Service:( /G
Outside of/. I've not really seen HD-DVD anywhere. I've seen Bluray (uhoh, no dash?) players and movies in several stores, but not "that other format". Sure, it exists, but Joe Sixpack With A Penis Envy isn't going to go online to see if there is anything better than the one being touted at the local Media Markt.
While I'd be nice and ignore the Shill statement made by another poster, I'd like you to go into details why finding the PS3 worth buying makes me the village idiot? Seems like a pretty large village, with lots of them then.
You concluded that it wasn't worth it as a game-console and rightly so. I on the other hand have decided that when it launches (EU), and I can afford it, I will buy it. I plan to use my PS3 ALSO as a game-console, but also for digital media. The DLNA/UPnP support, the Bluetooth (hope for A2DP), the higher-than-crap quality DVD playback all adds up to it being "worth it" for me. There are cheaper solutions (XBox360, MediaServers), but they also appear to be less competent (incomplete UPnP, no builtin wireless audio, no builtin harddrive etc). The fact that I still haven't seen a single HDDVD advertised anywhere also makes me think that the Blueray may pay off, but thats still too uncertain.
So,
Game Console - not worth it.
Home Entertainment Center - perhaps worth it
American Market? Cheapskates;)
I live in Belgium, though not Belgian myself. My French is unfortunately pretty poor but Belgium is supposed to be a trilingual country. I am tired of all those French speakers who seem to think it is such a terrible burden to learn another language. Mastering another language greatly enriches your life - stop acting linke babies. Grow up and get over it.
Aint it pretty obvious? Its the only way to get their message through. No-one bothers reading the Legislative, but giving it a name they can connect to, everyone can support it. This bill may be about getting money for the Senators and the R-I-A-F'ing-A, but no-one can object to performers rights, right?
No, that removes the window completely. I want it to leave the titlebar on the desktop. I'm used to dbl-click the titlebar, and the window is reduced to just that. Then I can move it about, open it again or just use it as a reminder that I'm running that program without having to look at a (very) cluttered taskbar in the bottom of the screen.
I know it might sound like an odd feature, but it is quite nice to be able minimize windows in this way, and it just seem to suit me very well:)
I've never cared for that functionality, so never looked, but perhaps you can then point me to where I can reduce windows to a title-bar in Windows? I love this thing in Blackbox and KDE, but so far it has eluded me in Windows:(
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Does your Dell use Toshiba bluetooth hardware? Many do (e.g. D620), and it is utter crap. Honestly, I've been through several BT stacks and HW implementations, and nothing comes close to the utter ********** that is Toshiba Bluetooth. Actually impressive that they can get it THAT wrong. Even the older Linux releases would come out ahead of the latest stack from Toshiba (at least in some areas).
Bluetooth? Stay away from Toshiba and Apple (since Apple seems to think it is only for mice, keyboards and phone-headsets)
cheers
They will likely all have software emulation with Sony disabling the Emotion Engine - go google a bit.
In all fairness, between Mobistar and Belgacom, I'm amazed that people are even making phonecalls in Belgium.
Worst. SPs. Ever.
Shame that WMV is not so commercial as to warrent the original developers spending time to get it out to all platforms.
now, if you'll all excuse me, I'll go (and not) look at my national TV station transmitting in WMV online, and thus failing misserably in living up to their charter about Public Service
Current US Government under 9 tonnes of peanuts? .... Not A Bad Idea methinks
/Nc
I'll up you one:
/. I've not really seen HD-DVD anywhere. I've seen Bluray (uhoh, no dash?) players and movies in several stores, but not "that other format". Sure, it exists, but Joe Sixpack With A Penis Envy isn't going to go online to see if there is anything better than the one being touted at the local Media Markt.
/G
Outside of
While I'd be nice and ignore the Shill statement made by another poster, I'd like you to go into details why finding the PS3 worth buying makes me the village idiot? Seems like a pretty large village, with lots of them then.
/G - being curious.
Hint: You != Average Person
You should hear the latter name in French .. Got a perty good idea why I do not see HDDVD adverticed anywhere around me ;)
/G
You concluded that it wasn't worth it as a game-console and rightly so. I on the other hand have decided that when it launches (EU), and I can afford it, I will buy it. I plan to use my PS3 ALSO as a game-console, but also for digital media. The DLNA/UPnP support, the Bluetooth (hope for A2DP), the higher-than-crap quality DVD playback all adds up to it being "worth it" for me. There are cheaper solutions (XBox360, MediaServers), but they also appear to be less competent (incomplete UPnP, no builtin wireless audio, no builtin harddrive etc). The fact that I still haven't seen a single HDDVD advertised anywhere also makes me think that the Blueray may pay off, but thats still too uncertain.
;)
/G
So,
Game Console - not worth it.
Home Entertainment Center - perhaps worth it
American Market? Cheapskates
-1, Headache
I live in Belgium, though not Belgian myself. My French is unfortunately pretty poor but Belgium is supposed to be a trilingual country. I am tired of all those French speakers who seem to think it is such a terrible burden to learn another language. Mastering another language greatly enriches your life - stop acting linke babies. Grow up and get over it.
/G
...but, its gonna be too cold by then..
Aint it pretty obvious? Its the only way to get their message through. No-one bothers reading the Legislative, but giving it a name they can connect to, everyone can support it. This bill may be about getting money for the Senators and the R-I-A-F'ing-A, but no-one can object to performers rights, right?
/G
iMobile wouldn't do well in French-speaking countries me-thinks. People do not want to carry around something as "im-mobile" as a house.
/G
Outlook IS good. Could be better, but IS good. :D
/G
See also mongrel version in Microsoft Office 2004 - best one yet
1: Ban Guns
/G
2: Ban Gunmakers
3: Bomb Gunmakers
4: ???
5: Profit (aka overpopulation)
No, that removes the window completely. I want it to leave the titlebar on the desktop. I'm used to dbl-click the titlebar, and the window is reduced to just that. Then I can move it about, open it again or just use it as a reminder that I'm running that program without having to look at a (very) cluttered taskbar in the bottom of the screen.
:)
/G
I know it might sound like an odd feature, but it is quite nice to be able minimize windows in this way, and it just seem to suit me very well
I've never cared for that functionality, so never looked, but perhaps you can then point me to where I can reduce windows to a title-bar in Windows? I love this thing in Blackbox and KDE, but so far it has eluded me in Windows :(
/G
Modpoints... I need Modpoints... Pleeease ...
Vote? Leave? Get together with others, buy Luxemburg and set up a country with proper laws?
Odd, I thought it was humans that were way overpopulated, and the deers being forced to live in too small a place?
100mm is the same as 10cm?? Next, you will claim that it is the same as 1dm or even 0.1m!!!
I recommend using .mov
XP SP2 here (Dell Laptop), and I've seen a BSOD this year ... so cannot be joke, and aren't passé