Because Tivo is better. The day I was able to get the cable guy to take away the POS company-supplied DVR and replace it with something which actually worked and had an interface from the 21st century was a great one:)
Well, I think they're actually aiming this at people who would already have a HDTV or were already planning on buying one, so really that's not a cost for the Tivo itself. I mean, I have a S3 and it works just fine with non-HD material and non-HD displays.
For your other points, my experience doesn't match that at all. There's no "cost for upgraded cable services" - HD is included as standard with digital cable in my region (Cablevision) and I think in most others too. If you don't have digital and don't want HD, there really is no reason to even consider an S3 - this is not the box for you. Finally, the cablecard cost is negligible - we pay $1.25 a month for each one. Seeing as $2.50 for two of them is less that the rental cost of the regular STB they replace, that's actually a saving.
This issue (I'll provide a link to the AusCERT page as the summary neglected to) was first publically announced on June 4 and fully patched by June 29th. All that's happened recently is some minor updates to the ticket. Yes it's serious, but anyone paying attention to such things will have patched already.
DVD Shrink has options for the output format, but the default is indeed a bunch of VOB files. You are then supposed to burn those to a blank disk using your burning tool of choice. If that happens to be Nero, it will actually do the rip & burn in a single step as DVD Shrink can integrate call it directly.
You must buy different stuff than me. Most of the DVDs I'm interested run $18-20 and most of the CDs I buy are closer to $10. Plus I'll listen to a good CD hundreds of times, even the best movie will only get watched a few times. Don't get me wrong, I have a decent collection of both, but CDs are a much easier purchase to justify to myself than DVDs - hence netflix.
No, I'm in exactly the same boat as you. I read on a different post that someone was about to play Wii Tennis for 4 HOURS! 4 games is about my limit before I'm done with that snoozefest. Seriously, I quite like the voting channel, Rayman was a lot of fun until I finished it, and Bowling is good with a non-gamer crowd for half an hour or so. But it really has lived up to my worst fears as just being a big gimmick, and all I see from the E3 presentation is more of the same (steering wheels, guns and speak-your-weight machines).
Still, I'll keep it because my wife loves everything Mario, so she'll get SMG when it comes out. I'm working my way through DiRT and Forza.
Who said anything about it being worse than the competition? Point me to one quote in this thread saying that. What people are saying is that emulated back compat is not as good as hardware back compat, and that this means that the newer model PS3's are not as good (in this specific respect) compared to the older PS3's. That's all.
There's no doubt that the PS3, even using software emulation, is better at BC than the 360 - but the original PS3 implementation and the Wii are both better yet as they include the actual hardware.
Ryan Air is crazily cheap (to the point where I have no idea how they make money). I took a quick look on their site and they list prices from the Birmingham (UK) to Rome - a 2100km journey by car - at around $35 each way.
Since we are talking about the iPhone--which I'll repeat--is a GSM phone, I'll stick to my original comment. There's no 3G network to speak of for the iPhone to use, so we're right back at the beginning, where 3G is of no utility in 90% of the United States for the iPhone.
Sorry, this is crap. AT&T have a nice little map which shows you where they cover. If you switch on the 3G display you get this message:
The AT&T 3G / BroadbandConnect network is currently available in most major metropolitan areas and is expanding rapidly. Click on a major metropolitan area below to view coverage for that area.
Looking at that list of cities, I'd guess that it covers a whole lot more than 10% of the US population - probably over 50%.
The recessed port doesn't seem to cause problems in the 5G iPod, which appears to be the exact same configuration.
Huh? I have a 5.5G ipod and the headphone port isn't recessed at all - it's perfectly flush with the casing. However, on the iPhone you can see it's sunk in somewhat. If the plug on your headphones is too big (for example, Shure often use pretty fat plugs) it may not fit.
640x480? Lucky! The last (actually, only) time I tried a Ubuntu live cd it booted up into a garbled mess because it couldn't recognize the video card (a recent Nvidia model). Sure, I can get it working by doing a full install and switching in different drivers manually, but shouldn't the failsafe be to revert to VGA so at least the screen is readable?
It didn't matter that the cops involved all reported that King was all hopped-over on a hallucinogen, and was actively fighting the arrest up until the portion that was filmed.
No, it didn't matter. What the police were doing on that tape was wrong, and illegal regardless of any context. Whilst he may have been resisting arrest, and may have required restraint or physical force to subdue, the video shows that the officers had clearly taken it beyond that point. He was not in any position to resist arrest by that stage and they were not attempting to arrest him, they were simply a mob beating the living crap out of him. Being given the right to use force brings with it the requirement to use moderation and to know when to stop.
And that's exactly why we need to bring this kind of thing to the public attention to get it stopped. You say it's wrong, but you're happy just to sit back and let it stay wrong? I'm glad some people have more backbone than you.
Of course it is - the whole point is to sort the bad apples from the good. How else can you do that without independent evidence of what they're actually doing?
I found an interesting article about the history of book banning in the US. It's certainly true that most of the recent cases it lists are of local school districts or specific stores restricting titles, but you don't have to go far back to see instances of essentially nationwide bans. I agree that less censorship is better than more, but I wouldn't be too complacent about the current situation over here.
And the fact that you would take time out of your day to insult someone else's musical taste for no good reason tells me that your opinions on most things are probably equally meaningless.
There's a very significant difference between mixing (playing track A then track B with a smooth transition between them, typically done live by a DJ) and a mashup (making a new track C from lots of little chunks of tracks A & B intermingled and layered). I've seen mashups done live with vinyl, in fact I've even done a few basic ones myself, but the majority are done in a sequencer due to the complexity involved.
Personally, I love mashups (the musical kind, not the web 2.0 kind) - I still can't listen to Green Day's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams without singing the Wonderwall lyrics over the top.
The EOS-1D mkIII is almost exactly $5k, the EOS-1DS mkII is $7k. Nikon's top model is around $5k too. But you are quite right in that the cost of the body is usually (or at least certainly _should_ be) significantly less than the lenses.
But that's exactly what publishers do already, they provide the funding for a game and in exchange get to decide which platforms will be most profitable, choose game features, styling, etc etc. All that is happening here is that Microsoft is adding an additional layer on top by paying to directly influence the publisher, who in turn influences the developer. And it's not new - the vast majority of major console exclusives are bought by the manufacturer in one way or another, it's just interesting in this case that the details have become public. Let's face it, MS could have paid a lot more money and got the whole game exclusive.
That's not time lapse, that's just a long exposure. Time Lapse is where you take a shot every so often (e.g. every few minutes or hours) and then play the resulting shots together at a faster rate to "speed up time".
That aside, you're right that the long exposure technique works well for making moving objects vanish (or at least become very translucent and blurred). The main problem is that you have to sit there with the camera completely still for a reasonable amount of time before moving on to the next location. That's going to be a LOT slower (and thus more expensive) than their current technique of just driving around in a car covered in cameras taking video.
Sure, but I have to admit that last time I tried it was with Java 1.3 code so a lot of the stuff you mention wasn't around. JAD is the one I'm most familiar with and yes, it can sometimes get a little confused but it's usually pretty obvious what the code's trying to do and you can fix it enough for compilation. I wouldn't recommend decompile/recompile as a normal working practice but for making the odd tweak to something like Weblogic it's been helpful for me in the past.
I'm not sure if the article specifies the platform in question, but I've done exactly that a number of times with Java app servers, the decompiled code is quite readable. C/C++ of course would be a different story, but I'm sure it's possible (and in fact the rapidity with which copy-protection systems are broken suggests it's not _that_ hard).
Sure, Daft Punk use boatloads of compression. Their studio must be nothing but racks of compressors:) But, and it's a big but, I think they do it on purpose to get the sound they like - and I have to say I agree. The amount of success they have had (and the number of imitators) speaks volumes. In my experience as a DJ there's nothing which gets a crowd moving quicker than the classic Daft Punk ducking/pumping bassline. And after all, that's what their music is for.
I was actually using them as an example in another post on this thread and have Discovery playing now - it's awesome music, even without any DR:)
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Even moreso as I actually just bought a S3 for $400 after rebates, the difference is really only $100.
Because Tivo is better. The day I was able to get the cable guy to take away the POS company-supplied DVR and replace it with something which actually worked and had an interface from the 21st century was a great one :)
Well, I think they're actually aiming this at people who would already have a HDTV or were already planning on buying one, so really that's not a cost for the Tivo itself. I mean, I have a S3 and it works just fine with non-HD material and non-HD displays.
For your other points, my experience doesn't match that at all. There's no "cost for upgraded cable services" - HD is included as standard with digital cable in my region (Cablevision) and I think in most others too. If you don't have digital and don't want HD, there really is no reason to even consider an S3 - this is not the box for you. Finally, the cablecard cost is negligible - we pay $1.25 a month for each one. Seeing as $2.50 for two of them is less that the rental cost of the regular STB they replace, that's actually a saving.
This issue (I'll provide a link to the AusCERT page as the summary neglected to) was first publically announced on June 4 and fully patched by June 29th. All that's happened recently is some minor updates to the ticket. Yes it's serious, but anyone paying attention to such things will have patched already.
DVD Shrink has options for the output format, but the default is indeed a bunch of VOB files. You are then supposed to burn those to a blank disk using your burning tool of choice. If that happens to be Nero, it will actually do the rip & burn in a single step as DVD Shrink can integrate call it directly.
You must buy different stuff than me. Most of the DVDs I'm interested run $18-20 and most of the CDs I buy are closer to $10. Plus I'll listen to a good CD hundreds of times, even the best movie will only get watched a few times. Don't get me wrong, I have a decent collection of both, but CDs are a much easier purchase to justify to myself than DVDs - hence netflix.
No, I'm in exactly the same boat as you. I read on a different post that someone was about to play Wii Tennis for 4 HOURS! 4 games is about my limit before I'm done with that snoozefest. Seriously, I quite like the voting channel, Rayman was a lot of fun until I finished it, and Bowling is good with a non-gamer crowd for half an hour or so. But it really has lived up to my worst fears as just being a big gimmick, and all I see from the E3 presentation is more of the same (steering wheels, guns and speak-your-weight machines).
Still, I'll keep it because my wife loves everything Mario, so she'll get SMG when it comes out. I'm working my way through DiRT and Forza.
Who said anything about it being worse than the competition? Point me to one quote in this thread saying that. What people are saying is that emulated back compat is not as good as hardware back compat, and that this means that the newer model PS3's are not as good (in this specific respect) compared to the older PS3's. That's all.
There's no doubt that the PS3, even using software emulation, is better at BC than the 360 - but the original PS3 implementation and the Wii are both better yet as they include the actual hardware.
Ryan Air is crazily cheap (to the point where I have no idea how they make money). I took a quick look on their site and they list prices from the Birmingham (UK) to Rome - a 2100km journey by car - at around $35 each way.
Sorry, this is crap. AT&T have a nice little map which shows you where they cover. If you switch on the 3G display you get this message:
Looking at that list of cities, I'd guess that it covers a whole lot more than 10% of the US population - probably over 50%.
Huh? I have a 5.5G ipod and the headphone port isn't recessed at all - it's perfectly flush with the casing. However, on the iPhone you can see it's sunk in somewhat. If the plug on your headphones is too big (for example, Shure often use pretty fat plugs) it may not fit.
640x480? Lucky! The last (actually, only) time I tried a Ubuntu live cd it booted up into a garbled mess because it couldn't recognize the video card (a recent Nvidia model). Sure, I can get it working by doing a full install and switching in different drivers manually, but shouldn't the failsafe be to revert to VGA so at least the screen is readable?
It didn't matter that the cops involved all reported that King was all hopped-over on a hallucinogen, and was actively fighting the arrest up until the portion that was filmed.
No, it didn't matter. What the police were doing on that tape was wrong, and illegal regardless of any context. Whilst he may have been resisting arrest, and may have required restraint or physical force to subdue, the video shows that the officers had clearly taken it beyond that point. He was not in any position to resist arrest by that stage and they were not attempting to arrest him, they were simply a mob beating the living crap out of him. Being given the right to use force brings with it the requirement to use moderation and to know when to stop.
And that's exactly why we need to bring this kind of thing to the public attention to get it stopped. You say it's wrong, but you're happy just to sit back and let it stay wrong? I'm glad some people have more backbone than you.
Of course it is - the whole point is to sort the bad apples from the good. How else can you do that without independent evidence of what they're actually doing?
I found an interesting article about the history of book banning in the US. It's certainly true that most of the recent cases it lists are of local school districts or specific stores restricting titles, but you don't have to go far back to see instances of essentially nationwide bans. I agree that less censorship is better than more, but I wouldn't be too complacent about the current situation over here.
And the fact that you would take time out of your day to insult someone else's musical taste for no good reason tells me that your opinions on most things are probably equally meaningless.
There's a very significant difference between mixing (playing track A then track B with a smooth transition between them, typically done live by a DJ) and a mashup (making a new track C from lots of little chunks of tracks A & B intermingled and layered). I've seen mashups done live with vinyl, in fact I've even done a few basic ones myself, but the majority are done in a sequencer due to the complexity involved.
Personally, I love mashups (the musical kind, not the web 2.0 kind) - I still can't listen to Green Day's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams without singing the Wonderwall lyrics over the top.
The EOS-1D mkIII is almost exactly $5k, the EOS-1DS mkII is $7k. Nikon's top model is around $5k too. But you are quite right in that the cost of the body is usually (or at least certainly _should_ be) significantly less than the lenses.
But that's exactly what publishers do already, they provide the funding for a game and in exchange get to decide which platforms will be most profitable, choose game features, styling, etc etc. All that is happening here is that Microsoft is adding an additional layer on top by paying to directly influence the publisher, who in turn influences the developer. And it's not new - the vast majority of major console exclusives are bought by the manufacturer in one way or another, it's just interesting in this case that the details have become public. Let's face it, MS could have paid a lot more money and got the whole game exclusive.
That's not time lapse, that's just a long exposure. Time Lapse is where you take a shot every so often (e.g. every few minutes or hours) and then play the resulting shots together at a faster rate to "speed up time".
That aside, you're right that the long exposure technique works well for making moving objects vanish (or at least become very translucent and blurred). The main problem is that you have to sit there with the camera completely still for a reasonable amount of time before moving on to the next location. That's going to be a LOT slower (and thus more expensive) than their current technique of just driving around in a car covered in cameras taking video.
Doesn't matter what platform I'm developing for (Linux/Solaris/Windows):
IntelliJ IDEA
A bunch of JDKs
JProbe
Knowledge of the internals of the JVM is valuable, of the linux kernel - less so.
Sure, but I have to admit that last time I tried it was with Java 1.3 code so a lot of the stuff you mention wasn't around. JAD is the one I'm most familiar with and yes, it can sometimes get a little confused but it's usually pretty obvious what the code's trying to do and you can fix it enough for compilation. I wouldn't recommend decompile/recompile as a normal working practice but for making the odd tweak to something like Weblogic it's been helpful for me in the past.
I'm not sure if the article specifies the platform in question, but I've done exactly that a number of times with Java app servers, the decompiled code is quite readable. C/C++ of course would be a different story, but I'm sure it's possible (and in fact the rapidity with which copy-protection systems are broken suggests it's not _that_ hard).
Sure, Daft Punk use boatloads of compression. Their studio must be nothing but racks of compressors :) But, and it's a big but, I think they do it on purpose to get the sound they like - and I have to say I agree. The amount of success they have had (and the number of imitators) speaks volumes. In my experience as a DJ there's nothing which gets a crowd moving quicker than the classic Daft Punk ducking/pumping bassline. And after all, that's what their music is for.
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I was actually using them as an example in another post on this thread and have Discovery playing now - it's awesome music, even without any DR