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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday June 28 2007 2:02pm |
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32683/118/ oh, yeah, my supreme commander called, and he has just decided to release an expansion in November, with 100 extra units. this is going to be a good winter! |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Thursday June 28 2007 12:11pm |
| I think in this case the Studios have decided for us. Universal is the last holdout for HD-DVD, when they inevitably cave it will all be over. I really have no use for burning Blu Ray at this point. This size advantage is not significant enough to justify the cost, and there's no evidence that BluRay will last longer for archiving than regular DVD. I only got a DVD burner for home last year, and I have yet to burn anything with it at home. I'd rather have a PS3 for BluRay because at least then then I could catch some of those PS2 games I missed, like Odin Sphere, God of War, Katamari Damacy, FFXII... | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Thursday June 28 2007 11:41am |
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I'm still not buying into an HD format until the market decides which is the more widely adopted format. See, I don't want to be stuck with the betamax of HD disc formats. -A |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday June 28 2007 9:29am |
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i wonder if this counts? being that the ps3 counts as a blu-ray player. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037 if that is the case, than for 450$ i can burn blu-ray discs tooo |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday June 28 2007 9:13am |
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drooling will commence now! http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=280 http://www.shopwoodfield.com/IM/storedetail.html?store=N308 some how i need to purchase that ps3 on july 1 even though i will be down there on june 30th, hmmmmmmm dilemma either that or there is always ebay still. or 11601 108th Street Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158 Phone (262)857-9613 is fairly close |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 11:57pm |
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@intrigue: Actually... The Apple TV itself is HD, it's just that Apple doesn't have any HD content on the iTMS yet. -A |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 3:45pm |
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nearscape, everything that guy says about blu-ray vs hd dvd is true. another point is that now that both formats are cracked, i am willing to buy into the HD format war on the blu-ray side. there is no point in buying a player that pirates do not support. ;-) as far as iTunes vs. xbox live, iTunes and AppleTV are not high def. I support xbox live and their ipTV initiative, if anything it will give apple the bones to come up with something better. right now i am just waiting until i can get a cheep ps3, oohhh baby they keep getting cheaper on ebay. |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 3:22pm |
| BW, how much caffeine have you had in the past week, is it enough to look like you have been smoking crack? because thats what you are on, if you think i had any sex in japan. | |
| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 3:20pm |
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32656/118/ time to become and indy wii developer. |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 12:37pm |
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@B_W: Always like the good conspiracy theory, don't ya! I don't think it is, but if you listen to Jack Thompson, it's a machine designed to train killers. Speaking of conspiracy theories... Anyone hear about FEMA's *#$@ up in IL yesterday? -A |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Wednesday June 27 2007 10:41am |
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I sense a conspiracy here. A friend of mine refered to the Wii, as WII, which made me think of WWII. Do you think that the Wii is some kind of Japanese conspiracy to acrue war funds to gain sweet revenge? |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Saturday June 23 2007 2:29pm |
| Geekin' it up at BarCamp Chicago! Oh yeah! | |
| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Friday June 22 2007 11:14am |
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@NS I think it's because 1) that's what everyone else is doing and 2) I believe Xvid can't be DRMed -A |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday June 20 2007 10:39am |
| What I don't understand, is why format neutral studios would want to pay for VC-1 or any other closed format when they could just use a free format like Xvid and get great results. Is it a processing limitation on the players? | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Wednesday June 20 2007 10:33am |
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http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/soapbox/soap060107.html I think it is a pretty well-rounded summary of the state of the format war. The second half of the article is the best; they call out Microsoft, which ultimately works to undermine both formats by supporting the loser on purpose. Because they want IP TV on Xbox Live more than anything, artificially propping up this disc format "war" serves that purpose better than backing the winner. They're going to get their codec royalties on Blu-Ray just the same as HD-DVD. |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Tuesday June 19 2007 1:18pm |
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William Shatner (Priceline) calls out the Travelocity Gnome! http://www.livevideo.com/video/ShatnerVision/DDAF849CBCC14CF6BE5223BEF10A4752/shatner-calls-out-the-traveloc.aspx |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Tuesday June 19 2007 1:34am |
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BW.. Just don't tell, her, K? -A |
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| Posted by: Peter | Posted on: Monday June 18 2007 5:12pm |
| Kruger...did you give some poor 12-year old VD while you were there? Shame on you. | |
| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday June 18 2007 3:59pm |
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Adam, May I pronounce your girlfriend's name, Emalee, as, E-mail? Because that would be pretty great. D_R |
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| Posted by: B_W | Posted on: Monday June 18 2007 3:57pm |
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http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/06/17/sex-with-minors-ok-in-japan-even-encouraged/ Kruger? Thoughts? |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Sunday June 17 2007 7:02pm |
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play apple games, like the oregontrail in firefox http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Sunday June 17 2007 11:02am |
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interesting web tricks http://www.schillmania.com/projects/dialog2/ http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday June 15 2007 12:50pm |
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in second life there are several levels of land rights 1.you can rent land off the books and just have editing rights 2.you can rent land officially 3.you can buy/ rent a parcel of land - its like owning a condo high upfront and then smaller association fee 4.you can buy/ rent a server/ region if you own land at level 4 you can decide what rights propagate down, Tera-forming, construction, resale, commercial, residential, number of PRIMs(primitives "solid shape components"), etc...., new servers sell at a fixed monthly from linden labs. resold land goes for market value. if you own land at level 3 or less, the cost of the land varies in a free market fashion based on rights. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday June 15 2007 9:09am |
| Oops, sorry I think DBBQC already answered the Boot Camp question further down. | |
| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Friday June 15 2007 9:08am |
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If you "buy" "land" in SL can you landscape it? Change the terrain heights and such? Also, I thought Boot Camp was not a VM, more like a dual boot... |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Friday June 15 2007 3:38am |
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for your secondlife view pleasure, some nice bridges. http://www.flickr.com/photos/giffforseti/sets/72157600298601269/ i finally got zend's remote server debugger working, and it is such a dream. JB, it would be fun to use that super server to render some content, here are some things to think about. VMs are not as complex as host hardware, and so you might loose out on some of it. If the VM is good enough a single VM image can virtualize a quad core system, else you would need to run 4 VMs to take advantage of it. from what i understand about mac, the VM clients are fairly thin, but there is about a 20% performance cost. also currently most VMs do not support 3d acceleration, so gelato is a no go, but the default renderer in 3dsmax will work. as far as running windows in a vm, you can do it, but doing it according to the license might be expensive, as each vm needs a valid license. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/virtualization/faq.mspx Using OEM licenses for vms is not allowed, even though its viable technically. You would be pushed to run a retail or volume license version, which allows you to port the os license between machines. When it comes to VMs Microsoft is WAY BEHIND on the licensing model. It should be that on a system with multi core, you should need to purchase a software license that supports the number of cores/processors that you plan to have OSes running for. Since xp is licensed per CPU and not per core, you should be allowed to run as many virtual OSes as you can provided you are not using more that two CPUs. On a quad processor system that was maxed out, you should be required to only pay for one copy of server. This makes it really easy to count and track your license costs, else you need to determine the number of images, license terms per image, and which ones have been used concurently. argh its a mess. on top of that, each server needs to do that silly genuine windows thing, which means that you can not use a standard image and then instance it, but instead you need to load and ready several copies of it, and then authenticate each one. its just so damn lame. larry tells me they are working on it, but i think that means for Vista 2 or something. This is one of the strongest reasons to make the move to linux now in the server market. the OSes can cost more than the hardware in microsoft land. |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 13 2007 11:52pm |
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Emalee is making cakes again: http://adamchernow.vox.com/library/post/its-yoda.html -A |
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| Posted by: Big_Whisky | Posted on: Wednesday June 13 2007 9:52am |
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RIP Mr. Wizard... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-herbert13jun13,0,7656221.story B_W |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Wednesday June 13 2007 3:42am |
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I'd reccomend the Parallels route, myself, but mostly because you can control your VM and rebuild easily if something goes wrong. -A |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Tuesday June 12 2007 11:54pm |
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big whisky, you have a nemesis! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasteldeventoorg/543349225/ |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday June 12 2007 4:54pm |
| Yeah, it took me pretty much all day to get through the keynote in between interruptions, but OSX 10.5 looks to be well worth the wait. I'd really like to start playing around with that "instant web widget" tool, and see how well it works with a really poorly made site like SpooLAN or something Flashy like Strong Bad. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Tuesday June 12 2007 12:18pm |
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With Boot Camp you can boot into Vista natively. You could also run Vista in a Parallels virtual machine. Boot Camp is still a Beta though. Not sure about Windows and font types. |
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| Posted by: nearscape | Posted on: Tuesday June 12 2007 10:37am |
| So, if Macintels boot into XP, do they also boot into Vista? Or is that a silly question? Also, does Vista support more font types like OSX? I've got this quad core Xserve sitting here idle much of the time and I'd like to start tapping that power for some Windows rendering tasks. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Tuesday June 12 2007 7:59am |
| /me also happy I can now play Command & Conquer 3 (I'm jonsing for an RTS, bad and Starcraft 2 is a long way off as is Eclipse though I've been doing good at beating on it lately) on my Mac come July. Xbox 360 would be okay but I'm thankful for the mouse. | |
| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Monday June 11 2007 10:58pm |
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http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/d7625zs/event/ thats it, my next laptop will be a mac book pro with lepeord! |
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| Posted by: Intrigue | Posted on: Monday June 11 2007 3:21pm |
| SeaDragon is awesome. Jon is working on some stuff through flash to allow you to zoom into hours/sec and zoom out to eons for Social Helix. | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Monday June 11 2007 1:48pm |
| Greetings from Safari on Windows! | |
| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday June 9 2007 8:49am |
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Spiffy diffy image tech. http://www.devilducky.com/media/62817/ |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Thursday June 7 2007 3:18pm |
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strange ad from microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/easyeasier/index.htm?#intro |
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| Posted by: intrigue | Posted on: Wednesday June 6 2007 9:56am |
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sexiest hard drive i have seen in a while http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/HybridHDD_FlashON/index.asp http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152089 ooooooohhh baby! |
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| Posted by: adam | Posted on: Sunday June 3 2007 2:28am |
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ok wait.. there's like 3 people sharing the same AMV edited by NS. -A |
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| Posted by: Dream BBQ Child | Posted on: Saturday June 2 2007 8:15am |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uG9qRclQxs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAA6eeRGO9E //confused people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MobwClvKJBA Can't find the Drops of Jupiter one on there though. |
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| Posted by: dream bbq child | Posted on: Saturday June 2 2007 12:22am |
| on wii. typing hard. you tube. BNL alcohol amv is on. posters confused. | |