Well, hopefully this could put people over the edge to use Linux full-time (myself included). Many people currently use Windows for gaming, and don't dual-boot because it's a hassle. If I could run in Linux 24/7, and run my games without rebooting, either in a VM or in Wine, that would be excellent.
Yes, but how do you know if the potential factors are prime? Do you keep a giant list/table, or do you attempt to factor the potential prime?
Another option for aerobic exercise: jump rope. Back when I did karate, that was our main aerobic exercise because there's not much else you can do in a 400 sq. ft. room...
Except that because there's no HDCP, you'd be taking in a standard-definition copy of the movie from your component cables.
Far too often the author/publisher doesn't care.
They are content to let works just "rot in the vault".
As seen with Doctor Who, and a bunch of other programs the BBC produced back in the day.
Sure, but you aren't going to get a quality rip that way. Pointing a camera at the screen is going to produce incredibly shitty results even compared to DVD. Do you really want to invite your friends round for a movie night and then show them a camcorded super compressed rip? It might be OK for personal use if you don't care about quality at all, but then a camcorded copy from a cinema will work just as well.
He's talking about grabbing the uncompressed digital signal, for example having a screen-capture program running on your computer when you start a movie. It's not as ideal as grabbing the original compressed signal, in a decrypted form, but it still works. For a typical DVD, for instance, instead of taking the original MPEG-2 signal and decrypting the CSS, you could dump the movie into an uncompressed video. Assuming 24-bit color, that would make a 160GB video for a 90-minute video in NTSC.
Can't your player just decode the DTS signal to a 5.1 channel LPCM signal? Then you'd get the same quality.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic...
Digital controls suck for racing. The analog sticks are ok but you really need a wheel for it to feel right.
Interestingly, I got very used to using D-Pad-style controls for racing games, and I can't stand using the sticks. I can tap the left and right buttons fast enough that the games average out the movement to a turn that's 70% max, or whatever's needed.
Reminds me of Yahtzee's comment about Little Big Planet:
"If a game that stands up by itself (Half-Life 2, Quake) wants to release level design and modding tools, then brillo-bananas! Modding communities are the sprinkling of cinnamon on a delicious trifle, and hence relying on user-made content is like eating heaped spoonfuls of cinnamon nicked from the jar."
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Note: This is a continuation of a series of stories written by a central Texas police officer named "Darth Tang", which are being archived by Chabo, with no editing. Read more about this project.
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Note: This is a continuation of a series of stories written by a central Texas police officer named "Darth Tang", which are being archived by Chabo, with no editing. Read more about this project.
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Note: This is a continuation of a series of stories written by a central Texas police officer named "Darth Tang", which are being archived by Chabo, with no editing. Read more about this project.
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Note: This is a continuation of a series of stories written by a central Texas police officer named "Darth Tang", which are being archived by Chabo, with no editing. Read more about this project.
This story was originally posted on November 19, 2005.
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