*HOT* Tech News And Downloads, I Would Read This Thread And Post Any Good Info

Good morning Ireland and everyone. It's 10:30 a.m. and I've had about five cups of strong coffee; eggs and bacon earlier (I've really got to start laying off that stuff). I hope everyone is well!!

 

good morning gerry1



Hollywood's anti-pirate canines

Do what?

p2p news / p2pnet: Quote of the day, on Hollywood's dumb (even for Hollywood) DVD Dogs.

The fony Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), FedEx and Britain's Revenue & Customs, launched what the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is billing as, "an exciting new initiative to help combat DVD piracy".

Featured are Flo and Lucky, two black labs vigorously, "trained over an eight month period to identify DVDs that may be located in boxes, envelopes or other packaging, as well as discs concealed amongst other goods which could be sold illegally in the UK".

From from LandownEyes in slashdot's 'I-thought-this-was-a-joke' department:

"Kinda makes me thing twice about shipping anything through FedEX. Seriously, this is like training drug dogs to find plastic bags."

Also See:
revolutionary DVD Dogs - DVD dogs on the prowl, May 8, 2006

(Thursday 11th May 2006)
http://p2pnet.net/story/8754

 

That is absolutely NUTS!

 

@ireland

Thnx for info on WMP11, probably still not synch with ipod included though, which is something I wish would be

 

The only thing my dogs can sniff out is food

 

By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 11 May 2006, 10:24
Pioneer Blu-ray player will revolutionise your wallet

A BLU-RAY DVD writer from Pioneer will set you back nearly £600 when it's available in a few weeks time.

What do you get for your £579.95, then? You get a BDR-101A which can read and write most DVD recordable media formats and stuff with the letters BD in front of it.

According to Overclockers UK it is "expected to revolutionize digital and high definition media storage".

What's for sure is that it will revolutionise the shape of your wallet from thick to thin. Do you really want to be an early adaptor [sic]. Also, where is the Intel Viiv sticker? The world+dog knows you need one of those for it to work in your lebensraum. [Fule. Ed.] µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31632



Pioneer BDR-101A 2x BD-R/RE Blu-Ray DVD Writer (CD-034-PO)
The Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc/DVD writer is expected to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The BDR-101A allows professional users to test & author high-definition Blu-ray Disc content while also delivering the ability for high-capacity data storage. The drive can read BD-ROM discs, read/write single layer BD-R & BD-RE discs, read DVD-ROM, and read/write most DVD recordable media formats.

- BD-R: 2x
- BD-RE: 2x
- BD-R Read: 2x
- DVD+R: 8x, DVD-R: 8x
- DVD+R DL: 2.4x, DVD-R DL: 2x
- DVD+RW: 4x, DVD-RW: 4x
- DVD-ROM Read: 8x
- BD Buffer Size: 8MB
- DVD Buffer Size: 2MB

Arriving in approximately 4 weeks




Price: £579.95 (£681.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Blu_Ray_Writers_314.html

 

Bonjour a tout!!! Lots of strong coffee today with, believe it or not, a "breakfast pizza" which someone brought in. Sounds atrocious but I'll give it a try.

 

Some of those breakfast pizzas are not bad, makes me hungry thinking about it. Think I will go off in search of a bagel

 

I BEEN SAYING THIS ALL ALONG,THE MP3'3 YE NOW DOWNLOAD NOW IS JUNK..



Higher-quality audio downloads fall on deaf ears? The artificial limits of the emerging market

5/15/2006 11:03:25 AM, by Ken Fisher

Through the magic of audio compression, reducing CD audio to compact, highly-portable audio files is so easy that the hardest thing about it is deciding which quality settings to use. That decision isn't hard to make when it's made for you, however. Of those selling music online, only AllofMP3.com allows users to choose their own encoding settings and formats for music from the major labels, all without DRM. The rest primarily sell music encoded at 128-192Kbps, on average, and use their pet formats (typically) laced with DRM. (For some great exceptions to this rule, hit the discussion.)

For many music fans, including some of us up in the Orbiting HQ, this is a less-than-ideal situation. The compression techniques used by the industry are lossy, that is, they approximate the original recording, but data is "lost" in the compression. The difference in audio fidelity between the CD version of a song and its online music store equivalent—which according to personal testimonials range from the "undetectable" to the "blindingly obvious"—is a matter of scientific fact, even if its significance for the marketplace (and your ears) isn't.

For the most part, the online music scene is doing well, with industry-leader Apple taking the lion's share of last year's triple growth. While Napster did increase its encoding quality to 192Kbps, it is safe to say that there is no "quality war" between music sales venues at this time. According to a profile at Cnet, that may change, as new music stores look to take on the competition by offering higher-quality offerings, including lossless music (that is, music encoded with no loss in quality). With so few consumers complaining about the quality available today, will they take off?

The growth of both online music and portable player sales certainly suggests that while some audiophiles seek higher-fidelity though expensive audio components, there's no shortage of people who prefer the convenience, speed, and/or price of the current offerings. Be that as it may, there's another reason why higher-quality audio faces a barrier to widespread adoption: DRM. MusicGiants, which offers lossless audio in the Windows Media format, can only expect to make customers of people who are already utilizing Windows Media-based devices, since its files won't work within iTunes on or the iPod. It's the same issue we've seen before: today's DRM implementations do not allow for interoperability. At any given time, the "playing field" is made more complex by the fact that the marketplace is partially defined by the aftermath of the DMCA and its anti-consumer provisions. The device lock-in which is made possible by DRM creates mini-marketplaces where consumers have to weigh their previous investments in music against future purchases, but for no other reason than DRM limitations.

The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation should consider the effects this has on competition and innovation, but as we have seen before, the prevailing attitude among major entertainment industry representatives is that DRM isn't a problem because their products are so inexpensive.

"[In] today’s market... inexpensive legitimate digital copies of most types of works are readily available, and increasingly can be obtained through online download services.... The inconvenience that faces consumers of works tethered to specific devices is far outweighed by the threat to the enjoyment of copyright posed by illegal digital distribution facing copyright owners."

Arguing against both DRM interoperability and fair use circumvention, the RIAA and others use the tactic of the piracy scarecrow to keep easily frightened politicians away from considering the matter in-depth. By labeling device-lock in and song lock-down as "inconveniences," the major content producers hope to redefine innovation as monetizing the very inconveniences they have created.

 

more info..

Bill Gates builds massive booze factory
If you've got it, spend it
By Chris Williams
Published Monday 15th May 2006 15:01 GMT
Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies.

Unimaginably rich nerd Bill Gates is to build a plant in Oregon to produce 35m gallons of liquor annually.

The lucky folks of Boardman, on the Columbia river, will play host to Bill's boozy dream factory when it opens its doors toward the end of this year.
Click Here

Sadly, the factory will not be a kind of alcohol-themed Willy Wonka's, complete with lumpy rivers of advocaat and private army of caterwauling drunken dwarves.

Instead, it will produce fuel-grade ethanol on an industrial scale. Gates owns a quarter stake in Pacific Ethanol, which is behind the plant. The firm aims at a land-grab in the burgeoning west coast market for renewables by fermenting sweetcorn.

Ethanol burns cleanly, producing carbon dioxide and water with no net gain in greenhouse gases, since the CO2 was trapped from the atmosphere by photosynthesis in the first place. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/15/gates_alcohol_factory/

 

good morning all,



some info
SonyStyle Blu-ray notebook details listed briefly on the Net
Posted by Dan Bell on 16 May 2006 - 02:48 - Source: DailyTech

First Toshiba announces a notebook with an HD-DVD drive, dubbed the Qosimo G30, now SonyStyle Canada had one posted for a bit, prior to being pulled, that has a Blu-ray drive inside. Luckily DailyTech saw it and gives us the synopsis on the hardware. This is one powerful notebook for sure.

The VAIO AR190/AR11s brings some serious firepower to the table with a 2.0GHz Core Duo processor, 1GB of PC2-4200 memory (2GB maximum) a GeForce Go 7600GT GPU with 256MB of memory, a built-in TV tuner and a huge 17.8" 1920x1200 display with XBRITE technology. Storage duties are handled by two 5400RPM 100GB drives in RAID-0 and the aforementioned Blu-ray optical drive.



Other niceties include an HDMI port, S-Video input/output, S/PDIF output, three USB 2.0 ports, analog tuner, one Firewire port, a PCMCIA slot, an ExpressCard/54 slot and an integrated MOTION-EYE webcam. You won't be carrying this back punishing 8.4 pound notebook too far from an electrical outlet as the battery life is estimated at between 1.5 to 2 hours with the standard battery. And if that isn't enough to scare you away, maybe the $3,600 USD price tag will give you pause.

Whoa, HDMI. Interestingly, you can still view the original information at this link for SonyStyle Canada, courtesy of the Google cache.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13426

 

I always new Bill Gates was out to rule the world

 

ye guys might like to try this,its free


XENTIENT THUMBNAILS.......... Utility for replacing the generic icons of image files with thumbnail icons of the actual image. These thumbnail icons are much easier to recognize and they work everywhere icons are displayed, including on the Desktop, in Open and Save dialogs, and in Windows Explorer. The utility automatically generates thumbnail icons for most popular image types including JPG, JPE, JPEG, JP2, J2K, GIF, PNG, BMP, WBMP, EMF, WMF, PCX, PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM, RAS, TIF, TIFF, and TGA.....(free).....GO THERE!

http://xentient.com/products/thumbnails/

 

Windows Media Player 11 is available for download
Posted by Dan Bell on 17 May 2006 - 18:19 - Source: Microsoft

Looks like Microsoft made the new Media Player 11 available today. In case you want to try out the new integrated music service with a tasty slice of DRM, the "Urge" is being offered for a 14 day free trial as well. This service has offerings from the quite popular MTV and VH1.

When designing Windows Media Player 11, we looked at the needs of a wide range of users—from people who are just getting started with digital media to discriminating audiophiles with very large collections on their PCs. By incorporating this feedback into the design process, we made some significant changes to the Player to deliver a simpler, more visual way to navigate music, video, and other digital media and further improve the overall experience.

It certainly is not bad looking. Might have to give this puppy a whirl. For those that want to read about this newest release, learn more about Urge or wish to find the download, simply follow this link.

download here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

 

Nero offers free version of Nero Digital audio MPEG-4 software
Posted by Dan Bell on 17 May 2006 - 07:37 - Source: Nero

Nero is offering their MPEG-4 audio encoding software, in a command line version for free, that can can be downloaded from the portion of the Nero website. More information about this product can be found there as well, including a press release and a white paper.
Convert your Audio files to Nero Digital Audio - FREE of Charge!
Nero Digital Audio Reference Quality MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Codec

* Compression Ratios ranging from ultra high (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
* Crystal Clear, Award Winning Sound Quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
* Support for Embedded Album Art (Covers, Booklets, Lyrics!)
* Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!
* Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Codec
* Fully Compatible with the Latest Version of the State-of-the-art MPEG-4 Audio Standard (LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2)

As stated earlier, this is a command line Nero Digital Audio codec. The applications have to be called either from Command Prompt / Batch File or by using the "Run" command found in your Start menu.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13433

Convert your Audio files to Nero Digital Audio - FREE of Charge!
Nero Digital Audio Reference Quality MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Codec

* Compression Ratios ranging from ultra high (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
* Crystal Clear, Award Winning Sound Quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
* Support for Embedded Album Art (Covers, Booklets, Lyrics!)
* Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!
* Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Codec
* Fully Compatible with the Latest Version of the State-of-the-art MPEG-4 Audio Standard (LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2)

How to use the software?

In order to use the software you need to download the archive and extracted it to a folder on your hard drive.
The sofware offered contains a command line Nero Digital Audio codec without a graphical user interface! The applications have to be called either from Command Prompt/ Batch File or from "Run" command in Microsoft® Windows™ Start Menu.

The Encoder expects .WAV files in PCM wave format as input and provides .MP4 in MPEG-4/3GPP file format as output, as well as quality/ bitrate values as parameters. The Decoder expects input in MPEG-4/3GPP file format and provides PCM wave files as output.
For more detailed information about the basic and advanced options of the codec, please also refer to the readme.txt file provided in the archive.

Highest Fidelity MPEG-4 Audio Solution – Now FREE of Charge!



download here
http://ww2.nero.com/nerodigital/enu/Nero_Digital_Audio.html

 

Adobe Photoshop CS2 v9.0.1 Update
per baldbear

Adobe Photoshop introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering the broadest and most productive toolset available, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficiency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media.
Latest Changes:
-Photoshop no longer hangs for several seconds when using painting tools with quick strokes
-A runtime error that could appear when mousing over a high-res document with the Brush tool has been fixed
-Documents containing a large number of text layers now open more quickly
-Problems related to palettes (slow redraw, palettes go white, possible crash) have been addressed
-TIFF files from certain scanners can now be opened correctly
-After editing an image in Photoshop CS2 via the TouchUp tool in Adobe Acrobat software, the image no longer gets repositioned
-XMP metadata from AI and PDF files is now retained in Photoshop
-Slow performance when toggling layer visibility has been fixed
-Info palette numbers are now displayed and updated when moving a curve point in Curves via the cursor keys
-Problems opening certain TIFF and PSB files greater than 2GB have been resolved
-The Merge to HDR command now functions properly when using high-ASCII characters in user login

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/win/cs2/PSCS2_Updater.exe

 

i is still playing around the hp p4-3.4 dual core garbage can puter i found in the garbage..........its a fast mother...
it now has a liteon 1693 burner and liteon 166s 16x dvd-rom
and the hd's are 40gb for the system and a 300gb secondary and the external is 300gb adaptec hard drive insert.
i just added 2 sticks of 512 ram the other day.....



old pix


what got me it did not come with a mouse,it came with a monitor and key board..it could not have 20 hours on it.

 

Sigh................Why can't I ever be that lucky

 

arniebear
found a live one

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1118062670787157311

a newbie getting even
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5096040616880054199


this is auslander's playmates!!!
note the site is safe..........
click here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8370071649428494977&pl=true


darthnip new job
Life Guard Bathroom Break
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7422206914832507554



creaky's playmate
click here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6020717042990706048


The_Fiend playmate
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5112427304083458824

found a movie of neph,the first girl
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7964006745917966702

ddp is the guy in the middle
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2238584233684613218

the last one is for me,my playmate
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3604383309770424376


irelands extra
for ye sex nuts
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7128049003373897231

cheers

 

A couple of those wannabe Madonna's needed a shave maybe I should send them a sickle or something