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Comment on Installing VMware ESXi 4.1 At Home by VMware @Home « Real Life Geek

VMware @Home « Real Life Geek — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:10:43 +0000

[...] from the amount of traffic my old post found here has been generating over the past months it’s obvious running your own VMware environment at [...]

Comment on The Coming ARMs Race by ARM Is The Future « Real Life Geek

ARM Is The Future « Real Life Geek — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:35:05 +0000

[...] said it before here that ARM is in the process of mounting a coup of sorts. While poking around looking for something [...]

Comment on Pleading The Case for Blu-Ray by kmac1036

kmac1036 — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:20:55 +0000

& forgot to mention that it was going to cost me considerable money to author a BD movie of my own. $100 for the software, about $200 for the drive, & don't get me started on the cost of the media! at this point, they may as well put it on flash media / memory cards.

Comment on Pleading The Case for Blu-Ray by kmac1036

kmac1036 — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:17:31 +0000

the problem with blu ray is the content holders / movie industry. they have failed to make BD as ubiquitous as dvd thus far. if a disc is gonna cost me 30 bucks then I damn well better be able to put the video on any personal device. you can't, at least not legally. you might be able to resell it, at least for now. they've tried what the pc games are doing now, poison the system so it can't be resold. or at least put a tax on the resales that goes back to them... they are going about this all the wrong way. for $30, I can watch whatever, whenever on almost whichever device I have that supports Netflix, for 3 months, unlimited.

Is blu ray superior quality? sure, but for the most part that doesn't matter to 99% of the population unfortunately. also with the data rate argument, the human eye can only discern so much resolution, the rest just becomes overkill. SD dvds, if done properly, you could compress it, cut the data rate by 50%-75% & it's gonna be pretty hard to tell.

when every drive shipping in computers & set top boxes supports at least bluray playback, imo it's not gonna catch on anymore than it already has. I'm a little upset with companies like apple that don't even offer it as an option, but truth be told, you are playing ball with an industry that has their head in the sand.

Comment on Bad Taste Activision – Guitar Hero on Career Page by Alaik

Alaik — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:06:28 +0000

Well, they've never been the shining moral compass of the industry.

Comment on Bad Taste Activision – Guitar Hero on Career Page by Steven

Steven — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:02:10 +0000

EPIC FAIL!

Comment on Google Android Hacking Common Practices for Newbs by Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:17:26 +0000

Very nice breakdown of the basics of Android hacking. Would love to see some follow up posts on more advanced topics as well.