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  1. Converting to bytes won't really help. The time versus the size of in bytes is based on the compression used in the video. If you want to know the bytes, you'd have to check out the disc size. Or the size of the stream. If you want to do any conversion, just drop the Frames (ff) all together and divide the mm's by 60 to get hours, etc.
  2. Received this in an e-mail from Amazon.com: "We've noticed that customers who have purchased Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks have also ordered The Miracles of Jesus on DVD." And, I bet ONE, at least, did. BUT, why the FUCK should *I* care?! Squeeze the blood from a stone, the blood of christ, and the stone that should have been cast at him at the well with the harlot, or one of those stones that will cry out his name if we don't at Judgment Day? IDIOTS! Drive Amazon.com's money changers forth from the temple...
  3. Well, you got one up on me, then... I'm not aware what you knew.
  4. The general pattern of DVD releases is that TV shows get released in R2 before R1. As for movies, it depends on if there's a new DVD encryption technique the content owners want to test. If there is, the movies get released over in R2 first. For instance, with Doctor Who, there is still no R1 release for The Enemy Within, and Revelation Of The Daleks probably only finally got an R1 release, a year later, to coincide with the Genesis R1 release. Since Warner Brothers knew that Genesis, the most popular Doctor Who serial of all time, would sell, the BBC finally okayed Revelation for a simultaneous sale for Dalek fans as a push, an added incentive to buy.
  5. I wasn't aware I had lapsed idiotic into stories from my youth. No, those are worse. Going as far back as 5th grade, when they first started to notice things I kept denying myself. And using them as their source of derision. Or, rather, I THOUGHT was theirs at one time, rather than being the tools of another. And, then, when the teachers started joining in in later years, oh, that felt great! No, I was more along the lines of Sloth. Admittedly, I looked slightly better. Ironically enough, I am as tall as the football player who played him. I actually saw The Goonies in theaters. Even played The Goonies II regularly at the arcade and it was one of my earlier NES cartridges.
  6. You know? I was a real idiot. I got one of the 20 or so PS2's that the store in this town got in 2000. And, I didn't sell it on eBay, when I should have. I was smart and pre-ordered early, by about a year, expecting this type of junk to happen. I didn't sell it because I just wanted to revel in the fact that I had whatever everyone wanted and couldn't get for a change. For once in my life, it wasn't me looking in through the window and wishing. As I said, I'm an idiot. So, I just ordered up a pizza, played some PSX game since no PS2 games were out yet, ironically enough and, well, did my normal routine: went to bed after that for getting up for my graveyard shift.
  7. Only if you bring the avatar along. It's about the best I'm going to get. I'd be enraged to violence... if you weren't so undeniably correct about my pathetic state. Never been to a bar. Don't want to drink. Never saw alcohol as a way to escape my problems. I won't go anywhere near the territory my dad went into. Actually, I take that back. Once, when I was like 12, I was taken to a bar by my grandfather. He and my grandmother were watching me while my mother worked one day over the summer. The truck we were driving around in broke down, so, we had to go inside a bar where my granddad met with many from the VFW and Legion. Oh, and, 10 years ago, someone I knew who ran a video rental store for years decided to get out while the getting was good. She held a going out of business party on the store's last day. It was at a local bar. I only remember not drinking anything but RC and playing Bohemian Rhapsody on the jukebox. "I'm just a poor boy; nobody loves me. He's just a poor boy, from a poor family. Spare him his life from this monstrosity!"
  8. Wasn't Nixon's the last US state funeral before Reagan's? Back in 1994? I remember his funeral was covered all over TV akin to Reagan's. Not as much coverage, but, a lot. I would have to think it depends on what the criteria are for a state funeral in Australia. If there are any criteria.
  9. Yes, that's a fairly good analogy. As opposed to the current way it would have to be done of mounting the .MDS as a virtual drive and then adding only what you want in Build Mode and/or adding new files and then saving a new image. UltraISO's limitation in this area is it will only save larger than 4 GB files either to NTFS or as proprietary .ISZ or whatever format.
  10. Short, sweet, and to the point. If it can't be done, it can't be done. Or, if you don't want it in there, it ain't in there.
  11. Ah, BUT, do YOU know why it's .068 seconds? First, the answer is Star Trek: First Contact. (Good one, God.) BUT, I find it more interesting that 0.068 seconds is also the standard quartz oscillation that is used in the processors of the modern electronic parking meters developed by POM, the creators of the original analog models in the 1930's. Somehow, I find it cannot be coincidence that the two references involve processing time. But, you never know? After all, I just happened to see First Contact for the first time a mere few hours after have had sex for the first time. Imagine the irony in that?
  12. REGARDLESS of the name, I was making a major leap outside the realm of cognitive thinking. It needed to be addressed, so, I addressed it. As for the double posting, I've seen IE do it a few times during those tests on a virgin partition without Firefox installed. I am more inclined to blame it not necessarily on the board software entirely. But, an oversight in it. That it doesn't take, properly, into account connections that aren't, well, connecting. It should be written to check for such double posts immediately one after the other.
  13. I was wondering if it was possible to make Build Mode load .MDS, and/or any other types of control files such as .CUE? My thinking here was it would be possible to take an existing disc image and then, if possible to load it this way, delete and inject files into the system structure, and then save a duplicate of the image with the desired changes and insertions.
  14. I could use some help here, too, probably. The only times I've tried to create one, using a boot sector extracted from a Linux boot disc from an Acronis rescue media, I could get it to boot but not run the utilities afterwards.
  15. Of course, one needs ImgBurn. Remember Windows 95? ImgBurn far outshines Windows 95 as a reason to get a computer if you didn't have one to run it because it would change your life forever.
  16. Never believe the hardware shortage shit. It's an ancient trick to build up hype and desire, thus increase sales. I know it goes back to, at least, 1988, with the artificial chip shortage created by Nintendo to raise the interest and prices of Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link. As for Europe getting a delayed release, well, in a way, it may be better for you. You'll get the version with the bugs ironed out.
  17. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=1942&st=40 Check out the last thread. And, no, I won't be telling them. They won't listen, they won't care, they won't try to replicate the problem, and, even if they did, God et al would make sure it doesn't happen to them and only to me, making me appear to be a fool, because it only serves their purposes for humor to have these sort of things happen to me. Lastly, even if they did discover it or were already aware of it, fixing it is NOT a priority. LUK is the ONLY coder, thus far, I've seen who actually takes errors seriously enough to look in and fix. Thus, with all that in mind, given how much unnecessary work I've had to put into the problem, my thinking is also why should anyone ELSE benefit from my hard work if they're not going to fix it? They're not going to fix it JUST for me, so why bother? People benefit enough already from my having existed, from my suffering and hard work, and from just crossing my path. I don't need to give them anything else when it can already be taken from me. Yeah, I've lost my mind. Big fucking deal. I lost it long ago and no one cared. They care even less now that I'm rotting in pain and emotional distress.
  18. I would like to see the footage that they say he was caught, the entire time, on camera, from attack to pulling out the barb, until he died. I don't want to appear or morbid, but, if his wife chooses to release the footage and stations choose to show it, I am curious as to the events that transpired. Because, even if we do see it, there may simply be no answer. Freak accidents just happen. Normally docile things can get pissed for no reason. Things can get afraid for no reason, too. It may have been an accident, too. That Irwin misinterpreted the action and, as a result, caused it to attack while trying to defend from what he thought was an attack. In the end, I think there can never be an answer because there's no way we can know what was in Irwin's mind or in the "thinking" of the ray in that instant, either.
  19. Well, you know, you could try searching for it... Why would I waste my time creating a fake entry for a piece of garbage, in the end? But, if one must have valediction: http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-08-30 'Star Trek' May Go Where It Went Before Rumors sped at light speed on the Internet Tuesday that Paramount is working on an enhanced version of the original 79 Star Trek episodes that it plans to sell as a syndication package to broadcast stations. According to the reports, state-of-the-art visual effects will replace those in the series, new music will be added, and the show will be offered in high definition. Presumably, the new series will also be packaged for sale on high-definition DVD after the syndication package airs. The website DigitalBits, however, observed that "rather than going with a proven effects house, CBS has chosen to do the new CG work in-house. One hopes that they've got someone with REAL Trek effects experience and knowledge involved in the effort -- and they they're taking care to preserve the look and feel of the original shots."
  20. You're NOT listening. Well, in your defense you may not have read my other thread, so, here is the reason: It does NOT matter IF the function is ENABLED or not. It gets installed REGARDLESS. The presence of the engine itself is merely enough. 6.5.722 is fine. Update the antispyware engine and the problem appears. Disable antispyware, and, it is still present. Install ZoneAlarm Free 6.5.737 and it is there because the installer for ZA Free is the same as ZA Pro. The only version not affected is ZA AntiVirus because it does not have the spyware function in it at all. You people really AREN'T listening! There was an update released on the 2nd, I think. And, no, it didn't fix it. Like these updates ever do fix problems, right? 6.5.722 does not contain the bad spyware engine. Only if you update the spyware with its update function. The bad spyware engine is included in the 6.5.737 installer and gets installed regardless of if you choose to turn it on or not. Only ZA AV is free of this because it is the only post 6.5.722 installer that does not contain the antispyware engine in its package. ZoneAlarm Free does contain it because it is contained in ZoneAlarm Pro's package, and, ZA Free's installer is the same as ZA Pro's. Thus far, ZA AV's only missing component is the antispyware engine, which I never used anyway. BUT because they refused to write the installer so it doesn't actually "install" the engine, the other flavors of ZA are useless. So, ZA AV is what I've been using and will probably stick with... until I find whatever fucker bug or missing needed feature in ZA AV is...
  21. Yeah, which was my point on why it was ironic he was killed by a stingray while filming underwater.
  22. What is it about the board software and the stupid ellipses? Okay, so, I can have TWO sets of ... in a post, but THREE says I don't have permission to edit index.php?!
  23. Beat me to it. I guess when you're half a world's difference in time away, that happens. I was going to post on the same thing and how ironic it was. "Ain't she a beaut?! Ow! She stung me... oy... don't feel so well-" After all those years, survived handling crocodiles and all other kinds of deadly and poisonous critters with his hands, he's killed while underwater. I would guess that was normally not his environment. i.e. did he do a lot of underwater filming before?
  24. Oh, it probably was already talking about Build mode. I wouldn't be surprised if the obvious escaped my grasp again, what with the repeated and seemingly never ending stress of doing things like performing these tests, finding work, living alone, and the repeated pain in my back as well as losing feeling in my feet is probably just driving me mad. Well, less sane, let's put it that way.
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