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Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Mar 04, 2008 7:03pm PST

Oh pardon me. As I live in Texas I had a little bit of voting to attend to this evening

that ran kinda long. Also kinda hostile!

  • Nike + iPod even

    href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/03/04/ipod.nike.ap/index.html">more

  • Moses was high

  • Silverlight mobile

  • Pioneer ditches plasma

As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:

Lastly, thanks for the Mario Galaxy reminders. I almost forgot!


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    For some unknown reason I started watching Alien 3 yesterday. Not the theatrical bastardized version, but the SE directors cut. The one with spots of bad dubbing, and unfinished effects.

    This is not the first time I watched this cut, however it never ceases to amaze me how much better a movie it is in this form. I mean the original cut barely made any sense. How could they have done that to Fincher. Shit his cut develops characters, and moves the story along. The theatrical version is crap!

    While it is not as good as the first or second installment, it is a decent third movie in the series. It attempts to recapture the tone of the original, and while you can never completely go back, it does a respectable job. I just wish they left Fincher alone, and let him make his movie.
    Mar 05, 2008 5:37am PST
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    Apple iTunes video m4v rant:

    So I grabbed a apple tv, its cool. I have been converting DVD's for it. This is my procedure. I use a PC to convert and store my files, managing them with iTunes.

    DVD decrypted the DVD to a folder. Handbrake that folder into a apple tv m4v file. I have been setting the out put file to a size of 3999mb. Something about 4gb or larger files not working.

    This all works fine, however most of the metadata tags are uneditable this way. There is no windows GUI to edit this stuff. There is a wonky command line parser called AtomicParsly that Im not interested in, but thats it.

    So Im using a little app for OS X called MetaX. I have been sharing my movie folder on my pc with the Mac, then using this app to change the data. The process requires the whole file to be parsed. So for each movie I want to change this data on I need to parse a 4gb file : (

    What would have been so hard in letting iTunes edit this stuff? Even better, why not let iTunes rip the movie, and build the metadata for me, then put a fairplay atom in there and restrict the file to my account?

    Why is this such a hard thing to do apple?
    Mar 05, 2008 4:59am PST
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