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I know SMR uses their own hacked MPEG-4 codec called nAVI. It's quite similar to DivX. Obviously, the codec used does not correlate in any way to the source of the movie. Like my previous post said, the quality of the end-product involves two factors: (a) the movie source (dvd, vhs, cam), (b)...

Just thought I'd correct you on this, you might as well know what you are pirating if you're going to do it! TMD is not a type of movie, it is the name of the group of people that rip and distribute their movies. I'm quite sure they use the DivX codec most of the time. They are lower quality...

I plan to get a tetriarity education, become a white-collar worker, go through a mid-life crisis, rediscover my youth, become a distgruntled employee, plan a murderous rampage, escape to cuba, pretend I am Fidel Castro re-incarnate and live the good life I always deserved. Don't start...

Hah, that's no problem. The Australian police can get your IP address from your posts, get your ISP to trace that IP address at the time you made the post to your ISP account, and they know where you live. It's all very easy if you have the power... a few threatening legal letters does wonders...

It's wrong; illegally, and -- for nearly any society (unless you're an total anarchist or something) -- morally. Serious stuff has happened over piracy, people are arrested, fined large amounts of money, etc. During the mp3/warez raids of last year, I know of one guy whos friend living on the...

I just felt cruel and thought I'd spoil some people's holidays... muahahahaa. I hope those doing maths all go well, especially those in discrete, poor bastards. If you want the good/bad news, go to http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/ForStudents/studentarea/index.php

Nah, my girlfriend goes there, and she would love to change to UTS but doesn't (and for HSC, barely didn't) have the marks for it. Everyone in the course is complaining about it, but it's falling on deaf ears (I've heard her tell stories about one tutor who has been _petitioned_ against by a...

For nursing, I have it on outside/jealous knowledge that UTS is good. Sydney uni changed their B of Nursing curriculum starting from this year, and it sucks the big one. Basically, in Sydney uni, you are going to learn theory and in UTS you willl learn the practice. Pick whichever scenario you...

Variety! I would do a BA if anything else, I mean why do a boring BCom degree? All it will get you is a better chance at a more boring job. Maybe you could do BA specialising in languages and get a job that takes you overseas.

Haha, pirating? Not likely. The software business is very profitable, there are big profit margins. For example, the games industry pulls in more than the movie industry per year. Think of the costs of producing a game; programmers, designers, manageers, not too much else after distribution...

It's tops! Two thumbs up.

Yea, it seems Justin is stealing the fame for introducing beat boxing to this month's pop listeners [am I a bitter elitist? never!]. Not even a good introduction! Weak compared to Rahzel's mastery. You got the name of the Rahzel track right, and it's from his Make The Music 2000 album... top...

Yea, maths is the foundation of computing and all that, but do you use any major part of it when you are programming, say, web front-ends or some dull financial application (which I bet is where the safe and majority of money is in programming)? I agree with you that discrete is very useful...

No worries, you can check that and all the other programs out here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/seng/SE-programs.html

I use Mozilla Firebird, a cut-down super-fast very-sexy version of mozilla. Renders pages a lot faster than IE and the GUI doesn't feel as slow as mozilla. Loading times are also better!

That's a good thing though, even if they aren't funny, they try to entertain the student. It shows that they actually give a shit about teaching -- unlike some who enjoy talking loudly when reading directly off lecture notes, and then mutter under their breath when explaining anything. The...

Semester = session. Currently, the combined B Eng/B Com program doesn't exist, so all budding accountants can do is pick commerce subjects for their Soft Eng electives. When the B Eng/B Com program exists, I think your program will continue in this fashion, though you'll probably get overloaded...

Hey, come on guys, it wasn't _that_ bad! Just not enough time that's all; could have done with another 20 minutes, coz I just rushed through the SQL part. The theory stuff was OK (McLake, I told you PADIM would come in handy for DB life cycle :) )... a lot of bullshitting was done today.

I did 2 unit maths last year and the course is OK so far. I haven't done enough work, as per my standard, and I haven't gotten to a tearing-hair stage yet. Just be prepared to do a lot of work before your final exams (which I also haven't done). S Eng is just that, software engineering, the...

:) The possibilities scare me.