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EBone
10/12/09

In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
If you order the two-disc DVD edition (not the BluRay) you get a digital copy of the movie as well. Not on a nifty flash drive though.
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Curves
10/12/09

In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
The insignia needs to be in pin or tie tack format so I can walk around clicking it and telling Scotty to beam me up.
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GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
10/12/09

In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
Any idea what the series number is?
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bagellord
10/12/09

In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
Why exactly would they want the DVD stored off a 4gb flash drive? The compression would murder the quality.
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TheCrudMan
10/12/09

@bagellord:
DVDs store 4.8gb...and a lot of it is used up by menus and other crap. I guess there are dual layer DVDs but most of the time that is not used to give you better picture quality.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Full MPEG-2 "quality."

It'd be nice if they gave us the HD version on a larger drive...I don't understand why in this day and age I can't get HD movies sans Blu-Ray...the HD content on iTunes isn't actually HD.
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bagellord
10/12/09

@TheCrudMan: When I back up dvd's with DVDShrink I back them up with no compression and end up with nearly 8gb video ts rips.
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trickflip1
10/12/09

@bagellord: That's because you're backing up the whole Image of the DVD, not just ripped videos.

Use Handbrake and rip a DVD's main Title (the movie alone) and check out the size difference. Rip it at full DVD resolution even.

Of course if you don't have a multi-core processor, it may take quite a long while to do it.
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Xagest
10/12/09

@bagellord: Fine point, most DVDs these days are dual layered.
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bagellord
10/12/09

@trickflip1: Except it's not an image of the dvd like an ISO. It's the video_ts folder. I also like having the menu structure so that if my disk is messed up I can easily create a new one.

PS - not sure where the processor thing came from but I have a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo in my iMac. The bottleneck for me copying a movie is the crappily slow DVD drive.
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trickflip1
10/13/09

@bagellord: Oh, I was just simply saying if you had the time to test it, that it might take longer if you don't have a multi-core processor.

I, for example, am still using a Prescott P4 in my laptop as well as my current desktop setup. So it naturally takes me a long, long time to rip a DVD.

My mentioning of the file size was merely to state that it is possible for them to have a full DVD-quality video on the flash drive, given that the file size would be no larger than 2.2GB.

All I was saying is that I'm sure the flash drive does not contain the DVD iso. That I was sure it just contains a DVD quality "rip" of the movie itself, maybe a few special features as separate videos.

However, after someone saying they read the video will only take up 1.0 GB, it sounds like it will be less than DVD quality, or a "digital" copy like so many movies come with now.
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danger the pirate
09/25/09

In reply to Surrogates Reviewed: Bruce Willis' Robot Hair Is Ridiculous
and for anybody who doesnt feel like clicking through: "So to sum up: dumb movie, weak nonsense plot, incredibly preachy and sledgehammery. At the same time. it's a fun action movie with some nice set pieces, and the production design and world-building are really lovely. And it's mostly worth it for Bruce Willis' craggy, saggy, excessively mortal countenance, as he stumbles in some state of grievous injury through a landscape full of way too pretty people."
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krownd
09/25/09

In reply to Surrogates Reviewed: Bruce Willis' Robot Hair Is Ridiculous
can't be worse than tom hank's hair in da vinci code
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Lizard_King
09/27/09

@krownd: Or Nick Cage's hair in Bangkok Dangerous. Strike That, Nick Cage's hair in anything.
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Cribbage Left
07/29/09

In reply to The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys
If this hasn't been said before, please let me be the first. THERE IS NO WAY TO EJECT FROM A MOVING VEHICLE AT MACH 2!!!

Terminal velocity, even at high altitudes is around 90m/s (for a seat+ pilot MAX). Mach 2 is somewhere around 680 m/s.

The sudden deceleration, even at a generous 1 second, would still be roughly 600m/s^2!! THAT's over 60 g-forces acting on a pilot's body. At 0.75 seconds it's roughly 110 g-forces. 0.5 seconds: 255 etc...

60 g-forces is the chest compression limit in a car crash (that's with airbags). It'll crush your heart and your aortic artery would tear off your heart like fruit off the stem. In fact if there's any plaque buildup in your arteries the artery is even more brittle.

There is no way a pilot is going to volunteer to do this stunt. He is almost a guaranteed to die.
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A Pimp Named DaveR
07/29/09

@Cribbage Left:

Allow me to second this.

Jesus, there's absolutely no question that the ejection wasn't at Mach 2. In the original linked article, all the pilot said is that he flew at Mach 2 with no canopy -- something that's definitely possible -- NOT that the passenger ejected at Mach 2. Because ejecting at Mach 2 that low in the atmosphere, which means that several pounds of air would be impacting every frontal inch of your body at 1500 mph, would kill you instantly.

The only US military aircraft that were designed for supersonic ejection used capsule ejection systems. Because you can't eject at Mach 2 unless you're enclosed in some protective structure.

Period.

End of discussion.
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TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
07/28/09

In reply to Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)
Wow, lot''s of mouthbreathing retards in the comments today.

Even if they use a shopped image to represent the story, it doesn't necessarily mean the story itself is fake...
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Edited by TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. at 07/28/09 9:37 PM

InsertBullets
07/28/09

In reply to The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys
Hmm this plot sound vaguely familiar... If Lou Gosset Jr. was in it, I would swear it was Iron Eagle II
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madog
07/28/09

In reply to Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)
Real or not, I love how everyone becomes a certified aviation expert through a cursory glance at wikipedia.
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GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
07/28/09

In reply to The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys
Is anyone else missing Don LaFontaine? I think he might have been able to make a movie like this something I want to see. But yeesh, I hate movies that limit their baysplosions to simple gas bombs and squibs.

I am taking bets that the song "Rock The Casbah" will be played at least ONCE in this movie.

Damn you Maver-ski! You're ego's giving out bread your butt hasn't even waited in line for!

Red Square, this is Ghost Lenin, requesting a fly by!

Increase speed, Mav, or else the engines will Stalin!
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Edited by GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat at 07/28/09 6:53 PM

ironman1266
07/28/09

In reply to The Sukhoi Su-35 Eject Stunt Was Filmed for Kerosene Cowboys
this movie looks absolutely horrible...but i'll probably watch it anyways because i'm interested to see why the guy ejected going Mach 2
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NurseDave
07/28/09

@ironman1266: I'll wait to read you post here how fake it looked.
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
07/27/09

In reply to Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)

What if I said this is a Michael Bay movie Jesus, would you still watch it?? HUH? HUH?

Not true of course... hopefully
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
07/27/09

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi:
Oh, you would, wouldn't you?
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makeopalypse
07/27/09

In reply to Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a Hollywood Movie at Mach 2 (UPDATED)
maybe it's real, maybe it's fake, but if you're shooting a scene where a guy punches out at mach 2, it doesn't follow that you have to actually get a guy to punch out at mach 2. All you need to do is make it look like he's punching out at mach 2, and I think I'm not alone in not really being able to look at footage of a plane flying against the sky and tell the difference between mach 2 and, say, 200mph.
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phaota
07/27/09

@makeopalypse: I think you need a few more Mach 2's in that statement. :)
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makeopalypse
07/28/09

@phaota: mach 2 mach 2, blah blah mach 2 mach mach mach!

:)
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Noobs-R-Us
07/27/09

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What happened to the discussions here?!
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