You put the Iron Man bluray disc in. It starts up and asks if you want to download the BD-Live content. But because there are only two selections, it's impossible to tell which one is selected by default: one's yellow. One's blue. Far as I can tell in my colorblindness.
If you tried to get the BD-Live content, it just sat there for a while. I hit stop, play, and skipped the BD-Live stuff and just played the disc. Sweet, sweet high res Iron Goodness ("...actually it's a gold-titanium alloy...")
Many bluray titles start up right into the film. Some without anything at all in front of it. Others with the FBI warning (but in high res, so you know you're on bluray). Some have trailers, but so far, all have been skipable. Certainly better than the occasional unstoppable DVD trailer I've had to deal with... as long as that remains true, it's definitely a better user experience.
Aside from the kick-ass resolution and sound, of course. Those are friggin' great on a big screen. Regular DVDs are starting to look blurry on my screen, as more of what I watch is HD, which I suspect will happen to everyone else over time. The folks that say "there's not enough difference" to go HD are going to look at an old DVD in ten years and say "what the hell was I thinking?"
Because the microsoft numbers are nonsense. Everyone who gets a Hotmail account or, probably, any other MSN account, is "a passport user" but they don't actually use it for logging into different vendors sites. Just MS.
I think "Compared to your fovea" is the next catchphrase to sweep the internet.
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I play UT2K4 (under this name... you know how embarrassing it is to see "You were killed by: ABasketOfPups") and I'm red/green color impaired. Against some backgrounds, it's really hard for me to see exactly where the (hopping like a maniac) player is, and what's background. Much easier when I'm on red, and I can kill the ravenous smurfs. The "here's why I think this works" that the "researcher" came up with really seems random and off the cuff, and not a viable attempt at a theory.
I would be in no way stunned to find out the normal contents of a Pringles can were in fact, freeze dried, then fried, before being stamped into the same shape and stacked.
Lossless codecs like huffyuv run about twice that hot for SD res, around 18-30 gigs/hour (depending on how clean your source material is...). Heaven help you if you're doing lossless HD... or lossless, high-color HD... might as well go buy stock in hard drive company now.
That page doesn't crash on my Windows XP box w/the new RC, even when I tell NoScript to temporarily allow everything on the page. Also have AdBlockPlus and FlashBlock running, but all other plugins are disabled.
Well, to each his own, but Batman Begins is generally liked and made a ton of money, so "really dropped the ball" is a stretch. And I like Tim Burton, I really do, but the best thing about the first Batman was the music, and the best thing about the second was Catwoman, and in both cases the films had serious problems, like terrible, terrible dialogue and really useless villians (Walken's character, in Batman Returns, was a complete waste of a Walken appearance). Both looked nice though.
In the US, if you do this, you risk being sued (by the thief or his survivors) and for that matter, charged with criminal use of deadly force. Lethal traps are not a permissible form of defense. And in this case, where you're suggesting poisoning alcohol, you're just begging for your kid(s) or their friends to end up finding it (possibly while already drunk and so telling them ahead of time is of little use) and killing an innocent person. Preventing someone innocent from taking what is INTENDED to look innocuous, is a lot harder than the phrase "make sure that no innocent person becomes a victim" implies.
Google says that's just not what they've seen. "The figure shows that failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at the very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend."
On the graph it's clear that 30-35C is best at three years. But up until then, 35-40C has lower failure rates, and both have lower rates by a lot than the 15-30C range.
Warranty periods for 750 gig and 1 terabyte drives from Western Digital, Samsung, and Hitachi, are 3 years to 5 years according to the info on zipzoomfly.com.
A one year warranty doesn't seem that common. External drives seem to have one year warranties, but even SATA drives at Best Buy mostly have 3 years
I suspect that one of those situations that seems to occur more than it does, because when there's no irony involved, it doesn't stand out in the mind.
S-video does get you a sharper image out of VHS, and it's noticeable, so there's something going on between the tape and the output that leads me to believe either the signal isn't quite as mixed on the tape as you'd gather from it being composite, or the VCR is better at separating the signals it's built to handle than the input devices that have to make assumptions about composite that could be of widely varying characteristics, that they don't have to make with s-video.
And the last VHS deck I bought (about a year ago) had s-video on it.
Haven't you been making a low budget movie for like, the last century? Couldn't you have completed "Lord of the Rings: The unabridged and extended by Stephen King" version by now?:)
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You put the Iron Man bluray disc in. It starts up and asks if you want to download the BD-Live content. But because there are only two selections, it's impossible to tell which one is selected by default: one's yellow. One's blue. Far as I can tell in my colorblindness.
If you tried to get the BD-Live content, it just sat there for a while. I hit stop, play, and skipped the BD-Live stuff and just played the disc. Sweet, sweet high res Iron Goodness ("...actually it's a gold-titanium alloy...")
Many bluray titles start up right into the film. Some without anything at all in front of it. Others with the FBI warning (but in high res, so you know you're on bluray). Some have trailers, but so far, all have been skipable. Certainly better than the occasional unstoppable DVD trailer I've had to deal with... as long as that remains true, it's definitely a better user experience.
Aside from the kick-ass resolution and sound, of course. Those are friggin' great on a big screen. Regular DVDs are starting to look blurry on my screen, as more of what I watch is HD, which I suspect will happen to everyone else over time. The folks that say "there's not enough difference" to go HD are going to look at an old DVD in ten years and say "what the hell was I thinking?"
That's really, I'm not sure what the word or phrase is... silly? Ridiculous? Goof-loopy? Batshit-insane?
Especially since McCain really is very, very old, for a job that positively drains the life out of everyone who takes it.
Because the microsoft numbers are nonsense. Everyone who gets a Hotmail account or, probably, any other MSN account, is "a passport user" but they don't actually use it for logging into different vendors sites. Just MS.
You're thinking of Speechless, which couldn't have been more appropriate... or heartbreaking.
"polar bear you didn't notice hiding in the snow comes lumber at you"
Dear god...the bears are using lumber against us now? We have to stop them before they put nails in the board or we're fucking dead.
I think "Compared to your fovea" is the next catchphrase to sweep the internet.
I play UT2K4 (under this name... you know how embarrassing it is to see "You were killed by: ABasketOfPups") and I'm red/green color impaired. Against some backgrounds, it's really hard for me to see exactly where the (hopping like a maniac) player is, and what's background. Much easier when I'm on red, and I can kill the ravenous smurfs. The "here's why I think this works" that the "researcher" came up with really seems random and off the cuff, and not a viable attempt at a theory.
Might as well get you into a Pringles can right now, then.
I would be in no way stunned to find out the normal contents of a Pringles can were in fact, freeze dried, then fried, before being stamped into the same shape and stacked.
"If your hand is too big to fit in the Pringles can, you should stop eating them. "
Yes, for heaven's sake, stop eating your hands.
Lossless codecs like huffyuv run about twice that hot for SD res, around 18-30 gigs/hour (depending on how clean your source material is...). Heaven help you if you're doing lossless HD... or lossless, high-color HD... might as well go buy stock in hard drive company now.
That page doesn't crash on my Windows XP box w/the new RC, even when I tell NoScript to temporarily allow everything on the page. Also have AdBlockPlus and FlashBlock running, but all other plugins are disabled.
Cheaper than houses? Change the way we live? You're not an enthusiast: you're a fetishist.
Well, to each his own, but Batman Begins is generally liked and made a ton of money, so "really dropped the ball" is a stretch. And I like Tim Burton, I really do, but the best thing about the first Batman was the music, and the best thing about the second was Catwoman, and in both cases the films had serious problems, like terrible, terrible dialogue and really useless villians (Walken's character, in Batman Returns, was a complete waste of a Walken appearance). Both looked nice though.
First filesystem command to be implemented: OPEN!
Command for skaters trying to get the competition out of the way? PIPE
In the US, if you do this, you risk being sued (by the thief or his survivors) and for that matter, charged with criminal use of deadly force. Lethal traps are not a permissible form of defense. And in this case, where you're suggesting poisoning alcohol, you're just begging for your kid(s) or their friends to end up finding it (possibly while already drunk and so telling them ahead of time is of little use) and killing an innocent person. Preventing someone innocent from taking what is INTENDED to look innocuous, is a lot harder than the phrase "make sure that no innocent person becomes a victim" implies.
"unless your reason for needing to do so is that your friend is shooting a zombie movie and needs extras."
Have you met circletimessquare? :)
Demon Seed?
You know, that's not half crazy. Although I'm saying this as a basket of pups, to a giant hedgehog, so, my point of view may be twisted.
Now, how many folks are going to go make Campfire clones just for the hell of it?
Google says that's just not what they've seen. "The figure shows that failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at the very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend."
On the graph it's clear that 30-35C is best at three years. But up until then, 35-40C has lower failure rates, and both have lower rates by a lot than the 15-30C range.
Warranty periods for 750 gig and 1 terabyte drives from Western Digital, Samsung, and Hitachi, are 3 years to 5 years according to the info on zipzoomfly.com.
A one year warranty doesn't seem that common. External drives seem to have one year warranties, but even SATA drives at Best Buy mostly have 3 years
I suspect that one of those situations that seems to occur more than it does, because when there's no irony involved, it doesn't stand out in the mind.
S-video does get you a sharper image out of VHS, and it's noticeable, so there's something going on between the tape and the output that leads me to believe either the signal isn't quite as mixed on the tape as you'd gather from it being composite, or the VCR is better at separating the signals it's built to handle than the input devices that have to make assumptions about composite that could be of widely varying characteristics, that they don't have to make with s-video.
And the last VHS deck I bought (about a year ago) had s-video on it.
Haven't you been making a low budget movie for like, the last century? Couldn't you have completed "Lord of the Rings: The unabridged and extended by Stephen King" version by now? :)