to put a bill on the table, or "tabling a bill" obviously means you want to discuss that particular bill.
you literally place the bill on a table, where everyone can see it, and discuss the bill.
why would anyone possibly put a bill on the table if you wanted to remove it from consideration? that makes no sense. Please don't tell me American English is THAT bad.
Taxes are too stressful, we should automatically deduct what you owe from your bank account.
In Canada, and South Korea (the only countries where i have (officially) worked, the government does deduct taxes from your paycheque automatically. it is a great convienience.
and in canada, they usually get the amount wrong, and at tax time, they mail cheques to you. the only loss to the citizen is the 16 cents or so of lost interest. big whoop.
and in your nanny state proposal, you left out gambling and lotteries.
Personally, I would support a ban on tobacco and hard alcohol, on the condition that we got weed completly legalized out of the deal, and i could still have my cold delicious beer. i think i could live life without my scotch, but i could only do it if i were high all the time.
I really hate to agree with you, but since I am a ubuntu user who knows nothing about linux, I really have no argument.
I love ubuntu. It has everything I need built right in: my hardware is detected right away, it comes with open office, the gimp (which doesn't suck anymore!) a decent mp3 and movie player (why isn't VLC the default?) and loads of games to choose from, and instalation is so easy. it has everything i need right at my fingertips, and its all free.
I've tinkered with other releases in the past, and to be honest, ubuntu is the only linux distro that IMO feels like it is 'ready for the masses'.
"The attitude of the Koreans is utterly racist and bigotted."
That is complete and utter bullshit.
Korean's love Japanese TV and movies. All the students watch anime. Most Koreans do not like to travel very much, but they all have either been to Japan, or plan on going there sometime soon. Many of my students wear Japan's soccer team uniforms in the class. some wear t-shirts with a japanese flag under their school uniform.
I would have to say that you are the one who is racist and bigotted.
I dont understand why Japan feels the need to do this. Are 'crimes by forigners' a serious national concern?
star craft is more than a national sport here, its a national obsession.
My cable company has recently added a SECOND star craft channel.
When I am teaching my students, I often have to use a star craft analogy before they get it. "Very: A Zealot rush is VERY effective early on". "Extremely: The Yamato cannon is extremely powerful." "Good, Better, Best....Hae Wan is GOOD at starcraft, Yeong Jae is BETTER, but I am the BEST, and if you disagree, I will beat you with my love stick!"
if i steal your coat, you won't have a coat. if I sneak up on you, measure your coat, and reproduce it at home, you haven't lots anything. same thing with digital copies.
copyright law was intended to encourage artists to create new work by granting them a temporary monopoly on their work.
with mass-reproducible art forms - music, photography, print, film, industries were created which took copyright away from the content creators
once the copyrights have been acquired, the industry big-wigs have repeatedly bribed government officials and law makers into extending copyright protection to ridicules terms so they cab squeeze every penny out of each copyright they own, while the creator makes next to nothing from their work.
so, is it morally right for large corporations to bend laws and buy-out politicians to allow their business model to work? is it right for laws to protect corporations over the rights of private citizens?
as a private citizen, I believe the current situation is unjust, and I believe that a moral person has a moral obligation to fight unjust laws. But I also come from a country where blank media is taxed, to compensate the artists. so I steal as much content as I can. I've got to get my money's worth.
I am a content creator myself, and I have been inhibited by these oppressive copyright laws.
A ballot means next to nothing, especially in the US where they have a one party system.
"Should I vote for the republican party that doesn't care about people and isn't afraid to admit it, or the democrats, who don't care about people and are afraid to admit it"
In Canada, it's a similar situation; "This party will ruin everything, this party will ruin our economy, and this party will do absolutely nothing"
If you really want to make a difference, sell your write to vote for millions, buy a solid gold house and a rocket car, and use your free time to write Mayors, MPs, congressmen, etc. Boycott organizations or corporations you don't like.
These days, money talks, votes do not.
but the NDS also has a good homebrew scene. a touch of war is a good touch screen controlled RTS with a fantastic soundtrack. DS organize turns your DS into a palm pilot and an MP3 player. I can play the original doom on my DS, along with every NES, SNES, and genesis rom out there. it also plays movies that can easilly be formatted and put on a micro SD...all without touching the DS's firmware. the DS is a great system for that sort of stuff.
I actually have pictures of my work on my DS, and if someone wants to see my portfolio, I pull out my DS and use the jpeg viewer to show them my stuff. it works great.
I can see how using the features of the DS can come off as gimmicky, no, it doesn't enhance the story, yes, it breaks down the 4th wall.
but it is neat!
writing notes on your map is bloody obvious, but no one has done it before, so you have to give credit to zelda. When you think about it, evolution is also 'bloody obvious' but it took people a long time to get around to understanding it.)
I must agree with the 2 screens things, many games just don't make good use of them. Zelda is probably the best example i can think of for integrating 2 screens, including a touch screen. tingles rupee land also has a great interface, merging traditional controls with the touch screen. but games like sonic rush just sort of treat the dual screen as one big verticle widescreen....nothing overly interesting there.
I really enjoy the port of 'Doom' for the DS, where the automap is presented on the lower screen, and the 1st person view is on the top screen. it is far superior to the PC version of having the automap superimposed on the game screen.
Your roll technique works much better than the one printed in the book. i have had some sucess moving the stylus back and forth quickly along the edge, but tapping works quite well.
i did sound overly harsh in my review of tingles rupeeland, i do enjoy the game quite a bit, the characters are hilarious (especially the bridge builder who leaves far too little to the imagination) but there are just some things that bug me......eg. bodyguards i hire from the second contanent disapear when i go home to save/cook/sell. when I return to continue where i left off, my bodyguard is gone. it has been my experience that i have to at least tripple the asking price. for soup recipies from the cook, it might say "700 more", i give him 2000, and it still says i havent given enough. I enjoy dealing with the bridge builder, he at least holds on to the money you have given him. with other characters, it is a total loss.
it is a fun story line, and if i had a NDS emulator where i could save/load anywhere, I'm sure it would be great fun, but i get frustrated by contantly not having enough rupees to get what i need. (is there a good NDS emulator for Ubuntu?)
What I am enjoying most about phantom hourglass is how they really make you use all of the features of the DS. I thought that blowing on the microphone to blow dust off your map was really cool. blowing out torches to unlock things was cool the 1st time, but it did get old. closing the DS to emboss a pattern onto your map did take me out of the game, but i thought it was a really unique idea, I have never seen anything like that before in a video game, and I really enjoyed how creative this game is with the puzzles and controls.
The boomerang is just awesome. taking notes on your maps? brilliant!
sword control is great, but why is rolling so damned hard?
My only complaint is how linear this game was. The temple of the ocean king, although it was repeditive, i was releived when the yellow portal appeared and i could jump back to where i was....that was a life saver, and being able to replay and resave to improve your time does add to the replay value of the game.
I am really enjoying this game, quite a bit more than i am enjoying tingles rosy coloured rupee land, (which was brought up by another poster) Tingles rupee land assumes that negotiating prices and constant system restarts when you get it wrong are fun. its not.
in soviet russia...well, south korea at least...
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I have never been to Japan, so I can not speak about their culture from experience, but I imagne it is similar to South Korea.
In South Korea, an average family home is a small one room apartment where people go to sleep. people don't do anything in their homes. everythng happens outside. I run into students at 11 at night who are still in their uniforms, because they haven't gone home. when they want to play games, they go to a PC bang (PC)to play their games. when they want to watch a DVD, they go to a DVD bang, when they want to check email, they use thier cellphones, which are a year ahead of what we get in North America.
there is simply no place for the desktop PC in their culture. even the laptops they have here are tiny. mini laptops with 5-7 inch screens are extreamly common. their laptops are about the same size as my first motorola brickphone!
PCs are not dead here, they are just imbedded into smaller devices that fit into their culture better. they dont have the big western homes where we go -and stay, when the work day is done.
and I can draw you a circle in photoshop at a resolution of 1200 X 800, which will look absolutly flawless on my screen, because that this the resolution of my monitor, and any further detail will not be perceived to to physical limitations. In the same way, you can represent audio with greater quality than the human ear can percieve, but there would be no point.
what use is a format that can capture a frequency of 44,000 Hz, when I am only able to hear up to 18,000 Hz? why have a dynamic range greater than 200 dB, when my ear can only hear a difference between of 100dB.
there is no use for a commercial playback device that exceeds the physical limitations of the human body. if you are a researcher studying bats and you need to play back high frequency sounds, then such a format would be usefull to you, otherwise, its just about bragging rights over whos format has a bigger number printed on it.
funny, many of the magnets on my fridge are made of plastic. would this device cause them to fall off?
$1000 vs $8000 for cables is just plain stupid. I used to work as the 'techie guy' at a small music, and I can tell you that cables do make a huge difference in sound quality. I tested 3 different price ranges for cables, all of equal length. $3, $30, and $300.
I took a recording, sent the recording through the cable into my m-audio card, inverted the waveform, and pasted it over top of the original sound. in theory, if the cable was perfect, the final result would be silence, while any sound would be noice that was being introduced.
the $3 cable was absolute shit. complete garbage. the $30 was fantastic, a great improvement. the $300 cable was better than the $30, but the difference was so slight, i could see a difference by zooming in and looking at a 10ms sample.
in short, it is a worthwile investment to spend $30 on a cable. it is a complete waste of money to spend $300. spending $8000 on a cable is evidence that you are completly retarded.
tube amps have a very different sound than transistor amps, and if you are into that 1960 guitar sound, switching to tubes is a worthwhile investment. I personally use VSTs that simualte the tube amp sound, but if that was then only sound i wanted, a tube amp would be easier to cart around than my computer AND and amp.
$450 wooden knobs? WTF? if it was wood from the true cross, then maybe i'd spend that on some wood. I would much rather spend $450 on some LEDs, wire, adapters and solder. a wall of blinking lights beats a stupid wooden knob, hands down.
I thought the magic markers on CDs was to defeat a DRM scheme?
magic paint for transistors? thats just silly. maybe replacing your cheep ceramic capacitors with something that isn't the cheepest possible option...but paint on a transistor? you only need to paint circuts when you don't want people figuring out that you've charged them $50 for a 555, a resistor, a pot. and 2 caps, and labeled it a "noise generator"
But the thing with the EULA is, you agree to it AFTER you have given them your money.
The terms of a deal are negotiated BEFORE money/goods change hands. they can say what they want in the EULA, but if they didn't tell you about this before the purchase, it doesn't apply.
thats why (in Canada at least) software now comes with a sticker on the outside of the box, warning you that 'you must agree to the terms presented in the EULA to be able to use this software'.
of course, it is in such tiny print the unaided human eye is unable to read the text, but technically, they have informed you before purchase. if they dont have the sticker, an EULA don't mean shit.
to be honest, its not very good, it is still quite unusable for my needs.
how about some CYMK? honestly, photoshop has had that for how long now? 10 years?
and what about the ability to load large files. why is it that i can load a 10 Gb File in photoshop, and edit it without too much slowdown, but loading a 10 Mb jpeg causes gimpshop to crash?
I was reciently making a lame gif animation to use for a friends movie, of a red dot moving over a map of the earth. i couldn't do that with gimpshop. the 8Mb jpeg of the earth was too much for gimpshop. I had to edit the damn thing in paintbrush! if paintbrush can do something that gimpshop can't (in my case, load a jpeg file in a reasonable amount of time) then you have got a big problem.
The new version of Gimp did adopt a more photoshop style layout, and over all, 2.4 is a huge improvement, but it is still not of any use to me due to its missing features.
oh, Im sorry, I worded that wrong. the artist died 51 years ago. The director actually held off making the film for several years, just so this song would enter the public domain and he could use it.
He also wanted to use an American song that was only 30, but the family refused to give permission, and the amount of money they wanted for the song was doubble his movies budgit. (its was a $60 000 movie, and this guy owns all his own gear scores, films and edits himself, so that cash is purely for actors and transportation)
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are you sure about that?
to put a bill on the table, or "tabling a bill" obviously means you want to discuss that particular bill.
you literally place the bill on a table, where everyone can see it, and discuss the bill.
why would anyone possibly put a bill on the table if you wanted to remove it from consideration? that makes no sense. Please don't tell me American English is THAT bad.
Taxes are too stressful, we should automatically deduct what you owe from your bank account. In Canada, and South Korea (the only countries where i have (officially) worked, the government does deduct taxes from your paycheque automatically. it is a great convienience. and in canada, they usually get the amount wrong, and at tax time, they mail cheques to you. the only loss to the citizen is the 16 cents or so of lost interest. big whoop. and in your nanny state proposal, you left out gambling and lotteries. Personally, I would support a ban on tobacco and hard alcohol, on the condition that we got weed completly legalized out of the deal, and i could still have my cold delicious beer. i think i could live life without my scotch, but i could only do it if i were high all the time.
640K?
oh god, can you imagine having to go through and open 640 000 seperate password-protected PDF files.
If that were to happen, people on slashdot might start accusing Microsoft of being evil.
662 Resolutions ought to be enough for anybody.
This must not make it into law.
lets start the revolution today!
every Canadian, get out your guns and.....oh, crap.
get you mentos and diet coke rockets ready...
I really hate to agree with you, but since I am a ubuntu user who knows nothing about linux, I really have no argument.
;)
I love ubuntu. It has everything I need built right in: my hardware is detected right away, it comes with open office, the gimp (which doesn't suck anymore!) a decent mp3 and movie player (why isn't VLC the default?) and loads of games to choose from, and instalation is so easy. it has everything i need right at my fingertips, and its all free.
I've tinkered with other releases in the past, and to be honest, ubuntu is the only linux distro that IMO feels like it is 'ready for the masses'.
Im just not nerdy enough for gentoo
"The attitude of the Koreans is utterly racist and bigotted."
That is complete and utter bullshit.
Korean's love Japanese TV and movies. All the students watch anime.
Most Koreans do not like to travel very much, but they all have either been to Japan, or plan on going there sometime soon.
Many of my students wear Japan's soccer team uniforms in the class. some wear t-shirts with a japanese flag under their school uniform.
I would have to say that you are the one who is racist and bigotted.
I dont understand why Japan feels the need to do this. Are 'crimes by forigners' a serious national concern?
star craft is more than a national sport here, its a national obsession.
My cable company has recently added a SECOND star craft channel.
When I am teaching my students, I often have to use a star craft analogy before they get it.
"Very: A Zealot rush is VERY effective early on".
"Extremely: The Yamato cannon is extremely powerful."
"Good, Better, Best....Hae Wan is GOOD at starcraft, Yeong Jae is BETTER, but I am the BEST, and if you disagree, I will beat you with my love stick!"
bytes are not atoms.
if i steal your coat, you won't have a coat. if I sneak up on you, measure your coat, and reproduce it at home, you haven't lots anything. same thing with digital copies.
why is it morally wrong?
copyright law was intended to encourage artists to create new work by granting them a temporary monopoly on their work.
with mass-reproducible art forms - music, photography, print, film, industries were created which took copyright away from the content creators
once the copyrights have been acquired, the industry big-wigs have repeatedly bribed government officials and law makers into extending copyright protection to ridicules terms so they cab squeeze every penny out of each copyright they own, while the creator makes next to nothing from their work.
so, is it morally right for large corporations to bend laws and buy-out politicians to allow their business model to work?
is it right for laws to protect corporations over the rights of private citizens?
as a private citizen, I believe the current situation is unjust, and I believe that a moral person has a moral obligation to fight unjust laws. But I also come from a country where blank media is taxed, to compensate the artists. so I steal as much content as I can. I've got to get my money's worth.
I am a content creator myself, and I have been inhibited by these oppressive copyright laws.
A ballot means next to nothing, especially in the US where they have a one party system. "Should I vote for the republican party that doesn't care about people and isn't afraid to admit it, or the democrats, who don't care about people and are afraid to admit it" In Canada, it's a similar situation; "This party will ruin everything, this party will ruin our economy, and this party will do absolutely nothing" If you really want to make a difference, sell your write to vote for millions, buy a solid gold house and a rocket car, and use your free time to write Mayors, MPs, congressmen, etc. Boycott organizations or corporations you don't like. These days, money talks, votes do not.
your going to turn this 'can' into 'CANDU' .....excellent....
now all we need to work on is cloning typewriters, and we'll be set!
if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This is exactly what people want, and what they will never get.
but the NDS also has a good homebrew scene. a touch of war is a good touch screen controlled RTS with a fantastic soundtrack. DS organize turns your DS into a palm pilot and an MP3 player. I can play the original doom on my DS, along with every NES, SNES, and genesis rom out there. it also plays movies that can easilly be formatted and put on a micro SD...all without touching the DS's firmware. the DS is a great system for that sort of stuff.
I actually have pictures of my work on my DS, and if someone wants to see my portfolio, I pull out my DS and use the jpeg viewer to show them my stuff. it works great.
I can see how using the features of the DS can come off as gimmicky, no, it doesn't enhance the story, yes, it breaks down the 4th wall.
but it is neat!
writing notes on your map is bloody obvious, but no one has done it before, so you have to give credit to zelda. When you think about it, evolution is also 'bloody obvious' but it took people a long time to get around to understanding it.)
I must agree with the 2 screens things, many games just don't make good use of them. Zelda is probably the best example i can think of for integrating 2 screens, including a touch screen. tingles rupee land also has a great interface, merging traditional controls with the touch screen. but games like sonic rush just sort of treat the dual screen as one big verticle widescreen....nothing overly interesting there.
I really enjoy the port of 'Doom' for the DS, where the automap is presented on the lower screen, and the 1st person view is on the top screen. it is far superior to the PC version of having the automap superimposed on the game screen.
Your roll technique works much better than the one printed in the book. i have had some sucess moving the stylus back and forth quickly along the edge, but tapping works quite well.
i did sound overly harsh in my review of tingles rupeeland, i do enjoy the game quite a bit, the characters are hilarious (especially the bridge builder who leaves far too little to the imagination) but there are just some things that bug me......eg. bodyguards i hire from the second contanent disapear when i go home to save/cook/sell. when I return to continue where i left off, my bodyguard is gone. it has been my experience that i have to at least tripple the asking price. for soup recipies from the cook, it might say "700 more", i give him 2000, and it still says i havent given enough. I enjoy dealing with the bridge builder, he at least holds on to the money you have given him. with other characters, it is a total loss.
it is a fun story line, and if i had a NDS emulator where i could save/load anywhere, I'm sure it would be great fun, but i get frustrated by contantly not having enough rupees to get what i need. (is there a good NDS emulator for Ubuntu?)
What I am enjoying most about phantom hourglass is how they really make you use all of the features of the DS.
I thought that blowing on the microphone to blow dust off your map was really cool. blowing out torches to unlock things was cool the 1st time, but it did get old.
closing the DS to emboss a pattern onto your map did take me out of the game, but i thought it was a really unique idea, I have never seen anything like that before in a video game, and I really enjoyed how creative this game is with the puzzles and controls.
The boomerang is just awesome. taking notes on your maps? brilliant!
sword control is great, but why is rolling so damned hard?
My only complaint is how linear this game was. The temple of the ocean king, although it was repeditive, i was releived when the yellow portal appeared and i could jump back to where i was....that was a life saver, and being able to replay and resave to improve your time does add to the replay value of the game.
I am really enjoying this game, quite a bit more than i am enjoying tingles rosy coloured rupee land, (which was brought up by another poster) Tingles rupee land assumes that negotiating prices and constant system restarts when you get it wrong are fun. its not.
I have never been to Japan, so I can not speak about their culture from experience, but I imagne it is similar to South Korea.
In South Korea, an average family home is a small one room apartment where people go to sleep. people don't do anything in their homes. everythng happens outside. I run into students at 11 at night who are still in their uniforms, because they haven't gone home. when they want to play games, they go to a PC bang (PC)to play their games. when they want to watch a DVD, they go to a DVD bang, when they want to check email, they use thier cellphones, which are a year ahead of what we get in North America.
there is simply no place for the desktop PC in their culture. even the laptops they have here are tiny. mini laptops with 5-7 inch screens are extreamly common. their laptops are about the same size as my first motorola brickphone!
PCs are not dead here, they are just imbedded into smaller devices that fit into their culture better. they dont have the big western homes where we go -and stay, when the work day is done.
and I can draw you a circle in photoshop at a resolution of 1200 X 800, which will look absolutly flawless on my screen, because that this the resolution of my monitor, and any further detail will not be perceived to to physical limitations.
In the same way, you can represent audio with greater quality than the human ear can percieve, but there would be no point.
what use is a format that can capture a frequency of 44,000 Hz, when I am only able to hear up to 18,000 Hz? why have a dynamic range greater than 200 dB, when my ear can only hear a difference between of 100dB.
there is no use for a commercial playback device that exceeds the physical limitations of the human body. if you are a researcher studying bats and you need to play back high frequency sounds, then such a format would be usefull to you, otherwise, its just about bragging rights over whos format has a bigger number printed on it.
funny, many of the magnets on my fridge are made of plastic. would this device cause them to fall off?
$1000 vs $8000 for cables is just plain stupid. I used to work as the 'techie guy' at a small music, and I can tell you that cables do make a huge difference in sound quality. I tested 3 different price ranges for cables, all of equal length. $3, $30, and $300.
I took a recording, sent the recording through the cable into my m-audio card, inverted the waveform, and pasted it over top of the original sound. in theory, if the cable was perfect, the final result would be silence, while any sound would be noice that was being introduced.
the $3 cable was absolute shit. complete garbage.
the $30 was fantastic, a great improvement.
the $300 cable was better than the $30, but the difference was so slight, i could see a difference by zooming in and looking at a 10ms sample.
in short, it is a worthwile investment to spend $30 on a cable. it is a complete waste of money to spend $300. spending $8000 on a cable is evidence that you are completly retarded.
tube amps have a very different sound than transistor amps, and if you are into that 1960 guitar sound, switching to tubes is a worthwhile investment. I personally use VSTs that simualte the tube amp sound, but if that was then only sound i wanted, a tube amp would be easier to cart around than my computer AND and amp.
$450 wooden knobs? WTF? if it was wood from the true cross, then maybe i'd spend that on some wood. I would much rather spend $450 on some LEDs, wire, adapters and solder. a wall of blinking lights beats a stupid wooden knob, hands down.
I thought the magic markers on CDs was to defeat a DRM scheme?
magic paint for transistors? thats just silly. maybe replacing your cheep ceramic capacitors with something that isn't the cheepest possible option...but paint on a transistor? you only need to paint circuts when you don't want people figuring out that you've charged them $50 for a 555, a resistor, a pot. and 2 caps, and labeled it a "noise generator"
But the thing with the EULA is, you agree to it AFTER you have given them your money.
The terms of a deal are negotiated BEFORE money/goods change hands. they can say what they want in the EULA, but if they didn't tell you about this before the purchase, it doesn't apply.
thats why (in Canada at least) software now comes with a sticker on the outside of the box, warning you that 'you must agree to the terms presented in the EULA to be able to use this software'.
of course, it is in such tiny print the unaided human eye is unable to read the text, but technically, they have informed you before purchase. if they dont have the sticker, an EULA don't mean shit.
I have gimpshop.
to be honest, its not very good, it is still quite unusable for my needs.
how about some CYMK? honestly, photoshop has had that for how long now? 10 years?
and what about the ability to load large files. why is it that i can load a 10 Gb File in photoshop, and edit it without too much slowdown, but loading a 10 Mb jpeg causes gimpshop to crash?
I was reciently making a lame gif animation to use for a friends movie, of a red dot moving over a map of the earth. i couldn't do that with gimpshop. the 8Mb jpeg of the earth was too much for gimpshop. I had to edit the damn thing in paintbrush! if paintbrush can do something that gimpshop can't (in my case, load a jpeg file in a reasonable amount of time) then you have got a big problem.
The new version of Gimp did adopt a more photoshop style layout, and over all, 2.4 is a huge improvement, but it is still not of any use to me due to its missing features.
oh, Im sorry, I worded that wrong. the artist died 51 years ago. The director actually held off making the film for several years, just so this song would enter the public domain and he could use it. He also wanted to use an American song that was only 30, but the family refused to give permission, and the amount of money they wanted for the song was doubble his movies budgit. (its was a $60 000 movie, and this guy owns all his own gear scores, films and edits himself, so that cash is purely for actors and transportation)