* Jeanne D'Arc - Take FFT and Fire Emblem. Have them fuck. Take the child, and put it in the Hundred Years War. Hey, you figure the kid might have what it takes to get into the special forces? I hear those Red Shoulders are some bad-ass motherfuckers... Would drink the blood of their own mothers from the broken skulls of their best friends, and set a town on fire just to warm it up...
That's quite a decrease! I betcha next time a Super Star Destroyer takes a little damage to the bridge module, it won't go immediately crashing into the surface of a Death Star!
Hopefully the firepower hasn't been proportionately decreased as well...
The blurry-ness is due to your HD not being able to up-scale images nicely - its nothing to do with SD.
I bet you wish now you had got a better set, instead of jumping on the me-too band wagon you stupid toss-wad. Uh, yeah... Everybody knows that the good HD sets can on-the-fly fabricate data not present in the original signal to adjust for the native screen resolution. 480i properly scaled to 720p is every bit as good as an HDTV signal. (I don't even know why they bother manufacturing high-resolution video cameras... Just to make people feel bad about owning "legacy" televisions, I bet...) If you scale a low-resolution image up to a higher resolution and get something blurry, then your scaling algorithm is defective.
If you've seen standard TV signals on an HDTV you'll know this is also how they fill a 16x9 frame with a 4x3 image... The TV recognizes that there's not enough picture to fill the frame, and so it extrapolates using the 4x3 image as source data to determine what the pixel values for the rest of the frame ought to be... Basically all you have to do is take a Fourier transform of your source pixel row, and then inverse-Fourier it to generate the missing data for that row...
More seriously... I, too, had the same experience. I had a regular TV and wasn't going to upgrade for a long time - until I got an HDTV as a gift... The difference in picture quality is huge. It's a total drag when a TV channel isn't available in HD. It's not like it's unwatchable but it just doesn't measure up either. Same goes for the Wii. I'm glad they at least have progressive scan and widescreen (but not on Mario Party, the slackers!) but now that I've got an HDTV I can really see why people want HD gaming, too... I feel like the current standard is 720p, and it's kind of a drag that the Wii won't do that. It's behind the curve, technologically speaking.
and as long as you remembered that you didn't have any floating point... (i.e., 5/2*2 would be 4 not 5...) That's actually true whether you have floating point or not... Not a policy I really love but it makes sense from an efficiency standpoint...
*fubar spelt that way for you anal types. I choose to read it "f'ed up beyond all repair spelt that way for you am not a lawyer types" No spelt for me, please... the wife has Celiac... Not really into anal either...
The year of Linux on the desktop is never. Well, you know, you're probably right, if you mean that Linux will never be one of the primary general-use home/office workstation OSes... I honestly think the Linux community has their priorities wrong if they're trying to make it an OS for everyone. Other people have already made the OSes for everyone. So how about an OS for me? I am a hacker... Linux could use some improvement, but it still fits my needs pretty well.
Do you mean Magic Voice? No, I don't mean Magic Voice...
Servo went through a few iterations in the show's pre-cable era... First he didn't talk, then he talked in this kinda Kermit-the-Frog or low key Pee-Wee Herman voice, and then he switched to the deep voice he used until the end of the first season on cable... It was at that point that he started calling himself "Tom" Servo, and talking about how his new "Mighty Voice" would get him all the babes...
All the early versions of Servo were voiced by Josh - the "Mighty Voice" was just him speaking a bit more naturally... It was a big switch, though, much bigger than the change when Kevin took over - it established Servo as being roughly the character we know today... "Mighty Voice" just refers to Servo after that change - I think Kevin used the phrase, too, when he first took over for Servo...
Blah blah blah... fucking whiners. "I am relevant! I want to be in Wikipedia like everybody else!"
I mean, why is it so important to have a webcomic documented in Wikipedia anyway? What information is there about the comic that is so important, so worth communicating, that one doesn't get by... going to the webcomic site and reading the archive? Well, people get excited about these comics and want to talk about them... this is a perfect reason for someone to start a fansite...
The thing is, webcomics are a dime a dozen. Everybody has one. People wipe their ass and write captions on the toilet paper, and slap it online somewhere, it happens all the time. Is it really worth creating an encyclopedic record of all these flash-in-the-pan half-efforts?...Well, in some cases, it may be. But not necessarily... And it may not be clear what's worth documenting until a fair amount of time has passed. You know, get some perspective.
So why delete them? Because what you choose to write about is just as important as the quality of the writing. Wikipedia is not "everything2".
Josh: The mighty Mighty Voice of old! The maddest of the mads!
Eh. I always preferred Kevin Murphy's Tom Servo to Josh Weinstein's, but YMMV. Kevin was good, this is true... But Josh is highly underrated. It's sad that he stuck around the show for such a short time...
Most significant bit. Otherwise, someone might have claimed that Slashdot was only 0x05. Got to nip those endian issues in the bud.;) OK, got it... they're specifying that the one on the far left is the most significant bit... Thanks for clearing that up.
They changed my original title on the submission, the summary made much more sense as "Joel and the Bots are back!" Well, Joel is back, the bots are back, but they're on separate projects...:D The Cinematic Titanic site doesn't say anything about there being bots involved...
Step 1: Put DVD in player. Step 2: Press Play. Step 3: Do things while movie plays.
You haven't seen a DVD in a while, have you? Granted, I skimmed over a bit of trivial crap. But nevertheless, once the damn thing's playing you can leave it on in the background. Or you can get yourself a non-crippled DVD player and skip the parts you don't like... But I watch MST3K "in the background" all the frikkin' time...
So...if you can get MST3K back on TV where it can serve as the background for whatever I'm doing with my kids or my computer, I'll tune in. Otherwise...buy it? Way too much commitment. Step 1: Put DVD in player. Step 2: Press Play. Step 3: Do things while movie plays.
Yeah, Mike was OK, but having Joel AND FRANK and TRACE back - I'm looking forward to that. And Josh: The mighty Mighty Voice of old! The maddest of the mads!
Man, just think of all the babes, the hot oil, the mango juice!
The summary is a bit confusing given that it lumps the two announcements together... There seems to be a bit of confusion about who's doing what and how...
Story 1: (announced earlier) The cast from the end of the series are doing some animated web shorts, using the MST3K characters Story 2: (new) The cast from the beginning of the series are doing some live performances and DVDs and such of movie riffing - with no details yet on the exact format...
You don't have to protect yourself from fair use. Allowing anything covered under fair use is required by the law. They would have been all set, with no risk to their trademark. This was clearly parody/satire, which falls comfortably within Fair Use. It's one thing to be right. It's quite another to prove you're right in a potentially lengthy and costly legal battle.
Jeez, it's a joke, lighten up! If you're going to go through your entire life being insulted that easily, you're in for a rough ride and you're going to be missing out on a lot of fun! It might be a different story if it were a funny joke...:) Much easier to overlook a dickweed comment like that if it's actually funny.
Ah, I get it... I thought the headline was saying something like this:
"There will be a how-to on Ajax code. The how-to will show movies and slide shows."
It was like, that's nice... a well-made how-to I guess... But this is a how-to that tells you how to write AJAX code, such that said AJAX code will be able to show movies and slide shows...
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon? Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Have you ever really loved a woman? (ARGH! DIE DIE DIE, BRYAN ADAMS!)
Slashdot Mirror
Coming Summer 2008:
Roger Moore is a technology analyst caught up in a web of deceit and decreasing prices in the new suspense thriller: Moore's Law!
That's quite a decrease! I betcha next time a Super Star Destroyer takes a little damage to the bridge module, it won't go immediately crashing into the surface of a Death Star!
Hopefully the firepower hasn't been proportionately decreased as well...
I bet you wish now you had got a better set, instead of jumping on the me-too band wagon you stupid toss-wad. Uh, yeah... Everybody knows that the good HD sets can on-the-fly fabricate data not present in the original signal to adjust for the native screen resolution. 480i properly scaled to 720p is every bit as good as an HDTV signal. (I don't even know why they bother manufacturing high-resolution video cameras... Just to make people feel bad about owning "legacy" televisions, I bet...) If you scale a low-resolution image up to a higher resolution and get something blurry, then your scaling algorithm is defective.
If you've seen standard TV signals on an HDTV you'll know this is also how they fill a 16x9 frame with a 4x3 image... The TV recognizes that there's not enough picture to fill the frame, and so it extrapolates using the 4x3 image as source data to determine what the pixel values for the rest of the frame ought to be... Basically all you have to do is take a Fourier transform of your source pixel row, and then inverse-Fourier it to generate the missing data for that row...
More seriously...
I, too, had the same experience. I had a regular TV and wasn't going to upgrade for a long time - until I got an HDTV as a gift...
The difference in picture quality is huge. It's a total drag when a TV channel isn't available in HD. It's not like it's unwatchable but it just doesn't measure up either.
Same goes for the Wii. I'm glad they at least have progressive scan and widescreen (but not on Mario Party, the slackers!) but now that I've got an HDTV I can really see why people want HD gaming, too... I feel like the current standard is 720p, and it's kind of a drag that the Wii won't do that. It's behind the curve, technologically speaking.
Servo went through a few iterations in the show's pre-cable era... First he didn't talk, then he talked in this kinda Kermit-the-Frog or low key Pee-Wee Herman voice, and then he switched to the deep voice he used until the end of the first season on cable... It was at that point that he started calling himself "Tom" Servo, and talking about how his new "Mighty Voice" would get him all the babes...
All the early versions of Servo were voiced by Josh - the "Mighty Voice" was just him speaking a bit more naturally... It was a big switch, though, much bigger than the change when Kevin took over - it established Servo as being roughly the character we know today... "Mighty Voice" just refers to Servo after that change - I think Kevin used the phrase, too, when he first took over for Servo...
Blah blah blah... fucking whiners. "I am relevant! I want to be in Wikipedia like everybody else!"
...Well, in some cases, it may be. But not necessarily... And it may not be clear what's worth documenting until a fair amount of time has passed. You know, get some perspective.
I mean, why is it so important to have a webcomic documented in Wikipedia anyway? What information is there about the comic that is so important, so worth communicating, that one doesn't get by... going to the webcomic site and reading the archive? Well, people get excited about these comics and want to talk about them... this is a perfect reason for someone to start a fansite...
The thing is, webcomics are a dime a dozen. Everybody has one. People wipe their ass and write captions on the toilet paper, and slap it online somewhere, it happens all the time. Is it really worth creating an encyclopedic record of all these flash-in-the-pan half-efforts?
So why delete them? Because what you choose to write about is just as important as the quality of the writing. Wikipedia is not "everything2".
Eh. I always preferred Kevin Murphy's Tom Servo to Josh Weinstein's, but YMMV. Kevin was good, this is true... But Josh is highly underrated. It's sad that he stuck around the show for such a short time...
"0x0a MSB -> candles"?
The binary candles are nice, but "MSB"? As in "Most-significant byte"? Of a one-byte value??
That is a punishable offense, not something to be rewarded...
You haven't seen a DVD in a while, have you? Granted, I skimmed over a bit of trivial crap. But nevertheless, once the damn thing's playing you can leave it on in the background. Or you can get yourself a non-crippled DVD player and skip the parts you don't like... But I watch MST3K "in the background" all the frikkin' time...
Step 2: Press Play.
Step 3: Do things while movie plays.
Man, just think of all the babes, the hot oil, the mango juice!
The summary is a bit confusing given that it lumps the two announcements together... There seems to be a bit of confusion about who's doing what and how...
Story 1: (announced earlier) The cast from the end of the series are doing some animated web shorts, using the MST3K characters
Story 2: (new) The cast from the beginning of the series are doing some live performances and DVDs and such of movie riffing - with no details yet on the exact format...
Does this mean that ODF is just going to die, now? It seems like a real mess to be backpedaling like this after the big push for ODF...
Ah, I get it... I thought the headline was saying something like this:
"There will be a how-to on Ajax code. The how-to will show movies and slide shows."
It was like, that's nice... a well-made how-to I guess... But this is a how-to that tells you how to write AJAX code, such that said AJAX code will be able to show movies and slide shows...
Somehow when I put "SQL" and "injection" together, I don't like the result...
Well, except for when it involves Little Bobby Tables...
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Have you ever really loved a woman? (ARGH! DIE DIE DIE, BRYAN ADAMS!)