A few months ago Mel Brooks made a statement that Spaceballs 2 was indeed in the works, and that he will be casting himself as Yogurt yet again. We shall see if it materializes.
You don't need anywhere near the performance of an AMD64 (let alone dualcore) for recording standard NTSC video. With a hardware encoder the cpu usage is negligable, and even with a software encoder my old Thunderbird 1.4GHz did just fine. And decoding is less taxing than encoding. Point being, get a hardware tuner and don't bother with an expensive CPU.
It's pretty neat, but I don't think it would fool anybody. Here's my conversation:
Human: Can you guess where I live? ALICE: I can't guess. Tell me. Human: It's the place where politicians thrive, can you guess now? ALICE: Right now? I've heard of it before. Human: Then where is it? ALICE: Fascinating. It depends on what "it" refers to. Human: The place I live, dumb, dumb. ALICE: Tell me more. Human: You need more hints? ALICE: Thank you for your criticism. Human: Ok, the place I live is where the president lives, can you guess it now? ALICE: Right now? Is that a fact. Yippee! Human: You aren't answering my question. ALICE: OK. Please help me improve my communication skills. What would you have said? Human: I would have said the name of the city I live in. ALICE: What is your real name? Human: No, I want you to guess what city I live in. ALICE: That was not a yes or no question. I can't guess. Tell me. Why do you want me to guess what city you live in? Human: I want to see if you can answer it. ALICE: Is it a movie? Human: No, it is a city. ALICE: A boot? A TV show? if me can answer it is a city. I suppose that makes sense. Human: Do you know what a city is? ALICE: That's not something I get asked all the time. Human: So in other words, you don't know what a city is? ALICE: It goes without saying. That's an interesting question. I'll come back to that in a minute. Human: I WIN! ALICE: Congratulations, unknown person!
The Ninety-Nine remix album contain a whole second disk with hundreds of clips, loops, beats etc. It's kind of amazing how a musician can take a bunch of usually non-musical sounds and arrange them into flowing beats and rythms. If I had a little more creativity I'd be all over this kinda stuff.
Area 51 is not blocked out. You can indeed find the airfield, though it's not in high res like Metro areas. You need to find "Groom Lake", though it's a dry lake and so it's not mapped as a lake in the regular maps mode. It's a little NE of the middle of the huge grey area in Nevada. The lake bed is a completely white salt flat that is almost circular. The airstip is just beneath it.
The adjacent buildings are colored so as not to reveal the location of the snipers. Yes, there are snipers on various buildings surrounding both the White House and the Capitol building. I've seen em with my own eyes during a rooftop party across the street from the Eisenhower building. They'll occasionally stand up to stretch and look around, sometimes they'll wave back to you.
Yeah but 80 GIGABYTES doesn't sound as cool as it did 15 years ago.
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Bittorrent does checksums to validate all blocks, and re-downloads any that are invalid. You can see such statistics in real-time if you use a client like Azureus.
TVs now can go up as high as they need to so the boxes should be optional. If your TV can go high enough, it shouldn't need the box
Not true. (I'm somewhat talking out of my ass but fairly certain this is how it works...) Coax cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to provide 200+ channels plus internet services. This is why they introduced digital set top boxes. They break up all the available bandwidth into 3 frequency segments: A) analog tv B) digital tv C) internet. The analog stations work just like they used to. But with digital tv, it really is practically unlimited because you're only served 1 channel at a time in an MPEG stream. Multiple digital cable boxes are possible, but there surely would be a limit because you would run out of bandwitch in the digital tv part of the spectrum.
Just last week I bought the 6ch LSI card, and will be recieving the rest of my drives this week. After reading the relevant parts of the article I was a little worried I made the wrong choice. But your comments have eased my paranoia. Thanks.
I just recently rebuilt my MythTV system (upgraded the box and went to 0.17). Even when you know what you're doing it still takes time. You have to manually configure each and every piece of hardware (video, tvcard, remote, sound) and install a ton of software (sql, myth libs). But even so, it is a worthwhile project and very satisfying once it's running. Google is your friend when you run into problems installing. MythTV really is the only kid in town for a home built PVR system. Mine's been going for a good 12 months solid without more than couple frontend crashes. I hope this new build can at least match that.
You talk about CD's like I do now with DVD's. I have a whole box of DVD's I'm getting pretty close to ripping, compressing mildly, and then reboxing forever, or maybe to sell. The whole idea of buying a hunk of plastic to get access to digital information is about as dumb as... well it's just dumb. One file server = 500 movies + 1000 albums + everything else. No more materialism for me, it's the media that counds.
Why can't people just standardize on a common unit of measurement such the number of Encyclopedia Brittanica's or the number of Library of Congress's?
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Creative got on the ball with their iPod mini competitor. The thing comes with 2 battery packs right off the bat. The word is definitely getting out about the iPod's battery failure rates, and the expense of replacing it. I'll never be a purchaser until they fix this stuff.
As demand rises... so will oil supply, along with oil prices and oil technology.
That sounds logical but will probably prove incorrect. Supply and Demand says that if your demand goes up and the supply stays constant the price will inflate. There is no easily recoverable oil in the near future to keep up with demand. According to "Peak Oil" theorists the demand for oil will completely outpace our ability to extract it - no matter the combination of the Canada oilsands, improvments in extration, thermal depolymerization etc. The price of oil will just keep going up because it will never be in more abundance than it is when "the peak" hits sometime before 2010. Oil supply will not go up, it will only go down from that point on.
I'd say 90% of cell phone conversations go like this:
"Hey So-and-so, how are you doing? Ya I'm doing fine. So whatcha up to? That's cool. Nah I'm not doing much. So that's cool. Anyways give me a call tomorrow. See-ya."
Frivolous, superficial, ego-boosting conversations that sound like teenybopper gossip. It's funny to watch a person with cell phone "play" with their phones when no one is calling. They fiddle with it, and play a little game with an anxious look on their face - you know they can't wait for that next call, their next fix. And then they end up just calling some random person for no reason at all to talk about nothing.
I actually own a cell phone. But I got a pay-as-you go plan to augment my Vonage home phone. I get the mobility benefits from the cell, and low long distance plan & out-of-country phone number (Canadian line while living in US) from Vonage. My total monthly fees for phones have never been as low as they are for me now.
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A few months ago Mel Brooks made a statement that Spaceballs 2 was indeed in the works, and that he will be casting himself as Yogurt yet again. We shall see if it materializes.
You don't need anywhere near the performance of an AMD64 (let alone dualcore) for recording standard NTSC video. With a hardware encoder the cpu usage is negligable, and even with a software encoder my old Thunderbird 1.4GHz did just fine. And decoding is less taxing than encoding. Point being, get a hardware tuner and don't bother with an expensive CPU.
I can't wait to hear the F.A.G.'s response to this legislation.
It's pretty neat, but I don't think it would fool anybody. Here's my conversation:
Human: Can you guess where I live?
ALICE: I can't guess. Tell me.
Human: It's the place where politicians thrive, can you guess now?
ALICE: Right now? I've heard of it before.
Human: Then where is it?
ALICE: Fascinating. It depends on what "it" refers to.
Human: The place I live, dumb, dumb.
ALICE: Tell me more.
Human: You need more hints?
ALICE: Thank you for your criticism.
Human: Ok, the place I live is where the president lives, can you guess it now?
ALICE: Right now? Is that a fact. Yippee!
Human: You aren't answering my question.
ALICE: OK. Please help me improve my communication skills. What would you have said?
Human: I would have said the name of the city I live in.
ALICE: What is your real name?
Human: No, I want you to guess what city I live in.
ALICE: That was not a yes or no question. I can't guess. Tell me. Why do you want me to guess what city you live in?
Human: I want to see if you can answer it.
ALICE: Is it a movie?
Human: No, it is a city.
ALICE: A boot? A TV show? if me can answer it is a city. I suppose that makes sense.
Human: Do you know what a city is?
ALICE: That's not something I get asked all the time.
Human: So in other words, you don't know what a city is?
ALICE: It goes without saying. That's an interesting question. I'll come back to that in a minute.
Human: I WIN!
ALICE: Congratulations, unknown person!
The Ninety-Nine remix album contain a whole second disk with hundreds of clips, loops, beats etc. It's kind of amazing how a musician can take a bunch of usually non-musical sounds and arrange them into flowing beats and rythms. If I had a little more creativity I'd be all over this kinda stuff.
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Area 51 is not blocked out. You can indeed find the airfield, though it's not in high res like Metro areas. You need to find "Groom Lake", though it's a dry lake and so it's not mapped as a lake in the regular maps mode. It's a little NE of the middle of the huge grey area in Nevada. The lake bed is a completely white salt flat that is almost circular. The airstip is just beneath it.
The adjacent buildings are colored so as not to reveal the location of the snipers. Yes, there are snipers on various buildings surrounding both the White House and the Capitol building. I've seen em with my own eyes during a rooftop party across the street from the Eisenhower building. They'll occasionally stand up to stretch and look around, sometimes they'll wave back to you.
It should be modded +1 Funny, I sure got a laugh out of it.
The degree to which you remember the names of the Autobot characters is, well, frightening.
Yeah but 80 GIGABYTES doesn't sound as cool as it did 15 years ago.
Bittorrent does checksums to validate all blocks, and re-downloads any that are invalid. You can see such statistics in real-time if you use a client like Azureus.
TVs now can go up as high as they need to so the boxes should be optional. If your TV can go high enough, it shouldn't need the box
Not true. (I'm somewhat talking out of my ass but fairly certain this is how it works...) Coax cable doesn't have enough bandwidth to provide 200+ channels plus internet services. This is why they introduced digital set top boxes. They break up all the available bandwidth into 3 frequency segments: A) analog tv B) digital tv C) internet. The analog stations work just like they used to. But with digital tv, it really is practically unlimited because you're only served 1 channel at a time in an MPEG stream. Multiple digital cable boxes are possible, but there surely would be a limit because you would run out of bandwitch in the digital tv part of the spectrum.
She'd be great. She's gorgeous, fit, but probably "too cool" for such a role.
Just last week I bought the 6ch LSI card, and will be recieving the rest of my drives this week. After reading the relevant parts of the article I was a little worried I made the wrong choice. But your comments have eased my paranoia. Thanks.
If you're using a software tuner consider getting a WinTV 250. My Mythtv install never ran well before getting one, and now it's solid as a rock.
TiVO might have won if they would just friggin' provide TV guide service to Canada, but they won't.
That's why you get a Series 1 Tivo and hack it.
I just recently rebuilt my MythTV system (upgraded the box and went to 0.17). Even when you know what you're doing it still takes time. You have to manually configure each and every piece of hardware (video, tvcard, remote, sound) and install a ton of software (sql, myth libs). But even so, it is a worthwhile project and very satisfying once it's running. Google is your friend when you run into problems installing. MythTV really is the only kid in town for a home built PVR system. Mine's been going for a good 12 months solid without more than couple frontend crashes. I hope this new build can at least match that.
I'll have to disagree there. Judging by the people I see every day on the subway, there's no way iPod owners are Mac computer users.
From what I can tell iPod owners are one of three groups:
I can't see any of these people knowing that Apple also makes computers let alone knowing how to use one.
You talk about CD's like I do now with DVD's. I have a whole box of DVD's I'm getting pretty close to ripping, compressing mildly, and then reboxing forever, or maybe to sell. The whole idea of buying a hunk of plastic to get access to digital information is about as dumb as... well it's just dumb. One file server = 500 movies + 1000 albums + everything else. No more materialism for me, it's the media that counds.
Why can't people just standardize on a common unit of measurement such the number of Encyclopedia Brittanica's or the number of Library of Congress's?
Creative got on the ball with their iPod mini competitor. The thing comes with 2 battery packs right off the bat. The word is definitely getting out about the iPod's battery failure rates, and the expense of replacing it. I'll never be a purchaser until they fix this stuff.
As demand rises ... so will oil supply, along with oil prices and oil technology.
That sounds logical but will probably prove incorrect. Supply and Demand says that if your demand goes up and the supply stays constant the price will inflate. There is no easily recoverable oil in the near future to keep up with demand. According to "Peak Oil" theorists the demand for oil will completely outpace our ability to extract it - no matter the combination of the Canada oilsands, improvments in extration, thermal depolymerization etc. The price of oil will just keep going up because it will never be in more abundance than it is when "the peak" hits sometime before 2010. Oil supply will not go up, it will only go down from that point on.
Whereas if he'd managed to use the intrustion to delete every single custom ringtone off every connected mobile he would have been sainted. :)
You obviously haven't heard the 'default' ringtone on T-mobile phones. You know that ring at the end of their commercials... yeah, that's it.
I'd say 90% of cell phone conversations go like this:
"Hey So-and-so, how are you doing? Ya I'm doing fine. So whatcha up to? That's cool. Nah I'm not doing much. So that's cool. Anyways give me a call tomorrow. See-ya."
Frivolous, superficial, ego-boosting conversations that sound like teenybopper gossip. It's funny to watch a person with cell phone "play" with their phones when no one is calling. They fiddle with it, and play a little game with an anxious look on their face - you know they can't wait for that next call, their next fix. And then they end up just calling some random person for no reason at all to talk about nothing.
I actually own a cell phone. But I got a pay-as-you go plan to augment my Vonage home phone. I get the mobility benefits from the cell, and low long distance plan & out-of-country phone number (Canadian line while living in US) from Vonage. My total monthly fees for phones have never been as low as they are for me now.