Just shut up, ok? Last month, my provider finally converted me from 1.5 mbps to 7 mbps. (Fairpoint, just bought Northeastern USA from Verizon) Do you understand that only now can we start using things like Netflix Watchnow and the like? Oh, but Youtube, for whatever reason, still buffers for 5 minutes.
Anyway, my point is this. Stop bragging, you're seriously making me want to stab my eyes with grapefruit spoons.
I'm not sure you need anything more than the standard movie screen- I've seen 3d movies in a non-imax theater recently. I think anything decently reflective will do- it's just polarized light coming from the projector(s) and bouncing to your eyes. I'm sure there's some tricks with IMAX's curved screen that helps, though.
How they can monetize it enough to make the acquisition worthwhile is another matter altogether.
Which is a great reason to sell. Not really a great reason to buy. The owners of twitter clearly know just how much money they can't make on running the service- so selling is probably the best option. Apple, in turn, will probably just couple it with their products as an add-on, making it that much trendier to be an apple user. I'd say Apple is probably the only company that could buy twitter and make sense while doing it. Well, I mean, sense in Steve's reality distortion field.
Agreed, not to mention, it gives men the ability to protect themselves against pregnancy, since women can be sneaky little bitches and "forget" to take their birth control in order to get a kid. I've seen it on more than one occasion, the woman purposefully gets knocked up for some reason (they need love, want to trap the guy, need child support (read: paycheck)). They guy is caught off guard, believed she was on birth control. Everybody loses, she won't have an abortion. She sues when he leaves, so on, and so on.
The fact is, it's been tilted in women's direction for a long time, they just pretend to be the weaker sex. The fact of the matter is, it takes two to get pregnant, but it only takes one to decide to keep it (hint: not the male). That's just unfair. It's about time we empower men.
The real bummer is never knowing (either by experiment, or by taste) without opening the bottle. And, of course, you'd leave the bottle unopened until the perfect occasion...
So... a new status would be started, called the 99% full original verified bottle of vintage whiskey. In fact, unopened full bottles will become the anti-status symbol.
I laughed a little when I read your comment. Stupid USA, no internet on their cell phones! Get with the times.
It occured to me shortly after, that I don't have internet on my cell phone either. A sad truth.
Interestingly, quite a few companies all have a vested interest in keeping society from progress. I mean, just a few articles back, we had an example of the newspaper industry just not getting it. My gut feeling? Wouldn't it make sense, instead of a billion different newsbook-readers, each for it's own brand of newspaper, just let me get my news on the cell phone?
And suddenly I see the problem- we don't have internet on our phones because NOBODY wants us to have the access that snuck up on US companies.
Corporations wildly mis-underestimated how the internet would take off. Instead of investing in it then, or learning from their mistakes, they're not investing in it now. So we still have companies fighting the internet. Even the internet companies are fighting us having internet.
Too late though, cat's out of the bag, and once you've seen it, you can never go back. I will never settle for a dumbed-down version of the internet, and going back to buying CDs (I buy mp3s) and purchasing cable (I watch hulu, and rent netflix).
Once we ALL have email on our internet enabled phones, we won't be able to be charged for each txt message. The internet is a pipeline, we can use email, IM, twitter, or whatever we please to communicate. This will be the undoing of the txt addons in the same way internet TV has/will ruin subscription cable.
As I work in the computer repair industry, I find your claims to be disingenuous. No Walmarts in this area carry either computers with or retail copies of XP. Neither does stapes. So Walmart's website indicates that somewhere there's a store that sells it, not really helping your point. I speak for my region. Average consumers cannot find XP.
Therfore, those people wouldn't be looking to replace their non-existent Vista with XP, would they?
Are you dense? Or am I just replying before you're marked troll?
I'm certainly not lying. I'm just mis-informed. Point taken.
That being said, I still challenge you to go to walmart and find me an XP machine. Or find an easily accessible XP retail copy for your new vista machine (note, installing OEM on a computer after it's built is against the EULA).
Maybe it's not impossible, but for an average computer user, it's vanished from their eyes.
No, seriously though, guys, this 3d movie IS SOOOO 3d, that if it made sense, I'd just go ahead and label it with a few more dimensions. In fact, it's 4d! By the time you leave the theater, you'll feel like you're in the future! Hours will have passed!
TLDR: 3d is the same as it's been, nothing to see here, move along.
They say they don't want to cannibalize sales, so most companies have a strict rule about not speaking about future products, so as not to discourage users from purchasing the current line-up. That being said, I just don't see how that helps MS, being as loud as they can about their operating systems.
Take for instance the beta program. There's no secret windows 7 is coming. People are already holding off, without a date in mind.
Take for instance the discontinuation of Windows XP. I know tons of people who aren't buying Vista, and since they stopped selling xp, people just aren't buying windows.
I work in computer repair, and now, more than ever, people are just getting 6 year old computers fixed because they don't want vista, no matter what.
I won't lie, I irrationally freak out every time I see a plane flying low. Although it's never anything- just some sight-seeing tourist plane. Still freaks me out. I don't live in the city though, I live in central NH. I can imagine why it freaks out New Yorkers. So before everybody goes on the whole "everybody's just over-reacting" thing, why don't we instead consider other options:
-Building tall buildings underground, instead of above. -Requiring high altitudes for all planes, military or civilian, and producing auto-shoot auto-aim turrets around the ciy with no warning shots. - Include parashoots as standard emergency materials for skyscrapers?
This is brilliant, but I don't know how well it will work.
I tried it out, to see if I could get results. After spending a full day videotaping the dealings of the CEO of a major US company this week, and posting it, the police responded "Well, I mean, we don't really deal with this kind of stuff. Find me a guy who stole some cigarettes or something"
I'm right along with Zero Existenz and stonedcat here, There was a limitation of hardware that kept graphics at a minimum and therefore gameplay as a top priority.
The fact is that those little challenges were fun for the same reason non-videogame challenges are also often fun.
I personally loved mario- even though as a child I only played it at the arcade (I didn't have any game consoles growing up, just an old IBM PC with ASCII games like Kingdom of Kroz II).
Now I have a computer that handels newer games with good graphics, and I get so bored by them. I don't find the grind-games to be much fun at all, despite the graphics. But I think the graphics is a bit of a red herring here. Sure, when the game makers focus on graphics only, gameplay suffers, but I don't see why we couldn't have both.
My roommate has an xbox 360. I love using it as a mediacenter, but for games? I got bored really fast. I've rented just about every title available- and I've found that none of those games are really for casual gamers. They all require a lot of attention for the story line, a lot of hours of play, but worst of all, the game mechanics are all the same- enter building, shoot, clear, repeat.
Personally I've really stopped caring for scripted grind games. In fact, I think the last time I played a shoot-em-up game and enjoyed it was Duke Nukem 3d, because back then it was novel. But not much has changed about the genre since then except the graphics. I think the older people are sick of new games because they haven't changed. Not because a shoot-em up game couldn't be fun, but because they're all shoot-em up games. And it's getting really freakin boring.
And that's where nintendo comes in. Smash Bros? I can sit down and play for 5 minutes or an hour. I can play against friends or alone, but that is a game for casual gamers. And that's who's getting my money as of now.
I don't consider myself a casual gamer. I played the original CNC and redalert games for hours upon hours. But somewhere along the way, game makers lost me, because games started focusing on graphics and not gameplay. The new CNC games? Yeah, they're fun- but they're not enough different to keep my attention. They're just sparkly.
Oh, and WOW is NOT for casual gamers by any stretch.
Out of curiosity, how well could pHash be used to find similar songs from a list of songs? Maybe not actually similar, but similar sounding (or same mood)...?
Any ideas how one would go about doing this sort of thing?
There's the open-source library - libOFA - developed by Music IP (http://code.google.com/p/musicip-libofa/) which happens to create PUIDs on the first 135 seconds of audio in a track. It's used in the music-IP mixer (for mood mixes) but is also used by music database projects such as MusicBrainz.
From what I've seen, it's pretty decent audio fingerprinting, but I'm sure would be subject to the same limitations- if you remove the first 30 seconds of a clip- it would produce a very different fingerprint.
There's no reason to believe youtube isn't using this library or a derivative. There's also no reason to believe this result isn't intended. If the first 30 seconds of a song are missing- maybe that makes youtube confident that it could be considered fairuse.
Either way, I could imagine creating a fingerprint based on different sections of a song has the same problems doing an MD5 hash would- each fingerprint would be entirely different. If you don't just compare bit-to-bit, it'll be impossible to catch ALL permutations. And the fact is, that's a lot of computing power anyhow.
Yeah the only way I get +5 first posts is using the subscription- I can type up a good response for 5 minutes while I wait. And I know exactly when it will go live-
There's a small bug that I've addressed that nobody apparently cares about that gives you the exact time and date that posts "in the mysterious future" will show up. I've emailed the "exploit" address, but apparently they don't care.
I find, since I've found this, it's my duty to use the power for awesome, not evil. So my intention is to beat all the frosty piss posts with at least something semi-insightful.
So, the birthday song doesn't appear in any movies, and is avoided in public places on record, so in 1000 years, when historians are trying to peice together what our culture used to be like- the birthday tune will not be in their theories. Sad.
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Just shut up, ok? Last month, my provider finally converted me from 1.5 mbps to 7 mbps. (Fairpoint, just bought Northeastern USA from Verizon) Do you understand that only now can we start using things like Netflix Watchnow and the like? Oh, but Youtube, for whatever reason, still buffers for 5 minutes.
Anyway, my point is this. Stop bragging, you're seriously making me want to stab my eyes with grapefruit spoons.
I'm not sure you need anything more than the standard movie screen- I've seen 3d movies in a non-imax theater recently. I think anything decently reflective will do- it's just polarized light coming from the projector(s) and bouncing to your eyes. I'm sure there's some tricks with IMAX's curved screen that helps, though.
How they can monetize it enough to make the acquisition worthwhile is another matter altogether.
Which is a great reason to sell. Not really a great reason to buy. The owners of twitter clearly know just how much money they can't make on running the service- so selling is probably the best option. Apple, in turn, will probably just couple it with their products as an add-on, making it that much trendier to be an apple user. I'd say Apple is probably the only company that could buy twitter and make sense while doing it. Well, I mean, sense in Steve's reality distortion field.
Agreed, not to mention, it gives men the ability to protect themselves against pregnancy, since women can be sneaky little bitches and "forget" to take their birth control in order to get a kid. I've seen it on more than one occasion, the woman purposefully gets knocked up for some reason (they need love, want to trap the guy, need child support (read: paycheck)). They guy is caught off guard, believed she was on birth control. Everybody loses, she won't have an abortion. She sues when he leaves, so on, and so on.
The fact is, it's been tilted in women's direction for a long time, they just pretend to be the weaker sex. The fact of the matter is, it takes two to get pregnant, but it only takes one to decide to keep it (hint: not the male). That's just unfair. It's about time we empower men.
Estimates are already a form of guessing. The word 'guesstimate' make me want to puke blood.
The real bummer is never knowing (either by experiment, or by taste) without opening the bottle. And, of course, you'd leave the bottle unopened until the perfect occasion...
So... a new status would be started, called the 99% full original verified bottle of vintage whiskey. In fact, unopened full bottles will become the anti-status symbol.
I laughed a little when I read your comment. Stupid USA, no internet on their cell phones! Get with the times.
It occured to me shortly after, that I don't have internet on my cell phone either. A sad truth.
Interestingly, quite a few companies all have a vested interest in keeping society from progress. I mean, just a few articles back, we had an example of the newspaper industry just not getting it. My gut feeling? Wouldn't it make sense, instead of a billion different newsbook-readers, each for it's own brand of newspaper, just let me get my news on the cell phone?
And suddenly I see the problem- we don't have internet on our phones because NOBODY wants us to have the access that snuck up on US companies.
Corporations wildly mis-underestimated how the internet would take off. Instead of investing in it then, or learning from their mistakes, they're not investing in it now. So we still have companies fighting the internet. Even the internet companies are fighting us having internet.
Too late though, cat's out of the bag, and once you've seen it, you can never go back. I will never settle for a dumbed-down version of the internet, and going back to buying CDs (I buy mp3s) and purchasing cable (I watch hulu, and rent netflix).
Once we ALL have email on our internet enabled phones, we won't be able to be charged for each txt message. The internet is a pipeline, we can use email, IM, twitter, or whatever we please to communicate. This will be the undoing of the txt addons in the same way internet TV has/will ruin subscription cable.
Therfore, those people wouldn't be looking to replace their non-existent Vista with XP, would they?
Are you dense? Or am I just replying before you're marked troll?
Polarized glasses, nothing new. Slightly less headache inducing, from what I've heard. (I still get headaches, during beowulf.)
I'm certainly not lying. I'm just mis-informed. Point taken.
That being said, I still challenge you to go to walmart and find me an XP machine. Or find an easily accessible XP retail copy for your new vista machine (note, installing OEM on a computer after it's built is against the EULA).
Maybe it's not impossible, but for an average computer user, it's vanished from their eyes.
No, seriously though, guys, this 3d movie IS SOOOO 3d, that if it made sense, I'd just go ahead and label it with a few more dimensions. In fact, it's 4d! By the time you leave the theater, you'll feel like you're in the future! Hours will have passed!
TLDR: 3d is the same as it's been, nothing to see here, move along.
They say they don't want to cannibalize sales, so most companies have a strict rule about not speaking about future products, so as not to discourage users from purchasing the current line-up. That being said, I just don't see how that helps MS, being as loud as they can about their operating systems.
Take for instance the beta program. There's no secret windows 7 is coming. People are already holding off, without a date in mind.
Take for instance the discontinuation of Windows XP. I know tons of people who aren't buying Vista, and since they stopped selling xp, people just aren't buying windows.
I work in computer repair, and now, more than ever, people are just getting 6 year old computers fixed because they don't want vista, no matter what.
I think MS needs a new PR department.
I'm thinking this too. Here's to $60 they'll never see from me.
I forgot the IRONY tags. My bad.
Is this a joke?
You caught me. :P
I won't lie, I irrationally freak out every time I see a plane flying low. Although it's never anything- just some sight-seeing tourist plane. Still freaks me out. I don't live in the city though, I live in central NH. I can imagine why it freaks out New Yorkers. So before everybody goes on the whole "everybody's just over-reacting" thing, why don't we instead consider other options:
-Building tall buildings underground, instead of above.
-Requiring high altitudes for all planes, military or civilian, and producing auto-shoot auto-aim turrets around the ciy with no warning shots.
- Include parashoots as standard emergency materials for skyscrapers?
(Substitute US with UK, you get the idea)
This is brilliant, but I don't know how well it will work.
I tried it out, to see if I could get results. After spending a full day videotaping the dealings of the CEO of a major US company this week, and posting it, the police responded "Well, I mean, we don't really deal with this kind of stuff. Find me a guy who stole some cigarettes or something"
I'm right along with Zero Existenz and stonedcat here, There was a limitation of hardware that kept graphics at a minimum and therefore gameplay as a top priority.
The fact is that those little challenges were fun for the same reason non-videogame challenges are also often fun.
I personally loved mario- even though as a child I only played it at the arcade (I didn't have any game consoles growing up, just an old IBM PC with ASCII games like Kingdom of Kroz II).
Now I have a computer that handels newer games with good graphics, and I get so bored by them. I don't find the grind-games to be much fun at all, despite the graphics. But I think the graphics is a bit of a red herring here. Sure, when the game makers focus on graphics only, gameplay suffers, but I don't see why we couldn't have both.
My roommate has an xbox 360. I love using it as a mediacenter, but for games? I got bored really fast. I've rented just about every title available- and I've found that none of those games are really for casual gamers. They all require a lot of attention for the story line, a lot of hours of play, but worst of all, the game mechanics are all the same- enter building, shoot, clear, repeat.
Personally I've really stopped caring for scripted grind games. In fact, I think the last time I played a shoot-em-up game and enjoyed it was Duke Nukem 3d, because back then it was novel. But not much has changed about the genre since then except the graphics. I think the older people are sick of new games because they haven't changed. Not because a shoot-em up game couldn't be fun, but because they're all shoot-em up games. And it's getting really freakin boring.
And that's where nintendo comes in. Smash Bros? I can sit down and play for 5 minutes or an hour. I can play against friends or alone, but that is a game for casual gamers. And that's who's getting my money as of now.
I don't consider myself a casual gamer. I played the original CNC and redalert games for hours upon hours. But somewhere along the way, game makers lost me, because games started focusing on graphics and not gameplay. The new CNC games? Yeah, they're fun- but they're not enough different to keep my attention. They're just sparkly.
Oh, and WOW is NOT for casual gamers by any stretch.
Out of curiosity, how well could pHash be used to find similar songs from a list of songs? Maybe not actually similar, but similar sounding (or same mood)...?
Any ideas how one would go about doing this sort of thing?
There's the open-source library - libOFA - developed by Music IP (http://code.google.com/p/musicip-libofa/) which happens to create PUIDs on the first 135 seconds of audio in a track. It's used in the music-IP mixer (for mood mixes) but is also used by music database projects such as MusicBrainz.
From what I've seen, it's pretty decent audio fingerprinting, but I'm sure would be subject to the same limitations- if you remove the first 30 seconds of a clip- it would produce a very different fingerprint.
There's no reason to believe youtube isn't using this library or a derivative. There's also no reason to believe this result isn't intended. If the first 30 seconds of a song are missing- maybe that makes youtube confident that it could be considered fairuse.
Either way, I could imagine creating a fingerprint based on different sections of a song has the same problems doing an MD5 hash would- each fingerprint would be entirely different. If you don't just compare bit-to-bit, it'll be impossible to catch ALL permutations. And the fact is, that's a lot of computing power anyhow.
Yeah the only way I get +5 first posts is using the subscription- I can type up a good response for 5 minutes while I wait. And I know exactly when it will go live-
There's a small bug that I've addressed that nobody apparently cares about that gives you the exact time and date that posts "in the mysterious future" will show up. I've emailed the "exploit" address, but apparently they don't care.
I find, since I've found this, it's my duty to use the power for awesome, not evil. So my intention is to beat all the frosty piss posts with at least something semi-insightful.
I know, I was freakin excited when I read this. Then I realized they were talking about James Bond. BOOORING.
Mozy does this for personal/business backups. You can use a completely private key, but search your own data.
So, the birthday song doesn't appear in any movies, and is avoided in public places on record, so in 1000 years, when historians are trying to peice together what our culture used to be like- the birthday tune will not be in their theories. Sad.