By "replicable part of the name of the file/folder" I mean in regards to illegal characters in the filesystem/os. Windows claims these are ><\/:|*^?" for example (dunno if it's Windows, NTFS, NTFS+FAT+Whatever else windows needs to support).
I didn't intend to do an example with/. references when I started. I wanted something showing the dollar sign, and then stuff with periods and a quote mark and a question mark (dropped). First stuff that came to mind. Had I planned it, or previewed my post, the first line would be "01 - The First Post (frosty mix)" or similar.
It's becoming quite a mess, sometimes quite slow, and there is really no naming or numbering convention in place for the files and directories. We end up with mixed casing, all uppercase, all lowercase, dashes and ampersands in the file names, and there are literally hundreds of directories to sort through before you can find the document you are looking for.
Slow. Upgrade your network and VPN. You know that VPN layer is just killing your performance.
No naming or numbering convention. Get one.
Mixed casing. Learn How to Properly Case Folders (and documents).
Dashes and ampersands. Are they a problem? Aesthetically unpleasant? I personally restrict punctuation in a filesystem to dashes, periods, and parenthesis (unless the punctuation is a replicable part of the name of the file/folder).
Examples: 01 - The First Track (vocal) 02 - $lashhvertisements Attack! 03 - Where Have All the A.C.'s Gone
Develop your own method that works and be obsessed about it to the point where you would reburn a disc if one of the filenames was "01-Name" instead of "01 - Name".
Hundreds of directories. Each file should have it's own folder. "That's insane!" you say. Start out with this mentality. If there is no reason at all to separate two files (they are part of the same thing) then place them in one folder, and make sure the folder is named all-encompasingly. Repeat for all files. If you get into a AB, BC, but not ABC situation, the solution is to have A and B and C, with A and C linking to B with your choice of shortcut/link/symlink/etc. Do this until all files are in folders. Then repeat with folders.
There is NO substitute for organization and getting people on the same page. Develop some conventions. Task people to fix as they go. Check up to make sure people accessing documents are fixing as they go, and doing so according to convention. Once people are used to the convention, and once things are relatively organized, they won't ever need to search again. They'll instantly know where 99% of things are, and will be able to dig around and find anything else within seconds.
The main problem you face is getting organized after already being unorganized. It isn't easy, but at least you're not dealing with millions of paper documents.
Exactly. The "ending" was just OMG RIVER'S CRAZY and OMG CONSPIRACY. And Serenity was trash. Just more Joss Whedon hard-on for thin, blank girls with super powers.
It takes MASSIVE amounts of energy to send things back through time. You can't just send things or people willy nilly. Deciding to send something or someone back is a last-ditch effort, and is tactically a very risky thing to try.
Skynet and the machines have a much better handle on it than the humans do. It is likely that the human resistance seized time travel tech from the machines, and reverse engineered it.
The machines decided to send the T-800 back to kill Sarah Connor, as the human resistance led by John Connor had started to turn the tide. The humans found out they did this, and rushed to send back someone to defend her.
The goal (of Kyle Reese) in T1 was not to prevent Judgment Day, but to ensure the survival of Sarah Connor.
In T2, the machines send back a T-1000 to kill John Connor. Having captured and reprogrammed a T-800, the human resistance sends one back to protect John Connor. Sarah attempts to prevent Judgment Day by killing Dyson (which she doesn't go through with, instead they go for Cyberdyne and the arm) after learning about the who and where of Skynet's beginnings.
This information wasn't available to the human resistance in T1. In T2, we learn Skynet started from the busted up T-800 in T1. This information was available because the human resistance had captured Ts.
T3 further reinforces this (even though T3 doesn't exist) because the events of T2 affect the T2->War time line, turning them into the time line we are presented with in T3.
In T3, John Connor is told that the origins of Skynet lie in some bullshit internet AI military program, and some robots they built on the side (T3 doesn't even make an attempt to link the two massive projects. Maybe the machines and the AI are related to the same project, maybe they're just in the same installation, I dunno.).
In T1, we don't know how Skynet started. Kyle Reese tells us as much as he (and the human resistance) know. We never see the beginning of Judgment Day based on the events of T1. At the end, we know that Judgment Day will still happen.
In T2, the humans only learn how Skynet was started by capturing and reprogramming a T-800. T2's Skynet was started by T1's T-800 (and this was hinted at at the end of T1.) We never see the beginning of Judgment Day based on the events of T2. At the end, we think that Judgment Day has been stopped.
In T3, the humans are again able to send back a T-800 and again have information relating to Skynet's beginnings. We see the beginning of Judgment Day this time, and learn that the origins of Skynet have shifted to the military AI bullshit thing. At the end, we know that Judgment Day has occurred and why.
I gave T3 a chance and it was shit and it doesn't exist. I will not be seeing T4.
The Professor's plan is a shot at all the enviro nuts who enjoyed $5+ gas and praised it as forcing us to consider new options, when in fact it didn't do shit.
Obviously that's not pure, refined dark matter. Probably a tiny spec of dark matter wrapped in a big ol' Nibbler turd.
Nibbler isn't magic. The Niblonians are advanced, but they don't have magic powers.
Obviously a joke about pollution. Small planet / it's a cartoon, expect exaggeration. What about the other species?
Family Guy's references are so fucking dialed-in that they actually offend me. They copy scenes from movies so often, with nothing added, and for no reason other than to fill time that I don't see how anyone could consider them a reference, tribute, or homage. It's fucking plagiarism.
They drag out "jokes" so long and so often that "dragging out a joke way too long" has BECOME their new joke, and they've dragged THAT joke out way too long.
And internet memes? Really?
And taking pot shots at the Simpsons? Stealing Chuck Mangione and Feels So Good from King of the Hill (AND not referring to Chuck Mangione by name at all, AND calling the instrument a trumpet when it's NOT a fucking trumpet!)?
Seth McFarlane is a fucking hack who talks just to hear the sound of his own voice. We'll have three shows by him soon.
Here's how it goes.
SCENE: Writers sitting around a table talking about the 80s.
Writer 1: "Hey you remember <thing from the 80s>? That was so cool!"
Writer 2: "Yeah, lol!"
Writer 3: "What? I don't remember that."
Writer 1: "You don't know <thing>? OMG it was the best! It had <thing> and <thing>!"
Writer 2: "Here look I found it on the internet!"
Writer 3: "Oh yeah, I vaguely remember this. But it didn't have <thing> and it was actually just a <thing>."
Writer 2 (reading Wikipedia): "Oh yeah, I guess you 're right. BUT OMG WE SHOULD SO USE THIS FOR THE SHOW!"
Bender's Game was awesome and hilarious. Most Futurama "fans" who say they don't like this aren't actual Futurama fans. They're the "fans" that came along after the show was canceled, and who have only watched the show selectively. These people do not get/appreciate the many, many nerdy references. This movies was pure Futurama.
The weakest of the four is The Beast with a Billion Backs.
Firefly is also shit. It was good the first time through, but the ending and the movie completely fucked it over so much that I can't go and rewatch it. It's just so bad.
There are various homebrew apps that'll encode video for your DS. The result is watchable (though I sure as hell wouldn't choose the DS as a video player).
Keep in mind we're only dealing with 256x192 (for a single screen).
I guess we'll have to wait until the DSi homebrew scene shows up.
Do you think the behavior of people is above that of gluttonous, filthy, hedonistic pigs? Do you think people are any better than screeching, chest-thumping, feces-flinging primates?
The court case that let them get away with using KB MB GB etc. incorrectly is to blame for people thinking that it's an issue with SI units. The bullshit argument (used by the lawyers for the drive manufacturers) was that they were SI units, and were thus factors of 1000. They are NOT SI units, nor have they ever been, nor should they be.
At least they still have to print "*1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes" on the box.
There is no confusion. This is what has been used for decades by actual computer scientists doing actual science with computers. There is no ambiguity with the SI units.
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By "replicable part of the name of the file/folder" I mean in regards to illegal characters in the filesystem/os. Windows claims these are ><\/:|*^?" for example (dunno if it's Windows, NTFS, NTFS+FAT+Whatever else windows needs to support).
I didn't intend to do an example with /. references when I started. I wanted something showing the dollar sign, and then stuff with periods and a quote mark and a question mark (dropped). First stuff that came to mind. Had I planned it, or previewed my post, the first line would be "01 - The First Post (frosty mix)" or similar.
It's becoming quite a mess, sometimes quite slow, and there is really no naming or numbering convention in place for the files and directories. We end up with mixed casing, all uppercase, all lowercase, dashes and ampersands in the file names, and there are literally hundreds of directories to sort through before you can find the document you are looking for.
Slow. Upgrade your network and VPN. You know that VPN layer is just killing your performance.
No naming or numbering convention. Get one.
Mixed casing. Learn How to Properly Case Folders (and documents).
Dashes and ampersands. Are they a problem? Aesthetically unpleasant? I personally restrict punctuation in a filesystem to dashes, periods, and parenthesis (unless the punctuation is a replicable part of the name of the file/folder).
Examples:
01 - The First Track (vocal)
02 - $lashhvertisements Attack!
03 - Where Have All the A.C.'s Gone
Develop your own method that works and be obsessed about it to the point where you would reburn a disc if one of the filenames was "01-Name" instead of "01 - Name".
Hundreds of directories.
Each file should have it's own folder.
"That's insane!" you say. Start out with this mentality. If there is no reason at all to separate two files (they are part of the same thing) then place them in one folder, and make sure the folder is named all-encompasingly. Repeat for all files. If you get into a AB, BC, but not ABC situation, the solution is to have A and B and C, with A and C linking to B with your choice of shortcut/link/symlink/etc.
Do this until all files are in folders. Then repeat with folders.
There is NO substitute for organization and getting people on the same page. Develop some conventions. Task people to fix as they go. Check up to make sure people accessing documents are fixing as they go, and doing so according to convention. Once people are used to the convention, and once things are relatively organized, they won't ever need to search again. They'll instantly know where 99% of things are, and will be able to dig around and find anything else within seconds.
The main problem you face is getting organized after already being unorganized. It isn't easy, but at least you're not dealing with millions of paper documents.
"there must be a chemical that can promote make the cord blood stem cells divide"
Obama will Eruo Jr. into the ground.
Exactly. The "ending" was just OMG RIVER'S CRAZY and OMG CONSPIRACY. And Serenity was trash. Just more Joss Whedon hard-on for thin, blank girls with super powers.
Did you just compare M*A*S*H to Family Guy?
It takes MASSIVE amounts of energy to send things back through time. You can't just send things or people willy nilly. Deciding to send something or someone back is a last-ditch effort, and is tactically a very risky thing to try.
Skynet and the machines have a much better handle on it than the humans do. It is likely that the human resistance seized time travel tech from the machines, and reverse engineered it.
The machines decided to send the T-800 back to kill Sarah Connor, as the human resistance led by John Connor had started to turn the tide. The humans found out they did this, and rushed to send back someone to defend her.
The goal (of Kyle Reese) in T1 was not to prevent Judgment Day, but to ensure the survival of Sarah Connor.
In T2, the machines send back a T-1000 to kill John Connor. Having captured and reprogrammed a T-800, the human resistance sends one back to protect John Connor. Sarah attempts to prevent Judgment Day by killing Dyson (which she doesn't go through with, instead they go for Cyberdyne and the arm) after learning about the who and where of Skynet's beginnings.
This information wasn't available to the human resistance in T1. In T2, we learn Skynet started from the busted up T-800 in T1. This information was available because the human resistance had captured Ts.
T3 further reinforces this (even though T3 doesn't exist) because the events of T2 affect the T2->War time line, turning them into the time line we are presented with in T3.
In T3, John Connor is told that the origins of Skynet lie in some bullshit internet AI military program, and some robots they built on the side (T3 doesn't even make an attempt to link the two massive projects. Maybe the machines and the AI are related to the same project, maybe they're just in the same installation, I dunno.).
In T1, we don't know how Skynet started. Kyle Reese tells us as much as he (and the human resistance) know. We never see the beginning of Judgment Day based on the events of T1. At the end, we know that Judgment Day will still happen.
In T2, the humans only learn how Skynet was started by capturing and reprogramming a T-800. T2's Skynet was started by T1's T-800 (and this was hinted at at the end of T1.) We never see the beginning of Judgment Day based on the events of T2. At the end, we think that Judgment Day has been stopped.
In T3, the humans are again able to send back a T-800 and again have information relating to Skynet's beginnings. We see the beginning of Judgment Day this time, and learn that the origins of Skynet have shifted to the military AI bullshit thing. At the end, we know that Judgment Day has occurred and why.
I gave T3 a chance and it was shit and it doesn't exist. I will not be seeing T4.
The Professor's plan is a shot at all the enviro nuts who enjoyed $5+ gas and praised it as forcing us to consider new options, when in fact it didn't do shit.
Obviously that's not pure, refined dark matter.
Probably a tiny spec of dark matter wrapped in a big ol' Nibbler turd.
Nibbler isn't magic. The Niblonians are advanced, but they don't have magic powers.
Obviously a joke about pollution. Small planet / it's a cartoon, expect exaggeration. What about the other species?
The ship was towed by Niblonians, duh.
Street cred?
I think you mean local series of tube cred.
DON'T MENTION JURASSIC BARK.
Actually Futurama has been pretty damned good about that.
Blue Harvest was shit, actually.
Family Guy's references are so fucking dialed-in that they actually offend me.
They copy scenes from movies so often, with nothing added, and for no reason other than to fill time that I don't see how anyone could consider them a reference, tribute, or homage. It's fucking plagiarism.
They drag out "jokes" so long and so often that "dragging out a joke way too long" has BECOME their new joke, and they've dragged THAT joke out way too long.
And internet memes? Really?
And taking pot shots at the Simpsons? Stealing Chuck Mangione and Feels So Good from King of the Hill (AND not referring to Chuck Mangione by name at all, AND calling the instrument a trumpet when it's NOT a fucking trumpet!)?
Seth McFarlane is a fucking hack who talks just to hear the sound of his own voice. We'll have three shows by him soon.
Here's how it goes.
SCENE: Writers sitting around a table talking about the 80s.
Writer 1: "Hey you remember <thing from the 80s>? That was so cool!"
Writer 2: "Yeah, lol!"
Writer 3: "What? I don't remember that."
Writer 1: "You don't know <thing>? OMG it was the best! It had <thing> and <thing>!"
Writer 2: "Here look I found it on the internet!"
Writer 3: "Oh yeah, I vaguely remember this. But it didn't have <thing> and it was actually just a <thing>."
Writer 2 (reading Wikipedia): "Oh yeah, I guess you 're right. BUT OMG WE SHOULD SO USE THIS FOR THE SHOW!"
Writer 1: "YEAH!!!"
Hover dolly.
Loss of 100 geek points and 1000 pedant points.
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Bender's Game was awesome and hilarious. Most Futurama "fans" who say they don't like this aren't actual Futurama fans. They're the "fans" that came along after the show was canceled, and who have only watched the show selectively. These people do not get/appreciate the many, many nerdy references. This movies was pure Futurama.
The weakest of the four is The Beast with a Billion Backs.
Correct.
Dollhouse is shit.
Firefly is also shit. It was good the first time through, but the ending and the movie completely fucked it over so much that I can't go and rewatch it. It's just so bad.
Sadly?
Until?
That show is shit.
The only reason it exists is because of that girl from Firefly.
It completely shits on the Terminator story.
It's got a million and one uses.
The codecs are out there, dude.
There are various homebrew apps that'll encode video for your DS. The result is watchable (though I sure as hell wouldn't choose the DS as a video player).
Keep in mind we're only dealing with 256x192 (for a single screen).
I guess we'll have to wait until the DSi homebrew scene shows up.
Seems to me they apply pretty fucking well.
Do you think the behavior of people is above that of gluttonous, filthy, hedonistic pigs? Do you think people are any better than screeching, chest-thumping, feces-flinging primates?
We have a system.
KMGTP etc followed by a B or b.
It means 2^10^1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. bytes or bits.
There is no ambiguity.
The court case that let them get away with using KB MB GB etc. incorrectly is to blame for people thinking that it's an issue with SI units. The bullshit argument (used by the lawyers for the drive manufacturers) was that they were SI units, and were thus factors of 1000. They are NOT SI units, nor have they ever been, nor should they be.
At least they still have to print "*1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes" on the box.
It was just cost (and weight) prohibitive at the time to do anything more than they did.
And today, they've gone with the DS. Can't get that touchscreen or the casual appeal with your face buried in some viewfinder.
That's all well and good, but the best reactions will be in the real world (unless you have an IMDB account for some reason).
Other real-world gear grinders:
Novel -> Book
Painting -> Picture
On the internet, I would also recommend:
Anime -> Cartoon
Manga -> Comic Book
Graphic Novel -> Comic Book
DSi is has double the ram and double the processor speed of the DS.
The DS can already handle video pretty decently.
Obviously it wouldn't be h.264, but the beauty of the video tag is that you can specify different streams/encodings for compatibility.
Like I said:
KB MB GB etc are powers of 2.
KB means 1024 bytes.
MB means 1048576 bytes.
Kb means 1024 bits.
Mb means 1048576 bits.
There is no confusion.
This is what has been used for decades by actual computer scientists doing actual science with computers.
There is no ambiguity with the SI units.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Zilch.
Nada.
You're wrong.