Hey, no offense or anything, but an OT comment about your.sig. The magic of the internet is that people don't care who you are, unless it relates to the internet, ie while people might care if you play RPG games(not enough to put it in your.sig tho), they don't care if you're christian. They don't care if you're black or white, young or old (grammar and spelling aside), male or female (unless you have pictures, but that strays into the relating to the internet part), fat or skinny, etc etc etc. Your religious boast is lost on me. That said, you probably have a point in including those two things in your.sig. So, please either explain to me how those two things relate (what, are you upset because they named a game Diablo?), or change the.sig. Because it doesn't do me any good.
Setting up 'Tech Unions' here would only cause corporations to outsource more vigorously.
And that's the entire point of what the union would be here to stop. The union would say, "Hey, we're not going to let you ship our jobs over to India. So freakin' stop it".
Outsourcing is happening. What are you going to do about it?
I thought they were talking about Battlefield: 1942. I'm currently holding my breath waiting for the new patch to come out for BF:1942, so it was fresh on my mind.
We need a tech union. I don't know why there isn't one, Safeway has a workers' union, auto workers have unions, hollywood types have unions, even dock workers have unions. Doesn't it seem like we might be getting the long, hard one here?
More likely than the program changing attributes on a folder is it just going to another folder, ie Xupiter_1. Still, NTFS denying myself permissions has saved my ass on several occasions.
If all animals tasted bad, predators would adapt to the bad taste. Or something. Plus, cow is delicious, and it's not like they're endangered or anything.
3495.25 Kbps. That's audio AND video. It doesn't mention if/how it compresses the audio (I hope MP3), so we can only assume that the audio is compressed to maybe 500kbps. Which leaves about 3,000 kbps for mpeg-4 video, which is just way too much. Your average 2 CD divx DVD rip uses megabit video if you're lucky. Granted, they're letterboxed while this will probably be 4:3, but still, you wouldn't need more than 2,000 to surpass the quality of your favorite divx rip.
If this thing is worth it's salt, it'll allow you to change the audio and video bitrates to your liking, a la digital cameras. At the very least it should have different settings (640x480, 320x240, megabit video, etc) you can pick and choose from.
If not, move along and pick up something designed with the techie in mind, if/when such a device should be marketed.
You think HDDs are going to be more volatile than tapes? Are you referring to durability, ie able to sustain impacts, or reliability, ie not going to go bad in 3 years? Because for the latter, I'd rather have a HDD than tape. I don't have any stats to back that up though...
Copy a hundred cds and throw out 99. Then you'll start to get the picture of the economics of marketing music.
This isn't economics! The reason people hate the music companies is because they create artificial scarcity.
Before the advent of audio compression, music had to be sent around on CDs, 80 minutes at a time, which made it unwieldy. But now, that's changed. My 80 gb HD can hold some 1,000 CDs worth of compressed music. The music companies have the capability to supply you and I with every song they've ever produced, at almost no cost to them(bandwidth).
You and I would be willing to pay a premium to access to more music, but who's going to pay for 1000 CDs at $18/each? The point is, I'd be willing to spend much more money on music if I got to listen to 100x as much music. How much more does it cost the music companies to supply me with 100x as much music? Not much more. And they'd get more money.
But they plod along complaining about how 99 CDs out of 100 fail, when they could follow some simple supply/demand curves to find a happy medium. Do 99 CDs out of 100 fail because the music on them is no good, or do they fail because people don't want to pay $18 for 99 CDs?
You aren't a gamer until you've dropped to your knees and pounded the living shit out a of nintendo power pad. Oh, please! I could smoke you with my power pad method! Put the balls of your feet in front of the pad sensors, and "run" by tapping your heels on the sensors. Then, for the hurdles, you simply hop up on the balls of both feet and your character will jump. I could easily beat Track and Field with this method.
Still Manitou, working at HP. I actually moved into Molly/Jenny's apartment(Jenny's parents' place, right by MSHS), both moved out, it's just mine for now. Molly is firefighting in Antarctica, Jenny is in Denver. Life is good, in general. Feel free to e-mail.
Between the robot vacuum cleaner and the robot lawnmower, I'd be set! Come home, the grass is mowed and the carpet is clean. Now, if only I could figure out how to program the VCR...
What pisses me off even more than pages developed for any size at all, is those idiot's pages that decide for you that you want to see them full screen
I want my car's arm/disarm sound to come from the subwoofer in the trunk. A heartbeat might be nice, or a couple of nice drum kicks. Of course, when the alarm gets triggered, there'll be a nice, screeching sound, but when I'm arming it, I don't need that annoying chirp. I also don't need music.
Okay, you have a good point about one person not having the guts to stand up for his beliefs, but it only takes one person to say, "Wait a minute, those guys are arresting that kid! We should be concerned or upset about this!" to give a large group of people a little push towards attempting to over-rule a small group. I'm just saying that I can see how it might happen, but I understand how it may seem unlikely, seeing as to how you know how it went down in this particular case, whereas I can only imagine.
Don't correct me! I qualified that with "where I come from" because it's true. Maybe you grew up with no courage to stick up for your beliefs when there's something that's not right, but "where I come from", you don't just barge into a private convention and start harassing people like that. Yeah, that's right, these people feel sympathy. For someone being arrested by the BSA like that. And they would not sit idly by.
Philp admits that taking a visual voyage along the trail can be unnerving in some locales.
"There are parts of the trail that are very depressing. The urban transformations have been dramatic in some areas. At the same time, there are areas, certainly not pristine, yet the degree of change is less," he said.
"So I think you get the full gamut of depression, concern, and outright outrage at the change. And then there are other places along the trail where you have hope," Philp told SPACE.com.
I wonder what he means by this? Depressing how, exactly? Are there a bunch of K-Marts on the trail?
Wow, reading that, I feel violent urges towards those folks. They went to a LAN party??? You show up at a LAN party where I come from and try to confiscate someone's stuff, you've got 50-300 angry, angry people breathing down your neck.
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Hey, no offense or anything, but an OT comment about your .sig. .sig tho), they don't care if you're christian. They don't care if you're black or white, young or old (grammar and spelling aside), male or female (unless you have pictures, but that strays into the relating to the internet part), fat or skinny, etc etc etc. Your religious boast is lost on me. .sig. So, please either explain to me how those two things relate (what, are you upset because they named a game Diablo?), or change the .sig. Because it doesn't do me any good.
The magic of the internet is that people don't care who you are, unless it relates to the internet, ie while people might care if you play RPG games(not enough to put it in your
That said, you probably have a point in including those two things in your
Setting up 'Tech Unions' here would only cause corporations to outsource more vigorously.
And that's the entire point of what the union would be here to stop. The union would say, "Hey, we're not going to let you ship our jobs over to India. So freakin' stop it".
Outsourcing is happening. What are you going to do about it?
Okay, so you want us to be more like India? Good plan. That'll really beef up the standard of living around here.
I thought they were talking about Battlefield: 1942. I'm currently holding my breath waiting for the new patch to come out for BF:1942, so it was fresh on my mind.
We need a tech union. I don't know why there isn't one, Safeway has a workers' union, auto workers have unions, hollywood types have unions, even dock workers have unions. Doesn't it seem like we might be getting the long, hard one here?
More likely than the program changing attributes on a folder is it just going to another folder, ie Xupiter_1. Still, NTFS denying myself permissions has saved my ass on several occasions.
iMesh has spyware? I had forgotten, after I ran Ad-Aware. Since I run Ad Muncher, I don't even get it's banner ads. Popups? Heaven forbid!
For more on this topic, see Three Amigos!, starring Chevy Chase, Martin Short, and Steve Martin.
If all animals tasted bad, predators would adapt to the bad taste. Or something. Plus, cow is delicious, and it's not like they're endangered or anything.
Looks like the archos only does 320x240 though, which is 1/4 the number of pixels, compared to this camera. Hence the price, I suppose.
The article also fails to mention what the bitrate and such of the audio and video are going to be for the recording...
Fine, make me do the math.
1.5GB = 1536MB = 1,572,864KB = 12,582,912Kb.
60 minutes = 3600 seconds.
3495.25 Kbps. That's audio AND video. It doesn't mention if/how it compresses the audio (I hope MP3), so we can only assume that the audio is compressed to maybe 500kbps. Which leaves about 3,000 kbps for mpeg-4 video, which is just way too much. Your average 2 CD divx DVD rip uses megabit video if you're lucky. Granted, they're letterboxed while this will probably be 4:3, but still, you wouldn't need more than 2,000 to surpass the quality of your favorite divx rip.
If this thing is worth it's salt, it'll allow you to change the audio and video bitrates to your liking, a la digital cameras. At the very least it should have different settings (640x480, 320x240, megabit video, etc) you can pick and choose from.
If not, move along and pick up something designed with the techie in mind, if/when such a device should be marketed.
4.3? Man, I could never get by with any less than 4.5 gigs.
You think HDDs are going to be more volatile than tapes? Are you referring to durability, ie able to sustain impacts, or reliability, ie not going to go bad in 3 years? Because for the latter, I'd rather have a HDD than tape. I don't have any stats to back that up though...
With graphics like this, it'd BETTER run on a P2/300.
(Hit next a few times to see more screenshots)
Note that lack of graphics does not necessarily denote lack of fun gameplay. I want a demo first though...
Copy a hundred cds and throw out 99. Then you'll start to get the picture of the economics of marketing music.
This isn't economics! The reason people hate the music companies is because they create artificial scarcity.
Before the advent of audio compression, music had to be sent around on CDs, 80 minutes at a time, which made it unwieldy. But now, that's changed. My 80 gb HD can hold some 1,000 CDs worth of compressed music. The music companies have the capability to supply you and I with every song they've ever produced, at almost no cost to them(bandwidth).
You and I would be willing to pay a premium to access to more music, but who's going to pay for 1000 CDs at $18/each? The point is, I'd be willing to spend much more money on music if I got to listen to 100x as much music. How much more does it cost the music companies to supply me with 100x as much music? Not much more. And they'd get more money.
But they plod along complaining about how 99 CDs out of 100 fail, when they could follow some simple supply/demand curves to find a happy medium. Do 99 CDs out of 100 fail because the music on them is no good, or do they fail because people don't want to pay $18 for 99 CDs?
You aren't a gamer until you've dropped to your knees and pounded the living shit out a of nintendo power pad.
Oh, please! I could smoke you with my power pad method! Put the balls of your feet in front of the pad sensors, and "run" by tapping your heels on the sensors. Then, for the hurdles, you simply hop up on the balls of both feet and your character will jump. I could easily beat Track and Field with this method.
Still Manitou, working at HP. I actually moved into Molly/Jenny's apartment(Jenny's parents' place, right by MSHS), both moved out, it's just mine for now. Molly is firefighting in Antarctica, Jenny is in Denver. Life is good, in general. Feel free to e-mail.
Between the robot vacuum cleaner and the robot lawnmower, I'd be set! Come home, the grass is mowed and the carpet is clean. Now, if only I could figure out how to program the VCR...
What pisses me off even more than pages developed for any size at all, is those idiot's pages that decide for you that you want to see them full screen
That used to piss me off too, but then I fixed it.
I want my car's arm/disarm sound to come from the subwoofer in the trunk. A heartbeat might be nice, or a couple of nice drum kicks. Of course, when the alarm gets triggered, there'll be a nice, screeching sound, but when I'm arming it, I don't need that annoying chirp. I also don't need music.
Okay, you have a good point about one person not having the guts to stand up for his beliefs, but it only takes one person to say, "Wait a minute, those guys are arresting that kid! We should be concerned or upset about this!" to give a large group of people a little push towards attempting to over-rule a small group. I'm just saying that I can see how it might happen, but I understand how it may seem unlikely, seeing as to how you know how it went down in this particular case, whereas I can only imagine.
Don't correct me! I qualified that with "where I come from" because it's true. Maybe you grew up with no courage to stick up for your beliefs when there's something that's not right, but "where I come from", you don't just barge into a private convention and start harassing people like that. Yeah, that's right, these people feel sympathy. For someone being arrested by the BSA like that. And they would not sit idly by.
Philp admits that taking a visual voyage along the trail can be unnerving in some locales.
"There are parts of the trail that are very depressing. The urban transformations have been dramatic in some areas. At the same time, there are areas, certainly not pristine, yet the degree of change is less," he said.
"So I think you get the full gamut of depression, concern, and outright outrage at the change. And then there are other places along the trail where you have hope," Philp told SPACE.com.
I wonder what he means by this? Depressing how, exactly? Are there a bunch of K-Marts on the trail?
Wow, reading that, I feel violent urges towards those folks. They went to a LAN party??? You show up at a LAN party where I come from and try to confiscate someone's stuff, you've got 50-300 angry, angry people breathing down your neck.
oil's cheap enought. We're saving it for later.