The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" is still overcompressed if you rip it to FLAC.
Holy crap, I'm not the only person who noticed this?
I ripped that album 5 times at progressively higher and higher bitrates before I gave up. There's high-end audio artifacting going on there that I can't do ANYTHING about, and after I gave up I realized it's in the original tracks on the CD.
Except if they're using medical-grade extract of capsaicin, you're talking a Scoville Rating of 100K-300K for a Habanero pepper. Nordihydrocapsaicin is 9.1 million Scovilles, and pure capsaicin is at least 15 million.
In short, I think the doctors and chemists know more than you do.
Contextually, 90% of the time. A theatre is a theatre is a theatre.
When necessary, we'd call it a movie theatre. Shortened, "we're going to the movies/see a movie." Cinema is kind of an archaic term; I only hear it in relation to "cinema studies' majors and things of that nature. A stage theatre is usually just a theatre.
We also tend not to say things like "I'm going out to the theatre tonight," even if we're going to see a show or a play. Here in New Jersey, depending on where you're going, it's either "I'm going to see a Broadway show," or stating the specific name of the venue or show. Also, in the southern part of the state you're closer to Philadelphia, in which people almost without fail refer to the name of the venue.
I've hit them with hammers, dropped them, kicked them, used them as doorstops, and they don't quit printing. Just keep them happy with toner and paper.
We believe we killed one once. It was locked in the back of our campus transport vehicle, and some kids with nothing better to do stole it, torched it and left it on railroad tracks to get hit.
When we got the smoldering wreckage back, the LJII was in the middle of what used to be the cargo cab. It was black.
If you dropped it on a piece of paper, you'd be hard pressed to prove that it wasn't still putting toner on the page.
Wow. No, Dale Earnhardt, Sr did not intentionally drive head-first into a wall on a caution. I know that extraneous research is hard for some/.'ers, but really, now.
The crash occurred on the last turn of the last lap of the Daytona 500. He was either blocking for a teammate or attempting to pass another car (which happened to be his son), and because of the physics of ariflow, his car wound up plowing into the wall and then being hit in the side, killing him.
To say he intentionally drove into the wall as a tactic is stupid.
And it works only with TVs that have the newer types of connectors, such as "component" jacks, and the new HDMI cables being used on most high-definition TVs.
I'll give you HDMI as "newer" but component video? We're talking a 10 year old standard at least, here.
And if you're going to go into the HD aspects of the box, why not address the fact that it only goes up to 720p?
Yup, Microsoft totally paid me off to play Gears of War, Project Gotham, Viva Pinata and download stuff like Worms off XBL.
Saying "ZOM IT HAS TEH WI-FIS" and "TEH ONLINEZ IS FREEEE" doesn't balance anything out. The majority of 360 owners don't actually play on Live. The cost for Live Gold is negligible, considering it's the best online service available. Sony's always screwed the pooch on the online gaming segment anyway, and saying that they're "offering consumer choice" by decentralizing the network and not requiring online components is nothing but more PR speak. The simple answer: despite the crowing, online console gaming is still in its infancy, and having built in Wi-Fi is certainly not a make-or-break feature.
In the end, if having a solid library of games and a solid system at an acceptable price is a viral campaign, then consider me infected.
Not at that price tag, they're not. That's with a two year agreement with Cingular. That's way, way beyond most peoples' price points, and with "only" 4 or 8 gigs of storage, it's roughly useless for the people who WOULD use it.
It's a hybrid bastardization of several products that turned out to be a poor idea.
There should have been a touch screen iPod announced as well, for those of us who have other, more sane cell providers.
I said "unjustly" in the sense that the PS3 listings that were being removed clearly met all of craigslist's rules.
You said "unjustly" because you think it isn't fair that you didn't get the profit you were looking for. Market tanked, and your outlet of last resort rejected you.
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Holy crap, I'm not the only person who noticed this?
I ripped that album 5 times at progressively higher and higher bitrates before I gave up. There's high-end audio artifacting going on there that I can't do ANYTHING about, and after I gave up I realized it's in the original tracks on the CD.
Except the region you're declaring sparse is Open Space Preserve and State Parks.
QED. At least pick a REAL logical fallacy next time.
They couldn't have put "the reviewer says 'meh!'" in the summary?
Except if they're using medical-grade extract of capsaicin, you're talking a Scoville Rating of 100K-300K for a Habanero pepper. Nordihydrocapsaicin is 9.1 million Scovilles, and pure capsaicin is at least 15 million.
In short, I think the doctors and chemists know more than you do.
But when will then be NOW?
I always thought it was more of a Doppler-effect "neeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwww" sound.
Contextually, 90% of the time. A theatre is a theatre is a theatre.
When necessary, we'd call it a movie theatre. Shortened, "we're going to the movies/see a movie." Cinema is kind of an archaic term; I only hear it in relation to "cinema studies' majors and things of that nature. A stage theatre is usually just a theatre.
We also tend not to say things like "I'm going out to the theatre tonight," even if we're going to see a show or a play. Here in New Jersey, depending on where you're going, it's either "I'm going to see a Broadway show," or stating the specific name of the venue or show. Also, in the southern part of the state you're closer to Philadelphia, in which people almost without fail refer to the name of the venue.
What say we use the new RIAA formula? I'll pay you 3 cents.
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That's a key progression, not a melody, you insensitive clod!
Speak for yourself, but all of OUR BlackBerry data goes through our BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
What the end user does with their own personal POP or IMAP accounts through blackberry.net is their decision.
Someone's never owned an HP Laserjet II.
I've hit them with hammers, dropped them, kicked them, used them as doorstops, and they don't quit printing. Just keep them happy with toner and paper.
We believe we killed one once. It was locked in the back of our campus transport vehicle, and some kids with nothing better to do stole it, torched it and left it on railroad tracks to get hit.
When we got the smoldering wreckage back, the LJII was in the middle of what used to be the cargo cab. It was black.
If you dropped it on a piece of paper, you'd be hard pressed to prove that it wasn't still putting toner on the page.
Wow. No, Dale Earnhardt, Sr did not intentionally drive head-first into a wall on a caution. I know that extraneous research is hard for some /.'ers, but really, now.
The crash occurred on the last turn of the last lap of the Daytona 500. He was either blocking for a teammate or attempting to pass another car (which happened to be his son), and because of the physics of ariflow, his car wound up plowing into the wall and then being hit in the side, killing him.
To say he intentionally drove into the wall as a tactic is stupid.
Actually, the government pays for nothing concerning the Turnpike or the Parkway. Both roads are paid for solely through the tolls collected on them.
The camera is owned wholly by the NJTPA, and so's the footage. They should be addressing the source of the leak.
That the accident actually happened on the Garden State Parkway, nobody's picked up on yet.
The accident happened at the Egg Harbor toll plaza on the Garden State Parkway, not the New Jersey Turnpike.
The confusion here is that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority is in charge of both the Turnpike and the Parkway.
Always glad to enlighten non-Jerseyans, though.
Simple: the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has traffic cameras. They used to have them on the Parkway too, but it appears they're down now. Go figure.
Wow, someone failed to decode their humor carvings today.
I'll give you HDMI as "newer" but component video? We're talking a 10 year old standard at least, here.
And if you're going to go into the HD aspects of the box, why not address the fact that it only goes up to 720p?
Yup, Microsoft totally paid me off to play Gears of War, Project Gotham, Viva Pinata and download stuff like Worms off XBL.
Saying "ZOM IT HAS TEH WI-FIS" and "TEH ONLINEZ IS FREEEE" doesn't balance anything out. The majority of 360 owners don't actually play on Live. The cost for Live Gold is negligible, considering it's the best online service available. Sony's always screwed the pooch on the online gaming segment anyway, and saying that they're "offering consumer choice" by decentralizing the network and not requiring online components is nothing but more PR speak. The simple answer: despite the crowing, online console gaming is still in its infancy, and having built in Wi-Fi is certainly not a make-or-break feature.
In the end, if having a solid library of games and a solid system at an acceptable price is a viral campaign, then consider me infected.
A snowball...or perhaps a Katamari?
Well, I'd be the last person to ask since I have a 42" Westinghouse LCD.
What I would most likely notice is scaling artifacts.
If there's still an "analog hole" then I'll be plenty happy with 1080i over component or 1080p over VGA.
I'm not sure where you get that idea, because I'm definitely not seeing any degradation on my 360's HD-DVD player over component at 1080i.
I'm realizing I worded my statement poorly:
It's a hybrid bastardization of several products. It appears to be a bad idea.
Two separate thoughts that I slammed together in haster.
Que sera sera. Like you said, it's a Swiss Army Knife, and if it's quality, it's worth the price...maybe.
Pretty much what you said.
I don't want 4 or 8 gigs on a touchscreen. I want 30, 60, 80...whatever.
They're going to print money with this thing.
Not at that price tag, they're not. That's with a two year agreement with Cingular. That's way, way beyond most peoples' price points, and with "only" 4 or 8 gigs of storage, it's roughly useless for the people who WOULD use it.
It's a hybrid bastardization of several products that turned out to be a poor idea.
There should have been a touch screen iPod announced as well, for those of us who have other, more sane cell providers.
I said "unjustly" in the sense that the PS3 listings that were being removed clearly met all of craigslist's rules.
You said "unjustly" because you think it isn't fair that you didn't get the profit you were looking for. Market tanked, and your outlet of last resort rejected you.
At least you got your money back.