Exactly my experience, too. When I was growing up, a career in the military sounded like hell on Earth. These days, having worked directly with them as a civvie, I have a LOT of respect for those who decide to go into the forces.
All you'd have to do to make personal electric transport a realistic proposition, is set up a national network of filling stations where you could recharge those hair-thin devices.
Windows has the best web browser (Firefox), a very good office suite (Open Office) with an excellent word processor and spreadsheet, and many powerful media applications (Gimp for photo editing, Avidemux for video editing, Audacity for audio editing). And much more. And all the OSS stuff is free.
Sound effects appear fairly trivial until you actually try to make realistic ones. Then it becomes very evident that sampled sounds become repetitive and obviously artificial unless you actively bring them alive with variations.
Also, making a sound scale smoothly at different sample replay rates is exceptionally difficult. Every natural sound has 'formant' profiles, which are similar to a graphic equializer (simplistic explanation). When a sample is played at a different rate from its base sample frequency, the formant is shifted too, whereas the formant in real life would remain static (this is why the Chipmunk Effect happens on speech).
A good sound effects artist (and I've worked with some of the best in the games world) knows how to minimize formant shifting effects by suppressing or enhancing different aspects of the audio spectrum (and other subtle tricks) so that it'll survive replay rate changes better than the original sampled sound.
Getting something like a car engine sound which can go from idle to redline and still sound meaty is no mean feat; It takes hours of painstaking work. I just wonder why someone who had the skill and talent to pull off that feat maybe 50 times for one driving game would do it for no financial reward.
I would argue that the way most home users operate PC's these days, they don't really require to be bothered about actual computer viruses. It you tie down your XP machine as Aaron Margosis describes, then traditional viruses are pretty much rendered impotent, through both their inability to deliver their intended payload and by being unable to reproduce and proliferate.
I can only speak from personal experience and anecdotal evidence, but everyone I've turned on to using LUA's on Windows has reported the same malware-free operation since switching. Highly recommended and free as in beer !
Of course, if you're operating a gateway as opposed to being a home end-user, then an industrial-strength scanner is still very necessary to scrub incoming traffic. No argument there.
It's more like eating a nectarine and marvelling at how juicy and delicious it is, then realising that it's not a nectarine you're eating but a human head !
I hope you took time to explain to them that Windows Defender is not a firewall. If you want a firewall then Windows....erm, Firewall might be more appropriate, funnily enough.
I've been running Windows XP malware-free for over 2 years thanks to Windows Firewall, Windows Defender and LUA accounts. Do your friends a favour and set them up properly. Free them from third-party AV hell.
Man, I just had a vision of driving along and seeing these phrases pop up one after the other to advertize Burma Shave. Shaking with mirth and getting some weird glances. Good work !
And I'm running ReiserFS 3 for a while longer. I live in an area with crappy power and I've had many power failures on machines with and without UPSs, and I've never lost any data.
You're lucky, then. In my area (Oakland, CA), Reiser just seems to kill things stone dead.
1. Clear out your cookies 2. Go to YouTube 3. It says "You haven't set your country. You appear to come from the UK. 'OK' or 'Cancel' ?" 4. Click 'Cancel' 5. ??? 6. Profit !
Kids can do that no probs without having to mess with proxies or anything.
(And yes, the 'blocking' is as brain-dead as that.)
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Exactly my experience, too. When I was growing up, a career in the military sounded like hell on Earth. These days, having worked directly with them as a civvie, I have a LOT of respect for those who decide to go into the forces.
If it moves - salute it.
If it's standing still - polish it.
So you bought a Yugo too, eh?
Nope, a DAF.
All you'd have to do to make personal electric transport a realistic proposition, is set up a national network of filling stations where you could recharge those hair-thin devices.
I guess the mods aren't familiar with Snopes, then.
Most x86 programs are so unoptimized, that if you actually looked at the code, it'd make your eyes bleed.
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(figuratively, of course)
Damn, I was quite looking forward to experiencing this.
Won't HAL take care of this?
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
and the handcrank give more page loads per crank.
Sorry, but I couldn't help thinking about "one-handed surfing", there.
Crank, crank, crank, crank, crank...
Click, click, click, scroll-doooooown, click, click,....DAMMIT !
Crank, crank, crank, ..............
Windows has the best web browser (Firefox), a very good office suite (Open Office) with an excellent word processor and spreadsheet, and many powerful media applications (Gimp for photo editing, Avidemux for video editing, Audacity for audio editing). And much more. And all the OSS stuff is free.
Especially with plays like StrongARM.
Here I go with da e-mail. Every week I hope it's from a female. Aaaaah, man. Not from a female.
Sound effects appear fairly trivial until you actually try to make realistic ones. Then it becomes very evident that sampled sounds become repetitive and obviously artificial unless you actively bring them alive with variations.
Also, making a sound scale smoothly at different sample replay rates is exceptionally difficult. Every natural sound has 'formant' profiles, which are similar to a graphic equializer (simplistic explanation). When a sample is played at a different rate from its base sample frequency, the formant is shifted too, whereas the formant in real life would remain static (this is why the Chipmunk Effect happens on speech).
A good sound effects artist (and I've worked with some of the best in the games world) knows how to minimize formant shifting effects by suppressing or enhancing different aspects of the audio spectrum (and other subtle tricks) so that it'll survive replay rate changes better than the original sampled sound.
Getting something like a car engine sound which can go from idle to redline and still sound meaty is no mean feat; It takes hours of painstaking work. I just wonder why someone who had the skill and talent to pull off that feat maybe 50 times for one driving game would do it for no financial reward.
Help me out here, guys. I just don't get it.
I would argue that the way most home users operate PC's these days, they don't really require to be bothered about actual computer viruses. It you tie down your XP machine as Aaron Margosis describes, then traditional viruses are pretty much rendered impotent, through both their inability to deliver their intended payload and by being unable to reproduce and proliferate.
I can only speak from personal experience and anecdotal evidence, but everyone I've turned on to using LUA's on Windows has reported the same malware-free operation since switching. Highly recommended and free as in beer !
Of course, if you're operating a gateway as opposed to being a home end-user, then an industrial-strength scanner is still very necessary to scrub incoming traffic. No argument there.
To allow the mouth to be able to rejoice !
It's more like eating a nectarine and marvelling at how juicy and delicious it is, then realising that it's not a nectarine you're eating but a human head !
I hope you took time to explain to them that Windows Defender is not a firewall. If you want a firewall then Windows....erm, Firewall might be more appropriate, funnily enough.
I've been running Windows XP malware-free for over 2 years thanks to Windows Firewall, Windows Defender and LUA accounts. Do your friends a favour and set them up properly. Free them from third-party AV hell.
Someone should e-mail in to Steve Wright In The Afternoon to tell him about this 'factoid'. See if he'll call them "Skelingtons".
Mod +5 Funny.
Man, I just had a vision of driving along and seeing these phrases pop up one after the other to advertize Burma Shave. Shaking with mirth and getting some weird glances. Good work !
Knowing what I do about those, I'm going to give PCLOS a shot.
Great, cos what the world needs is one more PCLOSer.
And I'm running ReiserFS 3 for a while longer. I live in an area with crappy power and
I've had many power failures on machines with and without UPSs, and I've never lost any
data.
You're lucky, then. In my area (Oakland, CA), Reiser just seems to kill things stone dead.
I prefer tatu.ru.
Can we still legally borrow CDs?
Yes, but it's an offence for anyone to lend you theirs.
We Brits have got Spotifyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!
That's nothing - I read it as PPL, which sounds quite similar to the abbreviation for Phase-Locked Loop. Oh, how we laughed !
1. Clear out your cookies
2. Go to YouTube
3. It says "You haven't set your country. You appear to come from the UK. 'OK' or 'Cancel' ?"
4. Click 'Cancel'
5. ???
6. Profit !
Kids can do that no probs without having to mess with proxies or anything.
(And yes, the 'blocking' is as brain-dead as that.)
A cannon ! Aye, that wid give ye thrust !