I do know that IMAX uses digital sound, but it still uses film. The theaters I've been in, last I checked, definitely still use analog and it shows. Is it a matter of spreading the word?
No, it's a matter of size actually. IMAX is a ridiculously large format (70+ mm) and finding a media to hold that much information is as far as I know not a viable option as technology stands today.
That was an interesting read, but I know for a fact that the junior high (it wasn't a high-school, I was tired and said the wrong thing, sorry!) does not have enough money in the budget to buy new computers.
They barely have enough money to buy new text-books, much less invest in a completely new set of computers.
It's not a lack of choice to invest in new stuff, it's a lack of funding.
My old high-school still runs most of it's student-oriented desktops on either Win 3.11 or Win95. The "newer" Pentium 90's run '95, the old 486's run 3.11 on top of Dos 6.22.
This equipment does the job, but it ain't exactly Hot Shit anymore. Personally I think it says alot about how schools here in Sweden are low priority. Much more important to let the politicians buy luxury apartments.
(alas, they do have two high-powered Pentium2-400's with a whopping 128 meg RAM that they use for the kids who want to do video-editing. Also some Pentium-133 class machines in the teachers lounge. These run 98 First Edition.)
...they stop sucking? The reason why I hate Yahoo is that they're still doing that stupid portal-crap that really annoys the crap out of me. I hate spending twenty minutes on a site looking for the right link - even though obviously the Yahoo execs still think that it's the bomb.
If I spend more than twenty seconds on a site without finding what I'm looking for - I leave the site. My time is worth more than navigating some stupid portal.
Seriously, it's 2005 now. Stop with the portal-crap in order to keep visitors there and start with some content.
I actually met Adam while he was in high-school. One of my childhood friends was in the same high-school class as he was.
We arranged what we called a "hack" (essentially a more fun LAN, long before the LAN-scene came to be) where we assembled a shitload of computers at someones house and did all kinds of goofy stuff (programming, graphics, music, pranks, etc) and had a blast for 2-3 days at a time.
This guy is probably a bona-fide genius. I remember him lugging his C64 there, and he decided to show us one of the cool demos that he had coded. Unfortunately he couldn't find the disk containing the demo, so he sat down and started writing the demo-code in hex from what he remembered of it! After about 20 minutes of typing he had finieshed it, and showed us a working demo-effect of a cube on fire. Really cool!
I'll forego the option of moderating this discussion to tell anyone interested that Sweden is contemplating a very similar change.
The TV-license is going to transform into a "media license" and everyone with access to a computer, TV or other "media"-item is going to have to pay for the use of it.
Personally I'm not a fan of TV-licensing, and this is even less titillating to me.
Unfortunately that's not the reality. I live in Sweden and I pay HUMONGOUS taxes, yet every time I visit the doctor I have to pay a fee to visit him.
In fact, ALL the things that are supposedly free (following the socialistic-system that you describe) still come with very vagely described fees that I have no choice but to pay.
To summarize: This sucks.
As far as the crimerate goes - I felt safer when I was in Los Angeles than when I was in Stockholm. Swedish police is insanely underfunded and overworked. For example, in my home-municipality there's only 5 (five) police-officers covering the second largest (area) county in entire Sweden. They have a hard time keeping up with all the drunkdrivers and domestic violence.
but free dialup has been very common here in Sweden for 2-3 years now. Ever since broadband took off the companies provide anyone who wants with free dialup - only pay the phonecharge.
Hell, there are several places where you go to a webpage, click a button and boom they provide you with a username, password and phone# to call. All without having to provide a single shred of personal information.
Shuttles are very noisy IMHO. Two friends of mine has them, but they make more noise than my fulltower. Probably because they have high-RPM fans to push out the heat while my fulltower uses lazy 120mm fans that make hardly any noise while being more efficient.
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(massages, shoe shiners, crazy weird stuff...)
You've got me hooked, what was that "crazy weird stuff"?
Apple T-shirts: working 90 hours a week and loving it!
Aaah, good times!
I do know that IMAX uses digital sound, but it still uses film. The theaters I've been in, last I checked, definitely still use analog and it shows. Is it a matter of spreading the word?
No, it's a matter of size actually. IMAX is a ridiculously large format (70+ mm) and finding a media to hold that much information is as far as I know not a viable option as technology stands today.
That was an interesting read, but I know for a fact that the junior high (it wasn't a high-school, I was tired and said the wrong thing, sorry!) does not have enough money in the budget to buy new computers.
They barely have enough money to buy new text-books, much less invest in a completely new set of computers.
It's not a lack of choice to invest in new stuff, it's a lack of funding.
My old high-school still runs most of it's student-oriented desktops on either Win 3.11 or Win95. The "newer" Pentium 90's run '95, the old 486's run 3.11 on top of Dos 6.22.
This equipment does the job, but it ain't exactly Hot Shit anymore. Personally I think it says alot about how schools here in Sweden are low priority. Much more important to let the politicians buy luxury apartments.
(alas, they do have two high-powered Pentium2-400's with a whopping 128 meg RAM that they use for the kids who want to do video-editing. Also some Pentium-133 class machines in the teachers lounge. These run 98 First Edition.)
or (in the close future) it will start saying things like:
"sorry, you're not allowed to run that OS"
or
"Sorry, you're not allowed to write that derogatory email about Microsoft"
Trusted Computing is only about removing freedom of choice from the users.
I'm seeding all five epidodes at my maximum upload right now (about 1.2 megabyte/sec)
...they stop sucking? The reason why I hate Yahoo is that they're still doing that stupid portal-crap that really annoys the crap out of me. I hate spending twenty minutes on a site looking for the right link - even though obviously the Yahoo execs still think that it's the bomb.
If I spend more than twenty seconds on a site without finding what I'm looking for - I leave the site. My time is worth more than navigating some stupid portal.
Seriously, it's 2005 now. Stop with the portal-crap in order to keep visitors there and start with some content.
you forgot:
5. ???
6. Profit!
Nonetheless, it's not CherryOS who's breaking Apples EULA.
It's the user who breaks it by installing OS X under CherryOS.
I actually met Adam while he was in high-school. One of my childhood friends was in the same high-school class as he was.
We arranged what we called a "hack" (essentially a more fun LAN, long before the LAN-scene came to be) where we assembled a shitload of computers at someones house and did all kinds of goofy stuff (programming, graphics, music, pranks, etc) and had a blast for 2-3 days at a time.
This guy is probably a bona-fide genius. I remember him lugging his C64 there, and he decided to show us one of the cool demos that he had coded. Unfortunately he couldn't find the disk containing the demo, so he sat down and started writing the demo-code in hex from what he remembered of it! After about 20 minutes of typing he had finieshed it, and showed us a working demo-effect of a cube on fire. Really cool!
This was probably back in early '96 or so.
I'll forego the option of moderating this discussion to tell anyone interested that Sweden is contemplating a very similar change.
The TV-license is going to transform into a "media license" and everyone with access to a computer, TV or other "media"-item is going to have to pay for the use of it.
Personally I'm not a fan of TV-licensing, and this is even less titillating to me.
Here in Sweden I've seen plenty of ketchup-bottles that have the "warning: may contain tomato-extract" on them.
Go ahead and watch crap if you want, I prefer watching exciting and original Scifi-adventure.
Intel has been essentially paying OEMs not to use AMD chips.
Well, that would explain why Intel-chips are much more pricey.
I'm terribly sorry, but you seem to have messed up the spelling of "Farscape".
Yes, that's how it's SUPPOSED to work.
Unfortunately that's not the reality. I live in Sweden and I pay HUMONGOUS taxes, yet every time I visit the doctor I have to pay a fee to visit him.
In fact, ALL the things that are supposedly free (following the socialistic-system that you describe) still come with very vagely described fees that I have no choice but to pay.
To summarize: This sucks.
As far as the crimerate goes - I felt safer when I was in Los Angeles than when I was in Stockholm. Swedish police is insanely underfunded and overworked. For example, in my home-municipality there's only 5 (five) police-officers covering the second largest (area) county in entire Sweden. They have a hard time keeping up with all the drunkdrivers and domestic violence.
smeghead?
Smeee.... SMEEEEEEE... Smaaaeeeee! I'm sorry sir, but it just isn't possible!
but free dialup has been very common here in Sweden for 2-3 years now. Ever since broadband took off the companies provide anyone who wants with free dialup - only pay the phonecharge.
Hell, there are several places where you go to a webpage, click a button and boom they provide you with a username, password and phone# to call. All without having to provide a single shred of personal information.
There's quite a difference between David R. Foley and Dave Foley.
The former is the CEO of a arcade-emulator manufacturer, as well as being quite the jerk. The latter is a canadian comedian.
One machine is Athlon64 3200+ (dunno if it's 939 or 754 though) and it sounds like a freakin' hairdryer.
The other is some P4 Prescott-based 3.2 Ghz thing and sounds like a tiny vacuum-cleaner.
My fulltower standing on my desktop makes hardly any noise. The only way to know if it is on is to look at the LED's.
it turns out that the pop-up advertisers (what's the proper denigrating term here?)
Poppers? Plippers? Flippers? Flappers? Wippers? Snappers?
Sorry, kinda high on Red Bull right now.
Shuttles are very noisy IMHO. Two friends of mine has them, but they make more noise than my fulltower. Probably because they have high-RPM fans to push out the heat while my fulltower uses lazy 120mm fans that make hardly any noise while being more efficient.
About.com has alot of great content, on topics like cooking, pets, and cities (but not cooking pets in the city)
Damn, now I have to think of something else for dinner.
which witch?