Sure, but you still only shipped one box. Anyone can match $10 or less to ship that including USPS. However, how much do you think FedEx is going to charge to get those 200 individual items out of that one box and on to their 200 individual destinations? I bet a lot more than $10. Hell, I bet a lot more than the $100 for individual worth in postage. I'd be willing to bet something more like at least $1000.
Sorry, but you lost all credibility in your second sentence by calling QuickTime a "player" that was ported to Windows. The player is just the most readily visible part of the whole, but I bet that you and the rest of your AVI can do anything/Windows Media Player loving folk already knew that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicktime
It's been the best comet of the past 3 decades at least. Unfortunately the vast majority of the planet missed out, as these reports have all come after the fact. Plus, it's now barely visible for those in the northern hemisphere.
Perhaps because nobody looks up anymore. Or down for that matter. I'm amazed how many people miss things as simple as a lunar eclipse, strong meteor shower or aurora WHILE outside at night. I found it unbelievably hard to miss this comet because it was staring you right in the face anytime driving west after getting off work, yet people did.
there was a sort of enemy round-table scene, very similar (kind of a rip-off probably) to the separatists roundtable scene in ATOC, with CG aliens speaking strange languages and everything - and i was shocked because it was a tv show, with a scene at almost (about 90%) the same quality level as the equivalent scene in ATOC, which i consider to be one of the best effects movies of all time.
And after reading all the bashing going on here, I believe that almost none of them have seen this episode or any of this season for that matter. Instead they are basing beliefs on what they saw in the first season when their eMpTyV attention span got the better of them and gave up. A couple have even admitted that, yet the rest are in complete denial that in fact every Trek has absolutely stunk in it's first couple seasons. Give the show a chance. It's halfway through the third and getting it's legs finally.
Actually, they don't have "drunk of the week" anymore or the "police report". Took it out about 2 years ago when the paper went to color on the front page and was unfolded. Too bad really. That was another thing I asked them during my interviews, if that or any other type of localization was coming back, esp in Madison. The answer unfortunately was no, although they were trying to think up something new for minor localization. Freshman year in the dorms at the UW-Madison, it was everyone's goal to somehow find them on Thursday night and become drunk of the week.
Actually, they do. While interviewing there, that was one of the questions I asked. Turns out the ads and subscriptions more than pay for everything, even with being able to pick up free copies wherever it is in paper form. I suppose if I ever moved away from the Onion's home, I'd order them. $40/year within the U.S. and $200/year for anywhere else.
You're right...I didn't say I had voted for him more than once. I just said ever since, which would be once for me.
I was not aware however of the money situation. That's interesting. But I have a foggy memory of it being not really a contest as to whether or not he would win come poll time and the results being shown on tv. Then again, my foggy memory could be just turning it into a supposed landslide when it wasn't.
I wholeheartedly agree. I was 3 months short of being able to vote for him back in '92, but I've voted for him ever since. It was truly amazing how he ran his campaing. Putting his oath on his garage door in big black marker. Travelling throughout the state in his minivan and using his hand as a map of the state to point out as to where he was going next (for those not familiar with the look of Wisconsin, it looks like a hand in a way). Truly speaking straight to the people and doing it, like you said, without running a single negative add. And to top it off using only his own money to run his campaign. This is why he's all about campaign finance reform with McCain. It's been no surprise he has won by landslides in subsequent elections.
On a little historical note...he's been doing stuff like this since he was in high school at Janesville Craig in the late 60's - early 70's. My dad was in his class and was his campaign manager for the student body. When he told me this way back when, I didn't believe him so I dug up his yearbook from '72, and sure enough...there he was..picture, signatures and all. Truly made him a hometown hero in my book and he's done nothing but solidify that image ever since. Honestly, I would not be suprised one bit to see him running or nomitated for president in one of the next few elections.
I've been a linux newbie for 2+ years now. Why? I've never had a successful install. I've been trying SuSE and RedHat on and off on my DEC AlphaStation 200 and it never works. What I mean by never working is the install can either never start/finish, or if it does X will crash within minutes of using. And I don't have anything complicated hardware-wise (unless you consider that it's an alpha), it just a stock AlphaStation with a S3 Virge DX video card being the only foreign piece to it. It's all left a very sour taste in my mouth as far as where linux has been and where it's going.
And forget about RedHat, I'm never touching that again. I kept trying to fire up the 7.1 iso repeatedly and the kernel wouldn't even decompress in aboot. My old copy of 6.2 actually worked and installed, but I couldn't do squat with it since it would crash if you just moved the cursor around or dragged windows, which is the exact same thing that happened to me over a year ago. Why I thought it would work this time, I don't know. And why is it that a distro over a year (7.1) later can't even boot off it's own bootable cd, when a way earlier version could? So I decided to try SuSE and do a FTP install (I had tried it before and it worked, but I didn't have enough disk space to complete the install. Now I have more so I thought it would work this time). Nothing..."You need a minimum of 128MB RAM to complete this install." What?!?! I thought linux was all about using old hardware with minimum specs. Since when do you need 128MB of RAM to do an install? That drove me nuts right there. And the fact that most of these distro's have a 2 cd install setup is just as nuts. Windows doesn't even require that much space or need for cd's to install the OS. Sure there are a ton of apps being thrown in with those disto's, but what happened to just installing a core OS? Can't I just do that? And can't I get a cd that does just that?
Searching for help on this matter isn't exactly easy either for a newbie. There was an article a while back (by taco i think) about how linux is going nowhere with the attitude in support for newbies by the general community. Every deja archive I went through was either generic as hell in describing a fix, to no replies at all, or just plain downright rude. That just simply has to end or Windows will rule the market indefinitely.
Which is exactly what happened to my little alpha again. I flashed the bios back to ARC from SRM and proceeded to reinstall NT Server. Literally a million times easier and less hassle than I got trying to get linux to even install or boot off some floppies.
However, from reading all this, it looks like somewhere down the road I will have to give it another whirl with Mandrake as the distro this time. From the posts it looks to be a good starting point. Also, linux is about the only life left for Alpha's at this point so it's do or die.
and while they talked about the ps2 just after the ps1 came out (1995 ps1, not that new thing), they mentioned a road map for the playstation series which consisted of Playstation 2 for 2000 and Playstation 3 for 2005. They also mentioned at the time the projected processing power they wanted to have in each of those. While they didn't know what ps2 would be, they knew they wanted roughly a 100 fold increase in power for the ps3. Looks like it's coming true. This is hardly new news. It's just finally coming to light and entering preproduction.
Actually, you just named the right card. I'm pretty sure all of the All-in-Wonder cards by ATI can do this (i've only tried 2, the radeon aiw and rage 128 aiw). And the Radeon All-In-Wonder even has the guide+ so you can set record times and whatnot. MPEG-2 is limited to faster machines, but it is very good at mpeg-1 on something even as low as a celeron 300. That and it only cost about $200.
Prior knowledge has been out for quite some time since this has already aired in Japan, or so I'm led to believe. There are a couple Iron Chef fansites that have a rundown of every episode this weekend including what they've cooked.
And if you want to keep the suspense up, don't go looking for the answer.
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Sure, but you still only shipped one box. Anyone can match $10 or less to ship that including USPS. However, how much do you think FedEx is going to charge to get those 200 individual items out of that one box and on to their 200 individual destinations? I bet a lot more than $10. Hell, I bet a lot more than the $100 for individual worth in postage. I'd be willing to bet something more like at least $1000.
Sorry, but you lost all credibility in your second sentence by calling QuickTime a "player" that was ported to Windows. The player is just the most readily visible part of the whole, but I bet that you and the rest of your AVI can do anything/Windows Media Player loving folk already knew that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicktime
there was a sort of enemy round-table scene, very similar (kind of a rip-off probably) to the separatists roundtable scene in ATOC, with CG aliens speaking strange languages and everything - and i was shocked because it was a tv show, with a scene at almost (about 90%) the same quality level as the equivalent scene in ATOC, which i consider to be one of the best effects movies of all time.
And after reading all the bashing going on here, I believe that almost none of them have seen this episode or any of this season for that matter. Instead they are basing beliefs on what they saw in the first season when their eMpTyV attention span got the better of them and gave up. A couple have even admitted that, yet the rest are in complete denial that in fact every Trek has absolutely stunk in it's first couple seasons. Give the show a chance. It's halfway through the third and getting it's legs finally.
Actually, they don't have "drunk of the week" anymore or the "police report". Took it out about 2 years ago when the paper went to color on the front page and was unfolded. Too bad really. That was another thing I asked them during my interviews, if that or any other type of localization was coming back, esp in Madison. The answer unfortunately was no, although they were trying to think up something new for minor localization. Freshman year in the dorms at the UW-Madison, it was everyone's goal to somehow find them on Thursday night and become drunk of the week.
Actually, they do. While interviewing there, that was one of the questions I asked. Turns out the ads and subscriptions more than pay for everything, even with being able to pick up free copies wherever it is in paper form. I suppose if I ever moved away from the Onion's home, I'd order them. $40/year within the U.S. and $200/year for anywhere else.
You're right...I didn't say I had voted for him more than once. I just said ever since, which would be once for me.
I was not aware however of the money situation. That's interesting. But I have a foggy memory of it being not really a contest as to whether or not he would win come poll time and the results being shown on tv. Then again, my foggy memory could be just turning it into a supposed landslide when it wasn't.
I wholeheartedly agree. I was 3 months short of being able to vote for him back in '92, but I've voted for him ever since. It was truly amazing how he ran his campaing. Putting his oath on his garage door in big black marker. Travelling throughout the state in his minivan and using his hand as a map of the state to point out as to where he was going next (for those not familiar with the look of Wisconsin, it looks like a hand in a way). Truly speaking straight to the people and doing it, like you said, without running a single negative add. And to top it off using only his own money to run his campaign. This is why he's all about campaign finance reform with McCain. It's been no surprise he has won by landslides in subsequent elections.
On a little historical note...he's been doing stuff like this since he was in high school at Janesville Craig in the late 60's - early 70's. My dad was in his class and was his campaign manager for the student body. When he told me this way back when, I didn't believe him so I dug up his yearbook from '72, and sure enough...there he was..picture, signatures and all. Truly made him a hometown hero in my book and he's done nothing but solidify that image ever since. Honestly, I would not be suprised one bit to see him running or nomitated for president in one of the next few elections.
I've been a linux newbie for 2+ years now. Why? I've never had a successful install. I've been trying SuSE and RedHat on and off on my DEC AlphaStation 200 and it never works. What I mean by never working is the install can either never start/finish, or if it does X will crash within minutes of using. And I don't have anything complicated hardware-wise (unless you consider that it's an alpha), it just a stock AlphaStation with a S3 Virge DX video card being the only foreign piece to it. It's all left a very sour taste in my mouth as far as where linux has been and where it's going.
And forget about RedHat, I'm never touching that again. I kept trying to fire up the 7.1 iso repeatedly and the kernel wouldn't even decompress in aboot. My old copy of 6.2 actually worked and installed, but I couldn't do squat with it since it would crash if you just moved the cursor around or dragged windows, which is the exact same thing that happened to me over a year ago. Why I thought it would work this time, I don't know. And why is it that a distro over a year (7.1) later can't even boot off it's own bootable cd, when a way earlier version could? So I decided to try SuSE and do a FTP install (I had tried it before and it worked, but I didn't have enough disk space to complete the install. Now I have more so I thought it would work this time). Nothing..."You need a minimum of 128MB RAM to complete this install." What?!?! I thought linux was all about using old hardware with minimum specs. Since when do you need 128MB of RAM to do an install? That drove me nuts right there. And the fact that most of these distro's have a 2 cd install setup is just as nuts. Windows doesn't even require that much space or need for cd's to install the OS. Sure there are a ton of apps being thrown in with those disto's, but what happened to just installing a core OS? Can't I just do that? And can't I get a cd that does just that?
Searching for help on this matter isn't exactly easy either for a newbie. There was an article a while back (by taco i think) about how linux is going nowhere with the attitude in support for newbies by the general community. Every deja archive I went through was either generic as hell in describing a fix, to no replies at all, or just plain downright rude. That just simply has to end or Windows will rule the market indefinitely.
Which is exactly what happened to my little alpha again. I flashed the bios back to ARC from SRM and proceeded to reinstall NT Server. Literally a million times easier and less hassle than I got trying to get linux to even install or boot off some floppies.
However, from reading all this, it looks like somewhere down the road I will have to give it another whirl with Mandrake as the distro this time. From the posts it looks to be a good starting point. Also, linux is about the only life left for Alpha's at this point so it's do or die.
and while they talked about the ps2 just after the ps1 came out (1995 ps1, not that new thing), they mentioned a road map for the playstation series which consisted of Playstation 2 for 2000 and Playstation 3 for 2005. They also mentioned at the time the projected processing power they wanted to have in each of those. While they didn't know what ps2 would be, they knew they wanted roughly a 100 fold increase in power for the ps3. Looks like it's coming true. This is hardly new news. It's just finally coming to light and entering preproduction.
Actually, you just named the right card. I'm pretty sure all of the All-in-Wonder cards by ATI can do this (i've only tried 2, the radeon aiw and rage 128 aiw). And the Radeon All-In-Wonder even has the guide+ so you can set record times and whatnot. MPEG-2 is limited to faster machines, but it is very good at mpeg-1 on something even as low as a celeron 300. That and it only cost about $200.
Prior knowledge has been out for quite some time since this has already aired in Japan, or so I'm led to believe. There are a couple Iron Chef fansites that have a rundown of every episode this weekend including what they've cooked. And if you want to keep the suspense up, don't go looking for the answer.