While in the medium of text messages, some shorthand might be in order, but I didn't realize that world paper, pencil, and ink shortages were so severe...
Yeah, and if it weren't for that crippling electron shortage we'd never abbreviate at all! Face it, "text-speak" is lazy no matter what medium you're using.
I'd say CGI has passed on to be commonly accepted as "Computer generated video which is not renedered in realtime."
...by morons.
CGI is "computer generated imagery" and has always been a half-assed acronym. I agree with your parent poster's assessment. "Pre-rendered video" is probably the best term to use here, as that's the important distinction. After all, it's all computer-generated, it's all full-motion. It's all video. But some of it is rendered on-the-fly, while the rest has been rendered ahead of time.
If you insist on calling it "CGI," please turn in your geek card and start socializing with people that won't be pedantic.;)
Check out the Sony-Ericsson Z520a. It's not spectacular in most ways, but is passable to good in pretty much everything. It's got great BT support (for example, it can have more than one connected device) and fits all of your requirements except perhaps (3). I don't use voice dialing, so I'm not sure if it's speaker-independent or not.
It's not "stealing." It's not "theft." It's not even "piracy." It's free sharing of information that the US just happened to generate. It's no different from when somebody borrows your DVDs and makes a copy.
It only makes sense that the Chinese would do the same thing with military secrets as they do with our popular culture.
No, gapless support was just added to iTunes. Previously, you could approximate the effect wit crossfading turned on and set to 0 seconds, but that still produced a fade-in/fade-out effect.
things like watercooling or high end psu are only supported by PCs
... As for PSUs, the one shipped with the Mac Pro can handle 4 hard drives, 4 graphics cards, 4 cores, and still have enough power left over for external FireWire devices. How much more high end do you want?
That one cracked me up, too. Your average high-end "gamer" PSU tops out at around 600 watts. Maybe 700. The Quad G5 came with a kilowatt PS.
I'm guessing that it's another case of the press translating units for the American market without paying any attention to context. You know, like those times that something is "over 621 miles out!" or "hold more than 1,981 gallons of fuel!"
I just don't know how many metric batteries 6831 imperial ones are equivalent to.
Exactly. If you have no idea where your battery is, you probably aren't the target market for beta-testing software. I can just imagine what that guy's bug reports would look like.
- - - - SUMMARY: When I click right there [::insert gesture, not written in summary::] I get an error.
HOW TO REPRODUCE ISSUE: Click right there.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Keep that error from showing up. Or make it impossible to click there. - - - -
It bears mentioning that the iTunes system (and any other digital-download-music DRM that I'm aware of) isn't copy protection; it's playback protection. You can back up your iTunes music more easily than you can back up your physical CDs. Set iTunes to burn a "Data DVD or CD" in the preferences, select your "Purchased" playlist, and click "Burn." There, you have a backup in case your hard drive takes a dive.
And no, that "2, Funny" great-great-great-(how great?)-grandparent barely counts as "obviously funny." I've seen essays on the topic of back-alley abortions in third-world countries funnier than that.
This is a ridiculous way of measuring it anyway, and is NOT what the pros do. So, 79% chance of failure, when? Today? In the next year? The September 23rd? You're all arguing about pointless numbers.
You know that MTBF number that drive manufacturers provide? It's there for a reason.
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While in the medium of text messages, some shorthand might be in order, but I didn't realize that world paper, pencil, and ink shortages were so severe...
Yeah, and if it weren't for that crippling electron shortage we'd never abbreviate at all! Face it, "text-speak" is lazy no matter what medium you're using.
After all, they say the first step toward a solution is admitting you have a problem.
Barbaric? Wha?
Many pets desire human attention, and appreciate the companionship at least as much as their owners. What exactly is barbaric about keeping pets?
CGI is "computer generated imagery" and has always been a half-assed acronym. I agree with your parent poster's assessment. "Pre-rendered video" is probably the best term to use here, as that's the important distinction. After all, it's all computer-generated, it's all full-motion. It's all video. But some of it is rendered on-the-fly, while the rest has been rendered ahead of time.
If you insist on calling it "CGI," please turn in your geek card and start socializing with people that won't be pedantic.
d) Intensive poopy-faces [when you have to strain]
Have you never seen Office Space?
I get the feeling I've been trolled...
Check out the Sony-Ericsson Z520a. It's not spectacular in most ways, but is passable to good in pretty much everything. It's got great BT support (for example, it can have more than one connected device) and fits all of your requirements except perhaps (3). I don't use voice dialing, so I'm not sure if it's speaker-independent or not.
That would be flattering, I'm sure, if you hadn't said it in that nasally/mocking tone of voice.
It's not "stealing." It's not "theft." It's not even "piracy." It's free sharing of information that the US just happened to generate. It's no different from when somebody borrows your DVDs and makes a copy.
It only makes sense that the Chinese would do the same thing with military secrets as they do with our popular culture.
=)
If you're wiping your butt with a toilet seat, I definitely don't want to visit.
No, gapless support was just added to iTunes. Previously, you could approximate the effect wit crossfading turned on and set to 0 seconds, but that still produced a fade-in/fade-out effect.
The new version of iTunes also has gapless playback support. No word yet on whether the new iPods do the same or not, but it'd be nice.
I took that class at the community college; it was a total waste of time.
I'm guessing that it's another case of the press translating units for the American market without paying any attention to context. You know, like those times that something is "over 621 miles out!" or "hold more than 1,981 gallons of fuel!"
I just don't know how many metric batteries 6831 imperial ones are equivalent to.
Exactly. If you have no idea where your battery is, you probably aren't the target market for beta-testing software. I can just imagine what that guy's bug reports would look like.
- - - -
SUMMARY: When I click right there [::insert gesture, not written in summary::] I get an error.
HOW TO REPRODUCE ISSUE: Click right there.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Keep that error from showing up. Or make it impossible to click there.
- - - -
It bears mentioning that the iTunes system (and any other digital-download-music DRM that I'm aware of) isn't copy protection; it's playback protection. You can back up your iTunes music more easily than you can back up your physical CDs. Set iTunes to burn a "Data DVD or CD" in the preferences, select your "Purchased" playlist, and click "Burn." There, you have a backup in case your hard drive takes a dive.
The iron in blood cells is non-magnetic.
Think about how elemental iron will be attracted to a magnet, but rust is not. It's a similar situation.
Seventeen minutes? I may as well just watch the movie myself!
=P
The iron in blood is magnetically inert, much like the iron in rust. It's not going to attract all the blood to the location of the magnets.
Event Log can be an invaluable troubleshooting tool, and has been around FAR longer than automatic updates. You should keep it enabled.
And no, that "2, Funny" great-great-great-(how great?)-grandparent barely counts as "obviously funny." I've seen essays on the topic of back-alley abortions in third-world countries funnier than that.
Could you tell me which post is "obviously a joke?" I'm still not spotting it, and I went up about five levels in the thread.
This is a ridiculous way of measuring it anyway, and is NOT what the pros do. So, 79% chance of failure, when? Today? In the next year? The September 23rd? You're all arguing about pointless numbers.
You know that MTBF number that drive manufacturers provide? It's there for a reason.
Wayback archive of IBM's MTBF documentation