Maybe Tom &Jerry were sent here by Satan to distract the human race while evil aliens silently take over leading positions in world governments? Now we'll never know the truth!
The first one I saw was a program on a CP/M system in the mid-80's. Later in the 80's I had a similar program for PC/MS-DOS. Both were called "realtime", IIRC.
Around the same time I also had a talking watch - from Tandy / Radio Shack? - that spoke the time in the same fashion. I'd set the alarm for 4:25pm & play it over the PA at work when it went off - "Attention please! It's almost four thirty PM".
It could also be set to give a reminder 5 minutes after the alarm time - "Attention please! The time is now four thirty PM. Please hurry!"
Negatives for all the Tom and Jerry shorts prior to 1951 were lost in the 1967 MGM fire. Up until 1954, T&J was produced in Academy ratio (1.37:1), which is almost indistinguishable from 4:3 (1.33:1). Later ones were produced in a variety of formats from straight Academy ratio, to widescreen 1.75:1 on Academy ratio negative, to Cinemascope.
The only real difference between initial theatrical and current TV/DVD releases of the pre-1951 cartoons (apart from the obnoxious habit of whitewashing out the culturally-insensitive bits) is loss of the original titles on some, and the odd 'lost' sequence.
"Vinyl's an interesting case - there's something to be said about its distortions, but it's also because of the limits of mastering which resulted in the loudness wars not happening to it. (Note: it's possible to have dynamic-range-compressed masters sent to Vinyl, in which case they sound just as awful as the CD)"
Errr... you do realise that the "loudness wars" began before the Age of the CD, don't you? Over-compression was a common discussion point in the audio engineering trade & audiophile magazines in the 70's, and it was taken to extremes on rock/pop singles & compilations. Not only was it possible, but it was commonplace.
And that was on top of the necessity for a certain amount of DRC anyway, just to 'fit' the signal onto vinyl's limited dynamic range (55-65dB max for a pristine commercially-pressed album vs 96dB? for a CD). Better than that is theoretically possible - in the case of vinyl, careful cutting and a willingness to ignore the effects of pickup compliance on tracking can get you get up around 80dB (IIRC, the famous Telarc release of the 1812 Overture in the late 70's was up around there, but only the best turntables could track it through the cannon shots), but ultimately you're limited by the noise floor of vinyl at one end and the ability to cut/track the groove at the other.
So vinyl by definition requires noticeable amounts of compression, and the "loudness wars" of over-compression started well before the advent of CDs. CDs certainly made it worse, though...
You're forgetting this is brought to you by the Mozilla Foundation. It's a good feature, you will like it, and if you don't then you'll just have to get used to it because they're going to remove other features you actually use until you do.
Seriously, I'm convinced those clowns would rather run the browser into the ground than admit they made a mistake...
It works well, but I've always been annoyed that Firefox doesn't just dish stuff off to the built-in Mac PDF renderer - which is resident all the time and is necessarily snappy.
There used to be a plugin to integrate Preview into FF & render PDFs in the browser.
Unfortunately FF4 in 64-bit mode broke it, and FF18 seems to have killed it completely. Pdf.js is clunky, slow, broken on many PDFs, and the cross-site restrictions of js mean it's useless on many academic journal sites. The other recommended alternative, Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin, is a piece of shit.
That's a solved problem - simply install FF18 on OS X. Playing YouTube videos will then result in 130%+ CPU usage, either using Flash (which itself takes up to 30%+) or HTML5.
Result? Stuttering / looping videos and an unresponsive machine. And yes, that's with a clean install, new profile, no plugins / addons / themes, 32 or 64 bit, etc. Dropped back to FF17esr, & everything is fine.
Somebody should fork FF into a stripped-down browser that runs fast, with the ability to customise it through extensions. They could call it "Phoenix" or something...
... the plan will fail because... it's already happened?
That's some hella logic going on there...
In other news: the Australian porn industry wants teenage boys to masturbate, Julia Gillard is thinking of becoming a redhead, and Australian TV networks want to try packing 7 ad breaks into an hour of TV.
Just so's you know: there's plenty of telco, solar, & other power techs out here laughing at your repeated characterisation of these batteries as "gigantic 75Ah", and those interconnects as "big ass"
We tend to start at piddling little 75A/hr cells, & work our way upwards. 2170A/Hr is the largest I've personally worked on...
Bullshit: The sentence 'That's so gay' to mean something is bad, only showed its head at the end of the 90's. I'm willing to be proven wrong, so waiting for you to provide some actual proof.
If only you'd said "I just asked a stupid question - an astoundingly, brain-numbingly, dumber than the Bay of Pigs crossed with the Lindsay Lohan, stupid question!", I would have modded you up...
So, it's an "International Maker Meetup". What's this "6-8pm PST" crap, then? Wikipedia tells me it could be Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8), Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5), or Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).
If you want hold an international meetup, use an international standard for time. UTC or GTFO...
it is not CO2 which is causing the coral to bleach and die. It is really a coral disease which is causing the issue... The immediate problem is a coral disease - no matter what CO2 does, the reef will die.
I guess that's why your link says "disease is not considered a major threat to the Reef."
this particular issue requires biologists and scientists to go do some really hard research...
Although apparently simply reading their own links is too hard for some people...
"I don't like to use the term "fanatic" because while technically correct, I think it's too limiting."
Correct. "Zealot", or even "bigot", would be better terms.
Or, as the extended entry in my dictionary puts it:
An enthusiast displays an intense and eager interest in something. A fanatic is not only intense and eager but possibly irrational in his or her enthusiasm; fanatic suggests extreme devotion and a willingness to go to any length to maintain or carry out one's beliefs. A zealot exhibits not only extreme devotion but vehement activity in support of a cause or goal. An extremist is a supporter of extreme doctrines or practices, particularly in a political context.
But it is the bigot who causes the most trouble, exhibiting obstinate and often blind devotion to his or her beliefs and opinions. In contrast to fanatic and zealot, the term bigot implies intolerance and contempt for those who do not agree.
If we look at something like the Robertson screw head, the patent allowed them a monopoly on that product which allowed them to recoup initial r&d, machine costs etc over their patent life. Fair enough. Don't want a big screw company that does Torx or Phillips to retool then blow you out of the water with lower pricing because they already have their machinery paid for.
Just as an aside, you do realise that neither Torx nor Philips screw drives are particularly good examples to use, don't you? Both were patented until the early/mid 90's - Torx was invented in 1967 & the patent ran out in (IIRC) 1993, while Philips was patented in 1933 and expired in (again, IIRC) 1996.
The difference is that the Philips design was licenced to many manufacturers from the start and gradually became genericised, while Camcar Screw (later Textron) refused to widely licence the Torx design. Robertson had a bad experience with licencing (having to sue, and then buy back the rights from an English manufacturer) and ended up manufacturing the screws himself.
The first successful IVF pregnancy & birth was in 1959 - a team at the Worcester Foundation, lead by Dr. Min Chueh Chang, successfully gave birth to a rabbit.
Well, OK, they didn't give birth to a rabbit per se - obviously another rabbit did - but they certainly had a hand in it, as it were...
They're just using the "boiling the frog" method to avoid users from jumping out of the pot.
True. Compared to Microsoft's method of putting the frog straight in the microwave and hitting "Start".
Or the Open Source way: look around, see that everybody is cooking frogs, and choosing instead to do a from-the-ground-up no-cooking-required reimplementation of a toad. Then trying to convince the rest of the world their choice is better because it's not only bigger and capable of jumping further than a frog, but can also kill small mammals and survive in your chlorinated swimming pool...
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Nah, that sounds more like Disney to me...
The first one I saw was a program on a CP/M system in the mid-80's. Later in the 80's I had a similar program for PC/MS-DOS. Both were called "realtime", IIRC.
Around the same time I also had a talking watch - from Tandy / Radio Shack? - that spoke the time in the same fashion. I'd set the alarm for 4:25pm & play it over the PA at work when it went off - "Attention please! It's almost four thirty PM".
It could also be set to give a reminder 5 minutes after the alarm time - "Attention please! The time is now four thirty PM. Please hurry!"
You mock - but ...
Negatives for all the Tom and Jerry shorts prior to 1951 were lost in the 1967 MGM fire. Up until 1954, T&J was produced in Academy ratio (1.37:1), which is almost indistinguishable from 4:3 (1.33:1). Later ones were produced in a variety of formats from straight Academy ratio, to widescreen 1.75:1 on Academy ratio negative, to Cinemascope.
The only real difference between initial theatrical and current TV/DVD releases of the pre-1951 cartoons (apart from the obnoxious habit of whitewashing out the culturally-insensitive bits) is loss of the original titles on some, and the odd 'lost' sequence.
Errr... you do realise that the "loudness wars" began before the Age of the CD, don't you? Over-compression was a common discussion point in the audio engineering trade & audiophile magazines in the 70's, and it was taken to extremes on rock/pop singles & compilations. Not only was it possible, but it was commonplace.
And that was on top of the necessity for a certain amount of DRC anyway, just to 'fit' the signal onto vinyl's limited dynamic range (55-65dB max for a pristine commercially-pressed album vs 96dB? for a CD). Better than that is theoretically possible - in the case of vinyl, careful cutting and a willingness to ignore the effects of pickup compliance on tracking can get you get up around 80dB (IIRC, the famous Telarc release of the 1812 Overture in the late 70's was up around there, but only the best turntables could track it through the cannon shots), but ultimately you're limited by the noise floor of vinyl at one end and the ability to cut/track the groove at the other.
So vinyl by definition requires noticeable amounts of compression, and the "loudness wars" of over-compression started well before the advent of CDs. CDs certainly made it worse, though...
You're forgetting this is brought to you by the Mozilla Foundation. It's a good feature, you will like it, and if you don't then you'll just have to get used to it because they're going to remove other features you actually use until you do.
Seriously, I'm convinced those clowns would rather run the browser into the ground than admit they made a mistake...
There used to be a plugin to integrate Preview into FF & render PDFs in the browser.
Unfortunately FF4 in 64-bit mode broke it, and FF18 seems to have killed it completely. Pdf.js is clunky, slow, broken on many PDFs, and the cross-site restrictions of js mean it's useless on many academic journal sites. The other recommended alternative, Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin, is a piece of shit.
That's a solved problem - simply install FF18 on OS X. Playing YouTube videos will then result in 130%+ CPU usage, either using Flash (which itself takes up to 30%+) or HTML5.
Result? Stuttering / looping videos and an unresponsive machine. And yes, that's with a clean install, new profile, no plugins / addons / themes, 32 or 64 bit, etc. Dropped back to FF17esr, & everything is fine.
Somebody should fork FF into a stripped-down browser that runs fast, with the ability to customise it through extensions. They could call it "Phoenix" or something...
... the plan will fail because ... it's already happened?
That's some hella logic going on there...
In other news: the Australian porn industry wants teenage boys to masturbate, Julia Gillard is thinking of becoming a redhead, and Australian TV networks want to try packing 7 ad breaks into an hour of TV.
True - the lithium ion ones I've worked with only went up to ~500A/hr, though there are bigger.
Still, by the standards of anyone who actually works with industrial batteries, 75A/hr is not "gigantic", it's "meh".
Just so's you know: there's plenty of telco, solar, & other power techs out here laughing at your repeated characterisation of these batteries as "gigantic 75Ah", and those interconnects as "big ass"
We tend to start at piddling little 75A/hr cells, & work our way upwards. 2170A/Hr is the largest I've personally worked on...
"The use of "gay" in this particular way was first recorded at the end of the 1970s and developed among US high school students"
"The "Dictionary of American Slang" reports that gay (adj.) was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] notes a male prostitute using gay in reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostitutes) in London's notorious Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] calls attention to the ambiguous use of the word in the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by U.S. female impersonator Will S. Hays, but the word evidently was not popularly felt in this sense by wider society until the 1950s at the earliest."
"That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?"
Pony Express.
If only you'd said "I just asked a stupid question - an astoundingly, brain-numbingly, dumber than the Bay of Pigs crossed with the Lindsay Lohan, stupid question!", I would have modded you up...
So, it's an "International Maker Meetup". What's this "6-8pm PST" crap, then? Wikipedia tells me it could be Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8), Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5), or Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).
If you want hold an international meetup, use an international standard for time. UTC or GTFO...
Prior art.
I guess that's why your link says " disease is not considered a major threat to the Reef ."
Although apparently simply reading their own links is too hard for some people...
Or it might be because Australians in general consider Julian Assange to be the Steve Irwin of computer hackers (i.e. a wanker).
That was certainly the opinion of him back in the day, despite what the telemovie said.
You left out the bit about getting your advertising for free...
Correct. "Zealot", or even "bigot", would be better terms.
Or, as the extended entry in my dictionary puts it:
(and let me thank /.'s execrable handling of non-english characters for ruining that particular joke...)
OP is yet another hipster New Yorker reader confused by the difference between a diaeresis and an umlaut
They meant to type "bügger"...
Just as an aside, you do realise that neither Torx nor Philips screw drives are particularly good examples to use, don't you? Both were patented until the early/mid 90's - Torx was invented in 1967 & the patent ran out in (IIRC) 1993, while Philips was patented in 1933 and expired in (again, IIRC) 1996.
The difference is that the Philips design was licenced to many manufacturers from the start and gradually became genericised, while Camcar Screw (later Textron) refused to widely licence the Torx design. Robertson had a bad experience with licencing (having to sue, and then buy back the rights from an English manufacturer) and ended up manufacturing the screws himself.
First successful *human* IVF.
The first successful IVF pregnancy & birth was in 1959 - a team at the Worcester Foundation, lead by Dr. Min Chueh Chang, successfully gave birth to a rabbit.
Well, OK, they didn't give birth to a rabbit per se - obviously another rabbit did - but they certainly had a hand in it, as it were...
True. Compared to Microsoft's method of putting the frog straight in the microwave and hitting "Start".
Or the Open Source way: look around, see that everybody is cooking frogs, and choosing instead to do a from-the-ground-up no-cooking-required reimplementation of a toad. Then trying to convince the rest of the world their choice is better because it's not only bigger and capable of jumping further than a frog, but can also kill small mammals and survive in your chlorinated swimming pool...