>>>Sometimes the mode of learning conveys a stronger message than the content of the lesson.
Bullshit. At the end of the game the murderous guard gets hung (or life imprisonment). How is this not teaching a lesson about the consequences of shooting innocent people trying to escape to freedom? Also I don't think the game is intended to entertain, but to let people put themselves in that time period, like the holodeck did in Star Trek. Its the old "walk in another man's shoes" method of learning.
One thing I don't understand, when I review the actual history, is why the Socialist Germany guards would shoot people and then just let them lay there for an hour, begging for help and moaning in pain. Talk about cruelty.
You mean like how modern Dance music sounds suspiciously similar to 70s/early 80s disco and electronica?;-) Actually we have a better memory now then before. If we didn't have services like youtube, we'd have to rely on radio for music and they never play anything older than ten years. We truly would have forgotten what 60s/70s/80s music sounded like, except for those few geeks that collect old worn records.
>>>we ALL played Commander Keen and Myst and Descent
Never 'erd of them. They must be new? I'm still trying to make my way through the Atari 800 and C=64's 10,000 program library. I'm sure I'll get around to the new 90s games someday...
>>>If I could get the hours lost back I'd be young again
I'm happy to say I wasted very little time on online games. I tried the various MUDs and of course Tradewars, but they held little appeal for me. Like today's online games they seemed to have no point, and instead I stuck with classic Atari and Commodore simulations/arcade-style games. Like Red Storm Rising & Stealth Fighter which helped me land my first job.
Also I'm happy to say I was never stuck at 300 baud (0.3 kb/s). Imagine reading slashdot if the messages scrolled on the screen at the same speed you read them! Zzzz. Well you don't have to imagine. Here's a demo (turn down the volume) -
"How can this make a difference???..... Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature wooden knobs will have an even greater effect...really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear...way better sound!!"
$485!
Un-freaking-believable. Are audiphiles people of low IQ that they are so easily suckered? Maybe I ought to put some of these knobs on ebay
>>>Spanish Influenza pandemic (1918) killed more people than the Bubonic Plague did in four, from 1347 to 1351.
It's all relative. The 1918 flu killed 3% of the population while the 1348 Black Death killed 45% of Europe and 20% of the world. If WE were hit by some disease with the same mortality as the 1348 bubonic, then 1400 million people would be dead. - Or if it had the same localized impact as it had in 1348, killing 45% of a continent, then 200 million North Americans would need to be buried
>>>NYC already has to replace 8000 signs a year due to wear and tear, or theft. They have elected to replace them with new signs, instead of identical signs.
Good.
I wonder if there isn't a way to make signs cheaper? $110 for a piece of metal plus paint seems very pricey. Especially if the sign is doomed to get stolen in 2-3 years anyway.
They barely know how to operate the DTV converter box on top of their television. Or "click on the movie file to make it play". That's the extent of their abilities. No way could they handle the 5-6 steps required to install WinRAR, gather all the RAR pieces in one spot, unRAR them, and then use the MPG file.
The study claims Trenton NJ has 30% open channels. But the official FCC Whitelist only has *4* channels open. i.e. A mere 8%. So go ahead and cite flawed studies if you wish, but they won't strengthen your case. So if we adjust all your other numbers by that same "error factor" (30/8==3.75) we get:
Juneau, Alaska 20% (free channels:10) Honolulu, Hawaii 18% (free channels:9) Phoenix, Arizona 12% (free channels:6) Boston, Massachusetts 10% (free channels:5) Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas 12% (free channels:6) San Francisco, California 10% (free channels:5) and so on.
Mr. AC is flat wrong. The study claims Trenton NJ has 30% open channels. But the official FCC Whitelist only has *2* channels open. i.e. A mere 4%. So go ahead and cite flawed studies if you wish, but they don't strengthen your case.
GOOD. I hope banning antibiotics in livestock passes. Also banning ag companies from accusing innocent farmers of stealing their gene-modified corn.
This is a perfect example of unintended consequences, where antibiotics cure human disease, but then the germs "fight back" and revive in a more deadly form which we don't know how to stop. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2100s experiences as much death from disease as people in the 1800s did.
I voted for Harry Browne (L) but of course it made no difference.
Maryland cast its votes for Gore. So people can't blame me for Gore losing (my state supported him 100%), and neither can people blame me for Bush's eight years (I never voted for him).
I thought back then that "change through the voting booth" was futile, and I still do. The American people voted for "change" when they dumped Clinton/Gore for Bush and look at the mess. Then the american people voted for "change" in 2006 when they voted for Democrats leading Congress, and they just continued the same policies. And now we "changed" again in favor of Obama but we're still heading in the wrong direction (deeper and deeper towards bankruptcy).
Change can only happen through constant vigilance week after week, putting pressure on politicians. And even then, they'll probably ignore you. (Over 70% of americans were against the Bush Bailout and Pelosi Healthcare Bills, and overwhelmed the DC phone banks, but they were ignored. Both passed.)
>>>That's just ESPN locking their site/services to those _providers_ willing to pay them
It's an issue due to the lack of internet choice. If my provider (Comcast for example) decides to pay ESPN360 plus DisneyConnection plus FXextra plus all those other "paywall" sites, then that means my internet cost will gradually climb higher, just as Comcast TV gradually climbed from $25 to $65 when CATV channels increased their rates from ~25 to ~75 cents per home.
Unfortunately I have no other choice. I either pay the monopoly, or I get no internet.
NOW if the republicans would get off their ass, and revoke Comcast's exclusive license, I'd be able to choose somebody else like Cox, or Cablevision, or Time-Warner, or whoever. But the republicans don't seem to understand that the market is a monopoly. They can't get their head around the idea, and keep falsely calling it a "free market" when it isn't.
Note I don't think the Democrats have the right idea either. They too want to allow Comcast to keep its monopoly.:-|
>>>I wouldn't prefer one over the other which means, for me, webp is the winner.
I honestly don't care, but if I was using your criteria, then I'd choose neither. I'd pick the open source PNG that has become standard over the last ten years.
BTW how long until JPEG becomes public domain? 2012?
This reminds me of an earlier Slashdot article that tried to claim open-sourced WebM (or whatever) made better movies than MPEG4. But that's not what I saw. I saw MPEG4 video as being noticeably sharper with fewer "mosquitoes" flying around. What they should do is compare like-to-like. Several 50K JPEGs versus 50K WEBPs to see which looks better given equal resources.
Also: Why is this even needed? We already have open source PNG.
>>>Non Pirated material will be subject to EVEN LOUDER commercials that conveniently have the volume control disabled
I hate that. I'll be watching Stargate or something, with the volume at 25%, and suddenly a commercial pops-on at 100% volume. What the fej? Do they think I got up and walked away from my computer? I'm pretty fast but even I can't pea in just 30 seconds. Leave the volume at 25% please.
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>>>Sometimes the mode of learning conveys a stronger message than the content of the lesson.
Bullshit. At the end of the game the murderous guard gets hung (or life imprisonment). How is this not teaching a lesson about the consequences of shooting innocent people trying to escape to freedom? Also I don't think the game is intended to entertain, but to let people put themselves in that time period, like the holodeck did in Star Trek. Its the old "walk in another man's shoes" method of learning.
One thing I don't understand, when I review the actual history, is why the Socialist Germany guards would shoot people and then just let them lay there for an hour, begging for help and moaning in pain. Talk about cruelty.
>>>then recycled things will suffice
You mean like how modern Dance music sounds suspiciously similar to 70s/early 80s disco and electronica? ;-) Actually we have a better memory now then before. If we didn't have services like youtube, we'd have to rely on radio for music and they never play anything older than ten years. We truly would have forgotten what 60s/70s/80s music sounded like, except for those few geeks that collect old worn records.
Another game they forgot was one of the first Graphical online games. An early form of Sims or Ninteodo's "Mii"'s but in 1985:
HABITAT aka CLUB CARIBE (invented by LucasFilms - hosted by AOL for Commodore computers)
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue77/habitat.php
>>>we ALL played Commander Keen and Myst and Descent
Never 'erd of them. They must be new? I'm still trying to make my way through the Atari 800 and C=64's 10,000 program library. I'm sure I'll get around to the new 90s games someday...
>>>If I could get the hours lost back I'd be young again
I'm happy to say I wasted very little time on online games. I tried the various MUDs and of course Tradewars, but they held little appeal for me. Like today's online games they seemed to have no point, and instead I stuck with classic Atari and Commodore simulations/arcade-style games. Like Red Storm Rising & Stealth Fighter which helped me land my first job.
Also I'm happy to say I was never stuck at 300 baud (0.3 kb/s). Imagine reading slashdot if the messages scrolled on the screen at the same speed you read them! Zzzz. Well you don't have to imagine. Here's a demo (turn down the volume) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHwT6o6Jvw#t=2m - I used to watch TV when I was online, because otherwise I would have been bored out of my mind waiting for the slooooooow loading speed.
>>>That's not compression, that's alteration.
By that logic when you buy a DVD or Bluray, you're not watching a movie. You're watching an "altie" or altered version of the movie.
"How can this make a difference??? ..... Here is a test for all you Silver Rock owners. Try removing the bakelite knobs and listen. You will be shocked by this! The signature wooden knobs will have an even greater effect...really amazing! The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear...way better sound!!"
$485!
Un-freaking-believable. Are audiphiles people of low IQ that they are so easily suckered? Maybe I ought to put some of these knobs on ebay
>>>Spanish Influenza pandemic (1918) killed more people than the Bubonic Plague did in four, from 1347 to 1351.
It's all relative. The 1918 flu killed 3% of the population while the 1348 Black Death killed 45% of Europe and 20% of the world. If WE were hit by some disease with the same mortality as the 1348 bubonic, then 1400 million people would be dead. - Or if it had the same localized impact as it had in 1348, killing 45% of a continent, then 200 million North Americans would need to be buried
>>>are you proposing a solution, or just complaining?
First sentence of my post: "I hope they ban the use of antibiotics in livestock."
>>>NYC already has to replace 8000 signs a year due to wear and tear, or theft. They have elected to replace them with new signs, instead of identical signs.
Good.
I wonder if there isn't a way to make signs cheaper? $110 for a piece of metal plus paint seems very pricey. Especially if the sign is doomed to get stolen in 2-3 years anyway.
hahahahahahahaha
They barely know how to operate the DTV converter box on top of their television. Or "click on the movie file to make it play". That's the extent of their abilities. No way could they handle the 5-6 steps required to install WinRAR, gather all the RAR pieces in one spot, unRAR them, and then use the MPG file.
>>>You do realize that the very same page is also compressed when using DSL, right?
Wrong. My DSL does not make images look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JPEG_example_JPG_RIP_001.jpg
Ooops. Put the 4 in the wrong place:
The study claims Trenton NJ has 30% open channels. But the official FCC Whitelist only has *4* channels open. i.e. A mere 8%. So go ahead and cite flawed studies if you wish, but they won't strengthen your case. So if we adjust all your other numbers by that same "error factor" (30/8==3.75) we get:
Juneau, Alaska 20% (free channels:10)
Honolulu, Hawaii 18% (free channels:9)
Phoenix, Arizona 12% (free channels:6)
Boston, Massachusetts 10% (free channels:5)
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas 12% (free channels:6)
San Francisco, California 10% (free channels:5)
and so on.
Mr. AC is flat wrong. The study claims Trenton NJ has 30% open channels.
But the official FCC Whitelist only has *2* channels open. i.e. A mere 4%.
So go ahead and cite flawed studies if you wish, but they don't strengthen your case.
10 megabytes is not big.
And the 100 MB yousendit.com service the other guy mentioned doesn't send the file through the actual email - it just sends a downloadable weblink.
GOOD. I hope banning antibiotics in livestock passes. Also banning ag companies from accusing innocent farmers of stealing their gene-modified corn.
This is a perfect example of unintended consequences, where antibiotics cure human disease, but then the germs "fight back" and revive in a more deadly form which we don't know how to stop. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2100s experiences as much death from disease as people in the 1800s did.
Thanks.
For me, assuming all things are equal, a public domain JPEG is better than an open source format.
My error.
Oops.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/JPEG_example_JPG_RIP_001.jpg
Oh. I though PNG could do lossy compression. My error. BTW PNG can be used for photography - just not very good results: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/LossyDemonstration-Original.png
And here's what Compressed Dialup looks like. I had to use this when the tropical storm killed my high speed line:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/LossyDemonstration-98less.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/JPEG_example_JPG_RIP_001.jpg
I voted for Harry Browne (L) but of course it made no difference.
Maryland cast its votes for Gore. So people can't blame me for Gore losing (my state supported him 100%), and neither can people blame me for Bush's eight years (I never voted for him).
Actually I didn't change my mind.
I thought back then that "change through the voting booth" was futile, and I still do. The American people voted for "change" when they dumped Clinton/Gore for Bush and look at the mess. Then the american people voted for "change" in 2006 when they voted for Democrats leading Congress, and they just continued the same policies. And now we "changed" again in favor of Obama but we're still heading in the wrong direction (deeper and deeper towards bankruptcy).
Change can only happen through constant vigilance week after week, putting pressure on politicians. And even then, they'll probably ignore you. (Over 70% of americans were against the Bush Bailout and Pelosi Healthcare Bills, and overwhelmed the DC phone banks, but they were ignored. Both passed.)
>>>That's just ESPN locking their site/services to those _providers_ willing to pay them
It's an issue due to the lack of internet choice. If my provider (Comcast for example) decides to pay ESPN360 plus DisneyConnection plus FXextra plus all those other "paywall" sites, then that means my internet cost will gradually climb higher, just as Comcast TV gradually climbed from $25 to $65 when CATV channels increased their rates from ~25 to ~75 cents per home.
Unfortunately I have no other choice. I either pay the monopoly, or I get no internet.
NOW if the republicans would get off their ass, and revoke Comcast's exclusive license, I'd be able to choose somebody else like Cox, or Cablevision, or Time-Warner, or whoever. But the republicans don't seem to understand that the market is a monopoly. They can't get their head around the idea, and keep falsely calling it a "free market" when it isn't.
Note I don't think the Democrats have the right idea either. :-|
They too want to allow Comcast to keep its monopoly.
>>>I wouldn't prefer one over the other which means, for me, webp is the winner.
I honestly don't care, but if I was using your criteria, then I'd choose neither. I'd pick the open source PNG that has become standard over the last ten years.
BTW how long until JPEG becomes public domain? 2012?
The WebP images all look blurry to me.
This reminds me of an earlier Slashdot article that tried to claim open-sourced WebM (or whatever) made better movies than MPEG4. But that's not what I saw. I saw MPEG4 video as being noticeably sharper with fewer "mosquitoes" flying around. What they should do is compare like-to-like. Several 50K JPEGs versus 50K WEBPs to see which looks better given equal resources.
Also: Why is this even needed? We already have open source PNG.
>>>Non Pirated material will be subject to EVEN LOUDER commercials that conveniently have the volume control disabled
I hate that. I'll be watching Stargate or something, with the volume at 25%, and suddenly a commercial pops-on at 100% volume. What the fej? Do they think I got up and walked away from my computer? I'm pretty fast but even I can't pea in just 30 seconds. Leave the volume at 25% please.