So if they produce ~20-22 episodes per season, you're saying each season takes ten to eleven years of animation work to complete? I think not. Most likely it takes a single crew ~6 months to finish an episode, but they can have 15+ crews working simultaneously.
Actually, Lex and Braniac together do defeat Superman, actually to the point of enslaving him along with most of the other major heros of DC (Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Capt. Marvel I think, etc.) in the Dark Knight Stikes Again.
Didn't we just have a story about how some company showed it could be profitable to sell audio cds essentially at cost (plus $X.XX shipping and handling)? It's great that music companies are getting into the swing of things by offering albums online at reduced prices (no jewel case, cover art, etc...), however $9.99 still seems too high for what you're getting. Maybe if real cds were ten bucks and the online version was, say, six I'd bite. For now I'll stick to the surprisingly varied and good used bins.
...was an idea to scale up the Lunar Module descent engine (had to be a KISS design to bring the astronouts down in one piece)....
You mean a big flashing 2000-bulb NASA logo, pyrotechnics and a laser-light show? Six-inch tounges and circus makeup? Platform boots so tall you could economically launch spacecraft off of?
Sorry, just wondering: what's a KISS design? (I don't even like KISS)
This and This: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/topstories/storie s/050102dnspomavsbrite.1b9f8.html ?
As far as I can tell people only complain when you actually embed a hyperlink in the source, rather than just display it as plain text. A difference of 15 characters.
Perhaps we could simply argue that we are just writing down the address of the story, it's the damn user's browser that is turning it into a highly-illegal hyperlink!
The funniest part is if I had used "boxes" instead I'd have twice as many people yelling at me about how "boxen" is the correct term. Language changes, deal with it.
No, not that the modems are cheaper. They sell Windows-hardware-boxen without Windows because the boxen are cheaper that way. You can put on your warezed (or legitimate) copy of Windows for zero cost. I doubt very much you will ever get anyone from Walmart endorsing Linux or giving you Linux install help. This is about cheap crap not open-source. And Walmart is very good at pushing cheap crap.
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1. There is weather here, making a project like that demand huge ongoing costs. Rain/Snow/Wind/Erosion are all very powerful forces.
Well putting so many hundred/thousand tons of solar panels on the moon does have a significant cost attached to it. Plus the occasional meteor strike....
5. If we don't want the world to stay as it is, 1 Super-Power/100 Little Powers/1,000 Crappy Third world nations where people still die of the plague, something like this needs to be built.
Oh but we do, we do. If you didn't catch Margaret Thatcher's editorial in the New York times (article no longer free, sorry), the powers that be firmly believe that the U.S. "must" always remain numero uno, for the good of the population of earth, war against terrorism, think of the children, etc. We're not exactly holding back from totally screwing over third world countries now, I don't think a huge lunar power station, which no thrid world power could afford to contribute to, would change much....
Ironic that most of the porn you can get right now for free, in the illegal, usenet and filesharing way, is in Divx;) or Divx4/5 encoded AVIs. I wonder if the adult film industry will ever side with the MPAA to cut down on its "losses" due to all the avis running around.
Of course there's always the one nimrod that encodes The Uranus Experiment in windows media 8. Ah well....
"Any direct references to religion, especially juxtaposed with violence, sexuality or hypocrisy, is not allowed.... Anime is often full of stereotypes surrounding race and religion that non-otaku will not understand and will take offense to.... People in America generally don't want that kind of thing in their cartoons, however you and I may feel about it."
Maybe if Americans had the chance to see cartoons with that kind of thing, they'd change their minds. Of course this is probably a mixed blessing, as Evangelion is already incomprehensible enough without TV-Y7 editing...
...if they are also in the buisness of pharmaceuticals. Imagine bringing your flawless-chromosome baby into the world, courtesy of Progeny-Corp, only to learn thay they have contracted a normally-rare disease once they hit adolescence. Is there a cure?
Sure, but Progeny-Corp is the only company that sells it. Sure, such a thing would be horribly unethical, but that has never stopped big pharmaceutical companies before.
While I agree with the message of your statement, I wonder if you would argue against the outlawing of possessing:
1: Nerve Gas 2: Powerful tranquilizers (date rape drugs, etc) 3: Weapons-grade (or even industrial-grade) Uranium/Plutonium
This is a sticky situation, as technically everything can be used to commit a crime; however, there are certain things that, in the hands of private citizens, are used for crimes 95% of the time. Perhaps we should just make unlicensed (as in driver's, gun, liquor...) use of file-sharing programs/internet/chewing gun illegal. Just warning against generalizations....
You are referring to the First Amendment. Without even RTFA, this story is about the Fourth Amendment, concerning a persons (not citizens?) rights regarding police actions, search and seizure of the person's property, etc.
Many actions not protected by one Amendment are covered by others, for better or worse. But they are our rights.
Actually I've got the back cover of the Faint's albums, Danse and Blank-Wave, at home about 60 miles west. Yes the print used for track titles is heavily artistic, some would say illegible, but that doesn't mean that they don't have normal english names. My point was that some songs have titles which are near impossible to pronounce, if not possesing names that are intentionally impossible to say.
I think just the ability to feed voice commands such as "Stop", "Track, Next", or "Mode, Shuffle" would be enough for me to consider paying a little extra.
That's no big deal, French pronounciation is probably easier for the software to deal with than, say, Aphex Twin's DeltaMi-1=aSigman=1Di(n)(SigmajEC(i)Fij(n-1)+Fexti (n-1)).
(Couldn't find the appropriate keystrokes for the above characters on this IBook keyboard I am stuck with for the moment....)
Well, you can still have your 65dB Swiftech heatsink/fan, and your multitude of 80mm case fans and maybe a water pump for your overclocked GeForce3, but imagine if they put these on the fins of that heatsink. Not only would the surface area of the sink double or triple or more, but the heatsink would actively cool itself. That would bring your cpu die temp down another few degrees for sure, with barely any more sound, or power.
"The concentrated circuits in a semiconductor computer chip can generate more heat per square centimeter of chip area than an area of equal size on the sun's surface."
Is this true? If so I have so much more respect for my heatsink....
If you (like me) have one of those 50, 100, or 200+ cd changers lying around, and tons of cds, and you want to have them in convienient mp3, that is to see easily searchable and playable, why not think about making the computer control the cd changer?
Admittedly this only works if you are focusing you music listening around a home system, but it seems if you have enough cds to fill up your huge changer, you might as well use it, right?
My changer (few years old Sony 200cd CDP-CX205) seems to only take input (control signals) via S-Link, which I've never used, and what I presume is a carrier on the standard stereo lines. Any possiblity of using a soundcard's audio-out to send controls to an audio device? You save track info locally on your computer (still the problem of naming everything pops up), and update as you put new cds in. Just an alternate perspective...
Anyone know where I can actually get a $50 Dreamcast nowadays? Amazon, EBworld, and BestBuy.com are all out of stock or no longer taking orders (probably ever again). I'm sure there are less mainstream alternatives, I just want a new one rather than turning to the crap-shoot that is Ebay.
Just thought of something.... We know this may be a hackable device, and the speed limiter is comtrolled by a digital key. Therefore breaking the speed limit on this puppy would not only violate local regulations but the DMCA!
Convergence is beautiful, ain't it?
How much for just the gyro assembly?
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Like many have stated already, this seems to be for those who don't want the cost/responsibility/pollutoin of a car but don't want to actually expend enough energy to use a bicycle or walk.
However, a low-power, effective gyro assembly coupled with a recumbent bicycle would definately be something I would look into, at least for use in the warmer months. When you factor in that the price of a good recumbent is about $1200 USD, plus maybe $300 more for the accessories you want/need (safety, people!), you would still have $1500 left to add in a gyro assembly and match the price of the whoseewhatzit.
I've been on a few recumbants, and I can tell you, if you are reasonably healthy they can move you pretty damn quick. The biggest issue I and most other people have is getting used to the new "balancing vectors" so to speak that recumbents require. Plus, you can actually get a cargo hitch for those camping trips or cross-country adventures, which also addresses those concerns about not being able to bring groceries home on a scooter.
Also, can't wait until hooks an Xbox up to one of these, and makes a twirling, tightrope-walking Beowolf cluster of these, and yada yada yada...
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So if they produce ~20-22 episodes per season, you're saying each season takes ten to eleven years of animation work to complete? I think not. Most likely it takes a single crew ~6 months to finish an episode, but they can have 15+ crews working simultaneously.
Just wondering, which reactor was shot in Empire? Could swear that one just ended with Luke falling down a hole.
A stagnant economy, nothing to do on weekends, and a traffic system that was designed by M.C. Escher.
Oh wait, I thought it said UTICA.
Actually, Lex and Braniac together do defeat Superman, actually to the point of enslaving him along with most of the other major heros of DC (Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Capt. Marvel I think, etc.) in the Dark Knight Stikes Again.
Still waiting for issue #3 though.....
Didn't we just have a story about how some company showed it could be profitable to sell audio cds essentially at cost (plus $X.XX shipping and handling)? It's great that music companies are getting into the swing of things by offering albums online at reduced prices (no jewel case, cover art, etc...), however $9.99 still seems too high for what you're getting. Maybe if real cds were ten bucks and the online version was, say, six I'd bite. For now I'll stick to the surprisingly varied and good used bins.
...was an idea to scale up the Lunar Module descent engine (had to be a KISS design to bring the astronouts down in one piece)....
You mean a big flashing 2000-bulb NASA logo, pyrotechnics and a laser-light show? Six-inch tounges and circus makeup? Platform boots so tall you could economically launch spacecraft off of?
Sorry, just wondering: what's a KISS design? (I don't even like KISS)
I forgot to mention that by reading my above work you agree to NOT read it using a web browser that recognizes the tag. If you are unable to accept this agreement you must reformat your hard drive and force an ice pick into your frontal lobe.
as far as the Court is concerned between:
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This
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This: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/topstories/stori
As far as I can tell people only complain when you actually embed a hyperlink in the source, rather than just display it as plain text. A difference of 15 characters.
Perhaps we could simply argue that we are just writing down the address of the story, it's the damn user's browser that is turning it into a highly-illegal hyperlink!
The funniest part is if I had used "boxes" instead I'd have twice as many people yelling at me about how "boxen" is the correct term. Language changes, deal with it.
No, not that the modems are cheaper. They sell Windows-hardware-boxen without Windows because the boxen are cheaper that way. You can put on your warezed (or legitimate) copy of Windows for zero cost. I doubt very much you will ever get anyone from Walmart endorsing Linux or giving you Linux install help. This is about cheap crap not open-source. And Walmart is very good at pushing cheap crap.
1. There is weather here, making a project like that demand huge ongoing costs. Rain/Snow/Wind/Erosion are all very powerful forces.
Well putting so many hundred/thousand tons of solar panels on the moon does have a significant cost attached to it. Plus the occasional meteor strike....
5. If we don't want the world to stay as it is, 1 Super-Power/100 Little Powers/1,000 Crappy Third world nations where people still die of the plague, something like this needs to be built.
Oh but we do, we do. If you didn't catch Margaret Thatcher's editorial in the New York times (article no longer free, sorry), the powers that be firmly believe that the U.S. "must" always remain numero uno, for the good of the population of earth, war against terrorism, think of the children, etc. We're not exactly holding back from totally screwing over third world countries now, I don't think a huge lunar power station, which no thrid world power could afford to contribute to, would change much....
Ironic that most of the porn you can get right now for free, in the illegal, usenet and filesharing way, is in Divx ;) or Divx4/5 encoded AVIs. I wonder if the adult film industry will ever side with the MPAA to cut down on its "losses" due to all the avis running around.
Of course there's always the one nimrod that encodes The Uranus Experiment in windows media 8. Ah well....
From the article:
... Anime is often full of stereotypes surrounding race and religion that non-otaku will not understand and will take offense to. ... People in America generally don't want that kind of thing in their cartoons, however you and I may feel about it."
"Any direct references to religion, especially juxtaposed with violence, sexuality or hypocrisy, is not allowed.
Maybe if Americans had the chance to see cartoons with that kind of thing, they'd change their minds. Of course this is probably a mixed blessing, as Evangelion is already incomprehensible enough without TV-Y7 editing...
25% of 53 is ~13. 50 - 13 = 40.
...if they are also in the buisness of pharmaceuticals. Imagine bringing your flawless-chromosome baby into the world, courtesy of Progeny-Corp, only to learn thay they have contracted a normally-rare disease once they hit adolescence. Is there a cure?
Sure, but Progeny-Corp is the only company that sells it. Sure, such a thing would be horribly unethical, but that has never stopped big pharmaceutical companies before.
While I agree with the message of your statement, I wonder if you would argue against the outlawing of possessing:
1: Nerve Gas
2: Powerful tranquilizers (date rape drugs, etc)
3: Weapons-grade (or even industrial-grade) Uranium/Plutonium
This is a sticky situation, as technically everything can be used to commit a crime; however, there are certain things that, in the hands of private citizens, are used for crimes 95% of the time. Perhaps we should just make unlicensed (as in driver's, gun, liquor...) use of file-sharing programs/internet/chewing gun illegal. Just warning against generalizations....
You are referring to the First Amendment. Without even RTFA, this story is about the Fourth Amendment, concerning a persons (not citizens?) rights regarding police actions, search and seizure of the person's property, etc.
Many actions not protected by one Amendment are covered by others, for better or worse. But they are our rights.
Actually I've got the back cover of the Faint's albums, Danse and Blank-Wave, at home about 60 miles west. Yes the print used for track titles is heavily artistic, some would say illegible, but that doesn't mean that they don't have normal english names. My point was that some songs have titles which are near impossible to pronounce, if not possesing names that are intentionally impossible to say.
I think just the ability to feed voice commands such as "Stop", "Track, Next", or "Mode, Shuffle" would be enough for me to consider paying a little extra.
That's no big deal, French pronounciation is probably easier for the software to deal with than, say, Aphex Twin's DeltaMi-1=aSigman=1Di(n)(SigmajEC(i)Fij(n-1)+Fexti (n-1)).
(Couldn't find the appropriate keystrokes for the above characters on this IBook keyboard I am stuck with for the moment....)
Well, you can still have your 65dB Swiftech heatsink/fan, and your multitude of 80mm case fans and maybe a water pump for your overclocked GeForce3, but imagine if they put these on the fins of that heatsink. Not only would the surface area of the sink double or triple or more, but the heatsink would actively cool itself. That would bring your cpu die temp down another few degrees for sure, with barely any more sound, or power.
"The concentrated circuits in a semiconductor computer chip can generate more heat per square centimeter of chip area than an area of equal size on the sun's surface."
Is this true? If so I have so much more respect for my heatsink....
If you (like me) have one of those 50, 100, or 200+ cd changers lying around, and tons of cds, and you want to have them in convienient mp3, that is to see easily searchable and playable, why not think about making the computer control the cd changer?
Admittedly this only works if you are focusing you music listening around a home system, but it seems if you have enough cds to fill up your huge changer, you might as well use it, right?
My changer (few years old Sony 200cd CDP-CX205) seems to only take input (control signals) via S-Link, which I've never used, and what I presume is a carrier on the standard stereo lines. Any possiblity of using a soundcard's audio-out to send controls to an audio device? You save track info locally on your computer (still the problem of naming everything pops up), and update as you put new cds in. Just an alternate perspective...
Anyone know where I can actually get a $50 Dreamcast nowadays? Amazon, EBworld, and BestBuy.com are all out of stock or no longer taking orders (probably ever again). I'm sure there are less mainstream alternatives, I just want a new one rather than turning to the crap-shoot that is Ebay.
Just thought of something.... We know this may be a hackable device, and the speed limiter is comtrolled by a digital key. Therefore breaking the speed limit on this puppy would not only violate local regulations but the DMCA!
Convergence is beautiful, ain't it?
Like many have stated already, this seems to be for those who don't want the cost/responsibility/pollutoin of a car but don't want to actually expend enough energy to use a bicycle or walk.
However, a low-power, effective gyro assembly coupled with a recumbent bicycle would definately be something I would look into, at least for use in the warmer months. When you factor in that the price of a good recumbent is about $1200 USD, plus maybe $300 more for the accessories you want/need (safety, people!), you would still have $1500 left to add in a gyro assembly and match the price of the whoseewhatzit.
I've been on a few recumbants, and I can tell you, if you are reasonably healthy they can move you pretty damn quick. The biggest issue I and most other people have is getting used to the new "balancing vectors" so to speak that recumbents require. Plus, you can actually get a cargo hitch for those camping trips or cross-country adventures, which also addresses those concerns about not being able to bring groceries home on a scooter.
Also, can't wait until hooks an Xbox up to one of these, and makes a twirling, tightrope-walking Beowolf cluster of these, and yada yada yada...