If you're going to go so far as to eliminate hard drive chatter then I would think you'd want to get rid of fan noise, monitor noise, speaker feedback, mouse click noise, etc. On some systems, a CRT can make quite a bit of noise that would interfere with recording.
Sometimes, it's funny though to be watching a vcd and all of a sudden hear an "Uh oh" sound coming from someone's ICQ.
"There have been a number of popular Open Source vector graphics tools such as tgif, idraw, Sketch, and xfig, but one of Inkscape's distinguishing features"
Ahem! What about Sodipodi? I think it's very worthy of recognition. I guess their developers haven't done enough to promote it.
For females (which is most likely who we are talking about here), buy a nice necklace or earrings for every 10 levels that you advance in the game.;-)
Seriously though, your significant other most likely just feels left out or that they are not getting enough time with you. Just show them that you care more about them than the game and they will most likely "play along".
Well, that one is kinda special. I almost mentioned the fact that Final Fantasy was kinda a flop in my original comment, but I thought it might start a flame war or something. Final Fantasy appealed to a select crowd. Unfortunately, it lost a HUGE amount of money (according to IMDB). But they were really trying hard to be on the cutting edge and they did it.
But for the most part, 3d movies are built to appeal to wide audiences to ensure that they make enough money to pay for the movie.
Actually, I think the nature of how 3d rendered movies are made causes them to default to a much higher quality. Producers HAVE to make sure that storylines are solid, make sense and have wide audience appeal. Otherwise, 4 years of computational time is wasted. Plus, since more time is spent computationally, it gives creators more time to create and be creative.
What they would need is a way to encrypt the images that you are rendering to protect them from being seen. I'm sure that they would not want people to see the frames before they are done and that's a major reason for not doing such a thing.
What happens when another car cuts between you and the lead PM at a cross road and you're asleep and on auto-pilot.
Although it's a neat concept, I think that it would have to be incorporated with other computer aided driving techniques to work in reality.
It would be neat to see the emergence of these things and new forms of taxi like businesses and the like.
I would think that these devices would also suffer in initial sales from the "I'll wait until someone else has one" syndrom. Although, if they were cheap enough, i guess you could buy one for each person in the family. Odd concept.
Honestly, I'm quite a critic of computer animation and Shrek 2 was outstanding. I think it even topped Final Fantasy in some aspects of skin quality and diffinately character animation. Sometimes I looked at things like walls and the fireworks and thought "I can't even tell". I think Dreamworks is already outdoing Pixar.
I think that they will need to develop a system in the next 5-10 years that can be used through buildings and underground, otherwise it might be useless. I would think GPS devices would be useful for people like cave explorers, but maybe that's unreasonable or would be too dangerous to the rest of the population.
Personally, it's not a big problem for me, I filter out most of my spam. Or delete the ones that don't get filtered.
But as for my internet services business, it makes it hard because all the customers are getting slammed with spam and I'm always trying to do things to rememdy that, instead of working on better stuff like a nicer user control panel, better backup features, adding virtual IMAP accounts, etc.
We had the same problem at the ISP I used to work at. 50% of the sysadmins jobs where to deal with spam related problems.
So there is a measurable loss of money and productivity as a result of spam.
If you've seen "Bowling for Columbine" you might remember Michael Moore talking with the producer of COPS about the possibility of making a show called Corporate COPS. Maybe they should make a Spam COPS because probably the spammers would try to run like that guy in England did a few weeks back.
This is something I like to call the bubble gum principle:
When I was in middle school, chewing gum in class or at school was against the rules, but yet everyone tried to get away withit, we practically had a bubble gum mafia.
But when I got to high school, they changed the rules that you could chew gum. All of a sudden, there were a lot less people chewing gum.
I know that this principle works in regards to quotas because on suso.org, I have absolutely no quotas, and don't have a problem with users getting out of hand with their disk space. Sure there are a few that use several GBs, but most of them don't and like the fact that it's unlimited.
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This is something I like to call the bubble gum principle:
When I was in middle school, chewing gum in class or at school was against the rules, but yet everyone tried to get away withit, we practically had a bubble gum mafia.
But when I got to high school, they changed the rules that you could chew gum. All of a sudden, there were a lot less people chewing gum.
Perhaps the same priniciple applies here. The only problem is that you'd have to convince millions of people that they should keep their computers wide open.
What works with bubble gum doesn't necessarily work with computers.
Folks, shut off your TVs. There are never going to be 7 shows worth watching at the same time. On top of that, are you ever going to have time to watch all the 7 shows you recorded before you need to record another 7.
This sounds kinda like that crack that the college student found in 1995 dealing with the speed of the CPU determining what random numbers the host would pick. A good reason not to keep your CPU info in the HINFO line of a DNS zone file.
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If you're going to go so far as to eliminate hard drive chatter then I would think you'd want to get rid of fan noise, monitor noise, speaker feedback, mouse click noise, etc. On some systems, a CRT can make quite a bit of noise that would interfere with recording.
Sometimes, it's funny though to be watching a vcd and all of a sudden hear an "Uh oh" sound coming from someone's ICQ.
"There have been a number of popular Open Source vector graphics tools such as tgif, idraw, Sketch, and xfig, but one of Inkscape's distinguishing features"
Ahem! What about Sodipodi? I think it's very worthy of recognition. I guess their developers haven't done enough to promote it.
...then most likely the people who shouldn't be using it would be the ones to take it.
The last thing we need are for the idiots to live forever.
Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning
Is that their slogan now?
It's kinda like how McDonald's slogan used to be "Now Hiring"
For females (which is most likely who we are talking about here), buy a nice necklace or earrings for every 10 levels that you advance in the game. ;-)
Seriously though, your significant other most likely just feels left out or that they are not getting enough time with you. Just show them that you care more about them than the game and they will most likely "play along".
So in a sense people are already buying cars with their hoods welded shut.
Things are looking up. Time for another tech boom.
Well, that one is kinda special. I almost mentioned the fact that Final Fantasy was kinda a flop in my original comment, but I thought it might start a flame war or something. Final Fantasy appealed to a select crowd. Unfortunately, it lost a HUGE amount of money (according to IMDB). But they were really trying hard to be on the cutting edge and they did it.
But for the most part, 3d movies are built to appeal to wide audiences to ensure that they make enough money to pay for the movie.
Actually, I think the nature of how 3d rendered movies are made causes them to
default to a much higher quality. Producers HAVE to make sure that storylines
are solid, make sense and have wide audience appeal. Otherwise, 4 years of
computational time is wasted. Plus, since more time is spent computationally,
it gives creators more time to create and be creative.
Er, I guess that should be cryptographic raytracing.
Actually, you'll be able to say, "well, this month I rendered one frame of Shrek 3." ;-)
What they would need is a way to encrypt the images that you are rendering to protect them from being seen. I'm sure that they would not want people to see the frames before they are done and that's a major reason for not doing such a thing.
What happens when another car cuts between you and the lead PM at a cross road and you're asleep and on auto-pilot.
Although it's a neat concept, I think that it would have to be incorporated with other computer aided driving techniques to work in reality.
It would be neat to see the emergence of these things and new forms of taxi like businesses and the like.
I would think that these devices would also suffer in initial sales from the "I'll wait until someone else has one" syndrom. Although, if they were cheap enough, i guess you could buy one for each person in the family. Odd concept.
Honestly, I'm quite a critic of computer animation and Shrek 2 was outstanding. I think it even topped Final Fantasy in some aspects of skin quality and diffinately character animation. Sometimes I looked at things like walls and the fireworks and thought "I can't even tell". I think Dreamworks is already outdoing Pixar.
I think that they will need to develop a system in the next 5-10 years that can be used through buildings and underground, otherwise it might be useless. I would think GPS devices would be useful for people like cave explorers, but maybe that's unreasonable or would be too dangerous to the rest of the population.
Personally, it's not a big problem for me, I filter out most of my spam. Or delete the ones that don't get filtered.
But as for my internet services business, it makes it hard because all the customers are getting slammed with spam and I'm always trying to do things to rememdy that, instead of working on better stuff like a nicer user control panel, better backup features, adding virtual IMAP accounts, etc.
We had the same problem at the ISP I used to work at. 50% of the sysadmins jobs where to deal with spam related problems.
So there is a measurable loss of money and productivity as a result of spam.
If you've seen "Bowling for Columbine" you might remember Michael Moore talking with the producer of COPS about the possibility of making a show called Corporate COPS. Maybe they should make a Spam COPS because probably the spammers would try to run like that guy in England did a few weeks back.
This is something I like to call the bubble gum principle:
When I was in middle school, chewing gum in class or at school was against the rules, but yet everyone tried to get away withit, we practically had a bubble gum mafia.
But when I got to high school, they changed the rules that you could chew gum. All of a sudden, there were a lot less people chewing gum.
I know that this principle works in regards to quotas because on suso.org, I have absolutely no quotas, and don't have a problem with users getting out of hand with their disk space. Sure there are a few that use several GBs, but most of them don't and like the fact that it's unlimited.
but think about it.
This is something I like to call the bubble gum principle:
When I was in middle school, chewing gum in class or at school was against the rules, but yet everyone tried to get away withit, we practically had a bubble gum mafia.
But when I got to high school, they changed the rules that you could chew gum. All of a sudden, there were a lot less people chewing gum.
Perhaps the same priniciple applies here. The only problem is that you'd have to convince millions of people that they should keep their computers wide open.
What works with bubble gum doesn't necessarily work with computers.
Just posting a new comment to an old article. I guess 14 days is the cutoff.
Yeah! I was wondering when people would start to take more offensive countermeasures.
Or would it be moving away from you?
Someone mod the parent up, it's funny.
Folks, shut off your TVs. There are never going to be 7 shows worth watching at the same time. On top of that, are you ever going to have time to watch all the 7 shows you recorded before you need to record another 7.
This sounds kinda like that crack that the college student found in 1995 dealing with the speed of the CPU determining what random numbers the host would pick. A good reason not to keep your CPU info in the HINFO line of a DNS zone file.
Ice cream and ketchup?