Talk to a manager. Tell him that it ruined your experience. Tell him exactly what the problem was. He'll write it in a log. Get him to give you a readmit pass. The theater people don't care because for every readmit pass they issue, that's $8 that they don't send away to the studio.
The way they handle the complaints, they don't usually fix the problems right away unless it's a catastrophic failure. Usually they'll just log the complaints and then have the tech guy check it out the next day. Also, they know that only 1-5% of people are going to complain and get readmit passes.
Of the 8 or so movies I've gone to see in the last 6 months or so, about 3 of them I've gotten readmit passes for. Something or other was screwed up (gum on screen, bad sound, excessively jittery projection, etc). Unfortunately, it's hard to get your $9.25 back because the content sucked.
Actually, I was a math major in college. I was referring more to arithmetic than mathematics in general. Doing tedious arithmetic by hand is obsolete. Analysis is not.
Simliarly, reproducing a real scene in a perspective-correct, color-correct, excruciatingly accurate image by hand using paint and canvas is obsolete.
For aerial photography, they use roll film. So presumably you can buy film that is 9in wide by 100 feet or so.
Of course, you probably wouldn't want to lug all that film around though since it would be heavy and you'd really only be doing 1 or 2 exposures at a time. You'd cut it and make sheet holders.
Photography has killed painting for representation since it was invented roughly 150 years ago. Painting isn't "reduced to mere representation", it started out as mere representation and has been elevated in artistic status over the years.
Anyway, if what you want is a representation of something that exists in reality, you can either paint it or you can just point a camera at it and capture an image. Similarly, suppose you want to multiply 100 10-digit numbers together. You could do it by hand, since you know how to do multiplication. But you wouldn't. You'd use a calculator or a computer.
HotRod looks nice, though it looks almost exactly like the X-Arcade, only with fewer buttons and different key mappings. It does look sturdier than the X-Arcade, though the X-Arcade is sturdy enough for most abuse. I like the X-Arcade because it you can just buy console (PS/2, Dreamcast, XBox, etc) adapters for it. Since I probably play more fighting games on consoles than MAME games, that's a big deal to me.
BTW, I built my own arcade stick and several adapters (Dreamcast, PS/2, and PC). I probably spent about 20-30 hours on the project. I abandoned it once and restarted. Eventually ended up with an awesome controller that beats the X-Arcade Solo any day. However, the X-Arcade Solo is an awesome product. It's probably 90% of the quality of the handmade one I built, yet you can buy it in 10 minutes and spend less on it than you would making your own.
A word is generally the native integer register size. So for 16 bit systems, a word would be 16 bits. For 32 bit systems, a word would be 32 bits, et cetera.
In C, an "int" is the native size word. A "short" is always 16 bits. A "long" is always 32 bits. I think that before the C99 standard, an int on a 64-bit system would be 64 bits, but C99 may have changed that so int can't be bigger than 32 bits. Interestingly, "char" can be either signed or unsigned by default, depending on the machine the C compiler is targeting.
I think my memory of THX 1138 is a little flawed. I just watched the preview on the new THX 1138 site, and there's a bit about "buy more, consume more" messages. So I guess that blows out the communist idea.
It's still the best thing George Lucas ever made.
Uh oh. I think I just caught a glimpse of some added CG in the preview... George can't resist screwing with his old movies, it seems.
Yes, acutally. The idea in both movies was the same. The visual aesthetic was different, obviously. There were other differences as well. In Logan's Run, the population was oblivious to how the system worked (except for the Sandmen). Most of the population seemed to not even have jobs. In THX 1138, the population was intimately involved in the workings of society (i.e., they had to work). The endings were different in both too. In THX 1138, THX escapes to the surface to find a radioactive wasteland (that's how I read it at least). In Logan's Run, the ending is happy and hopeful.
In both movies the people all had the same haircuts, the same clothes, and the same type of apartments (except in Logan's Run, Logan's apartment was nicer because he was a Sandman). In both movies, consumption was standardized. If anything, I would relate this more to a ridigly rationing, communist system than to a capitalist system. In a capitalist system demand drives production. In a communist system, production is controlled by the government and is limited to the needs of the populace, regardless of want.
Actually, it is a mid-Cold War era nuclaer apocalypse movie about a society that has to survive by living underground and tightly controlling resources.
When in Select mode, click on an object to see the scaling arrows, then click again on the object to see the rotation and shift arrows. If the arrows at the corners are clicked and dragged, the object will rotate about the opposite corner. If you hold down the shift key while doing this, the rotation will occur about the Rotation Point (nominally the center of the object).
The Rotation Point can be moved by clicking on the very center of the object and dragging the center point to where you want to pivot around. Then if you shift-drag on a corner point, it will rotate about that point.
In Microsoft's information page, it states that Microsoft plans to release a standard for XNA-compliant controllers. It will probably be based on the XBox or XBox2 controller. Hopefully Microsoft will make their libraries so that they make it easy for game developers to support either input style.
1. Intra-Uterine Device (IUD)? May use hormones. Not sure. 2. Condoms without spermicide. Normal condom problems. 3. Diaphrahm (sp?). I think those are usually used with a spermicide though.
By those odds though, if you have sex 100 times, it's likely to result in 1.5 unwanted pregnancies, on average.
There are things to do to increase the effectiveness, but chances are if you're drinking and you're horny, you'll forget what day it is and do it anyway.
The idea is that behind self-defense or going out of your way to help someone. Example, someone is going to shoot your daughter. You can shoot and kill that person and it's okay. Other example: A child playing in the street is going to be run over by a truck. You can jump into the street to save that child (jaywalking, but okay).
It's an irrational number, meaning that it cannot be represented by a ratio of two integers. For any rational number r, there exist two integers x and y, such that x/y = r.
But anyway, regardless of the choice of a standard ratio of height to width, there will always be a need for other ratios of height to width. All you have to do is look at photography to see all kinds of weird ratios for film and print sizes (e.g., 4:5, 2:3, 4:3, 1:1, 6:17).
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You did notice that his last name is de Bourcia, right? It's his family's ancestoral home. It's only noble in an aristocratic sense.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
All I know about you is that you're ignorant.
Talk to a manager. Tell him that it ruined your experience. Tell him exactly what the problem was. He'll write it in a log. Get him to give you a readmit pass. The theater people don't care because for every readmit pass they issue, that's $8 that they don't send away to the studio.
The way they handle the complaints, they don't usually fix the problems right away unless it's a catastrophic failure. Usually they'll just log the complaints and then have the tech guy check it out the next day. Also, they know that only 1-5% of people are going to complain and get readmit passes.
Of the 8 or so movies I've gone to see in the last 6 months or so, about 3 of them I've gotten readmit passes for. Something or other was screwed up (gum on screen, bad sound, excessively jittery projection, etc). Unfortunately, it's hard to get your $9.25 back because the content sucked.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
All I know about you is that you're an idiot no matter who is president.
We expect a manufacturer to stand behind their products.
We must be barbarians.
No, they have better products, so when a consumer has a problem with it, it is more likely to be user error than a product defect.
Actually, I was a math major in college. I was referring more to arithmetic than mathematics in general. Doing tedious arithmetic by hand is obsolete. Analysis is not.
Simliarly, reproducing a real scene in a perspective-correct, color-correct, excruciatingly accurate image by hand using paint and canvas is obsolete.
For aerial photography, they use roll film. So presumably you can buy film that is 9in wide by 100 feet or so.
Of course, you probably wouldn't want to lug all that film around though since it would be heavy and you'd really only be doing 1 or 2 exposures at a time. You'd cut it and make sheet holders.
Photography has killed painting for representation since it was invented roughly 150 years ago. Painting isn't "reduced to mere representation", it started out as mere representation and has been elevated in artistic status over the years.
Anyway, if what you want is a representation of something that exists in reality, you can either paint it or you can just point a camera at it and capture an image. Similarly, suppose you want to multiply 100 10-digit numbers together. You could do it by hand, since you know how to do multiplication. But you wouldn't. You'd use a calculator or a computer.
...and I agree with you. All the blood, sweat and tears is not worth $150. By the way, you won't break it. It's totally solid.
PowerMate is okay, looks cool, but doesn't spin freely, so it feels different than it should.
HotRod looks nice, though it looks almost exactly like the X-Arcade, only with fewer buttons and different key mappings. It does look sturdier than the X-Arcade, though the X-Arcade is sturdy enough for most abuse. I like the X-Arcade because it you can just buy console (PS/2, Dreamcast, XBox, etc) adapters for it. Since I probably play more fighting games on consoles than MAME games, that's a big deal to me.
BTW, I built my own arcade stick and several adapters (Dreamcast, PS/2, and PC). I probably spent about 20-30 hours on the project. I abandoned it once and restarted. Eventually ended up with an awesome controller that beats the X-Arcade Solo any day. However, the X-Arcade Solo is an awesome product. It's probably 90% of the quality of the handmade one I built, yet you can buy it in 10 minutes and spend less on it than you would making your own.
A word is generally the native integer register size. So for 16 bit systems, a word would be 16 bits. For 32 bit systems, a word would be 32 bits, et cetera.
In C, an "int" is the native size word. A "short" is always 16 bits. A "long" is always 32 bits. I think that before the C99 standard, an int on a 64-bit system would be 64 bits, but C99 may have changed that so int can't be bigger than 32 bits. Interestingly, "char" can be either signed or unsigned by default, depending on the machine the C compiler is targeting.
I think my memory of THX 1138 is a little flawed. I just watched the preview on the new THX 1138 site, and there's a bit about "buy more, consume more" messages. So I guess that blows out the communist idea.
It's still the best thing George Lucas ever made.
Uh oh. I think I just caught a glimpse of some added CG in the preview... George can't resist screwing with his old movies, it seems.
Yes, acutally. The idea in both movies was the same. The visual aesthetic was different, obviously. There were other differences as well. In Logan's Run, the population was oblivious to how the system worked (except for the Sandmen). Most of the population seemed to not even have jobs. In THX 1138, the population was intimately involved in the workings of society (i.e., they had to work). The endings were different in both too. In THX 1138, THX escapes to the surface to find a radioactive wasteland (that's how I read it at least). In Logan's Run, the ending is happy and hopeful.
In both movies the people all had the same haircuts, the same clothes, and the same type of apartments (except in Logan's Run, Logan's apartment was nicer because he was a Sandman). In both movies, consumption was standardized. If anything, I would relate this more to a ridigly rationing, communist system than to a capitalist system. In a capitalist system demand drives production. In a communist system, production is controlled by the government and is limited to the needs of the populace, regardless of want.
Actually, it is a mid-Cold War era nuclaer apocalypse movie about a society that has to survive by living underground and tightly controlling resources.
From the Sodipodi tips and tricks page:
Object rotation
When in Select mode, click on an object to see the scaling arrows, then click again on the object to see the rotation and shift arrows. If the arrows at the corners are clicked and dragged, the object will rotate about the opposite corner. If you hold down the shift key while doing this, the rotation will occur about the Rotation Point (nominally the center of the object).
The Rotation Point can be moved by clicking on the very center of the object and dragging the center point to where you want to pivot around. Then if you shift-drag on a corner point, it will rotate about that point.
In Microsoft's information page, it states that Microsoft plans to release a standard for XNA-compliant controllers. It will probably be based on the XBox or XBox2 controller. Hopefully Microsoft will make their libraries so that they make it easy for game developers to support either input style.
In the article, it says that Microsoft wants to make a standard for gamepads for PC's.
1. Intra-Uterine Device (IUD)? May use hormones. Not sure.
2. Condoms without spermicide. Normal condom problems.
3. Diaphrahm (sp?). I think those are usually used with a spermicide though.
buy the expensive lambskin condoms.
By those odds though, if you have sex 100 times, it's likely to result in 1.5 unwanted pregnancies, on average.
There are things to do to increase the effectiveness, but chances are if you're drinking and you're horny, you'll forget what day it is and do it anyway.
The idea is that behind self-defense or going out of your way to help someone. Example, someone is going to shoot your daughter. You can shoot and kill that person and it's okay. Other example: A child playing in the street is going to be run over by a truck. You can jump into the street to save that child (jaywalking, but okay).
the same irregular number
It's an irrational number, meaning that it cannot be represented by a ratio of two integers. For any rational number r, there exist two integers x and y, such that x/y = r.
But anyway, regardless of the choice of a standard ratio of height to width, there will always be a need for other ratios of height to width. All you have to do is look at photography to see all kinds of weird ratios for film and print sizes (e.g., 4:5, 2:3, 4:3, 1:1, 6:17).
There was a version of the GC made by Panasonic in Japan that also played DVDs.
The N64 DD drive was released in Japan. I think there were about 10 games for it.