Oh man, Phantasmagoria was one of the worst adventure games ever. A passable concept at the time(interactive movie more than a game, you could beat it in a couple hours if your CD-ROM drive was fast enough), but Lord, what poor implementation. I think I spent more time changing CDs than actually playing the game. Bo-ring. And not creepy.
To be honest, I don't know a thing about whether or not ZIP is used to ballpark tax forms, but in case you've forgotten, we've had ZIP+4 for quite a while now, and that can get pretty granular. You're likely to find measurable patterns there.
Does anyone here live in the Boston area? Have you actually tried to use Comcast's "On Demand" feature? At least 75% of the time I try to watch something, it skips, or audio drops out, or there are horrendous artefacts, or it just won't start. We actually considered ordering an On Demand movie last weekend, but when the preview wouldn't even play, we gave up and watched Jason X on Showtime instead.
I can detect an autotune-processed track within seconds of hearing it, due to the utter piano-like lack of pitch sensitivity and expression.
Unlikely. For every "Only God Knows Why" there are a hundred other songs that have been tweaked with an autotuner here and there, or along the entire vocal track, and you'd never know it. As with any musical skill, audio production is an art, and a skilled engineer can correct pitches so that all but the most sensitive ears can't pick it out. I can't guarantee it, but I'd say it's quite likely that nearly every song you hear on rock or pop radio today has been pitch-corrected somewhere along the line. It's a powerful tool that can turn a great vocal take into a superb one. Just because some artists are using it as a special effect (something I really dislike) doesn't mean that's the only way to do it.
With apologies to those running this project, its website is at http://www.hektor.ch. (Someone say Last Rites for the web server, please.) There's some neat footage of Hektor in action. Unfortunate, though, that it's so slow; the video of it drawing some peanuts seems to go on forever, and most of the time you can't tell what it's doing. It's certainly interesting, but more performance art than anything else.
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...a let down for those that were expecting similarities to the book...
People go to the movies to be entertained, not put to sleep. If they had been expecting the book, they'd have been better off taking some NyQuil.
Just what we need - SimHippies stinking of SimPatchouli with hygeine meters redder than a baboon's ass sitting around in a SimDrumCircle outside SimMcDonald's because it's SimEvil. Please. Get me some SimTearGas and a SimTaser and I'll have them working the SimFry-o-Lator by SimTomorrowMorning.
Anyway, there are two problems with The Sims Online, given experience with the current play test: you can't fucking connect; and, when you can connect, it's boring as hell.
Amen to that. You'll notice that they give high marks to the WD800BB (7200RPM, 80GB, 2MB cache). I bought this drive last March, and it served me well: fast and reasonably quiet. However, in July, it died. Corrupted boot sector, various bad sectors, etc.
Unfortunately, this was not a one-off manufacturing error. A friend purchased the same drive about a month later, and his died the same crash-and-burn death as mine about two weeks later. Sounds like these drives just suck. I'm using the replacement they sent me, but only until I can get the scratch together to replace it with a Seagate.
Sure, many Ivies could provide "free" educations -- and many (Princeton, notably, and Harvard, at least, although I'm sure the others, too) will provide absurd amounts of financial aid to the truly needy. But it's all about perceived value. This is one of the (many) problems Linux has on the desktop and in the business place -- something that's "free" can't be very good, can it? By continuing to charge $30k+/year in tuition and fees, the Ivies can maintain their elite status, while at the same time quietly providing free rides to the bottom 5% or so, income-wise.
I've seen a lot of posts already saying, "sh0w suM pr0n!!!!1!!!"
People, think about what you're saying. Pornography (at least the modern sort) is shot for the small screen. The very small screen. Nineteen inch televisions or, even worse, computer monitors. As a result, its directors often go for the extreme closeup, usually to great effect.
Now think about these closeups on IMAX. Gaping orifices of every level of hygeine standing several stories high? I don't know about you, but that sounds more "nauseating" than "erotic."
So please, think twice before you request porn on the (really) big screen. This has been a public service announcement(TM).
I really hope I'm just feeding a troll, but here goes: if you take someone's Ferrari, you're depriving them of its use. If you copy someone's software... you've got a copy. No one loses if you couldn't afford it / wouldn't have bought it anyhow. It doesn't make it legal, of course, but please don't say that piracy (always) damages the software house. (I would reckon the number of people who pirate software that they would have bought if not for warez is pretty small.)
I remember when I was looking at a Tascam USB sound device that there were warnings about using with AMD chips -- apparently, the USB controller common to motherboards supporting AMD chips was (in some way) incompatible with this device and caused all sorts of bizarre effects (sometimes). I remember that someone on the message board said that he had gotten it to work correctly, but many others had trouble. In any case, if you've got an AMD chipset and want this (and it won't work natively), go out and get a cheap PCI USB controller or something.
You're missing the point -- the threat here isn't on the desktop. MS simply isn't afraid of Linux on the desktop, and with good cause. The conflict here is in server-land: shops fed up with HP/IBM/Digital UNIX solutions are migrating to Linux on Intel hardware; MS wants them on Win2K. The threat here isn't Linux encroaching on MS's existing server market, but rather devouring its potential market, which may or may not exist (moving your environment from Digital UNIX to Linux seems to make more sense than from the same to Win2k, doesn't it?).
Now, the game is coming to GameCube, a system with more bits, which results in larger words filled with more characters who have more lines of dialogue.
No record store manager worth his clip-on tie would argue too vehemently with a customer over an issue like this. He's sold you a faulty product, he has an obligation to make you happy. Yes, he also has an obligation to the bottom line, but I know dozens of people whose only CD player is in their computer; losing their patronage would probably do more harm than taking a few non-CDs back.
i think you missed the bit where he says they fixed it to work on DVD players... still won't play on a computer, without their silly software, but they claim it'll work on DVD players. it still sucks, royally, but it's not as bad as (or at least different from) what you think.
What's the problem here? We've got and open source database that's being developed in two somewhat different directions by NuSphere and MySQL AB... seems like in the end it'll lead to two different, but each (for their intended applications) excellent products. I just don't see a problem.
Maybe I'm just being dense (first reply: "Yes, you're fscking dense!")
...has been./ed into oblivion, probably with people feeding him mindpixels like "Natalie Portman is petrified" and "Grits are hot." We should all shed a tear for him.
For me, the main advantage of the Handspring products is the enhanced calendar app. It seems trivial, but integrating the To-Do list and allowing several new views is a really nice feature
The Visor includes both the Palm calendar app and Calendar+ (the Handspring version), and there just isn't any reason to use the original Palm app (other than some very slight slowdown on the larger views).
So, for those who think the Edge is roughly equivalent to the Palm Vx... maybe the Calendar+ app will sway them...;)
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It's also not dessert. You know what they say about glass houses...
Oh man, Phantasmagoria was one of the worst adventure games ever. A passable concept at the time(interactive movie more than a game, you could beat it in a couple hours if your CD-ROM drive was fast enough), but Lord, what poor implementation. I think I spent more time changing CDs than actually playing the game. Bo-ring. And not creepy.
To be honest, I don't know a thing about whether or not ZIP is used to ballpark tax forms, but in case you've forgotten, we've had ZIP+4 for quite a while now, and that can get pretty granular. You're likely to find measurable patterns there.
Return to the book? And make it even *more* boring? You must be mad.
Does anyone here live in the Boston area? Have you actually tried to use Comcast's "On Demand" feature? At least 75% of the time I try to watch something, it skips, or audio drops out, or there are horrendous artefacts, or it just won't start. We actually considered ordering an On Demand movie last weekend, but when the preview wouldn't even play, we gave up and watched Jason X on Showtime instead.
(Jason X is a fine film. Really.)
I can detect an autotune-processed track within seconds of hearing it, due to the utter piano-like lack of pitch sensitivity and expression.
Unlikely. For every "Only God Knows Why" there are a hundred other songs that have been tweaked with an autotuner here and there, or along the entire vocal track, and you'd never know it. As with any musical skill, audio production is an art, and a skilled engineer can correct pitches so that all but the most sensitive ears can't pick it out. I can't guarantee it, but I'd say it's quite likely that nearly every song you hear on rock or pop radio today has been pitch-corrected somewhere along the line. It's a powerful tool that can turn a great vocal take into a superb one. Just because some artists are using it as a special effect (something I really dislike) doesn't mean that's the only way to do it.
With apologies to those running this project, its website is at http://www.hektor.ch. (Someone say Last Rites for the web server, please.) There's some neat footage of Hektor in action. Unfortunate, though, that it's so slow; the video of it drawing some peanuts seems to go on forever, and most of the time you can't tell what it's doing. It's certainly interesting, but more performance art than anything else.
People go to the movies to be entertained, not put to sleep. If they had been expecting the book, they'd have been better off taking some NyQuil.
Just what we need - SimHippies stinking of SimPatchouli with hygeine meters redder than a baboon's ass sitting around in a SimDrumCircle outside SimMcDonald's because it's SimEvil. Please. Get me some SimTearGas and a SimTaser and I'll have them working the SimFry-o-Lator by SimTomorrowMorning.
Anyway, there are two problems with The Sims Online, given experience with the current play test: you can't fucking connect; and, when you can connect, it's boring as hell.
Amen to that. You'll notice that they give high marks to the WD800BB (7200RPM, 80GB, 2MB cache). I bought this drive last March, and it served me well: fast and reasonably quiet. However, in July, it died. Corrupted boot sector, various bad sectors, etc.
Unfortunately, this was not a one-off manufacturing error. A friend purchased the same drive about a month later, and his died the same crash-and-burn death as mine about two weeks later. Sounds like these drives just suck. I'm using the replacement they sent me, but only until I can get the scratch together to replace it with a Seagate.
Caveat emptor on these suckers.
Sure, many Ivies could provide "free" educations -- and many (Princeton, notably, and Harvard, at least, although I'm sure the others, too) will provide absurd amounts of financial aid to the truly needy. But it's all about perceived value. This is one of the (many) problems Linux has on the desktop and in the business place -- something that's "free" can't be very good, can it? By continuing to charge $30k+/year in tuition and fees, the Ivies can maintain their elite status, while at the same time quietly providing free rides to the bottom 5% or so, income-wise.
Exactly. I knew a Chinese dude who used to talk about going "lollaskating" all the time. Yeah. Furriners sure are funny.
A perfect solution would be something that could actually store and use the power generated by multiple lightning strikes.
No problem. Doc Brown did that way back in 1955.
I've seen a lot of posts already saying, "sh0w suM pr0n!!!!1!!!"
People, think about what you're saying. Pornography (at least the modern sort) is shot for the small screen. The very small screen. Nineteen inch televisions or, even worse, computer monitors. As a result, its directors often go for the extreme closeup, usually to great effect.
Now think about these closeups on IMAX. Gaping orifices of every level of hygeine standing several stories high? I don't know about you, but that sounds more "nauseating" than "erotic."
So please, think twice before you request porn on the (really) big screen. This has been a public service announcement(TM).
1 word: Straw-fucking-man.
I really hope I'm just feeding a troll, but here goes: if you take someone's Ferrari, you're depriving them of its use. If you copy someone's software ... you've got a copy. No one loses if you couldn't afford it / wouldn't have bought it anyhow. It doesn't make it legal, of course, but please don't say that piracy (always) damages the software house. (I would reckon the number of people who pirate software that they would have bought if not for warez is pretty small.)
I remember when I was looking at a Tascam USB sound device that there were warnings about using with AMD chips -- apparently, the USB controller common to motherboards supporting AMD chips was (in some way) incompatible with this device and caused all sorts of bizarre effects (sometimes). I remember that someone on the message board said that he had gotten it to work correctly, but many others had trouble. In any case, if you've got an AMD chipset and want this (and it won't work natively), go out and get a cheap PCI USB controller or something.
You're missing the point -- the threat here isn't on the desktop. MS simply isn't afraid of Linux on the desktop, and with good cause. The conflict here is in server-land: shops fed up with HP/IBM/Digital UNIX solutions are migrating to Linux on Intel hardware; MS wants them on Win2K. The threat here isn't Linux encroaching on MS's existing server market, but rather devouring its potential market, which may or may not exist (moving your environment from Digital UNIX to Linux seems to make more sense than from the same to Win2k, doesn't it?).
Now, the game is coming to GameCube, a system with more bits, which results in larger words filled with more characters who have more lines of dialogue.
Dialogue like:
w00t! My b0X0r h4Z m00r B1tZ +heN yuRz!!
Stellar.
No record store manager worth his clip-on tie would argue too vehemently with a customer over an issue like this. He's sold you a faulty product, he has an obligation to make you happy. Yes, he also has an obligation to the bottom line, but I know dozens of people whose only CD player is in their computer; losing their patronage would probably do more harm than taking a few non-CDs back.
i think you missed the bit where he says they fixed it to work on DVD players... still won't play on a computer, without their silly software, but they claim it'll work on DVD players. it still sucks, royally, but it's not as bad as (or at least different from) what you think.
Like verbs?
What's the problem here? We've got and open source database that's being developed in two somewhat different directions by NuSphere and MySQL AB ... seems like in the end it'll lead to two different, but each (for their intended applications) excellent products. I just don't see a problem.
Maybe I'm just being dense (first reply: "Yes, you're fscking dense!")
...has been ./ed into oblivion, probably with people feeding him mindpixels like "Natalie Portman is petrified" and "Grits are hot." We should all shed a tear for him.
For me, the main advantage of the Handspring products is the enhanced calendar app. It seems trivial, but integrating the To-Do list and allowing several new views is a really nice feature
The Visor includes both the Palm calendar app and Calendar+ (the Handspring version), and there just isn't any reason to use the original Palm app (other than some very slight slowdown on the larger views).
So, for those who think the Edge is roughly equivalent to the Palm Vx ... maybe the Calendar+ app will sway them... ;)
Unnecessary detail, anyone?