They're exercise for your brain, or your social skills, or your co-ordination. Furthermore, they can feel more rewarding than WoW, and have more real-life applications. If someone finds they excel at one or more of them, it could lead to a happy career change, or a more lasting memory of the person after they're gone.
If you play WoW and similar MMO's all your life, what lasting mark will you leave on society? You could have found art in welding, leaving pieces behind people will remember you for. Even if you don't make it big in whatever your hobby was, you're more likely to have met and touched the lives of hundreds of people. You might have made a difference in their lives by doing a favor, or collaborating on a project, or teaching them something new. Any equivalent effect you have online on people's lives is going to pale in comparison because of it's impermanence.
One is cheaper and easier to get, the other has better highs and rewards, and is healthier. I'll take better, more expensive drug. The trips are way better.
You still don't get it. Spending all your free time playing only WoW or softball would both be wasting your life. Go on a hike, read a book, take some photographs, learn about politics, or any topic not directly job-related. Go learn how to dance, or weld, or repair your own car. Go take a real-world vacation.
Do stuff that broadens your knowledge, interactions, and who you are.
I understood from the start why the dust changes from black to white. I was asking why you mentioned it at all. On re-reading it, I see, you're just illustrating the difference between the neg and the interpositive.
I should have read wikipedia's page on "Movie projector" a long time ago. What you wrote surprised me and got me over to it. A decade ago I'd read how DTS used an optical disc and I made the assumption that SDDS and Dolby Digital did too. I had no idea they have the data stored optically between or outside the perfs.
Z34107 hasn't written back yet. Should I be concerned about your well-being? I'm glad you found a job. Do you like it? Is it stimulating so that in ten years you won't just look back on it as something that paid the bills and sucked your life away? Are you using the money to do enjoyable outside activities and interests that aren't WoW or WoW-related?
Without having read Bartle, I'd speculate a large part of the problem is the developers and publishers want a big-hit game. Since treadmills seem to get the largest audience, that's what they've been doing.
Has there yet been an MMORPG that tried to immerse the players in a changing world? By immersion I mean:
NPC guards and in-town characters with changing dialog NPC travellers along the roads with stories of what lies ahead NPC armies that actually march instead of spawning Enemies that actually move and migrate instead of spawning Bulletin boards in towns with player created quests and stories along with NPC ones
Now unlike the grandparent, I don't think the focus should be on human factions battling each other. Instead it should be human factions against NPC factions, armies, and monsters. Additionally, change the leveling system so that levels teach new skills. Make it so a Level 20 character can swing a sword alongside a 60 character and kill monsters together. But the 60 will have healing or tracking, or alternate weapon skills that the 20 lacks.
Let players make their own cities and hire guards, but don't make sacking other guild's towns a focus. Make the environment around the towns matter. If players don't visit a town on the wild frontier, animals and monsters increase in the area, making for good hunting for mid-levels. If the town is near high-level monsters, it's going to need defending, or slowly be over-run. Meanwhile, repelling an invading army to the sea or the wild-lands from which it came lets players discover and settle the new land or board ships to a discovered island or continent. Of course that land has to be tamed as well. What was once an enemy town with it's unique architecture becomes player-inhabited.
So if you're one of those kids who plays WoW for hours every day, what else have you accomplished with your life? What outside projects, interests, and relationships have you developed that you can talk up when you're at parties or interviewing for a job?
Thanks for the info. Why will the dust changing from white to black make a difference? If the scan is done on the original negative, the colors will later be digitally inverted anyway, including the dust.
Does Super 35 only occupy what had been the optical audio, and not the magnetic audio?
Lastly, what's up with Panasonic mastering Blu-ray with MPEG-4 before Sony?
In general, do you think it's easier to recruit for an extremist cause when times are good for the citizenry, or bad? Good employment rates, low hunger, high education, plentiful entertainment and leisure activities, all make for a happy population that is less likely to join, support, or tolerate an extremist movement.
On the upside once you finally caved you were able to either save some money, or get a get a faster-burning drive. I burn DVDs at 4x because any faster and there's too many L1 errors for my taste. Any slower and I'd have to wait twice or four times as long...and according to Nero my burner won't do 1x or 2x anyway.:)
If it's 30 HDs for 30 days and always re-writing the oldest backup, it'll probably be 99.99% as reliable as doing the same thing with tape or other backup solutions. A year later a HD should still be as good also.
What media do you buy? It matters. I have Verbatim 650MB CD-Rs from 1999 and earlier that I just tested and are still good. I also have used Fry's "Great Quality" house brand discs that were so bad, the last 50MB or more were unreadable a few months later and so I didn't burn more than 600MB on them after I found that out. They're probably useless now except as coasters or inaccurate throwing projectiles. I use Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs now and am completely satisfied. TY is considered the best media available.
What would you call it if the neighbor was deaf and so could play loud music audible to everyone else, 24/7? People wouldn't be able to open a window without hearing it. Maybe even with the windows shut it's still audible inside the house. It's not destruction of property, but it's at least as vile.
Never-the-less when I went to the elephants page yesterday afternoon someone had snuck in vandalism with a somewhat-scientific sounding sentence under "Threat of Extinction". If I hadn't been aware of the Colbert event, I might have taken that as fact.
I wouldn't. WOW is an addictive game. Mac users who don't boot into Windows have very few gaming choices. That's a bad combination likely to lead to massive Mac WOW addicts.
Donnie Darko only disturbed me because I kept trying to figure out why they hell people liked it so much. What I saw was a dumb movie with an illogical concept and execution. I only saw the theatrical version, but people liked that one too.
Impressively there's been little comment from people who really know about the security in the next-gen DVD systems. From the sound of the article, the firmware has been patched. So other than a few thousand computers with this security hole, the problem is contained. That really hampers the number of people who can exploit it. It also means cracking down on copyright infringers will be much easier, even if the computers are sold for cash to strangers. The Chinese government periodically puts on showpiece raids to placate the West. There's a difference though between a hydra that re-grows its heads all the time, and one that has a maximum of a few thousand. I also wouldn't be surprised if the player firmware can be updated by newer movies. Sony's PSP does this. The title will not run unless the firmware is updated. If so, it'll be hard to frame-capture a movie that won't play without the update.
Sony pays BayTSP and others to monitor the filesharing networks and try to infiltrate the private FTP networks to track down who is releasing DVD rips and screeners. Hence we get news stories several times a year about groups of people being arrested for releasing movies onto the net. You obviously don't understand how the system works. One person isn't enough to get a file widely spread over Kazaa or eDonkey. And when it comes to HD-releases, the movie studios are NOT going take such an attempt lightly.
The screeners and rippers upload to private FTP networks, who then allow the uploaders to download their terabytes of movies and software. This way one copy quickly becomes 100. Several weeks later after spreading through college networks and being seeded on BitTorrent, enough people are sharing it over P2P that tens of thousands now have it.
Now do you think the elite groups are retarded enough to let just anyone in without trying to find out if they're working for the FBI and MPAA? Well the groups that get busted are, or maybe they just got unlucky. You're naive if you think ignorant and or stupid people alone are going to be able to release HD copies onto the net. The studios are counting on Blu-ray and HD-DVD to remain unbroken for twenty years, and after DeCSS, they have the resources, contacts, and co-operation of law enforcement to stop any leaks from a few daring pirates before the leaks become a flood.
One 24th of a second is 41.667ms. Re-syncing the video with the audio comes down to having two monitors, and possibly two computers. Play the original on one screen, and the rip on the other. Have two sets of speakers, or just use headphones with one audio output on the right side, and the other output on the left. Getting the audio within 1 second is a piece of cake based on listening to dialog or drum beats. Getting within half a second just takes a little concentration paying attention to when a gunshot happens, or again the beat of a drum (no not a kick one). Getting it down to exactly which frame just means using AVI-MUX and delaying the audio by 42ms steps until it's perfect. Of course I'd probably start with 200ms steps and zero-in from there.
Why would it look like shit? The movie would probably be recompressed with H.264 to fit on a DVD-9, possibly at 720p or maybe still 1080p, but it will still look damn good, despite some compression artifacts at 1080p.
But how many of the movie-releasing organizations have managed to survive for at least five years without being raided by the FBI or equivalent Information Bureau in their countries? A couple times a year there's news stories of some bittorrent-releasing movie group getting caught. How many of these groups have yet to be brought down?
How did the physiologists/physicists figure that out though? What data did they have to conclude that say a quarter-mile ring would be too small to prevent vertigo?
I suppose that's one way to define it. I would say undervolting means providing less voltage than the device recommends or was meant to get. Since my CPU fan came with resistors to output 6V, 8V, or 10V, I don't see that as undervolting unless I go below 6V.
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They're exercise for your brain, or your social skills, or your co-ordination. Furthermore, they can feel more rewarding than WoW, and have more real-life applications. If someone finds they excel at one or more of them, it could lead to a happy career change, or a more lasting memory of the person after they're gone.
If you play WoW and similar MMO's all your life, what lasting mark will you leave on society? You could have found art in welding, leaving pieces behind people will remember you for. Even if you don't make it big in whatever your hobby was, you're more likely to have met and touched the lives of hundreds of people. You might have made a difference in their lives by doing a favor, or collaborating on a project, or teaching them something new. Any equivalent effect you have online on people's lives is going to pale in comparison because of it's impermanence.
One is cheaper and easier to get, the other has better highs and rewards, and is healthier. I'll take better, more expensive drug. The trips are way better.
You still don't get it. Spending all your free time playing only WoW or softball would both be wasting your life. Go on a hike, read a book, take some photographs, learn about politics, or any topic not directly job-related. Go learn how to dance, or weld, or repair your own car. Go take a real-world vacation.
Do stuff that broadens your knowledge, interactions, and who you are.
Thanks again for the additional info.
I understood from the start why the dust changes from black to white. I was asking why you mentioned it at all. On re-reading it, I see, you're just illustrating the difference between the neg and the interpositive.
I should have read wikipedia's page on "Movie projector" a long time ago. What you wrote surprised me and got me over to it. A decade ago I'd read how DTS used an optical disc and I made the assumption that SDDS and Dolby Digital did too. I had no idea they have the data stored optically between or outside the perfs.
Z34107 hasn't written back yet. Should I be concerned about your well-being? I'm glad you found a job. Do you like it? Is it stimulating so that in ten years you won't just look back on it as something that paid the bills and sucked your life away? Are you using the money to do enjoyable outside activities and interests that aren't WoW or WoW-related?
If not you might be wasting your life on a game.
Without having read Bartle, I'd speculate a large part of the problem is the developers and publishers want a big-hit game. Since treadmills seem to get the largest audience, that's what they've been doing.
Has there yet been an MMORPG that tried to immerse the players in a changing world? By immersion I mean:
NPC guards and in-town characters with changing dialog
NPC travellers along the roads with stories of what lies ahead
NPC armies that actually march instead of spawning
Enemies that actually move and migrate instead of spawning
Bulletin boards in towns with player created quests and stories along with NPC ones
Now unlike the grandparent, I don't think the focus should be on human factions battling each other. Instead it should be human factions against NPC factions, armies, and monsters. Additionally, change the leveling system so that levels teach new skills. Make it so a Level 20 character can swing a sword alongside a 60 character and kill monsters together. But the 60 will have healing or tracking, or alternate weapon skills that the 20 lacks.
Let players make their own cities and hire guards, but don't make sacking other guild's towns a focus. Make the environment around the towns matter. If players don't visit a town on the wild frontier, animals and monsters increase in the area, making for good hunting for mid-levels. If the town is near high-level monsters, it's going to need defending, or slowly be over-run. Meanwhile, repelling an invading army to the sea or the wild-lands from which it came lets players discover and settle the new land or board ships to a discovered island or continent. Of course that land has to be tamed as well. What was once an enemy town with it's unique architecture becomes player-inhabited.
So if you're one of those kids who plays WoW for hours every day, what else have you accomplished with your life? What outside projects, interests, and relationships have you developed that you can talk up when you're at parties or interviewing for a job?
Thanks for the info. Why will the dust changing from white to black make a difference? If the scan is done on the original negative, the colors will later be digitally inverted anyway, including the dust.
Does Super 35 only occupy what had been the optical audio, and not the magnetic audio?
Lastly, what's up with Panasonic mastering Blu-ray with MPEG-4 before Sony?
In general, do you think it's easier to recruit for an extremist cause when times are good for the citizenry, or bad? Good employment rates, low hunger, high education, plentiful entertainment and leisure activities, all make for a happy population that is less likely to join, support, or tolerate an extremist movement.
Remember, I said in general.
On the upside once you finally caved you were able to either save some money, or get a get a faster-burning drive. I burn DVDs at 4x because any faster and there's too many L1 errors for my taste. Any slower and I'd have to wait twice or four times as long...and according to Nero my burner won't do 1x or 2x anyway. :)
If it's 30 HDs for 30 days and always re-writing the oldest backup, it'll probably be 99.99% as reliable as doing the same thing with tape or other backup solutions. A year later a HD should still be as good also.
What media do you buy? It matters. I have Verbatim 650MB CD-Rs from 1999 and earlier that I just tested and are still good. I also have used Fry's "Great Quality" house brand discs that were so bad, the last 50MB or more were unreadable a few months later and so I didn't burn more than 600MB on them after I found that out. They're probably useless now except as coasters or inaccurate throwing projectiles. I use Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs now and am completely satisfied. TY is considered the best media available.
Wouldn't that leave concrete behind in the gutter? How is it the contractor has never been taken to task for that? Corruption?
What would you call it if the neighbor was deaf and so could play loud music audible to everyone else, 24/7? People wouldn't be able to open a window without hearing it. Maybe even with the windows shut it's still audible inside the house. It's not destruction of property, but it's at least as vile.
Have you yet found an uptick in vandalism elsewhere since so many of you were occupied with Colbert-related pages?
Never-the-less when I went to the elephants page yesterday afternoon someone had snuck in vandalism with a somewhat-scientific sounding sentence under "Threat of Extinction". If I hadn't been aware of the Colbert event, I might have taken that as fact.
I wouldn't. WOW is an addictive game. Mac users who don't boot into Windows have very few gaming choices. That's a bad combination likely to lead to massive Mac WOW addicts.
Donnie Darko only disturbed me because I kept trying to figure out why they hell people liked it so much. What I saw was a dumb movie with an illogical concept and execution. I only saw the theatrical version, but people liked that one too.
WTF was up with the rabbit?
The topic is HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, not DVD.
Impressively there's been little comment from people who really know about the security in the next-gen DVD systems. From the sound of the article, the firmware has been patched. So other than a few thousand computers with this security hole, the problem is contained. That really hampers the number of people who can exploit it. It also means cracking down on copyright infringers will be much easier, even if the computers are sold for cash to strangers. The Chinese government periodically puts on showpiece raids to placate the West. There's a difference though between a hydra that re-grows its heads all the time, and one that has a maximum of a few thousand. I also wouldn't be surprised if the player firmware can be updated by newer movies. Sony's PSP does this. The title will not run unless the firmware is updated. If so, it'll be hard to frame-capture a movie that won't play without the update.
Sony pays BayTSP and others to monitor the filesharing networks and try to infiltrate the private FTP networks to track down who is releasing DVD rips and screeners. Hence we get news stories several times a year about groups of people being arrested for releasing movies onto the net. You obviously don't understand how the system works. One person isn't enough to get a file widely spread over Kazaa or eDonkey. And when it comes to HD-releases, the movie studios are NOT going take such an attempt lightly.
The screeners and rippers upload to private FTP networks, who then allow the uploaders to download their terabytes of movies and software. This way one copy quickly becomes 100. Several weeks later after spreading through college networks and being seeded on BitTorrent, enough people are sharing it over P2P that tens of thousands now have it.
Now do you think the elite groups are retarded enough to let just anyone in without trying to find out if they're working for the FBI and MPAA? Well the groups that get busted are, or maybe they just got unlucky. You're naive if you think ignorant and or stupid people alone are going to be able to release HD copies onto the net. The studios are counting on Blu-ray and HD-DVD to remain unbroken for twenty years, and after DeCSS, they have the resources, contacts, and co-operation of law enforcement to stop any leaks from a few daring pirates before the leaks become a flood.
One 24th of a second is 41.667ms. Re-syncing the video with the audio comes down to having two monitors, and possibly two computers. Play the original on one screen, and the rip on the other. Have two sets of speakers, or just use headphones with one audio output on the right side, and the other output on the left. Getting the audio within 1 second is a piece of cake based on listening to dialog or drum beats. Getting within half a second just takes a little concentration paying attention to when a gunshot happens, or again the beat of a drum (no not a kick one). Getting it down to exactly which frame just means using AVI-MUX and delaying the audio by 42ms steps until it's perfect. Of course I'd probably start with 200ms steps and zero-in from there.
It might take about an hour, but it's not hard.
Why would it look like shit? The movie would probably be recompressed with H.264 to fit on a DVD-9, possibly at 720p or maybe still 1080p, but it will still look damn good, despite some compression artifacts at 1080p.
But how many of the movie-releasing organizations have managed to survive for at least five years without being raided by the FBI or equivalent Information Bureau in their countries? A couple times a year there's news stories of some bittorrent-releasing movie group getting caught. How many of these groups have yet to be brought down?
How did the physiologists/physicists figure that out though? What data did they have to conclude that say a quarter-mile ring would be too small to prevent vertigo?
Anything under 12V is undervolted.
I suppose that's one way to define it. I would say undervolting means providing less voltage than the device recommends or was meant to get. Since my CPU fan came with resistors to output 6V, 8V, or 10V, I don't see that as undervolting unless I go below 6V.