I'm pleased with the performance of Sanyo's Eneloop batteries. They're rechargeable and have the capacity (middle of the road at ~2000 mAh) of NiMH with much better self-discharge properties. Sanyo claims they'll hold 85% of their charge after a year. I haven't had them long enough to test that claim but the low self-discharge rate is the reason I purchased them for my Wii controllers. It's not often three other people show up but when they do I don't want to be swapping batteries and/or charging, the remotes should just work even if they've been sitting idle for a few weeks.
A few other companies are releasing hybrid batteries, they'll be showing up in retail outlets with greater and greater frequency over the rest of the year.
Each core counts as 3/4 a processor. Oracle had wanted to count each core as 1 processor but had to back down in the face of customer backlash and the Microsoft/IBM decision to count each physical die as a processor.
January 27 (Tue) - Meeting with Harvey Weinstein in New York. In January we had our first meeting with Miramax since the decision was made for them to release MONONOKE HIME. Suzuki-san brought Harvey Weinstein a present from Japan. A Japanese sword (not a real one, but one that looked exactly like a real one, except the blade was not sharp). We had heard that Harvey Weinstein sometimes has a very bad temper, and we notices that the other Miramax staff in the room looked very worried as he took his present from its sheath and examined the blade).
Suzuki-san asked Harvey Weinstein to please accept the present, and remember: "MONONOKE HIME, no cut." ---
I hear the guys at Bungie aren't too shabby at this here Halo 2 game. Bungie came out 3-0 against the Frag Dolls but it was a close 3-0 (50-26, 50-49, 50-45) and not a total whomping.
I recommend the newer 7-volume reprint. The books are larger (good) and unflipped (great). A box set was planned for release in November but Viz (the US publisher) dropped it without explanation.
Or just visit the Nausicaa.net page that lists the links to the "original" files. Original in quotes as they're sourced from various TV commercials and NN makes no ownership claim.
Disney is just about as "Hollywood" as a company can get, and it's responsible for bringing most of Studio Ghibli's output to the US.
Naruto isn't licensed in the US because of the cost. Popular shows command high fees not to mention the sheer length (nearly a 100 episodes and counting).
There's a 2-minute trailer floating around from a pay-per-view channel in Japan. It can't be found at the previous link due to 'requests' but with a little digging...
An acquisition and release date haven't been announced, but are basically formalities. For comparison, it took about a year for Spirited Away to make it from Japanese theaters to US theaters.
The film is already scheduled for theatrical release in France early in 2005.
It's also making an appearance at the Venice Film Festival. I don't expect it to win 'Best in Show' like 'Spirited Away' did at the Berlin Film Festival, but it's great to see animation put on equal footing with live-action unlike the Acadamy Awards.
In which it's shown that the boat is hauling away a phony safe? The real one did what you predicted, it went straight into the water for a safecracker to work on, underwater. Which is fairly amazing in its own right come to think of it.
Swapping out HDs makes a big difference and is one of the less invasive upgrades towards a quieter PC. I replaced a Western Digital 60 GB drive with a Samsung (who knew they made HDs?) and the noise/whine difference is substantial. I could hear the WD spin up at startup from the next room (wwwwwwhhhhhhhEEEEEEEEE!) and it continually produced a high-pitch whine while idle. The Samsung produces imperceptible levels of noise at startup or idle and its seek chatter is very low.
Thermalright makes heatsinks. Or more accurately, "massive machined chunks of copper". There's a reason many of their models require bolts to install, they'd pull the socket right out of the motherboard without the additional support. The heatsinks are great besides the heft because they don't include an integrated fan, you can buy a quiet 92mm Panaflo or Pabst fan and quietly cool even top-end CPUs.
Installing a fan controller helps squeeze the last few decibels out of the case, but you might run into the problem of the controller producing a rapid clicking noise at low voltages (the Vantec NXP-201 suffers from this problem, but is dirt cheap). SpeedFan is a software fan controller, but I've never quite figured out its usage.
A PC with a low noise floor makes listening to music more enjoyable as the dynamic range comes through without having to crank of the volume to drown out the fans.
To hangout with the hardcore "suspending harddrives with elastic / undervolting motherboards / 0 db computer" crowd visit Silent PC Review.
As the article mentions, Sony is going to have their hand forced by Microsoft's move and the PS2 will drop to the same price point by E3.
Which means in a few months anyone will be able to stroll into their local store and buy all three major consoles for the same price ($400 give or take a few dollars) as the Current Hotness Video Card (ATI 9800XT).
"Ocean Waves" is not coming to the US, at least not from Disney, they passed on buying the rights. I suppose another company could purchase the film, but its been available for over a decade without a peep of interest.
The Japanese DVDs are released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan, which is owned by. . . hold on to your seat. . . Disney. For those that want to wash their hands from any Disney-related company try the R3 (Hong Kong) releases, they're done by IVL.
Q: I heard that cuts were made in "Warriors of the Wind" to cover Nausicaa's bare bottom. Is it true?
A: That's a nasty rumor which just won't die. Even in a recent article by Reuters, she was called "a bare-bottomed heroine on a glider" @_@; Nausicaa *is* wearing pants. That's not a mini skirt she is wearing. It's her coat. Notice that the men in the valley are dressed as Nausicaa is. And they are not Scottish. ^_^
i saw this movie just to see pictures of the (yet-unreleased) super mario brothers 3.
While the game was unreleased in the US I had played the Japanese import (well, the Taiwanese bootleg) for a few months.
My cousins and I were in shock when the little kid found the warp zone in the first castle level (with the skeleton Koopa). When he got to that part of the stage we yelled "fly! fly!" which probably caused a bunch of dirty looks from other audience members until it happened on-screen.
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The DGPS system at Libby Dam in Montana is accurate to 1-mm vertically:
Performance Monitoring Of Libby Dam With A Differential Global Positioning System UNITED STATES SOCIETY OF DAMS (JUNE 2005)
I'm pleased with the performance of Sanyo's Eneloop batteries. They're rechargeable and have the capacity (middle of the road at ~2000 mAh) of NiMH with much better self-discharge properties. Sanyo claims they'll hold 85% of their charge after a year. I haven't had them long enough to test that claim but the low self-discharge rate is the reason I purchased them for my Wii controllers. It's not often three other people show up but when they do I don't want to be swapping batteries and/or charging, the remotes should just work even if they've been sitting idle for a few weeks.
A few other companies are releasing hybrid batteries, they'll be showing up in retail outlets with greater and greater frequency over the rest of the year.
Each core counts as 3/4 a processor. Oracle had wanted to count each core as 1 processor but had to back down in the face of customer backlash and the Microsoft/IBM decision to count each physical die as a processor.
The story from Studio Ghibli VP Steven Alpert's "Mononoke Hime" Diary:
January 27 (Tue) - Meeting with Harvey Weinstein in New York. In January we had our first meeting with Miramax since the decision was made for them to release MONONOKE HIME. Suzuki-san brought Harvey Weinstein a present from Japan. A Japanese sword (not a real one, but one that looked exactly like a real one, except the blade was not sharp). We had heard that Harvey Weinstein sometimes has a very bad temper, and we notices that the other Miramax staff in the room looked very worried as he took his present from its sheath and examined the blade).
Suzuki-san asked Harvey Weinstein to please accept the present, and remember: "MONONOKE HIME, no cut." ---A small feature on the Pixar Exhibition at the Studio Ghibli Museum: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/museum/pixar/
I hear the guys at Bungie aren't too shabby at this here Halo 2 game. Bungie came out 3-0 against the Frag Dolls but it was a close 3-0 (50-26, 50-49, 50-45) and not a total whomping.
Halo Humpday Challenge
I recommend the newer 7-volume reprint. The books are larger (good) and unflipped (great). A box set was planned for release in November but Viz (the US publisher) dropped it without explanation.
Or just visit the Nausicaa.net page that lists the links to the "original" files. Original in quotes as they're sourced from various TV commercials and NN makes no ownership claim.
No, just that a press release hasn't gone out with a big "Diseny Acquires Next Miyazaki Film" headline and lots of quotes.
Disney is just about as "Hollywood" as a company can get, and it's responsible for bringing most of Studio Ghibli's output to the US.
Naruto isn't licensed in the US because of the cost. Popular shows command high fees not to mention the sheer length (nearly a 100 episodes and counting).
Here are a few teasers of Howl's Moving Castle.
There's a 2-minute trailer floating around from a pay-per-view channel in Japan. It can't be found at the previous link due to 'requests' but with a little digging...
An acquisition and release date haven't been announced, but are basically formalities. For comparison, it took about a year for Spirited Away to make it from Japanese theaters to US theaters.
The film is already scheduled for theatrical release in France early in 2005.
It's also making an appearance at the Venice Film Festival. I don't expect it to win 'Best in Show' like 'Spirited Away' did at the Berlin Film Festival, but it's great to see animation put on equal footing with live-action unlike the Acadamy Awards.
Any encoder sounds great if you throw enough bits at it; the trick is sounding good when the bit reservoir is shallow.
Same deal for MPEG-2 encoders, they all look great at 7 Mbit+/sec but the real test is 3-4 Mbit/sec.
http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm
Apple's new lossless codec isn't included, but will have a tough time beating the speed/size ratio of Monkey's Audio.
In which it's shown that the boat is hauling away a phony safe? The real one did what you predicted, it went straight into the water for a safecracker to work on, underwater. Which is fairly amazing in its own right come to think of it.
Swapping out HDs makes a big difference and is one of the less invasive upgrades towards a quieter PC. I replaced a Western Digital 60 GB drive with a Samsung (who knew they made HDs?) and the noise/whine difference is substantial. I could hear the WD spin up at startup from the next room (wwwwwwhhhhhhhEEEEEEEEE!) and it continually produced a high-pitch whine while idle. The Samsung produces imperceptible levels of noise at startup or idle and its seek chatter is very low.
Thermalright makes heatsinks. Or more accurately, "massive machined chunks of copper". There's a reason many of their models require bolts to install, they'd pull the socket right out of the motherboard without the additional support. The heatsinks are great besides the heft because they don't include an integrated fan, you can buy a quiet 92mm Panaflo or Pabst fan and quietly cool even top-end CPUs.
Installing a fan controller helps squeeze the last few decibels out of the case, but you might run into the problem of the controller producing a rapid clicking noise at low voltages (the Vantec NXP-201 suffers from this problem, but is dirt cheap). SpeedFan is a software fan controller, but I've never quite figured out its usage.
A PC with a low noise floor makes listening to music more enjoyable as the dynamic range comes through without having to crank of the volume to drown out the fans.
To hangout with the hardcore "suspending harddrives with elastic / undervolting motherboards / 0 db computer" crowd visit Silent PC Review.
As the article mentions, Sony is going to have their hand forced by Microsoft's move and the PS2 will drop to the same price point by E3.
Which means in a few months anyone will be able to stroll into their local store and buy all three major consoles for the same price ($400 give or take a few dollars) as the Current Hotness Video Card (ATI 9800XT).
"Ocean Waves" is not coming to the US, at least not from Disney, they passed on buying the rights. I suppose another company could purchase the film, but its been available for over a decade without a peep of interest.
- General Overview
- Voice Actors
- Translating
- Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
- Whisper of the Heart
- Spirited Away
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Howl's Moving Castle
Had you read the interview when it came out you would have already known a new "Totoro" dub was in the works. ^_^The Japanese DVDs are released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan, which is owned by. . . hold on to your seat. . . Disney. For those that want to wash their hands from any Disney-related company try the R3 (Hong Kong) releases, they're done by IVL.
"Pom Poko" is included in Disney deal, see http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/disney/ for a complete list of films included in the deal.
*sigh*
Try the Nausicaa.net FAQ:
Q: I heard that cuts were made in "Warriors of the Wind" to cover Nausicaa's bare bottom. Is it true?
A: That's a nasty rumor which just won't die. Even in a recent article by Reuters, she was called "a bare-bottomed heroine on a glider" @_@; Nausicaa *is* wearing pants. That's not a mini skirt she is wearing. It's her coat. Notice that the men in the valley are dressed as Nausicaa is. And they are not Scottish. ^_^
The previews don't remind me of a children's film.
For the screaming and kicking WordPerfect converts. WP used a blue background/white text scheme.