There are some trailers / teasers for episode 1 available through Steam. Seemed to be pretty high resolution. I was impressed. Although I think it would bomb in the theaters, if the movie was rendered a la "Toy Story", it would be interesting to see. It would need a bit more history and background if you were to make a 120 minute movie out of it.
I find it hard - very hard - to believe that printing and shipping 12 copies of a magazine costs $20, especially if you are getting a good rate because you're buying in bulk. What really shocks me is that I get tons of free magazines from publishers (the only magazine I still pay for is national geographic and there aren't all that many ads in that anymore) who want to bump their subscriber numbers. I'm sure the freebees get factored in to the subscriptions costs.
1080 is 1920 x 1080, and I haven't seen many monitors do more than 1600 x 1200, so no, not every CRT made in the last decade can handle the resolution. My monitor does 2048x1536, but I understand that is a bit of an oddity.
Quite a few of the "enhanced" IEDs are actually quite simple in design. Just a fair amount of high explosives and a 10 kilo copper plate will get you a simple platter charge that will propel that 10 kilo plate at 6000 fps. Rather difficult to stop anything moving over 5000fps, and there is a lot of mass there. If all the kinetic energy was transfered (as opposed to blowing right through), you'd see halo physics, with humvees flipping over and other similar things. A shaped charge isn't much more complex and uses the same basic components, just in a different arrangement. As for explosives, I'm sure the Iraqis had a shitload left over from their stockpiles, and these charges aren't very difficult to construct - you'd need training, because the design isn't exacty intuitive (and we, uhh, sort of trained the afghanis when they were killing soviets), but if you have the materials, constructing one of these is about as difficult as field stripping an AK47.
DVD's do look great, but there is something better out there. I watched HBO's Rome and Lost in HD and was quite impressed, but most people don't have a high resolution monitor or TV, so yeah, they won't see the difference. Also makes grabbing stills much easier;) HD content on a 60" TV does look damn spectacular. Lost was especially good, found the island pans, etc, quite relaxing.
Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table.'"
I wouldn't exactly call Sony's efforts dismal failures. I know dozens of people who bought Sony stuff and are locked into Sony's bullshit formats, and who pay a markup of 100%+ or more for flash memory and storage (because of Magical Fairy licensing fees, I presume, the formats aren't superior to pretty much anything else out there.) Besides, what other digital camera manufacturer gets money when their customers buy memory? They are getting their money and are pretty happy about it - and most importantly, people are still buying their stuff - mainly because of the "Ooh, Shiny!" effect (you have to admit that to the lay person, their stuff does look good in stores), but sales continue.
And yes, it looks like the BR/HD competition will be worse for the consumer than the +R -R thing, as media is priced insanely high. Really, the price is bullshit, I can buy a 250 gig hard drive for $60 - shipped - and the most expensive blank disk is $10 less (not including shipping) with a heckuva lot less storage than 250 gigs).
A visa can be surrendered after it has been used. RFID requires surgery to eliminate, or else some kind of electronic wiping. Like most immigrants from Mexico can afford that...
I'm guessing that there is a doctor or two in mexico who is willing to take a small cash bribe to do a simple operation. A vet could do it too.
Seek times are faster closer towards the center of the disk iirc, although with the amount of automatically remapped bad sectors in drives in firmware these days, I think any performance gains would be minimal. Of course, you're probably taking a performance hit on hitting one section of the drive for swap and another for programs and the such.
Autocorrect is enabled by default in Office 2003 in excel. Was creating a spreadsheet in a foreign language and the damn thing kept autocorrecting.
And you're right - HCl doesn't get changed, but acn does (to can). And you can control z to your heart's content, it won't un-autocorrect it. Loads of fun!
It's simple, you get the ip of the computer and go \\192.168.1.3 and avoid using the \\computername format. Of course, you need to know the IP, which sometimes isn't possible. It would be generous to call this "trick" a workaround, it sure as hell isn't a solution.
Another wonderful MS innovation is if you drag a file over a shortcut to a share on a box that is down. ~30 second lock of the desktop and explorer. Note that I didn't say drop, just drag over. Annoying as fuck? You betcha. You'd think they would of have fixed this by now, if you positively, absolutely need to check to see if the box is up, perhaps a seperate process or something that wouldn't cause the interface to hang for 30 seconds.
The widgets are just like OS X. They are interesting, but I have no real use for them on my laptop.
Wifi meter and battery life are 2 quite nice widgets for a laptop, at least using konfabulator. I agree with you about widgets like "what the moon looks like today", etc.
Even in this day and age, I still have some problems with sleep and hibernate. A firefox session with 30 tabs does not respond well to either of the above. Granted, I have a toshiba laptop (friends don't let friends.... and all that, but hey, it was $300) and a couple of desktop systems that I built myself, but this seriously shouldn't be an issue anymore. I do use sleep and hibernate, but make sure to save everything before I do.
Windows swap can get pretty damn fragmented, which is why I tend to create a 2 gig partition (at the begining of the disk, although I suppose it doesn't really matter where) and toss the swap file (and nothing else) on there. Biggest problem with this is that you can't do a full memory dump on a blue screen, the horror... and, of course, poorly written (as in shit) programs might not install if the morons hardcoded the install path or something (this still happens, taxcut had this problem a while ago).
You're completely right about blackholing ms, but the default behaviour for updates is annoying as hell. Forced reboots that kill -9 any open programs, including my personal pet peeve virtualdub, 12 hours into a ~20 hour batch (I have a tv card and do encoding sprees every month or so)
I've come back twice where it has interrupted the batch and on my recent trip to europe, I came back to find that it had restarted the box and the "shutdown when batch completed" option never was reached, so the box was on for a month doing nothing (except for possibly patching and rebooting). I can think of a couple more situations where someone would lose a lot more work.
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There are some trailers / teasers for episode 1 available through Steam. Seemed to be pretty high resolution. I was impressed.
Although I think it would bomb in the theaters, if the movie was rendered a la "Toy Story", it would be interesting to see. It would need a bit more history and background if you were to make a 120 minute movie out of it.
I find it hard - very hard - to believe that printing and shipping 12 copies of a magazine costs $20, especially if you are getting a good rate because you're buying in bulk.
What really shocks me is that I get tons of free magazines from publishers (the only magazine I still pay for is national geographic and there aren't all that many ads in that anymore) who want to bump their subscriber numbers. I'm sure the freebees get factored in to the subscriptions costs.
I was thinking of doing a "b...b...but Clinton".
Anyone have the .torrent?
Just like in Stalingrad!
1080 is 1920 x 1080, and I haven't seen many monitors do more than 1600 x 1200, so no, not every CRT made in the last decade can handle the resolution. My monitor does 2048x1536, but I understand that is a bit of an oddity.
Quite a few of the "enhanced" IEDs are actually quite simple in design. Just a fair amount of high explosives and a 10 kilo copper plate will get you a simple platter charge that will propel that 10 kilo plate at 6000 fps. Rather difficult to stop anything moving over 5000fps, and there is a lot of mass there. If all the kinetic energy was transfered (as opposed to blowing right through), you'd see halo physics, with humvees flipping over and other similar things.
A shaped charge isn't much more complex and uses the same basic components, just in a different arrangement.
As for explosives, I'm sure the Iraqis had a shitload left over from their stockpiles, and these charges aren't very difficult to construct - you'd need training, because the design isn't exacty intuitive (and we, uhh, sort of trained the afghanis when they were killing soviets), but if you have the materials, constructing one of these is about as difficult as field stripping an AK47.
DVD's do look great, but there is something better out there. I watched HBO's Rome and Lost in HD and was quite impressed, but most people don't have a high resolution monitor or TV, so yeah, they won't see the difference. Also makes grabbing stills much easier ;)
HD content on a 60" TV does look damn spectacular. Lost was especially good, found the island pans, etc, quite relaxing.
Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table.'"
I wouldn't exactly call Sony's efforts dismal failures. I know dozens of people who bought Sony stuff and are locked into Sony's bullshit formats, and who pay a markup of 100%+ or more for flash memory and storage (because of Magical Fairy licensing fees, I presume, the formats aren't superior to pretty much anything else out there.)
Besides, what other digital camera manufacturer gets money when their customers buy memory?
They are getting their money and are pretty happy about it - and most importantly, people are still buying their stuff - mainly because of the "Ooh, Shiny!" effect (you have to admit that to the lay person, their stuff does look good in stores), but sales continue.
And yes, it looks like the BR/HD competition will be worse for the consumer than the +R -R thing, as media is priced insanely high.
Really, the price is bullshit, I can buy a 250 gig hard drive for $60 - shipped - and the most expensive blank disk is $10 less (not including shipping) with a heckuva lot less storage than 250 gigs).
A visa can be surrendered after it has been used. RFID requires surgery to eliminate, or else some kind of electronic wiping. Like most immigrants from Mexico can afford that...
I'm guessing that there is a doctor or two in mexico who is willing to take a small cash bribe to do a simple operation. A vet could do it too.
Seek times are faster closer towards the center of the disk iirc, although with the amount of automatically remapped bad sectors in drives in firmware these days, I think any performance gains would be minimal.
Of course, you're probably taking a performance hit on hitting one section of the drive for swap and another for programs and the such.
Autocorrect is enabled by default in Office 2003 in excel. Was creating a spreadsheet in a foreign language and the damn thing kept autocorrecting.
And you're right - HCl doesn't get changed, but acn does (to can). And you can control z to your heart's content, it won't un-autocorrect it.
Loads of fun!
And the dummies books will, from that point on, contain braindumps of ms exams ;)
It's simple, you get the ip of the computer and go \\192.168.1.3 and avoid using the \\computername format. Of course, you need to know the IP, which sometimes isn't possible. It would be generous to call this "trick" a workaround, it sure as hell isn't a solution.
Another wonderful MS innovation is if you drag a file over a shortcut to a share on a box that is down. ~30 second lock of the desktop and explorer. Note that I didn't say drop, just drag over. Annoying as fuck? You betcha.
You'd think they would of have fixed this by now, if you positively, absolutely need to check to see if the box is up, perhaps a seperate process or something that wouldn't cause the interface to hang for 30 seconds.
You'd think they would of have killed the picker by now....
Exactly. Notepad will also happily copy over any unicode characters, which is also kind of annoying.
You'll find that control z doesn't work too well in excel.
The widgets are just like OS X. They are interesting, but I have no real use for them on my laptop.
Wifi meter and battery life are 2 quite nice widgets for a laptop, at least using konfabulator. I agree with you about widgets like "what the moon looks like today", etc.
Why the fuck would you want to run an LCD at a non native resolution?
Even in this day and age, I still have some problems with sleep and hibernate. A firefox session with 30 tabs does not respond well to either of the above.
Granted, I have a toshiba laptop (friends don't let friends.... and all that, but hey, it was $300) and a couple of desktop systems that I built myself, but this seriously shouldn't be an issue anymore.
I do use sleep and hibernate, but make sure to save everything before I do.
Windows swap can get pretty damn fragmented, which is why I tend to create a 2 gig partition (at the begining of the disk, although I suppose it doesn't really matter where) and toss the swap file (and nothing else) on there. Biggest problem with this is that you can't do a full memory dump on a blue screen, the horror... and, of course, poorly written (as in shit) programs might not install if the morons hardcoded the install path or something (this still happens, taxcut had this problem a while ago).
There should be a 30 second or so timer on those sort of dialogues.
Problems with ATI drivers? Surely you jest. ;)
You're completely right about blackholing ms, but the default behaviour for updates is annoying as hell. Forced reboots that kill -9 any open programs, including my personal pet peeve virtualdub, 12 hours into a ~20 hour batch (I have a tv card and do encoding sprees every month or so)
I've come back twice where it has interrupted the batch and on my recent trip to europe, I came back to find that it had restarted the box and the "shutdown when batch completed" option never was reached, so the box was on for a month doing nothing (except for possibly patching and rebooting).
I can think of a couple more situations where someone would lose a lot more work.
Probably after they learn to spell.