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  1. Not long now on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 1

    Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23.
    Give me a hard copy right there.

  2. Re:Philosophical issue arises on Translating Brain Waves Into Words · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. What language do you count in?
    2. What language do you dream in?

    Out of pure interest, If you're bilingual as a child. What language do you count in?
    Most people who learn a new language as a teen or adult find it easiest to count or do maths in the first language learnt. Even when they’ve been living in their new country for several years.
    I found working with numbers in Japanese next to impossible. Until I used their money, now it’s effortless. Still can’t do times very well.

    Finally, What language do you dream in?
    My parents did the host family thing for foreign students. After the student had stayed for a couple of months and you could see a change in fluency. I liked to ask if they had started dreaming in English yet. The ones that didn’t would hit a plateau for much longer and progression took ages. Based on 15 years of observation growing up with different students from around the world trying to learn the English.

    My child is growing up bilingual. It’s nice to have some insight. - I still need to learn teh English; but that's another thing.

  3. Re:Okay then on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I didn't see that happening.

  4. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do they say?

    June 2001 - "Dave, can't go out tonight. I got a date with that fat chick.YEAH!"
    Sept 2001 - "Dave, She's told me she pregnant."
    Jan 2002 - "Dave, will you be the best man at the wedding :(".


    Shhhh - Dave's the real father (AC doesn't know)..

  5. Re:Facebook is cancer on Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls · · Score: 1

    I like Smallvile. My brain rotted many many yeas ago. Mmm Kristin Kreuk.


    The correct amount of Ls has been used.

  6. Re:Facebook is cancer on Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls · · Score: 1

    I thought that as I typed mind killer :) Have a knowing nod +1

  7. Re:Facebook is cancer on Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like Geocites!

  8. Re:If you can turn it off on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    I think it would be ok to swap from a 3D image to a 2D image for a scope. The swap may even add to the effect.
    As for the scope thing. Hmm...
    You'll need scope with a little LCD screen in it. No no that costs too much. Hmm...

    I KNOW! They give you a little inscreen picture. It's a circle, 3-4cm wide (left or right hand side as needed). They put the zoomed up image in that. The rest of the screen is normal.

    All you need to so is Duck Tape the correct number of toilet role tubes to your head until they reach the monitor. There - You have your two images. You'll have lost all depth perception now, so you don't even need 3D at all. Toilet role tubes and tape not included.
    I bet someone here could code that up in quake or doom by the end of the day :)

  9. Re:Facebook is cancer on Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you'll find the people hacking facebook are very innovative and creative. TV is the main mind killer.

  10. Re:If you can turn it off on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    I turn the music off in most games. It is an unwanted feature :)
    If you pay close attention to the sound in most FPS games you'll notice it is awful. Not as in the quality of the samples; but the depth of noise. I remember a moment whilst playing Crysis ages ago. I was in the middle of a thickets of woods right next to a beach and the only sound being played was my foot steps. When I stood still it was almost silent. Ambient track 1 playing or something; but it was out of context. It needed crashing waves, wind in trees. Noise from military action miles away and 1001 other things.
    We still have a very long way to go for sound in games, game devs may not think it is a gimmick; but they do seem to treat it as one.
    They used to teach see a sound hear a sound at Disney, games need much more than that.

    For great visual 3D they are going to need better soundscapes.

  11. Re:I have a household robot on The State of Household Robots · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit shocked they worked well at all? I saw one in a shop ages ago and it just didn't look powerful enough to pick up much.
    Do you use it on carpet or wood floors? How does it deal with going around dining table and chairs? Does it miss the edges of the room out? Thanks. I may get one.

  12. Re:Try Windows Media Center on Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    I don't mind two machines on to copy things over. That said for 90% of the things I've used a usb key or a usb HDD. They are huge these days and hold many files. But am I am allowed to have more than one machine on if needed. I just don't like the idea needed two machine one to watch one film.

  13. Re:They did what? on Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    Using your feet on the controller? Now that is hardcore! well done.

  14. Re:Try Windows Media Center on Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    I've never liked the idea of needed to have two machines on to watch one film.
    Oddly this happened around about the time I started paying the bills.

    Paying more to get a better media server is not the solution as I still have to pay that bill too. So the ps3 with the 500mb Hdd upgrade will have to do for now.

  15. Re:So? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    You sould see the post's I dont bother to re-reed and correct. :)

  16. Re:So? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    The phonetic system is just how some people like to learn and if that works for you, then great. But in school, well my school, they only taught that method. No help to me. I'd have been much better off with a visual and kinesthetic approach.

    If you look at the other comments to my post you'll see the spelling errors really got some people.
    I find that bit interesting. How do you know when a word is wrong? Phonetic or visual, each need a check method. It doesn't bother me when words are a bit wrong. I take the meaning and get on with my day. Others can't.
    All that said - if you had a really great teacher, then any method should work.

  17. Re:Fucking backwards on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've no problem with his cock on your TV?!?

  18. Re:Not limited to logogram-based languages on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 3, Funny

    No; but i'll have a look at it for you.

  19. Re:So? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, I agree. I was taught using the "pho - ne' - tic" system as a child. Which doesn't work. Just ask people who can spell. They do not use that system at all.
    They visualise the word; but more interestinainaly - wHen they see a mispelt words they feel ill. It's the main reason they get so upset when they see crap. Their neurological debugging gives them force feed back. How awfuls for them. :)

    The NLP crowd wrote a lot of interesting stuff on this - http://www.nlpu.com/Articles/artic10.htm

  20. Re:So? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to learn Kanji

    If I were a counselor, I'd say that the use of "trying" in a sentence implies expected failure. In that case, I've been trying to learn to kanji too. For more years than I'd care to mention. I've given up.

    If anyone anyone here knows a decent about of NLP, I'd like an some OCD so I'd feel compelled to learn it.

    I need to learn English first. All the speelings and teh grammers is hard.

  21. Re:Not limited to logogram-based languages on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's confession time, add me to that list. My chicken scrawl is of the highest calibre.
    I spell better when I type too; but that's just practice and a lot of muscle memory I guess.
    If the keyboard is 5mm to the left It all goes wring.

  22. Re:Astronomy? on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    It will take zero point six eight seconds to burn to a crisp. For beef jerky, that is nearly an eternity.

  23. Re:Be radical. on Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change · · Score: 1

    if you cannt speel or types very welll at full speed, then the real time element is a put offf as everyones can see how dumb you are.
    I do not need any extra help for that, fankyou.

  24. Re:Reason #0 on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    On the commute to work we deal with zombies everyday. We have tea and we have cricket bats.
    We British will be fine.

  25. Re:Space tourists? on NASA Set To Launch Solar NanoSail Into Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are making the brochure first.