Sadly, Gravis had NO idea how to properly market a sound card as they were "simple" joystick manufacturers (etc).
It was always amazing to setup two systems next to one another for the serial "network" game (one with a Creative board the other with an Ultrasound board) and compare the sound quality. It was amazing. Plus id has always put so much time and thought into the graphic and sound quality it's clearly a different experience when you compare them.
Anyone that complains about personal info / privacy concerns and uses hotmail, yahoo, gmail, facebook, twitt-head-er, etc. etc. has NO leg to stand on.
In addition if anyone remembers, there were plenty of issues between id, Creative and (wait for it) Gravis. Yes, for anyone old enough to remember those days, the UltraSound card by Gravis was the first wave table sound card and VASTLY superior to anything (non)Creative Labs ever put out.
id's support of the UltraSound card was a bone of contention for Creative and I can easily see that Creative would have a hair across their collective ass(ets) including something they (creative) might want to litigate for.
I figured as much, I was goofing around because I was disappoint to not see the exhaust. I grew up on an air base and loved watching the jets take off. I've seen three of the shuttles go up as well as Voyager 2 leave the Earth as well.
I love wanna be intellectuals commenting like they are being funny. I was joking around you ass-hat.
Anyway, if you want, here's something for you to chew on dim whit.
According to what I found online the J-2X looks like it's a step backwards. According to the data on wiki it's bigger, heavier, produces less thrust than the J-2S therefore causing it's thrust to weight ratio to be less than BOTH the J-2 and J-2S.
No, you're not setting the bar too high, but apparently you bar is low enough most won't trip over it.
I shouldn't expect much of a comment from someone who has a ID number in the tens of millions.
Isn't the "Gish Gallop" the same way the vast majority of the GOP tar and feathers Democrats? Especially when you consider all the radio and tv talk show hosts, that seems to be the way they work.
While I absolutely applaud the 13 year old for producing and implementing a scientific experiment (IMO:More than many early teens these days.) I’d like to see why (as stated above) the flat panel has less PV than the tree.
Why is it that Israel is kicking our ass with so many Army (Read As: Ground forces) technology?
I mean, back when we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq the Israelis had a armored vehicle that could shoot rocket propelled grenades and inbound projectiles and we didn't. Oh wait, Raytheon paid off the government to sacrifice our soldiers for their vehicle that still has YET to be produced.
Before that the Israelis were working on a mobile laser weapon that can shoot artillery shells out of the sky.
They created that modification to guns that allows the military to shoot around corners without risking sticking your head our there.
Now this and whatever else we don't know about.
The Chinese are creating their own stealth technology.
I'm not a "Pro-Military" guy but I would like to see a LOT more money put into research and development as well as spying. To a certain extent the 40's & 50's had it right. Spy and steal technology so you know what they are doing. Protect your companies at home and spend money on your R&D.
Now, since Corporations have global and international ties, they could give two shits who has the tech as long as they make their money.
And since Corporations buy our government, specifically the Republicans but some Democrats too, there isn't much effort in restricting those practices.
The media doesn't work anymore when it comes to whistle blowing news about our government.
- can't photo or record cops - guy that got brought in for recording a shoot out
- the entire decade of 2000 to 2010 lack of real coverage of anything to do with the middle east wars.
- any protection of anonymity. The media has been "recovering" from the Bush era controls, but they still don't really do as good a job as they have in the past. They are more interested in selling the news that reporting it.
So, its up to US (people of the US) to record the news on our cells and post it to the internet before that gets controlled.
It also occurs to me that Hackers may become a form of Journalism at this point in order to protect the people from it's government.
Some may think this obvious but I felt it needed to be stated.
It doesn't pass the smell test. It's yet another rehash in a long line of part 2's. All of which has nothing to do with furthering anything other than the financial bottom line. Lame.
At least with the title "Space Balls II: The search for more money" they were honest about their intentions.
This is just a huge push to Ca$h in on the popularity of the overly hyped, overly SFX'd movies based on comic books of the past and SUCK in a new crowd of teens.
It's just too funny. All the idiots that believe this.
But I always though "Rapture" was just a misinterpretation of "Capture". Meaning, some alien is coming to capture the "faithful" and use them as live stock to feed on. They'll drop a couple (three) asteroids on us to prevent retaliation ( I figure we can tell "no worries, we won't come after you").
In any event, I'm playing Blondie's Rapture song because it makes me laugh and it will make me laugh even more to play it tonight at 1800 EDT. LOL
"Rapture"
Toe to toe Dancing very close Barely breathing Almost comatose Wall to wall People hypnotised And they're stepping lightly Hang each night in Rapture
Back to back Sacrailiac Spineless movement And a wild attack
Face to face Sadly solitude And it's finger popping Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind Flash is fast, Flash is cool Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do And you don't stop, sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and you drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night, eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercuries and Subarus And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet Face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man Dance toe to toe Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall He's gonna eat 'em all Rapture, be pure Take a tour, through the sewer Don't strain your brain, paint a train You'll be singin' in the rain I said don't stop, do punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna be Just have your party on TV 'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on And now he's gone back up to space Where he won't have a hassle with the human race And you hip-hop, and you don't stop Just blast off, sure shot 'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars And now he only eats guitars, get up!
Until the projection system is 3D like a holographic system you can walk 360 degrees around. It's not 3D, its a trick.
Currently that's all we have. I know some may post about some holographic systems being developed, see the first sentence.
I will reiterate, for right now that's all we have.
If you like it, go spend your money. If you don't like it, don't spend your money.
This argument is like watching extremist christians telling people they're going to hell because you don't believe the way they do. It's a stupid argument over something that doesn't really matter. If more people paid attention to their own decisions instead of getting worked up about 'others' decisions their would be a lot more productive debate and productive competition.
The market (people who pay) will decide whether the technology lives or dies. Worry about your own money not what someone else does with theirs. (unless it directly affects you)
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a giant upside down '5' or a backwards '2' ...
Go look at AIA211 at http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
It's hard to miss. That number is 2/3 the siz of the sun...
I think my observation is a little more realistic/interesting than some weird triangle/sphere thing. I couldn't find it.
LAME.
The FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, etc etc etc are ALL terrorist organizations.
Banks are terrorist organizations too for that matter.
Give me a break...
I suppose that's one way to get more grant money. (using lawyers as text animals)
When the same tests were conducted with Lawyers and Politicians...
The Lawyers and Politicians left their fellow people in the cages and ate the treats in front of them.
The Rats proved to be more compassionate and empathic.
Sadly, Gravis had NO idea how to properly market a sound card as they were "simple" joystick manufacturers (etc).
It was always amazing to setup two systems next to one another for the serial "network" game (one with a Creative board the other with an Ultrasound board) and compare the sound quality. It was amazing. Plus id has always put so much time and thought into the graphic and sound quality it's clearly a different experience when you compare them.
Ah... Memory lane. Thanks.
Anyone that complains about personal info / privacy concerns and uses hotmail, yahoo, gmail, facebook, twitt-head-er, etc. etc. has NO leg to stand on.
In addition if anyone remembers, there were plenty of issues between id, Creative and (wait for it) Gravis. Yes, for anyone old enough to remember those days, the UltraSound card by Gravis was the first wave table sound card and VASTLY superior to anything (non)Creative Labs ever put out.
id's support of the UltraSound card was a bone of contention for Creative and I can easily see that Creative would have a hair across their collective ass(ets) including something they (creative) might want to litigate for.
I figured as much, I was goofing around because I was disappoint to not see the exhaust. I grew up on an air base and loved watching the jets take off. I've seen three of the shuttles go up as well as Voyager 2 leave the Earth as well.
I love wanna be intellectuals commenting like they are being funny. I was joking around you ass-hat.
Anyway, if you want, here's something for you to chew on dim whit.
According to what I found online the J-2X looks like it's a step backwards. According to the data on wiki it's bigger, heavier, produces less thrust than the J-2S therefore causing it's thrust to weight ratio to be less than BOTH the J-2 and J-2S.
No, you're not setting the bar too high, but apparently you bar is low enough most won't trip over it.
I shouldn't expect much of a comment from someone who has a ID number in the tens of millions.
But I expected a large afterburner like exhaust.
It looked like a giant smoke machine.
Huzzah! Common Sense wins out in this post. Mod this right the heck up!
Isn't the "Gish Gallop" the same way the vast majority of the GOP tar and feathers Democrats? Especially when you consider all the radio and tv talk show hosts, that seems to be the way they work.
USGS earthquake was a 5.8 about 3.7 miles down.
S & P downgraded it to 4.5.
Just another example of a complete lack of originality. We can't make something new lets repackage something with CG, that makes it better right?
If you paint a turd to look like a flower, it still smells like sh*t.
And Conan the Barbarian??
While I absolutely applaud the 13 year old for producing and implementing a scientific experiment (IMO:More than many early teens these days.) I’d like to see why (as stated above) the flat panel has less PV than the tree.
It's not a good comparison.
Like a kid caught between fighting parents. No-one wins.
Why is it that Israel is kicking our ass with so many Army (Read As: Ground forces) technology?
I mean, back when we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq the Israelis had a armored vehicle that could shoot rocket propelled grenades and inbound projectiles and we didn't. Oh wait, Raytheon paid off the government to sacrifice our soldiers for their vehicle that still has YET to be produced.
Before that the Israelis were working on a mobile laser weapon that can shoot artillery shells out of the sky.
They created that modification to guns that allows the military to shoot around corners without risking sticking your head our there.
Now this and whatever else we don't know about.
The Chinese are creating their own stealth technology.
I'm not a "Pro-Military" guy but I would like to see a LOT more money put into research and development as well as spying. To a certain extent the 40's & 50's had it right. Spy and steal technology so you know what they are doing. Protect your companies at home and spend money on your R&D.
Now, since Corporations have global and international ties, they could give two shits who has the tech as long as they make their money.
And since Corporations buy our government, specifically the Republicans but some Democrats too, there isn't much effort in restricting those practices.
I ranted too much here, my apologies.
The media doesn't work anymore when it comes to whistle blowing news about our government.
- can't photo or record cops - guy that got brought in for recording a shoot out
- the entire decade of 2000 to 2010 lack of real coverage of anything to do with the middle east wars.
- any protection of anonymity.
The media has been "recovering" from the Bush era controls, but they still don't really do as good a job as they have in the past. They are more interested in selling the news that reporting it.
So, its up to US (people of the US) to record the news on our cells and post it to the internet before that gets controlled.
It also occurs to me that Hackers may become a form of Journalism at this point in order to protect the people from it's government.
Some may think this obvious but I felt it needed to be stated.
Why is this a surprise? Just reading about aspects of bitcoin make it obvious to anyone with a brain what illicit uses it has.
Ideally, it's a good idea but seriously... Who didn't see this coming?
It doesn't pass the smell test. It's yet another rehash in a long line of part 2's. All of which has nothing to do with furthering anything other than the financial bottom line. Lame.
At least with the title "Space Balls II: The search for more money" they were honest about their intentions.
This is just a huge push to Ca$h in on the popularity of the overly hyped, overly SFX'd movies based on comic books of the past and SUCK in a new crowd of teens.
Lame.
And even then, sometimes that doesn't work.
It's just too funny. All the idiots that believe this.
But I always though "Rapture" was just a misinterpretation of "Capture". Meaning, some alien is coming to capture the "faithful" and use them as live stock to feed on. They'll drop a couple (three) asteroids on us to prevent retaliation ( I figure we can tell "no worries, we won't come after you").
In any event, I'm playing Blondie's Rapture song because it makes me laugh and it will make me laugh even more to play it tonight at 1800 EDT. LOL
"Rapture"
Toe to toe
Dancing very close
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture
Back to back
Sacrailiac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack
Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!
Anyone that can afford one can setup a porn site using these things to peer in windows.
Until the projection system is 3D like a holographic system you can walk 360 degrees around. It's not 3D, its a trick.
Currently that's all we have. I know some may post about some holographic systems being developed, see the first sentence.
I will reiterate, for right now that's all we have.
If you like it, go spend your money. If you don't like it, don't spend your money.
This argument is like watching extremist christians telling people they're going to hell because you don't believe the way they do. It's a stupid argument over something that doesn't really matter. If more people paid attention to their own decisions instead of getting worked up about 'others' decisions their would be a lot more productive debate and productive competition.
The market (people who pay) will decide whether the technology lives or dies. Worry about your own money not what someone else does with theirs. (unless it directly affects you)