...Imagine how this technology could be used to compress simpsons / futurama episodes?
Hear me out... Mpeg (and DivX) are good, but they're like jpg. If we had something that was good at determining the parts of a screen that don't really change enough, they could be used as a "background" sort of thing, and instead of mpeg or divx, we could encode it into something more along the lines of the old autodesk animator.flc files. This could bring a high-quality simpsons episode down to only a couple of meg + sound.
Huh? Except for the choice of OS? This goes too far. Who gives a crap if they don't use linux? It's not like it runs windows, it runs some OS they wrote, that does what it needs to do - play mp3s. If it works, and it does what it's supposed to do, good on them.
Now I'm all for somebody getting one and putting linux on it, but that's "hey a cool hack" value, not something that needs to be done to make the product worthwhile.
You're going about the problem the wrong way. Don't think about what you "can" and "can't" click. Because we both know this crowd would all click "yes" anyway.
The fact is, those who are the "liars" must tick yes anyway, because it's the statement that cannot be true, hence it's a lie.
Then again, anybody who is a liar can also tick NO, since he's lying.
Tax evasion? I pay my taxes. I pay my registration. I don't feel like contributing to the coffers of my revenue hungry government (Australia). I'm all for red light cameras and MARKED speed cameras, because they actually save lives. However that's not what we have here.
Besides that, I was suggesting a technical solution, not a social one.
No, what we really need is two lcds, each one covering half the plate, and they cycle which is on and which is off a few hundred times a second. With some careful timing, cops wouldn't notice, but cameras couldn't get more than half the plate at once... no plate, no ticket;-)
Bah... you may like them both, but you're kidding yourself if you think dr who is anywhere near one tenth as popular as buffy... hence, most buffy fans, are not dr who fans. This holds true moreso in women. Tens of thousands of women watch buffy who would sooner die than watch an episode of Dr Who (or star trek for that matter).
OpenGL will die on Windows at the same time as John Carmack dies.
I now regret killing him so many times in Doom II. I guess I've done my part to support the monopoly...
Dude that's John Romero. The chanting you hear when you enter the final level is "To win the game, you must destroy me, John Romero" played backwards at half speed.
Almost all the Dr. Who villians are greedy capitalists.
huh?
the master - just plain evil, wouldn't mind being rich, but only because he wants power
the daleks - do whatever they please, not interested in money at all, basically stupid war mongers
the cybermen - definitely not interested in gold;-) as once humans, they simply do whatever they feel is necessary to reproduce, and consider themselves the most evolved life in the universe.
Now I'd like to get it out of the way up front: I am a HUGE dr who fan, I love it, even sylvester mccoy's annoying sidekick "ace". Sarah Jane was a babe. Daleks are the <comicguy%gt;coolest. baddies. ever.</comicguy%gt;
But the movie sucked. Like it totally sucked balls. What the hell did they do to the tardis?? It looked like a friggin health spa, not a space ship.
I've wanted nothing more than a new Dr Who, and what's-his-face would make a very good doctor... But I'm afraid they'll buffy-ify it, and try to make it for buffy fans... and buffy fans are not dr who fans... some dr who fans may be buffy fans, but most buffy fans would never sit through anything starring tom baker.
Hahahaha! You (and probably your father) are an idiot.
I know in your little fantasy world it's the 10-year-olds who are hacking out the planet-saving patches keeping this fragile society together, while the Ph.d educated engineers at Microsoft scratch their heads in awe
What the fuck are you talking about? Who said anything about patches, or little kid geniouses or anything like that?
Were you even reading my post? The fact is You cannot stop your children from doing things they want to do. You know this. your parents tried it, and you did them anyway. So did your friends. All I said was that reaing your childrens' diary (a lot of my female friends had parents who liked to do this), reading his email, listening in on his phone calls, and stealing his pager and deciphering his "code talk" are not the way to go about things.
Policing children is not what parenting is about. Parenting is about _RAISING_ children, and teaching them: teach them how to make their own decisions about what's right and what's wrong, because by the time their desicions are life-threatening (unprotected sex, dui, drugs) they're going to make their own decisions wether you like it or not. Telling them what to do and what not to do is of course good - expecting them to do it "because i said so" is a fruitless and potentially damaging way of things.
Kids need guidance. They need discipline
I never said otherwise. And I never said kids can be trusted to do the right thing. But that doesn't make it right to go through their personal things looking for evidence just in case.
Nothing makes me sadder and lose more hope for the future of society than stuff like this.
"Policing your children and invading their privacy for Dummies"
When will people realise that the way to help your child grow up safely is not to forbid things and sneak around in their personal communications? All you will achieve is a rebellious teenager who doesn't trust you. Teach them right and wrong, and teach them good and bad, and back up your teachings with sound reasons. They're probably going to go out and smoke pot a few times no matter what you do, so try and make it so they trust you and believe you when you say it's not always a good idea.
If you can't come up with a convincing reason ("because it's bad mkaay" / "because i told you so" don't count) for forbidding your child to do something, they'll do it just to see what all the fuss is.
.... Who thinks buffy is crap? It's drawn out, the plots are stupid, characters come back from the dead more often than freddy krueger (see "nightmare on elm street 12: we swear this is the last one"), and the only reason it's popular is because buffy is hot (to the jocks) and willow is hotter (to us geeks at least).
This post is why you should have a sig of some sort. I (and I assume many other people) are used to ignoring the last line of text. I stared at this for a while thinking "what kinda gay question is that?" eventually i noticed and read the next line, and it's pretty damned funny.
Anyway, that's my off-topic karma burning post of the day.
Find me an extraplanetary rocket that runs on water
I will when you find me a car that runs on petroleum.
No car runs on petroleum. They run on a combustable chemical (sometimes petroleum, sometimes old fish-n-chips oil), and OXYGEN. Water, is simply a convenient way to store a combustible chemical (hydrogen) and oxygen.
No, most of my music is ripped from my extensive collection of cds. I don't believe everything should be free, but I don't believe that when mpeg is available free (well close enough) we should have to pay for a lesser quality closed codec because of "You scratch my back and i'll scrath yours" licensing agreements between media companies.
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...Imagine how this technology could be used to compress simpsons / futurama episodes?
.flc files. This could bring a high-quality simpsons episode down to only a couple of meg + sound.
Hear me out... Mpeg (and DivX) are good, but they're like jpg. If we had something that was good at determining the parts of a screen that don't really change enough, they could be used as a "background" sort of thing, and instead of mpeg or divx, we could encode it into something more along the lines of the old autodesk animator
somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!
*Sigh* If I must...
/me imagines the worlds biggest "Don't try this at home kids" disclaimer...
:)
Could get us some nice darwin entries tho
Except for the choice of OS, looks pretty sweet
Huh? Except for the choice of OS? This goes too far. Who gives a crap if they don't use linux? It's not like it runs windows, it runs some OS they wrote, that does what it needs to do - play mp3s. If it works, and it does what it's supposed to do, good on them.
Now I'm all for somebody getting one and putting linux on it, but that's "hey a cool hack" value, not something that needs to be done to make the product worthwhile.
So after Bush gets into the Whitehouse by promising to run the country like a business we suddenly discover how many of the businesses are being run.
I thought bush got into the whitehouse by counting votes the way many of the businesses are being run?
You're going about the problem the wrong way. Don't think about what you "can" and "can't" click. Because we both know this crowd would all click "yes" anyway.
The fact is, those who are the "liars" must tick yes anyway, because it's the statement that cannot be true, hence it's a lie.
Then again, anybody who is a liar can also tick NO, since he's lying.
Tax evasion? I pay my taxes. I pay my registration. I don't feel like contributing to the coffers of my revenue hungry government (Australia). I'm all for red light cameras and MARKED speed cameras, because they actually save lives. However that's not what we have here.
Besides that, I was suggesting a technical solution, not a social one.
No, what we really need is two lcds, each one covering half the plate, and they cycle which is on and which is off a few hundred times a second. With some careful timing, cops wouldn't notice, but cameras couldn't get more than half the plate at once... no plate, no ticket ;-)
Bah... you may like them both, but you're kidding yourself if you think dr who is anywhere near one tenth as popular as buffy... hence, most buffy fans, are not dr who fans. This holds true moreso in women. Tens of thousands of women watch buffy who would sooner die than watch an episode of Dr Who (or star trek for that matter).
I vote Bruce Campbell. Its all in the chin, baby.
:)
At first I thought - beeeeeeeauuuuuuuuutiful. Who could do it better?
Then I thought - but we need him to be Duke Nukem!
Then I thought, but we have a better candidate to be duke, so long as we teach him to act
Of course since not too many of you are from god's country you won't understand... but trust me, the man looks like the duke.
Dude that's John Romero. The chanting you hear when you enter the final level is "To win the game, you must destroy me, John Romero" played backwards at half speed.
Dude schultz is dead.
Almost all the Dr. Who villians are greedy capitalists.
;-) as once humans, they simply do whatever they feel is necessary to reproduce, and consider themselves the most evolved life in the universe.
huh?
the master - just plain evil, wouldn't mind being rich, but only because he wants power
the daleks - do whatever they please, not interested in money at all, basically stupid war mongers
the cybermen - definitely not interested in gold
Hardly capitilists...
.... Very afraid.
Now I'd like to get it out of the way up front: I am a HUGE dr who fan, I love it, even sylvester mccoy's annoying sidekick "ace". Sarah Jane was a babe. Daleks are the <comicguy%gt;coolest. baddies. ever.</comicguy%gt;
But the movie sucked. Like it totally sucked balls. What the hell did they do to the tardis?? It looked like a friggin health spa, not a space ship.
I've wanted nothing more than a new Dr Who, and what's-his-face would make a very good doctor... But I'm afraid they'll buffy-ify it, and try to make it for buffy fans... and buffy fans are not dr who fans... some dr who fans may be buffy fans, but most buffy fans would never sit through anything starring tom baker.
I'm afraid. And you should be too.
Hahahaha! You (and probably your father) are an idiot.
I know in your little fantasy world it's the 10-year-olds who are hacking out the planet-saving patches keeping this fragile society together, while the Ph.d educated engineers at Microsoft scratch their heads in awe
What the fuck are you talking about? Who said anything about patches, or little kid geniouses or anything like that?
Were you even reading my post? The fact is You cannot stop your children from doing things they want to do. You know this. your parents tried it, and you did them anyway. So did your friends. All I said was that reaing your childrens' diary (a lot of my female friends had parents who liked to do this), reading his email, listening in on his phone calls, and stealing his pager and deciphering his "code talk" are not the way to go about things.
Policing children is not what parenting is about. Parenting is about _RAISING_ children, and teaching them: teach them how to make their own decisions about what's right and what's wrong, because by the time their desicions are life-threatening (unprotected sex, dui, drugs) they're going to make their own decisions wether you like it or not. Telling them what to do and what not to do is of course good - expecting them to do it "because i said so" is a fruitless and potentially damaging way of things.
Kids need guidance. They need discipline
I never said otherwise. And I never said kids can be trusted to do the right thing. But that doesn't make it right to go through their personal things looking for evidence just in case.
Nothing makes me sadder and lose more hope for the future of society than stuff like this.
"Policing your children and invading their privacy for Dummies"
When will people realise that the way to help your child grow up safely is not to forbid things and sneak around in their personal communications? All you will achieve is a rebellious teenager who doesn't trust you. Teach them right and wrong, and teach them good and bad, and back up your teachings with sound reasons. They're probably going to go out and smoke pot a few times no matter what you do, so try and make it so they trust you and believe you when you say it's not always a good idea.
If you can't come up with a convincing reason ("because it's bad mkaay" / "because i told you so" don't count) for forbidding your child to do something, they'll do it just to see what all the fuss is.
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.... Who thinks buffy is crap? It's drawn out, the plots are stupid, characters come back from the dead more often than freddy krueger (see "nightmare on elm street 12: we swear this is the last one"), and the only reason it's popular is because buffy is hot (to the jocks) and willow is hotter (to us geeks at least).
/me dons asbestos pants
This post is why you should have a sig of some sort. I (and I assume many other people) are used to ignoring the last line of text. I stared at this for a while thinking "what kinda gay question is that?" eventually i noticed and read the next line, and it's pretty damned funny.
Anyway, that's my off-topic karma burning post of the day.
Hey, all you canucks out there - no need to pay blank media taxes on cd-rs... they're not blank. they're simply recordings of a cover of 4'33" :-)
Hahaha, tazzie devils may be bloodthirsty, but they're only about as big as a silky terrier, methinks it'd be a pretty quick fight ;-)
;-)
Plus who wants to go to tasmania? Bunch a two-headed folk who marry their cousins
No I haven't been to texas, but you just described most of Australia, so it's not really that strange to me :)
Find me an extraplanetary rocket that runs on water
I will when you find me a car that runs on petroleum.
No car runs on petroleum. They run on a combustable chemical (sometimes petroleum, sometimes old fish-n-chips oil), and OXYGEN. Water, is simply a convenient way to store a combustible chemical (hydrogen) and oxygen.
The words you're looking for may be areohistory and areology.
;-)
Not to be confused with aeriohistory and aeriology being man's favourite pass-time, the study of nipples
Why do americans feel the need to express everything in space, in how it relates to the size of texas?
Bruce willis: How big is that thing?
Some guy: It's as big as texas
Nasa nerd 1: I've found a lake on mars!
Nasa nerd 2: Really? where?
Nasa nerd 3: Up there on your left... It's about 1.2 texas'.
Picard: Number one, how fast are we currently travelling?
Riker: Approximately 200 million texas' per hour sir
No, most of my music is ripped from my extensive collection of cds. I don't believe everything should be free, but I don't believe that when mpeg is available free (well close enough) we should have to pay for a lesser quality closed codec because of "You scratch my back and i'll scrath yours" licensing agreements between media companies.