Haha! I can't believe the parent was modded insightful...
At any rate, the whole thing seems funny to me. I'm French, and every time I go back, it amazes me how much English is used in the language. I know the French-Canadians are touchy about using English words, but it seems odd for France to suddenly worry about something like "e-mail" which seems like a pretty universal term.
Also, it is inexplicable how the poster of the article could have gone from the correct "courriel" to the incorrect "curriel" (what is that: some kind of curry?) between the quote of the article and the comment made on it.
I've looked into the quote-comma issue. It seems the rules have changed (likely to account for the lowest common denominator, which is the primary reason rules change.
It is now OK to put the comma either inside or outside the quote.
And a few years from now, the apostrophe will be just for show, and nukyulur will be in the dictionary...
Heh. Interesting to see that even males don't know what to do with an apostrophe.:)
A previous post talked about making sure your spelling was "mostly right." Do these standardized exams take spelling and grammar into account? Have they ever?
I'm wondering exactly when spelling and grammar became so... optional. The apostrophe abuse situation has become more severe in the past two years. I'm seeing signs and advertisements which randomly pluralize words with an apostrophe in front of the 's'.
Look up "centripetal" and "centrifugal." Remember that there is such a thing as "centripetal force" and no such thing as "centrifugal force." (I have no mnemonic scheme for remembering, so I usually have to look it up).
Also, the cable would not be like a string that someone waves around in a circle. As the article/review states, it is a very tall satellite in geosynchronous orbit. This means you wouldn't have to push the cable up or hold it down. You'd just have to hold onto it so it doesn't drift.:)
Theoretically, the cable is pretty much just hanging to the ground. You clamp it for stability, but if you were to let it go, it would just be hanging out of the sky.
Assuming this perfectly balanced case (which may not be completely accurate due to the fact that you want to lift a payload into space), if the cable is severed anywhere at all, the center of mass of the top part is above geosynchronous orbit, and the center of mass of the bottom part is below.
IMHO, Xilinx has the edge over Altera (Altera had a deal with my University). Using the tools Altera provides is like banging your head against a brick wall with nails sticking out of it, whereas the Xilinx tools are like a cool breeze on a warm summer day.
The first I heard of FPGAs was in University. We got to play with them for a project course. Fun stuff. I still have a dev board from Altera kicking around. It even has a VGA port.
Anyway, One guy made a fully functional Arkanoid clone for his project. Someone who graduated a year or two after me had the idea of emulating old arcade systems in an FPGA.
I can't actually use Windows without the Windows key. If I need to do any of the following on a keyboard that lacks the Windows key (be it through mutilation or antiquity), my face scrunches up into a frustrated scowl:
Win-E: call up Explorer Win-F: find files Win-D: show desktop Win-M: minimize all windows Win-R: Run
I can vouch for that. I use DDR as my main form of exercise (of course, before that, I did nothing). An hour of marginally difficult DDR tunes is a great workout. There's lots of motion, balance, and jumping around like a dork involved. I recommend it to anybody who can't stand doing traditional exercise due to boredom.
As far as the bicycle gaming goes, I believe I saw a special VCR arrangement that would play at a video at a speed proportional to the speed you were pedalling at. This was about 10 years ago. I can't remember where I saw it, but basically, they would play a recording of a camera duct-taped to a bicycle.
Also, there's an arcade game called Prop Cycle where you are flying around on a winged, propeller-powered bicycle. You not only need to pedal a bicycle to control your speed, but you have to steer, pull up and down, and lean side to side (not sure about that last one, but it happens anyway!).
I worked for a retail chain that sells games, CDs, and DVDs. I know for a fact that games are usually sold for $1 to $2 over cost. A game you buy for $69 CAD cost the retailer $67.
Some CDs and DVDs (and very occasionally games) are sold at or under cost when they have just come out.
The most markup I ever saw was for Mario Party 4: $69 retail, $65 cost.
I don't know who gets the profit and in what percentages, but the retailer gets far from half.
Ouch. You tease someone about a typo, then commit grammatical first degree murder...;)
One thing I find odd about most software in Windows is that they all want to save to "My Documents." I'd like to see Word save to "My Documents\Word," Excel to "My Documents\Excel," etc. There are arguments for and against that, but it would at least be similar to the Palm modus operandi.
Are there any places where you can just go and point to a 42" plasma TV's box and say, "cart that one out to my car.?" You're always going to have to go into a store with commissioned sales staff, right?
On another note, Don't be that way... If you walk into a store, a salesperson is going to talk to you. They have to. It's their job. If they approach you without the hungry "I must sell to you" approach, politely indicate that you need some time, and find them when you want to make your purchase if they are on commission.
If, on the other hand, they annoy you upon approach (because of the way they approach you, not because of any personal bias against salespeople), all bets are off. If they (God forbid) ask if they can help you, answer, "No: and a good salesperson never asks that question. It's not open ended and doesn't encourage conversation. Goodbye."
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I think that with all the power and money Microsoft has, WMV will win out. I believe they've already experimented with WMV movie theatres.
Oh, and please talk to Bob:
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Only the Mistubish Lancer Evolution series has AWD. The cheaper Lancers are FWD.
Makes sense: if you're tromping around on people and you shoot down, you're bound to hit something (apart from your foot).
Haha! I can't believe the parent was modded insightful...
At any rate, the whole thing seems funny to me. I'm French, and every time I go back, it amazes me how much English is used in the language. I know the French-Canadians are touchy about using English words, but it seems odd for France to suddenly worry about something like "e-mail" which seems like a pretty universal term.
Also, it is inexplicable how the poster of the article could have gone from the correct "courriel" to the incorrect "curriel" (what is that: some kind of curry?) between the quote of the article and the comment made on it.
I've looked into the quote-comma issue. It seems the rules have changed (likely to account for the lowest common denominator, which is the primary reason rules change.
It is now OK to put the comma either inside or outside the quote.
And a few years from now, the apostrophe will be just for show, and nukyulur will be in the dictionary...
Heh. Interesting to see that even males don't know what to do with an apostrophe. :)
A previous post talked about making sure your spelling was "mostly right." Do these standardized exams take spelling and grammar into account? Have they ever?
I'm wondering exactly when spelling and grammar became so... optional. The apostrophe abuse situation has become more severe in the past two years. I'm seeing signs and advertisements which randomly pluralize words with an apostrophe in front of the 's'.
These do not let you view the HD output from, say, your XBox or Gamecube on your monitor.
This reminds me of my current problem... :) I'm looking for a cheap way of getting HD output from my XBox to my projector.
Does anybody know of a solution (Under $150 USD) that will let me do this?
NTSC runs at 60 fields per second (a field being half of a frame), so 30 frames per second. 24 FPS is what films run at.
I know it's already been modded up, but dude: that was gold.
It would take a massive amount of force to push the cable away from the equator.
Also, the cable would not be like a string that someone waves around in a circle. As the article/review states, it is a very tall satellite in geosynchronous orbit. This means you wouldn't have to push the cable up or hold it down. You'd just have to hold onto it so it doesn't drift. :)
Theoretically, the cable is pretty much just hanging to the ground. You clamp it for stability, but if you were to let it go, it would just be hanging out of the sky.
Assuming this perfectly balanced case (which may not be completely accurate due to the fact that you want to lift a payload into space), if the cable is severed anywhere at all, the center of mass of the top part is above geosynchronous orbit, and the center of mass of the bottom part is below.
Therefore, the top flies away, the bottom falls.
Does this make sense?
The ribbon mentioned in the article is only stage 1... The plan calls for the cable to be expanded to 2 meters in diameter.
IMHO, Xilinx has the edge over Altera (Altera had a deal with my University). Using the tools Altera provides is like banging your head against a brick wall with nails sticking out of it, whereas the Xilinx tools are like a cool breeze on a warm summer day.
Wow: that was beautiful.
When was this?
The first I heard of FPGAs was in University. We got to play with them for a project course. Fun stuff. I still have a dev board from Altera kicking around. It even has a VGA port.
Anyway, One guy made a fully functional Arkanoid clone for his project. Someone who graduated a year or two after me had the idea of emulating old arcade systems in an FPGA.
I can't actually use Windows without the Windows key. If I need to do any of the following on a keyboard that lacks the Windows key (be it through mutilation or antiquity), my face scrunches up into a frustrated scowl:
Win-E: call up Explorer
Win-F: find files
Win-D: show desktop
Win-M: minimize all windows
Win-R: Run
I can vouch for that. I use DDR as my main form of exercise (of course, before that, I did nothing). An hour of marginally difficult DDR tunes is a great workout. There's lots of motion, balance, and jumping around like a dork involved. I recommend it to anybody who can't stand doing traditional exercise due to boredom.
As far as the bicycle gaming goes, I believe I saw a special VCR arrangement that would play at a video at a speed proportional to the speed you were pedalling at. This was about 10 years ago. I can't remember where I saw it, but basically, they would play a recording of a camera duct-taped to a bicycle.
Also, there's an arcade game called Prop Cycle where you are flying around on a winged, propeller-powered bicycle. You not only need to pedal a bicycle to control your speed, but you have to steer, pull up and down, and lean side to side (not sure about that last one, but it happens anyway!).
I'd take Prop Cycle over an exercycle any day!
Good point. It might be more accurate to say that "if you don't believe [certain religious ideas], it should not affect you."
Please mod parent up...
Early doesn't come into it... I've got a Radeon 8500DV. Even the current set of drivers and software is buggy. (snif)
I worked for a retail chain that sells games, CDs, and DVDs. I know for a fact that games are usually sold for $1 to $2 over cost. A game you buy for $69 CAD cost the retailer $67.
Some CDs and DVDs (and very occasionally games) are sold at or under cost when they have just come out.
The most markup I ever saw was for Mario Party 4: $69 retail, $65 cost.
I don't know who gets the profit and in what percentages, but the retailer gets far from half.
Ouch. You tease someone about a typo, then commit grammatical first degree murder... ;)
One thing I find odd about most software in Windows is that they all want to save to "My Documents." I'd like to see Word save to "My Documents\Word," Excel to "My Documents\Excel," etc. There are arguments for and against that, but it would at least be similar to the Palm modus operandi.
On another note, Don't be that way... If you walk into a store, a salesperson is going to talk to you. They have to. It's their job. If they approach you without the hungry "I must sell to you" approach, politely indicate that you need some time, and find them when you want to make your purchase if they are on commission.
If, on the other hand, they annoy you upon approach (because of the way they approach you, not because of any personal bias against salespeople), all bets are off. If they (God forbid) ask if they can help you, answer, "No: and a good salesperson never asks that question. It's not open ended and doesn't encourage conversation. Goodbye."
That'll teach em...
I hate this stupid-ass development: people are calling DVD players "DVDs." eg. "Hey: do you have a DVD? I can lend you some movies." What the Hell?
People should ask for permission to be stupid. They should ask me.
I'd say, "no."