we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the U.S. Department of Defense.
What a sharp, shiny pin for the scary Red balloon! Thanks for pointing this out.
if you can watch it without unhealthily raising your expectations for real world women, or if you can be with real world women at that point without thinking of the porn... more power to you.
And if you can't, you'll probably have trouble getting/maintaining a real-life GF, which will make you d/l more porn, etc. ad. infinitum.
But so what? People can choose all sorts of ways to make themselves unappealing to the opposite sex. Maybe the moral majority should start a campaign against leisure suits.
Almost half of the cost of the Big Dig was spent on appeasements for current residents. HALF. So, for example, let's say there's going to be some noise on Endicott St. for a couple months while they're working. "Oh no!" cries the landlord. "All my tenants are going to move out!" (Or other sundry bullshit). So the city says, "Ok, how about we professionally sandblast the front of your building, free of charge?"
The only way they could get this kind of project completed without hundreds of thousands of people gumming up the works was to basically bribe them. But the parent poster says, this wasn't greedy corporations. This was greedy citizens who (quite rightly) know a cash-cow when they hear it MOO.
Cut off from the highway, those neighborhoods were difficult and unpleasant to get to, and severely devalued by the big ass highway running right past them.
I'm a huge fan of the Big Dig, but this is the one aspect that (as a resident of the North End) I was really, really not looking forward to. The North End wasn't unpleasant or difficult to get to if you WALKED like humans are designed to. If you DROVE, well, serves you right.
The North End is a neighborhood. A real, honest-to-God urban neighborhood, like the kind you see in old movies like The Godfather. Kids were raised there, went to school there, grew up and bought apartments or started businesses there.
Over the past two decades, but increasingly over the past few years, the rental prices for North End units has increased astronomically. "So?" you ask. "Who gives a shit about some cocksucker 20-something hotshot lawyer making 6 figures paying a few extra grand a year?"
Well, the North End wasn't filled with those kinds of people. It was filled with little old Italian ladies that like to sell lemonade on the corner during the feasts. That ugly abortion known as the Expressway was the one thing keeping the rats at bay. Now that it's reconnected with the rest of Boston, they've come home to roost.
The pattern is essentially the same: Grandma Leone, who's lived in Apartment Whatever on Salem St. for the past 80 years of her life, has her rent raised from $350/mo. to $1600/mo. She can't afford it, and has to move to one of the several old-folks homes in the neighborhood (there are a couple, and they're filled with some of the saddest stories you'll ever hear).
The crazy part is that one of the biggest tourist draws of the North End--the "Little Italy" aspect--are slowly being priced out. Now all that remains is a bunch of Italian restaurants. Oh, gee, how "authentic". Just like fucking Mulberry St. in New York.
Yeah, I agree. The title of the thread leads one to believe that they're actually stop-animating lego constructions, like the White Stripes video. This is CGI. Might as well have made them look like dolphins, or bunnies, or real people. Though, the render-time on simple solid-object models is probably hella-reduced.
Same thing happened to my old domain, but luckily I was able to snag one close enough not to matter. Still, you have to wonder about all the asshats holding on to "DorothyLSmith.com" or whatever. I guess they're in it for the long haul. In a way, it's like Old West stakeholders -- just stake your claim and you get the property rights forever and ever, providing you keep paying your taxes (registration). Forget to make a payment, and all the jackals come out of the woodwork.
They must be running some kind of automated system that spiders URLs, puts them in a database, then looks up the registration expiration date, puts that in the database. Then you just have a script running all the time. Sort the data in reverse chronological order by expiration date, then when the time comes, run a "register" script that attempts to automatically register the domain.
Thing is, this has to be extremely expensive. I guess the profit margins on people trying to buy back their domains is high enough to offset the loss of all the useless domains you purchase. You could mitigate the cost by going through the database and flagging URLs that don't look like they'd generate any profit.
This is basically your textbook definition of bottom-feeding.
I'd really, really appreciate someone else hosting this for me. Really. In fact, so much that I would happily sacrifice all karma deserved to me for getting around Amazon's bullshit just so that it stays up for long enough for everyone to get it.
I agree with the OP that it's a shame Microsoft stopped pushing its embedded fonts technology (though it does still work). I also think it's a shame that the W3 didn't approve the standard.
But what is stopping Opera or Mozilla from implementing its own truetype embedded font technology? I just don't understand it at all. Fonts already have a protection bit for copyright enforcement. It's not like it will install a virus on your computer -- it's more akin to a cookie.
It's incredibly frustrating to see people turning to Flash alternatives just to get the friggin' right fonts to display on their computer.
They're still a standard for those very few of us who care about 2D performance. If you find yourself regularly running in high resolution on a CRT, you need a good RAMDAC. There's just no way around it. Most of the "fancy" 3D cards started out with lousy RAMDACs that couldn't hold a stable picture past 1600x1200. Matrox never scrimped on this, but in the end, the only people who cared were PC graphic designers -- a relatively small lot to begin with.
These days, the higher-end ATI/nVidia cards have great 2D performance as well as kick-ass 3D numbers. I know I'm personally saving for a 6800 AIW. It'll probably run me more than my motherboard and processor combined.
First we hear of Google taking an interest in video distribution in the U.K., now they're showing us a completely new integration of the web and video. Google is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the media industry.
It must be nice to have, for all intents and purposes, no practical limit to your storage capacity or bandwidth.
and if you end up doing something about it and having consentual sex with her then you are a sick fuck and a pervert, but you're still not a paedophile.
So, your great-great-grandparents were sick fucks when they got married at 14 and had kids a year later?
I see what you're saying, and agree that the mechanical construction of a CRT, whether it be shadow-mask or aperature grill, is not going to compare, pixel-to-pixel, with LCD technology.
And just to keep up the good spirits in this lively and civil discussion (a rare occurance here), I point you to this beast of a flat-panel, that I doubt any CRT on earth could touch (3840x2400 native resolution).
I agree completely. They have the resources, technology, and design capability. The big question is whether or not they'll shoot themselves in the damned foot again.
I just cannot believe it took their marketing geniuses so long to figure this out: "SONY missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of the company's video-game unit said."
Well no shit. Hopefully they'll take that little nugget of wisdom and apply it to, say, MemorySticks. Or better yet, maybe other companies might learn from their mistakes.
You don't seem to get my point. The gun in your CRT is shooting out 1856 different rays per line, but there are only ~1650 distinct positions that the light can pass through.
And you don't seem to get mine. I understand what you're trying to say about actual pixels vs. aperature grills, but to compare it to Photoshop image reduction techniques is simply absurd. I invite you to downsample a 1280x1024 LCD display and compare it to a downsampled CRT display sometime. You tell me which one is more like a Photoshop reduction algorithm.
And prohibitively expensive high-resolution support. The cheapest high-res (above 1600 pixel width) LCD panel from NewEgg costs about four times as much as a comparible-resolution CRT. And there's nothing much you can do about it, from a manufacturer's stand point. Getting a chunk of live pixels that large costs money.
But golly, with an LCD I've got all this room to put loads of crap behind my panel. Yay! And it's so lightweight, for all those times when I'm moving my entire computer system around the house.
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we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the U.S. Department of Defense.
What a sharp, shiny pin for the scary Red balloon! Thanks for pointing this out.
if you can watch it without unhealthily raising your expectations for real world women, or if you can be with real world women at that point without thinking of the porn... more power to you.
And if you can't, you'll probably have trouble getting/maintaining a real-life GF, which will make you d/l more porn, etc. ad. infinitum.
But so what? People can choose all sorts of ways to make themselves unappealing to the opposite sex. Maybe the moral majority should start a campaign against leisure suits.
Almost half of the cost of the Big Dig was spent on appeasements for current residents. HALF. So, for example, let's say there's going to be some noise on Endicott St. for a couple months while they're working. "Oh no!" cries the landlord. "All my tenants are going to move out!" (Or other sundry bullshit). So the city says, "Ok, how about we professionally sandblast the front of your building, free of charge?"
The only way they could get this kind of project completed without hundreds of thousands of people gumming up the works was to basically bribe them. But the parent poster says, this wasn't greedy corporations. This was greedy citizens who (quite rightly) know a cash-cow when they hear it MOO.
Cut off from the highway, those neighborhoods were difficult and unpleasant to get to, and severely devalued by the big ass highway running right past them.
I'm a huge fan of the Big Dig, but this is the one aspect that (as a resident of the North End) I was really, really not looking forward to. The North End wasn't unpleasant or difficult to get to if you WALKED like humans are designed to. If you DROVE, well, serves you right.
The North End is a neighborhood. A real, honest-to-God urban neighborhood, like the kind you see in old movies like The Godfather. Kids were raised there, went to school there, grew up and bought apartments or started businesses there.
Over the past two decades, but increasingly over the past few years, the rental prices for North End units has increased astronomically. "So?" you ask. "Who gives a shit about some cocksucker 20-something hotshot lawyer making 6 figures paying a few extra grand a year?"
Well, the North End wasn't filled with those kinds of people. It was filled with little old Italian ladies that like to sell lemonade on the corner during the feasts. That ugly abortion known as the Expressway was the one thing keeping the rats at bay. Now that it's reconnected with the rest of Boston, they've come home to roost.
The pattern is essentially the same: Grandma Leone, who's lived in Apartment Whatever on Salem St. for the past 80 years of her life, has her rent raised from $350/mo. to $1600/mo. She can't afford it, and has to move to one of the several old-folks homes in the neighborhood (there are a couple, and they're filled with some of the saddest stories you'll ever hear).
The crazy part is that one of the biggest tourist draws of the North End--the "Little Italy" aspect--are slowly being priced out. Now all that remains is a bunch of Italian restaurants. Oh, gee, how "authentic". Just like fucking Mulberry St. in New York.
Yeah, I agree. The title of the thread leads one to believe that they're actually stop-animating lego constructions, like the White Stripes video. This is CGI. Might as well have made them look like dolphins, or bunnies, or real people. Though, the render-time on simple solid-object models is probably hella-reduced.
...do not mod SoulSeek comments above +1!
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Don't you think they read
When you don't listen to your customers, they'll find someone who will. Serves them right.
Same thing happened to my old domain, but luckily I was able to snag one close enough not to matter. Still, you have to wonder about all the asshats holding on to "DorothyLSmith.com" or whatever. I guess they're in it for the long haul. In a way, it's like Old West stakeholders -- just stake your claim and you get the property rights forever and ever, providing you keep paying your taxes (registration). Forget to make a payment, and all the jackals come out of the woodwork.
They must be running some kind of automated system that spiders URLs, puts them in a database, then looks up the registration expiration date, puts that in the database. Then you just have a script running all the time. Sort the data in reverse chronological order by expiration date, then when the time comes, run a "register" script that attempts to automatically register the domain.
Thing is, this has to be extremely expensive. I guess the profit margins on people trying to buy back their domains is high enough to offset the loss of all the useless domains you purchase. You could mitigate the cost by going through the database and flagging URLs that don't look like they'd generate any profit.
This is basically your textbook definition of bottom-feeding.
Looks like the leaked version is far better quality, so I'm taking this one down.
I'd really, really appreciate someone else hosting this for me. Really. In fact, so much that I would happily sacrifice all karma deserved to me for getting around Amazon's bullshit just so that it stays up for long enough for everyone to get it.
That said, here you go.
My apologies for the crappy resolution, but the audio is perfect.
I agree with the OP that it's a shame Microsoft stopped pushing its embedded fonts technology (though it does still work). I also think it's a shame that the W3 didn't approve the standard.
But what is stopping Opera or Mozilla from implementing its own truetype embedded font technology? I just don't understand it at all. Fonts already have a protection bit for copyright enforcement. It's not like it will install a virus on your computer -- it's more akin to a cookie.
It's incredibly frustrating to see people turning to Flash alternatives just to get the friggin' right fonts to display on their computer.
TorrentReactor got its domain hijacked months ago
Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning this.
They're still a standard for those very few of us who care about 2D performance. If you find yourself regularly running in high resolution on a CRT, you need a good RAMDAC. There's just no way around it. Most of the "fancy" 3D cards started out with lousy RAMDACs that couldn't hold a stable picture past 1600x1200. Matrox never scrimped on this, but in the end, the only people who cared were PC graphic designers -- a relatively small lot to begin with.
These days, the higher-end ATI/nVidia cards have great 2D performance as well as kick-ass 3D numbers. I know I'm personally saving for a 6800 AIW. It'll probably run me more than my motherboard and processor combined.
First we hear of Google taking an interest in video distribution in the U.K., now they're showing us a completely new integration of the web and video. Google is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the media industry.
It must be nice to have, for all intents and purposes, no practical limit to your storage capacity or bandwidth.
It was Steve all the time! Steeeeeeve!
Even after the groups go, their members are still very much active on the Internet. But yeah, I sure feel like an old fogey sometimes.
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and if you end up doing something about it and having consentual sex with her then you are a sick fuck and a pervert, but you're still not a paedophile.
So, your great-great-grandparents were sick fucks when they got married at 14 and had kids a year later?
I see what you're saying, and agree that the mechanical construction of a CRT, whether it be shadow-mask or aperature grill, is not going to compare, pixel-to-pixel, with LCD technology.
And just to keep up the good spirits in this lively and civil discussion (a rare occurance here), I point you to this beast of a flat-panel, that I doubt any CRT on earth could touch (3840x2400 native resolution).
I agree completely. They have the resources, technology, and design capability. The big question is whether or not they'll shoot themselves in the damned foot again.
I just cannot believe it took their marketing geniuses so long to figure this out: "SONY missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of the company's video-game unit said."
Well no shit. Hopefully they'll take that little nugget of wisdom and apply it to, say, MemorySticks. Or better yet, maybe other companies might learn from their mistakes.
One other thing: your numbers are off. Visible width of my 22" -> 19.5". Dot pitch -> .24mm. 19.5" == 495.3 mm. 495.3mm/.24mm = 2063.75.
You don't seem to get my point. The gun in your CRT is shooting out 1856 different rays per line, but there are only ~1650 distinct positions that the light can pass through.
And you don't seem to get mine. I understand what you're trying to say about actual pixels vs. aperature grills, but to compare it to Photoshop image reduction techniques is simply absurd. I invite you to downsample a 1280x1024 LCD display and compare it to a downsampled CRT display sometime. You tell me which one is more like a Photoshop reduction algorithm.
but it can only run at 75Hz at 2048x1536 resolution, which is unacceptable to me
I'm running 1856x1392 @ 95 Hz. on a NEC Multisync 2141SB. If I drop down to 1600, I can push 106 Hz. Is that acceptable?
I think the poster above had to be a troll. Nobody could possibly be so stupid.
Oh, wait.
(Happily running at 1856x1392 @ 95 Hz. refresh on a NEC Multisync Fp2141SB)
Answer already in this thread.
To sumarize: plenty.
Sucky low resolution support
And prohibitively expensive high-resolution support. The cheapest high-res (above 1600 pixel width) LCD panel from NewEgg costs about four times as much as a comparible-resolution CRT. And there's nothing much you can do about it, from a manufacturer's stand point. Getting a chunk of live pixels that large costs money.
But golly, with an LCD I've got all this room to put loads of crap behind my panel. Yay! And it's so lightweight, for all those times when I'm moving my entire computer system around the house.