I was very excited to see Smaug in HFR, and made a bit of a voyage to see it in a theater that was projecting 48FPS. I was completely blown away by how shitty it looked. Smaug the dragon was very good looking, as was a lot of the scenery and landscape. The sets and characters looked like a cheap theater production though. Everything screamed out that it was a prop or a backdrop.
Believe me, 48FPS is not the future. Or if it is, then there is a long way to go in setting it up and filming it properly.
It's a big fuss over the complete genocide of native peoples, and further public denigration despite their protests.
We shouldn't tolerate the "Redskins" any more than we would tolerate the Washington Xs X=African American racial slur; Jewish slur; Polish slur; Mexican slur; Italian slur; Obese American slur; etc
Any time that Indian subjects come up in popular venues, a racist fury is unleashed. You racists need to confess this to yourselves, and attempt to overcome your ignorance.
Do Indie bands and labels even need Youtube? It seems like the big loser would be Youtube itself, both through a loss of freely submitted content, and through the terrible backlash that this is going to cause.
Little by little, Youtube posters have been jumping ship as the deal has gotten progressively worse. In the end, what good is a media service with no content? Or even worse, with only low-quality and corporate content?
Espresso at zero gravity is just not possible. This is simply going to be the world's most expensive pod machine. I would be interested in knowing how it ended up weighing 20kg though. Surely that must be incorrect.
There are forum threads a hundred pages long covering the same faulty ignition switches in '99-'05 Impalas, yet the recall doesn't cover them why? GM waits until their customers are rendered into bloody piles of death before recalling a model. The bean counters make the decision.
When it was announced in 2008, this was a big deal for retro gamers. I just can't believe that they are still marketing it in 2014 though. This is a product that comes from another era, and was never improved. I have an old Sega Nomad that looks more modern.
Today you can choose from a number of high-quality snap-on bluetooth controllers for your smartphone and get so much more than what OpenPandora offers. There are incredible Android emulators for every system, including uncommon platforms like the Sega Saturn. Going this route, you can spend as much as you like on a controller, and utilize that super-computer (relative to OpenPandora at least) in your pocket with a beautiful, large display. And you don't have to deal with the bulk of a giant first-gen Nintendo DS clamshell.
With a bluetooth controller, you can even connect your device to a TV via HDMI and play wirelessly in HD, adding scanlines and filters to get a beautiful gaming experience. OpenPandora will never be able to do that.
How is it possible to be a psychopath in a game? This and other research are based on the premise that video games contain real violence. No game has ever contained true violence in this sense, which is why violent video gaming behavior doesn't lead to the harm that real psychopaths cause in society.
The only way to act psychopathic--doing actual harm to another human being with true apathy--in a video game would seem to be through communications between players inside the game, where feelings could be hurt. It would be hard of course to separate psychopathic communicative behavior from other common factors like immaturity, inebriation, gaming cultures, etc. That should probably be the real focus of these kinds of studies. Another interesting study might be to study actual psychopaths, pulled from corporate environments or the like, and seeing if/how they play games differently from non-psychos.
Should users really rush to change their passwords on an insecure site? I don't quite see the points of a PW change until ebay has changed their security precautions. As the customers, we should demand that THEY change their practices before doing anything. Otherwise we'll be throwing hackers another bone.
Ebay's silence on this matter is completely unacceptable. Do we really know that credit card info wasn't stolen? They've sealed their lips about all of this so far, because if card numbers were compromised, they would be the demons of the week and permanently have their names tarnished.
VHS > DVD: Why go from one horrible format to another? It would be a complete waste of time transferring VHS at all if the source format is DVD. These are old memories that will probably never be transferred again, so the least I'd do is a high profile h.264 or something similar. If you've watched a DVD lately, you'll notice that they look like complete shit.
It's kind of shocking to me that people still feel restricted by physical media's limitations.
Archaeologists always get a good laugh out of these prime-mover theories. They're great for attracting public attention, but the reality is that sociopolitical collapses are much more complex than most researchers want to appreciate.
The first question that you should always ask about a collapse-theory is if the target actually disappeared at all, or did it transform through time into something else?
After having owned a Galaxy S3 for a year, I'm ready for the return of smaller phones. I've been waiting for prices to come down on used GS4 Minis. However, if they released a OnePlus with a 4" screen, I'd order it immediately.
A phone configured specifically for CyanogenMod is a killer feature in my book. My next phone will have to be much smaller, lighter, and thinner than 5.5" unfortunately. Any suggestions?
My 2300d spends its life in standby too. 5-10k pages per toner makes it practically free to use, and it does duplexing. I paid $50 for it on CL about 5 years ago, and it came with maxed out ram and a 500-sheet add-on tray.
My father had a first gen Laserjet (1200d?) in his business, which he had purchased new. It printed thousands of receipts per month and it never had a problem. When he retired, I got him a serial-to-USB adapter and it's now his home printer. Not only are the machines rock solid, but their drivers are as well.
The Blue Cube PS2-to-USB converter makes them properly hotpluggable, and you can find Linux and Windows scripts/programs to remap keys. F9-F12 and insert are usually my victims.
The auto industry regularly uses claims of cars catching fire to take down their competition. Remember the Fiero? Almost everyone associates them with engine fires, when very few actually succumbed to the problem (which was a very rare case on just the first model year). The Fiero went down after 5 model years despite being an incredible piece of kit that was way ahead of its time, and having top notch safety ratings.
If this is their attack strategy on the Tesla, then Tesla willl need to do more than just defend themselves against the overblown myth. They need to develop ad campaigns centered around their incredible safety ratings, and spend every penny that the competition does again them. The Tesla needs to become known as a safety fortress, and not just another electric car.
Actually, you just hit the nail on the head. In archaeology, whenever we have to deal with some insane or conspiracy position--about aliens, the lost tribes of Isreal in the Americas, the earth is 5k years old, the "signs" mean something, etc--it comes from someone with a degree in Math, Art, or Lit. It really is important to stick to your own field on a lot of subjects, because there is the potential for serious damage to be done. This Masters student in Math could easily get innocent people thrown in jail.
And come on, couldn't you at least find someone with a PhD? I just got my Masters and I wouldn't dream of asking my cohort for legal advice! Most of them were practically just empowered undergrads.
The problem with pinpointing human origins is we keep digging where 1) human remains are close to the surface, making them easy to dig up, with yearly rains washing away more and more making it even easier,
See the cave sites in France. Actually, see cave sites across the world, where excavation involves chipping rock away to find the remains. It's nearer to sculpting and excavation. That's hardly easy, nowhere near the surface, and is standard practice in paleo excavations.
2) the conditions for fossilization are highly salient. We very well could have come from environs where fossilization processes are nearly impossible, leaving no trace of our ancestors.
The burden of proof is on you for this point. You need to give the reasons why you think humans were present in a specific area, and yet their remains (bone, stone, etc) are not present. You may be right now and then, but you can't simply make a broad blanket statement like this. There are hundreds of markers for a human presence that can be examined beyond fossilized remains.
We also like to dig where early humans leave behind stone tools. We don't dig where humans uses wood tools, because they fossilize way less often. It's hard to study what's not left behind! However, it's probable more humans used wood tools earlier and longer.
Humans didn't need stone tools in any areas that had ample bamboo present. It's easier to make and acquire, and just as sharp. However, there is intense work across SE Asia and Indonesia where human remains were found with and without stone tools, probably because bamboo was being used. So again, you're wrong on this point.
This is where science takes over. It looks at broad, perhaps logically seeming statements and questions them. Answers come by interpreting evidence. Paleoanthropologists are doing an excellent job, and critiquing them with your own common sense will not lead to you to good answers.
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I was very excited to see Smaug in HFR, and made a bit of a voyage to see it in a theater that was projecting 48FPS. I was completely blown away by how shitty it looked. Smaug the dragon was very good looking, as was a lot of the scenery and landscape. The sets and characters looked like a cheap theater production though. Everything screamed out that it was a prop or a backdrop.
Believe me, 48FPS is not the future. Or if it is, then there is a long way to go in setting it up and filming it properly.
This is exactly why the security-conscious always wipe their phones clean
It's a big fuss over the complete genocide of native peoples, and further public denigration despite their protests.
We shouldn't tolerate the "Redskins" any more than we would tolerate the Washington Xs
X=African American racial slur; Jewish slur; Polish slur; Mexican slur; Italian slur; Obese American slur; etc
Any time that Indian subjects come up in popular venues, a racist fury is unleashed. You racists need to confess this to yourselves, and attempt to overcome your ignorance.
Do Indie bands and labels even need Youtube? It seems like the big loser would be Youtube itself, both through a loss of freely submitted content, and through the terrible backlash that this is going to cause.
Little by little, Youtube posters have been jumping ship as the deal has gotten progressively worse. In the end, what good is a media service with no content? Or even worse, with only low-quality and corporate content?
Pods are great on earth, and would be a godsend in space.
In the field of anthropology, we typically get our degree first before moving on to Starbucks employment.
Espresso at zero gravity is just not possible. This is simply going to be the world's most expensive pod machine. I would be interested in knowing how it ended up weighing 20kg though. Surely that must be incorrect.
There are forum threads a hundred pages long covering the same faulty ignition switches in '99-'05 Impalas, yet the recall doesn't cover them why? GM waits until their customers are rendered into bloody piles of death before recalling a model. The bean counters make the decision.
When it was announced in 2008, this was a big deal for retro gamers. I just can't believe that they are still marketing it in 2014 though. This is a product that comes from another era, and was never improved. I have an old Sega Nomad that looks more modern.
Today you can choose from a number of high-quality snap-on bluetooth controllers for your smartphone and get so much more than what OpenPandora offers. There are incredible Android emulators for every system, including uncommon platforms like the Sega Saturn. Going this route, you can spend as much as you like on a controller, and utilize that super-computer (relative to OpenPandora at least) in your pocket with a beautiful, large display. And you don't have to deal with the bulk of a giant first-gen Nintendo DS clamshell.
With a bluetooth controller, you can even connect your device to a TV via HDMI and play wirelessly in HD, adding scanlines and filters to get a beautiful gaming experience. OpenPandora will never be able to do that.
How is it possible to be a psychopath in a game? This and other research are based on the premise that video games contain real violence. No game has ever contained true violence in this sense, which is why violent video gaming behavior doesn't lead to the harm that real psychopaths cause in society.
The only way to act psychopathic--doing actual harm to another human being with true apathy--in a video game would seem to be through communications between players inside the game, where feelings could be hurt. It would be hard of course to separate psychopathic communicative behavior from other common factors like immaturity, inebriation, gaming cultures, etc. That should probably be the real focus of these kinds of studies. Another interesting study might be to study actual psychopaths, pulled from corporate environments or the like, and seeing if/how they play games differently from non-psychos.
Should users really rush to change their passwords on an insecure site? I don't quite see the points of a PW change until ebay has changed their security precautions. As the customers, we should demand that THEY change their practices before doing anything. Otherwise we'll be throwing hackers another bone.
Ebay's silence on this matter is completely unacceptable. Do we really know that credit card info wasn't stolen? They've sealed their lips about all of this so far, because if card numbers were compromised, they would be the demons of the week and permanently have their names tarnished.
The Nazca Lines Alien Conspiracy fucktards will never buy into such a simple, logically formulated theory.
err, I meant "if the output format is DVD"
VHS > DVD: Why go from one horrible format to another? It would be a complete waste of time transferring VHS at all if the source format is DVD. These are old memories that will probably never be transferred again, so the least I'd do is a high profile h.264 or something similar. If you've watched a DVD lately, you'll notice that they look like complete shit.
It's kind of shocking to me that people still feel restricted by physical media's limitations.
Archaeologists always get a good laugh out of these prime-mover theories. They're great for attracting public attention, but the reality is that sociopolitical collapses are much more complex than most researchers want to appreciate.
The first question that you should always ask about a collapse-theory is if the target actually disappeared at all, or did it transform through time into something else?
After having owned a Galaxy S3 for a year, I'm ready for the return of smaller phones. I've been waiting for prices to come down on used GS4 Minis. However, if they released a OnePlus with a 4" screen, I'd order it immediately.
A phone configured specifically for CyanogenMod is a killer feature in my book. My next phone will have to be much smaller, lighter, and thinner than 5.5" unfortunately. Any suggestions?
The Ultimate Music Player would be a solid port of Foobar2000 to Linux. Groove Basin...not so much.
My 2300d spends its life in standby too. 5-10k pages per toner makes it practically free to use, and it does duplexing. I paid $50 for it on CL about 5 years ago, and it came with maxed out ram and a 500-sheet add-on tray.
My father had a first gen Laserjet (1200d?) in his business, which he had purchased new. It printed thousands of receipts per month and it never had a problem. When he retired, I got him a serial-to-USB adapter and it's now his home printer. Not only are the machines rock solid, but their drivers are as well.
The Blue Cube PS2-to-USB converter makes them properly hotpluggable, and you can find Linux and Windows scripts/programs to remap keys. F9-F12 and insert are usually my victims.
Pinkie or cross-their-heart?
No, it has to be a robonaut so it can carry the Olympic torch.
The auto industry regularly uses claims of cars catching fire to take down their competition. Remember the Fiero? Almost everyone associates them with engine fires, when very few actually succumbed to the problem (which was a very rare case on just the first model year). The Fiero went down after 5 model years despite being an incredible piece of kit that was way ahead of its time, and having top notch safety ratings.
If this is their attack strategy on the Tesla, then Tesla willl need to do more than just defend themselves against the overblown myth. They need to develop ad campaigns centered around their incredible safety ratings, and spend every penny that the competition does again them. The Tesla needs to become known as a safety fortress, and not just another electric car.
Actually, you just hit the nail on the head. In archaeology, whenever we have to deal with some insane or conspiracy position--about aliens, the lost tribes of Isreal in the Americas, the earth is 5k years old, the "signs" mean something, etc--it comes from someone with a degree in Math, Art, or Lit. It really is important to stick to your own field on a lot of subjects, because there is the potential for serious damage to be done. This Masters student in Math could easily get innocent people thrown in jail. And come on, couldn't you at least find someone with a PhD? I just got my Masters and I wouldn't dream of asking my cohort for legal advice! Most of them were practically just empowered undergrads.
The problem with pinpointing human origins is we keep digging where 1) human remains are close to the surface, making them easy to dig up, with yearly rains washing away more and more making it even easier,
See the cave sites in France. Actually, see cave sites across the world, where excavation involves chipping rock away to find the remains. It's nearer to sculpting and excavation. That's hardly easy, nowhere near the surface, and is standard practice in paleo excavations.
2) the conditions for fossilization are highly salient. We very well could have come from environs where fossilization processes are nearly impossible, leaving no trace of our ancestors.
The burden of proof is on you for this point. You need to give the reasons why you think humans were present in a specific area, and yet their remains (bone, stone, etc) are not present. You may be right now and then, but you can't simply make a broad blanket statement like this. There are hundreds of markers for a human presence that can be examined beyond fossilized remains.
We also like to dig where early humans leave behind stone tools. We don't dig where humans uses wood tools, because they fossilize way less often. It's hard to study what's not left behind! However, it's probable more humans used wood tools earlier and longer.
Humans didn't need stone tools in any areas that had ample bamboo present. It's easier to make and acquire, and just as sharp. However, there is intense work across SE Asia and Indonesia where human remains were found with and without stone tools, probably because bamboo was being used. So again, you're wrong on this point. This is where science takes over. It looks at broad, perhaps logically seeming statements and questions them. Answers come by interpreting evidence. Paleoanthropologists are doing an excellent job, and critiquing them with your own common sense will not lead to you to good answers.