My first concern is that I am quite allergic to cyclohexylthiophthalimide (CTP) a chemical used in vulcanizing rubber. Yes, I am allergic to car tires. Makes me very, very ill. While I don't get sick in normal traffic I get sick at the drag races from the burnouts and I can't spend more than 30 minutes in a tire shop.
Whether water filtered through tires would bother me or not I don't know but it should be checked into first.
History tells us that the best way to tell which format will win the format war will be to visit your local porn store and see which HD format is available.
Porn has driven visual media technologies for quite some time now.
I don't give a crap about the legalities of this. I find it immoral to censor art. Even crappy art. I personally think that censorship is dangerous. I cannot begin to fathom why anyone would want to watch a butchered piece of art. If you think parts of it aren't suitable don't watch it. If you think parts of it aren't suitabe for your children don't show it to them. Watch something else. Having a specially censored version is just wrong. Network TV should be slapped silly for their destruction of movies. Even crappy ones. The studios should be ashamed for allowing it.
Once censorship of art becomes pervasive the censorship of real life becomes easy. The revisionists get to have the world filtered through their own special rose coloured glasses. It's sticking your head up your arse and pretending it smells of perfume.
It's wrong, it's stupid and it will bite us all in the end.
Actually I used to design and install home theatre systems. We had a young salesman who kept playing 'The Matrix', we had to tell him to stop and take it home because it made the HDTVs and projectors look broken.
If you want to see how good your system can look there are thousands of titles that are better. 'Starship Troopers' looks fantastic and is recommended by the ISF. The previously mentioned 'Lawrence of Arabia' in all of its technicolor glory is another excellent choice.
'Seven Samurai' is a good choice not to make the system look good but because it is simply one of the best movies I have ever seen. Sorry to say it but 'The Matrix' is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
One of the best tips I've ever received is think FAST
Focus Aperature Shutter Think
It's like a checklist that is now a habit. Works well in the darkroom, too. (The darkroom was a magic place where we would develop film and make images appear on paper.)
I think you have perfectly described what I consider to be MS Office's greatest weakness. To most Office users it is single app. It is a spreadsheet or a word processor or a presentation creator, it is seldom all things to the user. That Microsoft has managed to bundle all these apps together and sell them all to every user is the greatest marketing achievement ever. Yes, I do know that Office is capable of a high level of integration, the fact is that few users go there. Most Office users would be fine with just the single app they focus on.
Disclaimer - I have loathed word processors for twenty years now. MS Word is at the top of that list. So I am certainly biased. To be fair, I don't like Open Office either.
"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
Not only that but 'a lot' is a place where you park cars, build a house or play a pick up ball game. Frequently the word that 'a lot' is used to replace is 'many'.
Your right. That comparison isn't fair. I looked around and found a comparison between XP and ME. ME is not very different from 98 and guess what. ME beat XP at some tests and came very close on others. Certainly nothing as dramatic as a 62% increase.
http://www.evil3d.net/articles/windows/mevxp/?pa ge =3.php3
Availability in stores is not anything Linux can control except to become more popular. If it takes over the desktop then the PC game industry will get a boost from porting old Windows titles to Linux.
Are you saying that to migrate to a new system that we should run the new system in parallel with the old system and cross check for performance and reliability?
How much does this really affect their bottom line? It seems to me that the people who get so excited about a movie that they feel the need to view a prerelease version are likely to be the same one's who are first in line when the movie opens.
They should worry more about people like me who have become so bored with hollywood's drivel that I haven't been to the theatre for years. I might rent it later but I haven't run across anything for quite some time that would drag my butt to the cinema to see.
So how well does Windows run PS2 games? It is hardly fair to criticize an OS for not being able to run another's software. I have some old DOS games that Windows won't run (without a lot of work).
The machine I'm using right now is a dual boot (AMD 900 256meg ram Geforce 2 64meg). Win98SE and Mandrake 9.1. I can run Quake3 under either and recently ran frame rate tests. Both run at 800*600 and 32 bit textures and details. I shut down many unecessary windpws apps first. The results - Win 54 fps, Linux 87fps.
Obviously Linux can run games just fine.
Recently on this machine I swapped out the old TNT2 card for the GF2. I had all kinds of problems getting it to work in windows. Took a couple of hours to clean out the old and make it all work. Linux worked fine without changing a thing. Didn't even have to load new drivers. Same story with the machine that gave up its GF2 card for a GF4.
I can't advise you on Windows as I rarely use it and then only to play games on. I use Linux Mandrake as my main desktop system. All the software you need will come with the Mandrake Distro. You won't need any extra software.
If you mail a document who cares which software or even what printer created it. Or did you mean e-mail?
If there is one thing I hate, it is receiveing an attached document when the text could be in the body of the e-mail. If it is so fancy that it has to be attached then send a PDF or a postscript.
If I was a parent or relative of the victims I would be suing whoever allowed the access to the firearms that did the actual real damage here. Probably would get less money but at least I would get who is really responsible here.
The victims were shot. Remember that.
Maybe they should sue the manufacturer of the ammunition that did the actual killing.
California has roughly the same population as Canada. I'm a good five hour drive to the U.S. border. The province I live in dwarfs Texas or California and only has a million population. I've had broadband access for so long I can't remember, probably five years. Almost everyone I know with a computer has broadband.
LyX. If she spends thirty minutes with the LyX tutorial she'll never use a word processor again. LyX acts like a front end for latex. It is WYSIWYM (what you se is what you mean) and excellent for large documents.
Best little piece of software I've seen. Ever. www.lyx.org
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My first concern is that I am quite allergic to cyclohexylthiophthalimide (CTP) a chemical used in vulcanizing rubber. Yes, I am allergic to car tires. Makes me very, very ill. While I don't get sick in normal traffic I get sick at the drag races from the burnouts and I can't spend more than 30 minutes in a tire shop.
Whether water filtered through tires would bother me or not I don't know but it should be checked into first.
History tells us that the best way to tell which format will win the format war will be to visit your local porn store and see which HD format is available.
Porn has driven visual media technologies for quite some time now.
I have one of those badges.
I downloaded it.
Corn isn't a vegetable.
It's a grass and therefore a cereal crop.
I don't give a crap about the legalities of this. I find it immoral to censor art. Even crappy art. I personally think that censorship is dangerous. I cannot begin to fathom why anyone would want to watch a butchered piece of art. If you think parts of it aren't suitable don't watch it. If you think parts of it aren't suitabe for your children don't show it to them. Watch something else. Having a specially censored version is just wrong. Network TV should be slapped silly for their destruction of movies. Even crappy ones. The studios should be ashamed for allowing it.
Once censorship of art becomes pervasive the censorship of real life becomes easy. The revisionists get to have the world filtered through their own special rose coloured glasses. It's sticking your head up your arse and pretending it smells of perfume.
It's wrong, it's stupid and it will bite us all in the end.
(Censorship pisses me off.)
This is my favourite even though I didn't actually handle the call. My old boss, Mr. E, calls and my eleven year old daughter answers.
E "Is your dad there?"
D "No, he'a at work."
E "Well I needed his help with a computer problem. Maybe you can help."
Mr E. goes on to describe the problem to my little girl who he knows is eleven.
D "Did you try rebooting?"
E "No. I'll try that. Hey, it works. Thanks sweety."
Actually I used to design and install home theatre systems. We had a young salesman who kept playing 'The Matrix', we had to tell him to stop and take it home because it made the HDTVs and projectors look broken.
If you want to see how good your system can look there are thousands of titles that are better. 'Starship Troopers' looks fantastic and is recommended by the ISF. The previously mentioned 'Lawrence of Arabia' in all of its technicolor glory is another excellent choice.
'Seven Samurai' is a good choice not to make the system look good but because it is simply one of the best movies I have ever seen. Sorry to say it but 'The Matrix' is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
'The Matrix' is one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen. It's green. It is also one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It sucks. Hard.
If you want to see a good looking (and good) movie try 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
One of the best tips I've ever received is think FAST
Focus
Aperature
Shutter
Think
It's like a checklist that is now a habit. Works well in the darkroom, too. (The darkroom was a magic place where we would develop film and make images appear on paper.)
Of course the actual EI Office is located at the HRDC Office.
Ooooo, look, an art critic.
It's horn loaded. Ever heard a trumpet or a tuba?
I think you have perfectly described what I consider to be MS Office's greatest weakness. To most Office users it is single app. It is a spreadsheet or a word processor or a presentation creator, it is seldom all things to the user. That Microsoft has managed to bundle all these apps together and sell them all to every user is the greatest marketing achievement ever. Yes, I do know that Office is capable of a high level of integration, the fact is that few users go there. Most Office users would be fine with just the single app they focus on.
Disclaimer - I have loathed word processors for twenty years now. MS Word is at the top of that list. So I am certainly biased. To be fair, I don't like Open Office either.
Not only that but 'a lot' is a place where you park cars, build a house or play a pick up ball game. Frequently the word that 'a lot' is used to replace is 'many'.
Your right. That comparison isn't fair. I looked around and found a comparison between XP and ME. ME is not very different from 98 and guess what. ME beat XP at some tests and came very close on others. Certainly nothing as dramatic as a 62% increase.
a ge =3.php3
http://www.evil3d.net/articles/windows/mevxp/?p
Availability in stores is not anything Linux can control except to become more popular. If it takes over the desktop then the PC game industry will get a boost from porting old Windows titles to Linux.
Are you saying that to migrate to a new system that we should run the new system in parallel with the old system and cross check for performance and reliability?
You crazy bastard!!
How much does this really affect their bottom line? It seems to me that the people who get so excited about a movie that they feel the need to view a prerelease version are likely to be the same one's who are first in line when the movie opens.
They should worry more about people like me who have become so bored with hollywood's drivel that I haven't been to the theatre for years. I might rent it later but I haven't run across anything for quite some time that would drag my butt to the cinema to see.
So how well does Windows run PS2 games? It is hardly fair to criticize an OS for not being able to run another's software. I have some old DOS games that Windows won't run (without a lot of work).
The machine I'm using right now is a dual boot (AMD 900 256meg ram Geforce 2 64meg). Win98SE and Mandrake 9.1. I can run Quake3 under either and recently ran frame rate tests. Both run at 800*600 and 32 bit textures and details. I shut down many unecessary windpws apps first. The results - Win 54 fps, Linux 87fps.
Obviously Linux can run games just fine.
Recently on this machine I swapped out the old TNT2 card for the GF2. I had all kinds of problems getting it to work in windows. Took a couple of hours to clean out the old and make it all work. Linux worked fine without changing a thing. Didn't even have to load new drivers. Same story with the machine that gave up its GF2 card for a GF4.
How about a roll your own section?
Oops wrong website.
www.norm shit, fucking mouse.
I can't advise you on Windows as I rarely use it and then only to play games on. I use Linux Mandrake as my main desktop system. All the software you need will come with the Mandrake Distro. You won't need any extra software.
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If you mail a document who cares which software or even what printer created it. Or did you mean e-mail?
If there is one thing I hate, it is receiveing an attached document when the text could be in the body of the e-mail. If it is so fancy that it has to be attached then send a PDF or a postscript.
If I was a parent or relative of the victims I would be suing whoever allowed the access to the firearms that did the actual real damage here. Probably would get less money but at least I would get who is really responsible here.
The victims were shot. Remember that.
Maybe they should sue the manufacturer of the ammunition that did the actual killing.
California has roughly the same population as Canada. I'm a good five hour drive to the U.S. border. The province I live in dwarfs Texas or California and only has a million population. I've had broadband access for so long I can't remember, probably five years. Almost everyone I know with a computer has broadband.
I'll go put my head back in my ass now.
Yeah. That would explain why Canada was third, eh.
LyX. If she spends thirty minutes with the LyX tutorial she'll never use a word processor again. LyX acts like a front end for latex. It is WYSIWYM (what you se is what you mean) and excellent for large documents.
Best little piece of software I've seen. Ever.
www.lyx.org