We just need to get all the golf websites to drop IE6 support, then watch how fast IT departments are told to make upgrading the standrard corporate browser a priority.
Except that, last I checked (a yearish or so ago, I don't run windows, so maybe things have changed, but I doubt it), the reverse playback doesn't work with "some" codecs (read: any halfway modern codec-- probably anything with B-frames).
I volunteer as a videographer for a kids' football team. The coaches want to be able to do frame-by-frame both forward and backward. Quicktime player has its own problems, but it does allow them to just hold left-arrow and right-arrow and have The Right Thing happen. This is a hard thing to get right (even our beloved Tivo messes this up), but it's an important thing. And not just for "pro"-type use.
Brad,
Thanks for installing the booth. I didn't see it during the week, but I did come by your camp for the save-the-man protest, and you showed it to me and had me make a test call (nobody was home). I came back later and was able to get through to my parents who informed me that I had become a first-time uncle (of twins!). It was a great way to get the news. Thank you!
Which begs the question, if a couple of snobs at Oxford perscribe one way of speaking and the majority of native speakers favor another, are the Oxford snobs really correct?
What's particularily asinine about "begs the question" is that has a clear and obvious meaning... which your textbook says is incorrect.
I waited to buy a dvd drive until dual formats were available. I bought a memorex 4x, and I think I've had about one successful burn with the stupid thing. Of course, I thought at first that it was perhaps a bad batch of media, so I didn't take it back during the 30-day window.
I've tried burning in linux and windows, both DVD-R's and CD-Rs fail, I think DVD+Rs work, but I've burned so few of them I can't know for sure (I'm not going to spend $2/pop just to see how my drive doesn't work!). Short story: beware multiformat drives, they may actually be no-format drives.
Or maybe it's just memorex. Their phone support insists that if the burner completes the burn OK, nothing is wrong, even though the discs are often unreadable. They tell me to fiddle with windows DMA settings and reboot, and even had the nerve to tell me I was "telling them exactly what they wanted to hear" to get an RMA when I insisted I'd tried all this stuff. Caveat Emptor!
While there has been a movie "in the works" for about 10 years now, it may finally be happening. Looks like Card finally relinquished control of the script writing to get it to happen (at least that's what I'm reading between the lines).
Sadly, it may already be too late. Now that the Ender's Shadow books are out, Card seems to be insisting that any Ender's Game movie shoehorn elements from that book in as well. So the Ender's Game that we all know and love will probably never happen.:(
I doubt it, when the assert keyword was added, you had to compile with -source 1.4 to use it. So the compiler is compatible by default, then you explicitly switch-on the feature if you need to use it on a file-by-file basis. So old code with "enum" isn't a problem
It's true-- VC++ 7.1 is a HUGE leap from 7.0, much, much bigger than from 6.0 to 7.0. The only reason it doesn't get a major version bump is because the rest of the.net crapola hasn't moved along at the same pace.
Well then you told 'em wrong. I believe the VS.NET C++ compiler to be a piece of toilet. It is buggy and even when you, take Microsofts advice and "rearrange your header files" to get code to compile, you still have apply Microsofts magical unreleased patch to get the compiler to stop barfing on compiling the system headers!!!
The original poster did say that the original VC++.net didn't offer much new. The 2003 version (7.1), however is quite simply one of the best C++ compilers out there. See, for example, the Boost Regression Tests to see just how well it complies (higher scores than g++!)
well, yes, but then you wouldn't be using that Dell either.
Unless of course you installed the RAID later on, in which case you can probably figure out how to install a floppy drive
Actually, there is a wonderful utility called umbpci which allows access to high memory for loading device drivers while keeping the processor in real mode. This is a godsend for paying U7 since it's near impossible to load everything needed (sound drivers, mouse support, possibly CD-rom support) and try and cram it all into 640k...
Expensive?
Home simulators are free-- look at stepmania or DWI.
When I first started playing almost 3 years ago, it was just a few of us regulars. Only a few people would just randomly (interestingly enough, most of these people were Asain-- cultural thing I guess). Over the next two years, more and more mainstream-looking males would play. This past year, however, it's gone mainstream enough that even girls play it. My local arcade actually has a pretty even gender split, and there are often more girls playing DDR than boys! These aren't tomboys either. I mean like miniskirt, purse and cell-phone girls.
With all this added attention, almost every arcade has one now. When I first started playing, it was $1.50 for 3 songs. Now it's $0.50 for the same 3 songs, and the lines are shorter because there are more machines. On challening ("Oni") mode, good dancers can spend 15 minutes on a single credit. That's NOT expensive. Even for beginner players, it's cheaper than working out at a gym, plus you meet cool people, and you actually DO it.
Mock all you want, but you're missing out
The problem with this explanation is that, a) the "tradition" has outlived the courtship customs that supposedly gave rise to it. If the economic explanation is the correct one, why do we *still* do this? and b) why diamonds? Diamonds are very fragile-- they're flammable and they shatter. The "diamond is forever" is just hype-- sure they're very hard to scratch, but that's one measure of a gem's durability. Since they can't be resold well, it's utility as "payment" for a failed commitment is limited. The "value" of a diamond is all artifical and could collapse at any time (and nearly has on occasion). So why diamonds? Why not some jewelry that had *real* worth?
Like understanding, this could be a three-edged sword.
Sure, The Networks find out that Babylon 5 viewership is 3 times higher than they thought. But they also find out that everyone watching it skips the commercials, so they cancel it.
Shows that have a disproportionally high level of TiVo viewers to other viewers might get cancelled just so that people find their TiVos less useful. That way, people who would use TiVo don't watch TV anymore (since they didn't watch commercials anyway, who cares), and then their friends don't get to see how cool their TiVo is, so they continue to watch the same crap plus commercials.
One other thing, if it's "stealing" from The Networks to not watch their commercials, then it's "stealing" from the viewers to to put crap on the screen during the program...
California huh? Isn't that where they make all that software stuff? Wow, better go buy all my software before the prices shoot up. Don't understand why they concentrate all the programmers in such a tectonically unstable area...
I doubt it's a coincidence that in the clip show episode a couple weeks ago, at the song in the very end (right after saying they'll never get cancelled), an image of Homer jumping over a shark while waterskiing is shown...
Well, I strongly advise checking to see if
it's a KA7 or KA7-100. If so, check the bank of
16 capacitors next to the CPU slot, and see if
they are leaking diaelectric (black crud spilled
out onto the motherboard below them, and often
on top as well). Also make sure that the tops
of the caps are flat, and not starting to bow.
I don't want to sound too paranoid, but although
I love the KA7 in most respects, I'm 3 for 3
on having the capicators blow. Also, I'm
nowhere near being alone in this.
If your caps are leaky (JPCON is the brand of these
suckers), start making backup plans-- either start
saving for an upgrade, or buy some replacement
caps.
Heh, I hope for your sake you're not describing an ABIT KA7, otherwise you'll see soon enough just how stable it is... I've never heard of a single one of those boards lasting even two years... (I've had 3 that didn't make it to one)
Given that one of the links states that all cases other than 3 had already been proven, it's quite likely that the proof indeed for that case. </sarcasm>
I lot of people have commented on how this is only happening now because Be is now as good as dead. Be has brought up this complaint before, but they can actually do something now because Jackson's finding-of-fact gives their allegations some teeth. They probably would like to wait even longer, and hope that they have even more to hit MS with, but their time has just run out, finacially speaking.
Corre-- what? I don't understand what you mean...
Oh, I see-- The death of Napster *caused the recession*!!!!!11 Yes! I'm a genius! B0w to my mad intellectual skillz! Those RIAA punks are the ones costing everybody their jobs.:).
Arcade games aren't declining-- stupid arcade games are declining. Half the games made these days are stupid fighting/shooting games that all play nearly the same, and it's just a matter of learning a slightly different set of joystick motions. Arcades were popular because they offered a different experience than what could be had at home. That's no longer the case with these stupid shooters vs. network quake.
If the arcades are going to survive, they need to continue to offer a unique experience, and that's exactly what the smart ones have done. Go into any arcade well stocked with Bemani games (esp. Dance Dance Revolution), and you'll see that patrons are in no short supply. In fact, boys and *girls* gather around to play these games!
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We just need to get all the golf websites to drop IE6 support, then watch how fast IT departments are told to make upgrading the standrard corporate browser a priority.
Except that, last I checked (a yearish or so ago, I don't run windows, so maybe things have changed, but I doubt it), the reverse playback doesn't work with "some" codecs (read: any halfway modern codec-- probably anything with B-frames). I volunteer as a videographer for a kids' football team. The coaches want to be able to do frame-by-frame both forward and backward. Quicktime player has its own problems, but it does allow them to just hold left-arrow and right-arrow and have The Right Thing happen. This is a hard thing to get right (even our beloved Tivo messes this up), but it's an important thing. And not just for "pro"-type use.
Brad, Thanks for installing the booth. I didn't see it during the week, but I did come by your camp for the save-the-man protest, and you showed it to me and had me make a test call (nobody was home). I came back later and was able to get through to my parents who informed me that I had become a first-time uncle (of twins!). It was a great way to get the news. Thank you!
Which begs the question, if a couple of snobs at Oxford perscribe one way of speaking and the majority of native speakers favor another, are the Oxford snobs really correct? What's particularily asinine about "begs the question" is that has a clear and obvious meaning... which your textbook says is incorrect.
I've tried burning in linux and windows, both DVD-R's and CD-Rs fail, I think DVD+Rs work, but I've burned so few of them I can't know for sure (I'm not going to spend $2/pop just to see how my drive doesn't work!). Short story: beware multiformat drives, they may actually be no-format drives.
Or maybe it's just memorex. Their phone support insists that if the burner completes the burn OK, nothing is wrong, even though the discs are often unreadable. They tell me to fiddle with windows DMA settings and reboot, and even had the nerve to tell me I was "telling them exactly what they wanted to hear" to get an RMA when I insisted I'd tried all this stuff. Caveat Emptor!
Sadly, it may already be too late. Now that the Ender's Shadow books are out, Card seems to be insisting that any Ender's Game movie shoehorn elements from that book in as well. So the Ender's Game that we all know and love will probably never happen. :(
I doubt it, when the assert keyword was added, you had to compile with -source 1.4 to use it. So the compiler is compatible by default, then you explicitly switch-on the feature if you need to use it on a file-by-file basis. So old code with "enum" isn't a problem
It's true-- VC++ 7.1 is a HUGE leap from 7.0, much, much bigger than from 6.0 to 7.0. The only reason it doesn't get a major version bump is because the rest of the .net crapola hasn't moved along at the same pace.
well, yes, but then you wouldn't be using that Dell either. Unless of course you installed the RAID later on, in which case you can probably figure out how to install a floppy drive
Actually, there is a wonderful utility called umbpci which allows access to high memory for loading device drivers while keeping the processor in real mode. This is a godsend for paying U7 since it's near impossible to load everything needed (sound drivers, mouse support, possibly CD-rom support) and try and cram it all into 640k...
Expensive? Home simulators are free-- look at stepmania or DWI. When I first started playing almost 3 years ago, it was just a few of us regulars. Only a few people would just randomly (interestingly enough, most of these people were Asain-- cultural thing I guess). Over the next two years, more and more mainstream-looking males would play. This past year, however, it's gone mainstream enough that even girls play it. My local arcade actually has a pretty even gender split, and there are often more girls playing DDR than boys! These aren't tomboys either. I mean like miniskirt, purse and cell-phone girls. With all this added attention, almost every arcade has one now. When I first started playing, it was $1.50 for 3 songs. Now it's $0.50 for the same 3 songs, and the lines are shorter because there are more machines. On challening ("Oni") mode, good dancers can spend 15 minutes on a single credit. That's NOT expensive. Even for beginner players, it's cheaper than working out at a gym, plus you meet cool people, and you actually DO it. Mock all you want, but you're missing out
The problem with this explanation is that, a) the "tradition" has outlived the courtship customs that supposedly gave rise to it. If the economic explanation is the correct one, why do we *still* do this? and b) why diamonds? Diamonds are very fragile-- they're flammable and they shatter. The "diamond is forever" is just hype-- sure they're very hard to scratch, but that's one measure of a gem's durability. Since they can't be resold well, it's utility as "payment" for a failed commitment is limited. The "value" of a diamond is all artifical and could collapse at any time (and nearly has on occasion). So why diamonds? Why not some jewelry that had *real* worth?
Like understanding, this could be a three-edged sword. Sure, The Networks find out that Babylon 5 viewership is 3 times higher than they thought. But they also find out that everyone watching it skips the commercials, so they cancel it. Shows that have a disproportionally high level of TiVo viewers to other viewers might get cancelled just so that people find their TiVos less useful. That way, people who would use TiVo don't watch TV anymore (since they didn't watch commercials anyway, who cares), and then their friends don't get to see how cool their TiVo is, so they continue to watch the same crap plus commercials. One other thing, if it's "stealing" from The Networks to not watch their commercials, then it's "stealing" from the viewers to to put crap on the screen during the program...
California huh? Isn't that where they make all that software stuff? Wow, better go buy all my software before the prices shoot up. Don't understand why they concentrate all the programmers in such a tectonically unstable area...
As anybody who has ever visited Homestar Runner & Strong Bad can tell you, Flash is a critical feature :)
I doubt it's a coincidence that in the clip show episode a couple weeks ago, at the song in the very end (right after saying they'll never get cancelled), an image of Homer jumping over a shark while waterskiing is shown...
I don't want to sound too paranoid, but although I love the KA7 in most respects, I'm 3 for 3 on having the capicators blow. Also, I'm nowhere near being alone in this.
If your caps are leaky (JPCON is the brand of these suckers), start making backup plans-- either start saving for an upgrade, or buy some replacement caps.
Heh, I hope for your sake you're not describing an ABIT KA7, otherwise you'll see soon enough just how stable it is... I've never heard of a single one of those boards lasting even two years... (I've had 3 that didn't make it to one)
Given that one of the links states that all cases other than 3 had already been proven, it's quite likely that the proof indeed for that case. </sarcasm>
I lot of people have commented on how this is only happening now because Be is now as good as dead. Be has brought up this complaint before, but they can actually do something now because Jackson's finding-of-fact gives their allegations some teeth. They probably would like to wait even longer, and hope that they have even more to hit MS with, but their time has just run out, finacially speaking.
Corre-- what? I don't understand what you mean... Oh, I see-- The death of Napster *caused the recession*!!!!!11 Yes! I'm a genius! B0w to my mad intellectual skillz! Those RIAA punks are the ones costing everybody their jobs. :).
Arcade games aren't declining-- stupid arcade games are declining. Half the games made these days are stupid fighting/shooting games that all play nearly the same, and it's just a matter of learning a slightly different set of joystick motions. Arcades were popular because they offered a different experience than what could be had at home. That's no longer the case with these stupid shooters vs. network quake.
If the arcades are going to survive, they need to continue to offer a unique experience, and that's exactly what the smart ones have done. Go into any arcade well stocked with Bemani games (esp. Dance Dance Revolution), and you'll see that patrons are in no short supply. In fact, boys and *girls* gather around to play these games!