Uh, there is no pre-rendered graphics in the game for the cut scenes, the "Full Motion Video" that you talk about, is still rendered in game, in the Halo engine. Not pre rendered mpeg4 movie playback or something like that.
Well, only some from people I have met. One of my good friends is graduating as a philosophy major, and he really enjoyed the movie. But he is not a typical philosophy major from what I understand.
On a somewhat related note, a good book to pickup is Philosophy and the Matrix, which goes into depth about some of the philosophical ideas touched on in the movie (Descartes mad scientist / brain in a jar sceneriao, etc.).
Actually, the firmware update was to correct an issue with the dvd drives, that would cause them to break when a higher rated media (4x) was put in the drive, it still only burns at 2x, it just won't implode on itself when you put a 4x blank in it.
Just for the sake of its Japanese Language support, if she does anything related to translation or typing, it will allow her to localize settings for Japan or the US/English. Also there is a very strong following of Mac fans in Japan, so finding support / connectivity should not be a problem.
Actually, Ender's strategic advantage was his compassion. He understood his enemies so fully that he loved them deeply, since he could see their motivations for attacking him. He is always at odds with the case. The reason why Ender did what he did was because he thought it was a game, if he knew it wasn't a game, he would not have gone through with it. He spends the rest of the series dealing with that guilt.
That makes perfect sense. Especially if you didn't want to give all users on the computer access to be able to send PDF's by email. In order to give someone the permission to do so, they have to have a ~/Library/Pdf* folder. Of course a user could add it themselves, unless otherwise specified. I am guessing that this feature may not be completely documented, and the front end configuration for it hasn't been finished, but they let it out anyway. (same reason they had samba "working" in 10.1, it just wasn't obvious, since they hadn't gotten it stable and a good gui working).
While I am not knocking the daisy chainability of firewire, or its networking ability, but ethernet would still be a better way to go. Now if they made firewire devices transparent on the ethernet, it would be cool. (so your ipod is networked throughout your entire house)
I would imagine if one lined the sunlight "tubes" with mirrors, and get the light to focus into single beam, and then use creative refraction to scatter the light throughout the room. True sunlight during the day, through an entire house, would be pretty damn cool.
I hope Im not the only one who caught the real genius reference....
"Would you classify that as a design problem or a launch problem?"
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I don't know about your university, but ours has a nice little "manual" registration page that will let you enter in the MAC address of any card you wish you have registered under your name. One can have up to four addresses per name, but only one connected at a time. Of course the other trick is to find someone who is living off campus and doesn't need to register on the network, and have them setup the xbox under their name, so you can have both machines online at once.
They can't share antennae the last I checked. Although I think apple should make a new airport card that has airport and bluetooth integrated in it (but not share an antenna). That way, any airport capable mac immediately becomes bluetooth ready also. Throw up the 802.11g adapter in the upgrade, and i think it would be worth the $100 for a new card.
Well, i actually talked to him about it, and he mentioned that its really common in india. To the point where if it isn't really getting in the way, why bother taking it off (such as leaving the plastic on the monitor cables).
Actually, not everyone removes the plastic wrappers that come with new stuff. I have a friend from india who has had a vcr for over 2 years now, and the remote is still in the protective plastic wrapper.
Actually my college still has them, and they work.
My boss was telling me about how a guy working in the AC system kicked up some dust and it triggered the Halon system. A voice came on to announce they had 15 seconds to get out of the room before it would be deployed. My boss of course hits the button and stops the countdown. But he lets ago, apperantly you have to hold the button until someone can come by and turn off the system. So he and the network admin go diving out of the room just as the halon is released.
There are other labs on campus that have Halon warning labels on them also, and I wouldn't dare try to check if its true.
When you plug an iPod into a machine with itunes loaded, it by default, will copy your entire music folder onto the ipod, if the folder size is small enough to fit on the ipod.
I wouldn't be suprised if this "DRM" that people are talking (files given a number that refers to their ID3 tag stored in a database, etc.) is really just an effort to speed up the navigation process. Instead of having to traverse the filesystem to find songs, many with different naming conventions, and present them in a readable format. The Database is probably loaded into memory to reduce the amount of disk access to save battery life.
I would say that if anything, the "DRM" is the result of the best design that met their requirements (fast, consistent navigation, low power usage). The only implementation of DRM would be making it so one ipod wouldn't sync among many computer music libraries, storing all the music for all computers (since that could be a headache in itself). And the files being stored in an invisible folder is really just something they did so they wouldn't have to worry about people causing the database to eat itself.
If you want to use an iPod to transfer files back and forth between machines, you can throw the songs onto the drive via the finder, but you wont be able to play them on the iPod, since the files would not be entered in the database.
If people thought the image recognition software for video cameras was a bad idea, imagine being able to get the business card of every person whenever they entered a building or a business.
I would hope that there would be some way to limit which information is being transmitted.
The idea of doing a pgp key swap in a handsake and a public key / private key check upong entry to a building are very cool thou.
and a DViAtor (i believe is its name) or just search around some mac sites. It does the power and everything seperately, so atleast it would be off the desk. (and who really cares about the clutter behind the computer, its not like i got back there too often, that is what front ports are for).
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Uh, there is no pre-rendered graphics in the game for the cut scenes, the "Full Motion Video" that you talk about, is still rendered in game, in the Halo engine. Not pre rendered mpeg4 movie playback or something like that.
Well, only some from people I have met. One of my good friends is graduating as a philosophy major, and he really enjoyed the movie. But he is not a typical philosophy major from what I understand.
On a somewhat related note, a good book to pickup is Philosophy and the Matrix, which goes into depth about some of the philosophical ideas touched on in the movie (Descartes mad scientist / brain in a jar sceneriao, etc.).
Actually, the firmware update was to correct an issue with the dvd drives, that would cause them to break when a higher rated media (4x) was put in the drive, it still only burns at 2x, it just won't implode on itself when you put a 4x blank in it.
Its called MacHack, 72 hours of coding fun!
http://www.machack.com/
Just for the sake of its Japanese Language support, if she does anything related to translation or typing, it will allow her to localize settings for Japan or the US/English. Also there is a very strong following of Mac fans in Japan, so finding support / connectivity should not be a problem.
Actually, Ender's strategic advantage was his compassion. He understood his enemies so fully that he loved them deeply, since he could see their motivations for attacking him. He is always at odds with the case. The reason why Ender did what he did was because he thought it was a game, if he knew it wasn't a game, he would not have gone through with it. He spends the rest of the series dealing with that guilt.
That makes perfect sense. Especially if you didn't want to give all users on the computer access to be able to send PDF's by email. In order to give someone the permission to do so, they have to have a ~/Library/Pdf* folder. Of course a user could add it themselves, unless otherwise specified. I am guessing that this feature may not be completely documented, and the front end configuration for it hasn't been finished, but they let it out anyway. (same reason they had samba "working" in 10.1, it just wasn't obvious, since they hadn't gotten it stable and a good gui working).
While I am not knocking the daisy chainability of firewire, or its networking ability, but ethernet would still be a better way to go. Now if they made firewire devices transparent on the ethernet, it would be cool. (so your ipod is networked throughout your entire house)
My roommate has them aged. He says about after a year they become really good.
I think he is just smoking crack entirely too much.
Very true.
I was just joking on what some people would consider "important documents".
Why would you be storing your mp3s on an encrypted disk?
I would think personal financial documents and porn would be much more important. Of course mpeg playback would be hindered, which would be a problem.
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there is a tremors 3???????
Must watch.
I would imagine if one lined the sunlight "tubes" with mirrors, and get the light to focus into single beam, and then use creative refraction to scatter the light throughout the room. True sunlight during the day, through an entire house, would be pretty damn cool.
I hope Im not the only one who caught the real genius reference....
"Would you classify that as a design problem or a launch problem?"
I don't know about your university, but ours has a nice little "manual" registration page that will let you enter in the MAC address of any card you wish you have registered under your name. One can have up to four addresses per name, but only one connected at a time. Of course the other trick is to find someone who is living off campus and doesn't need to register on the network, and have them setup the xbox under their name, so you can have both machines online at once.
I was procrastinating from writting a paper and noticed the page was running slowly. Here's a mirror:/ case/
http://www.students.bucknell.edu/cbarker
They can't share antennae the last I checked. Although I think apple should make a new airport card that has airport and bluetooth integrated in it (but not share an antenna). That way, any airport capable mac immediately becomes bluetooth ready also. Throw up the 802.11g adapter in the upgrade, and i think it would be worth the $100 for a new card.
Well, i actually talked to him about it, and he mentioned that its really common in india. To the point where if it isn't really getting in the way, why bother taking it off (such as leaving the plastic on the monitor cables).
Actually, not everyone removes the plastic wrappers that come with new stuff. I have a friend from india who has had a vcr for over 2 years now, and the remote is still in the protective plastic wrapper.
Actually my college still has them, and they work.
My boss was telling me about how a guy working in the AC system kicked up some dust and it triggered the Halon system. A voice came on to announce they had 15 seconds to get out of the room before it would be deployed. My boss of course hits the button and stops the countdown. But he lets ago, apperantly you have to hold the button until someone can come by and turn off the system. So he and the network admin go diving out of the room just as the halon is released.
There are other labs on campus that have Halon warning labels on them also, and I wouldn't dare try to check if its true.
Dude that rules.
You should have taken photos. That sounds like something on par with what I want to do once I get a house off campus.
When you plug an iPod into a machine with itunes loaded, it by default, will copy your entire music folder onto the ipod, if the folder size is small enough to fit on the ipod.
I wouldn't be suprised if this "DRM" that people are talking (files given a number that refers to their ID3 tag stored in a database, etc.) is really just an effort to speed up the navigation process. Instead of having to traverse the filesystem to find songs, many with different naming conventions, and present them in a readable format. The Database is probably loaded into memory to reduce the amount of disk access to save battery life.
I would say that if anything, the "DRM" is the result of the best design that met their requirements (fast, consistent navigation, low power usage). The only implementation of DRM would be making it so one ipod wouldn't sync among many computer music libraries, storing all the music for all computers (since that could be a headache in itself). And the files being stored in an invisible folder is really just something they did so they wouldn't have to worry about people causing the database to eat itself.
If you want to use an iPod to transfer files back and forth between machines, you can throw the songs onto the drive via the finder, but you wont be able to play them on the iPod, since the files would not be entered in the database.
Its called manual disimpaction.
Friend of mine is an EMT and has fun stories about that.
The other aspect of this is the privacy concerns.
If people thought the image recognition software for video cameras was a bad idea, imagine being able to get the business card of every person whenever they entered a building or a business.
I would hope that there would be some way to limit which information is being transmitted.
The idea of doing a pgp key swap in a handsake and a public key / private key check upong entry to a building are very cool thou.
Dude, just buy a mac screen.
and a DViAtor (i believe is its name) or just search around some mac sites. It does the power and everything seperately, so atleast it would be off the desk. (and who really cares about the clutter behind the computer, its not like i got back there too often, that is what front ports are for).