...For some reason, when I see these pictures of people that (probably) had a hard life, their lives do not look nearly as bad in color as they do in black and white... I almost wish I could have lived during a time when there was only B&W photographs, to give myself a better perspective on reality.
that and "People's Liberation Army" I mean, who are they liberating??? are they "liberating" free thought from the general population or what?? It's not like they are a revolutionary army or something
The one difference that I can see is that the cafes are privately owned, where as the libraries and schools are public. Instead of the government infringing on rights on their own things, they are infringing on rights of private businesses
Fighters: Now, for where I really piss off the fighter community. The future of air operations is in RPVs and eventually autonomous air vehicles. But, alas, the Air Force, and to a lesser extent, Naval Aviation, is run by Fighter Pilots. ..
Yes, I know, most people see X-10 and relate it to their wireless cameras. However, it appears that they have quite a line of home automation equipment, as well as some touch-tone controlled and PC controlled things. They can control air-conditioning, and other things... this new air-conditioner doesn't sound all that innovative to me
Asimov wrote a short story once about evolution and God. Basically, Moses was dictating the Bible to Aaron, going through several billion years. But Aaron said he had only a couple sheets to write on, so Moses shortened it to 6 days.
I think the "change" that is long overdue is not getting rid of the SAT (or ACT, or any other standardized test) at all. Colleges need some sort of standardized method of comparing applicants. Instead, the tests need to be modified to cover more knowledge, and include an essay section (to help people that are poor at multiple choice tests). The type of questions that the student did good or bad on (science math english history whatever) would also be reported to the school. (instead of just reading, writing and math) Then the school would be responsible for seeing whether the candidate would meet the standards. The problem is that the current tests are much to focused
The book of the future would use the epaper. If used enough, it has the possibility of being bound into a book form, with memory in the binding and possibly touchscreen pages (to make notes). The book would maybe have 200 pages, probably hardcover. For longer books, it could be multiple volumes. Benefits:
One book, store lots of books
high contrast(the same as ink)
low battery usage (once the ink has been modified, it stays modified)
The "niceness" of books that people have grown to like over centuries of using them
Disadvantages:
probably not as light as a true ebook
Unable to read without external light
Inability to have a shelf full of books to show off <g>
For me I think it would be a great merge of old and new. Lets hope someone does something like this.
A thought about dogfights: I've always thought that it might be possible to put a very fast swiveling camera in the cockpit general area of a UCAV, and then have the controller wear goggles with a motion sensor. Of course the controller would need to be fairly close to the UCAV, or else lag times would be bad. (i.e. bad lag on quake: oops, i fell in the lava bad lag with UCAV: oops, i busted up several million dollars.)
If you had actually read the article you would have found out that:
Organization is the real key. have all of your music organized in folders for every artist, then by subject, like Pop, Classic, disco, 60's etc. Navigating is simple: when in navigation mode you move the controller right to go deeper into directories (or left to go up) then scroll up and down to see the songs in the directory.
Well, the results are in, a tie in both electoral and popular vote. Now normally this would be sent to the senate. However, it has been decided by both Bush and Gore to combine and become Co-presidents. To show their support of each other they have decided to call themselves *drumroll*
The Bore presidency!
Reaching new levels of Boring speeches the Bore team will lead this country into a new realm of Boringness! Vote for Bore! Yay!
Let me just bold something else, your post is a bit misleading:
I have no problem with typo squatting as a whole, but there are a dozen Slashdot typo sites, one of which frames Slashdot with a 2nd banner ad. Now I don't care... but this fools about 1 person every 2-3 days, and they flame me for selling out and doing something so horrible as framing Slashdot for extra ad space. So I guess typo sites that frame the site are pretty slimey, but as long as the typo site provides a link to the correct site, I'm totally cool with 'em
The also used a very fast movie camera at the end (for instance, in the shot of neo dodging, right from behind him) because the camera "view" stays there. I think there were only something like 320fps or something like that
these new "awesome technologies" I imagine will be performance related, and maybe a little quality related. But as you mentianed, they most likely don't even get deal with the actualy video compression side of it. judging from the muhahahaha part, i would think they are really trying to be the "cool" pirate video guys..
sounds to me that mayo is actually a fully new codec, not merely a hacked m$ one. from the WSJ article: Mr. Rota is busily working on a completely legal implementation of the DivX idea that won't use Microsoft technology at all.
I live in Mankato, MN and so far have been very successful with dsl. I use Gotocrystal.net, a local providor. Got it in february or april or something like that. Free installation (temporary thing) with network card (nice 3com one) and router included (nice ascend one.) 384/128 and so far haven't had any problems whatsoever. so even though everybody says that their are problems, it doesn't always mean that there are will all providors.
I'm guessing that local providors are probably better than nationwide ones (thats a guess i have no proof, experience, etc to back it up)
I dunno, from what I have read of prescripts and information about ep4 In 4 the emipre is just fininishing up cleaning up the senate (leia being the last). If annie is supposed to downfall in 3, why would the empire rise allready? Yeah i can see a shadowed rise in the backround and covering it upwith the clone wars ( somebody else other then the trade federation picking a fight with the rebuplic), but I don't see a big sign from the empire saying WE ARE HERE WE HAVE ROSE WE WILL DESTROY YOU yet.
I find that DVD Digest offers some great tutorials and programs. It isn't that tough, especially with FlaskMPEG. I however prefer to use other codecs other than DivX. Sorry to say however, its only for Wintel.
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...For some reason, when I see these pictures of people that (probably) had a hard life, their lives do not look nearly as bad in color as they do in black and white... I almost wish I could have lived during a time when there was only B&W photographs, to give myself a better perspective on reality.
that and "People's Liberation Army" I mean, who are they liberating??? are they "liberating" free thought from the general population or what?? It's not like they are a revolutionary army or something
The one difference that I can see is that the cafes are privately owned, where as the libraries and schools are public. Instead of the government infringing on rights on their own things, they are infringing on rights of private businesses
So basically, ya can't do anything but surf.
most definately
Yes, I know, most people see X-10 and relate it to their wireless cameras. However, it appears that they have quite a line of home automation equipment, as well as some touch-tone controlled and PC controlled things. They can control air-conditioning, and other things... this new air-conditioner doesn't sound all that innovative to me
I'm guessing its covered under parody... Or maybe not, IANAL
Actually, it the first movie made (A new hope) was episode IV. Ep3 has yet to come.
Ummm.. I hope he learns some calculus and trig.... Geometry is nice, but most math related careers require a bit more.
or theirs the problem that i sleap in the same room with my computer, makes it really noisy to try to go to sleep...
Asimov wrote a short story once about evolution and God. Basically, Moses was dictating the Bible to Aaron, going through several billion years. But Aaron said he had only a couple sheets to write on, so Moses shortened it to 6 days.
I think the "change" that is long overdue is not getting rid of the SAT (or ACT, or any other standardized test) at all. Colleges need some sort of standardized method of comparing applicants. Instead, the tests need to be modified to cover more knowledge, and include an essay section (to help people that are poor at multiple choice tests). The type of questions that the student did good or bad on (science math english history whatever) would also be reported to the school. (instead of just reading, writing and math) Then the school would be responsible for seeing whether the candidate would meet the standards. The problem is that the current tests are much to focused
Worship the comic!
The book of the future would use the epaper. If used enough, it has the possibility of being bound into a book form, with memory in the binding and possibly touchscreen pages (to make notes). The book would maybe have 200 pages, probably hardcover. For longer books, it could be multiple volumes.
Benefits:
Disadvantages:
For me I think it would be a great merge of old and new. Lets hope someone does something like this.
Bonzaihuman!
A thought about dogfights: I've always thought that it might be possible to put a very fast swiveling camera in the cockpit general area of a UCAV, and then have the controller wear goggles with a motion sensor. Of course the controller would need to be fairly close to the UCAV, or else lag times would be bad. (i.e. bad lag on quake: oops, i fell in the lava bad lag with UCAV: oops, i busted up several million dollars.)
Well, the results are in, a tie in both electoral and popular vote. Now normally this would be sent to the senate. However, it has been decided by both Bush and Gore to combine and become Co-presidents. To show their support of each other they have decided to call themselves *drumroll*
The Bore presidency!
Reaching new levels of Boring speeches the Bore team will lead this country into a new realm of Boringness! Vote for Bore! Yay!
Watch Independence day... the explosion of the city was done with gasoline-laden air, filmed at very slow speed
The also used a very fast movie camera at the end (for instance, in the shot of neo dodging, right from behind him) because the camera "view" stays there. I think there were only something like 320fps or something like that
these new "awesome technologies" I imagine will be performance related, and maybe a little quality related. But as you mentianed, they most likely don't even get deal with the actualy video compression side of it. judging from the muhahahaha part, i would think they are really trying to be the "cool" pirate video guys..
sounds to me that mayo is actually a fully new codec, not merely a hacked m$ one. from the WSJ article:
Mr. Rota is busily working on a completely legal implementation of the DivX idea that won't use Microsoft technology at all.
I live in Mankato, MN and so far have been very successful with dsl. I use Gotocrystal.net, a local providor. Got it in february or april or something like that. Free installation (temporary thing) with network card (nice 3com one) and router included (nice ascend one.) 384/128 and so far haven't had any problems whatsoever. so even though everybody says that their are problems, it doesn't always mean that there are will all providors.
I'm guessing that local providors are probably better than nationwide ones (thats a guess i have no proof, experience, etc to back it up)
I dunno, from what I have read of prescripts and information about ep4 In 4 the emipre is just fininishing up cleaning up the senate (leia being the last). If annie is supposed to downfall in 3, why would the empire rise allready? Yeah i can see a shadowed rise in the backround and covering it upwith the clone wars ( somebody else other then the trade federation picking a fight with the rebuplic), but I don't see a big sign from the empire saying WE ARE HERE WE HAVE ROSE WE WILL DESTROY YOU yet.
I find that DVD Digest offers some great tutorials and programs. It isn't that tough, especially with FlaskMPEG. I however prefer to use other codecs other than DivX.
Sorry to say however, its only for Wintel.