I took an image of danica mckellar(winnie cooper...wonder years) from her stuff photoshoot.
While screwing aroud with the selection tool, I decided to use the mark region in/out. so I drew a few crude circles around her body(which has contrast against the white pillows, but she has varying skintones+black), and was absolutley floored.
With a few crude circlings around Danica, it got the clue, and selected ONLY her. PERFECTLY clean selection lines around her.
Amazing!
And I shoulnd't be saying this since I work for a competitor to this!
Yes, speed is great, but I honestly don't find myself holding my breath for a printout from mapquest,etc.
How about:
1. A super-cheap to refill DIY printer. Sure, it goes against the whole business model of printers & ink. Then find some way to have it not dry out after periods of non-use.
2. A reasonably priced printer that prints on both sides of the paper.
3. Bullet-proof linux drivers. I gave up on CUPS + HP printer when it would print out 90% of the page, and then several pages of garbage, thus wasting paper.
4. an ez-un-jamming printer. When a paper doesn't go in 100% perfectly straight, hilarity ensues trying to pull the confetti out without damaging things.
Or maybe I should just save up some $$$ and go strictly laserjet instead of mooching from work.
There's that one movie(philadelphia experiment 2?) where a F-117 somehow magically gets transported(with a nuke) to WW2 Nazi Germany. So the Nazis take the plane, fly it over to Washington DC and nuke it, and win.
What was neat to see was the F-117 painted in Nazi markings(with the cross + numbers).
Spike wouldn't be the channel of choice, if that were the case...but it does go a long way towards showing exactly how little regard the gaming industry has for G4 at this point.
If I were in charge of G4's programming, i would be looking for a new job. Here's a (crappy, but I digress) self-serving awards show regarding video games, and here's a video games channel not covering it exclusively.
Is G4 too busy to air this?
Is G4 too busy answering emails from greasy 15-year olds to be read out on tv by models?
Is G4 just not interested? Is it too video-gamey for G4's audience?
Again this station gets more egg on its face as time goes on.
Smart scammers will keep track of IP addresses via a script running on the server, and block you after a while
Problem solved! Er, temporarily. Maybe if the phishing site was hacked/flooded by a handful of AOL addresses, the scammer would give up and block all of AOL. Said gullible AOL users would be phish-free.
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I skimmed over it, assuming it was for RSS feeds and such. I'm not doing that, nor am I hitting reload 2000 times a second. If I did that, wouldn't the whole site freeze me out for 72 hours?
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Okay, this makes no sense...
I have Slashdot's "Games" Section slashbox on my main account prefs. All the headlines just say my headline reader's banned. Uh, no. I'm not even using one(I doubt the slashbox counts).
Anyone else getting this? Might explain the so-few comments on this story. Nobody can see it unless they directly go to games.slashdot.org.
And in other news..phishing sites have decreased by 50%.
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The mouse wheel needs to not be so loose. I have numerous times intended to left click on a link, and instead I end up scrolling down a bit. If they would just tighten it up a bit like their earlier 2-button ball mice.
And why OH why do I have to click into a section first before being able to scroll-wheel around? I swear in the logitech mice days all you needed to be was in the area to scroll without click-focusing first. Argh.
I have a GeForce MX 440. It's a 2 year old card, so I honestly wasn't surprised, but it runs UT2004 just fine, and Lego Star Wars doesn't look too graphically intensive.
I've had a history of bad Lego game experiences on the PC. THe earlier titles(alpha team,etc) crashed on me, while one had weird video corruption where a faceless scary looking lego minifig was talking to me!
I can always get it for PS2 when it goes budget price.
This game(demo version) worked great on my work laptop, but would not start on my 2-year old Athlon XP. I updated to the latest nvidia drivers, and it would not support my Geforce 4. Said it needed some pixel shading capability or some techno-babble.
but it is a fun game. I liked in the beginning when 2 ship pilots have their Lego ship fall apart around them. Like in the cartoons, they float there for a second, look at each other, and fall & shatter to the ground.
Yes, the wipes were truly awful(squares, the jaws opening), and were out of place in such a hyped movie. I would have gone for simple crossfading of scenes.
It would be nice to have an entire season of The Apprentice on just one disk(instead of charging me for 5 dvds at the video store), AND include the deleted secenes you can see from the website.
Not sure why they didn't go for a "Director's Cut" of The Apprentice, when plenty was available on the cutting room floor.
Just citing an example. A good selling point would be to get a full hour of a television program instead of 40-something minutes/episode.
But with The Apprentice, no 'extended scenes' existed, ths swearing was cut(but not cut on Heidi's audition tape), and the theme song was different.
...Slashdot will finally stop linking to NY Times articles? Regardless of bugmenot.com, the whole registration thing just didn't go over well. There's plenty of other news sources besides NYTimes. Plenty!
The internet isn't quite fast enough for videoconferencing on a small scale to be practical. How on earth is HD-video quality going to shoot through the pipes fast enough?
I know, corporate environment with coroprate-scale bandwidth, but it all has to pass through the backbones like the rest of us.
It is a bit odd that a station for music is showing a debut for a video game console, while a video game station isn't. That's major egg on the face of G4. Oh well, here comes some more reruns of Icons(yay! the sid meier episode AGAIN!)
Perhaps The Weather Channel will be playing the latest music video from $ARTIST.
MSNBC will have a special hour playing the Firefox promo videos.
The Golf channel will be unveiling the latest cadillac vehicle.
Gotta love the Cisco VPN client. Version 4(think that's one) doesn't work at all on Windows 2k(at least to me). Falling back to version 3 has less-than-stellar performance.
I remember using version 4 on WinXP and hitting connect instantly rebooted my system.
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I wish you could mark a whole day on a calendar, but not tie it to a specifc task that needs to be checked off
For example:
Recycling day. Mark the day before the actual day to remind you to take it out to the curb. But if you miss it, no big deal.
Pay day. Direct deposit, whoopee.
I took an image of danica mckellar(winnie cooper...wonder years) from her stuff photoshoot.
While screwing aroud with the selection tool, I decided to use the mark region in/out. so I drew a few crude circles around her body(which has contrast against the white pillows, but she has varying skintones+black), and was absolutley floored.
With a few crude circlings around Danica, it got the clue, and selected ONLY her. PERFECTLY clean selection lines around her.
Amazing!
And I shoulnd't be saying this since I work for a competitor to this!
..your protest signs can only be viewed under an electron microscope.
I'll one-up you on that. Danica McKellar. Winnie Cooper from the wonder years. Her website has math problems on it.
She's hot and smart. That's marriage material there.
Yes, speed is great, but I honestly don't find myself holding my breath for a printout from mapquest,etc.
How about:
1. A super-cheap to refill DIY printer. Sure, it goes against the whole business model of printers & ink. Then find some way to have it not dry out after periods of non-use.
2. A reasonably priced printer that prints on both sides of the paper.
3. Bullet-proof linux drivers. I gave up on CUPS + HP printer when it would print out 90% of the page, and then several pages of garbage, thus wasting paper.
4. an ez-un-jamming printer. When a paper doesn't go in 100% perfectly straight, hilarity ensues trying to pull the confetti out without damaging things.
Or maybe I should just save up some $$$ and go strictly laserjet instead of mooching from work.
There's that one movie(philadelphia experiment 2?) where a F-117 somehow magically gets transported(with a nuke) to WW2 Nazi Germany. So the Nazis take the plane, fly it over to Washington DC and nuke it, and win.
What was neat to see was the F-117 painted in Nazi markings(with the cross + numbers).
Spike wouldn't be the channel of choice, if that were the case...but it does go a long way towards showing exactly how little regard the gaming industry has for G4 at this point.
If I were in charge of G4's programming, i would be looking for a new job. Here's a (crappy, but I digress) self-serving awards show regarding video games, and here's a video games channel not covering it exclusively.
Is G4 too busy to air this?
Is G4 too busy answering emails from greasy 15-year olds to be read out on tv by models?
Is G4 just not interested? Is it too video-gamey for G4's audience?
Again this station gets more egg on its face as time goes on.
THe last time I went to a CEC(a few years ago), it was 99% kiddie rides/games/etc. There was almost no arcade unit to be seen.
CEC back in its heyday was the Playboy Lounge for kids. Pizza, soft drinks, and a gazillion arcade games. That was the early 80s, and it was good.
Today, video games have come to the home and are more powerful (if not equal) to what can be stuck in a cabinet.
I don't see how this can take off, again. Times have changed, technology has changed.
Smart scammers will keep track of IP addresses via a script running on the server, and block you after a while
Problem solved! Er, temporarily. Maybe if the phishing site was hacked/flooded by a handful of AOL addresses, the scammer would give up and block all of AOL. Said gullible AOL users would be phish-free.
I skimmed over it, assuming it was for RSS feeds and such. I'm not doing that, nor am I hitting reload 2000 times a second. If I did that, wouldn't the whole site freeze me out for 72 hours?
Okay, this makes no sense...
I have Slashdot's "Games" Section slashbox on my main account prefs. All the headlines just say my headline reader's banned. Uh, no. I'm not even using one(I doubt the slashbox counts).
Anyone else getting this? Might explain the so-few comments on this story. Nobody can see it unless they directly go to games.slashdot.org.
New! From the makers of the lameness filter!
The worst voice acting I have ever heard was the first SOCOM.
You hear a rather plain, male adult voice yell "outgoing!" when you toss a grenade. It sounds like it belongs in a language teaching course tape.
The voices for UT2004 sounded much more "military".
The Scott Baio "baiolog"
Your Ex-girlfriend who HATES YOUR GUTS! blog
"Your best friend who loves to reveal all the secrets you confessed and laugh about it" blog
The raunchy comedian who hasn't had a gig in 3 years blog
The "Look at this news article I found on fark.com" commentary blog
The Will Tippen, the fictional character who used to be on Alias blog (man that never gets updated)
The "guy who played Will Tippen on Alias" actual blog.
And the list goes on and on
half of the top russian sites went down,
And in other news..phishing sites have decreased by 50%.
The mouse wheel needs to not be so loose. I have numerous times intended to left click on a link, and instead I end up scrolling down a bit. If they would just tighten it up a bit like their earlier 2-button ball mice.
And why OH why do I have to click into a section first before being able to scroll-wheel around? I swear in the logitech mice days all you needed to be was in the area to scroll without click-focusing first. Argh.
I have a GeForce MX 440. It's a 2 year old card, so I honestly wasn't surprised, but it runs UT2004 just fine, and Lego Star Wars doesn't look too graphically intensive.
,etc) crashed on me, while one had weird video corruption where a faceless scary looking lego minifig was talking to me!
I've had a history of bad Lego game experiences on the PC. THe earlier titles(alpha team
I can always get it for PS2 when it goes budget price.
1. Starting out BBSing on a TI-99/4A in 1989. It was even then outdated to use, but it worked in 40 column glory.
2. Using it as an outlet to meet girls, and it actually worked out.
Ah those were the days.
This game(demo version) worked great on my work laptop, but would not start on my 2-year old Athlon XP. I updated to the latest nvidia drivers, and it would not support my Geforce 4. Said it needed some pixel shading capability or some techno-babble.
but it is a fun game. I liked in the beginning when 2 ship pilots have their Lego ship fall apart around them. Like in the cartoons, they float there for a second, look at each other, and fall & shatter to the ground.
Yes, the wipes were truly awful(squares, the jaws opening), and were out of place in such a hyped movie. I would have gone for simple crossfading of scenes.
It would be nice to have an entire season of The Apprentice on just one disk(instead of charging me for 5 dvds at the video store), AND include the deleted secenes you can see from the website.
Not sure why they didn't go for a "Director's Cut" of The Apprentice, when plenty was available on the cutting room floor.
Just citing an example. A good selling point would be to get a full hour of a television program instead of 40-something minutes/episode.
But with The Apprentice, no 'extended scenes' existed, ths swearing was cut(but not cut on Heidi's audition tape), and the theme song was different.
Would a US company that would sell to a devoted Chinese firm to then sell to the government work?
...Slashdot will finally stop linking to NY Times articles? Regardless of bugmenot.com, the whole registration thing just didn't go over well. There's plenty of other news sources besides NYTimes. Plenty!
The internet isn't quite fast enough for videoconferencing on a small scale to be practical. How on earth is HD-video quality going to shoot through the pipes fast enough?
I know, corporate environment with coroprate-scale bandwidth, but it all has to pass through the backbones like the rest of us.
We're not at the Max Headroom age yet.
It is a bit odd that a station for music is showing a debut for a video game console, while a video game station isn't. That's major egg on the face of G4. Oh well, here comes some more reruns of Icons(yay! the sid meier episode AGAIN!)
Perhaps The Weather Channel will be playing the latest music video from $ARTIST.
MSNBC will have a special hour playing the Firefox promo videos.
The Golf channel will be unveiling the latest cadillac vehicle.
It's a crazy mixed-up world.
Gotta love the Cisco VPN client. Version 4(think that's one) doesn't work at all on Windows 2k(at least to me). Falling back to version 3 has less-than-stellar performance.
I remember using version 4 on WinXP and hitting connect instantly rebooted my system.
Great joerb!