The matted boxes also appear around Tie Fighters when the Millenium Falcon is escaping the Death Star in Episode 4!!!!! I can't believe they didn't fix that!
I'm more interested in using brain-implanted computers to shift the communication paradigm - imagine being able to instantly and wirelessly communicate with anyone, the increased bandwidth and throughput from regular spoken or written word would be phenomenal.
I had a subscription to Keyhole World Viewer for a while, it's the same type of thing with a shnazzy interface and features. You can download it for a free trial at their site, I haven't tried the NASA one so I don't know how it compares.
I had no idea other people thought the DKC music was good - I used to leave my SNES on, sit idle in various levels, and blast the music through the stereo with the TV off.
But will it work without having to blow in the cartridge, click it up and down three times while pushing it all the way in (or barely in, scraping the front) and holding/cycling the power/reset buttons?
Why call it a webcam and not a camera - the only thing that makes a webcam a webcam is the crappy resolution, to accomodate the bad bandwidth that goes along with the "web" part.
Try http://www.allofmp3.com, a Russian site charging $0.01 per megabyte downloaded, with various encoding options (an album is about 100 megs, so that's $1.00!!) Best site ever. And, apparently, legal (search for reviews on it.)
I bought my Athlon XP 2200+ and ECS motherboard for $70 from fry's, 1 gig of ram for $200 after rebates, and a Radeon 9800 non-pro for $150. Overclocked the cpu to 3200+ speed and flashed the 9800 to a pro. A new large hard drive will cost you about $100, a decent case + power supply $50, and all the "other stuff" maybe $100 total.
That's under $800 for a top-of-the-line system, when I got it.
People who spend $400 on a 512 meg ram module because it does 2-2-2 timing are just dumb, and have money to burn.
I'd like some more info, just out of curiosity =) I only used RPN for a bit, how exactly is it easier to express nested functions (or more intuitive, whatever.)
CPU manufacturers have been doing this for a long time - if a chip tests at a high speed but they need more "value" low-speed chips, they'll mark it as slower and crank it down. There have been ways to overclock CPUs (not just things like FSB tweaks but hardware mods on the cpu that make it think it's a faster version) from way back. Intel's only concern is people mass-marketing the slower cpus as faster ones, not individuals OCing their chips.
Makes me wonder why they couldn't have found some way for the road to descend into the valley via S turns, cross the Tarn with a bridge, then up the other side w/ more S turns?
I had this discussion with someone recently - there's a difference between believable scenarios, and believable behavior.
I can imagine Tolkien's middle earth because things act and interact in a consistent manner, I can imagine the scenario in episode 4, but ewoks helping defeat the empire is a bit of a stretch, and surfing on lava is just ridiculous - regardless of the setting.
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard
Why can't I do whatever I choose with the music I pay for? What if I want to put it on my other solid-state mp3 player, in mp3 format? This is a good utility.
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The matted boxes also appear around Tie Fighters when the Millenium Falcon is escaping the Death Star in Episode 4!!!!! I can't believe they didn't fix that!
Seriously, check it out!
I'm more interested in using brain-implanted computers to shift the communication paradigm - imagine being able to instantly and wirelessly communicate with anyone, the increased bandwidth and throughput from regular spoken or written word would be phenomenal.
I had a subscription to Keyhole World Viewer for a while, it's the same type of thing with a shnazzy interface and features. You can download it for a free trial at their site, I haven't tried the NASA one so I don't know how it compares.
~Berj
Try here: http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/spc/
Then go here for the Winamp SPC plugin: http://www.zophar.net/utilities/spc.html
FYI: It's 1 re-arrangement of each of the 22 songs, not 22 of each song like I anticipated when I followed the link =P
I had no idea other people thought the DKC music was good - I used to leave my SNES on, sit idle in various levels, and blast the music through the stereo with the TV off.
No joke.
But will it work without having to blow in the cartridge, click it up and down three times while pushing it all the way in (or barely in, scraping the front) and holding/cycling the power/reset buttons?
~Berj
There's an evolutionary reason for everything :) Nice.
Why call it a webcam and not a camera - the only thing that makes a webcam a webcam is the crappy resolution, to accomodate the bad bandwidth that goes along with the "web" part.
~Berj
those kinda suck :( Thanks for the link though!
Anyone care to post some links to the most realistic looking renders you've seen (specifically, of people)?
Just curious, haven't seen what "state of the art" is nowadays.
~Berj
Try http://www.allofmp3.com, a Russian site charging $0.01 per megabyte downloaded, with various encoding options (an album is about 100 megs, so that's $1.00!!) Best site ever. And, apparently, legal (search for reviews on it.)
~Berj
I bought my Athlon XP 2200+ and ECS motherboard for $70 from fry's, 1 gig of ram for $200 after rebates, and a Radeon 9800 non-pro for $150. Overclocked the cpu to 3200+ speed and flashed the 9800 to a pro. A new large hard drive will cost you about $100, a decent case + power supply $50, and all the "other stuff" maybe $100 total.
That's under $800 for a top-of-the-line system, when I got it.
People who spend $400 on a 512 meg ram module because it does 2-2-2 timing are just dumb, and have money to burn.
~Berj
I'd like some more info, just out of curiosity =) I only used RPN for a bit, how exactly is it easier to express nested functions (or more intuitive, whatever.)
~Berj
Maybe they can put those degrees to good use and write a proof on the Slashdot Effect? They should have collected plenty of data right about now...
~Berj
CPU manufacturers have been doing this for a long time - if a chip tests at a high speed but they need more "value" low-speed chips, they'll mark it as slower and crank it down. There have been ways to overclock CPUs (not just things like FSB tweaks but hardware mods on the cpu that make it think it's a faster version) from way back. Intel's only concern is people mass-marketing the slower cpus as faster ones, not individuals OCing their chips.
~Berj
That site's great, thanks.
Makes me wonder why they couldn't have found some way for the road to descend into the valley via S turns, cross the Tarn with a bridge, then up the other side w/ more S turns?
~Berj
If a piece of software reproduces itself on my computer, is it mine? =)
~Berj
I had this discussion with someone recently - there's a difference between believable scenarios, and believable behavior.
I can imagine Tolkien's middle earth because things act and interact in a consistent manner, I can imagine the scenario in episode 4, but ewoks helping defeat the empire is a bit of a stretch, and surfing on lava is just ridiculous - regardless of the setting.
~Berj
... surfing on lava? ... surfing on lava? ... surfing on lava? ... sorry, brain seems to be malfunctioning.
~Berj
Score:5, Flamebait
I was gonna mod you down but I'll post this to be informative instead ;)
This is the E3 2003 trailer. For the new footage, check out this helpful fellow's post:
New Trailers
~Berj
Because, you know, one day Los Angeles will be ok, and five, ten years later it'll be submerged.
What kind of timescale do you think we're talking?
~Berj
This is a solution to a different problem. Inventing a more effective toothbrush won't get kids to brush their teeth either, but who cares?
~Berj
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard
Why can't I do whatever I choose with the music I pay for? What if I want to put it on my other solid-state mp3 player, in mp3 format? This is a good utility.
~Berj