"Quite unreactive" means "non totally unreactive". Actually the word quite is an oddity in that it has two seemingly contradictory definitions. The most common meaning is "to an extent", as you have interpreted it. However I believe that the original meaning of the word was "absolutely, completely", commonly found in classic literature.
Hence the original assertion that platinum/irridium alloy is unreactive was correct.
No. All a turbo allows you to do is burn the fuel in the engine more rapidly. You get more power, but at an increase of fuel economy. This solution is making use of the currently wasted byproduct of internal combustion; i.e heat to get more power from the same amount of fuel.
When clearing out the wardrobes in my old room at my parent's house. Brought back memories I can tell you. Computers seemed so much more exciting back then, but then again, I didn't have to work with them 9 hours a day.
The BBC has a long history of R&D, based at Kingswood Warren in Surrey. Many important developments were made, under the funding of the BBC charter and through private industry. I'm sure the BBC's development of an open source video codec can only be good.
N.B I used to work for a broadcast equipment manufacturer, Snell & Wilcox, alongside many ex BBC engineers, and they employ some very good people.
>Did they remix the center rear channel into the >right and left rear speaker or what???
Er, yes. DD EX's 6th channel is matrixed into the SR and SL channels, so, strictly speaking, there are only 6 (5.1) discreet channels. If you have a 6th speaker and compatible reciever, the matrixed channel is extracted, as a Dolby Surround/Pro Logic track is.
Actually, technology came up with a way of switching between pages. I have a Philips telly, that has something like a 600 page ttext memory, and once a given page is loaded and the data carousel has gone its full course, you can flip between pages with cursor keys.
Teletext (Ceefax) is still better than the more modern digital text IMHO; the ability to type in a page no. directly is a great boon
There was an interesting paper at SIGGRAPH this year on the same topic. Again, not origami as cuts are involved, but impressive non the less, enabling smooth surfaces to be modelled in paper.
That would make sense. I'm British, and prefer off-the-wall British humour to American in most cases (honourable exceptions of the Simpsons, Frazier, South Park etc).
Yes. The AM/MW is the key. Non FM stations are only suitable for talk radio. Of course, it is available on DAB now as well, but I find the BBC stations are the only ones with listenable quality in my little rural backwater; all the rest sound like low bandwidth RealAudio streams with my kitchen worktop DAB tuner.
I still resort to Freeview for decent quality radio (at last we can get Jazz FM - I never used to be able to get it, no matter how hard I twiddled them), but there's still a very sparse choice of stations even on that.
I regularly used to park my car in the space outside my house so that it was touching the wall at the back and had barely the width of my calves to squeeze through to get to the house at the front. You can get into surprisingly small spaces with a bit of patience.
I gave up in the end and bought a car 2 feet shorter.
I think one reason that we don't see Games taking advantage of the latest gee-whiz auto card features is that PC audio cards have been able to deliver realism for a long time now. Sounds are sampled, environmental processing effects applied (which are, in the main, not processor intensive enough to require much hardware acceleration) and, with a decent pair of stereo speakers - to say nothing of a 5.1 system, the effect is realistic enough that you feel immersed in the game. The same is only just becoming true of 3D graphics with the current state-of-the-art hardware, and there's still a long way to go.
As many people point out, for the unwashed masses who cannot tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and the original audio, pro-level audio soundcards like the Audigy are just overkill and will remain in the domain of the musician and those who care about sound quality. We are a lot more forgiving about audio quality than visual quality; I know I will happily listen to a LW radio broadcast, but I find a low signal TV broadcast unwatchable.
Until games use more audio gimmicks; real-time physically modelled sounds generated on the fly for example, we will have no requirements over those currently implemented on all on-board audio.
<polical highhorse>N.B. I don't support the automatic right to bear arms, but I do think the UK handgun ban is ridiculous and that citizens have a right to defend their property</political highhorse>
Little Britain. It's great, but again, probably one that 95% of American's won't understand, due to cultural differences, and that won't survive a remake. Stars Matt Lucas of Shooting Stars fame.
Also good at the moment, Nighty Night (think darker than the League of Gentlemen) and Catterick (if you like Vic and Bob that is).
Black Books is also in the middle of a very funny third series.
Of course most of these are shows that have probably never been heard of in the US - pity, so visit BBC Comedy and Black books for more detail.
I believe that they are actually trying to patent the preview button, as found in the XP virtual desktop powertoy. I thought it was quite a good idea when I saw it, quite like the apple expose function, although it is dog slow and flawed in its implementation. It's certainly a different take on the virtual desktop manager solution than the ubiquitous preview panes that many people have already pointed out have been found on Linux window managers for years now.
Anyway, XEarth users have had a 3D desktop for years now (with the 3rd dimension of time).
I don't want to sound negative about the concept; as someone who writes software tasked with the job of obtaining 3d from 2d I'm all for a useable 3d interface. I just haven't seen one that gives me anything above the purely flashy and superficial yet.
I disagree. You are free to read the pages of the book in any order you like. Granted, it may not always make much sense, but how more non-linear to you want.
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First ye take 120 paces for'ards, then ye spin widdershins thrice times. Walk till the cockatrice calls and dig for yer treasure me hearties. Yarrr.
CF.
It's up there, just past the bush with yellow flowers that looks like a dog cocking its leg.
I'm a man, and I use named landmarks to give directions. Makes much more sense.
Sorry, ignore that last comment. I seem to have fallen into the "explaining the bleedin' obvious joke" trap
Is that not called a conversation?
No. All a turbo allows you to do is burn the fuel in the engine more rapidly. You get more power, but at an increase of fuel economy. This solution is making use of the currently wasted byproduct of internal combustion; i.e heat to get more power from the same amount of fuel.
It's the Golf.
When clearing out the wardrobes in my old room at my parent's house. Brought back memories I can tell you. Computers seemed so much more exciting back then, but then again, I didn't have to work with them 9 hours a day.
The BBC has a long history of R&D, based at Kingswood Warren in Surrey. Many important developments were made, under the funding of the BBC charter and through private industry. I'm sure the BBC's development of an open source video codec can only be good.
N.B I used to work for a broadcast equipment manufacturer, Snell & Wilcox, alongside many ex BBC engineers, and they employ some very good people.
>Did they remix the center rear channel into the >right and left rear speaker or what??? Er, yes. DD EX's 6th channel is matrixed into the SR and SL channels, so, strictly speaking, there are only 6 (5.1) discreet channels. If you have a 6th speaker and compatible reciever, the matrixed channel is extracted, as a Dolby Surround/Pro Logic track is.
Actually, technology came up with a way of switching between pages. I have a Philips telly, that has something like a 600 page ttext memory, and once a given page is loaded and the data carousel has gone its full course, you can flip between pages with cursor keys.
Teletext (Ceefax) is still better than the more modern digital text IMHO; the ability to type in a page no. directly is a great boon
There was an interesting paper at SIGGRAPH this year on the same topic. Again, not origami as cuts are involved, but impressive non the less, enabling smooth surfaces to be modelled in paper.
http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mitani
http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~suzuki
That would make sense. I'm British, and prefer off-the-wall British humour to American in most cases (honourable exceptions of the Simpsons, Frazier, South Park etc).
But I can't stand Benny Hill.
Or why not
finger Jenny for a good time.
Yes. The AM/MW is the key. Non FM stations are only suitable for talk radio. Of course, it is available on DAB now as well, but I find the BBC stations are the only ones with listenable quality in my little rural backwater; all the rest sound like low bandwidth RealAudio streams with my kitchen worktop DAB tuner.
I still resort to Freeview for decent quality radio (at last we can get Jazz FM - I never used to be able to get it, no matter how hard I twiddled them), but there's still a very sparse choice of stations even on that.
I regularly used to park my car in the space outside my house so that it was touching the wall at the back and had barely the width of my calves to squeeze through to get to the house at the front. You can get into surprisingly small spaces with a bit of patience.
I gave up in the end and bought a car 2 feet shorter.
I think one reason that we don't see Games taking advantage of the latest gee-whiz auto card features is that PC audio cards have been able to deliver realism for a long time now. Sounds are sampled, environmental processing effects applied (which are, in the main, not processor intensive enough to require much hardware acceleration) and, with a decent pair of stereo speakers - to say nothing of a 5.1 system, the effect is realistic enough that you feel immersed in the game. The same is only just becoming true of 3D graphics with the current state-of-the-art hardware, and there's still a long way to go.
As many people point out, for the unwashed masses who cannot tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and the original audio, pro-level audio soundcards like the Audigy are just overkill and will remain in the domain of the musician and those who care about sound quality. We are a lot more forgiving about audio quality than visual quality; I know I will happily listen to a LW radio broadcast, but I find a low signal TV broadcast unwatchable.
Until games use more audio gimmicks; real-time physically modelled sounds generated on the fly for example, we will have no requirements over those currently implemented on all on-board audio.
Strange. I'm on 1.0.1 and it lets me in fine.
Unfortunately, and some may say, shamefully, this is not the case in the UK.
<polical highhorse>N.B. I don't support the automatic right to bear arms, but I do think the UK handgun ban is ridiculous and that citizens have a right to defend their property</political highhorse>
Little Britain. It's great, but again, probably one that 95% of American's won't understand, due to cultural differences, and that won't survive a remake. Stars Matt Lucas of Shooting Stars fame.
Also good at the moment, Nighty Night (think darker than the League of Gentlemen) and Catterick (if you like Vic and Bob that is).
Black Books is also in the middle of a very funny third series.
Of course most of these are shows that have probably never been heard of in the US - pity, so visit BBC Comedy and Black books for more detail.
I believe that they are actually trying to patent the preview button, as found in the XP virtual desktop powertoy. I thought it was quite a good idea when I saw it, quite like the apple expose function, although it is dog slow and flawed in its implementation. It's certainly a different take on the virtual desktop manager solution than the ubiquitous preview panes that many people have already pointed out have been found on Linux window managers for years now.
3d books. They'd be pop-up books, right?
Anyway, XEarth users have had a 3D desktop for years now (with the 3rd dimension of time).
I don't want to sound negative about the concept; as someone who writes software tasked with the job of obtaining 3d from 2d I'm all for a useable 3d interface. I just haven't seen one that gives me anything above the purely flashy and superficial yet.
I disagree. You are free to read the pages of the book in any order you like. Granted, it may not always make much sense, but how more non-linear to you want.
Some of us Brits object to the American import of Halloween overshadowing our own pyrotechnic traditions.
Very funny diatribe about 20 minutes into last week's Now Show (radio 4 comedy programme) about this very matter.
That still hurts when you collide with the playground wall. Ah, memories of a time long gone...