Good info. Also agree, lows and highs are what suffers with poor compression. Even with my awesome-for-the-price $20 sony headphones I can really tell a difference between mp3's ripped to 128 vs 320 vbr. What really stood out to me was the lows sounded so much more alive.
Yeah, black like soot, right? IIRC, you didn't have to change the oil in those cars, cuz you were always adding new every time you filled it up with gas.
A quick google search resulted in a game with this description:
Bridge Construction Set is all about building a bridge that doesn't break, although watching your bridge creation break and plunge a train into the watery depths below can be half the fun. In the Bridge Construction Set you design and build bridges and then stress test them to see how your creations hold up under pressure. If when test vehicles pass over your bridge they make it safely across you know you've succeeded. If they plummet into the river you know you need to go back to the drawing board.
The robust physics deployed in the Bridge Construction Set let you build a wide variety of bridges that can span the river. The 3D graphics allow you to view your bridge from any angle including a first person train view - its like being strapped to the front of the train when your bridge is first tested (if this happened in real life I think we might have engineers checking all their bridges in a simulator).
The Bridge Construction Set includes many types of bridge building levels in varying degrees of difficulty from simple to complex with a tutorial section to get you started. A Level Editor is also included so you can create your own levels and trade them with others.
Even though "less than expected" people died this week, the description is still a little disturbing... if they plummet into the river, back to the drawing board??? Yikes!
I did this once where I worked. It was a large multi-national corporation and had the standard official internet usage policies and such.
We were fiddling around and discovered some kind of netware broadcast tool that would pop up a message box on someones machine by IP address. So, we figured out someone's IP we wanted to prank and popped up a very official looking network message. It said something like "excessive non-work related internet usage, eliminate non-work traffic immediately" or something like that.
The thing is, the fans might be partly for show, but while the GPU's have their own fans to remove the heat from the card you still gotta get the heat out of the case.
drunk drivers usually fare better in crashes vs sober drivers because they don't tense up before the crash. Heard that in health class or something. Same w/ babies I would assume, they're all flexible and resilient and stuff.
as long as I know who has access to it and I'm able to get the same back in kind.
I think this is the gap. Just look at spam as an example. Someone had your information, likely you knew who it was at the time. But THEN... someone else had access to your information who you did not know, and you got no additional information in return. Well, except for how to get \/|/\6R4 or some other substance.
Sure, "big Brother" or some other entity can easily track you and gather information about you. You may even willingly allow it to happen, because you were told who would keep the information and why. However, you cannot guarantee that what they told you is true, or how long it will be true, and what the truth will be later. "Big Brother" or a corporation (arguably not much difference any more) has not demonstrated to anyone, that I can tell, a track record to earn anyone's trust.
Take Google. Who do you know using gmail? Google Documents? Google Calendar? Google Browser Sync(when it worked)? All of Google's other toys? Now, THAT is a lot of personal information willingly turned over! Can we trust Google?
I would have to agree with you, except.... I don't see it.
I do everything at work on my work laptop. 3D cad, 2D cad, video editing, graphics, etc. Slap enough ram into a decent dual core laptop and it'll do just fine.
What, you say? A laptop can't possibly do what a real desktop would do? External 2nd monitor for that big workstation feel. An ESATA PCMCIA card for tons of real HD storage. Gigabit LAN. USB 2.0. Firewire. Internal 7200 rpm drive.
Seriously, you can have it both ways. Work with a "traditional" desktop setup, then close the screen, pick it up, (unhook all the wires) and take it with you. I've seen laptops with nVidia's workstation class video card built in! Get a "barebook" chassis and build your own laptop!
Comcast really sucked whenever I had to DEAL with them, but when it worked, it was very good. Which was 97% of the time. I lived in Lee County Florida and moved 3 times in 2.5 years, each time moving the cable connection.
The funniest (where funny==suck) was when they sent out a contracted tech to install my CABLE INTERNET + THE VERY MOST BASIC CHEAP TV PLAN POSSIBLE but the tech had never done an internet install before, and did not understand the concept of doing internet over the cable line. Like, "you want what? Huh. ok." No I am not kidding.
This guy was a trooper and winged it, and when he couldn't get the modem to hook up, made it so I had all the cable channels and left. It took about a week to get someone to come out and actually install the service. No, I didn't get to keep all the channels.
I have other comcast stories. Like, when I first signed up I got the email address "my first initial + myfairlycommonlastname"@comcast.net, with no added numbers at the end. I was suspicious, and sure enough, I logged in and had about 3000 emails in the account already. To someone else.
Right, one of the outcries after New Orleans flooded was that they estimated something like 30 million to fix the levees but it was denied, while the "Bridge to Nowhere" was approved for 500 million.
I wonder if bamboo would be any good. Apparently that stuff is insanely fast growing and indestructible. It spreads by itself and you can't get rid of it. That would be "perpetual motion" lol.
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But Token Rings are, like, obsolete and stuff, surely there wouldn't be something that obsolete in a place like an airport, right?
Right?
[crickets chirping]
Right?
You've got me all curious now. I need to do a blind test for myself, which I did not do. (It sure sounded more alive... LOL!)
I recall Target will let you videotape or photograph inside. Been a couple years tho, might have changed.
Good info. Also agree, lows and highs are what suffers with poor compression. Even with my awesome-for-the-price $20 sony headphones I can really tell a difference between mp3's ripped to 128 vs 320 vbr. What really stood out to me was the lows sounded so much more alive.
best analogy ever.
would that be Noooo Kyooo Lahr or Noooo Kleee Ahrrr?
It's not obese, it's just big boned!
Yeah, black like soot, right? IIRC, you didn't have to change the oil in those cars, cuz you were always adding new every time you filled it up with gas.
Even though "less than expected" people died this week, the description is still a little disturbing... if they plummet into the river, back to the drawing board??? Yikes!
The car ran on regular gasoline, the time circuitry required 1.21 GW. Plutonium, Mr. Fusion or a lightning bolt, etc.
I did this once where I worked. It was a large multi-national corporation and had the standard official internet usage policies and such.
We were fiddling around and discovered some kind of netware broadcast tool that would pop up a message box on someones machine by IP address. So, we figured out someone's IP we wanted to prank and popped up a very official looking network message. It said something like "excessive non-work related internet usage, eliminate non-work traffic immediately" or something like that.
Worked quite well.
The thing is, the fans might be partly for show, but while the GPU's have their own fans to remove the heat from the card you still gotta get the heat out of the case.
That looked like a pretty small case to me...
Put a matching ribbed lid on it, and a hot cpu, and you have a George Foreman Grill.
drunk drivers usually fare better in crashes vs sober drivers because they don't tense up before the crash. Heard that in health class or something. Same w/ babies I would assume, they're all flexible and resilient and stuff.
I think this is the gap. Just look at spam as an example. Someone had your information, likely you knew who it was at the time. But THEN... someone else had access to your information who you did not know, and you got no additional information in return. Well, except for how to get \/|/\6R4 or some other substance.
Sure, "big Brother" or some other entity can easily track you and gather information about you. You may even willingly allow it to happen, because you were told who would keep the information and why. However, you cannot guarantee that what they told you is true, or how long it will be true, and what the truth will be later. "Big Brother" or a corporation (arguably not much difference any more) has not demonstrated to anyone, that I can tell, a track record to earn anyone's trust.
Take Google. Who do you know using gmail? Google Documents? Google Calendar? Google Browser Sync(when it worked)? All of Google's other toys? Now, THAT is a lot of personal information willingly turned over! Can we trust Google?
I would have to agree with you, except .... I don't see it.
I do everything at work on my work laptop. 3D cad, 2D cad, video editing, graphics, etc. Slap enough ram into a decent dual core laptop and it'll do just fine.
What, you say? A laptop can't possibly do what a real desktop would do? External 2nd monitor for that big workstation feel. An ESATA PCMCIA card for tons of real HD storage. Gigabit LAN. USB 2.0. Firewire. Internal 7200 rpm drive.
Seriously, you can have it both ways. Work with a "traditional" desktop setup, then close the screen, pick it up, (unhook all the wires) and take it with you. I've seen laptops with nVidia's workstation class video card built in! Get a "barebook" chassis and build your own laptop!
True.
Comcast really sucked whenever I had to DEAL with them, but when it worked, it was very good. Which was 97% of the time. I lived in Lee County Florida and moved 3 times in 2.5 years, each time moving the cable connection.
The funniest (where funny==suck) was when they sent out a contracted tech to install my CABLE INTERNET + THE VERY MOST BASIC CHEAP TV PLAN POSSIBLE but the tech had never done an internet install before, and did not understand the concept of doing internet over the cable line. Like, "you want what? Huh. ok." No I am not kidding.
This guy was a trooper and winged it, and when he couldn't get the modem to hook up, made it so I had all the cable channels and left. It took about a week to get someone to come out and actually install the service. No, I didn't get to keep all the channels.
I have other comcast stories. Like, when I first signed up I got the email address "my first initial + myfairlycommonlastname"@comcast.net, with no added numbers at the end. I was suspicious, and sure enough, I logged in and had about 3000 emails in the account already. To someone else.
But we all know CZ blendz, so it's cool.
Right, one of the outcries after New Orleans flooded was that they estimated something like 30 million to fix the levees but it was denied, while the "Bridge to Nowhere" was approved for 500 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(virus)
Found it.
The first virus I experienced was the Michaelangelo virus. Wiped my disk. When was that? Who made it? I know it made the news.
In fact, my pc clock was a couple days off and I got hit AFTER seeing it on the news, IIRC...
I wonder if bamboo would be any good. Apparently that stuff is insanely fast growing and indestructible. It spreads by itself and you can't get rid of it. That would be "perpetual motion" lol.
There are still pay phones? That work? With a phone book to look up the number you don't remember?
Didn't Intel do a "skew" some time ago called Itanium? That didn't go so well.
I have a hunch that the market likes compatible choices, any wide variation from "the path" will whither and die.
IOW, AMD copies the good stuff, Intel copies the good stuff, and the goofy stuff doesn't make it or is niche. (my 0.0147 euros)