along with a ROM pack of almost 300 public domain (read: legal) games
An obscure emulation site claiming that their ROM collections are legal doesn't make it so. I checked out that DC Emulation site, and they link to a package of over 1000 Gameboy games with the same claim, which is just as obviously false.
Actually, it won't be all that "incompatible" if it's off.
Actually, yes it will. It's not the games, it's the console. PAL and NTSC are very different in terms of the video signal. Generally it's possible to play PAL games on NTSC systems (barring region lockouts), you'll just get the bottom of the image cropped off. But if you connect a PAL system to an NTSC TV, you'll just get garbage on the display.
Comparing 24fps film to 60hz video is unfair, IMO. Film frames are projected in their entirety, since you've got one giant light shining through the picture. Video is drawing with a scanning beam, so in reality only a small chunk is onscreen at a given time. A 24hz video display would be next to unwatchable, whereas I never have problems with projected film.
That is a potentially dangerous piece of misinformation. You may believe what you like about the Communications Act, but the courts do not agree with you.
Obviously you haven't seen the Hellraiser cube case, my all-time personal favourite. There was also one I saw a few months ago that had been given the full-on pimp treatment, and the case window had a tiny strip club inside with a Barbie pole-dancing. Unfortunately I can't find a working link to that one, though.
Space exploration is basically just a national ego trip
Establishing a permanent presence in space is the best way to ensure that the human race is never wiped out by natural (e.g. viral) or our own (e.g. nuclear war) causes. It would still be horrible for the Earth's population to die off, but at least the civilization we'd built would survive in other places.
Far into the future, it's also the only way for us to survive the end of our solar system.
As long as we stay on a single planet, everything we've created in the last 5000 years can be erased so well that it might have never happened at all. As flawed as we are, I think we deserve better than that.
Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon?
Heck no. I won't be satisfied until we have self-sustaining colonies on the moon and Mars, with plans for them in other star systems. Keeping all of our eggs in one basket is probably the scariest thing I can think of.
My granddad actually worked on the Apollo project. A few years before he died we were all having dinner and talking about space exploration, and it was obvious how disappointed he was that we hadn't even gotten people to Mars yet. You'd think we could do better in 30 years.
Riley listened carefully to some crackling and squealing patterns from the magnetic field the Galileo spacecraft discovered surrounding Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. "It sounded to me like a voice saying, 'beebopterismo,' so that's the starting point for one of the movements," he said.
I think someone's been reading a little too much of the Ringworld series.
before your recording session record 1 second of silence (you not talking,singing,farting,playing,etc...) then save that, then record your track... then simply subtract the 1 second sample from the rest of the track with the filter tool and it sounds like you recorded in a closet full of coats. (except for any room reverb.. no fan/pc/ambient room noise.)
While noise reduction filters are a useful tool for cleaning up audio, it is a really bad idea to depend on using them for entire recordings on a regular basis.
Basically what you're doing is FFT'ing out those frequencies wherever they exist. So even though you're getting rid of the noise, the effect is still like running a bunch of parametric EQs over the parts you *do* like.
That's the reason that studios still pay for soundproofing instead of just using an FFT filter plugin and doing what you suggest.
Are you just upset about only being able to eavesdrop on one side of the conversation?
My personal complaint is that people on cellphones tend to act as if they're speaking from the privacy of their own home, rather than talking with someone in a public place. They speak in a louder voice, and they discuss more personal topics. I don't like being forced to know things I didn't want to about people.
The worst, though, are people who use them in the restroom. "Ah, yeah, let's close that business deal. Hang on one second, will you? Unnnh! Unnhhhhhhh! [sploosh] oh yeah! Okay, now about those terms..."
I don't think you understand how Lagrange points work
If you read the other replies in this thread (for example, this one), you will discover that an object at L1 behaves differently than you think it does.
Will there be a deal arranged that in 50 years, when a better space agency comes up with a better project for the liberation point, they'll move their junk out of there?
I doubt this will be a problem. Do you know of any manned space stations that have stayed up for fifty years? It's not like the US or Russia just put some mothballs in Mir and Skylab and locked the door on their way out.
CD Connection has been around since 1990. I used to order imports and other discs from their server over telnet. I'm not sure when they first fired up their actual webserver, though.
Apples and oranges. Having a station in zero gravity is really useful for launching probes and ships from, and as a gateway between the Earth and the rest of the solar system. Having a moonbase gives you mining capabilities and so forth.
They're both very important aspects of stepping into space, for different reasons.
Until there's a labor *shortage* instead of surplus in said countries, there will never be wage increases.
Somehow I doubt there will ever be a shortage of cheap labour in a country with over a billion inhabitants, at least in terms of making goods for countries like the US which have populations of 1/3 of that or less.
This would mean no new licenses for Windows 2000 only three years after the release.
Have another look at the document you link to. Mainstream support for 2k (and XP, etc.) was extended to five years from release very recently, so 2k has a bit of life left.
The problem on the Web is that companies fail to consider accessibility when constructing their Web sites even though they would never make that same mistake when constructing their buildings.
I agree, which is why I always write my HTML with ALT tags and so forth. However, as I wrote in my previous post, making a large-scale website accessible is much more effort than adding wheelchair ramps and large restroom stalls, because of the testing and support infrastructure involved.
It's not like a brick and mortar company has to add extra staff who are proficient in the use of wheelchairs to troubleshoot customers' problems with the ramp, or re-verify that the ramp still provides identical access every time they repaint the outside of the building.
Actually, most catalogues are blind-accessible, because they can be read aloud by machines that are available at most larger libraries.
If such a device exists (I have never seen or heard of one), it would provide the same level of "accessibility" as a screen-reader looking at Southwest's site - it would read the text, but not do anything for the pictures, which would nullify the point of most catalogues.
The difference is that it's easy and inexpensive to make a Web site accessible to the blind.
It's easy and inexpensive to make a basic website accessible to the blind. Converting a large database-driven system that allows online ordering would be a big effort, not to mention all of the testing involved to make sure it worked properly when you were done. And what about the tech support? Should Southwest have to hire a bunch of people with Braille terminals to answer calls from people and troubleshoot their use of the site? The average phone tech is *not* going to be able to help out users who view the web in such a different way.
This is not the equivalent of adding a wheelchair ramp. I worked on a project to convert a web-based tool to an accessible format, and it was a major undertaking.
arguing that a website which engages in commerce isn't a store is a lot like arguing over the meaning of the word 'is'.
I would argue that a website is much more like a printed catalogue than a store. Does the ADA require that everyone who sells products by mail-order also offer a Braille version?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but that is a cool programming trick, not just wholesale copying ROMs into the product being sold.
along with a ROM pack of almost 300 public domain (read: legal) games
An obscure emulation site claiming that their ROM collections are legal doesn't make it so. I checked out that DC Emulation site, and they link to a package of over 1000 Gameboy games with the same claim, which is just as obviously false.
Actually, it won't be all that "incompatible" if it's off.
Actually, yes it will. It's not the games, it's the console. PAL and NTSC are very different in terms of the video signal. Generally it's possible to play PAL games on NTSC systems (barring region lockouts), you'll just get the bottom of the image cropped off. But if you connect a PAL system to an NTSC TV, you'll just get garbage on the display.
And on ebay as well, this one includes the light-gun for Duck Hunt!
Too bad it's obviously loaded up with bootleg games.
Comparing 24fps film to 60hz video is unfair, IMO. Film frames are projected in their entirety, since you've got one giant light shining through the picture. Video is drawing with a scanning beam, so in reality only a small chunk is onscreen at a given time. A 24hz video display would be next to unwatchable, whereas I never have problems with projected film.
there is nothing illegal about "stealing cable."
That is a potentially dangerous piece of misinformation. You may believe what you like about the Communications Act, but the courts do not agree with you.
all the PC mods are a few holes
Obviously you haven't seen the Hellraiser cube case, my all-time personal favourite. There was also one I saw a few months ago that had been given the full-on pimp treatment, and the case window had a tiny strip club inside with a Barbie pole-dancing. Unfortunately I can't find a working link to that one, though.
Space exploration is basically just a national ego trip
Establishing a permanent presence in space is the best way to ensure that the human race is never wiped out by natural (e.g. viral) or our own (e.g. nuclear war) causes. It would still be horrible for the Earth's population to die off, but at least the civilization we'd built would survive in other places.
Far into the future, it's also the only way for us to survive the end of our solar system.
As long as we stay on a single planet, everything we've created in the last 5000 years can be erased so well that it might have never happened at all. As flawed as we are, I think we deserve better than that.
I would be happy to pay higher taxes if it would help expand our presence in space.
Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon?
Heck no. I won't be satisfied until we have self-sustaining colonies on the moon and Mars, with plans for them in other star systems. Keeping all of our eggs in one basket is probably the scariest thing I can think of.
My granddad actually worked on the Apollo project. A few years before he died we were all having dinner and talking about space exploration, and it was obvious how disappointed he was that we hadn't even gotten people to Mars yet. You'd think we could do better in 30 years.
Riley listened carefully to some crackling and squealing patterns from the magnetic field the Galileo spacecraft discovered surrounding Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. "It sounded to me like a voice saying, 'beebopterismo,' so that's the starting point for one of the movements," he said.
I think someone's been reading a little too much of the Ringworld series.
before your recording session record 1 second of silence (you not talking,singing,farting,playing,etc...) then save that, then record your track... then simply subtract the 1 second sample from the rest of the track with the filter tool and it sounds like you recorded in a closet full of coats. (except for any room reverb.. no fan/pc/ambient room noise.)
While noise reduction filters are a useful tool for cleaning up audio, it is a really bad idea to depend on using them for entire recordings on a regular basis.
Basically what you're doing is FFT'ing out those frequencies wherever they exist. So even though you're getting rid of the noise, the effect is still like running a bunch of parametric EQs over the parts you *do* like.
That's the reason that studios still pay for soundproofing instead of just using an FFT filter plugin and doing what you suggest.
Mute Button
I would pay *so* much money for a remote control I could mute *people* with.
Are you just upset about only being able to eavesdrop on one side of the conversation?
My personal complaint is that people on cellphones tend to act as if they're speaking from the privacy of their own home, rather than talking with someone in a public place. They speak in a louder voice, and they discuss more personal topics. I don't like being forced to know things I didn't want to about people.
The worst, though, are people who use them in the restroom. "Ah, yeah, let's close that business deal. Hang on one second, will you? Unnnh! Unnhhhhhhh! [sploosh] oh yeah! Okay, now about those terms..."
I don't think you understand how Lagrange points work
If you read the other replies in this thread (for example, this one), you will discover that an object at L1 behaves differently than you think it does.
Will there be a deal arranged that in 50 years, when a better space agency comes up with a better project for the liberation point, they'll move their junk out of there?
I doubt this will be a problem. Do you know of any manned space stations that have stayed up for fifty years? It's not like the US or Russia just put some mothballs in Mir and Skylab and locked the door on their way out.
CD Connection has been around since 1990. I used to order imports and other discs from their server over telnet. I'm not sure when they first fired up their actual webserver, though.
Why not just build on the moon?
Apples and oranges. Having a station in zero gravity is really useful for launching probes and ships from, and as a gateway between the Earth and the rest of the solar system. Having a moonbase gives you mining capabilities and so forth.
They're both very important aspects of stepping into space, for different reasons.
Until there's a labor *shortage* instead of surplus in said countries, there will never be wage increases.
Somehow I doubt there will ever be a shortage of cheap labour in a country with over a billion inhabitants, at least in terms of making goods for countries like the US which have populations of 1/3 of that or less.
This would mean no new licenses for Windows 2000 only three years after the release.
Have another look at the document you link to. Mainstream support for 2k (and XP, etc.) was extended to five years from release very recently, so 2k has a bit of life left.
The problem on the Web is that companies fail to consider accessibility when constructing their Web sites even though they would never make that same mistake when constructing their buildings.
I agree, which is why I always write my HTML with ALT tags and so forth. However, as I wrote in my previous post, making a large-scale website accessible is much more effort than adding wheelchair ramps and large restroom stalls, because of the testing and support infrastructure involved.
It's not like a brick and mortar company has to add extra staff who are proficient in the use of wheelchairs to troubleshoot customers' problems with the ramp, or re-verify that the ramp still provides identical access every time they repaint the outside of the building.
Actually, most catalogues are blind-accessible, because they can be read aloud by machines that are available at most larger libraries.
If such a device exists (I have never seen or heard of one), it would provide the same level of "accessibility" as a screen-reader looking at Southwest's site - it would read the text, but not do anything for the pictures, which would nullify the point of most catalogues.
Might as well put up a sign that says "No (insert ethnic group here) need apply."
I disagree. Ethnicity does not inherently prevent or disallow someone from e.g. reading or listening.
The difference is that it's easy and inexpensive to make a Web site accessible to the blind.
It's easy and inexpensive to make a basic website accessible to the blind. Converting a large database-driven system that allows online ordering would be a big effort, not to mention all of the testing involved to make sure it worked properly when you were done. And what about the tech support? Should Southwest have to hire a bunch of people with Braille terminals to answer calls from people and troubleshoot their use of the site? The average phone tech is *not* going to be able to help out users who view the web in such a different way.
This is not the equivalent of adding a wheelchair ramp. I worked on a project to convert a web-based tool to an accessible format, and it was a major undertaking.
arguing that a website which engages in commerce isn't a store is a lot like arguing over the meaning of the word 'is'.
I would argue that a website is much more like a printed catalogue than a store. Does the ADA require that everyone who sells products by mail-order also offer a Braille version?