If Michelangelo had provided key frames to his Korean tweeners I'm sure it wouldn't be quite to blasphemous to paint over the problem areas.
Not so far from the truth. Sculpture in particular was rarely done by the artists themselves; they just made models and had their apprentices do the final piece. How do you think they were able to produce so much work?
Can anyone else think of a better idea to get lonely gamers (the kind that would go to E3 to begin with) to check out their booth?
I thought E3 was press-only, but I just checked the site and apparently anyone willing to spend a few hundred bucks can attend. Did they change this recently, or was I misinformed?
No. MusicBrainz uses fingerprinting of the waveform (a kind of one-way hash, so it doesn't store the actual music). I find the track length on ripped songs usually varies by a few seconds anyway, so the exact length is really only useful in identifying the original CDs, which MusicBrainz can also do.
In my experience, it works fairly well and only gets confused when the same recording has been released on multiple albums ("best of", remasters, etc).
Apple will have a hard time supporting the myriad boards, chipsets, and peripherals of PCs
Perhaps. On the other hand, Apple might have enough weight and respect to create some kind of universal driver format for open-source OSes, so that Darwin, *BSD, and Linux could all support the same hardware. Just a thought. I realize that even if something like this is possible, it's certainly not trivial, either technically or politically.
No, it doesn't look anything like Windows XP. It looks like a slightly modified Plastik, which IMO is very clean and visually pleasing without being gaudy.
This is, AFAIK, a phenomenon that's only existed for the past few years. It's just bizarre. I've seen otherwise intelligent people doing it too, writing crap like The Iraqi's are...
Please don't give up. We must discover what compels people to ignore the very simple rule that the only time you should ever use apostrophes to pluralize is with single letters (ie, I got four A's).
So depending on your viewpoint; your rights in general as a private citizen have increased over the recent years, not decreased.
Indeed. It's interesting to note that the past few hundred years of Western history has been a gradual triumph of liberalism. The status quo never sticks around for very long.
You could take a line from Yoda in ROTS as an explanation... He says something about the possibility of the prophecy being missread or something along those lines.
Good review. I completely agree about the problems with the SpaceJesus/RoboHitler conversion. What is the deal with this "balance to the force" prophecy? It's hinted at, but never resolved. Maybe the answer is out there, but I got over my Star Wars geekhood years ago.
I have many hundreds of Gigs of flacs that I would like to be able to listen to. If this is not resolved in the next 2 months I'm actually going to buy a Windows computer and use Winamp.
There are no alternative media players for OS X? Honestly? Wow.
If you don't want to buy a whole new computer, you can always try Linux. Ubuntu is available for PPC, if you're new to Linux.
Universities could cut their costs drastically if allowed to fire expensive tenured professors (like Prof Owen Astrachan), and bring in excellent but far cheaper educators on H1B visas from India and other countries.
Ah, no. I'm attending a university where the bulk of CS faculty are either Chinese or Indian. In my experience, even the ones without heavy accents aren't very good teachers. Same goes for the engineering departments. There are exceptions, but it's nice if your professor can speak English.
As for prices coming down, Nvidea GeForce FX 5200 AGP8X 128MB DDR is $60 on froogle. I'd say thats came down.
I have this card, and it's absolute shit. It's passable for most stuff, but any kind of smoke or particle effect reduces it to about 2fps. My Ti4200 with half the memory was better. The upside is that I waste less time playing games:-)
P.S. I've heard that the FX 5200 Ultra isn't nearly as bad.
Between blogs and indy news sources at least your information will be stripped of the shock sensationalism the major news sources try to rope you in with.
You are joking, right? If anything, they're worse. They're also more likely to promote crackpot conspiracy theories and publish stories with little or no evidence.
ever-loathed ACLU in promoting the letter of the First Amendment to the detriment of the spirit of it
The ACLU does not determine what is legal; they merely present the cases that they think have merit. Blame the courts, particularly the Supreme Court, if you feel that they are misinterpreting the First Amendment.
Nice if true, but there's been a lot of kookery about water.
The phrasing on the Oculusis website is a little suspicious, too.
provides a moist environment to help promote healing
It seems it's already for sale, even though it's still in testing. They're also extremely vague about how it works, and apparently it also cures cancer. Suspicious.
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Who gives a damn what the manufacturer decides to call them? Colloquially, everyone I know still calls them laptops.
Slippery slope is a logical fallacy, not a valid argument.
Oh? Tell that to Red Hat, et al.
Just like art, right?
Those kind of passwords are great against brute-forcing, but extremely vulnerable to the classic technique of shoulder-surfing.
No, no, I think you messed it up; you got modded Insightful.
Not so far from the truth. Sculpture in particular was rarely done by the artists themselves; they just made models and had their apprentices do the final piece. How do you think they were able to produce so much work?
Please do! It'll probably save me lots of time trying to write a decent tagger from scratch.
I thought E3 was press-only, but I just checked the site and apparently anyone willing to spend a few hundred bucks can attend. Did they change this recently, or was I misinformed?
In my experience, it works fairly well and only gets confused when the same recording has been released on multiple albums ("best of", remasters, etc).
Perhaps. On the other hand, Apple might have enough weight and respect to create some kind of universal driver format for open-source OSes, so that Darwin, *BSD, and Linux could all support the same hardware. Just a thought. I realize that even if something like this is possible, it's certainly not trivial, either technically or politically.
No, it doesn't look anything like Windows XP. It looks like a slightly modified Plastik, which IMO is very clean and visually pleasing without being gaudy.
Please don't give up. We must discover what compels people to ignore the very simple rule that the only time you should ever use apostrophes to pluralize is with single letters (ie, I got four A's).
Indeed. It's interesting to note that the past few hundred years of Western history has been a gradual triumph of liberalism. The status quo never sticks around for very long.
Okay, but at the end of RotJ, Luke is still left. So it's not really balanced, is it?
Yes, that's what I meant by "hinted at".
I liked Zahn's novels, but they take place too soon after RotJ. Who's going to play Luke, Han, Leia, etc?
Good review. I completely agree about the problems with the SpaceJesus/RoboHitler conversion. What is the deal with this "balance to the force" prophecy? It's hinted at, but never resolved. Maybe the answer is out there, but I got over my Star Wars geekhood years ago.
There are no alternative media players for OS X? Honestly? Wow.
If you don't want to buy a whole new computer, you can always try Linux. Ubuntu is available for PPC, if you're new to Linux.
It's disappointing to see how meme has devolved from a real word coined by Richard Dawkins, to a generic term meaning little more than "thing".
Ah, no. I'm attending a university where the bulk of CS faculty are either Chinese or Indian. In my experience, even the ones without heavy accents aren't very good teachers. Same goes for the engineering departments. There are exceptions, but it's nice if your professor can speak English.
I have this card, and it's absolute shit. It's passable for most stuff, but any kind of smoke or particle effect reduces it to about 2fps. My Ti4200 with half the memory was better. The upside is that I waste less time playing games :-)
P.S. I've heard that the FX 5200 Ultra isn't nearly as bad.
You are joking, right? If anything, they're worse. They're also more likely to promote crackpot conspiracy theories and publish stories with little or no evidence.
The ACLU does not determine what is legal; they merely present the cases that they think have merit. Blame the courts, particularly the Supreme Court, if you feel that they are misinterpreting the First Amendment.
The phrasing on the Oculusis website is a little suspicious, too.
It seems it's already for sale, even though it's still in testing. They're also extremely vague about how it works, and apparently it also cures cancer. Suspicious.