Hey, I like raping babies as much as the next person, but on wheels? You need to get with the Microsoft program and make your install process smoother.
That just wasn't hard core enough for me, I decided to Rhino glue the remote to my hands, though I have now been given the unfortunate nickname of Edward Wiihands
A quick question, you say you use a media extender for Vista to power two 360's, for some reason I cannot find the extender for Vista RC1 (only Xp, MCE 2005 etc), any idea where to look?
I have a feeling that all that would be needed is to change attack patterns, and certain puzzle situations, rather than the entire game landscape, so dialogue need not be changed, indeed much of the game probably does not need a change, only certain situations.
Why do Apple magically release bigger, faster, shinier versions of things right after I buy something?
Because you don't study the buying guide. Unfortunately, in a non too informative manner, it usually tells you to wait.
Curse the continuous flow of new technology, and the insatiable curiousity of the human mind if you wish.
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Yes you can select the ink tool, but I don't understand why you can't also have a slider tool along with the choice of brushes, indeed not having a slider for size on the eraser tool makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I'm really clumsy, and I've being doing this accidentally for years. Barely a month goes by before I trip over a stray power chord and have motherboards protruding from my forehead.
Unfortunately, I've never persevered long enough with the addition to see if any fusing occurs, though I have a feeling that there wouldn't be too much improvement due to the inherent sluggishness of my general brain design, causing any information passed from silicon to brain to be so slow as to make any improvement virtually unnoticeable.
I think I probably need to get a faster bus speed, maybe the 42 would be a better choice.
White House lawn, huh? You think someone in there gives a rat's ass?
Not for three years anyway, they are only scared by people, and those people must be en mass. Though even given enough (witness the anti-war demonstrations in the UK prior to the Iraq war), the government can still proceed as it wants if there is enough time before the next demonstration of democracy, i.e an election.
Unfortunately, the general public are fairly timid, and unless the situation has affected them personally, in a direct manner, and even if they oppose the situation, they will not get off their arses and attempt to do something about it.
Passions need to be ignited within an individual before they will be proactive, and in a comfortable world, passion is something that is hard to come by, especially when it is far easier to be slightly bemused and stand on the sidelines.
I spent three years in the US and the vegetables were the largest, most colourful beasties I'd ever seen, and tasted like cardboard. The meat looked large, and succulent yet tasted of nothing. The experience did however teach me how to make fantastic sauces using a huge variety of herbs and spices.
Agreed in terms of the processor being under-powered for the time, but it was one of the first machines that had made the concious decisions made to make the processor under-powered as compared to the rest, which was what made it succesful (apologies, I should have made it clear when I said 'reasonable'), but it did incorporate the ability to add on additional strengths at a small price.
Apologies if I make little sense, I am absolutely hammered at the moment.
It was a reasonable piece of kit for the time, but the fact remains it was a 'sweet peice of gaming machine' because of the games that were on it.
And of course, the enhancements found on the game cartridges, i.e DSP-1 (Super Mario Kart etc) and the Super FX chip that was found on Starfox among others. The hardware designers decision to make it easy to interface special coprocessor chips to the console was a pretty sweet idea.
Indeed for those that really don't get it, try holding your thumb and finger even further apart.
Alternatively try padding your wallet with tissue paper.
Or for the really creative amongst us, become an artist, they get definitely get it.
Slightly more on topic,
The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes . . .
. . . But making it has proved challenging. Like a mess of chewing gum, the gunk globs to everything, including the tools used to create it.
I seriously hope they have studied the way the bacteria 'removes the glue' to get to other parts of the stream etc., I dunno, but just perhaps that could be a useful field of study, unless of course the bacteria are literally stuck where they are, whether they like the neighbours or not.
Thanks for that, I tried MediaPortal a while ago, and it wasn't quite up to the task then and unfortunately isn't now (at least in terms of music). Unfortunately it takes far too long to list the songs available (about 30-120 secs), granted I have a large playlist (about 130 gigs) but it still shouldn't take that long even with my aging Athlon FX-51. Also the search has the same problem as MCE, i.e it limits the search to one field, artist or song title but not a combination of both. So I think I'll stick with using a combo of Foobar for music and MCE for everything else.
Would try using MythTv but getting the output to go through the Optical out on my soundcard was a nightmare, that I gave up on after not being able to progress past a continuous, inelegant whine sound.
Anyway thanks for the tip, I think I'll keep checking back on MediaPortal as it looks like it's heading in a nice direction. Out of curiousity, do you know if it's possible to update the music database in the background on a periodic basis?
It takes forever to search through a relatively large music database (>30Gb), completely grinding to a halt.
The music search is pathetic. You cannot search for tags across categories!!
It will only search individual tag categories for the typed phrase. Unless Beatles Help is the name of an artist, album, or song the pathetic search will not find it.
How anyone could release Media Center 2005 with the tagline stating 2005 with these capabilities is pathetic.
While I'm ranting, why on the search results (when they finally turn up) does it not state the full details of the results? Why do you have to click on the name of the song title before you find out who the song is by? The user interface is possibly the worst case of style over functionality I have ever seen.
It should be elected in a different way to the House of Commons, in a way that enables greater influence by minor parties and reduces the chance of the government holding an outright majority, but it should be elected.
I take it by this you mean a form of proportional representation, sorry if I'm putting words in your mouth.
This is the form of HoL that I would like to see as well. The HoC can stay the way it is, with a first past the post election, as it tends to form a more powerful government, with less coallitions, which for me always create compromises and potentially weak laws.
The HoL would then be represented by percentage of the nations vote, by the parties. I.E. each party putting forward their own choice for the number of slots that they have been given.
Of course this means that the HoL is not strictly chosen by the public, as none of the members have been voted for, though it would mean that the various parties would only put forward their most staunchly supportive people, and after all the vast majority of the voting public tend to sadly vote for the party, rather than the person.
More than that, Windows has already been purchased, thus windows is already in use, thus the switchover would be realtively painless, since the switchover would only be needed once the license has run out.
The only drawback would be software that needs to run only exists on the Windows platform, however given the timeframe before the switchover, I can see fleet of foot software companies easily accomadating.
Indeed I can forsee the potential that if software that is necessary can only be run on Windows would further the EU's monopoly charge over Microsoft.
Vast Profits = Mass ticket sales = Aim for lowest common denominator
Recent failure at box office = Aimed too low = Aim higher next time
Alternatively,
Massive success at box office = Could we improve by aiming even lower?
Hence the cyclical nature of Hollywood.
Though of course the main reason box office sales have fallen is Home Cinema, why expend the excess energy travelling to the theatre, only to put up with monkeys and their cell phones / repellent smelling popcorn/snacks, general obnoxiousness of humanity.
I can't help but feel that the XBox has Sony executives a little nervous, especially regarding the EU and US markets. The 360 has been incredibly well received by most of the developers I've spoken to, and public interest/desire for the machine is also high. It almost seems that people who were dissapointed by the final PS2 product are more wary of Sony's marketing/hype attempts this time, especially as MS has released a reasonable product, which has been well marketed, unlike the previous machine to be a front runner in the next gen market, the Dreamcast.
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Hey, I like raping babies as much as the next person, but on wheels? You need to get with the Microsoft program and make your install process smoother.
That just wasn't hard core enough for me, I decided to Rhino glue the remote to my hands, though I have now been given the unfortunate nickname of Edward Wiihands
A quick question, you say you use a media extender for Vista to power two 360's, for some reason I cannot find the extender for Vista RC1 (only Xp, MCE 2005 etc), any idea where to look?
I have a feeling that all that would be needed is to change attack patterns, and certain puzzle situations, rather than the entire game landscape, so dialogue need not be changed, indeed much of the game probably does not need a change, only certain situations.
If they have mirrored the entire game, then why not give an option to be either left or right handed? Surely that would be an ideal solution?
Why do Apple magically release bigger, faster, shinier versions of things right after I buy something?
Because you don't study the buying guide. Unfortunately, in a non too informative manner, it usually tells you to wait.
Curse the continuous flow of new technology, and the insatiable curiousity of the human mind if you wish.
Yes you can select the ink tool, but I don't understand why you can't also have a slider tool along with the choice of brushes, indeed not having a slider for size on the eraser tool makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I'm really clumsy, and I've being doing this accidentally for years. Barely a month goes by before I trip over a stray power chord and have motherboards protruding from my forehead.
Unfortunately, I've never persevered long enough with the addition to see if any fusing occurs, though I have a feeling that there wouldn't be too much improvement due to the inherent sluggishness of my general brain design, causing any information passed from silicon to brain to be so slow as to make any improvement virtually unnoticeable.
I think I probably need to get a faster bus speed, maybe the 42 would be a better choice.
White House lawn, huh? You think someone in there gives a rat's ass?
Not for three years anyway, they are only scared by people, and those people must be en mass. Though even given enough (witness the anti-war demonstrations in the UK prior to the Iraq war), the government can still proceed as it wants if there is enough time before the next demonstration of democracy, i.e an election.
Unfortunately, the general public are fairly timid, and unless the situation has affected them personally, in a direct manner, and even if they oppose the situation, they will not get off their arses and attempt to do something about it.
Passions need to be ignited within an individual before they will be proactive, and in a comfortable world, passion is something that is hard to come by, especially when it is far easier to be slightly bemused and stand on the sidelines.
Cannot agree with you more.
I spent three years in the US and the vegetables were the largest, most colourful beasties I'd ever seen, and tasted like cardboard. The meat looked large, and succulent yet tasted of nothing. The experience did however teach me how to make fantastic sauces using a huge variety of herbs and spices.
Agreed in terms of the processor being under-powered for the time, but it was one of the first machines that had made the concious decisions made to make the processor under-powered as compared to the rest, which was what made it succesful (apologies, I should have made it clear when I said 'reasonable'), but it did incorporate the ability to add on additional strengths at a small price.
Apologies if I make little sense, I am absolutely hammered at the moment.
snes = sweet peice of gaming machine.
It was a reasonable piece of kit for the time, but the fact remains it was a 'sweet peice of gaming machine' because of the games that were on it.
And of course, the enhancements found on the game cartridges, i.e DSP-1 (Super Mario Kart etc) and the Super FX chip that was found on Starfox among others. The hardware designers decision to make it easy to interface special coprocessor chips to the console was a pretty sweet idea.
Indeed for those that really don't get it, try holding your thumb and finger even further apart.
Alternatively try padding your wallet with tissue paper.
Or for the really creative amongst us, become an artist, they get definitely get it.
Slightly more on topic,
The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes . . .
. . . But making it has proved challenging. Like a mess of chewing gum, the gunk globs to everything, including the tools used to create it.
I seriously hope they have studied the way the bacteria 'removes the glue' to get to other parts of the stream etc., I dunno, but just perhaps that could be a useful field of study, unless of course the bacteria are literally stuck where they are, whether they like the neighbours or not.
Is there anything they don't milk?
Breasts?
Thanks for that, I tried MediaPortal a while ago, and it wasn't quite up to the task then and unfortunately isn't now (at least in terms of music). Unfortunately it takes far too long to list the songs available (about 30-120 secs), granted I have a large playlist (about 130 gigs) but it still shouldn't take that long even with my aging Athlon FX-51. Also the search has the same problem as MCE, i.e it limits the search to one field, artist or song title but not a combination of both. So I think I'll stick with using a combo of Foobar for music and MCE for everything else.
Would try using MythTv but getting the output to go through the Optical out on my soundcard was a nightmare, that I gave up on after not being able to progress past a continuous, inelegant whine sound.
Anyway thanks for the tip, I think I'll keep checking back on MediaPortal as it looks like it's heading in a nice direction. Out of curiousity, do you know if it's possible to update the music database in the background on a periodic basis?
Then why not fix the god awful music library?
It takes forever to search through a relatively large music database (>30Gb), completely grinding to a halt.
The music search is pathetic. You cannot search for tags across categories!!
It will only search individual tag categories for the typed phrase. Unless Beatles Help is the name of an artist, album, or song the pathetic search will not find it.
How anyone could release Media Center 2005 with the tagline stating 2005 with these capabilities is pathetic.
While I'm ranting, why on the search results (when they finally turn up) does it not state the full details of the results? Why do you have to click on the name of the song title before you find out who the song is by? The user interface is possibly the worst case of style over functionality I have ever seen.
You mean their new controllers? I've always thought the boomerang looked kind of comfortable.
It should be elected in a different way to the House of Commons, in a way that enables greater influence by minor parties and reduces the chance of the government holding an outright majority, but it should be elected.
I take it by this you mean a form of proportional representation, sorry if I'm putting words in your mouth.
This is the form of HoL that I would like to see as well. The HoC can stay the way it is, with a first past the post election, as it tends to form a more powerful government, with less coallitions, which for me always create compromises and potentially weak laws.
The HoL would then be represented by percentage of the nations vote, by the parties. I.E. each party putting forward their own choice for the number of slots that they have been given.
Of course this means that the HoL is not strictly chosen by the public, as none of the members have been voted for, though it would mean that the various parties would only put forward their most staunchly supportive people, and after all the vast majority of the voting public tend to sadly vote for the party, rather than the person.
More than that, Windows has already been purchased, thus windows is already in use, thus the switchover would be realtively painless, since the switchover would only be needed once the license has run out.
The only drawback would be software that needs to run only exists on the Windows platform, however given the timeframe before the switchover, I can see fleet of foot software companies easily accomadating.
Indeed I can forsee the potential that if software that is necessary can only be run on Windows would further the EU's monopoly charge over Microsoft.
Or is this purely wishful thinking?
I have an alternative formula,
Vast Profits = Mass ticket sales = Aim for lowest common denominator
Recent failure at box office = Aimed too low = Aim higher next time
Alternatively,
Massive success at box office = Could we improve by aiming even lower?
Hence the cyclical nature of Hollywood.
Though of course the main reason box office sales have fallen is Home Cinema, why expend the excess energy travelling to the theatre, only to put up with monkeys and their cell phones / repellent smelling popcorn/snacks, general obnoxiousness of humanity.
I didn't figure Sony to be that stupid.
I didn't figure Sony would be that scared.
I can't help but feel that the XBox has Sony executives a little nervous, especially regarding the EU and US markets. The 360 has been incredibly well received by most of the developers I've spoken to, and public interest/desire for the machine is also high. It almost seems that people who were dissapointed by the final PS2 product are more wary of Sony's marketing/hype attempts this time, especially as MS has released a reasonable product, which has been well marketed, unlike the previous machine to be a front runner in the next gen market, the Dreamcast.
Goddamn it you're right, no-one gives a shit.
What the fuck was I thinking buying these Nvidia shares?
and after letting a bug go through a whole product line unoticed for 10 years is ironic ...
I think you misspelled iconic.
Agreed, much like the usual alcohol per penny bargains, the only thing that will fly for me is data per dollar.
Oh, and access time.
Err, and time to deterioration.
And possibly imperviousness to scratches.
I think that's it.
I'm guessing you're missing HTML ability as well.
Perhaps you meant:-
(v/c)^2 tends to 0 as c is far greater than v.
However, if we use binomial theorem to expand the square root expression, we get:-
(1-v^2/c^2)^(-1/2) = 1 + 1/2*(v^2/c^2) + -(1/2*-3/2*v^4)/(2!*c^4)
Then substituting back into the initial equation we get the required non-relativistic equation for v far less than c.