A:No! amazingly enough, our expert group of beta testers found that the best results for viewing the movie actually came with the stock audio/visual equipment packaged with every human. Some testers required certain "tweaks" to get the audio or visual to display correctly, but those users who require those tweaks should already have them installed.
As a side note, it should be brought to your attention that certain users who have "overclocked" certain parts of their default hardware package may have trouble enjoying every aspect of the movie experience. Therefore, management must ask that everyone who has the "dual bandwidth" eye hack installed either disable the hack, or refrain from seeing this film. Remember, the MPAA is watching!
I thought this was covered in the first meeting...
The first rule of the DMCA is You do NOT talk about the DMCA.
The second rule of the DMCA is YOU DO NOT TALK about the DMCA. The third rule of the DMCA, someone yells "Stop!", goes limp, taps out, is violating the DMCA. Fourth Rule, Two attorneys to a case. Fifth rule, No limits to the number of cases, fellas. Sixth rule, No Shirt, No Shoes. They are officially circumvention devices under DMCA law. Seventh Rule, cases will go on as long as they have to. And eighth and final rule, If this is your first night at the DMCA, you have to be sued.
Now, call me crazy, but I thought that UF was Canadian... I might be wrong, but you'd think that Illiad himself would know what country he's based in (Vancouver, BC for those who dont know...) just a pendantic point...
Where else would I find a highly inaccurate and misattributed quote? that Intar-web thingie, of course! the source of large amounts of highly erroneous information since AOL went live...
" That amount of fun is sure to explode the heads of children and the elderly."
Not really. Most elderly people will actually be bitching about how "back in [their] day, their handhelds only had one screen...with four colors, three of which were grey...and the ran on non-rechargable batteries that died every five minutes."
The REALLY elderly will be complaining that back in THEIR day, gaming was done respectably, on the tv. in only four colors. three of which were grey. But they'll most likely be zombies by then, so it'll be OK to kill them.
It was my understanding that she's never praned about in sweats in her videos. workout pants, yes. much, much less than that, yes. but sweats? not that i'm aware of...time to check my pirated britney music video collection for confirmation...
so, umm.. how long until the USNavy decides to mount a rail gun on a bipedal robot with nuclear launch capacity? In Alaska? I want my own Metal Gear....
"There's definitely this pervasive attitude that animation is the domain of children only in America."
And that right there is the problem. if Pixar or some other American company bring out an animated feature that were geared towards adults, they would be overwhelmed by the number of complaints they recieve because "I took little Timmy to see that cartoon and it had a butt in it!! OMG!!". Simply put, a large portion of people in this country go "ooh! animated! it MUST be safe to take my kid to!" instead of actually going out and reading reviews/seeing trailers/actually researching a bit about what they're about to expose their children to.
Not that I don't agree that it would be cool to see a feature geared more towards adults in theatres, but basically it wont happen until more parents actually decide to be responsible and pay more attention to what their spawn are viewing and doing.
The argument against this one is that paintball utilized different physics principles than a real war. while a funky little pallet is plenty of protection from a 5 gram projectile propelled at 300 feet/second that is designed to break on impact, that same pallet will provide almost no cover from a 25 gram machined piece of lead that is designed to penetrate flesh, clothing, and most protective coverings. Another side of this is that at 300 fps, i can still dodge paint. I'm not entirely sure I can dodge a bullet fired at me from the same distance, hightened paintball reflexes, or not... I believe that the army DID look into using paintball to train their troops, but found that the differing physics betweent battle and the game bred some very bad tactics that would have gotten soldiers killed in a real battle. And, IIRC, that is EXACTLY what they are trying to avoid. HTH, HAND.....
how high on the benchmark scale does my system have to rate to play the new nethack? i was worrying that the sysreqs might be too high for my system....
I too thought the Canadian justice system wouldn't be as bad as our own, but it goes to show you how fscked up any government can be when idiots are making the decisions (Go USA!!!)
well, yeah, but isnt that one of the risks we face in a democracy?
And it isnt necessarily the idiots making the decisions, rather the rich buggers that have bought^H^H^H^H^H^Hbeen elected by the idiot masses....
Unfortunately, no, life isnt painful when you're stupid. Life is painful when you're the guy that has to deal with the stupid person who just burned his cpu trying to overclock it while using a bottle of Evian for a watercooler.
Sure, we MIGHT be able to teach them better, but it requires the ability to listen and comprehend instructions, which, i believe, at least 75% of the general populace doesnt have.//EndRant;
Ahhhh...the joys of the slashdot effect....halfway through reading it, try the next page, and cannot find the server......*cry*.....and i didnt even get to it through/.......*double cry*....now i wont know how to overclock my USB 1 ports to get 2.0 performance..... *scream!!!!!!!!!!*
or, in the words of some kids in colorado.... "Oh My God! You killed TweakTown!!!" "You Bastards!!!!"
Ummm, they already have a dummies series for that....covers Dating, Romance, and Sex...... and if there's dummies books, there's gotta be higher level books as well....
There's even a current 'trick' to this one as well.... at the store I work at (Local Store, kinda like a wal-mart only not...), we have custom coupon machines that spit coupons out whenever you buy certain products. trick of it is, is that when you buy something, it doesnt kick a coupon out for what you bought, but for a competing product. so, if you buy say a 2litre of Mt.Dew, it'll kick out a coupon for 7-up.....The concept there is that the store gets paid to give the customer the coupons by the people who make the product (i.e. 7-up pays for the store giving out coupons on their products). Thus, a company's marketing dollars affect the wad of paper i hand you at the end of your order. Thank you and have a nice day...;-)
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A:No! amazingly enough, our expert group of beta testers found that the best results for viewing the movie actually came with the stock audio/visual equipment packaged with every human. Some testers required certain "tweaks" to get the audio or visual to display correctly, but those users who require those tweaks should already have them installed.
As a side note, it should be brought to your attention that certain users who have "overclocked" certain parts of their default hardware package may have trouble enjoying every aspect of the movie experience. Therefore, management must ask that everyone who has the "dual bandwidth" eye hack installed either disable the hack, or refrain from seeing this film. Remember, the MPAA is watching!
I thought this was covered in the first meeting...
The first rule of the DMCA is You do NOT talk about the DMCA.
The second rule of the DMCA is YOU DO NOT TALK about the DMCA.
The third rule of the DMCA, someone yells "Stop!", goes limp, taps out, is violating the DMCA.
Fourth Rule, Two attorneys to a case.
Fifth rule, No limits to the number of cases, fellas.
Sixth rule, No Shirt, No Shoes. They are officially circumvention devices under DMCA law.
Seventh Rule, cases will go on as long as they have to.
And eighth and final rule, If this is your first night at the DMCA, you have to be sued.
Now, call me crazy, but I thought that UF was Canadian... I might be wrong, but you'd think that Illiad himself would know what country he's based in (Vancouver, BC for those who dont know...) just a pendantic point...
Where else would I find a highly inaccurate and misattributed quote? that Intar-web thingie, of course! the source of large amounts of highly erroneous information since AOL went live...
6)are inexpensive.
Not really. Most elderly people will actually be bitching about how "back in [their] day, their handhelds only had one screen...with four colors, three of which were grey...and the ran on non-rechargable batteries that died every five minutes."
The REALLY elderly will be complaining that back in THEIR day, gaming was done respectably, on the tv. in only four colors. three of which were grey. But they'll most likely be zombies by then, so it'll be OK to kill them.
we would, but wouldnt you know it? last /i/ was aware, hotmail blocks gmail invites. it's a pisser, innit?
yeah, but I also heard that you have to sustain a scroll speed of 88 miles/hour for it to work correctly..and then it gets really, really cold.
It was my understanding that she's never praned about in sweats in her videos. workout pants, yes. much, much less than that, yes. but sweats? not that i'm aware of...time to check my pirated britney music video collection for confirmation...
so, umm.. how long until the USNavy decides to mount a rail gun on a bipedal robot with nuclear launch capacity? In Alaska? I want my own Metal Gear....
quite simply? skip all training and protocols and go directly to the fun stuff... i'll know kung fu....woah.
And that right there is the problem. if Pixar or some other American company bring out an animated feature that were geared towards adults, they would be overwhelmed by the number of complaints they recieve because "I took little Timmy to see that cartoon and it had a butt in it!! OMG!!". Simply put, a large portion of people in this country go "ooh! animated! it MUST be safe to take my kid to!" instead of actually going out and reading reviews/seeing trailers/actually researching a bit about what they're about to expose their children to.
Not that I don't agree that it would be cool to see a feature geared more towards adults in theatres, but basically it wont happen until more parents actually decide to be responsible and pay more attention to what their spawn are viewing and doing.
Look, this is slashdot, so you'll have to scale it down a bit. unless you're already female, then you can talk pretty friend...
quite simply? turn into a large, nation-size version of dilbert. many, many, many PHB's, to way too few engineers.
And i feel even older, yet am younger. Back in MY day, we had two, and felt really special that we had that. (23)
The argument against this one is that paintball utilized different physics principles than a real war. while a funky little pallet is plenty of protection from a 5 gram projectile propelled at 300 feet/second that is designed to break on impact, that same pallet will provide almost no cover from a 25 gram machined piece of lead that is designed to penetrate flesh, clothing, and most protective coverings.
Another side of this is that at 300 fps, i can still dodge paint. I'm not entirely sure I can dodge a bullet fired at me from the same distance, hightened paintball reflexes, or not...
I believe that the army DID look into using paintball to train their troops, but found that the differing physics betweent battle and the game bred some very bad tactics that would have gotten soldiers killed in a real battle. And, IIRC, that is EXACTLY what they are trying to avoid. HTH, HAND.....
how high on the benchmark scale does my system have to rate to play the new nethack? i was worrying that the sysreqs might be too high for my system....
Ahhh, yes, but truly, is any line truly capable of handling a thorough Slashdotting?
well, yeah, but isnt that one of the risks we face in a democracy?
And it isnt necessarily the idiots making the decisions, rather the rich buggers that have bought^H^H^H^H^H^Hbeen elected by the idiot masses....
Unfortunately, no, life isnt painful when you're stupid. Life is painful when you're the guy that has to deal with the stupid person who just burned his cpu trying to overclock it while using a bottle of Evian for a watercooler.
Sure, we MIGHT be able to teach them better, but it requires the ability to listen and comprehend instructions, which, i believe, at least 75% of the general populace doesnt have. //EndRant;
or, in the words of some kids in colorado....
"Oh My God! You killed TweakTown!!!"
"You Bastards!!!!"
And I'm absolutely sure the guy on the stake'll tell you that "It's not so bad, it's a dry heat...."
yeah. the car, it's invisible. you dont miss a whole lot. ;-)
Sometimes i ph33r myself....
There's even a current 'trick' to this one as well.... at the store I work at (Local Store, kinda like a wal-mart only not...), we have custom coupon machines that spit coupons out whenever you buy certain products. trick of it is, is that when you buy something, it doesnt kick a coupon out for what you bought, but for a competing product. so, if you buy say a 2litre of Mt.Dew, it'll kick out a coupon for 7-up.....The concept there is that the store gets paid to give the customer the coupons by the people who make the product (i.e. 7-up pays for the store giving out coupons on their products). Thus, a company's marketing dollars affect the wad of paper i hand you at the end of your order. Thank you and have a nice day... ;-)