You could still accelerate the parts of the decoding that you could. The older Intel 950 GPUs didn't accelerate all the functions in H.264, but did enough that the CPU could do the rest.
It's not just you. Even with fairly good vision, I hate the "pop-out" effects. It forces your eyes into a weird configuration to focus on it. The into-the-screen is much more impressive and immersive for me as well.
Long and short of it is, since it happened when you were an infant, there just may be nothing you can do about it, no matter what the exercises. Might be time to look into some stem-cell therapy;)
Driving 10 under the speed of the rest of traffic will put you at fault for the accident in many places. It's dangerous driving to be unpredictable like that.
Wait... you surf slashdot, right? I just installed the Firefox nightly on a whim and enabled Direct2D, and it is really amazingly fast. I usually had to wait a second or two for the page to finish rendering before I could scroll. Now I can't even get to the scroll button fast enough. It makes complex pages useful.
Rampant racism, still a huge teenage unmarried birth rate... the 50's were not as good as anyone thinks they were. Because we were still just as human 60 years ago, and we didn't know nearly as much about nearly as many things overall.
The current American mythos is that kids are stupid and innocent, and you should do everything you can to preserve that, including such helpful tools as self-delusion, corporal punishment, ignoring them, calling the cops instead of parenting, and many others.
What, you mean you aren't trying to keep your kids stupid and inexperienced until you shove them out the door at 18 to go to college? What kind of parent are you?
The point is that it's not the FCC's job. It's the FTC's job, where Comcast was promising Internet access and not delivering. The FCC is just to make sure airwaves and such don't get stomped on.
I place Blu-Ray along with DVD... if I can crack it and use it like I want, I'll deal with it. AnyDVD HD seems to work pretty well for me, so I don't mind getting movies on Blu-Ray. If that stops, I'll stop getting Blu-Rays (I already don't pay more than $15 or so for them. Screw new release prices). DVD has encryption on it just like Blu-Ray. Using one but not the other seems like a meaningless protest, along the lines of "get off my lawn!"
That just means that you're one of those rare people without a terribly addictive personality. The fact remains that 99% of people who smoke are completely unable to do things like you do.
Because when it's a Lincoln or a Cadillac, they can't blame Toyota. Lincoln and Cadillac have mechanical interlinks, so when an old person drives one of those through the wall of a Denny's, everyone just knows it's their fault and moves on. These new computer thingies are like black magic, so it's easier to blame them.
Idle left foot? It's perfectly allowed to drive with both feet with an automatic. The driver's instructors tell you not to because it is easy to get confused, but if you take the time to practice it's actually pretty easy (and yes, I can still drive a manual, too). If you're trying to drive fast, it removes a lot of work from your right foot and allows you to switch between gas and brake much faster, not to mention hitting both the gas and the brake at the same time (which is warranted in some cases. Just not when you see morons taking off from a stoplight with their top-center brake light still lit).
I don't know about you, but my automatic transmissions still have multiple gears, and I can downshift with them. I routinely put my AT Toyota Corolla in a lower gear going downhill, and it won't shift up any higher than that. Being as that has been a feature in automatic transmissions for many, many years, I'm VERY surprised that an AT rig wouldn't have been able to do that. Seems more like driver error, like all of these Toyota "unintended acceleration" stories
Yes, it is an argument. If he's a dangerous offender, he should be locked up. Otherwise, he should be allowed to walk free and be part of society. Being part of society entails access to things that are considered generally necessary, such as sanitation, housing, food, and access to public goods. Or are you suggesting that if someone burns down a house and is found criminally negligent they should be banned from ever living indoors again?
The justice system is designed to mete out justice, not revenge. When the punishment is only loosely correlated to the crime, you aren't dispensing justice. The only purpose it serves is to turn people against the law, because they see punishments as unfair. While fuckheads like you and the imbecile who modded you up may get behind it, most sane people are not. It makes a mockery of justice and all the stupid lists they make... people will eventually start ignoring those lists because so many non-offenders are on them, and then where does that land you? You can no longer tell a dangerous pedophile from a 19 year old kid who fucked his 17 year old girlfriend. So things go two ways... either you listen to the list, and turn the kid away, and he really becomes a criminal because that's the only avenue open to him, or the lists get ignored and you get a pedophile working with kids.
The fact that the USA has a much higher percentage of it's population incarcerated than any other first-world country should scare the shit out of you, because there are not a higher percentage of antisocial assholes over here than anywhere else. It means that we've got a system for breeding criminals, rather than trying to get people to behave in society.
People do stupid things. The point of a justice system is to try to persuade them to not do stupid things any more. When the punishment is not even closely correlated to the crime, you start running a government that is against the people, even if some fuckheads like you and the imbecile who modded you up agree with it. That's a good way to start a revolution, to start people disrespecting and breaking the laws because they see them as unjust.
Have you considered that what you're experiencing might be due to high frequency sound instead of EM radiation? There's a lot more evidence for that at least, and it's the only thing that could set the telco base station different from wifi. There is absolutely jack and shit for evidence that people can feel normal radio and other communications-style radiation.
The guy is not right. Period, end of story. And if you think he is, perhaps you should go talk to your doctor about the possibility of you suffering from a psychosomatic illness and treatment options.
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You could still accelerate the parts of the decoding that you could. The older Intel 950 GPUs didn't accelerate all the functions in H.264, but did enough that the CPU could do the rest.
It's not just you. Even with fairly good vision, I hate the "pop-out" effects. It forces your eyes into a weird configuration to focus on it. The into-the-screen is much more impressive and immersive for me as well.
This article may give you some neat insight: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/07/science-question-fro-7.html
Long and short of it is, since it happened when you were an infant, there just may be nothing you can do about it, no matter what the exercises. Might be time to look into some stem-cell therapy ;)
Driving 10 under the speed of the rest of traffic will put you at fault for the accident in many places. It's dangerous driving to be unpredictable like that.
Thank you for not being one of those drivers that make me want to arm myself while driving :-)
Wait... you surf slashdot, right? I just installed the Firefox nightly on a whim and enabled Direct2D, and it is really amazingly fast. I usually had to wait a second or two for the page to finish rendering before I could scroll. Now I can't even get to the scroll button fast enough. It makes complex pages useful.
I see you're well on your way to joining the rest of us atheists. Welcome!
Solution: Teach your kid, tell him to tell the other kids.
Careful there... I remember being a "nerd" in high school... the girls that hung out with us were wilder than most ;)
Sleep well tonight!
The social mores of the 50's? Looking at the past through rose-colored glasses, are we?
http://turrbull.com/comix/there-were-no-good-old-days-hero-worship-and-false-nostalgia
Rampant racism, still a huge teenage unmarried birth rate... the 50's were not as good as anyone thinks they were. Because we were still just as human 60 years ago, and we didn't know nearly as much about nearly as many things overall.
The current American mythos is that kids are stupid and innocent, and you should do everything you can to preserve that, including such helpful tools as self-delusion, corporal punishment, ignoring them, calling the cops instead of parenting, and many others.
What, you mean you aren't trying to keep your kids stupid and inexperienced until you shove them out the door at 18 to go to college? What kind of parent are you?
The point is that it's not the FCC's job. It's the FTC's job, where Comcast was promising Internet access and not delivering. The FCC is just to make sure airwaves and such don't get stomped on.
Unless he was thinking of Jar-Jar, and then a cannon is an appropriate word...
I place Blu-Ray along with DVD... if I can crack it and use it like I want, I'll deal with it. AnyDVD HD seems to work pretty well for me, so I don't mind getting movies on Blu-Ray. If that stops, I'll stop getting Blu-Rays (I already don't pay more than $15 or so for them. Screw new release prices). DVD has encryption on it just like Blu-Ray. Using one but not the other seems like a meaningless protest, along the lines of "get off my lawn!"
That just means that you're one of those rare people without a terribly addictive personality. The fact remains that 99% of people who smoke are completely unable to do things like you do.
But it used the magic phrase vis-à-vis. That means it has to be legitimate research, right?
One man's "bad joke" is another man's "epic troll!" Rarely is making fun of The Holy Bible inappropriate, and in this case, it was hilarious.
There, fixed that for you
Because when it's a Lincoln or a Cadillac, they can't blame Toyota. Lincoln and Cadillac have mechanical interlinks, so when an old person drives one of those through the wall of a Denny's, everyone just knows it's their fault and moves on. These new computer thingies are like black magic, so it's easier to blame them.
Idle left foot? It's perfectly allowed to drive with both feet with an automatic. The driver's instructors tell you not to because it is easy to get confused, but if you take the time to practice it's actually pretty easy (and yes, I can still drive a manual, too). If you're trying to drive fast, it removes a lot of work from your right foot and allows you to switch between gas and brake much faster, not to mention hitting both the gas and the brake at the same time (which is warranted in some cases. Just not when you see morons taking off from a stoplight with their top-center brake light still lit).
I don't know about you, but my automatic transmissions still have multiple gears, and I can downshift with them. I routinely put my AT Toyota Corolla in a lower gear going downhill, and it won't shift up any higher than that. Being as that has been a feature in automatic transmissions for many, many years, I'm VERY surprised that an AT rig wouldn't have been able to do that. Seems more like driver error, like all of these Toyota "unintended acceleration" stories
Yes, it is an argument. If he's a dangerous offender, he should be locked up. Otherwise, he should be allowed to walk free and be part of society. Being part of society entails access to things that are considered generally necessary, such as sanitation, housing, food, and access to public goods. Or are you suggesting that if someone burns down a house and is found criminally negligent they should be banned from ever living indoors again?
The justice system is designed to mete out justice, not revenge. When the punishment is only loosely correlated to the crime, you aren't dispensing justice. The only purpose it serves is to turn people against the law, because they see punishments as unfair. While fuckheads like you and the imbecile who modded you up may get behind it, most sane people are not. It makes a mockery of justice and all the stupid lists they make... people will eventually start ignoring those lists because so many non-offenders are on them, and then where does that land you? You can no longer tell a dangerous pedophile from a 19 year old kid who fucked his 17 year old girlfriend. So things go two ways... either you listen to the list, and turn the kid away, and he really becomes a criminal because that's the only avenue open to him, or the lists get ignored and you get a pedophile working with kids.
The fact that the USA has a much higher percentage of it's population incarcerated than any other first-world country should scare the shit out of you, because there are not a higher percentage of antisocial assholes over here than anywhere else. It means that we've got a system for breeding criminals, rather than trying to get people to behave in society.
People do stupid things. The point of a justice system is to try to persuade them to not do stupid things any more. When the punishment is not even closely correlated to the crime, you start running a government that is against the people, even if some fuckheads like you and the imbecile who modded you up agree with it. That's a good way to start a revolution, to start people disrespecting and breaking the laws because they see them as unjust.
Have you considered that what you're experiencing might be due to high frequency sound instead of EM radiation? There's a lot more evidence for that at least, and it's the only thing that could set the telco base station different from wifi. There is absolutely jack and shit for evidence that people can feel normal radio and other communications-style radiation.
The guy is not right. Period, end of story. And if you think he is, perhaps you should go talk to your doctor about the possibility of you suffering from a psychosomatic illness and treatment options.