Given 40,000 years, the bacteria will have time to evolve to at least the level of the average Republican congressman.
Then, they'll assume power over the guidance system of the craft and promptly steer it into the nearest star.
Problem solved!
Ah, this explains Jobs' utter silence in response to the widespread Clinton admin+blogosphere outrage at Jobs/Disney/ABC/Refuglican Right Wing Noise Machine's airing of the mocku-lie-amentary Path to 9/11 earlier this week.
Just keep yer mouth shut, Steve, and you can be SecComm in the Schwarzenegger Admin in 08.
Posted by a long-time Mac lover who will never buy anything from iTunes Music Store.
First, I agree with all above who have extolled the utter worthlessness of WMP (on either platform). I use this as an exemplar of evil UI design. What maroon decided that dragging the time cursor should NOT update the image in real time, as it does in QT Player? Who decided that hiding the config menu in some elaborately hokey frame was good design? And on and on... Piece 'o crap. Glad to see the back of it (though I only briefly ever used in on Mac and usually deleted it soon after). Still have to live with it on Windoze unless M$ caves completely and lets Flip4Mac do a QT codec for Windoze also. Ha!
Anyway, I write to mention experiences with the 2 contenda's for outputting WMVs from Mac, which are PopWire Technology and Flip4Mac. I've used PopWire's $30 (only!) WMV9 Export Component for QuickTime (a plug-in to QT) for about a year with great satisfaction. As much as I hate to create WMV's for anyone, the job and benighted clients sometimes require them. I've found that WMV is the all around best format to give someone a movie to embed into Windoze PowerPoint presentations.
The PopWire QT plug-in means that any and all QT apps (Final Cut, QT Pro, etc.) can directly output WMV as an exported file. Very handy. And, so far, no complaints: the quality is excellent as is the speed of conversion. I've used some of the (many) built-in presets, and diddled up a few of my own. The options dialog even lets you insert copyright and title and author metadata. Highly recommended.
I discovered Flip4Mac about a month ago and dorked with the demos, then last week hit the Buy button for WMV Studio Pro. So far, I've had OK success. I first tried to export some pieces I had created with After Effects (Animation or in other cases 10-bit uncompressed BlackMagic codec), using the 2-pass VBR in WMV SP. Not good. Not good at all! Took a REALLY long time (dual 2Ghz G5) and looked absolutely awful. I was getting a little sweaty palmed about all those bucks I just fired off to these guys, plus the deadline looming...
So I tried again with a 1-pass CBR preset, and while it took what seemed like a much longer time than PopWire would have, it did give a comparably respectable result. So I need to do some more tests to find out what works and what doesn't given different input material.
I have had reasonable success viewing the odd WMV on the web using the Flip4Mac web QT plug-in that is installed as part of the free WMV Player (all this functionality is included in the higher end, pay-fer products like Studio Pro). However, I saw that someone else had trouble with the Comedy Channel movies. I did also: I don't care really, I was just looking for a sample WMV to try out the install of last night's 2.0.1 patch, but I don't have an answer for what CC does wrong that everyone else seems to do right. Maybe it is a streaming thing?
I'm patenting the "Stench of Failure" then suing the George W Lush Administration for ONE.... MILLLLLION... DOLLARS!
I'll be rich beyond my wildest dreams of avarice!
Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Then they did a followup experiment where they only let people have access to littlegreenfootballs.com.
Result? They started gibbering uncontrollably within the first 5 minutes.
As far as I understand it, there are overtime laws on the books. Those laws were made by Congress.
The Naked Emperor Chimpy has ruled (not quite another of his bone-headed 'Executive Orders", but essentially the same thing) that his Dept of "Making Other People's Labor Worth Less" should decree new 'rules' that essentially defy the existing laws (no activist judges need apply until AFTER the 's'election.)
Now, amazingly, the Tom "Termite with a French Surname" DeLay-ruled House has managed to rush new 'legislation' to the floor in short order which even more amazingly would OVERTURN His Godhead's rulings! Gasp!
So, I have to believe that the purpose of this new legislation will be to effectively water down the old laws to something that the media cannot understand well enough to explain to the unruly mob, but which wil generate some soothing soundbites that make the mob put down the torches and shuffle away (why was that 1984 Mac commercial so deeply frightening? It was the room full of slack-jawed zomboids: today's electorate).
Then, the final kicker will be the pork that gets attached to the newly modified bill. Heck, they might even be able to attach PATRIOT ACT 2 to it, then claim it must be passed with a secret vote since so much of the new ACT is top-secret and not to be read by either the masses or the congresscritters.
Damn trial lawyers. Protecting our right to vote! Well, they'll all be rounded up when Bullsh 'wins' again and installs Oberflecksaspittenfuhrer Zellfire Miller as the new Minister for Protection of Das State.
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Seems like an excellent place to hide an expensive portable from a burglar. Did you ever see a movie where the burglar checked the oven for valuables?
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I think he should hold out until they raise the offer to $5 million. THEN, turn it down. Bwa-ha-ha. That will get the trolls in a lather.
Given 40,000 years, the bacteria will have time to evolve to at least the level of the average Republican congressman. Then, they'll assume power over the guidance system of the craft and promptly steer it into the nearest star. Problem solved!
The suffix -ography refers to writing. Would that make this 'pornophony'?
Ah, this explains Jobs' utter silence in response to the widespread Clinton admin+blogosphere outrage at Jobs/Disney/ABC/Refuglican Right Wing Noise Machine's airing of the mocku-lie-amentary Path to 9/11 earlier this week.
Just keep yer mouth shut, Steve, and you can be SecComm in the Schwarzenegger Admin in 08.
Posted by a long-time Mac lover who will never buy anything from iTunes Music Store.
The scientists are now seeking a grant from NSF to hire a post-doc to scrape the accumulated chicken poop off the outer wall of the centrifuge.
First, I agree with all above who have extolled the utter worthlessness of WMP (on either platform). I use this as an exemplar of evil UI design. What maroon decided that dragging the time cursor should NOT update the image in real time, as it does in QT Player? Who decided that hiding the config menu in some elaborately hokey frame was good design? And on and on... Piece 'o crap. Glad to see the back of it (though I only briefly ever used in on Mac and usually deleted it soon after). Still have to live with it on Windoze unless M$ caves completely and lets Flip4Mac do a QT codec for Windoze also. Ha!
Anyway, I write to mention experiences with the 2 contenda's for outputting WMVs from Mac, which are PopWire Technology and Flip4Mac. I've used PopWire's $30 (only!) WMV9 Export Component for QuickTime (a plug-in to QT) for about a year with great satisfaction. As much as I hate to create WMV's for anyone, the job and benighted clients sometimes require them. I've found that WMV is the all around best format to give someone a movie to embed into Windoze PowerPoint presentations.
The PopWire QT plug-in means that any and all QT apps (Final Cut, QT Pro, etc.) can directly output WMV as an exported file. Very handy. And, so far, no complaints: the quality is excellent as is the speed of conversion. I've used some of the (many) built-in presets, and diddled up a few of my own. The options dialog even lets you insert copyright and title and author metadata. Highly recommended.
I discovered Flip4Mac about a month ago and dorked with the demos, then last week hit the Buy button for WMV Studio Pro. So far, I've had OK success. I first tried to export some pieces I had created with After Effects (Animation or in other cases 10-bit uncompressed BlackMagic codec), using the 2-pass VBR in WMV SP. Not good. Not good at all! Took a REALLY long time (dual 2Ghz G5) and looked absolutely awful. I was getting a little sweaty palmed about all those bucks I just fired off to these guys, plus the deadline looming...
So I tried again with a 1-pass CBR preset, and while it took what seemed like a much longer time than PopWire would have, it did give a comparably respectable result. So I need to do some more tests to find out what works and what doesn't given different input material.
I have had reasonable success viewing the odd WMV on the web using the Flip4Mac web QT plug-in that is installed as part of the free WMV Player (all this functionality is included in the higher end, pay-fer products like Studio Pro). However, I saw that someone else had trouble with the Comedy Channel movies. I did also: I don't care really, I was just looking for a sample WMV to try out the install of last night's 2.0.1 patch, but I don't have an answer for what CC does wrong that everyone else seems to do right. Maybe it is a streaming thing?
Need I say more?
I'm patenting the "Stench of Failure" then suing the George W Lush Administration for ONE.... MILLLLLION... DOLLARS! I'll be rich beyond my wildest dreams of avarice! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Then they did a followup experiment where they only let people have access to littlegreenfootballs.com. Result? They started gibbering uncontrollably within the first 5 minutes.
As far as I understand it, there are overtime laws on the books. Those laws were made by Congress. The Naked Emperor Chimpy has ruled (not quite another of his bone-headed 'Executive Orders", but essentially the same thing) that his Dept of "Making Other People's Labor Worth Less" should decree new 'rules' that essentially defy the existing laws (no activist judges need apply until AFTER the 's'election.) Now, amazingly, the Tom "Termite with a French Surname" DeLay-ruled House has managed to rush new 'legislation' to the floor in short order which even more amazingly would OVERTURN His Godhead's rulings! Gasp! So, I have to believe that the purpose of this new legislation will be to effectively water down the old laws to something that the media cannot understand well enough to explain to the unruly mob, but which wil generate some soothing soundbites that make the mob put down the torches and shuffle away (why was that 1984 Mac commercial so deeply frightening? It was the room full of slack-jawed zomboids: today's electorate). Then, the final kicker will be the pork that gets attached to the newly modified bill. Heck, they might even be able to attach PATRIOT ACT 2 to it, then claim it must be passed with a secret vote since so much of the new ACT is top-secret and not to be read by either the masses or the congresscritters.
Damn trial lawyers. Protecting our right to vote! Well, they'll all be rounded up when Bullsh 'wins' again and installs Oberflecksaspittenfuhrer Zellfire Miller as the new Minister for Protection of Das State.
Seems like an excellent place to hide an expensive portable from a burglar. Did you ever see a movie where the burglar checked the oven for valuables?
The Swiss have a word for this: Schussenfallenschitzensnarfen. I think there's an umlaut in there somewhere.