so i go from lossy compression, to uncompressed, to more lossy compression. gee that sounds like a great idea! for those of us who already can hear the problems with compressed audio it's not option. Not to mention that my mac is an imac without a cd burner. My windows machine has the cd burner, so I couldn't burn the songs to a cd even if I wanted to.
taping something off the radio and then trading it or selling it is not technically within your rights. Just like you can't make a copy of your cd's to give to friends.
I fail to see what microsoft is going to do to make the xbox2 so special. Remember that at TV resolutions the graphics chipset and processor are more than capable of producing high frame rate high polygon count images.
some source put SARS as low as 3% and the Spanish Flu as high as 6% or 7%, so they may be very similar. Do remeber though that the Spanish Flu was much more contageous than SARS. I believe 1 in 2 people actually became infected with the Flu.
Yep, you can take your drinks right into the theater. I did feel pretty trashy drinking a martini out of plastic cup though. unfortunately I no longer live in dallas... I moved to seattle last summer. But we have loads of indie foreign theaters here. And the Seattle International Film Fest starts this weekend.
I would care to wager that the amount of good movies made outside hollywood is probably about equivalent to the movies made in hollywood. Especially if you discount the foreign movies (the ring, 7 samuri, etc) that hollywood just remakes.
Just off the top of my head I'm going list movies that have come out in the last 5 years from overseas that I think were equal to or better than anything in hollywood: Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Amelie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Y tu mamá también, The Devil's Backbone, Hero, Infernal Affairs, Talk to Her, Spirited Away, The Pianist, Ringu, Rabbit Proof Fence, City of God. I'm sure I could name more if I actually thought about it.
I actually agree with music being a much more personal experience. I see many concerts. And I have become very upset with the amount of performers who don't perform. They just stand up there and play their music. Unlike a movie theater (which I can't reproduce), most concert halls do not have sound systems that come close to the quality of my home stereo. Therefore, the music sounds better when played at home. If the performer can't give me better sound, they need to give me something else. This can be better versions of the songs, different songs, or simply good interaction.
There are good theaters and bad theaters. The key is finding ones that are kept clean and up to date. The same can be said of the patrons. Certain theaters are better than others.
I have an above average home theater. I could use a new TV, but I do have good speakers, a powerful sub, a very nice reciever and DVD player. Yet I can't come close to reproducing a theater experience. Not only is my screen smaller, I have to keep the volume down to appease the neighbors. I also have a hard time controlling ambient light if it's not dark outside (and in seattle it gets dark at 10pm in the summer). Maybe someday I'll have a dedicated theater room, with an HD DLP projector, a 10' screen, and an HD DVD player. But that's not comming any time soon, and that's why I go to the movies.
If you go to the angelika film center, you can indeed drink a beer in the theater. They have a full bar. Smoking is of course prohibitted, but were can you smoke in public these days.
Most likely a lightsaber wouldn't actually be a laser. In the films the actually cutting beam is much, much smaller than the beam of light. This suggests that something else is doing the cutting and the light either functions as a tracer, or is some sort of ionizing affect with the air.
Your example is flawed. Do you see NASA installing a generic video card with drivers written by some unknown source on the space shuttle? Does American Airlines install the lastest games on the flight computer?
If microsoft specified which hardware and which software you were allowed to run, and you could make no changes, it would probably be just as stable as a 747. Take your example of a car for instance. It's pretty stable. Now reprogram the ECU, add a turbo charger, change the tires and brakes, add some new headers. You think it's going to be as trouble free as it used to be?
The problem is that lawsuit happy people make this kind of thing necessary. If that one dumb kid throws the ball at another kid, the kid with the black eye might have parents that sue the school.
What we need is stupid people legislation. I suggest we let you hold no one but yourself responsible for your own stupidity. This way people can only be punished for intentionally doing something that a person of average intelligence would believe.
I think kids probably learn more from these video games than they do in our public schools. These days in public schools the students spend all their time studying for achievment test, and learning how to be good test takers. These video games actually teach problem solving and strategy skills.
Those studies are all flawed. They never factor in the fact that violent screwed up people will naturally gravitate to violent games. If I'm crazy and violent, I'm going to enjoy playing GTA. But just because I play GTA doesn't make me any more likely to be violent.
In another country it would be good, because the cost of living isn't so high. In a major city, that's not much money at all... especially when a 1 bedroom apt. goes for $700 - $1000 a month
well, if i was to decide what is functionally important. I would first ignore all the dna we share with lettuce, because obviously that isn't the part that makes us human.
I would start by ignoring all the DNA chimps and humans share with other animals, and compare genes that only exist in those species. But that's just me, with no biology or genetic training. I'm sure someone how knows what they're doing can be a bit more precise.
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so i go from lossy compression, to uncompressed, to more lossy compression. gee that sounds like a great idea! for those of us who already can hear the problems with compressed audio it's not option. Not to mention that my mac is an imac without a cd burner. My windows machine has the cd burner, so I couldn't burn the songs to a cd even if I wanted to.
on many good songs, 30 seconds isn't enough. Apple should let you hear the whole damn thing.
taping something off the radio and then trading it or selling it is not technically within your rights. Just like you can't make a copy of your cd's to give to friends.
I fail to see what microsoft is going to do to make the xbox2 so special. Remember that at TV resolutions the graphics chipset and processor are more than capable of producing high frame rate high polygon count images.
some source put SARS as low as 3% and the Spanish Flu as high as 6% or 7%, so they may be very similar. Do remeber though that the Spanish Flu was much more contageous than SARS. I believe 1 in 2 people actually became infected with the Flu.
Yep, you can take your drinks right into the theater. I did feel pretty trashy drinking a martini out of plastic cup though. unfortunately I no longer live in dallas... I moved to seattle last summer. But we have loads of indie foreign theaters here. And the Seattle International Film Fest starts this weekend.
I would care to wager that the amount of good movies made outside hollywood is probably about equivalent to the movies made in hollywood. Especially if you discount the foreign movies (the ring, 7 samuri, etc) that hollywood just remakes.
Just off the top of my head I'm going list movies that have come out in the last 5 years from overseas that I think were equal to or better than anything in hollywood: Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Amelie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Y tu mamá también, The Devil's Backbone, Hero, Infernal Affairs, Talk to Her, Spirited Away, The Pianist, Ringu, Rabbit Proof Fence, City of God. I'm sure I could name more if I actually thought about it.
I actually agree with music being a much more personal experience. I see many concerts. And I have become very upset with the amount of performers who don't perform. They just stand up there and play their music. Unlike a movie theater (which I can't reproduce), most concert halls do not have sound systems that come close to the quality of my home stereo. Therefore, the music sounds better when played at home. If the performer can't give me better sound, they need to give me something else. This can be better versions of the songs, different songs, or simply good interaction.
There are good theaters and bad theaters. The key is finding ones that are kept clean and up to date. The same can be said of the patrons. Certain theaters are better than others.
I have an above average home theater. I could use a new TV, but I do have good speakers, a powerful sub, a very nice reciever and DVD player. Yet I can't come close to reproducing a theater experience. Not only is my screen smaller, I have to keep the volume down to appease the neighbors. I also have a hard time controlling ambient light if it's not dark outside (and in seattle it gets dark at 10pm in the summer). Maybe someday I'll have a dedicated theater room, with an HD DLP projector, a 10' screen, and an HD DVD player. But that's not comming any time soon, and that's why I go to the movies.
If you go to the angelika film center, you can indeed drink a beer in the theater. They have a full bar. Smoking is of course prohibitted, but were can you smoke in public these days.
Most likely a lightsaber wouldn't actually be a laser. In the films the actually cutting beam is much, much smaller than the beam of light. This suggests that something else is doing the cutting and the light either functions as a tracer, or is some sort of ionizing affect with the air.
You need to understand that water condenses and falls back to the earth as water. Water Vapor doesn't just build up in the atmosphere like CO2 does.
Plus, you have to get this hydrogen that is producing the electicity from somewhere. The most likely source is of course water.
Just so you know, the Napoleonic wars didn't happen until after the American Revolution, which happened after the French/Indinan war.
You think MythTV would run on one of those via boxes? that sure would be nifty.
Your example is flawed. Do you see NASA installing a generic video card with drivers written by some unknown source on the space shuttle? Does American Airlines install the lastest games on the flight computer?
If microsoft specified which hardware and which software you were allowed to run, and you could make no changes, it would probably be just as stable as a 747. Take your example of a car for instance. It's pretty stable. Now reprogram the ECU, add a turbo charger, change the tires and brakes, add some new headers. You think it's going to be as trouble free as it used to be?
The problem is that lawsuit happy people make this kind of thing necessary. If that one dumb kid throws the ball at another kid, the kid with the black eye might have parents that sue the school.
What we need is stupid people legislation. I suggest we let you hold no one but yourself responsible for your own stupidity. This way people can only be punished for intentionally doing something that a person of average intelligence would believe.
I was under the impression we had earthquakes and volcanos? Maybe people are just getting bored waiting for them.
I've always been of the opinion that anyone stupid enough to fall for that kind of advertising deserves all the problems they get.
I think kids probably learn more from these video games than they do in our public schools. These days in public schools the students spend all their time studying for achievment test, and learning how to be good test takers. These video games actually teach problem solving and strategy skills.
Those studies are all flawed. They never factor in the fact that violent screwed up people will naturally gravitate to violent games. If I'm crazy and violent, I'm going to enjoy playing GTA. But just because I play GTA doesn't make me any more likely to be violent.
In another country it would be good, because the cost of living isn't so high. In a major city, that's not much money at all... especially when a 1 bedroom apt. goes for $700 - $1000 a month
well, if i was to decide what is functionally important. I would first ignore all the dna we share with lettuce, because obviously that isn't the part that makes us human.
I would start by ignoring all the DNA chimps and humans share with other animals, and compare genes that only exist in those species. But that's just me, with no biology or genetic training. I'm sure someone how knows what they're doing can be a bit more precise.
that sucks... when i was into keeping fish I had a convict cichlid and a texas cichlid that hybridized on their own. I could have been sent to jail! :)
But if jpeg2000 offers better quality at an equal or lesser size, the companies will put it into their cameras to replace jpeg.
I also doen't remeber for certain, but I thought jpeg2000 also had a lossless mode that beat both TIFF and lossless jpeg?
If you're really serious you can become a fruitarian. They only eat fruits and nuts, never killing the plant itself.
Of course if you're like me you can just stick to the veggies.