I have to explain this to people all the time when they come watch 2.35:1 (or 2.4:1) movies on my wide screen TV and they point out that I "still" have letterboxing. Well of course I do, the TV's not wide enough.
What I hate, can't stand, must resist strangling people for saying is "just hit zoom, it stretches it all out nice".
AAAAACK.
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I use Mediatomb personally, for streaming from multiple Linux PCs to my PS3. All of them show up nicely under the Video and Music options in the XMB. It even supports real-time transcoding for my FLAC music.
Transcoding? The PS3 has full official WMV and DivX support. While sure it won't play Matroska, its pretty capable of playing almost anything I throw at it without transcoding.
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Its also worth pointing out that the PS3 will even let me rip a CD down to high quality AAC from its drive and then copy it onto my MP3 player or a USB stick. They're not exactly being evil here.
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I wish I could stamp "douchebag" on the forehead of everyone who brings up smartphones as though they're some kind of new evil. I've driven behind plenty of people reading books, doing makeup, curling their hair and even eating soup (with two hands).
The problem isn't phones, the problem is people driving stupidly. Stop it with the moronic rants about cell phones already.
You haven't played the PS3 much have you? "The vendor's network" is free and always available in this case, plus games like Warhawk have both LAN and dedicated server options built-in.
Sony allows game makers to do things with their network that Microsoft doesn't, or makes difficult. Don't give them a hard time on this or you're just barking up the wrong tree.
As someone who regularly types over 80wpm, I had the same feeling.
That said, shorthand (as others have mentioned) and its possibilities in gesture-based input on touch screen devices could be much faster than other forms of handwriting shown as well.
Actually DLink seems pretty good at keeping their products patched. Not as quickly as Multitech mind you (who've created custom test firmwares for me by E-mail), but still quite responsive.
None of which is relevant to the point made in my statement.
"Not as fast as" is relevant like "Not as accurate" is in the GP's post. In this case, both cars are fast, and both screens are accurate, even if one is a little more so than the other.
The OS already closes those apps for you. The system never actually runs out of memory, does it? I wish it were slightly more aggressive sometimes (and some of the task managers simply lower the high water mark to achieve this), but for the most part it works.
I can run my weather software, then check my mail, click a link in my mail to Dolphin (the browser), and subscribe to the feed in Google Reader without much of a hiccup in between -- on an old HTC Dream phone. Granted, its even faster since moving up to 1.6 via Cyanogen.
You go play with your 'hammer of standards' platform and I'll stick to the everything just works phone with lots of small working packages that interoperate and we'll see who's got more options next year.
The first time I read how this works, I had memories of Windows OLE and hoping this time it would be done right. It looks like it has, for the most part. The activity paradigm works very well so far and is very handy to writing good small stable code.
The Volt has been being advertised for years, you're a bit late if you think 11 months is far out.
11 months is practically tomorrow in manufacturing. They have to tool everything, get parts orders and distribution in line, and make sure they've got the final distribution arranged as well. In 11 months they want all those cars actually rolled off the assembly line, not waiting for someone to retool the system.
I drive about 30,000km a year. Getting an average overall of 10L/100km that's 3000L of fuel a year, and at around $1/L up here, thats $3000 a year I spend on gas alone. If the car survives my driving for five years, I will have saved something less than $15,000 (but the exact amount, I couldn't say). At that rate, I'd end up saving somewhere between (my guess) 1/4 and 1/3 the price of the car which isn't bad at all.
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I have to explain this to people all the time when they come watch 2.35:1 (or 2.4:1) movies on my wide screen TV and they point out that I "still" have letterboxing. Well of course I do, the TV's not wide enough.
What I hate, can't stand, must resist strangling people for saying is "just hit zoom, it stretches it all out nice".
AAAAACK.
I use Mediatomb personally, for streaming from multiple Linux PCs to my PS3. All of them show up nicely under the Video and Music options in the XMB. It even supports real-time transcoding for my FLAC music.
Transcoding? The PS3 has full official WMV and DivX support. While sure it won't play Matroska, its pretty capable of playing almost anything I throw at it without transcoding.
Its also worth pointing out that the PS3 will even let me rip a CD down to high quality AAC from its drive and then copy it onto my MP3 player or a USB stick. They're not exactly being evil here.
I wish I could stamp "douchebag" on the forehead of everyone who brings up smartphones as though they're some kind of new evil. I've driven behind plenty of people reading books, doing makeup, curling their hair and even eating soup (with two hands).
The problem isn't phones, the problem is people driving stupidly. Stop it with the moronic rants about cell phones already.
You haven't played the PS3 much have you? "The vendor's network" is free and always available in this case, plus games like Warhawk have both LAN and dedicated server options built-in.
Sony allows game makers to do things with their network that Microsoft doesn't, or makes difficult. Don't give them a hard time on this or you're just barking up the wrong tree.
Seriously? Annotating the edges of pages isn't that hard, and using separate pages for different concepts, etc. isn't either.
As someone who regularly types over 80wpm, I had the same feeling.
That said, shorthand (as others have mentioned) and its possibilities in gesture-based input on touch screen devices could be much faster than other forms of handwriting shown as well.
Actually DLink seems pretty good at keeping their products patched. Not as quickly as Multitech mind you (who've created custom test firmwares for me by E-mail), but still quite responsive.
None of which is relevant to the point made in my statement.
"Not as fast as" is relevant like "Not as accurate" is in the GP's post. In this case, both cars are fast, and both screens are accurate, even if one is a little more so than the other.
Its fixed-price here in Ontario Canada though, at least for now, and very inexpensive at around $0.08/kWh
The OS already closes those apps for you. The system never actually runs out of memory, does it? I wish it were slightly more aggressive sometimes (and some of the task managers simply lower the high water mark to achieve this), but for the most part it works.
I can run my weather software, then check my mail, click a link in my mail to Dolphin (the browser), and subscribe to the feed in Google Reader without much of a hiccup in between -- on an old HTC Dream phone. Granted, its even faster since moving up to 1.6 via Cyanogen.
You go play with your 'hammer of standards' platform and I'll stick to the everything just works phone with lots of small working packages that interoperate and we'll see who's got more options next year.
The first time I read how this works, I had memories of Windows OLE and hoping this time it would be done right. It looks like it has, for the most part. The activity paradigm works very well so far and is very handy to writing good small stable code.
And Corvettes aren't as fast as Vipers.
You could've pointed out that buying a big block V8 probably would've saved him gas if he drives like that.
What kind of idiot drives 150 miles on a weekend running errands?
If I drove across Toronto and back for each of my stops I'd still be well under that.
The Volt has been being advertised for years, you're a bit late if you think 11 months is far out.
11 months is practically tomorrow in manufacturing. They have to tool everything, get parts orders and distribution in line, and make sure they've got the final distribution arranged as well. In 11 months they want all those cars actually rolled off the assembly line, not waiting for someone to retool the system.
You missed Russia in the 80's didn't you?
Printing money leads to such utter devaluation of your currency that it becomes pointless to do so.
You either respect and thereby protect the value of your currency, or just let your people fall into barter and trade for seashells.
I drive about 30,000km a year. Getting an average overall of 10L/100km that's 3000L of fuel a year, and at around $1/L up here, thats $3000 a year I spend on gas alone. If the car survives my driving for five years, I will have saved something less than $15,000 (but the exact amount, I couldn't say). At that rate, I'd end up saving somewhere between (my guess) 1/4 and 1/3 the price of the car which isn't bad at all.
Totally off topic but most people find fending for themselves a lot less enjoyable than having others supporting them in their endeavours.
Court jesters have often played the role of pointing out the poignant truths around them with just enough humour to avoid being hung for noticing.
They also are illegal in many places.
You saw the preview for Piranhas 3D before the movie too? :)
To be fair, this is the director's fault too -- the movie should not have your attention being drawn away from the focal point of the shot.
Bad focus pulls in cheap movies and TV shows cause me headaches too, because the wrong face is in focus during dialog, etc.