Knowing the oddbudman personally I can attest for the fact he has no eyes so you'll have to excuse his obvious oversight.
It all began in 1995 when he attempted to solder a maurie design onto his forearm (at the time he was wearing brown onion belts and could not afford to purchase time with a full tattooing artist).
Well things went pretty well until he detected that he required to scratch his eye. Normally doing this whatever tool he could he took the opportunity to harness the scratching power of the soldering iron. The rest is as they say history.
I was driving a 1982 Ford Laser at that time and the car was having trouble getting up large hills, it was also distinctly powerless on a windy day. Who knows what was wrong with it.
Anybody who thinks they will immediately lose weight playing this game is kidding themselves. This game at best provides a moderate intensity workout with the added twist of being challenging and perhaps addictive.
One thing I have always observed with "I Lost Weight!" articles is they almost always pass over the DIET - that is generally the diet gets an obligatory one line comment (if that) somewhere after most of the information of the article has been devulged.
Anyone who really knows what they are talking about in terms of weight management will tell you that the most important thing in losing/gaining/maintaining weight is your DIET. Your exercise is merely there to burn excess calories you consume over your maintenance calorie level - and of course to promote cardiovascular health and whatnot. (that is, the number of calories required to maintain your current body mass). Easy to understand how you got fat in the first place when you consider what happens when you excess calories are not burnt off
If I am going to smuggle something over the border, I'm not likely to admit to the authorities that this thing exists in my possession. If it doesn't "exist" then they cannot put a microchip in it can they.
I smell an uprising from the teachers when they realise they are being replaced by robots:)
Man I hope they don't code software to emulate unemployed government support sapping wastes of space or I'll be out of a job.
I suggest you ask the closest teacher to you. I reckon they will just give it to you because you asked.
What you are suggesting isn't all that unreasonable. It would be far better if students were given this to encourage them with feedback to refine their essays and consequently become better students with good grades.
Personally I've always felt it is best to work back from the answers (otherwise known as cheating mostly) but it really is the most efficient way of learning.
I agree. Did you receive any comments from the computer or was it just an unjustified percentage?
I would be most interested to know how they have managed to justify this questionable practice. Almost as someone is rushing to boast about being at the forefront of technology without the goods to back it up.
Oh the children! Won't someone please think about the children!
If Dr Sbaitso can't cure what ails me how the hell is a computer supposed to miraculously rise to the level of intelligence required to grade creative literacy.
Perhaps its all a ruse and Dr Sbaitso really is behind the grading program. Hint, look for: How does it make you feel?
I had no idea that boardgames actually still were purchased. Granted, I have not walked into a toy store in many years (or spawned any children) but I thought they were finished. I mean as child why play board games when you can listen to eminem and smoke crack right?
After 70 comments Roderick approached the comments page with excitement, for he had immediately come up with a witty, +5 FUNNY comment for the Gameboy Advance tongue controller story. Oh it was brilliant, so obvious and so incredibly witty
He paused a moment, silently making a prayer that nobody had thought of the "pR0n" implications for such a device, cackling with the sheer thought of the accolades raining down upon him he assured himself that he would be first to that punch.
Scrolling down the filthy cackle was replaced by a dismayed groan. 70 Demoralising comments regarding cunnalingus later he sighed and resigned himself to tell the harrowing story of how he was not as "original" as he had thought.
In the immortal words of Heath Ledger "Such is life"
Oh please, what a tired argument to make. Maybe we should just do away with all forms of scientific measurement and just go with how we feel all the time because after all, we're the ones that have to live with the consequences!
Fact of the matter is that THE EARS DON'T WORK WELL and in the realm of trying to quantify which codec is "better" at X bitrate we have to turn to scientific measurement if we want to draw any conclusions that can be trusted.
Any frequency plot tells me an infinite amount more than a double blind listening test where the results are not conclusive whatsoever. Ear tests are flawed when people do not know what to listen for. Unless there are say twice as many people saying this codec is better than that codec it is unlikely that you can draw much stock in the results.
Every person is different, some may be musicians and focus on one particular instrument, some may be completely inexperienced and have no idea what to look for or what a real snare is supposed to sound like. Like I said, personal deviation will ruin the test.
As for killing the frequencies what is your point, you're just talking about increasing resolution at other frequencies due to more bandwidth available. What is your point. My point was that due to this filtration at 128 it is very easy for me to tell due to this rolloff (I can hear quite high). I'm not complaining its there, I'm just saying some people say they can't detect difference between 128 and say CD.
I would trust say a group of sound engineers with very acute senses of what to look for (and hopefully knowledge of the psychoacoustic models of each of the codecs) but true tests will encompass all methods and used qualified sources (instrumentation, listeners etc) and that site is certainly not at the forefront of any of this.
That was proved to me years ago when I met my housemates girlfriend. She was positively festering with it. She radiated me with it so much of it that I now have a latent ability to detect dark energy within a 5m radius.
They were lagging there for a while but the benchmarks depict a good story. Looks like the opteron is going to be yet another AMD chip that is great for gaming (and most other things). Hopefully a cheaper price than the p4's will really contribute to yet another dominating year for AMD.
You've linked a listening test. Its extremely debatable whether frequency based tests are better than listening tests. Apples and oranges.
For one thing the frequency tests show quite well the relative rolloff at the end of the audible spectrum which is a very key factor in the sound sounding crisp. (128 to me is easy to spot)
Furthermore the variety in the quality of the listeners ability to discern detail in audio will completely skewer the results - many people cannot even tell between 128 and CD let alone discern between relative codecs.
Gracious me he must be a tool of satan.
wThe man is spending money on bandwidth to provide gamers with copyrighted screenshots. He deserves a pat on the back and a slap on the wrist. Sort of a yin yang punishment.
Undoubtedly there are moral issues surrounding it, but that is the benefit of being an impartial outsider. That and the fact that I think anybody who values winning so much that they will spend lots of money on it deserves to have that wish granted.
I mean what type of pointless life must you be living if this is important so much that you are prepared to spend big money on winning? I say everybody deserves some happiness after all.
I think its hilarious that you can do things like this and I am totally against banning it. I just love the fact that people are so desperate to win the game that they will resort to paying for the priveledge of increased standing. Its great to see that there is a forum for these poor silly fools to come and waste their money.
Thing of it this way, if they don't have the option to sell your characters then we may see armed robbery for theft of game characters. People really are that stupid. As Leary would have put it, they are clearly futants.
Fair enough, I have always been cautious of bundled titles due to the fact they are generally weak if they are required to be bundled with each other to comprise of value enough for the price of a regular released game.
I guess in terms of marketing there is no real winning solution for everybody though.
Furthermore that article is poorly written with little to no cohesiveness to it atall. You don't seem to address much atall other than the fact that you have had an ok time with paypal.
Why is suprising that a site that condemns a poor service takes the time to advertise another? Like I said, look into the history of that site and I think you will find it wasn't always like that, it was not established to generate income. Why do you have a problem with them generating revenue to pay for the site?
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Knowing the oddbudman personally I can attest for the fact he has no eyes so you'll have to excuse his obvious oversight. It all began in 1995 when he attempted to solder a maurie design onto his forearm (at the time he was wearing brown onion belts and could not afford to purchase time with a full tattooing artist). Well things went pretty well until he detected that he required to scratch his eye. Normally doing this whatever tool he could he took the opportunity to harness the scratching power of the soldering iron. The rest is as they say history. I was driving a 1982 Ford Laser at that time and the car was having trouble getting up large hills, it was also distinctly powerless on a windy day. Who knows what was wrong with it.
Anybody who thinks they will immediately lose weight playing this game is kidding themselves. This game at best provides a moderate intensity workout with the added twist of being challenging and perhaps addictive.
One thing I have always observed with "I Lost Weight!" articles is they almost always pass over the DIET - that is generally the diet gets an obligatory one line comment (if that) somewhere after most of the information of the article has been devulged.
Anyone who really knows what they are talking about in terms of weight management will tell you that the most important thing in losing/gaining/maintaining weight is your DIET. Your exercise is merely there to burn excess calories you consume over your maintenance calorie level - and of course to promote cardiovascular health and whatnot. (that is, the number of calories required to maintain your current body mass). Easy to understand how you got fat in the first place when you consider what happens when you excess calories are not burnt off
If I am going to smuggle something over the border, I'm not likely to admit to the authorities that this thing exists in my possession. If it doesn't "exist" then they cannot put a microchip in it can they.
I smell an uprising from the teachers when they realise they are being replaced by robots :)
Man I hope they don't code software to emulate unemployed government support sapping wastes of space or I'll be out of a job.
I suggest you ask the closest teacher to you. I reckon they will just give it to you because you asked.
What you are suggesting isn't all that unreasonable. It would be far better if students were given this to encourage them with feedback to refine their essays and consequently become better students with good grades.
Personally I've always felt it is best to work back from the answers (otherwise known as cheating mostly) but it really is the most efficient way of learning.
I agree. Did you receive any comments from the computer or was it just an unjustified percentage? I would be most interested to know how they have managed to justify this questionable practice. Almost as someone is rushing to boast about being at the forefront of technology without the goods to back it up. Oh the children! Won't someone please think about the children!
If Dr Sbaitso can't cure what ails me how the hell is a computer supposed to miraculously rise to the level of intelligence required to grade creative literacy. Perhaps its all a ruse and Dr Sbaitso really is behind the grading program. Hint, look for: How does it make you feel?
I had no idea that boardgames actually still were purchased. Granted, I have not walked into a toy store in many years (or spawned any children) but I thought they were finished. I mean as child why play board games when you can listen to eminem and smoke crack right?
"Strange man takes two completely different things, correlates them and the world is no better for it".
I'm not worried what I can hear in a double blind test, I'm worried about what most people can't.
After 70 comments Roderick approached the comments page with excitement, for he had immediately come up with a witty, +5 FUNNY comment for the Gameboy Advance tongue controller story. Oh it was brilliant, so obvious and so incredibly witty
He paused a moment, silently making a prayer that nobody had thought of the "pR0n" implications for such a device, cackling with the sheer thought of the accolades raining down upon him he assured himself that he would be first to that punch.
Scrolling down the filthy cackle was replaced by a dismayed groan. 70 Demoralising comments regarding cunnalingus later he sighed and resigned himself to tell the harrowing story of how he was not as "original" as he had thought.
In the immortal words of Heath Ledger "Such is life"
Oh please, what a tired argument to make. Maybe we should just do away with all forms of scientific measurement and just go with how we feel all the time because after all, we're the ones that have to live with the consequences!
Fact of the matter is that THE EARS DON'T WORK WELL and in the realm of trying to quantify which codec is "better" at X bitrate we have to turn to scientific measurement if we want to draw any conclusions that can be trusted.
Any frequency plot tells me an infinite amount more than a double blind listening test where the results are not conclusive whatsoever. Ear tests are flawed when people do not know what to listen for. Unless there are say twice as many people saying this codec is better than that codec it is unlikely that you can draw much stock in the results.
Every person is different, some may be musicians and focus on one particular instrument, some may be completely inexperienced and have no idea what to look for or what a real snare is supposed to sound like. Like I said, personal deviation will ruin the test.
As for killing the frequencies what is your point, you're just talking about increasing resolution at other frequencies due to more bandwidth available. What is your point. My point was that due to this filtration at 128 it is very easy for me to tell due to this rolloff (I can hear quite high). I'm not complaining its there, I'm just saying some people say they can't detect difference between 128 and say CD.
I would trust say a group of sound engineers with very acute senses of what to look for (and hopefully knowledge of the psychoacoustic models of each of the codecs) but true tests will encompass all methods and used qualified sources (instrumentation, listeners etc) and that site is certainly not at the forefront of any of this.
That was proved to me years ago when I met my housemates girlfriend. She was positively festering with it. She radiated me with it so much of it that I now have a latent ability to detect dark energy within a 5m radius.
They were lagging there for a while but the benchmarks depict a good story. Looks like the opteron is going to be yet another AMD chip that is great for gaming (and most other things). Hopefully a cheaper price than the p4's will really contribute to yet another dominating year for AMD.
To a bargain bin near you. (There seriously should be a department for this type of thing).
You've linked a listening test. Its extremely debatable whether frequency based tests are better than listening tests. Apples and oranges.
For one thing the frequency tests show quite well the relative rolloff at the end of the audible spectrum which is a very key factor in the sound sounding crisp. (128 to me is easy to spot)
Furthermore the variety in the quality of the listeners ability to discern detail in audio will completely skewer the results - many people cannot even tell between 128 and CD let alone discern between relative codecs.
Slashdot | AAC vs OGG vs MP3
Gracious me he must be a tool of satan. wThe man is spending money on bandwidth to provide gamers with copyrighted screenshots. He deserves a pat on the back and a slap on the wrist. Sort of a yin yang punishment.
Undoubtedly there are moral issues surrounding it, but that is the benefit of being an impartial outsider. That and the fact that I think anybody who values winning so much that they will spend lots of money on it deserves to have that wish granted. I mean what type of pointless life must you be living if this is important so much that you are prepared to spend big money on winning? I say everybody deserves some happiness after all.
I think its hilarious that you can do things like this and I am totally against banning it. I just love the fact that people are so desperate to win the game that they will resort to paying for the priveledge of increased standing. Its great to see that there is a forum for these poor silly fools to come and waste their money. Thing of it this way, if they don't have the option to sell your characters then we may see armed robbery for theft of game characters. People really are that stupid. As Leary would have put it, they are clearly futants.
There goes my hopes for the return of Quantum Leap :)
Fair enough, I have always been cautious of bundled titles due to the fact they are generally weak if they are required to be bundled with each other to comprise of value enough for the price of a regular released game. I guess in terms of marketing there is no real winning solution for everybody though.
Why not just offer standalone at cheaper price? Thats probably what the XBOX versions will be marketed as.
Why people should hold off on buying DVD burners. You get burnt if you buy early.
Furthermore that article is poorly written with little to no cohesiveness to it atall. You don't seem to address much atall other than the fact that you have had an ok time with paypal. Why is suprising that a site that condemns a poor service takes the time to advertise another? Like I said, look into the history of that site and I think you will find it wasn't always like that, it was not established to generate income. Why do you have a problem with them generating revenue to pay for the site?