Ok, let me make sure I'm reading this correctly... You are currently using VHS, and the picture quality bothers you, but DVD artifacts bother you MORE? Did I read that right? DVD artifacts and pixelation bother you so much you won't leave VHS?
I'm not going to type anymore about this, that is just sbsurd.
Can you show me an example of a union that isn't corrupt??
Can you show me a unionized company that is *more* corrupt than a non-unionized one? I can't. Chummyness, favoritism, ass-kissing, nepotism, and all that good stuff happen *just as often* in non-unionized companies. I've been passed over for promotion at least a dozen times in favor of the lazier, dumber, more ignorant person, simply because they kiss a little butt now and again.
what happens when an employer genuinely fucks over its employees? are unions bad then, or are they a good thing? I vote good. What happens when a company is facing bankruptcy or recievership or something fatal? I've been in a union that actually as a whole, agreed to work without pay (and without repayment) for two weeks to save the company enough money to stay afloat. That two weeks saved our jobs and the company's life. That union wasn't bad, was it? We had the management removed and new management installed and things flourished. Turns out that the non-union management were far more corrupt than even Enron execs, in their own way.
to say that all unions are bad is equivalent to saying that all people are bad. Or saying that all dogs have rabies. It just doesn't work.
I'm pro union, and you can't change my mind. I know the facts and I know what its like to be in a union.
Let me emphasize this: HIGH QUALITY!! This is BY FAR the most important issue for me. I swear if I hear another 128k MP3 labelled "CD-Quality" I'm going to scream and kick and kill my all of my fish.
When talking MP3, 128kbps is NOT CD quality, no matter what encoder you use. Downloads in Ogg format would also be very nice. A lossless codec would be even better. Anything not lossless that calls itself "CD-Quality" is flat-out bogus.
So, put HIGH QUALITY files up, open formats like Ogg, and FLAC, as well as mp3, lossless files if you have the bandwidth/disk capacity, and as others have mentioned, LOTS of pictures, videos, and things like that. Extra stuff. People that like a band enough to buy a CD are usually VERY interested in just about everything and everyone surrounding the band. I am, anyway. Foo Fighters had it right when they included the bonus DVD with their "All For One" release. Take that idea and triple it.
Also, let people re-download their music freely if they've paid. Put that info in their account details so if their computer crashes they don't have to email you and cause everyone a big headache to get their music back. oversights like this can ruin the legitimate online music download market, so DON'T skip it.
stop drinking coffee, pepsi, and coca-cola, and your teeth will whiten on their own.
the problem is that most people don't want to get rid of the things in their lives that cause problems, and elect to fix the effects rather than the problem itself.
stop drinking and eating things that stain your teeth, and they won't be yellow anymore. simple as that.
Shouldn't the NY Times simply tell Google not to cache their site?
You do realize that this is probably the basis of the "talks" that are going on, right? C|Net (as per usual for them and every news agency) is making a big deal of it to get themselves and their advertisers that tiny wee bit more of attention. Every little bit helps i guess.
when i worked for a company that was bought by a larger company, i thought everything was daisies. yay, we were promised more money, large lumps of vacation time, and other assorted goodies, but the day after we were bought, we were laid off. no warning, no apologies, no severance, nothing.
if you're willing to sell your loyalty to someone with the money, make sure you get to keep your job afterwards. that's my advice.
wrong. unions were created to keep the employers from fucking over the employees, which they would do if they could get away with it.
henry ford wouldn't even let his workers talk to each other during a break. it is for reasons like this that unions were formed. Child labor is another example of what a company will do if left unchecked. in the US in the '30s, one child died in the US per day during one of their 18 hour shifts. They weren't even allowed bathroom breaks, but were told to sit over the grate in the floor. all of my examples are very old because these were pre-union times. you don't hear of these things nowadays because of labor laws (that unions helped create) and minimum wage laws (that unions helped create).
Everyone in the country knows that every time a minimum wage hike is drafted into a bill, that every company in the entire country screams bloody murder, but if it weren't for unions, and the effort they put into minimum wage laws (and lets not forget democrats who attempt to push minimum wage rates up constantly), we'd all be working at $0.65 an hour (even college educated folks) and we'd be goddamned happy about it or we'd be out on our asses, jobless.
anyone that thinks unions are organized crime should go live in a country where unions are outlawed. you will QUICKLY learn the value of a union.
Yes, some push their weight around too much, but don't judge the entire union workforce based on a couple of corrupt unions.
halon is un-breathable. this means that if someone is in the house when the system releases its gas, that that person/animal is dead. it starves the air of oxygen.
I wouldn't do it.
the best prevention is to simply watch what the heck is going on with all the electrical stuff in your house and to simply not be careless. sure, all fires aren't preventable, but 99.999% are. Insurance and a good data backup solution will take care of the rest.
... when you limit the tools you allow yourself to use.
if you allow yourself to use every new effect, every sound stage technique, every actor that all the money in the world can buy, you hem yourself in.
its the small budget films that use a very strict set of rules (thusly forcing themselves to exploit those rules far more than someone that can simply add a cgi effect) that are the most creative, the most original, and the most entertaining.
If you limit your tools when making a movie, you can make a greater movie. that's my opinion anyway.
The White Stripes' "Elephant" was recorded on gear that was old before The Beatles landed in America - have a listen to that album, and you'll see what I mean. Forcing yourself to work with a 4 track mixer instead of a 64 track mixer will force you to think of ways to deal with them. Ways that sound great, and that you never would have thought of if you'd only had that extra track to mix in (not to mention record in) at the time.
You don't seriously believe that they haven't thought of that do you? Its not hard at all to put checking code in to eliminate the possibility of an overflow. I'm sure nintendo has written such code and has used it here.
Not everyone is lazy enough to leave their code open to exploit.
While working at Yahoo! in Sydney, Australia, I wrote an IMVironment for Y!Messenger 5.0 that translated American English to Australian English. "Hello" = "G'day" etc. Many translations were more complicated than that, and I even wrote several phrases in there. I had a grammar checker sketched out in there, to allow it to do translations that I didn't specifically make it aware of, but I got transitioned to desktop support and kitchen cleaner before that stuff was finished.
OK, don't play. I like it and I'm going to keep playing it.
Since when does ANYTHING in the star wars universe make sense anyway? Sounds in space? the force? light sabers? aliens? talking robots? robots in general? none of it is based on anything even remotely believable.
Go back to your ultra real Warcraft or Diablo. Or Quake. or Unreal tournament. or Everquest.
Hey for flight games (flight sim 2004 comes out in less than a month) a force feedback joystick is almost essential - FS2002 (and none of its predecessors) worked well AT ALL with just a keyboard and mouse.
I'm going to buy two force feedbacks just so i know i'll always have one for the flight sim stuff.
As a former resident of Carbondale I can tell you that the area is pretty much a horror story in every day life anyway. It will be nice to walk into that damn art store and slaughter everyone inside whenever i feel like it though.
incorrect. you just haven't the skill to take advantage of the game. i know a LOT of people who say this and they all say it for one reason: SWG isn't Everquest in space.
It was never promised as such, yet everyone felt it would be this.
I say its a great game, I play it often and I love it.
True, but it is the LZW compression scheme that just outlived its patent. I doubt it would make a music compression scheme that could compete with FLAC or MonkeyAudio, but who knows. write a plugin and try it.
that's how you get precedents. you weasel your ass into places that people can't give you your just deserves, then claim that "if i was wrong they would have stopped me."
hopefully someone somewhere is cooking up some ideas of revenge using these same rules.
Mayor Daley bulldozed this in the middle of the night, with police protection to stop protestors. He said at the time he took the field down because of Homeland Security concerns. (expect this excuse for every fucking dirty thing for twenty years, btw) This is AFTER he promised to keep the airport open for 25 more years. After he promised never to shut down because of homeland security. He later admitted that it wasn't for homeland security (who knew!) but because he wanted to build a freaking park.
he used bogus claims of people traffic to help his case, and these numbers have all been proven to be VERY grossly inflated (by something like 20,000%).
He lied to the people of Chicago about what he was going to do.
why don't you spend that time making money to spend on a faster processor? If you're not overclocking why even bother? Just put the damn pc out in the garage if noise is the concern.
you'd have better cooling if you ran a bunch of pipe in the ground - the ground stays the same temp year 'round (within one degree F if you go more than about three feet down, 53F, about 12C) so just dig a one foot wide hole, about 5 feet down, and put a big coil of tubing down there. run water through it, and huzaah! cooler than this guy. or just adjust one of them new fangled air conditioner things so that instead of air running over the cooling coils, you run water over them, and run that water through a system like this guy's. then OVERCLOCK the thing and make it worthwhile.
you could save yourself a lot of money for a new processor if you ran some pipe up on your roof, and put that into your water heater. preheated water is FAR cheaper to keep hot, and you'll never run out of warm water at least, not on a sunny day anyway. use the money you save to power the air conditioner solution that no one has done yet, and keep your processor actively cool, not just passively cool. or, just stick the whole PC in the fridge. wrap it in plastic (or submerse it in a non-conductive liquid that doesn't freeze in the deep-freeze) to keep the bad moisture out and enjoy a pc that's colder yet.
progress. eventually perl5 will not be enough for everyone. one could argue that that time has already arrived.
besides i want to learn perl 6. who cares if perl 5 does everything i need already. perl 6 will be a new way to do it and i'm quite ready for that new route.
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.. animations don't mutate, its the program that mutates and represents its new self with animation.
Right now Kirby's Airride is it.
yeah i agree.
Ok, let me make sure I'm reading this correctly... You are currently using VHS, and the picture quality bothers you, but DVD artifacts bother you MORE? Did I read that right? DVD artifacts and pixelation bother you so much you won't leave VHS?
I'm not going to type anymore about this, that is just sbsurd.
Can you show me an example of a union that isn't corrupt??
Can you show me a unionized company that is *more* corrupt than a non-unionized one? I can't. Chummyness, favoritism, ass-kissing, nepotism, and all that good stuff happen *just as often* in non-unionized companies. I've been passed over for promotion at least a dozen times in favor of the lazier, dumber, more ignorant person, simply because they kiss a little butt now and again.
what happens when an employer genuinely fucks over its employees? are unions bad then, or are they a good thing? I vote good. What happens when a company is facing bankruptcy or recievership or something fatal? I've been in a union that actually as a whole, agreed to work without pay (and without repayment) for two weeks to save the company enough money to stay afloat. That two weeks saved our jobs and the company's life. That union wasn't bad, was it? We had the management removed and new management installed and things flourished. Turns out that the non-union management were far more corrupt than even Enron execs, in their own way.
to say that all unions are bad is equivalent to saying that all people are bad. Or saying that all dogs have rabies. It just doesn't work.
I'm pro union, and you can't change my mind. I know the facts and I know what its like to be in a union.
unions aren't bad.
no kidding. what do you think "prepare" means?
High quality vbr mp3s
Let me emphasize this: HIGH QUALITY!! This is BY FAR the most important issue for me. I swear if I hear another 128k MP3 labelled "CD-Quality" I'm going to scream and kick and kill my all of my fish.
When talking MP3, 128kbps is NOT CD quality, no matter what encoder you use. Downloads in Ogg format would also be very nice. A lossless codec would be even better. Anything not lossless that calls itself "CD-Quality" is flat-out bogus.
So, put HIGH QUALITY files up, open formats like Ogg, and FLAC, as well as mp3, lossless files if you have the bandwidth/disk capacity, and as others have mentioned, LOTS of pictures, videos, and things like that. Extra stuff. People that like a band enough to buy a CD are usually VERY interested in just about everything and everyone surrounding the band. I am, anyway. Foo Fighters had it right when they included the bonus DVD with their "All For One" release. Take that idea and triple it.
Also, let people re-download their music freely if they've paid. Put that info in their account details so if their computer crashes they don't have to email you and cause everyone a big headache to get their music back. oversights like this can ruin the legitimate online music download market, so DON'T skip it.
stop drinking coffee, pepsi, and coca-cola, and your teeth will whiten on their own.
the problem is that most people don't want to get rid of the things in their lives that cause problems, and elect to fix the effects rather than the problem itself.
stop drinking and eating things that stain your teeth, and they won't be yellow anymore. simple as that.
you'll save money, too.
Shouldn't the NY Times simply tell Google not to cache their site?
You do realize that this is probably the basis of the "talks" that are going on, right? C|Net (as per usual for them and every news agency) is making a big deal of it to get themselves and their advertisers that tiny wee bit more of attention. Every little bit helps i guess.
Check http://nytimes.com/robots.txt in a week.
when i worked for a company that was bought by a larger company, i thought everything was daisies. yay, we were promised more money, large lumps of vacation time, and other assorted goodies, but the day after we were bought, we were laid off. no warning, no apologies, no severance, nothing.
if you're willing to sell your loyalty to someone with the money, make sure you get to keep your job afterwards. that's my advice.
wrong. unions were created to keep the employers from fucking over the employees, which they would do if they could get away with it.
henry ford wouldn't even let his workers talk to each other during a break. it is for reasons like this that unions were formed. Child labor is another example of what a company will do if left unchecked. in the US in the '30s, one child died in the US per day during one of their 18 hour shifts. They weren't even allowed bathroom breaks, but were told to sit over the grate in the floor. all of my examples are very old because these were pre-union times. you don't hear of these things nowadays because of labor laws (that unions helped create) and minimum wage laws (that unions helped create).
Everyone in the country knows that every time a minimum wage hike is drafted into a bill, that every company in the entire country screams bloody murder, but if it weren't for unions, and the effort they put into minimum wage laws (and lets not forget democrats who attempt to push minimum wage rates up constantly), we'd all be working at $0.65 an hour (even college educated folks) and we'd be goddamned happy about it or we'd be out on our asses, jobless.
anyone that thinks unions are organized crime should go live in a country where unions are outlawed. you will QUICKLY learn the value of a union.
Yes, some push their weight around too much, but don't judge the entire union workforce based on a couple of corrupt unions.
halon is un-breathable. this means that if someone is in the house when the system releases its gas, that that person/animal is dead. it starves the air of oxygen.
I wouldn't do it.
the best prevention is to simply watch what the heck is going on with all the electrical stuff in your house and to simply not be careless. sure, all fires aren't preventable, but 99.999% are. Insurance and a good data backup solution will take care of the rest.
Back in school we always had a saying, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes."
unless you went to school in the late '60s or early '70s, you copied it from someone else.
i know you're younger than me, and I went to college in the mid-nineties. We didn't say that.
We said "never underestimate the power of magnetism of a beach house and three kegs."
... when you limit the tools you allow yourself to use.
if you allow yourself to use every new effect, every sound stage technique, every actor that all the money in the world can buy, you hem yourself in.
its the small budget films that use a very strict set of rules (thusly forcing themselves to exploit those rules far more than someone that can simply add a cgi effect) that are the most creative, the most original, and the most entertaining.
If you limit your tools when making a movie, you can make a greater movie. that's my opinion anyway.
The White Stripes' "Elephant" was recorded on gear that was old before The Beatles landed in America - have a listen to that album, and you'll see what I mean. Forcing yourself to work with a 4 track mixer instead of a 64 track mixer will force you to think of ways to deal with them. Ways that sound great, and that you never would have thought of if you'd only had that extra track to mix in (not to mention record in) at the time.
You don't seriously believe that they haven't thought of that do you? Its not hard at all to put checking code in to eliminate the possibility of an overflow. I'm sure nintendo has written such code and has used it here.
Not everyone is lazy enough to leave their code open to exploit.
While working at Yahoo! in Sydney, Australia, I wrote an IMVironment for Y!Messenger 5.0 that translated American English to Australian English. "Hello" = "G'day" etc. Many translations were more complicated than that, and I even wrote several phrases in there. I had a grammar checker sketched out in there, to allow it to do translations that I didn't specifically make it aware of, but I got transitioned to desktop support and kitchen cleaner before that stuff was finished.
.bomb.
ahh the joys of working during the
OK, don't play. I like it and I'm going to keep playing it.
Since when does ANYTHING in the star wars universe make sense anyway? Sounds in space? the force? light sabers? aliens? talking robots? robots in general? none of it is based on anything even remotely believable.
Go back to your ultra real Warcraft or Diablo. Or Quake. or Unreal tournament. or Everquest.
ITS A GOD DAMNED GAME DUDE CHILL OUT
Hey for flight games (flight sim 2004 comes out in less than a month) a force feedback joystick is almost essential - FS2002 (and none of its predecessors) worked well AT ALL with just a keyboard and mouse.
I'm going to buy two force feedbacks just so i know i'll always have one for the flight sim stuff.
As a former resident of Carbondale I can tell you that the area is pretty much a horror story in every day life anyway. It will be nice to walk into that damn art store and slaughter everyone inside whenever i feel like it though.
damn hippies.
SW:G overpromised, underdelivered.
incorrect. you just haven't the skill to take advantage of the game. i know a LOT of people who say this and they all say it for one reason: SWG isn't Everquest in space.
It was never promised as such, yet everyone felt it would be this.
I say its a great game, I play it often and I love it.
True, but it is the LZW compression scheme that just outlived its patent. I doubt it would make a music compression scheme that could compete with FLAC or MonkeyAudio, but who knows. write a plugin and try it.
that's how you get precedents. you weasel your ass into places that people can't give you your just deserves, then claim that "if i was wrong they would have stopped me."
hopefully someone somewhere is cooking up some ideas of revenge using these same rules.
Dudes, this isn't "+4 Funny", this is an outrage.
Mayor Daley bulldozed this in the middle of the night, with police protection to stop protestors. He said at the time he took the field down because of Homeland Security concerns. (expect this excuse for every fucking dirty thing for twenty years, btw) This is AFTER he promised to keep the airport open for 25 more years. After he promised never to shut down because of homeland security. He later admitted that it wasn't for homeland security (who knew!) but because he wanted to build a freaking park.
he used bogus claims of people traffic to help his case, and these numbers have all been proven to be VERY grossly inflated (by something like 20,000%).
He lied to the people of Chicago about what he was going to do.
He refuses to admit any wrong doing.
He can kiss why white ass.
time & effort = nothing major, apparently.
why don't you spend that time making money to spend on a faster processor? If you're not overclocking why even bother? Just put the damn pc out in the garage if noise is the concern.
you'd have better cooling if you ran a bunch of pipe in the ground - the ground stays the same temp year 'round (within one degree F if you go more than about three feet down, 53F, about 12C) so just dig a one foot wide hole, about 5 feet down, and put a big coil of tubing down there. run water through it, and huzaah! cooler than this guy. or just adjust one of them new fangled air conditioner things so that instead of air running over the cooling coils, you run water over them, and run that water through a system like this guy's. then OVERCLOCK the thing and make it worthwhile.
you could save yourself a lot of money for a new processor if you ran some pipe up on your roof, and put that into your water heater. preheated water is FAR cheaper to keep hot, and you'll never run out of warm water at least, not on a sunny day anyway. use the money you save to power the air conditioner solution that no one has done yet, and keep your processor actively cool, not just passively cool. or, just stick the whole PC in the fridge. wrap it in plastic (or submerse it in a non-conductive liquid that doesn't freeze in the deep-freeze) to keep the bad moisture out and enjoy a pc that's colder yet.
ah forget it, you do what you want.
progress. eventually perl5 will not be enough for everyone. one could argue that that time has already arrived.
besides i want to learn perl 6. who cares if perl 5 does everything i need already. perl 6 will be a new way to do it and i'm quite ready for that new route.