The only reason you really have that many speakers in a movie theater is because, well...it's big! I think 10 speakers is really the max for a home theater, and even that for the people who can devote a room to just a theater. My perfect sound setup would be a center, 2 front, 2 mid, 2 back, 1 directly behind, and 1 pointing down from the cieling. So that gives you pretty much full surround sound, as not much tends to happen below people in movies.
For the average joe though I think 7.1 is pretty good, considering most people tend to get the cheapest speakers they can get, usually those ones that come with the theater packages, $199 for 7 speakers. I think the amount of speakers is less important than quality. I would rather be stuck in stereo with two very high quality speakers, than surround sound with 7 crappy ones.
I can understand the underlying concept of the fraud, but your social security number is linked to your name, atleast in New York state. I can guess you can change the address to where the check is sent to, but it seems hard.
1)Most states won't send unemployment checks out of state without some extra paperwork, with more authorization.
2)The computers will most likely pick up the fact that 100 checks are being sent to the same address. I had an issue once when I was collecting unemployment at the same time my father was, living in the same house. They don't send checks to P.O. Boxes either, so you cannot setup 100 different addresses.
3)The name on the check will be the name of the of the unemployment recipient. Banks won't cash checks under different names without id. So now you're creating 100 fake id's, opening up bank accounts, and you have to go to 100 different banks, or you risk someone recognizing you cashign checks under different names.
Seems awfully risky to me, with a lot of variables that can go wrong. Probably easier to just rob the people when they cash their checks and leave the bank.
I'll just go to the zoo and taunt the monkeys. Eventually they'll throw some feces at my face, and I already have the same effect of the new Star Wars flying at me in 3D.
What would happen if even a small percentage of those people, figured, "Hey lemme get some free stuff outta this." They all started maxxing out their credit cards and when the bill came said, "No sir, my cards been in my wallet the whole time."
The credit card company knows that card number likely was comprimised, but thinkg you may be the one who charged the goods, they have no way to prove it though. Imagine if even 4 million people did that.
I still use mine for encryption purposes. When I need to encrypt something I use the output from a scanned barcode from an item in my house. The output is great because it's a large digit output with many numbers, letters, dots at different lower and uppercases.
So..let me get this strait, this group had this bank make a linux card and I assume a percentage of the proceeds went to this organization. Well, I hereby want to announce I will be working with Capital One to bring you/.'ers the "NightWulf Card". Every purchase you make on this card, allows a certain percentage of funds to be diverted to me...NightWulf. The perks on this card will be great, you'll get full free access to nightwulf.capitalone.com, where you get to see me: 1)Drive my new Bentley. 2)Sail my new Yacht. 3)Live in my new mansion. 3)Sleep with my many supermodel girlfriends.
All for the low APR of 22% with an annual fee of $49/yr.
It's true, I put in a few hours of WoW a day in, and i'm up to 10000 gold pieces. When i'm ready to retire, with Gold at over $480 an ounce, Whooooo i'll be rolling in the dough. How can I go wrong? All I need to do is contact this Blizzard company, they must be a brokerage of some sort.
Woot, While I was chillaxing with my peeps, avoiding eating the snirt. We were phoncrastinating until my buddy John called. So I pwned him by hanging up after discussing the fact that i'm so confuzzled about the ginormous lack of english comprehension!
I'm reading the articles mentioning that they have been issued two patents, but is there anything tangible to these patents. So they have a working 850GB DVD using nanotech, or is this just another patent for tech that *could* be made in 2025.
Yeah Blizzard, they were cute the first few times, but it's getting tiresome now. Other companies don't seem to have an issue of getting good games out within 2 years, let alone the 5 it takes you. Yet where is Starcraft 2? I'm sure when it's announced in 2006 my grandkids will just be getting it in 2056.
I forgot where I read the review but I remember something they said, "Revenge of the Sith is better than it's two previous counterparts, but only in a way that dying in your sleep is preferrable to death by crucifiction."
That's what is confusing me too, this is just WAY too good to be a fake. We're not talking photoshopped mockups here, this would take even a group of people A LOT of time to do, and even then seems like a lot of trouble to go and you don't even spread it around to a lot of places. The only thing I can think of is maybe a company used i as a demo reel type thing in order to get a contract from Nintendo? I would think no company would risk faking this and releasing it due to lawyers.
It does seem like a lot of hardware to push on us in 2005-2006, but hey Nintendo does have an assload of money, and they may feel this is their last chance. Notice in this video they have it outputting to moniter and tv, and input gamecube, and a box with ?, they announced backward compatibility of GC, perhaps that's the Gameboy Revolution?
I hate to threadjack, but can anyone verify if the Nintendo ON video is real or fake? It's production values seem quite high for someone with too much time. If it's true, the new system will be virtual reality, proximity sensing. Neato.
"The image acquisition will be done throughout 2005 and use the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer" So if they want to create the sharpest map, wouldn't it be best to use the High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer? Duh....
Your idea is a sound one, and one that would work quite well. The reason it won't be enacted is because:
A)It's TOO smart to do.
B)You would be giving too much power to us peons.
C)Then Timothy, Roland and the rest of the ensemble couldn't pay/get paid to put up articles which are basically plugs and advertisements. After all...there's money to be made!
They're probably simply afraid whatever they do have might be blown away by the PS3 and Xbox Next. I think Nintendo is running out of ideas as the other companies are getting developers who make platform games as well as Nintendo. Sony has it's Square and Rockstar. Microsoft has Rare and Bungie. Nintendo has well...Nintendo. Sure Nintendo has made some amazing games in the past, but they're starting to feel their age. Plus their incessent insistance that "mature" games be not included on their consoles, which are always delayed to the point that the hardware is behind what is currently out.
The N64, which was originally the Dolphin, then the Ultra 64 was delayed almost two years. The Gamecube was delayed as well. Now we're seeing the possibility of an Xbox release this year, a possible PS3 release in Japan end of this year/early next, and Nintendo hoping to get the console out by end of 2006. If it's not delayed again. Then they release the DS, and now the Gameboy Revolution planned. The DS was a quickly made half-assed portable to beat the PSP to market.
Don't get me wrong, I used to be a huge Nintendo fan. I always thought they were pioneers, but they're becoming that old dinosaur of the industry that's only still around because the brand name itself has some intrinsic value.
This reminds me of that episode of the Twilight Zone, where this block is having a block party, and then they believe the world is going to end with an attack from Russia. The entire episode revolves around the fact that one family has a bunker, and the other neighbors on the block start fighting to get in. Eventually comparing how they should survive over anyone else. The key to having a bunker is to not tell a soul, keep it from the family too if it's at all possible, so no risk of your kids blabbing it.
These faux 3D moniters sound nice and all, but I can't really see the big use of it. In specialized ways like the examples stated they sound good, but for games and regular applications it's probably useless. We're not talking holograms here, it's just basically what you see on a cheezy 3D film just without the glasses. I'm more intrested in the day when digital paper is cheap and effective. Imagine layering a room with this, and getting images on all 6 sides, and playign things such as an FPS, or RPG. Even adapting movies and such would be quite useful.
Uhhh last summer or so when I bought my Apple iPod, the 4th gen one it stopped responding about 20 minutes after I got it and charged it up. I called up Apple since I ordered from them and told them the problem. After being walked through their procedures they told me to send it back, if they can't repair it, they'll give me a refurbished unit, but since the 4th gen was new my "chances" of getting a new unit back was good. When I paid $300 for a new product that worked for 20 minutes before breaking, to be told if they can't fix their bad product i'll get a refurbished unit was appalling. Had to spend days going up Apple's ladder to get someone to guarentee me a new unit. When this iPod finally goes kaput, there won't be another iPod in sight. Apple had their chance with me and it was a horrible experiance.
A couple of months ago, I was approached with an interesting offer by an affluent company from California. After thinking carefully, we've decided to take them up on their offer. My fetish for gadgets is well puplicised through this blog, and I think this offer will help me finally get those gadgets I've been coveting for so long.
That's right, i'm selling my popular newsite Slashdot for $30k. There's nothing sinister about this. The company really liked the website, and they said there wouldn't be as many repeats, dupes and Roland Piquepaille articles . I hear $30 grand is a really good number these days for this quality.
So help me out: what would be a good swag of gadgets to get hold of for US$30,000? Here's my initial wish-list:
* A dictionary to learn how to properly spell.
* Some kind of anti-bias machine. Maybe Microsoft makes one.
* An anti-duping machine.
* A vaccine for my Apple Fever. And not the one that attacked my lower intestine that summer of 76.
Slashdot Mirror
The only reason you really have that many speakers in a movie theater is because, well...it's big! I think 10 speakers is really the max for a home theater, and even that for the people who can devote a room to just a theater. My perfect sound setup would be a center, 2 front, 2 mid, 2 back, 1 directly behind, and 1 pointing down from the cieling. So that gives you pretty much full surround sound, as not much tends to happen below people in movies.
For the average joe though I think 7.1 is pretty good, considering most people tend to get the cheapest speakers they can get, usually those ones that come with the theater packages, $199 for 7 speakers. I think the amount of speakers is less important than quality. I would rather be stuck in stereo with two very high quality speakers, than surround sound with 7 crappy ones.
I can understand the underlying concept of the fraud, but your social security number is linked to your name, atleast in New York state. I can guess you can change the address to where the check is sent to, but it seems hard.
1)Most states won't send unemployment checks out of state without some extra paperwork, with more authorization.
2)The computers will most likely pick up the fact that 100 checks are being sent to the same address. I had an issue once when I was collecting unemployment at the same time my father was, living in the same house. They don't send checks to P.O. Boxes either, so you cannot setup 100 different addresses.
3)The name on the check will be the name of the of the unemployment recipient. Banks won't cash checks under different names without id. So now you're creating 100 fake id's, opening up bank accounts, and you have to go to 100 different banks, or you risk someone recognizing you cashign checks under different names.
Seems awfully risky to me, with a lot of variables that can go wrong. Probably easier to just rob the people when they cash their checks and leave the bank.
No NYC is Gotham, I think Chicago is supposed to be Metropolis.
I'll just go to the zoo and taunt the monkeys. Eventually they'll throw some feces at my face, and I already have the same effect of the new Star Wars flying at me in 3D.
Concluded Bigger Genitals makes Happier People.
What would happen if even a small percentage of those people, figured, "Hey lemme get some free stuff outta this." They all started maxxing out their credit cards and when the bill came said, "No sir, my cards been in my wallet the whole time."
The credit card company knows that card number likely was comprimised, but thinkg you may be the one who charged the goods, they have no way to prove it though. Imagine if even 4 million people did that.
I still use mine for encryption purposes. When I need to encrypt something I use the output from a scanned barcode from an item in my house. The output is great because it's a large digit output with many numbers, letters, dots at different lower and uppercases.
So..let me get this strait, this group had this bank make a linux card and I assume a percentage of the proceeds went to this organization. Well, I hereby want to announce I will be working with Capital One to bring you /.'ers the "NightWulf Card". Every purchase you make on this card, allows a certain percentage of funds to be diverted to me...NightWulf. The perks on this card will be great, you'll get full free access to nightwulf.capitalone.com, where you get to see me:
1)Drive my new Bentley.
2)Sail my new Yacht.
3)Live in my new mansion.
3)Sleep with my many supermodel girlfriends.
All for the low APR of 22% with an annual fee of $49/yr.
What about the DWARF and GNOME vulnerabilities though? Eh where's your answer now Greg?
It's true, I put in a few hours of WoW a day in, and i'm up to 10000 gold pieces. When i'm ready to retire, with Gold at over $480 an ounce, Whooooo i'll be rolling in the dough. How can I go wrong? All I need to do is contact this Blizzard company, they must be a brokerage of some sort.
Woot, While I was chillaxing with my peeps, avoiding eating the snirt. We were phoncrastinating until my buddy John called. So I pwned him by hanging up after discussing the fact that i'm so confuzzled about the ginormous lack of english comprehension!
I'm reading the articles mentioning that they have been issued two patents, but is there anything tangible to these patents. So they have a working 850GB DVD using nanotech, or is this just another patent for tech that *could* be made in 2025.
Yeah Blizzard, they were cute the first few times, but it's getting tiresome now. Other companies don't seem to have an issue of getting good games out within 2 years, let alone the 5 it takes you. Yet where is Starcraft 2? I'm sure when it's announced in 2006 my grandkids will just be getting it in 2056.
I forgot where I read the review but I remember something they said, "Revenge of the Sith is better than it's two previous counterparts, but only in a way that dying in your sleep is preferrable to death by crucifiction."
http://media.cube.ign.com/articles/615/615030/img
Pictures of the Zelda trailer
http://cube.ign.com/articles/615/615045p1.html
It does seem like a lot of hardware to push on us in 2005-2006, but hey Nintendo does have an assload of money, and they may feel this is their last chance. Notice in this video they have it outputting to moniter and tv, and input gamecube, and a box with ?, they announced backward compatibility of GC, perhaps that's the Gameboy Revolution?
torrent link is here: http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=293150
"The image acquisition will be done throughout 2005 and use the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer" So if they want to create the sharpest map, wouldn't it be best to use the High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer? Duh....
When you search for 666, you get it in the 2,440th place. Which can only mean...the world will end in the year 2440!!
A)It's TOO smart to do.
B)You would be giving too much power to us peons.
C)Then Timothy, Roland and the rest of the ensemble couldn't pay/get paid to put up articles which are basically plugs and advertisements. After all...there's money to be made!
The N64, which was originally the Dolphin, then the Ultra 64 was delayed almost two years. The Gamecube was delayed as well. Now we're seeing the possibility of an Xbox release this year, a possible PS3 release in Japan end of this year/early next, and Nintendo hoping to get the console out by end of 2006. If it's not delayed again. Then they release the DS, and now the Gameboy Revolution planned. The DS was a quickly made half-assed portable to beat the PSP to market.
Don't get me wrong, I used to be a huge Nintendo fan. I always thought they were pioneers, but they're becoming that old dinosaur of the industry that's only still around because the brand name itself has some intrinsic value.
This reminds me of that episode of the Twilight Zone, where this block is having a block party, and then they believe the world is going to end with an attack from Russia. The entire episode revolves around the fact that one family has a bunker, and the other neighbors on the block start fighting to get in. Eventually comparing how they should survive over anyone else. The key to having a bunker is to not tell a soul, keep it from the family too if it's at all possible, so no risk of your kids blabbing it.
These faux 3D moniters sound nice and all, but I can't really see the big use of it. In specialized ways like the examples stated they sound good, but for games and regular applications it's probably useless. We're not talking holograms here, it's just basically what you see on a cheezy 3D film just without the glasses. I'm more intrested in the day when digital paper is cheap and effective. Imagine layering a room with this, and getting images on all 6 sides, and playign things such as an FPS, or RPG. Even adapting movies and such would be quite useful.
Uhhh last summer or so when I bought my Apple iPod, the 4th gen one it stopped responding about 20 minutes after I got it and charged it up. I called up Apple since I ordered from them and told them the problem. After being walked through their procedures they told me to send it back, if they can't repair it, they'll give me a refurbished unit, but since the 4th gen was new my "chances" of getting a new unit back was good. When I paid $300 for a new product that worked for 20 minutes before breaking, to be told if they can't fix their bad product i'll get a refurbished unit was appalling. Had to spend days going up Apple's ladder to get someone to guarentee me a new unit. When this iPod finally goes kaput, there won't be another iPod in sight. Apple had their chance with me and it was a horrible experiance.
A couple of months ago, I was approached with an interesting offer by an affluent company from California. After thinking carefully, we've decided to take them up on their offer. My fetish for gadgets is well puplicised through this blog, and I think this offer will help me finally get those gadgets I've been coveting for so long.
That's right, i'm selling my popular newsite Slashdot for $30k. There's nothing sinister about this. The company really liked the website, and they said there wouldn't be as many repeats, dupes and Roland Piquepaille articles . I hear $30 grand is a really good number these days for this quality.
So help me out: what would be a good swag of gadgets to get hold of for US$30,000? Here's my initial wish-list:
* A dictionary to learn how to properly spell.
* Some kind of anti-bias machine. Maybe Microsoft makes one.
* An anti-duping machine.
* A vaccine for my Apple Fever. And not the one that attacked my lower intestine that summer of 76.
* Maybe a realdoll.