Each layer cannot have the same capacity due to how layers work. Every layer away from the base must have a slightly lowered capacity because of the way the laser focuses on the media. DVD-9 is not twice the capacity of DVD-5, and a third layer would make it significantly less than three times it.
HD DVD-9 is not HD-DVD. Here's a small hint for you, the numbers after DVD- of current generation tech (5 and 9) are the capacities, rounded up to the nearest integer. The amusing part of that definition there is that they talk about DVD-5 while defining HD DVD-9. See the Terminator 2 HD special edition for an example of what you're talking about, but not what the article is.
Funny, I thought when they called it the Imperial II Star Destroyer in the writeup, the class of Star Destroyer was rather clear. You know, since Imperial II is one of the classes of Star Destroyer and all. But now I'm just feeding the troll/karmawhore, so I think I'll stop.
In one of the later books (Traitor, in the latter half of the 19 book New Jedi Order Series), one of the characters who turns out to be an Old Republic Jedi from the good ol' days of slightly before the Clone Wars outset (her origin is in a prequel trilogy book) drops a bomb on an impressionable young Jedi: there is no dark side of the force. In fact, if you think about it, there really is no way to resolve the idea that an all present force that is created by life has a dark side and a light side anyway, I mean does it mean that some trees are just evil or something? The Force is described as essentially a force of nature, and forces of nature don't have their good sides and bad sides, they just are and can be seen as good or bad, or used for good or ill. It's in the hands of the wielder, not the Force to be light or dark. Of course, most of the other Jedi of this era aren't too thrilled to listen to this little revelation, but it makes Jacen Solo badass for a while whereas he'd be an angsty little boy.
You may be interested to note that its design is taken directly from a Batman comic, specifically Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns. Perhaps you've heard of it. This isn't even artistic license here, it's pulling an element from one of the most dark and gritty interpretations of the character into this new darker and grittier movie world.
Amazingly enough, our school is buying two labs full of Sun boxes with AMD chips, one with Redhat the other with JDS. Of course, that's just the computer science department, and every other computer on campus is going to be a Dell still but...
I swear I had a point here. It's a step in the right direction, but only in the sense that pouring your bottled water into the Atlantic fills the ocean up more.
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At least they didn't accuse you of credit card fraud. My account was shut down temporarily due to my bank reporting that the customer didn't recongize the purchase, resulting in a chargeback. That's all good and funny since it wasn't fraudlent and I called my bank who confirmed that the transaction is in my records, and had no chargebacks or disputes logged. I emailed valve through their channel dedicated for this sort of thing, but they never responded to me. Yesterday I decided to prove that I'm insane by perfoming the same actions and expecting a different response, and somehow it turned out to actually be different, they had restored my account. They still haven't said anything to me about their wildly inaccurate accusations that resulted in them stealing my money. Oh well, at least now the account is now usable for me to not be able to log in and play the game, instead of being able to log in but not having a working account to do it with. Oh valve....
When you say that it'd be good to have the ability to back up whatever games from Steam you want, including splitting over whatever size media you have, did you mean you want to do something like what happens when you right click on a game and then click that fancy backup item?
Yes, Xenosaga 2 is due in February, but the music isn't being done by Mitsuda. Yuki Kajiura (.hack//SIGN, Noir, Aquarian Age) took over for the latest one, and from what I've heard (the movie OST is already out), it's pretty damn excellent. Mitsuda also did the Chrono Series music (minus a few songs in Chrono Trigger that are a Uematsu done)
Actually, it's not based on Hidden Fortress that much, which is rather apparent for people who've seen it. The biggest thing Lucas lifted from the Kurosawa classic is that the story is largely told from the two lowliest characters. In the case of Hidden Fortress, it's two bickering peasants, whereas in Star Wars it's from R2 and 3PO the bickering droids. Lucas even talks about this in a commentary on the Criterion Collection DVD of Hidden Fortress.
This doesn't really negate the point that Star Wars isn't sci-fi, nor does it mean that calling fantasy a subgenre of sci-fi isn't ridiculous (I'd actually be more willing to say the opposite), but the link between Star Wars and Hidden Fortress is very overhyped.
Funny, I live in New Jersey and it'd take me two hours to get to the nearest locations, specifically those in New York City or Philladelphia. Did you even bother looking at the listings? You live very close to a city, even if it is a midwest city. People who live slightly in slightly more suburban areas will need to travel much farther to see it.
So I'll ask the same question: How the hell did that get modded up as interesting?
Ahem, have you ever thought of the most obvious place to look for buying a Gentoo CD that you can put into your 'cupholder?' Sure the install is still the usual, though from Stage 3 with GRP, it's really not that terribly difficult. No more issues with burning the iso.
So... the Gentoo CD exists, why isn't emerge a viable popular alternative?
PS: It's possible to get portage working on non-gentoo distributions, and people are working on it for the easier to install distros, giving them the ease of OS install AND application install.
And of course it was announced that FFXII will be two DVDs, so they clearly know how to expand beyond the limitations of their media. *cough*
Although, along the lines of this, can you imagine what Monolith will do to Xenosaga 4-6 with this kind of space? I fear for my life... social life.
Wait... don't have one of those. Nevermind, bring on the 2.5 years of cinema with 15 hours of gameplay, as long as the script continues to be good, and they keep letting Yuki Kajiura do the soundtrack.
I didn't know that slashbot mods would see a statement like this and think it was anything other than humor. Not that there's anything wrong with humor, but "informative?" The only way this is informative is if your life and wealth of knowledge is somehow important to the masses.
Still, it is humorous.
Actually, I'm working on an intranet site for a large pharmaceutical company that doesn't render in firefox, period. I'm far from the primary architect for the project, and I'm only a lowly summer intern, so I'm not about to go back and fix all of the errors (largely because I don't care much), but there you have it. ASP files are often the cause of these types of breakages, and it certainly is in this case (type mismatch: cint that isn't mentioned in IE) but I'm sure this isn't the only one.
So, you can call bullshit if you like, but you're wrong. Improperly designed asp sites send out crap that doesn't even approximate standards, and firefox doesn't know how to ignore the crap and just render the IIS built garbage.
You do realize that this is a direct quote from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, when Carl steals the Foreigner belt from Ignignoct in season 1 episode 8. He then proceeds to invoke the powers of "Hot Blooded," heating Ignignoct and Err and causing them to leave the pool, and subsequently Earth.
God, why am I responding to someone responding to a damn sig, espcially an AC...
There will always be a market for GOOD books in paper form.
Is 64k all the memory we'll ever need too? Eventually enough people will start to accept eBooks that they'll become extremely mainstream, and dead trees will only be used for people who really want dead trees. The result of this will be children of that generation growing up with lots of eBooks, and fewer dead trees. Eventually, the people who bought physical books will die out, leaving behind the children who see them as ancient. Sure for a while there will still be some people getting paper for the retro effect, but how often do you listen to vinyl or your 8 tracks? Not really that often I'd be willing to bet, and if I'm wrong you're a rarity. Another question, when's the last time you operated a computer where the harddrive was an additional accessory mounted where your old B: drive was when it wasn't just a logical name so DOS could handle copying floppys with one drive? Probably been a while, and far fewer people would disagree. Try showing that to your children (hypothetical children if you don't have them) and see if they don't laugh at it for being primitive.
I'm not saying this will happen soon. I'm not even suggesting that our grandchildren will be the last generation to really embrace paper books with our great grandchildren scoffing at them. Furthermore, this has nothing to do with which is better. Really, my point is just that technology always improves and is always adopted eventually, and the old ways are always looked down upon by the majority. No bets on how long it will take, but forever is a long time, so never is extremely unlikely.
Actually, you don't need the second cd-rom drive, because you don't need the Gentoo disc. Just download a stage[1/2/3] tarball from one of the mirrors to your harddrive and run from there. If you want to use GRP you're probably better off with the extra drive, but it's far from necessary (and given the shoddy hardware loading that 2004.1 did for some nforce things, see the forums, using knoppix was all but necessary.) It's really quite elegant, and I'm not sure I'd ever consider installing from a liveCD again anyway, since I happen to like reading the docs in firefox, not lynx. After all, changing the mount proc line slightly isn't exactly a big deal... but then you knew that.
In the initial version, correct. In the rereleased "International" version, yes. I never really understood that whole business, unless they just mean that it's a Japanese port of the version everyone else got, but whatever. It's actually rather standard practice to add stuff like that (bonus, mildly amusing but ultimately pointless except to say you did it) in, but changing the plot in that significant a way would be rather abnormal. They did, however, remove the credit card from the US version. Not that this has anything to do with.... what?
AT&T has no cellular service. AT&T Wireless has not been affiliated with AT&T for several years. Sadly AT&T Wireless (AWE) is doing better stockwise than the company that spawned it (T), despite Wireless looking so bad they decided to go for sale. What does that tell you about the possible future of AT&T themselves?
To give you an idea of the profit issues here, residential brought in well under half of the total revenue, while eating 70% of the expenses. Clearly, this was a sinking ship that needed to be killed. Almost half of the company's expenses (approximately $1B) were just advertising and paying for telemarketers and the like. And it wouldn't be like biting the hand that you annoy the hell out of, because all they're doing is not annoying you. If you have AT&T, service will continue. If for some reason you actually want AT&T you can sign up (my mother works there, so we get more long distance costs written off than we make, which is clearly a good reason to keep them, but your milage WILL vary). If you want to be left alone, you win too, because they're cutting most of the consumer arm off (more than half of the consumer employees are about to get two weeks notice to find a new job) so they don't even have the staff to harass you if they wanted to. It's win win for consumers really, but a losing battle for the thousands of employees getting the pink-slip.
Ahem, he's referring to the fact that someone has to fly up every two weeks to raise/lower it. Sending a rocket to the moon every two weeks since 1969 would easily be in the trillions if the the cost of the Mercury - Apollo programs totalled in the range you gave. After all, they didn't go up that often, nor for as many years as we've had since 1969 (obviously).
Also, before you jump on the fact that we don't actually go up every two weeks, I suggest you reread the grandparent with your humor detectors switched on.
I'm assuming you're speaking as a hypothetical web admin using flash on a site. However, it's not just the server's bandwidth, and talking about the server's client resources is complete nonsense. In case you meant you personally, you're right, no one cares about your bandwidth usage or your client resources. However, this isn't really the point since other people have the same extra bandwidth and resource requirements, and not everyone is going to just shrug it off like you are, which should be fairly obvious since this is a thread of people doing just that.
Mostly correct, though the reasoning is off. Using cheap, fast growing raw materials is actually VERY conducive to profit since it costs less to make your product, but you set the price wherever you want. An upstart newspaper entered the market on hemp paper, and was able to undercut the big guys since it costs next to nothing to keep growing the hemp, whereas the paper takes time and money. People were buying the cheaper papers as a result, and the big boys weren't happy. So they invented the brain damaging drug 'marijuana,' which sounds exotic and with 'scientific tests' like depriving rats of oxygen but feeding them MJ fumes they proved that it causes brain damage (the rats died, obviously). Thus the new guy was faced with either switching to wood or getting out of the buisness. Their choice is immaterial, but hemp was demonized all in the name of the almighty dollar. Way to go.
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Each layer cannot have the same capacity due to how layers work. Every layer away from the base must have a slightly lowered capacity because of the way the laser focuses on the media. DVD-9 is not twice the capacity of DVD-5, and a third layer would make it significantly less than three times it.
HD DVD-9 is not HD-DVD. Here's a small hint for you, the numbers after DVD- of current generation tech (5 and 9) are the capacities, rounded up to the nearest integer. The amusing part of that definition there is that they talk about DVD-5 while defining HD DVD-9. See the Terminator 2 HD special edition for an example of what you're talking about, but not what the article is.
Funny, I thought when they called it the Imperial II Star Destroyer in the writeup, the class of Star Destroyer was rather clear. You know, since Imperial II is one of the classes of Star Destroyer and all. But now I'm just feeding the troll/karmawhore, so I think I'll stop.
In one of the later books (Traitor, in the latter half of the 19 book New Jedi Order Series), one of the characters who turns out to be an Old Republic Jedi from the good ol' days of slightly before the Clone Wars outset (her origin is in a prequel trilogy book) drops a bomb on an impressionable young Jedi: there is no dark side of the force. In fact, if you think about it, there really is no way to resolve the idea that an all present force that is created by life has a dark side and a light side anyway, I mean does it mean that some trees are just evil or something? The Force is described as essentially a force of nature, and forces of nature don't have their good sides and bad sides, they just are and can be seen as good or bad, or used for good or ill. It's in the hands of the wielder, not the Force to be light or dark. Of course, most of the other Jedi of this era aren't too thrilled to listen to this little revelation, but it makes Jacen Solo badass for a while whereas he'd be an angsty little boy.
Earl Grey was a Briton, and his tea is therefore British. And delicious.
I know little of this humor of which you speak. Tell me more.
You may be interested to note that its design is taken directly from a Batman comic, specifically Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns. Perhaps you've heard of it. This isn't even artistic license here, it's pulling an element from one of the most dark and gritty interpretations of the character into this new darker and grittier movie world.
Amazingly enough, our school is buying two labs full of Sun boxes with AMD chips, one with Redhat the other with JDS. Of course, that's just the computer science department, and every other computer on campus is going to be a Dell still but...
I swear I had a point here. It's a step in the right direction, but only in the sense that pouring your bottled water into the Atlantic fills the ocean up more.
At least they didn't accuse you of credit card fraud. My account was shut down temporarily due to my bank reporting that the customer didn't recongize the purchase, resulting in a chargeback. That's all good and funny since it wasn't fraudlent and I called my bank who confirmed that the transaction is in my records, and had no chargebacks or disputes logged. I emailed valve through their channel dedicated for this sort of thing, but they never responded to me. Yesterday I decided to prove that I'm insane by perfoming the same actions and expecting a different response, and somehow it turned out to actually be different, they had restored my account. They still haven't said anything to me about their wildly inaccurate accusations that resulted in them stealing my money. Oh well, at least now the account is now usable for me to not be able to log in and play the game, instead of being able to log in but not having a working account to do it with. Oh valve....
When you say that it'd be good to have the ability to back up whatever games from Steam you want, including splitting over whatever size media you have, did you mean you want to do something like what happens when you right click on a game and then click that fancy backup item?
Yes, Xenosaga 2 is due in February, but the music isn't being done by Mitsuda. Yuki Kajiura (.hack//SIGN, Noir, Aquarian Age) took over for the latest one, and from what I've heard (the movie OST is already out), it's pretty damn excellent. Mitsuda also did the Chrono Series music (minus a few songs in Chrono Trigger that are a Uematsu done)
This doesn't really negate the point that Star Wars isn't sci-fi, nor does it mean that calling fantasy a subgenre of sci-fi isn't ridiculous (I'd actually be more willing to say the opposite), but the link between Star Wars and Hidden Fortress is very overhyped.
So I'll ask the same question: How the hell did that get modded up as interesting?
So... the Gentoo CD exists, why isn't emerge a viable popular alternative?
PS: It's possible to get portage working on non-gentoo distributions, and people are working on it for the easier to install distros, giving them the ease of OS install AND application install.
Although, along the lines of this, can you imagine what Monolith will do to Xenosaga 4-6 with this kind of space? I fear for my life... social life.
Wait... don't have one of those. Nevermind, bring on the 2.5 years of cinema with 15 hours of gameplay, as long as the script continues to be good, and they keep letting Yuki Kajiura do the soundtrack.
I didn't know that slashbot mods would see a statement like this and think it was anything other than humor. Not that there's anything wrong with humor, but "informative?" The only way this is informative is if your life and wealth of knowledge is somehow important to the masses. Still, it is humorous.
Actually, I'm working on an intranet site for a large pharmaceutical company that doesn't render in firefox, period. I'm far from the primary architect for the project, and I'm only a lowly summer intern, so I'm not about to go back and fix all of the errors (largely because I don't care much), but there you have it. ASP files are often the cause of these types of breakages, and it certainly is in this case (type mismatch: cint that isn't mentioned in IE) but I'm sure this isn't the only one. So, you can call bullshit if you like, but you're wrong. Improperly designed asp sites send out crap that doesn't even approximate standards, and firefox doesn't know how to ignore the crap and just render the IIS built garbage.
God, why am I responding to someone responding to a damn sig, espcially an AC...
Is 64k all the memory we'll ever need too? Eventually enough people will start to accept eBooks that they'll become extremely mainstream, and dead trees will only be used for people who really want dead trees. The result of this will be children of that generation growing up with lots of eBooks, and fewer dead trees. Eventually, the people who bought physical books will die out, leaving behind the children who see them as ancient. Sure for a while there will still be some people getting paper for the retro effect, but how often do you listen to vinyl or your 8 tracks? Not really that often I'd be willing to bet, and if I'm wrong you're a rarity. Another question, when's the last time you operated a computer where the harddrive was an additional accessory mounted where your old B: drive was when it wasn't just a logical name so DOS could handle copying floppys with one drive? Probably been a while, and far fewer people would disagree. Try showing that to your children (hypothetical children if you don't have them) and see if they don't laugh at it for being primitive.
I'm not saying this will happen soon. I'm not even suggesting that our grandchildren will be the last generation to really embrace paper books with our great grandchildren scoffing at them. Furthermore, this has nothing to do with which is better. Really, my point is just that technology always improves and is always adopted eventually, and the old ways are always looked down upon by the majority. No bets on how long it will take, but forever is a long time, so never is extremely unlikely.
Actually, you don't need the second cd-rom drive, because you don't need the Gentoo disc. Just download a stage[1/2/3] tarball from one of the mirrors to your harddrive and run from there. If you want to use GRP you're probably better off with the extra drive, but it's far from necessary (and given the shoddy hardware loading that 2004.1 did for some nforce things, see the forums, using knoppix was all but necessary.) It's really quite elegant, and I'm not sure I'd ever consider installing from a liveCD again anyway, since I happen to like reading the docs in firefox, not lynx. After all, changing the mount proc line slightly isn't exactly a big deal... but then you knew that.
In the initial version, correct. In the rereleased "International" version, yes. I never really understood that whole business, unless they just mean that it's a Japanese port of the version everyone else got, but whatever. It's actually rather standard practice to add stuff like that (bonus, mildly amusing but ultimately pointless except to say you did it) in, but changing the plot in that significant a way would be rather abnormal. They did, however, remove the credit card from the US version. Not that this has anything to do with.... what?
AT&T has no cellular service. AT&T Wireless has not been affiliated with AT&T for several years. Sadly AT&T Wireless (AWE) is doing better stockwise than the company that spawned it (T), despite Wireless looking so bad they decided to go for sale. What does that tell you about the possible future of AT&T themselves?
To give you an idea of the profit issues here, residential brought in well under half of the total revenue, while eating 70% of the expenses. Clearly, this was a sinking ship that needed to be killed. Almost half of the company's expenses (approximately $1B) were just advertising and paying for telemarketers and the like. And it wouldn't be like biting the hand that you annoy the hell out of, because all they're doing is not annoying you. If you have AT&T, service will continue. If for some reason you actually want AT&T you can sign up (my mother works there, so we get more long distance costs written off than we make, which is clearly a good reason to keep them, but your milage WILL vary). If you want to be left alone, you win too, because they're cutting most of the consumer arm off (more than half of the consumer employees are about to get two weeks notice to find a new job) so they don't even have the staff to harass you if they wanted to. It's win win for consumers really, but a losing battle for the thousands of employees getting the pink-slip.
Ahem, he's referring to the fact that someone has to fly up every two weeks to raise/lower it. Sending a rocket to the moon every two weeks since 1969 would easily be in the trillions if the the cost of the Mercury - Apollo programs totalled in the range you gave. After all, they didn't go up that often, nor for as many years as we've had since 1969 (obviously).
Also, before you jump on the fact that we don't actually go up every two weeks, I suggest you reread the grandparent with your humor detectors switched on.
I'm assuming you're speaking as a hypothetical web admin using flash on a site. However, it's not just the server's bandwidth, and talking about the server's client resources is complete nonsense. In case you meant you personally, you're right, no one cares about your bandwidth usage or your client resources. However, this isn't really the point since other people have the same extra bandwidth and resource requirements, and not everyone is going to just shrug it off like you are, which should be fairly obvious since this is a thread of people doing just that.
I'm with you on Homestar Runner though.
Mostly correct, though the reasoning is off. Using cheap, fast growing raw materials is actually VERY conducive to profit since it costs less to make your product, but you set the price wherever you want. An upstart newspaper entered the market on hemp paper, and was able to undercut the big guys since it costs next to nothing to keep growing the hemp, whereas the paper takes time and money. People were buying the cheaper papers as a result, and the big boys weren't happy. So they invented the brain damaging drug 'marijuana,' which sounds exotic and with 'scientific tests' like depriving rats of oxygen but feeding them MJ fumes they proved that it causes brain damage (the rats died, obviously). Thus the new guy was faced with either switching to wood or getting out of the buisness. Their choice is immaterial, but hemp was demonized all in the name of the almighty dollar. Way to go.