This article is in the How-To section of the PCWorld site for some reason. They should write another article called 'How to paginate a 4 page article into 20 pages to maximize your ad revenue.'
Shaw Cable vs. Telus. Same price, different wires. Anyone, rich or 'poor', as long as they are upwardly mobile poor like me who can afford a house and broadband internet, can easily choose either service.
Please stop modding this post up. There are multiple ISPs here. I have Telus phone lines into the house but I am posting this through a Shaw cable modem and down a separate set of wires.
Except for an ocasional 'too many database connections' error from their Windows server I can see the site fine.
There are already a ton of instruments that use modelling to create a variety of different sounds on the fly instead of using samples. It's a pretty interesting technology. Sort of like 3D modelling in gaming graphics except for audio. Taking into account how the sound interacts with various surfaces and that kind of thing.
...but, isn't it arrogant of him to think himself above any kind of proficiency test? Does he think he's perfect and should be hired with no showing of his actual ability?
Exactly. He is showing his actual ability but more importantly his personality. We have all worked with people who are smart, qualified to do the work and yet they are arrogant or difficult to work with. It helps to be smart but what if you can't function in a team environment or you won't follow directions or you are just plain anti-social.
I think it's fairly obvious that all of the MMORPGs are based on the same template. If they want to attract more players then they need to give up on the RPG genre and branch out into sports and other things that people might like to do.
Some people like to dress up as Elves and play D&D but how many more people belong to Motorcycle clubs or Car clubs? How many people play Golf? Lots.
Bringing the MMO game model to other interests is the way to go. Imagine a MMO Auto Racing game. There could be a persistant city you could drive around with races being held on tracks in various locations. If you have a FWD, 4 cylinder car you could go race against other people with the same style of car. Casual gamers could all afford a Civic and longtime gamers would just have a larger collection of cars. They might have a Ferarri but they could only race that car against other rear engine supercars.
For dragging around to cafes and surfing on wireless networks an obsolete notebook is perfect. Just max out the ram. So there's one machine that doesn't count on their stats.
For work I can't afford any downtime fooling around with warrantees or installing software so when my machine dies I just buy a new bare bones system as parts, transfer my disks into the new box and boot up. There's another machine that doesn't count. If they count dollars the cost of one laptop equals about 5 bare bones machines.
It's still an interesting stat though. The laptop cool factor is there for sure. Is there a cheap laptop that can plug into USB on my main machine and show up as another drive?
Nitpickers must die! Try commenting on the message instead of the delivery for once.
Correcting spelling mistakes doesn't make you look any more intellegent. It just proves that we wouldn't want to be stuck talking to you at a party, assuming that you get invited to any. (Your own birthday doesn't count.)
Isn't the school looking for students who are smart enough to work their way around a problem? They should admit everyone who was able to find their way into the system. I guess they'd rather have students who just blindly do whatever they've been told.
Perhaps a work around for Netflix would be to offer a lower quality downloadable version of any DVD that is on it's way to you.
So if you decide that you must see 'Legally Blonde' tonight, you download a 350M DivX version to your computer and the DVD copy gets locked at the top of your queue and sent out the next day. It's the same as a regular movie rental except that you get to watch the film a day or two early. Perhaps Netflix would charge a $1 premium to your account for each use to cover bandwidth costs.
Cool thanks, but I think the point was that at some time in the past Blizzard had stopped shipping copies of the game in order to deal with their server load problems. This caused a shortage in some areas. If they did this once it is possible that they will do it again.
The difference between one week after release and now is that in the days after release there were no used copies laying around like their will be now. If a shortage happens again a market for all these used games will spring up. Too bad the buyers of these used games will be out of luck.
There are only a few major game developers out there. How long until they do this for every new game? Want to bring your old PC games back to the store to trade them in for credit towards a new game. Too bad. The used PC game market is extinct.
Don't worry about it Space Cowboy. Some people just don't have the imagination to add anything interesting to the discussion. They resort to picking apart the spelling or grammar instead of understanding and commenting on the content of the post.
I can only compare this to standing in an art gallery discussing the various interpretations of a painting on the wall and having someone walk up and interrupt the conversation by saying "that painting is hung crookedly".
Ok fine. I apologize for my last two sentences. (I was just making a point, there is no need to make personal attacks.)
Now back to the actual point of my post. During a conversation on a phone you are missing all of the visual cues from the other person, as well as 50% to 60% of the audio quality at the very least. Filling in these language gaps takes much of your attention away from the road. Is this a good idea? Do you want other drivers doing the same thing?
What a red herring... You can tell the difference between MP3 and Ogg but you can't hear the difference between a live person and the audio from a cell phone?
Not to mention facial expression and body language. As you input less and less information you have to use more brain power to fill in the gaps. This is obvious. What is more obvious is that some people are willing to ignore or distort these facts so that they can keep talking on their cell phones. It's 2005. Car phones haven't been a status symbol since the '80s. Give it up.
This guy has it all wrong. The Mini-Mac is for movies but not for downloading movies, it's for home movies.
I am very happy with my current computer set up but if I wanted to start editing mini-DV footage and wanted to start making my own videos I would consider just buying the Mini-Mac. Currently I would have to buy video editing software, DVD creation software, and a firewire card or capture card or something. How much do those cost? Or I could just pick up a Mini-Mac, hook it up and plug the camera into it. It has I-Movie and I-DVD included doesn't it?
If you open up the tools then creative people will come up with interesting ideas. Most consumer cameras do not have a mechanical shutter at all. The software just reads the CCD for a fraction of a second. With new software it would be easy to create strip photography effects where you exchange height x width for height x time. Basically stuff on the left side of the picture is taken at a different time than stuff on the right side. Objects in motion become distorted shapes but are not blurred.
You can create a version of this effect with a scanner or photocopier. Put your hand on the scanning surface and move it around as it scans.
Normally you would move the film during the exposure or modify the camera by adding a shutter with a slit cut in it which moves quickly from right to left. With a cheap consumer digital camera and custom software you could just have the camera capture the image from left to right in one pixel wide strips. Or capture a full image every MS and only write one strip of pixels per image, whatever. With software control you could do this in multiple patterns and speeds to create whatever effects you want.
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This article is in the How-To section of the PCWorld site for some reason. They should write another article called 'How to paginate a 4 page article into 20 pages to maximize your ad revenue.'
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Shaw Cable vs. Telus. Same price, different wires. Anyone, rich or 'poor', as long as they are upwardly mobile poor like me who can afford a house and broadband internet, can easily choose either service.
Sounds fair to me.
Please stop modding this post up. There are multiple ISPs here. I have Telus phone lines into the house but I am posting this through a Shaw cable modem and down a separate set of wires.
Except for an ocasional 'too many database connections' error from their Windows server I can see the site fine.
There are already a ton of instruments that use modelling to create a variety of different sounds on the fly instead of using samples. It's a pretty interesting technology. Sort of like 3D modelling in gaming graphics except for audio. Taking into account how the sound interacts with various surfaces and that kind of thing.
...but, isn't it arrogant of him to think himself above any kind of proficiency test? Does he think he's perfect and should be hired with no showing of his actual ability?
Exactly. He is showing his actual ability but more importantly his personality. We have all worked with people who are smart, qualified to do the work and yet they are arrogant or difficult to work with. It helps to be smart but what if you can't function in a team environment or you won't follow directions or you are just plain anti-social.
I think it's fairly obvious that all of the MMORPGs are based on the same template. If they want to attract more players then they need to give up on the RPG genre and branch out into sports and other things that people might like to do.
Some people like to dress up as Elves and play D&D but how many more people belong to Motorcycle clubs or Car clubs? How many people play Golf? Lots.
Bringing the MMO game model to other interests is the way to go. Imagine a MMO Auto Racing game. There could be a persistant city you could drive around with races being held on tracks in various locations. If you have a FWD, 4 cylinder car you could go race against other people with the same style of car. Casual gamers could all afford a Civic and longtime gamers would just have a larger collection of cars. They might have a Ferarri but they could only race that car against other rear engine supercars.
Check out this game in the Golf genre: www.shot-online.com
This is a pretty good point in two ways.
For dragging around to cafes and surfing on wireless networks an obsolete notebook is perfect. Just max out the ram. So there's one machine that doesn't count on their stats.
For work I can't afford any downtime fooling around with warrantees or installing software so when my machine dies I just buy a new bare bones system as parts, transfer my disks into the new box and boot up. There's another machine that doesn't count. If they count dollars the cost of one laptop equals about 5 bare bones machines.
It's still an interesting stat though. The laptop cool factor is there for sure. Is there a cheap laptop that can plug into USB on my main machine and show up as another drive?
Nitpickers must die! Try commenting on the message instead of the delivery for once.
Correcting spelling mistakes doesn't make you look any more intellegent. It just proves that we wouldn't want to be stuck talking to you at a party, assuming that you get invited to any. (Your own birthday doesn't count.)
Isn't the school looking for students who are smart enough to work their way around a problem? They should admit everyone who was able to find their way into the system. I guess they'd rather have students who just blindly do whatever they've been told.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
Somebody mod this nitpicker down.
Broken for Canadians as well.
.com redirects to .ca redirects to .com redirects to .ca and so on.
Put your Signature in your Signature so we can choose to view it or not view it. No need to type it into every post.
Just mod this whole article -1 Flamebait and get it over with.
Perhaps a work around for Netflix would be to offer a lower quality downloadable version of any DVD that is on it's way to you.
So if you decide that you must see 'Legally Blonde' tonight, you download a 350M DivX version to your computer and the DVD copy gets locked at the top of your queue and sent out the next day. It's the same as a regular movie rental except that you get to watch the film a day or two early. Perhaps Netflix would charge a $1 premium to your account for each use to cover bandwidth costs.
Cool thanks, but I think the point was that at some time in the past Blizzard had stopped shipping copies of the game in order to deal with their server load problems. This caused a shortage in some areas. If they did this once it is possible that they will do it again.
The difference between one week after release and now is that in the days after release there were no used copies laying around like their will be now. If a shortage happens again a market for all these used games will spring up. Too bad the buyers of these used games will be out of luck.
There are only a few major game developers out there. How long until they do this for every new game? Want to bring your old PC games back to the store to trade them in for credit towards a new game. Too bad. The used PC game market is extinct.
Don't worry about it Space Cowboy. Some people just don't have the imagination to add anything interesting to the discussion. They resort to picking apart the spelling or grammar instead of understanding and commenting on the content of the post.
I can only compare this to standing in an art gallery discussing the various interpretations of a painting on the wall and having someone walk up and interrupt the conversation by saying "that painting is hung crookedly".
Ok fine. I apologize for my last two sentences. (I was just making a point, there is no need to make personal attacks.)
Now back to the actual point of my post. During a conversation on a phone you are missing all of the visual cues from the other person, as well as 50% to 60% of the audio quality at the very least. Filling in these language gaps takes much of your attention away from the road. Is this a good idea? Do you want other drivers doing the same thing?
You just sped through an occupied crosswalk. I'm the guy in your rearview shaking my fist and posting this on my Motorola.
What a red herring... You can tell the difference between MP3 and Ogg but you can't hear the difference between a live person and the audio from a cell phone? Not to mention facial expression and body language. As you input less and less information you have to use more brain power to fill in the gaps. This is obvious. What is more obvious is that some people are willing to ignore or distort these facts so that they can keep talking on their cell phones. It's 2005. Car phones haven't been a status symbol since the '80s. Give it up.
That video was great and everything but can we get a link to the files that were on that disk instead?
Why is this modded informative when it's actually just a link to another copy of the torrent. This is not the movie you are looking for.
This guy has it all wrong. The Mini-Mac is for movies but not for downloading movies, it's for home movies.
I am very happy with my current computer set up but if I wanted to start editing mini-DV footage and wanted to start making my own videos I would consider just buying the Mini-Mac. Currently I would have to buy video editing software, DVD creation software, and a firewire card or capture card or something. How much do those cost? Or I could just pick up a Mini-Mac, hook it up and plug the camera into it. It has I-Movie and I-DVD included doesn't it?
Do you guys need a /sarcasm tag? Mod this up because it's hilarious.
If you open up the tools then creative people will come up with interesting ideas. Most consumer cameras do not have a mechanical shutter at all. The software just reads the CCD for a fraction of a second. With new software it would be easy to create strip photography effects where you exchange height x width for height x time. Basically stuff on the left side of the picture is taken at a different time than stuff on the right side. Objects in motion become distorted shapes but are not blurred. You can create a version of this effect with a scanner or photocopier. Put your hand on the scanning surface and move it around as it scans. Normally you would move the film during the exposure or modify the camera by adding a shutter with a slit cut in it which moves quickly from right to left. With a cheap consumer digital camera and custom software you could just have the camera capture the image from left to right in one pixel wide strips. Or capture a full image every MS and only write one strip of pixels per image, whatever. With software control you could do this in multiple patterns and speeds to create whatever effects you want.