Which is why I proudly purchased an AMD Athlon 64 for my new machine a couple of months back. My previous machine built in '98 had Intel in it, and back then it was important for compatibility, but it's not any more.
They don't work on me, for one simple reason: I don't see them, and I don't hear them.
As a television show goes to commercial, I mute the volume, and I read my book, do a few words on my crossword puzzle, browse the web, read my email, etc. Through years of practice, I've developed an innate ability to know when the commercials are over, and unmute and start watching again. At most, I catch a momentary glimpse of a commercial, when the timing is wrong. But never enough to know what the product being sold is. On the computer, all ads are blocked as well.
As for elections, I vote on party platforms. It matters not if they trot out a Hunchback against a Playboy Bunny.
The reason your post is true overall, is because most people don't do these things. Most people I know just keep the sound on during commercials and stare dumbly at the screen the whole time. Even if they do mute it, they'll still spend the entire time slackjawed watching the commercial anyway.
Sorry dude. I modded your post, clicked Moderate, and was told I didn't have any points. I guess they expired while I was reading. Seems an odd way of doing things. I guess slashdot follows the "eBay gouging model". Maybe a lawsuit is in order.;)
I do agree with your point. It seems whenever I look for something now, the majority of them are all from the same seller, and at essentially retail price.
No, the *TRUE* geeks wrote to the company, and received the free Tseng ET4000 Graphics Controller Data Book, with timing diagrams, register descriptions, etc, for programming.
And the geekiest of us still have the book on our bookshelf. Though I have no idea why I still do.
The majority of the film is still pan and scanned. The involvement of the creators is meaningless. The creators are involved when creating the fullscreen version of Spiderman, it doesn't change the fact the fullscreen film is not what was originally shown in the theatre, and is not what they wanted viewers to see.
There is not a single frame in a Pixar re-composited film that matches the creator's vision. It's still a hack job on a film, the only difference is that re-compositing allows a slightly finer tuning. Higher precision, if you will.
It's akin to hacking your leg off with an axe, or a scalpel.
God, I wish people would quit stating this so absolutely.
Pixar very clearly states in their examples of how they do this that re-compositing is a *small* part of what they do. They specifically mention four techniques they use to create the full frame version (Bug's Life re-compositing feature):
Re-stage (Moving characters closer, what most folks mean when they say re-compositing)
Frame-height (Add background picture to top and bottom. Essentially, animated open-matte)
Crop (Removing the sides)
Scan (The 4:3 picture box moves left and right in the widescreen frame)
There's this silly myth that's grown that when you watch a Pixar re-composited film, you don't miss anything, as every single scene is re-done. It simply isn't true at all. When you actually compare, you'll see that the majority of the films are done using the lossy techniques of Crop and Scan. There's the ocassional re-staging, when the other techniques don't work well.
Yes, it's a bit better than pan-and-scanning the entire film. But it's still butchered. It's just butchered slightly less.
You're exactly right. You've just described my wife. She used to love Age of Empires, but would positively scream when the other guys would come and attack her. Eventually, we found the cheat keys, and could quickly wipe them out, and let her get back to her building. And it was exactly the same in Civilisation as well. Just build, progress, and move forwards.
I must admit, I often feel the same way myself. The endless fighting gets boring. I'm currently playing Prince of Persia Sands of Time, and the fun is exploring the traps and buildings. The fights are just monotonous, I just use a cheat to work through them.
It depends on how you think "season", and your background. Myself, I was thinking holiday season like Ken, and didn't come up with a good answer. My wife, a banker, immediately said H&R Block.
I find the more suspicious miss the Bastogne daily double. As a movie buff, Ken surely had to see numerous movies detailing this, including Band of Brothers.
Just tried searching for posts that I know I made under another name, and nothing showed up using the new search page: http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search
Works just fine with the old one.
Update: Seems to be funky case sensitive now. If I type the author name in mixed caps like actually exists in the messages, I *don't* find them. If I type the author name in all lower case, they are found.
Holy counter-intuitive, Batman. Oh, and the interface sucks. But at least I can pick show tree and get something close to what I want.
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Maybe they should burn the Declaration of Independence while they're at it, after all, I saw a copy online somewhere.
<logan>Wow, that old eh?</logan>
In my fifties, if I don't set my alarm clock I'll sleep for 12 hours a night.
I'm thinking I'm an excellent candidate for dying in my sleep, *nothing* wakes me.
I don't even know this guy White, but he's certainly got a way better reputation than Microsoft, with their history of nearly 30 years of deception.
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First card comes up, six of spades. Add six to the Spade number
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Second card comes up, 4 of hearts. Add four to the heart count
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Third card, jack of spades, add 11 to the spades
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Growth slowing != Declining .
It's all part of the Big Oil conspiracy. ;)
What? Those idiots screwed up the aspect ratio, that doesn't work out to 4:3!
Screw Intel and their shady practices.
As a television show goes to commercial, I mute the volume, and I read my book, do a few words on my crossword puzzle, browse the web, read my email, etc. Through years of practice, I've developed an innate ability to know when the commercials are over, and unmute and start watching again. At most, I catch a momentary glimpse of a commercial, when the timing is wrong. But never enough to know what the product being sold is. On the computer, all ads are blocked as well.
As for elections, I vote on party platforms. It matters not if they trot out a Hunchback against a Playboy Bunny.
The reason your post is true overall, is because most people don't do these things. Most people I know just keep the sound on during commercials and stare dumbly at the screen the whole time. Even if they do mute it, they'll still spend the entire time slackjawed watching the commercial anyway.
I do agree with your point. It seems whenever I look for something now, the majority of them are all from the same seller, and at essentially retail price.
And the geekiest of us still have the book on our bookshelf. Though I have no idea why I still do.
If you're running a five year old computer. Couldn't he at least have found a test machine over 1 GHz?
Seems they forgot the Canadian codes. No YVR or YYZ.
Maybe it's one of those mythical "intentional copy protection errors".
There is not a single frame in a Pixar re-composited film that matches the creator's vision. It's still a hack job on a film, the only difference is that re-compositing allows a slightly finer tuning. Higher precision, if you will.
It's akin to hacking your leg off with an axe, or a scalpel.
Pixar very clearly states in their examples of how they do this that re-compositing is a *small* part of what they do. They specifically mention four techniques they use to create the full frame version (Bug's Life re-compositing feature):
- Re-stage (Moving characters closer, what most folks mean when they say re-compositing)
- Frame-height (Add background picture to top and bottom. Essentially, animated open-matte)
- Crop (Removing the sides)
- Scan (The 4:3 picture box moves left and right in the widescreen frame)
There's this silly myth that's grown that when you watch a Pixar re-composited film, you don't miss anything, as every single scene is re-done. It simply isn't true at all. When you actually compare, you'll see that the majority of the films are done using the lossy techniques of Crop and Scan. There's the ocassional re-staging, when the other techniques don't work well.Yes, it's a bit better than pan-and-scanning the entire film. But it's still butchered. It's just butchered slightly less.
From the point of ignition
To the final drive
The point of the journey is not to arrive
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There's just no reason to casually toss "India" in the mix, unless it was trolling.
I must admit, I often feel the same way myself. The endless fighting gets boring. I'm currently playing Prince of Persia Sands of Time, and the fun is exploring the traps and buildings. The fights are just monotonous, I just use a cheat to work through them.
Aw crap.
Guess I'm just a cheap bastard.
And it always nice to get rid of prolonged FBI warnings, etc.
I find the more suspicious miss the Bastogne daily double. As a movie buff, Ken surely had to see numerous movies detailing this, including Band of Brothers.
But I don't think he threw it.
Works just fine with the old one.
Update: Seems to be funky case sensitive now. If I type the author name in mixed caps like actually exists in the messages, I *don't* find them. If I type the author name in all lower case, they are found.
Holy counter-intuitive, Batman. Oh, and the interface sucks. But at least I can pick show tree and get something close to what I want.