But this has happened before. I remember way back when they started this whole charade they accused some lady using a mac that she was pirating music using a program that only works on windows...
No, I'm afraid this has happened too many times already.
People keep complaining that Lucas keeps re-releasing the trilogy over and over to milk the populace of their money, and while I do agree that changing the movies is a cardinal sin, I think it's great that he keeps putting out improved versions of the movies.
Would you honestly prefer that he not release these movies on DVD or HDDVD and instead wait 15 more years for Super-Uber-HDDVD? I mean, that way he couldn't be accused of milking us right?
In fact what does piss me off is that he waited all this time to release these on DVD -- he should have done this sooner!
Well that sucks for me as I tend to always go above the speed limit. Sometimes a mile above, sometimes 20. I'm pretty sure they would be actively checking the way you drive and if you drive too fast, be prepared for some rate increases.
Sounds like Cornice really is thieving -- Western Digital has also filed patent infringement charges against them. This is one case where I'm actually FOR filing suit.
When you go to a bank, are there tax funded police officers standing guard or is it a private security company that guards the bank? The bank pays for their own security. It's only when a crime is occuring that they call in the police.
Same thing should happen with the movie theaters -- they should pay for their own security and only call in the cops when a crime has occured.
The cost of this, of course, is that your CDs are less resistant to scratches
Sounds like a great idea! Now the RIAA not only has cured the world of evil piracy, but the sale of CDs has trippled as everyone now has to purchase the same CD every 3 months to replace their scratched CDs! Brilliant!
Well, won't all broadcast tv be switched completly to HDTV in 2006 (at least that was the plan when I checked last year)? So unless you want to stick with cable/satellite or pay $300 for an HDTV reciever which downconverts to analog it looks like many people will be having to make the switch soon.
Either that or we'll see an extension to the 2006 deadline... But in any case, it will happen eventually as old TVs die and the only new TVs being sold are HDTV.
Center channel is nice when you have a bigscreen TV. The speakers get really far apart (perhaps 6 feet) and since you sit fairly close to the TV (with HDTV it's around 6-10 feet optimially) it gets hard to pinpoint where the sound comes from the screen. It also doesn't sound that great. I mean, how many people listen to music with the speakers sitting 10 feet from each other? You gotta stay in the sweetspot.
Wow, it even has the ungodly IBM T221 beat and that beast has a 3840x2400 resolution and costs $8,400. Although, I guess if you are making something to watch movies, the screen will be much bigger than the T221's 22 inches, so it could be possible. Perhaps using that lcd for projectors and then using 4 projectors in a 2x2 array would do the trick. It seems feasable.
That's how the normal google search is as well. I'm, guessing it will be a long time, if ever, before we get partial word searches. My guess is that if they implemented that, it would cause to much of a performance hit.
When they get partial word searches in google they'll have it in gmail.
I'm surprised that Nigeria actually has a space program - http://www.nasrda.gov.ng. Granted they don't have astronauts yet, but wow, impressive! I guess this is the first time I have actually learned something from 419 spam--or any spam for that matter!
Anyway, I know this sounds painfully obvious, but why don't folks take the simple step of running an antivirus program?
Well, not having a virus scanner running full time gives a slight performance improvement. As other people have said, if you know what you are doing, it is very unlikely you will get a virus. I've never installed a virus scanner since I startad with win 3.11 and I have never gotten a virus. Shoot, I even use outlook 2003 and am fine since I know how to use it.
However, I have installed a virus scanner on my family's computer since they don't know how virii work.
I would have prefered something less commercial like dict.org
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I've used the internet numerous times to correctly diagnose problems and it's never led me astray (although I also knew when I wasn't getting any good data). For instance, when I hurt my wrist falling and thought it was broken I checked online and saw that it was most likely a scaphoid fracture which often isn't noticed on the first x-ray...we'll sure enough the first x-ray said it was just muscle damage, but the second one a month later saw the fracture (which was almost healed thanks to my self made cast...).
As long as you're smart about doing a thorough research and then FOLLOWING UP with a doctor the internet is great.
The hell? The SOL site is way way off! For instance, they mention the average cost of a home in Arlington, VA as $185,00 and the appreciation as -2.41% (that's decreasing!). I know for a fact that the cost of homes has been increasing by HUGE amounts there. In the past 10 years the price of a house has just about doubled. The cost of living in Arlington and the rest of Northern VA is way way way higher than indicated here.
I'm with you there. I learned C, C++ and assembler while at university, and came out with the ability to jump into anything. Give me any language and I can guarantee I'll be churning out useful code in a VERY short amount of time.
Any language huh? Pick one of
these and let me know when you did something useful:)
On a less sadistic note, assm, C, C++ don't really help with languages that operate in a fundamentally different way. Lisp is a great example. Want a simple for loop? Gotta do it using only recursion... Now there's a hard language to quickly pick up which is also widely used.
How about mine.
Hmm, on second thought it might be a little Embarrassing if you look at the code; and yes, it's windows... but I have lots of gnu stuff on it! does that redeem me a little?
Low level talks probably meant that SCO was talking to google over the campfire while telling everyone to pay up $6.99 for each s'more they ate (the s'more ingredients belong to SCO after all...)
Yup, I definitly was pulling those numbers out of my ass. So I went and counted how many words are on a random page of my paperback edition of Don Quixote (an "adult level" book) and got about 450. So at 450 words/page, OotP would be a 566 page book. I guess 566 borders on the slightly large for your average book, but it's still 200 pages less than the UK edition.
Keep in mind the spacing between lines and words as well as the margins of the book in addition to the larger type.
That's 900 pages of large print (12pt font) and 1.5 spacing. When you compare that to "adult" books with their smaller fonts and spacing, it's probably more like a 300-400 page book (I'm making these numbers up). It's really not that much to read. That's why kids can still read it. Of course what is amazing is that kids who do not read books are now reading books...
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But this has happened before. I remember way back when they started this whole charade they accused some lady using a mac that she was pirating music using a program that only works on windows...
No, I'm afraid this has happened too many times already.
People keep complaining that Lucas keeps re-releasing the trilogy over and over to milk the populace of their money, and while I do agree that changing the movies is a cardinal sin, I think it's great that he keeps putting out improved versions of the movies.
Would you honestly prefer that he not release these movies on DVD or HDDVD and instead wait 15 more years for Super-Uber-HDDVD? I mean, that way he couldn't be accused of milking us right?
In fact what does piss me off is that he waited all this time to release these on DVD -- he should have done this sooner!
Well that sucks for me as I tend to always go above the speed limit. Sometimes a mile above, sometimes 20. I'm pretty sure they would be actively checking the way you drive and if you drive too fast, be prepared for some rate increases.
Sounds like Cornice really is thieving -- Western Digital has also filed patent infringement charges against them. This is one case where I'm actually FOR filing suit.
I feel dirty saying that here...
When you go to a bank, are there tax funded police officers standing guard or is it a private security company that guards the bank? The bank pays for their own security. It's only when a crime is occuring that they call in the police.
Same thing should happen with the movie theaters -- they should pay for their own security and only call in the cops when a crime has occured.
Well, won't all broadcast tv be switched completly to HDTV in 2006 (at least that was the plan when I checked last year)? So unless you want to stick with cable/satellite or pay $300 for an HDTV reciever which downconverts to analog it looks like many people will be having to make the switch soon. Either that or we'll see an extension to the 2006 deadline... But in any case, it will happen eventually as old TVs die and the only new TVs being sold are HDTV.
Center channel is nice when you have a bigscreen TV. The speakers get really far apart (perhaps 6 feet) and since you sit fairly close to the TV (with HDTV it's around 6-10 feet optimially) it gets hard to pinpoint where the sound comes from the screen. It also doesn't sound that great. I mean, how many people listen to music with the speakers sitting 10 feet from each other? You gotta stay in the sweetspot.
Wow, it even has the ungodly IBM T221 beat and that beast has a 3840x2400 resolution and costs $8,400. Although, I guess if you are making something to watch movies, the screen will be much bigger than the T221's 22 inches, so it could be possible.
Perhaps using that lcd for projectors and then using 4 projectors in a 2x2 array would do the trick. It seems feasable.
If you like this you really should see koyaanisqatsi. It's got a lot of time-lapse photography and great phillip glass music.
That's how the normal google search is as well. I'm, guessing it will be a long time, if ever, before we get partial word searches. My guess is that if they implemented that, it would cause to much of a performance hit.
When they get partial word searches in google they'll have it in gmail.
I'm surprised that Nigeria actually has a space program - http://www.nasrda.gov.ng. Granted they don't have astronauts yet, but wow, impressive! I guess this is the first time I have actually learned something from 419 spam--or any spam for that matter!
Good job!
Well, not having a virus scanner running full time gives a slight performance improvement. As other people have said, if you know what you are doing, it is very unlikely you will get a virus. I've never installed a virus scanner since I startad with win 3.11 and I have never gotten a virus. Shoot, I even use outlook 2003 and am fine since I know how to use it. However, I have installed a virus scanner on my family's computer since they don't know how virii work.
I would have prefered something less commercial like dict.org
I've used the internet numerous times to correctly diagnose problems and it's never led me astray (although I also knew when I wasn't getting any good data).
For instance, when I hurt my wrist falling and thought it was broken I checked online and saw that it was most likely a scaphoid fracture which often isn't noticed on the first x-ray...we'll sure enough the first x-ray said it was just muscle damage, but the second one a month later saw the fracture (which was almost healed thanks to my self made cast...).
As long as you're smart about doing a thorough research and then FOLLOWING UP with a doctor the internet is great.
All the time at Slashdot...
The hell? The SOL site is way way off! For instance, they mention the average cost of a home in Arlington, VA as $185,00 and the appreciation as -2.41% (that's decreasing!). I know for a fact that the cost of homes has been increasing by HUGE amounts there. In the past 10 years the price of a house has just about doubled. The cost of living in Arlington and the rest of Northern VA is way way way higher than indicated here.
On a less sadistic note, assm, C, C++ don't really help with languages that operate in a fundamentally different way. Lisp is a great example. Want a simple for loop? Gotta do it using only recursion... Now there's a hard language to quickly pick up which is also widely used.
How about mine. Hmm, on second thought it might be a little Embarrassing if you look at the code; and yes, it's windows... but I have lots of gnu stuff on it! does that redeem me a little?
Same here. Some people spend money on a white noise machine to drown out disturbances. The noise isn't a bug, it's a feature!
Low level talks probably meant that SCO was talking to google over the campfire while telling everyone to pay up $6.99 for each s'more they ate (the s'more ingredients belong to SCO after all...)
Yup, I definitly was pulling those numbers out of my ass. So I went and counted how many words are on a random page of my paperback edition of Don Quixote (an "adult level" book) and got about 450. So at 450 words/page, OotP would be a 566 page book. I guess 566 borders on the slightly large for your average book, but it's still 200 pages less than the UK edition. Keep in mind the spacing between lines and words as well as the margins of the book in addition to the larger type.
That's 900 pages of large print (12pt font) and 1.5 spacing. When you compare that to "adult" books with their smaller fonts and spacing, it's probably more like a 300-400 page book (I'm making these numbers up). It's really not that much to read. That's why kids can still read it. Of course what is amazing is that kids who do not read books are now reading books...