dude, 3 miles down a main thoroughfare? Why not just walk it? work off some of the booze calories as well. Though I guess if you didn't have sidewalks...
I don't know whether I'm "used to it" or not, but after watching the video, I'm totally ready for more intelligent image resizing that isn't quite scaling. Most of the applications I see this being used in don't really require that the exact photographic position (which really isn't the same as what you'd see if you were there) relationships be maintained anyway.
Hopefully someone will write a GIMP plugin and we can all experiment with it. Also a firefox plugin. Obviously some metadata will eventually need to be included in the the images to delineate faces and whatnot, but web designers can easily handle sloppy painting-over in photoshop type tasks.
That brings up an extremely important question: do warewolves, in fact, transform on eclipse nights? The moon is actually as full as it's ever going to be right before the eclipse, and only a few minutes are spent in total darkness.
The reason is that you have to have the light source on the other side of the screen. So the sun can never be your light source without mirrors, and you probably won't see any better in the sun than you would've with regular lights.
If I remember correctly they solved that by sending Ted Danson to live with very tiny people, then very big people, then like talking horses or something.
Again, my personal experience was that it was far more stable than the windows 98 from which it came. In fact, it crashed/hung far less frequently than my friend's brand-new XP box. Though my experience was a laptop with limited hardware options and my friend's was a "custom" Dell desktop with pre-service pack XP trying to run several things in '98 compatibility mode. Of course, that was the intended application for ME, so that's not particularly surprising.
I have a laptop that uses ME and it works fine. Well it worked fine when I got it, and for about five years after that. Trying to juggle two cases and the laptop while pushing a carry-on bag through the line for TSA fun have resulted in impact related hardware issues around the keyboard somewhere.
I don't see what the big deal about ME was. It worked as well as anything for the tasks it was intended.
A compressed music file of the same filesize as its CD track would have better quality than the CD track assuming you got it from a higher resolution master. Further, with an appropriate compression algorithm (I don't know if MP3 is one), you could simply specify a minimum volume level and not even bother with bandwidth compression in the file. The player would still have to handle it, but at least audiophiles could turn that crap off and get their vaunted "pure" music.
The current crop of compressed vs. CD, though (and keep in mind that even CD-audio is just another kind of compression. You started with an analog signal) has a few pronounced differences. The obvious one is "a la carte:" uncompressed individual songs are simply not offered for all albums. The next is convenience: you can purchase a track off of iTunes by simply knowing the name of the song. The CD way is to search for and order a CD, or drive to the cookie-cutter music shop and browse through their vast rows of similar sounding reggae, hoping your taste is mundane enough to be included in the remaining racks.
In short, it's like every other decision made by rational individuals in an economy. It's a trade off of costs and benefits which much be optimized.
The satellites themselves are in high earth orbit, and are perfectly usable for anything beneath them. They're also good beyond their orbit with the right software, though obviously their utility drops the further out you go. I'm not sure I'd trust it much past 5 Re or so, but for a target as large as the moon, you could certainly use GPS to hit it. You couldn't land, of course, but not all probes require carefully planned reentry.
Motorcycles are quite different from automobiles. Most things which could wrest a riders control away also put the bike in an uncontrollable configuration: it doesn't matter if the rider is fixed to the controls, he's not going to regain control of the bike except by providence. There are also valid safety reasons not to attach a rider to his bike, so the benefit being negligible and the downside being great, no harness is warranted.
An automobile is not the same. It is possible to be overcome by forces of acceleration without putting the car into a position from which it is impossible to recover, or at least mitigate.
No one is talking about corpse missiles.
You have a responsibility to other drivers to do everything in your power to maintain control over your vehicle. And that means, among other things, wearing your damn seatbelt and forgoing the road beers. If you wanna do stupid shit like pretend one of those skull cap thingies is as good as a helmet or ride two-to-a-lane, that's your business. I'll tell you what, though, Go down to daytona beach for Biketoberfest or Bike Week and just watch the news. Every night there's a casualty count, and the dead are almost never helmet wearers.
I changed my opinion on the seatbelt issue as a result of a slashdot comment mentioning something I had never thought of before, but should have. In an out-of-control situation, the seatbelt holds the driver in position, either increasing the chance of regaining control, or increasing the level of control the driver can still exercise. It could mean the difference between horrific T-bone and a less deadly accident.
In short, requiring drivers to wear a seatbelt saves other drivers' lives, which is the true test for a valid law. Requiring passengers to wear them is still bullshit, though.
You shouldn't see 25% reduced frame rate if you're using the same video card and the only difference is 25% less cpu. The OP's post suggests that the games they ran were either memory or graphics bound anyway: the overclocking was strictly unnecessary for the games portion.
And you definitely shouldn't be able to tell the difference between 3/4 of a second and 1 second to load Word.
Ugh, it bugs me that they always put those benchmarks on linear scales. Anything less than a factor of 2 (ok, maybe factor of square root of 2) difference is just noise. At the extreme end of it, people are stretching to come up with a reason they like their slower thing better, but speed improvements are like f/stops in lenses. A few percent is barely noticeable.
His comparison was flawed, but the difference in their unmodified machines would not be so much as to justify an additional $400.*
In fact, this is why I always step back my performance requirements to roughly the middle of the pack. The savings you get there can enable you to completely replace your entire machine twice as often as your state-of-the-art friends. If you time your purchases right, you can barely spend one year out of four with a machine inferior to your friends for the same money
Opera is like "Musical Theater" except it's in a different language. If you were to watch opera in it's native country, even that distinction evaporates. I'm sure they're both fun to watch, but that doesn't make either any less ostentatious than, say.. "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "Waterworld."
The English speaking world's pretension that opera is somehow "classy" is actually a result of our cultural insecurities and the Norman occupation England.
Which further raises the question: why are we bothering to finish the ISS? Wouldn't it be both safer and more cost effective to retire the shuttle NOW and buy out our obligations to any of the other countries involved?
I mean, we're keeping the shuttle around to finish the ISS, which we're building to give the shuttle some place to go...
It is unlikely that a rescue would have been possible. It would've required extreme fast-tracking of one of the other shuttles, which NASA has proven to be unable to do. While I was living in FL, I think there was maybe one launch that went up at the original scheduled time, many were postponed, and the vast majority ended up postponed to over a week later.
The disappointing thing about Columbia however, is that knowing no rescue or repair would be possible they decided additional imaging was unnecessary: The astronauts' fates were already decided, so why bother getting some pictures? It would have been nice, for the investigation later, to have such images. Even if they had landed safely. It's doubly disappointing because it seems DoD chose not to take images of their own initiative, either. It would've made a good training exercise even if the data itself turned out to ultimately be useless.
At the time, it felt to me that the decision not to take or ask for pictures was akin to the ancient sailor's superstition against learning to swim.
The problem is that Lawyering doesn't follow normal economic rules. Increasing the supply of lawyers does not have a depressing effect on the price of a lawyer's time: the more lawyers there are, the more suits, and the greater the need to retain your own.
They're kind of like nuclear weapons in that respect: each individual nuclear weapon purchased is a rational decision, but you only really need nuclear weapons because others might have 'em. And if you actually use them against someone, you both lose.
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dude, 3 miles down a main thoroughfare? Why not just walk it? work off some of the booze calories as well. Though I guess if you didn't have sidewalks...
I don't know whether I'm "used to it" or not, but after watching the video, I'm totally ready for more intelligent image resizing that isn't quite scaling. Most of the applications I see this being used in don't really require that the exact photographic position (which really isn't the same as what you'd see if you were there) relationships be maintained anyway.
Hopefully someone will write a GIMP plugin and we can all experiment with it. Also a firefox plugin. Obviously some metadata will eventually need to be included in the the images to delineate faces and whatnot, but web designers can easily handle sloppy painting-over in photoshop type tasks.
What killing of the wolves in Europe? Wolves are the second most successful animal in Europe after people.
That brings up an extremely important question: do warewolves, in fact, transform on eclipse nights? The moon is actually as full as it's ever going to be right before the eclipse, and only a few minutes are spent in total darkness.
The reason is that you have to have the light source on the other side of the screen. So the sun can never be your light source without mirrors, and you probably won't see any better in the sun than you would've with regular lights.
If I remember correctly they solved that by sending Ted Danson to live with very tiny people, then very big people, then like talking horses or something.
Again, my personal experience was that it was far more stable than the windows 98 from which it came. In fact, it crashed/hung far less frequently than my friend's brand-new XP box. Though my experience was a laptop with limited hardware options and my friend's was a "custom" Dell desktop with pre-service pack XP trying to run several things in '98 compatibility mode. Of course, that was the intended application for ME, so that's not particularly surprising.
I have a laptop that uses ME and it works fine. Well it worked fine when I got it, and for about five years after that. Trying to juggle two cases and the laptop while pushing a carry-on bag through the line for TSA fun have resulted in impact related hardware issues around the keyboard somewhere.
I don't see what the big deal about ME was. It worked as well as anything for the tasks it was intended.
A compressed music file of the same filesize as its CD track would have better quality than the CD track assuming you got it from a higher resolution master. Further, with an appropriate compression algorithm (I don't know if MP3 is one), you could simply specify a minimum volume level and not even bother with bandwidth compression in the file. The player would still have to handle it, but at least audiophiles could turn that crap off and get their vaunted "pure" music.
The current crop of compressed vs. CD, though (and keep in mind that even CD-audio is just another kind of compression. You started with an analog signal) has a few pronounced differences. The obvious one is "a la carte:" uncompressed individual songs are simply not offered for all albums. The next is convenience: you can purchase a track off of iTunes by simply knowing the name of the song. The CD way is to search for and order a CD, or drive to the cookie-cutter music shop and browse through their vast rows of similar sounding reggae, hoping your taste is mundane enough to be included in the remaining racks.
In short, it's like every other decision made by rational individuals in an economy. It's a trade off of costs and benefits which much be optimized.
Then they won't really be your children, now will they?
The satellites themselves are in high earth orbit, and are perfectly usable for anything beneath them. They're also good beyond their orbit with the right software, though obviously their utility drops the further out you go. I'm not sure I'd trust it much past 5 Re or so, but for a target as large as the moon, you could certainly use GPS to hit it. You couldn't land, of course, but not all probes require carefully planned reentry.
Motorcycles are quite different from automobiles. Most things which could wrest a riders control away also put the bike in an uncontrollable configuration: it doesn't matter if the rider is fixed to the controls, he's not going to regain control of the bike except by providence. There are also valid safety reasons not to attach a rider to his bike, so the benefit being negligible and the downside being great, no harness is warranted.
An automobile is not the same. It is possible to be overcome by forces of acceleration without putting the car into a position from which it is impossible to recover, or at least mitigate.
No one is talking about corpse missiles.
You have a responsibility to other drivers to do everything in your power to maintain control over your vehicle. And that means, among other things, wearing your damn seatbelt and forgoing the road beers. If you wanna do stupid shit like pretend one of those skull cap thingies is as good as a helmet or ride two-to-a-lane, that's your business. I'll tell you what, though, Go down to daytona beach for Biketoberfest or Bike Week and just watch the news. Every night there's a casualty count, and the dead are almost never helmet wearers.
Me neither. But I should probably mention that I've spent all of two weeks outside of the US, and most of that time was on a boat or at a beach.
I changed my opinion on the seatbelt issue as a result of a slashdot comment mentioning something I had never thought of before, but should have. In an out-of-control situation, the seatbelt holds the driver in position, either increasing the chance of regaining control, or increasing the level of control the driver can still exercise. It could mean the difference between horrific T-bone and a less deadly accident.
In short, requiring drivers to wear a seatbelt saves other drivers' lives, which is the true test for a valid law. Requiring passengers to wear them is still bullshit, though.
Agreed. I'll probably get back in if a game comes out that doesn't rely on d20 style mechanics.
You shouldn't see 25% reduced frame rate if you're using the same video card and the only difference is 25% less cpu. The OP's post suggests that the games they ran were either memory or graphics bound anyway: the overclocking was strictly unnecessary for the games portion.
And you definitely shouldn't be able to tell the difference between 3/4 of a second and 1 second to load Word.
Ugh, it bugs me that they always put those benchmarks on linear scales. Anything less than a factor of 2 (ok, maybe factor of square root of 2) difference is just noise. At the extreme end of it, people are stretching to come up with a reason they like their slower thing better, but speed improvements are like f/stops in lenses. A few percent is barely noticeable.
His comparison was flawed, but the difference in their unmodified machines would not be so much as to justify an additional $400.*
In fact, this is why I always step back my performance requirements to roughly the middle of the pack. The savings you get there can enable you to completely replace your entire machine twice as often as your state-of-the-art friends. If you time your purchases right, you can barely spend one year out of four with a machine inferior to your friends for the same money
*to a sane individual. Hardcore gamers excluded.
Opera is like "Musical Theater" except it's in a different language. If you were to watch opera in it's native country, even that distinction evaporates. I'm sure they're both fun to watch, but that doesn't make either any less ostentatious than, say.. "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "Waterworld."
The English speaking world's pretension that opera is somehow "classy" is actually a result of our cultural insecurities and the Norman occupation England.
I've had to reboot Ubuntu at least five times in the past five weeks. Though most of those reboots were within a couple of days of each other.
Why did you specify bitlength 4? Wouldn't it work for any unsigned units since the leading zeros would turn into leading ones in the invert operation?
Yeah, but his home network is a country with a landmass 90% size of continental Europe.
Yes. Especially if the blond is prettier than the brunette. Don't try to think about it, it'll only make your eyes bug out of your head.
Which further raises the question: why are we bothering to finish the ISS? Wouldn't it be both safer and more cost effective to retire the shuttle NOW and buy out our obligations to any of the other countries involved?
I mean, we're keeping the shuttle around to finish the ISS, which we're building to give the shuttle some place to go...
It is unlikely that a rescue would have been possible. It would've required extreme fast-tracking of one of the other shuttles, which NASA has proven to be unable to do. While I was living in FL, I think there was maybe one launch that went up at the original scheduled time, many were postponed, and the vast majority ended up postponed to over a week later.
The disappointing thing about Columbia however, is that knowing no rescue or repair would be possible they decided additional imaging was unnecessary: The astronauts' fates were already decided, so why bother getting some pictures? It would have been nice, for the investigation later, to have such images. Even if they had landed safely. It's doubly disappointing because it seems DoD chose not to take images of their own initiative, either. It would've made a good training exercise even if the data itself turned out to ultimately be useless.
At the time, it felt to me that the decision not to take or ask for pictures was akin to the ancient sailor's superstition against learning to swim.
The problem is that Lawyering doesn't follow normal economic rules. Increasing the supply of lawyers does not have a depressing effect on the price of a lawyer's time: the more lawyers there are, the more suits, and the greater the need to retain your own.
They're kind of like nuclear weapons in that respect: each individual nuclear weapon purchased is a rational decision, but you only really need nuclear weapons because others might have 'em. And if you actually use them against someone, you both lose.