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As 3D begins to produce photo-realistic humans at low cost, I expect large-scale 3D pornography to hit the market. Photo-realistic tentacle porn anyone? Impossibly large wangs and breasts? You know this stuff would be a huge hit, IF it looks good enough.
I was checking out a Mac forum when the very first G5's were shipping. This guy posts a message like "I just got my new G5 today. I was installing a PCI card and the screwdriver slipped and scratched the mobo. Now the computer won't start up, what should I do?" There were a long list of suggestions, soldiering wire across the traces, shipping it back to Apple as DOA, etc. Buried way down was this "Shoot yourself in the face" The worst thing was, the card wasn't PCI-X compliant, and wouldn't work anyway.
For those wondering what the whole Rollins thing is about, he was the frontman for the classic punk band Black Flag for a while. If you like hardcore music, find a copy of the song "Society's Tease" from the album In My Head. Powerful stuff.
A Discover magazine article talked about the recent dicovery that 1/3 of all life on Earth is methane creating or consuming bacteria beneath the ocean floor. Now we find a new type of life. Anyone else get the impression that we don't know s**t?
In some areas here in Florida, cyclists will call you an "organ donor" if you ride without a helmet. Of course, this is the same place I've seen people airlifted out.
Agreed. Smooth driving is the key for greater fuel efficiency with these cars. Gently braking to a stop allows the drivetrain to feed the energy back into the batteries. The energy you loose due to wind resistance is gone, but you can convert your momentum back to usable energy with gentle stops. If you like to stand on the gas and stomp on the brakes, these cars won't save you much. And you drive like an asshole.
I agree that pay for teachers could be better, but we need to remember that most teachers get as much as 3 months (between summer, xmas vacation and spring break) off each year. The lower pay is a trade-off for all of the free time.
I agree with you, but this is not really science fiction, it's science fantasy. I really enjoy "hardcore" sci-fi, but this stuff is just boring. It's such an obvious fabrication that I never get involved with the story.
I don't really care about the subject matter here, but it sure is nice to see someone post something like this non-AC. Anybody else tired of the little AC bitches?
Fenix gots balls.
Recompression of any media file damages it to some extent, photos, video or audio. I suggest you check your facts, compressing something throws away data, decompressing and recompressing something throws away MORE DATA. The data does not magically reappear. This does not apply to switching uncompressed formats however.
One interesting part of the development of color tv relates to the YUV color space used. This color space calculates color by the difference between two of the channels, the third channel is the detail. So BW tv's just ignore the color channels and color tv's add them in. YUV in roughly the same as the LAB color space used in Photoshop. Open a photo and convert it to LAB, then look at the channels. Rather brilliant solution, huh?
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As 3D begins to produce photo-realistic humans at low cost, I expect large-scale 3D pornography to hit the market. Photo-realistic tentacle porn anyone? Impossibly large wangs and breasts? You know this stuff would be a huge hit, IF it looks good enough.
1 Write good software
2 Wait for MIcrosoft to steal it or disable it
3 Profit!
Hey, look! Someone offered a piece of information rather than join the fine hairsplitting session developing here!
I was checking out a Mac forum when the very first G5's were shipping. This guy posts a message like "I just got my new G5 today. I was installing a PCI card and the screwdriver slipped and scratched the mobo. Now the computer won't start up, what should I do?" There were a long list of suggestions, soldiering wire across the traces, shipping it back to Apple as DOA, etc. Buried way down was this "Shoot yourself in the face" The worst thing was, the card wasn't PCI-X compliant, and wouldn't work anyway.
For those wondering what the whole Rollins thing is about, he was the frontman for the classic punk band Black Flag for a while. If you like hardcore music, find a copy of the song "Society's Tease" from the album In My Head. Powerful stuff.
A Discover magazine article talked about the recent dicovery that 1/3 of all life on Earth is methane creating or consuming bacteria beneath the ocean floor. Now we find a new type of life. Anyone else get the impression that we don't know s**t?
In some areas here in Florida, cyclists will call you an "organ donor" if you ride without a helmet. Of course, this is the same place I've seen people airlifted out.
Agreed. Smooth driving is the key for greater fuel efficiency with these cars. Gently braking to a stop allows the drivetrain to feed the energy back into the batteries. The energy you loose due to wind resistance is gone, but you can convert your momentum back to usable energy with gentle stops. If you like to stand on the gas and stomp on the brakes, these cars won't save you much. And you drive like an asshole.
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another optical disk format.
This is ridiculous. Who the hell has the time, resources or access to search hundreds of thousands of cases of Coke?
Your office has an mp3 server? Things been a little slow lately?
The shower curtain is still wayyy safer than the keyboards in our Editorial department. No, these are not mahogany keyboards, that is filth.
I agree that pay for teachers could be better, but we need to remember that most teachers get as much as 3 months (between summer, xmas vacation and spring break) off each year. The lower pay is a trade-off for all of the free time.
I agree with you, but this is not really science fiction, it's science fantasy. I really enjoy "hardcore" sci-fi, but this stuff is just boring. It's such an obvious fabrication that I never get involved with the story.
I don't really care about the subject matter here, but it sure is nice to see someone post something like this non-AC. Anybody else tired of the little AC bitches? Fenix gots balls.
Nice to see these scumbags get the type of press coverage they deserve. Sometimes they get it right out there in Cali!
50 GB of music on your laptop? You might want to stop using AIFF files.
When I think of Canada creating something, I think beer and mountain bikes.
Lara Roxx.
the return of "my dog ate my homework' excuse. With operating systems getting more reliable, we'll need to return to this old standby.
Recompression of any media file damages it to some extent, photos, video or audio. I suggest you check your facts, compressing something throws away data, decompressing and recompressing something throws away MORE DATA. The data does not magically reappear. This does not apply to switching uncompressed formats however.
I don't know about you dude, but I have about 20,000 calories of crumbs in my keyboard.
Per your specifications. http://www.k2bikes.com/02site/mountain/flyin_monke y.html
One interesting part of the development of color tv relates to the YUV color space used. This color space calculates color by the difference between two of the channels, the third channel is the detail. So BW tv's just ignore the color channels and color tv's add them in. YUV in roughly the same as the LAB color space used in Photoshop. Open a photo and convert it to LAB, then look at the channels. Rather brilliant solution, huh?