The fact is that Anime Unleashed and Adult Swim would not be showing anime if it had not been subbed by someone, who then distributed it freely, generating interest, which caused it to be noticed by many people, who wrote letters and emails, which sparked corporate interest and got the Anime licensed. Anime IS the perfect example of how piracy can be a good thing. Because after some of us watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time on Adult Swim we started to wonder what else could be out there, what other anime is still waiting to be watched. Piracy IS good, at least some of the time.
Its the same button layout as the current xbox controller with only a few slight differences. like the logo is supposed to be a button of some sort (no idea exactly what), the black and white were moved to the shoulders (something already done on current xbox controllers), and the start and back buttons are moved as well. the rest are mostly the same. without actually using the controller though its hard to say if anything else was move a millmeter or two...
im using 1.0.3 with 5 tabs open, all to sites with lots of images and other content im only using 33mb. thats according to the virtual memory size, which is the actual usage (30 according to mem usage maximized, 5 while minimized). i dont consider it to be a memory hog by any means.
I am sadly dissapointed in the state of streaming content today. If it works then its clearing not the real media format. The fact is whith my broadband connection and nothing else running, nothing hogging bandwidth, streaming content still does not run well. Its like the old days on my 386 listening to a streaming audio. Seriously Real has done absolutly nothing these last 10 years to improve performance imho. I know they have gone through several codec versions that have made some minor improvments, but performance still leaves me buffering...
Anyways its clear today that the way to go is AVI, you can create a XviD avi file with a low bitrate that downloads in a few minutes, plays for a few minutes, and still has 200% better quality than a real player stream. Which would you prefer? Download once, watch many times? Or download everytime you watch, get crappy video, audio that continuesly bounces from decent quality to crap you cant understand, and streams that cut off for no apparent reason, requiring you to start watching, and downloading, from the very beginning all over again?
or if you dont call the power company first then the cops will show up expecting to find a grow operation with hundreds of plants. boy will they be dissapointed. instead they will just find all your pirated software and music you downloaded off of kazaa.
eh, so im too tired to make the link correctly. sorry about that. here is another link i found http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49473, 00.html ?tw=wn_story_related
Reminds of one guy who builds all his furniture out of computer boxes. unfortionatly I cant find a link for this, otherwise I would provide it. but just to show im not BSing you can see that it was on TV. Ripley's Believe it or not had it on episode 317.. well here is a link, but it only has one pic / database/ep_317a.html>ep317<URL>
refresh? dont you use RSS feeds? hmm i guess what would explain why I never get first post, but whats the point?
Well, your not exactly correct about that...
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I think you're wrong about that. If you notice there is no comma. For connect punctuation you should use a comma before the quotation. Not only that, but the first word of a sentence should be capitalized. You will notice that anonymous is not capitalized. Also I'm not completely certain of this, but since anonymous is used as a name it should be capitalized for that reason. Although, since it may count as a personal pronoun then maybe it doesn't have to be capitalized. Regardless it is still the first word of a sentence.
Ok here is a theory. With IPv6 supposedly the next big thing, do you think that this might aid the introduction of new internet capable devices. Considering the new internet technology supports 430 quintillion addresses per square inch. So, why not use every bit of wiring already in existence in a house? Yeah it may only be good for in the house, but isn't that good enough. No it's not for the LAN games of the future.
Would be nice to have a chip in every light bulb. No need for a special socket, or rewiring, just buy the latest light bulb technology. Oh, you'll see it, I'm sure it will be in the stores some day. Does it really matter what this chip does? It could make the light bulb turn on. But why not throw a chip into everything if you can. Why not make everything better than it is now? It wouldn't make life any better, but who the hell cares when you got all these new fangled contraptions. If all it took to have a wired connection was to plug in the power then it would be more feasible that devices would take advantage. The current proliferation of technology certainly points to this possibility.
I agree and would take this a step further to say google made an amazing decision here. I would never have believed that they would do something like this -- donating to a free internet resource like wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the best general resources of useful knowledge on the net. My support goes to the people at google for making an investment which will likely lead to the proliferation of the best internet knowedge resource.
Now I'm sure that there is no way google would make such an investment if it did not benifit them in some way. And like the above poster mentioned that could mean a testing ground for new search methods. But I get the feeling that on the surface the only difference we might see are links to google in the wikipedia, perhaps a search web bar at the top of the page that uses google. And I also feel for some reason that soon when I am searching on google that my first result could very well be wikipedia.
so the idea is a suit that is completly custom fitted for one individual, right? well im wondering what would happen is that person put on 10lbs, suddenly their suit wont fit anymore and they cant perform the mission? i really hope that they abandon this idea of a skin tight suit that has to be custom fitted for each person. not to mention the whole idea of a single layer, no matter how strong it is, is just a bad idea as well. although this research could lead to some truely great advances, i dont see its goal as the best result.
i think thats the point. i mean who here really cares about Real? personally i would like to see their player and their entire business go bankrupt and never have to hear about them again, except in maybe stories told around a campfire (yeah i can just think of the stories to scare little kids...). instead of ghost stories, or finding dead people, ill tell the story of a true devil, a media player that worse than any freeware player that was ever on the net. and a web site that forced you to pay for a free trial. and an evil troll that suid out of jealousy and spite, all cause he couldnt steal from Apple. mhaahaa
err... maybe a got a little carried away... just a little...
Speaking of old slashdot, since when did such ignorance get to make the headlines.
One time my PC kept shutting down on me for no apparent reason. After about an hour it just kept pooping out on me. I turn it back on, and it would last another 30 minutes before giving up. One day I tried this too many times and something in the back end of the case exploded, leaving tendrils of smoke climbing out the back of the desk.
Turned out the power supply fan wasn't working and it kept heating up my PC, causing it to shut down as a form of protection. But I had friends in high places. For a mere $20, I was able to buy a new power supply and bring the whole system back from the dead, almost a full year later. The key is this: If it's only partially broken you can get away with saving a little cash.
this is true. I am a libertarian. but they really dont do enough to educate people enough on what they stand for, and more importantly the benifits of having a third major party. wouldnt you prefer to not choose the lesser of two evils, but rather choose the canidate you think really is best. personally i think for the presidential election there should be five major parties (which is how many i recall on my ballot, but only two were major). ok there would be a downside, admendments would have to be made to laws, state and federal. but the biggest downside would be that we wont be able to have election night news feeds, since all the races would be closer. it would just take too long to count all the votes. sure you could watch, but you dont get the instant results.
hmm that brings up an interesting point. its after midnight on the east coast, didnt they used to have results by now in years past? i remember when i was yonger going to bed before midnight knowing who the winner was.
Well... how much would you pay for OS X software. They don't currently make money from their OS, true. However that does not mean that they can't make money from their OS. I think that if the OS X software cost $200-$400 then people would buy it. It would sell and make money for Apple. However the issue is that PPC processor isnt exactly like an X86-64 that a modern PC would have. I bet that there would be some incompatability, which would likely cause more headaches than Apple wants to deal with.
Of couse when it came down to it, yeah I would buy it. I like the Mac OS X, but hate that I can't build a Mac. That is what I like best about a PC.
True, Sci-Fi channel shows way too much crap now. cant they save that for the middle of the night when everyone knows that nothing good will be on TV anyway? i dont care if i see re-runs of old sci-fi shows all the time, at least make it sci-fi, not random B movie about some giant insects or whatnot. i remember getting cable just so i could watch sci-fi, now its just another channel that i sometimes watch.
So wait, your telling me while only 1,390 sites found on google misspelled the word "proofreading". While 484,000 got it right? I figure thats fairly good, statistically.
Ok, who are tyhe mods responsable for making that a 3?! I would understand that if the article was on a site requiring some kind of subscription, but its not.
hey look! I dont have to click on a link. thats so grand!
Off topic maybe, but I have an old Datsun 280z that uses red to illuminate the speed indicators as well as just about everything else that gets illuminated. The result, I almost never use my brights. I see better wile driving my car at night than most other people do in thier cars; and there is a clear difference when driving a car with green illuminated displays.
I dont know about you, but I almost never sign exactly the same. Not only that, but nobody ever checks. The way I see it in the end its my responsability to check the signature of anything in question. All credit card receipts are supposed to be sent back to your bank, if you question a charge then the bank will let you check the signature.
Unless something is really important nobody will check your signature, and if it is wouldn't people be more inclined to use retinal scans, or fingerprinting? In the end this test is just for you to check. Or maybe a handwriting specialist that your bank hires in extreme cases.
Yes if it is like a mini-disc or floppy then it would be completly viable, even preferred. but can anyone point me to exact specs for how it will be? right now HD-DVD has more in the way of final spec then Blue-Ray. After all isnt that what the industry is really wating on, not the technology, but the specs for the tech, and a clear standard. look at the 56k modem, 2 standards at first, the tech was there, but there was a problem getting it to become viable at first. not getting final specs out to the public is what is hindering them. after all, inquiring minds need to know!
if they said next week that the cartridge was going to be similar to the mini-disk cart then i would give my support to this technology.
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The fact is that Anime Unleashed and Adult Swim would not be showing anime if it had not been subbed by someone, who then distributed it freely, generating interest, which caused it to be noticed by many people, who wrote letters and emails, which sparked corporate interest and got the Anime licensed. Anime IS the perfect example of how piracy can be a good thing. Because after some of us watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time on Adult Swim we started to wonder what else could be out there, what other anime is still waiting to be watched. Piracy IS good, at least some of the time.
Its the same button layout as the current xbox controller with only a few slight differences. like the logo is supposed to be a button of some sort (no idea exactly what), the black and white were moved to the shoulders (something already done on current xbox controllers), and the start and back buttons are moved as well. the rest are mostly the same. without actually using the controller though its hard to say if anything else was move a millmeter or two...
im using 1.0.3 with 5 tabs open, all to sites with lots of images and other content im only using 33mb. thats according to the virtual memory size, which is the actual usage (30 according to mem usage maximized, 5 while minimized). i dont consider it to be a memory hog by any means.
yes, have you?
I am sadly dissapointed in the state of streaming content today. If it works then its clearing not the real media format. The fact is whith my broadband connection and nothing else running, nothing hogging bandwidth, streaming content still does not run well. Its like the old days on my 386 listening to a streaming audio. Seriously Real has done absolutly nothing these last 10 years to improve performance imho. I know they have gone through several codec versions that have made some minor improvments, but performance still leaves me buffering...
Anyways its clear today that the way to go is AVI, you can create a XviD avi file with a low bitrate that downloads in a few minutes, plays for a few minutes, and still has 200% better quality than a real player stream. Which would you prefer? Download once, watch many times? Or download everytime you watch, get crappy video, audio that continuesly bounces from decent quality to crap you cant understand, and streams that cut off for no apparent reason, requiring you to start watching, and downloading, from the very beginning all over again?
or if you dont call the power company first then the cops will show up expecting to find a grow operation with hundreds of plants. boy will they be dissapointed. instead they will just find all your pirated software and music you downloaded off of kazaa.
eh, so im too tired to make the link correctly. sorry about that. here is another link i found, 00.html ?tw=wn_story_related
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,49473
Reminds of one guy who builds all his furniture out of computer boxes. unfortionatly I cant find a link for this, otherwise I would provide it. but just to show im not BSing you can see that it was on TV. Ripley's Believe it or not had it on episode 317.. well here is a link, but it only has one pic / database/ep_317a.html>ep317<URL>
well of course, it wouldnt be april fools on slashdot without alienating the viewers.
refresh? dont you use RSS feeds? hmm i guess what would explain why I never get first post, but whats the point?
I think you're wrong about that. If you notice there is no comma. For connect punctuation you should use a comma before the quotation. Not only that, but the first word of a sentence should be capitalized. You will notice that anonymous is not capitalized. Also I'm not completely certain of this, but since anonymous is used as a name it should be capitalized for that reason. Although, since it may count as a personal pronoun then maybe it doesn't have to be capitalized. Regardless it is still the first word of a sentence.
Ok here is a theory. With IPv6 supposedly the next big thing, do you think that this might aid the introduction of new internet capable devices. Considering the new internet technology supports 430 quintillion addresses per square inch. So, why not use every bit of wiring already in existence in a house? Yeah it may only be good for in the house, but isn't that good enough. No it's not for the LAN games of the future.
Would be nice to have a chip in every light bulb. No need for a special socket, or rewiring, just buy the latest light bulb technology. Oh, you'll see it, I'm sure it will be in the stores some day. Does it really matter what this chip does? It could make the light bulb turn on. But why not throw a chip into everything if you can. Why not make everything better than it is now? It wouldn't make life any better, but who the hell cares when you got all these new fangled contraptions. If all it took to have a wired connection was to plug in the power then it would be more feasible that devices would take advantage. The current proliferation of technology certainly points to this possibility.
Now I'm sure that there is no way google would make such an investment if it did not benifit them in some way. And like the above poster mentioned that could mean a testing ground for new search methods. But I get the feeling that on the surface the only difference we might see are links to google in the wikipedia, perhaps a search web bar at the top of the page that uses google. And I also feel for some reason that soon when I am searching on google that my first result could very well be wikipedia.
so the idea is a suit that is completly custom fitted for one individual, right? well im wondering what would happen is that person put on 10lbs, suddenly their suit wont fit anymore and they cant perform the mission? i really hope that they abandon this idea of a skin tight suit that has to be custom fitted for each person. not to mention the whole idea of a single layer, no matter how strong it is, is just a bad idea as well. although this research could lead to some truely great advances, i dont see its goal as the best result.
Actually there are a lot of places in texes that do not have speed limits, or are 75mph. i remember this from eight years ago when i lived in texas.
err... maybe a got a little carried away... just a little...
this is true. I am a libertarian. but they really dont do enough to educate people enough on what they stand for, and more importantly the benifits of having a third major party. wouldnt you prefer to not choose the lesser of two evils, but rather choose the canidate you think really is best. personally i think for the presidential election there should be five major parties (which is how many i recall on my ballot, but only two were major). ok there would be a downside, admendments would have to be made to laws, state and federal. but the biggest downside would be that we wont be able to have election night news feeds, since all the races would be closer. it would just take too long to count all the votes. sure you could watch, but you dont get the instant results.
hmm that brings up an interesting point. its after midnight on the east coast, didnt they used to have results by now in years past? i remember when i was yonger going to bed before midnight knowing who the winner was.
Well... how much would you pay for OS X software. They don't currently make money from their OS, true. However that does not mean that they can't make money from their OS. I think that if the OS X software cost $200-$400 then people would buy it. It would sell and make money for Apple. However the issue is that PPC processor isnt exactly like an X86-64 that a modern PC would have. I bet that there would be some incompatability, which would likely cause more headaches than Apple wants to deal with. Of couse when it came down to it, yeah I would buy it. I like the Mac OS X, but hate that I can't build a Mac. That is what I like best about a PC.
True, Sci-Fi channel shows way too much crap now. cant they save that for the middle of the night when everyone knows that nothing good will be on TV anyway? i dont care if i see re-runs of old sci-fi shows all the time, at least make it sci-fi, not random B movie about some giant insects or whatnot. i remember getting cable just so i could watch sci-fi, now its just another channel that i sometimes watch.
So wait, your telling me while only 1,390 sites found on google misspelled the word "proofreading". While 484,000 got it right? I figure thats fairly good, statistically.
1390/484000 ~= 0.003
hey look! I dont have to click on a link. thats so grand!
Off topic maybe, but I have an old Datsun 280z that uses red to illuminate the speed indicators as well as just about everything else that gets illuminated. The result, I almost never use my brights. I see better wile driving my car at night than most other people do in thier cars; and there is a clear difference when driving a car with green illuminated displays.
I dont know about you, but I almost never sign exactly the same. Not only that, but nobody ever checks. The way I see it in the end its my responsability to check the signature of anything in question. All credit card receipts are supposed to be sent back to your bank, if you question a charge then the bank will let you check the signature. Unless something is really important nobody will check your signature, and if it is wouldn't people be more inclined to use retinal scans, or fingerprinting? In the end this test is just for you to check. Or maybe a handwriting specialist that your bank hires in extreme cases.
Yes if it is like a mini-disc or floppy then it would be completly viable, even preferred. but can anyone point me to exact specs for how it will be? right now HD-DVD has more in the way of final spec then Blue-Ray. After all isnt that what the industry is really wating on, not the technology, but the specs for the tech, and a clear standard. look at the 56k modem, 2 standards at first, the tech was there, but there was a problem getting it to become viable at first. not getting final specs out to the public is what is hindering them. after all, inquiring minds need to know!
if they said next week that the cartridge was going to be similar to the mini-disk cart then i would give my support to this technology.