I just downloaded the 480 and expanded it to fullscreen and the 1920 movies from http://orange.blender.org/download and played them both at the same time on my two identical 1920x1200 monitors. I even switched them.
Yes the 1920 is much clearer. However if I would not have them side by side, I would not mind watching the 480 one. 99MB or 815MB. Just to be sure, I also downloaded the 1024 versions, so I can see if there is a difference between avi and mov. Not that much of a difference.
Now these are watched on 24" screens. I could imagine if I had a 60" or bigger then the difference would be more noticeble, but then the distance I would watch it would be bigger as well, making it all even out again.
So if I need to select between 'normal' tv and HD, then I will stick to what I have as it is not worth the price difference.
The story, for me, is of higher importance then the quality of the medium. As long as there is a big price difference, I will stick to what I have.
First I must point out that I am against pimping, but for legal prostitution. And not out of need, but out of principle.
In Belgium there was a documentary about the prostitution networks. In the past girls where taken under false pretenses and forced to be in prostitution to 'pay back' the people who have abducted them Currently what you see much more is girl who are aware of what they are going to do.
In short the reason for this is pure economics. It is much cheaper to keep a willing then an unwilling subject.
In the long run, yes. From Wikipedia: Dating is a form of courtship, and may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.
Obviously there will be exceptions. Like women who only do it to hook a rich men and get his money and not so much for the sex.
You can't equate prostitution with serving fast food.
Indeed. And the reason is that one is illegal and the other is regulated. Regulate prostitution and it will be much safer then say crab fishing (pun intended).
And with regulate, I not mean make so many laws around it that the only way to oblige is to do it illegally. I mean make it safe and legal.
Free as in beer, not free as in Privacy. Many people think that Privacy has no value. If you ask people about privacy, many will state that it is something to treasure. However just as many are willing to hand it over to others. Privacy is not like Open Source. You can not share it.
And where do you draw the line? What about some trophy wives who do it for the money?
Car analogy. If wives are like cars and you want to have one: Renting a car is illegal. You need to either lease or buy the car. Also you are not allowed to take the car for a ride before you bought it. If you are leasing complicated laws exist where in the end you are forced to buy the car for its new value plus the amount you already paid on lease. The moment you buy the car the value of all of your assets halves.
Tracking should be opt-out by default.People will say that you just need to walk around with a robots.txt tag on your shirt. That is what they say if I bring up that the web should be opt-out by default as well and the robots.txt for sites that want to be included.
Let the excuses of the advantages of opt-in begin.
So instead of actually taking down the Internet, you say that you will and they do it for you.
I just can see the conversation: Hello, this is Mr. terrorist. I am going to take down the Internet -Ha. How do you think you are going to do that? With a phonecall - OMG. I saw that movie WarGames yesterday so I know it is possible. - (Hand over mouthpiece) Shut it down. - You can't take it down anymore. Is it down? -..... - (Hand over mouthpiece) Sigh, turn it back up. Hahaha - Stop calling us. It is not funny anymore. After 5 times. Today.
What you must do is connect the device with an other prisoner, but in such a way that they do not know who the oter one is and if they are too far from each other, the device will explode
I liked pinball machines as well, but I do not so much miss them. They started to get boring once you would get several million points. I did not see the relation of getting 3 million on one thing and 300 on the other. 500 points or even 5000 points was something I could understand, but 1.000.000?
It is like tipping in the USofA. I live in Leuven, Belgium and tipping is NOT custom here. Service (and TVA) are included in the bill. Service is better then some places in Belgium where tipping IS expected.
And it would be a LOT easier for many Americans if it would be clear to all how much you where to pay for the service you have gotten, regardless if this is the service in a restaurant or the service given by a doctor.
I agree that there is a difference between legal and moral. However different places have different morals or customs and then it is easier to inform the people what the customs are.
I use a LOT of OSS software and I never knew I had to contribute back to each and every piece of software that I used in the company. Firefox is, I think, one of the most used products in companies around the world and I am sure almost none of the companies contribute back to that project.
I use the extra width to have two programs open next to each other. Adding stuff to the right of my browser would take away that ability. For me it is one of the reasons to went to bigger screens. So I could use the screen real-estate to have two programs open at the same time while both can be used easily without switching. http://houghi.org/shots/wmaker/left_01.png
Most people are crap at giving Powerpoint presentations but can you really blame them?
Well, yes. First there is already the wording. You should not give a Powerpoint presentation, you should give a presentation and Powerpoint might be a tool to help you with that. It might not be.
When I give a presentation, I use powerpoint to help me put an order in the things I need to bring across. I could easily be writing it down on some memory card and do the presentation from that.
I have given presentations without handouts, except for me, using a whiteboard or a flipover instead of powerpoint, because the beamer would not work. If I can not bring across whatever the message is that I want to bring across without Powerpoint, I am not the right person to bring the message across.
Unfortunatly most Powerpoint Presentations are indeed just that. A Presentation of the Powerpoint slides. The reason often is that the presenter is insecure for whatever reason. Could be that the date he presents is false or he does not know enough about the subject or he is just a timid person who does not want to be there.
HR's the only one with the buzzword matching filter, and lord help any IT department that lets HR do the actual hiring!
I would say if you think the IT department is some exception, that is because you know it. If they are unable to do it for IT, why do you think they are able to do it for any other department?
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I just downloaded the 480 and expanded it to fullscreen and the 1920 movies from http://orange.blender.org/download and played them both at the same time on my two identical 1920x1200 monitors. I even switched them.
Yes the 1920 is much clearer. However if I would not have them side by side, I would not mind watching the 480 one. 99MB or 815MB. Just to be sure, I also downloaded the 1024 versions, so I can see if there is a difference between avi and mov. Not that much of a difference.
Now these are watched on 24" screens. I could imagine if I had a 60" or bigger then the difference would be more noticeble, but then the distance I would watch it would be bigger as well, making it all even out again.
So if I need to select between 'normal' tv and HD, then I will stick to what I have as it is not worth the price difference.
The story, for me, is of higher importance then the quality of the medium. As long as there is a big price difference, I will stick to what I have.
First I must point out that I am against pimping, but for legal prostitution. And not out of need, but out of principle.
In Belgium there was a documentary about the prostitution networks. In the past girls where taken under false pretenses and forced to be in prostitution to 'pay back' the people who have abducted them
Currently what you see much more is girl who are aware of what they are going to do.
In short the reason for this is pure economics. It is much cheaper to keep a willing then an unwilling subject.
In the long run, yes.
From Wikipedia: Dating is a form of courtship, and may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.
Obviously there will be exceptions. Like women who only do it to hook a rich men and get his money and not so much for the sex.
Indeed. And the reason is that one is illegal and the other is regulated. Regulate prostitution and it will be much safer then say crab fishing (pun intended).
And with regulate, I not mean make so many laws around it that the only way to oblige is to do it illegally. I mean make it safe and legal.
Free as in beer, not free as in Privacy.
Many people think that Privacy has no value.
If you ask people about privacy, many will state that it is something to treasure. However just as many are willing to hand it over to others. Privacy is not like Open Source. You can not share it.
And where do you draw the line? What about some trophy wives who do it for the money?
Car analogy. If wives are like cars and you want to have one:
Renting a car is illegal. You need to either lease or buy the car. Also you are not allowed to take the car for a ride before you bought it. If you are leasing complicated laws exist where in the end you are forced to buy the car for its new value plus the amount you already paid on lease. The moment you buy the car the value of all of your assets halves.
But it fills the private held jails. Capitalism in its best form.
that it is the same year as the year of the Linux desktop?
Is this them?
So instead of actually taking down the Internet, you say that you will and they do it for you.
I just can see the conversation: .....
Hello, this is Mr. terrorist. I am going to take down the Internet
-Ha. How do you think you are going to do that?
With a phonecall
- OMG. I saw that movie WarGames yesterday so I know it is possible.
- (Hand over mouthpiece) Shut it down.
- You can't take it down anymore.
Is it down?
-
- (Hand over mouthpiece) Sigh, turn it back up.
Hahaha
- Stop calling us. It is not funny anymore. After 5 times. Today.
If you compare it, the websites are the stores. Internet is a highway to all these stores:
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96q1/internet2.html
http://jeanettes-celebrity-corner.com/wp-content/photos/lindsay_lohan_bikini_al_mo_br.jpg
What you must do is connect the device with an other prisoner, but in such a way that they do not know who the oter one is and if they are too far from each other, the device will explode
Editors? I don't think that word means what the editors think it means.
I liked pinball machines as well, but I do not so much miss them. They started to get boring once you would get several million points. I did not see the relation of getting 3 million on one thing and 300 on the other.
500 points or even 5000 points was something I could understand, but 1.000.000?
It is like tipping in the USofA. I live in Leuven, Belgium and tipping is NOT custom here. Service (and TVA) are included in the bill. Service is better then some places in Belgium where tipping IS expected.
And it would be a LOT easier for many Americans if it would be clear to all how much you where to pay for the service you have gotten, regardless if this is the service in a restaurant or the service given by a doctor.
I agree that there is a difference between legal and moral. However different places have different morals or customs and then it is easier to inform the people what the customs are.
I use a LOT of OSS software and I never knew I had to contribute back to each and every piece of software that I used in the company. Firefox is, I think, one of the most used products in companies around the world and I am sure almost none of the companies contribute back to that project.
I wonder what they will change. The amendment or make the use of these illegal.
I understand that it won't work as it is basically looking for a technical solution for a social problem.
I use the extra width to have two programs open next to each other. Adding stuff to the right of my browser would take away that ability. For me it is one of the reasons to went to bigger screens. So I could use the screen real-estate to have two programs open at the same time while both can be used easily without switching.
http://houghi.org/shots/wmaker/left_01.png
http://pluggedin.kodak.com/post/?id=687843
The date there is October 16, 2007
News? Hardly.
Well, yes.
First there is already the wording. You should not give a Powerpoint presentation, you should give a presentation and Powerpoint might be a tool to help you with that. It might not be.
When I give a presentation, I use powerpoint to help me put an order in the things I need to bring across. I could easily be writing it down on some memory card and do the presentation from that.
I have given presentations without handouts, except for me, using a whiteboard or a flipover instead of powerpoint, because the beamer would not work. If I can not bring across whatever the message is that I want to bring across without Powerpoint, I am not the right person to bring the message across.
Unfortunatly most Powerpoint Presentations are indeed just that. A Presentation of the Powerpoint slides. The reason often is that the presenter is insecure for whatever reason. Could be that the date he presents is false or he does not know enough about the subject or he is just a timid person who does not want to be there.
I would say if you think the IT department is some exception, that is because you know it. If they are unable to do it for IT, why do you think they are able to do it for any other department?
for the military personnel that will be executed just because somebody send them an order.