Re:Overhead projector + LCD panel = home theater
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to get the real theater feel be sure to spill liberal amounts of "buttery flavor topping" and sticky soft drinks on the floor in front of your seating. if you arrange them just right, you can really surprise your visitors when one foot is locked down tight to a sticky spot while the other foot slides out on a slippery spot.
oh, and if you're going to be watching adult films, i'd put the brakes on the "theater feel" realism right where you're at.
what i don't understand is why didn't they make the special player a region-free player, so that it wouldn't care if one of the discs had been encoded to a region?
no kidding, a link from Slashdot that doesn't have rel=nofollow is telling Google that we think his site is useful. adding rel=nofollow isn't editing, on the contrary it is a way to Google to say that we can't comment on the quality of that site. this is exactly what rel=nofollow is supposed to be for. here's some snippets from that article detailing its use :
When added to any link, it will serve as a flag that the link has not been explicitly approved by the site owner.
in the post above the site owner, CmdrTaco, has explicitly disapproved with the content on the site ("Both use their return link to link a web page which is, in my opinion, pretty worthless."). the very least that you can do is add meta information that says that you aren't linking there for its usefulness
Once added, the search engines supporting the attribute will understand that the link has not been vetted in some way by the site owner. Think of it as a way to flag to them, "I didn't post this link -- someone else did."
the links in the article are being checked for relevance and content, but for some reason the link by the submitter is being given a free pass, so it should be rel=nofollow. do it to every single submission and no one can claim bias.
imo, the most relevant solution to this problem was glossed over in one paragraph in order to hash over solutions that no one will agree on.
For example, once the copyright expires you ought to be able to do anything you want with the book, including making copies. However, your version will still be locked.
when the copyright expires, i imagine you'd be able to get a new unlocked version for free. i'm not sure what copyright unlocking would do to your paperback anyway, it's still a physical object that has the limitations of that format when it comes to copying
exactly, neither of them is responsible for the quality of programs on their OS. the list is totally worthless except for what it's intended: a central clearinghouse to find out any software that you might have that has bugs. it's not an evaluation of operating systems, and it's not a reflection of the quality of them.
there's one spot in that article that is in-error, but i don't know enough about rockets to be able to correct it :
In the case of super-roc or backgliding rockets, the centre of gravity and the centre of gravity are as close as possible, so it spins around, which slows down it's descent.
not sure how to make note of this on Wikipedia itself, do you just edit the discussion page?
uh oh, they're trying to outdo each other! here's the MIT museum described :
Holography: The Light Fantastic features an awe-inspiring sampling of twenty-three historic holograms from the MIT Museum holography collection--the world's largest
and this is from the Museum of Holography website :
It is perhaps the only, and certainly the most complete, such institution in the country, if not the world.
Details about the service outside the US are sketchy. Mr Page said he expected different content to be available in different parts of the world, depending on rights issues.
"The rights for video are really complicated so generally you are going to see video that is licensed for particular countries," he said.
i think 132 hours of TV a year would be quite low compared to your typical viewer, but i guess the question really is how 132 hours of cable content + unlimited hours of local content compares (i.e. if you maximized value and bought only cable content with your 132 hours, do you typically only watch 20 minutes of cable TV a day?).
i bet you didn't see the CD die to the Mini-Disc and DAT revolution either
to be honest, there's already more crappy extras on the DVDs that i buy now than i have any interest in, and apparently DVDs already look better on HDTV than a standard definition one (i don't own one to say) so they have some built-in growth potential. i think i'll be keeping my DVDs a while, but i am curious how much better quality the source media for older TV programs really could be.
take a look at the vulnerabilities list before you get upset. here's one from the UNIX list :
Clam Anti-Virus ClamAV Mac OS X Command Execution
someone is going to need to explain to me why an error in A. an add-on antivirus software for B. Mac OS X is in any way a reflection on the quality of UNIX. almost all the vulnerabilities are apps like this, there are about 15 tacked onto the UNIX list that are just errors with acrobat reader. so now Linus is responsible for the quality of Adobe's software?
"provided that you have some sort of a motion tracker (ala Nintendo Revolution) or a trackball."
the point is that the number of buttons doesn't have to mean anything, you can have non-button functionality that makes buttons less necessary. that's sort of what the scroll wheel on the IPod does.
it's interesting that as a MCE user who only watches movies directly on his computer, i seem to have way fewer buttons available to me than this remote has. even with a standard keyboard at my disposal, most of the keys appear useless. except for changing channels with the number keys (and typing words in for a search, but no one is proposing a remote with letter keys) you pretty much do everything with the two buttons on your mouse, so it seems like you could easily have a 12 button remote provided that you have some sort of a motion tracker (ala Nintendo Revolution) or a trackball.
i heard that he's going to announce the Front Row Shuffle which has three buttons: "Next Random Channel", "Next Random Volume" and "Fast Forward Some Distance"
i think it was just slightly poor planning by a company making a game for both the PC and Mac, or else the penetration levels of 2-button mice on Macs is higher than i think. my Mac is a laptop, so i use a trackpad which is one-button. it's a little awkward, and you have to have played the game to realize just how much you are right-clicking.
it's actually incredibly frustrating to play WoW on a Mac without a 2-button mouse. vendors, mailbox, bankers, AH, auto-attack, inspect, etc all require a right-click and Option+Left Click is not a very smooth process.
The GF (gut feeling) could just be a convienent explanation.
sure makes a good article though, "_____ buys ____ 'just because'." you can't really take a lot away from it, or apply their insight into your own search for hardware
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to get the real theater feel be sure to spill liberal amounts of "buttery flavor topping" and sticky soft drinks on the floor in front of your seating. if you arrange them just right, you can really surprise your visitors when one foot is locked down tight to a sticky spot while the other foot slides out on a slippery spot.
oh, and if you're going to be watching adult films, i'd put the brakes on the "theater feel" realism right where you're at.
because there are no games on the Mac, duh
i didn't mean you'd get it from the manufacturer, i meant from something like Project Gutenberg
what i don't understand is why didn't they make the special player a region-free player, so that it wouldn't care if one of the discs had been encoded to a region?
maybe they can all pile into Steve's living room to watch it!
the links in the article are being checked for relevance and content, but for some reason the link by the submitter is being given a free pass, so it should be rel=nofollow. do it to every single submission and no one can claim bias.
imo, the most relevant solution to this problem was glossed over in one paragraph in order to hash over solutions that no one will agree on.
exactly, neither of them is responsible for the quality of programs on their OS. the list is totally worthless except for what it's intended: a central clearinghouse to find out any software that you might have that has bugs. it's not an evaluation of operating systems, and it's not a reflection of the quality of them.
i'd rather watch holographic porn than holographic episode 3, not even lasers could make those characters lifelike
i think 132 hours of TV a year would be quite low compared to your typical viewer, but i guess the question really is how 132 hours of cable content + unlimited hours of local content compares (i.e. if you maximized value and bought only cable content with your 132 hours, do you typically only watch 20 minutes of cable TV a day?).
i bet you didn't see the CD die to the Mini-Disc and DAT revolution either
to be honest, there's already more crappy extras on the DVDs that i buy now than i have any interest in, and apparently DVDs already look better on HDTV than a standard definition one (i don't own one to say) so they have some built-in growth potential. i think i'll be keeping my DVDs a while, but i am curious how much better quality the source media for older TV programs really could be.
wasn't Active Desktop just MS ripping off Netscape Communicator Channels?
right, that's why i mentioned this part :
"provided that you have some sort of a motion tracker (ala Nintendo Revolution) or a trackball."
the point is that the number of buttons doesn't have to mean anything, you can have non-button functionality that makes buttons less necessary. that's sort of what the scroll wheel on the IPod does.
it's interesting that as a MCE user who only watches movies directly on his computer, i seem to have way fewer buttons available to me than this remote has. even with a standard keyboard at my disposal, most of the keys appear useless. except for changing channels with the number keys (and typing words in for a search, but no one is proposing a remote with letter keys) you pretty much do everything with the two buttons on your mouse, so it seems like you could easily have a 12 button remote provided that you have some sort of a motion tracker (ala Nintendo Revolution) or a trackball.
i heard that he's going to announce the Front Row Shuffle which has three buttons: "Next Random Channel", "Next Random Volume" and "Fast Forward Some Distance"
maybe that 0.00 errors is just a result of a more exotic rounding algorithm than was discussed earlier
i think it was just slightly poor planning by a company making a game for both the PC and Mac, or else the penetration levels of 2-button mice on Macs is higher than i think. my Mac is a laptop, so i use a trackpad which is one-button. it's a little awkward, and you have to have played the game to realize just how much you are right-clicking.
it's actually incredibly frustrating to play WoW on a Mac without a 2-button mouse. vendors, mailbox, bankers, AH, auto-attack, inspect, etc all require a right-click and Option+Left Click is not a very smooth process.
he's using the term girlfriend very loosely, perhaps he should have used quotes