I actually have a friend that digs ditches for a living. Funny thing is, out of all the people I know, he makes the most money. He's not the sharpest crayon in the box by any means, but he is a Good ol' Boy and has connections with almost every contracter that works in our local metro area. He started in his late teens with a rented ditch witch and a beater pickup truck and now in his 30's he owns enough equipment to keep 5 crews going constantly, has paid off his home completely, and just built a workshop and started a small local dirt-track race team. This is compared to other friends of mine who have college degrees, 2nd mortgages on their homes to pay off school loans, and live month to month trying to keep up with the joneses.
Frankly, I'm wishing I never listened to my mom's advice when she would ask me "Do you want to grow up to be a ditch digger?". These days ditch digging seems to be paying off a lot better than my engineering degree.
...the ribbon above the break will "fall up" even if the break is only six feet above the sea level. I'd hate to be on the station if that occurs - you'd get flung out into space beyond reach any sort of timely rescue..
Stabilizer jets as well as momentum arrest thrusters could be deployed very early on to the station just in case of such an occurance.
You are correct on the consumer camcorder part, at least these days. In the old days a telesync camera was a specialized camera that would match the recording framerates to the displayed framerates of the projector to elminate flickering. These days a top end consumer camcorder is used and the flickering is filtered out using a PC.
The only thing differentiating a cam from a telesync is that a cam's audio is taken straight from the cam recording. The telesync audio is taken from a direct source, such as a hearing aid port put into certain seats in theaters, or as of late, using a laptop with appropriate hardware to pick up and record audio from one of the few remaining drive in theaters that use a low-power FM broadcast.
I actually have played nearly 20 hours on it this week alone and I will be going out to purchase the boxed game next paycheck. Even with bugs, it's a much better game than those that came before it.
Every game I have gone to buy at the store without a decent demo or pirating the damn thing ends up being a steaming pile of shit that I never spend more than a few hours with.
What do they imagine you might be carrying that can't be used as a weapon?
That's why I hear that Chuck Norris is on the "Do Not Fly" list, not that any airport screener has yet to have the balls to inform him of this. Because we all know, if you have the balls to inform Charles of bad news, you are about to not have any balls at all.
It's possible some marketing wonk put out a memo that ATI is now "HDCP ready", and that propogated to all press releases without proper oversight or anyone picking and choosing which cards support it and which don't.
Also this wouldn't be the first time a Vid card company completely missed supporting one of their technology checkmarks that are only useful in the current gen as selling points. Checkmarking "Buzzwords" that are only half supported, if available at all, is as old as PC itself. So this shouldn't be that surprising.
Most enthusiasts will upgrade again before Vista comes out.
And out of the people who are left that want to display HD content will surely find cheap replacements that have no problem doing so.
Until more people learn to read advertisements critically and learn that knowing exactly what you're buying is important, companies will continue to perpetuate these deceiving business practices.
I just wish companies would stop putting products in boxes that look like they were designed to sell GI Joe toys to 10 year olds. If I didn't keep up with the current state of graphics I wouldn't even know what half the words on the boxes were suppose to mean, not that they matter, but I would probably think they sound pretty cool. All that 4x Ansio-Truform with 8.2 Gigaflips of Pure3D Inside with GeeDeeDeR-3 Ram would definitly distract me from noticing if it really did H-DVDA video playback as well.
I have also seen something shot on a really old VHS camcorder and edited in camera win awards and have people in the audience clamoring to see it again.
El Mariachi by Robert Rodriguez would be considered a very good example of making do with VHS equipment on a shoestring budget. That movie still holds up today and I find it to be much better than it's higher budget *remake/sequel* Desperato.
I can honestly say I have heard of a PC watercooling units leaking, but ususally NOT onto the motherboard itself. Because of the horizontal mountings they usually tend to leak down onto the northbridge and or graphics/audio cards that lie below, frying them nicely.
Now that I have that snarky comment out of the way. The worst offenders are the ones that have the clear acrylic tops over the copper bottom plates. Seems the acrylic units tend to crack around the connectors because of people being so careful to prevent leaks they overtighten the clamps putting undue stress on them causing premature failure of the part.
And the machines should be developed by national research labratory in a completely open and transparent way
Yes exactly, myself I would go with the completely acrylic case with Blue LEDs.
Nothing says l33tness like Blue LEDs with acrylic and.. UV reactive water-cooling...
Jeez, they would be beating back the Nerds and Noobs from the polling places.
Imagine getting online on a Tuesday and seeing,
"my candidate just pwned joor candidate, LOLOBQQ Voting Roxors!!!"
I believe it was Jello Biafra who once said, over a decade ago no less, "The more we dole out Freedom over there, the more they take it away over here."
What about CD's that contain NO lyrics what-so-ever, or have had the lyrics pared away from the original product.
Lets take older music for example. An original Led Zepplin Album (most any of them) had an album liner inside that contained Lyrics. Later pressings, because of cost cutting, came with blank album liners without the lyrics. There was the RE-Release to cassette in the 80's, no lyrics there either. Then the re-mastered re-re-release CD also comes sans lyrics, actually the copies I have are single page inserts with blank white backs.
At this point you are either forced to buy the box set with lyric booklet, or find the original album that has the intact liner w/ lyrics, or do without. Unless you want to do something, like go online and search for them, that they are now trying to make illegal?
I believe it depends on the state you live in. In the state I live in, when my car was totaled, my insurance company towed it away BEFORE they would cut me a check, told me it was SOP. They then settled with the other company for reimbursment.
Yet, a friend of mine who lives in a different state, when his car was totaled drove the car over to his insurance company, picked his check up, and drove the car back home. He said other than the fact that it had become a sidewinder and the whole front end was held together with duct tape, he continued to use it as a fair-weather daily driver for nearly 6 more months. When he saved enough to put down for a new car (he got a very piddly insurance payout) he wasn't allowed to trade the old one in as it was listed as TOTALED on the title. So he picked up his new truck and drove the old car over to a scrapyard where he got a small payout from that as well.
I believe these states, like mine, have it set that you cannot do what my friend did above, certainly driving around in a totaled car is unsafe. But more-so because its a true scam where people keep the totaled out car, repair it just enough to get them by, and then continue to drive it for years, while using the insurance payout to payoff the car or put in their pockets.
iNSOMNIA is a direct tie-in to DT series. It had a boy who was to go on from that story to, what I was lead to believe, have a more pivitol role in DT world.
As is part of Hearts in aTLANTIS. Brautigan in the first part of the book was cast as a central character as well.
"The Eyes of the Dragon" land of Delain(I believe?) was presented as the birthplace of Walter/Flagg/ManInBlack in the DT series.
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When 2 nerds argue a major plot point of a 10+ year old 30-min cartoon you know you're on Slashdot.
I actually have a friend that digs ditches for a living. Funny thing is, out of all the people I know, he makes the most money. He's not the sharpest crayon in the box by any means, but he is a Good ol' Boy and has connections with almost every contracter that works in our local metro area. He started in his late teens with a rented ditch witch and a beater pickup truck and now in his 30's he owns enough equipment to keep 5 crews going constantly, has paid off his home completely, and just built a workshop and started a small local dirt-track race team. This is compared to other friends of mine who have college degrees, 2nd mortgages on their homes to pay off school loans, and live month to month trying to keep up with the joneses.
Frankly, I'm wishing I never listened to my mom's advice when she would ask me "Do you want to grow up to be a ditch digger?". These days ditch digging seems to be paying off a lot better than my engineering degree.
...the ribbon above the break will "fall up" even if the break is only six feet above the sea level. I'd hate to be on the station if that occurs - you'd get flung out into space beyond reach any sort of timely rescue..
Stabilizer jets as well as momentum arrest thrusters could be deployed very early on to the station just in case of such an occurance.
You are correct on the consumer camcorder part, at least these days. In the old days a telesync camera was a specialized camera that would match the recording framerates to the displayed framerates of the projector to elminate flickering. These days a top end consumer camcorder is used and the flickering is filtered out using a PC. The only thing differentiating a cam from a telesync is that a cam's audio is taken straight from the cam recording. The telesync audio is taken from a direct source, such as a hearing aid port put into certain seats in theaters, or as of late, using a laptop with appropriate hardware to pick up and record audio from one of the few remaining drive in theaters that use a low-power FM broadcast.
Maybe they are onto something.
I've yet to see a slashdotter deny that they like playing with their penis, regardless of how diminutive and urine producing it may be.
You DO realize that the Revolution will ship in the U.S. before it ships in Japan?
Which kinda negates pretty much your ENTIRE argument.
Into Alpo dogfood cans?
Independence Day.
Had to sign a waiver to be able to watch the movie.
Why?
Seats removed in the back of the theater for 2 marshall stacks. Seriously.
I actually have played nearly 20 hours on it this week alone and I will be going out to purchase the boxed game next paycheck. Even with bugs, it's a much better game than those that came before it.
Every game I have gone to buy at the store without a decent demo or pirating the damn thing ends up being a steaming pile of shit that I never spend more than a few hours with.
Yeah I actually had to read half the article to find that out. There goes my slashdot credibility.
HA!
You had me going there.
All the way until the - and sex part.
But I will give you an A for effort.
I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney. The guy lived, and he still has his civil liberties.
Yeah.
But no matter how you cut it civil liberties won't shoot you in the face.
What do they imagine you might be carrying that can't be used as a weapon?
That's why I hear that Chuck Norris is on the "Do Not Fly" list, not that any airport screener has yet to have the balls to inform him of this. Because we all know, if you have the balls to inform Charles of bad news, you are about to not have any balls at all.
It's possible some marketing wonk put out a memo that ATI is now "HDCP ready", and that propogated to all press releases without proper oversight or anyone picking and choosing which cards support it and which don't.
Also this wouldn't be the first time a Vid card company completely missed supporting one of their technology checkmarks that are only useful in the current gen as selling points. Checkmarking "Buzzwords" that are only half supported, if available at all, is as old as PC itself. So this shouldn't be that surprising.
Most enthusiasts will upgrade again before Vista comes out.
And out of the people who are left that want to display HD content will surely find cheap replacements that have no problem doing so.
Until more people learn to read advertisements critically and learn that knowing exactly what you're buying is important, companies will continue to perpetuate these deceiving business practices.
I just wish companies would stop putting products in boxes that look like they were designed to sell GI Joe toys to 10 year olds. If I didn't keep up with the current state of graphics I wouldn't even know what half the words on the boxes were suppose to mean, not that they matter, but I would probably think they sound pretty cool. All that 4x Ansio-Truform with 8.2 Gigaflips of Pure3D Inside with GeeDeeDeR-3 Ram would definitly distract me from noticing if it really did H-DVDA video playback as well.
I have also seen something shot on a really old VHS camcorder and edited in camera win awards and have people in the audience clamoring to see it again.
El Mariachi by Robert Rodriguez would be considered a very good example of making do with VHS equipment on a shoestring budget. That movie still holds up today and I find it to be much better than it's higher budget *remake/sequel* Desperato.
I can honestly say I have heard of a PC watercooling units leaking, but ususally NOT onto the motherboard itself. Because of the horizontal mountings they usually tend to leak down onto the northbridge and or graphics/audio cards that lie below, frying them nicely. Now that I have that snarky comment out of the way. The worst offenders are the ones that have the clear acrylic tops over the copper bottom plates. Seems the acrylic units tend to crack around the connectors because of people being so careful to prevent leaks they overtighten the clamps putting undue stress on them causing premature failure of the part.
And the machines should be developed by national research labratory in a completely open and transparent way
Yes exactly, myself I would go with the completely acrylic case with Blue LEDs.
Nothing says l33tness like Blue LEDs with acrylic and.. UV reactive water-cooling...
Jeez, they would be beating back the Nerds and Noobs from the polling places.
Imagine getting online on a Tuesday and seeing,
"my candidate just pwned joor candidate, LOLOBQQ Voting Roxors!!!"
OH GODS NO!!!
Now you've gone and done it..
Like a true spawn of satan, all it takes is for someone to invoke his name.. and he appears..
I think that man has shown up on more internet forums than the infamous goatse.cx pics.
I believe it was Jello Biafra who once said, over a decade ago no less,
"The more we dole out Freedom over there, the more they take it away over here."
What about CD's that contain NO lyrics what-so-ever, or have had the lyrics pared away from the original product.
Lets take older music for example.
An original Led Zepplin Album (most any of them) had an album liner inside that contained Lyrics. Later pressings, because of cost cutting, came with blank album liners without the lyrics. There was the RE-Release to cassette in the 80's, no lyrics there either. Then the re-mastered re-re-release CD also comes sans lyrics, actually the copies I have are single page inserts with blank white backs.
At this point you are either forced to buy the box set with lyric booklet, or find the original album that has the intact liner w/ lyrics, or do without. Unless you want to do something, like go online and search for them, that they are now trying to make illegal?
NO. It's just a ripoff of Pretty Vacant, by the Sex Pistols.
I believe it depends on the state you live in. In the state I live in, when my car was totaled, my insurance company towed it away BEFORE they would cut me a check, told me it was SOP. They then settled with the other company for reimbursment.
Yet, a friend of mine who lives in a different state, when his car was totaled drove the car over to his insurance company, picked his check up, and drove the car back home. He said other than the fact that it had become a sidewinder and the whole front end was held together with duct tape, he continued to use it as a fair-weather daily driver for nearly 6 more months. When he saved enough to put down for a new car (he got a very piddly insurance payout) he wasn't allowed to trade the old one in as it was listed as TOTALED on the title. So he picked up his new truck and drove the old car over to a scrapyard where he got a small payout from that as well.
I believe these states, like mine, have it set that you cannot do what my friend did above, certainly driving around in a totaled car is unsafe. But more-so because its a true scam where people keep the totaled out car, repair it just enough to get them by, and then continue to drive it for years, while using the insurance payout to payoff the car or put in their pockets.
iNSOMNIA is a direct tie-in to DT series.
It had a boy who was to go on from that story to, what I was lead to believe, have a more pivitol role in DT world.
As is part of Hearts in aTLANTIS.
Brautigan in the first part of the book was cast as a central character as well.
"The Eyes of the Dragon" land of Delain(I believe?) was presented as the birthplace of Walter/Flagg/ManInBlack in the DT series.
It might just be the wife and her friend who are on the "mound".