actually, massive distribution of collaborative video games to bored youth could significantly divert the teenage need for entertainment and belonging away from pseudoreligious/ethnic street gangs...bread and circuses: highly underrated in current foreign policy.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD) for a single gallon
you mean, it's 8.99 for a FDA-approved *edible* gallon in an individual container. a 5-gallon keg of XXX smushed-from-the-ugly-plants could be cheaper.
it should also be noted that their car is getting 50-miles-to-the-gallon with an engine big enough to do 0-60 in 4 seconds. cut that engine down for 80mpg, then hybridize it for 120mpg, and $9 a gallon for oil suddenly sounds a lot less (7.5 cents a mile as opposed to 8.3 cents for a 30mpg car at $2.50 a gallon for gas)
with these silly rules if you're the owner of an older HD-TV then pirate copies (without the protection and consequent 'down-rezzing' of the component video) could potentially give you 4 times the resolution of what you'd get from the legit version.
any mods that fail to mark you +5 insightful deserve their low-res output.
does this mean Intel is actually actively trying to chase off all the geek customers that were just starting to consider not despising them again when the Yonah benchmarks came in? or did some middle-manager just accidentally outsource their public relations to Sony?
"Surround the electric motors in a feedback loop based on the radar/visual/whatever range to the car in front of you....Kick your feet up and relax as your car automatically paces the car in front of you. The acceleration and "braking" would be so gentle you would barely feel it."
Geez....THAT would totally suck the fun out of driving....
not when you hack the firmware to follow little old ladies at a distance of 0.1 inches...
1: dunno. 2: dunno. 3: sure. any dual+ core helps with things like that, if you stay off the swap hard drive. but what really helps things like that is the old-fashioned trick of renicing: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 9473. 4: ha! no.
It's time for Blizzard to step up to the plate and use the massive amounts of money we give them monthly to get some better servers. I'm not so good with math but 5,000,000 users paying 12 dollars a month is.... $60 million?
Oh, and my 35mm SLR doesn't need batteries. I can't say the same for any digital imaging device...
you nincompoop - yes it does. all SLR's, film or digital, need batteries, to cock/release the mirror and shutter.
Oh, and my SLR cost about $120.
yes, and your film+developing costs $8 per roll, or $0.22 per image, which works out to $222 per thousand images. I've taken 30,000 images this year on my digital SLR, which would have cost $6,667 in film. somehow, i think that made up for my $1,500 camera...
hmm...well, theoretically, if we combined a fast-growing form of algae which thrived on emissions with a form of algae that didn't mind cold, hostile environments, and then leaked a whole bunch out of a cooling tower, couldn't we cause an airborne algae bloom? perhaps growing in the sort of big circulating cloud which keeps water drops and hail airborne for several days?
Paintshop Pro is still very good, and still has a relatively faithful following. unfortunately, its niche (better than iphoto, cheaper than photoshop) has grown crowded (photoshop elements, GIMP, etc), so its name gets mentioned less, and, barring innovation, its days are probably numbered (Corel buying Jasc is unlikely to help).
Is digital photo editing finally getting both powerful and easy?"
And it wasn't before?
In my office (where I'm one of the most-experienced Photoshop users), I refer to Adobe's attempts at user-friendliness as "Job Security." Nobody argues.
Actually, this would make discovering harddrive problems much easier.
out of curiosity - on a hotheaded high-speed drive, wouldn't reducing the heat dissipation (on the assumption that the window offers less in that department than aluminum) also make creating hard drive problems much easier?
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For years I was beaten down for my odd views, but now it seems like I'm just one amongst many, even in the mass media. What the hell is going on here?
it's a distance-from-center issue. 8 years ago, with a president chasing every tail on the hill and the biggest thing in the news being sex and violence on TV, most moderates found themselves to the right of government, and liberty-oriented activism was considered radical-far-left. now, when all the news is on domestic surveillance, republican dominance, and DRM, moderates find common ground with anarcaps. the point: enjoy the next decade - you'll be called crazy again in the twenties.
For the cost of printing six trillion in hundreds we can be out of debt.
actually...that would work. of course, the resulting currency devaluation would equal an approximately $20,000 per-person tax...and you might need more than 6 trill if the currency starts plummeting before you're done shelling out the cash. but it would work.
indeed - and the opposite has been reported on Sony (eg: Sandisk best w/Canon, Sony&Lexar w/Sony). basically, when purchasing it's most important to look at compatibility (ref Galbraith's test mention above) - as only certain manufacturers use Lexar's WA tech, and Lexar/Sandisk/etc all have one or more manufacturer where their compatibility is suspect. high-end cards (80x+) are so fast anyway that the differences are generally less than the brain can register on individual files. clearing 25 RAW's out of the buffer they start to show...but anywhere else we're talking individual milliseconds.
I can't name a single one that would accept an SD card.
Nikon D50. All other dSLRs accept CFs, though.
nope again - Canon's pro line (1dmk2/1dsmk2) now have dual slots - CF+SD, so you can cram twice as much storage in, or have in-camera RAID-style backup.
So how is it that, despite the Opera, MSIE, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla icons all looking completely different, people still manage to get onto the web?
simple: those who would be confused have never heard of Opera, Netscape, Firefox or Mozilla, and think "MSIE" is named "The Internet."
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whoops! it's already a hybrid, so cutting down the engine would probably only get you to ~75mpg, meaning 12 cents a mile...
it should also be noted that their car is getting 50-miles-to-the-gallon with an engine big enough to do 0-60 in 4 seconds. cut that engine down for 80mpg, then hybridize it for 120mpg, and $9 a gallon for oil suddenly sounds a lot less (7.5 cents a mile as opposed to 8.3 cents for a 30mpg car at $2.50 a gallon for gas)
i'm glad somebody else saw that. i saw "outsourcing evolving" and assumed it was an article about setting lions loose in NYC.
does this mean Intel is actually actively trying to chase off all the geek customers that were just starting to consider not despising them again when the Yonah benchmarks came in? or did some middle-manager just accidentally outsource their public relations to Sony?
not when you hack the firmware to follow little old ladies at a distance of 0.1 inches...
forget copper: real geeks find water with Potassium!
Wait - when did we add Spirit and Opportunity to the Axis of Evil?
1: dunno./ 9473.
2: dunno.
3: sure. any dual+ core helps with things like that, if you stay off the swap hard drive. but what really helps things like that is the old-fashioned trick of renicing: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
4: ha! no.
It's time for Blizzard to step up to the plate and use the massive amounts of money we give them monthly to get some better servers. I'm not so good with math but 5,000,000 users paying 12 dollars a month is .... $60 million?
most of it goes to NPC salaries. [/deadpan]
Oh, and my 35mm SLR doesn't need batteries. I can't say the same for any digital imaging device...
you nincompoop - yes it does. all SLR's, film or digital, need batteries, to cock/release the mirror and shutter.
Oh, and my SLR cost about $120.
yes, and your film+developing costs $8 per roll, or $0.22 per image, which works out to $222 per thousand images. I've taken 30,000 images this year on my digital SLR, which would have cost $6,667 in film. somehow, i think that made up for my $1,500 camera...
hmm...well, theoretically, if we combined a fast-growing form of algae which thrived on emissions with a form of algae that didn't mind cold, hostile environments, and then leaked a whole bunch out of a cooling tower, couldn't we cause an airborne algae bloom? perhaps growing in the sort of big circulating cloud which keeps water drops and hail airborne for several days?
Paintshop Pro is still very good, and still has a relatively faithful following. unfortunately, its niche (better than iphoto, cheaper than photoshop) has grown crowded (photoshop elements, GIMP, etc), so its name gets mentioned less, and, barring innovation, its days are probably numbered (Corel buying Jasc is unlikely to help).
In my office (where I'm one of the most-experienced Photoshop users), I refer to Adobe's attempts at user-friendliness as "Job Security." Nobody argues.
If only the whole planet could decide once and for all to use the same bloody units and notations, the world would surely be a better place...
you're totally like the MMLXVIIth person to suggest that, dude.
Actually, this would make discovering harddrive problems much easier.
out of curiosity - on a hotheaded high-speed drive, wouldn't reducing the heat dissipation (on the assumption that the window offers less in that department than aluminum) also make creating hard drive problems much easier?
For years I was beaten down for my odd views, but now it seems like I'm just one amongst many, even in the mass media. What the hell is going on here?
it's a distance-from-center issue. 8 years ago, with a president chasing every tail on the hill and the biggest thing in the news being sex and violence on TV, most moderates found themselves to the right of government, and liberty-oriented activism was considered radical-far-left. now, when all the news is on domestic surveillance, republican dominance, and DRM, moderates find common ground with anarcaps. the point: enjoy the next decade - you'll be called crazy again in the twenties.
For the cost of printing six trillion in hundreds we can be out of debt.
actually...that would work. of course, the resulting currency devaluation would equal an approximately $20,000 per-person tax...and you might need more than 6 trill if the currency starts plummeting before you're done shelling out the cash. but it would work.
When will we have RAID-0 cameras for higher speed?
not any time soon, i'd suspect - the current cards can write faster than the little camera CPU's can process and feed them data.
indeed - and the opposite has been reported on Sony (eg: Sandisk best w/Canon, Sony&Lexar w/Sony). basically, when purchasing it's most important to look at compatibility (ref Galbraith's test mention above) - as only certain manufacturers use Lexar's WA tech, and Lexar/Sandisk/etc all have one or more manufacturer where their compatibility is suspect. high-end cards (80x+) are so fast anyway that the differences are generally less than the brain can register on individual files. clearing 25 RAW's out of the buffer they start to show...but anywhere else we're talking individual milliseconds.
I can't name a single one that would accept an SD card.
Nikon D50. All other dSLRs accept CFs, though.
nope again - Canon's pro line (1dmk2/1dsmk2) now have dual slots - CF+SD, so you can cram twice as much storage in, or have in-camera RAID-style backup.
So how is it that, despite the Opera, MSIE, Netscape, Firefox and Mozilla icons all looking completely different, people still manage to get onto the web?
simple: those who would be confused have never heard of Opera, Netscape, Firefox or Mozilla, and think "MSIE" is named "The Internet."
that's...that's...oh...that's just...excuse me, i think i have to go hide under something now.
Did I miss any?
only one: "I B41LDZ3D MIN3 L4PTOPZ F0R ONLYZ 98 DO11AR$ AND 1TZ M3G4FAST SO QU4NT4 IZ THE DUMZZERS!!!!!!!!111111two.