Well what I don't understand is that they say it would stop digital cameras because their lenses have some sort of coating. How would this stop the people with D-SLRs who use older film lenses on the front of their cameras. I don't think it would be able to stop them much.
You don't by chance know if there is something like that for Opera do you?
It'd be a great help to getting rid of some of these flash advertisements that pop up.
I agree. I'd think noise cancelling would be worse than isolation headphones as the noise cancelling are throwing noise at your ears to cancel out the noise that's outside the headphones. A good isolation set I'd imagine reduces the amount of damage done to your ears as the sound doesn't have to be up so loud.
As an example I picked up a set of Steinhasser (hope I spelled that right) HD280s last week. I decided to go with isolation headphones as opposed to noise-cancelling. These things isolate so well, that I can't hear anything in my apartment with them on (no sound being played). I can't hear my dishwasher or air conditioner, nothing. Plus then when I go to use the volume on my receiver, I can turn the volume down to much much lower than before and still here it better than using another set of headphones.
My phone has 1 GB capacity for storing music. I could upgrade it to 2GB if I wasn't so cheap. Treo 600 works nice enough for music and I can always buy more sd cards to upgrade it to hold more.
Same here, I think I've been throttled too.
There is a distribution center about 20 minutes away. For months, when I dropped a disc in the mail it'd show received later that day and a new one was in my mailbox two days later. So I could do two cycles of discs a week. Now I'm lucky if I get one cycle a week. I'm stopping my subscription at the end of the month.
And yeah I'm one of those heavy users, I'd say in the last years I've rented 500-600 discs easy.
I know exactly what you mean. I keep a 'work mind' seperate from my functioning mind. I only run my work mind from the moment I sit down at my PC till the moment I leave it. Otherwise I completely forget about what i do at work. Maybe this will come back to bite me, and maybe it'll stop me from becoming upper management or something, but it keeps me sane. It also keeps me from being burdened by work during my off hours like I see with some people I know.
Just got back to my desk looking to count down the final hour and find it's been scrubbed.
I feel sorry for all the astronauts who had to go through all the buckling up and such, it was fun to watch such an involved process.
Oh well, better safe than sorry.
As an answer to number 2, it appears that the Emperor WAS losing to Windu. Although he put on a bit of the sappy puppy dog help me Anaking, he's going to kill me routine, I think he knew he would die unless Anakin helped him. In the script it says:
"MACE pushes PALPATINE out to the edge of the ledge. As the Jedi moves closer, the bolts from Palpatine's hands begin to arch back on him. The Chancellor's face begins to twist and distort. His eyes become yellow as he struggles to intensify his powers."
And I know people don't treat the books as cannon, but with the Witches of Dathomir when they used the dark side of the force their skin would bruise and blotch like the Emperors. So I think he was losing and tried giving a last ditch effort with his force powers to stop Windu. When he couldn't be begged Anakin for help.
I don't think it's much of a problem. If the kid is above 13 they can go see the movie. If they are under 13 they probably wouldn't have the money to go see it themselves so their parents would take them to go see the movie anyway and they'd still get in.
Well I'm in your camp. The recent movies are lacking a bit of the magic of the first trilogy. But they are still entertaining. I don't plan on watching the OC because I never have, but I'll record it on my DVR and what might be a first for me in the last sixth months will actually watch a commercial (with the exception of the Super Bowl)
Just a WAG here, and I haven't seen any episodes that haven't been broadcast on SciFi yet, but I'm willing to bet that Baltar is a Cylon himself. That's why he always has the one lady in his head all the time, it's part of the whole Cylon communication system or something. I think he's one of the Cylons that don't realize they are a Cylon.
Nice... and us Americans who have region free DVD players can buy it and cancel our cable subscriptions as the Football season will almost be over and there is nothing else I watch on cable besides Football and Battlestar Galactica.
I can still watch Extreme Home Makeover/Survivor/Amazing Race on broadcast TV.
Thanks for the replys everyone. Since the main purpose of the Mini would be to rip and create movies I have no problem with having it be at a standstill while I'm ripping video (the same thing happens right now while I use my P4, so my P4 would be freed up). Also most of my rips are limited to about 22 gigs of data at a time, and the most I've ever done is about 50 so I imagine the 80 gigs would be plenty of space for me. I usually use it for ripping soccer games and TV shows that I have recorded to my DVR (as I understand it, that's perfectly legal). Now I just have to do my taxes so I can get my rent rebate back and buy a mini:)
I see you do video editing, so maybe you can help me out with this. I currently use my PC for video capturing and editing. Right now I use my camcorder and it's firewire connection to capture the raw DVI to my computer. I'm looking at getting a mini to help with photo and video editing (because I'm tired of not being able to use my PC for hours at a time while capturing video).
I'm looking at the 1.42 Mini and buying 1 gig of third party ram. Will that be enough to allow video capture of the same quality as I am getting on my PC?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Okay I'm not a huge microwave energy buff. But looking at size and weight constraints, is it possible to make a small enough microwave emitter to power the sail from right behind the sail? Basically to have the emitter drug through space so that it is never more than maybe 100 yards behind the sail?
Well because he's not really a droid. He's more of a cyborg I guess. And not knowing any spoilers I'd be willing to bet he's a fallen Jedi or maybe even Darth Sidious' mentor who was crippled a la vader and brought back with cybernetics to still fight.
I don't have mod points so you'll have to deal with a verbal mod up. I rewatched the original trilogy (as almost everyone else did when they were put out on DVD) and watching the end of Return of the Jedi as Luke is battling with the Emperor, one thing I noticed is how real it seemed. No matter how many green screens and CGI you do, it just doesn't seem to give the real feeling that seeing actual props do. Now using CGI for the backgrounds instead of matte painting works nicely, but for foreground elements it just looks much better with models.
I don't know why this got modded down. It makes a good point, there is plenty of old technology around that WON'T blur your face, and anyone who would have been negatively affected by any face blurring (law enforcement, paparazzi, or whatnot) will just buy other products. Plus there is still film to be used.
Thanks for posting your website. I've got a place around here that sells the 600x for about 400 bucks. Which is cheaper than the most expensive frames listed in the article. And while it may seem overkill for most, I could use the 30 gigs of space that come with it, and most of my photos are pretty large so the storage will come in handy.
I look forward to a bit of cutting in a month or two once I get money saved to pick one up.
Thanks for the link on that, I look forward to giving the site a spin when I get home.
Of course I don't understand the why the various media companies get so hyped up about downloading and the like. If I download an album and listen to it, I either trash it if it is crap, or if I like it I go out and buy it. I've done it with many albums (Dido, William Shatner, The Streets, Travis, DJ Hype, etc..) and I tell all my friends/family about the music and encourage them to go out and buy it.
Same deal with a movie, if I watch it through netflix and like it, I buy it and tell all my friends and family to buy it/rent it.
If you put out quality product, you don't have to worry about people downloading it. The majority of people who download it, if they like it enough will buy it. The ones that won't buy it probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place.
brings up an interesting idea in his Ender's Game series of books. What if there were a sort of connection between all the ants, or birds, or creatures that show this sort of behavior, like there was with the buggers in his book. What if there is some sort of connection there that we with current tools cannot detect. Or as George Lucas put it, sort of like the Force. It's there, it allows birds/ants to communicate in a method that we can't detect.
Is that possible?
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I'd never thought of looking there, thanks! Guess I've been too condition to IE in the past to think of even looking for an option like that.
Well what I don't understand is that they say it would stop digital cameras because their lenses have some sort of coating. How would this stop the people with D-SLRs who use older film lenses on the front of their cameras. I don't think it would be able to stop them much.
You don't by chance know if there is something like that for Opera do you? It'd be a great help to getting rid of some of these flash advertisements that pop up.
I agree. I'd think noise cancelling would be worse than isolation headphones as the noise cancelling are throwing noise at your ears to cancel out the noise that's outside the headphones. A good isolation set I'd imagine reduces the amount of damage done to your ears as the sound doesn't have to be up so loud. As an example I picked up a set of Steinhasser (hope I spelled that right) HD280s last week. I decided to go with isolation headphones as opposed to noise-cancelling. These things isolate so well, that I can't hear anything in my apartment with them on (no sound being played). I can't hear my dishwasher or air conditioner, nothing. Plus then when I go to use the volume on my receiver, I can turn the volume down to much much lower than before and still here it better than using another set of headphones.
My phone has 1 GB capacity for storing music. I could upgrade it to 2GB if I wasn't so cheap. Treo 600 works nice enough for music and I can always buy more sd cards to upgrade it to hold more.
Same here, I think I've been throttled too. There is a distribution center about 20 minutes away. For months, when I dropped a disc in the mail it'd show received later that day and a new one was in my mailbox two days later. So I could do two cycles of discs a week. Now I'm lucky if I get one cycle a week. I'm stopping my subscription at the end of the month. And yeah I'm one of those heavy users, I'd say in the last years I've rented 500-600 discs easy.
I know exactly what you mean. I keep a 'work mind' seperate from my functioning mind. I only run my work mind from the moment I sit down at my PC till the moment I leave it. Otherwise I completely forget about what i do at work. Maybe this will come back to bite me, and maybe it'll stop me from becoming upper management or something, but it keeps me sane. It also keeps me from being burdened by work during my off hours like I see with some people I know.
Just got back to my desk looking to count down the final hour and find it's been scrubbed. I feel sorry for all the astronauts who had to go through all the buckling up and such, it was fun to watch such an involved process. Oh well, better safe than sorry.
Some of us have no choice because our work has blocked access to hotmail, yahoo mail, gmail and just about every free webmail server out there.
As an answer to number 2, it appears that the Emperor WAS losing to Windu. Although he put on a bit of the sappy puppy dog help me Anaking, he's going to kill me routine, I think he knew he would die unless Anakin helped him. In the script it says: "MACE pushes PALPATINE out to the edge of the ledge. As the Jedi moves closer, the bolts from Palpatine's hands begin to arch back on him. The Chancellor's face begins to twist and distort. His eyes become yellow as he struggles to intensify his powers." And I know people don't treat the books as cannon, but with the Witches of Dathomir when they used the dark side of the force their skin would bruise and blotch like the Emperors. So I think he was losing and tried giving a last ditch effort with his force powers to stop Windu. When he couldn't be begged Anakin for help.
I don't think it's much of a problem. If the kid is above 13 they can go see the movie. If they are under 13 they probably wouldn't have the money to go see it themselves so their parents would take them to go see the movie anyway and they'd still get in.
Well I'm in your camp. The recent movies are lacking a bit of the magic of the first trilogy. But they are still entertaining. I don't plan on watching the OC because I never have, but I'll record it on my DVR and what might be a first for me in the last sixth months will actually watch a commercial (with the exception of the Super Bowl)
Just a WAG here, and I haven't seen any episodes that haven't been broadcast on SciFi yet, but I'm willing to bet that Baltar is a Cylon himself. That's why he always has the one lady in his head all the time, it's part of the whole Cylon communication system or something. I think he's one of the Cylons that don't realize they are a Cylon.
Nice... and us Americans who have region free DVD players can buy it and cancel our cable subscriptions as the Football season will almost be over and there is nothing else I watch on cable besides Football and Battlestar Galactica. I can still watch Extreme Home Makeover/Survivor/Amazing Race on broadcast TV.
Thanks for the replys everyone. Since the main purpose of the Mini would be to rip and create movies I have no problem with having it be at a standstill while I'm ripping video (the same thing happens right now while I use my P4, so my P4 would be freed up). Also most of my rips are limited to about 22 gigs of data at a time, and the most I've ever done is about 50 so I imagine the 80 gigs would be plenty of space for me. I usually use it for ripping soccer games and TV shows that I have recorded to my DVR (as I understand it, that's perfectly legal). Now I just have to do my taxes so I can get my rent rebate back and buy a mini :)
I see you do video editing, so maybe you can help me out with this. I currently use my PC for video capturing and editing. Right now I use my camcorder and it's firewire connection to capture the raw DVI to my computer. I'm looking at getting a mini to help with photo and video editing (because I'm tired of not being able to use my PC for hours at a time while capturing video). I'm looking at the 1.42 Mini and buying 1 gig of third party ram. Will that be enough to allow video capture of the same quality as I am getting on my PC? Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Okay I'm not a huge microwave energy buff. But looking at size and weight constraints, is it possible to make a small enough microwave emitter to power the sail from right behind the sail? Basically to have the emitter drug through space so that it is never more than maybe 100 yards behind the sail?
Well because he's not really a droid. He's more of a cyborg I guess. And not knowing any spoilers I'd be willing to bet he's a fallen Jedi or maybe even Darth Sidious' mentor who was crippled a la vader and brought back with cybernetics to still fight.
I don't have mod points so you'll have to deal with a verbal mod up. I rewatched the original trilogy (as almost everyone else did when they were put out on DVD) and watching the end of Return of the Jedi as Luke is battling with the Emperor, one thing I noticed is how real it seemed. No matter how many green screens and CGI you do, it just doesn't seem to give the real feeling that seeing actual props do. Now using CGI for the backgrounds instead of matte painting works nicely, but for foreground elements it just looks much better with models.
I don't know why this got modded down. It makes a good point, there is plenty of old technology around that WON'T blur your face, and anyone who would have been negatively affected by any face blurring (law enforcement, paparazzi, or whatnot) will just buy other products. Plus there is still film to be used.
Thanks for posting your website. I've got a place around here that sells the 600x for about 400 bucks. Which is cheaper than the most expensive frames listed in the article. And while it may seem overkill for most, I could use the 30 gigs of space that come with it, and most of my photos are pretty large so the storage will come in handy. I look forward to a bit of cutting in a month or two once I get money saved to pick one up.
Thanks for the link on that, I look forward to giving the site a spin when I get home. Of course I don't understand the why the various media companies get so hyped up about downloading and the like. If I download an album and listen to it, I either trash it if it is crap, or if I like it I go out and buy it. I've done it with many albums (Dido, William Shatner, The Streets, Travis, DJ Hype, etc..) and I tell all my friends/family about the music and encourage them to go out and buy it. Same deal with a movie, if I watch it through netflix and like it, I buy it and tell all my friends and family to buy it/rent it. If you put out quality product, you don't have to worry about people downloading it. The majority of people who download it, if they like it enough will buy it. The ones that won't buy it probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place.
brings up an interesting idea in his Ender's Game series of books. What if there were a sort of connection between all the ants, or birds, or creatures that show this sort of behavior, like there was with the buggers in his book. What if there is some sort of connection there that we with current tools cannot detect. Or as George Lucas put it, sort of like the Force. It's there, it allows birds/ants to communicate in a method that we can't detect. Is that possible?