I also got a refund check one time from PacBell for $0.01.
Try and beat this: Once, I got a letter from Verizon notifying me that I had been overbilled on a certain tax for the previous year, and that I would soon be receiving a check in the mail for $0.04. Sure enough, a month or so later, they mailed me the check, which I promptly cashed. Then, a month or so after that, they mailed me another letter notifying me that they had sent the check. All told, three separate mailings.
Raise your hand if you bought a player because it plays both SACD and DVD-Audio... Um hmmm.
Well, that would be me. I paid a premium for it, too. After 3+ years with the unit, I now have a grand total of two high-def audio discs -- one in each format. It's a shame, really.
If HD was prevelant in nearly every household, then it would be another story,
Even then, many consumers with HDTVs still think that "the yellow cable is for video" and aren't aware of other options. These are usually the same people who habitually stretch or zoom 4:3 signals to fit their widescreens. Makes me want to kill a dog.
Fantastic! Finally web-developers can start thinking ahead and start using PNGs and other features that were a living hell to implement on IE6!
Sad thing is that because of IE6's one-two punch of inadequacy and ubiquity, I haven't really bothered to learn the (CSS) code that I could have been implementing had IE6 not been so inadequate and ubiquitous.
Given that most people don't take more than one or two per day, the 1 millionth shit would be a monumental occasion. If my math is correct, one would have to take one every 42.048 minutes from birth to age 80 to reach one million.
And M$ says to dev, please install IE7 Beta and test your pages... except that if I do that, it kills IE6, and I can't check my pages as they'll be seen by 90% of visitors...
You can run multiple versions of IE at the same time. Another workaround, of course, is to wait until Netscape incorporates IE7's rendering engine.
AOL, MSN and Yahoo (via relationship with SBC) are all dialup providers. It's not surprising their portals are visited more often by the, erm, underprivileged.
Yeah, but since AOL's base price for dialup is friggin' $23.90, and Verizon's base price for DSL is nine dollars LOWER, the dialup/broadband price stereotypes no longer apply.
Widescreen is often produced by shooting in 4:3 aspect ratio and cropping off the top and bottom of the frame to get a 16:9 aspect ratio. I've noticed this on many DVDs. The fullscreen version actually shows more of the original negative.
It's probably Super 35 you're referring to, except that Super 35 is shot in 1.60:1. The Matrix movies were filmed with this process. The 4:3 versions of the films show more on the top and bottom, but slightly less on the sides.
This may result in a reaction of "Wow! I'm seeing more picture than was shown in theaters!", but really the theatrical image is what was intended to be seen. For Super35 films, 2.35:1 is still the original aspect ratio, because it is the aspect ratio that viewers were intended to see in the theater. Therefore, the widescreen version is still the preferred format. When shooting the film, the director has a TV monitor with a rectangular outline that represents the 2.35:1 image. This shows the director how he needs to frame his shots so that no essential information will be cut out of the frame. The shots are then composed for the 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Well, at least the most published book on Earth, the Bible, is safe from tinkering. Let's hope no one starts revising our ancient history next.
I would hardly consider "language translation" to be "tinkering". The fact that we still have so many of the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts helps to ensure that revisionism doesn't take place. Show us one verse in which the meaning has changed from one translation/version to another.
There might be an inate perceptual advantage too, but I'm not sure if this has been tested.
It has to do with a human eye's visual field of view (FOV). The widescreen format caters more to an eye's FOV than does a 4:3 aspect ratio. While a 4:3 ratio provides less than 1/100th of an eye's FOV, a 16:9 format provides about 1/20th.
Many people complain that the audio level from DVD players is too low. In truth the audio level is too high on everything else. Movie soundtracks are extremely dynamic, ranging from near silence to intense explosions. In order to support an increased dynamic range and hit peaks (near the 2V RMS limit) without distortion, the average sound volume must be lower. This is why the line level from DVD players is lower than from almost all other sources. So far, unlike on CDs and LDs, the level is much more consistent between discs. If the change in volume when switching between DVD and other audio sources is annoying, you may be able to adjust the output signal level on some players or the input signal level on some receivers, but other than that, there's not much you can do.
time to go grab a beer, run to the bathroom, yell at the cat.
Perhaps if you hadn't watched the (beer) ads in the first place, you won't have purchased and consumed said beer, your bladder would be empty, and you would be sober -- and therefore you probably wouldn't yell at the cat. Then what would you do during commercials?
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Try and beat this: Once, I got a letter from Verizon notifying me that I had been overbilled on a certain tax for the previous year, and that I would soon be receiving a check in the mail for $0.04. Sure enough, a month or so later, they mailed me the check, which I promptly cashed. Then, a month or so after that, they mailed me another letter notifying me that they had sent the check. All told, three separate mailings.
I read somewhere that Knuth's secretary has to commit everything to papyrus before he'll even consider looking at it.
Well, that would be me. I paid a premium for it, too. After 3+ years with the unit, I now have a grand total of two high-def audio discs -- one in each format. It's a shame, really.
Hmm, and with a cluster of these, local news stations may now be able to accurately predict the weather six days in advance.
New meaning to the term fast food?
Deciphering code from the Civil War instead of the War on Terror?!? Methinks this is why Kent Boklan is a former NSA employee.
In other news... the CEO of Juniper Networks once tried to tweak his firewall to block all packets that had passed through a Cisco Systems router.
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Given that most people don't take more than one or two per day, the 1 millionth shit would be a monumental occasion. If my math is correct, one would have to take one every 42.048 minutes from birth to age 80 to reach one million.
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It's probably Super 35 you're referring to, except that Super 35 is shot in 1.60:1. The Matrix movies were filmed with this process. The 4:3 versions of the films show more on the top and bottom, but slightly less on the sides.
Source: Amazon.comAh.. brings back memories... I had a deep crush on the girl in that last picture.
I would hardly consider "language translation" to be "tinkering". The fact that we still have so many of the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts helps to ensure that revisionism doesn't take place. Show us one verse in which the meaning has changed from one translation/version to another.
It has to do with a human eye's visual field of view (FOV). The widescreen format caters more to an eye's FOV than does a 4:3 aspect ratio. While a 4:3 ratio provides less than 1/100th of an eye's FOV, a 16:9 format provides about 1/20th.
source (PDF): The Limits of Human Vision (Michael Deering of Sun Microsystems)
Try https://proxify.com/. I use it for all the sites my work's firewall blocks. :-) However, getting through during peak times is a pain.
Box Office Mojo beats the socks off of IMDB in terms of useless box office data. Daily ... Weekend ... Yearly ... All Time ...
Like IMDb, Box Office Mojo seems to be cross-referenced out the wazoo.
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Perhaps if you hadn't watched the (beer) ads in the first place, you won't have purchased and consumed said beer, your bladder would be empty, and you would be sober -- and therefore you probably wouldn't yell at the cat. Then what would you do during commercials?
I think this could be a wanton violation of the Mann Act of 1910.