THE FREE MARKET IS EVIL, DOWN WITH THE CORPORATIST PIGS AND IN WITH OUR NEW ANTI-CORPORATIST OVERLORDS!!!!
The book seller is stealing from other would-be buyers and taking away all the good deals available locally. He owes them a portion, or all, of his profits.
It certainly helped but everyone that went to see it liked it. Charging $15 was not the "primary reason" it made so much. The "primary reason" was that it was an excellent film.
Avatar hit so hard because it felt so real. It was like 2+hour dream. I was floored by it.
aside: they need to a). move to 60fps, or b). work on their motion blur technology
because when you see it on Imax the differences between frames is like 5 feet on the screen, and it's only 24fps, which is OK for normal film because your mind can patch in the lost frames using the blur data, but for digital shots it doesn't have the information to do that.
IMO this was one of the main failures of the architecture. Xbox360 developers just have to worry about parallelizing their code, Cell developers on top of that have to worry about writing code that can make use of the SPE's, let alone efficient use of them.
The Cell was designed back when Sony needed hardware that could decode their high definition blu-ray streams. I think this is why the SPEs are useful for decoding operations and little else in the gaming world.
All of the things Taco is not. So he is the perfect target for trolling, which Taco has just masterfully done.
Taco made major modification to the entire Karma system mostly to frustrate a couple of users. Taco loves to troll folks.
Eh, John's summary is long. I think I can see why this shorter version was chosen. I don't know that Taco was trolling, but I'm not close to any of that political stuff anyways so I don't really; I'm just pointing out I can see why the shorter summary was chosen.
If your/etc directory is 2 gigs, I think you're doing something wrong.
maybe he thought/etc is where he was supposed to put miscellaneous files.
Kinda like my friend who set up my box and 1). forgot to include PATA support in the custom kernel, as a result my drive ran about 1-2MB/s 2). put my user directory in/usr/myname
I did find it humorous how many derided the retailer at being at fault for selling the game. With users like this what hope is there for the old model.
It takes users like that who are stupid enough to bend over for to get hot steam blown up their ass. Make money of them sure, but they are tough to manage when angered.
I wonder if this is a design failure about the game.
Because my memories of Civ2 pretty much sum up everything that I hate about gaming. Sit down to have some fun, get up and you've just passed 8 or so hours. It's like you completely missed the time. I don't even have a memory of it. Other games I get up and can think "ok, that felt like 8 hours, needed that, glad I got it out of me", but Civilizations never has that resolution. As a result, I've no interest in buying it, and would rather just stay away.
Steganographic attempts are considered foiled if someone can detect that there is a secret message, they don't need to be able to retrieve the message in order for the attempt to be considered a failure. I did my Master's project on hiding data in the least significant bitplane of imagery. The trick is to "randomly" scatter your secret message throughout this plane. I showed methods that would allow you to do this so that the data was indistinguishable. You should always encrypt your secret message first so that it looks random, or better yet, shape the statistics of your encoded message to match the noise characteristics that were in the original LSB plane. If you use an image created from a very noisy source, such as a digital camera, and you encrypt the embedded message and scatter it using a reversible algorithm, and iteratively ensure that the statistics of the altered LSB plane look the same as the original LSB plane, I proved that it is not possible for someone to tell that there is a secret message hidden there. However, you need to be careful to use an original image you created yourself, and to destroy the original, because if someone ever compared the original to the one with the embedded message, they could definitely tell there was something altered by comparing the LSB planes.
That's a fascinating idea.
Lots of 1600 ISO images from your camera. Feed them into the software so it can analyze the noise characteristics for imitation later, then it loads the image into RAM, modifies them, and overwrites the old image on the harddrive. Gotta love slashdot for posts like yours.
My professor openly trained students to pass the exam EVERY DAY for A WHOLE SEMESTER at 10am for 1hr! The nerve of the guy! Somehow he's been doing it for a living, too.
This was one thing I loved about my blackberry 8330, searching the address book, calling someone, and texting people was insanely fast. For calling someone, press A for address book, then you just typed "b j [green key] for bob johnson [call] and it called him. For texting I got an app call QSMS, same as "A" for address book, except hitting enter brought you to a text message screen. And I finally got so good at the keyboard I was able to safely text on the highway while watching the road, driving with my knees.
My Motorola Droid's camera has better dynamic range than my 8MP Canon a590is, which used to do all my photographing.
It also is amazing at focusing on closeup shots. Don't have to tell it to change to macro or anything. I think the 5+megapixel cameras are great, thank you very much. I can't zoom, but most of the time the landscape shots I take I don't need to zoom anyways. I do wish I had 8MP though...
I started making a list of the really bad ones, that was after about a day's worth of use near the end of my usage of Swype. My plan was to email the developers with these issues in hopes that I could convince them to provide an alternative keyboard layout, however I just gave up instead. As usual, I'm sure there will be many "Works for me" replies to this, maybe my fingers are huge (I'm only 6') or my screen on my phone is too small (using Motorola Droid).
At least it sucked on my Motorola Droid. It was constantly mixing those words up, there were about another 15 that I regularly ran in to. Extremely frustrating, so I just uninstalled it.
I think the problem may be partly that my phone has a small-ish (non-wide screen when held vertically). The makers of swype desperately needs to rearrange the keyboard to save from these problem-words. Sure, it would take relearning the keys, but it would completely be worth it. Swype was very very fast and easy (texting while not even looking at the phone works if you're using longer words) when it worked. The prompt box (for when it's unsure of a word or you have to change a word) was slow to use and inaccurate (not large enough, again a problem with the screen size, yet many phones have 3.7" screens...)
It's definitely both, but my Droid functions much longer when I'm running the CPU at 550mhz than when I'm running it at 1.2ghz. However, the phone is noticeably much faster when overclocked. So I leave it overclocked, and have it scale down to a max of 250mhz when the screen is off and phone not in use.
My netbook was one of the first to get 7.5hrs on lowest brightness with a 6 cell battery, thanks to the Atom and GMA500 video+bus chip.
I'm going to upgrade my phone when I can get a 2x1Ghz Arm A9 on...probably 32nm is my guess for the sweet spot...Kinda like I waited until the netbooks had 8hrs of battery life before buying one (other people bought them when they had a 1024x600 res screen and 2.5hours battery life...huh???).
some of this stuff like carbs converting to glucose quickly you can find just by reading wikipedia. Similarly facts such as fiber passes through your digestive system, so fibrous vegetables are ok to gorge yourself on, but corn/potates are bad, etc. The idea is to avoid "empty" carbs, carbs without protein or fiber. Try it sometime for a week and see how you feel. I found that I could eat less and felt full longer. Didn't have bouts of extreme hunger at about 4pm. They stay with you longer (harder to process), and the resting blood glucose level isn't as far from what it was when you were full, so your body didn't produce tons of insulin (your brain also uses this as an indicator of whether you're full or not), so when you came down off that insulin you don't start feeling hungry.
There's something about fat in your bloodstream that tells your brain you're full-- you'll have to google for it I don't recall the name or what it is, just the fact-- showing us that cutting all the fat from foods is a terrible idea.
Sorry, not really. I found them when I was reading about NOT eating them, and found the evidence to be conclusive so I didn't bother bookmarking them. You can read more about the general idea if you google for paleological (I think?) diet. Basically, eating like we would if we were hunting/gathering.
Also look into how we didn't start developing diabetes until we adopted the food pyramid and started eating so many carbohydrates, which put your body on an insulin rollercoaster (carbs convert to glucuse very quickly), which leads to insulin resistance (diabetes). Far healthier is maintaining a low blood glucose level, which you do by avoiding sweets and carbs. If you try this yourself you'll notice once you've gotten used to it (took about 3 days for me) you'll stop craving sweets like crazy when you're hungry-- glucose is your brains fuel, and when the relative fuel level drops your brain thinks it's running on empty. This is why you have a sugar crash after eating lots of sweets, or carbs like potatoes, corn, etc.
If kids spent all day reading books instead of playing games would they get equal blame? In both cases a kid is just sitting there doing nothing.
Probably. You've got to remember that our politicians don't want us educated and thinking critically. They don't want us picking apart their speeches and asking them why the new king is running things the same way as the old king.
Cut yogurt and rice (mainly white) please. Especially yogurt. They remove the fat (which makes you feel full) and pump it with sugar. Result is something entirely unfilling and far too sweet.
Also, you can eat as many fibrous/non-starchy veggies as you want and you'll never get fat. They're very filling too when coupled with meat.
Yup. Being active might make you healthier, but I wish everyone would stop equating exercise with weight loss. I wouldn't focus entirely on corn, (though it's a big stupid problem here in the US,) regardless of content people simply eat too much for the kind of lifestyle we live. (lumberjacks have an excuse. I don't.)
I've found exercise to help keep me from gaining weight, but it doesn't really help me lose anything if I keep eating as usual. I have to switch to healthier foods and smaller portions and lots of veggies to notice any weight loss.
> Please, please, PLEASE stop perpetuating the myth that "all calories are created equal" they are not.
Except they are. What different types of food do to different types of people is make it either easier or harder to maintain your "special diet".
Starving one type of person of fat will drive them feral. Doing the same with carbs to another sort of person will drive them feral.
Any diet or longterm change needs to be sustainable for the INDIVIDUAL.
We're not all quite the sort of factory stamped machines that western society likes to make us out to be.
Thus, Jager will not be a problem for some of us (or white bread even).
Once you figure this out, everyone has to accomodate everyone else. THIS is something that's a problem. Whole families need to adjust behavior and quite often many family members refuse to be bothered. It's like white trash with their smoking and drinking habits.
starches aren't filling, that's why people who eat them get fat, because they eat more of them. If you eat meat and fiber (hint: you can eat as many veggies as you want and not get fat) you get full and stop eating. All calories are not created equal.
so stop giving them orange soda, and make them drink water, like I had to. Or, let them drink diet (blah blah cancer blah blah...aside: ever read one of those studies? You have to drink like 7-8 diets/day to develop a 5% greater risk of cancer. If you drank that much in normal soda you'd have diabetes before you can say "these are my testing supplies").
Even fatty proteins are far healthier in moderate quantities than starches. People are getting fat because of the fried fries and the bleached-flour buns, not because of the meat. The meat makes you feel full. The starches do not.
You know I've been noticing this too. I crap more when I've eaten more. UNLESS it's me consuming calories that are simple to digest-- sugar, starches, etc. Those get converted no matter what. The proteins/fibers that I don't need pass through. I think you give the bacteria too much credit. Most fat people I know eat sugars and starches like nobody's business.
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THE FREE MARKET IS EVIL, DOWN WITH THE CORPORATIST PIGS AND IN WITH OUR NEW ANTI-CORPORATIST OVERLORDS!!!!
The book seller is stealing from other would-be buyers and taking away all the good deals available locally. He owes them a portion, or all, of his profits.
It certainly helped but everyone that went to see it liked it. Charging $15 was not the "primary reason" it made so much. The "primary reason" was that it was an excellent film.
Avatar hit so hard because it felt so real. It was like 2+hour dream. I was floored by it.
aside: they need to
a). move to 60fps, or
b). work on their motion blur technology
because when you see it on Imax the differences between frames is like 5 feet on the screen, and it's only 24fps, which is OK for normal film because your mind can patch in the lost frames using the blur data, but for digital shots it doesn't have the information to do that.
Just FYI.
IMO this was one of the main failures of the architecture. Xbox360 developers just have to worry about parallelizing their code, Cell developers on top of that have to worry about writing code that can make use of the SPE's, let alone efficient use of them.
The Cell was designed back when Sony needed hardware that could decode their high definition blu-ray streams. I think this is why the SPEs are useful for decoding operations and little else in the gaming world.
No. Because if being poor is outlawed, then ONLY OUTLAWS WILL BE POOR.
All of the things Taco is not. So he is the perfect target for trolling, which Taco has just masterfully done.
Taco made major modification to the entire Karma system mostly to frustrate a couple of users. Taco loves to troll folks.
Eh, John's summary is long. I think I can see why this shorter version was chosen. I don't know that Taco was trolling, but I'm not close to any of that political stuff anyways so I don't really; I'm just pointing out I can see why the shorter summary was chosen.
Huh?
If your /etc directory is 2 gigs, I think you're doing something wrong.
maybe he thought /etc is where he was supposed to put miscellaneous files.
Kinda like my friend who set up my box and /usr/myname
1). forgot to include PATA support in the custom kernel, as a result my drive ran about 1-2MB/s
2). put my user directory in
made me chuckle
I did find it humorous how many derided the retailer at being at fault for selling the game. With users like this what hope is there for the old model.
It takes users like that who are stupid enough to bend over for to get hot steam blown up their ass. Make money of them sure, but they are tough to manage when angered.
I wonder if this is a design failure about the game.
Because my memories of Civ2 pretty much sum up everything that I hate about gaming. Sit down to have some fun, get up and you've just passed 8 or so hours. It's like you completely missed the time. I don't even have a memory of it. Other games I get up and can think "ok, that felt like 8 hours, needed that, glad I got it out of me", but Civilizations never has that resolution. As a result, I've no interest in buying it, and would rather just stay away.
Steganographic attempts are considered foiled if someone can detect that there is a secret message, they don't need to be able to retrieve the message in order for the attempt to be considered a failure. I did my Master's project on hiding data in the least significant bitplane of imagery. The trick is to "randomly" scatter your secret message throughout this plane. I showed methods that would allow you to do this so that the data was indistinguishable. You should always encrypt your secret message first so that it looks random, or better yet, shape the statistics of your encoded message to match the noise characteristics that were in the original LSB plane. If you use an image created from a very noisy source, such as a digital camera, and you encrypt the embedded message and scatter it using a reversible algorithm, and iteratively ensure that the statistics of the altered LSB plane look the same as the original LSB plane, I proved that it is not possible for someone to tell that there is a secret message hidden there. However, you need to be careful to use an original image you created yourself, and to destroy the original, because if someone ever compared the original to the one with the embedded message, they could definitely tell there was something altered by comparing the LSB planes.
That's a fascinating idea.
Lots of 1600 ISO images from your camera. Feed them into the software so it can analyze the noise characteristics for imitation later, then it loads the image into RAM, modifies them, and overwrites the old image on the harddrive.
Gotta love slashdot for posts like yours.
My professor openly trained students to pass the exam EVERY DAY for A WHOLE SEMESTER at 10am for 1hr! The nerve of the guy! Somehow he's been doing it for a living, too.
This was one thing I loved about my blackberry 8330, searching the address book, calling someone, and texting people was insanely fast.
For calling someone, press A for address book, then you just typed "b j [green key] for bob johnson [call] and it called him.
For texting I got an app call QSMS, same as "A" for address book, except hitting enter brought you to a text message screen. And I finally got so good at the keyboard I was able to safely text on the highway while watching the road, driving with my knees.
My Motorola Droid's camera has better dynamic range than my 8MP Canon a590is, which used to do all my photographing.
It also is amazing at focusing on closeup shots. Don't have to tell it to change to macro or anything. I think the 5+megapixel cameras are great, thank you very much. I can't zoom, but most of the time the landscape shots I take I don't need to zoom anyways. I do wish I had 8MP though...
weird vs. word
out vs. it
I started making a list of the really bad ones, that was after about a day's worth of use near the end of my usage of Swype. My plan was to email the developers with these issues in hopes that I could convince them to provide an alternative keyboard layout, however I just gave up instead. As usual, I'm sure there will be many "Works for me" replies to this, maybe my fingers are huge (I'm only 6') or my screen on my phone is too small (using Motorola Droid).
At least it sucked on my Motorola Droid. It was constantly mixing those words up, there were about another 15 that I regularly ran in to. Extremely frustrating, so I just uninstalled it.
I think the problem may be partly that my phone has a small-ish (non-wide screen when held vertically). The makers of swype desperately needs to rearrange the keyboard to save from these problem-words. Sure, it would take relearning the keys, but it would completely be worth it. Swype was very very fast and easy (texting while not even looking at the phone works if you're using longer words) when it worked. The prompt box (for when it's unsure of a word or you have to change a word) was slow to use and inaccurate (not large enough, again a problem with the screen size, yet many phones have 3.7" screens...)
It's definitely both, but my Droid functions much longer when I'm running the CPU at 550mhz than when I'm running it at 1.2ghz. However, the phone is noticeably much faster when overclocked. So I leave it overclocked, and have it scale down to a max of 250mhz when the screen is off and phone not in use.
My netbook was one of the first to get 7.5hrs on lowest brightness with a 6 cell battery, thanks to the Atom and GMA500 video+bus chip.
I'm going to upgrade my phone when I can get a 2x1Ghz Arm A9 on...probably 32nm is my guess for the sweet spot...Kinda like I waited until the netbooks had 8hrs of battery life before buying one (other people bought them when they had a 1024x600 res screen and 2.5hours battery life...huh???).
some of this stuff like carbs converting to glucose quickly you can find just by reading wikipedia. Similarly facts such as fiber passes through your digestive system, so fibrous vegetables are ok to gorge yourself on, but corn/potates are bad, etc. The idea is to avoid "empty" carbs, carbs without protein or fiber. Try it sometime for a week and see how you feel. I found that I could eat less and felt full longer. Didn't have bouts of extreme hunger at about 4pm. They stay with you longer (harder to process), and the resting blood glucose level isn't as far from what it was when you were full, so your body didn't produce tons of insulin (your brain also uses this as an indicator of whether you're full or not), so when you came down off that insulin you don't start feeling hungry.
There's something about fat in your bloodstream that tells your brain you're full-- you'll have to google for it I don't recall the name or what it is, just the fact-- showing us that cutting all the fat from foods is a terrible idea.
Sorry, not really. I found them when I was reading about NOT eating them, and found the evidence to be conclusive so I didn't bother bookmarking them. You can read more about the general idea if you google for paleological (I think?) diet. Basically, eating like we would if we were hunting/gathering.
Also look into how we didn't start developing diabetes until we adopted the food pyramid and started eating so many carbohydrates, which put your body on an insulin rollercoaster (carbs convert to glucuse very quickly), which leads to insulin resistance (diabetes). Far healthier is maintaining a low blood glucose level, which you do by avoiding sweets and carbs. If you try this yourself you'll notice once you've gotten used to it (took about 3 days for me) you'll stop craving sweets like crazy when you're hungry-- glucose is your brains fuel, and when the relative fuel level drops your brain thinks it's running on empty. This is why you have a sugar crash after eating lots of sweets, or carbs like potatoes, corn, etc.
If kids spent all day reading books instead of playing games would they get equal blame? In both cases a kid is just sitting there doing nothing.
Probably. You've got to remember that our politicians don't want us educated and thinking critically. They don't want us picking apart their speeches and asking them why the new king is running things the same way as the old king.
Cut yogurt and rice (mainly white) please.
Especially yogurt. They remove the fat (which makes you feel full) and pump it with sugar. Result is something entirely unfilling and far too sweet.
Also, you can eat as many fibrous/non-starchy veggies as you want and you'll never get fat. They're very filling too when coupled with meat.
Yup. Being active might make you healthier, but I wish everyone would stop equating exercise with weight loss. I wouldn't focus entirely on corn, (though it's a big stupid problem here in the US,) regardless of content people simply eat too much for the kind of lifestyle we live. (lumberjacks have an excuse. I don't.)
I've found exercise to help keep me from gaining weight, but it doesn't really help me lose anything if I keep eating as usual. I have to switch to healthier foods and smaller portions and lots of veggies to notice any weight loss.
> Please, please, PLEASE stop perpetuating the myth that "all calories are created equal" they are not.
Except they are. What different types of food do to different types of people is make it either easier or harder to maintain your "special diet".
Starving one type of person of fat will drive them feral. Doing the same with carbs to another sort of person will drive them feral.
Any diet or longterm change needs to be sustainable for the INDIVIDUAL.
We're not all quite the sort of factory stamped machines that western society likes to make us out to be.
Thus, Jager will not be a problem for some of us (or white bread even).
Once you figure this out, everyone has to accomodate everyone else. THIS is something that's a problem. Whole families need to adjust behavior and quite often many family members refuse to be bothered. It's like white trash with their smoking and drinking habits.
starches aren't filling, that's why people who eat them get fat, because they eat more of them. If you eat meat and fiber (hint: you can eat as many veggies as you want and not get fat) you get full and stop eating. All calories are not created equal.
so stop giving them orange soda, and make them drink water, like I had to. Or, let them drink diet (blah blah cancer blah blah...aside: ever read one of those studies? You have to drink like 7-8 diets/day to develop a 5% greater risk of cancer. If you drank that much in normal soda you'd have diabetes before you can say "these are my testing supplies").
Even fatty proteins are far healthier in moderate quantities than starches. People are getting fat because of the fried fries and the bleached-flour buns, not because of the meat. The meat makes you feel full. The starches do not.
You know I've been noticing this too. I crap more when I've eaten more. UNLESS it's me consuming calories that are simple to digest-- sugar, starches, etc. Those get converted no matter what. The proteins/fibers that I don't need pass through. I think you give the bacteria too much credit. Most fat people I know eat sugars and starches like nobody's business.