Reencode clips to your format of choice. Supports every format out of the box. Is commandline, which gives you a ton of options on how to play files, giving you back some control. Can rebuild indexes on avis as you play. Does a lot better on damaged files (or files you are dling via bt). Oh yeah, not to mention you can dump streaming video/audio to your hd with no effort.
Granted I don't know that the windows version supports all this, but it will eventually. My only fear is that they will become dependent on windows.
I was having problems with movies shipping slowly, some took over a week for one way travel. I was averaging barely over 12 a month, watching and returning them the same day most of the time. I was about a week from giving up and canceling when something clicked, and since then every single movie delivery/return has taken only a single day.
And no, I don't rip. Frankly I'm having a hard enough time finding something worth watching at my current relaxed pace.
Yeah I rent maybe 15 a month, and I have never been throttled either. I have never seen a video with less than 'now' availability. At about a dollar a movie, which to me is great, I'm not too inclined to push to get to that level either.
Although I admit I'm getting to the point where I can't find any movies to watch, and I'm going through the anime section pretty fast. I could see myself running out of interest in a few months.
Just took the color quiz for a kick. According to it, I like extreme sports, have a satisfying sexlife and am very driven. Surely no company would be stupid enough to buy into this?
I have been wearing monthlies for 4 years now, only I end up wearing each monthly for more like 8 months, and only change them when I lose them, or they start looking worn out.
Do yourself a favor : don't go that way and keep wearing glasses.
Some people are just going to have more problems than others. I have one eye that has zero problems with contacts. I could probably wear it 24 hours a day in that eye and not be bothered. On the other hand, today I went without my left contact because for the last few days it has been red and irritated. Your results will vary.
Overall, for me, it is many times better than with glasses. It is cheap and easy to try out, and everyone should spend the 2 hours and 50 bucks required to find out whether it will work for them or not.
Although I've been contemplating lasik lately. I can't yet reconcile the failure rate which, based on who I've talked to, it seems like about 15-20% of people end up worse off than they started.
This is actually a point I never considered. I learn a lot of new things from listening to chatter around the office. Boss hacks tivo this, apple comes out with that, etc...
I would imagine I would find it incredibly difficult to build up a list of valuable contacts if I never saw my coworkers' faces.
This is just what the eye doctor told me after I told him how much happier I was. Honestly the glasses did have a poor prescription because they were old, but nonetheless one lense was like twice as thick as the other. "Telescoping effect" is my own description, I don't know what the clinical term for it is, or if there is any.
I used to wear glasses, and then switched to contacts, expecting not to like them.
It ended up relieving eyestrain, increasing clarity, and got rid of my headaches. They require less maintanence, and they cost a fraction of what glasses cost.
It turns out since one of my eyes was so much worse than the other, there was a telescoping effect that caused one eye to see things bigger than the other causing disorientation. Since contacts are right on the eye, that effect is no longer a factor.
I used to play on a mud, and while my own addiction was borderline, there were other individuals that were more seriously involved. One in particular was an older biker from nevada. As I got to know him, details began to emerge.
He would log on in the morning and play all day. He maxxed out a character that literally took 1.5 years of continuous at the keyboard non-scripted playing to max. He had been out of work for at least two years, and he was living off his wife's waitress salary. She had begged him to get a job and he had blown her off. He wouldn't even search.
I finally stopped interacting with him because felt guilty for helping feed his addiction.
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What I don't understand, is if these guys can see every bot on the network, have an infected honey pot of their own, why can't they take control of the computers, tell them to pop up a "you've been infected, moron" window and format themselves? In the end it is probably better for the individual than allowing them to get keylogged etc.
Or are the backdoors they are using more sophisticated than that?
Well on the bright side, maybe online tax preparation will be free with most of the bells and whistles from now on, since they want as many peoples' info as possible.
After 10 minutes, it auto unmounted itself, and then all my terminals responded with input/output errors. Of course, I can't reboot normally if I can't run any commands, so I had to cut the power. And when I had to cut the power with reiserfs that is where the corruption came from.
This happened several times, but I didn't realize it was encfs causing it because it would happen 10 minutes after I stopped using my crypt directory.
Anyways, about the 4th time it happened, my computer had been running awhile, and the reboot corrupted every file that was in use, including every file in the crypted dir, and fubared firefox,/etc/hosts was gone, and 250 other files that I never found out what they did, but didn't seem to prevent anything from working.
Encfs is great, if you are x86. I made the mistake of unmasking it on gentoo amd64 and it flipped out and I ended up sorting through 300+ files in my l+f directory from my corrupted partition. But for x86 it is very convenient, I highly recommend.
While I disagree with the law, I can kind of see the government's point of view.
1) A trillion dollars flowing straight out of the US, with zero benefit to any US citizen, no taxes, nada. At least a Las Vegas casino owner will employ people.
2) Makes it very very easy to launder money and engage in bribery. All money is untraceable. A person could fund a terrorist simply by meeting him at a poker table and losing a few thousand dollars in 20 minutes and have complete plausible deniability.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Twilight Zone. And the Outer Limits.
But at the same time I can't understand how any geek could watch the new bsg or firefly or the middle seasons of sg1 and not be completely amazed. There was literally a 20 year gap where there was practically no good scifi (that I know of). We are truly in a golden age.
The season finale of BSG alone lived up to my best expectations.
Honestly, I read books on my computer all the time. Eye dryness only happens to me when I'm forced to read black text on a bright white background, such as pdfs, or here. It makes a real difference if you make it white on black, and if you enlarge the text a bit.
I've actually come to prefer it to books because I don't have to juggle the book as I'm turning pages and I don't have the tendency to fall asleep like when I'm laying on the couch reading.
Define forward. What makes being a brainy person better than being a brawny person. Muslims and Africans of the poorest nature all exist, most without technology, or arts, or whatever. By evolutionary standards, however, they are as successful as we are. They must be, because if they weren't, they wouldn't exist, would they?
Biological success means reproducing sucessfully above all else, and I have a funny feeling not many men on here are meeting their quota of that.
I noticed a site called mkt10.com that is from the former founder of monster, or career builder or whatever. Anyways it is set up more like a dating website, where you are matched to your employer via skills you have vs skills he's looking for.
There are several reasons I really hope this gets off the ground. It is private, in that your resume is not out there for your current employer to see, (unless you want it to be). It is localized. It should theoretically be easier to screen out recruiters, because companies and employee both can have long standing accounts with measured activity and so there could be a social aspect to it.
Anyways, this site does know the difference between c and c++, and when it hears that you know it, it asks you what you know about it, what types of development environments you used, certifications you have in that area, etc. It is a very clever setup. I wish I'd thought of it.
I've found that the size of the gameworld has a strong influence on the nature of the players within. On small muds, everyone is so amazingly nice to each other. As you increase the number, anonymity increases and it gets progressively worse.
The way it was explained to me by a professor is that every 20? years, worldwide consumption of oil doubles. Exponential growth of demand means that there would have to be pretty much an infinite amount of oil to fulfill it.
Furthermore, there is also the fact that to get oil out of the ground you have to use some of it as energy to retrieve it. At some point you end up spending more energy extracting the oil from the ground/rock/ocean than you get from the actual oil. Even if there were a huge amount of untapped oil somewhere deep down, how could it possibly be profitable to obtain it?
Don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of alternatives, and our way of life will continue one way or the other, but I don't see any way in which oil could possibly last more than another 50 years as a mainstream source of energy.
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Reencode clips to your format of choice. Supports every format out of the box. Is commandline, which gives you a ton of options on how to play files, giving you back some control. Can rebuild indexes on avis as you play. Does a lot better on damaged files (or files you are dling via bt). Oh yeah, not to mention you can dump streaming video/audio to your hd with no effort.
Granted I don't know that the windows version supports all this, but it will eventually. My only fear is that they will become dependent on windows.
I was having problems with movies shipping slowly, some took over a week for one way travel. I was averaging barely over 12 a month, watching and returning them the same day most of the time. I was about a week from giving up and canceling when something clicked, and since then every single movie delivery/return has taken only a single day.
And no, I don't rip. Frankly I'm having a hard enough time finding something worth watching at my current relaxed pace.
Yeah I rent maybe 15 a month, and I have never been throttled either. I have never seen a video with less than 'now' availability. At about a dollar a movie, which to me is great, I'm not too inclined to push to get to that level either.
Although I admit I'm getting to the point where I can't find any movies to watch, and I'm going through the anime section pretty fast. I could see myself running out of interest in a few months.
Just took the color quiz for a kick. According to it, I like extreme sports, have a satisfying sexlife and am very driven. Surely no company would be stupid enough to buy into this?
I never really thought about it, but a lot of the people I know in that age bracket indeed do not watch tv anymore.
I wonder what happened. The internet I guess.
I have been wearing monthlies for 4 years now, only I end up wearing each monthly for more like 8 months, and only change them when I lose them, or they start looking worn out.
Do yourself a favor : don't go that way and keep wearing glasses.
Some people are just going to have more problems than others. I have one eye that has zero problems with contacts. I could probably wear it 24 hours a day in that eye and not be bothered. On the other hand, today I went without my left contact because for the last few days it has been red and irritated. Your results will vary.
Overall, for me, it is many times better than with glasses. It is cheap and easy to try out, and everyone should spend the 2 hours and 50 bucks required to find out whether it will work for them or not.
Although I've been contemplating lasik lately. I can't yet reconcile the failure rate which, based on who I've talked to, it seems like about 15-20% of people end up worse off than they started.
This is actually a point I never considered. I learn a lot of new things from listening to chatter around the office. Boss hacks tivo this, apple comes out with that, etc...
I would imagine I would find it incredibly difficult to build up a list of valuable contacts if I never saw my coworkers' faces.
This is just what the eye doctor told me after I told him how much happier I was. Honestly the glasses did have a poor prescription because they were old, but nonetheless one lense was like twice as thick as the other. "Telescoping effect" is my own description, I don't know what the clinical term for it is, or if there is any.
I used to wear glasses, and then switched to contacts, expecting not to like them.
It ended up relieving eyestrain, increasing clarity, and got rid of my headaches. They require less maintanence, and they cost a fraction of what glasses cost.
It turns out since one of my eyes was so much worse than the other, there was a telescoping effect that caused one eye to see things bigger than the other causing disorientation. Since contacts are right on the eye, that effect is no longer a factor.
I used to play on a mud, and while my own addiction was borderline, there were other individuals that were more seriously involved. One in particular was an older biker from nevada. As I got to know him, details began to emerge.
He would log on in the morning and play all day. He maxxed out a character that literally took 1.5 years of continuous at the keyboard non-scripted playing to max. He had been out of work for at least two years, and he was living off his wife's waitress salary. She had begged him to get a job and he had blown her off. He wouldn't even search.
I finally stopped interacting with him because felt guilty for helping feed his addiction.
What I don't understand, is if these guys can see every bot on the network, have an infected honey pot of their own, why can't they take control of the computers, tell them to pop up a "you've been infected, moron" window and format themselves? In the end it is probably better for the individual than allowing them to get keylogged etc.
Or are the backdoors they are using more sophisticated than that?
Well on the bright side, maybe online tax preparation will be free with most of the bells and whistles from now on, since they want as many peoples' info as possible.
Porn is anything you lose interest in after you cum
I don't think the isp has enough employees to implement that kind of filter.
Here's what I did. encfs -i 10 dir dir
/etc/hosts was gone, and 250 other files that I never found out what they did, but didn't seem to prevent anything from working.
After 10 minutes, it auto unmounted itself, and then all my terminals responded with input/output errors. Of course, I can't reboot normally if I can't run any commands, so I had to cut the power. And when I had to cut the power with reiserfs that is where the corruption came from.
This happened several times, but I didn't realize it was encfs causing it because it would happen 10 minutes after I stopped using my crypt directory.
Anyways, about the 4th time it happened, my computer had been running awhile, and the reboot corrupted every file that was in use, including every file in the crypted dir, and fubared firefox,
Encfs is great, if you are x86. I made the mistake of unmasking it on gentoo amd64 and it flipped out and I ended up sorting through 300+ files in my l+f directory from my corrupted partition. But for x86 it is very convenient, I highly recommend.
While I disagree with the law, I can kind of see the government's point of view.
1) A trillion dollars flowing straight out of the US, with zero benefit to any US citizen, no taxes, nada. At least a Las Vegas casino owner will employ people.
2) Makes it very very easy to launder money and engage in bribery. All money is untraceable. A person could fund a terrorist simply by meeting him at a poker table and losing a few thousand dollars in 20 minutes and have complete plausible deniability.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Twilight Zone. And the Outer Limits.
But at the same time I can't understand how any geek could watch the new bsg or firefly or the middle seasons of sg1 and not be completely amazed. There was literally a 20 year gap where there was practically no good scifi (that I know of). We are truly in a golden age.
The season finale of BSG alone lived up to my best expectations.
Honestly, I read books on my computer all the time. Eye dryness only happens to me when I'm forced to read black text on a bright white background, such as pdfs, or here. It makes a real difference if you make it white on black, and if you enlarge the text a bit.
I've actually come to prefer it to books because I don't have to juggle the book as I'm turning pages and I don't have the tendency to fall asleep like when I'm laying on the couch reading.
Define forward. What makes being a brainy person better than being a brawny person. Muslims and Africans of the poorest nature all exist, most without technology, or arts, or whatever. By evolutionary standards, however, they are as successful as we are. They must be, because if they weren't, they wouldn't exist, would they?
Biological success means reproducing sucessfully above all else, and I have a funny feeling not many men on here are meeting their quota of that.
Obviously an anime fan. I feel your pain.
But it is infinitely preferable to sitting through the ads.
I noticed a site called mkt10.com that is from the former founder of monster, or career builder or whatever. Anyways it is set up more like a dating website, where you are matched to your employer via skills you have vs skills he's looking for.
There are several reasons I really hope this gets off the ground. It is private, in that your resume is not out there for your current employer to see, (unless you want it to be). It is localized. It should theoretically be easier to screen out recruiters, because companies and employee both can have long standing accounts with measured activity and so there could be a social aspect to it.
Anyways, this site does know the difference between c and c++, and when it hears that you know it, it asks you what you know about it, what types of development environments you used, certifications you have in that area, etc. It is a very clever setup. I wish I'd thought of it.
I've found that the size of the gameworld has a strong influence on the nature of the players within. On small muds, everyone is so amazingly nice to each other. As you increase the number, anonymity increases and it gets progressively worse.
Or you could just look in your /tmp directory.
What about hunting? Archery? Sport shooting. Golf. Billiards. Cricket. Curling. Fishing. Racing.
Surely if most of these are sports then videogaming can be a sport also.
The way it was explained to me by a professor is that every 20? years, worldwide consumption of oil doubles. Exponential growth of demand means that there would have to be pretty much an infinite amount of oil to fulfill it.
Furthermore, there is also the fact that to get oil out of the ground you have to use some of it as energy to retrieve it. At some point you end up spending more energy extracting the oil from the ground/rock/ocean than you get from the actual oil. Even if there were a huge amount of untapped oil somewhere deep down, how could it possibly be profitable to obtain it?
Don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of alternatives, and our way of life will continue one way or the other, but I don't see any way in which oil could possibly last more than another 50 years as a mainstream source of energy.