good god, when are you guys going to quit harping on the new york city / state thing. I have never heard anyone refer to new york as a state in any conversation I've ever had in my life. It's been ambiguous a few times, but upon clarification it's always been the city.
Nobody except you and 2 other slashdotters, even residents of new york state, give two shits about the state. without new york city, it'd just be Maine with a different name.
" Your right on the money, a lot of ppl (even ppl in the film industry) say they dislike digital projections because it doesn't look the same as film.
Basically people are used to a certain feel and look of projected film. "
Yeah, I think you are right. I've seen lens flare in games that at no time ever made use of a real camera, much less a lens. And I have to say it helped out, it felt more real because of the artificial defect.
"hopscotch" was just a horrible novel. and kja spends 5 pages in the beginning saying how it is his magnum opus and thanking a million people, like it is something to thank people about. I'd be embarrassed if I were on his thank list.
Jerf: have you read The Butlerian Jihad? I thought it was pretty clear that they (brian and kevin) were setting up the force that the HM were fleeing from.
I don't think it makes any sense that face dancers could scare anything away.
Loose = the dog is running away! Lose = I did not win this trial."
I wonder if we should start some kind of crisis intervention group for people like us, so that we don't pop a vessel in our head when somebody misspells "lose" as "loose"
"the open secrets site seems to have a subconscious agenda of its own and they need to be careful about spending too much time exposing just one shady ass organization"
If you actually went to the site, I don't see how you could have come up with that comment. Microsoft was #40 on their top 100 list of profiles. Just to clarify for you, MS consisted of 1% of their profiles.
Personally I found it interesting to see the "aerospace workers union" giving all their cash to the dems.
slashdot reminds me of the bulliten boards in that old game based on neuromancer. Seems like I remember reading messages about Balfour disappearing... sort of parallels signal 11 in a geeky sort of way.
I don't think I contradicted myself. I gave examples where capacitive loading limited the number of usable sockets. Maybe I should have gone on, and said that if video ram were operating at the same speed as your motherboard dimms, then sockets would be easier to design in.
However, my system is a little old, but the ram in my video card is 4 times faster than the ram on my motherboard. And on newer systems, I'm pretty sure it is still twice as fast. That's around 600-700MHz (counting both edges).
Well, you're wrong. Capacitive loading affects the signal integrity to a great degree, and adding any metal to the conduction path will add capacitance. Then there are the reflection and EMI effects of stubs on the line (unfilled sockets).
Why do you suppose most motherboards only have three dimm sockets? Because it is too much trouble to get a 4 dimm socket design working. and the ones that do have 4 sockets only work right if you fill them in a certain way (i.e. those closest to the CPU first, etc...).
Or why do most PCI implementations only have 4 sockets? Same reason. How about AGP or PCI-X? At 133MHz, they can only work with one socket.
"No, they have the right to fire your ass if you exercise your free speech in an a way they don't like, or even take legal action against you (such as disclosure of trade secrets)"
That is exactly right. I never expected someone to realize that on slashdot though.
Slashdot Mirror
"If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests."
That was a great episode. I know this is a geeky thing to say, but I can't help it: chewbacca is from kashyyyk. Not kishic.
good god, when are you guys going to quit harping on the new york city / state thing. I have never heard anyone refer to new york as a state in any conversation I've ever had in my life. It's been ambiguous a few times, but upon clarification it's always been the city.
Nobody except you and 2 other slashdotters, even residents of new york state, give two shits about the state. without new york city, it'd just be Maine with a different name.
"Galadriel had better show her f-ing tits, or I'm definitely not going to see Return of the King."
LOL That was classic.
SonicBlue: U STOLE ARE TECHNOLOGEY!!!1!!! Tivo: FUK U!! SonicBlue: OMG WE CULD CONBINE ARE SKILLZ AND BE ElITE! Tivo: OMG!!!! YES!!11!!!!!!!
There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything funnier than what you just wrote.
Not that there is anything wrong with with it, but aren't you actually pumping out 2401 wishes? She may not go for that last one.
" Your right on the money, a lot of ppl (even ppl in the film industry) say they dislike digital projections because it doesn't look the same as film.
Basically people are used to a certain feel and look of projected film. "
Yeah, I think you are right. I've seen lens flare in games that at no time ever made use of a real camera, much less a lens. And I have to say it helped out, it felt more real because of the artificial defect.
I think it's a play on words with that old educational show 3-2-1 Contact.
there's a blurb here
"hopscotch" was just a horrible novel. and kja spends 5 pages in the beginning saying how it is his magnum opus and thanking a million people, like it is something to thank people about. I'd be embarrassed if I were on his thank list.
I guess I missed it... would you mind letting me in on your take? be sure to mention a spoiler alert.
Thanks.
Jerf: have you read The Butlerian Jihad? I thought it was pretty clear that they (brian and kevin) were setting up the force that the HM were fleeing from.
I don't think it makes any sense that face dancers could scare anything away.
"Second, it's LOSE! LOSE LOSE LOSE!
Loose = the dog is running away!
Lose = I did not win this trial."
I wonder if we should start some kind of crisis intervention group for people like us, so that we don't pop a vessel in our head when somebody misspells "lose" as "loose"
"the open secrets site seems to have a subconscious agenda of its own and they need to be careful about spending too much time exposing just one shady ass organization"
If you actually went to the site, I don't see how you could have come up with that comment. Microsoft was #40 on their top 100 list of profiles. Just to clarify for you, MS consisted of 1% of their profiles.
Personally I found it interesting to see the "aerospace workers union" giving all their cash to the dems.
One quenches a fire, so it's not that far off base. I do like squelch, although it makes me think of grape juice.
"Farting is WORSE than fucking!"
I'm going to have to agree with you there. I'd much rather fuck than fart.
"Are you fucking thick? Yes. Thank you."
Well, now I think we all know you aren't thirteen. I haven't heard anyone use "thick" to signify stupidity in at least 10 years.
So, what's worse... being 13 and acting 13 or being 35 and acting 13?
"Flash games (or whatever they are) that crapflood mailboxes"
Speaking of which, I need to crapflood my toilet.
"Hey baby, I want to wrap your legs around my head and wear you like a feed-bag"
no, I think it's "All Your Base-Pair Are Belong To Us"
slashdot reminds me of the bulliten boards in that old game based on neuromancer. Seems like I remember reading messages about Balfour disappearing... sort of parallels signal 11 in a geeky sort of way.
What happened to Signal 11?
Have you even played battlefield 1942? Could you explain the linearity? I don't see it.
sig: Wahoo! My 400th comment.
I like that. it sounds good... the .TUX framework.
I don't think I contradicted myself. I gave examples where capacitive loading limited the number of usable sockets. Maybe I should have gone on, and said that if video ram were operating at the same speed as your motherboard dimms, then sockets would be easier to design in.
However, my system is a little old, but the ram in my video card is 4 times faster than the ram on my motherboard. And on newer systems, I'm pretty sure it is still twice as fast. That's around 600-700MHz (counting both edges).
"I'm calling BS on the capacitive part."
Well, you're wrong. Capacitive loading affects the signal integrity to a great degree, and adding any metal to the conduction path will add capacitance. Then there are the reflection and EMI effects of stubs on the line (unfilled sockets).
Why do you suppose most motherboards only have three dimm sockets? Because it is too much trouble to get a 4 dimm socket design working. and the ones that do have 4 sockets only work right if you fill them in a certain way (i.e. those closest to the CPU first, etc...).
Or why do most PCI implementations only have 4 sockets? Same reason. How about AGP or PCI-X? At 133MHz, they can only work with one socket.
"No, they have the right to fire your ass if you exercise your free speech in an a way they don't like, or even take legal action against you (such as disclosure of trade secrets)"
That is exactly right. I never expected someone to realize that on slashdot though.