10 taxes = new.civilresponsibility ();
20 taxes.dodge
30 goto 20;
Damn, I can't be bothered coming up with something funnier than this. Must be getting near midnight.
What? CD data isn't compressed; the data on the disc is a bit-for bit digital audio represntation of the recorded waveform at the given sample rate and with the given number of bits per sample.
That said, the dynamic range of the sound that is put on CDs is compressed in a lot of cases, which is a shame, but there you have it.
Zoom out and take a look at it from really high up. The shuttle crew could spot this thing from orbit with a small pair of binoculars. Pity they have to circle around and come screaming in at 9 miles a second (or so) to get anywhere near it.
"Do we really want anything that hot on our planet?"
I don't really know- depends whether you want Intel to keep testing their next generation processors. They're gonna take more than water cooling, I can tell you.
Which is the situation at the moment in the games industry, where 70 hours is basically mandatory all the time in all companies and at all stages of a project.
That's why the games industry holds no interest for me- I'm a pretty decent 3D modeller but you couldn't pay me enough money to sell every waking hour to EA. Especially on a sequel. Until they all grow up I'm not going to touch them with a bargepole.
OK so the Intel chip will be faster......... but how much will it cost? There's no point in it being 30% faster if it's three times as expensive. We'll just have to wait and see.
Aha dude, I have been wondering about something like that for looking up stuff on yell.com on my P910i without being screwed on GPRS charges. Can you elborate please? I think it's fairly ontopic.
Yea a good point, the two tie in together quite well, actually....... "They're out to get me.".........."Cause I'm *so* important".
I'm a 23 year old web deisgner living on the teetering edge of europe on the West coast of Ireland. Who gives a shit about my personal emails? I'm not a criminal or a terrorist, so no-one gives a shit. And that's good:o)
So you think that a random Google employee has access to your inbox do you?
No-one at google reads your, mine or anyone else's email.
They're scanned for keywords by a machine and spat out into your browser. The same goes for your search results, too.
There's a big difference between someone reading your emails like some kind of wartime censor and a script running on a machine that adds contextual information. Do you object to Google adding BR tags to your email where it sees a carriage return tag (or whatever) in an incoming email. Are they 'reading' your mail then?
Yea, I saw Crash and Crash this year, and though I didn't get confused in context, I wonder how many people are going to go rent a movie tonight and end up thinking 'This isn't about race....... why did that guy just recreate the Buddy Holly crash..... oh Dear God!'
My apologies to your keboard, but the CEO was lurking on the other side of the cube wall, and I couldn't get another brit director that americans would know....... the pressure to finish the post was a bit high.......... anyway the best british director ever = Mike Leigh. Look him up.
The smaller, better movies that don't take off only don't succeed because they weren't marketed as heavily as the $200m crap that was in the cinema at the same time- marketing skews the figures in favour of shit films, because the studios know that a film is shit before it comes out, and polishing their turd with a $30m spend on advertising is a sure-fire way of drawing crowds, who are just disappointed. You have to look at the ratio of money spent to profit made as the real benchmark of how well a move does as an investment, and you're better off making $30 million profit on a 15 million dollar film than a $200 million profit on a $100 million movie.
Sorry, I panicked cause the boss was lurking and wanted to stick Memento director in there 'cause it's on FilmFour (Americans don't know what you're missing when you don't have FilmFour - www.filmfour.com
) tonight.
Ok, replace Richie with the best film maker in the UK - Mike Leigh!
Replace Christopher Nolan with, oh.... Hideo Nakata so we can see something really random?
On the day after Crash deservedly took the oscar for best film, hollywood needs to consider how many movies like Crash, Sideways, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Open Water, and Sean of the Dead are out there waiting to be made, and which could be made for much less money and make a much better return on their investment than utter piss like Mr and Mrs Smith or the latest Pink Panther.
Not all of the above are cheap films, but none of them had a couple of hundred million thrown at them, and every single one of them made a decent return. Hollywood is run by suits who dole out money to what they belive to be the safest option- a small selection of dead horses which the shamelessly flog (market) into turning a profit.
Someone please, please hand Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Darren Aronofsky, Guy Richie, and Christopher Nolan ( could go on, but am pressed for time) 100 million dollars each (that's $500m - less than the cost of cost two summer blockbusters) and sit back and watch about 15 great movies happen.
Yea, though the side on which 'Homer' here throws out the fuel rod matters , because it sets up the pan and cut to 'Bart' skateboarding along the street in the right direction. Somone else just mentioned the side Homer gets out of the car on needing to be left for the driveway sequence, too.
Oh they got things like the twins in the school band in there too- I must go look for a few more characters from the series, too, like Apu and stuff.
Fun parody though-- glad they didn't attempt to make the actors look exactly like the simpsons, with Marge's beehive and stuff, or Homer's clothes because either because they wouldn't have looked right in live action, and attempting to look like the Simpsons would have come off badly.
"How can a music CD cost the same as a movie DVD?"
I also find it strange that a music CD can cost pretty much the same- a movie will cost tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of euros to produce, but retails for about 26 if you're lucky, and a new album costs much, much less to produce (oh, say 2 million if you're an absolutely huge band and spend like 2 years on it) and costs nearly 20 or so to buy.
That said, the cinema run pays for most of the costs of movie production, though not as often as you'd think, and by the time something makes it to HMV they're just making profit on something that a lot have people have paid 9 to see once, without taking a copy home, and with some idiot texting someone on the phone 5 seats to your left. At the same time, I still love going to the cinema and ( I went last night ) and don't begrudge a good movie a good profit.
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10 taxes = new.civilresponsibility ();
20 taxes.dodge
30 goto 20;
Damn, I can't be bothered coming up with something funnier than this. Must be getting near midnight.
Are you by any chance the dude who created the Minerva mod? I see the link in your tag...... is that you?
What? CD data isn't compressed; the data on the disc is a bit-for bit digital audio represntation of the recorded waveform at the given sample rate and with the given number of bits per sample.
That said, the dynamic range of the sound that is put on CDs is compressed in a lot of cases, which is a shame, but there you have it.
Now that is one motherfucking long runway (0_0)
Zoom out and take a look at it from really high up. The shuttle crew could spot this thing from orbit with a small pair of binoculars. Pity they have to circle around and come screaming in at 9 miles a second (or so) to get anywhere near it.
The first rule of the Soviet State is you do not talk about the Soviet State!
The second rule of the Soviet State is you do not talk about the Soviet State!!
The third rule of the Soviet State is you do not talk about the Soviet State!!!
*slaps forehead*
I think he may have been talking about the price of the technology, not the price of methanol as fuel.
Yea but what I don' get it what booting has to do with Electronic Fuel Injection.. WAIT A MINUTE....!
"Do we really want anything that hot on our planet?"
I don't really know- depends whether you want Intel to keep testing their next generation processors. They're gonna take more than water cooling, I can tell you.
Which is the situation at the moment in the games industry, where 70 hours is basically mandatory all the time in all companies and at all stages of a project.
That's why the games industry holds no interest for me- I'm a pretty decent 3D modeller but you couldn't pay me enough money to sell every waking hour to EA. Especially on a sequel. Until they all grow up I'm not going to touch them with a bargepole.
OK so the Intel chip will be faster......... but how much will it cost? There's no point in it being 30% faster if it's three times as expensive. We'll just have to wait and see.
Aha dude, I have been wondering about something like that for looking up stuff on yell.com on my P910i without being screwed on GPRS charges. Can you elborate please? I think it's fairly ontopic.
Yea a good point, the two tie in together quite well, actually....... "They're out to get me.".........."Cause I'm *so* important".
:o)
I'm a 23 year old web deisgner living on the teetering edge of europe on the West coast of Ireland. Who gives a shit about my personal emails? I'm not a criminal or a terrorist, so no-one gives a shit. And that's good
So you think that a random Google employee has access to your inbox do you?
No-one at google reads your, mine or anyone else's email.
They're scanned for keywords by a machine and spat out into your browser. The same goes for your search results, too.
There's a big difference between someone reading your emails like some kind of wartime censor and a script running on a machine that adds contextual information. Do you object to Google adding BR tags to your email where it sees a carriage return tag (or whatever) in an incoming email. Are they 'reading' your mail then?
*walks off mumbling about paranoid americans*
Yea, I saw Crash and Crash this year, and though I didn't get confused in context, I wonder how many people are going to go rent a movie tonight and end up thinking 'This isn't about race....... why did that guy just recreate the Buddy Holly crash..... oh Dear God!'
And I'm Irish...... I still get FilmFour over here though. Best movie channel on the planet and the best 7 euros a month you can spend on movies.
My apologies to your keboard, but the CEO was lurking on the other side of the cube wall, and I couldn't get another brit director that americans would know....... the pressure to finish the post was a bit high.......... anyway the best british director ever = Mike Leigh. Look him up.
The smaller, better movies that don't take off only don't succeed because they weren't marketed as heavily as the $200m crap that was in the cinema at the same time- marketing skews the figures in favour of shit films, because the studios know that a film is shit before it comes out, and polishing their turd with a $30m spend on advertising is a sure-fire way of drawing crowds, who are just disappointed. You have to look at the ratio of money spent to profit made as the real benchmark of how well a move does as an investment, and you're better off making $30 million profit on a 15 million dollar film than a $200 million profit on a $100 million movie.
Sorry, I panicked cause the boss was lurking and wanted to stick Memento director in there 'cause it's on FilmFour (Americans don't know what you're missing when you don't have FilmFour - www.filmfour.com ) tonight.
Ok, replace Richie with the best film maker in the UK - Mike Leigh!
Replace Christopher Nolan with, oh.... Hideo Nakata so we can see something really random?
On the day after Crash deservedly took the oscar for best film, hollywood needs to consider how many movies like Crash, Sideways, Munich, Serenity, Sin City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Open Water, and Sean of the Dead are out there waiting to be made, and which could be made for much less money and make a much better return on their investment than utter piss like Mr and Mrs Smith or the latest Pink Panther.
Not all of the above are cheap films, but none of them had a couple of hundred million thrown at them, and every single one of them made a decent return. Hollywood is run by suits who dole out money to what they belive to be the safest option- a small selection of dead horses which the shamelessly flog (market) into turning a profit.
Someone please, please hand Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Darren Aronofsky, Guy Richie, and Christopher Nolan ( could go on, but am pressed for time) 100 million dollars each (that's $500m - less than the cost of cost two summer blockbusters) and sit back and watch about 15 great movies happen.
What a summer movie that'd be.
And when you pwn them, you can get an answer to the question:
"Whosyourdaddy!"
"You are, uh, dad"
I'm a sick, sick man
Naw, post-apocalyptic, like most sci-fi manga.
Yea, though the side on which 'Homer' here throws out the fuel rod matters , because it sets up the pan and cut to 'Bart' skateboarding along the street in the right direction. Somone else just mentioned the side Homer gets out of the car on needing to be left for the driveway sequence, too.
Oh they got things like the twins in the school band in there too- I must go look for a few more characters from the series, too, like Apu and stuff.
Fun parody though-- glad they didn't attempt to make the actors look exactly like the simpsons, with Marge's beehive and stuff, or Homer's clothes because either because they wouldn't have looked right in live action, and attempting to look like the Simpsons would have come off badly.
Dude, you thing tubgirl is bad. You haven't seen (DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK NSFW, NSFanyone) www.lemonparty.org .
If you've been there you'll know what I mean.
If you haven't been, don't.
"How can a music CD cost the same as a movie DVD?"
I also find it strange that a music CD can cost pretty much the same- a movie will cost tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of euros to produce, but retails for about 26 if you're lucky, and a new album costs much, much less to produce (oh, say 2 million if you're an absolutely huge band and spend like 2 years on it) and costs nearly 20 or so to buy.
That said, the cinema run pays for most of the costs of movie production, though not as often as you'd think, and by the time something makes it to HMV they're just making profit on something that a lot have people have paid 9 to see once, without taking a copy home, and with some idiot texting someone on the phone 5 seats to your left. At the same time, I still love going to the cinema and ( I went last night ) and don't begrudge a good movie a good profit.
Yea and call it the GRG - Geek's Republic of Google :)