Also, tests done on these monitors have shown very low latency (for those without scalers, ie. the single input ones). Once you get a multi-input one, the latency advantage goes away, and also the price differential is much less pronounced.
I've recently (the last 6 months or so) been on and off of tobacco, ie. smoke about 20 a day for a week, stop for 3 or 4 days, smoke for a week, stop again, etc. I've been a smoker for almost 20 years. This isn't because I want to quit - I don't, I enjoy smoking. I think the physical dependencies are completely exaggerated...
I have a much bigger physical craving for alcohol after not drinking for a while, to the extent I deliberately don't drink a lot of the time. Cocaine's not too bad, but it's insidious - I used to be a weekend user, and found that sometimes I wasn't looking forward to the weekend, I was looking forward to the cocaine. I slowed down a bit after noticing that. Mephedrone I went a little silly on some weekends, when it was legal, because it was gorgeous, but it made the next few days feel dull as hell. When they made it illegal, I quit, because when something is illegal, it's generally cut to crap, and dosage was quite important for me with it - too much, and you end up talking complete crap constantly, if you're not careful. Cocaine you can regulate better, ie. you know how high you are more easily (though it's often cut with other uppers, just to make it more difficult).
I've stopped illegals now, not for moral or self-preservation issues, but for practical ones - I go out less, and if I get caught again I'll be in deep shit.
What? "They should stop making games like X, they should make games like Y, but I wouldn't play it anyway."
The games you mention are not similar, apart from the fact they're all RPGs. Just because you looked over someone's shoulder and they look similar, does not make them similar (though since they are split between first and third person, they don't even look the same). I know I personally would probably hate 2 of those games, but enjoy the other 2, because of their substantially different gameplay.
the tying of Office to newer versions of DirectX (and hence, newer versions of Windows)
I'm running Vista with DirectX 11 now - it's an official release from Microsoft. DirectX 10 is standard on Vista. Whatever makes the new Office incompatible with Vista, it's not DirectX.
Why do you feel that you have to watch a movie created by someone that apparently doesn't want you to watch it?
The people who created the movies don't want the consumer to pay to watch their movies? I'm not a CEO of a major movie studio, but perhaps this may be one of their fundamental mistakes.
People don't _have_ to watch movies, or are entitled to. However, when consumers are artificially barred from paying for and watching stuff, and can do so without paying with a few clicks, what do you think they're going to do?
wrong. If I kill you I am not depriving you of any 'right' to life, because between you and me, we never had any such agreement, I didn't sign a contract, neither did you, that we have any such agreement.
So to have my rights violated, I must have had previously signed a contract with whoever is violating my rights? I've never signed such an agreement with my government. Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff?
Why is it harder for large countries to fund healthcare than small countries? I don't understand the rationale behind claiming that it does.
GDP per capita is surely a better indication of how good healthcare _should_ be, generally. Low population density can add problems, but countries like Canada and Norway seem to manage ok with this.
All other countries with more than 100m people are much poorer than the US, so a straight comparison is a little worthless, IMO.
Much electronic music doesn't fall into this category (and can be replicated live by someone other than the artist pushing the play button).
You are _so_ confused if you think this is the case. Firstly, anyone who just plays the button can be applied to nearly all forms of music. "Live" performances of rock, pop, blues, jazz, and other genres are often not so - they often rely on pre-recorded tracks. "Electronic" music uses some samples, most of the time, though sometimes it does not. The latter is when it gets more interesting.
Man... I'm 34, and getting old and jaded. If you can't see the beauty and wonder of True Love Fantasy, I fear for your soul.
"the effect is statistically significant, we're just sure exactly how much, but that makes a bad sound bite so I simplified it"
You seriously believe this? When the large corporations protecting their copyright have lied, lied, and lied again about individuals and organisations. They've sued innocent people over and over again, they've gone after listing sites which do little more than google, they've infiltrated the legal system and got extraditions based on something that is not illegal where people live, they have protection rackets with radio stations, and you think they should be protected more? Seriously?
I'm all for remuneration of musicians, but the music industry is not doing it. It never really has, to be honest.
Cutting off the pirates' oxygen supply will help with the bigger outlaw commercial operators. But it won't faze ThePirateBay in the least. Until somebody can come up with a solution to that one, the problem isn't likely to get solved. Longer term though, the bandwidth caps are going to do more to curb the problem on the Internet than anything law enforcement could ever do.
Bandwidth caps are shitty. I just had a hard disk failure.... I have about 1/2 a terabyte _purchased_ games on steam - that's the point of steam, IMO. I use iplayer loads too, which I pay for.
Tor and Freenet can get around illegal activity - limiting bandwidth hurts normal users.
In the UK, London would be in trouble. Much of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire would have massive effects, mostly on farmland, which would have devastating effects on food production in England.
The trouble is, even if we stop pumping now, it's still going to happen (as long as we believe the scientists). There's no incentive for a government to do anything about it, since it'll reduce international competitiveness, and not produce _any_ gains.
2.2cm is the mean sea level rise. If you picture the ocean as one gigantic seesaw, it's how much the midpoint rises by, not the endpoints. The lever on either side of this midpoint is around 3200 km long. I will leave you to figure out the total area of any given slice your side of the midpoint - and what will happen to that during spring tide. Sure, low tide might actually be lower as a result, but I'm thinking that any land much below 32m below current sea levels will be in real trouble.
Tides won't increase anything other than fractionally because of sea level rise... I'm really not sure what gives you the idea that they would. The amount of extra water in the oceans caused by global warming is tiny compared to what is there already. It also doesn't operate anything like a lever, the analogy is bogus. Where did you get the idea that leverage came into play? Seriously?
I'm fed up of these quasi-scientific doomsday predictions which do more to harm legitimate scientific concerns about warming than denial does.
Why say it in the context of a film about the need for immediate action then? I hate semantic pedantry like this - It's applying a fact to some completely irrelevant. If the ice on Greenland were to melt over a million years, he could use the exact same argument. This is a problem, since it diminishes research into what is actually happening _now_. It's a fuck up, IMO - it makes statements of no relevance to the current situation, and tries to make them relevant.
You wouldn't call an English person Scottish, either. You wouldn't call me Cornish, because I'm English. It doesn't make sense.
People claiming Scotland is not a country are not claiming Scottish people are English. They are claiming Scotland is part of the country of the UK.
Scotland and England are probably closer together legally and socially than most states are in the US. Just because 2 places have different legal systems, does not mean they are not both part of the same sovereign state.
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The Korean panels are all LG, by the way.
Also, tests done on these monitors have shown very low latency (for those without scalers, ie. the single input ones). Once you get a multi-input one, the latency advantage goes away, and also the price differential is much less pronounced.
I've recently (the last 6 months or so) been on and off of tobacco, ie. smoke about 20 a day for a week, stop for 3 or 4 days, smoke for a week, stop again, etc. I've been a smoker for almost 20 years. This isn't because I want to quit - I don't, I enjoy smoking. I think the physical dependencies are completely exaggerated...
I have a much bigger physical craving for alcohol after not drinking for a while, to the extent I deliberately don't drink a lot of the time. Cocaine's not too bad, but it's insidious - I used to be a weekend user, and found that sometimes I wasn't looking forward to the weekend, I was looking forward to the cocaine. I slowed down a bit after noticing that. Mephedrone I went a little silly on some weekends, when it was legal, because it was gorgeous, but it made the next few days feel dull as hell. When they made it illegal, I quit, because when something is illegal, it's generally cut to crap, and dosage was quite important for me with it - too much, and you end up talking complete crap constantly, if you're not careful. Cocaine you can regulate better, ie. you know how high you are more easily (though it's often cut with other uppers, just to make it more difficult).
I've stopped illegals now, not for moral or self-preservation issues, but for practical ones - I go out less, and if I get caught again I'll be in deep shit.
What? "They should stop making games like X, they should make games like Y, but I wouldn't play it anyway."
The games you mention are not similar, apart from the fact they're all RPGs. Just because you looked over someone's shoulder and they look similar, does not make them similar (though since they are split between first and third person, they don't even look the same). I know I personally would probably hate 2 of those games, but enjoy the other 2, because of their substantially different gameplay.
Did you even read the comment that you quoted?
the tying of Office to newer versions of DirectX (and hence, newer versions of Windows)
I'm running Vista with DirectX 11 now - it's an official release from Microsoft. DirectX 10 is standard on Vista. Whatever makes the new Office incompatible with Vista, it's not DirectX.
But don't pretend that skin colour makes you more of a "race" or "breed" than hair colour, height, etc.
No one is. People differentiate races based on hair colour and height all the time. I'm not sure what your point is.
For all those who didn't buy Skyrim for $90, it's currently on sale (for another 12 hours or so) for £15 on steam. Not sure what it is in the US.
The only two differences to the Mafia rape-cellar are that theirs was a virtual shop and that the front and real business were closely related
Seriously? These are the only 2 differences you can think of?
Why do you feel that you have to watch a movie created by someone that apparently doesn't want you to watch it?
The people who created the movies don't want the consumer to pay to watch their movies? I'm not a CEO of a major movie studio, but perhaps this may be one of their fundamental mistakes.
People don't _have_ to watch movies, or are entitled to. However, when consumers are artificially barred from paying for and watching stuff, and can do so without paying with a few clicks, what do you think they're going to do?
Fluorescent bulbs are very cool for this.
Alternatively, if you're a nerd like me, slip in four or five silica gel pouches you've hidden away.
I think most people just swallow those.
The pirate party in the UK has a mirror that seems to work fine - no need for a proxy, even.
It show the idiocy of the ban on specific websites - you'll need an injunction to take down every mirror, wasting court time for no gain.
Unfortunately, that's not true. Nylon has nothing to do with New York, or London.
wrong. If I kill you I am not depriving you of any 'right' to life, because between you and me, we never had any such agreement, I didn't sign a contract, neither did you, that we have any such agreement.
So to have my rights violated, I must have had previously signed a contract with whoever is violating my rights? I've never signed such an agreement with my government. Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff?
Why is it harder for large countries to fund healthcare than small countries? I don't understand the rationale behind claiming that it does.
GDP per capita is surely a better indication of how good healthcare _should_ be, generally. Low population density can add problems, but countries like Canada and Norway seem to manage ok with this.
All other countries with more than 100m people are much poorer than the US, so a straight comparison is a little worthless, IMO.
There are plenty of ways to pay for content without buying a "$300+" cable subscription.
Yeah... good luck with that. Seriously, try to buy content when it comes out, or even close to when it comes out. Especially internationally.
You're wrong, or deliberately lying. There aren't any ways for many people to pay for content _at all_, when it is released.
Much electronic music doesn't fall into this category (and can be replicated live by someone other than the artist pushing the play button).
You are _so_ confused if you think this is the case. Firstly, anyone who just plays the button can be applied to nearly all forms of music. "Live" performances of rock, pop, blues, jazz, and other genres are often not so - they often rely on pre-recorded tracks. "Electronic" music uses some samples, most of the time, though sometimes it does not. The latter is when it gets more interesting.
Man... I'm 34, and getting old and jaded. If you can't see the beauty and wonder of True Love Fantasy, I fear for your soul.
Moore's Law doesn't apply to storage.... if it did, my system with 1/2 terabyte striped drives in 2005 would be very scary now.
I admit, it was a little scary then....
"the effect is statistically significant, we're just sure exactly how much, but that makes a bad sound bite so I simplified it"
You seriously believe this? When the large corporations protecting their copyright have lied, lied, and lied again about individuals and organisations. They've sued innocent people over and over again, they've gone after listing sites which do little more than google, they've infiltrated the legal system and got extraditions based on something that is not illegal where people live, they have protection rackets with radio stations, and you think they should be protected more? Seriously?
I'm all for remuneration of musicians, but the music industry is not doing it. It never really has, to be honest.
Cutting off the pirates' oxygen supply will help with the bigger outlaw commercial operators. But it won't faze ThePirateBay in the least. Until somebody can come up with a solution to that one, the problem isn't likely to get solved. Longer term though, the bandwidth caps are going to do more to curb the problem on the Internet than anything law enforcement could ever do.
Bandwidth caps are shitty. I just had a hard disk failure.... I have about 1/2 a terabyte _purchased_ games on steam - that's the point of steam, IMO. I use iplayer loads too, which I pay for.
Tor and Freenet can get around illegal activity - limiting bandwidth hurts normal users.
In the UK, London would be in trouble. Much of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire would have massive effects, mostly on farmland, which would have devastating effects on food production in England.
The trouble is, even if we stop pumping now, it's still going to happen (as long as we believe the scientists). There's no incentive for a government to do anything about it, since it'll reduce international competitiveness, and not produce _any_ gains.
2.2cm is the mean sea level rise. If you picture the ocean as one gigantic seesaw, it's how much the midpoint rises by, not the endpoints. The lever on either side of this midpoint is around 3200 km long. I will leave you to figure out the total area of any given slice your side of the midpoint - and what will happen to that during spring tide. Sure, low tide might actually be lower as a result, but I'm thinking that any land much below 32m below current sea levels will be in real trouble.
Tides won't increase anything other than fractionally because of sea level rise... I'm really not sure what gives you the idea that they would. The amount of extra water in the oceans caused by global warming is tiny compared to what is there already. It also doesn't operate anything like a lever, the analogy is bogus. Where did you get the idea that leverage came into play? Seriously?
I'm fed up of these quasi-scientific doomsday predictions which do more to harm legitimate scientific concerns about warming than denial does.
Why say it in the context of a film about the need for immediate action then? I hate semantic pedantry like this - It's applying a fact to some completely irrelevant. If the ice on Greenland were to melt over a million years, he could use the exact same argument. This is a problem, since it diminishes research into what is actually happening _now_. It's a fuck up, IMO - it makes statements of no relevance to the current situation, and tries to make them relevant.
I believe in anthropomorphic climate change, btw.
You wouldn't call an English person Scottish, either. You wouldn't call me Cornish, because I'm English. It doesn't make sense.
People claiming Scotland is not a country are not claiming Scottish people are English. They are claiming Scotland is part of the country of the UK.
Scotland and England are probably closer together legally and socially than most states are in the US. Just because 2 places have different legal systems, does not mean they are not both part of the same sovereign state.
There's no such thing as extradition between England and Scotland. It is, for all intents and purposes, 1 country.
You're generally tried where the offence occurred, but that's just common sense.