Thats because they dont care about school anymore, not [necessarily] because of any damage to the brain. Now you may say that not caring about school is a bad thing, but I would tell you to get your head out of your ass.
As far a marijuana goes, many studies have shown that there is no change in neurons or evidence of neuronal death, even after long term exposure to THC.
I know many people who use marijuana frequently and yet do very well in school, straight A students . . . some in the gifted-talented program (which has nothing to do with being gifted or talented, only with how well you do on tests)
If you want to find out marijuanas effect on the brain, try it for a year, smoke a joint when you would be otherwise waching TV (talk about effects on the brain), see how your life is affected. I bet it will only be for the better, less stress etc..
Gad! What part of They aren't. If you forget your password, Slashdot will mail it to you (the "mailpasswd" button on/users.pl when you're logged out). Slashdot emails you your password, in clear text. So, even if the passwords are encrypted, they can be decrypted. How else would Slashdot be able to tell you your password?
did you not understand?
Bootstrap Intel
The Intel support in Darwin is largely dormant and hasn't been exercised much since Rhapsody. Getting Darwin installation working on Intel is the first problem. Getting it running is second. We have some experience with this; we'll need to dig up some old tools at Apple to help this get rolling.
While the legal grounds for such a lawsuit have not been found yet, we realize the urgency for public outcry far outweighs minor details such as the law.
Your comment reminds me of my reaction after reading Flatland (http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/eaa/FL.HTM).
If you havent read it, do, its funny in a kind of boring way. Here is the Dedication:
To
The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H.C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE Dimensions Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE OR EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargment of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY
BTW, how to you make/. display your text centered in a post? align="center" doesnt seem to work, but I think I have seen it done.
Your post was great. I love satire. It did NOT deserve a score of 0. Does/. score posts with a perl script that generates a random number from -1 to 5? It sure seems that way sometimes.
No, posts are scored by moderators, suposed by many to be actual humans. In any case the results are far better than a simple perl script could produce.
BTW, that post was posted by an AC, and automaticly starts at 0, duh
300kb/s is 2:1 compression, only a little better than Avids AVR77.
And?
All NLE's (or every thing that a prosumer could hope to buy) compress the video. IF you need super high quality, you just create an EDL, and ship it off to a postproduction house. For TV, VHS, DV, etc. 2:1 is FINE, like just fine.
A PowerMac G4 + Final Cut Pro makes a nice package, although it might be a little more pricey than some other setups.
No, actually not, for quality video, FCP is by far the cheapest.
Let me elaborate on the quality video part of that statement: I like to think of video editing needs in three categories: 1) Make a movie of your 3 month old son, company presentation, etc. 2) Most everything else that is not broadcast quality, this is the stuff that might have some money riding on it, a video you want to sell, etc. 3) Broadcast video.
For 1, you can slap whatever card you want in your current machine. I cant give any advice on this, I have no experience. Other options: iMac + iMovie, slap some other card in your current machine.
For 2, get a G4 and Final Cut Pro. You will be glad you did. Other options: Premiere + card(Don't do it man, it sucks, I have had experience with it), low end Media100 systems (too expensive), or slap some card in your current machine (low quality video, having to use brand X NLE) .
For 3, get a Media100 xr. Its only $18000 and it rocks. Works with all your existing decks, does DV, captures at 300kb/sec, real-time video and audio. Other options: Avid (too expensive)
Premiere is a pretty damn good program, if you're into Adobe products you should be in love with the software. Some interface issues, but overall the best I've worked with.
Perhaps the best you have worked with, but it sucks. I love adobe, but premiere is realy bad, the UI is nasty. After 2 years experience in non linear video editing (with Media100 xr), I had to use premiere for a project. To do anything more than just slap the clips in one after the other you spend about 1 hour looking through the manual. For the same price you can get Final Cut Pro, and use the UI of the gods. Not to mention that the tech specs rule too.
I used a G3 Mac with Media 100 edit system and extra 10+50Gb scsi (about 8000$ If Im not wrong)
You are wrong:) Media 100 is great, but veeeeerrrrry exspensive (but less then avid). Their bottom of the line "DV" model (was the le model) is "only" $3500. The DV has no Insert & Assemble Edit, you must get the lx model for $8000 if you want that (you do). Once you are to that level, go ahead and go one step up to the xe for $11000 and get realtime audio. For $2000 more you can get the xs model and get realtime video. For studio online qualtiy work, get the xr for $18000. If you can pay that though, you get by far the best editing system out there. The GUI is sweet, it is very stable (exespt for the built in graphics program, use after efects), and it is easy to learn for a newbie (took me about a week to learn fully at age 15:)
Otherwise, I recomend Final Cut Pro. For $1000 you can do DV quality editing in a great interface (very similar to Media100 actualy) with a G3 (I recomend a G4). I am useing it now, and it works great.
Well I think the reason this was importent, is we could "see" it. So far as I know (not very far, just from reading SciAm etc.) the others have been found only by detecting the effects they have on their systems.
Does it make a difference that the person in question was presumably under age 21? Up here in Canada we have something called the Young Offenders Act which basically means that in kiddie court the public never knows the identity of the accused and convictions only result in minor or suspended sentences.
Here (in Alaska) under age 18, names are not given for crimes like shoplifting etc. but are given for underage drinking and controlled substence abuse (drugs). This is a BAD thing, try geting a job or whatever after you get you name in the paper for underage drinking. Despite the fact that we know all kids do it, if you get caught, you have a real hard time for the next 3 years. Definitely a cruel and unusual punishment!
Regulars complain that the proceedings have grown more tame over the years, and that a population that used to be marked by geekiness is now looking positively hip and stylish. It's easy to see why: Jokes that used to bring down the house in the past might have been a pun based on a Unix command; today you can get an easy laugh with a line about IPOs.
Time changes everything, but not as much as money.
Lara Croft (almost sounds like cruft, actually) is a rediculous embodiment of a typical adolescent's unfulfilled sexual fantasies Why do people like those nasty huge saging busts?!?
Remember, Natalie Portman has class *hint* *hint* I would prefer her, just cuz her tits are much nicer *rawr* Just MNSHO
I thought it was good, I didnt have that one, but I have alot of good anti Religion quotes at http://ubernerd.org/quotes.html (they are kinda in with a bunch of other quotes). My personal favorite is:
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. -- Daniel Defoe
Also in the school were I go, when I, or the guy I TA for, see someone missing using the school system (porn) via the proxy server we get on the case. We track them down as best we can using there IP address.
Reminds me of the time I tried to use some of that bandwith at school by downloading some warez with hotline. I went to hotline.com to download the client. OOOPS. RING, RING. deap shit! And then I explained I was just going to dl some warez. Heh.
he has no life, so he posts replys to requests to troll himself, in an effort to be funny (failed), and gain karma (I hope to the man in the sky that fails also).
or not... i think it was them. my reasoning? well, none, but if gnutella was about to put me out of the game, i would do something about it. they are just smart enough to not put their name on it, knowing that it would be lawsuit bait.
sorry for the no caps post, i am typeing w/ one finger
I can't even count the times I've stomped my brakes and cursed at 'fucking Bimbo boxes' on the highway... Yup, and all the studly (sp?) the testostone boys at my highschool.
The one genre that I've thought would be able to handle films like Snow Crash (or Neuromancer) would be anime. Busting Snow Crash into 3 2-hour animated episodes would be great. I'd prefer it was voiced in English, but it'd look awesome as anime. YES! Stephenson was going to do a computer game of it wasnt he? I think it would do much better if it stayed totaly unreal, you just can not convay the feelings and images I got from the book with actors, no matter how much you spend on SFX (come on, prove me wrong!)
Picture it in your mind-- the stereotypical quickly-scrolling-background-art of many an anime production, w/ the magna-poon whipping thru the foreground and sticking on the back of a minivan... Picture it. Ahhh... Stop, dont make me cum:)
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Thats because they dont care about school anymore, not [necessarily] because of any damage to the brain. Now you may say that not caring about school is a bad thing, but I would tell you to get your head out of your ass.
As far a marijuana goes, many studies have shown that there is no change in neurons or evidence of neuronal death, even after long term exposure to THC.
I know many people who use marijuana frequently and yet do very well in school, straight A students . . . some in the gifted-talented program (which has nothing to do with being gifted or talented, only with how well you do on tests)
If you want to find out marijuanas effect on the brain, try it for a year, smoke a joint when you would be otherwise waching TV (talk about effects on the brain), see how your life is affected. I bet it will only be for the better, less stress etc..
The Uber Nerd
Gad! What part of /users.pl when you're logged out). Slashdot emails you your password, in clear text. So, even if the passwords are encrypted, they can be decrypted. How else would Slashdot be able to tell you your password?
They aren't. If you forget your password, Slashdot will mail it to you (the "mailpasswd" button on
did you not understand?
The Uber Nerd
The Uber Nerd
Right, those darn details.
The Uber Nerd
BUT they were adding something, they were adding the ability to listen to your music anywhere. That seems to me it would be fair [use]!
The Uber Nerd
If you havent read it, do, its funny in a kind of boring way. Here is the Dedication:
BTW, how to you make
The Uber Nerd
Your post was great. I love satire. It did NOT deserve a score of 0. Does /. score posts with a perl script that generates a random number from -1 to 5? It sure seems that way sometimes.
No, posts are scored by moderators, suposed by many to be actual humans. In any case the results are far better than a simple perl script could produce.
BTW, that post was posted by an AC, and automaticly starts at 0, duh
The Uber Nerd
300kb/s is 2:1 compression, only a little better than Avids AVR77.
And?
All NLE's (or every thing that a prosumer could hope to buy) compress the video. IF you need super high quality, you just create an EDL, and ship it off to a postproduction house. For TV, VHS, DV, etc. 2:1 is FINE, like just fine.
A PowerMac G4 + Final Cut Pro makes a nice package, although it might be a little more pricey than some other setups.
No, actually not, for quality video, FCP is by far the cheapest.
Let me elaborate on the quality video part of that statement:
I like to think of video editing needs in three categories:
1) Make a movie of your 3 month old son, company presentation, etc.
2) Most everything else that is not broadcast quality, this is the stuff that might have some money riding on it, a video you want to sell, etc.
3) Broadcast video.
For 1, you can slap whatever card you want in your current machine. I cant give any advice on this, I have no experience.
Other options: iMac + iMovie, slap some other card in your current machine.
For 2, get a G4 and Final Cut Pro. You will be glad you did.
Other options: Premiere + card(Don't do it man, it sucks, I have had experience with it), low end Media100 systems (too expensive), or slap some card in your current machine (low quality video, having to use brand X NLE) .
For 3, get a Media100 xr. Its only $18000 and it rocks. Works with all your existing decks, does DV, captures at 300kb/sec, real-time video and audio.
Other options: Avid (too expensive)
Premiere is a pretty damn good program, if you're into Adobe products you should be in love with the software. Some interface issues, but overall the best I've worked with.
Perhaps the best you have worked with, but it sucks. I love adobe, but premiere is realy bad, the UI is nasty. After 2 years experience in non linear video editing (with Media100 xr), I had to use premiere for a project. To do anything more than just slap the clips in one after the other you spend about 1 hour looking through the manual.
For the same price you can get Final Cut Pro, and use the UI of the gods. Not to mention that the tech specs rule too.
I used a G3 Mac with Media 100 edit system and extra 10+50Gb scsi (about 8000$ If Im not wrong)
:) :)
You are wrong
Media 100 is great, but veeeeerrrrry exspensive (but less then avid).
Their bottom of the line "DV" model (was the le model) is "only" $3500. The DV has no Insert & Assemble Edit, you must get the lx model for $8000 if you want that (you do). Once you are to that level, go ahead and go one step up to the xe for $11000 and get realtime audio. For $2000 more you can get the xs model and get realtime video. For studio online qualtiy work, get the xr for $18000.
If you can pay that though, you get by far the best editing system out there. The GUI is sweet, it is very stable (exespt for the built in graphics program, use after efects), and it is easy to learn for a newbie (took me about a week to learn fully at age 15
Otherwise, I recomend Final Cut Pro. For $1000 you can do DV quality editing in a great interface (very similar to Media100 actualy) with a G3 (I recomend a G4). I am useing it now, and it works great.
Oh well, there are other extra-solar planets.
Well I think the reason this was importent, is we could "see" it. So far as I know (not very far, just from reading SciAm etc.) the others have been found only by detecting the effects they have on their systems.
Does it make a difference that the person in question was presumably under age 21?
Up here in Canada we have something called the Young Offenders Act which basically means that in kiddie court the public never knows the identity of the accused and convictions only result in minor or suspended sentences.
Here (in Alaska) under age 18, names are not given for crimes like shoplifting etc. but are given for underage drinking and controlled substence abuse (drugs).
This is a BAD thing, try geting a job or whatever after you get you name in the paper for underage drinking. Despite the fact that we know all kids do it, if you get caught, you have a real hard time for the next 3 years. Definitely a cruel and unusual punishment!
Regulars complain that the proceedings have grown more tame over the years, and that a population that used to be marked by geekiness is now looking positively hip and stylish. It's easy to see why: Jokes that used to bring down the house in the past might have been a pun based on a Unix command; today you can get an easy laugh with a line about IPOs.
Time changes everything, but not as much as money.
Hear, Hear.
Lara Croft (almost sounds like cruft, actually) is a rediculous embodiment of a typical adolescent's unfulfilled sexual fantasies
Why do people like those nasty huge saging busts?!?
Remember, Natalie Portman has class *hint* *hint*
I would prefer her, just cuz her tits are much nicer *rawr*
Just MNSHO
WEEEE
that was funny
I like "Nerd" better myself
I thought it was good, I didnt have that one, but I have alot of good anti Religion quotes at http://ubernerd.org/quotes.html (they are kinda in with a bunch of other quotes). My personal favorite is:
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst,
Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
-- Daniel Defoe
The Uber Nerd
Also in the school were I go, when I, or the guy I TA for, see someone missing using the school system (porn) via the proxy server we get on the case. We track them down as best we can using there IP address.
Reminds me of the time I tried to use some of that bandwith at school by downloading some warez with hotline. I went to hotline.com to download the client. OOOPS. RING, RING. deap shit! And then I explained I was just going to dl some warez. Heh.
The UberNerd
he has no life, so he posts replys to requests to troll himself, in an effort to be funny (failed), and gain karma (I hope to the man in the sky that fails also).
Can we say [crack]whore
The UberNerd
or not...
i think it was them.
my reasoning? well, none, but if gnutella was about to put me out of the game, i would do something about it. they are just smart enough to not put their name on it, knowing that it would be lawsuit bait.
sorry for the no caps post, i am typeing w/ one finger
The UberNerd
I can't even count the times I've stomped my brakes and cursed at 'fucking Bimbo boxes' on the highway...
:)
Yup, and all the studly (sp?) the testostone boys at my highschool.
The one genre that I've thought would be able to handle films like Snow Crash (or Neuromancer) would be anime. Busting Snow Crash into 3 2-hour animated episodes would be great. I'd prefer it was voiced in English, but it'd look awesome as anime.
YES! Stephenson was going to do a computer game of it wasnt he? I think it would do much better if it stayed totaly unreal, you just can not convay the feelings and images I got from the book with actors, no matter how much you spend on SFX (come on, prove me wrong!)
Picture it in your mind-- the stereotypical quickly-scrolling-background-art of many an anime production, w/ the magna-poon whipping thru the foreground and sticking on the back of a minivan... Picture it. Ahhh...
Stop, dont make me cum
The UberNerd