Mostly, no, you don't need visualizations. Every once in a while, though, it's pretty handy.
Last semester I had a party at my house where we all watched a Divx of "Big" output to my TV in the livingroom; afterwards, people were still hanging out, so I threw on a playlist and put winamp on "random vis, 30 sec change". EXCELLENT mood tool.
I'd rather have a working MP3/divx/etc.. server in my living room now than one later that has visualizations. But sometimes they're handy....
It's true. I was deciding between linux and windows, and I picked windows so I could capitalize on all the pirate software. I'm poor and unemployed, and it's soooo easy. I mean, i could spend a thousand dollars a year on games that have no replay value (to me), or I could download ISOs. It makes me feel very guilty. I don't rationalize it; I know I'm doing wrong. Sorry!
Seriously, it's true. Sometimes when I'm talking to my girlfriend on the phone she'll start to phase out and talk more slowly. I'll say "Close snood!" and she'll sound sheepish and close it.
Say what you will, but the fact is, Snood is mind numbing, and puzzlingly (pun intended) addictive. I won't say we should outlaw mind numbing games, but just realize what you may be getting yourself into before sharing this with a loved one.
"Working for peanuts." You don't hear that phrase very often. My first mental image was of a bunch of A.I. hobbyists resurrecting Charles M. Schultz as a computer program or something...
to sunday with BIG SIGNS that they AREN'T cd's and WON'T play in most normal cd players that you intend to sue HIM in local court personally,that you will file an official
If they didn't play in most CD players, then nobody would sell them period. The whole point of the tech is they play in MOST cd players and not in MOST computers. If you went to court, you might win, but you might get a judge who said "This CD plays in 99% of players. You are obviously suing a merchant to make a point for your political agenda. Frivolous lawsuit, case dismissed."
Black people like fried chicken and watermelon, Italians men are as slutty as French women, and white men can't jump.
Seriously, you should qualify your statements before you go creating new negative stereotypes. I've known my share of publish-aholics, but I've also known several scientists with deep personal integrity who only care about results.
In my spare time, I monitor the web for new technologies and trends, track the goings-on of many 'consumer advocate' groups, and quietly work with my compatriots on proposals to create the entertainment industry of the future.
Sound shady? Nah... Who could mistrust a proud member of the Rockland High School Academic Hall of Fame?
Hey everybody, sign his guestbook @ http://www.ryze.com/view.php?who=pblelyveld
His job at disney is not as mere IP attorney. He's actually the VP of Digital Industry Relations. I agree it's unethical not to mention your affiliation like he did, but read his job description of his first position at Di$ney
Lelyveld joined Disney in 1997 as director, Digital Industry Relations. In this role, he worked with the company's business units on a wide range of initiatives in advanced television, digital cinema, emerging media and
content protection.
This guy's not a flunky or an overzealous marketeer (like mouseketeer? hah!). He's a professional.
(last quote from http://laughingplace.com/News-ID10005230.asp)
More the fool you. F6 is the shortcut key to give focus to the address bar in Internet Explorer. To the large percentage of us that are forced to use IE (or just like it 'cause it loads fast), it's the handiest "power user" shortcut available.
I needed an english credit, and guess what they offer? ENGL 334 : Science fiction as literature. I bet you're all incredibly jealous. Here's the reading list: Frankenstein (Shelley) : one of the first sci-fi novels, and written by a woman, on a dare The Time Machine (Wells) : one of the first sci-fi authors, revolutionary at the time "We" (Zamyatin) : Our prof had a hard-on for russians. And it was a good book. Starship Troopers (Heinlein) : he bashed it because it was so fascist and militaristic. I dunno, I liked it a lot more than him. Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller) : Wow, cool book. First published as 3 different novels, one of the first post-apocalyptic novels (excepting Shelley's "The Last Man") Songs of Distant Earth (novel version, by Clarke) : First sci-fi novel to make it on the new york times bestseller list, written as a response to 2001's cold, pessimistic view of the future. Solaris (Lem): Read the solaris thread from yesterday.;-) Left Hand of Darkness (LeGuin) : Our gay-lesbian-transgendered group did a discussion on this. It's a REALLY creative novel, and it's pretty good too. City of Bones (Martha Wells) : Wells is an alumni, but she's also an amazing (but not prolific) writer. But I don't think she's been writing for long, so give her time. This was my favorite book because of it's VIVID world and realistic fight scenes (our hero is a good fighter, but loses repeatedly) and it's raw originality. Think "Dune" meets "Star Wars", but post-apocalyptic and with magic.
The verdict? Our prof also teaches russian lit, and he seems to think that all of these novels were based on either Brothers Karamazov or inspired by it, except for "We" which is the best book to come out of europe, ever. And he hates Heinlein for being politically incorrect. But he has a lot of interesting things to say, and he manages to make multiple lectures over each novel. And it sure as heck beats the other ENGL classes (except "Language of Film", which has 33 seats per year).
Speaking from experience, the one plant on earth that I least want to fall wile-e-coyote style onto would be a Texas mesquite.
I once spent a spring break picking the immature ones (1' tall at most) out of some dry, rocky soil, and it was horrible. Those plants were created by cross pollinating pure evil with cruelty.
If all the parachute does is drop you into something WORSE than a cactus patch, well, maybe I wouldn't deploy...
What about soda fountains at McDonalds (or wherever you buy your greasy fat)? They charge you $1.25 for seventeen cents of syrup and some essentially free carbonated water. It's the highest profit margin in the food industry, but it's merely a simultaneous choice by EVERY restaurant to do it. What if people just EXPECT windows to cost more?
I know, it's faulty logic on MS's part; I recently bought licenses to all my illegal MS software because the university was selling them cheap. Before, I couldn't afford office and windows XP and vis-studio.net, so I stole them. Then I paid about 50 bucks and got licenses. If they would just acknowledge that lower prices = less piracy and greater market penetration (esp. in poorer countries), then we'd all live in a happier world, wouldn't we?
With a sufficiently massive object, this can be, suprisingly, kinda dangerous.
When a person "in the know" pulls back, they know they must stay perfectly still. Therefore, they lock their bodies in a rigid vertical.
However, to hold back the mass while rigid, you have to lean back a few degrees. Then, after releasing the mass, your rigid body leans back to vertical to compensate. All subconsciously (who ever THINKS about keeping their balance?).
End results? The mass DOES tend to smack your face. Suprise! The kids will always crack up, and they'll go home thinking physics is for chumps.
Actually, I'm a student at a Uni, and I know about that deal you're talking about. It's not $5 a license; it's $5 a CD. And we can only buy one copy each of one version of vis studio (and one os (xp), one office (xp)).
Visual Studio.NET (as it comes to us) is 6 CDs. And there's a mandatory $20 student fee called the "Software Licensing Fee". With our 44,000 students, Micro$oft makes $750,000 without selling a single discount CD.
I WISH it was just $5 a license. Then I could say screw the CDs and legally download pirate versions (which are readily available on our campus network.)
Geez, all you blowhards saying "think of how much you'd have to pay the DJs!" and "you'd have to pay $200-$500 in cables, and buy a $10,000 soundboard!"
Idiots.
I bought a ramsey kit and broadcast from my soundcard. Then I was able to use my nice radio as semi-wireless computer speakers, and I was able to play MP3s on any of radios in my house.
I'm bad at soldering, so it was so staticy that it wasn't fun. But a good solder job could make this EASILY feasible. And all you need to do is run more voltage and get a higher/bigger antenna to increase your range. Total cost (not counting computer) = $50.
You blowhards. He's not talking about setting up some K-ROK station with radio personalities and a promo-van. He wants to broadcast his playlist.
downloaded it three different times. I always get CRC errors when unzipping. I download tons of movies that are intolerant of bad bits, and none of them ever have transmission errors. I've given up on ut2k3 because I can't see the demo.
No kidding! My roommates have all expressed fear and disgust over those microwaves that have an analog twisty timer dial instead of a digital timer. I always tell them "what, is your food going to turn toxic because you didn't punch in the same numbers as on the box?"
These people honestly (!!!) think that it takes 20 seconds to melt 4 pats of butter. It takes exactly 30 minutes for our oven-pot-pies. If one of the pies has been in there for +/- 5 minuts, they make me eat the "bad" one.
Thank you! You bastion of rationality. (ps, all my roommates have been engineers or scientists!)
I'm posting late, so probably noone will read this, but...
Did you actually read the bill? It says the only thing they can do is interfere with the transmission of copyrighted files. And it says they CAN'T interfere in any way with the transmission of non-copyrighted (or copyrighted but non-stolen) files. They'll probably only use this to shut down a few of the massive sharers; they can't go after you if you're also sharing a copy of, say, the US Constitution.
Oh, I agree, it's utterly evil. But it's not as bad as the reactionary +5 Insightful posters would have you believe.
3d stuff. It's driver problems, I'm nearly sure. I have an ATI All-in-wonder, but it's the 32meg Pro version. None of the drivers are specifically for that one. And it's 3d graphics that tend to lock it up. To be fair, it locks up lots under windows, too. But since windows runs anything I need it to, and Linux runs some of the things much better, I spend more time in windows. So the amount of time between the random crashes that linux has only served to reduce is bound to have been spent in windows. Recently I've been improving performance by removing the case and pointing a house-fan at it. Guess maybe it was a heat problem after all? Argh.
We need to hurry up and send a team of foul-mouthed perverted semi-illiterate oil miners into space! And for the love of all that's holy, somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!
Not an EXACT duplicate, but the answer to his question is "rip off every recipe mentioned in this book".
Been done.
Wanna do it better? Listen to the poster who said you should make a web accessible database of recipes. Then anyone can search based on available ingredients ("what can I make with this crap in my pantry?"), dish-name ("what can I bring to a theme-potluck?"), and holiday affilation (obvious applications).
"There are, of course, alternatives to the described embodiment which are within the understanding of one of ordinary skill in the relevant art. The present invention is intended to be limited only by the claims presented below."
They actually admit that it's a specific case of a generic idea! IANAL, but it seems like they're saying "anybody coulda thought this up". A refreshing change from all the people who think that one-click purchases are on the order of the cotton gin.
I got hooked on your stuff when I borrowed "Man From Mundania" from my Dad. I read it in a weekend and devoured all the published Xanth books, the Adept books, and the Incarnations. They were all great, and as a young teen, I didn't mind the completely gratuitous and explicit sex in the Adept books.
My mom was the one who had to drive me to the library, however, and I was unwilling to check out "The Color of Her Panties" with her looking over my shoulder. I already had to hide all the nude-covered xanth books under a big plaid hardback or two.
I checked out Tatham Mound because of your name, but I couldn't get past a main character named "Bear Penis". Good lord man, why all the sex? Would it be so hard to make your stuff PG-13 instead of XXX or R? It's hardly a major literary compromise.
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Mostly, no, you don't need visualizations. Every once in a while, though, it's pretty handy.
Last semester I had a party at my house where we all watched a Divx of "Big" output to my TV in the livingroom; afterwards, people were still hanging out, so I threw on a playlist and put winamp on "random vis, 30 sec change". EXCELLENT mood tool.
I'd rather have a working MP3/divx/etc.. server in my living room now than one later that has visualizations. But sometimes they're handy....
It's true. I was deciding between linux and windows, and I picked windows so I could capitalize on all the pirate software. I'm poor and unemployed, and it's soooo easy. I mean, i could spend a thousand dollars a year on games that have no replay value (to me), or I could download ISOs. It makes me feel very guilty. I don't rationalize it; I know I'm doing wrong. Sorry!
Seriously, it's true. Sometimes when I'm talking to my girlfriend on the phone she'll start to phase out and talk more slowly. I'll say "Close snood!" and she'll sound sheepish and close it.
Say what you will, but the fact is, Snood is mind numbing, and puzzlingly (pun intended) addictive. I won't say we should outlaw mind numbing games, but just realize what you may be getting yourself into before sharing this with a loved one.
"Working for peanuts." You don't hear that phrase very often. My first mental image was of a bunch of A.I. hobbyists resurrecting Charles M. Schultz as a computer program or something...
If they didn't play in most CD players, then nobody would sell them period. The whole point of the tech is they play in MOST cd players and not in MOST computers. If you went to court, you might win, but you might get a judge who said "This CD plays in 99% of players. You are obviously suing a merchant to make a point for your political agenda. Frivolous lawsuit, case dismissed."
Black people like fried chicken and watermelon, Italians men are as slutty as French women, and white men can't jump.
Seriously, you should qualify your statements before you go creating new negative stereotypes. I've known my share of publish-aholics, but I've also known several scientists with deep personal integrity who only care about results.
QUALIFY!
More the fool you. F6 is the shortcut key to give focus to the address bar in Internet Explorer. To the large percentage of us that are forced to use IE (or just like it 'cause it loads fast), it's the handiest "power user" shortcut available.
I needed an english credit, and guess what they offer? ENGL 334 : Science fiction as literature. I bet you're all incredibly jealous. Here's the reading list: ;-)
Frankenstein (Shelley) : one of the first sci-fi novels, and written by a woman, on a dare
The Time Machine (Wells) : one of the first sci-fi authors, revolutionary at the time
"We" (Zamyatin) : Our prof had a hard-on for russians. And it was a good book.
Starship Troopers (Heinlein) : he bashed it because it was so fascist and militaristic. I dunno, I liked it a lot more than him.
Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller) : Wow, cool book. First published as 3 different novels, one of the first post-apocalyptic novels (excepting Shelley's "The Last Man")
Songs of Distant Earth (novel version, by Clarke) : First sci-fi novel to make it on the new york times bestseller list, written as a response to 2001's cold, pessimistic view of the future.
Solaris (Lem): Read the solaris thread from yesterday.
Left Hand of Darkness (LeGuin) : Our gay-lesbian-transgendered group did a discussion on this. It's a REALLY creative novel, and it's pretty good too.
City of Bones (Martha Wells) : Wells is an alumni, but she's also an amazing (but not prolific) writer. But I don't think she's been writing for long, so give her time. This was my favorite book because of it's VIVID world and realistic fight scenes (our hero is a good fighter, but loses repeatedly) and it's raw originality. Think "Dune" meets "Star Wars", but post-apocalyptic and with magic.
The verdict? Our prof also teaches russian lit, and he seems to think that all of these novels were based on either Brothers Karamazov or inspired by it, except for "We" which is the best book to come out of europe, ever. And he hates Heinlein for being politically incorrect. But he has a lot of interesting things to say, and he manages to make multiple lectures over each novel. And it sure as heck beats the other ENGL classes (except "Language of Film", which has 33 seats per year).
Speaking from experience, the one plant on earth that I least want to fall wile-e-coyote style onto would be a Texas mesquite.
I once spent a spring break picking the immature ones (1' tall at most) out of some dry, rocky soil, and it was horrible. Those plants were created by cross pollinating pure evil with cruelty.
If all the parachute does is drop you into something WORSE than a cactus patch, well, maybe I wouldn't deploy...
What about soda fountains at McDonalds (or wherever you buy your greasy fat)? They charge you $1.25 for seventeen cents of syrup and some essentially free carbonated water. It's the highest profit margin in the food industry, but it's merely a simultaneous choice by EVERY restaurant to do it.
What if people just EXPECT windows to cost more?
I know, it's faulty logic on MS's part; I recently bought licenses to all my illegal MS software because the university was selling them cheap. Before, I couldn't afford office and windows XP and vis-studio.net, so I stole them. Then I paid about 50 bucks and got licenses.
If they would just acknowledge that lower prices = less piracy and greater market penetration (esp. in poorer countries), then we'd all live in a happier world, wouldn't we?
With a sufficiently massive object, this can be, suprisingly, kinda dangerous.
When a person "in the know" pulls back, they know they must stay perfectly still. Therefore, they lock their bodies in a rigid vertical.
However, to hold back the mass while rigid, you have to lean back a few degrees. Then, after releasing the mass, your rigid body leans back to vertical to compensate. All subconsciously (who ever THINKS about keeping their balance?).
End results? The mass DOES tend to smack your face. Suprise! The kids will always crack up, and they'll go home thinking physics is for chumps.
Actually, I'm a student at a Uni, and I know about that deal you're talking about. It's not $5 a license; it's $5 a CD. And we can only buy one copy each of one version of vis studio (and one os (xp), one office (xp)).
.NET (as it comes to us) is 6 CDs. And there's a mandatory $20 student fee called the "Software Licensing Fee". With our 44,000 students, Micro$oft makes $750,000 without selling a single discount CD.
Visual Studio
I WISH it was just $5 a license. Then I could say screw the CDs and legally download pirate versions (which are readily available on our campus network.)
Geez, all you blowhards saying "think of how much you'd have to pay the DJs!" and "you'd have to pay $200-$500 in cables, and buy a $10,000 soundboard!"
Idiots.
I bought a ramsey kit and broadcast from my soundcard. Then I was able to use my nice radio as semi-wireless computer speakers, and I was able to play MP3s on any of radios in my house.
I'm bad at soldering, so it was so staticy that it wasn't fun. But a good solder job could make this EASILY feasible. And all you need to do is run more voltage and get a higher/bigger antenna to increase your range. Total cost (not counting computer) = $50.
You blowhards. He's not talking about setting up some K-ROK station with radio personalities and a promo-van. He wants to broadcast his playlist.
downloaded it three different times. I always get CRC errors when unzipping. I download tons of movies that are intolerant of bad bits, and none of them ever have transmission errors. I've given up on ut2k3 because I can't see the demo.
No kidding! My roommates have all expressed fear and disgust over those microwaves that have an analog twisty timer dial instead of a digital timer. I always tell them "what, is your food going to turn toxic because you didn't punch in the same numbers as on the box?"
These people honestly (!!!) think that it takes 20 seconds to melt 4 pats of butter. It takes exactly 30 minutes for our oven-pot-pies. If one of the pies has been in there for +/- 5 minuts, they make me eat the "bad" one.
Thank you! You bastion of rationality. (ps, all my roommates have been engineers or scientists!)
I think he meant "from the point of view of people who really look for him, God is good".
You are all refuting and arguing the OTHER interpretation, "God gives good benefits and preferential treatment to those who really look for him."
Kinda ironic, people accuse PERL of being impossible to parse without an author to consult.
I'm posting late, so probably noone will read this, but...
Did you actually read the bill? It says the only thing they can do is interfere with the transmission of copyrighted files. And it says they CAN'T interfere in any way with the transmission of non-copyrighted (or copyrighted but non-stolen) files. They'll probably only use this to shut down a few of the massive sharers; they can't go after you if you're also sharing a copy of, say, the US Constitution.
Oh, I agree, it's utterly evil. But it's not as bad as the reactionary +5 Insightful posters would have you believe.
3d stuff. It's driver problems, I'm nearly sure. I have an ATI All-in-wonder, but it's the 32meg Pro version. None of the drivers are specifically for that one. And it's 3d graphics that tend to lock it up. To be fair, it locks up lots under windows, too. But since windows runs anything I need it to, and Linux runs some of the things much better, I spend more time in windows. So the amount of time between the random crashes that linux has only served to reduce is bound to have been spent in windows. Recently I've been improving performance by removing the case and pointing a house-fan at it. Guess maybe it was a heat problem after all? Argh.
We need to hurry up and send a team of foul-mouthed perverted semi-illiterate oil miners into space! And for the love of all that's holy, somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!
yeah, just like that, but less boozy.
Been there, done that
Not an EXACT duplicate, but the answer to his question is "rip off every recipe mentioned in this book".
Been done.
Wanna do it better? Listen to the poster who said you should make a web accessible database of recipes. Then anyone can search based on available ingredients ("what can I make with this crap in my pantry?"), dish-name ("what can I bring to a theme-potluck?"), and holiday affilation (obvious applications).
So I can read slashdot with my chest!
"There are, of course, alternatives to the described embodiment which are within the understanding of one of ordinary skill in the relevant art. The present invention is intended to be limited only by the claims presented below."
They actually admit that it's a specific case of a generic idea! IANAL, but it seems like they're saying "anybody coulda thought this up". A refreshing change from all the people who think that one-click purchases are on the order of the cotton gin.
I got hooked on your stuff when I borrowed "Man From Mundania" from my Dad. I read it in a weekend and devoured all the published Xanth books, the Adept books, and the Incarnations. They were all great, and as a young teen, I didn't mind the completely gratuitous and explicit sex in the Adept books.
My mom was the one who had to drive me to the library, however, and I was unwilling to check out "The Color of Her Panties" with her looking over my shoulder. I already had to hide all the nude-covered xanth books under a big plaid hardback or two.
I checked out Tatham Mound because of your name, but I couldn't get past a main character named "Bear Penis". Good lord man, why all the sex? Would it be so hard to make your stuff PG-13 instead of XXX or R? It's hardly a major literary compromise.