Not sure as far as the motherload thing specifically, but I do know that Stephen Colbert's "Green Screen Challenge" (that used YouTube extensively) DID pull in some good ratings for the show. It especially hit home with the/.-esque crowd (and was certainly one of my more favorite sketches he has done!) As ratings roughly equates to $$$, I'd say there's a very good chance!
I assumed that the only reason the RIAA was still around was because eventually, when they decide to move on, they can shed the "RIAA" image and with that all the negativeness surrounding them. They will use the RIAA identity for their evil deeds, until being evil is no longer gaining them anything, then drop it like a bad habit (which is most certainly is!)
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Personally, for me, this is a renter. Play it through once and get 800 achievement points...I sent it right back and moved on! Great game, minimal replayability (if you have ADD like me!) ...no multiplayer on any game kills it for me (again, entirely personal preference)
BTW: www.gameznflix.com -- cheaper than gamefly and you can find coupons online that work for it too to make it even cheaper
So...question: An OS is required to interact with the hardware? I used Calmira for YEARS, and always considered it an OS in it's own right... Now that's not to say I'm not wrong, I sure as hell am human!
Edit: OK so I can't really edit but I always sit on my posts for a bit and think before I submit, and figured I might as well concede. there's a huge difference between being the OS (Windows 3.1) and a shell (explorer.exe, calmira...etc...)
It's not scientists. It's politicians. MY question: how do we know that it isn't natural and cyclical? All the evidence certainly points to it...
Back to the asteroid: I have a hard time believing that, in the hundreds of millions of years that those asteroids have been stirring around the sun since "the one" broke off and smacked into us, the belt itself didn't regain gravitational stability. An analogy: take a gigantic bowl of unbaked cookie dough. NOW take a gigantic scoop out of it from the side of the bowl and STIRRRR (for a few hundred million years.) Can you still see the location where the chunk was removed?
Now let's perform this same experiment with only a single light source, using ALL physics and from the perspective of a grain of sugar about halfway between the light source (in the middle of the bowl) and the chunk...
To allow for KNOWN SAFE Javascript, and to limit the least without any other intervention required (automatically updated white lists:)
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I could also recommend getting Peer Guardian (with HTTP blocking ON) to block against other known malicious sites. You can set up a filtered DSN (ie: ScrubIt.com) Finally, you could also find an application that will add a list of known baddies to your own HOSTS file (which would then force a known bad site to redirect to 127.0.0.1/localhost!) (ie: Spybot, Search & Destroy)
No. Pandora picks a lot of songs from the same genre. I assume that it IS gathering all the data about your listening habits, I wouldn't be surprised if returning that data to the music labels is in the contract (hence the forcing you to register!) So far though it won't build a "favorite artists based on your picks" station (and I've been using it ~5 years.) It does do a darn good job of finding other similar artists to what I already listen to. I've found the majority of my new music with this service, as it's STILL much closer than 95% of the DJs these days.
I'm a nerd. I'm also a libertarian. I attribute it to the fact that A) I believe that if everyone just shared some common sense, we would need much less central control. B) I hate taxes and spending money (period.) C) Compassion is not the responsibility of the government, and any compassionate role it plays is not only wasteful but irrelevant. D) The government is way too big with minimal accountability for its actions.
Why? Why admit that "they don't know why" when the data might be right there! You have to keep in mind, to discover these sort of patterns comes from completely indirect viewing. This was all done by observing redshift which means that only one in hundreds of characteristics were monitored. That's like saying "200,000 people are overweight" by knowing that they eat at a fast food joint 3 times a day. There will be some inaccuracies and one could only draw that conclusion by other, much closer observation. Moreso, the statement made was "200,000 galaxies are pointed in the same direction." -- not incorrect!
My point is that they could very well have the reason "why" in their data, but chances are it would require a much further in-depth study of the individual galaxies themselves (or at least the common threads between them.) To get this pushed out the door now it at least gives others (and probably more qualified individuals) a chance to then take this data and run. Patience, we'll probably get the "why" (or at least some solid theories) soon enough, young Padawan!
My point was that for a file that is a third of the size of the comparison, the quality *was not* a big enough loss that I would throw out that codec. The quality *was not* equal, but the difference was trivial given the enormous difference in filesize.
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I wouldn't be so sure...
Not sure as far as the motherload thing specifically, but I do know that Stephen Colbert's "Green Screen Challenge" (that used YouTube extensively) DID pull in some good ratings for the show. It especially hit home with the /.-esque crowd (and was certainly one of my more favorite sketches he has done!)
As ratings roughly equates to $$$, I'd say there's a very good chance!
I assumed that the only reason the RIAA was still around was because eventually, when they decide to move on, they can shed the "RIAA" image and with that all the negativeness surrounding them. They will use the RIAA identity for their evil deeds, until being evil is no longer gaining them anything, then drop it like a bad habit (which is most certainly is!)
Personally, for me, this is a renter. Play it through once and get 800 achievement points...I sent it right back and moved on!
Great game, minimal replayability (if you have ADD like me!)
...no multiplayer on any game kills it for me (again, entirely personal preference)
BTW: www.gameznflix.com -- cheaper than gamefly and you can find coupons online that work for it too to make it even cheaper
Just a thought, but did really ENOUGH people tag it as "msoffise" for it to display?
Wait...this just made slashdot and it's NOT public?
So...question:
An OS is required to interact with the hardware? I used Calmira for YEARS, and always considered it an OS in it's own right... Now that's not to say I'm not wrong, I sure as hell am human!
Edit: OK so I can't really edit but I always sit on my posts for a bit and think before I submit, and figured I might as well concede. there's a huge difference between being the OS (Windows 3.1) and a shell (explorer.exe, calmira...etc...)
Well cool, I learned something new today!
I didn't do the math, so this is more a question than a statement:
A + B = C + D
A hours good sunlight + B hours crappy sunlight < C hours good sunlight + D hours NO sunlight ?
personally, and I'm no aviation expert, but I'd think that if you made (and executed) an efficient flight plan, I don't see why this wouldn't work!
They promised me a tenfold increase in penis size too... Needless to say I'm not still called "tiny lefty" for nothing!
A system in which I operate... I don't "boot off" my phones or calculators but they most certainly have an OS.
P.S. I so wanted to run with the "boot off" but I'll be good.....THIS time!
It's not scientists. It's politicians. MY question: how do we know that it isn't natural and cyclical? All the evidence certainly points to it...
Back to the asteroid: I have a hard time believing that, in the hundreds of millions of years that those asteroids have been stirring around the sun since "the one" broke off and smacked into us, the belt itself didn't regain gravitational stability. An analogy: take a gigantic bowl of unbaked cookie dough. NOW take a gigantic scoop out of it from the side of the bowl and STIRRRR (for a few hundred million years.) Can you still see the location where the chunk was removed?
Now let's perform this same experiment with only a single light source, using ALL physics and from the perspective of a grain of sugar about halfway between the light source (in the middle of the bowl) and the chunk...
...I don't buy it, at least not yet.
Pogs are coming back?! Hell yes! I knew I saved my kickass slammer for something!!!
Sounds like someone left their homework to the last minute again!
GAH. Sorry. DSN = Data Source Name. DNS = Domain Name Service.
I meant DNS, I typed DSN. Sorry for the confusion.
To allow for KNOWN SAFE Javascript, and to limit the least without any other intervention required (automatically updated white lists:)
GetFirefox.com
AdBlock Plus
I could also recommend getting Peer Guardian (with HTTP blocking ON) to block against other known malicious sites.
You can set up a filtered DSN (ie: ScrubIt.com)
Finally, you could also find an application that will add a list of known baddies to your own HOSTS file (which would then force a known bad site to redirect to 127.0.0.1/localhost!) (ie: Spybot, Search & Destroy)
No. Pandora picks a lot of songs from the same genre. I assume that it IS gathering all the data about your listening habits, I wouldn't be surprised if returning that data to the music labels is in the contract (hence the forcing you to register!) So far though it won't build a "favorite artists based on your picks" station (and I've been using it ~5 years.)
It does do a darn good job of finding other similar artists to what I already listen to. I've found the majority of my new music with this service, as it's STILL much closer than 95% of the DJs these days.
I'm a nerd. I'm also a libertarian. I attribute it to the fact that A) I believe that if everyone just shared some common sense, we would need much less central control. B) I hate taxes and spending money (period.) C) Compassion is not the responsibility of the government, and any compassionate role it plays is not only wasteful but irrelevant. D) The government is way too big with minimal accountability for its actions.
Want to bet this has something to do with it?
Why? Why admit that "they don't know why" when the data might be right there! You have to keep in mind, to discover these sort of patterns comes from completely indirect viewing. This was all done by observing redshift which means that only one in hundreds of characteristics were monitored. That's like saying "200,000 people are overweight" by knowing that they eat at a fast food joint 3 times a day. There will be some inaccuracies and one could only draw that conclusion by other, much closer observation. Moreso, the statement made was "200,000 galaxies are pointed in the same direction." -- not incorrect!
My point is that they could very well have the reason "why" in their data, but chances are it would require a much further in-depth study of the individual galaxies themselves (or at least the common threads between them.) To get this pushed out the door now it at least gives others (and probably more qualified individuals) a chance to then take this data and run. Patience, we'll probably get the "why" (or at least some solid theories) soon enough, young Padawan!
he DID use "your" instead of "my"
changing POV implies an artistic interpretation...right?
...lord and lordess... Apparently they still go by the Wachowski Brothers though it should really be the Wachowski Siblings!
eeeexactly. I see this is a win for Microsoft more than anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEsiqIA1CpQ
Fuck the meteor's heading straight for our underground...old 'roid's got basalt all around...
My point was that for a file that is a third of the size of the comparison, the quality *was not* a big enough loss that I would throw out that codec. The quality *was not* equal, but the difference was trivial given the enormous difference in filesize.