IIRC*, there was an Underdog cartoon in which he saves Christmas.
* Please note that the C in this case always corresponds to "correctly" which is a bit of a weasel term since I might have hallucinated the whole thing.
Yes, but given the quality of the previous fingerprinting, all those tricks are likely to work.
One video my, er, friend was uploading (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) was removed from youtube. He tried uploading it again and it didn't even go up, it was just immediately rejected. Out comes the hex editor and he changed the last byte to something else and reuploaded. It worked like a peach, like they were just doing checksums on the upload. *rollseyes*
For how long their fingerprinting has been in the making, one can only hope it's as functional as your comparison utility.
Add my vote for: a1) chroma-shifting during encode a2) video rotated 180 degrees, to be corrected with nvidia's nview "rotate monitor" a3) odd, non-standard framerates (27 fps, etc)
I've never really understood the student discount thing. If they can afford to sell things significantly cheaper than full retail, why not just apply it across the board?
I just can't separate that from price discrimination against those not in school.
Microsoft paid $375 million in cash for Rare, and based on the modest revenues from its ensuing titles . . . all they've got to show for it is that proverbial lousy T-shirt, completely stained with red ink They seemed to do pretty well when they were playing nice with Nintendo. I wonder what is it Nintendo was doing for Rare that Microsoft isn't, or what Microsoft is doing that Nintendo didn't.
Re:It's about votes, not pandering.
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Why would your bloc care about how bad the other candidates are? Your bloc cannot be bought. Your bloc cannot be fooled. Your bloc will vote. In every election. As a bloc. Consider:
Your bloc must be like-minded on all issues. For example, how much overlap is there between pro-choice and pro-copyright-reform? Anti-war-on-drugs and pro-death-penalty? Pro-gun and anti-war-in-iraq? I can barely get a bunch of my friends to agree to what they want on the pizza let alone every single issue of importance, and I don't think that's a problem bloc leadership can solve.
And politicans aren't one-issue candidates. They can mix and match their issue orientations as they see fit. Preferably to their own convictions, yes, but let's face it: it's primarily a function based on to whom they are indebted. Even worse, if every issue had blocs for and against then it literally becomes a game of which politican is the best at performing arithmetic.
So what does happen when a candidate pledges in favor of the issue your bloc represents but also takes a line against your preference on another issue? Does your allegiance to the bloc outweigh your own inclinations? Should we ask people who are uncomfortable with abortion vote for a pro-abortion candidate simply because they belong to a bloc that agrees with their position on the war?
That is the way to change politics. Don't argue with me on/. You're just making my case for me. Ranting online does NOTHING. I'm not quite as mean-sprited as you seem to imply. We're having a healthy discussion. I mean, it looks good on paper and all but a candidate needs to evaluated as a whole and not as a one-issue make-or-break, or else your bloc is a lump-of-votes to whom he can simply promise things with a snarky one-liner. You know the type: "10 20 Life", "3 Strikes You're Out", "War on Terror", "Save the Whales", ect.
Huh? The bloc can represent more than one issue? Then you sir, have a political party complete with your platform of ideals. I bid you good luck taking on the two in control, you'll definitely need it.
Re:If you want change, change.
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So, in other words, make change by starting a special interest group for politicans to pander towards.
It's sad, perhaps, that special interest groups are the only way to get noticed by the bigshots (instead of getting back a form letter).
Corporations learned long ago how to get change. Pay for it. Campaign contributions and lobbyists. In addition to a bloc of voters, pass around a collection basket to get some green-backed persuaders.
Cue the inevitable silly poster who chastises us all for making jokes about someone's death, and the +5 Insightful reply explaining how laughter is a way of coping. Don't forget the meta-comments describing the very phenomenon;D! So, in other words, try to act surprised when it happens?
We've got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking, beeping and flashing - they're flashing and they're beeping. I can't stand it anymore! They're blinking and beeping and flashing! Why doesen't somebody pull the plug?!
MarioScooter could be kind of fun though. Since the Wii has lots of old folks playing so don't forget MarioGolfKart, MarioRascal, and MarioBuickInTheLeftLaneGoing20WithRightBlinkerOn.
Are you seriously suggesting that Rush Limbaugh should have won this award?!
You know, all this stems from the fact that some organizations that have their nominations accepted decide to publish press releases about it. There's a reason why the Nobel Committee keeps all nominees secret for 50 years and it's to avoid both the pre-promotion and pressure to give the award to the wrong people.
And, I'm about as shocked that it was awarded to Gore as I would be if they awarded it to Limbaugh. Neither have really had any impact on "peace".
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It's only version v0.1 because I still need to program in the "Think of the Children" directive and the ability to flip-flop on questions' answers when politically expedient.
Re:It's accuracy, on the other hand
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Thing is, dishonest articles and misleading text won't get fixed. I gave up contributing to Wikipedia when I had my editing slammed left and right from "regulars" selectively applying rules in order to shut out the unpopular. "No original research" only applies when your assertions are against consensus, regardless of how accurate, "You don't own the article" only applies if you're outnumbered by a bunch of others that do own the article, "Bias" only when you're striving for uniformity.
I mean, I'm not even talking about abortion or rape or anything... look at the fight over "XOR" vs. "Exclusive-OR". Sheesh.
http://www.wikitruth.info/ has some info... but don't take it's word on it. Give editing Wikipedia a shot and see the shitstorm it can raise.
Exactly, the virtual console is pretty much proof of concept that "remakes" can be wildly successful. Remake != Rerelease
While now they can run in progressive scan, use the wiimote/classic controller/gamecube controller, and let you save your state to resume later, I don't think the VC games are really enchanced in the way that, say, Final Fantasy III was remade for the DS or Tomb Raider Anniversary was remade for, well, everything.
My understanding is that in the iPhone context, 'unlocking' refers to the enabling of third party SIM functionality, whereas 'jailbreaking' refers to enabling the ability to run third party applications. Considering there is no first-party application that will unlock the phone to use any valid SIM, all that's left is a third-party application that will do it. Hence the need for jailbreak.
I've always wondered how churches like that can rationalize spending money on a 20 foot screen with a nice projector and 18" subwoofer when that money could be applied to more useful pursuits such as helping the poor. Easy. Those are internal investments aimed at increasing the size of the congregation, and in turn, increasing the pot of donations.
A small humble 4 room chapel can be used for religious ceremonies, sure, but how many people could be packed in? How many would be inspired by the visage and get that whole religious experience thing? Not many and I should know: I vote at one and even though voter turnout is really low in the U.S. it completely overwhelms the facilities there.
Now, look at a church. Imposing and beautiful (regardless of how someone feels about religion in general you have to admit chuches are impressive structures by design). Can see it for at least a few blocks as a monument in the neighborhood. Can put lots of people inside it. Its organ bellows and light colored by stained glass open hearts and minds... and wallets, too. Hell, having a beautiful church means now you can do wedding ceremonies and require large donations for the privilage.
Attractions for the youth help distance some from distractions away from the church. Investment in the youth = an investment in the adult [money-making] congregation.
The problem then becomes that the people in charge forget about those single mothers or the poor or the community at large and become centrally focused on their own growth and impact and pull. They wanna pack those seats and now they're not much better than concert promoters. Their greed overwhelms their mission and they lose sight. It takes complete dedication to the cause to not get snookered in.
Continue the cycle and you get TV Evangelists and that makes baby Jesus cry.
So with this in mind Halo doesn't violate the 10 commandments at all. Heh, and all this time I thought it was because it was just a game and not real. Silly me.:)
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IIRC*, there was an Underdog cartoon in which he saves Christmas.
* Please note that the C in this case always corresponds to "correctly" which is a bit of a weasel term since I might have hallucinated the whole thing.
Is this similar to how The Flintstones, Underdog, The Peanuts, Garfield, and Futurama saved Christmas?
(alternative jokes rejected for this submission:
Thank you Mario, but the Christmas is in another castle)
Yes, but given the quality of the previous fingerprinting, all those tricks are likely to work.
One video my, er, friend was uploading (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) was removed from youtube. He tried uploading it again and it didn't even go up, it was just immediately rejected. Out comes the hex editor and he changed the last byte to something else and reuploaded. It worked like a peach, like they were just doing checksums on the upload. *rollseyes*
For how long their fingerprinting has been in the making, one can only hope it's as functional as your comparison utility.
Add my vote for:
a1) chroma-shifting during encode
a2) video rotated 180 degrees, to be corrected with nvidia's nview "rotate monitor"
a3) odd, non-standard framerates (27 fps, etc)
I've never really understood the student discount thing. If they can afford to sell things significantly cheaper than full retail, why not just apply it across the board?
I just can't separate that from price discrimination against those not in school.
Ooh, wait.
1) Create fake school.
2) ???
3) PROFIT
I interpret that as it's only ok to kill aliens if you're going to eat them.
Your bloc must be like-minded on all issues. For example, how much overlap is there between pro-choice and pro-copyright-reform? Anti-war-on-drugs and pro-death-penalty? Pro-gun and anti-war-in-iraq? I can barely get a bunch of my friends to agree to what they want on the pizza let alone every single issue of importance, and I don't think that's a problem bloc leadership can solve.
And politicans aren't one-issue candidates. They can mix and match their issue orientations as they see fit. Preferably to their own convictions, yes, but let's face it: it's primarily a function based on to whom they are indebted. Even worse, if every issue had blocs for and against then it literally becomes a game of which politican is the best at performing arithmetic.
So what does happen when a candidate pledges in favor of the issue your bloc represents but also takes a line against your preference on another issue? Does your allegiance to the bloc outweigh your own inclinations? Should we ask people who are uncomfortable with abortion vote for a pro-abortion candidate simply because they belong to a bloc that agrees with their position on the war? That is the way to change politics. Don't argue with me on
Huh? The bloc can represent more than one issue? Then you sir, have a political party complete with your platform of ideals. I bid you good luck taking on the two in control, you'll definitely need it.
So, in other words, make change by starting a special interest group for politicans to pander towards.
It's sad, perhaps, that special interest groups are the only way to get noticed by the bigshots (instead of getting back a form letter).
Corporations learned long ago how to get change. Pay for it. Campaign contributions and lobbyists. In addition to a bloc of voters, pass around a collection basket to get some green-backed persuaders.
We've got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking, beeping and flashing - they're flashing and they're beeping. I can't stand it anymore! They're blinking and beeping and flashing! Why doesen't somebody pull the plug?!
One thing that's missing TFA is that online play can feature 12 players at the same time.
Words simply cannot express how badly I want this. Instead of making 3 people hate me I'll make 11 people hate me. >:)
Are you seriously suggesting that Rush Limbaugh should have won this award?!
You know, all this stems from the fact that some organizations that have their nominations accepted decide to publish press releases about it. There's a reason why the Nobel Committee keeps all nominees secret for 50 years and it's to avoid both the pre-promotion and pressure to give the award to the wrong people.
And, I'm about as shocked that it was awarded to Gore as I would be if they awarded it to Limbaugh. Neither have really had any impact on "peace".
Shater disagrees.
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It's only version v0.1 because I still need to program in the "Think of the Children" directive and the ability to flip-flop on questions' answers when politically expedient.
Thing is, dishonest articles and misleading text won't get fixed. I gave up contributing to Wikipedia when I had my editing slammed left and right from "regulars" selectively applying rules in order to shut out the unpopular. "No original research" only applies when your assertions are against consensus, regardless of how accurate, "You don't own the article" only applies if you're outnumbered by a bunch of others that do own the article, "Bias" only when you're striving for uniformity.
I mean, I'm not even talking about abortion or rape or anything... look at the fight over "XOR" vs. "Exclusive-OR". Sheesh.
http://www.wikitruth.info/ has some info... but don't take it's word on it. Give editing Wikipedia a shot and see the shitstorm it can raise.
While now they can run in progressive scan, use the wiimote/classic controller/gamecube controller, and let you save your state to resume later, I don't think the VC games are really enchanced in the way that, say, Final Fantasy III was remade for the DS or Tomb Raider Anniversary was remade for, well, everything.
Fine! I'm going to make my own moon habitat. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the whole moon habitat.
I think it's somewhat related to "cofee", where lack thereof prevents proper spelling.
A small humble 4 room chapel can be used for religious ceremonies, sure, but how many people could be packed in? How many would be inspired by the visage and get that whole religious experience thing? Not many and I should know: I vote at one and even though voter turnout is really low in the U.S. it completely overwhelms the facilities there.
Now, look at a church. Imposing and beautiful (regardless of how someone feels about religion in general you have to admit chuches are impressive structures by design). Can see it for at least a few blocks as a monument in the neighborhood. Can put lots of people inside it. Its organ bellows and light colored by stained glass open hearts and minds... and wallets, too. Hell, having a beautiful church means now you can do wedding ceremonies and require large donations for the privilage.
Attractions for the youth help distance some from distractions away from the church. Investment in the youth = an investment in the adult [money-making] congregation.
The problem then becomes that the people in charge forget about those single mothers or the poor or the community at large and become centrally focused on their own growth and impact and pull. They wanna pack those seats and now they're not much better than concert promoters. Their greed overwhelms their mission and they lose sight. It takes complete dedication to the cause to not get snookered in.
Continue the cycle and you get TV Evangelists and that makes baby Jesus cry.
TheSmileHasLeftYourEyes.Asia You beat me to it, good sir. Well played.