IvyMike

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by IvyMike 14y ago
For me it's the smug "See, I told you cell phones would be important in the future" gloating over obvious predictions, and the "well I said we would all be using driverless cars but since there is one, that still validates my entire predi
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by IvyMike 14y ago
It's obvious in retrospect but it took me a while to think of it in my own setup: set up a wireless bridge for the PS3. In my case, this had huge immediate returns for all streaming content.
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by IvyMike 14y ago
I agree about the pans seeming faster, but in 24fps the pans keep the same angular rate but you don't notice any weirdness at all.
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by IvyMike 14y ago
I believe there were three versions: 2d 24fps, 3d 24 fps, and 3d 48 fps. Something like 400 theaters in the country had the HFR version. You probably saw 3d 24fps. Not all 3d projectors can do 48fps, and theaters wanted to hedge their bet
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by IvyMike 14y ago
> Doctor's offices are notorious for being late. I've called ahead and said "I have an appointment at 3:30 today. I just wanted to see if everything is still on schedule or if I should come in later." It doesn't always work (sometimes
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by IvyMike 14y ago
You know when Peoplesoft said "people become less productive when they work overtime for long stretches of time"? I think this is one of those ways--the people being late get their coffee, and the people waiting get a breather to talk abou
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by IvyMike 14y ago
It's nothing close to that video, but I use VLC's "playback speed" settings to watch TV at around 160%. It is definitely something you adapt to...I used to have trouble at 130%, and now that seems slow. (If you do this, you also learn to a
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by IvyMike 14y ago
The misuse of "irony" is another one of those situations that seems to show that there's a missing word in the English language. To take one specific example from Alanis, (yes I'm going there), there's something peculiarly funny about "ten
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by IvyMike 14y ago
Notably, it does not mean what the logical grouping of those words would mean: "begs for the question to be asked". Of course, I believe I've seen "begs the question" used correctly exactly never, and there's an obvious need for a pithy idi
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by IvyMike 14y ago
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by IvyMike 14y ago
The timing explains a lot. He almost certainly came forward to collect the prize in March 2002. Along with the probably hundreds of others who also submitted 'proofs'.
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by IvyMike 14y ago
> the estate is clearly a victim of "Hollywood accounting" I agree with you that this is an amoral practice, but the thing I can never understand: since virtually everyone is aware of this con, how is anyone still taken in by it? I mean
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by IvyMike 14y ago
Everything I ever heard on the subject says that Tolkien "wanted to write a mythology for England" when he started writing LOTR. Mythologies are almost by definition uncontrollable, so the fact that it's taken on a life of its own in a way
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by IvyMike 14y ago
He must have been aware of the convenient double meaning. We all know that if he had been born Larry Bartowski, it would not have been called BartowskiRank.