I absolutely hated anything Shakespeare in the classroom. Slowly reciting entire plays with the class, word by word, emotionless and dead, as if for dictation. Plus the added difficulty of terrible pronunciation. I imagine this was possibly the worst way be be introduced to Shakespeare's works, or any unfortunate book read this way that's been indoctrinated into the education system. How is it education (or at least fun) when something's taught, instead of being lively and interesting, is instead a chore, difficult, and embeds an early disdain for reading? Fortunately for me, since then I've grown a love for Shakespeare's use of language. Besides my mishap with Shakespeare, To Kill a Mockingbird I feel is a terrible book choice for education. I've already made my feelings clear about this book in another thread a few years ago: To Kill a Mockingbird. To sum it up, I feel the Black characters in the book were lifeless and were essentially props to lift up and show the greatness of the White characters. EDIT: Here's that essay in it's entrirty that I quote: http://books.google.com/books?id=LaMTiorjM9cC&lpg=PA58&ots=hilmygxMQr&pg=PA58#v=onepage&q&f=false or http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/blog/Mockingbird.pdf
Really puts the PS2 version to shame.
Thanks, didn't know about the special. I will try to catch it when I can.
I've been using the same desktop picture for about a year now. Six months ago: Spoiler Now: Spoiler
Now that season 3 has finished premiering in the States, I can say I've been disappointed, and I agree with Britishism on the show's writing. Plots have fallen into formula and the character's problems seem to come and go too neatly. At one point in the middle of this season I asked myself, "Hm, almost everyone's problems seems to have been solved. Now what?" Then Branson comes back to Downton in a fit, and by then I was rolling my eyes. Even so, I still enjoy the series and love all the characters. If you like Downton Abbey, I recommend the films: From Time to Time, written and directed by Julian Fellowes. It features many of the same cast and contains the same mood as Downton. And Gosford Park. Both feature Maggie Smith and are available on Netflix.
You can try updating your system's Flash Player. Remember, Flash is not a part of Firefox. Chrome uses it's own internal Flash Player and updates automatically as the browser updates. Alternatively you can opt in for YouTube's HTML5 player: www.youtube.com/html5 Try these and let is know. EDIT: Here's an article that compares several different browsers (including Firefox and Chrome), its GNU/Linux oriented, but all browsers mentioned are cross-platform: http://netrunner-mag.com/?p=1990
I haven't used any tablet devices even though there's one in my household (an iPad 2) because they all currently lack one basic functionality: multiple user accounts. If I were you I would wait and see of the upcoming Windows 8 tablets are any good. Also it might help if you tell us what you want to use a tablet for. For my needs, if I had extra cash to spend on a secondary device for the family, I might get a Chromebook, which is not a tablet, but could be used in the same way. EDIT 11/14/12: Now that Android 4.2 brought multi-user support to the Nexus tablets, a Nexus is really starting to look appealing to me.
For a while I was obsessed with all the songs in this movie.
Spoiler: Long List You said no comedies, but not all comedies have the raunch or crudeness that are usually associated with them: "Forrest Gump" (1994) "Pleasantville" (1998) "The Truman Show" (1998) "Almost Famous" (2000) "About a Boy" (2002) "Love Actually" (2003) "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) "Juno" (2007) "Lars and the Real Girl" (2007) "The Kids Are All Right" (2010) I'm a sucker for feel-good comedies. Musicals: "Moulin Rouge" (2001) "Across the Universe" (2007) "Sweeny Todd" (2007) Dramas: "L.A. Confidential" (1997) "Boys Don't Cry" (1999) "Amores Perros" (2000) "Monster" (2003) "Julia" (2008) "Let the Right One In" (2008) (Categorized as a horror, but I would call it more of a drama) "Let Me In" (2010) (An American remake of "Let the Right One In") A couple of movies that I would categorize as horrific but are directed by David Fincher (director of "Fight Club"): "Seven" (1995) "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011) Some movies I consider to be great science-fiction: "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) "Solaris" (1971) "Alien" (1979) "Contact" (1997) "Prometheus" (2012) Westerns: "Unforgiven" (1992) "3:10 to Yuma" (2007) "True Grit" (2010)
I wish life had non-linear Ctrl+Z, so I could Ctrl+Z my first born without having to Crtl+Z my favorite children.
Spoiler I've posted this wallpaper before: Post your Desktop!
It seems external links (http://www.kh-vids.net/threads/post-all-xenforo-issues-you-find-here.131909/) to threads log out the user. Local links (threads/post-all-xenforo-issues-you-find-here.131909/) do not. Although this happens to me only once each browser session.
“Why are we here? Who created us? What is our purpose?†These questions and thirst for knowledge are what drives the character Shaw in Prometheus. Motivation, need, faith, and the search for our own significance and meaning are what I believe are the film's major themes. The character David, an android created by humans, is one of the members of the ship. I believe David's name comes from Michelangelo's David, who like himself, is a replica or image of Man. Maybe I should point out that there is also a character named David in the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a child android built to mimic human emotions. Prometheus's David is supplied to contrast our own human motivations with logical reasoning, and also to let us question, "What makes someone human?" While David follows his programming, each of the other characters have their own reasons for doing what they do. David is blameless because his actions throughout the film are the result of his programming, and are not even done out of self-interest. He is at terms with his existence, and is puzzled about why humans strive for more, and continue to hope and have faith in the face of uncertainty. I find these themes to be at the heart of Prometheus, and I also find it to be an amazing science fiction film. If you liked Prometheus, might I recommend: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), as mentioned before, and Contact (1997), about a woman much like Shaw, whose quest for knowledge leads her to strive for hope.
Yes, I believe it does. Although I can't be 100% sure because I don't own the PAL version of Kingdom Hearts II. I can't recommend it though, the FMVs in the PAL version were poorly converted from NTSC. Rip from either the Japanese or North American versions if you have a choice. The reason behind having differences between dimentions and aspect ratio is because of video format limits. In the case of Kingdom Hearts II, FMVs are stored as MPEG-2 videos with a max video data rate of 8 Mbps (same as DVDs), which affect the max dimensions and frame rate you can store video. Using all available pixels within the max resolution, then stretching the video to the desired aspect ratio, or stretch anamorphically, upon playback preserves quality. Almost all commercially released widescreen video DVDs use this technique on their stored videos. For one reason or another Kingdom Hearts II FMVs have the frame size of 512x352, instead of the full-fledged NTSC DVD dimentions of 720x480. I can only guess this is because Kingdom Hearts II's game resolution is that of a typical PlayStation 2 game of 512x448, thus meaning FMVs are squished rather than stretched when watching them in-game, meaning that watching them in-game doesn't give you the maximum playback quality. Just for notes, to get the desired 8:5, 16:10, or 1.6 (all the same thing) aspect ratio for these FMVs, resize them to 640x400, or an equally ratioed dimension, or set the pixel aspect ratio to 11:10 for Kingdom Hearts II or 44:25 for Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories if you are going to re-encode.
Yes. No video quality is lost. Transcoding does not necessarily mean lossy conversions. And yes, this tool does losslessly transcode the audio into the more format-friendly WAVE. This program at its most recent form cannot automatically change the display aspect ratio (meaning the aspect ratio is changed on playback, not to the video file itself, so no video quality is lost). An older version of this program used to be able to to this, and is planned to be added again to a newer one. Download older versions: GNU/Linux Windows Not all video players and video editing software recognize the display aspect ratio flag, or the video container format I chose to hold the aspect ratio information (MKV), so you still may have to resize the video yourself. FMV extractors exist for Kingdom Hearts. I've forgotten where exactly I got these from, but they are not by me: Download
They've just added three more games to the bundle. These include: Braid Lone Survivor Super Meat Boy If you have already bought the Bundle, they should already be available for you to download, otherwise pay more than the average when buying the Bundle to unlock them. I've stated previously on this forum that Braid is one of my all-time favorite games.
Aren't all digital code systems mathematics—a system of encoding and decoding information using a commonly agreed upon algorithmic standard? You can say the same for words and symbols. Somehow the word "love" (the letters L O V and E put together [pronounced luhv]) came to have its definition, and those that understand English agree with this definition. Understanding a language is the act of interpreting a sequence of sounds or symbols from a given alphabet to derive meaning. All words are given a predefined meaning, and all languages have to be interpreted against a set of rules to be understood, thus languages are formulas, so languages themselves are a form of mathematics (I've just discovered this on my own today so don't think me an expert). As for numbers, I agree that numbers can only serve as a container or medium of other languages to be understood by humans, but the fact we can derive meaning from it at all I think makes it a language in of itself.
I can only speak English. I can understand Tagalog but cannot speak or write it. This is probably thanks to English being a national language in the Philippines: I've never had to force myself to speak Tagalog so others can understand me. Important broadcasts in the Philippines are aired in English because it's used as a common language among Philippine's many different major languages and dialects. I wish to someday be able to speak and understand Norwegian and German. Sound is, by definition, the vibration of matter. And a radio is a device that transmits and receives electromagnetic waves. And computers calculate nothing but zeros and ones, true and false. Just using on and off states (the binary numeral system), you can communicate just about anything, including text, audio and images (the binary equivalent of the character "a" is "01100001"). Even Morse code is a form of digital code. And I would argue that mathematics is the only truly universal language (quoting from the movie Contact [highly recommended]), as it could transcend sight, sound and races (and species). Because "01100001" may not hold any semantics by itself just as the phrase "mahal kita" may not hold any meaning to those that don't understand Filipino, doesn't mean it can't be translated to something more meaningful. As we do with sound, we can manipulate numbers as a form of communication. I suggest people reading this look up Jean-Dominique Bauby.
That damned piano takes away precious time that I could be using viewing websites.
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