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#1481 |
~Author~
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rocky Mount, NC
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At first I like it, lively and upbeat but then it got monotonous.
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Write paranormal mysteries. Six books so far.
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#1482 |
is pleased
Join Date: Mar 2001
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![]() I'm pretty sure that's the music from the elevators of hell.
![]() /Tiny Jon Lovitz Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history. Last edited by Tiny Turtle; 03-27-2008 at 09:54 PM. |
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#1483 |
Engineer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 1,279
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News item (here as there was a big Nvidia thing a while back):
"That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista, but the latest juicy nugget to come out if it suggests that a lot of problems faced by the troubled operating system are actually NVIDIA's fault -- nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in first place by a large margin -- Microsoft clocks in at number two at 17.9 percent, and ATI is fourth with 9.3 percent. " I suspect this is just past history though, and shouldn't be a deciding factor in graphics card choice... |
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#1484 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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![]() I have to take the shots myself. Hoping to get some good ones at the Shedd Aquarium in a couple of days.
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#1485 |
Smilie Dragon
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lebanon, PA
Posts: 4,725
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![]() News item (here as there was a big Nvidia thing a while back):
"That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista, but the latest juicy nugget to come out if it suggests that a lot of problems faced by the troubled operating system are actually NVIDIA's fault -- nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in first place by a large margin -- Microsoft clocks in at number two at 17.9 percent, and ATI is fourth with 9.3 percent. " I suspect this is just past history though, and shouldn't be a deciding factor in graphics card choice... ![]() ![]()
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#1486 |
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
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just my two cents...the whole music included idea sounds good, until about third time you launch it and just go "oy gevalt, not again"...LOL...One of our screensavers, MA, Goldfish and Dream Aquarium are on all day, every day in our reception area, and we just use iTunes to play the music we want for day..any music player would be comparable..adding music to MA isn't a bad idea, just not a real bonus to the screensaver...just make the option to turn it off and everyone will be quite satisfied......*wink
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#1487 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
Posts: 105
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one option that I really do like on Dream Aquarium is the ability to set up several tanks with different fish and let them rotate..that might be a good option for MA, at some point...
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#1488 |
Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 9,785
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I'm still deciding how the "fish-chooser" part of the interface will work. The ability to have several different "favorite" groups of fish is a possibility.
Regarding the music - of course the user will be able to turn it off. Also, once you've set up the playlist, the Aquarium will remember where it stopped last time, and start with that song for the next session. Random Play will also be available. As far as playing iTunes, it doesn't seem likely that I'll be able to do that, since they are in a proprietary format. But the user could always simply convert their Aquarium-appropriate music into .mp3 format and add it to the MA3 playlist.
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#1489 |
is pleased
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Posts: 7,365
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Technically speaking, iTunes handles both mp3 and aac (with or without DRM) - though I don't think we need it in MA.
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history. |
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#1490 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
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I just meant that we run a screensaver all day to display an aquarium and we run iTunes to play our music at the same time..a computer in another room runs the screensaver and iTunes..I didn't intend to suggest that they be integrated somehow...my apologies if it sounded like I did
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#1491 |
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Posts: 19
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Waiting....
After a long hiatus from this site since 04-25-2005, 05:35 PM (as per my last post) I am back after getting news about 3.0. Now I am eager beaver waiting for 3.0 to be out. You are the best Jim, keep it up. I will be first in line to get SS3.0
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#1492 |
The Architect
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 756
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![]() ... but the latest juicy nugget to come out if it suggests that a lot of problems faced by the troubled operating system are actually NVIDIA's fault -- nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to Microsoft data included in the bundle.
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Reasons people don't watch Star Trek:
60% - It’s for nerds. 39% - The show’s stupid. 01% - My parents were killed by Klingons and it's still too painful. |
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#1493 |
Forum Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 10,939
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The quality of Dell PCs has dropped so precipitously, I don't think they will be on top for long. My roommate got a Dell laptop. And not the cheapest one either. It takes something like a dozen support files running to support the wireless networking. When you bring up the Task Manager, it looks like spyware central but each and every unrecognized file I saw was listed as being "essential" for the wireless networking. The whole computer runs unbelievably slow.
*hugs my HP*
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman |
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#1494 |
is pleased
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Posts: 7,365
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Welcome back, Jacky! Guess you had a few unread posts to browse through, huh?
![]() Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history. |
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#1495 |
~Author~
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rocky Mount, NC
Posts: 7,429
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![]() The quality of Dell PCs has dropped so precipitously, I don't think they will be on top for long. My roommate got a Dell laptop. And not the cheapest one either. It takes something like a dozen support files running to support the wireless networking. When you bring up the Task Manager, it looks like spyware central but each and every unrecognized file I saw was listed as being "essential" for the wireless networking. The whole computer runs unbelievably slow.
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Write paranormal mysteries. Six books so far.
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#1496 |
Forum Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 10,939
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If you are getting a desktop PC, why get a name brand at all? I'm sure there's some local shop that will build a PC for you. I was mostly talking about laptops.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman |
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#1497 |
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 3
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Anybody aware of this?
http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/sho...hp?photo=21144 |
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#1498 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 72
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I was watching comedy central last night and behind the comedian performing was a big screen with the MA on it. No fish, just the coral, bubbles and the starfish. Did they need permission to do this? Does Jim get residuals when these things are being done? Or is it just chalked up as good advertisement? Enquiring minds want to know.
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#1499 |
Pet Shark
Join Date: Nov 2001
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What was the show's name? What was the comedian's name?
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#1500 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 72
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The show is call COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS. They show various comedians doing half hour shows and I've seen MA as a background on more than one occasion but not every show.
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