I've heard that a good way to become more successful is to spend time with people who are more successful than you.Originally Posted by Animeniax
I've heard that a good way to become more successful is to spend time with people who are more successful than you.
Well, I'm an engineering student, but it's pretty surprising for others when they learn how up to date I am with politics and the economy because I try to religiously watch the news every night while my other engineering peers are more focused on their social lives and video gaming.
The point here is that anyone can become a whiz or a decent amateur at these hobbies that you've mentioned. There's obviously the initial time you need to put in to learn about the basics/foundations of the hobbies (e.g., adapting your out of shape body to strenuous activities at the local gym), but once you're done that and you keep up with the consistency your hobby demands, it doesn't take much to become very informed of the matter/subject - especially if you spend 15 minutes on it every day.
If you really wanted to be like these people, Ani, you should just go for it like the way they do it - but in your own way. You can be an amateur expert/speculator of any of your passions and when it's your time to shed your expertise on a subject, others will look at you in the same way you see these peers of your's in the same light. You have to realize that you can control almost everything in your life either directly or bringing it under the control of your influence and this is one situation you can definitely solve by yourself.
Because then you can leech off their successes.
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I think the idea is that it's supposed to be a motivation for you to succeed.
You can get monitor calibration pictures or programs from various sources. One such way that they let you calibrate your monitor is to run through various pictures/graphs. Each of those pictures will be designed to test one variable such that you can modify it to look right.
What looks right? Well the program shows you a picture of what is "ideal" before you start each test.
My question is: If your monitor is unbalanced before you begin the test (which is why you're doing the tests in the first place), how the hell is an "ideal image" supposed to look "right" on such a monitor?
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I think it's the same with websites detailing how to reformat your own computer. How can I access this information on the same computer I'm trying to reformat? My guess is that you use it on another different computer and compare the two screens just like you would with reformatting (printing out the steps or reading it from another computer not being reformatted).
Of course, although there will be deviations, good image testing programs/websites will have descriptions of what you're trying to look for or differentiate like this:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS.../CALIBRATE.HTM
But the other computer doesn't necessarily have a calibrated screen neither. You can't really print off a picture unless you're sure your own printer's colours are calibrated neither.I think it's the same with websites detailing how to reformat your own computer. How can I access this information on the same computer I'm trying to reformat? My guess is that you use it on another different computer and compare the two screens just like you would with reformatting (printing out the steps or reading it from another computer not being reformatted).
Descriptions definitely help, but I just don't understand how the images are actually supposed to show you what's correct and incorrect. (I gather that they actually do, since so many people do it this way?)
Take my TV at home for example. It's got its own calibration software. It'll show me a picture with some patterns and say "adjust your contrast so the picture looks like this. You should just be able to bla bla bla bla".
How does it make the first picture show up correctly so I know what I'm trying to get to in the first place?
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You can't, proper calibration software will let you adjust the tv/monitor settings based on very simple tests like the ones on the site enkoujin linked.
If the calibration software tells gives you a reference image instead it has already failed.
I'm pretty sure Disney blu-rays have pretty excellent calibration tools on them.
Fair enough. I get calibration tools that tell me what I'm supposed to be looking for, as well as give me a reference image to show what I'm looking for. I never understood how the latter was supposed to look right. Thanks for the explanation guys.
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Just get a hardware colorimeter based calibration tool, Bill. You know you enjoy expensive equipment.
I don't get why they changed Daffy Duck from being a kooky, wacky character into a whiny bitchass unfriendly character. He started out as this lovable zany type similar to Bugs Bunny but more insane. Later they changed him into a mean-spirited and sour character, sometimes opposite Bugs. I've been disappointed in this change for the longest time.
I brought this up before but I don't get how "How I met your mother" is a "hit" show. I just watched 10 minutes of it and even the laughtrack seemed like it didn't think the material was funny. I'd be happy to get into this show (I'm a fan of Jason Segal, NPH, and Allyson Hannigan, and Cobie Smulders is kinda hot), but this seems like an unfunny Friends knock-off. Not that Friends was ever that funny either.
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“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I also wonder how "How I Met Your Mother" ever became a success. I find it terribly unfunny.
it works as long as you don't expect much from it.
despite it trying to be the 'lost*' of comedy shows (with hints about the future, unreliable narrator), it doesn't hold up to its' intended target (having an overall plot that ties everything down with a wedding ribbon). if you ignore that, and think of it as just another comedy show that uses the same actors to fill in whatever roles the script demanded, then it's fine.
*I never watched lost
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Currently Watching: probably a show directed at 9 years old girls, lets be honest.
You know the important distinction between Batman and me? Batman is fictional. In real life, there isn't always an alternative.
Wow, didn't expect you to be the one defend it or be a fan of the show. I left it on the TV for two episodes and couldn't get into it. I wonder if the scenarios are such that you have to have had a similar experience in order to relate to it or see the humour in it. Maybe I am expecting too much from it, considering the hype it gets. Weird that most of those who I know who like the show are college students, not quite the older 20-30 somethings I think the show is targetting.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I have this weird thing I do in video games when confronted with one and then another enemy. I'll shoot at the first enemy, but as soon as I see the second one, I'll switch to shooting at him. What always results is that they both fire on me and I die and they both survive. I don't understand why I always do it and how I can ever stop doing it.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Hmm, no idea. Your attention simply gets caught by the second guy perhaps?
I know the general rule in firefights is to kill the one closest to you first, the next etc etc. I have a bad habit of going after the sniper first if I see him though.
Disregarding the distance rule of thumb and the sniper exception, I have no trouble trying to kill the first enemy I see before I move onto the next. I'm a guy who finds focusing easy but multitasking difficult, so ignoring everything else until I've performed the task at hand works for me.
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Maybe you're taking habits from a different type of game and applying it (erroneously) to an fps? Like, say in a game like world of warcraft, you might be fighting someone or something, when someone/something else engages you as well. You might switch targets at that point to do something to the new target that temporarily takes it out of the fight, and then switch back to your initial target to finish it.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
It's always useful to think like a villain: Kill the weakest one(s) first, then the stronger.
I too think it's one genre logic 'spilling over' to a different type of games.
your behavior in the game would be very reasonable if the game had a knock-back mechanism (hitting an enemy temporarily prevents him from action), or enemies had very low health or appeared only once the previous enemy was killed.
^ Power switch is on the back.
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^ Power switch is on the back again.
Why the hell would you put the ONLY power switch for the amp on the back??
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