CarGuy1

CarGuy1

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The one I like to bitch about is that the US sends foreign aid to China! We stupidly borrow money from them and then turn around and give it back as foreign aid. They must be laughing their asses off all the way to the bank.

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[quote who="starkers" reply="26" id="3446966"]In other words, Apple does not contribute anything of worthy of mention to the economies gracious enough to host it. [/quote] So, 425 million in taxes paid to Australia for the past 5 years is not contributing? That's the amount the story you link to states they paid once you do the math. You may say that's not enough but by their accountants, that's what they were legally obligated to pay. You can't blame

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[quote who="kona0197" reply="3" id="3437452"] Playing Devil's advocate here but do you all really trust putting your data in the cloud? [/quote] Neighbor had a major tragedy and their house burnt down. Of course they didn't trust the cloud and only backed up their data on a local external HD. Lost everything, all their data including all their family photos. Too bad some of that data wasn't stored in the cloud.

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Katie, I replied to you PM. I would like to point out that WMV is a horrible format to use for dreams as they use an extremely high amount of CPU power. If your on a laptop, your machine will run much hotter than necessary if you run a WMV dream continuously. Also, so your aware, most WMVs hesitate at the loop. Lastly, there are plenty of codec packs that include a mpeg2 codec. Install one and remove the Windows update KB2670838 and&nbs

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[quote quoting="post"] Can deskscapes already do this? Or can it have an option to do this? I know I could edit the video but it would be an easy way to get some videos to be used as a seamless animated backgroun. [/quote] I've used this method for looping video and I can tell you that this does not work as well as you think. Unless the movement in the video is minimal, you will see an abrupt change when you reverse the video. Also, since the last frame

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It's because of the non standard video size that we used back then. When we first started, 16x10 was the wide screen norm for monitors so we created dreams for them. 1792x1120 was the closest thing that the encoder we were using would allow for 16x10. The ones you are having trouble with were encoded at 1792x1120. With Win 8, the video needs to be a standard size like 1920x1080. Unless the original author re-encodes their dream and uploads a new version, those will no

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I'm not the 3rd but I would love to get some local honey from that close to home (Oscoda). Edit: It's been a while since I've been back to that part of the country, sure do miss it. I love to get up there for some Pike fishing this winter.

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