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I see it partly differently. When you buy a new toy, the unboxing is one of the most thrilling parts, whem you discover it. So an unboxing video gives you an poor man's replacement of this thrill. Like a video of someone stripping instead of the real thing. I do not like to watch these on objects I want to buy as it will partly ruin my own unboxing pleasure.

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With a touch of S&M in case of blister packages.

james444 said:

With a touch of S&M in case of blister packages.

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Naughty naughty James...

Would anyone here know if dogs have been known to be able to understand concepts?

warrenpchi said:

Lol.  A little mean, but funny.    I'm just catching up on some writing tonight, and hanging out with you fine folks.

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Not as good as being married to one (a cute evil doll, that is). She's now collecting animal skulls, one of the things I didn't know you could buy off ebay. :blink:

Ehhhh crap, I have to reconvert my video from a movie maker file type to 1080p WMV otherwise YouTube won't download it. This video isn't my standard 3 or 4 minute video. This video is going to take forever to reconvert and then upload.
 

digitalfreak said:

Ehhhh crap, I have to reconvert my video from a movie maker file type to 1080p WMV otherwise YouTube won't download it. This video isn't my standard 3 or 4 minute video. This video is going to take forever to reconvert and then upload.

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A Core2Duo machine should be able to do the job in reasonable quality in real time, depending on the encoder and your settings.

magick man said:

Not as good as being married to one (a cute evil doll, that is). She's now collecting animal skulls, one of the things I didn't know you could buy off ebay. :blink:

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Lol, like mouse or like horse?

I just remembered you mentioned a while back that she was the anime fan in the family, any recommendations?

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magick man said:

Not as good as being married to one (a cute evil doll, that is). She's now collecting animal skulls, one of the things I didn't know you could buy off ebay.

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Your wife is a through and through goth. Be thankful she isn't into Elvira like fashion
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A Core2Duo machine should be able to do the job in reasonable quality in real time, depending on the encoder and your settings.

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I got a AMD tri core so I should be ok. I'm more worried about YouTube. I have to convert the video to 1080p then wait for YouTube to downgrade it to 720p. YouTube isn't exactly know for being super quick when doing that.

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Would anyone here know if dogs have been known to be able to understand concepts?

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That has to be, by far, the most random post on this thread ever IMO.
 
I think some dogs have higher order thought / theory of mind - so some dogs seem to understanding pointing for instance, instead of just looking at your finger.
 
I think it depends on what you define as 'understanding a concept'? Good luck there.

vwinter said:

Lol, like mouse or like horse?

I just remembered you mentioned a while back that she was the anime fan in the family, any recommendations?

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Anything. She's gathering things for the new shop she's opening, this is a recent thing she picked up:

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Anything. She's gathering things for the new shop she's opening, this is a recent thing she picked up:

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What the frick is that thing and what kind of store is she opening exactly?

...A bat hanging off one half of a crocodile jaw?
 
Must be a political statement.

a_recording said:

That has to be, by far, the most random post on this thread ever IMO.

I think some dogs have higher order thought / theory of mind - so some dogs seem to understanding pointing for instance, instead of just looking at your finger.

I think it depends on what you define as 'understanding a concept'? Good luck there.

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Really??? That was the most random post here? Wow. Anywho.

I had a hunch about my dog before but he floored me just then so I decided to ask and here seemed as good a place as any what with the intelligent and vast and varied experience of the folks that frequent this thread.

I had taught him the word "bed" a long while ago, as in "go to your bed." I did it with the bed that he has in the living room. He also has a bed in the other room. One day a while back I tell him to go to bed in the other room and he goes to his bed in that room, a bed I never used that command with. But that's his bed too so ok maybe he figured it out. This afternoon I left a towel folded on the floor in the living room and he took to laying on it instead of his original bed, the one I taught him the command with. So I tell him to go to his bed tonight and he looks at both and then goes to the towel which is closer and lays down. I'm pretty darn sure that he understands the concept of bed as "a small thing that is softer than the floor that I lay on."

But maybe it's some other thought process I don't understand. I'm kind of amazed either way.

He does the follow my finger thing too, usually lol.

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Anything. She's gathering things for the new shop she's opening, this is a recent thing she picked up:

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That is pretty awesome. I'd want to hang my keys from the bat's mouth.


"Look, I took the liberty of examining that [bat] when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there."

Video conversion is now crrently sitting at 82%. come on come on, with my luck my laptop will blue screen at 99% and I'll lose everything. 
(crosses fingers for luck)

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I'm pretty darn sure that he understands the concept of bed as "a small thing that is softer than the floor that I lay on."

But maybe it's some other thought process I don't understand. I'm kind of amazed either way.

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While that is pretty adorable behavior I think you are getting a bit carried away there. You are assuming that just because you understand that things have names the dog does too - ie that because it has made a distinction then it understands identities. 'This is not a pipe'. Etc

What's more likely is that the dogs thought process goes something like "when my owner makes a noise that sounds something like "bed" I should lie down. There are some spots sure I can lie down where he does not repeat the command. This towel is nice."

Then again maybe you have a super dog.

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Video conversion is now crrently sitting at 82%. come on come on, with my luck my laptop will blue screen at 99% and I'll lose everything. 
(crosses fingers for luck)

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While my computer rarely crashes during an encode I feel your pain. Video encoding is no fun, especially without a quad core.