I didn't get the figures for my last 1099 until YESTERDAY. Kinda makes filing hard ya know.
No it doesn't. They missed the filing deadline; not you. What you are supposed to do here is timely file your 1040 without that information then re-file your 1040 when you get the additional information then either pay the difference with interest or claim the difference as a refund (in many cases this is with interest too). Optionally you can include estimated tax payments on your first 1040 filing if you want to avoid paying interest when you file again. Your final easy option is to file form 4868 for an extension along with your estimated payment. If you expect a refund the best thing is to file 1040 twice so you can go ahead and get your money back. If you expect to pay, the 4868 is much simpler.
Then use whatever capture card you can find that works well with whichever distro you're using. Don't bother using an s-video connection (assuming your deck has one, chances are good it won't) as VHS is a composite signal to begin with.
While it's true that the on-tape signal is composite, it will be the job of a comb filter somewhere to separate chroma and luminance from that signal for display or capture. If you rely on the (probably cheap) comb filter in "whatever capture card you can find" you will be participating in a crap-shoot. If the poster does indeed follow this advice and uses a high quality SVHS deck, using the S-Video output (ie using the deck's high quality comb filter) will likely result in superior quality compared to the catpure card's filter. If you want to nitpick about it, you can also buy component comb filters such as a Faroudja VP100, or look for other video passthrough components such as VCR's or receivers advertising the type of comb filter you want. I am rather surprised the parent poster seems to know the advantages of using timebase correction but did not give this advice. The only time you should skip a comb filter and use the composite signal is if you are doing tape-to-tape work or going between other component sources such as laserdisc or NTSC broadcast.
Really it's more like Thompson is seizing on the opportunity of a possible upheaval within Take Two to claim responsibility for their demise (should they actually experience said demise) -- this despite him not actually having that much (if anything) to do with it. One can see similar behavior by observing how many militant groups will attempt to claim credit for bomb/terror attacks they actually had nothing to do with. This technique of making tons of predictions so he can flaunt the few that actually end up meeting with reality has been fairly common from Thompson and for a good reason, too -- it certainly generates a lot of press!
Make no mistake, the device is wired and although there are a couple of modes (WDS, etc.) in which it can function without using its ethernet interface, for the most part it will simply be used as a wireless terminus and thus attach to the wired network. Would you rather a picture of AIR?
So all I really need to do if I hate my manager and don't care about my job is sell an M game to a 16 year old? This sounds like a really fun way to quit your crap Gamestop job while taking someone else (you probably hate) out with you. I have had a couple of jobs I would have exited a lot more readily if it meant that my boss would also be fired also.
The only way this will reasonably work is if the point-of-sale system requires manager approval to sell an M rated game. Hopefully the (ahem) genius that devised the ridiculous policy will at least figure out this simple way to make it somewhat fair.
You purchased some super cheap 10 pack for $7 right?
The problem is the cost of CFL's is all in the ballast. Cheap bulbs have cheap ballasts and that's why they take forever to turn on and even longer to reach full brightness. Philips produces a very good ballast but unfortunately it's very expensive. It starts up in about 150ms and lights the bulb with about 90% initial brightness.
What really needs to happen though, is the bulbs need to be separated from the ballast. It is possible to order such bulbs, but there doesn't seem to be an accepted standard connector and of course the availability sucks. Throwing out the ballast with the bulb is a tragic waste. The normal failure for a CFL is that the cathode burns up or the tube develops a leak. Doing this would cut replacement costs easily by 75%. For commercial and residential retrofit applications (Which is where most CFL's go these days) this is a really big deal. The other upside to this is that fixtures could be created specifically to handle CFL bulbs -- they could move the ballast elsewhere to reduce the amount of space needed at the bulb socket, they could drive multiple bulbs with a single ballast increasing efficiency, etc. If Walmart really wanted to make a difference they should spend their money promoting this idea instead.
I believe the instructions clearly indicate that you should wear the strap *and* not let go.
I fail to see how the strap could break and CAUSE the remote to leave the users hand. In fact, I don't see how it would even be possible for the strap to break under normal use while the user was holding the remote properly.
I do see how the remote leaving the user's hand (because it's thrown at full force) could CAUSE the strap to break.
TCO can be lower for LED lighting depending on how expensive it is to get the bulb changed and/or if you need to do dimming. It's also worth noting that you can purchase CFL's where the bulb is seperate from the ballast. But when you can currently purchase a 10-pack of cheap 23W CFL's for about $10-$15 you have a lot to make up for the equivalent LED bulbs at $400 or more for the same light output.
He was probably modded a troll because he was trolling.
It is a misconception that LED fixtures are more power efficient than CF or other traditional "hot wire" light sources. Compared to your typical compact fluorescent bulb at the magical "100 watt incandescent" equivalent light output, they are in fact about the same. Fluorescent tubes are quite a bit better.
There are however some new high-flux LED's in development that are cracking the previous 100 lumen/watt ceiling, but they still have a *long* way to go until they are cost competitive with any other light source.
It is important to consider the theoretical limits of the thing you are analyzing before choosing what type of curve will best model your statistical data. In this case a power curve or hyperbolic curve is not a particularly good fit since we certainly will not be seeing 50 blade razors in one year.
I would suggest that a logistic curve would be more appropriate. I am pretty sure we will see more blades on razors, but we are certainly nearing the top -- really the only thing left will be to split the blades horizontally -- you may see up to ten or eleven "blade" razors marketed this way, but keep in mind that even today you can grab a gilette fusion in both hands and go at your face with twelve blades blazin'
ReiserFS when questioned stated, "I've deliberately cut your files into bits and hidden them in every last available nook and cranny. Since you were relying on me completely to remember where I put everything, I found it quite convenient to simply forget, leaving you with no way to make sense of the leftover mess. Good luck pinning anything on me!"
I still use GIF's most everywhere, but it cannot be stated enough that the allegation that "PNG's are larger than GIF's" are completely false. Most of this idea comes from many popular applications improperly or inadequately supporting PNG.
Although many applications that claim to support PNG do not perform adequate compression, any compression at all, or worse save every PNG in an uncompressed 24/32/40/48 bit format, in 99.9% of the cases for any given GIF file a PNG file can be created that is smaller. The edge cases where a PNG could not be made smaller only occur when a GIF file can be constructed that is smaller than the header information necessary to support the corresponding features in PNG.
It is true that transparency, gamma, and animation are either not implemented or poorly implemented by a great deal of software, though, which in my book makes it a fairly unreliable format for deployment on many commercial sites. This has been changing for the better the last few years, but the fight for proper PNG support is far from over.
Well, the result certainly is interesting, but I don't really trust their conclusion. If anything, they are showing what an onboard NIC tacked on for about $1.50 is really worth. I agree that it would be quite a bit more interesting to test the performance against a decent dedicated network card, many of which do quite a bit of offloading as it is.
It's also worthwhile to note that the card is bundled with F.E.A.R. and arguably biased towards it -- perhaps the game has code to better take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware or god forbid artifically cripple itself if not running with the hardware. It certainly wouldn't be the first time we've seen such a claim, with the PhysX drivers showing faster performance in software-only mode on very new, very fast cpu's despite a game generally refusing to run with the added physics settings without the hardware.
I hesitate a minute here, but if you can't see the difference in picture quality switching between component and composite cables, something in your setup is either not set up correctly, is broken or is otherwise extremely substandard.
For a regular old 480i signal, you should see very obvious color and luminance bleeding in the composite signal vs S-Video or component. Put something like the DVD player's setup menu on the screen then switch between inputs. Look at the edges of text or edges between white and black areas. Your player ought to be able to output component and composite at the same time so you can really get a good idea of what the difference is.
If the image does not appear different and if you get the same types of artifacts with the component cables that you would normally expect with composite, you may have a problem with your CRT that could be remedied with some internal adjustments.
Well yes, I suppose if you search for your SSN and then follow a link to a website then the referrer log has the SSN in it -- but then again so does the page that site is hosting. In addition, without the means to tie the data into all the other searches the user is doing, what you could get from a single entry in the referrer is probably going to be almost worthless in most cases.
I'm not saying that the user is not responsible when they key private data into a search form, but I think that it is reasonalbe to expect that that data is not going to be purposefully collected and deliberately made available to the public on an 'anything-goes' basis, particularly one where your individual habits are easily identified.
I knew a guy once who for a period of many months did not realize that the shift key in conjunction with alphabetic key on the keyboard made capital letters. He knew how to use the shift key - but he only used it for symbols and the like when a key was labelled for it. To type capital letters, he pressed CapsLock, typed the letter, then pressed CapsLock again. He never complained, and he had become very proficient with the technique by the time I showed him the alternative. I'm not sure I ever looked to see if he had changed his ways.
Why should AOL have to provide free credit monitoring? Did the search information include Social Secuirity Numbers, home addresses, mother's maiden name (and identifiable as such), PINs, or some other sort of data that could be used to affect someone's credit report? If not, then what reason is there to ask for credit monitoring?
Really have you not heard about this? The data absolutely did contain exactly this sort of data.
remaining aspects will be the quality of the player, and any necessary culling of extra features or audio formats to make the film fit on a 25Gb BluRay instead of a 30Gb HD-DVD
Don't forget the java-based blu-ray menus. While I kind of like the inclusion of a JVM in the player at a conceptual level, unless it's extremely fast it's going to annoy me. It's also going to hinder people making players for it.
I guess I neglected to mention that we run ESX and are running neither RedHat nor SuSE. Not having specific support for a guest OS does not mean that it is unsupported.
You also can boot from SAN, it's not a problem. Just add required modules and configs to initrd and place it on a USB drive.
As a point of contention, that is booting from USB and running the root filesystem over AoE, which isn't quite the same thing. You could also do a PXE, CD-ROM, Floppy, or HDD boot and use the AoE block device to the same result. Booting from a device means that the bootstrap is loaded from the device itself. Currently AoE can't do that and even if you created an HBA for AoE, it would still put the intelligence of where to load the bootstrap from in the client. The solution would be to add some sort of redundant, intelligent proxy to the mix (which you can actually do -- they sell one) but then you are no longer cost-comptitive against iSCSI and low-end FC.
It's the same as NBD, iSCSI, Shared SCSI, and Fiber Channel.
I suppose you mean Fibre Channel, and no, AoE not the same as any one of these technologies, though it is more like iSCSI than the others. Yes, you can do similar things with all of these, but they all have various advantages, disadvantages, and unique capabilities in comparison to each other.
Sadly, AoE while pretty cool technology is probably not going to last much longer when SAS and iSCSI really start getting together. A SAS Expander with a built in iSCSI bridge would be a fairly uncomplicated (hopefully inexpensive too) device and would have the benefit of being fully compatible with SATA targets (drives).
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No it doesn't. They missed the filing deadline; not you. What you are supposed to do here is timely file your 1040 without that information then re-file your 1040 when you get the additional information then either pay the difference with interest or claim the difference as a refund (in many cases this is with interest too). Optionally you can include estimated tax payments on your first 1040 filing if you want to avoid paying interest when you file again. Your final easy option is to file form 4868 for an extension along with your estimated payment. If you expect a refund the best thing is to file 1040 twice so you can go ahead and get your money back. If you expect to pay, the 4868 is much simpler.
I call your fake vehicle and raise you two real ones.
While it's true that the on-tape signal is composite, it will be the job of a comb filter somewhere to separate chroma and luminance from that signal for display or capture. If you rely on the (probably cheap) comb filter in "whatever capture card you can find" you will be participating in a crap-shoot. If the poster does indeed follow this advice and uses a high quality SVHS deck, using the S-Video output (ie using the deck's high quality comb filter) will likely result in superior quality compared to the catpure card's filter. If you want to nitpick about it, you can also buy component comb filters such as a Faroudja VP100, or look for other video passthrough components such as VCR's or receivers advertising the type of comb filter you want. I am rather surprised the parent poster seems to know the advantages of using timebase correction but did not give this advice. The only time you should skip a comb filter and use the composite signal is if you are doing tape-to-tape work or going between other component sources such as laserdisc or NTSC broadcast.
Really it's more like Thompson is seizing on the opportunity of a possible upheaval within Take Two to claim responsibility for their demise (should they actually experience said demise) -- this despite him not actually having that much (if anything) to do with it. One can see similar behavior by observing how many militant groups will attempt to claim credit for bomb/terror attacks they actually had nothing to do with. This technique of making tons of predictions so he can flaunt the few that actually end up meeting with reality has been fairly common from Thompson and for a good reason, too -- it certainly generates a lot of press!
Make no mistake, the device is wired and although there are a couple of modes (WDS, etc.) in which it can function without using its ethernet interface, for the most part it will simply be used as a wireless terminus and thus attach to the wired network. Would you rather a picture of AIR?
In CCCP Eve Online questions YOU!
So all I really need to do if I hate my manager and don't care about my job is sell an M game to a 16 year old? This sounds like a really fun way to quit your crap Gamestop job while taking someone else (you probably hate) out with you. I have had a couple of jobs I would have exited a lot more readily if it meant that my boss would also be fired also.
The only way this will reasonably work is if the point-of-sale system requires manager approval to sell an M rated game. Hopefully the (ahem) genius that devised the ridiculous policy will at least figure out this simple way to make it somewhat fair.
You purchased some super cheap 10 pack for $7 right?
The problem is the cost of CFL's is all in the ballast. Cheap bulbs have cheap ballasts and that's why they take forever to turn on and even longer to reach full brightness. Philips produces a very good ballast but unfortunately it's very expensive. It starts up in about 150ms and lights the bulb with about 90% initial brightness.
What really needs to happen though, is the bulbs need to be separated from the ballast. It is possible to order such bulbs, but there doesn't seem to be an accepted standard connector and of course the availability sucks. Throwing out the ballast with the bulb is a tragic waste. The normal failure for a CFL is that the cathode burns up or the tube develops a leak. Doing this would cut replacement costs easily by 75%. For commercial and residential retrofit applications (Which is where most CFL's go these days) this is a really big deal. The other upside to this is that fixtures could be created specifically to handle CFL bulbs -- they could move the ballast elsewhere to reduce the amount of space needed at the bulb socket, they could drive multiple bulbs with a single ballast increasing efficiency, etc. If Walmart really wanted to make a difference they should spend their money promoting this idea instead.
I believe the instructions clearly indicate that you should wear the strap *and* not let go.
I fail to see how the strap could break and CAUSE the remote to leave the users hand. In fact, I don't see how it would even be possible for the strap to break under normal use while the user was holding the remote properly.
I do see how the remote leaving the user's hand (because it's thrown at full force) could CAUSE the strap to break.
TCO can be lower for LED lighting depending on how expensive it is to get the bulb changed and/or if you need to do dimming. It's also worth noting that you can purchase CFL's where the bulb is seperate from the ballast. But when you can currently purchase a 10-pack of cheap 23W CFL's for about $10-$15 you have a lot to make up for the equivalent LED bulbs at $400 or more for the same light output.
He was probably modded a troll because he was trolling.
It is a misconception that LED fixtures are more power efficient than CF or other traditional "hot wire" light sources. Compared to your typical compact fluorescent bulb at the magical "100 watt incandescent" equivalent light output, they are in fact about the same. Fluorescent tubes are quite a bit better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy
There are however some new high-flux LED's in development that are cracking the previous 100 lumen/watt ceiling, but they still have a *long* way to go until they are cost competitive with any other light source.
Why bother reinventing the wheel when they could just glue a bunch of air hockey tables to the outside of a boat?
Meaning they will never make them.
It is important to consider the theoretical limits of the thing you are analyzing before choosing what type of curve will best model your statistical data. In this case a power curve or hyperbolic curve is not a particularly good fit since we certainly will not be seeing 50 blade razors in one year.
I would suggest that a logistic curve would be more appropriate. I am pretty sure we will see more blades on razors, but we are certainly nearing the top -- really the only thing left will be to split the blades horizontally -- you may see up to ten or eleven "blade" razors marketed this way, but keep in mind that even today you can grab a gilette fusion in both hands and go at your face with twelve blades blazin'
ReiserFS when questioned stated, "I've deliberately cut your files into bits and hidden them in every last available nook and cranny. Since you were relying on me completely to remember where I put everything, I found it quite convenient to simply forget, leaving you with no way to make sense of the leftover mess. Good luck pinning anything on me!"
I still use GIF's most everywhere, but it cannot be stated enough that the allegation that "PNG's are larger than GIF's" are completely false. Most of this idea comes from many popular applications improperly or inadequately supporting PNG.
Although many applications that claim to support PNG do not perform adequate compression, any compression at all, or worse save every PNG in an uncompressed 24/32/40/48 bit format, in 99.9% of the cases for any given GIF file a PNG file can be created that is smaller. The edge cases where a PNG could not be made smaller only occur when a GIF file can be constructed that is smaller than the header information necessary to support the corresponding features in PNG.
It is true that transparency, gamma, and animation are either not implemented or poorly implemented by a great deal of software, though, which in my book makes it a fairly unreliable format for deployment on many commercial sites. This has been changing for the better the last few years, but the fight for proper PNG support is far from over.
Well, the result certainly is interesting, but I don't really trust their conclusion. If anything, they are showing what an onboard NIC tacked on for about $1.50 is really worth. I agree that it would be quite a bit more interesting to test the performance against a decent dedicated network card, many of which do quite a bit of offloading as it is.
It's also worthwhile to note that the card is bundled with F.E.A.R. and arguably biased towards it -- perhaps the game has code to better take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware or god forbid artifically cripple itself if not running with the hardware. It certainly wouldn't be the first time we've seen such a claim, with the PhysX drivers showing faster performance in software-only mode on very new, very fast cpu's despite a game generally refusing to run with the added physics settings without the hardware.
I hesitate a minute here, but if you can't see the difference in picture quality switching between component and composite cables, something in your setup is either not set up correctly, is broken or is otherwise extremely substandard.
For a regular old 480i signal, you should see very obvious color and luminance bleeding in the composite signal vs S-Video or component. Put something like the DVD player's setup menu on the screen then switch between inputs. Look at the edges of text or edges between white and black areas. Your player ought to be able to output component and composite at the same time so you can really get a good idea of what the difference is.
If the image does not appear different and if you get the same types of artifacts with the component cables that you would normally expect with composite, you may have a problem with your CRT that could be remedied with some internal adjustments.
Well yes, I suppose if you search for your SSN and then follow a link to a website then the referrer log has the SSN in it -- but then again so does the page that site is hosting. In addition, without the means to tie the data into all the other searches the user is doing, what you could get from a single entry in the referrer is probably going to be almost worthless in most cases.
I'm not saying that the user is not responsible when they key private data into a search form, but I think that it is reasonalbe to expect that that data is not going to be purposefully collected and deliberately made available to the public on an 'anything-goes' basis, particularly one where your individual habits are easily identified.
I knew a guy once who for a period of many months did not realize that the shift key in conjunction with alphabetic key on the keyboard made capital letters. He knew how to use the shift key - but he only used it for symbols and the like when a key was labelled for it. To type capital letters, he pressed CapsLock, typed the letter, then pressed CapsLock again. He never complained, and he had become very proficient with the technique by the time I showed him the alternative. I'm not sure I ever looked to see if he had changed his ways.
Really have you not heard about this? The data absolutely did contain exactly this sort of data.
Don't forget the java-based blu-ray menus. While I kind of like the inclusion of a JVM in the player at a conceptual level, unless it's extremely fast it's going to annoy me. It's also going to hinder people making players for it.
I guess I neglected to mention that we run ESX and are running neither RedHat nor SuSE. Not having specific support for a guest OS does not mean that it is unsupported.
As a point of contention, that is booting from USB and running the root filesystem over AoE, which isn't quite the same thing. You could also do a PXE, CD-ROM, Floppy, or HDD boot and use the AoE block device to the same result. Booting from a device means that the bootstrap is loaded from the device itself. Currently AoE can't do that and even if you created an HBA for AoE, it would still put the intelligence of where to load the bootstrap from in the client. The solution would be to add some sort of redundant, intelligent proxy to the mix (which you can actually do -- they sell one) but then you are no longer cost-comptitive against iSCSI and low-end FC.
I suppose you mean Fibre Channel, and no, AoE not the same as any one of these technologies, though it is more like iSCSI than the others. Yes, you can do similar things with all of these, but they all have various advantages, disadvantages, and unique capabilities in comparison to each other.
Sadly, AoE while pretty cool technology is probably not going to last much longer when SAS and iSCSI really start getting together. A SAS Expander with a built in iSCSI bridge would be a fairly uncomplicated (hopefully inexpensive too) device and would have the benefit of being fully compatible with SATA targets (drives).