Interesting. There are some channels through the tuner that don't have any black borders at all, though, so I don't know what's going on.
There are only three options for aspect ratio on the tuner I bought: Auto, 4:3, and 16:9. 16:9 on the four-black-sides channels results in a vertically stretched image with black bars on the left and right. (Not that I'd leave it on 16:9 anyway, it's a 4:3 TV.)
I would argue that patriotism is not the belief that your country is somehow inherently better than others. I think patriotism is simply a pride in your country that motivates loyalty, with no implications about other countries.
I've seen several stories - even some completely unrelated to politics - tagged 'republicans' over the last few days. I think maybe someone (or multiple someones) is just bored, and just tags everything.
Being savvy enough to set up media streaming from a PC is not the same as actually having a PC capable of media streaming. I'm capable, I just don't actually have the hardware.
What about people whose TVs are old enough (or cheap enough) that they don't include a built-in digital tuner?
Just because your TV didn't need one to get digital channels doesn't mean everyone else should have to pay for the upgrade due to a governmental fiat.
To clarify, I have enough money to buy an HDTV. I'm going to wait until I move to buy one, so I don't have to risk breaking said HDTV during the move. That leaves five months during which, through no fault of my own, I would have no television (since analog broadcasts will have stopped). I'd complain loudly if I had to buy a new TV (or pay for the tuner myself) because of this signal switchover, because I didn't vote for or agree to the switchover. These coupons are probably the easiest fair way to treat the situation.
I get KUTV-HD on my converter box, downsampled to SD (and my TV conveniently puts black bars on all four sides, even though the TV is 4:3 and the output signal is 4:3). So... yeah.
To add to the anecdotes, I plugged in the converter box I bought today, and I'm missing several digital channels that I get perfectly over analog.
Oh, and the 4:3 signal output by the converter box has black bars on all four sides for almost every channel on my TV. I'll be conservative and blame the TV, though, since it's fairly ancient (relatively speaking).
From what I've read (I don't own Vista), you can put gadgets on your desktop in Vista too. That's not an improvement; they simply removed the gadgetbar as an option.
I don't mean that "sometimes it's not technically possible to get around it", I mean "sometimes management refuses to consider alternatives to their macro-laden Excel spreadsheets".
Funny how you call everyone who doesn't want to switch "whiners" without allowing for the possibility of legitimate concerns. My dad is an accountant; my impression is that he has functionality needs that are simply not present in OpenOffice.
If you tell me "send in a patch" I'll shoot you in the face.
We've never factored a 1024-bit number -- at least, not outside any secret government agency -- and it's likely to require a lot more than 15 million computer years of work.
So even if the usable computational speed of processors doubles in the next few years, it would still take at least 7.5 million computer years of work. You might have that much time (or maybe you have 7 million computers) but I don't.
No, increased computational speeds won't make factoring extremely large numbers feasible (at least, not anytime soon). The only thing that will do that would be finding some algorithm to do it - and if you figure that out, you'll deserve every award you get and then some.
If you're going to quote Weird Al, at least quote it right.
I quote from my "Straight Outta Lynwood" CD insert:
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online
I've bought many games because I liked the demo. Some of them were cheaper $10-$20 games, like Uplink, Darwinia, and Peggle. Some of them were $50 games, like Left 4 Dead.
Other games I bought because I played friends' (legal) copies, which basically had the same effect as a good demo. Starcraft, Diablo II, Half-Life, Command & Conquer, etc.
I am of the opinion that (generally speaking) every game should put out a demo. If the game isn't good enough, nobody should be forced to pay for it to find out it sucks.
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The converter box is set to 4:3. Zoom is disabled on every channel except SD channels (that is, it gives an error message when I push zoom).
Interesting... I've never used patriotism in that way.
Interesting. There are some channels through the tuner that don't have any black borders at all, though, so I don't know what's going on.
There are only three options for aspect ratio on the tuner I bought: Auto, 4:3, and 16:9. 16:9 on the four-black-sides channels results in a vertically stretched image with black bars on the left and right. (Not that I'd leave it on 16:9 anyway, it's a 4:3 TV.)
Hey, we don't get to pick our neighbors :P
I would argue that patriotism is not the belief that your country is somehow inherently better than others. I think patriotism is simply a pride in your country that motivates loyalty, with no implications about other countries.
I've seen several stories - even some completely unrelated to politics - tagged 'republicans' over the last few days. I think maybe someone (or multiple someones) is just bored, and just tags everything.
Being savvy enough to set up media streaming from a PC is not the same as actually having a PC capable of media streaming. I'm capable, I just don't actually have the hardware.
These boxes are designed to do one thing: Allow old TVs which display a crappy analog signal to display the new digital signal in a crappy way.
Actually the digital signals looks better than the old analog signals on my TV, so your statement isn't quite accurate.
What about people whose TVs are old enough (or cheap enough) that they don't include a built-in digital tuner?
Just because your TV didn't need one to get digital channels doesn't mean everyone else should have to pay for the upgrade due to a governmental fiat.
To clarify, I have enough money to buy an HDTV. I'm going to wait until I move to buy one, so I don't have to risk breaking said HDTV during the move. That leaves five months during which, through no fault of my own, I would have no television (since analog broadcasts will have stopped). I'd complain loudly if I had to buy a new TV (or pay for the tuner myself) because of this signal switchover, because I didn't vote for or agree to the switchover. These coupons are probably the easiest fair way to treat the situation.
I get KUTV-HD on my converter box, downsampled to SD (and my TV conveniently puts black bars on all four sides, even though the TV is 4:3 and the output signal is 4:3). So... yeah.
To add to the anecdotes, I plugged in the converter box I bought today, and I'm missing several digital channels that I get perfectly over analog.
Oh, and the 4:3 signal output by the converter box has black bars on all four sides for almost every channel on my TV. I'll be conservative and blame the TV, though, since it's fairly ancient (relatively speaking).
From what I've read (I don't own Vista), you can put gadgets on your desktop in Vista too. That's not an improvement; they simply removed the gadgetbar as an option.
I don't mean that "sometimes it's not technically possible to get around it", I mean "sometimes management refuses to consider alternatives to their macro-laden Excel spreadsheets".
None of those things replace OneNote ;)
Funny how you call everyone who doesn't want to switch "whiners" without allowing for the possibility of legitimate concerns. My dad is an accountant; my impression is that he has functionality needs that are simply not present in OpenOffice.
If you tell me "send in a patch" I'll shoot you in the face.
You're joking, but this can be a serious deterrent to switching for some businesses.
Of course, vital business logic being locked away in an Excel macro is a WTF in and of itself, but sometimes there's no getting around it...
According to Bruce Schneier:
We've never factored a 1024-bit number -- at least, not outside any secret government agency -- and it's likely to require a lot more than 15 million computer years of work.
So even if the usable computational speed of processors doubles in the next few years, it would still take at least 7.5 million computer years of work. You might have that much time (or maybe you have 7 million computers) but I don't.
No, increased computational speeds won't make factoring extremely large numbers feasible (at least, not anytime soon). The only thing that will do that would be finding some algorithm to do it - and if you figure that out, you'll deserve every award you get and then some.
It's the 1.5TB drives that self-brick. The 1TB drives are fine (and in fact I have a pair of them at work that are functioning perfectly).
If you're going to quote Weird Al, at least quote it right.
I quote from my "Straight Outta Lynwood" CD insert:
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online
It's more like encrypting your USB flash drive and then attaching a sticky note to the outside with the encryption key.
I might do the same thing, but all of my neighbors' networks (there are 10-12 in range) are encrypted at least with WEP. I'm far too lazy to break in.
I've bought many games because I liked the demo. Some of them were cheaper $10-$20 games, like Uplink, Darwinia, and Peggle. Some of them were $50 games, like Left 4 Dead.
Other games I bought because I played friends' (legal) copies, which basically had the same effect as a good demo. Starcraft, Diablo II, Half-Life, Command & Conquer, etc.
I am of the opinion that (generally speaking) every game should put out a demo. If the game isn't good enough, nobody should be forced to pay for it to find out it sucks.
I've played demos of games that suck, so I disagree :P
Taste is subjective, so YMMV.
Only if the game sucks.
I've never seen a Windows hibernate file smaller than my physical RAM size. It might not use all the space, but it certainly reserves the full size.