1 . no not really, but what moron is trying to use Slashdot as a dating site? That is mistake #1 Kind of like trying to pick up women outside a public restroom. 2. dating is not harder as a man, it's just that men are in general really really stupid when it comes to interaction with the opposite sex. Mostly because their fathers were morons, "date the pretty ones son, they are better breeding stock" or simply because they listen to or read stupid crap in worthless rags like "mens health" that is 100% inaccurate. Finally they try to "pick up a chick" at a bar, the WORST place in the world to find anything but a STD.
Dating is actually very easy. Step 1, find someone you like. Step 2, find if they have like interests. Step 3, ask them out. Step 4, find out if they are a keeper... I.E. not a "psycho hose beast" or has values or ideas that go against yours. Step 5, learn that "love" is never love for the first few months but nothing more than infatuation. Compatibility everywhere including sexual. If one likes it 3 times a day and the other thinks sex is a necessary evil. they are doomed unless they are ok to an open relationship or other non traditional relationship.
Step 6 most never learn... Step 6 is make them your absolute best friend, Because that part will survive the Throwing shit scream fights and all the bad times that will happen.
Step 7 - communicate daily and honestly. IF you cant tell the other EVERYTHING or you are keeping something from your partner, you are doomed.
If a person is dating they should be running through steps 1 and 2 with every single person they meet, and hitting step 3 when they find someone they like.
Now covering basics like interaction.... Step 2 should not be "BOOBIES! I LIKE BOOBIES! YOU LIKE BOOBIES!!! DUHHHHHH!" that I see a lot of men pretty much devolve to.
Luckily that is a Darwinian reaction to allow the fittest of the species to mate earlier than the lesser of the species.
Regular dating makes people "picky" and "unrealistic"
I have friends that,"I can only date a HOTTIE" and they are too freaking ugly, fat, etc to even get the attention of a normal girl. One friend is nearly 400 pounds and looks like the dough boy and thinks he will get a hot chick.
The REALITY is that many people are not only unrealistic, but they are shallow and have a twisted sense of the world.
Also remember, All Hot chicks are insane, but not all insane chicks are hot.
This is different from any place else? CEO's and executives are convinced they know more than the engineers. And when they don't listen and fail, They BLAME the engineers.
This is Modus Operandi of any corporation and Government agency.
Guess what executives, engineers do know a whole lot more than you do.
I know the solution, any time engineers reccomend against something and management does it anyways and a failure happens. 1st the executive has to take all responsibility for the failure. Financial and moral.
2nd, every engineer gets to kick the executive in the nuts two times.
"You can pass voter ID laws that hamper some of those most likely to vote for the other party and most likely to have difficulty getting the approved IDs."
Like how if you are ever convicted of a felony you lose your right to vote.
They already have those kinds of laws, Women and Blacks got their right to vote only because they were getting ready to start burning buildings.
Not my player, it would play both sides without flipping. Disc swap was not that bad as you needed to get up to pee or get more popcorn at that time anyways.
JUDGE: I demand you decrypt this file we found on your Linux computer. Defendant: I cant it's not a file. JUDGE: I know it is a file. YOu are in Jail until you provide the password to your/dev/random file on your laptop. Police forensic experts swear it is a encrypted file that is huge in size, they have been copying it for 3 days now.
JUDGE: Take him away until he gives us the password.
"Except that analog video sucks just as much as, if not more so than, analog audio tapes."
Really? I record in 96K sample rate and 24bit that is far better than anything you have in a "old medium" and that is with a low end recording device. Highe end goes far higher than that does.
Just because what you can buy at the store is complete crap and mastered by morons does not mean that is the state of digital audio.
The copy protection signal is inserted in the vertical blanking interval, and it contains extra sync pulses and fake video data. Since the TV is not displaying anything during the blanking interval, nothing shows up on the screen. That's why it looks okay on the TV. A VCR, on the other hand, is trying to make a faithful recording of the entire signal that it sees. It therefore tries to record the signal containing the extra sync pulses. The AGC sees the extra sync pulses and the fake video data and sets its level incorrectly as a result. The real video information in the frame gets recorded at a much lower level than it normally would, so the screen turns black instead of showing the movie. You'll still hear the sound, however, because a completely separate circuit records the audio.
it's not data, you cant have Data on an analog medium. It's a signal. and they simply Blasted the hell out of the video on the blanking to make the AGC start turning down, then a 1/2 second later they make it go away so the agc over compensates.
It was easily defeated by simply turning down the AGC on the motherboard of the VHS deck, or if you were afraid of the insides, you bought a device for $59.95 that did the same thing.
VHS is inferior in EVERY WAY to DVD. From the format it's self, you need at LEAST SVHS to get even 1/2 way to DVD. to the durability to the workflow for editing and creating a movie on tape.
Only complete morons would be "gong back" to VHS. I'm glad it's gone, dead, buried. Hell I'm happy that DV, HDV, Umatic, and Beta are dead.
Tape sucks, After working with Tape for 20+ years... I am glad it is dead.
Head alignment causing the camera to not record correctly, crap tape clogging heads, head maintenance, belt replacement, pinch roller replacement, oh god no.
Plus let's look at resolution. Regular VHS records and plays back 320X240 resolution MAX. SVHS doubled that. It's why all recordings looked smeared compared to the live broadcast. By the end of it's life Mass produced VHS was a lot better but still nothing like even a crappy made DVD. A SuperBit DVD will fake someone into believing they are watching a BluRay.
Shelf life of Tape is horrid, I have had to spend days trying to figure out how to get a tape to play one last time after sitting in a controlled vault for 12 years. Many tapes would adhere to themselves.
I can see an advantage with records, I can see an advantage with some other older stuff, but VHS was crap from day 1. It wasn't even the better format from day 1.
"Maybe that'll teach people to be more wary about random links they see."
No, no it wont. I have worked in IT for 12 years and was happy to escape it 6 years ago. I still see that even today, the average user gleefully clicks on any link they see. I think most users think the internet is a giant game of whack a mole.
Slashdot Mirror
I will play a violin and cry for their loss.
1 . no not really, but what moron is trying to use Slashdot as a dating site? That is mistake #1 Kind of like trying to pick up women outside a public restroom.
2. dating is not harder as a man, it's just that men are in general really really stupid when it comes to interaction with the opposite sex. Mostly because their fathers were morons, "date the pretty ones son, they are better breeding stock" or simply because they listen to or read stupid crap in worthless rags like "mens health" that is 100% inaccurate. Finally they try to "pick up a chick" at a bar, the WORST place in the world to find anything but a STD.
Dating is actually very easy. Step 1, find someone you like. Step 2, find if they have like interests. Step 3, ask them out. Step 4, find out if they are a keeper... I.E. not a "psycho hose beast" or has values or ideas that go against yours. Step 5, learn that "love" is never love for the first few months but nothing more than infatuation. Compatibility everywhere including sexual. If one likes it 3 times a day and the other thinks sex is a necessary evil. they are doomed unless they are ok to an open relationship or other non traditional relationship.
Step 6 most never learn... Step 6 is make them your absolute best friend, Because that part will survive the Throwing shit scream fights and all the bad times that will happen.
Step 7 - communicate daily and honestly. IF you cant tell the other EVERYTHING or you are keeping something from your partner, you are doomed.
If a person is dating they should be running through steps 1 and 2 with every single person they meet, and hitting step 3 when they find someone they like.
Now covering basics like interaction.... Step 2 should not be "BOOBIES! I LIKE BOOBIES! YOU LIKE BOOBIES!!! DUHHHHHH!" that I see a lot of men pretty much devolve to.
Luckily that is a Darwinian reaction to allow the fittest of the species to mate earlier than the lesser of the species.
Says an executive that does not want to be kicked in the nuts by the engineer.
What is wrong with forcing the Executive to bear ALL The responsibility of his decisions?
Regular dating makes people "picky" and "unrealistic"
I have friends that ,"I can only date a HOTTIE" and they are too freaking ugly, fat, etc to even get the attention of a normal girl. One friend is nearly 400 pounds and looks like the dough boy and thinks he will get a hot chick.
The REALITY is that many people are not only unrealistic, but they are shallow and have a twisted sense of the world.
Also remember, All Hot chicks are insane, but not all insane chicks are hot.
" NASA managers didn't listen to the engineers."
This is different from any place else? CEO's and executives are convinced they know more than the engineers. And when they don't listen and fail, They BLAME the engineers.
This is Modus Operandi of any corporation and Government agency.
Guess what executives, engineers do know a whole lot more than you do.
I know the solution, any time engineers reccomend against something and management does it anyways and a failure happens. 1st the executive has to take all responsibility for the failure. Financial and moral.
2nd, every engineer gets to kick the executive in the nuts two times.
"Besides, arent hard disk prices saner in Australia?"
Yes but their drives wont work here. the platters spin the other direction.
Or you know, something smart that has been taught for centuries...
Build on the high ground.
"You can pass voter ID laws that hamper some of those most likely to vote for the other party and most likely to have difficulty getting the approved IDs."
Like how if you are ever convicted of a felony you lose your right to vote.
They already have those kinds of laws, Women and Blacks got their right to vote only because they were getting ready to start burning buildings.
American Television is a good start on making the populace stupid.
In europe many of the channels have educational and though provoking Programming. In the USA we have "Ow my Balls"
"Yup, it's a modern, prosperous country that spouts bullshit and propaganda about its enemies."
This fit's every single government on the planet except for Sweden and Greenland. Swedes are cool, Greenland is cold.
Republicans all scream for "smaller government" yet they happily sign any bill that gives away rights to the Gubment for "fighting TERRORISIM"
Bunch of hypocrites they all are.
It seems that nothing but evil comes out of washington DC anymore.
Not my player, it would play both sides without flipping. Disc swap was not that bad as you needed to get up to pee or get more popcorn at that time anyways.
JUDGE: I demand you decrypt this file we found on your Linux computer. /dev/random file on your laptop. Police forensic experts swear it is a encrypted file that is huge in size, they have been copying it for 3 days now.
Defendant: I cant it's not a file.
JUDGE: I know it is a file. YOu are in Jail until you provide the password to your
JUDGE: Take him away until he gives us the password.
No you dont and no it doesnt.
Do you even know how it works?
My favorite honeypot is Cat /dev/random > photos_of_judges_wife_naked.zip
A truecrypt volume with deniability is better. Why dont people use this?
Laserdiscs suffered from bitrot and separation of layers.
you had to store them flat or they would get a bend in them.
And yes, those of us that had Laserdiscs were better than you proles with VHS :-)
"Except that analog video sucks just as much as, if not more so than, analog audio tapes."
Really? I record in 96K sample rate and 24bit that is far better than anything you have in a "old medium" and that is with a low end recording device. Highe end goes far higher than that does.
Just because what you can buy at the store is complete crap and mastered by morons does not mean that is the state of digital audio.
The copy protection signal is inserted in the vertical blanking interval, and it contains extra sync pulses and fake video data. Since the TV is not displaying anything during the blanking interval, nothing shows up on the screen. That's why it looks okay on the TV. A VCR, on the other hand, is trying to make a faithful recording of the entire signal that it sees. It therefore tries to record the signal containing the extra sync pulses. The AGC sees the extra sync pulses and the fake video data and sets its level incorrectly as a result. The real video information in the frame gets recorded at a much lower level than it normally would, so the screen turns black instead of showing the movie. You'll still hear the sound, however, because a completely separate circuit records the audio.
it's not data, you cant have Data on an analog medium. It's a signal. and they simply Blasted the hell out of the video on the blanking to make the AGC start turning down, then a 1/2 second later they make it go away so the agc over compensates.
It was easily defeated by simply turning down the AGC on the motherboard of the VHS deck, or if you were afraid of the insides, you bought a device for $59.95 that did the same thing.
yes I can record better than DAT on a VHS tape.
it is called ADAT, and they still sell them. it puts the audio on the tape using the video track.
VHS is inferior in EVERY WAY to DVD. From the format it's self, you need at LEAST SVHS to get even 1/2 way to DVD. to the durability to the workflow for editing and creating a movie on tape.
Only complete morons would be "gong back" to VHS. I'm glad it's gone, dead, buried. Hell I'm happy that DV, HDV, Umatic, and Beta are dead.
Tape sucks, After working with Tape for 20+ years... I am glad it is dead.
Head alignment causing the camera to not record correctly, crap tape clogging heads, head maintenance, belt replacement, pinch roller replacement, oh god no.
Plus let's look at resolution. Regular VHS records and plays back 320X240 resolution MAX. SVHS doubled that. It's why all recordings looked smeared compared to the live broadcast. By the end of it's life Mass produced VHS was a lot better but still nothing like even a crappy made DVD. A SuperBit DVD will fake someone into believing they are watching a BluRay.
Shelf life of Tape is horrid, I have had to spend days trying to figure out how to get a tape to play one last time after sitting in a controlled vault for 12 years. Many tapes would adhere to themselves.
I can see an advantage with records, I can see an advantage with some other older stuff, but VHS was crap from day 1. It wasn't even the better format from day 1.
which would explain the lake. the heat from the ZPM's would be keeping the ice melted around the facility.
"Why are your options "don't work" or "wage slave"? Is there a reason you couldn't command a higher salary with your experience?"
How cute... someone who thinks that Promotions are based on knowledge and experience...
"Maybe that'll teach people to be more wary about random links they see."
No, no it wont. I have worked in IT for 12 years and was happy to escape it 6 years ago. I still see that even today, the average user gleefully clicks on any link they see. I think most users think the internet is a giant game of whack a mole.
Earlier than that. the Wacom tablet driver supported multiple pens on screen at once before that.
Where the Tablet edition of KDE does not pop up the keyboard for Chrome or Firefox text input boxes?