Even Cheers and Murphy Brown had some significant serial nature to the stories. And, the original Battlestar Galactica also had a decent amount of continuing storylines.
I'm not saying that all these shows are great (or even that I, personally, like most of them), but they are definitely more serial in nature. The sticky point (both then and now) is the fine line the creative staff has to tread where there are continuing stories that keep viewers wanting to come back, but not so much that new viewers are unable to jump in and start watching.
You can set any AV program with realtime scanning to only scan on write, then tell it only to scan the temporary download directory (which varies based on what browser you use).
This gives you the best of both worlds...everything you download is automatically scanned, but disk performance isn't affected very much.
For full safety, you should add on-access scanning to removable drives. Unfortunately, I don't know of any AV product that allows you to configure it for "on-access" for only some drives/directories.
he is desirable because she is successful and will give your children a higher chance of likewise being successful and producing viable offspring.
Just because someone is well-dressed and clean doesn't mean they are successful.
I know many people who are far better groomed than I am, but are also up to their neck in debt. I'm not saying it's because they spend all their money on superficial things, but it sure doesn't help their net worth.
I also know some people who do things like buy businesses so they can fire the people who treated them like crap because they weren't dressed like they just walked out of GQ. Jeans and a workshirt do not always equal "poor slob"... in this case they mean a guy who has 20,000 acres of prime Texas land filled with cattle.
Hot-swapping of SATA works just fine (at least for me).
There are some SATA controllers that specifically report the attached drives as being "removable", and these are easiest to work with, since any modern OS will optimize for removal.
I have a cheap add-in SATA card where the drives don't show up as removable, and all I do is make sure I manually flush the disk buffers (using "sync" from SysInternals) before removing it. I have the drives for this card hooked up using this Kingwin hotswap bay and have had no issues whatsoever in Windows 2003 Server.
I do if I want to keep watching TV. Analog TV is being taken away from me, and I should be fairly compensated. Fair in this case would be zero out of pocket costs, at a minimum.
The government didn't give free coupons for lead additives for gasoline when the sale of gasoline already containing lead was banned.
Nor does any government entity compensate you when you remodel your home and even though you didn't touch the plumbing/electrical/whatever, you fail inspection because that has to now be brought up to code because you are making a change to something else.
There are many other examples of the government changing some law that costs consumers money, and most of them are far worse than the STB box coupon issue, because they don't deal with luxury items like TV.
No, you don't have to purchase a new TV or even an ATSC tuner. That's your choice.
I've had an HDTV with built-in digital tuner since September of 2002, and it's really hard to think about going back to crappy analog pictures. The advantages of digital TV are so huge that not moving to it as a standard would be insane.
The government plan really isn't the problem, since attrition should have caused a very large number of people to replace TVs in the 7 year span. The problem was that the CE industry wanted to gouge consumers for as much money as possible, so they dragged their feet on putting ATSC tuners into TVs for as long as they could...basically until the government forced them to.
Only a idiot photographer would be shooting a sports event in RAW. you need your camera to be able to shoot 4 frames a second and no pro camera, not even my new Canon 1DS can do that in raw.
There are many digital SLR cameras that can shoot 5fps for 2-3 seconds in RAW mode.
The Sony Alpha 900 can handle well over 2 seconds for 24MP RAW images. See this review for more details.
The latest incarnation of the Canon 1Ds can handle nearly 4 full seconds at 5fps for its 21MP RAW format: Canon 1Ds Mark III review.
Admittedly, all the cameras that can handle this kind of speed use compact flash and not SDHC, but all the best digital SLRs use CF.
For as little as $200 you can purchase a TV with a built-in ATSC tuner. These are available pretty much anywhere, so if you can't find them, you aren't looking very hard.
Although you can get unsubsidized ATSC tuners for as little as $50, a full featured unit (i.e., one that can output more than 480i) is around $100. Considering that, a $200 HDTV is pretty cheap.
You can also easily find 30-35" HDTVs with built-in ATSC tuners for less than $500. This is astonishing, considering that ten years ago a TV the same size with less than half the resolution cost more, even before the adjustment for inflation.
What the hell is an interlaced picture doing in a REWRITE of broadcast standards? [and]
WTF is MPEG-2 doing in a rewrite of broadcast standards when more modern codecs (all more appropriate for HD content) were available at the time?
There's only 19.3Mbps to play with, and you just can't fit 1920x1080/60p in that little space without quality issues. Remember, this is using a realtime encoder, not a multi-pass 10x realtime system.
As for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 was not invented yet when the ATSC standard was selected in 1996. MPEG-4 AVC is now an optional codec, and I suspect that after the transition, we will start to see some tuners support it, and some sub-channel broadcasts use it. To be honest, it won't help much for quite a while, because realtime encoders for MPEG-4 can't do a lot better job than MPEG-2. Fox is broadcasting 720p60 at less than 15Mbps...sometimes as low as 8Mbps, and it is quite good, because they invested millions in very high quality MPEG-2 realtime encoders for the network, and don't require individual stations to re-encode the signals. Even local bugs can be inserted using MPEG-2 overlay technology.
Afaict at least in the UK it is perfectly legal to drive and sell secondhand imported cars that are driven from the opposite side.
Likewise, there is a lot of traffic between the UK and Europe, and I don't think vehicles that do that have the ability to switch the driver to the other side of the car.
Forgot to mention. Verizon will kick you if you do Phone as Modem.
Since Verizon has a higher-priced plan that specifically allows you to tether your Blackberry, while the cheaper plan you were paying for specifically forbids it, you not only violated their TOS, you did so in a way that very directly takes money away from them. It's no surprise they kicked you off.
A TV that has a network connection and can use TCP/IP to stream video from NetFlix can also be attacked over the network.
Not very easily, as it doesn't require the TV to have a public IP address. In addition, it doesn't require the TV to have any TCP ports listening at all.
So, the only way to attack it would be to spoof a packet from the steaming server. Getting the right sequence number plus the right port for a given source IP address (probably a firewall/router) so that you even have a chance to inject something is pretty tough. Then, there has to be a useful vulnerability in the software on the TV.
This is their duty and the artists are the legal copyright holders.
When the artists are the legal copyright holders, the RIAA won't do anything.
First, they aren't allowed to, because the artists have not authorized them to act in their name. Second, it's not the RIAA's job to look out for artists...it is their job to look out for the media companies.
If you check, every major label CD has the copyright assigned to the company that distributed it, and the recording artist actually has no right to distribute those recordings without permission of the record label.
You don't have to nuke everything, just enough to know that your backup/restore solution is functional. It's completely impossible to test every backup, and with terabytes of data, you might not even want to do a single complete restore test, but you can do enough to know that you can put back files to the state they were.
In the real world of business, Outlook is often the required MUA.
By setting "view all e-mail in plain text", you remove most of the things that make Outlook unsecure. BTW, Outlook, like every other computer program (except maybe Eliza) is not "insecure", as that would require an emotional state.
The best way I have found to test the backup is to nuke the data and restore.
Seriously, if you know what files store the data (and that you are backing up), just stop services and rename a directory or two so the data is "gone". Then, restore from backup, start the service, and see how things look. Another good way is to restore the data to a VM that runs the same software as the production server. You can sandbox a simulation of the entire Internet inside a few VMs if you want, and test what happens.
I just did something similar when I upgraded the OS on a VM that runs a MySQL server:
Create and configure new VM
Stop services on old VM
Run backup on old VM
Stop old VM
Reconfigure new VM with correct IP, etc., and restart
Restore data to new VM from backup
Test
Basically, if things had gone poorly, I could just stop the new VM and revert back to the old one.
Although I don't intentionally try to brake too hard, I don't worry much about anybody hitting the rear of my F-150 pickup truck.
Once, I was sitting at a red traffic light, and somebody slammed into me at about 20mph. I got out, looked at the mostly destroyed front end of the car that hit me, then looked at the scratches on my bumper, and decided the $5 bottle of polish to fix the damage to my truck could come out of my own pocket.
However, it's more common that the copyright holder permits you to download the music only if you agree not to distribute copies of that music to other people. In that circumstance, so long as you don't sell, or give away copies, the copies you make are lawfully made. If you do sell them, then they're no longer lawfully made (you've exceeded the scope of the permission to download them in the first place) and so first sale doesn't apply.
I'm sure that folks here can see some parallels to the GPL: you can copy, distribute, and modify GPLed software as you like, so long as you obey the instructions of the GPL to make source available; fail to do that, and you can't have lawfully done those other things.
Once you brought the GPL into it, that shows you don't really understand.
No "license" that you don't actually sign can restrict your rights under copyright. The GPL doesn't restrict any rights...it actually expands them. If you violate the GPL, all that really happens is you lose your extra distribution rights. So, a GPL-like license that said that if you didn't provide source code then you could not re-sell a physical copy is not valid, since it can't restrict your rights under the first sale doctrine.
When an MP3 is offered for download (either at a price or for free), it's obvious that a copy of the file has to be stored on something on the downloader's end in order for it to be useful. That "something" may be RAM, a hard disk, a flash drive, or a recordable CD, and I can't see anything in copyright law that would restrict the downloader's choice of the medium, based on various "fitness for purpose" consumer protection laws. Really, would it make sense to be allowed to download the MP3 to a flash-based iPod, but not a hard-disk iPod?
So, the question becomes: are all digital sales protected by the first-sale doctrine, even if the purchaser must provide the media for "fixing" themselves?
Distribution (in copyright terms) means that you cause another copy to come into existence.
So, when you download an MP3 from a site authorized by Capitol to distribute it for free, are you creating the copy, or is the site? I suspect that it would have to be the site, otherwise it would be unauthorized distribution.
So, then if you download the same MP3 1000 times, you still have not done any "distribution", but you now have 1000 legal copies, since you obtained them from a party authorized to distribute the MP3. In theory, you should now be able to allow 1000 people to download the file from you, as long as you delete one of your copies each time this happens.
Now, what is the difference between you actually keeping 1000 separate copies on your hard drive and you having one copy and a counter that says "1000" for that file? So, the next question is, why do you have to "download" 1000 copies from the original site in the first place?
IANAL, but this sort of issue with copyright on digital media is why there need to be some serious updates to the copyright laws.
No, SRAM is not "permanent"...it just doesn't require refreshing like DRAM. It does, however, require power, just like DRAM. This makes them both "volatile", as opposed to non-volatile flash memory.
The difference between the SRAM and DRAM is that every DRAM cell "leaks" a bit of the charge even when power is applied, so it would eventually result in errors.
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Shows like "Dexter" or "The Shield" or even BSG would not have made it in the 70's or 80's.
Except for the change in violence and language, all of these shows would do fine in the 80s.
"Serial" shows were well represented at the Emmy Awards in the 80s:
Even Cheers and Murphy Brown had some significant serial nature to the stories. And, the original Battlestar Galactica also had a decent amount of continuing storylines.
I'm not saying that all these shows are great (or even that I, personally, like most of them), but they are definitely more serial in nature. The sticky point (both then and now) is the fine line the creative staff has to tread where there are continuing stories that keep viewers wanting to come back, but not so much that new viewers are unable to jump in and start watching.
"When did you code your first C application?"
If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them.
When the first edition of K&R came out, I was 14 years old. So, you're saying you would dump me because I didn't invent the language myself?
I was writing FORTRAN programs by then, if that counts for anything.
You can set any AV program with realtime scanning to only scan on write, then tell it only to scan the temporary download directory (which varies based on what browser you use).
This gives you the best of both worlds...everything you download is automatically scanned, but disk performance isn't affected very much.
For full safety, you should add on-access scanning to removable drives. Unfortunately, I don't know of any AV product that allows you to configure it for "on-access" for only some drives/directories.
Bad day or not, what's the real benefit of running OS X as a guest?
The same reason that running Windows XP as a guest is a useful thing: serving (and controlling) virtualized desktops.
VMware's version is View. <rant>When will companies remember that they need to give their products a "Googleable" name?</rant>
he is desirable because she is successful and will give your children a higher chance of likewise being successful and producing viable offspring.
Just because someone is well-dressed and clean doesn't mean they are successful.
I know many people who are far better groomed than I am, but are also up to their neck in debt. I'm not saying it's because they spend all their money on superficial things, but it sure doesn't help their net worth.
I also know some people who do things like buy businesses so they can fire the people who treated them like crap because they weren't dressed like they just walked out of GQ. Jeans and a workshirt do not always equal "poor slob"... in this case they mean a guy who has 20,000 acres of prime Texas land filled with cattle.
Hot-swapping of SATA works just fine (at least for me).
There are some SATA controllers that specifically report the attached drives as being "removable", and these are easiest to work with, since any modern OS will optimize for removal.
I have a cheap add-in SATA card where the drives don't show up as removable, and all I do is make sure I manually flush the disk buffers (using "sync" from SysInternals) before removing it. I have the drives for this card hooked up using this Kingwin hotswap bay and have had no issues whatsoever in Windows 2003 Server.
I do if I want to keep watching TV. Analog TV is being taken away from me, and I should be fairly compensated. Fair in this case would be zero out of pocket costs, at a minimum.
The government didn't give free coupons for lead additives for gasoline when the sale of gasoline already containing lead was banned.
Nor does any government entity compensate you when you remodel your home and even though you didn't touch the plumbing/electrical/whatever, you fail inspection because that has to now be brought up to code because you are making a change to something else.
There are many other examples of the government changing some law that costs consumers money, and most of them are far worse than the STB box coupon issue, because they don't deal with luxury items like TV.
No, you don't have to purchase a new TV or even an ATSC tuner. That's your choice.
I've had an HDTV with built-in digital tuner since September of 2002, and it's really hard to think about going back to crappy analog pictures. The advantages of digital TV are so huge that not moving to it as a standard would be insane.
The government plan really isn't the problem, since attrition should have caused a very large number of people to replace TVs in the 7 year span. The problem was that the CE industry wanted to gouge consumers for as much money as possible, so they dragged their feet on putting ATSC tuners into TVs for as long as they could...basically until the government forced them to.
Only a idiot photographer would be shooting a sports event in RAW. you need your camera to be able to shoot 4 frames a second and no pro camera, not even my new Canon 1DS can do that in raw.
There are many digital SLR cameras that can shoot 5fps for 2-3 seconds in RAW mode.
The Sony Alpha 900 can handle well over 2 seconds for 24MP RAW images. See this review for more details.
The latest incarnation of the Canon 1Ds can handle nearly 4 full seconds at 5fps for its 21MP RAW format: Canon 1Ds Mark III review.
Admittedly, all the cameras that can handle this kind of speed use compact flash and not SDHC, but all the best digital SLRs use CF.
considering the price of a SD card being around 6 euros for 4gb's at most big electronic stores
In the world of professional photography, 4GB isn't enough to be useful, as it will hold only around 100 16MP+ pictures in RAW mode.
Also, once you start storing such large files, you need very fast flash to keep up with the camera, and those cheap flash cards just don't cut it.
For as little as $200 you can purchase a TV with a built-in ATSC tuner. These are available pretty much anywhere, so if you can't find them, you aren't looking very hard.
Although you can get unsubsidized ATSC tuners for as little as $50, a full featured unit (i.e., one that can output more than 480i) is around $100. Considering that, a $200 HDTV is pretty cheap.
You can also easily find 30-35" HDTVs with built-in ATSC tuners for less than $500. This is astonishing, considering that ten years ago a TV the same size with less than half the resolution cost more, even before the adjustment for inflation.
There's only 19.3Mbps to play with, and you just can't fit 1920x1080/60p in that little space without quality issues. Remember, this is using a realtime encoder, not a multi-pass 10x realtime system.
As for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 was not invented yet when the ATSC standard was selected in 1996. MPEG-4 AVC is now an optional codec, and I suspect that after the transition, we will start to see some tuners support it, and some sub-channel broadcasts use it. To be honest, it won't help much for quite a while, because realtime encoders for MPEG-4 can't do a lot better job than MPEG-2. Fox is broadcasting 720p60 at less than 15Mbps...sometimes as low as 8Mbps, and it is quite good, because they invested millions in very high quality MPEG-2 realtime encoders for the network, and don't require individual stations to re-encode the signals. Even local bugs can be inserted using MPEG-2 overlay technology.
Afaict at least in the UK it is perfectly legal to drive and sell secondhand imported cars that are driven from the opposite side.
Likewise, there is a lot of traffic between the UK and Europe, and I don't think vehicles that do that have the ability to switch the driver to the other side of the car.
Don't forget the approx 20,000,000,000 commercials.
And then there were the really useless commercials on the digital transmission.
If I can see those commercials, I'm obviously already equipped to watch the digital signal.
Forgot to mention. Verizon will kick you if you do Phone as Modem.
Since Verizon has a higher-priced plan that specifically allows you to tether your Blackberry, while the cheaper plan you were paying for specifically forbids it, you not only violated their TOS, you did so in a way that very directly takes money away from them. It's no surprise they kicked you off.
A TV that has a network connection and can use TCP/IP to stream video from NetFlix can also be attacked over the network.
Not very easily, as it doesn't require the TV to have a public IP address. In addition, it doesn't require the TV to have any TCP ports listening at all.
So, the only way to attack it would be to spoof a packet from the steaming server. Getting the right sequence number plus the right port for a given source IP address (probably a firewall/router) so that you even have a chance to inject something is pretty tough. Then, there has to be a useful vulnerability in the software on the TV.
This is their duty and the artists are the legal copyright holders.
When the artists are the legal copyright holders, the RIAA won't do anything.
First, they aren't allowed to, because the artists have not authorized them to act in their name. Second, it's not the RIAA's job to look out for artists...it is their job to look out for the media companies.
If you check, every major label CD has the copyright assigned to the company that distributed it, and the recording artist actually has no right to distribute those recordings without permission of the record label.
Optical media starts at the inside (i.e., closest to the hub).
Magnetic media starts at the outside.
Do the same thing...nuke and restore.
You don't have to nuke everything, just enough to know that your backup/restore solution is functional. It's completely impossible to test every backup, and with terabytes of data, you might not even want to do a single complete restore test, but you can do enough to know that you can put back files to the state they were.
In the real world of business, Outlook is often the required MUA.
By setting "view all e-mail in plain text", you remove most of the things that make Outlook unsecure. BTW, Outlook, like every other computer program (except maybe Eliza) is not "insecure", as that would require an emotional state.
The best way I have found to test the backup is to nuke the data and restore.
Seriously, if you know what files store the data (and that you are backing up), just stop services and rename a directory or two so the data is "gone". Then, restore from backup, start the service, and see how things look. Another good way is to restore the data to a VM that runs the same software as the production server. You can sandbox a simulation of the entire Internet inside a few VMs if you want, and test what happens.
I just did something similar when I upgraded the OS on a VM that runs a MySQL server:
Basically, if things had gone poorly, I could just stop the new VM and revert back to the old one.
Although I don't intentionally try to brake too hard, I don't worry much about anybody hitting the rear of my F-150 pickup truck.
Once, I was sitting at a red traffic light, and somebody slammed into me at about 20mph. I got out, looked at the mostly destroyed front end of the car that hit me, then looked at the scratches on my bumper, and decided the $5 bottle of polish to fix the damage to my truck could come out of my own pocket.
However, it's more common that the copyright holder permits you to download the music only if you agree not to distribute copies of that music to other people. In that circumstance, so long as you don't sell, or give away copies, the copies you make are lawfully made. If you do sell them, then they're no longer lawfully made (you've exceeded the scope of the permission to download them in the first place) and so first sale doesn't apply.
I'm sure that folks here can see some parallels to the GPL: you can copy, distribute, and modify GPLed software as you like, so long as you obey the instructions of the GPL to make source available; fail to do that, and you can't have lawfully done those other things.
Once you brought the GPL into it, that shows you don't really understand.
No "license" that you don't actually sign can restrict your rights under copyright. The GPL doesn't restrict any rights...it actually expands them. If you violate the GPL, all that really happens is you lose your extra distribution rights. So, a GPL-like license that said that if you didn't provide source code then you could not re-sell a physical copy is not valid, since it can't restrict your rights under the first sale doctrine.
When an MP3 is offered for download (either at a price or for free), it's obvious that a copy of the file has to be stored on something on the downloader's end in order for it to be useful. That "something" may be RAM, a hard disk, a flash drive, or a recordable CD, and I can't see anything in copyright law that would restrict the downloader's choice of the medium, based on various "fitness for purpose" consumer protection laws. Really, would it make sense to be allowed to download the MP3 to a flash-based iPod, but not a hard-disk iPod?
So, the question becomes: are all digital sales protected by the first-sale doctrine, even if the purchaser must provide the media for "fixing" themselves?
Distribution (in copyright terms) means that you cause another copy to come into existence.
So, when you download an MP3 from a site authorized by Capitol to distribute it for free, are you creating the copy, or is the site? I suspect that it would have to be the site, otherwise it would be unauthorized distribution.
So, then if you download the same MP3 1000 times, you still have not done any "distribution", but you now have 1000 legal copies, since you obtained them from a party authorized to distribute the MP3. In theory, you should now be able to allow 1000 people to download the file from you, as long as you delete one of your copies each time this happens.
Now, what is the difference between you actually keeping 1000 separate copies on your hard drive and you having one copy and a counter that says "1000" for that file? So, the next question is, why do you have to "download" 1000 copies from the original site in the first place?
IANAL, but this sort of issue with copyright on digital media is why there need to be some serious updates to the copyright laws.
No, SRAM is not "permanent"...it just doesn't require refreshing like DRAM. It does, however, require power, just like DRAM. This makes them both "volatile", as opposed to non-volatile flash memory.
The difference between the SRAM and DRAM is that every DRAM cell "leaks" a bit of the charge even when power is applied, so it would eventually result in errors.