Water helps to move toxins through your kidneys. Without "too much" water you wouldn't need to use the washroom, meaning you'd never urinate out those toxins, which common sense tells us is bad.
>Thus, they probably have another technique which cleans up the film grain by comparing it to subsequent and/or prior frames.
Yes, and you can try it yourself. Its VERY much worth the effort, even if it takes a lot longer to postprocess your video.
The more random the noise, the better. Its excellent for TV shows on VHS or from broadcast TV (or so I've found).
Oh, and if you like to make things disappear without noticing it (great for those HUGE ads in the corner of a TV show) try this, or this.
[Somebody with some experience please port these to Linux! You would be so well thanked! This would be really nice too! No, I can't do it myself, I'm really not that good.]
Yeah, but babelfish translates Schaumgummiring to "Foam Rubber Ring". Hard choice -- to say "I'm a donut" in front of a million people, or to say "I'm a foam rubber ring". Hard choice that I wouldn't want to make.:-)
That really depends on where the human is standing at the time. I think with the person in the right position this could be far more interesting than any other competition I've ever seen.
>i compared the ingredients of vanilla vs. classic and vanilla has even fewer so i'm guessing its easier to manufacture.
Notice the lack of vanilla?
How do they do that, anyways? Was it an old flavour they decided wasn't good when they were working out their formula and decided to break it out to get people ready for a re-introduction of the new coke?
>I suggest you press "Reload" on your browser. You are apparently reading an old version in your browser cache.
Whoops. Yep, I didn't push reload, and the old version must have slipped my mind a little.
Your new way of wording it is a good point to focus on the passport registration, because to the average user it appears to pop up randomly, and therefore appears to be an important system message that they need to respond to. Users need to know that they should never give their personal information to any random prompt that comes up, yet M$ encourages them to do so.
Just wait until a virus comes out that simulates the Passport account creator with a little "Credit Card" box added in.:-/
Why not add the article to your slashdot journal so others can easily comment on it?
>Guess what? THOSE CARDS ARE YESTERDAY'S NEWS! Trident is making a different card with different chips and different circuits. They'll have different performance than the old cards!!!!
Who else says this all the time...
Oh wait a minute, a thought is entering my mind...
"Windows XP -- The best windows ever!"
The only way Trident can shake their past is to either change their name (sneaky) or release this product, ensure it lives up to their marketed performance, and release another. By the second or third release cycle I might buy it, because by then they'll have rebuilt their lost trust.
Maybe. But I really doubt it. I expect to see their stuff in many more crappy PCChips and ECS boards to come, and I don't expect things to change all that much.
>The nice thing about digital information is that it either works or it doesn't
Yep, but what I probably didn't mention is I've copied the entire disc and there isn't a single bad sector on it yet. Usually with digital information on something like a CDROM parts of it will start to go unreadable before the entire disc becomes unreadable.
Or at least that's been my experience with magnetic media. Perhaps optical is particularly different?
>New books will be destroyed by acid within 10 years? Unlikely.
If I can find it again, slashdot (a long time ago) linked to an article pitting the life of a gold CD-R at about 100 to 125 years when handled and stored properly.
Most acid paper books (don't blame me, I didn't name it that -- it just happens that cheap paper is made with acid in the process) are assumed to be in really rough shape in that time.
BTW: No CDR, not even the princo CDRs, were so poor as to only have a lifetime of 10 years. I have CDRs right now that are over 5 years old and they are still as good as new, and I don't see any reason why they will go bad in 5 more years.
>Paper is here to stay. Welcome to reality.
And so was the telegraph.
I truly doubt you'll be saying that for your entire lifetime. That is, assuming you are an average aged student studying at a university right now.
And, while reading up on a subject (wether it be computer oriented or not) might be easier with paper for an entire book, the searching capabilities that an electronic book can offer should far outweigh the need for everything to be in print.
With an entire library that is available in electronic form, you can cut down on the amount of studying you need to do by ensuring you only study what's necessary. The only efficient way to do this is with a computer. Card files are just not going to save you time here.
But, maybe, right now, some might find it better to read a book.
I personally find my 1400x1050 laptop screen more than adequate to show two pages of a book at once. And despite my use of computers having started at a very early age, my sight is still 20/20 (apart from a very slight astigma in one eye).
I'll tell you one thing my laptop has over a book -- the ability for me to use it in the dark. So, no, books actually do require power, unless you do all your reading in the harsh sunlight. And I can read my books offline with my laptop anytime I like, no problem.
My electronic books can be easily shared too. Much more easily than a regular book. That's what email and FTP were designed for. And I get to keep my copy too, unlike a real book.
And, the entire network problem was solved back in the 1970's with the invention of the internet.
And, trust me, if you think its easier to find someone and hand them a book than it is to email them, well, you _really_ need to take a keyboarding course.
>I'm not sure why it removes comparison symbols when set to plain text...
Slashdot removes left angle brackets in an attempt to stop abuse. Since it still lets raw right angle brackets through for old style quoting (which I prefer), the left ones have to go on unverified tags.
To display a left angle bracket despite that you'll need to type its ISO code, which renders the bracket unusable for tags (which is a good thing).
ie: < is entered with this: <
Just something to note down FFR. Oh, and can be handy if you want to try to slip through some important, on-topic simple tables or ascii art. Sometimes. But not lately.
Hot damn that article is good! I've always wanted a nice breakdown of Windows XP's own breakdowns that I can show to any office worker and say "Here. Read this. This is why I'm not running windows anymore."
And yes, I don't run it at work. I do run it on my laptop, but its for college and one student isn't going to change a C++ Builder course to a course on Xlib.
Very nice work indeed. But can I suggest that the section '"What is your name and address?" means "Can we invade your privacy?"' have references to ideas like Microsoft naming it passport because they think they are a country unto themselves qualified or removed? It just seems a little over the top to me.
>For example, one of the first things that I did when I started to learn LaTeX was to check out a much dog-eared copy of the original manual published in 1985
Maybe I'm unusual, but I learned the lessons of backing up, and ensuring you have backups on supported mediums pretty quick.
I have, on a CDROM somewhere (my filing isn't as good as my storing abilities), all the wimpy BASIC programs I wrote and saved on my C64, which is the first computer I ever used seriously. (Yes, I did have to make a cable and use this excellent software -- it was so worth it!)
And, know what, I'm happier for doing that. I amaze people when I show them that I can find their email from 1997 with ease. Sometimes I worry some people who said things they'd like to eat today.
I'm just happy to know its there, and that I can search it when I feel like it.
Not to mention that new books will be destroyed through the acid in the paper eating through them before a new gold CDR will go bad. (Or so I'm told).
>Converting that volume of material to digital format is a nontrivial task.
Agreed. I just wish more people had the foresight to start sooner doing this rather than later. There's an amazing amount of material that is supposedly only avavilable in analog formats that was, at some point, punched into a digital system. A loss and a waste to redo the work of others, but it must be done!
My only regret is that I didn't archive my emails since I first got on the internet. But there were only a few, and most were quite the embarassment anyways.:-/
This image should show that NTSC is 30 fps (but it is still 29.97, most people just say 30 to make it easy to say). BTW: The rest of that site has all sorts of NTSC goodness, its worth checking it out.
It takes two fields to make a frame because they are interlaced (one field carries the odd lines and the other the even). Each shows half the resolution of a still image. Because of this interlacing, moving images will show an interlacing effect whereby every other line shows a different part of the motion.
Now, one would think nobody would want to do this, I mean, why make TV look so ugly?
At the time, though, this was the only way to pump such a high refresh rate through a CRT that could be bought for a home user. The TV only does half the work each frame and so it is able to show an image stable to our eyes (because the refresh appears to be at 60 hz) without having to do the entire set of work at once.
Nowadays interlacing is completely outdated, but people still have to deal with it because no one wants to buy new TVs.:-/
>Basically no macrovision defeaters are openly sold, but not because it would violate copyright law.
This isn't true.
A Time Base Corrector defeats ALL forms of Macrovision and is still legal for sale in the USA, not to mention created far before Macrovision was a glint in its maker's eye. If it weren't I know a LOT of broadcast studios that would be EXTREMELY angry right now.
>I just bought a new Amptron MOBO and the BIOS supports this.
Most likely they are lying to you.
PCChips and Amptron are virtually the same company. PCChips is the company that uses fake chipset names, fakes CPU speeds in BIOSes, fakes cache settings in BIOSes, uses plastic cache chips, and pirates BIOS code.
I wouldn't trust anything in a BIOS that's built for a PCChips board without a _lot_ of testing.
Oh, I can provide references to these little facts, too.:-)
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>Excess water/fluid just gets pissed out.
Along with various toxins.
Water helps to move toxins through your kidneys. Without "too much" water you wouldn't need to use the washroom, meaning you'd never urinate out those toxins, which common sense tells us is bad.
>Thus, they probably have another technique which cleans up the film grain by comparing it to subsequent and/or prior frames.
Yes, and you can try it yourself. Its VERY much worth the effort, even if it takes a lot longer to postprocess your video.
The more random the noise, the better. Its excellent for TV shows on VHS or from broadcast TV (or so I've found).
Oh, and if you like to make things disappear without noticing it (great for those HUGE ads in the corner of a TV show) try this, or this.
[Somebody with some experience please port these to Linux! You would be so well thanked! This would be really nice too! No, I can't do it myself, I'm really not that good.]
Yeah, but babelfish translates Schaumgummiring to "Foam Rubber Ring". Hard choice -- to say "I'm a donut" in front of a million people, or to say "I'm a foam rubber ring". Hard choice that I wouldn't want to make. :-)
I dunno, but I don't think Canada has had a nuclear meltdown yet...
:-)
Besides, people in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks!
>Nope! British!
Then, speaking of how Americans are the ones runing the environment, how's Windscale doing? Is it safe to eat things planted there yet?
>:-D
>Its boring to watch a human race a car.
That really depends on where the human is standing at the time. I think with the person in the right position this could be far more interesting than any other competition I've ever seen.
>all i can say is "GO BANANA!"
Well, I'd like to suggest, "GO STINKY!", or "Go Washing Machine!", but hey, that's just me and my waste of brain donated to the Simpsons.
>because if he had said 20 deciliters
That's 20 dL to you.
Why not babelfish it?
>it's probably a compound word about 60 letters long
I know what you mean. According to babelfish, a donut is a "Schaumgummiring". Doesn't sound too appetizing to my german speaking friends.
>i compared the ingredients of vanilla vs. classic and vanilla has even fewer so i'm guessing its easier to manufacture.
Notice the lack of vanilla?
How do they do that, anyways? Was it an old flavour they decided wasn't good when they were working out their formula and decided to break it out to get people ready for a re-introduction of the new coke?
>Coke does not try to screw people out of their money, or use heavy-handed sales tactics like some people allege.
Tell that to Bob Kolody.
>They had a small, in 94-96, but they got ride of it, since it was only 1 buck cheaper than the medium, and a medium is almost twice the size
:-)
Wouldn't that make the small free? Or would they have to pay me to take it?
Well, I don't know about that.
It might be inconsistent, though.
I can't believe slashdot doesn't even spell check their headlines.
Yeah, this is worth losing some karma over. It's about time for you to integrate ispell into slashdot, CmdrTaco!
Sorry, no, I don't have the skills to do that. However, I don't run a popular website.
>I suggest you press "Reload" on your browser. You are apparently reading an old version in your browser cache.
:-/
Whoops. Yep, I didn't push reload, and the old version must have slipped my mind a little.
Your new way of wording it is a good point to focus on the passport registration, because to the average user it appears to pop up randomly, and therefore appears to be an important system message that they need to respond to. Users need to know that they should never give their personal information to any random prompt that comes up, yet M$ encourages them to do so.
Just wait until a virus comes out that simulates the Passport account creator with a little "Credit Card" box added in.
Why not add the article to your slashdot journal so others can easily comment on it?
"In Microsoft's corporate thinking, the company seems to be moving in the direction of believing that they own the user's computer."
Now that's easier for your average joe to swallow, and still makes them dislike Microsoft's data gathering techniques.
Good job.
>Guess what? THOSE CARDS ARE YESTERDAY'S NEWS! Trident is making a different card with different chips and different circuits. They'll have different performance than the old cards!!!!
Who else says this all the time...
Oh wait a minute, a thought is entering my mind...
"Windows XP -- The best windows ever!"
The only way Trident can shake their past is to either change their name (sneaky) or release this product, ensure it lives up to their marketed performance, and release another. By the second or third release cycle I might buy it, because by then they'll have rebuilt their lost trust.
Maybe. But I really doubt it. I expect to see their stuff in many more crappy PCChips and ECS boards to come, and I don't expect things to change all that much.
>The nice thing about digital information is that it either works or it doesn't
Yep, but what I probably didn't mention is I've copied the entire disc and there isn't a single bad sector on it yet. Usually with digital information on something like a CDROM parts of it will start to go unreadable before the entire disc becomes unreadable.
Or at least that's been my experience with magnetic media. Perhaps optical is particularly different?
>New books will be destroyed by acid within 10 years? Unlikely.
If I can find it again, slashdot (a long time ago) linked to an article pitting the life of a gold CD-R at about 100 to 125 years when handled and stored properly.
Most acid paper books (don't blame me, I didn't name it that -- it just happens that cheap paper is made with acid in the process) are assumed to be in really rough shape in that time.
BTW: No CDR, not even the princo CDRs, were so poor as to only have a lifetime of 10 years. I have CDRs right now that are over 5 years old and they are still as good as new, and I don't see any reason why they will go bad in 5 more years.
>Paper is here to stay. Welcome to reality.
And so was the telegraph.
I truly doubt you'll be saying that for your entire lifetime. That is, assuming you are an average aged student studying at a university right now.
And, while reading up on a subject (wether it be computer oriented or not) might be easier with paper for an entire book, the searching capabilities that an electronic book can offer should far outweigh the need for everything to be in print.
With an entire library that is available in electronic form, you can cut down on the amount of studying you need to do by ensuring you only study what's necessary. The only efficient way to do this is with a computer. Card files are just not going to save you time here.
But, maybe, right now, some might find it better to read a book.
I personally find my 1400x1050 laptop screen more than adequate to show two pages of a book at once. And despite my use of computers having started at a very early age, my sight is still 20/20 (apart from a very slight astigma in one eye).
I'll tell you one thing my laptop has over a book -- the ability for me to use it in the dark. So, no, books actually do require power, unless you do all your reading in the harsh sunlight. And I can read my books offline with my laptop anytime I like, no problem.
My electronic books can be easily shared too. Much more easily than a regular book. That's what email and FTP were designed for. And I get to keep my copy too, unlike a real book.
And, the entire network problem was solved back in the 1970's with the invention of the internet.
And, trust me, if you think its easier to find someone and hand them a book than it is to email them, well, you _really_ need to take a keyboarding course.
>I'm not sure why it removes comparison symbols when set to plain text...
Slashdot removes left angle brackets in an attempt to stop abuse. Since it still lets raw right angle brackets through for old style quoting (which I prefer), the left ones have to go on unverified tags.
To display a left angle bracket despite that you'll need to type its ISO code, which renders the bracket unusable for tags (which is a good thing).
ie: < is entered with this: <
Just something to note down FFR. Oh, and can be handy if you want to try to slip through some important, on-topic simple tables or ascii art. Sometimes. But not lately.
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Hot damn that article is good! I've always wanted a nice breakdown of Windows XP's own breakdowns that I can show to any office worker and say "Here. Read this. This is why I'm not running windows anymore."
And yes, I don't run it at work. I do run it on my laptop, but its for college and one student isn't going to change a C++ Builder course to a course on Xlib.
Very nice work indeed. But can I suggest that the section '"What is your name and address?" means "Can we invade your privacy?"' have references to ideas like Microsoft naming it passport because they think they are a country unto themselves qualified or removed? It just seems a little over the top to me.
The rest is excellent, though.
>For example, one of the first things that I did when I started to learn LaTeX was to check out a much dog-eared copy of the original manual published in 1985
:-/
Maybe I'm unusual, but I learned the lessons of backing up, and ensuring you have backups on supported mediums pretty quick.
I have, on a CDROM somewhere (my filing isn't as good as my storing abilities), all the wimpy BASIC programs I wrote and saved on my C64, which is the first computer I ever used seriously. (Yes, I did have to make a cable and use this excellent software -- it was so worth it!)
And, know what, I'm happier for doing that. I amaze people when I show them that I can find their email from 1997 with ease. Sometimes I worry some people who said things they'd like to eat today.
I'm just happy to know its there, and that I can search it when I feel like it.
Not to mention that new books will be destroyed through the acid in the paper eating through them before a new gold CDR will go bad. (Or so I'm told).
>Converting that volume of material to digital format is a nontrivial task.
Agreed. I just wish more people had the foresight to start sooner doing this rather than later. There's an amazing amount of material that is supposedly only avavilable in analog formats that was, at some point, punched into a digital system. A loss and a waste to redo the work of others, but it must be done!
My only regret is that I didn't archive my emails since I first got on the internet. But there were only a few, and most were quite the embarassment anyways.
This image should show that NTSC is 30 fps (but it is still 29.97, most people just say 30 to make it easy to say). BTW: The rest of that site has all sorts of NTSC goodness, its worth checking it out.
:-/
Here's the important excerpt:
1 field = 252.5 lines = 1/60 sec (or 60 fields per second)
2 fields = 1 frame
1 frame = 525 lines = 1/30 sec (or 30 frames per second)
It takes two fields to make a frame because they are interlaced (one field carries the odd lines and the other the even). Each shows half the resolution of a still image. Because of this interlacing, moving images will show an interlacing effect whereby every other line shows a different part of the motion.
Now, one would think nobody would want to do this, I mean, why make TV look so ugly?
At the time, though, this was the only way to pump such a high refresh rate through a CRT that could be bought for a home user. The TV only does half the work each frame and so it is able to show an image stable to our eyes (because the refresh appears to be at 60 hz) without having to do the entire set of work at once.
Nowadays interlacing is completely outdated, but people still have to deal with it because no one wants to buy new TVs.
>Basically no macrovision defeaters are openly sold, but not because it would violate copyright law.
This isn't true.
A Time Base Corrector defeats ALL forms of Macrovision and is still legal for sale in the USA, not to mention created far before Macrovision was a glint in its maker's eye. If it weren't I know a LOT of broadcast studios that would be EXTREMELY angry right now.
>I just bought a new Amptron MOBO and the BIOS supports this.
:-)
Most likely they are lying to you.
PCChips and Amptron are virtually the same company. PCChips is the company that uses fake chipset names, fakes CPU speeds in BIOSes, fakes cache settings in BIOSes, uses plastic cache chips, and pirates BIOS code.
I wouldn't trust anything in a BIOS that's built for a PCChips board without a _lot_ of testing.
Oh, I can provide references to these little facts, too.
There is no law on the US books that outlaws defeating Macrovision.
Macrovision is in the analog domain, and the much touted copyright "protection" law is only in the digital domain, hence the name:
Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
So he broke no law. So who cares?