You're correct. The "sensor" referred to in inviolet's post was a button behind glass right next to the fire doors with the text "In case of fire break glass" around it. Breaking the glass (like an explosion would) would cause the door to shut, but you could just go up to the button and press it to reopen the door.
I'd be fine with getting trapped like that if it came with an explicitly-stated game over. Also, I would think that if those fire doors were unopenable, that you would've been given an explicit game over because that's exactly what you got if a vital NPC died (e.g. one needed to open a door with a retinal scanner).
It's not 2005 anymore. Most state governments hated the Kelo v. City of New London decision and passed laws to prevent similar things from happening. North Carolina was one of those states.
Maybe I spoke too soon, but C:\Users\All Users (a symlink to C:\ProgramData) should also work, and is probably preferred over C:\Users\Public.
The point is that there most certainly are locations suitable for what you want.
What does this specifically have to do with Blu-ray? The discs themselves use AACS for encryption. The link from the player to the display is what uses HDCP.
The change they made to the d-pad doesn't sound like it addresses the crappiness of the existing d-pad at all. I don't care about disc versus plus, I care about things like its tendency to register a diagonal press when trying to press a horizontal direction.
Seriously, take a 360 controller, hold left on the d-pad, and at the same time try to rock your thumb toward the up and down directions. It moves a lot! Using one on Windows, you can see in the controller properties how easily it registers diagonal presses. Now do the same thing with a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2, which has a very similar d-pad. It's far less finicky than the 360 pad.
So really, how is this new d-pad supposed to fix that?
I get tired of people using phrases they don't understand.
Considering that the meaning of "begs the question" that you say is wrong may very well be the more common understanding, I'd say they understand it perfectly well. Common understanding of words and phrases are what define a language.
Honestly, I think people keep using the phrase "begs the question" in their summaries for the express purpose of annoying people like you.
That's correct on a per message basis. However, binary posts to Usenet are broken up into many, many messages and then reassembled. So the 15MB RAR file is actually 60 or so individual messages. As far as I understand it, there is no reason why you can't post a 700MB file as 3000 parts, but it generally isn't done.
Correct. There used to be reason to break a file into several chunks back when PAR files were the recovery mechanism of choice, but ever since PAR2 came about, there's been zero reason for it. I've seen and downloaded CD-size files that weren't broken into pieces off usenet without problems.
It shouldn't be the FCC's job to regulate the content put out by a broadcaster. That's what's been said here every time they fine anyone else for nudity/profanity/whatever, and I'm standing by that even though I strongly dislike the content of the radio show in question.
No, it's a companding scheme used to improve the dynamic range of a digital signal in the frequency range used by the human voice. European communications systems use it extensively, whereas North America and Japan tend to use mu-law companding.
Plenty of people (clearly the majority, from my observations) use that phrase as it is in the summary. In languages, usage defines correctness. Therefore it is correct, whether you like it or not. QED.
Ah, people defending poor article summaries. Let's go through a few of the excuses people put forward in their misguided efforts:
1. "What, are you too lazy to (do a web search/read the article)?"
Sure, let's have several hundred or thousands of people creating traffic rather than have one person (the submitter) put in a little effort to make the summary more informative. Really efficient. Oh, and if you tell people to read the article, remember something called the slashdot effect. It's not so named for shits and giggles.
2. "That's common knowledge."
Common to who? If it's not common to the overwhelming majority of the general public, then it's not common knowledge. Common to people in a field like IT or Engineering isn't good enough with the diverse range of people here.
3. "If you don't know what it is, then it probably isn't of interest to you in the first place."
Go look up "probably" in the dictionary. Then look up "certainly" and explain the differences between the two words. People do on occasion happen upon solutions to problems they didn't know they had. Sometimes a person will have their interest piqued by an article when there was no interest before.
Sharing information is, far more often than not, a good thing. Don't skimp on it in the article summaries.
Only a few of the name brands are guaranteed to give you the same original manufacturer every time because they ARE the original manufacturer. Off of the top of my head, the only two examples of this I can think of are Sony and TDK.
Incorrect, at least as far as Sony is concerned. I bought a spindle of Sony DVD-R discs recently, and the media code on them reveals they are rebranded Taiyo Yuden discs. Maxell is another that has made their own discs but also rebrands other makers' discs (e.g. Ritek).
Unfortunately, people won't go for that because it would preclude them from buying too much of what's on the shelves. I looked at a sampling of CDs at Future Shop recently and the only one I found with the CD Audio logo was U2's "The Joshua Tree", which is from 1987.
What with this being Canada and all, there's no reason for any two word phrase matching that description to show up. There is reason for one that starts with "Fair" and ends with "dealing", though.
Canadian law and American law are not the same? Shocker!
No one else offers this feature, as far as I know.
Unfortunately, Avast Home edition for Windows does not offer a certain feature I consider extremely useful — a command-line scanner. I'd love to set up family members with Firefox and the Download Scan extension so that new downloads get checked automatically, but that's not an option with Avast Home.
I always figured there were several games that were related and possibly from the same codebase licensed to different companies. I have a Game Boy baseball game from Bandai called Extra Bases that has very similar mechanics, visuals, and sound effects - the "you're out" sound, for instance, is identical to that in RBI Baseball.
The biggest indication to me is a certain gameplay bug that shows up in several games (Baseball Simulator 1.000 is another). If the ball is in play, you have runners on first and third, and the catcher has the ball, the runner on first can run for second and the catcher won't do anything.
That's a collection of decoding speed results from various machines using foobar2000. It doesn't include WMA, but AAC and MP3 are on there, and the results are rather consistent in showing that AAC decodes faster than MP3. Not overwhelmingly, but definitely noticeable. Regardless, it disproves the whole "newer codec, therefore must be more complex, therefore must take longer to decode" assumption.
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I'd be fine with getting trapped like that if it came with an explicitly-stated game over. Also, I would think that if those fire doors were unopenable, that you would've been given an explicit game over because that's exactly what you got if a vital NPC died (e.g. one needed to open a door with a retinal scanner).
It's not 2005 anymore. Most state governments hated the Kelo v. City of New London decision and passed laws to prevent similar things from happening. North Carolina was one of those states.
Maybe I spoke too soon, but C:\Users\All Users (a symlink to C:\ProgramData) should also work, and is probably preferred over C:\Users\Public. The point is that there most certainly are locations suitable for what you want.
So in what folder should programs store machine-wide settings and created or downloaded content that affect all users?
C:\Users\Public
What does this specifically have to do with Blu-ray? The discs themselves use AACS for encryption. The link from the player to the display is what uses HDCP.
Seriously, take a 360 controller, hold left on the d-pad, and at the same time try to rock your thumb toward the up and down directions. It moves a lot! Using one on Windows, you can see in the controller properties how easily it registers diagonal presses. Now do the same thing with a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2, which has a very similar d-pad. It's far less finicky than the 360 pad.
So really, how is this new d-pad supposed to fix that?
The fact that no one has come up with any remotely conceivable way to disprove it is one of the biggest reasons it doesn't belong in science.
Considering that the meaning of "begs the question" that you say is wrong may very well be the more common understanding, I'd say they understand it perfectly well. Common understanding of words and phrases are what define a language.
Honestly, I think people keep using the phrase "begs the question" in their summaries for the express purpose of annoying people like you.
I doubt that. The market was strongly leaning toward VHS by the mid-80s and Sony didn't enter the movie business until 1989 when they bought Columbia.
He does still need it, but he just can't afford it anymore.
Don't worry about it. I just did it for you.
Yeah, but my understanding is that this makes it criminal. Copyright infringement is normally a civil matter.
Correct. There used to be reason to break a file into several chunks back when PAR files were the recovery mechanism of choice, but ever since PAR2 came about, there's been zero reason for it. I've seen and downloaded CD-size files that weren't broken into pieces off usenet without problems.
It shouldn't be the FCC's job to regulate the content put out by a broadcaster. That's what's been said here every time they fine anyone else for nudity/profanity/whatever, and I'm standing by that even though I strongly dislike the content of the radio show in question.
No, it's a companding scheme used to improve the dynamic range of a digital signal in the frequency range used by the human voice. European communications systems use it extensively, whereas North America and Japan tend to use mu-law companding.
Plenty of people (clearly the majority, from my observations) use that phrase as it is in the summary. In languages, usage defines correctness. Therefore it is correct, whether you like it or not. QED.
"Is" is a verb; "ice" is a noun.
1. "What, are you too lazy to (do a web search/read the article)?"
Sure, let's have several hundred or thousands of people creating traffic rather than have one person (the submitter) put in a little effort to make the summary more informative. Really efficient. Oh, and if you tell people to read the article, remember something called the slashdot effect. It's not so named for shits and giggles.
2. "That's common knowledge."
Common to who? If it's not common to the overwhelming majority of the general public, then it's not common knowledge. Common to people in a field like IT or Engineering isn't good enough with the diverse range of people here.
3. "If you don't know what it is, then it probably isn't of interest to you in the first place."
Go look up "probably" in the dictionary. Then look up "certainly" and explain the differences between the two words. People do on occasion happen upon solutions to problems they didn't know they had. Sometimes a person will have their interest piqued by an article when there was no interest before.
Sharing information is, far more often than not, a good thing. Don't skimp on it in the article summaries.
Incorrect, at least as far as Sony is concerned. I bought a spindle of Sony DVD-R discs recently, and the media code on them reveals they are rebranded Taiyo Yuden discs. Maxell is another that has made their own discs but also rebrands other makers' discs (e.g. Ritek).
Unfortunately, people won't go for that because it would preclude them from buying too much of what's on the shelves. I looked at a sampling of CDs at Future Shop recently and the only one I found with the CD Audio logo was U2's "The Joshua Tree", which is from 1987.
Canadian law and American law are not the same? Shocker!
Unfortunately, Avast Home edition for Windows does not offer a certain feature I consider extremely useful — a command-line scanner. I'd love to set up family members with Firefox and the Download Scan extension so that new downloads get checked automatically, but that's not an option with Avast Home.
It's not just anti-circumvention laws. It's also the patents on the codecs that DVDs use, which cost money to license.
I always figured there were several games that were related and possibly from the same codebase licensed to different companies. I have a Game Boy baseball game from Bandai called Extra Bases that has very similar mechanics, visuals, and sound effects - the "you're out" sound, for instance, is identical to that in RBI Baseball.
The biggest indication to me is a certain gameplay bug that shows up in several games (Baseball Simulator 1.000 is another). If the ball is in play, you have runners on first and third, and the catcher has the ball, the runner on first can run for second and the catcher won't do anything.
Speaking of parroting, this has shown up several times in the discussion, with only assumptions and no evidence to back it up.
Take a look here: http://www.foobar2000.org/foospeed/
That's a collection of decoding speed results from various machines using foobar2000. It doesn't include WMA, but AAC and MP3 are on there, and the results are rather consistent in showing that AAC decodes faster than MP3. Not overwhelmingly, but definitely noticeable. Regardless, it disproves the whole "newer codec, therefore must be more complex, therefore must take longer to decode" assumption.