My guess is that has to do with internet TV, though netflix recommends 5 mb/s for hd. It only really has to be indistinguishable from a 15-20 MPEG2 stream for the FCC to start making plans to reclaim spectrum from the television broadcasters.
Still, the FCC lowballed their last reccomendation-- at the time 256 kbs was below the requirements for "decent" internet video.
Let's say that I have a Mastercard credit card issued by Seven Eighths Bank NA. Every month, a couple of days before the deadline , I pay off the balance by reviewing my charges, making sure that I recognize the merchants and transferring money from the appropriate accounts. Now, If I suddenly didn't have the ability to do this, I would be aggravated and possibly worried. Sure I could pay by phone, but Seeing financial details is a lot easier than listening to them-- and the constant assurances that my "call is important" and that I should "stay on the line" despite the hold times.
(And if a website is down, you'd better believe that there will be hold times.)
But losing access to the Mastercard website wouldn't worry me as much as losing access to the 7/8ths bank website.
If the hackers wanted to be really nasty, they wouldn't target Mastercard's website, but instead, the websites of the major banks-- so that when concientious cardholders log in to pay their bills, they can't.
Manning apparently was able to burn a CD (labeled "Lady Gaga"). Now I don't know what kind of computer he was using, but on my system, burning a CD is slightly more complicated than using a flash drive-- it involves an extra program, or at least an explicit "Burn" command.
Well, there is "Top Secret". The cables that were leaked were all classified as "Secret" and "Confidential", so the classifiers must be doing something right.
Is analogy going to be brought back to games soon? Perhaps the following could serve as a model:
More sophisticated graphics, such as raytracing or even those promised by DirectX 11, can look more realistic, but the financial investment needed to produce graphics with that level of detail and cross the uncanny valley is so staggeringly high, that it will lead to less innovative game play.
Seriously, a 20 megapixel sensor implies the possibility of sharp, ultra detailed pictures. A cheapie lens will ensure that the sensor is insufficiently illuminated, and a good many of those extra pixels will be noisy.
I occasionally play Ghost Recon on my Mac. It's a very old game, so I can play it with all the graphics options enabled. It looks very sharp. It doesn't look very realistic. It's playable, and enjoyable, and somewhat fake. When my sniper crawls through the underbrush, the vegetation looks like a mess.
The resolution is there-- HD in all its glory. But it doesn't look like the real world.
To get it to look like the real world, many more calculations would have to be completed, many more algorithms devised, many more textures loaded. And at some point, it would take my HD setup to it's knees.
Bust as someone else mentioned, current gen consoles can max out the resolution of most HDTVs that are out there...
How to max out the resolution of a hdtv.
Step 1: Buy a good, high resolution camera. (Red One comes to mind, but there are others) Step 2: Take it out into the natural world. Find something visually interesting, Step 3. Focus, and attend to lighting. Step 4: Press Record...
You're probably one of those poor deluded souls who thinks that a cheep plastic lens placed in front of a 20 megapixel ccd makes for an awesome camera.
And yet, the Nuremberg Trials considered four different kinds of crimes.
1. Participation in a common plan of conspiracy for the accomplishment of crimes agains peace. 2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace 3. War crimes 4. Crimes against Humanity.
Similarly, the Tokyo Trials grouped the charges into three classes A Crimes against Peace. B Crimes against the laws of war C Crimes against Humanity.
Thus, if you are so disposed as to regard the waging of aggressive wars as an honorable pursuit, the phrase "Class A War Criminal" generally implies more than was meant by the original charges. However, such notorious inhumanities as the "Rape of Nanking", the "Comfort Women", the "Bataan Death March" and the actions of "Unit 731" (to name a few, at random), were made possible by the conspiracy to wage aggressive war.
Your answer is overly simplistic and ignores history. If East Germany hadn't been set up as a Soviet puppet state, the allies might well have gone further, but there was a Cold War, and an rei-ndustrialized, reinvigorated West Germany was prioritized over imprisoning 90,000 Nazis and restricting the work of 1.7 million others. wikipedia's entry on Denazification
Of course, the Nazi party was disbanded, and what assets it had were used for other purposes. Perhaps BP should suffer the same fate. Stockholders would lose money, of course, but their losses would be limited to what they put in. Officers could be prosecuted and fined, as they bear personal responsibility.
Act 1: TSA agent keeps his old gloves on Act 2: TSA agent fondles child Act 3: Child contracts STD from TSA's old gloves Act 4: Some time later, the child's pediatrician detects this STD. Act 5: Child Protective Services saves the day!
The NSA and NRO (who knew about the defect because they'd already had problems with it with their own satellites) debated on whether to tell NASA; if they did they'd be essentially publishing the specs of the KH12 to the world (NASA is incapable of keeping a secret), but if they didn't then NASA would have a defective instrument. They chose the latter, and were thoroughly roasted for it (the repairs to the Hubble were a billion-dollar proposition and a public embarrassment), though of course revealing exact intelligence-gathering capability is never a good idea.
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Not everyone lives in Lapland.
My guess is that has to do with internet TV, though netflix recommends 5 mb/s for hd. It only really has to be indistinguishable from a 15-20 MPEG2 stream for the FCC to start making plans to reclaim spectrum from the television broadcasters.
Still, the FCC lowballed their last reccomendation-- at the time 256 kbs was below the requirements for "decent" internet video.
According to this, the Internet is used by 22% of Venezuelans, and 49% of Spaniards.
Didn't the "local media" agitate for the 2002 coup?
How the fuck did he take over your country
Lots of poor people.
Perhaps the Average Jose doesn't have regular internet access.
Let's say that I have a Mastercard credit card issued by Seven Eighths Bank NA. Every month, a couple of days before the deadline , I pay off the balance by reviewing my charges, making sure that I recognize the merchants and transferring money from the appropriate accounts. Now, If I suddenly didn't have the ability to do this, I would be aggravated and possibly worried. Sure I could pay by phone, but Seeing financial details is a lot easier than listening to them-- and the constant assurances that my "call is important" and that I should "stay on the line" despite the hold times.
(And if a website is down, you'd better believe that there will be hold times.)
But losing access to the Mastercard website wouldn't worry me as much as losing access to the 7/8ths bank website.
I wouldn't be that surprised if nethack had hooks for a space cadet keyboard.
If the hackers wanted to be really nasty, they wouldn't target Mastercard's website, but instead, the websites of the major banks-- so that when concientious cardholders log in to pay their bills, they can't.
Perfectly clear,
Obfuscated.
still true,
Quite Possibly
but not controversial any longer.
The opacity helps with that. A controversy needs to be exciting. You've made it dull.
Manning apparently was able to burn a CD (labeled "Lady Gaga"). Now I don't know what kind of computer he was using, but on my system, burning a CD is slightly more complicated than using a flash drive-- it involves an extra program, or at least an explicit "Burn" command.
Well, there is "Top Secret". The cables that were leaked were all classified as "Secret" and "Confidential", so the classifiers must be doing something right.
Perhaps you should lower your comment threshold to -1 and see for yourself.
Is analogy going to be brought back to games soon?
Perhaps the following could serve as a model:
More sophisticated graphics, such as raytracing or even those promised by DirectX 11, can look more realistic, but the financial investment needed to produce graphics with that level of detail and cross the uncanny valley is so staggeringly high, that it will lead to less innovative game play.
The United States is leveraging its ultimate secret weapon: Deficit Spending!
Some may call it a delusion. I call it a dream!
Seriously, a 20 megapixel sensor implies the possibility of sharp, ultra detailed pictures. A cheapie lens will ensure that the sensor is insufficiently illuminated, and a good many of those extra pixels will be noisy.
I occasionally play Ghost Recon on my Mac. It's a very old game, so I can play it with all the graphics options enabled. It looks very sharp. It doesn't look very realistic. It's playable, and enjoyable, and somewhat fake. When my sniper crawls through the underbrush, the vegetation looks like a mess.
The resolution is there-- HD in all its glory. But it doesn't look like the real world.
To get it to look like the real world, many more calculations would have to be completed, many more algorithms devised, many more textures loaded. And at some point, it would take my HD setup to it's knees.
Bust as someone else mentioned, current gen consoles can max out the resolution of most HDTVs that are out there...
How to max out the resolution of a hdtv.
Step 1: Buy a good, high resolution camera. (Red One comes to mind, but there are others)
Step 2: Take it out into the natural world. Find something visually interesting,
Step 3. Focus, and attend to lighting.
Step 4: Press Record...
You're probably one of those poor deluded souls who thinks that a cheep plastic lens placed in front of a 20 megapixel ccd makes for an awesome camera.
And yet, the Nuremberg Trials considered four different kinds of crimes.
1. Participation in a common plan of conspiracy for the accomplishment of crimes agains peace.
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes
4. Crimes against Humanity.
Similarly, the Tokyo Trials grouped the charges into three classes
A Crimes against Peace.
B Crimes against the laws of war
C Crimes against Humanity.
Thus, if you are so disposed as to regard the waging of aggressive wars as an honorable pursuit, the phrase "Class A War Criminal" generally implies more than was meant by the original charges. However, such notorious inhumanities as the "Rape of Nanking", the "Comfort Women", the "Bataan Death March" and the actions of "Unit 731" (to name a few, at random), were made possible by the conspiracy to wage aggressive war.
Your answer is overly simplistic and ignores history. If East Germany hadn't been set up as a Soviet puppet state, the allies might well have gone further, but there was a Cold War, and an rei-ndustrialized, reinvigorated West Germany was prioritized over imprisoning 90,000 Nazis and restricting the work of 1.7 million others. wikipedia's entry on Denazification
Of course, the Nazi party was disbanded, and what assets it had were used for other purposes. Perhaps BP should suffer the same fate. Stockholders would lose money, of course, but their losses would be limited to what they put in. Officers could be prosecuted and fined, as they bear personal responsibility.
Act 1: TSA agent keeps his old gloves on
Act 2: TSA agent fondles child
Act 3: Child contracts STD from TSA's old gloves
Act 4: Some time later, the child's pediatrician detects this STD.
Act 5: Child Protective Services saves the day!
The "+1 Insightful" scared me.
GET OFF MY LAWN
The NSA and NRO (who knew about the defect because they'd already had problems with it with their own satellites) debated on whether to tell NASA; if they did they'd be essentially publishing the specs of the KH12 to the world (NASA is incapable of keeping a secret), but if they didn't then NASA would have a defective instrument. They chose the latter, and were thoroughly roasted for it (the repairs to the Hubble were a billion-dollar proposition and a public embarrassment), though of course revealing exact intelligence-gathering capability is never a good idea.
That story sounds "too good to check". Source?
You're crazy. The DOD doesn't need to be cut. NASA doesn't need to be cut. Taxes need to be cut.