Yes, loading images automatically sucks and also could mean that a person's box suddenly has a cached copy of illegal imagry on their computer. Try to defend having kiddy-porn on a box by saying 'outlook did it, not me, really!'.
PSA: A lot of people are unaware of the fact that if they don't suppress the loading of those images, the remote web server automagically marks them as a person to send more spam to.
(I posted the above)
Ok, who's the wise guy this week who keeps modding me overrated -1 when I haven't been moderated up?
It's not irritating to me as I'm not obsessed with Karma. It's just puzzling me why a person would overrate something that hasn't been rated at all yet especially when I posted with the 'no karma bonus' box checked.
I mean seriously - I'm glad my mail client has the option to supress the loading of remote images. I've had spam that makes my eyes burn:-(
Yes, loading images automatically sucks and also could mean that a person's box suddenly has a cached copy of illegal imagry on their computer. Try to defend having kiddy-porn on a box by saying 'outlook did it, not me, really!'.
PSA: A lot of people are unaware of the fact that if they don't suppress the loading of those images, the remote web server automagically marks them as a person to send more spam to.
I think it was rather clever of them to block slashdot refers...The site is perfectly accessable.
"This guy can't even type in a URL. What would make anyone think that he'd understand what a "403 - forbidden" error would mean?"
(parent hasn't been modded up at this point)
I can image those guys who worked on the project reading the posts here that say 'woo, it's crap, we slashdotted it' and being puzzled.
Rant about how Slashdot is Supremely Evil for slashdotting sites or about how it is Even More Evil for not warning or carrying caches of sites. Maybe you'll get modded up.
Mention the fact that a site actually put an tiny obstacle that filtered out hits from less knowledgeable Slashdot users to prevent a complete Slashdotting, no interesting/informative mod points.
Read the article again. There's a footnote at the bottom:
Yes, I would never believe that Microsoft will include virus protection with their OS. They have nothing to gain by doing it and a lot to lose.
For instance, if they update their anti-virus protection for new vulnerabilities they find, they are obligated to immediately publish what the exploit is and how to protect against it. Microsoft doesn't do that, they wait, then release a patch. They can't just update their own anti-virus software and leave companies such as Symantec in the dark. Symantec & other companies would assuredly win lawsuits if that happened. Not to mention, it would generate a lot of bad publicity.
Micrsoft wouldn't get their $235 per incident fee for fixing problems such as Sasser.
Microsoft prefers that people invest money in subscriptions to anti-virus/firewall companies, especially when it's multi-user long term contracts. It ties those boxes to the Windows OS because it's difficult to justify switching to Unix or Mac when there are still several years of pre-paid anti-virus/firewall contracts to use up.
Microsoft cannot keep it's OS even partially secure at the base level of programming. How could they possibly program an anti-virus that works well?
One more thing: Microsoft wouldn't be able to fly their 'well just update to the newest version, it's all fixed' flag every few years.
Lately about 1/3 of my job consists of dealing with Windows vulnerabilities. And there are four other full-time staffers here with the same job description. We're not especially well paid, but that sure adds up. And when you add in the downtime of the people whose computers we're fixing...
I've already fixed 10 Sassered boxes this week, and expect quite a few to be dropped off tomorrow.
3 of the boxes that came in were in really bad shape because the people had followed their ISP's instructions on how to remove Sasser. Those people screwed up their computers worse than they were if they left them alone.
ISPs, DON'T FRIGGIN TELL PEOPLE TO EDIT THEIR REGISTRY!!
Oh well, we charge double the rate for people who hose their boxes by trying to fix them first instead of getting it done professionally.
How many times will the studio release a DVD, only to come out with a better release, and another one. It is the same thing with all the Special Editions, followed by the Directors Edition. This is ridiculous. How many times do the Studios want us buying the same movie/show?
It's because they can do it much more cheaply than they could in the Video Tape Era. They would have done it more then if it was cost effective.
Production, shipping, and storing DVD's costs quite a bit less than trying to do the same with VHS tapes.
There are many game that don't scale well, so your surprise is a function of which games you play.
*smacks forehead*
Valid point. All of the games I play either scale fonts up or have settings that I can change. If the fonts are small, and there isn't an obvious setting to change, I look for a place to change them in configuration files.
For instance, Condition Zero has very handy settings for this. Hopefully the game companies that purchase from will do the same.
And no, I don't run games at 1600x1200 on my 19" Iiyama CRT, and neither does anyone else who values their eyesight. Theoretical FPS numbers don't mean anything to me; image quality and performance with the settings I'm actually going to use do.
I'm curious. How would 1600x1200 resolution hurt your eyesight? If anything, it should relieve eye-strain due to more detail being available on-screen.
I always run at 1600x1200 when possible. At lower resolutions, I have to strain to figure out what smaller objects are in the distance.
Speed is defined in physics as "Distance traveled divided by the time of travel", so that would make time a derivative of it's self?
You stopped pasting the definition at a crucial point. Here is where you left off from your own reference link:: The limit of this quotient as the time of travel becomes vanishingly small; the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
Wake me up when they get it going faster than the speed of light. Now, that would be a speed record worthy of a slashdotting.
If it went faster than the speed of light, it would also be going faster than the speed of time. That would cause quite a bit of technical difficulties on the receiving end.
I hate to break the bad news to you, but... [spywareinfo.com]
Yes, and it's fortunately easily defeated. Pop off the cover for the GPS receiver and insert some tin foil. It works for the Motorolas I have.
It's almost funny that people joke about tin-foil hats yet it does work for cell-phones.
What bothers me more than that is the magnetic strips on drivers licenses. I scramble mine and obscure the back-up bar code, but as a result, I've been unable to enter a Bar twice because of doing so. Some bars now have a policy that if their drivers license scanner can't read the ID, the person is not allowed in the establishment.
And no, I don't wear a tin-foil hat or watch my rear-view mirror for people following me. I'm just the type that avoids tracking devices just like those people who remove spyware software & cookies in their computers.
Drug dealers aren't killing people, it's the turf wars and the surrounding problems.
Yes! For example, notice that previous to the 1980's marijuana wasn't something to die for most of the time.
Once the War on Drugs (er, Families) started up, the prices of Marijuana rose significantly. Supply wasn't the problem, it was risk. Pounds that costed less than $100 dollars quickly raised to $1000-$5000. With transactions involving 10X-50X the cash for the same product, and penalties raised, the threshold for 'is this worth killing to rob, defend territory, or keep from being prosecuted?' was passed.
In Michigan for example, growing marijuana, even for personal use, usually carries a 7 year prison term. That term will be 14 years* if even one firearm is found in that same home no matter who owns it.
It's no wonder that people are killing competition & law enforcement to protect their (now) extremely profitable drug enterprise.
*Actually, the extra 7 year threat is mainly used to force plea-bargains so the case doesn't go to court. The extra 7 year charge will be dropped of the defendant skips a trial and pleads guilty.
I also could play GTA and tomb raider, even Quake, but Quake II and Quake III, and games based on those engines, like Call of Duty, give me motion sickness. I don't know why.
I would hazard to guess it's very likely the frame rate. Many games will automatically sync themselves to the default refresh rate at any given video resolution. That refresh rate is often 60hz which is noticable to the human eye and is compounded if there are flourescent lights in the same room. How it happens is this: If your desktop is 800x600, you may have set the refresh rate to 70-72hz. But, when the game switches to 640x or 1024x, and that resolution hasn't been configured on your box, the game might use 60hz.
60hz makes me feel sick to my stomache and a headache starts after about 10 minutes.
Two things that might help: a) Turn off vertical sync in your video & game settings, or change your v-synce to 72 for all resolutions. b) If the game can't keep up with 72hz, you might try turning off options in the game that lower the framerate such as character shadows.
The plate is there so they can identify me if I do have commited a crime.
Follow the money.
The plate is there to prove you've paid your vehicle taxes. If your plate is expired and you get noticed by an Officer, you'll pay an extra tax.
If the primary purpose of the plate is to identify you for committing crimes, and the Government really cares much about that issue, you'd be required to have plates on both the front and back of your vehicle in every US state.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, loading images automatically sucks and also could mean that a person's box suddenly has a cached copy of illegal imagry on their computer. Try to defend having kiddy-porn on a box by saying 'outlook did it, not me, really!'.
PSA: A lot of people are unaware of the fact that if they don't suppress the loading of those images, the remote web server automagically marks them as a person to send more spam to.
(I posted the above)
Ok, who's the wise guy this week who keeps modding me overrated -1 when I haven't been moderated up?
It's not irritating to me as I'm not obsessed with Karma. It's just puzzling me why a person would overrate something that hasn't been rated at all yet especially when I posted with the 'no karma bonus' box checked.
I mean seriously - I'm glad my mail client has the option to supress the loading of remote images. I've had spam that makes my eyes burn :-(
Yes, loading images automatically sucks and also could mean that a person's box suddenly has a cached copy of illegal imagry on their computer. Try to defend having kiddy-porn on a box by saying 'outlook did it, not me, really!'.
PSA: A lot of people are unaware of the fact that if they don't suppress the loading of those images, the remote web server automagically marks them as a person to send more spam to.
I think it was rather clever of them to block slashdot refers...The site is perfectly accessable.
"This guy can't even type in a URL. What would make anyone think that he'd understand what a "403 - forbidden" error would mean?"
(parent hasn't been modded up at this point)
I can image those guys who worked on the project reading the posts here that say 'woo, it's crap, we slashdotted it' and being puzzled.
Rant about how Slashdot is Supremely Evil for slashdotting sites or about how it is Even More Evil for not warning or carrying caches of sites. Maybe you'll get modded up.
Mention the fact that a site actually put an tiny obstacle that filtered out hits from less knowledgeable Slashdot users to prevent a complete Slashdotting, no interesting/informative mod points.
It doesn't make sense.
And what happens when the next version of Office, designed specifically not to work on wine, comes out?
Well, for a while we don't get to use the new, exciting, and (some might say) revolutionary features that have been added to the latest version Word.
Read the article again. There's a footnote at the bottom:
Yes, I would never believe that Microsoft will include virus protection with their OS. They have nothing to gain by doing it and a lot to lose.
For instance, if they update their anti-virus protection for new vulnerabilities they find, they are obligated to immediately publish what the exploit is and how to protect against it. Microsoft doesn't do that, they wait, then release a patch. They can't just update their own anti-virus software and leave companies such as Symantec in the dark. Symantec & other companies would assuredly win lawsuits if that happened. Not to mention, it would generate a lot of bad publicity.
Micrsoft wouldn't get their $235 per incident fee for fixing problems such as Sasser.
Microsoft prefers that people invest money in subscriptions to anti-virus/firewall companies, especially when it's multi-user long term contracts. It ties those boxes to the Windows OS because it's difficult to justify switching to Unix or Mac when there are still several years of pre-paid anti-virus/firewall contracts to use up.
Microsoft cannot keep it's OS even partially secure at the base level of programming. How could they possibly program an anti-virus that works well?
One more thing: Microsoft wouldn't be able to fly their 'well just update to the newest version, it's all fixed' flag every few years.
Lately about 1/3 of my job consists of dealing with Windows vulnerabilities. And there are four other full-time staffers here with the same job description. We're not especially well paid, but that sure adds up. And when you add in the downtime of the people whose computers we're fixing...
I've already fixed 10 Sassered boxes this week, and expect quite a few to be dropped off tomorrow.
3 of the boxes that came in were in really bad shape because the people had followed their ISP's instructions on how to remove Sasser. Those people screwed up their computers worse than they were if they left them alone.
ISPs, DON'T FRIGGIN TELL PEOPLE TO EDIT THEIR REGISTRY!!
Oh well, we charge double the rate for people who hose their boxes by trying to fix them first instead of getting it done professionally.
Or 5000 acres divided into a housing development consisting of 20,000 quarter-acre lots each with a tract home.
And, they'll all get taxed multiple times for having 5 street addresses per house.
How many times will the studio release a DVD, only to come out with a better release, and another one. It is the same thing with all the Special Editions, followed by the Directors Edition. This is ridiculous. How many times do the Studios want us buying the same movie/show?
It's because they can do it much more cheaply than they could in the Video Tape Era. They would have done it more then if it was cost effective.
Production, shipping, and storing DVD's costs quite a bit less than trying to do the same with VHS tapes.
Why is that? I certainly didn't get invited to any group sex/drug parties (let alone free drug/sex parties) around the time of the AOLTW merger.
Thank your lucky stars you didn't go to the free AOL group sex parties.
You would have risked getting free pop-up banner sores for the rest of your life.
How do you back up all your porn on just 1 DVD???
It's probably Midget Pr0n.
There are many game that don't scale well, so your surprise is a function of which games you play.
//1600x1200 text scheme file
// DEFAULT BUTTON TEXT
*smacks forehead*
Valid point. All of the games I play either scale fonts up or have settings that I can change. If the fonts are small, and there isn't an obvious setting to change, I look for a place to change them in configuration files. For instance, Condition Zero has very handy settings for this. Hopefully the game companies that purchase from will do the same.
SchemeName = "Primary Button Text"
FontName = "Arial"
FontSize = 27
FgColor = "255 170 0 255"
BgColor = "0 0 0 141"
FgColorArmed = "255 255 255 255"
BgColorArmed = "255 170 0 67"
etc... for other text
I missed listing a second source.
Mikhailtech - Frames Per Second: Fact & Fiction
(Please don't mod this post up. It already has a karma bonus and I should have put it in my previous post.)
You mustn't forget that human perception varies and 80fps isn't 5 times human perception.
Very true. Instead of commenting, here are a couple of links: How many frames can the human eye see?
http://www.100fps.com/
And no, I don't run games at 1600x1200 on my 19" Iiyama CRT, and neither does anyone else who values their eyesight. Theoretical FPS numbers don't mean anything to me; image quality and performance with the settings I'm actually going to use do.
I'm curious. How would 1600x1200 resolution hurt your eyesight? If anything, it should relieve eye-strain due to more detail being available on-screen.
I always run at 1600x1200 when possible. At lower resolutions, I have to strain to figure out what smaller objects are in the distance.
now, if that's the case, the quandary for slashdotters: do you hate red hat more or do you want linux desktops everywhere more?
We want something to bitch about.
Don't worry, we'll find someone to flame for being successful whether it's RedHat, Suse, or Gentoo.
Whenever we get bored with that, we'll start up a text editor flame-war. .
Crack and cocaine are just stimulants; all they really do is give you more energy.
You're on crack!
(Someone had to say it)
Your words, not mine
Yes, those were my words. 'Faster' is not a measurement.
It's possible that my use of 'faster' in that context accidentally implied measurement, but I assure you that was not my intention.
Quite right, and my point exactly. You therefore cannot measure the "speed of time" That would be absurd.
That would be absurd if I mentioned measuring the speed of time. But of course, I said nothing about that.
You're still defining speed in terms relative to time it's self... I'm not sure where you're going here.
Ok, let's not define speed in terms relative to time. We'll take time out of the equation.
But wait, we can't do that. Speed doesn't exist without time. On top of that, time isn't a constant.
Here is more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity
Speed is defined in physics as "Distance traveled divided by the time of travel", so that would make time a derivative of it's self?
You stopped pasting the definition at a crucial point. Here is where you left off from your own reference link::
The limit of this quotient as the time of travel becomes vanishingly small; the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
Wake me up when they get it going faster than the speed of light. Now, that would be a speed record worthy of a slashdotting.
If it went faster than the speed of light, it would also be going faster than the speed of time. That would cause quite a bit of technical difficulties on the receiving end.
I hate to break the bad news to you, but... [spywareinfo.com]
Yes, and it's fortunately easily defeated. Pop off the cover for the GPS receiver and insert some tin foil. It works for the Motorolas I have.
It's almost funny that people joke about tin-foil hats yet it does work for cell-phones.
What bothers me more than that is the magnetic strips on drivers licenses. I scramble mine and obscure the back-up bar code, but as a result, I've been unable to enter a Bar twice because of doing so. Some bars now have a policy that if their drivers license scanner can't read the ID, the person is not allowed in the establishment.
And no, I don't wear a tin-foil hat or watch my rear-view mirror for people following me. I'm just the type that avoids tracking devices just like those people who remove spyware software & cookies in their computers.
Drug dealers aren't killing people, it's the turf wars and the surrounding problems.
Yes! For example, notice that previous to the 1980's marijuana wasn't something to die for most of the time.
Once the War on Drugs (er, Families) started up, the prices of Marijuana rose significantly. Supply wasn't the problem, it was risk. Pounds that costed less than $100 dollars quickly raised to $1000-$5000. With transactions involving 10X-50X the cash for the same product, and penalties raised, the threshold for 'is this worth killing to rob, defend territory, or keep from being prosecuted?' was passed.
In Michigan for example, growing marijuana, even for personal use, usually carries a 7 year prison term. That term will be 14 years* if even one firearm is found in that same home no matter who owns it. It's no wonder that people are killing competition & law enforcement to protect their (now) extremely profitable drug enterprise.
*Actually, the extra 7 year threat is mainly used to force plea-bargains so the case doesn't go to court. The extra 7 year charge will be dropped of the defendant skips a trial and pleads guilty.
I also could play GTA and tomb raider, even Quake, but Quake II and Quake III, and games based on those engines, like Call of Duty, give me motion sickness. I don't know why.
I would hazard to guess it's very likely the frame rate. Many games will automatically sync themselves to the default refresh rate at any given video resolution. That refresh rate is often 60hz which is noticable to the human eye and is compounded if there are flourescent lights in the same room. How it happens is this: If your desktop is 800x600, you may have set the refresh rate to 70-72hz. But, when the game switches to 640x or 1024x, and that resolution hasn't been configured on your box, the game might use 60hz.
60hz makes me feel sick to my stomache and a headache starts after about 10 minutes.
Two things that might help: a) Turn off vertical sync in your video & game settings, or change your v-synce to 72 for all resolutions. b) If the game can't keep up with 72hz, you might try turning off options in the game that lower the framerate such as character shadows.
The plate is there so they can identify me if I do have commited a crime.
Follow the money.
The plate is there to prove you've paid your vehicle taxes. If your plate is expired and you get noticed by an Officer, you'll pay an extra tax.
If the primary purpose of the plate is to identify you for committing crimes, and the Government really cares much about that issue, you'd be required to have plates on both the front and back of your vehicle in every US state.