Don't forget people. They run on EMPs, too. Some would die from heart palpitations even without a pacemaker.
Oh, and don't forget about the lightning that would most likely be a side effect of generating enough electromagnetic radiation to short out all electronic devices.
Some people would die from that, if they're particularly conductive.
You do it right, and this won't be a problem. You have to connect the router wrong, since most won't answer DHCP queries on the uplink port.
You won't actually be able to use the internet in this case, either, since the router will be unable to get an IP address for itself from the DHCP server.
Why would someone leave a router connected like that if it wasn't working when they turned it on? They'd fiddle with it until it worked, at which point no one would have any problems.
Actually, as I said, I'm setting the resolution to 320x240, which is what the televisions are at.
A lot of DVD videos are at four times that (twice in width and twice in height), which would account for the increase in size. HOWEVER, this does not increase the quality of the output unless you're using HDTV for your output because NTSC can't handle more.
It's coming from empirical evidence of the mpeg2 files I've gotten.
I get clips from various places, and have reencoded them in mpeg2 format. Specifically, I have encoded them at 30FPS, 320x240 resolution, and between 6000 and 9000 KBps depending upon the quality of the clip. I'm also using 44khz stereo for all audio.
The average I'm getting is about 300 MB an hour.
It's possible that's low for Star Trek. Maybe Star Trek episodes are particularly hard to compress. I'm willing to concede that it might take more than six disks.
The number of disks sucks as well. At least, I think it does.
If we assume that the DVDs are storing everything in slightly higher quality than analog television streams, each episode should take about 300MB - which is realistic, since the feeds were made for television and are going to be played on televisions.
Each DVD holds just over 9GB. We'll leave the extra for "special features" and just leave the 9GB. Actually, why not leave an extra 216MB and only use 9000MB? 9000MB*48(Disks)/300(MB/Episode)=1440 Episodes.
In actuality, there are only 177 episodes, which would fit in (300*177)/9GB=5.82 DVDs. Each episode actually gets a total of roughly 2500MB each.
People who're willing to pay for such a waste of space deserve the price.
1) Currently, there's a cap on how much taxes a person pays. So the very rich are paying much, much, less of their income than anyone else.
2) If you can afford it, there are many legal means of not paying taxes at all. But they require moving money around in such a way that you have to already have quite a bit to "lubricate" the process. So, as a whole, the very rich only pay taxes if they're feeling patriotic or stupid.
If we had a loophole-free flat tax of 5%, we could almost completely eliminate the IRS, and make more than enough in taxes off of the very, very rich.
Oh, we could also stop paying ex-congressman the same wage they got when they were congressman when they finish their terms. That's a rather huge chunk of budget right there.
Of course, these schemes tend to hurt the rich and powerful...I'm a bit pessimistic as to whether or not they'll be implemented.
Okay, you win. "Lord of the Flies" isn't the bible on what happens with the lack of government. Maybe it's the "flies" part that isn't reliable. I personally never trusted flies much myself. They always land on my food. It must be "Lord of the Rings." Rings are much better than flies, after all. If somone came up to you and said, "What do you want, a ring or a fly?" I bet you'd go for the ring every time. I know I would.
With lack of "government" (mortal kings, dwarf lords, and elf lords who were corrupted by the rings), the strong prey upon the weak (Ring Wraiths come after hobbits), and it all goes back to normal society when someone loses a finger (because anarchy is all fun & games until someone loses a digit).
I think it's obvious what conclusion we can draw from this: tax on items will go away from Second Life just as soon as one of the creators loses a finger.
And you call yourself a./'er? Correcting Microsoft's stolen acronymn (slightly mangling it) and wondering what the original was? It's because of people like you that I can't say "MSCE" on my degree without someone considering hiring a trained baboon instead of me, because they think I'm a Microsoft 6-weeks of study test-passer instead of a 6-year degree earner.
Not all seeing people are missing it. As a sound technician, this is a side-effect that I've noticed I got as I increased my audio awareness.
It's based mostly upon hearing the doppler effect from objects that are around us as circulating air hits things. Almost everyone can probably hear these sounds, but they're mostly low frequency and rather quiet, like whispers. The real trouble in doing it is picking the sounds out of all the other random sounds you hear. I've quite gotten used to having the sense. It's incredibly useful when driving, because cars displace a lot of air (which, as I said, causes this effect), and you can hear them on every side and determine their speed relative to your own with relative success fairly easily.
Now, though, it freaks me out when it's cold and I have to cover up my head. I get the feeling that something is following me (because I can't "feel" anything behind me).
Well...palm is the inside part of the hand, and a pilot is someone who controls a flying vehicle.
Conventionaly, when an adjective is used in front of pilot, such as, for example, F-18 pilot, or helicopter pilot, it is used to indicate what type of vehicle is being flown. So I guess a "palm pilot" would be a pilot who directs the inside part of a hand to act as a flying vehicle.
Yeah, that'll work. I can see five possible answers to the question, "Do you have a bias?" which eliminates all experts.
1) "I use Windows" - unsuitable in favor of SCO. 2) "I use Linux boxen" - unsuitable in favor of IBM. 3) "I'm a Mac person" - unsuitable in favor of IBM (thanks to OS X) 4) "I use Unix boxen" - unsuitable in favor of IBM, with the exception of SCO users, who would favor SCO. 5) "I don't use computers at all/I don't know what I use" - too ignorant for expert status, or lying.
So I think the best we can do is have both sides validate it.
Right. Because as we all know, people who pay Microsoft the huge bag 'o money that it costs to see their source are primarily interested in the pursuits of OSS to see if Microsoft has copied anything it shouldn't have. And Microsoft's NDA surely gives them the right to do this.
If anyone is able to prove Microsoft is doing something illegal via the shared source initiative, they'll probably have to do it illegally.
For the long period of time that the Bible was kept "secret," it was done so because the thought was that orthodoxy - thinking correctly about it - could only be done if the priests and monks explained it to people. The thought was that they wouldn't be able to grasp it on their own, or would draw the wrong conclusions.
You would only need to study documents written by the church at the time to learn that the priests and monks were, in fact, trying to share their understanding of the Bible with the rest of the world.
For those who were very intent to learn, they could join a monistary for free, and be taught latin for free. In those conditions, it was generally thought that one may learn doctrine properly.
This is a little misguided, I think, since there's not really anything stopping the priests and monks from interpreting the Bible incorrectly themselves, and the Latin Vulgate was a translation twice removed from the original in most parts, but at least it wasn't to keep Christainity a secret.
So I would say that the big difference here is the fact that all the messages of Christainity have always been given, though not always with paper accompaniment. Do Scientologists readily share what they think their documents mean? (For those who don't know, the answer is NO).
Windows can be scripted with Jscript or VBScript using WSH (Windows scripting host). Jscript is very, very similar to javascript (I think that javascript may actually be a subset of jscript), which is universally available.
As far as being "a part of the standard Windows install," I suspect it depends upon your version of Windows. I know it comes with W2k, and doesn't with Windows 98, but I can't speak for the rest.
Still, I'm not sure that this is a good thing. Windows doesn't insulate itself against scripting attacks very well at all by running parts as different users. So anyone with WSH installed could be in for a world of hurt if a bad script comes along in viral form.
Or it could be that there were more of them than anyone else (in the US), and they knew that just like everyone else did.
There are still more of them than anyone else, only now they're the adults, so they have the power of seniority and the power of majority. I imagine that this is rather discouraging for people trying to buck their ideas.
I believe that's why they say that generation X is filled with angst - they're the ones directly after the boomers.
Yeah, my university (Purdue) actually has one of it's own: "purdue.forsale.books" which is on the university's news server.
There are also purdue.forsale.housing, purdue.forsale.computer, and purdue.forsale.misc.
I use them all the time to get stuff. I built my computer off of parts I obtained from the newsgroups, actually.
Easily searchable, fast because it runs off the schools servers (which I use to access it). I imagine there's something like that at a lot of schools, and there are just lots of students who don't know about it.
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Well...I want that. It lets me use my stuff anywhere without carrying around my computer.
I imagine other people might if they saw it as a possibility. It's not at the moment. Most people didn't think about having PDAs before they were actually useful for something.
I am a desktop user. Hence, there is at least one desktop user who prefers "with thin client" to "without thin client" because I see the potential.
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Don't forget people. They run on EMPs, too. Some would die from heart palpitations even without a pacemaker.
Oh, and don't forget about the lightning that would most likely be a side effect of generating enough electromagnetic radiation to short out all electronic devices.
Some people would die from that, if they're particularly conductive.
You do it right, and this won't be a problem. You have to connect the router wrong, since most won't answer DHCP queries on the uplink port.
You won't actually be able to use the internet in this case, either, since the router will be unable to get an IP address for itself from the DHCP server.
Why would someone leave a router connected like that if it wasn't working when they turned it on? They'd fiddle with it until it worked, at which point no one would have any problems.
Actually, as I said, I'm setting the resolution to 320x240, which is what the televisions are at.
A lot of DVD videos are at four times that (twice in width and twice in height), which would account for the increase in size. HOWEVER, this does not increase the quality of the output unless you're using HDTV for your output because NTSC can't handle more.
It's coming from empirical evidence of the mpeg2 files I've gotten.
I get clips from various places, and have reencoded them in mpeg2 format. Specifically, I have encoded them at 30FPS, 320x240 resolution, and between 6000 and 9000 KBps depending upon the quality of the clip. I'm also using 44khz stereo for all audio.
The average I'm getting is about 300 MB an hour.
It's possible that's low for Star Trek. Maybe Star Trek episodes are particularly hard to compress. I'm willing to concede that it might take more than six disks.
But I can't see how it could possibly take 48.
The number of disks sucks as well. At least, I think it does.
If we assume that the DVDs are storing everything in slightly higher quality than analog television streams, each episode should take about 300MB - which is realistic, since the feeds were made for television and are going to be played on televisions.
Each DVD holds just over 9GB. We'll leave the extra for "special features" and just leave the 9GB. Actually, why not leave an extra 216MB and only use 9000MB? 9000MB*48(Disks)/300(MB/Episode)=1440 Episodes.
In actuality, there are only 177 episodes, which would fit in (300*177)/9GB=5.82 DVDs. Each episode actually gets a total of roughly 2500MB each.
People who're willing to pay for such a waste of space deserve the price.
Google does e-commerce searches.
1) Currently, there's a cap on how much taxes a person pays. So the very rich are paying much, much, less of their income than anyone else.
2) If you can afford it, there are many legal means of not paying taxes at all. But they require moving money around in such a way that you have to already have quite a bit to "lubricate" the process. So, as a whole, the very rich only pay taxes if they're feeling patriotic or stupid.
If we had a loophole-free flat tax of 5%, we could almost completely eliminate the IRS, and make more than enough in taxes off of the very, very rich.
Oh, we could also stop paying ex-congressman the same wage they got when they were congressman when they finish their terms. That's a rather huge chunk of budget right there.
Of course, these schemes tend to hurt the rich and powerful...I'm a bit pessimistic as to whether or not they'll be implemented.
On that note, let's send messages to verisign using their system.
Try some of these:
Clean, to the point.
A little better
the best I've got.
I think we should all go there at once.
We can say that we were all on our way to the grocery, made a wrong turn, and ended up at his house.
Then we can demand to buy groceries.
I'm sure he won't mind. Everyones ends up at his site for that reason, right?
Okay, you win. "Lord of the Flies" isn't the bible on what happens with the lack of government. Maybe it's the "flies" part that isn't reliable. I personally never trusted flies much myself. They always land on my food. It must be "Lord of the Rings." Rings are much better than flies, after all. If somone came up to you and said, "What do you want, a ring or a fly?" I bet you'd go for the ring every time. I know I would.
With lack of "government" (mortal kings, dwarf lords, and elf lords who were corrupted by the rings), the strong prey upon the weak (Ring Wraiths come after hobbits), and it all goes back to normal society when someone loses a finger (because anarchy is all fun & games until someone loses a digit).
I think it's obvious what conclusion we can draw from this: tax on items will go away from Second Life just as soon as one of the creators loses a finger.
MSCE is a proper degree!
./'er? Correcting Microsoft's stolen acronymn (slightly mangling it) and wondering what the original was? It's because of people like you that I can't say "MSCE" on my degree without someone considering hiring a trained baboon instead of me, because they think I'm a Microsoft 6-weeks of study test-passer instead of a 6-year degree earner.
It's Masters (MS) in Computer Engineering!
And you call yourself a
Not all seeing people are missing it. As a sound technician, this is a side-effect that I've noticed I got as I increased my audio awareness.
It's based mostly upon hearing the doppler effect from objects that are around us as circulating air hits things. Almost everyone can probably hear these sounds, but they're mostly low frequency and rather quiet, like whispers. The real trouble in doing it is picking the sounds out of all the other random sounds you hear. I've quite gotten used to having the sense. It's incredibly useful when driving, because cars displace a lot of air (which, as I said, causes this effect), and you can hear them on every side and determine their speed relative to your own with relative success fairly easily.
Now, though, it freaks me out when it's cold and I have to cover up my head. I get the feeling that something is following me (because I can't "feel" anything behind me).
Well...palm is the inside part of the hand, and a pilot is someone who controls a flying vehicle.
Conventionaly, when an adjective is used in front of pilot, such as, for example, F-18 pilot, or helicopter pilot, it is used to indicate what type of vehicle is being flown. So I guess a "palm pilot" would be a pilot who directs the inside part of a hand to act as a flying vehicle.
Does that mean that other people are allowed to offer them? Because I've never seen them anywhere. And it's not because I haven't looked.
Microsoft is ordered to allow interoperability.
Does this mean that they have to provide their Driver Development Kit, without which it is nearly impossible to write drivers for Windows, for free?
Yeah, that'll work. I can see five possible answers to the question, "Do you have a bias?" which eliminates all experts.
1) "I use Windows" - unsuitable in favor of SCO.
2) "I use Linux boxen" - unsuitable in favor of IBM.
3) "I'm a Mac person" - unsuitable in favor of IBM (thanks to OS X)
4) "I use Unix boxen" - unsuitable in favor of IBM, with the exception of SCO users, who would favor SCO.
5) "I don't use computers at all/I don't know what I use" - too ignorant for expert status, or lying.
So I think the best we can do is have both sides validate it.
Right. Because as we all know, people who pay Microsoft the huge bag 'o money that it costs to see their source are primarily interested in the pursuits of OSS to see if Microsoft has copied anything it shouldn't have. And Microsoft's NDA surely gives them the right to do this.
If anyone is able to prove Microsoft is doing something illegal via the shared source initiative, they'll probably have to do it illegally.
Unless, of course, you put it inside a Faraday's cage. I imagine these things could be quite expensive and delicate (due to the density of the data).
Not cheap like tapes. So...why wouldn't you enclose them in a layer of metal? And a layer of shock absorbers?
I expect that this RAM will end up looking a bit like a lego with connectors coming out of it.
"Sharpened up the operation?"
For the long period of time that the Bible was kept "secret," it was done so because the thought was that orthodoxy - thinking correctly about it - could only be done if the priests and monks explained it to people. The thought was that they wouldn't be able to grasp it on their own, or would draw the wrong conclusions.
You would only need to study documents written by the church at the time to learn that the priests and monks were, in fact, trying to share their understanding of the Bible with the rest of the world.
For those who were very intent to learn, they could join a monistary for free, and be taught latin for free. In those conditions, it was generally thought that one may learn doctrine properly.
This is a little misguided, I think, since there's not really anything stopping the priests and monks from interpreting the Bible incorrectly themselves, and the Latin Vulgate was a translation twice removed from the original in most parts, but at least it wasn't to keep Christainity a secret.
So I would say that the big difference here is the fact that all the messages of Christainity have always been given, though not always with paper accompaniment. Do Scientologists readily share what they think their documents mean? (For those who don't know, the answer is NO).
Pink ones, I believe.
And you have to be drunk to see them.
For the most part you can script any app. WSH works with dde and com, and that covers pretty much all applications.
It's not done frequently, though.
I think you're forgetting about a language.
Windows can be scripted with Jscript or VBScript using WSH (Windows scripting host). Jscript is very, very similar to javascript (I think that javascript may actually be a subset of jscript), which is universally available.
As far as being "a part of the standard Windows install," I suspect it depends upon your version of Windows. I know it comes with W2k, and doesn't with Windows 98, but I can't speak for the rest.
Still, I'm not sure that this is a good thing. Windows doesn't insulate itself against scripting attacks very well at all by running parts as different users. So anyone with WSH installed could be in for a world of hurt if a bad script comes along in viral form.
Or it could be that there were more of them than anyone else (in the US), and they knew that just like everyone else did.
There are still more of them than anyone else, only now they're the adults, so they have the power of seniority and the power of majority. I imagine that this is rather discouraging for people trying to buck their ideas.
I believe that's why they say that generation X is filled with angst - they're the ones directly after the boomers.
Yeah, my university (Purdue) actually has one of it's own: "purdue.forsale.books" which is on the university's news server.
There are also purdue.forsale.housing, purdue.forsale.computer, and purdue.forsale.misc.
I use them all the time to get stuff. I built my computer off of parts I obtained from the newsgroups, actually.
Easily searchable, fast because it runs off the schools servers (which I use to access it). I imagine there's something like that at a lot of schools, and there are just lots of students who don't know about it.
Well...I want that. It lets me use my stuff anywhere without carrying around my computer.
I imagine other people might if they saw it as a possibility. It's not at the moment. Most people didn't think about having PDAs before they were actually useful for something.
I am a desktop user. Hence, there is at least one desktop user who prefers "with thin client" to "without thin client" because I see the potential.