Not so much that they discourage it, they just have badly coded email validators. The allowable characters in an email address is much broader than most systems' valid usernames, but the lazy just assume people will only have a username as their mailbox.
That's why I had the Apple bit on there. Except for the worst techno-illiterate person I know, most people know that Apple & Microsoft play together, as well as not having the "ooh, cheap" thing clouding their judgement when they look at a Mac.
And even that person had the somewhat reasonable excuse of "but the artists' Macs have Office and my Ipod worked on my old computer".
A large percentage of Windows users do not understand what an operating system is and assume if they can buy it in a store, it'll work. Manufacturers need to put giant stickers saying:
Not a Windows system, does not run Microsoft anything, none of your programs will work on this, Apple* made it. *that is a lie, but Mac users won't be on the cheap end of the aisle.
Not that I think it will help much. I've had too many acquaintances think "ooh, cheap computer", buy one, and then ask me if Microsoft Ubuntu is newer or older than Office 07, and if it will run Vista Excel.
They usually end up returning it and I buy another bottle of aspirin.
You can do multi-mouse in XP(you can trap events from different USB mouses), but MS didn't provide for multiple pointers so if you wanted more than one arrow, you'd have to code your own pointers as sprites.
You can have FTL travel without FTL information systems.
Just say that you can't transmit directly through your FTL method, you have to physically move something(either a courier ship or a beacon), making it more like uucp or fidonet.
You get as much bandwidth as you want but it only gets transmitted once a day/week/whenever the courier passes by. Anyone on a ship can outrun the network unless someone orders a special message run to your destination with a "faster" FTL ship.
Do you REALLY think that a "properly" run allows "any" connections to their control units or SCADA systems ? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that they have people there 24/7 to handle any type of contingencies.
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And those people get bored and want to surf the internet from their monitoring station. So they bring in a bit of cat5(or a USB wireless dongle) and get themselves a connection to the outside world. 6 months later, someone gets paid to figure out why a computer with no internet connection has popups, trips over the cable and says "WTF".
Hearing shit like that at work has nearly convinced me to buy a real generator.
Unfortunately, back then I couldn't afford a good camera that didn't look like a camera(or like a hat). And after the first time I "forgot" to leave my phone, the gatekeeper kept her eye on me.
Newspaper classifieds are a feature to attract readers, not a profit center.
My regional newspaper makes maybe 1.5-2 million/year on classifieds. After the cost of the newsprint, facilities, office space, and the dozen or so employees, they'd barely break even if the paper considered them as anything other than a means to increase readership.
They've decided to focus on local features and metro area online forums. They'd probably be happy if craiglist took their lunch, it'd give them the excuse to can the union workers hiding out in that dept.
Google will, at best, have a "sweat of brow" right to the exact images they scanned. They do not get a magical "any digital reproduction of this work" right.
Nothing blocks you from scanning it yourself or possibly even typing it in by hand, other than your ability to access the original work. If it happens that there is only one known physical copy and Google bought it, or has an exclusive license with the owner, then you might have a problem. But no worse than before.
I'm for it, as I've had requests for interlibrary loans that took months because the book spent more time on the road, bouncing from library to library, than it did in use. Similarly, I've wasted days because I had to schedule vault time to get access to books too worn to lend(but I couldn't take pictures, even without a flash).
Alternatively, as an employee of the Fox conglomerate, it was no worse than using another department's photocopier without filling out the little sheet that tells that department to bill his department for the toner/paper. Merely a matter of accounting.
I also bought this movie when I was walking down the street and a guy asked me if I wanted it. I had read the articles about the movie being released AND I knew it was incomplete. That is why I bought it and watched it.
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You actually paid money for the workprint? You're worse than those that just download it.
You probably weigh as much as a duck or have a density approximately that of a block of wood.
Actually, I've built some NIR-bandpass goggles(primary red+congo blue lighting gels=poor man's IR). It is indeed almost impossible to see unless in direct sun or a really bright NIR/visible red source. Most LEDs don't cut it, but heating elements emitting just enough light to still be dark by visible light barely show up if looked at directly.
As far as I know, UV light appears as a deep violet/indigo-white light. If the UV pattern on the flower is in the visible white portion of the flower, it might be visible. If it is over any other color, it would probably be overwhelmed by the visible portion.
I wonder how hard it is to do a small-qty purchase of a cell-phone module. Just the bits that make phone calls and send/receive audio, over serial or whatever. Possibly also the simcard stuff, if that is necessary to be done by the radio hardware instead of software.
Bring your own computing device(say a gumstix), display, and power.
I'm sure that probably violates some FCC rules, so I haven't really tried to source one.
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Some of us, despite not being old enough to use one, have them sitting in our garages.
Not so much that they discourage it, they just have badly coded email validators. The allowable characters in an email address is much broader than most systems' valid usernames, but the lazy just assume people will only have a username as their mailbox.
That's why I had the Apple bit on there. Except for the worst techno-illiterate person I know, most people know that Apple & Microsoft play together, as well as not having the "ooh, cheap" thing clouding their judgement when they look at a Mac.
And even that person had the somewhat reasonable excuse of "but the artists' Macs have Office and my Ipod worked on my old computer".
A large percentage of Windows users do not understand what an operating system is and assume if they can buy it in a store, it'll work. Manufacturers need to put giant stickers saying:
Not a Windows system, does not run Microsoft anything, none of your programs will work on this, Apple* made it.
*that is a lie, but Mac users won't be on the cheap end of the aisle.
Not that I think it will help much. I've had too many acquaintances think "ooh, cheap computer", buy one, and then ask me if Microsoft Ubuntu is newer or older than Office 07, and if it will run Vista Excel.
They usually end up returning it and I buy another bottle of aspirin.
Why pay 5 figures for a microsoft surface when you can just make one with an eyetoy camera, a sheet of plexiglass, a projector, and an IR filter?
You can do multi-mouse in XP(you can trap events from different USB mouses), but MS didn't provide for multiple pointers so if you wanted more than one arrow, you'd have to code your own pointers as sprites.
see http://www.jstookey.com/arcade/rawmouse/ for code and games that use multiple mice.
The real problem using mice is that they don't provide positioning, only motion
You can have FTL travel without FTL information systems.
Just say that you can't transmit directly through your FTL method, you have to physically move something(either a courier ship or a beacon), making it more like uucp or fidonet.
You get as much bandwidth as you want but it only gets transmitted once a day/week/whenever the courier passes by. Anyone on a ship can outrun the network unless someone orders a special message run to your destination with a "faster" FTL ship.
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And those people get bored and want to surf the internet from their monitoring station. So they bring in a bit of cat5(or a USB wireless dongle) and get themselves a connection to the outside world. 6 months later, someone gets paid to figure out why a computer with no internet connection has popups, trips over the cable and says "WTF".
Hearing shit like that at work has nearly convinced me to buy a real generator.
You can firewall it off from outside nets and there are tons of free clients that don't support other protocols. Logging is easy too.
Unfortunately, back then I couldn't afford a good camera that didn't look like a camera(or like a hat). And after the first time I "forgot" to leave my phone, the gatekeeper kept her eye on me.
Newspaper classifieds are a feature to attract readers, not a profit center.
My regional newspaper makes maybe 1.5-2 million/year on classifieds. After the cost of the newsprint, facilities, office space, and the dozen or so employees, they'd barely break even if the paper considered them as anything other than a means to increase readership.
They've decided to focus on local features and metro area online forums. They'd probably be happy if craiglist took their lunch, it'd give them the excuse to can the union workers hiding out in that dept.
You've obviously never seen someone hammer a proprietary connector into a mini-USB port.
I'd think the camera maintenance guy would find it worse.
Can you imagine the director dropping of a camera for you to fix and finding a big smear of donkey juice on the CCD and horsecrap in the lens fitting?
I don't think I could deal with that.
Google will, at best, have a "sweat of brow" right to the exact images they scanned. They do not get a magical "any digital reproduction of this work" right.
Nothing blocks you from scanning it yourself or possibly even typing it in by hand, other than your ability to access the original work. If it happens that there is only one known physical copy and Google bought it, or has an exclusive license with the owner, then you might have a problem. But no worse than before.
I'm for it, as I've had requests for interlibrary loans that took months because the book spent more time on the road, bouncing from library to library, than it did in use. Similarly, I've wasted days because I had to schedule vault time to get access to books too worn to lend(but I couldn't take pictures, even without a flash).
He could have been using a leech-only client.
Alternatively, as an employee of the Fox conglomerate, it was no worse than using another department's photocopier without filling out the little sheet that tells that department to bill his department for the toner/paper. Merely a matter of accounting.
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You actually paid money for the workprint? You're worse than those that just download it.
You probably weigh as much as a duck or have a density approximately that of a block of wood.
Well, except the mailman.
Facilities, Equipment, Data: $20,000,000
Goodwill: -$19,000,000
"Losing" the email server: -$864,000
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Balance: $136,000
Not that there is much of their email we haven't already seen.
Throw a grenade and pause on the explosion animation.
It would stay at the current stage of explosion, doing damage, until you unpaused and the timer went forward again.
Sort of like the portions of a canvas covered by the frame and the overpainting around the edges.
If a forger never has physical control of a painting, they won't match.
Or do what people do to Olan Mills, take a photo of the photo with the camera clock rolled back.
Bam, new serial number and if you have a print-quality enlargment, you can get a nearly indistinguishable raw.
Actually, I've built some NIR-bandpass goggles(primary red+congo blue lighting gels=poor man's IR). It is indeed almost impossible to see unless in direct sun or a really bright NIR/visible red source. Most LEDs don't cut it, but heating elements emitting just enough light to still be dark by visible light barely show up if looked at directly.
I just recently replied to someone with only one artificial cornea, he says each eye sees UV differently.
As far as I know, UV light appears as a deep violet/indigo-white light. If the UV pattern on the flower is in the visible white portion of the flower, it might be visible. If it is over any other color, it would probably be overwhelmed by the visible portion.
Wow, you must sprinkle heroin on your cornflakes like sugar or something...
Isn't dilaudid an order of magnitude more effective by weight than morphine?
I wonder how hard it is to do a small-qty purchase of a cell-phone module. Just the bits that make phone calls and send/receive audio, over serial or whatever. Possibly also the simcard stuff, if that is necessary to be done by the radio hardware instead of software.
Bring your own computing device(say a gumstix), display, and power.
I'm sure that probably violates some FCC rules, so I haven't really tried to source one.
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Humans with OEM corneas, at least. Artificial corneas don't absorb UV light.