If a device would draw more power than the mobo would supply, the controller simply wouldn't power it.
Yes, that's exactly what we need. Besides training Grandma to iterate (she can't read the tiny markings) through the 5V, 7V, 12V, 14.2V, 18V, and 24V identical sockets to find the one her new USB-Laserjet's plug will fit, we field the support calls about how her mouse and hair dryer sometimes shut themselves off at random when she prints. Granted, a proper power negotiation would kill (deny power requests to) the printer, not the devices who already negotiated, but I don't think it's solving complexity issues if whether or not a given peripheral will work depends on what other peripherals are attached at that moment, and what their respective activity statuses are.
Have fun explaining to Grandma why she needs to buy a new computer to use her printer, because they didn't include a wall plug and her 2-year-old mobo won't deliver 30A peak.
Not to rant on you specifically:-) But I think powered USB is a dumb idea. As an EE, I don't want to be the one trying to cram the large power switching and protection devices this would require onto an already-crammed quad-core motherboard layout - a separate set for each 5V, 12V, 24V etc. As a computer buyer, I don't want to pay for either the size or cost of that new machine's PSU, which comes in its own computer-sized sidecar with three roaring fans because someone out there has two laser printers, a plasma screen and a hairdryer it has to power.
Hehe. Sadly enough I thought the BABY MODE actually makes some sense (not that I plan to use it anytime soon!;-). You enter the baby's birthdate initially, then every time you take baby pictures, they get a timestamp with the baby's age superimposed on them. (Of course if you have more than one baby, you're out of luck. Maybe the firmware was written in China.) It also weakens the flash intensity to minimum (I love how in peoples' indoor baby pictures, #1 has a smiling baby and (2.. n) have a crying one..).
The modes that bug me are the ones that apply some special post-processing to a very narrow genre of pictures/subjects, like the dedicated mode for food pictures. Worse are ones like this camera's "Soft Skin" portrait mode, which actually detects skin tone boundaries and applies a smoothing filter. These modes almost seem a bit dishonest, the camera Photoshops your pictures right as you take them.
Heh, that's exactly why I'm still using a good old 10 year old CRT. For usual text / word processing crap I keep it dimmed so it doesn't bug my eyes. If I want to watch a movie, it's one quick flick of the middle finger to crank up the brightness on a nice, solid analog knob. With one of the more modern solutions I'm digging three menus deep to turn off suntan mode...
Amen. A while back I bought a nice 8MP digicam, which kicks ass in most circumstances. Aperture, f-stop and focus are all on their own wheely knob, minimum dicking with menus, etc...it feels comfortably close to the good old Canon 35mm I grew up with. On the other hand, turn the wrong knob and it supports all these funky newb modes, including, I kid you not, FOOD MODE. According to TFM, it dicks with the color balance to specifically make pictures of food look tastier. FOOD MODE.
If not (e.g. First Sale Rule), could PriceCo simply set up a sister corporation (CostPlace) where each buys 50% of the goods, then sells them back to the other at MSRP in exchange for the reciprocal service? I guess it would be amusing to see aisle after aisle of product marked "Previously Purchased, Unused Condition" or somesuch.
Wasn't there some sort of big regulatory brouhaha (e.g. blocking E911 signals) when movie theaters tried this to silence cell phones? I could just imagine the fan-excrement collision when one of the employees turns out to be a ham radio nut and starts quoting chapter and verse out of the ARRL handbook. I saw this happen once when my college tried to institute a blanket ban on antennas hanging out of dorm windows (a number of students had small dishes out the windows to pirate satellite TV). Apparently there are some strict FCC regulations about interfering with "lawful communications" on licensed bands, so the Uni relented in a hurry (ok guys, antennas are fine, just don't mount them in a way that damages the building [e.g. no drilling holes]).
Aha! THAT's why those pigfuckers capture your IP, User-Agent and a few other fields on first pageview and banish you to Unexpected Error Ocurred Purgatory if they ever change. I have a long rant on this subject, but the short form is I found the reason I thought Myspace was "always broken" the last couple years is my User-Agent Randomizer ran into their Paranoid Session Validator and began brawling. Using fields like UAgent as additional session validation tokens is a reactinary, but increasingly common stopgap on sites that know they have active XSS vulnerabilities but don't know where they all are or how to fix them.
"Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" - 3pts. 3d rotating "email me" animation - 5pts. (link to) Pictures of pets - 2pts. One, two, three, FOUR embedded search bars! - 1pt. each Three of which are for obscure engines I've never heard of - 2pts. 3d rotating animation of the guy's name - 6pts. 3d rotating things that indicate nothing in particular - 3pts. Hit counter (3rd-party hosted at that) - 1pt. Another web counter that simply displays the text "web counter" - 4pts. 2nd (different) 3d rotating animation of the guy's name - 6pts. Broken graphics - 3pts.
If these two sites had a baby, the results would be unpleasant indeed.
By this logic, it seems like all the spider would have to do is add its own counter-contract right in the HTTP request.
GET / HTTP/1.1 By responding to this request, you agree that SpiderCo's Spider does not speak English and, being written only two years ago, is not of legal age (18 in most jurisdictions) to enter a contract. By continuing to serve content in response to this request, you agree that any contracts contained in such content are null and void. Thank you and have a nice day. <CR> <CR>
More choice tidbits appear in the posts he makes to his own forum. (Note, this copy is, erm, fair use.)
"While I will adhere to the terms set forth in the settlement agreement, I should point out that I have no qualms about doing what needs to be done to silence those who dare disagree with me, provided that it doesn't run afoul of the settlement agreement....
But, I don't apologize for my tactics beyond the DMCAs. And I have tons of them. These very same tactics are used by respectable companies and third party "bone crushers" to take care of problems. The problem being those that use critical speech against their respective companies, or in my case, against me.
That can't stand. It just can't.
Companies like Microsoft do it. That makes it okay.
And again, there are many more ways to deal with dissenters besides the DMCA. Many more."
There is no "official" RAW (and nobody "owns".raw) any more than someone owns ".bin" (regardless of how many make this claim). You're right that many implementions of what's referred to as raw/RAW/.raw contain unmolested sensor data, but many massage the format in attempt to "unify" toward a particular implementation, add their own headers/metadata (or even encryption), guesses about preferred gamma/whitebalance, etc., with the result that only their own software knows how to read them. One good "tell" is if your software does not ask you the partnumber of the imager used to take the picture, or at the very least, its vertical and horizontal resolution, number and placement of FPN correction rows, bit depth, color filter pattern, etc. Denoised or not? Calibration lines? Helpful processing data such as sensor temperature (which is not a pixel)? In many cases this data is far from "raw". Even knowing what sensor your camera uses and having its datasheet in-hand is not enough.
(In a group where I was involved hacking low-end digitals, we were able to extract the raw Bayer sensor data using buffer overflows and raw memory reads before its ".raw" output files' compression format was known. IIRC the old timers preferred ".BYR" to refer to this data.)
Heh. I misread that as "bullshitalerts.com" 'Til I googled it I was thinking, "but why would the SEC shut down a site debunking all the spam touts?..."
Or the spammers offer "protection" as their moneymaker over the meager 5.79% of spam touts.
Hey, YKNZ corp... we at SpamHell Inc. were just about to pump 'n dump your penny stock, but this would cause an immediate SEC trading halt! So, we'll offer to cease and desist for the low, low price of....
2 Hondas and 2 Fords?... Say I hop into the first Honda and drive it 'til the wheels fall off (>=250k miles). I leave it on the roadside and go back for my 2nd Honda... even if we say (somewhat accurately) that the Fords will only last half as long, are you saying I can get 750k miles out of one Lexus? My take on such things (to continue the car analogy ad absurdum) is that there is a clear difference between adding value and adding expensive, but diminishing, incremental improvements that do not add significant value. The same tired FPS, now with 5x as many polygons? Sign me up! In reality though, there will always be a few who buy a Lexus because they really want a Lexus, and there will be everyone else who buys a Nissan instead. If you live without the integrated ass warmer, it does nearly exactly what you wanted it to, at a fraction of the price.
Sort of. What it means is that under NN, when your neighbor closes BitTorrent your VoIP connection will stop being shit. Don't know your provider, but statistically it stands a fair chance of (e.g. it also has its own competing VoIP solution, or an existing phone infrastructure, et cetera) having a vested interest in NOT supporting "your" VoIP.
Ok, looks like the rest of the free world is going to bitch "u wasted ur time d00d, my fone/486/ti85 can do that!", but it looks like it was a fun project, not to mention educational. How many/.ers have actually *built* a working computer with UI from discretes? (I'm not talking about "I plugged in an IDE cable, Pentium AND videocard!")
Typically, one uses a low-level language to develop an interpreter or compiler for a higher-level language. What I find most interesting about this project is its creator has used a high-level language to write an interpreter to run assembly language.
You're not the only one... until I got to the part heavily referencing video games specifically (e.g. Mario World screenshots), I figured the book was about the methodologies behind things like HVFont and other "high-readability" character-generation efforts for small displays, subpixel techniques on different display types (stripes, triads, Bayer...), etc. THAT would have been an interesting read as an embedded developer often having to display legible data on tiny screens.
So wait... if the daytime average temperature next year hits 200degF, but we determine it's because of termite farts, that makes it not our problem?;-)
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If a device would draw more power than the mobo would supply, the controller simply wouldn't power it.
:-) But I think powered USB is a dumb idea. As an EE, I don't want to be the one trying to cram the large power switching and protection devices this would require onto an already-crammed quad-core motherboard layout - a separate set for each 5V, 12V, 24V etc. As a computer buyer, I don't want to pay for either the size or cost of that new machine's PSU, which comes in its own computer-sized sidecar with three roaring fans because someone out there has two laser printers, a plasma screen and a hairdryer it has to power.
Yes, that's exactly what we need. Besides training Grandma to iterate (she can't read the tiny markings) through the 5V, 7V, 12V, 14.2V, 18V, and 24V identical sockets to find the one her new USB-Laserjet's plug will fit, we field the support calls about how her mouse and hair dryer sometimes shut themselves off at random when she prints. Granted, a proper power negotiation would kill (deny power requests to) the printer, not the devices who already negotiated, but I don't think it's solving complexity issues if whether or not a given peripheral will work depends on what other peripherals are attached at that moment, and what their respective activity statuses are.
Have fun explaining to Grandma why she needs to buy a new computer to use her printer, because they didn't include a wall plug and her 2-year-old mobo won't deliver 30A peak.
Not to rant on you specifically
Not bad, not bad at all. I just asked it for a route to Mars. I was hoping for another funny easter egg, but the AI outsmarted me.
We should kill these people, so they don't reproduce.
Hehe. Sadly enough I thought the BABY MODE actually makes some sense (not that I plan to use it anytime soon! ;-). You enter the baby's birthdate initially, then every time you take baby pictures, they get a timestamp with the baby's age superimposed on them. (Of course if you have more than one baby, you're out of luck. Maybe the firmware was written in China.) It also weakens the flash intensity to minimum (I love how in peoples' indoor baby pictures, #1 has a smiling baby and (2 .. n) have a crying one..).
The modes that bug me are the ones that apply some special post-processing to a very narrow genre of pictures/subjects, like the dedicated mode for food pictures. Worse are ones like this camera's "Soft Skin" portrait mode, which actually detects skin tone boundaries and applies a smoothing filter. These modes almost seem a bit dishonest, the camera Photoshops your pictures right as you take them.
Heh, that's exactly why I'm still using a good old 10 year old CRT. For usual text / word processing crap I keep it dimmed so it doesn't bug my eyes. If I want to watch a movie, it's one quick flick of the middle finger to crank up the brightness on a nice, solid analog knob. With one of the more modern solutions I'm digging three menus deep to turn off suntan mode...
My car has this!
I call it a knob.
Amen. A while back I bought a nice 8MP digicam, which kicks ass in most circumstances. Aperture, f-stop and focus are all on their own wheely knob, minimum dicking with menus, etc...it feels comfortably close to the good old Canon 35mm I grew up with. On the other hand, turn the wrong knob and it supports all these funky newb modes, including, I kid you not, FOOD MODE. According to TFM, it dicks with the color balance to specifically make pictures of food look tastier. FOOD MODE.
I hereby tweek the speling nob.
So you're saying we should download them instead? ;-)
If not (e.g. First Sale Rule), could PriceCo simply set up a sister corporation (CostPlace) where each buys 50% of the goods, then sells them back to the other at MSRP in exchange for the reciprocal service? I guess it would be amusing to see aisle after aisle of product marked "Previously Purchased, Unused Condition" or somesuch.
Wasn't there some sort of big regulatory brouhaha (e.g. blocking E911 signals) when movie theaters tried this to silence cell phones? I could just imagine the fan-excrement collision when one of the employees turns out to be a ham radio nut and starts quoting chapter and verse out of the ARRL handbook. I saw this happen once when my college tried to institute a blanket ban on antennas hanging out of dorm windows (a number of students had small dishes out the windows to pirate satellite TV). Apparently there are some strict FCC regulations about interfering with "lawful communications" on licensed bands, so the Uni relented in a hurry (ok guys, antennas are fine, just don't mount them in a way that damages the building [e.g. no drilling holes]).
Aha! THAT's why those pigfuckers capture your IP, User-Agent and a few other fields on first pageview and banish you to Unexpected Error Ocurred Purgatory if they ever change. I have a long rant on this subject, but the short form is I found the reason I thought Myspace was "always broken" the last couple years is my User-Agent Randomizer ran into their Paranoid Session Validator and began brawling. Using fields like UAgent as additional session validation tokens is a reactinary, but increasingly common stopgap on sites that know they have active XSS vulnerabilities but don't know where they all are or how to fix them.
But the three kids charging the tank are Tandoori-powered...this is definitely NOT a zero-emissions system.
Who confirms that sort of thing? ;-)
Netcraft?
She should get in touch with the Electric Slide Guy.
"Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" - 3pts.
3d rotating "email me" animation - 5pts.
(link to) Pictures of pets - 2pts.
One, two, three, FOUR embedded search bars! - 1pt. each
Three of which are for obscure engines I've never heard of - 2pts.
3d rotating animation of the guy's name - 6pts.
3d rotating things that indicate nothing in particular - 3pts.
Hit counter (3rd-party hosted at that) - 1pt.
Another web counter that simply displays the text "web counter" - 4pts.
2nd (different) 3d rotating animation of the guy's name - 6pts.
Broken graphics - 3pts.
If these two sites had a baby, the results would be unpleasant indeed.
By this logic, it seems like all the spider would have to do is add its own counter-contract right in the HTTP request.
GET / HTTP/1.1 By responding to this request, you agree that SpiderCo's Spider does not speak English and, being written only two years ago, is not of legal age (18 in most jurisdictions) to enter a contract. By continuing to serve content in response to this request, you agree that any contracts contained in such content are null and void. Thank you and have a nice day.
<CR>
<CR>
More choice tidbits appear in the posts he makes to his own forum. (Note, this copy is, erm, fair use.)
...
"While I will adhere to the terms set forth in the settlement agreement, I should point out that I have no qualms about doing what needs to be done to silence those who dare disagree with me, provided that it doesn't run afoul of the settlement agreement.
But, I don't apologize for my tactics beyond the DMCAs. And I have tons of them. These very same tactics are used by respectable companies and third party "bone crushers" to take care of problems. The problem being those that use critical speech against their respective companies, or in my case, against me.
That can't stand. It just can't.
Companies like Microsoft do it. That makes it okay.
And again, there are many more ways to deal with dissenters besides the DMCA. Many more."
Ye flipping gods kid, take your meds.
You, sir, are a dumbass.
.raw) any more than someone owns ".bin" (regardless of how many make this claim). You're right that many implementions of what's referred to as raw/RAW/.raw contain unmolested sensor data, but many massage the format in attempt to "unify" toward a particular implementation, add their own headers/metadata (or even encryption), guesses about preferred gamma/whitebalance, etc., with the result that only their own software knows how to read them. One good "tell" is if your software does not ask you the partnumber of the imager used to take the picture, or at the very least, its vertical and horizontal resolution, number and placement of FPN correction rows, bit depth, color filter pattern, etc. Denoised or not? Calibration lines? Helpful processing data such as sensor temperature (which is not a pixel)? In many cases this data is far from "raw". Even knowing what sensor your camera uses and having its datasheet in-hand is not enough.
There is no "official" RAW (and nobody "owns"
(In a group where I was involved hacking low-end digitals, we were able to extract the raw Bayer sensor data using buffer overflows and raw memory reads before its ".raw" output files' compression format was known. IIRC the old timers preferred ".BYR" to refer to this data.)
Heh. I misread that as "bullshitalerts.com" 'Til I googled it I was thinking, "but why would the SEC shut down a site debunking all the spam touts?..."
Or the spammers offer "protection" as their moneymaker over the meager 5.79% of spam touts.
Hey, YKNZ corp... we at SpamHell Inc. were just about to pump 'n dump your penny stock, but this would cause an immediate SEC trading halt! So, we'll offer to cease and desist for the low, low price of....
2 Hondas and 2 Fords? ... Say I hop into the first Honda and drive it 'til the wheels fall off (>=250k miles). I leave it on the roadside and go back for my 2nd Honda... even if we say (somewhat accurately) that the Fords will only last half as long, are you saying I can get 750k miles out of one Lexus?
My take on such things (to continue the car analogy ad absurdum) is that there is a clear difference between adding value and adding expensive, but diminishing, incremental improvements that do not add significant value. The same tired FPS, now with 5x as many polygons? Sign me up! In reality though, there will always be a few who buy a Lexus because they really want a Lexus, and there will be everyone else who buys a Nissan instead. If you live without the integrated ass warmer, it does nearly exactly what you wanted it to, at a fraction of the price.
Sort of. What it means is that under NN, when your neighbor closes BitTorrent your VoIP connection will stop being shit. Don't know your provider, but statistically it stands a fair chance of (e.g. it also has its own competing VoIP solution, or an existing phone infrastructure, et cetera) having a vested interest in NOT supporting "your" VoIP.
Ok, looks like the rest of the free world is going to bitch "u wasted ur time d00d, my fone/486/ti85 can do that!", but it looks like it was a fun project, not to mention educational. How many /.ers have actually *built* a working computer with UI from discretes? (I'm not talking about "I plugged in an IDE cable, Pentium AND videocard!")
Typically, one uses a low-level language to develop an interpreter or compiler for a higher-level language. What I find most interesting about this project is its creator has used a high-level language to write an interpreter to run assembly language.
You're not the only one... until I got to the part heavily referencing video games specifically (e.g. Mario World screenshots), I figured the book was about the methodologies behind things like HVFont and other "high-readability" character-generation efforts for small displays, subpixel techniques on different display types (stripes, triads, Bayer...), etc. THAT would have been an interesting read as an embedded developer often having to display legible data on tiny screens.
So wait... if the daytime average temperature next year hits 200degF, but we determine it's because of termite farts, that makes it not our problem? ;-)