They appear to have solved page curl via the "Flattening Curve" process.
Also, if you're using your fingers or thumbs to hold the book open, the software is supposed to erase them from the image, so there's less for the page-flattening algorithm to do.
Note that the weapons the hijackers allegedly used were ILLEGAL TO CARRY ON PLANES before then
Boxcutters? Nothing illegal about those. I think there was a prohibition on long knives (check your Crocodile Dundee knife, or leave it at home), but most folding pocketknives and other short-bladed cutting instruments would've been OK.
The better part of 20 years ago, Best Buy sent me around to its California stores to assist in merchandising resets. I carried a cheap boxcutter on my keychain as it was something I used regularly at work. It was basically an aluminum frame that held a single-edge razor blade that could be slid out for use and slid back in when you were done. I left it on my keychain as we flew from store to store; none of us brought checked baggage so we could avoid the hassle of waiting for bags. Out of maybe a dozen and a half trips, airport security only gave me grief over my boxcutter once at SFO, and even then I told them I'd already been flying with it multiple times and convinced them to let me through with it.
the Anonymous statement above "You seek to intimidate and/or eliminate those that are different from you and those that you dislike by any means possible" could equally be applied to Anonymous
It could be applied to SJWs in general. Let there be a pox on all their houses.
They keep forgetting ONE BIG reason people order from Amazon.com. You don't have to pay Sales Tax on the items.
That'll apply to fewer and fewer people as Amazon builds out its physical presence. Wherever they have facilities of some sort (server farm, warehouse, etc.), they collect sales tax. I live in Nevada, and pay sales tax on Amazon purchases because they have a warehouse up north.
I find Kodi/XMBC to be god-awful, UI wise. I use it because it came on a device (http://fiveninjas.com/) but it's a struggle every time I want to do something like add a new source, or correct some incorrect info it's attached to a DVD rip, etc.
The UI is mostly pretty decent (I can testify to it having considerably greater WAF than MythTV), but letting it manage your metadata is a bit of a crapshoot. Tell it to use "local data only" (or however it's worded), and use other software to manage it. Sick Beard handles metadata for TV shows pretty well. For movies, MediaElch takes forever to start up, but once it's running, it's easy to make sure that (for instance) your copy of the original version of The Flight of the Phoenix doesn't get tagged as the remake.
MythTV for OTA an Dish distributed around the house
Used to use MythTV when I was still interested in capturing stuff from cable, but now that I'm downloading everything, the TVs are driven by OpenELEC (one on an Atom-based nettop, the other on a Raspberry Pi). They get their content from a Gentoo server with 7.5 TB (at this time) of online storage; processor is an AMD A4-3300, which was the cheapest processor that would work with the cheapest motherboard with six SATA ports at the time I bought it. TV shows are managed by Sick Beard, which tells SABnzbd what to download. Movies are ripped from DVD and Blu-ray.
Plex also runs on the server, but it's there mainly for remote access. I snagged a Chromecast a while back that I can bring with me, but the last time I visited my parents, it ended up not getting used because the TV in the spare bedroom only has a composite input. Might need to pick up an HDMI-to-composite converter.
I'm rather curious where school is starting at 7 AM as that's rather early.
My senior year of high school started somewhere around that time...maybe 7:30 at the latest. There was a shortage of school buses at the time, so start times were staggered with high schools early in the morning, junior high a little bit later, and elementary schools later still.
One advantage to the early start: more time for your after-school job. That's not much of a concern in the current shitty economy, but in the boom times of the late '80s, it was useful.
If I wanted to watch Twitch on my 2013 Nexus 7 without ads, I first had to install the horrible Twitch app, then side-load Adblock Plus (as an app) onto the tablet and set up my internet connection to run through Adblock as a proxy. The problem is that running Adblock as a proxy breaks a bunch of other stuff and so it has to constantly be switched on or off to use different things.
You might want to look into AdAway. It merges adblock lists into/etc/hosts (or wherever Android stores its hosts file). It blocks ads in Chrome (or whatever browser you're using) and in apps without issue. It's been much less of a hassle to use than Adblock Plus.
There are SDHC devices that don't read exFAT. By reformatting the SDXC card as FAT32, suddenly they work just fine even though the device doesn't support SDXC cards.
O RLY? I'd think there would be more involved in adding SDXC support to a device than just a filesystem implementation. I would think that trying to read (or worse, write) an SDXC card in a device that only supports SDHC would have the same potentially disastrous effects as trying to read (or write) an SDHC card in a device that only supports SD. I've lost files that way before (nothing that couldn't be replaced, fortunately).
Because they don't run Java, so they don't have to deal with all that garbage collection crap that massively bloats memory requirements.
They've still come up short from time to time. My first-gen iPad has such a ridiculously small amount of RAM (256 MB) that it's pretty much impossible to keep more than a small handful of browser tabs open. I picked up a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 maybe a year later, and it's been far more usable...still use it nearly daily, with whichever version of CyanogenMod is based on Android 4.4.4.
Use Calibre to convert from.epub (or whatever) to.azw and upload to Amazon. That's what I did when I needed to keep bookmarks synced between iOS and Android devices (before Google Play Books came along), and it'd also work with Kindle devices.
Not always. If it's the only road in the area, they might be allowed. While driving down to LA to visit family, I've seen bikes climbing I-15 toward Mountain Pass. They're usually expected to switch to surface streets when passing through town, but out in BFE, the interstate is often the only road available.
As far as I'm concerned, the DVD subscription has never *not* made sense. I've had a 3-disc-at-a-time subscription since 2002. The streaming service was pretty much useless when it was introduced. That wasn't much of a problem when it was a freebie, but when they started charging $8/month for something I never used, I dropped it pretty quickly.
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of three Blu-rays in your mailbox.
I was under the impression that Gentoo still had OpenRC as default while allowing the selection of systemd as an alternative.
systemd is available as an option, but (as you noted) it's not the default and you're not forced into using it. (Except maybe if you want GNOME, later versions of which depend on systemd? I've never used GNOME, so I'm not 100% positive on that.)
21 you can finally buy beer, but still cant rent a car
I was 19 the first time I rented a car. Mine was in the shop for collision repair (dumbass backed into me in a parking lot right as I arrived at work). There weren't as many options and they charged more per day than if I had been 25, but I was able to rent a car. It beat biking through the summer heat to get to work.
The Google Play Music service still requires Flash.
O RLY? How, then, is it working on this Gentoo box that doesn't have Flash installed? I'm using Chromium, which doesn't even have the Flash player that's embedded in Chrome.
That's why you need to upgrade to CyanogenMod. It's all the bloatware and adware that's eating up the battery life.
I have been getting better battery life out of my Moto X since unlocking it and putting CyanogenMod on it. I think a big part of that, though, isn't a matter of stock settings or installed apps, but more a matter of increased flexibility in power settings. CyanogenMod lets you do things like turn LTE and 3G on and off that I don't think the stock firmware allows. With Tasker, I can have it automatically disable LTE when WiFi is available, and reenable it when out of range of WiFi. If I'm doing something that's not too data-intensive, I can manually cut data speeds back to 3G or EDGE. Sometimes, the battery ends up lasting longer now than it did when my phone was new, and I've had it for more than a year and a half now.
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Also, if you're using your fingers or thumbs to hold the book open, the software is supposed to erase them from the image, so there's less for the page-flattening algorithm to do.
Boxcutters? Nothing illegal about those. I think there was a prohibition on long knives (check your Crocodile Dundee knife, or leave it at home), but most folding pocketknives and other short-bladed cutting instruments would've been OK.
The better part of 20 years ago, Best Buy sent me around to its California stores to assist in merchandising resets. I carried a cheap boxcutter on my keychain as it was something I used regularly at work. It was basically an aluminum frame that held a single-edge razor blade that could be slid out for use and slid back in when you were done. I left it on my keychain as we flew from store to store; none of us brought checked baggage so we could avoid the hassle of waiting for bags. Out of maybe a dozen and a half trips, airport security only gave me grief over my boxcutter once at SFO, and even then I told them I'd already been flying with it multiple times and convinced them to let me through with it.
It could be applied to SJWs in general. Let there be a pox on all their houses.
That'll apply to fewer and fewer people as Amazon builds out its physical presence. Wherever they have facilities of some sort (server farm, warehouse, etc.), they collect sales tax. I live in Nevada, and pay sales tax on Amazon purchases because they have a warehouse up north.
The UI is mostly pretty decent (I can testify to it having considerably greater WAF than MythTV), but letting it manage your metadata is a bit of a crapshoot. Tell it to use "local data only" (or however it's worded), and use other software to manage it. Sick Beard handles metadata for TV shows pretty well. For movies, MediaElch takes forever to start up, but once it's running, it's easy to make sure that (for instance) your copy of the original version of The Flight of the Phoenix doesn't get tagged as the remake.
Used to use MythTV when I was still interested in capturing stuff from cable, but now that I'm downloading everything, the TVs are driven by OpenELEC (one on an Atom-based nettop, the other on a Raspberry Pi). They get their content from a Gentoo server with 7.5 TB (at this time) of online storage; processor is an AMD A4-3300, which was the cheapest processor that would work with the cheapest motherboard with six SATA ports at the time I bought it. TV shows are managed by Sick Beard, which tells SABnzbd what to download. Movies are ripped from DVD and Blu-ray.
Plex also runs on the server, but it's there mainly for remote access. I snagged a Chromecast a while back that I can bring with me, but the last time I visited my parents, it ended up not getting used because the TV in the spare bedroom only has a composite input. Might need to pick up an HDMI-to-composite converter.
"Victim disarmament zone" would be more accurate.
My senior year of high school started somewhere around that time...maybe 7:30 at the latest. There was a shortage of school buses at the time, so start times were staggered with high schools early in the morning, junior high a little bit later, and elementary schools later still.
One advantage to the early start: more time for your after-school job. That's not much of a concern in the current shitty economy, but in the boom times of the late '80s, it was useful.
You might want to look into AdAway. It merges adblock lists into /etc/hosts (or wherever Android stores its hosts file). It blocks ads in Chrome (or whatever browser you're using) and in apps without issue. It's been much less of a hassle to use than Adblock Plus.
O RLY? I'd think there would be more involved in adding SDXC support to a device than just a filesystem implementation. I would think that trying to read (or worse, write) an SDXC card in a device that only supports SDHC would have the same potentially disastrous effects as trying to read (or write) an SDHC card in a device that only supports SD. I've lost files that way before (nothing that couldn't be replaced, fortunately).
They've still come up short from time to time. My first-gen iPad has such a ridiculously small amount of RAM (256 MB) that it's pretty much impossible to keep more than a small handful of browser tabs open. I picked up a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 maybe a year later, and it's been far more usable...still use it nearly daily, with whichever version of CyanogenMod is based on Android 4.4.4.
Use Calibre to convert from .epub (or whatever) to .azw and upload to Amazon. That's what I did when I needed to keep bookmarks synced between iOS and Android devices (before Google Play Books came along), and it'd also work with Kindle devices.
Not always. If it's the only road in the area, they might be allowed. While driving down to LA to visit family, I've seen bikes climbing I-15 toward Mountain Pass. They're usually expected to switch to surface streets when passing through town, but out in BFE, the interstate is often the only road available.
"Yo dawg, I heard you like search engines, so I put a search engine in your search engine so you can search while you search."
"English, motherfucker...do you speak it?"
FTFY. :-|
As far as I'm concerned, the DVD subscription has never *not* made sense. I've had a 3-disc-at-a-time subscription since 2002. The streaming service was pretty much useless when it was introduced. That wasn't much of a problem when it was a freebie, but when they started charging $8/month for something I never used, I dropped it pretty quickly.
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of three Blu-rays in your mailbox.
Where are you supposed to plug in that switch when the only Ethernet port on the device is in use for your WAN connection?
systemd is available as an option, but (as you noted) it's not the default and you're not forced into using it. (Except maybe if you want GNOME, later versions of which depend on systemd? I've never used GNOME, so I'm not 100% positive on that.)
I was 19 the first time I rented a car. Mine was in the shop for collision repair (dumbass backed into me in a parking lot right as I arrived at work). There weren't as many options and they charged more per day than if I had been 25, but I was able to rent a car. It beat biking through the summer heat to get to work.
...or you could just switch to one of the many Linux distros that haven't been contaminated with systemd. Gentoo, perhaps?
O RLY? How, then, is it working on this Gentoo box that doesn't have Flash installed? I'm using Chromium, which doesn't even have the Flash player that's embedded in Chrome.
How about if you're constipated?
(I'll be here all week!)
I have been getting better battery life out of my Moto X since unlocking it and putting CyanogenMod on it. I think a big part of that, though, isn't a matter of stock settings or installed apps, but more a matter of increased flexibility in power settings. CyanogenMod lets you do things like turn LTE and 3G on and off that I don't think the stock firmware allows. With Tasker, I can have it automatically disable LTE when WiFi is available, and reenable it when out of range of WiFi. If I'm doing something that's not too data-intensive, I can manually cut data speeds back to 3G or EDGE. Sometimes, the battery ends up lasting longer now than it did when my phone was new, and I've had it for more than a year and a half now.
I'm pretty sure Phil wouldn't have used "damn." The proper expression is "Darn you to heck!"