Working at a university, I've seen this happen to us too. We let students forward email from their campus email address to their personal ones. This has gotten us blocked many times by lots of ISPs. I'm not sure the details of it, but our sysadmin contacts them and lets them know that the mail is coming from a forwarded account. I believe they then end up whitelisting our mail server's IP address. The problem usually only lasts for a day or so.
I'm not sure how to go about doing that, but it's something to look into.
I use the User Agent Switcher plugin for sites like this. Well, in this case it doesn't help. The page brings up a clock timer/progress meter and gets no further. Bringing up the error console, it fails on a javascript error. And a look at the javascript code shows that the site uses ActiveX (Microsoft.ActiveXPlugin.1, MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1, etc).
I beleive there is an ActiveX wrapper plugin for Firefox, though I'd never dream of actually using it. However, even that probably wouldn't help, because a bit further down the page.....VBScript. I'm pretty sure theres no way to get THAT working in Firefox.
In short, I think the page is absolutely hopeless.
Thank you!! For once, someone that gets the Homer quote right (other than the added "Would you", but I'll overlook that because it's not crucial to proper presentation of the quote).
I keep seeing people say something like - Homer: I paid my taxes last year.
Saying it that way just doesn't convey the humor of Homer not realizing you have to pay EVERY year.
What really sucked is that I couldn't start from that point again, but instead had to re-visit the last bunch of questions I had already answered.
In the past, I've always used tax programs from other companies. This year, I decided to give TurboTax online a try since I got it free (fed and state, + both efiles) as a State Farm customers. What you've mentioned was my biggest complaint about their software. You can't jump to exactly the point you want to.
If you own a business, then the entire section for business questions is a single bullet point. After I filled out my entire return, I remembered a couple of business expenses that I forgot to include. So, after I figured out my adjusted figures, I went to change them in TurboTax. But since the entire business section is a single bullet point, you have to go through that entire Q&A process again. Now, even though that wastes a bunch of time and gets annoying, it wouldn't be so bad if you just clicked "Next...Next...Next" and left the boxes at their default values. However, in some parts of the process there are no "Next" buttons. You are presented with "Yes" and "No" buttons, so now you have to read the text to see WHAT is being asked, then remember what your answer is supposed to be. I experienced this problem in several other (non business related) sections of the program.
My second complaint is that they make it so hard for you to see the forms that are being generated...you have to actual go and "print" a PDF copy of your entire return. What would be ideal is if you could view any form at any time during the process. A number of years ago, one of their competitors (though I don't recall which one) also had a very nice option where you could view the form, click on a field, and then jump to where in the Q&A process that value came from. If it was a calculated value, they told you what it was calculated from and you could then jump to any of those items.
File at least a day before the deadline. What difference does a day's worth of interest make on the average IRS tax bill?
File a few weeks before. When you file and when you pay can be different, so you aren't actually losing any interest. You can file in January but tell the IRS to deduct it from your bank account on the due date in April. Or you can do the same if you are paying by check (file in January, mail check in April).
I think it was probably a bigger black eye for H&R block last year (or was it the year before) when they mailed out a bunch of TaxCut CDs to past customers and put their SSN on the address label.
The reason output from all those photos looks different isn't because of how the programs read the data, but rather how they go about image processing.
For one, raw files don't contain RGB pixels. They contain pixels that consist of a single color. The entire image is a mosaic of red,green, and blue...sort of light looking at a TV screen up close ( http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/68984572_93b0b72f 71.jpg?v=0 ). It's up to the program to demosaic it, and for that, there is no official way. There isn't even a "correct" way to do it. Then each program has to apply white balance, and again, there is variation here.
After that, it's a free for all of what each program chooses to do & how it does it, in terms of levels/curves, color toning, saturation, adjusting for lens distortion and chromatic aberrations, etc. Finally, each program has to apply sharpening, which is a huge field on it's own.
Another person in the car is fully aware of whats going on in the vehicle.
1) They are a second set of eyes. 2) When something tricky is happening, like you having to slam on your breaks, they quickly shut up and let you concentrate on the immediate danger, where as the person on the phone keeps on talking, completely oblivious to anything that is happening.
That may work alright in the spring, but what happens when fall comes around?
-time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first.... -oh, look...I still have an hour before bed. I'll go watch the TV -that's odd, my favorite show isn't on at its usual time....... -time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first....
"Recompose?" I realize that's the proper term for it, but you're deliberately trying to make the process sound much more complex than it actually is. Functionally its as simple as "tilt, twist (focus), tilt" which is about as simple as it gets.
Yeah...until you are doing more than just taking a quick photograph.
What happens when you are tracking an animal, waiting for it to get into the right position and turn it's head the right way? As it's moving around, your focus is going to have to change, but when you really get the opportunity, you might have 1/4 second to snap that shot.
What happens when you are doing macro photography, where moving the camera even millimeters closer/further from your subject can impact the focus? Do you really believe you can recompose without changing the distance to subject at all?
Hey, if you like split screen, thats fine. I'm not giving you a hard time over it, or even saying it's junk. I used to prefer it myself in the old days. Now that I've really had a chance to use a DSLR, and gotten the benefit of multi-point autofocus, I wouldn't want to go back to a split focus. I'm just saying there are very good reasons why cameras don't have them anymore. For most now (especially since digital has opened the field to a much broader range of "photographers") split prism would be less than ideal, and would probably get more complaints than praises.
I find it telling that demand for split prism finders for DSLRs is large enough to keep multiple companies in business supplying them.
But at the same time, it's also telling that camera makers (who are more than happy to exploit nearly every niche with overpriced "official" accessories) have decided NOT to make them.
Field of view diagram? I presume you mean a depth of field scale. If so, the better lenses still have them. The cheap ones usually don't, but that was true in the past too.
About the split focus screen, yes...that can help you focus really well on something in the center of the screen if it's at the correct angle, but what do you do when its at the wrong angle(parallel to the split)? Or when you actually want to use good composition and not put your subject at the center? Sure you can tilt the camera, or focus and recompose, but that is less than ideal. In addition, split focus screens often have problems with auto-focus and can also become unusable in low light.
Actually, in my border crossing experience (at least at the Detroit/Windsor border), Canadian border guards are pretty lax about the whole issue. I'm usually through the border in about 5 seconds. They ask where I'm going and how long I'll be in Canada. Half the time they don't even request ID. When they do request it, they quickly look at each passport for about 2 seconds while they are asking those question, and that's it.
Canada doesn't really care. They don't seem to have an issue with it. It's getting back into the US that is the difficult part. If the US mandates that you need a passport to cross the border, that's probably not going to change Canada's stance on the issue.
I don't believe I've ever heard it referred to as that. The game name is simply "Animal Crossing". "Population Growing" was just part of the cover art...the game title was made to look like one of those city welcome signs ("Welcome to Animal Crossing"), and the "Population: Growing" was just to complete that bit of artwork. It would be kind of like asking someone if they had seen that "Alien: In space no one can hear your scream" movie.
For a short moment there, you actually made me think there was an Animal Crossing game I had never heard of.
It's true that it CAN be a criminal issue under specific circumstances, but what is being discussed here is a civil issue, not a criminal one. The key to figuring that out is to look at who is pursuing the legal action: private attorneys for the RIAA. Criminal cases are typically led by the district attorney's office (actually, I'm not even sure if it's legal to pursue a criminal case without the DA's support).
Do yourself a favor. Go read a book on US Government, and don't post on anymore slashdot stories about the RIAA until you've finished the part that discusses criminal law vs civil law.
Yes it is nitpicking. It may be fundamental to how GPS works, but no matter which way the communication goes, the point is that the communication cannot happen underwater, so here is an alternative.
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Working at a university, I've seen this happen to us too. We let students forward email from their campus email address to their personal ones. This has gotten us blocked many times by lots of ISPs. I'm not sure the details of it, but our sysadmin contacts them and lets them know that the mail is coming from a forwarded account. I believe they then end up whitelisting our mail server's IP address. The problem usually only lasts for a day or so.
I'm not sure how to go about doing that, but it's something to look into.
As I just now posted in another reply, it uses ActiveX and VBScript.
I use the User Agent Switcher plugin for sites like this. Well, in this case it doesn't help. The page brings up a clock timer/progress meter and gets no further. Bringing up the error console, it fails on a javascript error. And a look at the javascript code shows that the site uses ActiveX (Microsoft.ActiveXPlugin.1, MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1, etc).
I beleive there is an ActiveX wrapper plugin for Firefox, though I'd never dream of actually using it. However, even that probably wouldn't help, because a bit further down the page.....VBScript. I'm pretty sure theres no way to get THAT working in Firefox.
In short, I think the page is absolutely hopeless.
No, you are the one saying it, but it sounds about right. :-)
Well, probably because the IRS doesn't accept tax returns where the SSN field is blank.
Thank you!! For once, someone that gets the Homer quote right (other than the added "Would you", but I'll overlook that because it's not crucial to proper presentation of the quote).
I keep seeing people say something like - Homer: I paid my taxes last year.
Saying it that way just doesn't convey the humor of Homer not realizing you have to pay EVERY year.
In the past, I've always used tax programs from other companies. This year, I decided to give TurboTax online a try since I got it free (fed and state, + both efiles) as a State Farm customers. What you've mentioned was my biggest complaint about their software. You can't jump to exactly the point you want to.
If you own a business, then the entire section for business questions is a single bullet point. After I filled out my entire return, I remembered a couple of business expenses that I forgot to include. So, after I figured out my adjusted figures, I went to change them in TurboTax. But since the entire business section is a single bullet point, you have to go through that entire Q&A process again. Now, even though that wastes a bunch of time and gets annoying, it wouldn't be so bad if you just clicked "Next...Next...Next" and left the boxes at their default values. However, in some parts of the process there are no "Next" buttons. You are presented with "Yes" and "No" buttons, so now you have to read the text to see WHAT is being asked, then remember what your answer is supposed to be. I experienced this problem in several other (non business related) sections of the program.
My second complaint is that they make it so hard for you to see the forms that are being generated...you have to actual go and "print" a PDF copy of your entire return. What would be ideal is if you could view any form at any time during the process. A number of years ago, one of their competitors (though I don't recall which one) also had a very nice option where you could view the form, click on a field, and then jump to where in the Q&A process that value came from. If it was a calculated value, they told you what it was calculated from and you could then jump to any of those items.
Paying them back by giving them so many customers they can't keep up? As a business owner, I'll gladly take some of that "punishment".
Well, hopefully while they are at it they sue themselves for procrastination.
File a few weeks before. When you file and when you pay can be different, so you aren't actually losing any interest. You can file in January but tell the IRS to deduct it from your bank account on the due date in April. Or you can do the same if you are paying by check (file in January, mail check in April).
I think it was probably a bigger black eye for H&R block last year (or was it the year before) when they mailed out a bunch of TaxCut CDs to past customers and put their SSN on the address label.
The reason output from all those photos looks different isn't because of how the programs read the data, but rather how they go about image processing.
f 71.jpg?v=0 ). It's up to the program to demosaic it, and for that, there is no official way. There isn't even a "correct" way to do it. Then each program has to apply white balance, and again, there is variation here.
For one, raw files don't contain RGB pixels. They contain pixels that consist of a single color. The entire image is a mosaic of red,green, and blue...sort of light looking at a TV screen up close ( http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/68984572_93b0b72
After that, it's a free for all of what each program chooses to do & how it does it, in terms of levels/curves, color toning, saturation, adjusting for lens distortion and chromatic aberrations, etc. Finally, each program has to apply sharpening, which is a huge field on it's own.
Another person in the car is fully aware of whats going on in the vehicle.
1) They are a second set of eyes.
2) When something tricky is happening, like you having to slam on your breaks, they quickly shut up and let you concentrate on the immediate danger, where as the person on the phone keeps on talking, completely oblivious to anything that is happening.
That may work alright in the spring, but what happens when fall comes around?
-time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first....
-oh, look...I still have an hour before bed. I'll go watch the TV
-that's odd, my favorite show isn't on at its usual time
-time for bed...let me just adjust my alarm clock first....
You forgot the fine print:
Margin of error: +/- 33%
Yeah...until you are doing more than just taking a quick photograph.
What happens when you are tracking an animal, waiting for it to get into the right position and turn it's head the right way? As it's moving around, your focus is going to have to change, but when you really get the opportunity, you might have 1/4 second to snap that shot.
What happens when you are doing macro photography, where moving the camera even millimeters closer/further from your subject can impact the focus? Do you really believe you can recompose without changing the distance to subject at all?
Hey, if you like split screen, thats fine. I'm not giving you a hard time over it, or even saying it's junk. I used to prefer it myself in the old days. Now that I've really had a chance to use a DSLR, and gotten the benefit of multi-point autofocus, I wouldn't want to go back to a split focus. I'm just saying there are very good reasons why cameras don't have them anymore. For most now (especially since digital has opened the field to a much broader range of "photographers") split prism would be less than ideal, and would probably get more complaints than praises.
But at the same time, it's also telling that camera makers (who are more than happy to exploit nearly every niche with overpriced "official" accessories) have decided NOT to make them.
Field of view diagram? I presume you mean a depth of field scale. If so, the better lenses still have them. The cheap ones usually don't, but that was true in the past too.
About the split focus screen, yes...that can help you focus really well on something in the center of the screen if it's at the correct angle, but what do you do when its at the wrong angle(parallel to the split)? Or when you actually want to use good composition and not put your subject at the center? Sure you can tilt the camera, or focus and recompose, but that is less than ideal. In addition, split focus screens often have problems with auto-focus and can also become unusable in low light.
Actually, in my border crossing experience (at least at the Detroit/Windsor border), Canadian border guards are pretty lax about the whole issue. I'm usually through the border in about 5 seconds. They ask where I'm going and how long I'll be in Canada. Half the time they don't even request ID. When they do request it, they quickly look at each passport for about 2 seconds while they are asking those question, and that's it.
Canada doesn't really care. They don't seem to have an issue with it. It's getting back into the US that is the difficult part. If the US mandates that you need a passport to cross the border, that's probably not going to change Canada's stance on the issue.
I don't believe I've ever heard it referred to as that. The game name is simply "Animal Crossing". "Population Growing" was just part of the cover art...the game title was made to look like one of those city welcome signs ("Welcome to Animal Crossing"), and the "Population: Growing" was just to complete that bit of artwork. It would be kind of like asking someone if they had seen that "Alien: In space no one can hear your scream" movie.
For a short moment there, you actually made me think there was an Animal Crossing game I had never heard of.
It's true that it CAN be a criminal issue under specific circumstances, but what is being discussed here is a civil issue, not a criminal one. The key to figuring that out is to look at who is pursuing the legal action: private attorneys for the RIAA. Criminal cases are typically led by the district attorney's office (actually, I'm not even sure if it's legal to pursue a criminal case without the DA's support).
Do yourself a favor. Go read a book on US Government, and don't post on anymore slashdot stories about the RIAA until you've finished the part that discusses criminal law vs civil law.
i nal_law_vs__civil_law.htm
Of course, you are probably too lazy to do that, so I'll make it easier for you:
http://www.co.klamath.or.us/DistrictAttorney/crim
No problem. How about 15 minutes. I'll even throw in another one in 4 hours.
Well, then you had better save up to buy three...
Yes it is nitpicking. It may be fundamental to how GPS works, but no matter which way the communication goes, the point is that the communication cannot happen underwater, so here is an alternative.
Yeah, because if the law prohibiting assault doesn't deter me, surely the law prohibiting the videotaping of the assault will.