You forgot about the collaboration part. For most people, sharing a word document with others would consist of emailing the file back and forth, keeping track of who has the latest version, and making sure no 2 people try to edit it at the same time. Yeah, you could use FTP or something, but that doesn't solve all of the problems, and that's beyond what a LOT of people would know how to do.
Now look at Google Docs. It handles all of that for you. Just grant someone access to the document and they can instantly edit it. Everyone always has the latest version. In addition, it allows multiple people to simultaneously edit the document and instantly merges those modifications together in real time. I shows you what parts other people are editing, and gives you chat ability so you can discuss those changes together.
This would be great for a group of students working on a research report. You write the outline together, then each person takes responsibility for researching a subsection of the topic and fills in that part of the report as they go. You can review what the others in your group are doing, so you can see what progress people are making (or not making). If you see something that conflicts with what your research has uncovered, you can point that out. Likewise, if you learn something that it looks like they missed, you can suggest they add it.
I've never seen a feature like this in MS Office, Open Office, or any other office suite.
Sort of along the lines of one of those "If we make guns illegal, only criminals will have guns" statements. In that case, of course only criminal would have guns, because a formerly law abiding citizen with a gun would (under the new law) now be a criminal. Everyone with a gun becomes a criminal, so its true that only criminals have guns.
Well, in the case of murder, someone defined murder to say it must be unlawful to be murder. Well, using that definition, if we make murder legal, it can no longer be unlawful, thus it can no longer be murder. It may sound like the sort of statistics you'd expect to hear from a politicion, but it would be true. The murder rate would instantly drop to 0%. Of course, theres no telling what would happen to the homicide rate (other than that it would probably go way up). Its simply a matter of playing games with definitions.
They took me to collections and the dink to my credit was worth it to just not pay the money they tried to extort from me. You let them dink your credit? You should have fought it. If it's still on your credit report, you still can get it removed. Sites like creditnet.com are always willing to help people learn how to remove crap like this.
Netflix already lets you set up queues for each person in the house. However, what they need to do to make this more useful is to have a round robin system for shipping movies. Right now they make you assign a set number of discs to each queue. If you are on the 1 movie at a time plan, you can only setup 1 queu at a time to be receiving discs. When my wife and I had netflix, I'd have to log in each time I sent back a disc and reassign the 1 available disc to the other queue. I could see this being annoying enough that some people just decide to share a single queue.
Yes, but you start to get more noise in the photo. By dividing the total into smaller and smaller quantities, the sampling error will grow. The only solution is to come up with better and better measuring mechanisms, which they do with each generation of sensors, but the improvements are gradual.
Longer exposures overcome this limitation. It's kind of like using a stopwatch. How precicely can you measure a millisecond? How about a second? A minute? Your measuring error is pretty consistant no matter what length of time you are measuring. The difference is, the longer the span of time you are trying to measure, the less significant your error is.
California has made many attempts to get automobile manufacturers to cut emissions, and have been repeatedly sued by those auto manufacturers to keep those laws from getting enforced.
And if the lawsuits were successful in blocking the tougher regulations, then it would appear the law is already on the auto-makers side. So this suit could basically be summed up as "I'm suing you for winning the previous lawsuit".
1920x1080 pixels x8 bits (for non floating point HDR) That means 15.8 meg per frame buffer
Your math here is off in a couple of ways. First, that would be 15.8 megabits, not megabytes. That comes out to about 2 megabytes. Next, that's per 8-bit color channel. For your primary display, you are gonna need 3 of those for RGB (6MB), if not a 4th for alpha or even just memory alignment (8MB). For the backbuffer, you'll need another 8MB buffer, plus probably a 32bit depth buffer (another 8MB). So 8MB for the front buffer, 16MB for the back buffer.
On the other hand, of course, people aren't expecting to play against a combination of human and machine...
I've never played cards at a casino, but it was always my understanding that, unlike you sitting around the kitchen table with your buddies, blackjack in a casino isn't played against the other players. It's basicly multiple 1-on-1 games of player-vs-house, all played at the same time. The only effect that another player "cheating" would have on you would be which cards you get. However, that's all random. The other player taking an extra card because he knows what the count is could help you just as well as it could hurt you. His extra card could end up being the card that would have busted you, and instead you get exactly the card you need.
This is not a security issue, so the banks can't improve it.
Of course it's a security issue. All I need to do to is get your account number and the banks routing number and I can initial an ACH electronic funds transfer against your account. There is no sort of security in place where you can whitelist banks/accounts for initiating an ACH against your account.
Now you might say it's the customers job to better protect their info. Well guess what. You're in line at the grocery store writing out your check. See me behind you in line talking on the cell phone? Guess what...I'm not actually on the phone. I just used my camera phone to snap a photo of your check, which contains ALL of the information I'd need to get the bank to do an ACH transfer out of your account.
Now tell me...does that still not sound like a security issue?
The poster pointed out the computer was in need of upgrades, so this is indeed a very good solution. He no longer has that specific problem and has a speedier computer.
But was the speed of the COMPUTER really a problem before? I've seeb enough reports on how user's computers get so full of spyware that it slows the machine down over time. Then they feel their computer is too slow so they buy a new one, even though the old hardware was plenty fast enough.
My apologies, I didn't see that you mentioned a fix
Actually, what you REALLY didn't see was that I'm a completely different person than the poster you were originally responding to:-) I was just chipping in with a quick little "oooh, I know what he's talking about, and it's not what you are thinking".
but odd colored lines would be a problem with your IVTV configuration No, I don't think it was the IVTV config. I had this problem before and solved it. I think the blue was a background color that was in use by one of the other utilities on the box and it would show through on anything that wasn't fullscreen. I could be mistaken, though.
As I said, I fixed this problem before. I wrote down the solution but don't have my notes in front of me at the moment. I'll try to remember to post an update later when I do.
You are able to find out what data is stored. You are entitled to a free annual copy of your credit report from each of the 3 reporting agencies. Further, you are allowed to request they fix incorrect information. If they don't comply and fix incorrect data, there is also a law (which I'm not fully familiar with) which allows you to sue them for it. A couple of the credit-related forums have regular reports of people suing creditors and credit reporting agencies for failure to fix incorrect information and walking away with easy cash for it.
I'd like to tell my DVR to stop recording them as suggestions without lying to it that I hate it
That's one of the things I really hate about tivo. Why is it that they can only keep a recording history for 28 days? I mean seriously, even if the tivo stores the entire name, episode, description, original airdate, etc, it couldn't take more than a couple of K per episode (even without compression). If you recorded 48 shows a day for the next 10 years, thats only gonna take up a few hundred megs of hard drive space.
As it is now, its a real pain to discover you like a show a couple of years into it, and then try to pickup all of the reruns without having to see them a couple times. Some shows (like CSI...I didn't catch onto that one until a year ago) have a lot of episodes with very similar beginnings. Sometimes I'd watch an episode for 15 minutes before remembering "oh yeah, I did see this one".
That's one of the things MythTV does much better. If only my hardware/software combination were much more stable, I could ditch tivo for good. As it is now, they have to coexist so that I don't lose a program when it occasionally locks up recording.
no analogously perverse incentive exists for them to deploy defective gunboats.
How about the fact that they've already been deployed, and fixing the problem will thus be expensive and inconvenient for the government/coast guard, and the contractor doesn't want egg on their face. Seems like a couple of good incentives to me.
I use them outdoors, indoors, you name it. I recently bought two of the yellow tinted bulbs that don't attract bugs for my back yard, and they work great.
Do you live in a year round warm climate? I've never heard of CFLs that perform well in cold weather.
Canon. I've been very satisfied with the quality of their printers. Their ink cartridges are clear, so you can see right inside them. Absolutely nothing in there but ink and a sponge. No chips or circuits or anything of the type. Their name brand ink is a pretty good value compared to the other brands, and you can buy much cheaper replacement inks without any worried of it being considered unauthorized.
The printers have ink level sensors that tell you when the ink gets low and then prompts you to replace the cartridge. However, when that happens, you can clearly see there is no ink inside the cartridge. However, there is sometimes ink still in the sponge. If you don't want to waste that, the printer lets you override it and continue printing. I regularly do this. After the cartridge is reported as empty, I'll print a few 8x10 photos, pull out the cartridge and see if the sponge is saturated or starting to dry. If it still has considerable ink absorbed in the sponge, I'll put in back in and print a few more. However, be careful not to overdo it. I've heard that it's very bad for the print head if it actually runs dry.
And to top it all off, when a cartridge actually runs out and needs to be replaced, most of the canons I've seen use individual cartridges for each color, so you don't throw out a half full magenta cart when the cyan runs out.
I agree with you complete. I had a Deskjet 1100, and after a while it started grabbing multiple sheets of paper. And it didn't just grab them all at once...that wouldn't have been so bad. Instead, it grabbed 4 or 5 sheets all ofset by 1/2 to 1 inch, so that it ruined all of the sheets at once. It also had a tendancy to print slightly (but noticeably) crooked on every single page. After I ditched that for a canon, I gave it to my wife. She's still using it now, but it's to the point that you can NEVER place more than 1 sheet of paper in the tray. That's not a major problem for her, since she prints so rarely, but it is annoying.
I'm curious about this fix that you explained. Is it something you need to buy from HP, or is there some way to fix it on your own? I wouldn't be willing to buy anything, but if there is an easy fix I'd be willing to spend a few minutes trying to fix it.
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You forgot about the collaboration part. For most people, sharing a word document with others would consist of emailing the file back and forth, keeping track of who has the latest version, and making sure no 2 people try to edit it at the same time. Yeah, you could use FTP or something, but that doesn't solve all of the problems, and that's beyond what a LOT of people would know how to do.
Now look at Google Docs. It handles all of that for you. Just grant someone access to the document and they can instantly edit it. Everyone always has the latest version. In addition, it allows multiple people to simultaneously edit the document and instantly merges those modifications together in real time. I shows you what parts other people are editing, and gives you chat ability so you can discuss those changes together.
This would be great for a group of students working on a research report. You write the outline together, then each person takes responsibility for researching a subsection of the topic and fills in that part of the report as they go. You can review what the others in your group are doing, so you can see what progress people are making (or not making). If you see something that conflicts with what your research has uncovered, you can point that out. Likewise, if you learn something that it looks like they missed, you can suggest they add it.
I've never seen a feature like this in MS Office, Open Office, or any other office suite.
It was a joke.
Sort of along the lines of one of those "If we make guns illegal, only criminals will have guns" statements. In that case, of course only criminal would have guns, because a formerly law abiding citizen with a gun would (under the new law) now be a criminal. Everyone with a gun becomes a criminal, so its true that only criminals have guns.
Well, in the case of murder, someone defined murder to say it must be unlawful to be murder. Well, using that definition, if we make murder legal, it can no longer be unlawful, thus it can no longer be murder. It may sound like the sort of statistics you'd expect to hear from a politicion, but it would be true. The murder rate would instantly drop to 0%. Of course, theres no telling what would happen to the homicide rate (other than that it would probably go way up). Its simply a matter of playing games with definitions.
They took me to collections and the dink to my credit was worth it to just not pay the money they tried to extort from me.
You let them dink your credit? You should have fought it. If it's still on your credit report, you still can get it removed. Sites like creditnet.com are always willing to help people learn how to remove crap like this.
Giving them enough supplies is not the problem. Getting it distributed is the problem. Here are a few examples:
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Pirates (not the bittorrent kind) stealing supplies:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1014/p06s03-woaf.ht
Food seized by political activists:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2341549.stm
From what I've been reading over the years, this sort of stuff is extremely common. It's very sad, but the problem is NOT the quantity of our aid.
Netflix already lets you set up queues for each person in the house. However, what they need to do to make this more useful is to have a round robin system for shipping movies. Right now they make you assign a set number of discs to each queue. If you are on the 1 movie at a time plan, you can only setup 1 queu at a time to be receiving discs. When my wife and I had netflix, I'd have to log in each time I sent back a disc and reassign the 1 available disc to the other queue. I could see this being annoying enough that some people just decide to share a single queue.
That would be wonderful for the many people whose DVD players don't play burned discs.
I dont know about you but this doesn't look like a camera phone to me
I don't know....it looks like it could be a new N-Gage. I mean, in that picture, it kinda does look like he's Sidetalkin
Yes, but you start to get more noise in the photo. By dividing the total into smaller and smaller quantities, the sampling error will grow. The only solution is to come up with better and better measuring mechanisms, which they do with each generation of sensors, but the improvements are gradual.
Longer exposures overcome this limitation. It's kind of like using a stopwatch. How precicely can you measure a millisecond? How about a second? A minute? Your measuring error is pretty consistant no matter what length of time you are measuring. The difference is, the longer the span of time you are trying to measure, the less significant your error is.
Ummm...call it what they like, but that's scanned film.
While not a gigapixel sensor, there is a guy that stitched together a gigapixel image from 196 digital photos, and he did this 3 years ago.
http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm
California has made many attempts to get automobile manufacturers to cut emissions, and have been repeatedly sued by those auto manufacturers to keep those laws from getting enforced.
And if the lawsuits were successful in blocking the tougher regulations, then it would appear the law is already on the auto-makers side. So this suit could basically be summed up as "I'm suing you for winning the previous lawsuit".
1920x1080 pixels x8 bits (for non floating point HDR) That means 15.8 meg per frame buffer
Your math here is off in a couple of ways. First, that would be 15.8 megabits, not megabytes. That comes out to about 2 megabytes. Next, that's per 8-bit color channel. For your primary display, you are gonna need 3 of those for RGB (6MB), if not a 4th for alpha or even just memory alignment (8MB). For the backbuffer, you'll need another 8MB buffer, plus probably a 32bit depth buffer (another 8MB). So 8MB for the front buffer, 16MB for the back buffer.
On the other hand, of course, people aren't expecting to play against a combination of human and machine...
I've never played cards at a casino, but it was always my understanding that, unlike you sitting around the kitchen table with your buddies, blackjack in a casino isn't played against the other players. It's basicly multiple 1-on-1 games of player-vs-house, all played at the same time. The only effect that another player "cheating" would have on you would be which cards you get. However, that's all random. The other player taking an extra card because he knows what the count is could help you just as well as it could hurt you. His extra card could end up being the card that would have busted you, and instead you get exactly the card you need.
You're in line at the grocery store writing out your check[sic].
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In this case, 'sic' must stand for "spelling is correct". From Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: 1check
Pronunciation: 'chek
Function: noun
7 : a written order directing a bank to pay money as instructed : DRAFT
Main Entry: cheque
Pronunciation: 'chek
chiefly British variant of 1CHECK 7
How does it supposedly withstand a mortar shell or RPG explosion when the controls (and possibly the LCD...can't tell from the pics) are fully exosed?
This is not a security issue, so the banks can't improve it.
Of course it's a security issue. All I need to do to is get your account number and the banks routing number and I can initial an ACH electronic funds transfer against your account. There is no sort of security in place where you can whitelist banks/accounts for initiating an ACH against your account.
Now you might say it's the customers job to better protect their info. Well guess what. You're in line at the grocery store writing out your check. See me behind you in line talking on the cell phone? Guess what...I'm not actually on the phone. I just used my camera phone to snap a photo of your check, which contains ALL of the information I'd need to get the bank to do an ACH transfer out of your account.
Now tell me...does that still not sound like a security issue?
The poster pointed out the computer was in need of upgrades, so this is indeed a very good solution. He no longer has that specific problem and has a speedier computer.
But was the speed of the COMPUTER really a problem before? I've seeb enough reports on how user's computers get so full of spyware that it slows the machine down over time. Then they feel their computer is too slow so they buy a new one, even though the old hardware was plenty fast enough.
OK, I have my notes now. Heres how I fixed it on my knoppmyth setup:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and append the following 2 lines:
edit
#elimitate blue lines from mplayer by making alpha color black
xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0
My apologies, I didn't see that you mentioned a fix
:-) I was just chipping in with a quick little "oooh, I know what he's talking about, and it's not what you are thinking".
Actually, what you REALLY didn't see was that I'm a completely different person than the poster you were originally responding to
but odd colored lines would be a problem with your IVTV configuration
No, I don't think it was the IVTV config. I had this problem before and solved it. I think the blue was a background color that was in use by one of the other utilities on the box and it would show through on anything that wasn't fullscreen. I could be mistaken, though.
As I said, I fixed this problem before. I wrote down the solution but don't have my notes in front of me at the moment. I'll try to remember to post an update later when I do.
You are able to find out what data is stored. You are entitled to a free annual copy of your credit report from each of the 3 reporting agencies. Further, you are allowed to request they fix incorrect information. If they don't comply and fix incorrect data, there is also a law (which I'm not fully familiar with) which allows you to sue them for it. A couple of the credit-related forums have regular reports of people suing creditors and credit reporting agencies for failure to fix incorrect information and walking away with easy cash for it.
I'd like to tell my DVR to stop recording them as suggestions without lying to it that I hate it
That's one of the things I really hate about tivo. Why is it that they can only keep a recording history for 28 days? I mean seriously, even if the tivo stores the entire name, episode, description, original airdate, etc, it couldn't take more than a couple of K per episode (even without compression). If you recorded 48 shows a day for the next 10 years, thats only gonna take up a few hundred megs of hard drive space.
As it is now, its a real pain to discover you like a show a couple of years into it, and then try to pickup all of the reruns without having to see them a couple times. Some shows (like CSI...I didn't catch onto that one until a year ago) have a lot of episodes with very similar beginnings. Sometimes I'd watch an episode for 15 minutes before remembering "oh yeah, I did see this one".
That's one of the things MythTV does much better. If only my hardware/software combination were much more stable, I could ditch tivo for good. As it is now, they have to coexist so that I don't lose a program when it occasionally locks up recording.
no analogously perverse incentive exists for them to deploy defective gunboats.
How about the fact that they've already been deployed, and fixing the problem will thus be expensive and inconvenient for the government/coast guard, and the contractor doesn't want egg on their face. Seems like a couple of good incentives to me.
I use them outdoors, indoors, you name it. I recently bought two of the yellow tinted bulbs that don't attract bugs for my back yard, and they work great.
Do you live in a year round warm climate? I've never heard of CFLs that perform well in cold weather.
Canon. I've been very satisfied with the quality of their printers. Their ink cartridges are clear, so you can see right inside them. Absolutely nothing in there but ink and a sponge. No chips or circuits or anything of the type. Their name brand ink is a pretty good value compared to the other brands, and you can buy much cheaper replacement inks without any worried of it being considered unauthorized.
The printers have ink level sensors that tell you when the ink gets low and then prompts you to replace the cartridge. However, when that happens, you can clearly see there is no ink inside the cartridge. However, there is sometimes ink still in the sponge. If you don't want to waste that, the printer lets you override it and continue printing. I regularly do this. After the cartridge is reported as empty, I'll print a few 8x10 photos, pull out the cartridge and see if the sponge is saturated or starting to dry. If it still has considerable ink absorbed in the sponge, I'll put in back in and print a few more. However, be careful not to overdo it. I've heard that it's very bad for the print head if it actually runs dry.
And to top it all off, when a cartridge actually runs out and needs to be replaced, most of the canons I've seen use individual cartridges for each color, so you don't throw out a half full magenta cart when the cyan runs out.
I agree with you complete. I had a Deskjet 1100, and after a while it started grabbing multiple sheets of paper. And it didn't just grab them all at once...that wouldn't have been so bad. Instead, it grabbed 4 or 5 sheets all ofset by 1/2 to 1 inch, so that it ruined all of the sheets at once. It also had a tendancy to print slightly (but noticeably) crooked on every single page. After I ditched that for a canon, I gave it to my wife. She's still using it now, but it's to the point that you can NEVER place more than 1 sheet of paper in the tray. That's not a major problem for her, since she prints so rarely, but it is annoying.
I'm curious about this fix that you explained. Is it something you need to buy from HP, or is there some way to fix it on your own? I wouldn't be willing to buy anything, but if there is an easy fix I'd be willing to spend a few minutes trying to fix it.