Dude, use NiMH batteries. You can get them everywhere these days and they hold gobs of charge. I've got three sets of batteries, which I rotate through my camera as it uses them. I can go through about 150 images or so before I need to recharge them. So far this has not been a limitation. The batteries have a somewhat higher upfront cost, but they quickly pay for themselves.
That was worded inprecisely. It should have read 'Microsoft's Senators and Represnetatives' instead. Unfortunatly they're up against Senator Disney and Representative Sony.
They couldn't tell the difference between RF and S-Video cables? Were they all umpires? What was the source material? A 10 year old VHS tape? About a year ago I swapped out the old RF only TV for a modern TV with all of the good connectors. For the PS2, the difference was phonominal. I was able to see a whole new world of detail that was previously obscured by the blur. I was finally able to read the tiny little labels on equipment in Armored Core 2. I wasn't actually expecting such a noticable improvement in the picture quality either, which is one reason it came as such a big shock. As for Composite vs. S-video, my roommate and I have a setup where the output from the TiVo can either run through S-video or Composite (which is sent through a VCR). When we accidentally leave it on composite mode, even my roommate notices immediatly. The colors wash out on the composite path.
As for Monster cables, I think they're a rip off. They're made for the same people who buy $5,000 stereos for their cars. If it's more expensive it HAS to be good right?
Those mirrors will be useless for at least a week. RH has the worst set of mirrors I've ever encountered. Months after a major release it is still difficult to find a mirror that is working, has the latest files, and not stuffed to the gills with downloaders. Even when you get on a mirror it is dog slow and times out frequently. Generally you are better off poking around university FTP sites (especially the CS department) looking for someone hosting a local mirror than you are trying to fight for the 100 aggregate download slots available on the official mirrors.
The problem is that everybody's sample set is too small to really make good reccomendations on this. Even people with computer labs or white box guys don't have anything close to a single percent of the number of drives at any time. For instance, I have two WD drives, an 800MB and a 2.1GB drive. Both still work great despite being abused for years. The Quantum drives however....
Dunno. Slashdot was already moderatly big by the time the logins were implemented (remember how at first you were assigned a completely random unchangeable password?). I'd imagine most of the low UIN folks have moved on to greener pastures, gotten a wife and kids, or just forgot their password and had to get a new account.
This isn't spyware. This actively changes something about your browser (Referrer field?) when you go to certain sites. Oh, and it's in every major P2P client in use. Did you even read the writeup? This seems to go beyond normal spyware. That's why I'm a little dubious about the article. It sounds like someone just made it up to scare people away from using P2P clients.
Wow, that's a pretty shocking accusation, but how did all of the P2P folks get this without anybody noticing?
How does it work? How do you detect if you have it on your system?
While I normally trust the NYT (as much as I trust any paper), I'd kind of like to have some verification of these claims from the hacker commmunity because this sounds way too much like some sort of industry scare tactic.
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I'm calling bullshit on this one. Look at something as mundane as your average automobile. Back in the 40's and 50's they had low horsepower, crappy gas milage, broke down a lot, had high maintence requirements, were dangerous, and expensive. The cards were relativly simple to engineer however, becaue there wasn't enough man hours available and the tools were too primitive for the kind of sophisticated vehicles we manufacture today. What these people are lamenting isn't the loss of knowledge or the lack of engineering skills, it's that all of the accomplishments they made in the past with blood sweat and tears are now handled much more efficently with a computer. It's a sobering though that a computer chip that required thousands of man-hours to lay out by hand in the 70s can be designed by a college student in his spare time today. It makes your accomplishments seem kinda pointless.
I know this is a concern of mine. The DVD drive in my PS2 sounds terrible on a variety of games when it seeks back and forth. I figure it will be the first part to die.
Ironically, the later model PS2s are actually easier to hack than the early models. The first revision of the PS2 is actually the hardest one to mod (you have to soldier a wire on the board).
I thought that the limiting factor was lousy 24-bit fileformats.
I'm pretty certain this is not the case. 24 bit color is generally considered the maximum a human eye can distinguish. More bits are useful for postprocessing on a computer, but most people will not be able to distinguish between a 24 bit image and a 36 bit image.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "3D technology demonstrates that 128bit color depth isn't useless". Are you sure you aren't confusing the Z-Buffer with your color depth? I know some rendering techniques use layering techniques that require more bits in the intermediate form, but that certainly won't apply to digital cameras. I'm confused.
Wow, you must have different music channels than we did. The DSS music channels I remember all followed the same pattern: choose some cateogry, like soft rock, or light jazz, or classical; and play only the bottom 10% of the music from that category. I didn't hear even one song I enjoyed over those channels.
Interestingly enough, my cable provider (ComCast) doesn't even offer music channels on their digital cable. In fact the digital cable channels consist entirely of channels we never watched (Discovery Kids, Oxygen, etc...). Once we got a TiVO (which made the digital guide obsolete), we returned the
digital cable box. Occasionally ComCast calls us trying to get us to switch to digital cable, but until they start carrying channels I actually give a damn about, I'm not going to switch.
When you can change the region code on your DVD-ROM with a simple firmware flash. I havn't run across a DVD-ROM drive that can't be flashed yet. Although this could be a nice tool for fansubbers. They could avoid some legal trouble by releasing only the translations and making the people buy the actual offical DVDs themselves.
Eh? Last time I went to a meuseum they had several exibits where you have monkeymen skeletons and artists renditions of what they might have looked like. What gap in the fossil record are you referring to anyway?
You want Earth 2025, and
Utopia which were written by the same authors as BRE and SRE. In fact they play like a more sophisticated version of BRE on the web, but with a lot more players than your average BBS could ever muster.
Having upgraded my TiVo to 120ish hours, I can say with some certainty that you aren't going to like your base model TiVo very much if you do this upgrade. Apparently the RAM in a TiVo is very limited (32MB), and even with only 120GB in there it can take sevaral (usually 2-5) seconds to pull up the list. I can't imagine what a 1000Hr TiVo would be like.
OTOH, you CAN upgrade the Ram in a TiVo, but it's not something just anybody can do (you'd better be good at sodering surface mount parts on expensive hardware).
Heck, the PVR companies are the ones being sued. The problem is that the PVR companies (TiVO, Replay) are having enough trouble just keeping themselves afloat, they don't have the resources to go out and hire tons of lobbyists and a hoarde of lawyers to fight these issues. If you want to keep your TiVO or Replay, you're going to have to take up the fight yourself.
Easy, walk over to your nearest Sun E10k dealer with your handy dandy solar powered matter replicator. Duplicate the machine for free and play with your duplicate until you are in the position to actually buy one (IE when you are in charge of buying a new mailserver for your company or something).
CD burning (half the GUI tools out haven't been updated to include support for +24X CDRWs -- yeah, it's just a flag, I could go into the source and change, but my ancient copy of Padus DiscJuggler doesn't give me this trouble -- it's nice than any CD burning app around)
May I suggest gcombust? I've actually had better experiance with it than both EZCD Creator and Nero. I also love how it actually tells you the NUMBERS when you're trying to pack a CD instead of putting some inprecise bar on the screen. The "Optimize" button has come in handy several times as well. Oh, it supports burners up to 100x.
What we're looking at here is the ability to disallow a certain small feature. It's the kind of bugfix you can actually do as a person. I'm not talking about doing major work on the source (like the Mozilla project with the original Netscape 4 source).
If someone is tampering with the firmware of the machine, they obiously have access to the machine, and considerable time to update the firmware. If someone can do this, they can do all sorts of other nasty things to the voting. They can throw out boxes of cards. They can staff only their shady friends in the counting room. There are a ton of things that this person could do to mess with the voting process. Adding a machine that would require a huge amount of work to compromise correctly (writing a firmware virus!?!) seems like it might actually improve the situation.
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Dude, use NiMH batteries. You can get them everywhere these days and they hold gobs of charge. I've got three sets of batteries, which I rotate through my camera as it uses them. I can go through about 150 images or so before I need to recharge them. So far this has not been a limitation. The batteries have a somewhat higher upfront cost, but they quickly pay for themselves.
To the point at which basic addition and substraction are problematic?
Yeah, it looks like it already got our spelling!
That was worded inprecisely. It should have read 'Microsoft's Senators and Represnetatives' instead. Unfortunatly they're up against Senator Disney and Representative Sony.
They couldn't tell the difference between RF and S-Video cables? Were they all umpires? What was the source material? A 10 year old VHS tape? About a year ago I swapped out the old RF only TV for a modern TV with all of the good connectors. For the PS2, the difference was phonominal. I was able to see a whole new world of detail that was previously obscured by the blur. I was finally able to read the tiny little labels on equipment in Armored Core 2. I wasn't actually expecting such a noticable improvement in the picture quality either, which is one reason it came as such a big shock. As for Composite vs. S-video, my roommate and I have a setup where the output from the TiVo can either run through S-video or Composite (which is sent through a VCR). When we accidentally leave it on composite mode, even my roommate notices immediatly. The colors wash out on the composite path.
As for Monster cables, I think they're a rip off. They're made for the same people who buy $5,000 stereos for their cars. If it's more expensive it HAS to be good right?
Those mirrors will be useless for at least a week. RH has the worst set of mirrors I've ever encountered. Months after a major release it is still difficult to find a mirror that is working, has the latest files, and not stuffed to the gills with downloaders. Even when you get on a mirror it is dog slow and times out frequently. Generally you are better off poking around university FTP sites (especially the CS department) looking for someone hosting a local mirror than you are trying to fight for the 100 aggregate download slots available on the official mirrors.
The problem is that everybody's sample set is too small to really make good reccomendations on this. Even people with computer labs or white box guys don't have anything close to a single percent of the number of drives at any time. For instance, I have two WD drives, an 800MB and a 2.1GB drive. Both still work great despite being abused for years. The Quantum drives however....
Dunno. Slashdot was already moderatly big by the time the logins were implemented (remember how at first you were assigned a completely random unchangeable password?). I'd imagine most of the low UIN folks have moved on to greener pastures, gotten a wife and kids, or just forgot their password and had to get a new account.
This isn't spyware. This actively changes something about your browser (Referrer field?) when you go to certain sites. Oh, and it's in every major P2P client in use. Did you even read the writeup? This seems to go beyond normal spyware. That's why I'm a little dubious about the article. It sounds like someone just made it up to scare people away from using P2P clients.
Have we all be trolled?
Wow, that's a pretty shocking accusation, but how did all of the P2P folks get this without anybody noticing?
How does it work? How do you detect if you have it on your system?
While I normally trust the NYT (as much as I trust any paper), I'd kind of like to have some verification of these claims from the hacker commmunity because this sounds way too much like some sort of industry scare tactic.
I'm calling bullshit on this one. Look at something as mundane as your average automobile. Back in the 40's and 50's they had low horsepower, crappy gas milage, broke down a lot, had high maintence requirements, were dangerous, and expensive. The cards were relativly simple to engineer however, becaue there wasn't enough man hours available and the tools were too primitive for the kind of sophisticated vehicles we manufacture today. What these people are lamenting isn't the loss of knowledge or the lack of engineering skills, it's that all of the accomplishments they made in the past with blood sweat and tears are now handled much more efficently with a computer. It's a sobering though that a computer chip that required thousands of man-hours to lay out by hand in the 70s can be designed by a college student in his spare time today. It makes your accomplishments seem kinda pointless.
I know this is a concern of mine. The DVD drive in my PS2 sounds terrible on a variety of games when it seeks back and forth. I figure it will be the first part to die.
Ironically, the later model PS2s are actually easier to hack than the early models. The first revision of the PS2 is actually the hardest one to mod (you have to soldier a wire on the board).
I'm pretty certain this is not the case. 24 bit color is generally considered the maximum a human eye can distinguish. More bits are useful for postprocessing on a computer, but most people will not be able to distinguish between a 24 bit image and a 36 bit image.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "3D technology demonstrates that 128bit color depth isn't useless". Are you sure you aren't confusing the Z-Buffer with your color depth? I know some rendering techniques use layering techniques that require more bits in the intermediate form, but that certainly won't apply to digital cameras. I'm confused.
Wow, you must have different music channels than we did. The DSS music channels I remember all followed the same pattern: choose some cateogry, like soft rock, or light jazz, or classical; and play only the bottom 10% of the music from that category. I didn't hear even one song I enjoyed over those channels.
Interestingly enough, my cable provider (ComCast) doesn't even offer music channels on their digital cable. In fact the digital cable channels consist entirely of channels we never watched (Discovery Kids, Oxygen, etc...). Once we got a TiVO (which made the digital guide obsolete), we returned the digital cable box. Occasionally ComCast calls us trying to get us to switch to digital cable, but until they start carrying channels I actually give a damn about, I'm not going to switch.
When you can change the region code on your DVD-ROM with a simple firmware flash. I havn't run across a DVD-ROM drive that can't be flashed yet. Although this could be a nice tool for fansubbers. They could avoid some legal trouble by releasing only the translations and making the people buy the actual offical DVDs themselves.
Eh? Last time I went to a meuseum they had several exibits where you have monkeymen skeletons and artists renditions of what they might have looked like. What gap in the fossil record are you referring to anyway?
You want Earth 2025, and Utopia which were written by the same authors as BRE and SRE. In fact they play like a more sophisticated version of BRE on the web, but with a lot more players than your average BBS could ever muster.
Having upgraded my TiVo to 120ish hours, I can say with some certainty that you aren't going to like your base model TiVo very much if you do this upgrade. Apparently the RAM in a TiVo is very limited (32MB), and even with only 120GB in there it can take sevaral (usually 2-5) seconds to pull up the list. I can't imagine what a 1000Hr TiVo would be like.
OTOH, you CAN upgrade the Ram in a TiVo, but it's not something just anybody can do (you'd better be good at sodering surface mount parts on expensive hardware).
Heck, the PVR companies are the ones being sued. The problem is that the PVR companies (TiVO, Replay) are having enough trouble just keeping themselves afloat, they don't have the resources to go out and hire tons of lobbyists and a hoarde of lawyers to fight these issues. If you want to keep your TiVO or Replay, you're going to have to take up the fight yourself.
Easy, walk over to your nearest Sun E10k dealer with your handy dandy solar powered matter replicator. Duplicate the machine for free and play with your duplicate until you are in the position to actually buy one (IE when you are in charge of buying a new mailserver for your company or something).
What we're looking at here is the ability to disallow a certain small feature. It's the kind of bugfix you can actually do as a person. I'm not talking about doing major work on the source (like the Mozilla project with the original Netscape 4 source).
I think that if you refuse to support your old code, you should be forced to release it open source so the community can fix it.
That ought to light a fire under MS with those security vulnerabilities.
I think it's too late. He already comes off as an asshole... Maybe the entire post was ment to be sarcasm? The world will never know.
If someone is tampering with the firmware of the machine, they obiously have access to the machine, and considerable time to update the firmware. If someone can do this, they can do all sorts of other nasty things to the voting. They can throw out boxes of cards. They can staff only their shady friends in the counting room. There are a ton of things that this person could do to mess with the voting process. Adding a machine that would require a huge amount of work to compromise correctly (writing a firmware virus!?!) seems like it might actually improve the situation.