Well saving it in a lossless format is always going to be a way around any re-compressing artifacts. No "Print Screen" needed. Just load up the jpg in photoshop, do editing and then save as png.
Image sites that wish to deter fake images could force jpeg encoding, or make a jpeg available, maybe going as far as using something like tineye.com does to help find the original and flag the picture if they differ too much.
Nice try at getting fast karma from a first post, but that's not going to work. The screen shot will already be of the compressed image, and will still show signs of re-compressing it.
I word of warning, this crashed Chrome 9.0 beta, and killed off my keyboard and mouse. Ctrl-alt-del still worked and the mouse worked only when I was in this screen, so I was able to shut down cleanly.
I've heard of experiments quite a while back where they had people wear specials glasses that flip everything upside down, after a period of time, people got used to it and essentially started seeing everything right side up again. That is until he had the people take the glasses off when everyone started seeing things upside down without the glasses, so it took them a while to get used to normal vision before they started seeing everything right side up again.
Not really any relevance here, but it's very interesting to me.:)
As someone else stated. VNC works just as well even better. If there's a network disruption, you don't want to have to start up the Oracle install from scratch again do you?
I've used Linux for 10 years or more, and tunneling X for me has never been anything more than a novelty. The performance of the program is never going to up to par with running it locally, especially over the internet.
I don't doubt that some people really use X's network transparency. But I'd imagine 99% of the people won't need it, and those that do, won't be running Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't trying to satisfy everyone, they're just trying to make a solid, easy to use Linux distribution aimed at the majority.
I picked up a 5770 a while ago, nice card and pretty quiet. My first ATI^H^H&^HAMD card actually. I mostly had to upgrade so I could drive this bigger monitor. The deciding factor in my case was what card would work with my current PSU... All NVIDIA cards were power hungry, so it kind of made it a no brainer.
Although there is one rather annoying bug, which admittedly hasn't showed up in quite a while. Every once in a while the mouse cursor would get all corrupted when shown on my secondary display--making it rather difficult to tell where the arrow is supposed to be pointing. Disabling and Re-enabling the the secondary display fixes it, or rebooting does as well.
At any rate, AMD cards definitely give more bang for the buck at the moment. And I'm a sucker for lower power/quieter cards.
In Ohio, it's registered voters. I've been called up 3 times now and I'm only 35. My father in law has never been called up and surprise surprise, he's not registered to vote.
Randomly generated L4D maps would be awesome. The problem with the coop in that game is even with randomly spawning zombies, it still gets pretty predictable as the level format doesn't change, you know where all the hiding spots are, where ammo or guns are likely to be, etc.
The Pirate Bay shut down the trackers awhile ago. From Wikipedia:
On 17 November 2009, The Pirate Bay shut off its tracker service permanently, stating that centralized trackers are no longer needed, since distributed hash tables (DHT), peer exchange (PEX), and magnet links allow peers to find each other and content in a decentralized way.
I'm sure myself along with many other Linux users are perfectly fine with things such as the closed source nvidia drivers. I'm just glad they exist. I'll let the kernel developers and nvidia duke it out on their own tho.
As long as I don't have to purchase a driver, I'm fine.:)
Nice stick for the price. Although I don't really use it that much, it works for my needs and didn't break the bank. All my gaming friends have either moved away and/or have kids so any kind of retro night for me isn't very realistic in the short term.
As far as I can tell Windows Live Photo Gallery does work on the actual JPEG matrix itself.
A post from Windows Photo and Imaging Program Manager found here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/2f312d8c-9d5b-4607-acb1-a5ef3c55881c/ Thanks for the feedback. Indeed as you notice we actually rotate the file. In most cases this rotation is completely lossless. There is absolutely no pixel data loss when performing a lossless JPEG rotation where the dimensions of the photo are a multiple of the block size (which isn’t always 8, it is more often 16). I don’t believe that there are any current cameras that generate files that cannot be losslessly rotated (some older cameras did, however).
There are several reasons a file may change size when it’s rotated, even if no pixel data changes. For instance we generate a new embedded thumb for the rotated image, in many cases our thumb is smaller than the camera generate thumb. That said loosing 1/3 of the file size isn’t typical. What camera did this file come from? Did you process it with any software prior to the rotate? I’d like to try to reproduce what you are seeing so I can ensure there isn’t a bug.
If the JPEG can’t be losslessy rotated it will be rotated and re-encoded. Because JPG is not a lossless format there will changes to the data whenever the file is re-encoded. These changes are generally not perceptible. There was a time when we did warn before doing a lossless rotate but it makes little sense to most users who just want to see the photo in the orientation they took it. For usability reasons we no longer have that warning.
I should also note that we don’t immediately write the data out on rotate. It is written out once you leave the viewer. A 180 degree rotate only takes 1 encoding just like a 90.
Sure, you can dream, but obviously these companies are big on overselling things. They force you to choose a tier and pray that you won't come anywhere close to your limit so they maximize their profit, and then charge you exorbitant amounts of money for going over your limit to make sure you stay within your tier, this ensure that customer choose a tier that's more than sufficient for them, ie. more expensive.
There's no way any large corporation is going to want to charge you less just because they're nice.
I have that problem with Motorolla Karma/QA1. Signed google maps can access the network all it wants after selecting "yes always". But the unsigned gmail cannot "yes ask every time" is the only allow network option for gmail and all unsigned apps. I've always assumed it's something that AT&T did to intentionally cripple the phone to not use the network as much as it's not a "smart phone" (read as cheaper data plan), but it's still quite capable so they had to make it stupider. [sic]
Right, which gives Sony a few options: 1) Paying refunds 2) Re-enabling Linux 3) Being a dick, paying out refunds even though it's more expensive. Shareholders be damned.
While I'd never try this. I find this hard to believe. Most retail stores don't give a rats ass and will take said product back and let you buy a new one. Then then send the original product back as damaged to the manufacturer.
I bought a Dyson vacuum at Bed Bath & Beyond over 2 years ago, I took it back maybe 2 weeks ago. They gladly took it, didn't compare any serial numbers or anything. And even mailed me out a newer / less expensive model so I ended up with a credit back to my card and they've earned a loyal customer because of this policy (still use the 20% off coupons tho, as the store is rather pricey) This is for a $450 vacuum, I seem skeptical that Best Buy would go to this extreme for maybe a $75 router, maybe Best Buy has gotten paranoid over the years as people tend to scam more over high tech electronics.
I've heard many a story about how people have bought junk and best buy and found something else entirely in the box they opened. Unless your friend did something stupid like admitting his scam, or causing a scene, I'd seriously doubt they'd call security. They would probably just refuse to return the item. With that said, I guess anything is possible with the idiots at Best Buy.
In college I used to smoke at bars and parties to meet girls, but I never got addicted curiously enough. Eventually I found out that the only girls I met were other smokers, whom I usually deemed less than desirable so basically I stopped smoking.
I hate flying for the same exact reason. I can control my weight by diet, but I'd have to cut my legs off if I was to get any shorter. (6'5) On the same note, some amusement park rides are excruciating, especially the ones with the over the shoulder harnesses. They need to have a height max, in addition to a height minimum--I've learned that there's just something things to avoid.
You'd think all fonts should be this way. Some fonts drive me crazy, especially how I and l look identical in what's probably Arial I'm looking at now in FF. And WTF sheesh, 0 should always be slashed.
Good fucking grief, I wish people would fix it correctly and just use the a full 4 digit year already then this wouldn't happen, and add an extra 19 or 20 before a 2 digit year as needed in the data itself. Of course then we'll still have a year 10,000 bug, but that's ok, it's an SEP.
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Well saving it in a lossless format is always going to be a way around any re-compressing artifacts. No "Print Screen" needed. Just load up the jpg in photoshop, do editing and then save as png.
Image sites that wish to deter fake images could force jpeg encoding, or make a jpeg available, maybe going as far as using something like tineye.com does to help find the original and flag the picture if they differ too much.
Nice try at getting fast karma from a first post, but that's not going to work. The screen shot will already be of the compressed image, and will still show signs of re-compressing it.
On the first point, just put up aluminum siding, which seems to work pretty well at blocking signal for most residential homes.
I word of warning, this crashed Chrome 9.0 beta, and killed off my keyboard and mouse. Ctrl-alt-del still worked and the mouse worked only when I was in this screen, so I was able to shut down cleanly.
I've heard of experiments quite a while back where they had people wear specials glasses that flip everything upside down, after a period of time, people got used to it and essentially started seeing everything right side up again. That is until he had the people take the glasses off when everyone started seeing things upside down without the glasses, so it took them a while to get used to normal vision before they started seeing everything right side up again.
Not really any relevance here, but it's very interesting to me. :)
As someone else stated. VNC works just as well even better. If there's a network disruption, you don't want to have to start up the Oracle install from scratch again do you?
I've used Linux for 10 years or more, and tunneling X for me has never been anything more than a novelty. The performance of the program is never going to up to par with running it locally, especially over the internet.
I don't doubt that some people really use X's network transparency. But I'd imagine 99% of the people won't need it, and those that do, won't be running Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't trying to satisfy everyone, they're just trying to make a solid, easy to use Linux distribution aimed at the majority.
I picked up a 5770 a while ago, nice card and pretty quiet. My first ATI^H^H&^HAMD card actually. I mostly had to upgrade so I could drive this bigger monitor. The deciding factor in my case was what card would work with my current PSU... All NVIDIA cards were power hungry, so it kind of made it a no brainer.
Although there is one rather annoying bug, which admittedly hasn't showed up in quite a while. Every once in a while the mouse cursor would get all corrupted when shown on my secondary display--making it rather difficult to tell where the arrow is supposed to be pointing. Disabling and Re-enabling the the secondary display fixes it, or rebooting does as well.
At any rate, AMD cards definitely give more bang for the buck at the moment. And I'm a sucker for lower power/quieter cards.
In Ohio, it's registered voters. I've been called up 3 times now and I'm only 35. My father in law has never been called up and surprise surprise, he's not registered to vote.
Randomly generated L4D maps would be awesome. The problem with the coop in that game is even with randomly spawning zombies, it still gets pretty predictable as the level format doesn't change, you know where all the hiding spots are, where ammo or guns are likely to be, etc.
The Pirate Bay shut down the trackers awhile ago. From Wikipedia:
On 17 November 2009, The Pirate Bay shut off its tracker service permanently, stating that centralized trackers are no longer needed, since distributed hash tables (DHT), peer exchange (PEX), and magnet links allow peers to find each other and content in a decentralized way.
I'm sure myself along with many other Linux users are perfectly fine with things such as the closed source nvidia drivers. I'm just glad they exist. I'll let the kernel developers and nvidia duke it out on their own tho.
As long as I don't have to purchase a driver, I'm fine. :)
X-Arcade sticks look nice, but they're just too honking big. And I'd rather have two separate sticks so I'm not right up on my friends playing. That and I don't have a separate cabinet to put those in. I play games on my PC. I ended up buying one of these which fits nicely on my desk:
http://www.amazon.com/PS2-PS3-PC-Universal-Fighting-Joystick/dp/B0015PHMFU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278680318&sr=8-2
Nice stick for the price. Although I don't really use it that much, it works for my needs and didn't break the bank. All my gaming friends have either moved away and/or have kids so any kind of retro night for me isn't very realistic in the short term.
As far as I can tell Windows Live Photo Gallery does work on the actual JPEG matrix itself.
A post from Windows Photo and Imaging Program Manager found here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/2f312d8c-9d5b-4607-acb1-a5ef3c55881c/
Thanks for the feedback. Indeed as you notice we actually rotate the file. In most cases this rotation is completely lossless. There is absolutely no pixel data loss when performing a lossless JPEG rotation where the dimensions of the photo are a multiple of the block size (which isn’t always 8, it is more often 16). I don’t believe that there are any current cameras that generate files that cannot be losslessly rotated (some older cameras did, however).
There are several reasons a file may change size when it’s rotated, even if no pixel data changes. For instance we generate a new embedded thumb for the rotated image, in many cases our thumb is smaller than the camera generate thumb. That said loosing 1/3 of the file size isn’t typical. What camera did this file come from? Did you process it with any software prior to the rotate? I’d like to try to reproduce what you are seeing so I can ensure there isn’t a bug.
If the JPEG can’t be losslessy rotated it will be rotated and re-encoded. Because JPG is not a lossless format there will changes to the data whenever the file is re-encoded. These changes are generally not perceptible. There was a time when we did warn before doing a lossless rotate but it makes little sense to most users who just want to see the photo in the orientation they took it. For usability reasons we no longer have that warning.
I should also note that we don’t immediately write the data out on rotate. It is written out once you leave the viewer. A 180 degree rotate only takes 1 encoding just like a 90.
More info on the actual algorithm can be found here:
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/lossless-rotation.html
For what it's worth a number of programs support non-destructive rotates. Windows Live Photogallery is one of them.
Sure, you can dream, but obviously these companies are big on overselling things. They force you to choose a tier and pray that you won't come anywhere close to your limit so they maximize their profit, and then charge you exorbitant amounts of money for going over your limit to make sure you stay within your tier, this ensure that customer choose a tier that's more than sufficient for them, ie. more expensive.
There's no way any large corporation is going to want to charge you less just because they're nice.
I have that problem with Motorolla Karma/QA1. Signed google maps can access the network all it wants after selecting "yes always". But the unsigned gmail cannot "yes ask every time" is the only allow network option for gmail and all unsigned apps. I've always assumed it's something that AT&T did to intentionally cripple the phone to not use the network as much as it's not a "smart phone" (read as cheaper data plan), but it's still quite capable so they had to make it stupider. [sic]
Right, which gives Sony a few options:
1) Paying refunds
2) Re-enabling Linux
3) Being a dick, paying out refunds even though it's more expensive. Shareholders be damned.
While I'd never try this. I find this hard to believe. Most retail stores don't give a rats ass and will take said product back and let you buy a new one. Then then send the original product back as damaged to the manufacturer.
I bought a Dyson vacuum at Bed Bath & Beyond over 2 years ago, I took it back maybe 2 weeks ago. They gladly took it, didn't compare any serial numbers or anything. And even mailed me out a newer / less expensive model so I ended up with a credit back to my card and they've earned a loyal customer because of this policy (still use the 20% off coupons tho, as the store is rather pricey) This is for a $450 vacuum, I seem skeptical that Best Buy would go to this extreme for maybe a $75 router, maybe Best Buy has gotten paranoid over the years as people tend to scam more over high tech electronics.
I've heard many a story about how people have bought junk and best buy and found something else entirely in the box they opened. Unless your friend did something stupid like admitting his scam, or causing a scene, I'd seriously doubt they'd call security. They would probably just refuse to return the item. With that said, I guess anything is possible with the idiots at Best Buy.
In college I used to smoke at bars and parties to meet girls, but I never got addicted curiously enough. Eventually I found out that the only girls I met were other smokers, whom I usually deemed less than desirable so basically I stopped smoking.
It was a good ice breaker tho.
Which is exactly the reason why I will never own an Apple computer, iPod, iTouch, iPad, iPhone, iMac, etc.
Nice, I'm going to print this out and sell it. I figure it'll only be worth a hundred grand or so since it's not an original.
And not to be picky about the short, but Superman could only "leap 1/8th of a mile; hurdle a twenty story building" in this comic, not fly.
I hate flying for the same exact reason. I can control my weight by diet, but I'd have to cut my legs off if I was to get any shorter. (6'5) On the same note, some amusement park rides are excruciating, especially the ones with the over the shoulder harnesses. They need to have a height max, in addition to a height minimum--I've learned that there's just something things to avoid.
You'd think all fonts should be this way. Some fonts drive me crazy, especially how I and l look identical in what's probably Arial I'm looking at now in FF. And WTF sheesh, 0 should always be slashed.
And how does this differ any more than, say, A BOOK?
Good fucking grief, I wish people would fix it correctly and just use the a full 4 digit year already then this wouldn't happen, and add an extra 19 or 20 before a 2 digit year as needed in the data itself. Of course then we'll still have a year 10,000 bug, but that's ok, it's an SEP.