It seems all the digital photo printing kiosks I've seen (mostly at Meijer) are just a PC hooked to an inkjet printer anyway. You can hear the printer going back and forth just like your home printer would. It's definately not the same machine they use for film prints there at least.
Just downgrade to 20fps or something, cutting every so many frames, or get two leaked copies and splice in the good frames from ones that have matching frames with red dots only on one copy. I don't think its really possible for this big annoying red dot watermarking idea to be undefeatable.
Maybe they edited the clips and removed the single frame which contains the "red dots" pattern flash that they used to watermark the particular copy. A single missing frame from a long running clip would hardly be noticable. Much less noticable then the red dots themselves, to me at least.
My friends give me the same kind of crazy looks, and probably for the same reason. It's clearly a watermark to me, not dust or scratches. Wish I could somehow get them to notice so more people start seeing them like I do.
Does anybody else really notice those random patterns of red dots that flash on the screen for a split second every now and then through-out a movie? It is REALLY annoying to me, and I constantly see them to the point where I don't really enjoy seeing a movie in the theature as much.
I've only dealt with internet sales, which are basically MOTO, but there is never an original receipt, so the customer always gets their money back, and I always get hit with the $35 fee myself.
How does this work at places like Meijer U-Scan where you just sign on a little LCD screen? There are no store-kept receipts there, are there?
Either way, the banks and CC issuers never seem to take the hit, so it wouldn't seem in their interest to try to do much to stop people from copying RFID numbers and start making fraudulent charges. Either the merchant (most likely) or the consumer in some cases, gets screwed, so my original point stands.
Generally, you can probably buy something and just say its fraud, keep the item, and get your money back with no hassle, if you don't do it that often. CC Companies and banks don't care one way or another, they do not take ANY of the hit from a chargeback. The entire chargeback comes from the merchant, on top of a chargeback fee of at least $35, so only the mercahnts are hurt.
My Cingular Motorola v220 I just got is silent by default when capturing grainy 640x480 pictures. I'm not sure there is an option to have a sound, but I don't care because I would just use my 5MP digital camera, not my cell phone, if I needed a picture of something.
Tested under VMWare, under both Windows 2000 and Windows XP clean install images. Installed both FF 1.0.6 and then later 1.5 Beta 1 (after restoreing the OS image to remove traces of 1.0.6). I tried tag soup and with a strict doctype. I tried putting quotes around all the ---. I tried putting hundreds of extra ---s. Nothing resulted in anything except being redirected to Google with keyword:----- appearing in the location bar.
Telling all the AIM people on my ICQ contact list to no longer send messages to that account, but instead to a brand new account, for no reason other then to change my IM client.
It doesn't work because the AIM people already on my ICQ contact list have my ICQ UIN in their AIM. I don't want to have to give out a new account to half of the people. The worst part is when the AIM contacts are ignored, so are any incoming messages from those AIM contacts! Yes, getting a AIM account which is not an ICQ UIN would work, but it also means redoing all my contact lists, for no real gain other then changing clients. I don't want all that hassle, and I like having 1 single IM account to keep track of.
Like Trillian, Miranda-IM doesn't support ICQ if you put AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. Unlike Trillian, Miranda will let you use your ICQ UIN as an AIM account, and load the full and proper contact list, but it will then leave all of your ICQ contacts as just numbers. Either way, it's entirely useless, just like Trillian, and people like me still have to use ICQ 2003b to fully utilize their existing contact list.
Yes, I know ICQ UINs are AIM accounts, that the POINT here. I only have one account (a 7 digit UIN) which has both UINs and alphanumeric AIM names on the contact list. Signing into iChat works, and iChat is an AIM-only client. It doesn't pull up nicknames for the UINs on the contact list, but it works just fine. Using Trillian will completely ignore all alphanumeric AIM names on my contact list. It doesn't matter if I set up Trillian to use the UIN as ICQ or as AIM, either way, Trillian only pulls up the portion of my contact list that are UIN contacts. I have no way to communicate to the AIM names on my contact list with Trillian, and the official response from Trillian was "oh well, that feature is not supported", so I reverted back to ICQ 2003b, since I don't really want ICQ Lite. I tried Miranda-IM as well, and it fails in the same waay as Trillian - no AIM names are pulled up, only the ICQ UINs, but I think if I set up Miranda as AIM instead of ICQ, it works like iChat, but its really annoying to have 2/3 of my contact list just listed as some random number, since using it as AIM doesn't pull up the ICQ nickname for me.
You must only have ICQ contacts on your ICQ contact list. I currently use ICQ 2003b still and have many AIM contacts on my ICQ contact list, and I have no AIM account. I can log into other ICQ or AIM clients using just my ICQ number, and all my ICQ and AIM contacts show up. For example, on OSX, I can log into iChat with my ICQ UIN and the buddy list it pulls up contains some AIM screennames, as well as a bunch of screennames that are just icq numbers. Logging into ICQ will pull up the icq numbers and show the proper icq nickname, and also pull up the AIM screennames just fine as well. However, using Trillian 3.1 will pull up only a partial list of ICQ contacts, containing only the people who are actually on the ICQ network. All of my contacts that are not a UIN are completely ignored and dropped, and any messages they may send to me are just silently ignored as well. I tried setting trillian up as either ICQ or AIM using my UIN, but neither work. I'm not getting a separate AIM screenname and telling all my old contacts to use that new screenname just to make Trillian happy. I even posted on the Trillian forums and they basically said "oh well!" it's not supported.
I just tried Trilian the other day. It doesn't support ICQ basically because of several limitations involving 8 digit cutoffs, forcing your password to lowercase, and refusing to load AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. What a piece of junk.
Exactly. Only really really braindead software actually misidentifies Opera, so its usage stats will likely not shoot up any significant amount. What will happen though is webpages from 1998 will have to be updated to stop checking for IE vs NS4 with silly useragent checks and start using object existance checks.
Google maps doesn't support mouse wheel (yet?), but it does support the keyboard arrows, as well as the click+drag. The arrows work to move the viewer, click+drag works to move the map. Moving the mouse (without holding the button down) usually moves the viewer, not the object, in any 3D FPS type game, so the wheel should move the viewer forward when clicked up, and if you hold the mouse button down and move the wheel up, then it could move the object and zoom out.
The "bigfoot" drives I saw go bad quite often. Not only that, but they were 5.25" and loud! Honestly, I worked in a local computer repair shop part time when I was in college, and recently, no drives fail like Maxtors. Yes other drives fail and people brought them back for replacement, but not nearly in the volumes that the Maxtors did. Even the kid who bought 4 Maxtor drives and a Promise RAID controller for RAID 0+1 had 3 of those drives fail within a 2 month timespan.
I have lots of various IBM/Hitachi drives in my systems including 160GB, 120GB, 80GB, 45GB, and 40GB, as well as some 9GB Seagate drives. None of the Hitachi drives make any significant noise at all. They are incredibly quiet. The 9GB Seagates on the other hand hum very loundly, but none of my drives make any sort of screeching noise.
For map viewing software, it is no different then a FPS game. You are still moving your own viewpoint around. The annoying thing is that Google seems to have done it wrong from the start. I don't really want to download either of these, when the online map tools work just fine for me, but if they ever add mouse wheel support to the online Google maps, I really hope they have wheel up = zoom in.
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No, the problem says it is with the CCD, and no image appears on the LCD because no image was taken.
It seems all the digital photo printing kiosks I've seen (mostly at Meijer) are just a PC hooked to an inkjet printer anyway. You can hear the printer going back and forth just like your home printer would. It's definately not the same machine they use for film prints there at least.
Just downgrade to 20fps or something, cutting every so many frames, or get two leaked copies and splice in the good frames from ones that have matching frames with red dots only on one copy. I don't think its really possible for this big annoying red dot watermarking idea to be undefeatable.
Maybe they edited the clips and removed the single frame which contains the "red dots" pattern flash that they used to watermark the particular copy. A single missing frame from a long running clip would hardly be noticable. Much less noticable then the red dots themselves, to me at least.
My friends give me the same kind of crazy looks, and probably for the same reason. It's clearly a watermark to me, not dust or scratches. Wish I could somehow get them to notice so more people start seeing them like I do.
Does anybody else really notice those random patterns of red dots that flash on the screen for a split second every now and then through-out a movie? It is REALLY annoying to me, and I constantly see them to the point where I don't really enjoy seeing a movie in the theature as much.
You know, you can put your desktop in your car, just like you can a laptop.
(seriously, I do it all the time, it takes no more extra time to take a desktop someplace than it does to take a laptop)
Isn't Limewire just a GNUtella client? Just use GNUcleus instead.
I've only dealt with internet sales, which are basically MOTO, but there is never an original receipt, so the customer always gets their money back, and I always get hit with the $35 fee myself.
How does this work at places like Meijer U-Scan where you just sign on a little LCD screen? There are no store-kept receipts there, are there?
Either way, the banks and CC issuers never seem to take the hit, so it wouldn't seem in their interest to try to do much to stop people from copying RFID numbers and start making fraudulent charges. Either the merchant (most likely) or the consumer in some cases, gets screwed, so my original point stands.
Generally, you can probably buy something and just say its fraud, keep the item, and get your money back with no hassle, if you don't do it that often. CC Companies and banks don't care one way or another, they do not take ANY of the hit from a chargeback. The entire chargeback comes from the merchant, on top of a chargeback fee of at least $35, so only the mercahnts are hurt.
My Cingular Motorola v220 I just got is silent by default when capturing grainy 640x480 pictures. I'm not sure there is an option to have a sound, but I don't care because I would just use my 5MP digital camera, not my cell phone, if I needed a picture of something.
Tested under VMWare, under both Windows 2000 and Windows XP clean install images. Installed both FF 1.0.6 and then later 1.5 Beta 1 (after restoreing the OS image to remove traces of 1.0.6). I tried tag soup and with a strict doctype. I tried putting quotes around all the ---. I tried putting hundreds of extra ---s. Nothing resulted in anything except being redirected to Google with keyword:----- appearing in the location bar.
The problem isn't AOL, the problem is both Trillian and Miranda have only partial ICQ support. ICQ 2003b works just fine.
Telling all the AIM people on my ICQ contact list to no longer send messages to that account, but instead to a brand new account, for no reason other then to change my IM client.
It doesn't work because the AIM people already on my ICQ contact list have my ICQ UIN in their AIM. I don't want to have to give out a new account to half of the people. The worst part is when the AIM contacts are ignored, so are any incoming messages from those AIM contacts!
Yes, getting a AIM account which is not an ICQ UIN would work, but it also means redoing all my contact lists, for no real gain other then changing clients. I don't want all that hassle, and I like having 1 single IM account to keep track of.
Like Trillian, Miranda-IM doesn't support ICQ if you put AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. Unlike Trillian, Miranda will let you use your ICQ UIN as an AIM account, and load the full and proper contact list, but it will then leave all of your ICQ contacts as just numbers. Either way, it's entirely useless, just like Trillian, and people like me still have to use ICQ 2003b to fully utilize their existing contact list.
Yes, I know ICQ UINs are AIM accounts, that the POINT here. I only have one account (a 7 digit UIN) which has both UINs and alphanumeric AIM names on the contact list. Signing into iChat works, and iChat is an AIM-only client. It doesn't pull up nicknames for the UINs on the contact list, but it works just fine. Using Trillian will completely ignore all alphanumeric AIM names on my contact list. It doesn't matter if I set up Trillian to use the UIN as ICQ or as AIM, either way, Trillian only pulls up the portion of my contact list that are UIN contacts. I have no way to communicate to the AIM names on my contact list with Trillian, and the official response from Trillian was "oh well, that feature is not supported", so I reverted back to ICQ 2003b, since I don't really want ICQ Lite. I tried Miranda-IM as well, and it fails in the same waay as Trillian - no AIM names are pulled up, only the ICQ UINs, but I think if I set up Miranda as AIM instead of ICQ, it works like iChat, but its really annoying to have 2/3 of my contact list just listed as some random number, since using it as AIM doesn't pull up the ICQ nickname for me.
You must only have ICQ contacts on your ICQ contact list. I currently use ICQ 2003b still and have many AIM contacts on my ICQ contact list, and I have no AIM account. I can log into other ICQ or AIM clients using just my ICQ number, and all my ICQ and AIM contacts show up. For example, on OSX, I can log into iChat with my ICQ UIN and the buddy list it pulls up contains some AIM screennames, as well as a bunch of screennames that are just icq numbers. Logging into ICQ will pull up the icq numbers and show the proper icq nickname, and also pull up the AIM screennames just fine as well. However, using Trillian 3.1 will pull up only a partial list of ICQ contacts, containing only the people who are actually on the ICQ network. All of my contacts that are not a UIN are completely ignored and dropped, and any messages they may send to me are just silently ignored as well. I tried setting trillian up as either ICQ or AIM using my UIN, but neither work. I'm not getting a separate AIM screenname and telling all my old contacts to use that new screenname just to make Trillian happy. I even posted on the Trillian forums and they basically said "oh well!" it's not supported.
I just tried Trilian the other day. It doesn't support ICQ basically because of several limitations involving 8 digit cutoffs, forcing your password to lowercase, and refusing to load AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. What a piece of junk.
Exactly. Only really really braindead software actually misidentifies Opera, so its usage stats will likely not shoot up any significant amount. What will happen though is webpages from 1998 will have to be updated to stop checking for IE vs NS4 with silly useragent checks and start using object existance checks.
Google maps doesn't support mouse wheel (yet?), but it does support the keyboard arrows, as well as the click+drag. The arrows work to move the viewer, click+drag works to move the map. Moving the mouse (without holding the button down) usually moves the viewer, not the object, in any 3D FPS type game, so the wheel should move the viewer forward when clicked up, and if you hold the mouse button down and move the wheel up, then it could move the object and zoom out.
The "bigfoot" drives I saw go bad quite often. Not only that, but they were 5.25" and loud!
Honestly, I worked in a local computer repair shop part time when I was in college, and recently, no drives fail like Maxtors. Yes other drives fail and people brought them back for replacement, but not nearly in the volumes that the Maxtors did. Even the kid who bought 4 Maxtor drives and a Promise RAID controller for RAID 0+1 had 3 of those drives fail within a 2 month timespan.
I have lots of various IBM/Hitachi drives in my systems including 160GB, 120GB, 80GB, 45GB, and 40GB, as well as some 9GB Seagate drives. None of the Hitachi drives make any significant noise at all. They are incredibly quiet. The 9GB Seagates on the other hand hum very loundly, but none of my drives make any sort of screeching noise.
For map viewing software, it is no different then a FPS game. You are still moving your own viewpoint around. The annoying thing is that Google seems to have done it wrong from the start. I don't really want to download either of these, when the online map tools work just fine for me, but if they ever add mouse wheel support to the online Google maps, I really hope they have wheel up = zoom in.