Actually if I read that thing right (reminds me of some HORRID code) it looks like it's not 'no analog to digital conversion' but rather it prohibits analog-digital and analog to analog that doesn't obey whatever encoded 'rules' (no copy, copy once, copy many but still copyrighted) and it must not do anything to the encoded 'rules' themselves, except pass them on (I think it allows changing copy once to no copy) and it MUST do that.
Not shure but it probably puts the same restrictions on digital to digital.
It also makes a bunch of distinctions between pay per view and subscription and premium subscription and so on.
I found a link to it at http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr4569
As others have pointed out before you not only have to boycott, but be vocal about it. Elswise the *AA's and such will just say "revenues are down, it must be piracy, quick lets buy more laws to enforce our income".
We could wind up with such idiot things as a 'priracy re-imbursment' tax on all blank media or this 'we get screw with computers we suspect of illeagle sharing' law they suggested a while back. Or something even worse.
One minor problem with that. AIW's 'honor' macrovision by total screwing up the picture if it's detected (ever see what 'scrambled' analog cable channel looks like still scrambled?).
Though with the right driver versions you can get a patch for the earlier (radeon AIW's up to 9200 iirc) AIW's that bypass this as the drivers are where the 'honoring' is done.
Unfortunately my first AIW is a 9600 and the one I just got is an 800xt so no joy for me there. (I got the 800xt AIW as it was on sale as cheap as a plain x850 pro).
Yep mine ('99 Mustang convertable) cuts in about 110mph(177kph). It's still accellerating just fine at 105, but by 110 it's barely going up with over 2k left till redline.
I only just now found out the speed rating on my tires (T, up to 118mph/190kph). I bought them with traction more in mind as I'd heard Mustangs didn't rate very high compared to other simular cars, and it being convertible doesn't help (lack of a solid roof reduces the rigidity of the structure a bit). Not to mention I don't anticipate needing the top end very often, the accelleration is much more usefull and isn't so likely to cause the apearance of lots of flashing red and blue lights in the rear-view mirror.
Somewhere I read that the level of controll of the regeneration process varied amoungst Time Lords. Romanadvoratrelundar had a lot more ability than The Doctor, but it was akin to how musical talent or mathematical aptitude varies rather than a gender based difference.
There's a good reason to work fast food instead of teaching, it pays better.
I'm sorry to say it, but it's often true. I know a lady with a masters degree in education and all the rest of it who is a manager for a pizza delivery place (Papa Johns). She started the job while in school and by the time she finished her degree she'd worked her way up to general manager, wich pays almost twice what her degree would get her as a primary school teacher.
All four exists. I've used both kinds of tank heaters (gas and electric ones that heat a full tank over time and add heat as necessary) and seen or seen ads for 'instant, hot water heaters using both electrical and gas heaters.
And for that matter I see no reason why this couldn't be adapted for tank designs eigther (whether it would be a good idea or not I leave to others).
I have an old 2x cdrom that probably dosen't do multi-session. Problem with many cdroms that old is they often required specialized interfaces (pre-atapi) that were sometimes on ISA boards.
Of course you could get yourself software to simply read all the sessions on the disc. ISO Buster has worked for me. It was quite able to read the real music tracs one protected disc I had. Last I checked it was still free.
The non-ryhme is a joke (which you probably got, but just in case...) I first heard it on an old tv show (martin and rollins laugh in??iirc) being recited by the guy that played the professor on Gilligan's Island.
This was also true of Commodore machines and many others. I went so far as to spend $10 (in mid 80's dollars) to buy a notching tool as it used to cost up to twice as much (IIRC) for the 'double sided' disks.
Mycroft
Re:Isn't this like what happened with GIFs?
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Actually that's not exactly correct, GIF can support more than 256 colors, it's just that using the fomat to do so requires a bit of 'finess'. That and the fact that for the longest time most programs didn't support creating >256 color images (why bother when most computers couldn't display them).
If your currious about it, or want evidence the try these two links: http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
If you want to be pedantic about it ANY digitized image is lossy in the manner you speak of (though at about 21bits or so most of us can't tell with just our eyes), nature's bpp AND resolution is much higher than scanners and thus even at the bit-depth of high end scanners and digital cameras some data is lost. At some point (several usually) between the original light bouncing around and the stored image file you WILL lose data. Lossless generally means the data put into the compressor can be exactly reproduced by the compressor.
Both correctable. I've done it myself and it's not that hard with decent software. Some software even has built in tools to correct for these.
Plus the two year old scanner I have (that was near the bottom end when I bought it) generates pretty clean scans if the source hasn't been abused in some way. I would hope newer scanners do at least as good.
It's relevant because the 'replacement' isn't such a good idea much of the time.
My point was that the two image formats are for two different kinds of images and don't work as well when used incorrectly.
It'd be like suggesting that a sub-compact is a good replacement for a 1 ton truck. Or that a spoon is interchangeable with a fork.
Probably conincidental at best. Expecially if it only colors on paper they provide.
Lots of chemicals that are transparent themselves, but when mixed turn some color.
I remember back a few years they had these markers that you could write on paper with, but it left no trace till you used a 'special decoder marker' on it at which time the writing showed up. There were several colors you could write with but only one kind of 'decoder' marker was needed.
Yes, png in usually the wrong choice for photgraphs from a file-size perspective.
However it's been my observationg that people tend to make the reverse mistake, using JPEG for non phot-realistic images and both mucking them up AND creating a bigger file than png would create.
Just check out almost any scanned cartoon/anime/ect. type image on the net.
Mycroft
Re:Isn't this like what happened with GIFs?
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Not exactly. In fact JPEG's and GIF's are targetted at two different kinds of images.
Gifs (and later png's) work better for images with large areas of constant color (cartoon type images) where JPEG's are better for photgraphic like images where the the shifts in color are more gradual.
Also JPEG is usually a lossy format (there is a lossless mode, but it's essentially a totally different form of compression) where as GIF and PNG are lossless.
Using the wrong one can result in HUGE filesizes compared to using the right format for the job. Some apear to think a JPEG will always be a smaller final file because lossy should be smaller than lossless, but for drawings and cartoons this is often false. I've seen images (real images from real sources, not some 'ideal' image, or cherry picked image) that are much smaller in png than jpeg unless you turn the quality on the jpeg incoder so low that you can't tell horse from a house.
Actually TV resolution (USA, non-high definition) is fairly close to 640x480, slightly less.
It's interlaced so you get every other row on each pass (odd rows one pass, even the other) and get 60 passes per second.
Strange luck you have. I've lived in Missouri for 35+ years and the two or three people I've run into who didn't accept evolution were all highschool age kids (and that was while I was still in highschool).
This includes about two years living in a town with approx 1 church per 80 people, though most of the time I've lived within an hour of St.louis city and much of it in St. Louis county.
As a practical matter it's unlikely to come up soon. However my point was that if the document concerned only bans GOVERNMENTS from laying claim to the moon it doesn't necessarily follow that individuals or corporations are banned simply by virtue exisisting within the juridiction of those governments, expecially not in the US because of the treaties clause in the constitution which apears to have been misunderstood.
So while the US may be proscribed from going up there and claming a few thousand acres, it may not be so for Pepsi or GM or MS Bill Gates.
Actually the Warden hasn't been giving to many orders lately, some of our more recent 'rice' shipments might have had something to do with that.
You might want to warn any takers on the rice offer that A)prices have gone up to cover increases in incoming suply costs and B) shipment to ground co-ordinates has been known to cause issues.
Multiple "clocks" are used, and when most of them agree on 100 to 102 million years ago we can be fairly confident it wasn't last wednesday or even 80 million years ago.
I am not familiar with all the various dating methods, but there are several that rely on fairly well understood mechanisms.
You can probably find more googling around for info.
I don't totally agree with this, but by the same token I don't think it should go completly the other way eigther.
It should be possible for the 'birth parents' to deny thier identies being given without consent however.
My aunt gave birth to three children in her life, but gave the second one up for adoption. No one knew except (maybe, not a clear detail here) her best friend who she stayed with the last 5 months of the pregnancy and she claimed the child had been still-born.
Fast forward almost thirty years and she has hunted down her biological relatives. Unfortunately this was two years after my aunt had died of cancer.
She visited her two 'brothers' and met a few of her 'aunts' and 'cousins' and that's about it other than the occasional letter to her brothers(actually 1/2 brothers, even to each other).
Generally it was minor splash in peoples lives, but no big deal other than the sadness that she didn't find us before my aunt passed away.
How such a thing goese down really depends on the people involved. If they've all got a fairly healthy grip on themselves and thier lives it's likely to be o.k., if not drama may ensue.
In general I think the 'birth' parent should have say over thier own anonymity, as should the adoptee for that matter. Though I wouldn't take issue if certain medical data was made available to the adoptee, as long as it was done VERY carefully.
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Actually if I read that thing right (reminds me of some HORRID code) it looks like it's not 'no analog to digital conversion' but rather it prohibits analog-digital and analog to analog that doesn't obey whatever encoded 'rules' (no copy, copy once, copy many but still copyrighted) and it must not do anything to the encoded 'rules' themselves, except pass them on (I think it allows changing copy once to no copy) and it MUST do that.
Not shure but it probably puts the same restrictions on digital to digital.
It also makes a bunch of distinctions between pay per view and subscription and premium subscription and so on.
I found a link to it at http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr4569
Mycroft
As others have pointed out before you not only have to boycott, but be vocal about it. Elswise the *AA's and such will just say "revenues are down, it must be piracy, quick lets buy more laws to enforce our income".
We could wind up with such idiot things as a 'priracy re-imbursment' tax on all blank media or this 'we get screw with computers we suspect of illeagle sharing' law they suggested a while back. Or something even worse.
Mycroft
One minor problem with that. AIW's 'honor' macrovision by total screwing up the picture if it's detected (ever see what 'scrambled' analog cable channel looks like still scrambled?).
Though with the right driver versions you can get a patch for the earlier (radeon AIW's up to 9200 iirc) AIW's that bypass this as the drivers are where the 'honoring' is done.
Unfortunately my first AIW is a 9600 and the one I just got is an 800xt so no joy for me there. (I got the 800xt AIW as it was on sale as cheap as a plain x850 pro).
Mycroft
Yep mine ('99 Mustang convertable) cuts in about 110mph(177kph). It's still accellerating just fine at 105, but by 110 it's barely going up with over 2k left till redline.
I only just now found out the speed rating on my tires (T, up to 118mph/190kph). I bought them with traction more in mind as I'd heard Mustangs didn't rate very high compared to other simular cars, and it being convertible doesn't help (lack of a solid roof reduces the rigidity of the structure a bit). Not to mention I don't anticipate needing the top end very often, the accelleration is much more usefull and isn't so likely to cause the apearance of lots of flashing red and blue lights in the rear-view mirror.
Mycroft
Somewhere I read that the level of controll of the regeneration process varied amoungst Time Lords. Romanadvoratrelundar had a lot more ability than The Doctor, but it was akin to how musical talent or mathematical aptitude varies rather than a gender based difference.
Mycroft
There's a good reason to work fast food instead of teaching, it pays better.
I'm sorry to say it, but it's often true. I know a lady with a masters degree in education and all the rest of it who is a manager for a pizza delivery place (Papa Johns). She started the job while in school and by the time she finished her degree she'd worked her way up to general manager, wich pays almost twice what her degree would get her as a primary school teacher.
Mycroft
All four exists. I've used both kinds of tank heaters (gas and electric ones that heat a full tank over time and add heat as necessary) and seen or seen ads for 'instant, hot water heaters using both electrical and gas heaters.
And for that matter I see no reason why this couldn't be adapted for tank designs eigther (whether it would be a good idea or not I leave to others).
Mycroft
Minor off topic note: Stargate Atlantis is broadcast to over the air tv as well as on cable. It runs a season behind just like SG1 however.
Mycroft
I have an old 2x cdrom that probably dosen't do multi-session. Problem with many cdroms that old is they often required specialized interfaces (pre-atapi) that were sometimes on ISA boards.
Of course you could get yourself software to simply read all the sessions on the disc. ISO Buster has worked for me. It was quite able to read the real music tracs one protected disc I had. Last I checked it was still free.
Mycroft
The non-ryhme is a joke (which you probably got, but just in case...)
I first heard it on an old tv show (martin and rollins laugh in??iirc) being recited by the guy that played the professor on Gilligan's Island.
Mycroft
This was also true of Commodore machines and many others.
I went so far as to spend $10 (in mid 80's dollars) to buy a notching tool as it used to cost up to twice as much (IIRC) for the 'double sided' disks.
Mycroft
Actually that's not exactly correct, GIF can support more than 256 colors, it's just that using the fomat to do so requires a bit of 'finess'. That and the fact that for the longest time most programs didn't support creating >256 color images (why bother when most computers couldn't display them).
If your currious about it, or want evidence the try these two links: http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
If you want to be pedantic about it ANY digitized image is lossy in the manner you speak of (though at about 21bits or so most of us can't tell with just our eyes), nature's bpp AND resolution is much higher than scanners and thus even at the bit-depth of high end scanners and digital cameras some data is lost. At some point (several usually) between the original light bouncing around and the stored image file you WILL lose data. Lossless generally means the data put into the compressor can be exactly reproduced by the compressor.
Mycroft
Both correctable. I've done it myself and it's not that hard with decent software. Some software even has built in tools to correct for these.
Plus the two year old scanner I have (that was near the bottom end when I bought it) generates pretty clean scans if the source hasn't been abused in some way. I would hope newer scanners do at least as good.
Mycroft
It's relevant because the 'replacement' isn't such a good idea much of the time.
My point was that the two image formats are for two different kinds of images and don't work as well when used incorrectly.
It'd be like suggesting that a sub-compact is a good replacement for a 1 ton truck. Or that a spoon is interchangeable with a fork.
Mycroft
Probably conincidental at best. Expecially if it only colors on paper they provide.
Lots of chemicals that are transparent themselves, but when mixed turn some color.
I remember back a few years they had these markers that you could write on paper with, but it left no trace till you used a 'special decoder marker' on it at which time the writing showed up. There were several colors you could write with but only one kind of 'decoder' marker was needed.
Mycroft
Yes, png in usually the wrong choice for photgraphs from a file-size perspective.
However it's been my observationg that people tend to make the reverse mistake, using JPEG for non phot-realistic images and both mucking them up AND creating a bigger file than png would create.
Just check out almost any scanned cartoon/anime/ect. type image on the net.
Mycroft
Not exactly. In fact JPEG's and GIF's are targetted at two different kinds of images.
Gifs (and later png's) work better for images with large areas of constant color (cartoon type images) where JPEG's are better for photgraphic like images where the the shifts in color are more gradual.
Also JPEG is usually a lossy format (there is a lossless mode, but it's essentially a totally different form of compression) where as GIF and PNG are lossless.
Using the wrong one can result in HUGE filesizes compared to using the right format for the job. Some apear to think a JPEG will always be a smaller final file because lossy should be smaller than lossless, but for drawings and cartoons this is often false. I've seen images (real images from real sources, not some 'ideal' image, or cherry picked image) that are much smaller in png than jpeg unless you turn the quality on the jpeg incoder so low that you can't tell horse from a house.
Mycroft
Actually TV resolution (USA, non-high definition) is fairly close to 640x480, slightly less.
It's interlaced so you get every other row on each pass (odd rows one pass, even the other) and get 60 passes per second.
Mycroft
Strange luck you have. I've lived in Missouri for 35+ years and the two or three people I've run into who didn't accept evolution were all highschool age kids (and that was while I was still in highschool).
This includes about two years living in a town with approx 1 church per 80 people, though most of the time I've lived within an hour of St.louis city and much of it in St. Louis county.
Mycroft
As a practical matter it's unlikely to come up soon. However my point was that if the document concerned only bans GOVERNMENTS from laying claim to the moon it doesn't necessarily follow that individuals or corporations are banned simply by virtue exisisting within the juridiction of those governments, expecially not in the US because of the treaties clause in the constitution which apears to have been misunderstood.
So while the US may be proscribed from going up there and claming a few thousand acres, it may not be so for Pepsi or GM or MS Bill Gates.
Mycroft
Actually the Warden hasn't been giving to many orders lately, some of our more recent 'rice' shipments might have had something to do with that.
You might want to warn any takers on the rice offer that A)prices have gone up to cover increases in incoming suply costs and B) shipment to ground co-ordinates has been known to cause issues.
Mcyroft
If the treaty specifies countries it wouldn't apply to individual people any more than a treaty that specified automobiles would aplie to cats.
Mycroft
Got # of chromosomes and amount of dna all mixed up.
THX
Mycroft
Multiple "clocks" are used, and when most of them agree on 100 to 102 million years ago we can be fairly confident it wasn't last wednesday or even 80 million years ago.
I am not familiar with all the various dating methods, but there are several that rely on fairly well understood mechanisms.
You can probably find more googling around for info.
Mycroft
I don't totally agree with this, but by the same token I don't think it should go completly the other way eigther.
It should be possible for the 'birth parents' to deny thier identies being given without consent however.
My aunt gave birth to three children in her life, but gave the second one up for adoption. No one knew except (maybe, not a clear detail here) her best friend who she stayed with the last 5 months of the pregnancy and she claimed the child had been still-born.
Fast forward almost thirty years and she has hunted down her biological relatives. Unfortunately this was two years after my aunt had died of cancer.
She visited her two 'brothers' and met a few of her 'aunts' and 'cousins' and that's about it other than the occasional letter to her brothers(actually 1/2 brothers, even to each other).
Generally it was minor splash in peoples lives, but no big deal other than the sadness that she didn't find us before my aunt passed away.
How such a thing goese down really depends on the people involved. If they've all got a fairly healthy grip on themselves and thier lives it's likely to be o.k., if not drama may ensue.
In general I think the 'birth' parent should have say over thier own anonymity, as should the adoptee for that matter. Though I wouldn't take issue if certain medical data was made available to the adoptee, as long as it was done VERY carefully.
Mycroft