The first Lego tower was built in London in 1988, since then Toronto, Moscow, Sydney, Tokyo and Munich have been among the cities which have held the title.
That's a pretty fucking ingenious scam Lego's got going there. Each year, go to a new city and ask "wouldn't you like to have the world record for the world's largest lego tower?". And sales go through the roof in the host country until it's time to move the record onto the next country...
I don't have an actual windows machine, just a virtual machine that I'm connecting to via remote desktop, so I'm not entirely sure it's DirectWrite. Toggling compatibility mode doesn't seem to change anything for me at least.
Displayport is multilane (and Displayport 1.2 has twice the number of lanes as Displayport 1.0), and per spec has enough aggregate bandwidth (with 1.2) to drive a single display at 3840x2160 x 30bpp x 60hz. But, I'm not aware of any devices that actually supports that at this time.
HDMI 1.4 can do 4096x2160 at 24p, which is great for film, but not so good for computer displays, which you will probably want at 60 fps. Displayport can do 3840x2160 at 60p incidentally, and probably higher than that I would bet. I wonder what the next revision of the HDMI spec will bump HDMI up to...
A contract is voidable if the innocent party can prove that it had no other practical choice (as opposed to legal choice) but to agree to the contract.
In the above hypothetical scenario of someone who's house is burning down, there is no pratical choice but to accept whatever demands the fire department makes. Someone could always find another doctor.
keep the existing setup and virtualize it (vmware is nice, but, xen is free) upgrade the vm host hardware as needed or as necessary, instead of upgrading a machine that should really be left alone.
benefits: 1) minimal effort needed on your part 2) your dad doesn't need to learn new software as it is exactly the same, and all the data is retained 3) hardware upgrades are transparent to the client vm (hopefully)
(but, don't forget to routinely backup the data on the vm like any other machine though)
What's funny is, i had this exact same conversation with a Tell-Me-style automated computer agent when calling Time Warner Cable for support on my cable modem. It went a lot better than your example... but at the end it wasn't fixed and it's still not fixed.:(
if i get laid off, i would walk away with a lot of passwords, but, not necessarily because I'm stealing them... i know the local admin passwords on all the edge networking gear and all the servers on the dmz at work. and, if i get laid off, i'll still know the passwords. it's not like I'll forget them magically when I'm laid off. and, like most places, no one will even bother to change those passwords ever.
even worse than you think. i wrote a short script and went through ~1500 questions and there were only 138 uniques. it's trivial for anyone to just create a database of answers for that few a number of questions. i'm already working on writing a bot to take the quiz automatically
Oh, and your company might also want to look into a couple Japanese OEMs with products in that space
The hardware is cost-competitive with most of the other products on the market, but, probably at the expense of increased support costs
There's Sknet with their Monster X
And, Canopus Japan has a notable HDRECs product.
And, also earthsoft who I know has done some OEM work for Sony in their high defintion PVRs
As for "going digital", suggest a digital input/output that is universally available (e.g. is input for monitors, output for cameras, input/output for computers including Linux supported, and input/output for recording devices like DVD-R, DVR, etc)... and supports HD. Hint: I doubt you can find one.
Uh, HDMI? Isn't that kinda the obvious answer? Pratically every monitor has support for it (since DVI is just HDMI with a different connector and all you need is the right cable) and more and more cameras/camcorders/"video devices" have HDMI now, and there are a vendors with HDMI input/output devices for computers (although, Linux support is somewhat sparse, although, it is out there. See the other posts in this thread).
I've been using a blackmagic intensity pro for my own high definition video captures over hdmi/component
No linux support though, which is unfortunate
But it's very very very cheap (~$330 online for the pro, ~$235 for the hdmi-only version)
Didn't post in reply to your parent post as he was looking for something that was linux native, but, if you're working for an OEM, your company might be able to convince blackmagic to finally provide linux support.. They've been tethering on the edge for a while..
The problem is even if you actively choose not to use their system, security problems in their account creation or account login can still render your account wide open to whoever out there might try to hack it. So you really might as well use the service, if only to be able create a baseline and from thereon passively monitor it yourself to check for problems. Some banks are at least trying to get better in that regard, such as Bank of America has been been offering two-factor authentication that uses a cellphone as a keyfob, but, whether that's secure at all is anyone's guess. Also, if their service is crap, you could always use an aggregator like Yodlee, but, I suppose that it's own security risk in of itself.
There is a whole lot of available crypto hardware listed here.
I've used a Hifn Crypto Accelerator a year or three ago. Worked with OpenSSL for the most part.
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imagine two opposing robot armies tossing grenades back and forth...
That's a pretty fucking ingenious scam Lego's got going there. Each year, go to a new city and ask "wouldn't you like to have the world record for the world's largest lego tower?". And sales go through the roof in the host country until it's time to move the record onto the next country...
I don't have an actual windows machine, just a virtual machine that I'm connecting to via remote desktop, so I'm not entirely sure it's DirectWrite. Toggling compatibility mode doesn't seem to change anything for me at least.
Anyone know how to turn off cleartype? There doesn't seem to be an option for it in options, so, registry change?
Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning.
Displayport is multilane (and Displayport 1.2 has twice the number of lanes as Displayport 1.0), and per spec has enough aggregate bandwidth (with 1.2) to drive a single display at 3840x2160 x 30bpp x 60hz. But, I'm not aware of any devices that actually supports that at this time.
HDMI 1.4 can do 4096x2160 at 24p, which is great for film, but not so good for computer displays, which you will probably want at 60 fps. Displayport can do 3840x2160 at 60p incidentally, and probably higher than that I would bet. I wonder what the next revision of the HDMI spec will bump HDMI up to...
Country X in this case is Israel. Doxer identified himself as jewish when he tried to set this up in the first place. (source)
In the above hypothetical scenario of someone who's house is burning down, there is no pratical choice but to accept whatever demands the fire department makes. Someone could always find another doctor.
IANAL, but there's no way that contract would be considered valid, if it went to court. Signed "under duress".
the actual paper (word format, ugh).
the guy's blog
Free as in beer, I guess. :3
You're right though, i completely forgot about vmware server being free.
keep the existing setup and virtualize it (vmware is nice, but, xen is free)
upgrade the vm host hardware as needed or as necessary, instead of upgrading a machine that should really be left alone.
benefits:
1) minimal effort needed on your part
2) your dad doesn't need to learn new software as it is exactly the same, and all the data is retained
3) hardware upgrades are transparent to the client vm (hopefully)
(but, don't forget to routinely backup the data on the vm like any other machine though)
the first blurb was sorta believeable, then it went downhill from there..
(posting this just to get the achievement..)
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What's funny is, i had this exact same conversation with a Tell-Me-style automated computer agent when calling Time Warner Cable for support on my cable modem. It went a lot better than your example ... but at the end it wasn't fixed and it's still not fixed. :(
if i get laid off, i would walk away with a lot of passwords, but, not necessarily because I'm stealing them...
i know the local admin passwords on all the edge networking gear and all the servers on the dmz at work.
and, if i get laid off, i'll still know the passwords. it's not like I'll forget them magically when I'm laid off.
and, like most places, no one will even bother to change those passwords ever.
complete list of questions so far: http://www.well.com/~bcw/list.html
even worse than you think. i wrote a short script and went through ~1500 questions and there were only 138 uniques.
it's trivial for anyone to just create a database of answers for that few a number of questions.
i'm already working on writing a bot to take the quiz automatically
Oh, and your company might also want to look into a couple Japanese OEMs with products in that space
The hardware is cost-competitive with most of the other products on the market, but, probably at the expense of increased support costs
There's Sknet with their Monster X
And, Canopus Japan has a notable HDRECs product.
And, also earthsoft who I know has done some OEM work for Sony in their high defintion PVRs
Pratically every monitor has support for it (since DVI is just HDMI with a different connector and all you need is the right cable) and more and more cameras/camcorders/"video devices" have HDMI now, and there are a vendors with HDMI input/output devices for computers (although, Linux support is somewhat sparse, although, it is out there. See the other posts in this thread).
I've been using a blackmagic intensity pro for my own high definition video captures over hdmi/component
No linux support though, which is unfortunate
But it's very very very cheap (~$330 online for the pro, ~$235 for the hdmi-only version)
Didn't post in reply to your parent post as he was looking for something that was linux native, but, if you're working for an OEM, your company might be able to convince blackmagic to finally provide linux support.. They've been tethering on the edge for a while..
The problem is even if you actively choose not to use their system, security problems in their account creation or account login can still render your account wide open to whoever out there might try to hack it. So you really might as well use the service, if only to be able create a baseline and from thereon passively monitor it yourself to check for problems. Some banks are at least trying to get better in that regard, such as Bank of America has been been offering two-factor authentication that uses a cellphone as a keyfob, but, whether that's secure at all is anyone's guess. Also, if their service is crap, you could always use an aggregator like Yodlee, but, I suppose that it's own security risk in of itself.
Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity as per the Wi-Fi Alliance.
There is a whole lot of available crypto hardware listed here.
I've used a Hifn Crypto Accelerator a year or three ago. Worked with OpenSSL for the most part.