Dumbass. Read your result again. kBps. Notice the capital B. Bytes not bits
Think of an hours worth of MPEG4. Fits on a CD easily, doesn't it? 512megs per hour sounds reasonable. That's with 5.1 dolby and fancy shit.
I'm surprised they aren't claiming it holds 800+ hours of video, or even more. What if I just want to archive C-SPAN, and can live with a lower resolution, and 22khz mono audio?
It also only says it writes an hour of video in 56 seconds, but it doesn't say that it does it on DVD. How long does it take to write a CD at 48x+?
It's not a DVD-Video disc, obviously. It's just dumping a CD-sized MPEG-4 onto the disc, or hell even less. I could make an hour-long video clip that would fit on a couple floppies, but I cant imagine it being worth watching.
Huh? Are you on crack? People file hundreds if not thousands of FOIA requests every day, the vast majority of which are fulfilled. Mostly for mundane shit, tax records, etc.
There are some laws that trump FOIA, like HIPAA (I can't request Sgt Someguy's medical history from the Army).
Some of these restrictions are really bad, the TSA is excempt from the FOIA, so noone knows exactly what the rules at the airports are.
People play chess because they enjoy chess. Why would someone play just to cheat? What's the reward?
"Time chess" aside, how could you cheat anyways? As soon as I see a rook move diagonally, or two pieces move at a time, I know theres cheating. How exactly do you "cheat" at chess without it being blatantly obvious?
Now if they found out how to "cheat" at blackjack or poker on an online Casino, that's something to talk about. There's cash money involved. People generally secure things where there's something to lose.
You want to come over and play chess, and start knocking my pieces off when I'm not looking and shit, go ahead. It just makes you an idiot.
I just don't see the big whoop with this story. It makes sense that the ICC isn't the Fort Knox of the internet, why would it be?
We know 'god damned well' because big-budget Hollywood films like "Full Metal Jacket", "Platoon" and "Apocolypse Now" tell us what happened!
I mean, I know a couple vets. They disagree with the popular media images of Vietnam, and claim said image was more heavily shaped by the protests than the actual goings-on over there.
But they aren't movie stars, or politicians with agendas, so why the hell would anyone listen to them and their "first hand" experiences.
Most of the most brilliant programmers out there did it for a paycheck every week.
Is the guy who wrote mIRC less worthy of respect than the guy who maintains X-chat? At least he was smart enough to be able to make a carreer out of his hobby, and is the guy most responsible for the popularity of IRC in the first place.
I'd much rather get a paycheck than the adulation of a bunch of zitty 13 year olds in moms basement scraping the last drops of vaseline out of the jar with their cheeto encrusted fingertips.
You see, Windows and other unixes (FreeBSD etc) have ACLs. You can assign permissions on a file to multiple groups and users. If I want "jimbo" to be able to execute "sol.exe", I give jimbo execute permissions, or have him inherit them from a group he's in.
That is what "grained access control" is. Not a cheesy app that lets jimbo become "root" (or anyone else). Jimbo's actions are logged as jimbo.
Linux lacks this, and thus needs sudo.
RunAs is just for those times when you really don't feel like logging out and back in to fix your ACLs, say you have to run setup.exe just once and it's not worth the bother.
But, such people don't really exist. That's just an old joke that's been played to death in the media.
I guess geeks like to think that everyone else is incapable of the magical feats they accomplish with ease, maybe it makes them feel superior or something.
But the average guy could not only program his VCR if he wanted to, but he could write the same perl scripts that you do. This is why so much offshoring is going on, jobs migrating to people with less education.
It would be nice if people actually took notice that the Supreme court has been making the laws for the past 20 years rather than congress.
I think this is really sad. It should be irrelevant who appoints who to what court, so long as they're qualified to do what a judge does: interpret the law.
So much legislating is being done from the bench by appointed judges. People who've never been voted for making policy.
What's next? Will we allow police officers to pass judgements and sentences? Let them decide what's illegal or not?
Some people just don't give a flying fuck if their VCR is showing the correct time or not. So long as they can stick in a tape and press the play button and it works.
Anyone could program a VCR except for the severely retarded, and you know that. And quite frankly, even the severely retardeds votes are worth every bit as much as yours, you old-school ivory tower asshole.
You aren't elite, smarter or better than anyone. Just out of touch, like the rest of the republicrats.
You're right, but they do have a "stance", it's just based on profit and not ideals.
Way back when, the country was largely conservative, and most media outlets reflected this. People got bored. All of a sudden bleeding hearts like Donahue get really popular, because they're bucking the trend and doing something different and controversial.
So the pendulum slowly swings the other way. Boardroom types see the popularity of the liberal hosts, and saturate the media with them. Now the bleeding heart liberal stuff starts to bore, and folks like Rush Limbaugh gain popularity, because his message is different and controversial.
Which is sort of where we are now. PC liberalism is the norm, and the Limbaughs and Hannitys and G Gordon Liddys are the "rebels". Of course, the airwaves are becoming slowly saturated with these guys, and the pendulum starts to swing the other way.
None of it is about ideals or political views, just attracting audiences as you say. All with the "the views expressed in the following..." caveat, of course, so you can never blame the media outlets themselves for hypocrisy.
They have the same stance on all of the "issues". That would be simply the line people want to hear. Education good, taxes bad, etc..
Two-party politics will always be about "that guys a bigger asshole than me!"
Which is why the message needs to get out that voting third party or independant is NOT a waste of a vote. At the least, it's a message to the incumbent republicrats that people are getting sick of the status quo.
Gawd I wish people would realize that Presidential politics doesn't have to be flipping a coin. A or B.
Independants and third parties have sat in Congress, Senate and have been Governors. Why not presidents?
Bush's campaign message is "Kerry is a pussy and shouldn't be president"
Kerry's message is "Bush is a dummy and shouldn't be president".
Know what, they're both right! Neither should be president.
Voting for someone other than Bush/Kerry is most definately NOT throwing your vote away. That's old party propoganda, pure and simple.
No matter who wins this election, when they start to see that the amount of independant/3rd party votes is climbing in the double digits, they will shit their pants and you will start seeing real policy changes.
Remember that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
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What the hell are you talking about? Are you an AOLer or something?
You aren't burning an hours worth of MPEG2 onto a DVD in 56 seconds.
IIRC "NT Object Filing System != WinFS"
WinFS is supposed to be based on SQL Server, when NTOFS was announced, MicroSoft hadn't yet acquired SQL Server.
I thought NTOFS was what morphed into the fast-find thingie that shipped with Office.
Perhaps they use a better codec than TiVo?
IIRC, TiVos are (were?) using MPEG-2. I've seen plenty of 2 hour DIVX's (MPEG-4) that fit onto a 700mb CD with excellent picture quality.
No need for CD-quality audio either, broadcast audio isn't quite CD-quality.
Dumbass. Read your result again. kBps. Notice the capital B. Bytes not bits
Think of an hours worth of MPEG4. Fits on a CD easily, doesn't it? 512megs per hour sounds reasonable. That's with 5.1 dolby and fancy shit.
I'm surprised they aren't claiming it holds 800+ hours of video, or even more. What if I just want to archive C-SPAN, and can live with a lower resolution, and 22khz mono audio?
It also only says it writes an hour of video in 56 seconds, but it doesn't say that it does it on DVD. How long does it take to write a CD at 48x+?
It's not a DVD-Video disc, obviously. It's just dumping a CD-sized MPEG-4 onto the disc, or hell even less. I could make an hour-long video clip that would fit on a couple floppies, but I cant imagine it being worth watching.
It's a DVR with a built in DVD-burner. The DVR has a 400 gig hard drive, so they say it can hold 700 hours worth of TV.
Does this decode CSS for you?
If not, the MPAA doesn't care.
Huh? Are you on crack? People file hundreds if not thousands of FOIA requests every day, the vast majority of which are fulfilled. Mostly for mundane shit, tax records, etc.
There are some laws that trump FOIA, like HIPAA (I can't request Sgt Someguy's medical history from the Army).
Some of these restrictions are really bad, the TSA is excempt from the FOIA, so noone knows exactly what the rules at the airports are.
Anyways, what in the fuck are you talking about?
No, why would you?
People play chess because they enjoy chess. Why would someone play just to cheat? What's the reward?
"Time chess" aside, how could you cheat anyways? As soon as I see a rook move diagonally, or two pieces move at a time, I know theres cheating. How exactly do you "cheat" at chess without it being blatantly obvious?
Now if they found out how to "cheat" at blackjack or poker on an online Casino, that's something to talk about. There's cash money involved. People generally secure things where there's something to lose.
You want to come over and play chess, and start knocking my pieces off when I'm not looking and shit, go ahead. It just makes you an idiot.
I just don't see the big whoop with this story. It makes sense that the ICC isn't the Fort Knox of the internet, why would it be?
It means you hack it so it looks like it took 0 seconds to make your moves.
It means absolutely nothing to people who play conventional chess, where a match could last for years. People have played chess by snailmail.
I guess if you're into that slam the clock "speed-chess", it's a cheat.
Thanks, that means a lot coming from someone of absolutely zero importance.
If you ever rub elbows with the crowds that really get into chess, you'll find them an honorable bunch.
There's nothing for them to gain by cheating at chess. There's no reason to expect anyone else to cheat at chess. Thus, little reason for security.
We know 'god damned well' because big-budget Hollywood films like "Full Metal Jacket", "Platoon" and "Apocolypse Now" tell us what happened!
I mean, I know a couple vets. They disagree with the popular media images of Vietnam, and claim said image was more heavily shaped by the protests than the actual goings-on over there.
But they aren't movie stars, or politicians with agendas, so why the hell would anyone listen to them and their "first hand" experiences.
Why's that flamebait?
Most of the most brilliant programmers out there did it for a paycheck every week.
Is the guy who wrote mIRC less worthy of respect than the guy who maintains X-chat? At least he was smart enough to be able to make a carreer out of his hobby, and is the guy most responsible for the popularity of IRC in the first place.
I'd much rather get a paycheck than the adulation of a bunch of zitty 13 year olds in moms basement scraping the last drops of vaseline out of the jar with their cheeto encrusted fingertips.
RunAs isn't a very important tool to Windows.
You see, Windows and other unixes (FreeBSD etc) have ACLs. You can assign permissions on a file to multiple groups and users. If I want "jimbo" to be able to execute "sol.exe", I give jimbo execute permissions, or have him inherit them from a group he's in.
That is what "grained access control" is. Not a cheesy app that lets jimbo become "root" (or anyone else). Jimbo's actions are logged as jimbo.
Linux lacks this, and thus needs sudo.
RunAs is just for those times when you really don't feel like logging out and back in to fix your ACLs, say you have to run setup.exe just once and it's not worth the bother.
True enough. Sudo is a cheeseball hack to overcome some unix's lack of real access control.
Emulation isn't the same.
I'd rather spend my efforts maintaining my REAL vintage gaming stuff.
Ripping apart one of my dogbone NES controllers to hack on a USB dongle is sacrelige.
But, such people don't really exist. That's just an old joke that's been played to death in the media.
I guess geeks like to think that everyone else is incapable of the magical feats they accomplish with ease, maybe it makes them feel superior or something.
But the average guy could not only program his VCR if he wanted to, but he could write the same perl scripts that you do. This is why so much offshoring is going on, jobs migrating to people with less education.
It would be nice if people actually took notice that the Supreme court has been making the laws for the past 20 years rather than congress.
I think this is really sad. It should be irrelevant who appoints who to what court, so long as they're qualified to do what a judge does: interpret the law.
So much legislating is being done from the bench by appointed judges. People who've never been voted for making policy.
What's next? Will we allow police officers to pass judgements and sentences? Let them decide what's illegal or not?
It's not an inability, you dope.
Some people just don't give a flying fuck if their VCR is showing the correct time or not. So long as they can stick in a tape and press the play button and it works.
Anyone could program a VCR except for the severely retarded, and you know that. And quite frankly, even the severely retardeds votes are worth every bit as much as yours, you old-school ivory tower asshole.
You aren't elite, smarter or better than anyone. Just out of touch, like the rest of the republicrats.
You're right, but they do have a "stance", it's just based on profit and not ideals.
Way back when, the country was largely conservative, and most media outlets reflected this. People got bored. All of a sudden bleeding hearts like Donahue get really popular, because they're bucking the trend and doing something different and controversial.
So the pendulum slowly swings the other way. Boardroom types see the popularity of the liberal hosts, and saturate the media with them. Now the bleeding heart liberal stuff starts to bore, and folks like Rush Limbaugh gain popularity, because his message is different and controversial.
Which is sort of where we are now. PC liberalism is the norm, and the Limbaughs and Hannitys and G Gordon Liddys are the "rebels". Of course, the airwaves are becoming slowly saturated with these guys, and the pendulum starts to swing the other way.
None of it is about ideals or political views, just attracting audiences as you say. All with the "the views expressed in the following..." caveat, of course, so you can never blame the media outlets themselves for hypocrisy.
Why would it be about issues?
They have the same stance on all of the "issues". That would be simply the line people want to hear. Education good, taxes bad, etc..
Two-party politics will always be about "that guys a bigger asshole than me!"
Which is why the message needs to get out that voting third party or independant is NOT a waste of a vote. At the least, it's a message to the incumbent republicrats that people are getting sick of the status quo.
Gawd I wish people would realize that Presidential politics doesn't have to be flipping a coin. A or B.
Independants and third parties have sat in Congress, Senate and have been Governors. Why not presidents?
Bush's campaign message is "Kerry is a pussy and shouldn't be president"
Kerry's message is "Bush is a dummy and shouldn't be president".
Know what, they're both right! Neither should be president.
Voting for someone other than Bush/Kerry is most definately NOT throwing your vote away. That's old party propoganda, pure and simple.
No matter who wins this election, when they start to see that the amount of independant/3rd party votes is climbing in the double digits, they will shit their pants and you will start seeing real policy changes.
Remember that the lesser of two evils is still evil.