Binoculars not only dont help, they hurt. Telescopes even more... You need to be able to watch as much of the sky as possibly... the small aperture of any maginification device will only cause you to muss most of the events...
I heard of another picture password method: The password is a series of clicks on a picture the user submitted. The challange is viewing the image, and the user does 4 or 5 clicks in the right areas. If the chi^2 of the x/y locations lower than a threshold->passed. For example, a shot from a concert and the right clicks would be bass drum->face of the singer->tits of chick in the first line->marschall logo on one of the speakers... Easy to remember, impossible to guess.
I dont think everybody should know when if im online, currently afk, ect. Thats the whole reason this thing is called "buddy list". I dont want people that ARENT my buddies tracking me with the ICQ.
There is no magic behind it to make it impossible to reengineer... Its just to save bandwith, and it looks like they just removed all unneeded whitespace and renamed all variables/functions with single letters. I had programms back in z80 times that would do the same with basic code, just to save some of the precious 64K memory. And here, same as gmail, every item gets requested billions of times, so 20 or 30% size reduction is noticable...
Yeah, and the sad thing is that you cant stop aim clients to add you to their buddy list. The "only on permission" setting is only honoured by ICQ clients, not by aim...
AFAIK, you are mistaken. The highest end stuff i know of is in the 100+ Mpixel area, plut those "cheat" (they have 1D sensor lines scanning the image, so forget about anything that could move).
Its for people spending 30K for watching movies... Those kind of people dont want to bother copying 100s of titles, or searching around for just THAT movie that has to be somewhere.... People who look at the price dont buy a 27K Dvd-player. No matter what features....
Just bypass the menu ui of the dvd. The extras still have position markers in the vob file, so you can use the low level navigation interfaces of the decoder software to jump to all strange tracks. And i guess thats just what this software does...
Open your fucking driver setup ini file, remove the lines that check for windows version, install driver, will work. Heck, even the "for xp only" Radeon display drivers work that way, and these are FAR closer to the kernel than some idiotic dvd-burner.
I can read TONS of "but i always used the computer and am still the brightest guy around" posts. Sit down, and THINK!
Back when most here present started their computer use, computers werent entertainment stuff that every grandma owned. Getting into computers needed real attention, technical interest, an open mind to find out how things work, ect. Of course, when only nerds use computers, computerusers are smart. But maybe everyone would have been smarter if he didnt spend that much time with the computer. I certainly would.
Nowadays, most "average" users use pcs as an entertainment system, with an added value that they can fool others that they are learning/doing something useful. And that certainly doesnt help...
I agree. Normal computer use is like tv-zapping^2. Take a textbook and read it, or take a sheet of paper to write something, you can concentrate and archive something. Have your computer with the webbrowser open, then there will be icq popups, new email, winamp in the background, plus the quick game or cool website is only a second away from the boring "need to do" stuff, ready to be changed to at the first opportiunity. I remember that when i was a kid, i did ZERO useful stuff with the computer, and only learn if i was forced to...
My father was a hobby photograph when i was a kid, but because prints were expensive back than, he made slides. Now there are at least 3-4000 slides (im bad at guessing, its a whole shelf), all positive and framed, down in the basement. I want to get them somehow in the computer to prevent them from further degenerating. Any tips about a cheap scanner than can scan framed slides, possible half-automatic (like a projector)? No super quality needed (the quality isnt there to begin with), just time saving...
Iain Banks doesnt count:) Ok, i have only read Use Of Weapons (hope i have time for another culture book over chistmas), but that book was one of the VERY few that i had no idea how i would translate it into my motherlanguage without loosing half the meaning and all the coolness.
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No you shouldnt. Just like people that like BDSM shouldnt stop whipping each other. To everyone what he/she likes...
Im embracing. I have the whole gutenberg archive on my HD, and a HQ tft monitor. Most of the stuff is txt, some html, a few pdf. And I by far prefer reading the pdf. I hate the txt ones, and html is only tolerable if its broken into really small chapters. I have the preference because i TRIED the alternatives and found them lacking. Yeah, i also have pocketreader on my palm, but it sucks (simple hardware facts, the display is too small. Of course its a pda, so it shouldnt be to large, so thats excusable)
1) are you surprised if i tell you that normal newspaper print has only contrast ratio of around 10-20? Its black on dark gray. Worse than even dstn lcds. 2) Antialiasing makes fonts better. Always (ok, one exeption: extremely small fonts with an effective height of only 5-6 pixels. you can decypher most letters and thus recreate the next if not anti-aliased, but with aa it will be only blurry mess). Your fonts only look blurry because the native resolution is to low. 3) Agreed. In fact, having my pda running 5-10 hours, i would say that that number is far to low. To comfortable read longer stuff AND have book like availability (the chance to pick it up and not run out of juice the next hour), i guess 20-30h would be sensible. 4) I dont think about weight. Books are heavy... I wouldnt mind the reader being as heave as a bigger novel if otoh runtime is long and the screen big and high-res.
I agree about the spatial sense part. Thats why i dont understand those "we hate pdf, because thats only for printing" idiots. I WANT to read at page 25, 2nd article. Not somewhere in the middle of an endless html file...
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Which part of TCO didnt you understand? Perhaps the "total" part?
The magic is called "zip".
Open a staroffice document in winzip and you will find the content xml files...
Binoculars not only dont help, they hurt. Telescopes even more...
You need to be able to watch as much of the sky as possibly... the small aperture of any maginification device will only cause you to muss most of the events...
Concrete wall?
A pillar of a bridge?
Rock cliff?
Its not THAT hard to think of a lot of stuff that can withstand a car ap 200mph
I heard of another picture password method:
The password is a series of clicks on a picture the user submitted. The challange is viewing the image, and the user does 4 or 5 clicks in the right areas. If the chi^2 of the x/y locations lower than a threshold->passed.
For example, a shot from a concert and the right clicks would be bass drum->face of the singer->tits of chick in the first line->marschall logo on one of the speakers...
Easy to remember, impossible to guess.
I dont think everybody should know when if im online, currently afk, ect.
Thats the whole reason this thing is called "buddy list". I dont want people that ARENT my buddies tracking me with the ICQ.
There is no magic behind it to make it impossible to reengineer...
Its just to save bandwith, and it looks like they just removed all unneeded whitespace and renamed all variables/functions with single letters.
I had programms back in z80 times that would do the same with basic code, just to save some of the precious 64K memory.
And here, same as gmail, every item gets requested billions of times, so 20 or 30% size reduction is noticable...
Yeah, and the sad thing is that you cant stop aim clients to add you to their buddy list. The "only on permission" setting is only honoured by ICQ clients, not by aim...
AFAIK, you are mistaken.
The highest end stuff i know of is in the 100+ Mpixel area, plut those "cheat" (they have 1D sensor lines scanning the image, so forget about anything that could move).
Its for people spending 30K for watching movies...
Those kind of people dont want to bother copying 100s of titles, or searching around for just THAT movie that has to be somewhere....
People who look at the price dont buy a 27K Dvd-player. No matter what features....
think about it: its 2015.
Then, you will be watching hdtv in a crowded bus, via laser projection into your eye, or hdtv hud, or brainplug, ect...
Just bypass the menu ui of the dvd.
The extras still have position markers in the vob file, so you can use the low level navigation interfaces of the decoder software to jump to all strange tracks.
And i guess thats just what this software does...
Open your fucking driver setup ini file, remove the lines that check for windows version, install driver, will work.
Heck, even the "for xp only" Radeon display drivers work that way, and these are FAR closer to the kernel than some idiotic dvd-burner.
I can read TONS of "but i always used the computer and am still the brightest guy around" posts.
Sit down, and THINK!
Back when most here present started their computer use, computers werent entertainment stuff that every grandma owned. Getting into computers needed real attention, technical interest, an open mind to find out how things work, ect.
Of course, when only nerds use computers, computerusers are smart. But maybe everyone would have been smarter if he didnt spend that much time with the computer.
I certainly would.
Nowadays, most "average" users use pcs as an entertainment system, with an added value that they can fool others that they are learning/doing something useful.
And that certainly doesnt help...
ah, thx. , forgot that in america, grades are letters. If you get number grades, you do arithmethic mean automatically, no need for a fancy term :)
haha, if that counts, than falling down the stairs is a learning experience,too. rigid or not-so rigid body motion...
Is a 3.5 in highschool good or bad?
(is this a grade, or a comparative place in a list, ect)?
I agree.
Normal computer use is like tv-zapping^2.
Take a textbook and read it, or take a sheet of paper to write something, you can concentrate and archive something.
Have your computer with the webbrowser open, then there will be icq popups, new email, winamp in the background, plus the quick game or cool website is only a second away from the boring "need to do" stuff, ready to be changed to at the first opportiunity.
I remember that when i was a kid, i did ZERO useful stuff with the computer, and only learn if i was forced to...
There is still CLASSICAL forensics:
You can check if the hd was unplugged/the case opened, fingerprints inside, ect.
My father was a hobby photograph when i was a kid, but because prints were expensive back than, he made slides.
Now there are at least 3-4000 slides (im bad at guessing, its a whole shelf), all positive and framed, down in the basement. I want to get them somehow in the computer to prevent them from further degenerating.
Any tips about a cheap scanner than can scan framed slides, possible half-automatic (like a projector)? No super quality needed (the quality isnt there to begin with), just time saving...
Iain Banks doesnt count :)
Ok, i have only read Use Of Weapons (hope i have time for another culture book over chistmas), but that book was one of the VERY few that i had no idea how i would translate it into my motherlanguage without loosing half the meaning and all the coolness.
No you shouldnt.
Just like people that like BDSM shouldnt stop whipping each other.
To everyone what he/she likes...
Im embracing.
I have the whole gutenberg archive on my HD, and a HQ tft monitor.
Most of the stuff is txt, some html, a few pdf.
And I by far prefer reading the pdf. I hate the txt ones, and html is only tolerable if its broken into really small chapters.
I have the preference because i TRIED the alternatives and found them lacking. Yeah, i also have pocketreader on my palm, but it sucks (simple hardware facts, the display is too small. Of course its a pda, so it shouldnt be to large, so thats excusable)
and in eastern germany, everybody drove cardboard cars....
1) are you surprised if i tell you that normal newspaper print has only contrast ratio of around 10-20? Its black on dark gray. Worse than even dstn lcds.
2) Antialiasing makes fonts better. Always (ok, one exeption: extremely small fonts with an effective height of only 5-6 pixels. you can decypher most letters and thus recreate the next if not anti-aliased, but with aa it will be only blurry mess). Your fonts only look blurry because the native resolution is to low.
3) Agreed. In fact, having my pda running 5-10 hours, i would say that that number is far to low. To comfortable read longer stuff AND have book like availability (the chance to pick it up and not run out of juice the next hour), i guess 20-30h would be sensible.
4) I dont think about weight. Books are heavy... I wouldnt mind the reader being as heave as a bigger novel if otoh runtime is long and the screen big and high-res.
I agree about the spatial sense part.
Thats why i dont understand those "we hate pdf, because thats only for printing" idiots. I WANT to read at page 25, 2nd article. Not somewhere in the middle of an endless html file...