Why do movie producers INSIST on alienating and disgusting their target market?
It's not like people who weren't familiar with the game are going to go see it. (Unless it involves a hot female role: See Ecks vs. Sever or Tomb Raider).
But jesus, it's Doom. It fucking WRITES ITSELF. Just give us imps, gore, and cool FX in space and hell.
Many BIOS allow for a hard-drive spin-up before booting. It would be wise if this was set for it's longest setting. This would give the CPU a chance to heat up the case a bit.
I think what it is... is that there's a bit of circuitry after the RF input on the TV, after the channel filter, but before the amplifier that would get it to the voltage level of external regular composite input. If that part of the circuit is being interfered with, then it could overlay the composite signal leaking from teh DS, which gets amplified, and appears in the NTSC feed.
A standard composite input wouldn't need that amplifier so that circuitry in that signal path is probably not sensitive enough to pick up the stray NTSC from the DS.
Similarly, feeding straight composite into your RF does absolutely jack, since you'd have to modulate your NTSC signal for that to work (the RF interface always demodulates, and demodulating a non-modulated signal == garbage)
But maybe other composite/s-video enabled devices can leak a signal in this fashion? Try it!
there's an enabled but unused S-Video/Composite NTSC output pin on the video driver chip, which is being picked up by the TV.... the TV would have to pick that up somewhere post-channel filter but pre-amplification... because the signal in the DS wouldn't also be accidentally RF modulated, that's for sure. But the signal the TV gets from antenna/cable after demodulation is basically the same as a composite output... so there you go.
It's likely that the chip ultimately responsible for the display is not quite a custom fab and contains both an LCD driver and also an S-Video/Composite output as well. Sort of like how every Radeon chip has a DVI, VGA-RGBA and S-Video outputs, even if not all three are enabled on various models. There could be a trace with no terminating connector inside that if held near a TV, could radiate that signal to be picked up somewhere after the RF-baseband but before being amplified... or something like that.
There are tons of tower-replacement type computers out there. HTPCs, those mini Shuttle PCs, those tiny Dell Dimensions, DTR laptops, etc. etc. You're just not _looking_ for them, or maybe the price is turning you off?
on the power button; preventing accidental power-off.
I can't tell you how often it is that accidentally press the power button with my leg, foot, or arm, especially if I want to get behind it for some reason. (This was back in the day when my APM was never set up right). The fact that now a mere brush against it will only bring up a dialog box and not shut the system down immediately is a great comfort.
Leave the original as is, but update a redo log as the user performs operations. Only when the user saves do you commit the changes from the log to the file. This has the added benefit of being an undo/redo history backing for your "project" file (assuming the app is based on projects or workspaces).
An oil pipeline would make a much more impressive explosion than a burst H2 transport. (primarily because H2 dissapates _very_ rapidly). I think hydrogen is safer w.r.t. terrorists/industrial accidents. Unfortunately we don't have an inexpensive way to get it from hither to thither. It might be that we have to go to intermediary carriers, like methane or something.
1) you need to produce the coke 2) you need to do something with the carbon monoxide 3) you need to heat the water to > 1000 C directly (not as a side effect of some other process, as in the articles' nuclear reactor)
Are the energy/material costs of 1, 2 and 3 close to or not much greater than the costs of operating a nuclear reactor and dealing with the cooling reduction placed on it by the hydrogen producing process?
I'd bet my left kidney it is the smallest molecule in the universe. I mean, there ain't much else smaller that one of the hydrogens in H2 could bond to 'cept more hydrogen.::eye roll::
playfair was first. Jon didn't write playfair. in fact, the usage notes for deDRMS mention you need to use VLC to get your "user key"; a feature that was part of the original playfair which was later integrated into VLC.
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Similarly, we've got no evidence he's done anything except compile the freely available VC-1 code in this latest iteration. No idea if it supports encrypted streams or what.
of course, the quality of software bundled varies from network to network. I would be surprised if it didn't in most camera phones here because most people would be too stupid to know any better, and they'd complain if the email was too slow.
plus your eyes have a long "exposure" (although it's not synrconous... this allows for a compromise of quick motion detection plus fine-detail resolution in dim light)
He is I guess what you would call a "PR guy" for a group of talented individuals (hackers) who do the work. It didn't even have to be anyone at nanocrew, it could have been someone else who was too shy or afraid to release this stuff herself. (Big bad microsoft and all)
The issue with that is that a user won't be able to call those programs, nor ldconfig find those libraries, if they are in weird directories.
What's needed is for distros to adopt the/etc/profile.d whole-heartedly, and to sort of "abuse" that to add managed scripts that set up your environment to deal with packages outside of/usr/bin.
So if you install mozilla, which drops a bunch of binaries in/opt/mozilla/mozilla-1.8/bin, then you also get a script called mozilla.sh in/etc/profile.d, which states somewhere:
Similarly, if installing libs, maybe it needs a post install script that simply seds through/etc/ld.so.conf and adds the directory for lib if ain't there, then runs ldconfig after?
Otherwise we'll continue to see this sort of uncertainty about what files belong where.
Now, one other thing to keep in mind is... rpm -q --whatprovides somefile is very useful. Even if you have cluttered directories, you should always know what package owns which file. You just have to ask. So now we ask ourselves, is it that big a deal, so long as you don't --force too often?
It's trying to say that it's what you add in later that doesn't come with the system. A system being defined as the ENTIRE distro (Linux, Solaris, whatever)... of course you would not have installed the whole thing, but just because you add the package later doesn't mean it's not "the system".
Despite what you may think, glibc IS linux. (hurd doesn't count) Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
The linux kernel makes concessions to glibc, and vice-versa.
The linux PAM implementation is very linux-specific. NIS is userspace, but the implementation is tied to and implements parts of glibc, making it a linux-only thing.
These things are important to linux interoperability and managability. But the ideas came from Sun.
You _can_ sue an ad agency for some sort of action like this, provided you can prove it was malicious.
But it is ultimately the site owners' duty to pay the bandwidth bill. The bandwidth provider doesn't care how the traffic was directed to your site, and whether it was wanted or not. At no point does the ad agency enter into that contract.
If they can get any money back by suing for damages, I suppose that's the fairest outcome.
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Why do movie producers INSIST on alienating and disgusting their target market?
It's not like people who weren't familiar with the game are going to go see it. (Unless it involves a hot female role: See Ecks vs. Sever or Tomb Raider).
But jesus, it's Doom. It fucking WRITES ITSELF. Just give us imps, gore, and cool FX in space and hell.
I think people downplay Minnesota... they shouldn't. North Dakota it ain't.
Many BIOS allow for a hard-drive spin-up before booting. It would be wise if this was set for it's longest setting. This would give the CPU a chance to heat up the case a bit.
I like the idea of a theme-able, CSS-toting IRC client. It makes for interesting possibilities (think JerkCity).
Can't we have both? ^_^
I think what it is... is that there's a bit of circuitry after the RF input on the TV, after the channel filter, but before the amplifier that would get it to the voltage level of external regular composite input.
If that part of the circuit is being interfered with, then it could overlay the composite signal leaking from teh DS, which gets amplified, and appears in the NTSC feed.
A standard composite input wouldn't need that amplifier so that circuitry in that signal path is probably not sensitive enough to pick up the stray NTSC from the DS.
Similarly, feeding straight composite into your RF does absolutely jack, since you'd have to modulate your NTSC signal for that to work (the RF interface always demodulates, and demodulating a non-modulated signal == garbage)
But maybe other composite/s-video enabled devices can leak a signal in this fashion? Try it!
there's an enabled but unused S-Video/Composite NTSC output pin on the video driver chip, which is being picked up by the TV. ... the TV would have to pick that up somewhere post-channel filter but pre-amplification... because the signal in the DS wouldn't also be accidentally RF modulated, that's for sure. But the signal the TV gets from antenna/cable after demodulation is basically the same as a composite output... so there you go.
It's likely that the chip ultimately responsible for the display is not quite a custom fab and contains both an LCD driver and also an S-Video/Composite output as well.
Sort of like how every Radeon chip has a DVI, VGA-RGBA and S-Video outputs, even if not all three are enabled on various models.
There could be a trace with no terminating connector inside that if held near a TV, could radiate that signal to be picked up somewhere after the RF-baseband but before being amplified... or something like that.
Seriously... what a maroon.
There are tons of tower-replacement type computers out there. HTPCs, those mini Shuttle PCs, those tiny Dell Dimensions, DTR laptops, etc. etc.
You're just not _looking_ for them, or maybe the price is turning you off?
on the power button; preventing accidental power-off.
I can't tell you how often it is that accidentally press the power button with my leg, foot, or arm, especially if I want to get behind it for some reason. (This was back in the day when my APM was never set up right).
The fact that now a mere brush against it will only bring up a dialog box and not shut the system down immediately is a great comfort.
Leave the original as is, but update a redo log as the user performs operations.
Only when the user saves do you commit the changes from the log to the file.
This has the added benefit of being an undo/redo history backing for your "project" file (assuming the app is based on projects or workspaces).
An oil pipeline would make a much more impressive explosion than a burst H2 transport. (primarily because H2 dissapates _very_ rapidly).
I think hydrogen is safer w.r.t. terrorists/industrial accidents.
Unfortunately we don't have an inexpensive way to get it from hither to thither.
It might be that we have to go to intermediary carriers, like methane or something.
1) you need to produce the coke
2) you need to do something with the carbon monoxide
3) you need to heat the water to > 1000 C directly (not as a side effect of some other process, as in the articles' nuclear reactor)
Are the energy/material costs of 1, 2 and 3 close to or not much greater than the costs of operating a nuclear reactor and dealing with the cooling reduction placed on it by the hydrogen producing process?
I'd bet my left kidney it is the smallest molecule in the universe. I mean, there ain't much else smaller that one of the hydrogens in H2 could bond to 'cept more hydrogen. ::eye roll::
Jon repackages existing, available stuff, and likes to take a bit of credit for that.
playfair was first. Jon didn't write playfair. in fact, the usage notes for deDRMS mention you need to use VLC to get your "user key"; a feature that was part of the original playfair which was later integrated into VLC.
c id =8967845
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105348&
Similarly, we've got no evidence he's done anything except compile the freely available VC-1 code in this latest iteration. No idea if it supports encrypted streams or what.
of course, the quality of software bundled varies from network to network.
I would be surprised if it didn't in most camera phones here because most people would be too stupid to know any better, and they'd complain if the email was too slow.
plus your eyes have a long "exposure" (although it's not synrconous... this allows for a compromise of quick motion detection plus fine-detail resolution in dim light)
Oh, I don't know, what do you think?
I mean, is the whole stream encrypted or is there a content-control header that DirectShow marshals that you can ignore?
He is I guess what you would call a "PR guy" for a group of talented individuals (hackers) who do the work. It didn't even have to be anyone at nanocrew, it could have been someone else who was too shy or afraid to release this stuff herself. (Big bad microsoft and all)
The issue with that is that a user won't be able to call those programs, nor ldconfig find those libraries, if they are in weird directories.
/etc/profile.d whole-heartedly, and to sort of "abuse" that to add managed scripts that set up your environment to deal with packages outside of /usr/bin.
/opt/mozilla/mozilla-1.8/bin, then you also get a script called mozilla.sh in /etc/profile.d, which states somewhere:
O ZHOME/bin
/etc/ld.so.conf and adds the directory for lib if ain't there, then runs ldconfig after?
What's needed is for distros to adopt the
So if you install mozilla, which drops a bunch of binaries in
MOZHOME=/opt/mozilla/mozilla-1.8
PATH=$PATH:$M
export PATH
You get the idea.
Similarly, if installing libs, maybe it needs a post install script that simply seds through
Otherwise we'll continue to see this sort of uncertainty about what files belong where.
Now, one other thing to keep in mind is... rpm -q --whatprovides somefile is very useful. Even if you have cluttered directories, you should always know what package owns which file. You just have to ask. So now we ask ourselves, is it that big a deal, so long as you don't --force too often?
It's trying to say that it's what you add in later that doesn't come with the system.
A system being defined as the ENTIRE distro (Linux, Solaris, whatever)... of course you would not have installed the whole thing, but just because you add the package later doesn't mean it's not "the system".
Despite what you may think, glibc IS linux. (hurd doesn't count)
Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
The linux kernel makes concessions to glibc, and vice-versa.
The linux PAM implementation is very linux-specific. NIS is userspace, but the implementation is tied to and implements parts of glibc, making it a linux-only thing.
These things are important to linux interoperability and managability. But the ideas came from Sun.
You _can_ sue an ad agency for some sort of action like this, provided you can prove it was malicious.
But it is ultimately the site owners' duty to pay the bandwidth bill. The bandwidth provider doesn't care how the traffic was directed to your site, and whether it was wanted or not. At no point does the ad agency enter into that contract.
If they can get any money back by suing for damages, I suppose that's the fairest outcome.