Another problem I see with that is we get bills now like "Save the Cute Kittens and Build a Bridge to Nowhere Act of 2008." What is a politician to do if they pledged to save the cute kittens and to oppose useless bridges to nowhere?
Of course, the ultimate solution would be get rid of riders and such. It would also take a lot of steam out some of the negative attack tactics used in campaigns.
It wasn't every time you divided. It only affected floating point operations, and Intel claims that only 1 in every 8.77 billion random divisions will show the error, and those familiar with the bug agree that Intel's analysis is more or less correct. That would explain how it got through the initial testing by Intel and that the bug wasn't noticed for a while by the general computing public. The whole thing was more of a PR disaster on Intel's part than anything else.
I suspect if schools went back to the old policy of charging for damaged textbooks kids would learn to treat 'em better and schools wouldn't have to replace them every couple of years.
Also, have the teachers stop requiring the kids to take the textbook to class everyday (unless they really do need the textbook everyday, like a math class). Not only would it reduce the wear and tear on the books, it will also help save the kids' backs.
You're missing the point. When that paper turns to dust, the magazine is gone forever. With a DVD, you don't have to worry about the disk turning to dust, so long as you've copied the data from it before it happens.
But scanner or photocopier glass, a ring light. It would be the way I'd go about it. 8MP cameras are common. You might want to go SLR, something like a Pentax or Nikon where you can get the a stock manual focus 50mm. For something that is, I presume, 9x7 inches I doubt you need a macro lens. I didn't say Canon as the mount changed from the manual focus days, but that's an option as well, just good bang for the buck with a used manual focus 50mm lens.
For a copystand, you can get away with an adaptor that doesn't allow for infinity focus, as you don't need infinity focus. Thus a Canon camera would be fine, as you could get a M42->Canon AF (or whatever) adaptor and still use a cheap manual focus lens.
If you'll browse the listings, you'll also notice tons of auctions for things like "Vintage ad for the Amiga 500", and "Vintage ad for Super Mario Brothers" and whatnot, usually fetching a few bucks apiece. It's pretty obvious that these sellers are taking old magazines like this, cutting out the more interesting ads to sell individually for more than they would get for the whole magazine, and likely trashing the rest. In a few years, who knows how many original, well preserved copies will be left?
You put as many photos as can fit on your flatbed scanner (no need to straighten them perfectly), scan the photos, and then click on File --> Automate --> Crop and Straighten Photos - this will break up all the scanned photos into individual files, arrange them so they are straight, after which you can then edit and save each one./i.
After scanning in nearly 7000 photos using Photoshop CS... how come no one ever tells me about these kind of things?
Unless you're planning on building rail everywhere, locating the big box stores like Sam's Club only next to rail depots is going to result in less big box stores, and increase the average distance people are going to have to travel to them. On top of that, since they are less convienent, people are going to tend towards larger vehicles so they don't have to make trips as often. I don't think that's the intended result.
The problem with trucks *is* the last mile of delivery, where you have city streets, intersections, congestion, pedestrians, etc. It's a far more dangerous environment than the wide open freeways between the cities.
Or it's just following the pattern that many new technologies take. The first generation is going to be high cost, low volume, and not really ready for the mass market. What this will hopefully do is serve as a test bed for technology that will filter down into vehicles ready for everyone else.
Depending on the level of control you have and what hardware is running, you might be able to overwrite the BIOS with garbage. That will effectively brick it.
Do you know what would have happened if they really had an alarm monitoring contract? As soon as you were done talking to them, they would have called the water utility too.
Well, that would accomplish what he was trying to do. It's not likely the people put a sticker on the house with the water utility's phone number, and that's not something most people have memorized or programmed in their phones either.
Where can you rent a laptop for a days? I've never seen this anywhere, the closest thing would be those rent-to-own places who really aren't interested in short term loans as they make all their money from small monthly payments that go on for years.
Even if such a place existed, I can't see them liking it when you wipe the drive. The time spent restoring the computer for the next customer would quickly cut into their margins.
At least in Windows, you can turn off Cleartype. OSX on a CRT, on the other hand, is a big blurry mess. It's still a blurry mess on a LCD too, but that's just my opinion.
Even in the 1960's, we had already been making B&W TVs for decades, so it's not like we were stuck with green/amber for technical reasons. Probably cost had more to do with it than anything else.
For color monitors, the white on blue and yellow on blue schemes are the best.
I've never understood that. White on blue is what we got back in grade school on the Apple IIgs computers they had, and I hated it then. Blue is hard color to focus on, and the white text doesn't help, nor did the quality of the screens Apple used back then. Eventually, I noticed that the older computers in the lab had the green on black monochrome screens, so I used those whenever I wasn't playing MECC games.
Nowadays, I prefer light on dark at home where I control the lighting (dim), and dark on grey at work where I don't control the lighting (bright).
Obviously if your primary concern is eye strain, you may not care much about the color rendering and whatnot, but a monitor where the contrast is good and has minimal pixel-walk and other artifacts would be best.
That's very a common problem with the dimming circuit in many monitors. Try turning the brightness all the way up, and it may go away. Whether having the screen burning your eyeballs out is better or worse than the flickering - that's up to you.
The only way they can possible block P2P in any future form is to block all inbound & outbound traffic with the exception of outbound HTTP, which is then heavily inspected. HTTPS would have to be through their proxy, which they can then inspect. That's the only way to stop it.
Whitelists would also work. What good is the internet if you can only connect to things like CNN, eBay, and MSN?
If that's what ends up happening, it won't be a big deal. Multi-threaded applications will run just fine on a single core CPU, we've doing it for years.
If I had to guess, it's because people like their TVs insanely bright compared to their computer monitors. Turn down the brightness a bit, and the energy useage drops by a lot (assuming the brightness control actually dims the bulb, not all screens do it that way). TVs also have to deal with powering the speakers and the tuner, which could account for 30-40W by themselves.
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But...but...Clinton....!!!
Another problem I see with that is we get bills now like "Save the Cute Kittens and Build a Bridge to Nowhere Act of 2008." What is a politician to do if they pledged to save the cute kittens and to oppose useless bridges to nowhere?
Of course, the ultimate solution would be get rid of riders and such. It would also take a lot of steam out some of the negative attack tactics used in campaigns.
It wasn't every time you divided. It only affected floating point operations, and Intel claims that only 1 in every 8.77 billion random divisions will show the error, and those familiar with the bug agree that Intel's analysis is more or less correct. That would explain how it got through the initial testing by Intel and that the bug wasn't noticed for a while by the general computing public. The whole thing was more of a PR disaster on Intel's part than anything else.
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I suspect if schools went back to the old policy of charging for damaged textbooks kids would learn to treat 'em better and schools wouldn't have to replace them every couple of years.
Also, have the teachers stop requiring the kids to take the textbook to class everyday (unless they really do need the textbook everyday, like a math class). Not only would it reduce the wear and tear on the books, it will also help save the kids' backs.
You're missing the point. When that paper turns to dust, the magazine is gone forever. With a DVD, you don't have to worry about the disk turning to dust, so long as you've copied the data from it before it happens.
But scanner or photocopier glass, a ring light. It would be the way I'd go about it. 8MP cameras are common. You might want to go SLR, something like a Pentax or Nikon where you can get the a stock manual focus 50mm. For something that is, I presume, 9x7 inches I doubt you need a macro lens. I didn't say Canon as the mount changed from the manual focus days, but that's an option as well, just good bang for the buck with a used manual focus 50mm lens.
For a copystand, you can get away with an adaptor that doesn't allow for infinity focus, as you don't need infinity focus. Thus a Canon camera would be fine, as you could get a M42->Canon AF (or whatever) adaptor and still use a cheap manual focus lens.
Building upon this idea, you could get a set of bellows if you think you'll want high resolution images of small areas of the pages. Here's a random Google result showing some of what you can do with a set of bellows.
http://forums.biorust.com/photography-photo-manipulation/6964-about-macro-photography.html
If you'll browse the listings, you'll also notice tons of auctions for things like "Vintage ad for the Amiga 500", and "Vintage ad for Super Mario Brothers" and whatnot, usually fetching a few bucks apiece. It's pretty obvious that these sellers are taking old magazines like this, cutting out the more interesting ads to sell individually for more than they would get for the whole magazine, and likely trashing the rest. In a few years, who knows how many original, well preserved copies will be left?
You put as many photos as can fit on your flatbed scanner (no need to straighten them perfectly), scan the photos, and then click on File --> Automate --> Crop and Straighten Photos - this will break up all the scanned photos into individual files, arrange them so they are straight, after which you can then edit and save each one./i.
After scanning in nearly 7000 photos using Photoshop CS... how come no one ever tells me about these kind of things?
*facepalm*
Unless you're planning on building rail everywhere, locating the big box stores like Sam's Club only next to rail depots is going to result in less big box stores, and increase the average distance people are going to have to travel to them. On top of that, since they are less convienent, people are going to tend towards larger vehicles so they don't have to make trips as often. I don't think that's the intended result.
The problem with trucks *is* the last mile of delivery, where you have city streets, intersections, congestion, pedestrians, etc. It's a far more dangerous environment than the wide open freeways between the cities.
Or it's just following the pattern that many new technologies take. The first generation is going to be high cost, low volume, and not really ready for the mass market. What this will hopefully do is serve as a test bed for technology that will filter down into vehicles ready for everyone else.
Wow, they have lakes in those confined spaces?
You've obviously never been to Vegas.
Surely you mean they cloned her MAC?
Depending on the level of control you have and what hardware is running, you might be able to overwrite the BIOS with garbage. That will effectively brick it.
Do you know what would have happened if they really had an alarm monitoring contract?
As soon as you were done talking to them, they would have called the water utility too.
Well, that would accomplish what he was trying to do. It's not likely the people put a sticker on the house with the water utility's phone number, and that's not something most people have memorized or programmed in their phones either.
Where can you rent a laptop for a days? I've never seen this anywhere, the closest thing would be those rent-to-own places who really aren't interested in short term loans as they make all their money from small monthly payments that go on for years.
Even if such a place existed, I can't see them liking it when you wipe the drive. The time spent restoring the computer for the next customer would quickly cut into their margins.
At least in Windows, you can turn off Cleartype. OSX on a CRT, on the other hand, is a big blurry mess. It's still a blurry mess on a LCD too, but that's just my opinion.
Even in the 1960's, we had already been making B&W TVs for decades, so it's not like we were stuck with green/amber for technical reasons. Probably cost had more to do with it than anything else.
For color monitors, the white on blue and yellow on blue schemes are the best.
I've never understood that. White on blue is what we got back in grade school on the Apple IIgs computers they had, and I hated it then. Blue is hard color to focus on, and the white text doesn't help, nor did the quality of the screens Apple used back then. Eventually, I noticed that the older computers in the lab had the green on black monochrome screens, so I used those whenever I wasn't playing MECC games.
Nowadays, I prefer light on dark at home where I control the lighting (dim), and dark on grey at work where I don't control the lighting (bright).
In terms of eye strain, what does the panel technology matter? Even the cheapest TN panels are perfectly sharp when you use a DVI connection.
I would recommend going to this page and check out some of the test images:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
Obviously if your primary concern is eye strain, you may not care much about the color rendering and whatnot, but a monitor where the contrast is good and has minimal pixel-walk and other artifacts would be best.
That's very a common problem with the dimming circuit in many monitors. Try turning the brightness all the way up, and it may go away. Whether having the screen burning your eyeballs out is better or worse than the flickering - that's up to you.
The only way they can possible block P2P in any future form is to block all inbound & outbound traffic with the exception of outbound HTTP, which is then heavily inspected. HTTPS would have to be through their proxy, which they can then inspect. That's the only way to stop it.
Whitelists would also work. What good is the internet if you can only connect to things like CNN, eBay, and MSN?
If that's what ends up happening, it won't be a big deal. Multi-threaded applications will run just fine on a single core CPU, we've doing it for years.
If I had to guess, it's because people like their TVs insanely bright compared to their computer monitors. Turn down the brightness a bit, and the energy useage drops by a lot (assuming the brightness control actually dims the bulb, not all screens do it that way). TVs also have to deal with powering the speakers and the tuner, which could account for 30-40W by themselves.