My diagnosis would be that the database is Unicode-friendly, but the Web server doesn't know about it. It still lists ISO-8859-1 in the header, and I bet if it just said UTF8 instead, things would be peachy.
The propaganda war is probably just as important as the "hot" war itself, so yes, the Pentagon probably really is getting its priorities right.
The terrorists' objective is to hold out as long as possible, and make things messy enough that the Americans lose their will to stick it out. It's happened before: Vietnam, Beiruit, Iraq the first time around, Somalia, etc.
They're doing everything they can to convince Americans to leave, and their willing accomplices in the media are glad to oblige, because they don't like George Bush.
Well we can't leave again. There's no choice but to make them blink first.
Democracy's all very well and good, but it's often at odds with the idea of limited government, which (I would say) is the primary attribute of the great experiment of this country.
One doesn't hear much about it these days, from either party.
What's your take on reducing the role of the federal government in general? (I'm not in Utah, so you're under no obligation to answer.:-)
I think you're right, but I wonder what effect that would have on the kind of shows that appear. For example, it works great in The OC, where the kids can listen to the "featured band" and flights are booked on American Airlines.
But what about something like Star Trek? Or (theoretically, for example) Lord of the Rings?
Will TV fiction be restricted to present-day Earth, just so real products can be integrated into the shows?
How does MythTV's Commercial Detection work? Surprisingly well. Ever wonder how it does such a good job of identifying commercials?
There are three key indicators that MythTV uses from recorded content to identify commercials.
A blank frame is many times sandwiched in-between the television show and the commercials. The most simple form of detecting commercials is to search for blank frames in the video feed. The problem with this is that it can be very misleading. There can be a blank frame anywhere. Just because there is a blank frame, doesn't mean it's a commercial break. You could easily end up with commercials marked as part of the show and parts of the show marked as commercial.
Scene transitions are another indicator. A scene transition is a cut between one video of something and a video of something else. A simple example would be in a newscast where someone is being interviewed. While the anchor is asking the question, you may see both the anchor and the person being interviewed. When the person being interviewed starts to answer the question, the scene "cuts" to a close-up of the face of the person answering the question. In regards to commercials, there is a scene transition "cut" between each commercial. Each commercial usually is unrelated to the next. The last frame of one commercial would be totally different from the first frame of the next. Looking for patterns in scene transitions is one way to identify commercials. Five groups of 30 second scenes all grouped together may be a good indication of a block of commercials. This method works better than the blank frame method, but also isn't foolproof. There's no reason scene changes in a show might not mimic commercials, and vis-versa.
The third indicator of commercials that MythTV uses I find rather ironic. Bugs, also referred to as DOGS (Digital On-Screen Graphics), or Watermarks. A Bug is that little TV station logo in usually the bottom right corner of your screen during a TV show. I find this ironic because one of the reasons or it being there is to build channel awareness in the world of digital video recorders like MythTV. Since DVR users usually find shows by name rather than by channel, they are less concerned with which station a show is on than are other viewers. MythTV watches for these things. Because the digital watermarks are generally not shown during commercials, identifying one and then watching for it is a good indication of when a commercial break starts or stops. While much more complicated to implement than watching for the blank frame or screen transition, in theory it's probably the most effective in some circumstances. Because in practice they are hard to identify on some stations, the actual implementation can be error prone.
MythTV looks for all three of these identifiers to locate commercials. It breaks each show up into scenes, and then applys a series of score for the scene based on looking at all three factors in relation to one another, especially taking timing and patterns into account. Based on the final score of a scene, it's either (essentially) dropped into the show bucket or the commercial bucket. It's not a black/white type thing. Because of the scoring, there are a whole range of grays in the middle. You end up with scenes that looks "more" like commercials or "more" like show content, and they are then flagged as such.
I've been quite impressed at the quality of the commercial flagger that MythTV has implemented. In my experience, the system does an excellent job.
I'm not calling into question the value of open drivers. But it seems that most people using nvidia's blob are running on desktop machines, either single-user or within the family. It would seem unlikely that these users are granting remote X sessions to untrustworthy people.
Okay, so how much are you willing to spend, and how many freedoms are you willing to destroy, to prevent one drop of lead-based solder from spilling on the ground?
The answer is always "more", no matter where things stand. The enviros have lost all credibility.
I think that, in fact, _was_ the argument against tobacco. The feds put those messages on, not the companies. They covered up their own studies that showed it was dangerous, before those messages appeared. My understanding of the argument of those who sued was that they became addicted back in the day when nobody knew it was dangerous _except the tobacco companies_.
Okay, does this non-ideal world include every single person taking his old machine to Dell instead of just throwing it away? Because that's what this proposal still requires.
Um... okay, so how do you make the end users turn their machines in to Sun instead of putting them at the bottom of their trash bag? Same problem.
And if disposal is regulated, instead of manufacture (as I'm claiming is more fair), the market will place a higher value on less nasty manufacturing. I don't see a difference in the manufacturers' interest.
The problem with the mandatory national recycling program is that it has the potential to start actual, rational debate and cost/benefit analysis, of which the "environmentalists" are deathly afraid.
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If I'd been that articulate in the original post, maybe it wouldn't have been marked flamebait.
Actually around here... yeah it would have. :-)
Amen, brother.
ADA = tyranny of the handicapped.
My diagnosis would be that the database is Unicode-friendly, but the Web server doesn't know about it. It still lists ISO-8859-1 in the header, and I bet if it just said UTF8 instead, things would be peachy.
It's called paying for the electricity.
Mine doesn't have a null key either.
I don't know what kind of crazy keyboard you're using, but on mine, the "i" and the "u" are right next to each other.
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/layout.html
The propaganda war is probably just as important as the "hot" war itself, so yes, the Pentagon probably really is getting its priorities right.
The terrorists' objective is to hold out as long as possible, and make things messy enough that the Americans lose their will to stick it out. It's happened before: Vietnam, Beiruit, Iraq the first time around, Somalia, etc.
They're doing everything they can to convince Americans to leave, and their willing accomplices in the media are glad to oblige, because they don't like George Bush.
Well we can't leave again. There's no choice but to make them blink first.
McCain-Feingold has pretty much shat on the whole point of the 1st Amendment already...
Democracy's all very well and good, but it's often at odds with the idea of limited government, which (I would say) is the primary attribute of the great experiment of this country.
One doesn't hear much about it these days, from either party.
What's your take on reducing the role of the federal government in general? (I'm not in Utah, so you're under no obligation to answer. :-)
If that's the case, what happened to Indiana? Lugar's running unopposed, isn't he?
Roughly 90% of web content consists of discussions of software patents...
Do you mean 90% of software patent discussions happen on the Web? I'd believe that a lot more easily.
I think you're right, but I wonder what effect that would have on the kind of shows that appear. For example, it works great in The OC, where the kids can listen to the "featured band" and flights are booked on American Airlines.
But what about something like Star Trek? Or (theoretically, for example) Lord of the Rings?
Will TV fiction be restricted to present-day Earth, just so real products can be integrated into the shows?
How does MythTV's Commercial Detection work? Surprisingly well. Ever wonder how it does such a good job of identifying commercials?
There are three key indicators that MythTV uses from recorded content to identify commercials.
A blank frame is many times sandwiched in-between the television show and the commercials. The most simple form of detecting commercials is to search for blank frames in the video feed. The problem with this is that it can be very misleading. There can be a blank frame anywhere. Just because there is a blank frame, doesn't mean it's a commercial break. You could easily end up with commercials marked as part of the show and parts of the show marked as commercial.
Scene transitions are another indicator. A scene transition is a cut between one video of something and a video of something else. A simple example would be in a newscast where someone is being interviewed. While the anchor is asking the question, you may see both the anchor and the person being interviewed. When the person being interviewed starts to answer the question, the scene "cuts" to a close-up of the face of the person answering the question. In regards to commercials, there is a scene transition "cut" between each commercial. Each commercial usually is unrelated to the next. The last frame of one commercial would be totally different from the first frame of the next. Looking for patterns in scene transitions is one way to identify commercials. Five groups of 30 second scenes all grouped together may be a good indication of a block of commercials. This method works better than the blank frame method, but also isn't foolproof. There's no reason scene changes in a show might not mimic commercials, and vis-versa.
The third indicator of commercials that MythTV uses I find rather ironic. Bugs, also referred to as DOGS (Digital On-Screen Graphics), or Watermarks. A Bug is that little TV station logo in usually the bottom right corner of your screen during a TV show. I find this ironic because one of the reasons or it being there is to build channel awareness in the world of digital video recorders like MythTV. Since DVR users usually find shows by name rather than by channel, they are less concerned with which station a show is on than are other viewers. MythTV watches for these things. Because the digital watermarks are generally not shown during commercials, identifying one and then watching for it is a good indication of when a commercial break starts or stops. While much more complicated to implement than watching for the blank frame or screen transition, in theory it's probably the most effective in some circumstances. Because in practice they are hard to identify on some stations, the actual implementation can be error prone.
MythTV looks for all three of these identifiers to locate commercials. It breaks each show up into scenes, and then applys a series of score for the scene based on looking at all three factors in relation to one another, especially taking timing and patterns into account. Based on the final score of a scene, it's either (essentially) dropped into the show bucket or the commercial bucket. It's not a black/white type thing. Because of the scoring, there are a whole range of grays in the middle. You end up with scenes that looks "more" like commercials or "more" like show content, and they are then flagged as such.
I've been quite impressed at the quality of the commercial flagger that MythTV has implemented. In my experience, the system does an excellent job.
I'm not calling into question the value of open drivers. But it seems that most people using nvidia's blob are running on desktop machines, either single-user or within the family. It would seem unlikely that these users are granting remote X sessions to untrustworthy people.
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untriseptium#Signific ance via http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200807 &cid=16441619
We have no elections that are nationwide, for one thing. The biggest scope of any election is statewide.
Okay, so how much are you willing to spend, and how many freedoms are you willing to destroy, to prevent one drop of lead-based solder from spilling on the ground?
The answer is always "more", no matter where things stand. The enviros have lost all credibility.
I think that, in fact, _was_ the argument against tobacco. The feds put those messages on, not the companies. They covered up their own studies that showed it was dangerous, before those messages appeared. My understanding of the argument of those who sued was that they became addicted back in the day when nobody knew it was dangerous _except the tobacco companies_.
Okay, does this non-ideal world include every single person taking his old machine to Dell instead of just throwing it away? Because that's what this proposal still requires.
Um... okay, so how do you make the end users turn their machines in to Sun instead of putting them at the bottom of their trash bag? Same problem.
And if disposal is regulated, instead of manufacture (as I'm claiming is more fair), the market will place a higher value on less nasty manufacturing. I don't see a difference in the manufacturers' interest.
Not the same at all. Those were either defective or fradulently marketed products.
Thank you for making my point: the enviro-types have NO interest in rational debate, just unsubstantiated fearmongering.
The problem with the mandatory national recycling program is that it has the potential to start actual, rational debate and cost/benefit analysis, of which the "environmentalists" are deathly afraid.