When Fox changed the Terranova online streams from day after air to 8 days after the original aired, two things happened. First, I could no longer catch up on a missed episode and continue watching new episodes as they were broadcast, and like other non-episodic television series, it could be difficult to figure out what was going on in one episode without seeing the previous. You'd have to watch the episode-after-next mystified, watch the next episode on streaming, and then re-watch the episode-after-next for comprehension. By which point the third episode had already been misunderstood.
Second, I discovered that their stream choked on anything under...about five megabits, since it would only buffer ten seconds or so. I alternated ten seconds of watching with 90 seconds of buffering for almost an hour, lost my patience, and abandoned the series.
So, parent, what other content providers are making smart SF shows that is at a more agreeable price? After I gave up on Terranova in frustration, I more or less couldn't find anything else to watch on broadcast television.
There are approximately a million concealed weapon permit holders in Florida, and one George Zimmerman. Granted the Stand Your Ground laws are applied in a depressingly biased manner and Treyvon probably had a valid Stand Your Ground case against Zimmerman, but people willing to put themselves through fingerprinting, background checks, and fairly hefty fees probably weeds out most of the obvious bad actors.
I really hate to say it, but this happened once. The teacher with a deer rifle in his trunk ran and fetched it, held the shooters at gunpoint, and I don't think anybody died. It certainly didn't rise to the level of a modern mass shooting, but that wasn't for a lack of trying.
Pearl High School, Mississippi: This incident began the morning of Oct. 1, 1997, when 16-year-old student Luke Windham entered the school with a rifle. Wearing only an orange jumpsuit and a trench coat and making no effort to hide his weapon, he initially entered the school and shot and killed two students, injuring seven others. He was stopped by assistant principal Joel Myrick, who retrieved a.45 cal. handgun from the glove box of his truck.
“I’ve always kept a gun in the truck just in case something like this ever happened,” said Myrick at the time, who went on to become principal of Corinth High School, Corinth, Miss.
You're thinking of gun store commandos, not gangbangers.
One runs the latest black-clad Aimbot CompC5 milspec tactical operator optic, the other holds their pistols upside down and pulls the trigger with their pinkie.
I'd rather have a/k/ommando giving me fire support, but the gangbangers would be better than nothing in that situation.
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I got 80% of the way through Heat Guy J on Netflix and the series got pulled. In the absence of DRM, I'd have pulled down the entire series at the point I committed to watching it, and I wouldn't have been left blue-balled at the end.
Our best heart pumps rely on a membrane with a service-life of around 5 years. If you went in every 4 years for a refurbished pump - all the metal parts should last fine, and a membrane swap should be cheaper than a whole new heart - and battery swap, you could probably live indefinitely under such conditions, assuming the operation never got botched.
History suggests that "small holes" are less likely than "complete disintegration" - small holes in hypergolic fuel tanks tend to end messily, it seems.
As I recall, the LED purse fires a pulse in response to a camera flash; as a result, the camera can't compensate by dialing down the aperture or exposure and giving you a grainy, but usable, photo. It also doesn't burn through thirty watts continuously, but only in response to an attempt at flash photography. This will do good things to your battery life, otherwise, plan on carrying around a big damn battery to run the thing for more than half an hour.
Does evaporating sweat - water vapor with a predictable salinity with predictable organic contaminants - have a distinctive spectral profile?
If so, throw a second (filtered or specialized - UV and broadband IR can both also defeat camouflage) camera on the surveillance platform and look for mismatches. Where you find an anomaly, you've probably just found someone trying to hide, and any half-decent program can automatically spot, mark, and flag for human review such anomalies.
He probably could work backwards from the observable patterns in the simple games of the day to some kind of understanding of the math and/or code behind them.
And from there extrapolate solutions that informed his gameplay.
Bad analogy. This port will take standard USB 2.0/3.0 A plugs, or standard SD cards.
MHL is designed to take screwy, proprietary cables to push something vaguely resembling HDMI signaling out of a USB micro-B port. This is designed to allow you to plug in multiple types of standard cards or cables, one at a time, to the same port.
I've spent a couple years with Silverlight but no Flash since Chrome is good at keeping flash crashes contained. These days, I don't have either.
Frankly, my preferred solution would be a free Netflix app in the Mac App Store so I don't have to sully my system with another background process that only increases my attack surface.
I suspect re-implementing ECE would be covered under the "reverse engineering for compatibility" clause.
I also suspect that you'd be lawyered into a smoldering crater within a week of announcing the project, so whether it's actually legal is a moot point.
Anyone else know how bad Flash on Mac has been for the last decade?
Protip: It's the #1 reason for system-wide Mac crashes over the last decade. I'd rather a Netflix extension that Netflix can be counted on to maintain properly.
You could try looking at my high school math book.
Some of the equations in the physics chapter were giving results that were off by as much as 14% from the same equation presented in a physics book, or in Wikipedia.
Naturally, I was the only guy taking both classes simultaneously, and spent six hours trying to figure out what the hell went wrong that night, skipped all the rest of my homework, and turned in a corrected version of my homework for a 2% score. (I got one question wrong enough, it approximated the answer key!)
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Data is not the plural of anecdote. That said...
When Fox changed the Terranova online streams from day after air to 8 days after the original aired, two things happened. First, I could no longer catch up on a missed episode and continue watching new episodes as they were broadcast, and like other non-episodic television series, it could be difficult to figure out what was going on in one episode without seeing the previous. You'd have to watch the episode-after-next mystified, watch the next episode on streaming, and then re-watch the episode-after-next for comprehension. By which point the third episode had already been misunderstood.
Second, I discovered that their stream choked on anything under...about five megabits, since it would only buffer ten seconds or so. I alternated ten seconds of watching with 90 seconds of buffering for almost an hour, lost my patience, and abandoned the series.
So, parent, what other content providers are making smart SF shows that is at a more agreeable price? After I gave up on Terranova in frustration, I more or less couldn't find anything else to watch on broadcast television.
It's a shame you're posting as Anonymous Coward, but you still might read this.
Most murder victims in America? Beaten to death.
There are approximately a million concealed weapon permit holders in Florida, and one George Zimmerman. Granted the Stand Your Ground laws are applied in a depressingly biased manner and Treyvon probably had a valid Stand Your Ground case against Zimmerman, but people willing to put themselves through fingerprinting, background checks, and fairly hefty fees probably weeds out most of the obvious bad actors.
I just found this account, which could have been the event I was thinking of.
You're thinking of gun store commandos, not gangbangers.
/k/ommando giving me fire support, but the gangbangers would be better than nothing in that situation.
One runs the latest black-clad Aimbot CompC5 milspec tactical operator optic, the other holds their pistols upside down and pulls the trigger with their pinkie.
I'd rather have a
I got 80% of the way through Heat Guy J on Netflix and the series got pulled. In the absence of DRM, I'd have pulled down the entire series at the point I committed to watching it, and I wouldn't have been left blue-balled at the end.
#justsayin
They can have it.
...From the spare-parts bin. I'll be operating a Tachikoma at that point.
Ever seen how a heart-lung bypass machine works?
Our best heart pumps rely on a membrane with a service-life of around 5 years. If you went in every 4 years for a refurbished pump - all the metal parts should last fine, and a membrane swap should be cheaper than a whole new heart - and battery swap, you could probably live indefinitely under such conditions, assuming the operation never got botched.
History suggests that "small holes" are less likely than "complete disintegration" - small holes in hypergolic fuel tanks tend to end messily, it seems.
As I recall, the LED purse fires a pulse in response to a camera flash; as a result, the camera can't compensate by dialing down the aperture or exposure and giving you a grainy, but usable, photo. It also doesn't burn through thirty watts continuously, but only in response to an attempt at flash photography. This will do good things to your battery life, otherwise, plan on carrying around a big damn battery to run the thing for more than half an hour.
Does evaporating sweat - water vapor with a predictable salinity with predictable organic contaminants - have a distinctive spectral profile?
If so, throw a second (filtered or specialized - UV and broadband IR can both also defeat camouflage) camera on the surveillance platform and look for mismatches. Where you find an anomaly, you've probably just found someone trying to hide, and any half-decent program can automatically spot, mark, and flag for human review such anomalies.
He probably could work backwards from the observable patterns in the simple games of the day to some kind of understanding of the math and/or code behind them.
And from there extrapolate solutions that informed his gameplay.
Bad analogy. This port will take standard USB 2.0/3.0 A plugs, or standard SD cards. MHL is designed to take screwy, proprietary cables to push something vaguely resembling HDMI signaling out of a USB micro-B port. This is designed to allow you to plug in multiple types of standard cards or cables, one at a time, to the same port.
I've spent a couple years with Silverlight but no Flash since Chrome is good at keeping flash crashes contained. These days, I don't have either.
Frankly, my preferred solution would be a free Netflix app in the Mac App Store so I don't have to sully my system with another background process that only increases my attack surface.
The 50% of laptop users that use Mac OSX?
I suspect re-implementing ECE would be covered under the "reverse engineering for compatibility" clause.
I also suspect that you'd be lawyered into a smoldering crater within a week of announcing the project, so whether it's actually legal is a moot point.
Anyone else know how bad Flash on Mac has been for the last decade?
Protip: It's the #1 reason for system-wide Mac crashes over the last decade. I'd rather a Netflix extension that Netflix can be counted on to maintain properly.
I'd be fairly happy if they decided not to defend the PATRIOT act, too.\
Bonus points if you get the NRA to fight for gay rights, and the HRC to fight for gun rights.
But will the fed stop recognizing your marriage when you move to Alabama?
To be fair, the Afghan government of the time was explicitly supporting Al Qaida. Iraq...well, I got nothing.
On the other hand, if you actually believe in a coherent universal consciousness, then you're just batshit crazy instead.
I believe that coherent universal consciousness may prove to be merely an engineering challenge in the end, and if so, it should be invented.
:-p
You could try looking at my high school math book.
Some of the equations in the physics chapter were giving results that were off by as much as 14% from the same equation presented in a physics book, or in Wikipedia.
Naturally, I was the only guy taking both classes simultaneously, and spent six hours trying to figure out what the hell went wrong that night, skipped all the rest of my homework, and turned in a corrected version of my homework for a 2% score. (I got one question wrong enough, it approximated the answer key!)
Scan, or if they're really dedicated, copy longhand.