Especially so, after seeing this article has a giant Blu-Ray advertisement attached to it. There's a difference between being an advertiser and being a sponsor, and simply running an ad is not an endorsement of the product.
The automated pairing of ads with related stories (such as Google ads) though tends to blur these lines, and to assuage the concerns of posters like the down-modded parent of this message, perhaps the algorithm picking what ad to run should use the keywords as exclusionary so that only ads unrelated to the story are run to avoid the erroneous appearance of bias. (This of course requires all ads to be thoroughly tagged. Some advertisers may want to run uncategorized ads to get around this.)
What the need to do is get just one major studio to fully convert to hybrid disks without raising prices. And not release on plain DVD at all, because the consumer won't see a difference between not raising prices for the hybrid disks and dropping the prices on the plain DVDs.
If it is a Combo disc, while you can get two layers for the DVD side and two layers for the HD DVD side, you lose disc label art. Practically, it makes it harder to identify the disc among several when its time to put it away without full-face labels. (All two-sided discs should use full spindle ring labeling instead of just one tiny line of text.)
If it is a Twin disc, you get label art, but you only get three layers on one side to spread across the two formats; one of them will have to be single-layer, and it'll typically be the DVD, so fewer extra features for the DVD users and lower quality video for the feature to fit in DVD-5 capacity.
Only by going three-layer-HD can HD DVD compete with Blu-ray on capacity (51 GB) and existing HD DVD player compatibility with three layers in HD is still unconfirmed, and I haven't seen word whether or when the consumer burners will support three-layer capacity.
Meanwhile JVC is working on a BD/DVD hybrid disc format. I haven't heard anything about its limitations.
Interesting. I feel like I missed out on a piece of history by not getting a DiVX player and scarfing up the fire sale on DiVX disks in the last days. Though I already have the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 HD DVD USB drive, and a PlayStation 3, I'm tempted to get a standalone HD DVD player and a couple more of those USB drives for my other computers.
Meanwhile, though Apple is a backer of Blu-ray, Final Cut Studio still doesn't support Blu-ray, but does support HD DVD (unless there's an announcement at MacWorld).
So if someone runs a red light in a Ford vehicle, can that person get the red-light-camera evidence thrown out as being an illegal photo in violation of Ford's trademarks?
Chief Bud McGee: Why do you bring a video camera to school? Trevor: The same reason you bring a gun to work. To shoot people. -- Bang Bang, You're Dead
At the typical 100 pixels per inch of computer LCDs today, that's an 88.1-inch display.
I doubt I'd be using that in portrait mode.
An an exercise, if "Frank's 2000-inch TV" is a 16x9 display at 100 ppi, what's the resolution? Given that most >HD resolutions are an integer multiple of 1920x1080, which is the nearest probable x*HD resolution?
No, a cone of silence was first aired on television as part of George McFly's favorite TV program, Science Fiction Theater, episode "Barrier of Silence", written by Lou Huston and first airing September 3, 1955--10 years ahead of the NBC comedy. The original series Mission: Impossible also had an inverted form.
In the series Get Smart the Cone of Silence only worked as intended once: "However, at the end of the conversation, the Cone malfunctioned leaving the Chief trapped within, with silent screams of frustration as Agent 86 walked away."
I was just about to type that the series still wasn't available on DVD, but I checked Amazon and I was wrong, it finally is: Actually it's been available directly from Time Life Video for awhile for a lot less, but also still quite expensive. I already have the full series box set (and automatically on their e-mail list). They have exclusive rights to sell it for now, but it should become available from others quite soon (longer for Region 2). The listings on Amazon are people reselling it; none of them are sold by Amazon (notice no Preorder options).
The movie The Nude Bomb can be found on cable as "The Return of Maxwell Smart". I have it sitting on my TiVo recorded in HD waiting for me to do a capture of it downcoverted to anamorphic and made into my own homebrewed DVD (to be replaced with the commercial version when it becomes available, naturally).
CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don't always have the 'official' experience to demonstrate that they're great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone's a great programmer.
You mean the hours I put in playing CastleVania isn't necessarily a reliable metric to determine how great a programmer I am?
Yes security should have been implemented but why should one group have to defend themselves against another group? It's better to have your lack of security demonstrated to you by a relatively benign agent before a truly malevolent one.
Is this not the rationale for penetration testing?
And Douglas Adams covers this as well, from Mostly Harmless:
He slowly drew out from the wallet a single and insanely exciting piece of plastic that was nestling amongst a bunch of receipts.
It wasn't insanely exciting to look at. It was rather dull in fact. It was smaller and a little thicker than a credit card and semi-transparent. If you held it up to the light you could see a lot of holographically encoded information and images buried pseudo-inches deep beneath its surface .
It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant -- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
The laser readers were becoming very agitated as they flickered over his fingerprints, his retina and the follicle pattern where his hair line was receding. They didn't like what they were finding at all. The chattering and screeching of highly personal and insolent questions was rising in pitch. A little surgical steel scraper was reaching out towards the skin at the nape of his neck when Ford, holding his breath and praying very slightly, pulled Vann Harl's Ident-i-Eeze out of his pocket and waved it in front of them.
Instantly every laser was diverted to the little card and Swept backwards and forwards over it and in it, examining and reading every molecule.
Then, just as suddenly, they stopped.
The entire flock of little virtual inspectors snapped to attention.
"Nice to see you, Mr Harl," they said in smarmy unison. "Is there anything we can do for you?"
Ford smiled a slow and vicious smile.
"Do you know," he said, "I rather think there is?'
If you know which portion of the galaxy is "North", you can figure out where South, East and West. No, what is East from the perspective of one side of the disk would be West from the other side, and knowing North doesn't tell you which is the canonical side of the disk of the galaxy.
they *claim* to verify it's not fake id So to verify an ID is not fake they're going to trust a magstrip or barcode imprinted on that very same suspect ID?
"It's all over, son. This phone call has been traced and whoever you are, you're history."
"Well. So be it. Hallelujah." [lies back in his chair]
[Mazz stands and looks desperately at people] "Shit. Don't just sit there, man. Run!"
[Police cars stop outside a house]
"Don't worry about me. I'm all right. See, I'll bet what's happening out there is that the police are busting some poor little old couple unknowingly supplying me with my phone feed."
"There's a phone line coming into the shed here." [opens the shed door] "There's the transmitter... which means the receiver could be in any house within a thousand yards of here."
"I am everywhere! I am inside each and every single one of you. Just look in, and I will be there, waving out at you, naked... wearing only a cock ring. Wow, time flies when you're on the run. I'm gonna cut out now with this unusual song I'm dedicating to an unusual person who makes me feel kind of... unusual."
So many people Come walking by Looking so happy When all I do is cry. I just wanna be With somebody, too. What I'd give for a kiss. What am I gonna do?
How does one measure the alcohol content of a photo of a beverage?
Or are they being busted for consuming alcohol-lookalike beverages? Much like how students have been suspended for zero-tolerance possession of "drug-lookalike" substances like a baggie of powdered sugar, even if required for a Home Economics cooking class.
Better not even be pictured drinking water then. In a photo it may look like vodka.
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The automated pairing of ads with related stories (such as Google ads) though tends to blur these lines, and to assuage the concerns of posters like the down-modded parent of this message, perhaps the algorithm picking what ad to run should use the keywords as exclusionary so that only ads unrelated to the story are run to avoid the erroneous appearance of bias. (This of course requires all ads to be thoroughly tagged. Some advertisers may want to run uncategorized ads to get around this.)
If it is a Combo disc, while you can get two layers for the DVD side and two layers for the HD DVD side, you lose disc label art. Practically, it makes it harder to identify the disc among several when its time to put it away without full-face labels. (All two-sided discs should use full spindle ring labeling instead of just one tiny line of text.)
If it is a Twin disc, you get label art, but you only get three layers on one side to spread across the two formats; one of them will have to be single-layer, and it'll typically be the DVD, so fewer extra features for the DVD users and lower quality video for the feature to fit in DVD-5 capacity.
Only by going three-layer-HD can HD DVD compete with Blu-ray on capacity (51 GB) and existing HD DVD player compatibility with three layers in HD is still unconfirmed, and I haven't seen word whether or when the consumer burners will support three-layer capacity.
Meanwhile JVC is working on a BD/DVD hybrid disc format. I haven't heard anything about its limitations.
Interesting. I feel like I missed out on a piece of history by not getting a DiVX player and scarfing up the fire sale on DiVX disks in the last days. Though I already have the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 HD DVD USB drive, and a PlayStation 3, I'm tempted to get a standalone HD DVD player and a couple more of those USB drives for my other computers.
Meanwhile, though Apple is a backer of Blu-ray, Final Cut Studio still doesn't support Blu-ray, but does support HD DVD (unless there's an announcement at MacWorld).
That was TVs, but they could be made to be two-way samplers as well.
My apologies to the Anonymous Coward who beat me to that observation.
Steal a space shuttle.
So if someone runs a red light in a Ford vehicle, can that person get the red-light-camera evidence thrown out as being an illegal photo in violation of Ford's trademarks?
Chief Bud McGee: Why do you bring a video camera to school?
Trevor: The same reason you bring a gun to work. To shoot people.
-- Bang Bang, You're Dead
This 7680x4320 is 1920*4x1080*4, or 16 times larger area than HD.
sqrt( 7680^2 + 4320^2 = 58982400 + 18662400 = 77644800 ) = 8,811.62868 pixels diagonal
At the typical 100 pixels per inch of computer LCDs today, that's an 88.1-inch display.
I doubt I'd be using that in portrait mode.
An an exercise, if "Frank's 2000-inch TV" is a 16x9 display at 100 ppi, what's the resolution? Given that most >HD resolutions are an integer multiple of 1920x1080, which is the nearest probable x*HD resolution?
No, a cone of silence was first aired on television as part of George McFly's favorite TV program, Science Fiction Theater, episode "Barrier of Silence", written by Lou Huston and first airing September 3, 1955--10 years ahead of the NBC comedy. The original series Mission: Impossible also had an inverted form.
In the series Get Smart the Cone of Silence only worked as intended once: "However, at the end of the conversation, the Cone malfunctioned leaving the Chief trapped within, with silent screams of frustration as Agent 86 walked away."
Where are the shoe phones? I was promised shoe phones. I don't see any shoe phones. Why? Why? Why?
He was also the voice of penguin Tennessee Tuxedo before Get Smart and of Brain in the Inspector Gadget movie.
The movie The Nude Bomb can be found on cable as "The Return of Maxwell Smart". I have it sitting on my TiVo recorded in HD waiting for me to do a capture of it downcoverted to anamorphic and made into my own homebrewed DVD (to be replaced with the commercial version when it becomes available, naturally).
Is this not the rationale for penetration testing?
"You're in on it, right, Mr. Deaver?"
"It's all over, son. This phone call has been traced and whoever you are, you're history."
"Well. So be it. Hallelujah." [lies back in his chair]
[Mazz stands and looks desperately at people]
"Shit. Don't just sit there, man. Run!"
[Police cars stop outside a house]
"Don't worry about me. I'm all right. See, I'll bet what's happening out there is that the police are busting some poor little old couple unknowingly supplying me with my phone feed."
"There's a phone line coming into the shed here."
[opens the shed door]
"There's the transmitter... which means the receiver could be in any house within a thousand yards of here."
"I am everywhere! I am inside each and every single one of you. Just look in, and I will be there, waving out at you, naked... wearing only a cock ring. Wow, time flies when you're on the run. I'm gonna cut out now with this unusual song I'm dedicating to an unusual person who makes me feel kind of... unusual."
I guess that Apple //e keyboards weren't that bad, so they didn't make thje list.
But then what about those other welcome datacomp keyboards that would automatically type an Easter egg phrase if left idle for too long?
How does one measure the alcohol content of a photo of a beverage?
Or are they being busted for consuming alcohol-lookalike beverages? Much like how students have been suspended for zero-tolerance possession of "drug-lookalike" substances like a baggie of powdered sugar, even if required for a Home Economics cooking class.
Better not even be pictured drinking water then. In a photo it may look like vodka.
Note to administration: warrantless-wiretap the children to get the dirt on their parents.