I was sitting in the Smoking Car (remember those?), waiting for the doors to close and for the train to move out, when a rather disheveled gentleman walked onto the car, looked up the aisle, looked down the aisle, said "you get cancer from smoking," and walked out.
You don't walk into a police station and yell "GUN!"
No, the biggest failure is, to reinvent the wheel yet another time, when there are libraries out there that are literally tested for decades, and knows to work properly.
You've heard of GPL Allergy. There's something older than that called NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here). A symptom is over-dependence on clean-room practices.
And I've used software written in the 1980s that never expected to still be in use in the 1990s so only a single digit, stored as ASCII, was used for the year. 1989 was followed by 198: (nineteen eighty-colon). But at least it was just cosmetic and still worked.
The update that fixed it also sent a copyright notice with every disconnect of the modem to the caller for the software the interpreter was sold with, even if completely different software was being run.
The Governator responded with his catchphrase, "Fuck you asshole," which previously he only used in his R-rated movies. He then added, "You are one ugly motherfucker."
The SDV boxes are unreliable (often failing to request the switched stream) and also set broadcast flags on channels that would not otherwise be flagged, preventing the TiVo from sharing those programs with other TiVos or sharing with a home computer (likely also preventing burning to DVD on select models).
This is possibly because one of the possible two channels tuned through an SDV box is digitized by the SDV box and fed to the TiVo digitally, not in analog, so they're asserting copyright over that encoding. Which also means your TiVo's quality settings for analog channels will be usurped. Yet still, both recordings are so flagged. Take the SDV box out of the loop and analog channel programming can be shared.
In Lincoln, NE, Time Warner Cable is even flagging programs recorded from analog broadcast channels to prevent in-home sharing. Only the digital broadcast channels remain unaffected, though they've come through as flagged "Copy Once" over Firewire-enabled cable boxes.
Lincoln, NE was also one of the test markets for the Mystro software on their Scientific Atlanta cable boxes which have the annoying habit of throwing out attempts to change channels while a program is starting, making them unusable with TiVos that can't pad the start of programs. And coupled with networks starting programs early/late, even that workaround isn't completely reliable as it depends on when the channel you're leaving starts its next program.
But "to TiVo" is seemingly losing favor. And people are actually starting to use the generic "to DVR". If you Google for these terms and look at the number of pages matched, you'll see. "I DVR'ed Heroes," just doesn't sound right - it's that extra syllable.
"I divvered Heroes" has an extra syllable?
Maybe compared to "I taped Heroes" which many people still use when there is no spool of tape involved. Some will say "recorded". But even more still "rewind" when, again, there's no spool of tape being wound.
"He said his name was Abbut." "Funny little guy with a big hat, drinks Jovian Sunspots? He's a Vicar." "It's a slang term from old Earth tech, a VCR. They're cyber-organics, living recorders: part machine, part sentient." "They can record just about anything: sights, sounds, biorhythms, thought patterns."
So that you can exceed your download cap in 5 minutes instead of half an hour?
Six minutes, forty seconds.
Assuming a Verizon 5 GB/mo. cap on a 100 Mb/s rate, 8 b/B, and ignoring network packet overhead and periodic "You still alive?" pinging of your box by your ISP.
3-d hi-res port is gonna need a whole lot more than that. Especially when we add the "4-d" tactile component.
Do you really need more than 2 bits per pixel for tactile support? Or even HD-equivalent dpi? You could probably get by with only a 320x180 bump map for as sensitive the average human dermis is. Anything higher than that would only be of interest for the porn industr... oh!
You might be able to pass off an established botnet's command and control system as being decked out with Hollywood-friendly graphical control systems (even twinkling with their mundane activities being monitored) while also allowing for a realistic example of someone typing really fast for a few seconds and exerting immediate visible control. Even without going to massively split-screen mode, you could have some of zombified machines in the same room just to confirm his latest code works before it is unleashed upon the network.
A plot line could follow a kid starting with simple programming rapidly progressing in skills over time until as a young adult (or whatever target demographic you need, and female if you prefer) he has achieved his own phalanx of zombie computers to do his bidding against whatever Bigger Bad your story requires. Less backstory if you just need him to do it for someone else. Establishing the hacker has an established power base of a sufficiently large botnet may be enough to satisfy both techie and mainstream audiences alike.
But what if instead of six 1920x1080 displays, I hook up six Matrox TripleHead2Go boxes each with three inexpensive 1280x1024 displays, for nearly 23.6 megapixels of display instead of 12.4 MP (assuming the card can handle 23.6 MP). The digital Matrox boxes have their own bezel adjustments, though they do it by exaggerating the outermost bezel, so you're limited in useful arrangements to six-by-three portrait. 5760x2160 vs. 6144x3840.
But then I think you need the bandwidth of six dual-link DVI ports, one for each Matrox box. Their analog VGA version last I checked didn't have bezel adjustments.
Also, I wonder if they considered using only 5 screens with a single portrait-oriented display in the center to get rid of the center horizon bezel issue. 4920x2160 (10 MP usable) isn't bad and for driving games you don't need as much vertical resolution in the center. Maybe five 16:10 displays instead (5040x2400, 11.52 MP usable)? Or some 2048x1152 displays (5248x2304, just under 11.8 MP usable)?
There is no need to publish an ESSID, and you could always lock the network.
Not so. I added an Airport Express to my wireless network served by a Netgear WiFi DSL Router. The Airport Express would not connect to the network unless the router's SSID was being broadcast.
Further, the router would not allow me to configure the Airport Express' MAC address as an authorized device, rejecting it as invalid, so I'm prevented from locking down to only known authorized MACs.
For a long time before this, I couldn't even get the Netgear to work with WPA/WPA2 unless I also enabled WEP on the primary interface. I've since discovered I only can't use WPA/WPA2 on the primary but can do it on the secondary and disable the primary (it can serve four SSIDs).
And now it's refusing to let my wired desktop computer access the Internet, interferes with it trying to communicate to other devices on my LAN, and won't let me update the router's firmware.
We have been collecting some of the tools/scripts used on web attacks for our research.
You publicly stated you had malware. That either got misinterpreted along the line as being infected by or hosting malware (thus the threat of disconnection), or someone inside GodAddy was using it as an excuse to get a copy of your collection of malware, maybe to protect themselves from it or learn to develop more under cover of being proactive on security matters.
Feigned stupidity can be a cover for actual malice.
An unpublished number is not printed in your white pages, but will still be disclosed by directory assistance for by-name queries. An truly unlisted number won't even be provided by directory assistance.
You have as your recompense whatever penalties apply to the person or entity that causes you to die at 24. Unless of course your death is your own damn fault, whereupon it's your own damn fault. An age barrier is not a guarantee of life expectancy.
Otherwise, see again the GGGP of this post for a medical-handicap exception.
"You take the Mike & Ike, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the Hot Tamale, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
Actually, original Mike & Ikes don't include any blues. You have to get one of the alternate mixes.
I misread the title text as "... your cat's blog servers." which seemed all the funnier to me.
How do I wish IT here would update my system so I can run something newer than Red Hat 9. Firefox 2.0.0.20 truncates the title text of xkcd, requiring that I view the source to read it all. IT gets pissy when I instead run Firefox 3.5 on our build server, the only Linux machine in the whole company new enough that can run it. Apparently the only thing that will force them to update it is running out of functional AGP video cards.
"The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers."
Ageism affects only part of your life. Racism affects your whole life.
But you're welcome to try unwarrantably segregating people by age and see who gets enough people to see it as a social injustice to get a law or amendment passed. In the meantime, get off my lawn!
nobody over 40 allowed. Why does this bring a lawsuit, and the former [won't rent to you unless you're over 55] does not?
Those under 55 can become over 55; they're only delayed entry. Those over 40 can never become under 40 again; they're barred entry forevermore.
You might have a case if you suffer from progeria or other life-shortening disease and thus will never have the opportunity to reach these magic ages. Can a terminal disease or condition be considered a handicap illegal to discriminate against?
If you want to play HD on a netbook, just don't encode it in h.264. It may be great for file size, but the hardware requirements are ridiculous.
Last time I had 3 hours of HD MPEG-2 1080i video (transport stream), it was over 19 GB. I used a MPEG StreamClip to do a dual-pass transcoding to H.264. More than a day later, I ended up with a 28 GB file.
I've found my Dell Mini 9 requiring a well ventilated area to keep it cool in order to play HD video (to an external screen natch) without periodic hesitation (hackintosh).
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I was sitting in the Smoking Car (remember those?), waiting for the doors to close and for the train to move out, when a rather disheveled gentleman walked onto the car, looked up the aisle, looked down the aisle, said "you get cancer from smoking," and walked out.
You don't walk into a police station and yell "GUN!"
At least, not twice.
Kids who's parents neglect them and allow them to spend all their time alone are bound to end up mal-adjusted.
Then maybe the "kids who is parents" should not be having kids that young and should instead be giving them up for adoption by adults.
(Possessive pronouns never have apostrophes.)
A good example would be Mike Tyson.
That sentence contradicts itself. Why should I believe any conclusions that follow such a premise?
No, the biggest failure is, to reinvent the wheel yet another time, when there are libraries out there that are literally tested for decades, and knows to work properly.
You've heard of GPL Allergy. There's something older than that called NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here). A symptom is over-dependence on clean-room practices.
And I've used software written in the 1980s that never expected to still be in use in the 1990s so only a single digit, stored as ASCII, was used for the year. 1989 was followed by 198: (nineteen eighty-colon). But at least it was just cosmetic and still worked.
The update that fixed it also sent a copyright notice with every disconnect of the modem to the caller for the software the interpreter was sold with, even if completely different software was being run.
A loose S-Video connection can also result in black-and-white video if the chrominance pin isn't connecting.
The Governator responded with his catchphrase, "Fuck you asshole," which previously he only used in his R-rated movies. He then added, "You are one ugly motherfucker."
The SDV boxes are unreliable (often failing to request the switched stream) and also set broadcast flags on channels that would not otherwise be flagged, preventing the TiVo from sharing those programs with other TiVos or sharing with a home computer (likely also preventing burning to DVD on select models).
This is possibly because one of the possible two channels tuned through an SDV box is digitized by the SDV box and fed to the TiVo digitally, not in analog, so they're asserting copyright over that encoding. Which also means your TiVo's quality settings for analog channels will be usurped. Yet still, both recordings are so flagged. Take the SDV box out of the loop and analog channel programming can be shared.
In Lincoln, NE, Time Warner Cable is even flagging programs recorded from analog broadcast channels to prevent in-home sharing. Only the digital broadcast channels remain unaffected, though they've come through as flagged "Copy Once" over Firewire-enabled cable boxes.
Lincoln, NE was also one of the test markets for the Mystro software on their Scientific Atlanta cable boxes which have the annoying habit of throwing out attempts to change channels while a program is starting, making them unusable with TiVos that can't pad the start of programs. And coupled with networks starting programs early/late, even that workaround isn't completely reliable as it depends on when the channel you're leaving starts its next program.
But "to TiVo" is seemingly losing favor. And people are actually starting to use the generic "to DVR". If you Google for these terms and look at the number of pages matched, you'll see. "I DVR'ed Heroes," just doesn't sound right - it's that extra syllable.
"I divvered Heroes" has an extra syllable?
Maybe compared to "I taped Heroes" which many people still use when there is no spool of tape involved. Some will say "recorded". But even more still "rewind" when, again, there's no spool of tape being wound.
So that you can exceed your download cap in 5 minutes instead of half an hour?
Six minutes, forty seconds.
Assuming a Verizon 5 GB/mo. cap on a 100 Mb/s rate, 8 b/B, and ignoring network packet overhead and periodic "You still alive?" pinging of your box by your ISP.
3-d hi-res port is gonna need a whole lot more than that. Especially when we add the "4-d" tactile component.
Do you really need more than 2 bits per pixel for tactile support? Or even HD-equivalent dpi? You could probably get by with only a 320x180 bump map for as sensitive the average human dermis is. Anything higher than that would only be of interest for the porn industr... oh!
You might be able to pass off an established botnet's command and control system as being decked out with Hollywood-friendly graphical control systems (even twinkling with their mundane activities being monitored) while also allowing for a realistic example of someone typing really fast for a few seconds and exerting immediate visible control. Even without going to massively split-screen mode, you could have some of zombified machines in the same room just to confirm his latest code works before it is unleashed upon the network.
A plot line could follow a kid starting with simple programming rapidly progressing in skills over time until as a young adult (or whatever target demographic you need, and female if you prefer) he has achieved his own phalanx of zombie computers to do his bidding against whatever Bigger Bad your story requires. Less backstory if you just need him to do it for someone else. Establishing the hacker has an established power base of a sufficiently large botnet may be enough to satisfy both techie and mainstream audiences alike.
But what if instead of six 1920x1080 displays, I hook up six Matrox TripleHead2Go boxes each with three inexpensive 1280x1024 displays, for nearly 23.6 megapixels of display instead of 12.4 MP (assuming the card can handle 23.6 MP). The digital Matrox boxes have their own bezel adjustments, though they do it by exaggerating the outermost bezel, so you're limited in useful arrangements to six-by-three portrait. 5760x2160 vs. 6144x3840.
But then I think you need the bandwidth of six dual-link DVI ports, one for each Matrox box. Their analog VGA version last I checked didn't have bezel adjustments.
Also, I wonder if they considered using only 5 screens with a single portrait-oriented display in the center to get rid of the center horizon bezel issue. 4920x2160 (10 MP usable) isn't bad and for driving games you don't need as much vertical resolution in the center. Maybe five 16:10 displays instead (5040x2400, 11.52 MP usable)? Or some 2048x1152 displays (5248x2304, just under 11.8 MP usable)?
There is no need to publish an ESSID, and you could always lock the network.
Not so. I added an Airport Express to my wireless network served by a Netgear WiFi DSL Router. The Airport Express would not connect to the network unless the router's SSID was being broadcast.
Further, the router would not allow me to configure the Airport Express' MAC address as an authorized device, rejecting it as invalid, so I'm prevented from locking down to only known authorized MACs.
For a long time before this, I couldn't even get the Netgear to work with WPA/WPA2 unless I also enabled WEP on the primary interface. I've since discovered I only can't use WPA/WPA2 on the primary but can do it on the secondary and disable the primary (it can serve four SSIDs).
And now it's refusing to let my wired desktop computer access the Internet, interferes with it trying to communicate to other devices on my LAN, and won't let me update the router's firmware.
We have been collecting some of the tools/scripts used on web attacks for our research.
You publicly stated you had malware. That either got misinterpreted along the line as being infected by or hosting malware (thus the threat of disconnection), or someone inside GodAddy was using it as an excuse to get a copy of your collection of malware, maybe to protect themselves from it or learn to develop more under cover of being proactive on security matters.
Feigned stupidity can be a cover for actual malice.
If it split into four, the car could split off smaller cars for, "His boy Elroy," "Daughter Judy," and "Jane, his wife."
More like an unlisted phone number.
More like an unpublished phone number.
An unpublished number is not printed in your white pages, but will still be disclosed by directory assistance for by-name queries. An truly unlisted number won't even be provided by directory assistance.
Unless I die at the age of 24.
You have as your recompense whatever penalties apply to the person or entity that causes you to die at 24. Unless of course your death is your own damn fault, whereupon it's your own damn fault. An age barrier is not a guarantee of life expectancy.
Otherwise, see again the GGGP of this post for a medical-handicap exception.
"You take the Mike & Ike, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the Hot Tamale, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
Actually, original Mike & Ikes don't include any blues. You have to get one of the alternate mixes.
I misread the title text as "... your cat's blog servers." which seemed all the funnier to me.
How do I wish IT here would update my system so I can run something newer than Red Hat 9. Firefox 2.0.0.20 truncates the title text of xkcd, requiring that I view the source to read it all. IT gets pissy when I instead run Firefox 3.5 on our build server, the only Linux machine in the whole company new enough that can run it. Apparently the only thing that will force them to update it is running out of functional AGP video cards.
"The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers."
Ageism affects only part of your life. Racism affects your whole life.
But you're welcome to try unwarrantably segregating people by age and see who gets enough people to see it as a social injustice to get a law or amendment passed. In the meantime, get off my lawn!
Freedom of speech applies to adults(i.e. over 18 in some states, over 21 in others).
Seen and not heard, eh? And preferably, not seen either? But, oh, the thinking!
you have to draw the line some where
Who says you have to? And why must it be a line? And why must it be a hard line based on age?
This is why many states have juvenile laws that are separate from adult laws.
And whenever that line is blurred, it is always against those on the wrong side of it (such as 11 year olds tried as adults).
nobody over 40 allowed. Why does this bring a lawsuit, and the former [won't rent to you unless you're over 55] does not?
Those under 55 can become over 55; they're only delayed entry.
Those over 40 can never become under 40 again; they're barred entry forevermore.
You might have a case if you suffer from progeria or other life-shortening disease and thus will never have the opportunity to reach these magic ages. Can a terminal disease or condition be considered a handicap illegal to discriminate against?
Beware of contracting RPG Radiculopathy.
If you want to play HD on a netbook, just don't encode it in h.264. It may be great for file size, but the hardware requirements are ridiculous.
Last time I had 3 hours of HD MPEG-2 1080i video (transport stream), it was over 19 GB. I used a MPEG StreamClip to do a dual-pass transcoding to H.264. More than a day later, I ended up with a 28 GB file.
I've found my Dell Mini 9 requiring a well ventilated area to keep it cool in order to play HD video (to an external screen natch) without periodic hesitation (hackintosh).