I really do not like how you have to play missions to open up parts of the city. This doesn't seem right.
Just take it as if the people responsible for rebuilding the bridges have ties to organized crime, and their take from major crimes has to rise enough so that they can afford to repair the bridges at the low bid they gave the city.
Or in geekier terms, it isn't space trying to download you from your spacecraft, it is the atmosphere in your spacecraft trying to upload you into space.
From what I've read, the HD DirecTiVo has two tuners for DirecTV and two tuners for terrestrial HD signals. It is able to record broadcast HD digitally from the air.
Sometimes the point is not to gain entry but rather to prevent the legitimate owner from gaining entry. E.g. disabling the lock to the gun safe before breaking into a house. Denying access to key sensitive legal documents before a filing deadline. Delaying access to important medical supplies such as heart attack medicine, inhalers, and insulin.
And of course, situations where applying brute force to break the lock would be counterproductive (i.e. destroy the materials you're attempting to retrieve).
But then nowadays, all you have to do is make the lock electronic and cryptographic. Even if all the electronics only control a shackle made of wax, you've got the power of the DMCA already.
Due to the fact that I live in a one bedroom apartment restricting my cats access to my hardware is not an option. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on a better way to protect gear from animals.
Have you considered getting a bigger apartment or even a house?
I have a cat (7 months old), and he's managed to chew through an AM antenna for my stereo and the cord of the earpiece for my cellphone. I also use Bitter Apple spray for some cords and plastic cable covers for others (sometimes both), but neither of those two mentioned items had been sprayed nor covered. The cable covers can be obtained from either Menards or Home Depot, multiple diameters, and cuttable to length.
But with the number of cables around my computer, the only real solution is segregation except when I'm there to keep an eye on the cat. I moved from a two-bedroom apartment to a three-bedroom house and got the cat after the move.
And at times I worry less about him eating cords than I do about him getting entangled in them, especially ethernet cabling. Its hard to get a cat out of a tangle of ethernet in the narrow gap behind a desk when it doesn't want to be got.
I may also start packing a water pistol to discourage bad behavior.
Or you could try hiding the cable in conduit or behind a false wall or under a false floor. And switching to wireless Bluetooth devices wherever possible, like keyboards, mice, and printers.
It uses two concave parabolic mirrors. You should still be able to get these at some novelty shops (typical example object is a floating penny).
There was also an arcade game that used this method. Had live-action video and dealt with a time-travelling cowboy or something. Took up way too much floor space for such a small area of display, and game play wasn't up to contemporary standards. It was more like playing Dragon's Lair where you just controlled branching video. The video in the game appeared to float in the air, but it was still a two-dimensional image. AFAIK it was the only game released in that cabinet, so it didn't have much recycle value.
Of course, the real problem there is that a meter is way too big. If a meter was ten centimeters (You know what I mean.), then everything would be nice and usable.
That would keep liters where they are, but you'd still have a gram which is too large to be useful for measuring precious metals, and millimeters too small to be generally useful. Centimeters would be what millimeters are now. Road distances might end up more conveniently measured in gigameters in order to hide decimal points from the average person.
The meter is the length it is because it is close to a yard. We want to have the metric measures be close to the imperial measures we are familiar with to ease acceptance of the new units.
The units are not just calibrated to water; they are also calibrated to what is useful for human perception and the practical needs of humans. That it is base 10 is to make it easier for humans; computers would rather deal with powers of 2 instead (and powers of 2 that are themselves powers of 2, i.e. 2^8 rather than 2^10).
Until we evolve ourselves into something with a finer sense of distance and a courser sense of mass, I'd rather have units that are useful than blindly mathematically logical.
I hacked a cheap Radio Shack answering machine that used standard cassette tapes to never rewind the outgoing message tape. I could then put multiple outgoing messages on the tape that would play a different message to each caller. Gave my friends some variety and me an easy way to tell how many calls where received while I was out.
Until the night when I got someone who just kept redialing the phone to hear all the outgoing messages. (Back in the day when telemarketers did their own dialing, would note interesting answering machines, and then call them up again outside work hours and share them with friends.)
Which is actually the only Imperial conversion that makes more sense than the metric one, where one *litre* of water equals one *kilo*gram of weight. What the hell is with the crazyass scale jumping there?
Because if you really wanted to be pure, your liter would be defined as a cubic meter of water instead of a cubic decimeter, and thus your gram would be even more massive (pun intended), leaving your centigram, decigram, decagram, and hectogram measures in not very useful places in the scale, as well as your centiliter, deciliter, decaliter, and hectoliter.
It's all about calibrating the kilo- to milli- measures, where we have the finer points of measure, to be at useful points in the scale, and to balance the everyday uses of all the prefixes.
(Not only did the computer industry usurp the metric meaning of kilo- for non-metric multipliers, but for measures of memory completely threw out this calibration of scale, and with it all sub-unitary measures.)
I worry that they don't even know the real Ultimate Question and will screw that up, or that they'll try to correct the math in the wrong Question. (That not many people know the real Question, nor that it was stated twice in the third book doesn't bode well.)
It would be a pity not to have Stephen Moore. He's been the voice of Marvin for the radio series, the TV series, the song Marvin I Love You, and even did an edition of the books on tape (seek them out if you want to hear him sing "How I Hate The Night").
The only other person I think I could accept as Marvin is a male voice actor who has done the voice of Eeyore, like Peter Cullen or Ralph Wright. A deep voice of depression. Warwick Davis I fear would need too much electronic manipulation to get the tone needed which would get in the way of his acting ability as heavy alien makeup gets in the way for actors in front of cameras. (See Paul Blake's (uncredited) portrayal of Greedo, later to be replaced by computer animation, for an extreme example.)
Though I confess I haven't heard his work lately. The last thing I saw him in that I liked, he was an Ewok (I did not like Willow).
Funny, I've thought of actually doing it, but first using stills from the TV series as storyboards for the first six fits. Maybe referencing the comic book edition of the story as well.
I just wish I had the time and skill to do it. And the more people you try to get organized to do it, the more likely you'll get shut down by the rights holders, even if it is just for your own personal entertainment and not for public consumption.
Not all commercial DVDs are CSS-encrypted. One of the Harry Potter movies was one of them. Though unencrypted disks are rare in the US.
And though you can't burn the key with a consumer DVD-R drive, the key can exist in a disk image file. Are there players for the PS2 that can play from image files? That's outside my experience.
Your DVD-5 original could also have been a decrypted disk recorded on DVD-R itself.
More information would be needed to determine your case.
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And wrap your house in plastic and duct tape.
I'm willing to try that just to keep the melting snow from seeping into my basement and damaging my equipment and furniture.
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Yeah, there'll be an option to turn it off, just like there is in Macromedia Fontographer to save fonts with embedding allowed (there isn't).
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Yeah, there are lots of Cubans racing speedboats all through Vegas.
Next week, on an all new CSI:...
I really do not like how you have to play missions to open up parts of the city. This doesn't seem right.
Just take it as if the people responsible for rebuilding the bridges have ties to organized crime, and their take from major crimes has to rise enough so that they can afford to repair the bridges at the low bid they gave the city.
Maybe that sentence hackers get in movies where they are not allowed to touch a computer for 3 years would work better for you (plus the fine)?
I seem to recall that such sentences were ruled unconstitutional just after the sentence as applied to Kevin Mitnick was completed.
Unfortunately I lack any cites to sites for confirmation. Has anyone sighted any?
They'd better keep a close eye on it at all times, or else it will be bad news for Kim Cattrall.
Or in geekier terms, it isn't space trying to download you from your spacecraft, it is the atmosphere in your spacecraft trying to upload you into space.
Indeed, this could end up becoming a listing of the first to be put up against the wall when the revolution is put down.
From what I've read, the HD DirecTiVo has two tuners for DirecTV and two tuners for terrestrial HD signals. It is able to record broadcast HD digitally from the air.
But true, it has no raw HD input ports.
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Sometimes the point is not to gain entry but rather to prevent the legitimate owner from gaining entry. E.g. disabling the lock to the gun safe before breaking into a house. Denying access to key sensitive legal documents before a filing deadline. Delaying access to important medical supplies such as heart attack medicine, inhalers, and insulin.
And of course, situations where applying brute force to break the lock would be counterproductive (i.e. destroy the materials you're attempting to retrieve).
But then nowadays, all you have to do is make the lock electronic and cryptographic. Even if all the electronics only control a shackle made of wax, you've got the power of the DMCA already.
This makes me reconsider whether or not I should try to save $29 by not getting the 56 Kbps internal modem with a new Dual G5.
Due to the fact that I live in a one bedroom apartment restricting my cats access to my hardware is not an option. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on a better way to protect gear from animals.
Have you considered getting a bigger apartment or even a house?
I have a cat (7 months old), and he's managed to chew through an AM antenna for my stereo and the cord of the earpiece for my cellphone. I also use Bitter Apple spray for some cords and plastic cable covers for others (sometimes both), but neither of those two mentioned items had been sprayed nor covered. The cable covers can be obtained from either Menards or Home Depot, multiple diameters, and cuttable to length.
But with the number of cables around my computer, the only real solution is segregation except when I'm there to keep an eye on the cat. I moved from a two-bedroom apartment to a three-bedroom house and got the cat after the move.
And at times I worry less about him eating cords than I do about him getting entangled in them, especially ethernet cabling. Its hard to get a cat out of a tangle of ethernet in the narrow gap behind a desk when it doesn't want to be got.
I may also start packing a water pistol to discourage bad behavior.
Or you could try hiding the cable in conduit or behind a false wall or under a false floor. And switching to wireless Bluetooth devices wherever possible, like keyboards, mice, and printers.
Two words: late fees.
It uses two concave parabolic mirrors. You should still be able to get these at some novelty shops (typical example object is a floating penny).
There was also an arcade game that used this method. Had live-action video and dealt with a time-travelling cowboy or something. Took up way too much floor space for such a small area of display, and game play wasn't up to contemporary standards. It was more like playing Dragon's Lair where you just controlled branching video. The video in the game appeared to float in the air, but it was still a two-dimensional image. AFAIK it was the only game released in that cabinet, so it didn't have much recycle value.
Of course, the real problem there is that a meter is way too big. If a meter was ten centimeters (You know what I mean.), then everything would be nice and usable.
That would keep liters where they are, but you'd still have a gram which is too large to be useful for measuring precious metals, and millimeters too small to be generally useful. Centimeters would be what millimeters are now. Road distances might end up more conveniently measured in gigameters in order to hide decimal points from the average person.
The meter is the length it is because it is close to a yard. We want to have the metric measures be close to the imperial measures we are familiar with to ease acceptance of the new units.
The units are not just calibrated to water; they are also calibrated to what is useful for human perception and the practical needs of humans. That it is base 10 is to make it easier for humans; computers would rather deal with powers of 2 instead (and powers of 2 that are themselves powers of 2, i.e. 2^8 rather than 2^10).
Until we evolve ourselves into something with a finer sense of distance and a courser sense of mass, I'd rather have units that are useful than blindly mathematically logical.
I hacked a cheap Radio Shack answering machine that used standard cassette tapes to never rewind the outgoing message tape. I could then put multiple outgoing messages on the tape that would play a different message to each caller. Gave my friends some variety and me an easy way to tell how many calls where received while I was out.
Until the night when I got someone who just kept redialing the phone to hear all the outgoing messages. (Back in the day when telemarketers did their own dialing, would note interesting answering machines, and then call them up again outside work hours and share them with friends.)
Indeed, I too was wondering if they used any music by the great Ludwig van.
Which is actually the only Imperial conversion that makes more sense than the metric one, where one *litre* of water equals one *kilo*gram of weight. What the hell is with the crazyass scale jumping there?
Because if you really wanted to be pure, your liter would be defined as a cubic meter of water instead of a cubic decimeter, and thus your gram would be even more massive (pun intended), leaving your centigram, decigram, decagram, and hectogram measures in not very useful places in the scale, as well as your centiliter, deciliter, decaliter, and hectoliter.
It's all about calibrating the kilo- to milli- measures, where we have the finer points of measure, to be at useful points in the scale, and to balance the everyday uses of all the prefixes.
(Not only did the computer industry usurp the metric meaning of kilo- for non-metric multipliers, but for measures of memory completely threw out this calibration of scale, and with it all sub-unitary measures.)
Only if the screen is projected on the source paper, or is projecting an image of the paper.
In absence of tactile feedback, you'd need to see the source and destination. Most people haven't learned how to see through each eye independently.
With tactile feedback and reading the source, you just have to worry if your hands slip away from the jp,r tpe... er, home row.
An ideal sixth, OCR pen would be nice instead, that can read any text, including all forms of handwriting.
I worry that they don't even know the real Ultimate Question and will screw that up, or that they'll try to correct the math in the wrong Question. (That not many people know the real Question, nor that it was stated twice in the third book doesn't bode well.)
It would be a pity not to have Stephen Moore. He's been the voice of Marvin for the radio series, the TV series, the song Marvin I Love You, and even did an edition of the books on tape (seek them out if you want to hear him sing "How I Hate The Night").
The only other person I think I could accept as Marvin is a male voice actor who has done the voice of Eeyore, like Peter Cullen or Ralph Wright. A deep voice of depression. Warwick Davis I fear would need too much electronic manipulation to get the tone needed which would get in the way of his acting ability as heavy alien makeup gets in the way for actors in front of cameras. (See Paul Blake's (uncredited) portrayal of Greedo, later to be replaced by computer animation, for an extreme example.)
Though I confess I haven't heard his work lately. The last thing I saw him in that I liked, he was an Ewok (I did not like Willow).
Funny, I've thought of actually doing it, but first using stills from the TV series as storyboards for the first six fits. Maybe referencing the comic book edition of the story as well.
I just wish I had the time and skill to do it. And the more people you try to get organized to do it, the more likely you'll get shut down by the rights holders, even if it is just for your own personal entertainment and not for public consumption.
Not all commercial DVDs are CSS-encrypted. One of the Harry Potter movies was one of them. Though unencrypted disks are rare in the US.
And though you can't burn the key with a consumer DVD-R drive, the key can exist in a disk image file. Are there players for the PS2 that can play from image files? That's outside my experience.
Your DVD-5 original could also have been a decrypted disk recorded on DVD-R itself.
More information would be needed to determine your case.
And wrap your house in plastic and duct tape.
I'm willing to try that just to keep the melting snow from seeping into my basement and damaging my equipment and furniture.