So is that why the reds on my DVDs are so poor? I always felt they weren't allocating enough for gradations of red in displays, and heard that we were most sensitive to red because of the need to identify blood (our own as well as of others).
And also why they use red for stop lights (and tail lights), which are far more important to notice than green.
And this web page seems to indicate that the red sensitivity is broader than that of green.
So how am I supposed to watch my movies in the dark with a reflective screen?
Shine a spotlight on the damn thing?
So, not much different than a movie theater, huh?
Only difference is that the image is already on the screen, so it doesn't have to pass through the air from the back of the theater first. You don't have to care about signal degradation from transmission through air when you're just shining a white light.
What, did you think that was a really big CRT you were loooking at in the theater?
Does dividing working/living spaces help (my apartment's small, anyway...)?
It does if you can find a way to write off a proportional part of your rent on your taxes for the dedicated work space. Just don't install any games on that computer.
A registry and opt-out links are of no help to me when the message also contains no information identifying which of my e-mail addresses they addressed their spam. Mail to any username at my domain goes to me. With Bcc'd spam, I can't identify the address they used to tell them to stop.
Better than in Tampa home of the infamous Mons Venus where they instantiated a 6 foot lap dance rule....you can have lap dances, but she has to be 6 feet away from you. I'm still trying to think of how that works
Their main gripes appear to be the cross-age marketing of R and PG-13 movies with toys and games intended for younger ages and with descriptions of toy and game violent action as goals, fun, or otherwise the point of playing with them.
I needn't wonder how they'd feel about my Alien Queen diorama which includes, "Trapped human with chest-burster play action".
My DVD-R/-RAM drive, when I put in a 1x DVD-R, reports to my system that it can burn it at the speeds 1x and 64x.
Of course, it can't actually burn at that speed. But it is enough of a roadblock to prevent DVD Studio Pro 2 from burning the DVD automatically after building it, since it has no way to set the preferred burn speed, assuming that the fastest supported speed is always what I'd want. I have to have DSP2 create a disc image which I must burn later with Roxio Toast.
I wish there was a firmware update to fix this, but there doesn't appear to be one. (And they don't support its use in any non-Windows OS.) I still can't trust putting 2x or better media into it either, lest it permanently damage the drive.
I look forward to replacing it with a higher-speed, multi-standard burner when it finally dies. Perhaps it will be one of these 8x burners.
But high speed on -R media is more important to me than on +R.
I'd think their destruction of their database would be a violation of copyright.
It's been pushed forward that a database should enjoy copyright protection, but that protection is for a limited time after which it becomes public domain.
Destruction of the database is a denial of its entry into the public domain, thereby enjoying the protection of copyright law without giving back to the public.
IMO this should be a gross violation of copyright law: an attempt to enjoy its limited protection while denying it to what should be the inevitable public domain.
If this destruction goes through without authorized preservation, unauthorized preservation should be performed, and further be considered a public domain database.
Not that the underlying artists' works would become public domain, but that the database itself become public domain.
I would argue for this in any case where a copyright holder would destroy his work rather than permit the public domain to be enriched, especially if the rights holder exploited the benefits of copyright protection.
What if Disney, if they ever didn't get their extension of copyright, decided to destroy all their early works than allow Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain?
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
If it weren't for both parties having iPods already, I'd think it was an instance of stealth marketing.
Then again, perhaps they were marketing the music.
Now if they'd only let us use 3rd party drives with their Disc-recording software in 10.3, it would be golden !!
Not all third-party drives are reliable. I can't burn DVD-Rs with DVD Studio Pro 2 on my DVD-R/-RAM drive because the drive reports its two burn speeds as 1x and 64x (as relayed by Toast). DSP2 presumes to use the highest speed, 64x, with no control to tell it otherwise. It then hangs. I have to have DSP2 create a disk image file instead and then burn that with Toast.
But at least I got it to run on an underpowered non-AGP Mac. (Blue & White G3 upgraded with 550 MHz G4.)
Anyway BSD in 1994 contained 3 files which were copyrighted by AT&T. Then BSD ditched those files and it is clean since then.
Unfortunately, AT&T didn't have to ditch all but three files from their version.
Fast forward to the present day and SCO thinks everything in their code is unique to them and is suing left and right and up and down and forward and back and top and bottom and strange and charm and... and when history doesn't agree with them, now they sue to overturn history.
Why not? After all, look how well taxing has reduced our usage of tobacco and gasoline.
Taxing e-mail creates an incentive for government to allow spam to continue to exist.
And then come the crackdowns on any new technologies that would try to create a new path for e-mail-like messaging apart from the existing, taxed one, with tax-evasion charges attached.
China is providing competition in a field where there is none. Microsoft only competes until there is no competition, then abandons all battlefields (and users) except (of) their own proprietary one.
They still show it in Iowa, but Nebraska hasn't had any science fiction programming on their PBS stations for more than a decade, unless you count Queen LaBiblia and her computer 1Z2Z. They brand themselves as Nebraska Educational TeleVision (NETV), unlike Iowa Public TeleVision (IPTV).
I donated to IPTV last year. Got a little Dalek Rolykins Christmas ornament.
Isn't this basically how you go about 'resizing' your drive in Tivo? Take out the original, pop it into a Linux box, dd to another drive...and put back into the Tivo?
Yeah, that's how it used to be done. The current method uses Tiger's MFSTools 2.0CD to copy the streams from the old drive(s) to new MFS partitions on the new drive(s). Which is like copying all the files from one drive to another with a tool that knows the filesystem.
dd doesn't care about filesystems or partition tables for that matter. It just copies from one file to another, except that it does it in chunks of a specified (or default) block size typically used in filesystems.
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Just don't install Mandrake if you've got a LG drive.
Reference for above comment for those that didn't pay attention last time around.
And the followup story with the fix.
So is that why the reds on my DVDs are so poor? I always felt they weren't allocating enough for gradations of red in displays, and heard that we were most sensitive to red because of the need to identify blood (our own as well as of others).
And also why they use red for stop lights (and tail lights), which are far more important to notice than green.
And this web page seems to indicate that the red sensitivity is broader than that of green.
So how am I supposed to watch my movies in the dark with a reflective screen?
Shine a spotlight on the damn thing?
So, not much different than a movie theater, huh?
Only difference is that the image is already on the screen, so it doesn't have to pass through the air from the back of the theater first. You don't have to care about signal degradation from transmission through air when you're just shining a white light.
What, did you think that was a really big CRT you were loooking at in the theater?
"No web site is configured at this address."
I hope he retained a copy on paper, because it seems the electronic memory of it has gone blank.
Does dividing working/living spaces help (my apartment's small, anyway...)?
It does if you can find a way to write off a proportional part of your rent on your taxes for the dedicated work space. Just don't install any games on that computer.
But if you thought that a Mac was inherently secure (with its track record and species immunity) for administrating a LAN party....
I fear the future prospectors deliberately crashing meteors into the Earth just to create more of these rare minerals!
I don't know how signing a bill called "CAN Spam" is going to help anyone get re-elected.
It's the same doublespeak that brought us Operation Enduring Freedom.
A registry and opt-out links are of no help to me when the message also contains no information identifying which of my e-mail addresses they addressed their spam. Mail to any username at my domain goes to me. With Bcc'd spam, I can't identify the address they used to tell them to stop.
Better than in Tampa home of the infamous Mons Venus where they instantiated a 6 foot lap dance rule....you can have lap dances, but she has to be 6 feet away from you. I'm still trying to think of how that works
I think it involves a glass ceiling.
Their main gripes appear to be the cross-age marketing of R and PG-13 movies with toys and games intended for younger ages and with descriptions of toy and game violent action as goals, fun, or otherwise the point of playing with them.
I needn't wonder how they'd feel about my Alien Queen diorama which includes, "Trapped human with chest-burster play action".
My DVD-R/-RAM drive, when I put in a 1x DVD-R, reports to my system that it can burn it at the speeds 1x and 64x.
Of course, it can't actually burn at that speed. But it is enough of a roadblock to prevent DVD Studio Pro 2 from burning the DVD automatically after building it, since it has no way to set the preferred burn speed, assuming that the fastest supported speed is always what I'd want. I have to have DSP2 create a disc image which I must burn later with Roxio Toast.
I wish there was a firmware update to fix this, but there doesn't appear to be one. (And they don't support its use in any non-Windows OS.) I still can't trust putting 2x or better media into it either, lest it permanently damage the drive.
I look forward to replacing it with a higher-speed, multi-standard burner when it finally dies. Perhaps it will be one of these 8x burners.
But high speed on -R media is more important to me than on +R.
Maybe it's an ADB port for keyboard and mouse support?
Hey, if people are hyping up the Panther and Jaguar naming coincidences, then I can do the same with the S-Video and ADB identical connectors.
I'd think their destruction of their database would be a violation of copyright.
It's been pushed forward that a database should enjoy copyright protection, but that protection is for a limited time after which it becomes public domain.
Destruction of the database is a denial of its entry into the public domain, thereby enjoying the protection of copyright law without giving back to the public.
IMO this should be a gross violation of copyright law: an attempt to enjoy its limited protection while denying it to what should be the inevitable public domain.
If this destruction goes through without authorized preservation, unauthorized preservation should be performed, and further be considered a public domain database.
Not that the underlying artists' works would become public domain, but that the database itself become public domain.
I would argue for this in any case where a copyright holder would destroy his work rather than permit the public domain to be enriched, especially if the rights holder exploited the benefits of copyright protection.
What if Disney, if they ever didn't get their extension of copyright, decided to destroy all their early works than allow Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain?
I get more viruses than spam.
Except, what if the viruses are also spam?
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
If it weren't for both parties having iPods already, I'd think it was an instance of stealth marketing.
Then again, perhaps they were marketing the music.
How about calling it "jack-dipping"?
I'd think that if you wanted to live really long, you'd graft yourself to a tree in a national park that has the best firefighting staff one can find.
But if you want to continue to be an animal... it seems we have finally found out where Deep Reds really come from.
Now if they'd only let us use 3rd party drives with their Disc-recording software in 10.3, it would be golden !!
Not all third-party drives are reliable. I can't burn DVD-Rs with DVD Studio Pro 2 on my DVD-R/-RAM drive because the drive reports its two burn speeds as 1x and 64x (as relayed by Toast). DSP2 presumes to use the highest speed, 64x, with no control to tell it otherwise. It then hangs. I have to have DSP2 create a disk image file instead and then burn that with Toast.
But at least I got it to run on an underpowered non-AGP Mac. (Blue & White G3 upgraded with 550 MHz G4.)
Anyway BSD in 1994 contained 3 files which were copyrighted by AT&T. Then BSD ditched those files and it is clean since then.
Unfortunately, AT&T didn't have to ditch all but three files from their version.
Fast forward to the present day and SCO thinks everything in their code is unique to them and is suing left and right and up and down and forward and back and top and bottom and strange and charm and... and when history doesn't agree with them, now they sue to overturn history.
Why not? After all, look how well taxing has reduced our usage of tobacco and gasoline.
Taxing e-mail creates an incentive for government to allow spam to continue to exist.
And then come the crackdowns on any new technologies that would try to create a new path for e-mail-like messaging apart from the existing, taxed one, with tax-evasion charges attached.
China is providing competition in a field where there is none. Microsoft only competes until there is no competition, then abandons all battlefields (and users) except (of) their own proprietary one.
There is no compensation required by a diagnostic program.
That's easily remedied by a suitable license agreement.
They still show it in Iowa, but Nebraska hasn't had any science fiction programming on their PBS stations for more than a decade, unless you count Queen LaBiblia and her computer 1Z2Z. They brand themselves as Nebraska Educational TeleVision (NETV), unlike Iowa Public TeleVision (IPTV).
I donated to IPTV last year. Got a little Dalek Rolykins Christmas ornament.
Isn't this basically how you go about 'resizing' your drive in Tivo? Take out the original, pop it into a Linux box, dd to another drive...and put back into the Tivo?
Yeah, that's how it used to be done. The current method uses Tiger's MFSTools 2.0 CD to copy the streams from the old drive(s) to new MFS partitions on the new drive(s). Which is like copying all the files from one drive to another with a tool that knows the filesystem.
dd doesn't care about filesystems or partition tables for that matter. It just copies from one file to another, except that it does it in chunks of a specified (or default) block size typically used in filesystems.