I had that mouse before I had the Microsoft. After several years of awesomeness, the right mouse button crapped out. After I discovered Logitech doesn't sell a wired version anymore, I bought the Microsoft mouse instead. I hate wireless mice, several years of dealing with professional wireless equipment has made me extremely skeptical of anything wireless.
The big problem with the Logitech is that even though it had 4 buttons, I could only map 3 as actual "buttons" in Windows, the 4th had to be mapped as a key instead to use it. Very annoying. The Microsoft is also nice because it has a scroll wheel.
Local access cable television given its high cost to veiwer ratio (and that only a few dozen people watch it at any one time)
If it weren't for public access television, live professional television would be much, much worse. 99% of people who work in television (including me) worked in public access to gain experience before they did it professionally. It takes about three years of productions every week or so to get good enough to be a professional sports cameraman.
Imagine, if you will, the entry level position in your business being eliminated and the next level up becoming the entry level. That's what would happen to professional television if public access were eliminated.
I'm not really thinking about cancelling the unique ID. I'm thinking more like tracing the ID to your U Card and busting your ass. Rewriting the strip with a magnetic writer just seems too easy for them not to have a way to catch it. I'd rather sneak a thermos into UDS.
I'm assuming that along with the balance on the card some kind of unique identifier is stored and the machines keep records of transactions. The machines don't have to call home to do a transaction, but they can download transaction records every once and a while and figure out that you didn't actually put $50 on your card anywhere.
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Yeah, I've heard that. A tester hooks up an ABX box, then when the test shows that they can't tell the difference between their 1337 cable and a regular cable, they insist that the ABX box removed the magic the 1337 cable imparted on the sound.
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Four words: Double blind listening test.
The placebo effect is a powerful thing. I wonder what would happen if I reminded an audiophile what kind of equipment and cabling were used to make the records they're listening to. Before the sound even gets to the CD or LP, it runs through a lot of equipment that, while it was set up by people who use their ears for a living, was not subjected to the insanity of true audiophilia.
Why do you think glasses will be obsolete in 20 years? I doubt surgery will become cheaper or less risky than glasses by then, and contacts are more expensive over time as well. Plus, poking myself in the eye every morning just doesn't appeal to me.
Not to mention that a good set of frames can compliment your face nicely. I like my look better with my glasses than without.
Fuck SI. Talk about actual practical use. A GB has been 1,073,741,824 bytes ever since somebody decided they needed a unit bigger than the megabyte, which was 1,048,576 bytes. Everybody knows what a Gigabyte is. Only annoying pedants like you who say "Well, actually what you're talking about is a Gibibyte," even though it sound fucking ridiculous to say actually take this whole SI thing seriously.
Also, if one seller sells two items, there are more buyers than sellers. While there are a lot of people who also buy more than one item on ebay, I'm willing to bet that the bias is toward more unique buyers and fewer unique sellers.
Hmm, I have the whole first season on my computer and watched it all over the course of about a week, so re-occurances of certain shots stuck out for me. While it would take a bit of work to find all the occurrences, I'm pretty sure they use that shot whenever they scramble Vipers. It happens in at least two or three of the episodes in the first season.
Not exactly. They reuse the shot of the Vipers launching from the Galactica several times. The camera is moving from right to left and is does a snap zoom in on the point where they're coming out. Can't miss it.
Okay, even if you can find a collision in, say, a day... Great. You can find a collision in a day. But how many collisions will you have to sort through before you find one that even resembles a will, especially one that, say, gives all your property to me?
Not according to Wikipedia.
Nanoassemblers are just the science fictionalized popular image of nanotechnology, actual nanotechnology is a much broader field.
I have no idea how the device works, but I would think you just repaint only the pixels that change from frame to frame. For example, your seconds counter going from 8 to 9 would only really have to change the bottom half of the character. Plus you only need to update when there's a change, instead of constantly refreshing at 30hz or whatever. Even for a scrolling title bar, you're still not having to refresh the entire screen.
What I'm wondering about is internal illumination. Does it rely completely on external illumination, or can you fit a backlight into it so you can read in the dark?
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I had that mouse before I had the Microsoft. After several years of awesomeness, the right mouse button crapped out. After I discovered Logitech doesn't sell a wired version anymore, I bought the Microsoft mouse instead. I hate wireless mice, several years of dealing with professional wireless equipment has made me extremely skeptical of anything wireless.
The big problem with the Logitech is that even though it had 4 buttons, I could only map 3 as actual "buttons" in Windows, the 4th had to be mapped as a key instead to use it. Very annoying. The Microsoft is also nice because it has a scroll wheel.
It's slashdotted, so I can't tell, but I use a Microsoft Trackball Explorer, which is very comfortable for me.
Local access cable television given its high cost to veiwer ratio (and that only a few dozen people watch it at any one time)
If it weren't for public access television, live professional television would be much, much worse. 99% of people who work in television (including me) worked in public access to gain experience before they did it professionally. It takes about three years of productions every week or so to get good enough to be a professional sports cameraman.
Imagine, if you will, the entry level position in your business being eliminated and the next level up becoming the entry level. That's what would happen to professional television if public access were eliminated.
I have no clue, and I'm in the same boat. I simply can't watch mainstream television at all, except sports.
I'm not really thinking about cancelling the unique ID. I'm thinking more like tracing the ID to your U Card and busting your ass. Rewriting the strip with a magnetic writer just seems too easy for them not to have a way to catch it. I'd rather sneak a thermos into UDS.
Are you a student at the University of Minnesota?
I'm assuming that along with the balance on the card some kind of unique identifier is stored and the machines keep records of transactions. The machines don't have to call home to do a transaction, but they can download transaction records every once and a while and figure out that you didn't actually put $50 on your card anywhere.
Yeah, I've heard that. A tester hooks up an ABX box, then when the test shows that they can't tell the difference between their 1337 cable and a regular cable, they insist that the ABX box removed the magic the 1337 cable imparted on the sound.
Four words: Double blind listening test.
The placebo effect is a powerful thing. I wonder what would happen if I reminded an audiophile what kind of equipment and cabling were used to make the records they're listening to. Before the sound even gets to the CD or LP, it runs through a lot of equipment that, while it was set up by people who use their ears for a living, was not subjected to the insanity of true audiophilia.
Correction, that's $9.99 of compressed DRM. Or I can pay $15 and do whatever the hell I want with the music I legally purchased.
Or paying musicians and the recording, mixing and mastering engineers.
Why do you think glasses will be obsolete in 20 years? I doubt surgery will become cheaper or less risky than glasses by then, and contacts are more expensive over time as well. Plus, poking myself in the eye every morning just doesn't appeal to me. Not to mention that a good set of frames can compliment your face nicely. I like my look better with my glasses than without.
Fuck SI. Talk about actual practical use. A GB has been 1,073,741,824 bytes ever since somebody decided they needed a unit bigger than the megabyte, which was 1,048,576 bytes. Everybody knows what a Gigabyte is. Only annoying pedants like you who say "Well, actually what you're talking about is a Gibibyte," even though it sound fucking ridiculous to say actually take this whole SI thing seriously.
How far do you sit from your monitor again?
Also, if one seller sells two items, there are more buyers than sellers. While there are a lot of people who also buy more than one item on ebay, I'm willing to bet that the bias is toward more unique buyers and fewer unique sellers.
Hmm, I have the whole first season on my computer and watched it all over the course of about a week, so re-occurances of certain shots stuck out for me. While it would take a bit of work to find all the occurrences, I'm pretty sure they use that shot whenever they scramble Vipers. It happens in at least two or three of the episodes in the first season.
Not exactly. They reuse the shot of the Vipers launching from the Galactica several times. The camera is moving from right to left and is does a snap zoom in on the point where they're coming out. Can't miss it.
Is it sadder that you wrote that... Or that I can read it?
HD is 16x9. 12x9 is the same as 4x3.
Hmm, try bringing a small portable fan with you whenever you need to sleep in a hotel. That might work.
You still get ads on Google.
Okay, even if you can find a collision in, say, a day... Great. You can find a collision in a day. But how many collisions will you have to sort through before you find one that even resembles a will, especially one that, say, gives all your property to me?
Pick one at random. That's the one.
Agreed. I've seen shows on Community Television that are more coherently edited than Moore's "films."
Not according to Wikipedia. Nanoassemblers are just the science fictionalized popular image of nanotechnology, actual nanotechnology is a much broader field.
I have no idea how the device works, but I would think you just repaint only the pixels that change from frame to frame. For example, your seconds counter going from 8 to 9 would only really have to change the bottom half of the character. Plus you only need to update when there's a change, instead of constantly refreshing at 30hz or whatever. Even for a scrolling title bar, you're still not having to refresh the entire screen.
What I'm wondering about is internal illumination. Does it rely completely on external illumination, or can you fit a backlight into it so you can read in the dark?