The real reason digital video is 480 lines and not 486 (the supposed full active area) is because most digital compression codecs are based on blocks that are 16x16. Many can only operate on video that has dimensions that are multiples of 16.
Agreed. But what on earth have they done in the latest releases to the user interface? It got cluttered and completely flipped upside down -- I have Opera configured the way God intended it to be configured; From top to bottom, menu bar, tool bar, status bar, main window, address bar, and then tab bar at the bottom.
This is more or less the way it was before Opera6/7.
The problem with this methodology is that google ignores the @.. so any documentation with "foo.bar.com" or anything like that gets caught too. That is probably why there are so many for this.
Bigelow has put a lot of thought into what space tourists would do while they're up there--everything from laser light shows on the dark side of the moon to phone calls placed to envious friends back home, to short space walks.
Is anyone else reminded of the (second) episode of Futurama where the moon has been turned into a crappy theme park?
But the part where it gets throny is when you want to use it without a keyboard and mouse, from a TV.
After hours of fiddling, you get a remote set up. Good. Now you have to find a way to get the interlaced video stream in and out of the PC properly. A video card with TV-out doesn't cut it, since it will not be able to output a true interlaced signal. What you do get is a 30p (deinterlaced) signal that shows tearing because there is no relation between the frames in the video and when the card is outputting them.
A card like the Hauppage PVR-350 hardware decoder/encoder solves (some) of these problems, but is ungodly expensive.
You say that you can create a DVD?
Unless you have the capture software capturing an MPEG2 that is a valid resolution(NTSC: 352x240, 352x480, 720x480, 704x480) and small enough for a DVD, you will need to reencode it first. This is an (annoying) and time-consuming step.
Wow.. traffic reports must be infitely better here, then..
In Toronto, you can watch the major local TV morning show, BreakfastTelevision on CityTV, and hear a traffic report based on, and with live video, since the Ministry of Transport has cameras set up all along the 400-series highways. (Tinfoil hat folks: The cameras are shit quality, frequently fogged up or out of focus, and way to far away to read plates..)
They are not asking for money on every hard drive bought -- they are asking money for non-removable storage build into MP3 players -- currently, $5 for 10GB.
Cons:
1) Not really -- most Canadian live very close to the American border (something like 75% within 300km). In Southern Ontario, the climate is actually a little more moderate than American cities on the opposite site of the Great Lakes, like Buffalo.
To add to the confusion, "left" and "right" American politics are very different from elsewhere in the world.
I see no difference between your Republican and Democrat parties -- they both look right-wing to me.
Our most right-wing (major, at least) political party in Canada would be the newly-merged Conservative Party of Canada -- the rest of the major national parties lean to the left -- the Liberals, a little, and the NDP, a lot.
Yet most Americans would see the Conservative Party as left-wing...
This whole thing about "left" and "right" wing labels is really rather useless -- it helps somewhat to break it up into fiscal left/right and social left/right, but I think in general using "left" and "right" to describe political parties is pointless, since it assumes a common point of reference and makes generalities that may not be true -- a party may be right-wing on some issues and left on others.
Also, why is "liberal" a swear word in American politics?
You need lockdown software... popular choices include: Fortres, WinU/Full Control, Foolproof (it's not, but about as good as the others).
This really isn't a guarantee, though. Windows is inherently impossible to prevent users from performing certain actions; but the above software will certainly help. I reccommend Fortres if you want a standard Windows interface with restrictions, and WinU if you want to run only a single application. The Ontario Science Centre uses it (for their Internet Cafe), and it seems to work OK.
For those who are saying "Bah! What good is this? Just use OpenOffice," you don't get it.
OpenOffice (nor Corel Wordperfect or MS Word) are acceptable substitues for a real label making program -- have many Slashdotters ever bothered to try and print out CD labels or covers/trays to pre-scored stock (like the Avery media available)? Futzing around with templates in Word Processors sucks -- they are designed for linear text. Publishing apps are a little better, but there is nothing like the right tool for the job.
A program like Avery DesignPro or Surething CD Labeller for Windows makes producing such things very quick and painless.. it is good that this sort of thing is now available under Linux.
The reason (well, one of them at least), that Linux lacks as a desktop is BECAUSE of the lack of useful tools like this; answers like "You don't really need a (label-making program, greeting card maker, etc.), just use OOo" or "You don't need a WYSIWYG HTML editor, just use vi" completely miss the point.
BTW, I, for one, could really use a good greeting card program, like Sierra Print Artist. Does any such thing exist?
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The real reason digital video is 480 lines and not 486 (the supposed full active area) is because most digital compression codecs are based on blocks that are 16x16. Many can only operate on video that has dimensions that are multiples of 16.
480/16=30. Good.
486/16=30.385. Bad.
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Also, formatted nicely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TomeRaider_ database
This is more or less the way it was before Opera6/7.
Personally, I like fuck@you.com :).
It's down right now..
After hours of fiddling, you get a remote set up. Good. Now you have to find a way to get the interlaced video stream in and out of the PC properly. A video card with TV-out doesn't cut it, since it will not be able to output a true interlaced signal. What you do get is a 30p (deinterlaced) signal that shows tearing because there is no relation between the frames in the video and when the card is outputting them.
A card like the Hauppage PVR-350 hardware decoder/encoder solves (some) of these problems, but is ungodly expensive.
You say that you can create a DVD? Unless you have the capture software capturing an MPEG2 that is a valid resolution(NTSC: 352x240, 352x480, 720x480, 704x480) and small enough for a DVD, you will need to reencode it first. This is an (annoying) and time-consuming step.
I agree with the grandparent; a TiVO is better.
Auto-dialling calls is perfectly legal, otherwise.
Except the browsers all support PNG (minus alpha, but GIF and JPG don't have that anyway), where as most MP3 players can't play Vorbis..
In Toronto, you can watch the major local TV morning show, BreakfastTelevision on CityTV, and hear a traffic report based on, and with live video, since the Ministry of Transport has cameras set up all along the 400-series highways. (Tinfoil hat folks: The cameras are shit quality, frequently fogged up or out of focus, and way to far away to read plates..)
Thankfully, the copyright board is saner.
Yes -- in your own country, assuming you are American.
Err.. SOCAN is the Canadian RIAA. They also lost an earlier demand for the names of file sharers. Their pockets are plenty deep.
Yes -- in your own country, assuming you are American.
Argh! Slashdot broke my greater than signs!
MP3 player levies:
$5 for <1GB. $15 for <10GB. $25 for >10GB.
They are not asking for money on every hard drive bought -- they are asking money for non-removable storage build into MP3 players -- currently, $5 for 10GB.
Here is the complete list of levies.
Cons: 1) Not really -- most Canadian live very close to the American border (something like 75% within 300km). In Southern Ontario, the climate is actually a little more moderate than American cities on the opposite site of the Great Lakes, like Buffalo.
They haven't; but this is much easier to do in a terminal than in a fax program that expects to be dialling the call...
Just because you don't need to make, say, international faxes, doesn't mean others don't.
I see no difference between your Republican and Democrat parties -- they both look right-wing to me.
Our most right-wing (major, at least) political party in Canada would be the newly-merged Conservative Party of Canada -- the rest of the major national parties lean to the left -- the Liberals, a little, and the NDP, a lot.
Yet most Americans would see the Conservative Party as left-wing...
This whole thing about "left" and "right" wing labels is really rather useless -- it helps somewhat to break it up into fiscal left/right and social left/right, but I think in general using "left" and "right" to describe political parties is pointless, since it assumes a common point of reference and makes generalities that may not be true -- a party may be right-wing on some issues and left on others.
Also, why is "liberal" a swear word in American politics?
This really isn't a guarantee, though. Windows is inherently impossible to prevent users from performing certain actions; but the above software will certainly help. I reccommend Fortres if you want a standard Windows interface with restrictions, and WinU if you want to run only a single application. The Ontario Science Centre uses it (for their Internet Cafe), and it seems to work OK.
OpenOffice (nor Corel Wordperfect or MS Word) are acceptable substitues for a real label making program -- have many Slashdotters ever bothered to try and print out CD labels or covers/trays to pre-scored stock (like the Avery media available)? Futzing around with templates in Word Processors sucks -- they are designed for linear text. Publishing apps are a little better, but there is nothing like the right tool for the job.
A program like Avery DesignPro or Surething CD Labeller for Windows makes producing such things very quick and painless.. it is good that this sort of thing is now available under Linux.
The reason (well, one of them at least), that Linux lacks as a desktop is BECAUSE of the lack of useful tools like this; answers like "You don't really need a (label-making program, greeting card maker, etc.), just use OOo" or "You don't need a WYSIWYG HTML editor, just use vi" completely miss the point.
BTW, I, for one, could really use a good greeting card program, like Sierra Print Artist. Does any such thing exist?