It probably came out formatted that way if you had HTML formatted selected and neglected to add BR or P tags (enclosed by the angled brackets of course) at line breaks.
You could either add them in the future, or use plaintext formatting (selectable from the drop down menu beside the preview button...another handy tool)
Wouldn't that be blackmail?
IIRC, blackmail is coercing someone to do something by threatening to release information they don't want released, while extortion is coercing someone to give you something by threatening you with some consequences they don't.
What I was trying to get across is that with reliable automated inventory systems, errors which place the wrong tag with the product are more likely to go un-noticed. This could have major impacts in the case of hospitals, the military, and other critical applications.
Um, one big hole in automated inventory by RFID tags...
*imagine if you will, the year is 2020, RFID tags are in common use for automated inventory, the location, a construction site for a high-rise...
A truck pulls up to the gate, the driver waves his pass-wand (a battery powered RFID chip) at the reader, the gate opens and the driver slowly pulls the truck through the arch (a reader).
As the truck pulls through the reader (which reads RFID tags in the shipping box labels), a tally shows up on the foreman's PDA (wirelessly connected to the construction site's server). The shipment of ball bearings and wing nuts has arrived, not needing the shipment at the moment, he directs the driver to park the trailer in a quiet corner of the yard via instant messaging.
The driver then parks the trailer in the indicated corner of the yard, and leaves, again, he waves his pass-wand at the reader on his way out, and drives off into the sunset.
Two days later, when the wing nuts are finally needed, the foreman opens up the trailer and discovers a single cardboard box sitting in the trailer. What happened? The tags said it was full. The answer, some greedy bastard stuffed a box full of the proper RFID tags into the trailer, and thanks to automated inventory, nobody thought to look.*
Of course, this scenario is somewhat far-fetched, but it serves to demonstrate a major downside of fully automated inventory.
And as an added bonus, you have complete control over your configuration.
In my opinion, now is a great time for technically inclined people who want to add dedicated machines to their network. In the last few months, large quantities of pentium II and III based machines from big brands (such as IBM) have been pouring onto the used market in my area at reasonable prices. I'm sure this isn't just an isolated event, so now looks to be a good time to stock up on (relatively) cheap CPUs for dedicated applications.
Actually, it's relatively trivial to make a (nearly) silent PC. Especially if you're running a very slim OS.
In fact, I recently bought a used IBM for $220 (canadian), it's overkill to act as a router (except for needing a few more NICs), p3-733, 256MB of ram, 10GB drive. And it only has one fan in the PSU (a duct draws air over the CPU and its monster passive heatsink).
I picked it up to act as a file server for my LAN, but I'm tempted to pick up another one and a few multi-port NICs and use it as a replacement for my Linksys router. Heck, with another stick of RAM, I could run windows from a RAM drive, let alone linux.
Yes, you could call me a bit paranoid, but guess what. It's MY network.
...especially considering that digital media are rapidly replacing film in theaters.
I disagree with this, until very recently I was a projectionist for a large multiplex, and as far as the company which owned our theater was concerned digital projection technologies, while interesting are way too expensive to introduce chain-wide.
As far as I know, the other major theater chains with presences in Canada feel the same way. Plus you've got all the second-run theaters who would not exactly be overjoyed at the prospect of buying new equipment.
Put it this way. IMHO, 35mm film is here to stay for a while.
I disagree, using a tool with no comprehension at all of how it works is a bad thing. It can lead to accidents.
For example, to take your microwave example; Suppose someone just knows that to use a microwave they put what they want warmed inside and push the buttons. So they put something in a metal container in the microwave.
Computers are even more complex and powerful than microwaves, with even more things to mess up. Shouldn't users be expected to posess at least a rudimentry understanding of just how a computer works?
If I had mod points, I'd mod this up insightful, I'm suprised at the number of duplicate stories that get posted here.
The parent's idea of providing subscribers with a DUPE link is a good one, maybe just a mailto link to a dedicated email address?
But your local ma-n-pa store would be more likely to ask their vendor 'under what conditions do you store your inventory?' for you. (This is, of course, in my own humble opinion)
Um, what other internet is there? Everything travels over the same commercial routers, and who's to say that those aren't belkin routers?
Also, what about small businesses who outsource their technical needs?
Yes it is. This December, selected theaters across North America (and possibly some worldwide) will be getting on the 5th a special extended print of FotR, on the 12th a special extended print of TT, and then on the 16th will be showing both of these prints back-to-back with RotK.
My local theater is one of the selected ones, the event starts in the afternoon and runs till after midnight. (I can't remember the exact showtimes, I think it's something like 1:30pm, 5pm, and 10pm, but as I said, I don't know and those don't sound quite right.)
A year or so back when I regularly played MUDs, I used (for windows) Portal by www.gameaxle.com pretty decent client, but with a few issues (multiple connections gave it fits.
IANAL, but I think that just says that they retain the right to sell any songs you've given to them, not that they have the rights to said songs. (ie, they have a NON-exclusive license to sell/promote said song)
That makes a suprising amount of sense, but they do minimize the hardware aspect of it.
At 48fps, you're talking ~double the quantity of film, ie, a long film (such as LotR) which would previously have taken 10 reels would then take 20 reels.
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You could either add them in the future, or use plaintext formatting (selectable from the drop down menu beside the preview button...another handy tool)
Man, I guess I won't have to worry about any rocks smaller than 1km big, it's not like they'll do any real damage.
Exactly, you can't get completely get rid of the web browser without breaking other key items. This is NOT a good thing.
And that is the problem in the way MS ships WMP and MSIE with windows. What if I want to completely ditch MSIE? I can't do so easily.
AFAIK there is no easy way to uninstall WMP from windows, is the Apple media player (quicktime?) easy to uninstall?
Wouldn't that be blackmail? IIRC, blackmail is coercing someone to do something by threatening to release information they don't want released, while extortion is coercing someone to give you something by threatening you with some consequences they don't.
What I was trying to get across is that with reliable automated inventory systems, errors which place the wrong tag with the product are more likely to go un-noticed. This could have major impacts in the case of hospitals, the military, and other critical applications.
*imagine if you will, the year is 2020, RFID tags are in common use for automated inventory, the location, a construction site for a high-rise...
A truck pulls up to the gate, the driver waves his pass-wand (a battery powered RFID chip) at the reader, the gate opens and the driver slowly pulls the truck through the arch (a reader).
As the truck pulls through the reader (which reads RFID tags in the shipping box labels), a tally shows up on the foreman's PDA (wirelessly connected to the construction site's server). The shipment of ball bearings and wing nuts has arrived, not needing the shipment at the moment, he directs the driver to park the trailer in a quiet corner of the yard via instant messaging.
The driver then parks the trailer in the indicated corner of the yard, and leaves, again, he waves his pass-wand at the reader on his way out, and drives off into the sunset.
Two days later, when the wing nuts are finally needed, the foreman opens up the trailer and discovers a single cardboard box sitting in the trailer. What happened? The tags said it was full. The answer, some greedy bastard stuffed a box full of the proper RFID tags into the trailer, and thanks to automated inventory, nobody thought to look.*
Of course, this scenario is somewhat far-fetched, but it serves to demonstrate a major downside of fully automated inventory.
In my opinion, now is a great time for technically inclined people who want to add dedicated machines to their network. In the last few months, large quantities of pentium II and III based machines from big brands (such as IBM) have been pouring onto the used market in my area at reasonable prices. I'm sure this isn't just an isolated event, so now looks to be a good time to stock up on (relatively) cheap CPUs for dedicated applications.
In fact, I recently bought a used IBM for $220 (canadian), it's overkill to act as a router (except for needing a few more NICs), p3-733, 256MB of ram, 10GB drive. And it only has one fan in the PSU (a duct draws air over the CPU and its monster passive heatsink).
I picked it up to act as a file server for my LAN, but I'm tempted to pick up another one and a few multi-port NICs and use it as a replacement for my Linksys router. Heck, with another stick of RAM, I could run windows from a RAM drive, let alone linux.
Yes, you could call me a bit paranoid, but guess what. It's MY network.
I disagree with this, until very recently I was a projectionist for a large multiplex, and as far as the company which owned our theater was concerned digital projection technologies, while interesting are way too expensive to introduce chain-wide.
As far as I know, the other major theater chains with presences in Canada feel the same way. Plus you've got all the second-run theaters who would not exactly be overjoyed at the prospect of buying new equipment.
Put it this way. IMHO, 35mm film is here to stay for a while.
I disagree, using a tool with no comprehension at all of how it works is a bad thing. It can lead to accidents.
For example, to take your microwave example; Suppose someone just knows that to use a microwave they put what they want warmed inside and push the buttons. So they put something in a metal container in the microwave.
Computers are even more complex and powerful than microwaves, with even more things to mess up. Shouldn't users be expected to posess at least a rudimentry understanding of just how a computer works?
If I had mod points, I'd mod this up insightful, I'm suprised at the number of duplicate stories that get posted here. The parent's idea of providing subscribers with a DUPE link is a good one, maybe just a mailto link to a dedicated email address?
But your local ma-n-pa store would be more likely to ask their vendor 'under what conditions do you store your inventory?' for you. (This is, of course, in my own humble opinion)
Um, what other internet is there? Everything travels over the same commercial routers, and who's to say that those aren't belkin routers? Also, what about small businesses who outsource their technical needs?
Yes it is. This December, selected theaters across North America (and possibly some worldwide) will be getting on the 5th a special extended print of FotR, on the 12th a special extended print of TT, and then on the 16th will be showing both of these prints back-to-back with RotK.
My local theater is one of the selected ones, the event starts in the afternoon and runs till after midnight. (I can't remember the exact showtimes, I think it's something like 1:30pm, 5pm, and 10pm, but as I said, I don't know and those don't sound quite right.)
Contract revokes you!
A year or so back when I regularly played MUDs, I used (for windows) Portal by www.gameaxle.com pretty decent client, but with a few issues (multiple connections gave it fits.
IANAL, but I think that just says that they retain the right to sell any songs you've given to them, not that they have the rights to said songs. (ie, they have a NON-exclusive license to sell/promote said song)
That makes a suprising amount of sense, but they do minimize the hardware aspect of it. At 48fps, you're talking ~double the quantity of film, ie, a long film (such as LotR) which would previously have taken 10 reels would then take 20 reels.