If I'm going to get stuck with an unsupported copy of Windows today, it's SURE as hell not going to be Windows 8.1 -- it's going to be Windows XP instead!
How? You're obviously misunderstand the efficiency effect.
You laugh yourself silly watching that schools' math nerd cutting your grass in circles, falling over and finally throwing up. Bonus points if you fed him colored Kool-Aid beforehand or were tipping him to finish faster.
It's hard to get a good ROTF belly-laugh, and I can't think of a more efficient and cheaper way to do it.
no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen,
So all I have to do is write a cron script:
0 * * * * echo "I Predict The World Will End This Very Hour" | mail -s "IMPORTANT -- READ THIS NOW" Pope@Vatican.va God@Whitehouse.gov GodJr@Heaven.com
...and the world will never end. Problem solved -- well THAT was easy.
I've been watching some anime in English with English closed captioning -- there's some variance there. Dunno, but I've been ususally disappointed with my native language dialog -- the captioning usually makes better sense / expected dialog than the actual spoken dialog.
SO MUCH SO that I've gone to listening to Japanese while reading the English captions even when spoken English is available. (Huh? The Japanese voices sound all dramatic and all, while the English voices sound like little annoying teenie-boppers. What gives?) And not that I I know Japanese at ALL, but I can now pick up honorifics and very common phrases and -- for extremely obvious cases -- even notice when the CCs aren't portraying things quite correctly.
?? Confused here... so are you saying that you HOPE he CHANGES?
That being said, he's "at the mercy" of what his managers tell him. I'm sure news is filtered every which way but loose and that he's told "ignore the TV", as those guys only reflect some public opinion, and they don't have all of the facts anyway.
I doubt there is any field where one percent of laymen aren't vastly superior to the majority of professionals.... This is statistically normal.
Fine, but just like the quatrains of Nostradamus: can you identify them correctly beforehand? Counting the perfect hits after the fact isn't fair. (But then again I guess it worked for Miss Cleo for a while)
BTW: 16th century Mr. N. is an idiot. But he's better than the current sales-people paying attention to him with 5 centuries more experience. Oh, and multiple Blood Moons are soon arriving -- buy your Tarot cards and ticket to safety now, before it's too late!
independent observers,,, concerning foreign policy but whose content is determined by domestic political needs
Damn! That's a usage case I hadn't heard of before. In politics it was always someone else's fault when it didn't work out. Now it's going to be EVERYone else's fault.
The system, it seems, is connected via Wi-Fi and that connection keeps failing.
So I suppose if that DOESN'T fix it, they'll remove the sign and allow active cellphones again? (Hmm, I thought metal objects mostly wouldn't be allowed in the building. Is that only Federal stuff?)
That being said, I could certainly understand a judge not wanting to hear ringtones in their active courtroom.
I listen to shows with captioning turned on for almost everything. I presume having this is the courtroom allows the judge to easily review testimony earlier in the trial? (Or are they listening to music on earbuds and only start to pay attention when the transcriptionist STARTS WRITING IN UPPER CASE?:-) )
Lastly, bring in a laptop and sit in the audience, and intercept or change the written record. "I didn't do it!" becomes "What's your problem, you slutty judge?" Or then again there's this guy...
The control and process environment however, will probably keep XP running well into the 30's
Agree, although notice physical things like fires and power spikes (and perhaps old age) will still break your equipment. I hope you have physical replacements ready in storage (but even there -- fire? theft? water? A well-meaning janitor?) to handle any unexpected failures.
Just because you're not upgrading doesn't mean you won't be forced to by nature/Murphy.
Mr Abrams' company, New Era Photography and Film, was contracted to record the event.
Operators of all unmanned drones used in a commercial capacity are required to be certified.
Neither Mr Abrams nor his business appear on the list of the 92 operators certified nationally.
So: "Oops! I got caught doing something I shouldn't have -- let's see how I can get out of it."
Put a tiny heating ring around it...; also relatively easy to make it extremely spashproof when it's that small.
Good point. A smaller camera doesn't need as much heat -- heck, a small incandescent bulb might be enough if not an actual heated ring.
Splashproof? Ehh, I suppose, I just hope they'd actually stay clean enough over time. (Much too complex for this, but the broadcast racing cars cameras seem to have a rotating plastic shield that keeps junk from the actual lens -- I assume it's round and in back is some kind of soft physical cleaner so they never run out of "more" clean shield space.) I'll give you splashproof, but sometime run around in a very light rain with RainX on your windshield.
For that matter I don't really put any work into cleaning my phone's camera and it still works fine. We're not creating works of art here.
OK, I'll push back on this one. Some might disagree with that statement, and I wouldn't know art if I saw it, but my phone has no 3rd party enclosure, it's just as first delivered. There's a chance the camera and standard display will get cleaned just by me walking around or when inserting or removing it from my pocket.
Actually, I think I remember just a single time having to clean the camera -- but like you say, it seems to stay mostly clean.
But notice there is no corresponding agent when mounted on a car producing this same physical cleaning effect. I'd think a bad case would be soot or road grime slowly accumulating on it; I'd expect the worse case would be "mudding" and then letting it dry producing caked-on dirt. "Splashproof" might handle the first case but I doubt the second.
Then again I guess that's extreme, and it also what the "Service Car Now" light and local repair shop is there for.
Heated mirrors made this practice obsolete years ago.
Hmm, I guess so -- I really forgot about that. My mom's got a car with heated mirrors and even seats as well.
Looking around, most cars seem to have that stuff in their luxury package, although not all of them. And like you said, heating up a small camera viewport would be even easier.
I guess I'm just cheap -- I only have to clean the mirrors maybe 8 times during the winter. I sure won't add it on unless it's "free" or comes enmeshed with a somehow must-have package. For me, there are very few "must have" items, and it's got to justify it's multi-year life span. (I don't buy cars every other year; my current one is, hmmm, 16 years old! from new.)
I guess that it's almost time for it's next every-decade car wash, eh?
Sideview mirrors let you see places a rearview camera won't.
That doesn't make sense at all.
I imagine that's a badly turned phrase; let me see if I can do any better: if necessary, I can move my head or body to change the angle that I view the mirror, showing different parts of the outside scene. Slightly annoying but very infrequent (otherwise change your mirror setting!) while easily still being possible.
This will do absolutely nothing if using a camera -- you'll have to actually change the camera positioning to see a different view, and that will take longer than a second to reconfigure.
You can point a camera anywhere you want, they'd be far more versatile than mirrors,... You'll most likely get multiple cameras, stitched views, and more coverage, not less
Really? I've had a stitched view for over a decade now. (PDF)
It takes no power or extra equipment and I can see what's in the adjacent lanes behind me.
True, I have to glance at one non-adjacent sensor to another, but then again the road is still visible around me -- if something happens in front I already have a slight visual and can immediately lock and focus on it. (Then again, in high school driving class they taught us to continually scan our surrounding, check our mirrors, as well as maintain a "space cushion" around the car.)
Oh, and a spot of dirt or water (wherever might THAT come from?) will obscure that entire mirror as opposed to just being an inconvenience.
Ever had to scrape off a mirror from the accumulated snow / ice / fog? THAT'll be easy to do on the camera lens as well, I'm sure.
Then again there's be some idiot that will reconnect the camera inputs to watch TV, never mind being slightly night-blind from the always-on slight blue glow from the camera display. Or did you want to use B/W LCDs?
Mandate this in all new cars? Well if that's what you want. Personally I'll be out buying a glass cutting kit and a lot of superglue while re-positioning the camera to get an upskirt picture of the car next to me.
About 10 years ago I had a credit card that offered a website. It would let you generate a new credit card number at any time that was only good for up to a certain amount.
About 10 minutes ago, I did exactly that with
Bank of America's ShopSafe -- not that they're the only one around. But I've used them for years and it works great.
You log into the website and select your supporting credit card. Then you find the (Mostly hidden? Why??) option and tell it the maximum dollar amount and the max numbers of valid months. It generates a new CC number and CSC with the limits you specify. The first vendor who uses the card is linked to the card so no one else can use it again. (The original vendor can; great for single-vendor monthly or periodic purchases.) You can even increase the total amount later or cancel the virtual card early if necessary. If not, it'll expire after it's short lifetime (months) is up
One time BoA alerted me that a virtual card I used at a charity was later used elsewhere. They surprisingly canceled the actual card along with the virtual one. The virtual cards purpose was long over, but I was surprised that they killed the real card supporting it. Still, no problems at all using these on-the-fly cards for years now. I use it for all of my year-end charitable contributions and for any place I don't absolutely 100% trust. (And a few that I even do!)
... heard the best software is AnyDVD, which is Windows only. Haven't tried it.
AnyDVD is great. It'll handle anything you throw at it, and the team releases frequent updates to handle new discs. They sell a yearly subscription to a lifetime subscription, and usually have some kind of discount promotion going on. "All" it does though is remove the encryption; you'll need something else to manipulate the now in-the-clear files. (I suggest HandBrake to MKV. Omit the startup menu and forced-leading ads, too.)
Imgburn states there's some occasional interaction with AnyDVD and it's after-burn disc verification, but I've never, ever seen that.
Be aware that 8 years ago when I bought the software direct from the vendor, the CC was disabled afterwards because the purchase originated from an odd place to them. Now-a-days I'd imagine they forward the purchase info to the MPAA for their "future reference and action".
Really, the easiest thing to do is to buy the DVD/BR and then find a rip. They're normally available in different sizes and resolution and then you don't even have to go to the bother of opening the case, never mind the time and energy for a re-encode.
Not that I'd know about any of this. I've got a friend that told me about all that. Yeah, that's right; a friend.
...
to keep the little snot gobbler sedated so i don't go postal.
Hi Dad! Is that you?
Remember, I'll be choosing your nursing home -- or even IF you'll have one at all.
Let's play Barney for the umpteen millionth time, OK? Kthxbye.
-- Your loving snot gobbler.
PS - yes, I know you love your child dearly or you wouldn't even have posted that. At times I too say the exact opposite of what I'm thinking for comedic effect.
Also, *I* grew up before DVDs... or CDs... or Cassettes, or even Eight-tracks. On long trips my mom used to entertain me by having me watch for letters in license plates in alphabetical order. Or maybe reading a puzzle book, or some other human, interactive, unpowered thing. Just be sure you don't grow complacent and accidentally rely too much on media entertainment. It's much better to remember being on a trip with your parents rather than another Barney, My Little Pony, or any Disney movie.
My parents are now long gone -- trust me on this one.
Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
!! But, but -- how do we get the sharks into the black hole? I didn't think they fly!... Hmm, I guess we'll first have to evolve them into intelligent sapient spaceship-flying beings before we fling them headfirst into a black hole. (Or tailfirst? Which way should the laser point?)
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Why not upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7?
If I'm going to get stuck with an unsupported copy of Windows today, it's SURE as hell not going to be Windows 8.1 -- it's going to be Windows XP instead!
.... no, wait...
Think Different!
[how could it be] more efficient?
How? You're obviously misunderstand the efficiency effect.
You laugh yourself silly watching that schools' math nerd cutting your grass in circles, falling over and finally throwing up. Bonus points if you fed him colored Kool-Aid beforehand or were tipping him to finish faster.
It's hard to get a good ROTF belly-laugh, and I can't think of a more efficient and cheaper way to do it.
no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen,
So all I have to do is write a cron script:
...and the world will never end. Problem solved -- well THAT was easy.
0 * * * * echo "I Predict The World Will End This Very Hour" | mail -s "IMPORTANT -- READ THIS NOW" Pope@Vatican.va God@Whitehouse.gov GodJr@Heaven.com
- Paul Cron:5 - Crontab:5
For my next act: Whirled Peas, anyone?
Really: the only thing that actually upsets me about the EotW people are the idiots that actually want to help make it happen.
In other news: 82% of Slashdot readers have never read a single article.
And if you're using slashdot beta, that number drops to a low 101% of the comments.
Why that extra 1%? Why that's because the print function is also in beta and it loses comments before th
"Don't Be Evil" motto ... But how large a portion of "evil" is Google now comfortable with?
You know the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock? Let's do something similar with Google.
Let's have Google change their homepage so that the more evil they get, the more UPPER CASE LETTERS appear on their search page.
And the best thing is: it's hosted by GOOGLE so we KNOW that it's accurate! (...or was that too subtle?)
Nothing but war and pestilence will cause change. Nothing else ever has.
And the sad thing is: I think you're an optimist.
I've been watching some anime in English with English closed captioning -- there's some variance there. Dunno, but I've been ususally disappointed with my native language dialog -- the captioning usually makes better sense / expected dialog than the actual spoken dialog.
SO MUCH SO that I've gone to listening to Japanese while reading the English captions even when spoken English is available. (Huh? The Japanese voices sound all dramatic and all, while the English voices sound like little annoying teenie-boppers. What gives?) And not that I I know Japanese at ALL, but I can now pick up honorifics and very common phrases and -- for extremely obvious cases -- even notice when the CCs aren't portraying things quite correctly.
?? Confused here ... so are you saying that you HOPE he CHANGES?
That being said, he's "at the mercy" of what his managers tell him. I'm sure news is filtered every which way but loose and that he's told "ignore the TV", as those guys only reflect some public opinion, and they don't have all of the facts anyway.
After all, we know he's proficient in technically matters, so I'm sure that him deep understanding the NSA technical functions is just obvious.
I doubt there is any field where one percent of laymen aren't vastly superior to the majority of professionals. ... This is statistically normal.
Fine, but just like the quatrains of Nostradamus: can you identify them correctly beforehand? Counting the perfect hits after the fact isn't fair. (But then again I guess it worked for Miss Cleo for a while)
BTW: 16th century Mr. N. is an idiot. But he's better than the current sales-people paying attention to him with 5 centuries more experience. Oh, and multiple Blood Moons are soon arriving -- buy your Tarot cards and ticket to safety now, before it's too late!
independent observers ,,, concerning foreign policy but whose content is determined by domestic political needs
Damn! That's a usage case I hadn't heard of before. In politics it was always someone else's fault when it didn't work out. Now it's going to be EVERYone else's fault.
Cloud-blaming! (tm)
The system, it seems, is connected via Wi-Fi and that connection keeps failing.
So I suppose if that DOESN'T fix it, they'll remove the sign and allow active cellphones again? (Hmm, I thought metal objects mostly wouldn't be allowed in the building. Is that only Federal stuff?) That being said, I could certainly understand a judge not wanting to hear ringtones in their active courtroom.
:-) )
I listen to shows with captioning turned on for almost everything. I presume having this is the courtroom allows the judge to easily review testimony earlier in the trial? (Or are they listening to music on earbuds and only start to pay attention when the transcriptionist STARTS WRITING IN UPPER CASE?
Lastly, bring in a laptop and sit in the audience, and intercept or change the written record. "I didn't do it!" becomes "What's your problem, you slutty judge?" Or then again there's this guy...
...fruit flies like bananas. I stand corrected.
If *I* saw a giant banana with teeth flying towards me, I'd probably turn and run too.
Info here, official visuals here. And look, there's another!
(That's last bit's a pun -- but believe me, you most likely didn't get it..)
The control and process environment however, will probably keep XP running well into the 30's
Agree, although notice physical things like fires and power spikes (and perhaps old age) will still break your equipment. I hope you have physical replacements ready in storage (but even there -- fire? theft? water? A well-meaning janitor?) to handle any unexpected failures.
Just because you're not upgrading doesn't mean you won't be forced to by nature/Murphy.
So: "Oops! I got caught doing something I shouldn't have -- let's see how I can get out of it."
The guys mugshot and a recording.
Although that being said, we also like to gripe when government seems to intrude too much. The trick is: how much, and who decides?
I'm confused here. I know some people that seem to have rocks in their heads -- is that the same thing?
Put a tiny heating ring around it ...; also relatively easy to make it extremely spashproof when it's that small.
Good point. A smaller camera doesn't need as much heat -- heck, a small incandescent bulb might be enough if not an actual heated ring.
Splashproof? Ehh, I suppose, I just hope they'd actually stay clean enough over time. (Much too complex for this, but the broadcast racing cars cameras seem to have a rotating plastic shield that keeps junk from the actual lens -- I assume it's round and in back is some kind of soft physical cleaner so they never run out of "more" clean shield space.) I'll give you splashproof, but sometime run around in a very light rain with RainX on your windshield.
For that matter I don't really put any work into cleaning my phone's camera and it still works fine. We're not creating works of art here.
OK, I'll push back on this one. Some might disagree with that statement, and I wouldn't know art if I saw it, but my phone has no 3rd party enclosure, it's just as first delivered. There's a chance the camera and standard display will get cleaned just by me walking around or when inserting or removing it from my pocket. Actually, I think I remember just a single time having to clean the camera -- but like you say, it seems to stay mostly clean.
But notice there is no corresponding agent when mounted on a car producing this same physical cleaning effect. I'd think a bad case would be soot or road grime slowly accumulating on it; I'd expect the worse case would be "mudding" and then letting it dry producing caked-on dirt. "Splashproof" might handle the first case but I doubt the second.
Then again I guess that's extreme, and it also what the "Service Car Now" light and local repair shop is there for.
Heated mirrors made this practice obsolete years ago.
Hmm, I guess so -- I really forgot about that. My mom's got a car with heated mirrors and even seats as well. Looking around, most cars seem to have that stuff in their luxury package, although not all of them. And like you said, heating up a small camera viewport would be even easier.
I guess I'm just cheap -- I only have to clean the mirrors maybe 8 times during the winter. I sure won't add it on unless it's "free" or comes enmeshed with a somehow must-have package. For me, there are very few "must have" items, and it's got to justify it's multi-year life span. (I don't buy cars every other year; my current one is, hmmm, 16 years old! from new.)
I guess that it's almost time for it's next every-decade car wash, eh?
All I use the computer for is ... running porn programs on my holodeck.
HEY YOU -- WAIT! So, does Windows v22 STILL have that awful touch interface they're just now forcing on us here???
... touch ..... the ... ... screen?
Or, are you now using something else besides your FINGER to
No, wait; never mind! I'm sorry I even asked. (shudder)
Sideview mirrors let you see places a rearview camera won't.
That doesn't make sense at all.
I imagine that's a badly turned phrase; let me see if I can do any better: if necessary, I can move my head or body to change the angle that I view the mirror, showing different parts of the outside scene. Slightly annoying but very infrequent (otherwise change your mirror setting!) while easily still being possible.
This will do absolutely nothing if using a camera -- you'll have to actually change the camera positioning to see a different view, and that will take longer than a second to reconfigure.
You can point a camera anywhere you want, they'd be far more versatile than mirrors, ... You'll most likely get multiple cameras, stitched views, and more coverage, not less
Really? I've had a stitched view for over a decade now. (PDF) It takes no power or extra equipment and I can see what's in the adjacent lanes behind me.
True, I have to glance at one non-adjacent sensor to another, but then again the road is still visible around me -- if something happens in front I already have a slight visual and can immediately lock and focus on it. (Then again, in high school driving class they taught us to continually scan our surrounding, check our mirrors, as well as maintain a "space cushion" around the car.)
Oh, and a spot of dirt or water (wherever might THAT come from?) will obscure that entire mirror as opposed to just being an inconvenience.
Ever had to scrape off a mirror from the accumulated snow / ice / fog? THAT'll be easy to do on the camera lens as well, I'm sure.
Then again there's be some idiot that will reconnect the camera inputs to watch TV, never mind being slightly night-blind from the always-on slight blue glow from the camera display. Or did you want to use B/W LCDs?
Mandate this in all new cars? Well if that's what you want. Personally I'll be out buying a glass cutting kit and a lot of superglue while re-positioning the camera to get an upskirt picture of the car next to me.
About 10 years ago I had a credit card that offered a website. It would let you generate a new credit card number at any time that was only good for up to a certain amount.
About 10 minutes ago, I did exactly that with Bank of America's ShopSafe -- not that they're the only one around. But I've used them for years and it works great.
You log into the website and select your supporting credit card. Then you find the (Mostly hidden? Why??) option and tell it the maximum dollar amount and the max numbers of valid months. It generates a new CC number and CSC with the limits you specify. The first vendor who uses the card is linked to the card so no one else can use it again. (The original vendor can; great for single-vendor monthly or periodic purchases.) You can even increase the total amount later or cancel the virtual card early if necessary. If not, it'll expire after it's short lifetime (months) is up
One time BoA alerted me that a virtual card I used at a charity was later used elsewhere. They surprisingly canceled the actual card along with the virtual one. The virtual cards purpose was long over, but I was surprised that they killed the real card supporting it. Still, no problems at all using these on-the-fly cards for years now. I use it for all of my year-end charitable contributions and for any place I don't absolutely 100% trust. (And a few that I even do!)
... heard the best software is AnyDVD, which is Windows only. Haven't tried it.
AnyDVD is great. It'll handle anything you throw at it, and the team releases frequent updates to handle new discs. They sell a yearly subscription to a lifetime subscription, and usually have some kind of discount promotion going on. "All" it does though is remove the encryption; you'll need something else to manipulate the now in-the-clear files. (I suggest HandBrake to MKV. Omit the startup menu and forced-leading ads, too.)
Imgburn states there's some occasional interaction with AnyDVD and it's after-burn disc verification, but I've never, ever seen that.
Be aware that 8 years ago when I bought the software direct from the vendor, the CC was disabled afterwards because the purchase originated from an odd place to them. Now-a-days I'd imagine they forward the purchase info to the MPAA for their "future reference and action".
Then again, DVDFab was some of their competition, but recently they've been forcibly "disappeared".
Really, the easiest thing to do is to buy the DVD/BR and then find a rip. They're normally available in different sizes and resolution and then you don't even have to go to the bother of opening the case, never mind the time and energy for a re-encode.
Not that I'd know about any of this. I've got a friend that told me about all that. Yeah, that's right; a friend.
Hi Dad! Is that you?
... or CDs ... or Cassettes, or even Eight-tracks. On long trips my mom used to entertain me by having me watch for letters in license plates in alphabetical order. Or maybe reading a puzzle book, or some other human, interactive, unpowered thing. Just be sure you don't grow complacent and accidentally rely too much on media entertainment. It's much better to remember being on a trip with your parents rather than another Barney, My Little Pony, or any Disney movie.
Remember, I'll be choosing your nursing home -- or even IF you'll have one at all.
Let's play Barney for the umpteen millionth time, OK? Kthxbye.
-- Your loving snot gobbler.
PS - yes, I know you love your child dearly or you wouldn't even have posted that. At times I too say the exact opposite of what I'm thinking for comedic effect.
Also, *I* grew up before DVDs
My parents are now long gone -- trust me on this one.
Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
!! But, but -- how do we get the sharks into the black hole? I didn't think they fly! ... Hmm, I guess we'll first have to evolve them into intelligent sapient spaceship-flying beings before we fling them headfirst into a black hole. (Or tailfirst? Which way should the laser point?)
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