So your definition of "high quality" is "one that works"? If you are seeing total loss of picture, or even uncorrected errors, then that is "not working". I refer you to my earlier definition
There are no levels of "working" and no way to improve upon "working", no matter how much money you throw at it.
The damage sound and image will be auto-corrected in the receiving end, and the user will be none the wiser.
So why exactly should the customer care if this is happening?
for high-quality signals it does matter
And what exactly are "high-quality signals"? One that provides the information required, or one that doesn't? There is no inbetweens. There is no high/middle/low quality signal. There's one that works, and one that doesn't.
You're still repeating the marketing bollocks that manufacturers rely on to convince the customer that there are different degrees of quality to a digital signal. It either works, or it doesn't. If you have a shoddy cable that doesn't work then get a better quality cable. But buying a more expensive cable will not improve, not one single bit, the quality of TV delivered by a cheaper cable that works.
I can visually see if my own HDMI cable is passing too close to the power adapter of my SqueezeBox when the signal is Full HD.
How? Do the light waves from your TV come out looking a bit squished?
I did not do my homework because stuffing my tablet into my school bag, kicking it along the corridor, striking my fellow students with it and having it hurled from the school bus window, broke it.
It's even easier than that. Simply maintain a white list as well as a black list. If the domain scraped is on the white list, don't put it on the black list. Problem solved.
This guy is proposing a half-assed idea to foil an issue that scarely exists, and easily circumvented with 30 seconds thought. Really, it's just embarrassing he's crowing about it in his blog.
While you're congratulating yourself on your book collection, you may wish to consider; Why should authors "publish themselves" if you aren't going to pay them? Where's the incentives for authors to write the next 1000 top sci-fi books? Sure, they may do it for the love of it, but they'll need a day job to pay the rent. So everything will take four times as long to write, and by amateurs in their spare time. How is this progress?
Downloading a pirated torrent isn't "cutting out the middle man". It's cutting out everyone involved with writing and producing the book for your own, something-for-nothing, selfish enjoyment.
I've heard of "conspiracy to...". It's when it is believed that a plan someone has was formed with the intention to perform an illegal act. Care to explain how this fits with patenting some technology performing a legal function?
Apple is a for-profit company and doesn't produce patents for kicks.
No, like too many other companies, they patent the hell out of every idea they can think of that may possibly be used either by themselves, or any competitor, at any time in the future, just in case there's money to be made from it, even in ways that may not be dreamt of currently.
But I'd really like to explore you're thinking here further. (Well, not really, but let's just go as far as pointing out the absurdity.) What do you advise the next person to discover security failures in [insert your favorite bête noire here] to do? Document them? Or scrub their mind of all such evil thoughts? They could write it down, and publicise it, cos we all know that security through obscurity is a bad thing. Perhaps they could publish a book on how systems admins can avoid such pitfalls. But wouldn't that be evidence that they had conspired to do it and must be given grief? After all these a specific actionable plans we're talking about, not fantasy.
You do realise that resorting to insults is the surest way of demonstrating your argument is crap?
What you are suggesting is punishing people for thought crime. Thinking of something does not mean doing it, or having any intention of doing it. Otherwise crime writers would be in pretty deep shit.
What "civil liberties" are you worried about losing? I'm not aware of any that explicitly grant you the ability to phone-bomb some organization.
The problem is not what is being legislated against, but how it is legislated. Are you unfamiliar with government thinking in cases like these?
"This phone-bombing was performed by unidentified people with a phone line, therefore we shall make it illegal to use a phone without first routing it through a government controlled call-centre and informing it who you are, where you are, who you are going to phone, and for what reason. Problem solved. The innocent have nothing to fear. Anyone complaining their civil liberties are being removed must have something to hide."
why does everyone get their panties in such a bind every time she says anything about anything?
Because;
1/ She is not just another dim Hollywood moron of plenty fame and zero significance. 2/ She is still in a position of power due to the surprising number of people who admire her politically. 3/ There is a scary, but slim, chance she may gather enough support from more people to put her in a far greater position of power.
And yet
She says such stupid things it's evident that she is nowhere near being capable of running the most powerful country in the world.
But of course what's more likely is that these facebook pages are not in any way personal pages. They will be maintained by some corporate minion who has a dozen other more important things to be doing for their boss, and who just accepts all friend requests. No-one seriously believes that they're "friends", even by facebook standards.
Chances are that these people, if they have a personal facebook page at all, keep it well under wraps.
how to resolve IRQ conflicts and write an autoexec.bat, and all that evil stuff.
Evil?? Them were the good old days. There's nothing quite so sexy as a finely tuned autoexec.bat.
Yeah, but chuck it. Those days are gone, you can't have them back, They're best as memories and trying to recreate them is always a huge disappointment. Any time I've gone back to an old favourite results in 5 minutes pleasant reminiscing, rapidly followed by a horrible realisation of how primitive things were and how much hard earned, obsolete knowledge I've forgotten. Totally ruins the memories.
It was; "The moon, which is named Io". It was just buried halfway through the article and introduced in the most backwards and awkward way possible.
Perhaps because this was discovered by people who are called scientists and work for the organisation that is named NASA. It could have been explained what these bodies that are called moons are, but there's only so much the person that I call I can take in at what is known as one time.
What automation tool is best for you depends, of course, a lot on what you need to do.
I've used Winbatch for years now. For basic stuff it is straightforward and easy to learn. But it still has the capabilities of performing sophisticated and complicated automated work.
With the right licence you can deploy compiled scripts to as many computers you like. I have dozens of scripts I use in this manner every day.
Your brain would be worth marvelling at if you let us know just how many passwords you have, or how often you are forced to change them.
If it's 50 or more, which is not unheard of when you work with computer systems, then you truly are remarkable..... or foolishly reusing passwords (or worse).
If it's 2, (your email and slashdot account) then not so remarkable.
I would be interested in Robert Vamosi thoughts on this subject, but I don't believe in this "writing" gadget that's caught on recently. It claims to be an accurate reflection of his ideas, but I'm not going to simply accept what it tells me.
Frankly, if I can't talk to him personally and discuss it, as humans have done for thousands of years before us, I'm allowing "reading" to do my thinking for me.
That still doesn't help me when my connection speed sucks because I've got a bunch of people outside sharing it.
Sure, I may benefit at other times if I can find a fellow hotspot sharer, but how do I know I'm getting my fair share? How do I know my fellow hotspotters aren't disconnecting their hotspot when it doesn't suit them? How do I know that my hotspot isn't getting utilized more by others than I'm utilizing theirs? Maybe I live in a busy city centre and they live up a lane in the middle of no-where.
It's a fine idea, but like many socialist utopian ideals, there just too many ways it can be cheated and too many ways individuals can lose out on the deal.
... using software that actually belongs to someone else...
The lesson is clear here; everyone should write their own operating system. Or at the very least fork their own personal version of the OS of their choice and take it from there. It's the only way of being sure it'll never cease production or support.
Sure, it'll take up half of your life maintaining, upgrading and patching. But when the only other option is to spend money on someone else's software, I'm sure you'll agree lines must be drawn and sacrifices have to be made.
Slashdot Mirror
Any website can force you to fill a box in. They can't force you to fill it with true information.
Particularly if it looks like it may be true and they have no way of knowing otherwise.
The only mandatory information in the public profile is name and age
Thereby ensuring that a large percentage of sign ups lie about one, or both.
Can someone elaborate please? Might help me decide if I care about this or not.
So your definition of "high quality" is "one that works"? If you are seeing total loss of picture, or even uncorrected errors, then that is "not working". I refer you to my earlier definition
There are no levels of "working" and no way to improve upon "working", no matter how much money you throw at it.
The damage sound and image will be auto-corrected in the receiving end, and the user will be none the wiser.
So why exactly should the customer care if this is happening?
for high-quality signals it does matter
And what exactly are "high-quality signals"? One that provides the information required, or one that doesn't? There is no inbetweens. There is no high/middle/low quality signal. There's one that works, and one that doesn't.
You're still repeating the marketing bollocks that manufacturers rely on to convince the customer that there are different degrees of quality to a digital signal. It either works, or it doesn't. If you have a shoddy cable that doesn't work then get a better quality cable. But buying a more expensive cable will not improve, not one single bit, the quality of TV delivered by a cheaper cable that works.
I can visually see if my own HDMI cable is passing too close to the power adapter of my SqueezeBox when the signal is Full HD.
How? Do the light waves from your TV come out looking a bit squished?
I did not do my homework because stuffing my tablet into my school bag, kicking it along the corridor, striking my fellow students with it and having it hurled from the school bus window, broke it.
This never happened with previous books.
I think it also has a virus.
It's even easier than that. Simply maintain a white list as well as a black list. If the domain scraped is on the white list, don't put it on the black list. Problem solved.
This guy is proposing a half-assed idea to foil an issue that scarely exists, and easily circumvented with 30 seconds thought. Really, it's just embarrassing he's crowing about it in his blog.
While you're congratulating yourself on your book collection, you may wish to consider; Why should authors "publish themselves" if you aren't going to pay them? Where's the incentives for authors to write the next 1000 top sci-fi books? Sure, they may do it for the love of it, but they'll need a day job to pay the rent. So everything will take four times as long to write, and by amateurs in their spare time. How is this progress?
Downloading a pirated torrent isn't "cutting out the middle man". It's cutting out everyone involved with writing and producing the book for your own, something-for-nothing, selfish enjoyment.
I've heard of "conspiracy to...". It's when it is believed that a plan someone has was formed with the intention to perform an illegal act. Care to explain how this fits with patenting some technology performing a legal function?
Apple is a for-profit company and doesn't produce patents for kicks.
No, like too many other companies, they patent the hell out of every idea they can think of that may possibly be used either by themselves, or any competitor, at any time in the future, just in case there's money to be made from it, even in ways that may not be dreamt of currently.
But I'd really like to explore you're thinking here further. (Well, not really, but let's just go as far as pointing out the absurdity.) What do you advise the next person to discover security failures in [insert your favorite bête noire here] to do? Document them? Or scrub their mind of all such evil thoughts? They could write it down, and publicise it, cos we all know that security through obscurity is a bad thing. Perhaps they could publish a book on how systems admins can avoid such pitfalls. But wouldn't that be evidence that they had conspired to do it and must be given grief? After all these a specific actionable plans we're talking about, not fantasy.
You do realise that resorting to insults is the surest way of demonstrating your argument is crap?
And why, for Xenu's sake, are people still storing passwords in plaintext??
Because, as you've already established, for this website they don't matter.
Objectionable plan != Objectionable behaviour.
What you are suggesting is punishing people for thought crime. Thinking of something does not mean doing it, or having any intention of doing it. Otherwise crime writers would be in pretty deep shit.
What "civil liberties" are you worried about losing? I'm not aware of any that explicitly grant you the ability to phone-bomb some organization.
The problem is not what is being legislated against, but how it is legislated. Are you unfamiliar with government thinking in cases like these?
"This phone-bombing was performed by unidentified people with a phone line, therefore we shall make it illegal to use a phone without first routing it through a government controlled call-centre and informing it who you are, where you are, who you are going to phone, and for what reason. Problem solved. The innocent have nothing to fear. Anyone complaining their civil liberties are being removed must have something to hide."
Remember Jason Fortuny?
Roundly condemned for interfering and casting judgement on others' sex lives. This isn't any different.
why does everyone get their panties in such a bind every time she says anything about anything?
Because;
1/ She is not just another dim Hollywood moron of plenty fame and zero significance.
2/ She is still in a position of power due to the surprising number of people who admire her politically.
3/ There is a scary, but slim, chance she may gather enough support from more people to put her in a far greater position of power.
And yet
She says such stupid things it's evident that she is nowhere near being capable of running the most powerful country in the world.
That's why.
But of course what's more likely is that these facebook pages are not in any way personal pages. They will be maintained by some corporate minion who has a dozen other more important things to be doing for their boss, and who just accepts all friend requests. No-one seriously believes that they're "friends", even by facebook standards.
Chances are that these people, if they have a personal facebook page at all, keep it well under wraps.
BUZZZZZ
"Hello?"
"Hi, I'm a pizza delivery, not a burglar. Could you open the door?"
"Um.. sorry, no not just now"
"Why not?"
"Um, ... I... don't want to."
"You're not even in, are you? You're miles away!"
"No I'm not. I just don't want to open the door."
"Look out the window then. Can you see me?"
"No, I can't go to the window just now. I'm, er, in the shower."
"Yeah, right. Thanks for confirming the house is empty. I'd wouldn't have been sure if I'd just got no answer."
It's rubbish. If this was any good I could zoom in down to streetlevel view.
how to resolve IRQ conflicts and write an autoexec.bat, and all that evil stuff.
Evil?? Them were the good old days. There's nothing quite so sexy as a finely tuned autoexec.bat.
Yeah, but chuck it. Those days are gone, you can't have them back, They're best as memories and trying to recreate them is always a huge disappointment. Any time I've gone back to an old favourite results in 5 minutes pleasant reminiscing, rapidly followed by a horrible realisation of how primitive things were and how much hard earned, obsolete knowledge I've forgotten. Totally ruins the memories.
It was; "The moon, which is named Io". It was just buried halfway through the article and introduced in the most backwards and awkward way possible.
Perhaps because this was discovered by people who are called scientists and work for the organisation that is named NASA. It could have been explained what these bodies that are called moons are, but there's only so much the person that I call I can take in at what is known as one time.
What automation tool is best for you depends, of course, a lot on what you need to do.
I've used Winbatch for years now. For basic stuff it is straightforward and easy to learn. But it still has the capabilities of performing sophisticated and complicated automated work.
With the right licence you can deploy compiled scripts to as many computers you like. I have dozens of scripts I use in this manner every day.
Your brain would be worth marvelling at if you let us know just how many passwords you have, or how often you are forced to change them.
If it's 50 or more, which is not unheard of when you work with computer systems, then you truly are remarkable... .. or foolishly reusing passwords (or worse).
If it's 2, (your email and slashdot account) then not so remarkable.
I would be interested in Robert Vamosi thoughts on this subject, but I don't believe in this "writing" gadget that's caught on recently. It claims to be an accurate reflection of his ideas, but I'm not going to simply accept what it tells me.
Frankly, if I can't talk to him personally and discuss it, as humans have done for thousands of years before us, I'm allowing "reading" to do my thinking for me.
That still doesn't help me when my connection speed sucks because I've got a bunch of people outside sharing it.
Sure, I may benefit at other times if I can find a fellow hotspot sharer, but how do I know I'm getting my fair share? How do I know my fellow hotspotters aren't disconnecting their hotspot when it doesn't suit them? How do I know that my hotspot isn't getting utilized more by others than I'm utilizing theirs? Maybe I live in a busy city centre and they live up a lane in the middle of no-where.
It's a fine idea, but like many socialist utopian ideals, there just too many ways it can be cheated and too many ways individuals can lose out on the deal.
... using software that actually belongs to someone else...
The lesson is clear here; everyone should write their own operating system. Or at the very least fork their own personal version of the OS of their choice and take it from there. It's the only way of being sure it'll never cease production or support.
Sure, it'll take up half of your life maintaining, upgrading and patching. But when the only other option is to spend money on someone else's software, I'm sure you'll agree lines must be drawn and sacrifices have to be made.
No you haven't. Your data is still there. Just don't be doing anything foolish like trying to access it.