Paint.NET is actually a pretty good program, and more than adequate for most home users. I've installed it many times for clients after giving a small demo of what it can do, because they didn't want to fork out several hundred dollars for Photoshop.
Quite a bit: between just my wife and I, over the period of one week, have used 45 GB just from Hulu and Netflix, and we only watch sometime after 5pm when we are both home. That's approximately two movies per night, before she goes to bed and I go to work. Throw Youtube into the mix, and it skyrockets.
When my brothers come up to visit, we easily blow through 500-700 GB by the end of a week or two.
I've never had an IMAX experience where it's been out of focus. In fact, quite a few IMAX movies that I've seen have been perfectly in focus because they were in digital just for IMAX.
Don't sit in the front though, you might end up with a neck cramp for the next few days.
To make this a further point - some of the Chechnyan "freedom fighters" found by soldiers during Iraq, etc were Blonde/Red w/blue eyes. Good luck on your average TSA agent ever filtering out one of these if they decide to come here. They speak Russian dialects, are Muslim and can also speak fluent Arabic. If they only learn even very basic English, then the TSA agents on the ground have no visual or audible way to distinguish if they are a terrorist or not.
(And there's been many Chechnyan suicide bombers as well.)
There are some in iOS itself. Use a slow swipe to move the content, see how it moves maybe a few lines at a time or possibly turns a page? Try using a faster swipe. It essentially "throws" the current content right off of the screen (super fast scroll) and replaces it with a usually pre-determined follow-up set of content. Really noticeable when interacting with lists, groups of images, the "app grid" etc.
There is the normal "pan-n-scan" as I refer to it, and the more rapid content replacement that looks like you're flipping through a flipbook (words or images on "notecards", flip through rapidly and the image/words move - early precursor to movies and still in use to day in some forms).
You can see this behavior in MOST touch-screen portable devices. Nook Simple Touch/Color/Tablet, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab, Zoom, Iconia, iPad, etc all have this behavior.
The Nook Tablet in particular (since my wife owns one), I've noticed this behavior on when browsing lists of books - when she swipes down with a more rapid gesture, it will "throw" the content off the top of the screen, scrolling rapidly down the lists (depending on how long the list is, will even skip pages) and eventually slowing back down like it was decelerating. It doesn't always stop at the end of a page, or the beginning of a page, it just finally decelerates and stops someplace.
They don't do that at my local Rat Shack. In fact, I may be lucky enough that I live in such an out of the way area, that this one still caries DIY radio/astronomy kits, PCBs, etc. along with the normal craptastic RS stuff like over-priced phones and crappy USB headsets.
My uncle had his rigged similarly to what you described, only he didn't worry too much about the low-power bit - he had rigged a switch and a second bank of batteries to automatically flip on when power went low. This gave him time to replace the first batch and keep working.
Yes, but games like LoL are catching on to this, and starting to use behavior pattern matching to figure out when this is going on, and implement appropriate penalties. At least in ladder matches. Believe it or not, it's not exactly difficult to figure out when a normally high-bracket player is trolling the low-ranks (for one thing, they tend to keep on using their high-bracket strategies that "new" players won't know).
... There's all of the indie game developers putting out quality material nowadays (some like Dungeon Defenders, etc) being BETTER than the "AAA" stuff and showing everyone how much these guys are lying and in for it for nothing but the money.
You should send them back a router with DD-WRT or similar, with the reset button disabled from within the firmware. Hell, you can even set those routers up so that you can remotely admin them from your home in Arizona and they never have to touch it.
I am starting to think this so-called stalker is her boyfriend or something. This wouldn't be the first, nor last time people have attempted this scam to bring publicity (and money) to their "cause".
One form or another from 1986 until at least 2011 under different companies ranging from Lucasfilm to Fujitsu, etc. to the current owner of the patents and technology, Stratagem Corporation.
Unless Worlds, Inc. is a renamed Stratagem Corporation, they have some explaining to do with their patents. Even Microsoft and Time Warner had stuff going on back then, and may still even hold patents on some of this material.
The people in the particular sub-Reddit in question, are refugees (Read: Got banned from, or are actively trolling for) Something Awful.
The SRS people have even stooped so low as to take over an LGTB sub-Reddit and mess it all up, even going so far as to "jokingly" refer to their planted moderators as "Real Hitler" and abusing Reddit "flair" to mark people who disagree with them like Jews during the Holocaust.
U.S. Patent No. 6,216,133 - "Method for enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items, and a system for carrying out such a method" - Filed on May 30, 1996, and granted April 10, 2001.
Sounds to me like every search function ever implemented in software.
This is one of the vaguest, most obtuse descriptions for a patent I've ever read. Like another poster said, you can virtually pick and choose words to swap out like it's a frakking Madlib. At this point, Yahoo! could take that word for word, and add "on the internet", and get awarded a patent.
Kasparov defeated the chess computer Deep Thought (Computer) in both games of a two-game match in 1989. In February 1996, he defeated IBM's chess computer Deep Blue (Computer) with three wins and two draws and one loss. In 1997, an updated version of Deep Blue defeated Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in a highly publicised six-game match. The match was even after five games but Kasparov lost Game 6 - Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 - to lose the match. This was the first time a computer had ever defeated a world champion in match play. In January 2003, he played and drew a six game FIDE Man-Machine WC (2003) match against Deep Junior (Computer). In November 2003, he played and drew a four-game Man-Machine World Chess Championship (2003) against the computer program X3D Fritz (Computer) X3D Fritz, although he was constrained through the use of a virtual board, 3D glasses and a speech recognition system.
Hell, my wife's union has been fighting to get this tech into the classroom. The district has been coming along nicely, but now has hit a rough patch due to having Corbett as the Governor of our Commonwealth (In fact, all districts are starting to feel the pain, and 240,000 teachers in PA have been furloughed and outright left the Commonwealth with their families in tow, including tenured college professors).
There goes that Republican doublespeak about jobs creation, eh. Eliminate 240k jobs, then call it a net win, because all of the jobs their family members also left, they now count as "new jobs created".
The district so far has rolled out Smartboards in many of the classrooms across the district. They've implemented Gaggle, Access+, ElectronicSchoolBoard, Home Access Center (so parents can view report cards, homework assignments, test scores, etc online), and upgraded the district internet connection to a fiber connection (100 MB fiber, before they were on a single T1). Unfortunately, further expansion and integration of new tech is basically at a stop now until this Commonwealth decides to get its act together.
Actually, the GOA and DOE have already done and released their reports that have said we could open up all coasts and the entire state of Alaska (including the protected areas) to free drilling, and it wouldn't even make our domestic prices drop a single penny.
In fact, the prices were estimated to raise an additional $0.25 per gallon if this were done, with almost that entire amount of oil processed and shipped to other countries, mainly China, the UK, and France.
Yes, and good luck, with all of the millions upon millions throwing their wallets to the content industry via iTunes alone, let alone via concert tickets (Ticketmaster and LiveNation, both fully controlled by the RIAA and account for almost all concert ticket sales in the USA and its territories, simply by owning the contracts with the venues).
This will never stop as long as anyone wants their music, wants it now, and is willing to pay for it.
New Zealand was actually a perfect choice: You must consider, that during the story all the way from The Hobbit until Return of the King, most of Arda was sparsely populated, in fact, there were few cities of any size remaining - most of what was left were small villages at best.
The earlier wars between the races, etc had wiped out entire empires and left nothing but mouldering ruins that are in the time of The Hobbit, what is leftover from wars centuries after their destruction (our Stone Henge, etc are what you compare them to for reference).
Heck, entire landscapes had changed over the Ages in that world, so much so that Mirkwood came to be in a place that before it was fertile farmland and part of an earlier empire.
We see very little of the Southrons, etc, but must assume they are like the Persians, Africans, and Indians of our world - at least from the few descriptions that Tolkein did leave us.
And the doubly sad thing is, when they aren't outright faking the accents, they are insulting our intelligence by substituting actors from Slovak regions (Chech, Slav, Serbs, etc) and pretending they are Russians.
There's also been a few movies where the actors/actresses were yapping in whatever Ukrainians speak natively, but it sure wasn't Russian.
This is what Hollywood tries to pass off as legitimate. >.
Except that the PS3 is still the best Blu-Ray player on the market, sadly. Sony has available the only Blu-Ray systems that are guaranteed to play all Blu-Ray content. The rest of the companies have to get permission from Sony, and there are already stories of some 3rd-party players that refuse to play older Blu-Ray titles.
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Paint.NET is actually a pretty good program, and more than adequate for most home users. I've installed it many times for clients after giving a small demo of what it can do, because they didn't want to fork out several hundred dollars for Photoshop.
That's when you respond with a lawyer telling them to get bent.
Quite a bit: between just my wife and I, over the period of one week, have used 45 GB just from Hulu and Netflix, and we only watch sometime after 5pm when we are both home. That's approximately two movies per night, before she goes to bed and I go to work. Throw Youtube into the mix, and it skyrockets.
When my brothers come up to visit, we easily blow through 500-700 GB by the end of a week or two.
I've never had an IMAX experience where it's been out of focus. In fact, quite a few IMAX movies that I've seen have been perfectly in focus because they were in digital just for IMAX.
Don't sit in the front though, you might end up with a neck cramp for the next few days.
To make this a further point - some of the Chechnyan "freedom fighters" found by soldiers during Iraq, etc were Blonde/Red w/blue eyes. Good luck on your average TSA agent ever filtering out one of these if they decide to come here. They speak Russian dialects, are Muslim and can also speak fluent Arabic. If they only learn even very basic English, then the TSA agents on the ground have no visual or audible way to distinguish if they are a terrorist or not.
(And there's been many Chechnyan suicide bombers as well.)
There are some in iOS itself. Use a slow swipe to move the content, see how it moves maybe a few lines at a time or possibly turns a page? Try using a faster swipe. It essentially "throws" the current content right off of the screen (super fast scroll) and replaces it with a usually pre-determined follow-up set of content. Really noticeable when interacting with lists, groups of images, the "app grid" etc.
There is the normal "pan-n-scan" as I refer to it, and the more rapid content replacement that looks like you're flipping through a flipbook (words or images on "notecards", flip through rapidly and the image/words move - early precursor to movies and still in use to day in some forms).
You can see this behavior in MOST touch-screen portable devices. Nook Simple Touch/Color/Tablet, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab, Zoom, Iconia, iPad, etc all have this behavior.
The Nook Tablet in particular (since my wife owns one), I've noticed this behavior on when browsing lists of books - when she swipes down with a more rapid gesture, it will "throw" the content off the top of the screen, scrolling rapidly down the lists (depending on how long the list is, will even skip pages) and eventually slowing back down like it was decelerating. It doesn't always stop at the end of a page, or the beginning of a page, it just finally decelerates and stops someplace.
I think he made that comment because it's obviously clear that pursuing ever-growing profits is an un-sustainable dead-end alley.
No company can continue growing end-over-end forever, or else IBM and Microsoft would be the only two corporations left :P
They don't do that at my local Rat Shack. In fact, I may be lucky enough that I live in such an out of the way area, that this one still caries DIY radio/astronomy kits, PCBs, etc. along with the normal craptastic RS stuff like over-priced phones and crappy USB headsets.
My uncle had his rigged similarly to what you described, only he didn't worry too much about the low-power bit - he had rigged a switch and a second bank of batteries to automatically flip on when power went low. This gave him time to replace the first batch and keep working.
Yes, but games like LoL are catching on to this, and starting to use behavior pattern matching to figure out when this is going on, and implement appropriate penalties. At least in ladder matches. Believe it or not, it's not exactly difficult to figure out when a normally high-bracket player is trolling the low-ranks (for one thing, they tend to keep on using their high-bracket strategies that "new" players won't know).
... There's all of the indie game developers putting out quality material nowadays (some like Dungeon Defenders, etc) being BETTER than the "AAA" stuff and showing everyone how much these guys are lying and in for it for nothing but the money.
QQ moar.
You should send them back a router with DD-WRT or similar, with the reset button disabled from within the firmware. Hell, you can even set those routers up so that you can remotely admin them from your home in Arizona and they never have to touch it.
I am starting to think this so-called stalker is her boyfriend or something. This wouldn't be the first, nor last time people have attempted this scam to bring publicity (and money) to their "cause".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(MMORPG)
1991-1997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityspace
1993-1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)
One form or another from 1986 until at least 2011 under different companies ranging from Lucasfilm to Fujitsu, etc. to the current owner of the patents and technology, Stratagem Corporation.
Unless Worlds, Inc. is a renamed Stratagem Corporation, they have some explaining to do with their patents. Even Microsoft and Time Warner had stuff going on back then, and may still even hold patents on some of this material.
The people in the particular sub-Reddit in question, are refugees (Read: Got banned from, or are actively trolling for) Something Awful.
The SRS people have even stooped so low as to take over an LGTB sub-Reddit and mess it all up, even going so far as to "jokingly" refer to their planted moderators as "Real Hitler" and abusing Reddit "flair" to mark people who disagree with them like Jews during the Holocaust.
These people are sick.
There's several for MacOS Classic.
Several Trojans, Worms, etc for OSX. Virus in the classic form? Some proof-of-concepts here and there.
For a blast from the past:
http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/mac/mac-virus-list.txt (speaking about Mac viruses from the 1980's)
Interesting read on creation of malicious software targeting OSX:
https://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204791948/Mac_OS_X
A list of baddies for MacOS Classic and OSX:
http://www.iantivirus.com/threats/
Also interesting:
http://lscr.berkeley.edu/archive/mail/magnet/2004/0418.html
And then there's this:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/16/apple-osx-virus-cx_po_0216autofacescan09.html
This was amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6_sPkMupA
I'm sure there's lots more if I care to dig.
U.S. Patent No. 6,216,133 - "Method for enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items, and a system for carrying out such a method" - Filed on May 30, 1996, and granted April 10, 2001.
Sounds to me like every search function ever implemented in software. This is one of the vaguest, most obtuse descriptions for a patent I've ever read. Like another poster said, you can virtually pick and choose words to swap out like it's a frakking Madlib. At this point, Yahoo! could take that word for word, and add "on the internet", and get awarded a patent.
Kasparov defeated the chess computer Deep Thought (Computer) in both games of a two-game match in 1989. In February 1996, he defeated IBM's chess computer Deep Blue (Computer) with three wins and two draws and one loss. In 1997, an updated version of Deep Blue defeated Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in a highly publicised six-game match. The match was even after five games but Kasparov lost Game 6 - Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 - to lose the match. This was the first time a computer had ever defeated a world champion in match play. In January 2003, he played and drew a six game FIDE Man-Machine WC (2003) match against Deep Junior (Computer). In November 2003, he played and drew a four-game Man-Machine World Chess Championship (2003) against the computer program X3D Fritz (Computer) X3D Fritz, although he was constrained through the use of a virtual board, 3D glasses and a speech recognition system.
Hell, my wife's union has been fighting to get this tech into the classroom. The district has been coming along nicely, but now has hit a rough patch due to having Corbett as the Governor of our Commonwealth (In fact, all districts are starting to feel the pain, and 240,000 teachers in PA have been furloughed and outright left the Commonwealth with their families in tow, including tenured college professors).
There goes that Republican doublespeak about jobs creation, eh. Eliminate 240k jobs, then call it a net win, because all of the jobs their family members also left, they now count as "new jobs created".
The district so far has rolled out Smartboards in many of the classrooms across the district. They've implemented Gaggle, Access+, ElectronicSchoolBoard, Home Access Center (so parents can view report cards, homework assignments, test scores, etc online), and upgraded the district internet connection to a fiber connection (100 MB fiber, before they were on a single T1). Unfortunately, further expansion and integration of new tech is basically at a stop now until this Commonwealth decides to get its act together.
Actually, the GOA and DOE have already done and released their reports that have said we could open up all coasts and the entire state of Alaska (including the protected areas) to free drilling, and it wouldn't even make our domestic prices drop a single penny.
In fact, the prices were estimated to raise an additional $0.25 per gallon if this were done, with almost that entire amount of oil processed and shipped to other countries, mainly China, the UK, and France.
Yes, and good luck, with all of the millions upon millions throwing their wallets to the content industry via iTunes alone, let alone via concert tickets (Ticketmaster and LiveNation, both fully controlled by the RIAA and account for almost all concert ticket sales in the USA and its territories, simply by owning the contracts with the venues).
This will never stop as long as anyone wants their music, wants it now, and is willing to pay for it.
That's not enough compensation. I should be paid for reading their tripe.
New Zealand was actually a perfect choice: You must consider, that during the story all the way from The Hobbit until Return of the King, most of Arda was sparsely populated, in fact, there were few cities of any size remaining - most of what was left were small villages at best.
The earlier wars between the races, etc had wiped out entire empires and left nothing but mouldering ruins that are in the time of The Hobbit, what is leftover from wars centuries after their destruction (our Stone Henge, etc are what you compare them to for reference).
Heck, entire landscapes had changed over the Ages in that world, so much so that Mirkwood came to be in a place that before it was fertile farmland and part of an earlier empire.
We see very little of the Southrons, etc, but must assume they are like the Persians, Africans, and Indians of our world - at least from the few descriptions that Tolkein did leave us.
And the doubly sad thing is, when they aren't outright faking the accents, they are insulting our intelligence by substituting actors from Slovak regions (Chech, Slav, Serbs, etc) and pretending they are Russians.
There's also been a few movies where the actors/actresses were yapping in whatever Ukrainians speak natively, but it sure wasn't Russian.
This is what Hollywood tries to pass off as legitimate. >.
Except that the PS3 is still the best Blu-Ray player on the market, sadly. Sony has available the only Blu-Ray systems that are guaranteed to play all Blu-Ray content. The rest of the companies have to get permission from Sony, and there are already stories of some 3rd-party players that refuse to play older Blu-Ray titles.