P.S. I can already hear some of the people now, saying, "Well, how would you feel if it were your 12-year-old daughter who was abused?" I'd have to say that I'd feel like it sucked... and I'd also have to ask when the law really was based on how I felt.
Well said sir. Morals != Laws. In emotional debates like this one, too many people too easily forget that.
of course.. L. Ron only said they look like 1950/60's era cars and trains. They were reality-retconned, because Xenu is a psychic alien who can see the future.
Why would you spend all that extra time converting it to an image and then back again? Webpages are in text, be that ascii or unicode, and regex is a hell of a lot faster than OCR.
The CS lab at my (Australian) university runs windows desktops, but has a bank of Fedora servers for students and researchers to use. Of course, the staff still claim that this isn't good enough, but mostly because of the fact that the most run program on the ugrads servers is javac.
I used to have this problem all the time too, but i haven't seen it in ages. I guess i shouldn't assume things are fixed just 'cos they don't affect me.
In a situation like the one in the US, I cannot imagine why people claim that national infrastructure should be exclusively privately owned.
For capitalism to work, you need to have competition.. but that competition basically ceases to exist as soon as a vendor can lock a customer into a service. Since telecommunications rely on having physical infrastructure in place, the only people who can provide to an area are those who are willing to invest in heavy amounts of it. This makes it difficult for small providers to play, since it's also difficult for customers to choose anyone other than the dominant player in their physical location, and provides a method for vendors to get a local monopoly.
I'm not going to claim that government ownership of infrastructure is a good idea, i'm sure everyone will assume that the government is spying on them anyway.. I will say that, regardless of ownership, keeping the infrastructure and the providers separate would solve a lot of problems. This is probably what should have happened when AT&T was originally divided.
I know, i know.. that was all for the schools and for show. I could propose that he's only suggesting it to keep ignorant parents happy, and that he knows it's not feasible or wanted, but you're most likely right.
The case was handled like a sport, and the AFP were trying for a win regardless of the cost...
I can't say for sure that there really was a conspiracy here, but fraudulent ploys like this won the former government two successive elections... three times constitutes enemy action?
Sure, but that was released over 3 years ago, and Steam has come quite a way since then.. Haven't seen it happen with a release game in a while. Have seen it with other authentication platforms recently though. Bioshock's authentication, for example, was a nightmare on release. Those of us in the southern hemisphere effectively had the release delayed by two days while they tried to get the auth servers stable again.
The problem occurs most often with a new, boxed game, on a computer with limited (or no) network access. Often, the people who buy games aren't fully aware that they'll need to activate them via steam, and that's where the problem arises. Of course, they could just read the packaging..
If you use steam the way it's really intended to be used (downloading all your games via a decent connection) it works great.. but there's never a one-size-fits-all solution.
This is a real problem, though it should be noted that this doesn't happen after a game is signed to play offline.
also, the early implementations of the platform were quite buggy, in both client and network services. Most of these issues are sorted, but not all of them.
or it could just be a massive wave of consensus that's causing their denial. Oh, and backlash from being caught red handed more than once. just maybe..
Ahh, it's merely a comparison. Most trolls 'round here make obvious mistakes, which you avoided. You picked a theme that worked well with the story, and then didn't resort to goatse, tubgirl, etc.
yeah, i should have picked a better service than horse-and-cart.
The point stands though. The service exists because the telecos support it, and they support it because of consumer demand. I really think that, if no one used text services, they'd start offering plans without text messaging before they started dropping the price.
What happens when a service ceases to be used? It doesn't become more available.
By the logic you've used, i should be able to walk outside and get a horse drawn cart to take me to the city, because, hey, no one else is using them..
From memory, that 'ruggedising' was just a set of rubber washers in an otherwise stable cage (it was a standard 10gig WD, with really odd partitioning, IIRC).. You're right about the off the shelf hardware tho, from an OEM point of view, anyway..
The Xbox was actually a PIII Celeron 733mhz with 64mb of DDR-200 ram and an NV2A (aka Geforce3 GPU) embedded on the motherboard. It also actually ran Win2k kernel with Dx8.1, though it was a stripped down version.
Of course. The (known and widely discussed problem) is that end users don't know a thing about security, and so the SSID, account names and passwords don't get changed.
it's not even a hacker's delight.. this stuff takes absolutely no skill.
According to this, the white dots you're seeing are likely an artifact of the way your TV renders the image.
If you're really interested in preserving those tapes, i'd suggest using a TV tuner/video capture card.. an old SD card will do fine.. you just have to be able to make sure that you can manually configure (or disable) the gain control. Of course, i imagine some cards will just ignore the macrovision system..
unfortunately, YMMV Wildly... I recommend reading this.. should help a bit.
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of course.. L. Ron only said they look like 1950/60's era cars and trains. They were reality-retconned, because Xenu is a psychic alien who can see the future.
;)
sheesh.. is it really that hard to work out?
This is just like the 'potential damages' part of a media infringement trial, right?
The part where the prosecutor pulls magic number out of the air, goes 'should have, would have, could have' and the jury are suddenly lobotomized?
Why would you spend all that extra time converting it to an image and then back again? Webpages are in text, be that ascii or unicode, and regex is a hell of a lot faster than OCR.
Traditionally, they call that 'fame'.
You poor guy..
The CS lab at my (Australian) university runs windows desktops, but has a bank of Fedora servers for students and researchers to use. Of course, the staff still claim that this isn't good enough, but mostly because of the fact that the most run program on the ugrads servers is javac.
damn.. i stand corrected.
I used to have this problem all the time too, but i haven't seen it in ages. I guess i shouldn't assume things are fixed just 'cos they don't affect me.
In a situation like the one in the US, I cannot imagine why people claim that national infrastructure should be exclusively privately owned.
For capitalism to work, you need to have competition.. but that competition basically ceases to exist as soon as a vendor can lock a customer into a service. Since telecommunications rely on having physical infrastructure in place, the only people who can provide to an area are those who are willing to invest in heavy amounts of it. This makes it difficult for small providers to play, since it's also difficult for customers to choose anyone other than the dominant player in their physical location, and provides a method for vendors to get a local monopoly.
I'm not going to claim that government ownership of infrastructure is a good idea, i'm sure everyone will assume that the government is spying on them anyway.. I will say that, regardless of ownership, keeping the infrastructure and the providers separate would solve a lot of problems. This is probably what should have happened when AT&T was originally divided.
I know, i know.. that was all for the schools and for show. I could propose that he's only suggesting it to keep ignorant parents happy, and that he knows it's not feasible or wanted, but you're most likely right.
At least we're finally rid of Howard tho.
At least this lot are actually likely to understand when we tell them it's not technically possible.
Then they can spend all that extra money on fibre...
</optimistic>
The case was handled like a sport, and the AFP were trying for a win regardless of the cost...
I can't say for sure that there really was a conspiracy here, but fraudulent ploys like this won the former government two successive elections... three times constitutes enemy action?
Sure, but that was released over 3 years ago, and Steam has come quite a way since then.. Haven't seen it happen with a release game in a while. Have seen it with other authentication platforms recently though. Bioshock's authentication, for example, was a nightmare on release. Those of us in the southern hemisphere effectively had the release delayed by two days while they tried to get the auth servers stable again.
The problem occurs most often with a new, boxed game, on a computer with limited (or no) network access. Often, the people who buy games aren't fully aware that they'll need to activate them via steam, and that's where the problem arises. Of course, they could just read the packaging..
If you use steam the way it's really intended to be used (downloading all your games via a decent connection) it works great.. but there's never a one-size-fits-all solution.
This is a real problem, though it should be noted that this doesn't happen after a game is signed to play offline.
also, the early implementations of the platform were quite buggy, in both client and network services. Most of these issues are sorted, but not all of them.
or it could just be a massive wave of consensus that's causing their denial. Oh, and backlash from being caught red handed more than once.
just maybe..
Ahh, it's merely a comparison. Most trolls 'round here make obvious mistakes, which you avoided. You picked a theme that worked well with the story, and then didn't resort to goatse, tubgirl, etc.
;)
Respect where it is due
Congratulations sir! Excellent Rickrolling.
;)
If the trolls were all like you, the internet would be a more fun place
This certainly sheds some light on this little incident..
True.
I am, however, forced to cynically claim that the telecos won't care. They already seem to use arbitrary metrics for determining supply and demand.
yeah, i should have picked a better service than horse-and-cart.
The point stands though. The service exists because the telecos support it, and they support it because of consumer demand. I really think that, if no one used text services, they'd start offering plans without text messaging before they started dropping the price.
What happens when a service ceases to be used? It doesn't become more available.
By the logic you've used, i should be able to walk outside and get a horse drawn cart to take me to the city, because, hey, no one else is using them..
From memory, that 'ruggedising' was just a set of rubber washers in an otherwise stable cage (it was a standard 10gig WD, with really odd partitioning, IIRC).. You're right about the off the shelf hardware tho, from an OEM point of view, anyway..
The Xbox was actually a PIII Celeron 733mhz with 64mb of DDR-200 ram and an NV2A (aka Geforce3 GPU) embedded on the motherboard. It also actually ran Win2k kernel with Dx8.1, though it was a stripped down version.
Of course. The (known and widely discussed problem) is that end users don't know a thing about security, and so the SSID, account names and passwords don't get changed.
it's not even a hacker's delight.. this stuff takes absolutely no skill.
Hah.. i just read what i wrote there.. haha.. the way your tv renders the image..
</dweeb>
According to this, the white dots you're seeing are likely an artifact of the way your TV renders the image.
If you're really interested in preserving those tapes, i'd suggest using a TV tuner/video capture card.. an old SD card will do fine.. you just have to be able to make sure that you can manually configure (or disable) the gain control. Of course, i imagine some cards will just ignore the macrovision system..
unfortunately, YMMV Wildly... I recommend reading this.. should help a bit.