I saw this video a few days ago, and was also surprised that it was called a force field. But I was wondering what exactly would happen if 10 RPGs arrived within range at the same time. What about 100, 1000?
If that system can simultaneously stop all 1000 RPGs if they all enter within range at the same time, I can live with it being called a force field.
Maybe not as big as a factor anymore, but filesize is and no compression are the 2 features I look for. Ability to edit online is fine and dandy, but I can already recompress, re-encode, and edit on my machine already. What I need is a service which will not decrease the quality after my upload to conserve bandwidth and allow a good max size, now that video quality is up to the HDTV era.
Google Video I believe doesn't have a max file size limit, but they do recompress your video to whatever codec they use. Youtube (not sure about file size limit), but after re-enconding into FLV, the quality is pretty depressing.
I haven't tried the others listed on the site, but I currently use PutFile ( http://www.putfile.com/ ). They have a limit of 25MB for videos and no longer allows direct downoading, but they're decent and actually play back the original file. For larger files, most people probably won't want to view it in the browser anyway, so I upload to RapidShare ( http://www.rapidshare.de/ ) which allows a maximum of 100MB and unlimited downloads. Though for anyone that's used RapidShare, you know about the wait times.
Is this an April Fools? I mean the 25 sec clip could easily mean last week's opening sequence where they had British actors perform the opening sequence to Simpsons and somehow BBC took the bait? or maybe we're taking the bait...
One of the biggest problem is with FFDShow. It seems to launch a new instance of the audio codec everytime an audio file is played and after a couple hours of playtime, I ende up with 20+ FFDShow audio codec icons on my system tray. People have suggested to uninstall FFDShow to stop this behavior, but I'd rather keep FFDShow than to play Oblivion. I ended up compromising and unregistering ffdshow when I play Oblivion and reregistering the codec when I exit the game.
One of the early problems I noticed was a horrible frame rate. Even at the lowest settings and resolution, I was getting horrible results. My system is actually pretty decent imo. I mean, I got Fable to run at 1280x720 w/o any problems. Turns out that it must've been a driver issue and upgrading from ATI Calatyst 5.8 to 6.3 fixed this problem.
Wier had determined to lead Snapper to focus on quality, and through quality, on cachet. Not every car is a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry; there is more than enough business to support Audi and BMW and Lexus. And so it is with lawn mowers, Wier hoped. Still, perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the Wal-Mart effect is so pervasive that it sets the metabolism even of companies that purposefully do no business with Wal-Mart.
Is he implying Toyota Camry and Honda Accord's are low quality cars by this statement...
That's less than 3x the cable speed. Will definitely need to improve on transfer speeds, or else when the internet where capacity is limitless and takes up no space at all, will look much more appealing.
but the major upload/download are 1 time costs. you're not going to be uploading 100gb everyday or month. You'll probably upload 100gb the 1st time you set up your backup account, and then every night, you just update the files that changed or new files that got added, which might amount to a couple hundred megs which is a few pennies.
And you'd never have to download until you really need it, and at that time, cost is hardly ever a factor.
Given that the majority of companies wouldn't hesistate to act against the employees interest if there is any suggestion of compromosing the companies's interest, why should an employee protect a typical company's interest apart from doing the bare minimum required to preserve their own job?
That really depends on what bonuses you employer provides you if you do a good job other than the bare minimum required. This could either be in the form of salary raise, extra vacation days, promotion, bonus lump sum, and many many other ways.
What providing the bare minimum would get you is 20 years later (if they still haven't fired you) is that you're stuck at you same position that you started with and little if any increase to your salary.
But it's that 1st review in your car magazine that actually gets you to go test drive a car, which might or might not lead to the final result of purchasing the car. Same thing with video games. You see some demos, look at people's reviews, see some actual game play, maybe even try it yourself, before you actually purchase the game. Of course that's what a "sensible" person would do... On the other hand, we have...
But my point being, without that first demo or review, you might not even hear of the game at all.
I always thought the cable company owned those lines, and also one of the many reasons why one location is usually never serviced by 2 cable companies. If the cable companies do own those lines, why would they ever let a phone company borrow their lines to give highspeed to consumers when they can do it themselves. If they don't own the lines, is it the city that does? If that's the case, why are we so often locked down to only 1 cable provider.
TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION Internet blows CIA cover It's easy to track America's covert operatives. All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.
By John Crewdson Tribune senior correspondent Published March 11, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
WASHINGTON -- She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile public information also can learn that she is a CIA employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.
The CIA asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the CIA, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of public record, thanks to the Internet.
When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States.
Only recently has the CIA recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" CIA Director Porter Goss.
"Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said the CIA's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work. Director Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work."
Dyck declined to detail the remedies "since we don't want the bad guys to know what we're fixing."
Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for CIA operatives and its small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, following the Tribune's disclosures that some of the planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.
Although finding and repairing the vulnerabilities in the CIA's cover system was not a priority under Goss' predecessor, George Tenet, one senior U.S. official observed that "the Internet age didn't get here in 2004," the year Goss took over at the CIA.
CIA names not disclosed
The Tribune is not disclosing the identities of any of the CIA employees uncovered in its database searches, the searching techniques used or other details that might put agency employees or operatives at risk. The CIA apparently was unaware of the extent to which its employees were in the public domain until being provided with a partial list of names by the Tribune.'
At a minimum, the CIA's seeming inability to keep its own secrets invites questions about whether the Bush administration is doing enough to shield its covert CIA operations from public scrutiny, even as the Justice Department focuses resources on a two-year investigation into whether someone in the administration broke the law by disclosing to reporters the identity of clandestine CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Not all of the 2,653 employees whose names were produced by the Tribune search are supposed to be working under cover. More than 160 are intelligence analysts, an occupation that is not considered a covert position, and senior CIA executives such as Tenet are included on the list.
Covert employees discovered
But an undisclosed number of those on the list--the CIA would not say how many--are covert employees, and some are known to hold jobs that could make them terrorist targets.
Other potential targets include at least some of the two dozen CIA facilities uncovered by the Tribune search. Most are in northern Virginia, within a few miles of the agency's headquarters. Several are in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. There is one in Chicago.
But maybe people WANT something to be stolen. Many years ago, the garbagemen (sanitation workers) in NYC went on strike, and garbage was piling up in the streets. A relative of mine in Brooklyn still managed to get rid of his: he put it in big boxes, wrapped the boxes in gift paper with bows, and left them in his car with the doors unlocked. They always got stolen.
I'm actually curious how your friend managed to only have the gift boxes stolen and not have his car stolen, being that he was in Brooklyn, NYC and left his car doors unlocked.
I can understand why other companies may be afraid of storing their documents on Google's servers, but why is Google afriad of their own documents being stored on their servers? I mean unless they doubt their own security for the desktop search data stored on their own central server, is there anything they really need to worry about?
Sort of shakes up the confidence of people who do use Google desktop, doesn't it?
This is a very weak argument given the fact that tons of new hardware COME OUT AFTER THE OS has been released. With the release of each SP edition, new drivers are indeed added. There are also the fact that drivers aren't tested, certified, and sign and Microsoft won't install those by default.
What should happen though, is that Windows Update should either find the new drivers for me, or tell me where I can get them.
I agree they should not be allowed to prevent bundling of alternative software or give incentive to OEMs for not installing competing software. In fact I find the whole concept where Intel is allowed to give discounts to Dell for not selling systems with AMD CPUs totally wrong and I haven't figured out why the Government isn't getting on Intel's case.
But this case isn't against them making such negotiations with OEMs. It's against them for including software that comes with their OS which is a very round about way to solve the problem you mentioned. Why not fine both the OEM and Microsoft if they find out such a deal has been made, instead of telling Microsoft to cripple their OS.
If I recall, Dell systems has always came with Real Player and Mozilla Firefox has been recently added to the list of software you can get pre-installed.
For me, I never keep any money in my paypal account. If I need to send a non-cc payment, it comes from my bank account. Anything else gets paid by credit card.
I'm curious though, did you try calling UPS again to cancel the shipment. Since no package was ever shipped, they should be able to cancel and refund the shipping to Paypal. Do remember to get their name and a reference number to the transaction. Paypal will be getting money back and you should be able to call paypal and say now that UPS has refunded the shipping charge, you should be getting your money back, or else that'd be theft since Paypal is now holding money that you never gave them.
Another tip you may find useful is a PDF Printer. I always print my receipts and shipping labels onto PDF first. Now i have a digital copy I can print as many times as I want onto whatever paper.
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Should actually be:
Ticket status:
[ ] Open
[ ] Assigned
[ ] Not a bug
[ ] Feature request
[ ] Won't fix
[x] By Design
[ ] Closed
For some reason, I can see the justice department demanding access to the forum archives pretty soon.
I saw this video a few days ago, and was also surprised that it was called a force field. But I was wondering what exactly would happen if 10 RPGs arrived within range at the same time. What about 100, 1000?
If that system can simultaneously stop all 1000 RPGs if they all enter within range at the same time, I can live with it being called a force field.
hows does TabFX compare to Tab Mix Plus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1122
That's the one I've been using.
Maybe not as big as a factor anymore, but filesize is and no compression are the 2 features I look for. Ability to edit online is fine and dandy, but I can already recompress, re-encode, and edit on my machine already. What I need is a service which will not decrease the quality after my upload to conserve bandwidth and allow a good max size, now that video quality is up to the HDTV era.
Google Video I believe doesn't have a max file size limit, but they do recompress your video to whatever codec they use.
Youtube (not sure about file size limit), but after re-enconding into FLV, the quality is pretty depressing.
I haven't tried the others listed on the site, but I currently use PutFile ( http://www.putfile.com/ ). They have a limit of 25MB for videos and no longer allows direct downoading, but they're decent and actually play back the original file. For larger files, most people probably won't want to view it in the browser anyway, so I upload to RapidShare ( http://www.rapidshare.de/ ) which allows a maximum of 100MB and unlimited downloads. Though for anyone that's used RapidShare, you know about the wait times.
Is this an April Fools? I mean the 25 sec clip could easily mean last week's opening sequence where they had British actors perform the opening sequence to Simpsons and somehow BBC took the bait? or maybe we're taking the bait...
You can watch the clip here (though the clip is ~1 min long; not the 25secs they mentioned):
http://media.putfile.com/The-Real-Simpsons45
YABBJ (yet another best blond joke)
One of the biggest problem is with FFDShow. It seems to launch a new instance of the audio codec everytime an audio file is played and after a couple hours of playtime, I ende up with 20+ FFDShow audio codec icons on my system tray. People have suggested to uninstall FFDShow to stop this behavior, but I'd rather keep FFDShow than to play Oblivion. I ended up compromising and unregistering ffdshow when I play Oblivion and reregistering the codec when I exit the game.
One of the early problems I noticed was a horrible frame rate. Even at the lowest settings and resolution, I was getting horrible results. My system is actually pretty decent imo. I mean, I got Fable to run at 1280x720 w/o any problems. Turns out that it must've been a driver issue and upgrading from ATI Calatyst 5.8 to 6.3 fixed this problem.
You can get a more detailed description on my fixes at:
http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/?p=434
Is he implying Toyota Camry and Honda Accord's are low quality cars by this statement...
That's less than 3x the cable speed. Will definitely need to improve on transfer speeds, or else when the internet where capacity is limitless and takes up no space at all, will look much more appealing.
That just mean your peppers don't have enough capsaicin. Try something hotter. The funny taste will eventually go away.
but the major upload/download are 1 time costs. you're not going to be uploading 100gb everyday or month. You'll probably upload 100gb the 1st time you set up your backup account, and then every night, you just update the files that changed or new files that got added, which might amount to a couple hundred megs which is a few pennies.
And you'd never have to download until you really need it, and at that time, cost is hardly ever a factor.
Given that the majority of companies wouldn't hesistate to act against the employees interest if there is any suggestion of compromosing the companies's interest, why should an employee protect a typical company's interest apart from doing the bare minimum required to preserve their own job?
That really depends on what bonuses you employer provides you if you do a good job other than the bare minimum required. This could either be in the form of salary raise, extra vacation days, promotion, bonus lump sum, and many many other ways.
What providing the bare minimum would get you is 20 years later (if they still haven't fired you) is that you're stuck at you same position that you started with and little if any increase to your salary.
But it's that 1st review in your car magazine that actually gets you to go test drive a car, which might or might not lead to the final result of purchasing the car. Same thing with video games. You see some demos, look at people's reviews, see some actual game play, maybe even try it yourself, before you actually purchase the game. Of course that's what a "sensible" person would do... On the other hand, we have ...
But my point being, without that first demo or review, you might not even hear of the game at all.
I always thought the cable company owned those lines, and also one of the many reasons why one location is usually never serviced by 2 cable companies. If the cable companies do own those lines, why would they ever let a phone company borrow their lines to give highspeed to consumers when they can do it themselves. If they don't own the lines, is it the city that does? If that's the case, why are we so often locked down to only 1 cable provider.
Text:
TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION
Internet blows CIA cover
It's easy to track America's covert operatives. All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.
By John Crewdson
Tribune senior correspondent
Published March 11, 2006, 12:00 PM CST
WASHINGTON -- She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile public information also can learn that she is a CIA employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.
The CIA asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the CIA, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of public record, thanks to the Internet.
When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States.
Only recently has the CIA recognized that in the Internet age its traditional system of providing cover for clandestine employees working overseas is fraught with holes, a discovery that is said to have "horrified" CIA Director Porter Goss.
"Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age," said the CIA's chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck. "There are things that worked previously that no longer work. Director Goss is committed to modernizing the way the agency does cover in order to protect our officers who are doing dangerous work."
Dyck declined to detail the remedies "since we don't want the bad guys to know what we're fixing."
Several "front companies" set up to provide cover for CIA operatives and its small fleet of aircraft recently began disappearing from the Internet, following the Tribune's disclosures that some of the planes were used to transport suspected terrorists to countries where they claimed to have been tortured.
Although finding and repairing the vulnerabilities in the CIA's cover system was not a priority under Goss' predecessor, George Tenet, one senior U.S. official observed that "the Internet age didn't get here in 2004," the year Goss took over at the CIA.
CIA names not disclosed
The Tribune is not disclosing the identities of any of the CIA employees uncovered in its database searches, the searching techniques used or other details that might put agency employees or operatives at risk. The CIA apparently was unaware of the extent to which its employees were in the public domain until being provided with a partial list of names by the Tribune.'
At a minimum, the CIA's seeming inability to keep its own secrets invites questions about whether the Bush administration is doing enough to shield its covert CIA operations from public scrutiny, even as the Justice Department focuses resources on a two-year investigation into whether someone in the administration broke the law by disclosing to reporters the identity of clandestine CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Not all of the 2,653 employees whose names were produced by the Tribune search are supposed to be working under cover. More than 160 are intelligence analysts, an occupation that is not considered a covert position, and senior CIA executives such as Tenet are included on the list.
Covert employees discovered
But an undisclosed number of those on the list--the CIA would not say how many--are covert employees, and some are known to hold jobs that could make them terrorist targets.
Other potential targets include at least some of the two dozen CIA facilities uncovered by the Tribune search. Most are in northern Virginia, within a few miles of the agency's headquarters. Several are in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. There is one in Chicago.
Some are heavil
I'm actually curious how your friend managed to only have the gift boxes stolen and not have his car stolen, being that he was in Brooklyn, NYC and left his car doors unlocked.
mod parent up! his analogy is more fitting.
I can understand why other companies may be afraid of storing their documents on Google's servers, but why is Google afriad of their own documents being stored on their servers? I mean unless they doubt their own security for the desktop search data stored on their own central server, is there anything they really need to worry about?
Sort of shakes up the confidence of people who do use Google desktop, doesn't it?
http://local.live.com/ actually allows you to add pushpins on the map and get directions to and from that point.
here's a few links to the video:
- of-Narnia27
http://media.putfile.com/snlchroniclesrapsnl
http://media.putfile.com/Lazy-Sunday---Chronicles
It's only research if you cite your sources and give credit where it's due, or else it'd be a discovery!
This is a very weak argument given the fact that tons of new hardware COME OUT AFTER THE OS has been released. With the release of each SP edition, new drivers are indeed added. There are also the fact that drivers aren't tested, certified, and sign and Microsoft won't install those by default.
What should happen though, is that Windows Update should either find the new drivers for me, or tell me where I can get them.
I agree they should not be allowed to prevent bundling of alternative software or give incentive to OEMs for not installing competing software. In fact I find the whole concept where Intel is allowed to give discounts to Dell for not selling systems with AMD CPUs totally wrong and I haven't figured out why the Government isn't getting on Intel's case.
But this case isn't against them making such negotiations with OEMs. It's against them for including software that comes with their OS which is a very round about way to solve the problem you mentioned. Why not fine both the OEM and Microsoft if they find out such a deal has been made, instead of telling Microsoft to cripple their OS.
If I recall, Dell systems has always came with Real Player and Mozilla Firefox has been recently added to the list of software you can get pre-installed.
For me, I never keep any money in my paypal account. If I need to send a non-cc payment, it comes from my bank account. Anything else gets paid by credit card.
I'm curious though, did you try calling UPS again to cancel the shipment. Since no package was ever shipped, they should be able to cancel and refund the shipping to Paypal. Do remember to get their name and a reference number to the transaction. Paypal will be getting money back and you should be able to call paypal and say now that UPS has refunded the shipping charge, you should be getting your money back, or else that'd be theft since Paypal is now holding money that you never gave them.
Another tip you may find useful is a PDF Printer. I always print my receipts and shipping labels onto PDF first. Now i have a digital copy I can print as many times as I want onto whatever paper.