that's like comparing bzip2 vs. lame for compressing music. more like comparing bzip2 vs flac (or a flac variant modified slightly to ensure that it could produce a file that was completely identical to the original rather than just a file containing identical audio) for compressing music
Agreed, and that is why if we ever want to get a successfull manned trip to mars or beyond we really need a space station because a space station is the only way to get experiance dealing with theese sorts of problems.
When the space station can go for years at a time without needing any unexpected stuff from earth that is the time to start considering a long distance manned mission.
aren't you forgetting a rather well known british sci-fi series that has been changing the actor that plays it's main actor regulally since practially it's inception and has been going for so long that some of the early episodes have been lost.
The thing is combine *the fast pace of linux development *the wide variety of distributions *the fact that many linux users are using it because it is free (in whichever of the two senses is more important to them)
and there doesn't seem much of a market for software that you have to pay for on linux.
Plus, it seems like a simple problem of foul play between companies, why does the government get involved? because at one stage companies in developed countries were pushing thier waste problems on to less developed countries where they were far less likely to be dealt with in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.
It was decided this was a bad thing and so international agreements were signed forbidding it. Someone has broken that agreement and it is now the governments job to punish them for doing so.
1: count how many unique values there each DCT coeffeciant. If you only find a small number then it probablly means the image has been through low quality jpeg compression. This method may be fooled if the image has been cropped in a way that changes the block boundried though. 2: check for excessive high frequency noise, this may indicate the image has been dithered in the past. OTOH excessively low high frequencies may indicate heavy jpeg compression.
IMO storage is cheap so what I would do is make a database which could index the various copies of each image. You could things arranged so there was one version the software considered "probablly best" but if you really needed the best quality copy you could go back and check manually.
Or maybe they just kept throwing money at their lawyers until Linspire ran out, In a sense thats what they did. While lindows (now linspire) basically won in the US MS was also pressuring them with lawsuits in other countries. Defending all of those lawsuits would have been very expensive and if some of those lawsuits had gone microsofts way it would have rendered the lindows name of very limited usefullness.
One of the downsides of operating internationally is you can be sued under many different legal systems, this can make defending yourself against a rich opponent even more expensive than it would be if you were both single country operations.
What really pisses me off is they clearly can and do make dense LCD panels since they put them in laptops but they won't sell them as seperate monitors.
Also, NOWHERE in the article post does the author request another 4:3 monitor He doesn't say it explicitly but he strongly implies it. All the resolutions he quotes are 4:3 and he says desk space is a major concern.
The fact is a 19 inch 19:10 will up almost exactly the same ammount of desk space as a 20 inch 4:3 while providing a lot less screen area.
you can indeed get 19 inch widescreen with decent resolution but a 19 inch widescreen is probablly going to be more of a deskspace killer than a 20 inch conventional and offer lower resolution so it's no real gain unless you are trying to keep the money down.
I hate the way the PC monitor market has gone mostly widescreen recently, widescreens may be good for movies but the fact is they take up a lot more deskspace for a given screen area than 4:3 screens.
here in britan we have this thing known of as an ASBO, I dunno if you have anything similar in the US. Basically an asbo bans someone who is known to engage in "anti-social behaviour" from doing the things that lead them to that "anti-social behaviour". Asbos are issued by magistrates courts (sheriffs courts in scotland).
This person has shown that when drunk he is very disorderly so has been given an ASBO banning him from getting drunk.
indeed it does seem to relate to the structure of the system to a large extent.
In the english system* students get a largely fixed (it varies a bit by parents income level) ammount of student loan (and if thier parents are particulally poor or they are deemed an indepenent student a bit of student grant), tuition fees are paid by a seperate part of the student loan and are also basically fixed (a cap is set, most decent universities are on the cap) and are considerablly lower than the fees you quote for american universities.
The result is students don't have much disposable income so pushing them into buying expensive textbooks or forcing everyone to buy a laptop like some american universities do just isn't going to fly.
* This applies to english students in english universities, foriegn students in british universities have to pay ammounts comparable to your american figures and will not be able to use the british student loans system. Scotland does things a bit differently from england but i'm not sure on the details.
The problem with LEO is it is f*cking expensive. With GEO you can put up one satellite with a high gain antenna aimed at your target market.
With LEO you need to put up a shitload of satellites and at any time most of them will be over areas with few users. You also need lots of very complex software to manage them and the handoffs between them.
That means you have to find a huge number of users from arround the world and do it quickly to avoid going bankrupt. Both Irridium and Globalstar went bankrupt! Irridium in 199 and Globalstar in 2002 (the networks were taken over in the bankrupcies and freed from the debt they aquired while building the networks became viable buisnesses under thier new ownership).
true so you may need a passport (it seems some EU travellers can use thier ID cards) but from a quick search it seems that most first world citizens will not need a visa for short trips and EU citizens generally will not need one at all unless they plan to work there.
You'll have to define "few" because modern consoles have a lot of buttons, that can be used in combination as well. Some do, the wiimote certainly doesn't though. When used in the wiimote/nunchuck configuration there is an analog stick (which is not clickable) and two buttons on the nunchuck and a dpad and two usable buttons on the wiimote.
There are a couple of things that make starting a buisness in real life harder IMO.
1: giving up the day job to start a buisness is a pretty risky move, especialbly when that day job is the only thing paying the mortgage that keeps a roof over your families head. Starting up a buisness without giving up your day job is pretty hard because you will most likely be in your day job during "buisness hours" 2: most buisness require capital to start. You can possiblly borrow some in the buisnesses name but much of it is going to have to either come from your savings or be borrowed in your name.
I get the impression that there are many people who like the idea of running a buisness but (rightly or wrongly) consider that they don't have the resources or that it is too risky an option. So they keep working at a regular job and play a buisness simulator in thier spare time.
Right, with meatspace banks a combination of regulation and the banks internal checks and balances to protect thier reputations means that the chance of getting your money stolen by the bank or thier employees is pretty low. The risk of the bank going bankrupt is basically removed by the goverment covering that eventuality. Security breaches do happen but when they do the bank will nearly always refund your money and pass details to law enforcement/try to reverse the transaction.
Of course there is the risk of inflation but that also affects cash. Furthermore cash at home is at far more risk of theft than money in the bank.
So in the real world it makes sense to keep your money in the bank (at least if you live in a developed country).
Using private banks in a game with a mostly unregulated buisness climate OTOH does not seem like a good idea if you want to keep your money safe. OTOH I guess in some games it may be the best option because all others are worse.
The basic problem is that he was able to convert the in game currency into a real world currency. plenty of people want to get ahead in MMOGs for some reason (maybe they just want to play with the higher end stuff, maybe they enjoy being "better" than others, whatever) but can't or don't want to put in the time that it takes (most MMOGs reward those who spend insane ammounts of time ingame) so they buy ingame currency off some site on the internet.
There really isn't much you can do to stop such activity other than putting incrediblly draconian restrictions on activities in the game.
4: make it possible to win by improving your character (whether though leveling up, buying better armor buying better weapons or whatever).
Many of the Ratchet and clank games did this to a large extent, saving up and buying the ryno (and in later games levelling it up afterwards) would let you defeat the final boss without much skill.
One big problem I find with both difficutly levels and character improvements is that they usually only affect the fighting aspect of the game. Puzzles and jump chains stay just as difficult regardless of what difficulty level you select or what you do to improve your character.
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that's like comparing bzip2 vs. lame for compressing music.
more like comparing bzip2 vs flac (or a flac variant modified slightly to ensure that it could produce a file that was completely identical to the original rather than just a file containing identical audio) for compressing music
Agreed, and that is why if we ever want to get a successfull manned trip to mars or beyond we really need a space station because a space station is the only way to get experiance dealing with theese sorts of problems.
When the space station can go for years at a time without needing any unexpected stuff from earth that is the time to start considering a long distance manned mission.
aren't you forgetting a rather well known british sci-fi series that has been changing the actor that plays it's main actor regulally since practially it's inception and has been going for so long that some of the early episodes have been lost.
The thing is combine
*the fast pace of linux development
*the wide variety of distributions
*the fact that many linux users are using it because it is free (in whichever of the two senses is more important to them)
and there doesn't seem much of a market for software that you have to pay for on linux.
Plus, it seems like a simple problem of foul play between companies, why does the government get involved?
because at one stage companies in developed countries were pushing thier waste problems on to less developed countries where they were far less likely to be dealt with in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.
It was decided this was a bad thing and so international agreements were signed forbidding it. Someone has broken that agreement and it is now the governments job to punish them for doing so.
IIRC up to XP (which is still the most common version in buisnesses afaict) windows was still generating relatively weak lm hashes by default.
still the landers will be pretty tiny in the photos.
1: count how many unique values there each DCT coeffeciant. If you only find a small number then it probablly means the image has been through low quality jpeg compression. This method may be fooled if the image has been cropped in a way that changes the block boundried though.
2: check for excessive high frequency noise, this may indicate the image has been dithered in the past. OTOH excessively low high frequencies may indicate heavy jpeg compression.
IMO storage is cheap so what I would do is make a database which could index the various copies of each image. You could things arranged so there was one version the software considered "probablly best" but if you really needed the best quality copy you could go back and check manually.
Or maybe they just kept throwing money at their lawyers until Linspire ran out,
In a sense thats what they did. While lindows (now linspire) basically won in the US MS was also pressuring them with lawsuits in other countries. Defending all of those lawsuits would have been very expensive and if some of those lawsuits had gone microsofts way it would have rendered the lindows name of very limited usefullness.
One of the downsides of operating internationally is you can be sued under many different legal systems, this can make defending yourself against a rich opponent even more expensive than it would be if you were both single country operations.
What really pisses me off is they clearly can and do make dense LCD panels since they put them in laptops but they won't sell them as seperate monitors.
Indeed, still IMO it is dodgy to advertise "full hd" when you can only accept full hd resoloution by downscaling it.
Also, NOWHERE in the article post does the author request another 4:3 monitor
He doesn't say it explicitly but he strongly implies it. All the resolutions he quotes are 4:3 and he says desk space is a major concern.
The fact is a 19 inch 19:10 will up almost exactly the same ammount of desk space as a 20 inch 4:3 while providing a lot less screen area.
you can indeed get 19 inch widescreen with decent resolution but a 19 inch widescreen is probablly going to be more of a deskspace killer than a 20 inch conventional and offer lower resolution so it's no real gain unless you are trying to keep the money down.
I hate the way the PC monitor market has gone mostly widescreen recently, widescreens may be good for movies but the fact is they take up a lot more deskspace for a given screen area than 4:3 screens.
here in britan we have this thing known of as an ASBO, I dunno if you have anything similar in the US. Basically an asbo bans someone who is known to engage in "anti-social behaviour" from doing the things that lead them to that "anti-social behaviour". Asbos are issued by magistrates courts (sheriffs courts in scotland).
This person has shown that when drunk he is very disorderly so has been given an ASBO banning him from getting drunk.
indeed it does seem to relate to the structure of the system to a large extent.
In the english system* students get a largely fixed (it varies a bit by parents income level) ammount of student loan (and if thier parents are particulally poor or they are deemed an indepenent student a bit of student grant), tuition fees are paid by a seperate part of the student loan and are also basically fixed (a cap is set, most decent universities are on the cap) and are considerablly lower than the fees you quote for american universities.
The result is students don't have much disposable income so pushing them into buying expensive textbooks or forcing everyone to buy a laptop like some american universities do just isn't going to fly.
* This applies to english students in english universities, foriegn students in british universities have to pay ammounts comparable to your american figures and will not be able to use the british student loans system. Scotland does things a bit differently from england but i'm not sure on the details.
IIRC eve has game time cards too......
The problem with LEO is it is f*cking expensive. With GEO you can put up one satellite with a high gain antenna aimed at your target market.
With LEO you need to put up a shitload of satellites and at any time most of them will be over areas with few users. You also need lots of very complex software to manage them and the handoffs between them.
That means you have to find a huge number of users from arround the world and do it quickly to avoid going bankrupt. Both Irridium and Globalstar went bankrupt! Irridium in 199 and Globalstar in 2002 (the networks were taken over in the bankrupcies and freed from the debt they aquired while building the networks became viable buisnesses under thier new ownership).
true so you may need a passport (it seems some EU travellers can use thier ID cards) but from a quick search it seems that most first world citizens will not need a visa for short trips and EU citizens generally will not need one at all unless they plan to work there.
You'll have to define "few" because modern consoles have a lot of buttons, that can be used in combination as well.
Some do, the wiimote certainly doesn't though. When used in the wiimote/nunchuck configuration there is an analog stick (which is not clickable) and two buttons on the nunchuck and a dpad and two usable buttons on the wiimote.
There are a couple of things that make starting a buisness in real life harder IMO.
1: giving up the day job to start a buisness is a pretty risky move, especialbly when that day job is the only thing paying the mortgage that keeps a roof over your families head. Starting up a buisness without giving up your day job is pretty hard because you will most likely be in your day job during "buisness hours"
2: most buisness require capital to start. You can possiblly borrow some in the buisnesses name but much of it is going to have to either come from your savings or be borrowed in your name.
I get the impression that there are many people who like the idea of running a buisness but (rightly or wrongly) consider that they don't have the resources or that it is too risky an option. So they keep working at a regular job and play a buisness simulator in thier spare time.
Right, with meatspace banks a combination of regulation and the banks internal checks and balances to protect thier reputations means that the chance of getting your money stolen by the bank or thier employees is pretty low. The risk of the bank going bankrupt is basically removed by the goverment covering that eventuality. Security breaches do happen but when they do the bank will nearly always refund your money and pass details to law enforcement/try to reverse the transaction.
Of course there is the risk of inflation but that also affects cash. Furthermore cash at home is at far more risk of theft than money in the bank.
So in the real world it makes sense to keep your money in the bank (at least if you live in a developed country).
Using private banks in a game with a mostly unregulated buisness climate OTOH does not seem like a good idea if you want to keep your money safe. OTOH I guess in some games it may be the best option because all others are worse.
The basic problem is that he was able to convert the in game currency into a real world currency.
plenty of people want to get ahead in MMOGs for some reason (maybe they just want to play with the higher end stuff, maybe they enjoy being "better" than others, whatever) but can't or don't want to put in the time that it takes (most MMOGs reward those who spend insane ammounts of time ingame) so they buy ingame currency off some site on the internet.
There really isn't much you can do to stop such activity other than putting incrediblly draconian restrictions on activities in the game.
4: make it possible to win by improving your character (whether though leveling up, buying better armor buying better weapons or whatever).
Many of the Ratchet and clank games did this to a large extent, saving up and buying the ryno (and in later games levelling it up afterwards) would let you defeat the final boss without much skill.
One big problem I find with both difficutly levels and character improvements is that they usually only affect the fighting aspect of the game. Puzzles and jump chains stay just as difficult regardless of what difficulty level you select or what you do to improve your character.
Yeah being able to change the difficulty setting during ths game is a nice feature.
Sometimes though in games I find the easiest setting still isn't easy enough.
I get
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