It's an addon that people have been able to get for Canon products for years. I'm not sure of the exact details, but IIRC it was a system that uses a separate memory card to store information for verifying that the image hasn't been altered. I haven't read anything about it recently, but the point of it was to deal with the problems of using digital cameras for the purposes of recording a crime scene and similar sites.
Nikon may make one, but I'm not aware of it if they do. The addon itself is fairly expensive and really only of interest to a small number of people. From my limited experience photos are often times admitted as evidence with just the assurance that it hasn't been manipulated. I don't endorse that view, I just know that judges do allow it in, not sure how long that's going to last.
Area codes are just a geographic grouping of numbers. Those are the first 3 numbers following the 1 on a long distance call. The next 3 after that are the exchange and the last 4 are just to make it unique. One of the issues we have is that you can't be sure if a call is going to be long distance by looking at it. Around here both 206 and 425 can be local calls or they can be long distance as well depending upon the specifics.
There used to be a rough grouping by exchange, that doesn't seem to be the case any more. Trying to make much sense out of the numbers is largely futile as it isn't particularly orderly and the numbers aren't handed out by any particular single party. In a sense it's worse now than it used to be now that we've got telephone number portability, allowing you to take a phone number from one company to another.
If we had to do it over there's a few things which we would probably do differently, one of them is assign area codes in a way that roughly corresponds in some predictable way to the part of the country they're listed in. As it is, the 205, 206 and 207 area codes represent parts Alabama, Washington and Maine respectively. It would be difficult to find much more spread geographically for sequential numbers.
That's not a price game, that's a practical necessity. The term is congestion pricing and particularly during the summers that there's a drought on there's not much the city can do other than raise prices and limit consumption. But summers tend to run dry in much of the world conserving the water that's there is the only way to ensure that there's plenty of it for the whole year. Happens up here in Seattle as well. The difference is that the infrastructure isn't generally created to justify increasing rates. Water rights are contentious and there isn't always enough to go around, I'm not sure why you seem to think that you're entitled to water at the same rates and as much as you like as during the winter when it's presumably less contested.
Seattle has laid a lot of fiber itself. It's mostly used by city departments and a lot of it is unused. The places that have tried to do that have ended up being sued by the telecoms that are supposed to be doing it. Leaving the municipality without the service they were trying to install and without any additional capacity.
Antivirus software is a part of a comprehensive strategy not the entire strategy. A good program will scan a file and find things before the file gets executed or better yet will execute the file in a sandbox and see if it does anything suspicious. Personally, I like Immunet. I like it largely because it's resource light and tends to play well with other antivirus products. Not the most comprehensive solution, but it does catch things from time to time. Many of the commercial products are too bloated and huge to be worthwhile. I know I've had trouble with both Bitdefender and Kaspersky running into trouble or making my computer run like sludge.
Because that would result in an "OMG teh Soshulistz" response from a lot of pro-business sources. Where I live in Seattle, I've got basically 3 choices of internet provider plus dial-up. Unfortunately, they all suck. Latency is a joke and googling for it earlier this morning and I couldn't find anybody that's operating locally that's able to provide decent latency.
Service for cablemodems probably has gotten better since I ditched them quite a few years ago, but at that point they were actually going backwards in terms of actual service. Service was getting both slower and less reliable. DSL is getting faster, but at a much slower rate. And FiOS isn't available at all as far as I can tell, suspiciously enough they won't even tell you if there in a rough geographic area without asking for a specific address. Until recently they couldn't even locate my address let alone provide service.
A municipal ISP as a utility or Google coming in with their service is about the only way that any of the telecoms are going to care enough to make any effort at improving service. What's particularly embarrassing is that we've got it quite good compared with most of the country.
But it's not a very good solution. Besides, haven't you noticed that commercials just get more annoying when you do things like that? Just look at Flash ads, they weren't so bad in the beginning, but now that people ignore them they're going to increased lengths to get attention. The worst ones will randomly cover up content and try to clickjack you into going to their site.
Bipartisanship won't happen as long as voters are rewarding the GoP for refusing to compromise and the press is hounding the Democrats to compromise even when they've been handed a mandate to govern. Compared with the Republicans being urged not to compromise even when the voters hand them a significant defeat at the ballot box.
Given that the GoP is proudly asserting that they won't actually participate in any governing nor will they allow the Democrats to do so either, I'm not sure what if anything is going to be accomplished.
If that's what you want there's been a solution to that for years. I think it's smart volume and it basically compresses the volume on the fly to do just that. The reason why we have this legislation rather than just integrating that into the TVs is that it sounds like crap and makes movies significantly less interesting to watch.
This isn't a matter of personal responsibility, this is a matter of corporate irresponsibility. Sort of like MS with that damned alarm sound that goes off whenever there's an error. It doesn't seem to respect the volume setting and if you're using ear buds causes acute discomfort.
The advertisers have pretty well demonstrated that they aren't competent to be trusted to make reasonable choices so the government needed to step in and tell them what they were going to do. I'd like to see them do the same thing with those stupid Flash ads that cover content randomly and the ones that take up more of my bandwidth than the rest of the web page.
The answer is yes, the free market wasn't solving it and I'm not sure that the FCC has the power without being given it to regulate that.
Additionally, right now you're not likely to see much useful legislation going through as the Republicans have vowed to pretty much shut down the Federal government in a bid to derail the Democrats ability to actually get anything done so that they can claim that the Democrats didn't fix any of the problems for the 2012 Presidential race.
It's ironic because in a genuine free market situation there wouldn't be any commercials like that because people would go to a source without that commercial or without any commercials at all. And that's essentially what Adam Smith envisioned, things like copyrights and patents were a violation of how he saw a market functioning.
Since the TV News, magazines and newspapers stopped doing anything that could reasonably be confused with journalism. Or at least cut it down to the point where it was the least amount possible and still be considered a news organization.
Admittedly it's somewhat less than scientific, but I can't recall hearing a single girl talking about video games at that point in history. All the people I knew that were playing games were male. Not sure to what extent that's confirmation bias and limited by my dataset, but I suspect that might be related to the tone in those articles.
Also, ever noticed how you don't generally hear a lot of bitching about sexism when it's directed by women at men?
It depends on the game and how they do it. Some games are easier to create saves for than others are. It all depends upon how much information you're planning to save. Fallout: New Vegas, saves the location of bodies and the loot on them, but not the actual body itself. Which leads to the strange bug at times where you see the bodies show up. They seem to fall out of the sky sometimes and plop down where they were.
Saving games for a game like that is more of a challenge than it is for a typical platformer where you're mostly interested in points, lives, level state and possibly objectives completed.
It's ridiculous how many people can't spell ridiculous. Please do a quick spell check in the future, or it's really hard to take you seriously. I wouldn't begrudge someone for not being 100% sure of the spelling of Brobdingnagian, or epicaricacy, but for basic, often used words, please learn their proper form. That's meant as a tip to remember for life. It's not merely me being pedantic.
I think it's rediculous how you think that anybody actually cares about your views on grammar and spelling. You knew what he meant by that word so get over yourself. The only reason why we have a formal spelling system in English is so that grammar and spelling snobs can feel superior to other people.
Ultimately it's just bullying. Nothing particularly noble or useful about it.
To use one of the ever-(un)popular slashdot car analogies, developers like Nintendo and Square are trying to sell cars that need to be hand-cranked to start, despite the fact that everybody else is using modern ignition systems. Variety of design choices is one thing; sticking with something that is outdated and noticably worse is quite another.
I'm sorry but your bias is showing. Nintendo right now is the biggest seller of current generation consoles. And they did it via innovation, a more apt analogy would be to have a hand crank start on a car that drives you to work without your intervention. It stands to reason that they're doing something right if they're outselling the competition. I've got a Wii and the games are a lot of fun.
The only bit of the Wii which is arguably outdated is the graphics, and let's face it, at least the graphics have a sort of retro quality to them as opposed to the PS3 and Xbox 360 which don't even have that going for them, they're lagging behind the PC and not by design.
I've got a Wii, a PS3 and onLive and quite frankly, the PS3 doesn't fair quite as well as onLive does when my connection is able to support the whole thing. Give it a few years and the PS4 is probably not going to have it so easy.
That's bullshit. It doesn't matter how many points you use, whether it's a 1 star or a billion stars. All that does is reduce the amount of rounding that goes on. Making it a 100 point scale just makes the misleading suggestion that there's more precision than there really is. I wouldn't personally trust a reviewer to get more than 10% worth of precision out of their review, and even that's being generous to them.
Actually, normally an editor would handle that. They do expect you to learn grammar, but it's mainly because the editor doesn't have time to have to correct every use of the wrong homophone in the article every article.
Same goes for movies and TV. Which is why there's often times really good movies that manage half a star. My favorite sketch comedy show of all time The State actually managed to get -1 star from one of the critics early on.
The key is when reading a review to realize who is doing the review. If it's a movie critic and you're not wanting high concept art in a film you watch, then you can discount the comments about that. Also in terms of gaming, I tend to focus more on the comments they make about controls and performance issues as well as the screenshots. I'm not generally looking for the things the critics are reviewing.
Given that the court can demand thousands of dollars be paid on short notice, I'd imagine that they'd be required to make it a lump sum. The only consideration at that point being ability to pay. Failure to pay when ordered and able can and does result in sanctions. Unfortunately Uncle Sam will want his cut which would probably be a quarter or so. And then the multi thousand dollar bill for the attorneys will probably have to be paid as well.
All in all winning that $1 award will probably end up costing them many thousands of dollars.
I understand the logic though. A part that's really that concerned with privacy was showing very little interest in it during the proceedings. This is one of the reasons why many jurisdictions require that the plaintiff prove damages.
Indeed, journalism, at least in the US, is largely dead. Most of the time seems to be spent covering celebrities and their lives rather than investigating things that actually matter. It took something like 5 years for the journalists to start looking at what the Bush administration was doing in a critical way and by that point he was already elected to a second term. And they didn't even get any acknowledgement from the right that they were playing nice.
Even today you'd be hard pressed to find much analysis of the clearly illegal gropings going on by TSA goons in the airports. It's pretty one sided in favor of it, when there really needs to be more objectivity and honesty about whether the violation of the 4th amendment rights is really necessary.
The documents that Wikileaks has provided from the individuals making the leaks are for the most part pretty ho hum, but given that they're not an investigative service it's still necessary for somebody to do it.
In practice that doesn't happen though. It's usually more expensive to maintain ones own fork than it is to contribute patches back up stream. Both the MIT and BSD licenses are about as minimalist as you can get requiring very little on the part of people using the code. And yet mysteriously companies contribute back to those projects anyways.
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It's an addon that people have been able to get for Canon products for years. I'm not sure of the exact details, but IIRC it was a system that uses a separate memory card to store information for verifying that the image hasn't been altered. I haven't read anything about it recently, but the point of it was to deal with the problems of using digital cameras for the purposes of recording a crime scene and similar sites.
Nikon may make one, but I'm not aware of it if they do. The addon itself is fairly expensive and really only of interest to a small number of people. From my limited experience photos are often times admitted as evidence with just the assurance that it hasn't been manipulated. I don't endorse that view, I just know that judges do allow it in, not sure how long that's going to last.
Area codes are just a geographic grouping of numbers. Those are the first 3 numbers following the 1 on a long distance call. The next 3 after that are the exchange and the last 4 are just to make it unique. One of the issues we have is that you can't be sure if a call is going to be long distance by looking at it. Around here both 206 and 425 can be local calls or they can be long distance as well depending upon the specifics.
There used to be a rough grouping by exchange, that doesn't seem to be the case any more. Trying to make much sense out of the numbers is largely futile as it isn't particularly orderly and the numbers aren't handed out by any particular single party. In a sense it's worse now than it used to be now that we've got telephone number portability, allowing you to take a phone number from one company to another.
If we had to do it over there's a few things which we would probably do differently, one of them is assign area codes in a way that roughly corresponds in some predictable way to the part of the country they're listed in. As it is, the 205, 206 and 207 area codes represent parts Alabama, Washington and Maine respectively. It would be difficult to find much more spread geographically for sequential numbers.
That's not a price game, that's a practical necessity. The term is congestion pricing and particularly during the summers that there's a drought on there's not much the city can do other than raise prices and limit consumption. But summers tend to run dry in much of the world conserving the water that's there is the only way to ensure that there's plenty of it for the whole year. Happens up here in Seattle as well. The difference is that the infrastructure isn't generally created to justify increasing rates. Water rights are contentious and there isn't always enough to go around, I'm not sure why you seem to think that you're entitled to water at the same rates and as much as you like as during the winter when it's presumably less contested.
Seattle has laid a lot of fiber itself. It's mostly used by city departments and a lot of it is unused. The places that have tried to do that have ended up being sued by the telecoms that are supposed to be doing it. Leaving the municipality without the service they were trying to install and without any additional capacity.
Antivirus software is a part of a comprehensive strategy not the entire strategy. A good program will scan a file and find things before the file gets executed or better yet will execute the file in a sandbox and see if it does anything suspicious. Personally, I like Immunet. I like it largely because it's resource light and tends to play well with other antivirus products. Not the most comprehensive solution, but it does catch things from time to time. Many of the commercial products are too bloated and huge to be worthwhile. I know I've had trouble with both Bitdefender and Kaspersky running into trouble or making my computer run like sludge.
Because that would result in an "OMG teh Soshulistz" response from a lot of pro-business sources. Where I live in Seattle, I've got basically 3 choices of internet provider plus dial-up. Unfortunately, they all suck. Latency is a joke and googling for it earlier this morning and I couldn't find anybody that's operating locally that's able to provide decent latency.
Service for cablemodems probably has gotten better since I ditched them quite a few years ago, but at that point they were actually going backwards in terms of actual service. Service was getting both slower and less reliable. DSL is getting faster, but at a much slower rate. And FiOS isn't available at all as far as I can tell, suspiciously enough they won't even tell you if there in a rough geographic area without asking for a specific address. Until recently they couldn't even locate my address let alone provide service.
A municipal ISP as a utility or Google coming in with their service is about the only way that any of the telecoms are going to care enough to make any effort at improving service. What's particularly embarrassing is that we've got it quite good compared with most of the country.
But it's not a very good solution. Besides, haven't you noticed that commercials just get more annoying when you do things like that? Just look at Flash ads, they weren't so bad in the beginning, but now that people ignore them they're going to increased lengths to get attention. The worst ones will randomly cover up content and try to clickjack you into going to their site.
You just broke my sarcasm detector.
Bipartisanship won't happen as long as voters are rewarding the GoP for refusing to compromise and the press is hounding the Democrats to compromise even when they've been handed a mandate to govern. Compared with the Republicans being urged not to compromise even when the voters hand them a significant defeat at the ballot box.
Given that the GoP is proudly asserting that they won't actually participate in any governing nor will they allow the Democrats to do so either, I'm not sure what if anything is going to be accomplished.
If that's what you want there's been a solution to that for years. I think it's smart volume and it basically compresses the volume on the fly to do just that. The reason why we have this legislation rather than just integrating that into the TVs is that it sounds like crap and makes movies significantly less interesting to watch.
This isn't a matter of personal responsibility, this is a matter of corporate irresponsibility. Sort of like MS with that damned alarm sound that goes off whenever there's an error. It doesn't seem to respect the volume setting and if you're using ear buds causes acute discomfort.
The advertisers have pretty well demonstrated that they aren't competent to be trusted to make reasonable choices so the government needed to step in and tell them what they were going to do. I'd like to see them do the same thing with those stupid Flash ads that cover content randomly and the ones that take up more of my bandwidth than the rest of the web page.
The answer is yes, the free market wasn't solving it and I'm not sure that the FCC has the power without being given it to regulate that.
Additionally, right now you're not likely to see much useful legislation going through as the Republicans have vowed to pretty much shut down the Federal government in a bid to derail the Democrats ability to actually get anything done so that they can claim that the Democrats didn't fix any of the problems for the 2012 Presidential race.
It's ironic because in a genuine free market situation there wouldn't be any commercials like that because people would go to a source without that commercial or without any commercials at all. And that's essentially what Adam Smith envisioned, things like copyrights and patents were a violation of how he saw a market functioning.
Planck time? That's a great suggestion. All we need is a suitable ship and we can make sure he gets some Planck time.
Since the TV News, magazines and newspapers stopped doing anything that could reasonably be confused with journalism. Or at least cut it down to the point where it was the least amount possible and still be considered a news organization.
Admittedly it's somewhat less than scientific, but I can't recall hearing a single girl talking about video games at that point in history. All the people I knew that were playing games were male. Not sure to what extent that's confirmation bias and limited by my dataset, but I suspect that might be related to the tone in those articles.
Also, ever noticed how you don't generally hear a lot of bitching about sexism when it's directed by women at men?
It depends on the game and how they do it. Some games are easier to create saves for than others are. It all depends upon how much information you're planning to save. Fallout: New Vegas, saves the location of bodies and the loot on them, but not the actual body itself. Which leads to the strange bug at times where you see the bodies show up. They seem to fall out of the sky sometimes and plop down where they were.
Saving games for a game like that is more of a challenge than it is for a typical platformer where you're mostly interested in points, lives, level state and possibly objectives completed.
It's ridiculous how many people can't spell ridiculous. Please do a quick spell check in the future, or it's really hard to take you seriously. I wouldn't begrudge someone for not being 100% sure of the spelling of Brobdingnagian, or epicaricacy, but for basic, often used words, please learn their proper form. That's meant as a tip to remember for life. It's not merely me being pedantic.
I think it's rediculous how you think that anybody actually cares about your views on grammar and spelling. You knew what he meant by that word so get over yourself. The only reason why we have a formal spelling system in English is so that grammar and spelling snobs can feel superior to other people.
Ultimately it's just bullying. Nothing particularly noble or useful about it.
To use one of the ever-(un)popular slashdot car analogies, developers like Nintendo and Square are trying to sell cars that need to be hand-cranked to start, despite the fact that everybody else is using modern ignition systems. Variety of design choices is one thing; sticking with something that is outdated and noticably worse is quite another.
I'm sorry but your bias is showing. Nintendo right now is the biggest seller of current generation consoles. And they did it via innovation, a more apt analogy would be to have a hand crank start on a car that drives you to work without your intervention. It stands to reason that they're doing something right if they're outselling the competition. I've got a Wii and the games are a lot of fun.
The only bit of the Wii which is arguably outdated is the graphics, and let's face it, at least the graphics have a sort of retro quality to them as opposed to the PS3 and Xbox 360 which don't even have that going for them, they're lagging behind the PC and not by design.
I've got a Wii, a PS3 and onLive and quite frankly, the PS3 doesn't fair quite as well as onLive does when my connection is able to support the whole thing. Give it a few years and the PS4 is probably not going to have it so easy.
That's bullshit. It doesn't matter how many points you use, whether it's a 1 star or a billion stars. All that does is reduce the amount of rounding that goes on. Making it a 100 point scale just makes the misleading suggestion that there's more precision than there really is. I wouldn't personally trust a reviewer to get more than 10% worth of precision out of their review, and even that's being generous to them.
Actually, normally an editor would handle that. They do expect you to learn grammar, but it's mainly because the editor doesn't have time to have to correct every use of the wrong homophone in the article every article.
Same goes for movies and TV. Which is why there's often times really good movies that manage half a star. My favorite sketch comedy show of all time The State actually managed to get -1 star from one of the critics early on.
The key is when reading a review to realize who is doing the review. If it's a movie critic and you're not wanting high concept art in a film you watch, then you can discount the comments about that. Also in terms of gaming, I tend to focus more on the comments they make about controls and performance issues as well as the screenshots. I'm not generally looking for the things the critics are reviewing.
Citation needed.
Given that the court can demand thousands of dollars be paid on short notice, I'd imagine that they'd be required to make it a lump sum. The only consideration at that point being ability to pay. Failure to pay when ordered and able can and does result in sanctions. Unfortunately Uncle Sam will want his cut which would probably be a quarter or so. And then the multi thousand dollar bill for the attorneys will probably have to be paid as well.
All in all winning that $1 award will probably end up costing them many thousands of dollars.
I understand the logic though. A part that's really that concerned with privacy was showing very little interest in it during the proceedings. This is one of the reasons why many jurisdictions require that the plaintiff prove damages.
Indeed, journalism, at least in the US, is largely dead. Most of the time seems to be spent covering celebrities and their lives rather than investigating things that actually matter. It took something like 5 years for the journalists to start looking at what the Bush administration was doing in a critical way and by that point he was already elected to a second term. And they didn't even get any acknowledgement from the right that they were playing nice.
Even today you'd be hard pressed to find much analysis of the clearly illegal gropings going on by TSA goons in the airports. It's pretty one sided in favor of it, when there really needs to be more objectivity and honesty about whether the violation of the 4th amendment rights is really necessary.
The documents that Wikileaks has provided from the individuals making the leaks are for the most part pretty ho hum, but given that they're not an investigative service it's still necessary for somebody to do it.
In practice that doesn't happen though. It's usually more expensive to maintain ones own fork than it is to contribute patches back up stream. Both the MIT and BSD licenses are about as minimalist as you can get requiring very little on the part of people using the code. And yet mysteriously companies contribute back to those projects anyways.