People fear exotic deaths.
Death by lethal injection or beheading, results are the same. One is much scarier than the other, why?
Well, presumably it's because you happen to know when you've murdered someone, you aren't going to be beheaded for it, but the risk of lethal injection is actually real?
In the Ars story about this they pointed out a website that tracks beaches that I hadn't heard of before: ';--have i been pwned?
Isn't that site just an alias for the "pleasepownmeheresmyemailaddress.com"?
so you say that java creates an environment where you can hire developers that don't have MIT master's degrees and you can expect them to be able to do useful work?
This is true, to an extent, for some definition of useful. The JVM is an environment where you can do some types of useful work, without having to be a great coder, and not do too much damage.
I suppose a good analogy would be Commodore 64 BASIC.
NES for example is 256x224
I have programmed games for the NES, and I can assure you that the NTSC NES picture is 256x240. The Super NES is most commonly 256x224 with the black borders you mentioned, and the Sega Genesis is 256x224 or 320x224. On these systems, the size in pixels of the part of the signal that fills the 4:3 frame is 280x240 (or 350x240 in the case of 320px mode on the Genesis), including some borders at the sides that most TVs cut off. The borders would be included in the video uploaded to YouTube, and these borders would still be smaller than the top and bottom borders on letterboxed videos that I see so often on the service.
480p is so-so, at least you have a full video pixel for each original, but the edges doesn't align so it's a bit jittery/blurry.
The nominal bandwidth of a composite signal is 4.2 MHz. The Nyquist rate for a 640-pixel-wide sampling of a 480i component signal is 135/22 = 6.136 MHz. So ideally, one would sample the NTSC signal at 640x240, line-double it to 480p, and let the encoder sort it out. But YouTube punted on this and allowed 60 fps only for high definition, causing flicker transparency effects in these classic games to be rendered incorrectly: either fully opaque or fully invisible.
The absolute #1 contribution of Java: it has allowed colleges and universities to turn out a generation of coders who are incapable of dealing with pointers, explicit memory management, stack layout, static memory maps, etc., etc..
In other words: a crapload of people with "Computer Science" degrees who could not write an OS or even a trivial part, like the C library signal trampoline, to save their ass, because they are in this walled garden/protected environment where they are "safe" from having to actually deal with real hardware.
Ironically, all of their JVMs on which they are normally running this code are not written in Java, because it's not really practical to do that.
VirtualBox keeps getting updated regularly. A new VirtualBox 5 is in beta even as version 4 upgrades come out regularly.
Don't worry; eventually they'll get it right, and then, like Mozilla, after it was finally able to be compiled and (limingly) run out side of company walls, it will be not dead again.
The Karman line is 100km. This thing is a suborbital. It's not going to space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
Actually, I found it rather interesting to consider -- given that African Americans are so fond of shouting oppression. Yet they seem to have flourished here rather well, with plenty of opportunity to advance in society, have many elected officials and business leaders and finally, even a President.
So when did we have a US President who was the descendant of slaves brought over to the US?
Why is 60fps available only for 720p and up, and not for the 240p of classic game consoles or the 480p of the original Xbox and Wii?
There are actually three options: use DRM, infringe copyright, or voluntarily do without.
Or fourth option: movie/tv show owners can wake up to the fact the digital file is worthless
I was referring to things that an end user can do. Most lack the billions of dollars needed to dictate terms to the incumbent movie studios. Most lack even the millions of dollars to start an indie movie studio that can produce a desirable feature-length motion picture to sell on GOG.
Fictionalized docudrama. Change all the names. It works for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the poster child for plots ripped from the headlines.
Two: He also prevented it from passing cloture by unanimous consent, which is really silence. The chair asks a variation of "Without objection, so ordered" and if everyone is silent, it passes. There are no up/down votes, so no up/down vote is recorded
Now people are going to vote yea or nay, and THAT will be on the record for the next election.
Forcing the jackasses to go on the record as to whether or not they support the bill, rather than allowing them plausible deniability on whether or not they would have voted for it is actually a fantastic thing, particularly after the John Oliver interview of Edward Snowden, which basically makes it pretty obvious that the government gets to see you dick/boob picks if the bill is passed.
Because the latest framework fad is surely a long-term winner.
No fad is a long term winner. They are all short term winners. It's time for them to pick a new horse, if the old one is dead.
I've always hated cursive. It's always sloppy, impossible to read, and for the last 30 years has done nothing but piss me off. I'm glad to see it dead.
Unless you speak Arabic, in which case you even have to type in cursive.
Next up, comic sans.
If not Comic Sans, then which font to simulate neat manuscript writing would you recommend? Is Comic Neue fine?
Barring a standard port like a cablecard slot that lets me plug an embedded computer into my TV
There is a standard port. It's called MHL.
You can build a SFF PC for under $100 that will play 1080p video just fine. Why would you ever buy a smart TV?
If you build a PC, you have the maintenance headache of keeping the PC's operating system and applications up to date. And in case you figure that out, which parts do you use for a $100 SFF PC so that I can recommend them to others?
The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department.
