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Good question. I'd probably leave it in, because the characters do look different.
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I've just finished Homeland S5, (yes, I know I'm late to the party), and seem to have spent quite a lot of time, shouting at the TV, telling them not to be so stupid. They don't even seem to be able to get the basics of spying right! On the assumption that the CIA are monitoring everything, I thought I'd post a couple of 'handy hints' for them on The Lounge:
1. Rule number 1 of being a hostage, (surely?). If one of your captors decides he wants to help you: Don't send him off to find the poisonous gas canister - and not come back. Do get him to set you free. Simple!
2. The dead baddy's phone. If the dead baddy, (conveniently?), hasn't protected his phone with a Pin No.: Don't just dial the last number used; hang up, (thinking: "no idea who that is!"); and forget all about it. Do, use some very clever 'track and trace system', (that only the CIA have), to identify who the number belongs to - and their location, down to the nearest square metre.
I'm pretty sure following basic rules like this is going to save them lots of time - and, maybe, cut the length of a season down to 6 episodes.
P.S. Has anyone ever wondered how Jack Bauer, (yes I know it's a different program), always manages to have it all sorted in exactly 24 hours? Surely there must have been times when he cracked it in 21 hours - and the last three episodes are him in bed sleeping? Or, after 24 hours, he's still tied up in the terrorists garage with Gaffa tape over his mouth?
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5teveH wrote: Or, after 24 hours, he's still tied up in the terrorists garage with Gaffa tape over his mouth?
Nah ... after 23 hours and 59 minutes they send in Chuck Norris to rescue him.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: 5teveH wrote: Or, after 24 hours,
It is actually a lot shorter than 24 hours. My son says it is only 21 - if you exclude the 3 hours of advertisements (which are not on the DVDs).
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 Random! 
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5teveH wrote: Has anyone ever wondered how Jack Bauer ... always manages/etc ...
Nah! Chloe's his mule. She's probably a fembot to boot (very low maintenance). Like Radar to Lt Colonel Blake/Colonel Potter (again with the another show rejoinder).
modified 9-Aug-21 19:26pm.
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5teveH wrote: P.S. Has anyone ever wondered how Jack Bauer, (yes I know it's a different program), always manages to have it all sorted in exactly 24 hours? Surely there must have been times when he cracked it in 21 hours - and the last three episodes are him in bed sleeping? Or, after 24 hours, he's still tied up in the terrorists garage with Gaffa tape over his mouth?
1. Jack Bauer seems to lose phones every time he turns around, yet when someone hands him a phone, his contact list, including his personal contacts, always seems to be present.
2. If he does manage to hold on to the phone for a few hours, he's always using it, and using power hungry apps like GPS. So how is it that those phones managed to stay charged?
3. It never occurs to the bad guys, all of whom know who he is, to blow Jack's brains out before they try and take over the world?
4. Jack would be, in real life, the world's worst operator. How does anyone he works for not know this?
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I've been working with images for which I have jpg / png images and often pdf's.
Some are 1:5000, 1:8000, 10:000 and 1:25000. In trying to rescale the images, I get bad pixelating over 200%. However, the pdf's scale very nicely even over 400%.
Seems like I have to zoom and snip and stitch using a pdf reader if I want decent images.
One can "virtualize" image size in UWP / WPF; I'm thinking about a "large size" pdf print(er) to image file...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Try this.
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
I heard there was an algorithm that can blow up jpgs and the like with no pixelation. One program that had it was commercial and GIMP had it which is is freeware.
I took an image and blew it up to 72" x 48" to go on glass in a store on perforated one way media.
No pixelation to speak of.
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I have Gimp. I'll have to dig deeper.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I get bad pixelating over 200%
This isn't really my area of expertise. I don't think it's documented anywhere but I believe 'DEFAULT' InterpolationMode[^] is actually Box[^] interpolation which is super fast but the quality is quite low.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: However, the pdf's scale very nicely even over 400%
Your PDF reader is probably using Lanczos[^]. I guess at some point in the future Lanczos should be added to the Windows GDI. HighQualityBicubic has very similar performance to Lanczos in most cases. I am not certain but I HighQualityBicubic mode might actually be from the Mitchell–Netravali [^] group. I don't think that'as documented either.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: Seems like I have to zoom and snip and stitch using a pdf reader
Are saying that you are using your PDF reader to resample your images? That's wierd.
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I have MS Paint, MS Paint 3D, Gimp, Paint.Net ... "out of the box", they all pixelate. All I was saying was that my PDF reader didn't. That's all.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Imagemagick (convert commandline in particular). It can do anything known to man (and probably a few more) with images in formats including ones you never heard of.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I found it after I posted. It's installed (dll's) and ready to go. Docs look excellent. Off the criticl path.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Magick looks like it will fill the bill (.NET dll)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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HTC is currently working with devices (C++); I'm bit fiddling images in UWP (C#).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I bought this old 5.25inch internal floppy hard drive from eBay, but it does not have any data line with it.
what kind of data line I need to buy? I did a quick check to get this: Universal Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable...
diligent hands rule....
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I have a few around here somewhere...
Does your motherboard have a connector for it? My previous motherboard supported one floppy drive. My current motherboard does not.
Edit:
Interesting... the big online retailer has a listing for:
IYSHOUGONG 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Connector 34 PIN 34P to USB Cable Adapter PCB Board
It says it works only with 3.5" drives, but I wonder whether or not that's true.
I copied all my 5.25" disks to HDD the last time I had a floppy drive, so I have no immediate need at this time.
Edit:
Interestinger...
KryoFlux Personal Edition Basic
supports 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, also works well with selected 3" (e.g. Amstrad FDI-1) and 8" (e.g. Shugart 851; might require additional adapter) drives; other types of drives and media currently under investigation
This product may only be used for lawful purposes. (Oh, yeah, absolutely, sir.)
KryoFlux Web Store[^]
modified 15-Jul-21 14:49pm.
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Except it seems not to support 5.25" drives -- as some reviewers state.
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thank you very much! this is what I am looking for....
diligent hands rule....
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