For ntsc vhs players it wasnt a component in the vcr that was made for copy protection. They would add garbled color burst signals. This would desync the automatic color burst sync system on the vcr.

CRT TVs didn’t need this component but some fancy tvs would also have the same problem with macrovission.

The color burst system was actually a pretty cool invention from the time broadcast started to add color. They needed to be able stay compatible with existing black and white tv.

The solution was to not change the black and white image being sent but add the color offset information on a higher frequency and color TVs would combine the signals.

This was easy for CRT as the electron beam would sweep across the screen changing intensity as it hit each black and white pixel.

To display color each black and white pixel was a RGB triangle of pixels. So you would add small offset to the beam up or down to make it more or less green and left or right to adjust the red and blue.

Those adjustment knobs on old tvs were in part you manually targeting the beam adjustment to hit the pixels just right.

VCRs didn’t usually have these adjustments so they needed a auto system to keep the color synced in the recording.

Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI

That actress also played one of the Duras sisters.

Rustlers Rhapsody. A comedy western that mixes eras and has a genre savvy protagonist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cIE1fT395HM

“We’ve got your friend!”

A 7/10 game would be better then no game. Besides sequels don’t erase the original.

To be fair they bought skype to break it’s end to end encryption at the behest of the us govt. In return they were awarded big contracts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

Ubisoft isn’t making money. That’s something wrong as far as the board is concerned.

Interestingly enough Luca Galante the creator spent 10 years coding digital slot machines. He used a lot of the techniques used by them to keep you playing. He just did it in a way to maximize fun instead of micro transactions.

Yeah she had character and was interesting. Crusher had hot redhead. I liked Crusher but would have preferred Pulaski stick around.

A perfect example of the magnificent bastard trope.

Pretty specific use case. A normal OS handleds time slicing and core assignment for processes and uses it’s judgement for that. So at any time your process can be suspended and you don’t know when you get your next time slice.

Same with when you make wait calls. You might say wait 100ms but it may be much longer before your process gets to run again.

In a real time OS if you have real time priority the OS will suspend anything else including it self to give you the time you request. It also won’t suspend you no matter how long you use the core.

So if you need to control a process with extreme precision like a chemical manufacturing process, medical device, or flying a rocket where being 10ms late means failure they are required.

However with great power comes great responsibility. You need to make sure your code calls sleep frequently enough that other tasks have time to run. Including things like file io or the gui.

Cool. I remember having to use Red Hawk Linux years ago. It’s a real time variant of Red Hat. It was such a pain to get the dependencies workin on it.

Farscape was once described as one Americans slow decent into the Australian S&M scene.

The solution for this is usually counter training. Granted my experience is on the opposite end training ai vision systems to id real objects.

So you train up your detector ai on hand tagged images. When it gets good you use it to train a generator ai until the generator is good at fooling the detector.

Then you train the detector on new tagged real data and the new ai generated data. Once it’s good at detection again you train the generator ai on the new detector.

Repeate several times and you usually get a solid detector and a good generator as a side effect.

The thing is you need new real human tagged data for each new generation. None of the companies want to generate new human tagged data sets as it’s expensive.

To show that hack writers didn’t get what made the borg cool and scary. They turned then into normal boring bad guys.

Or toss a flash bang in the crib.

It’s not meant to be able to be passed. It’s just a way of giving them a reason to deny you a vote if your skin was the wrong color.

Because it’s easy at the local level to selectivity apply the rules and only allow the people you want to vote. Here is an actual literacy test that was used. Hint if you were white you passed if not you failed.

Actually it’s the name for a mix of vinegar, garlic, and herbs that was a home remedy to help prevent the plague.