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Woman calls her ex 77000 times in a week

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WOMANSTALKERARRESTEDThere is a photo circling Facebook that has a woman’s arrest mugshot, and she is crying. The photo’s text says she is a woman who called her ex in excess of 77,000 times. and sends him over 41,000 text messages and 647 letters in 7 days. and somehow gets arrested by police.

Image text goes as:

USA: WOMAN ARRESTED FOR CALLING HER EX-BOYFRIEND 77000 TIMES IN A WEEK
(picture of crying woman here)
Albuquerque| A New Mexico woman was finally arrested this morning by officers of the Albuquerque Police Department in what could be the most extreme case of stalking ever recorded in the history of the country. The 28-year old woman allegedly not only called her ex-lover a formidable 77639 times in a week, but also sent him 1937 emails, 41229 text messages, 217 sung messages and 647 letters in the same period.

This is fake. She would be calling every 7.7 seconds with zero time for sleep in a week, then in the same time texting him every 12 seconds. While writing an email every 20 seconds. It is humanly impossible.Who she is.  she is the lady in the mcdonalds video that flipped out in the drive through back in 2010. The woman in the picture is named “Ciera Steed” . Feel free to search her name. My best results come when typing “Ciera Steed arrested” .

Let’s do the math. In seven days there are only 10,080 minutes. and there are only 60 seconds per each minute. This woman  be hitting redial every seven seconds, and some time sthat isn’t even enough time for the phone on the other end of the line to start ringing. and she would be sending out a text message every 12 seconds. Meanwhile writing 600 letters, we can assume would be 9 letters a day, and somehow finding a break in her calls every seven seconds to leave a voicemail. Even if she was three people using three phones with the exact same phone number, it would still be impossible. Someone has to sleep eventually. and eat. and wipe after using the restroom.

There is currently no sign if this her ex-lover making this fake post, or the people in the McDonalds where she flipped out, or just some random troll on the internet who found a picture and went to town with it making a fake post. but this Facebook image post is false.

 

and after doing my handful of searches to get the information about this stalker photo I  am sharing here, I have got to say… There are a ton of stupid people on the internet running websites.
There are greater than 5 pages full of people who think this image is real. 5 Google results pages (before I gave up) of people who really think that a woman can call her ex 77000 times in seven days.

 

Please share this link on the page where someone is sharing that image.

 

Woman calls her ex 77000 times in a week is false

Why do Videos Load Faster than Gifs?

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Why do Videos Load Faster than Gifs?
Codecs. Compression/Decompression is further along for video. a Video is a frame rate of 30 frames per second while a gif is typical 2-4 frames per second for the better gifs. But this leaves for a very large file for your computer to open at a rate of two frames per second. a simple 7 second picture could get up to anywhere around 50 megs or more. While a 50 meg video at a higher image quality can get to 10 minutes (and still be under 50megs). A nice quality single frame gif image is usually up to 2.5 megs. Imagine having 4 frames per second of 2.5 meg images.

At one time, a video on a computer was unimaginable. most computers couldn’t handle it. So, all we had were gifs. Our monitors didn’t display much better than the lowest quality gif, so gifs were just like videos by those standards, only easier to open. but
The Gif was obsoleted when everyone started putting effort into compression/decompression for videos.

but now we have a new generation of computers and computer users. We have mobile device users with screens so small that a gif actually looks decent on them. To the old school crowd, this is horrendous. Simply because they have been down this road.

The whole reason people study “history”.. Is so we don’t repeat it. but oddly enough, it seems every generation wants to pick up the old broken crap and say “I like it, I don’t see why you don’t.. You’re dumb” or. .. standards and i.q. get lower with each generation. Which means my grandpa was pretty dang smart.

Here is a small bit of information
“On June 15, 1987, CompuService, the first major online commercial service in the U.S., introduced the graphics interchange format (GIF). According to a recent Daily Dot article, the first-ever GIF pictured an airplane.”
The word is actually pronounced like “Jif” as apposed to the sound “guh”sound at the beginning.

Codecs for video are better than LZW used for gifs.

Basically, gifs are obsolete files that seem to be a retro trend right now because tiny mobile devices have such small screens you can’t see the flaws in the picture (each frame is a separate picture, for better quality you add more frames) as well as you could if you watched them on your computer.

For a couple seconds of a watchable gif, it takes a whole lot of images that can be barely compressed anymore than they are already at creation before they look like garbage. This makes the file quite large.

Videos can decompress in segments, gifs have to completely download before they are fully watchable. Unless you want the slow-motion version first, while this big hoopty of a file downloads. because you don’t need a media player to run a gif = no pause button, no buffering, no skip.Gifs are either open or closed. They do not buffer the way you understand how videos buffer.

Don’t forget bus rate and processing rate of your video card’s processor and how much temp data your video card can store up per milliseconds in your video card’s memory.

 

It is my suspicion that the people who make these gifs from perfectly good videos that load and play faster, are the hipsters of reddit.

Example:
I saw it first, I saw it so first, I made a gif of it before you saw it and made you sit through a shitty gif before it got shared on your petty site. If you had faster internet, you would love gifs.

GIMP 2.8 Angry Review

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

Image Editing Software for freeGimp, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program.
The software I have considered the alternative to Photoshop, for many years.
I have Gimp and Photoshop on my home and my work computer. I have always considered gimp the superior, just because of how fast and simple it is to find what you are looking for, the huge list of file types you can save images as.
Gimp has released an update. 2.8
There have been many changes with 2.8. U have to say; I am not happy with any of the changes.

You will not catch me updating any more of my computers with it.
The clone tool, there is no slider anymore for adjusting brush size, It’s now about pressure. Why is pressure, not a new addition, instead of a replacement?
I now have to export my images, instead of saving them.
What happened to antialiasing ? why do my images look so grainy now?
Why is Gimp slaughtering my computer?
I need to find an install of 2.6 and I will just block the gimp website in my hosts file so I never forget and accidentally try and “upgrade” again. EVER!I have found on the “Old Apps” website they list Gimp 2.6.7

The look of Gimp 2.8 is plain by today’s standards. Not worth installing. and functionality is may as well be one button, with acid on it.

I know.. It’s free, but it’s also as useless as rock. and that’s free too.

This goes for 2.8 and 2.8.2

Sceptre 32 inch TV Review

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I have the 32″ screen sceptre television. 720p resolution. Presets for picture temperature are either very dark or very white washed or low color. After a bit of manual adjustments, the picture is near flawless.
3 hdmi connections on the back, 1 usb connection. All of the typical rca jacks.
Usb connection is for usb storage drives. Sorry only mp3 and photos. Wont play video.
Screen sizes are normal, zoom,stretch and cinema. Cinema is zoomed way in. Most of the image does not fit in screen are. Its like being zoomed in on 1/4 of the video.
Zoomed mode, zooms in too far also, just not as bad as cinema. Stretched, basically stretches the images to fit the width of screen area. Leaves black bars and middle of viewable area distorted from stretching. Though the manual says the outer edges will be stretched looking.

but. When you have the image set at the default original setting where you have black bares on left,right,top and bottom, your video will be at the highest resolution that your tv can display . So if image quality is your goal…..

bottom left button on the remote is one of the first buttons you should push. hit that three times if you want out of the dark, energy efficient mode. top right button, hit that twice. These are the defaults that I found most bearable with the lighting in my house. I still made manual changes.

The audio through the built in speakers, far above and beyond what I expected. This beats the LG tv I have for comparison. (specs to come in other posts).
External speaker sound, again above what I expected. This is while selecting between 2.1 surround, and 5.1 surround sound.

Overall weight of the sceptre 32 inch tv, a lot lighter than my 19 inch lg monitor and slightly less weight than my 32 inch lg television. Weighs less than 5 lbs. Or at least feels that way to me.
Assembly of the factory stand, very simple. Wall mount is 200mm/200mm and again very simple. For this, there is an extra backing piece you find in the box. I saw mine and was certain the manufacturer goofed and gave me an extra back for a some remote that didn’t get packaged. No worries, this backing is for the lower section to cover the hole when you removed the stand. I chose not to use the wall mount, Since I am in a new house and I really do not want holes in my wall. I may want to relocate that television some day, and would be stuck with holes. So um…. no thanks.
Use of local tv through antenna (had to purchase one) images are amazing. Now that is true high def at it’s finest, if this is an option for you, I recommend it. Highly recommend it. Full screen at default settings with high crisp images.
Signal through local cable, not using the cable box, well there are hundreds upon hundreds of channels that can be received. The Hd channels are of no quality comparison to local broadcast.
Pretty much the same if you use the cable box, you just have to find channel 3 and let the cable box do all of the work for you.

Ratings of Sceptre 32 inch TV
image quality in default 8/10
image quality at full zoom 7/10
audio on board 9/10
Audio through external speakers 10/10
ease of install 10/10
image set up ease 7/10
Broadcast signal image 10/10
Look of the tv (physical appearance) 9/10

Full review rating/score (based on TruXter Tech Review’s unprofessional opinion) 8/10

 

 

Update 12/28/2011

Lately I have noticed a weird noise when the  tv warms up. and then again when it cools off. Sounds like the plastic is snapping.

Update12/5/2012
But still. Bang for buck, this is a great T.V. . One year later and this t.v. is working like it was brand new. Speakers are good with no buzzing, no dead pixels, no off coloring. The t.v. is in great condition.
Menu is a bit slow. Especially selection reception resolution. That’s a tad frustrating. I haven’t found anything about upscaling so. I am not sure it does this. The popping I posted about earlier, seems to have stopped for a good while now. wasn’t a loud pop, more like a surprising crackle.

Gimp Vs Adobe PhotoShop poll

Posted onAuthorTruXter

This is to collect data and show in a later post about image editing software.
This is between Gimp GNU Image Manipulation Program and Adobe Photoshop
I have both installed on my computer at work. And I use both Gimp and Photoshop.
but I use one way more than the other. There is a debate between myself and the head IT guy
about which one has better tools, which one is more reliable and which one has better resolution images.
I say it’s all about the user.

This is not a comparison. This is a Poll to see what gets used more.
Not what you think is better between photoshop vs gimp
but what you use more. Photoshop or Gimp.
[poll id=”6″]

This one is is again not about what is better.
This gimp vs photoshop poll is about which one has more tools
addons that you get online and tools that are bundled with the image editing tool all count.
[poll id=”7″]

This one is about Quality
Which one produces better looking images
Gimp or photoshop
[poll id=”8″]

Finally, which one is more reliable
Which one crashes the least, hangs up the least and starts the fastest between Gimp and Photoshop
[poll id=”9″]

Fun With GIMP

Posted onAuthorTruXter

I have been using The Gimp for several years now. I use it at work. Even though I  have photoshop on my work computer I still insist on using GIMP. Why? well because I have been broke for many years and am very used to using GIMP.

Well I have been watching one of my Facebook friends do a bunch of stuff with her Apple computer. She has been editing pictures using what ever program that thing uses and well it makes some of the complicated stuff quite easy. Then again she has never been the total newb so it might actually be hard. I don’t know.. I just assumed. =-\

Well I noticed she posted a photo that was unedited.

MY FB FREIND

(she is a hottie so I am blurred her face as to not get stalked)

So I ripped it off and started digging into it to see what I could change.

Three stooges

I spent about 35-40 minutes editing :-)

(to the tune of pinball wizard ) That slightly colorblind kid, sure does a mean photo edit!

Addition of 15 more minutes editing

15 more minutes editing

Sometimes It’s best to leave “well enough” alone.

Do you know any cool aps to add to gimp?