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No, the human eye doesn't have a resolution limit, anymore than 35mm film has 'resolution'.

The human eye is an analog processing device. It's basically nonsensical to talk about the 'resolution' that such a device can discern. However, I'll posit this: a good printer is 600-1200 dots per inch. It'd be difficult for most people to tell where the dots are at 600 dots per inch, although you can still tell in certain situations.

Current monitors display data at around 96 dpi (monitors for Windows, anyways). That's off by a factor of 6-12, depending on which end of the spectrum you're going for. For a 20.8" monitor to match print quality, it'd need to have a resolution of around 9984x7500 pixels. (I ballparked the measurements, that could be off by 1% or so).

Monitors are going up in resolution all the time. I use a 2560x1980 monitor at work. I could definitely find space for another.

Mormons who believe a non-SF story

It's not like they haven't contributed .

As long as Slashdot is eagerly reporting Battlestar Galactica news, there should be no problem.

I watched it. I still hate the bouncing camera shots, pioneered by shows like NYPD Blue. I suspect that technique started off as an accident. The cameraman was drunk that day. So rather than reshoot, they called it art. The rest was history. And it was 'for streaming' NOT 'for download'. I talk to people all day long who are trying to download stuff from a CD to their computer. It's fucking install, you retards! It's not download. And the CPU tower is not a fucking modem or a fucking hard drive. It's the fucking computer. It has the modem and the hard drive inside. But I digress...

Anyway, I enjoyed 33. Maybe the title was a subtle reference to LP's that played at 33 and 1/3 RPM's and was showing how Hollywood can regurgitate crappy sci-fi shows like a broken record. But I digress again...

I couldn't tell from watching that one episode whether or not they kept the Mormon mythology from the original series. I did notice they modeled the new Cylons based on the premise: what if the Neocons and Al Qaeda married and had babies, turned themselves into robots, and settled a planet of their own? I liked the old Cylon's better. I miss the red eye that goes back and forth. And they would say "beedy-beedy-beedy-beedy-beedy". Oh, wait that last bit was that stupid fucking robot from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Never mind!

this is the best Sci Fi program currently airing

That's really sad if it's true. I tried, I really tried to watch the pilot. I couldn't watch it for more than 10 minutes. It was that bad. I enjoyed the original Battlestar Galactica, but they are totally unwatchable today except from an MST3K standpoint. They are far more dated than the original Star Trek is.

BG was originally described as Wagon Train in outer space, but if you really examine it it's Mormon's in outer space. The question is: Did they keep the Mormon mythology in the new series?

Actually Battlestar Galactica, originally created by Glen Larson (who is a devout Mormon) is heavily based on the mythos of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.proaxis.com/~sherlockfam/art5.html

What percentage would a Green party president expect an average American making $75,000 a year pay to support all these social plans?

Bah, I wanted to moderate rather than post in this thread, but you've baited me into it. If you think an average American makes $75,000 a year, you are completely out of touch. The median household income for the US was $43,318 last year. Per capita income was 35,000, but that counts children, so isn't really applicable.

Also, it's rather naive to talk about "tax percentages" as if there were only one tax out there and it affected everyone equally. Most people pay a variety of state and local taxes along with federal income tax (progressively graduated) and federal payroll taxes (slightly regressive because of how it's capped). Tax reform is a complex subject, and it can't be reduced to "what do you think the rate should be." If you're interested, you should have a look at a very good overview of the different possibilities and their consequences.

Are those anything like the Goofy Service Jerks?

I left the Big Picture a long time ago.

I'm too young (mid 20's) to have seen the original series, except for a couple episodes re-run on Sci-Fi recently. I can't tolerate the old series. Bad acting, bad special effects, bad plots, bad music, bad everything. It's terrible. It's worse than the Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Time Travelers and all the rest. And those are pretty bad in their own right.

I forced myself to watch the new Galactica movie and it sucked. I didn't care about any of the characters (not to mention, isn't Starbuck supposed to be a man? The guy from A-Team, I think?). There was hardly any action. The acting was okay, but that can't make up for not really being able to care about the characters themselves.

And, last of all, why would I want to watch a movie/series that basically spreads the word of those crazy mormons?

The Mormon/Battlestar Galactica Connection

Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism

Battlestar Galactica Blog

Personally, I would rather watch a documentary about the mormons and how they believe in magically inscribed underwear to prevent harm from coming to them and how they believe that earth was created by a god from another planet and that everyone can become a god eventually and control their own planet and that you're doomed to hell if you don't worship.

Once I saw a thing at the toy store called the "Squiggle Wiggle Writer" which was a pen that had interchangeable tips and a small motor with an offset weight that shook it around so that you wrote all in squiggles.

Sound familiar? Maybe that's basically because it was a vibrator marketed at children. Your post brought back my memory of this thing, so I decided to see if it was still around. It is indeed still around and you can still buy it for about 3-9 bucks.

Here is some linkage I dug up out of morbid curiosity:

Someone recounts her childhood memories of the Squiggle Wiggle Writer

Therapy fun for kids?! What's even sicker than the site itself is that they are serious!

In an otherwise innocuous page of poetry find a sordid bit about this horrible children's toy.

Another page talking about the Squiggle Wiggle Writer as a masturbation tool.

And finally, narrowly getting edged out by necrophiliacs, the Squggly Wiggly makes an appearance on a nice big List o' things that are gross.

You get the idea.

Hopefully Hart's Whackin' Pals won't leave as many scarred childhood memories.

The real question is, will the new version have all of the thinly disguised mormon doctrine like the original did?

See http://www.proaxis.com/~sherlockfam/art5.html or http://home.earthlink.net/~billotto/Mormon_N_BSG.h tml or http://www.lib.msu.edu/lorenze1/bg.htm
or anywhere else you can google up from "battlestar galactica" and "mormon".

Thanks for responding so well. You deserve a better answer than I have time to give right here. I'll respond in detail a bit later, but for now, here are a few things you might want to check out that more or less express my position:

First, a 2+ hour realaudio file of the famous Bahnsen vs. Stein debate. It's long, but well worth the time and effort to listen to (the audio is poor in spots.) This debate faced off the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Dr. Gordon Stein, both respected advocates of the Christian and atheist worldviews, respectively, on the question, "Does God exist?" Regardless of your point of view, it's an interesting and lively debate that picks up sharply in intensity once both participants establish the groundwork on which they will build in thier opening statements.

Bahnsen is judged by most to have won the debate handily (but by all means listen and judge for yourself) by (correctly, IMO) basing his argument on three foundational principles: the nature of evidence, the presuppostional argument (as expounded and promoted by Cornelius van Til) and the transcendental argument for the existence of God.

If you're in a hurry, an annotated summary of the debate (useful when listening to the audio, too) and an accompanying analysis of the debate are available.

Again, I don't have time to go into more detail right now, but highly recommend listening to the debate yourself. Sorry for the shortness of this response.

Thanks for responding so well. You deserve a better answer than I have time to give right here. I'll respond in detail a bit later, but for now, here are a few things you might want to check out that more or less express my position:

First, a 2+ hour realaudio file of the famous Bahnsen vs. Stein debate. It's long, but well worth the time and effort to listen to (the audio is poor in spots.) This debate faced off the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Dr. Gordon Stein, both respected advocates of the Christian and atheist worldviews, respectively, on the question, "Does God exist?" Regardless of your point of view, it's an interesting and lively debate that picks up sharply in intensity once both participants establish the groundwork on which they will build in thier opening statements.

Bahnsen is judged by most to have won the debate handily (but by all means listen and judge for yourself) by (correctly, IMO) basing his argument on three foundational principles: the nature of evidence, the presuppostional argument (as expounded and promoted by Cornelius van Til) and the transcendental argument for the existence of God.

If you're in a hurry, an annotated summary of the debate (useful when listening to the audio, too) and an accompanying analysis of the debate are available.

Again, I don't have time to go into more detail right now, but highly recommend listening to the debate yourself. Sorry for the shortness of this response.

Oh, and amateur radio enthusiasts have been homebrewing radio gear for years... all analogue.

What's the advantage in using a DSP? And how do you get rid of all the clock hash?

You must be one of those pro-cw freaks that thinks everyone wanting to use a radio must use, or
at least know cw before obtaining an operator's license.

Amateur radio operators have also been homebrewing radio gear for years in digital too. Have you
ever checked out TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio) organization and their digital projects?

Or how about the DSP-10 project which is an SDR (software defined radio) that can be built for
less than $400, operates in the VHF range, has a large user base, and all source code/project plans
are freely attainable from http://www.proaxis.com/~boblark/dsp10.htm

Don't want to operate or listen in the VHF range. Build or buy a transverter kit that can downconvert
or upconvert to the frequency range you need. This project is perfect for that. People have already made
two way contacts with 150W or less and single yagi antennas at each station by bouncing their signals off
of the moon. Before this type of hardware it use to take higher power and a small antenna farm to make this
type of contact. These same people have gone back and made a second contact with 5W and 10' dishes on
a higher frequency, again using the moon.

Want a SDR totally made for linux? Try Linrad. The project leader gives very good instructions on setting up
linux and various software packages needed to support Linrad and goes beyond by providing links to plans for
building A/D boards (analog-digital) and interfacing them with the computer or plans for using your sound card
as the interface.

I met a lot of old times (who were inactive for a long time like you ...) recently on the air on the modes like PSK31 (which looks like a reliable modern version of RTTY ...), they were all really enthusiastic about the new developments ... Perhaps people got a bit fedup with the "code/no-code" debates :-) (I am a CW guy myself ...)

Perhaps it is time for you to check back :-) Welcome back !!

It feels to me like Moody is simplifying the issues somewhat. Any geek worth his salt has read and taken to heart the classic fabled programming contest between Jesus and the devil. It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools, even if they are a little rusty.

In my opinion, if your employees are so slovenly in managing their mission critical digital information that it takes two hours to recover data from a program or OS crash, perhaps the operating system isn't your biggest problem.

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