The article says that they offered the 4.6 Billion as a first offer because the FCC has said that they need to meet 4.6 at least. This is basically saying, no matter what, you will meet your minimum, so how about considering some of our stipulations because of the nice thing we did just there... Actually, it's saying, no matter what you'll meet your minimum, as long as you play by our rules.*
(*)Play by our rules-- keep the market fair.
It's not like they're asking all that much from the FCC in return. Just that ATT or whoever can't control all of it.
So they're basically buying a new market,and hoping to get enough other folks into to it to attract customers? Expensive and risky... but very cool. Worked for Sony just fine with the PS1 and PS2. Make it cheaper, or give incentives, for companies to make devices for it.
But perhaps I'm confused, doesn't this mean Google could start their own cellular service on this frequency? If that's the case then letting anyone make devices for it only makes sense (in exactly the way cheap licensing for the Playstation did to Sony when they were trying the underdog).
Dude, I was enjoying some Chemical Brothers on NPR last sunday. I though I tuned to the MSU student radio station but noticed that I was on the Statewide NPR station (they transmit on 4 different frequencies at incredibly high power to cover almost all of lower michigan).
They also played some newer Information Society and then finished with some DonJuan Dracula before they broke.
I was freaked to hear some really progressive music played on NPR. They either must be desperate to attract new listeners or don't care they will turn off the old farts who grimace at hearing that "pounding hippy music" I applaud them for this.
There's a time when you stop listening to music to feel and start listening for entertainment. At this same point, you realize most of the MTV music sucks.
When your motivation for listening to the music is entertainment, I would define that as simply searching for something new...a new outlook on the old chord progressions, if you will. Or out of the ordinary chord progressions, etc.
Hence again NPR caters to the intellectual type. First they did it with Classical music, now they do it with anything different that they think will catch an inquisitive listener (and therefor thinker).
That is what they try to recover here; the analog source code information of the audio on the broken phonograph.
I was not able to find any transcodings of the audio, to answer your question. He's not talking about that kind of code I think. He's talking about the image processing code that detects what's happening on the record.
I'd be very interested in this code too. Image processing is not for the faint of heart.
FUD and whining. To be honest, I thought we didn't want the Windows users unless they were going to meet us on our terms. They can stick with their $$$Windows until they're ready to learn the ~$. Not to mention, Ubuntu isn't good enough for them?
As usual, having lots of distros is good. There's still several key majority leaders (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc) that are what any starter is going to be directed to. This is a non issue and has been dealt with many times before, in fact every time the "Year of Linux?" question comes up.
Actually, I've never been one to criticize moderation/story submission selection, but this dead horse has been beaten and beaten over and over to a pulp. Why did samzenpus post this?
Anyone know anything about the cost of these things? The cynic in me is imagining lawyers feverishly rewriting health insurance coverage clauses. I hope that as it becomes widespread, that "joe war-amputee" can afford it. Just a ballpark figure--
My friend's bionic arm cost him ~$45k. I don't think his can move individual fingers though. So this one could cost even more.
The discman you have to push down onto the disc to snap it into the player. Since it's snapped in it can't pitch when you rotate the player.
The minidisc disc is too small to experience much rotational inertia; plus it's not spinning fast enough. Remeber gyroscopes? You had to set it spinning pretty fast. Neither your minidisc player nor your discman are spinning the CD that fast. The 360 is spinning your DVD 12x as fast as the fastest your discman can play the CD at the beginning of the disc.
Car doesn't count either unless you're regularly pitching the car forward and back 90 degrees in 2 seconds like we're talking about with the 360. Also doesn't count because it's not spinning that fast either.
I've been assuming that since before they admitted they were using it to look for terrorist. Right. It's just unfortunate all the places they're mining now. Ride public transit? In Atlanta, MARTA has just recently transitioned to RFID cards that you scan to let you in. The gates have IR sensors that know when you're standing there. Up until just recently you walked up to it and it would let you out. Now you have to scan your card again to get out as well. So they're (and by they're I mean at least Atlanta City Gov, perhaps passing on to FBI/Feds) mining my traveling habits (I ride MARTA daily so I don't like this).
What good would this information do them? Not much. I'm not sure what they could use it for. At least you don't have to scan your card to exit the bus when you get off. So they only ultimately know which lines are being used the most. I supposed they could use this to improve service. I've spoken with several employees and they say they're not keeping the data...right...of course they're not...
As usual, there's no possibilities for abuse in the near future, but they're still doing it, which makes you question what they've thought of that you haven't.
Here is a pretty simple fix in case anyone is brave enough to try. Also there is a movie link that shows the degree of the scratches.
Be aware, the page is a visual disaster on the eyes. You have been warned. Who hasn't played with a gyroscope? I feel no pity for these people with scratched discs. It's called rotational inertia.
What is it about us nerds/geeks that we like things to be completely fair?
Also, lately I've found that life is a lot less stressful when you stop worrying about things being fair or not; and stop worrying that you might have gotten the short end of the stick. Another thing-- all those dreams of grandiosity every nerd/geek has (wooing the beautiful girl, or being the life of a party, etc; but just can't seem to accomplish), you feel far more empowered to do them when you get a full night's sleep, as opposed to staying up running that instance again for the loot, and then being tired the next day. If you treat your school/college work like a game that you want to master (for a very real benefit I might add-- sure, being the best at Fourier transforms might not net you a top NSA job because the government network was brute-forced in 15 seconds by Megatron's minions, but there are more subtle ep33n enhancements that can add up to something similarly lofty in enough time) the point becomes to learn the material not just finish the problems and turn it in. Then you start getting 100's on tests and it feeds back into itself and you know if you want to accomplish something, you can. Then you have fun and try updating your clothing and hair style, and then when you're really cooking you start walking around like a badass because you know you are one. Quite fun actually. But you never get there if you don't learn to give up the petty things (fairness) that get under your skin for the bigger picture of learning to control your charisma.
Why can't Carmack gamble? Isn't he the video games guy? Archived Carmack.plan from 1998. He got banned for winning. Not that time, but over the last 5 years.
That's pretty impressive that they could keep track of all that.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc is an even better shortcut for taskmanager. Does that still work with Vista? If you just use your left hand you can hit the right Ctrl + Alt and swivel up and hit Del above the arrow keys.
This means your right hand never has to leave -- when that.avi.exe video locks up on you.:p
I have talked to many autistic children and this is only going to teach them how to mimic social skills rather than solve the problem. Which is how they've always dealt with it in the past.
That's the whole thing about being autistic. Those things just don't click.
Come to think of it that was pretty smart of Microsoft. If you've baited them into spending $300 on your machine, chances are you can get them to go another $100 if you make the upgrade easy/smooth enough (pop in the HDD). Just let them think the first $300 is all they need; then when they realize it isn't they plunk down the other disgruntled $100 so that it becomes what they originally thought they were getting.
Shady, yes, but since when was Capitalism concerned with morals?
John Callas, project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., explained that a dead rover battery could allow cold temperature to maim Opportunity's electronics.
"It's like leaving your laptop out in an Antarctic winter," Callas said. "Soldered joints in the electronics can contract due to thermal contraction. If a rover gets too cold, something essential will fail." Callas explained the situation is unprecedented, so the team isn't certain how much more light-blocking dust the rovers-especially Opportunity-can take.
So, its not that the battery won't come alive again later. Its that the cold will do serious damage to the electronics on board. Without power, there's no way to keep them warm. Nights on mars go well below -25C (in the winter, the southern hemisphere can get as cold as -120C). They could have consulted some overclockers. Those guys push -75C left and right and their components don't break.
He has a good point. The tech seems cool and all especially for long term storage but solid state is the real future. Battery life is still pretty poor for most devices and many people are moving away from the desktop.
I personally don't own a desktop anymore and just hook my laptop up to a keyboard, monitor, and mouse when at home or work. I foresee the desktop dying except for hardcore gamers and servers. If I'm correct then spinning media doesn't make sense. Motors drain battery life and increase latency while throwing in a mechanical cog that can fail. -Portable CD players can last 30 hours on just two batteries. The motors aren't a big deal. -My Discman 2 from 10 years ago is still spinning and reading discs prefectly despite numerous drops on pavement. -As usual, minor latency isn't a big deal when we're talking about data backup. If this takes the place of the DVD, then it will not become your next harddrive that you install anything on. It would just take the place of the DVD and be a backup solution. When was the last time you got frustrated at a DVD's access times? Or when was the last time a DVD drive failed on you? Neither of these has happened for me. So I welcome any major improvement to the DVD-- I want to get rid of that 100-disc spindle full of data DVD's, and everyone keeps claiming to have a solution but nobody has actually brought one to market.
"last time I had a problem with someone talking for more than 15 seconds ANYWHERE in the theater was....many years ago."
You just have to avoid the times when all the teenagers go to the movies, ie. Friday and Saturday nights. My wife and I go to "adult" movies in the early afternoon, and for "kid" movies later at night. Of course, we don't have kids yet. Ya I go to the "teen" movies Fri/Sat night. No problems.
A cam is just what it sounds like, camcorder video and camcorder sound. A Telesync is camcorder video with an alternate audio source - usually plugged in to a audio output for the hearing impaired. Which is great since you won't hear the people talking in the next row. A Telecine is recorded directly from a projection source. Everyone talks about how horrible it is at the movies and how so many people talk etc. etc... last time I had a problem with someone talking for more than 15 seconds ANYWHERE in the theater was....many years ago. Cell phones ring occasionally, but...it's not that bad. Maybe it's just the location (down south people are more courteous?) but people talking is never a deterrent for going to the movies.
Perhaps the people angry at the MPAA are searching for other ways to prove their choice to avoid the theaters. I can't see many other reasons to why they'd make such a fuss about relatively nothing.
Even with prices the way they are...I can work 1.5 hours at a construction job at $8/h (or 2h at McD) and get exactly that much or more than that much time back in entertainment. The prices are nasty, but it's not like they're $30/ticket or anything. Just don't buy the popcorn.
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(*)Play by our rules-- keep the market fair.
It's not like they're asking all that much from the FCC in return. Just that ATT or whoever can't control all of it.
But perhaps I'm confused, doesn't this mean Google could start their own cellular service on this frequency? If that's the case then letting anyone make devices for it only makes sense (in exactly the way cheap licensing for the Playstation did to Sony when they were trying the underdog).
There's nothing stopping you from licensing the codecs.
Technically the best SNR and the most accurate response of all audio players out there.
They also played some newer Information Society and then finished with some DonJuan Dracula before they broke.
I was freaked to hear some really progressive music played on NPR. They either must be desperate to attract new listeners or don't care they will turn off the old farts who grimace at hearing that "pounding hippy music" I applaud them for this.
There's a time when you stop listening to music to feel and start listening for entertainment. At this same point, you realize most of the MTV music sucks.
When your motivation for listening to the music is entertainment, I would define that as simply searching for something new...a new outlook on the old chord progressions, if you will. Or out of the ordinary chord progressions, etc.
Hence again NPR caters to the intellectual type. First they did it with Classical music, now they do it with anything different that they think will catch an inquisitive listener (and therefor thinker).
I was not able to find any transcodings of the audio, to answer your question. He's not talking about that kind of code I think. He's talking about the image processing code that detects what's happening on the record.
I'd be very interested in this code too. Image processing is not for the faint of heart.
FUD and whining. To be honest, I thought we didn't want the Windows users unless they were going to meet us on our terms. They can stick with their $$$Windows until they're ready to learn the ~$. Not to mention, Ubuntu isn't good enough for them?
As usual, having lots of distros is good. There's still several key majority leaders (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc) that are what any starter is going to be directed to. This is a non issue and has been dealt with many times before, in fact every time the "Year of Linux?" question comes up.
Actually, I've never been one to criticize moderation/story submission selection, but this dead horse has been beaten and beaten over and over to a pulp. Why did samzenpus post this?
You missed 5). Thank you for your offer, Mr. Gates, I'll gladly have intercourse with you
that most people will choose.
My friend's bionic arm cost him ~$45k. I don't think his can move individual fingers though. So this one could cost even more.
As an update to my tongue-in-cheek comment, maybe they really are getting it:
Stylesheet
If it does better than the Intel Slashdot section did then...well actually that's not saying much.They're trying anyway--fails, but it's actually not that bad, looks like just typos.
Isn't this an OLPC attempt?
Actually he typed it at 159/5, or about 32 WPM. (Story posted at 11:55; he posted at 12:00).
:p
You, on the other hand, spent 5 minutes writing that one sentence. How much of that did you spend typing, and how much did you spend thinking?
...It depends on how it plays the disc.
The discman you have to push down onto the disc to snap it into the player. Since it's snapped in it can't pitch when you rotate the player.
The minidisc disc is too small to experience much rotational inertia; plus it's not spinning fast enough. Remeber gyroscopes? You had to set it spinning pretty fast. Neither your minidisc player nor your discman are spinning the CD that fast. The 360 is spinning your DVD 12x as fast as the fastest your discman can play the CD at the beginning of the disc.
Car doesn't count either unless you're regularly pitching the car forward and back 90 degrees in 2 seconds like we're talking about with the 360. Also doesn't count because it's not spinning that fast either.
What good would this information do them? Not much. I'm not sure what they could use it for. At least you don't have to scan your card to exit the bus when you get off. So they only ultimately know which lines are being used the most. I supposed they could use this to improve service. I've spoken with several employees and they say they're not keeping the data...right...of course they're not...
As usual, there's no possibilities for abuse in the near future, but they're still doing it, which makes you question what they've thought of that you haven't.
Be aware, the page is a visual disaster on the eyes. You have been warned. Who hasn't played with a gyroscope? I feel no pity for these people with scratched discs. It's called rotational inertia.
No no no those are the aggressive type. A PITA to have a relationship with.I think I speak for geeks everywhere when I say that I'd rather have the beautiful girl wooing me!
What is it about us nerds/geeks that we like things to be completely fair?
Also, lately I've found that life is a lot less stressful when you stop worrying about things being fair or not; and stop worrying that you might have gotten the short end of the stick. Another thing-- all those dreams of grandiosity every nerd/geek has (wooing the beautiful girl, or being the life of a party, etc; but just can't seem to accomplish), you feel far more empowered to do them when you get a full night's sleep, as opposed to staying up running that instance again for the loot, and then being tired the next day. If you treat your school/college work like a game that you want to master (for a very real benefit I might add-- sure, being the best at Fourier transforms might not net you a top NSA job because the government network was brute-forced in 15 seconds by Megatron's minions, but there are more subtle ep33n enhancements that can add up to something similarly lofty in enough time) the point becomes to learn the material not just finish the problems and turn it in. Then you start getting 100's on tests and it feeds back into itself and you know if you want to accomplish something, you can. Then you have fun and try updating your clothing and hair style, and then when you're really cooking you start walking around like a badass because you know you are one. Quite fun actually. But you never get there if you don't learn to give up the petty things (fairness) that get under your skin for the bigger picture of learning to control your charisma.
That's pretty impressive that they could keep track of all that.
This means your right hand never has to leave -- when that
That's the whole thing about being autistic. Those things just don't click.
Come to think of it that was pretty smart of Microsoft. If you've baited them into spending $300 on your machine, chances are you can get them to go another $100 if you make the upgrade easy/smooth enough (pop in the HDD). Just let them think the first $300 is all they need; then when they realize it isn't they plunk down the other disgruntled $100 so that it becomes what they originally thought they were getting.
Shady, yes, but since when was Capitalism concerned with morals?
So, its not that the battery won't come alive again later. Its that the cold will do serious damage to the electronics on board. Without power, there's no way to keep them warm. Nights on mars go well below -25C (in the winter, the southern hemisphere can get as cold as -120C). They could have consulted some overclockers. Those guys push -75C left and right and their components don't break.
I personally don't own a desktop anymore and just hook my laptop up to a keyboard, monitor, and mouse when at home or work. I foresee the desktop dying except for hardcore gamers and servers. If I'm correct then spinning media doesn't make sense. Motors drain battery life and increase latency while throwing in a mechanical cog that can fail. -Portable CD players can last 30 hours on just two batteries. The motors aren't a big deal.
-My Discman 2 from 10 years ago is still spinning and reading discs prefectly despite numerous drops on pavement.
-As usual, minor latency isn't a big deal when we're talking about data backup. If this takes the place of the DVD, then it will not become your next harddrive that you install anything on. It would just take the place of the DVD and be a backup solution. When was the last time you got frustrated at a DVD's access times? Or when was the last time a DVD drive failed on you? Neither of these has happened for me. So I welcome any major improvement to the DVD-- I want to get rid of that 100-disc spindle full of data DVD's, and everyone keeps claiming to have a solution but nobody has actually brought one to market.
You just have to avoid the times when all the teenagers go to the movies, ie. Friday and Saturday nights. My wife and I go to "adult" movies in the early afternoon, and for "kid" movies later at night. Of course, we don't have kids yet. Ya I go to the "teen" movies Fri/Sat night. No problems.
Perhaps the people angry at the MPAA are searching for other ways to prove their choice to avoid the theaters. I can't see many other reasons to why they'd make such a fuss about relatively nothing.
Even with prices the way they are...I can work 1.5 hours at a construction job at $8/h (or 2h at McD) and get exactly that much or more than that much time back in entertainment. The prices are nasty, but it's not like they're $30/ticket or anything. Just don't buy the popcorn.