HDMI was a marketing success, the technical specs are of little meaning. The bread and width of HDMI sales were done to people who barely understood the tech beyond 'I'm told it's better'. Another month, another cable spec. None of them will ever mean much of anything unless the marketing on all lvls (vendor, end user, distributor, OEM) iis successful. I have a feeling the one that does this will have very little to do with which ever one is the best.
To add to my post, for a example, Someone decides it's time to harass law abiding gays, and tracks face book groups and members, and meet-ups. It's happened before, hollywood black-listing anyone?
non, it's not 'someone called the FBI', it's the part about 'scanning software' and 'routine, automated surveillance'. As we fall deeper into a surveillance society, with cameras pointed at your front door, auto-logging of your car plates everywhere you drive, and (this is completely true) police helicopters with inferred/heat sensors flying over your house that can see through walls there is a basic issue of potential abuse of power, and the loss of freedom. Most of the 'need a warrant/ probable cause' law is to protect people who are doing there own thing, to try to keep the police state at bay, from police who think they are just protecting yourself from yourself. It's been shown over and over, every single time, once you give the government that power, someone starts abusing it. Government is not friendly, it's abusive and scary, Jefferson stated as much. Individuals should not have to be in a nanny state.
The HR wide angle pic's we get now from mars are amazing, making them smaller but in 3d isn't going to make them more interesting. Cameron has dunk the 3d koolaid. 3d is just 2 off set cameras, it isn't going to provide better science. While we are promoting the arts 54.6 million km away, why not add some blue night lens filters, and maybe on set lens flares
Ba I say. The most limiting part of the ipad is lack of support for non approved 3d party apps and old favorites (and files) from windows, Linux is just as or even more obscure in the software development area as the apple app store offers are now. Choice between this and Ipad. Ipad will win every time
you're a bad person and should feel bad if you think it's ok to read anyone's personal papers and effects.
There's a difference in knowing someone can read it and someone will read it.
Why don't you put a hidden gps tracker in the 15 year old's back pack? Or issue them laptops you payed a guru to pop open and inset a always on independent mic and recording part from The spy shop? It's not just about kids should have privacy, kids need privacy and they need more every year as they get older to develop and be self reliant and also to become interesting adults. You ever meet that young teenager who only thing he can talk about is what he has over heard his parents say because he's had no time to form his own thoughts? those kids are so sad.
I'd suggest that if you're only having the chat after your daughter starts googling birth control, you've probably left it a little late.
This. Would you also read her diary? Both of those is extremely intrusive and will take them about 1 minute to get around. I suggest a simple firewall to block certain sites and you unplug the internet cable to the router locked in your closed after hours. For grounding you take their flat screen monitor away. There I just saved you $600+ and hours of administering
Ram exists to be used. I don't tend to think of graphic engines using graphic cards as using a whole lot of system ram. I find firefox uses a lot of memory but handles it fairly well and releases it fine. ALso good chane you have a run away plug in in firefox
The real solution is for the studios to offer their ENTIRE CATALOGS online for sell for download. On the same day as the dvd release, for every release. and to price them aggressively for a long while.. Not streaming; not everyone has the bandwidth for that and it can skip, you can't rewind right and it eats up your k/b limits and it's worse then a rental, and you can't use it on the plane or on your PMP later. Not with DRM, again, if it's not as good and flexible as a DVD, it's not actually a good deal. and not through 1 or 3 shitty vendors, through as many resellers as they can find. Of course there would still be pirates, but
$5-8 for a clean digital fast download copy that you can keep for years and play
anywhere you have a screen will be > p2p for a lot of people. They will never do it of course, either it will be the drm or $20 a download or shitty selection or delayed releases.
Pleas forgive spelling errors I just woke up from a coma
I really don't see a lacking of broadband penetration any more, this isn't 1999. Maybe about the working poor not affording/knowing how to use computersm but if they actullly get a computer, they get brondband if they need it. Why not give away free telephone service too? It's alot more importantand VOIP makes it dirt cheap, or free water, etc. The market place is working just fine for broadband, no need to make it a government utility. Same for cell phones
yes. exactly. It's not so much about a
better UI, that's just a crutch, a work around. Tablet sensors on the
market today just are not fast or accurate enough, well ok, I don't know about those $5000 ones for artists. Writing with your hand on a tablet is like using a fat crayon, and in till it can interpret the center of my finger as a fine line with no input lag, it's a problem. On the silly drawing program on my tablet I can run 2 fingers across the screen and it takes half a second for the paint lines on the screen to catch up and draw it.
Not just hand writing, but hand writing requisition. I've seen improvements with pressure sensoring and improvements with finger centering, but it's not good enough.
junior. You think you know why things happen, but you just know what happens. It is so hard to do anything budject wise. How do you think things go? People way above your apparently high position, make distinctions that trickle down into this, this is how they justify less spending next year. If they just did it, they would have to worry about a senator, lobbyists, people like you. This is how they make the reduction without making it a big deal. You started out by saying they used to have 1 cann and then they started having 2 or 3. Having three cann planes mean 2 less flight rdy birds. Means less staff, less need. But most of all means less fight rdy planes, which is a factual reduction in fighting fleet.
Story is not completely clear, at points saying dropping support completely. Which is a bad idea, Handbrake is just a transcoder, the more formats it has, the better. Only in dreamland does will the whole world pick one or even just a few formats. So frustrating to get a video file and realize the Solika encoders picked a seemingly obscure codac that your editor/writer can't handle, being assured that the codac is faster, better and smaller isn't much of a consolation
Dropping it as just a output formant is a little different.
You mean we were decreasing our fleet from prewar status with Russia levels? Makes sense to me.
I'm sure we need much less fighter jets then we thought we did then. I'm sure that budget could be put to much better use, I can't image
anyone who would want us to keep speading on such large numbers. Well expect for you of course, the war industry people.
The outcome of the Drake equation is all based on what assumptions you make.
R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
This isn't a known number
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
This isn't a known number, extrapolating from the known systems isn't very reliable, for reference see biology
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
ok now you are just guessing. Our system seems to have 3 or more potentials. So what, you are going to apply that to every other solar system you project to find in the galaxy?
f = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
go ahead and predict your d&d dice rolls while your at it. While of course there exists a percent (total planets/ total life). But hello, you don't know the total life, or planets for that matter. So you are just conjecturing.
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
You base this number off of what again? You don't exactly have a good sample size here considering the size of the numbers.
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space
Conjecture.
Besides even if the math was known and prefect, it's still just based on probabilities. I.E, if you
took the billions of galaxies, a high percent of them would have the prefect math outcome, but many many would not.
On to the FA idle math play, while he knows many more of the numbers, he also makes several assumptions. "fB = The fraction of university educated, ageappropriate
women in London who I find physically attractive."
While the first 3 numbers are easily known, the " % who I find physically attractive" is just conjecture. Even if you did a study with him with 100 random women, and he liked 15% of them,
that doesn't mean it would be 15% of university educated, ageappropriate
women in London, maybe that subset is uglier or pretty then the larger group.
Feel free to go ahead and nitpick about how I don't understand math, how else will I learn, but the basic idea's that it's based on assumptions and bad probability math remain.
He's a economic student too. I have great respect for economics in academia, but not so much for actual economists. Partly because they love to
talk about econ formulas similar to this that turn out to be wrong as often as they are right.
but what I really want to say is the Drake equation is bullshit.
once again benefits for the many have been choked for benefits for the few.
I Can't Believe this, Colleges already bend over to do so much for blind students.
I've seen classes where they had a aid in the class to take chalkboard/teacher notes for the blind/deaf, even if the class only had one blind student. So they
were commenting a whole man hour to benefit one student. Colleges tend to have a whole office staff for helping students with such disabilities, I'm sure if the book was not already in
Braille, the college could get it transcribed.
About two years ago I decided to log in after ages of not touching it... little did I know that free users must log in every three weeks or so, else the account will be dropped. By logging in I triggered their timeout service to begin.
I was checking my email one morning and found a notice that I should log into DynDNS else my account will be dropped
'BAAWWWWWW, my free service should be perfect in everyway in perpetuate.' Sounds like to me if it was important to you you would have been paying a little more attention to it in the first place. I bet you also think you should be able to use any web site for free without ads, and should be able to download free movies and TV and music. It's normal to drop inactive accounts, with a free service 90% users sign up, use it for 3 months then never touch it again. Don't be so entitled.
If it's what the rumored Courier was I would not buy it, but it would be neat looking. If you are going to do the duel screens, make one
a Eink, so I can read without eyestrain, and justify the price because I'm getting a ebook reader too. I really don't want to carry a laptop/netbook
and a ebook reader, but both in one? Now I'm interested.
2 LED screens at first seems useful, but you later realize it's not. Battery life, extra size and weight, etc. Hell, a decent UI can do a lot with one
half size screen (iphone). If you are going to do the 2 screens the device better be slick small. Like A DSlite. Fit's in my jeans or a purse.
First, the idea that the US has only been ahead generally in the post-war 20th century is part myth. The US has always been rich. Even In the 1800s the per capita income was higher then the other hemisphere. Once ahead, you should stay ahead, fair or not, unless you are doing something wrong. And we are certainly doing things wrong.
You can go buy ramdisks now, or you could make them in your current RAM, copy the OS there, and run off that after you boot. Go try it. Firefox isn't going to render quicker,....
I have a virtual ramdisk now in XP, with a iso that loads onto it at boot. Firefox with all it's extensions and plug-ins are on it. I can tell you with certainly it loads much faster, pretty much instantly, maybe a half second. I don't really have any delays in rendering so I don't know what you are referring to there. Sure most programs are not going to run much faster (most), but they will load a hell of a lot faster. Very helpful if you close and load different stuff. it is so nice to be able to load firefire with speeddial and see 9 differnt websites loaded 10x faster then you can start word.
Name one internet video streaming service that never lags. Even a pay site. Go ahead, I'll wait.
.
.
Now think those videos are prerendered, onlive say they are streaming 1080i that is rendered in real time.
I just
don't see it working for any real time game, FPS, RTS, etc, racing, which is what they seem to be selling it for. Adventure games would be fine, but we all know how much money there is in those.
Who is the market here? How many people have high bandwidth AND low leniency connections close enough to their servers not to have lag? 99% of potential customers will have to deal
with lag between several 3d party network/server hops.
It could work when everyone has much much better internet connections then they do now, but in 2010? ha.
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HDMI was a marketing success, the technical specs are of little meaning. The bread and width of HDMI sales were done to people who barely understood the tech beyond 'I'm told it's better'. Another month, another cable spec. None of them will ever mean much of anything unless the marketing on all lvls (vendor, end user, distributor, OEM) iis successful. I have a feeling the one that does this will have very little to do with which ever one is the best.
here -on the ground- _today_ cops are using all sorts of senors to go through walls in their helicopters. This is happening now
To add to my post, for a example, Someone decides it's time to harass law abiding gays, and tracks face book groups and members, and meet-ups. It's happened before, hollywood black-listing anyone?
non, it's not 'someone called the FBI', it's the part about 'scanning software' and 'routine, automated surveillance'. As we fall deeper into a surveillance society, with cameras pointed at your front door, auto-logging of your car plates everywhere you drive, and (this is completely true) police helicopters with inferred/heat sensors flying over your house that can see through walls there is a basic issue of potential abuse of power, and the loss of freedom. Most of the 'need a warrant/ probable cause' law is to protect people who are doing there own thing, to try to keep the police state at bay, from police who think they are just protecting yourself from yourself. It's been shown over and over, every single time, once you give the government that power, someone starts abusing it. Government is not friendly, it's abusive and scary, Jefferson stated as much. Individuals should not have to be in a nanny state.
The HR wide angle pic's we get now from mars are amazing, making them smaller but in 3d isn't going to make them more interesting. Cameron has dunk the 3d koolaid. 3d is just 2 off set cameras, it isn't going to provide better science. While we are promoting the arts 54.6 million km away, why not add some blue night lens filters, and maybe on set lens flares
Ba I say. The most limiting part of the ipad is lack of support for non approved 3d party apps and old favorites (and files) from windows, Linux is just as or even more obscure in the software development area as the apple app store offers are now. Choice between this and Ipad. Ipad will win every time
you're a bad person and should feel bad if you think it's ok to read anyone's personal papers and effects. There's a difference in knowing someone can read it and someone will read it.
Why don't you put a hidden gps tracker in the 15 year old's back pack? Or issue them laptops you payed a guru to pop open and inset a always on independent mic and recording part from The spy shop? It's not just about kids should have privacy, kids need privacy and they need more every year as they get older to develop and be self reliant and also to become interesting adults. You ever meet that young teenager who only thing he can talk about is what he has over heard his parents say because he's had no time to form his own thoughts? those kids are so sad.
I'd suggest that if you're only having the chat after your daughter starts googling birth control, you've probably left it a little late.
This. Would you also read her diary? Both of those is extremely intrusive and will take them about 1 minute to get around. I suggest a simple firewall to block certain sites and you unplug the internet cable to the router locked in your closed after hours. For grounding you take their flat screen monitor away. There I just saved you $600+ and hours of administering
Ram exists to be used. I don't tend to think of graphic engines using graphic cards as using a whole lot of system ram. I find firefox uses a lot of memory but handles it fairly well and releases it fine. ALso good chane you have a run away plug in in firefox
Because DRM free music from itunes get's traded around?
Pleas forgive spelling errors I just woke up from a coma
I really don't see a lacking of broadband penetration any more, this isn't 1999. Maybe about the working poor not affording/knowing how to use computersm but if they actullly get a computer, they get brondband if they need it. Why not give away free telephone service too? It's alot more importantand VOIP makes it dirt cheap, or free water, etc. The market place is working just fine for broadband, no need to make it a government utility. Same for cell phones
yes. exactly. It's not so much about a better UI, that's just a crutch, a work around. Tablet sensors on the market today just are not fast or accurate enough, well ok, I don't know about those $5000 ones for artists. Writing with your hand on a tablet is like using a fat crayon, and in till it can interpret the center of my finger as a fine line with no input lag, it's a problem. On the silly drawing program on my tablet I can run 2 fingers across the screen and it takes half a second for the paint lines on the screen to catch up and draw it. Not just hand writing, but hand writing requisition. I've seen improvements with pressure sensoring and improvements with finger centering, but it's not good enough.
junior. You think you know why things happen, but you just know what happens. It is so hard to do anything budject wise. How do you think things go? People way above your apparently high position, make distinctions that trickle down into this, this is how they justify less spending next year. If they just did it, they would have to worry about a senator, lobbyists, people like you. This is how they make the reduction without making it a big deal. You started out by saying they used to have 1 cann and then they started having 2 or 3. Having three cann planes mean 2 less flight rdy birds. Means less staff, less need. But most of all means less fight rdy planes, which is a factual reduction in fighting fleet.
Dropping it as just a output formant is a little different.
Maintaining the fleet by cannibalism is by definition reducing the fleet.
You mean we were decreasing our fleet from prewar status with Russia levels? Makes sense to me. I'm sure we need much less fighter jets then we thought we did then. I'm sure that budget could be put to much better use, I can't image anyone who would want us to keep speading on such large numbers. Well expect for you of course, the war industry people.
R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy
This isn't a known number
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
This isn't a known number, extrapolating from the known systems isn't very reliable, for reference see biology
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
ok now you are just guessing. Our system seems to have 3 or more potentials. So what, you are going to apply that to every other solar system you project to find in the galaxy?
f = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
go ahead and predict your d&d dice rolls while your at it. While of course there exists a percent (total planets/ total life). But hello, you don't know the total life, or planets for that matter. So you are just conjecturing.
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
You base this number off of what again? You don't exactly have a good sample size here considering the size of the numbers.
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space
Conjecture. Besides even if the math was known and prefect, it's still just based on probabilities. I.E, if you took the billions of galaxies, a high percent of them would have the prefect math outcome, but many many would not.
On to the FA idle math play, while he knows many more of the numbers, he also makes several assumptions. "fB = The fraction of university educated, ageappropriate women in London who I find physically attractive."
While the first 3 numbers are easily known, the " % who I find physically attractive" is just conjecture. Even if you did a study with him with 100 random women, and he liked 15% of them, that doesn't mean it would be 15% of university educated, ageappropriate women in London, maybe that subset is uglier or pretty then the larger group.
Feel free to go ahead and nitpick about how I don't understand math, how else will I learn, but the basic idea's that it's based on assumptions and bad probability math remain.
He's a economic student too. I have great respect for economics in academia, but not so much for actual economists. Partly because they love to talk about econ formulas similar to this that turn out to be wrong as often as they are right.
but what I really want to say is the Drake equation is bullshit.
I Can't Believe this, Colleges already bend over to do so much for blind students.
I've seen classes where they had a aid in the class to take chalkboard/teacher notes for the blind/deaf, even if the class only had one blind student. So they were commenting a whole man hour to benefit one student. Colleges tend to have a whole office staff for helping students with such disabilities, I'm sure if the book was not already in Braille, the college could get it transcribed.
About two years ago I decided to log in after ages of not touching it ... little did I know that free users must log in every three weeks or so, else the account will be dropped. By logging in I triggered their timeout service to begin.
I was checking my email one morning and found a notice that I should log into DynDNS else my account will be dropped
'BAAWWWWWW, my free service should be perfect in everyway in perpetuate.' Sounds like to me if it was important to you you would have been paying a little more attention to it in the first place. I bet you also think you should be able to use any web site for free without ads, and should be able to download free movies and TV and music. It's normal to drop inactive accounts, with a free service 90% users sign up, use it for 3 months then never touch it again. Don't be so entitled.
If it's what the rumored Courier was I would not buy it, but it would be neat looking. If you are going to do the duel screens, make one a Eink, so I can read without eyestrain, and justify the price because I'm getting a ebook reader too. I really don't want to carry a laptop/netbook and a ebook reader, but both in one? Now I'm interested. 2 LED screens at first seems useful, but you later realize it's not. Battery life, extra size and weight, etc. Hell, a decent UI can do a lot with one half size screen (iphone). If you are going to do the 2 screens the device better be slick small. Like A DSlite. Fit's in my jeans or a purse.
First, the idea that the US has only been ahead generally in the post-war 20th century is part myth. The US has always been rich. Even In the 1800s the per capita income was higher then the other hemisphere. Once ahead, you should stay ahead, fair or not, unless you are doing something wrong. And we are certainly doing things wrong.
You can go buy ramdisks now, or you could make them in your current RAM, copy the OS there, and run off that after you boot. Go try it. Firefox isn't going to render quicker, ....
I have a virtual ramdisk now in XP, with a iso that loads onto it at boot. Firefox with all it's extensions and plug-ins are on it. I can tell you with certainly it loads much faster, pretty much instantly, maybe a half second. I don't really have any delays in rendering so I don't know what you are referring to there. Sure most programs are not going to run much faster (most), but they will load a hell of a lot faster. Very helpful if you close and load different stuff. it is so nice to be able to load firefire with speeddial and see 9 differnt websites loaded 10x faster then you can start word.
.
.
Now think those videos are prerendered, onlive say they are streaming 1080i that is rendered in real time.
I just don't see it working for any real time game, FPS, RTS, etc, racing, which is what they seem to be selling it for. Adventure games would be fine, but we all know how much money there is in those.
Who is the market here? How many people have high bandwidth AND low leniency connections close enough to their servers not to have lag? 99% of potential customers will have to deal with lag between several 3d party network/server hops. It could work when everyone has much much better internet connections then they do now, but in 2010? ha.