Pardon me, but wouldn't disconnecting an intelligent computer simply put it into a state of utter unconsciousness? You could always turn it back on later. It's not like it's being destroyed or anything.
As the transcript of the arguments said, as long as it is possible to restart the computer in the same state in which it was shut down, unconsciousness is a good analogy. The problem is that the computer did not want to be shut down. So, the analogy would be anesthetizing somebody who didn't want to go under. You can't do that (legally).
So many pirates were private military contractors, who carried out the bidding of the various powers in exchange for a (large) percentage of whatever they plundered.
For what it's worth, those guys were privateers; they carried letters of marque that were supposed to legitimize what they were doing. Of course, legitimacy depended upon which side you were on;-)
Consider GPL'd software as a commodity. For the/. crowd, what if you compared GPL'd software to a computer.
There are plenty of computer companies around. The local guys put a white box together, the big guys have some stuff custom made. In the end, what you get is a box that, for the most part, does pretty much the same thing as any other box. You could shop on price, but you'll probably find that most vendors' prices are pretty close to the same. You could shop for features, but again, with a few exceptions, for a given price, you get pretty much the same thing.
Dell can add some gee-whiz gizmo to a system, but Compaq can do the same thing. Even your local computer shop can do that, too.
You could say that it is not possible for some part of a computer to be exploited by a company. I suppose that's true - no one company has a monopoly on, say, ATI video cards. But I think that you'll see that successful commodity-based companies find a way to add value to the product that goes beyond the actual deliverable. Generally, that value is service. It comes in the form of reliability, customer relations, training, that sort of thing. Dell, for instance, sells a ton of computers, but they also make a bundle from services.
Successful Open Source companies do the same thing. RedHat doesn't make much on selling Linux directly - they aren't going to sell the consumer version in the stores anymore. But they have a good revenue stream for services.
Actually, I'm not sure that I disagree with you. In fact, I probably don't, except that I do think that GPL'd software can be fit for business, if that business takes the approach that GPL'd software is a commodity and the profit must be made from adding some value to the commodity in a way that is better than that of other companies. Thus, what you really have is a service company that provides the software essentially for free, but charges for the extras.
Remarkably, tne Neuros already comes with voice (and FM and line in) recording and a nifty little FM transmitter for broadcasting your music to a nearby radio. Gee, and the 20GB version of the player is $199 - and no DRM!
Given the comments I've heard recently here on slashdot, I think I speak for many of us when I say GO CHINA!
Well, you don't speak for me. I might say go Yang Liwei, but not GO CHINA. Remember, you're congratulating a totalitarian regime that considers the basic rights that we hold so dear to be very "alienable". It's a country whose leaders were so afraid that the launch might not go so well that they refused any international press coverage and darn near no internal "press" coverage. China's space program is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union's space program; it is shrouded in secrecy and funded by a crushingly inefficient economic system. Like the rest of Chinese society and government, there is no openness. Without openness, all their space program will become is a propaganda tool and development test bed for military projects. Compare this with the US space program that allowed both successes and failures to be freely observed, that not only allowed, but encouraged the transfer of space-related technology from the program to the private sector and allowed civilian scientists to engage in space travel. The Soviet Union did not do this and China will not do it.
Now, I'm far from happy with the direction that NASA has taken the US space program, but the one thing that NASA has that a totalitarian regime will never allow is the freedom of the public to see virtually everything it does, the good and the bad.
I realize that this is/., but even the submitter should have read the article. The $38 million price tag was the five year cost of the supercomputer project, not the cost of the computers. Project costs include much more than just the cost of the computers. That money also has to pay for infrastructure, consulting and management costs, as well as the normal day-to-day costs to keep the thing running. I suspect that the actual value of the first 300 computers themselves was well under a million dollars.
I'm sure that Dell has a similar relationship with UT as Micron Technology has with Boise State University here in Idaho, e.g., they provide free or heavily discounted equipment to the university.
It's really really hard for a passive system to track a specific car mixed in with a bunch of other cars, especially if you don't have a solid identification of when it enters and leaves the system, or when there are bridges, tunnels, etc.
Since GSM at 1.9GHz has a wavelength of around a tenth of a millimeter, it ought to have quite good resolution ability. I know that when I was in the Navy ten years ago or so the ISAR radar that the P3 aircraft used could give a fairly clear picture of what it was looking at over quite a long distance and that was at a lower frequency. It seems like, with the proper filtering and signal conditioning, a gigahertz system ought to be able to give a pretty clear picture of what's being tracked.
Now, having said that, I'll also comment that the aircraft radar in the Navy was (obviously) an active system, transmitting from a thousand feet in the air, over a (relatively) smooth surface at a ship-sized target. I can see that it would be extraordinarily more difficult with a passive platform a hundred feet in the air, irregular terrain and a thousand small targets. But I'll bet that it can be done. Of course can is a lot easier than will.
We run several web and mail servers on two old Sun SparcStation 20's and two Sun Ultra 1's that have been around since the early '90s. Lucky for us that Aurora Linux is around. Solaris 9 still runs on them, but not well. It's amazing what you can do with a couple of 50MHz processors in a $30 computer.
Well, other than the fact that you're completely wrong, I agree with you. At 180 degrees, you WILL get burned. At 130 degrees, it takes about 30 seconds for it it to burn.
Most places sell coffee at 150 to 165 degrees because a spilled cup will cool to around 140 degrees by the time it soaked through clothing, and keep cooling, giving a comfortable margin of time to either get out of the hot clothing or for it to cool enough that it would not burn.
At 185 degrees, third degree burns will result in three to ten seconds.
And I challenge you to drink a boiling hot cup of coffee. Go ahead, try it! And don't complain!
This month's edition of the IEEE Spectrum has an article about the ZVUE, a portable movie and MP3 player. The article is pay to view on the web (unless you're an IEEE member), but the player's web site is here. Alas, it has a proprietary CODEC. It also seems to me that I read some kind of blurb about "security through obscurity", although I could be mistaken. Here's the text from the IEEE's article:
Putting the Move Back in Movies
A personal video player puts films in the palm of your hand for US $99
By Steven M. Cherry
Bumper-to-bumper traffic stretches ahead for miles. You're hot, tired, and the kids are fidgeting in the back seat. They're too young for Game Boys. You used to long for one of the big expensive DVD players mounted below the roof. But now you reach into your purse for the ZVUE, a US $99 handheld video player.
About the same size and shape as a Game Boy, the ZVUE has the added advantage that, unlike a DVD player, a child--or you--can carry it around and watch it on a long airplane ride or in a doctor's waiting room.
Yes, the ZVUE player's movie screen is very small, but then size didn't keep Nintendo's Game Boy and its ilk from becoming hugely popular among the same 8- to 18-year-old set at which this device is aimed. The ZVUE plays movies, television shows, and music videos with a clarity that will surprise adults and captivate the youngsters.
From HandHeld Entertainment Inc. (San Francisco), the ZVUE relies on a 2.5-inch (diagonal) thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display and stores its programs on a Secure Digital Multimedia card already popular for handheld consumer electronics, including digital cameras. These so-called SD cards come with capacities of 8 to 256 MB--at roughly one minute per megabyte, the largest cards can hold two full two-hour movies each.
A major part of the ZVUE development involved a proprietary encoding scheme, which HandHeld Entertainment calls its HHe codec, that fiercely compresses programs at a 100 to 1 ratio. Nonetheless, the ZVUE plays video with none of the jerkiness (using only a few frames per second) or fuzziness (using just a small number of pixels per frame) one might expect.
None of those usual problems could be seen when I watched Toy Story 2 on a preproduction demo unit that company CEO Nathan Schulhof brought to the IEEE Spectrum office in mid-August. The 24-bit color picture, the same as on a conventional computer color display, was crisp, and the figures moved as smoothly as in the best video games. A 128-MB SD card, holding a two-hour movie, costs about $50.
A proprietary codec can be the kiss of death for something like a media player. Sales of the player start out small, so few film distributors encode their movies for it. With only a few movies available, device sales languish and the cycle continues. Aware of this chicken-and-egg problem, Schulhof is licensing his codec to other manufacturers. With more versions of ZVUE out there, more movies should be available for them.
Additionally, for those who already have movies languishing on their hard drives in the MPEG-4 format, HandHeld will soon release a software package for converting these files into a form compatible with its codec. (Note to Schulhof: a conversion from DivX would be nice, too.) Burn the result onto an SD card via the device's USB connection and your kids will have another movie for the ZVUE.
The 75-gram unit plays for up to eight hours on four AA batteries and has a slot for the SD card. The device comes with only one set of headphones but a port for a second pair, so both of the little tykes in the back seat can share sound as well as pictures without your having to listen to Shrek for the hundredth time. First units are expected to show up in Toys "R" Us stores in the United States this month, in time for the end-of-year holiday season.
ZVUE is being manufactured in Hong Kong by Eastern Asia Technology
Newton shouldn't have been hired for a faculty job. He was reputed to be the worst teacher ever. He often didn't even pretend to teach, and treated his job as a sinecure. On the occasions when he did pretend to give a lecture, it was generally to an empty hall, because no students would show up.
He would have fit in very well in the Mathematics department at my alma mater, Boise State University. Most of the professors in that department (at least for undergraduate math classes) were so ill-suited for teaching (or virtually any other sort of pursuit that required interaction with other people) that I recall hearing rumors that the College of Engineering was tempted to start their own math program so that the Math Department wouldn't nip a budding engineer in the bud by providing their standard, substandard classroom instruction.
I remember (with perfect clarity) the first day of Calculus I. The professor came in, told us that the only reason that he taught the class was because the department made him, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the semester complaining about what idiots we were because we couldn't learn what he was "teaching". That was the most cherished "C" that I ever received. Oh, wait, it was the ONLY one that I ever received!
All I can say is that it's a good thing that my EE professors were so willing to help me out when I was learning Calculus...the Math professors sure didn't help!
Well, space is actually not at all a vacuum, it's plasma... Plasma at very low density, but still plasma (ions and electrons). Not relevant for your point, but still:)
To be pedantically correct, the near-vacuum of space is pervaded by an extraordinarily tenuous plasma. Space is not plasma...plasma exists in space because it is a nearly perfect vacuum.
Why are the Nobel Prizes always awarded so long after the prize-winning research has taken place? Is it part of the charter to make sure that the advance that's being rewarded is truly beneficial?
It's so that they know that the advance that is being rewarded is really an advance and not a mistake. For example, up until Michelson's experiments, the prevailing theory was that outer space was not a vacuum, but rather space filled with some sort of aether that allowed electromagnetic radiation to propagate. After all, there has to be some kind of medium for waves to propagate in, right?
The Nobel Committee waits for such a long time so that they can be sure that they are awarding the prize for an achievment that is truely legitimate. Consider how embarassing it would be to award a Prize for something that was later proved to be incorrect. Generally, time weeds out bogus "discoveries".
Something that I always thought interesting was that Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect as opposed to his work in relativity. Relativity was such a contentious subject for so long that the Committee was concerned that awarding the Prize to Einstein for his work in it might prove to be mistaken in the future. Now, the photoelectric effect was no small thing, but his theories of general and special relativity were really something.
You raise an interesting, but, I think, flawed point. Art is not just what you see in a museum. Look around and you'll see that art is everywhere. Art is in the design of buildings and the landscaping around them. Art is in the movies that you watch. Art is in the industrial design of the everyday things that you use.
I live in a relative backwater of the US, Boise, Idaho. In a valley that spans a very large area, there are about 300,000 people. The west end of the valley is primarily agricultural, the east end is light industry and high tech.
This valley also has a thriving arts community that features an art museum, one of the finest symphony halls in the nation, an art film house, about a dozen private art galleries, more theatres (the kind with real actors, not movies) than I can count on two hands, including a dedicated Shakespearian theatre that sells out virtually every performance it presents and, most importantly, significant community support in the form of ticket sales, donations and grants from a number of large corporations.
I say "most importantly" because those corporations don't give money to the arts just because it's a tax writeoff. They give money to the arts because their employees and customers enjoy watching and listening to the art that the money supports.
Boise's yearly "Art in the Park" festival generally sees something in the neighborhood of 200,000 people over the weekend viewing and buying all sorts of artworks as they listen to live music performed in one of our local park's bandshells.
Much more goes on here, but I think that that is a sufficient summary.
So, I don't know, maybe Boise, Idaho is an anomaly in the world of art, but somehow I don't think that it is.
While I recognize that, just as foundations are free to grant their money to whichever cause they choose, you are free to express your opinion that art has never accomplished anything of worth and is a waste of money. But I sort of suspect that you are really just a troll. That's my opinion, freely expressed. Hmm...maybe it's even artistic.
Yes, FireWire is still technically better than USB 2. That extra 80 Mbps isn't impressive when one interface is isochronous and the other isn't. Add to that the massive amount of power, compared to USB 2, that FireWire can provide, and FW's ability to communicate p2p-style directly from device to device, and suddenly USB 2 isn't that impressive.
USB supports isochronous data streams. It has since version 1.0. See this.
I realize that it may be a pain in the ass to look at the USB logo on the box or on the device, but there are two distinct USB logos that are used for a USB High Speed and for a USB Full Speed or Low Speed device.
Look at them here. The USB High Speed devices have a logo that says "High Speed". In order to use that logo, the device MUST support USB High Speed.
The fact that USB 2.0 supports the two slower speeds doesn't mean that manufacturers are being misleading when they label a mouse as being USB compatible. It doesn't mean that when you put that mouse on your USB 2.0 bus that all of your devices will run at USB Low Speed. All it means is that the USBIF didn't do as robust a job in defining the marketing parameters of the specification.
All in all, there's nothing to see here, move along.
I haven't been able to get NDBM to reorder tracks in a playlist any way but alphabetically. Have you? I'd like to hear them in original album order without mankeying with the track names.
Yes, NeurosDBM or Positron will order them any way that you want in the database, then the Neuros will play them back that way. I just checked on mine and it does that.
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I do not think that word means what you think it does. Wells' Dr. Moreau was a busy little beaver.
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As the transcript of the arguments said, as long as it is possible to restart the computer in the same state in which it was shut down, unconsciousness is a good analogy. The problem is that the computer did not want to be shut down. So, the analogy would be anesthetizing somebody who didn't want to go under. You can't do that (legally).
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So many pirates were private military contractors, who carried out the bidding of the various powers in exchange for a (large) percentage of whatever they plundered.
;-)
For what it's worth, those guys were privateers; they carried letters of marque that were supposed to legitimize what they were doing. Of course, legitimacy depended upon which side you were on
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There are plenty of computer companies around. The local guys put a white box together, the big guys have some stuff custom made. In the end, what you get is a box that, for the most part, does pretty much the same thing as any other box. You could shop on price, but you'll probably find that most vendors' prices are pretty close to the same. You could shop for features, but again, with a few exceptions, for a given price, you get pretty much the same thing.
Dell can add some gee-whiz gizmo to a system, but Compaq can do the same thing. Even your local computer shop can do that, too.
You could say that it is not possible for some part of a computer to be exploited by a company. I suppose that's true - no one company has a monopoly on, say, ATI video cards. But I think that you'll see that successful commodity-based companies find a way to add value to the product that goes beyond the actual deliverable. Generally, that value is service. It comes in the form of reliability, customer relations, training, that sort of thing. Dell, for instance, sells a ton of computers, but they also make a bundle from services.
Successful Open Source companies do the same thing. RedHat doesn't make much on selling Linux directly - they aren't going to sell the consumer version in the stores anymore. But they have a good revenue stream for services.
Actually, I'm not sure that I disagree with you. In fact, I probably don't, except that I do think that GPL'd software can be fit for business, if that business takes the approach that GPL'd software is a commodity and the profit must be made from adding some value to the commodity in a way that is better than that of other companies. Thus, what you really have is a service company that provides the software essentially for free, but charges for the extras.
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Gee, and there's no DRM on regular music that you put on the iPod either!
True. But I think that you missed my point. No, I'm positive that you missed my point.
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Well, you don't speak for me. I might say go Yang Liwei, but not GO CHINA. Remember, you're congratulating a totalitarian regime that considers the basic rights that we hold so dear to be very "alienable". It's a country whose leaders were so afraid that the launch might not go so well that they refused any international press coverage and darn near no internal "press" coverage. China's space program is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union's space program; it is shrouded in secrecy and funded by a crushingly inefficient economic system. Like the rest of Chinese society and government, there is no openness. Without openness, all their space program will become is a propaganda tool and development test bed for military projects. Compare this with the US space program that allowed both successes and failures to be freely observed, that not only allowed, but encouraged the transfer of space-related technology from the program to the private sector and allowed civilian scientists to engage in space travel. The Soviet Union did not do this and China will not do it.
Now, I'm far from happy with the direction that NASA has taken the US space program, but the one thing that NASA has that a totalitarian regime will never allow is the freedom of the public to see virtually everything it does, the good and the bad.
So, go Liwei! But not China.
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My bad! I used 1.9e12 instead of 1.9e9.
I'm sure that Dell has a similar relationship with UT as Micron Technology has with Boise State University here in Idaho, e.g., they provide free or heavily discounted equipment to the university.
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Since GSM at 1.9GHz has a wavelength of around a tenth of a millimeter, it ought to have quite good resolution ability. I know that when I was in the Navy ten years ago or so the ISAR radar that the P3 aircraft used could give a fairly clear picture of what it was looking at over quite a long distance and that was at a lower frequency. It seems like, with the proper filtering and signal conditioning, a gigahertz system ought to be able to give a pretty clear picture of what's being tracked.
Now, having said that, I'll also comment that the aircraft radar in the Navy was (obviously) an active system, transmitting from a thousand feet in the air, over a (relatively) smooth surface at a ship-sized target. I can see that it would be extraordinarily more difficult with a passive platform a hundred feet in the air, irregular terrain and a thousand small targets. But I'll bet that it can be done. Of course can is a lot easier than will.
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Most places sell coffee at 150 to 165 degrees because a spilled cup will cool to around 140 degrees by the time it soaked through clothing, and keep cooling, giving a comfortable margin of time to either get out of the hot clothing or for it to cool enough that it would not burn.
At 185 degrees, third degree burns will result in three to ten seconds.
And I challenge you to drink a boiling hot cup of coffee. Go ahead, try it! And don't complain!
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I have seen the enemy and he is us - Pogo
Sony is both a music and movie company. They ARE the big, bad wolf.
Here you go!
Winston Smith loves Big Brother. Maybe he should have been Guy Montag instead.
Putting the Move Back in Movies
A personal video player puts films in the palm of your hand for US $99
By Steven M. Cherry
Bumper-to-bumper traffic stretches ahead for miles. You're hot, tired, and the kids are fidgeting in the back seat. They're too young for Game Boys. You used to long for one of the big expensive DVD players mounted below the roof. But now you reach into your purse for the ZVUE, a US $99 handheld video player.
About the same size and shape as a Game Boy, the ZVUE has the added advantage that, unlike a DVD player, a child--or you--can carry it around and watch it on a long airplane ride or in a doctor's waiting room.
Yes, the ZVUE player's movie screen is very small, but then size didn't keep Nintendo's Game Boy and its ilk from becoming hugely popular among the same 8- to 18-year-old set at which this device is aimed. The ZVUE plays movies, television shows, and music videos with a clarity that will surprise adults and captivate the youngsters.
From HandHeld Entertainment Inc. (San Francisco), the ZVUE relies on a 2.5-inch (diagonal) thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display and stores its programs on a Secure Digital Multimedia card already popular for handheld consumer electronics, including digital cameras. These so-called SD cards come with capacities of 8 to 256 MB--at roughly one minute per megabyte, the largest cards can hold two full two-hour movies each.
A major part of the ZVUE development involved a proprietary encoding scheme, which HandHeld Entertainment calls its HHe codec, that fiercely compresses programs at a 100 to 1 ratio. Nonetheless, the ZVUE plays video with none of the jerkiness (using only a few frames per second) or fuzziness (using just a small number of pixels per frame) one might expect.
None of those usual problems could be seen when I watched Toy Story 2 on a preproduction demo unit that company CEO Nathan Schulhof brought to the IEEE Spectrum office in mid-August. The 24-bit color picture, the same as on a conventional computer color display, was crisp, and the figures moved as smoothly as in the best video games. A 128-MB SD card, holding a two-hour movie, costs about $50.
A proprietary codec can be the kiss of death for something like a media player. Sales of the player start out small, so few film distributors encode their movies for it. With only a few movies available, device sales languish and the cycle continues. Aware of this chicken-and-egg problem, Schulhof is licensing his codec to other manufacturers. With more versions of ZVUE out there, more movies should be available for them.
Additionally, for those who already have movies languishing on their hard drives in the MPEG-4 format, HandHeld will soon release a software package for converting these files into a form compatible with its codec. (Note to Schulhof: a conversion from DivX would be nice, too.) Burn the result onto an SD card via the device's USB connection and your kids will have another movie for the ZVUE.
The 75-gram unit plays for up to eight hours on four AA batteries and has a slot for the SD card. The device comes with only one set of headphones but a port for a second pair, so both of the little tykes in the back seat can share sound as well as pictures without your having to listen to Shrek for the hundredth time. First units are expected to show up in Toys "R" Us stores in the United States this month, in time for the end-of-year holiday season.
ZVUE is being manufactured in Hong Kong by Eastern Asia Technology
He would have fit in very well in the Mathematics department at my alma mater, Boise State University. Most of the professors in that department (at least for undergraduate math classes) were so ill-suited for teaching (or virtually any other sort of pursuit that required interaction with other people) that I recall hearing rumors that the College of Engineering was tempted to start their own math program so that the Math Department wouldn't nip a budding engineer in the bud by providing their standard, substandard classroom instruction.
I remember (with perfect clarity) the first day of Calculus I. The professor came in, told us that the only reason that he taught the class was because the department made him, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the semester complaining about what idiots we were because we couldn't learn what he was "teaching". That was the most cherished "C" that I ever received. Oh, wait, it was the ONLY one that I ever received!
All I can say is that it's a good thing that my EE professors were so willing to help me out when I was learning Calculus...the Math professors sure didn't help!
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welcome their new American overlords.
To be pedantically correct, the near-vacuum of space is pervaded by an extraordinarily tenuous plasma. Space is not plasma...plasma exists in space because it is a nearly perfect vacuum.
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It's so that they know that the advance that is being rewarded is really an advance and not a mistake. For example, up until Michelson's experiments, the prevailing theory was that outer space was not a vacuum, but rather space filled with some sort of aether that allowed electromagnetic radiation to propagate. After all, there has to be some kind of medium for waves to propagate in, right?
-h-
Something that I always thought interesting was that Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect as opposed to his work in relativity. Relativity was such a contentious subject for so long that the Committee was concerned that awarding the Prize to Einstein for his work in it might prove to be mistaken in the future. Now, the photoelectric effect was no small thing, but his theories of general and special relativity were really something.
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I live in a relative backwater of the US, Boise, Idaho. In a valley that spans a very large area, there are about 300,000 people. The west end of the valley is primarily agricultural, the east end is light industry and high tech.
This valley also has a thriving arts community that features an art museum, one of the finest symphony halls in the nation, an art film house, about a dozen private art galleries, more theatres (the kind with real actors, not movies) than I can count on two hands, including a dedicated Shakespearian theatre that sells out virtually every performance it presents and, most importantly, significant community support in the form of ticket sales, donations and grants from a number of large corporations.
I say "most importantly" because those corporations don't give money to the arts just because it's a tax writeoff. They give money to the arts because their employees and customers enjoy watching and listening to the art that the money supports.
Boise's yearly "Art in the Park" festival generally sees something in the neighborhood of 200,000 people over the weekend viewing and buying all sorts of artworks as they listen to live music performed in one of our local park's bandshells.
Much more goes on here, but I think that that is a sufficient summary.
So, I don't know, maybe Boise, Idaho is an anomaly in the world of art, but somehow I don't think that it is.
While I recognize that, just as foundations are free to grant their money to whichever cause they choose, you are free to express your opinion that art has never accomplished anything of worth and is a waste of money. But I sort of suspect that you are really just a troll. That's my opinion, freely expressed. Hmm...maybe it's even artistic.
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USB supports isochronous data streams. It has since version 1.0. See this.
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Look at them here. The USB High Speed devices have a logo that says "High Speed". In order to use that logo, the device MUST support USB High Speed.
The fact that USB 2.0 supports the two slower speeds doesn't mean that manufacturers are being misleading when they label a mouse as being USB compatible. It doesn't mean that when you put that mouse on your USB 2.0 bus that all of your devices will run at USB Low Speed. All it means is that the USBIF didn't do as robust a job in defining the marketing parameters of the specification.
All in all, there's nothing to see here, move along.
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Yes, NeurosDBM or Positron will order them any way that you want in the database, then the Neuros will play them back that way. I just checked on mine and it does that.
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