Japan is a strange place. For the most part the people just go along with the politicians. But if they set their mind, the politicians can not shift it. A similar situation occurred with the attempted privatization of the post office (impossible) and with changing the constitution to allow Japan to help the US in armed struggles (completely impossible). Attempting to go against the people led to the resignation of the prime minister each time (To be fair, I've lost count of the prime ministers we've had since I've been here, though...)
Strange place indeed - it appears you have an (at least partially) functioning representational democracy.
I'm skeptical of the cost. $60B 2010 dollars is the estimated cost for high speed rail from SF and Sacramento to LA and San Diego. You're telling me I can get a maglev to fucking space for that much? Please do it if it's true, but I don't believe it.
For external cards, you're looking for Thunderbolt. I have high hopes for it.
Internal cards are caught between all the factors you mentioned plus the very limited internal space. Laptop manufacturers don't have much incentive to reserve a large volume for an aftermarket upgrade that most users will never be interested in. It's a niche someone might eventually cater to, but don't hold your breath.
"more observations taken then will probably reduce the odds"... Either: you are speculating, and future observations MAY reduce the odds; or you have some data that isn't in the current calculation, and the odds won't probably be reduced in the future, they ARE reduced NOW.
Wow, bring on the crazy conspiracy theories. LTER=0 is what you want for a single-drive desktop configuration; LTER=7 is a good value for a RAID. This isn't them "cripping" the drive. It's setting a sensible default for the drive's intended market. If you want to use the drive in a different way, JUST CHANGE THE SETTING.
I like most of this, but this part: "ensure that you actually keep said content updated"... No. No no no NO FUCK NO.
Suggesting that to them just gets them thinking that they can start deleting parts of the content or extra features, or gradually reducing the bitrate so it looks crappier until you're ready to pay again to get the "new super HD++ extended cut" version which is really just the one you had originally.
Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi (which hopefully Toshiba won't ruin) all make very decent drives - all (including WD) have some lemons, but all are good on the whole. I'm not sure what measure you're using, but I suspect it's anecdotal.
22kHZ will not be reconstructed correctly. 21.9999kHz will be, and that's still above the threshold of hearing.
21.9999kHz can be reconstructed accurately, if you assume that the source is a sine wave and there are no other signals present. Even then it requires a lot of signal processing which DACs do not do. The end result is that 44.1kHz sampled audio can reproduce things up to 5kHz pretty well, up to 10kHz passably, and up to the high teens with increasing levels of distortion. There are highs and lows of distortion (some frequencies at even divisions of the sample rate reproduce well), but the errors get bigger until going asymptotic at 22.05kHz.
However, this is balanced by two things: 1, your ears are less sensitive to the distortion as you go up in frequency, so it kind of balances out, and 2, recording studios usually record at higher sample rates and then can slightly optimize the signal by gently nudging recorded frequencies away from the highly distorted areas and into frequencies that can be stored cleanly. Your ears can't hear the minute differences in pitch - they have terrible frequency resolution up that high - so it doesn't really matter.
Ultimately higher sample rates do reduce the amount of distortion in frequency ranges that ARE within human hearing range, but as has been shown by audiophiles worldwide, it takes some very expensive gear to even try to reproduce it, and the actual perceptible difference is dubious at best.
Plan A: Do something very illegal, make some jerk with a cellphone annoyed because his technology isn't working.
Plan B: Simply ask him to talk quieter, and have him possibly learn that he's being annoying to people around him, and stop doing it even when you're not around to jam him. Costs less, more effective, not illegal.
That's just using conventional phones. Smartphones are much worse - the touchscreen has no touch-feedback so you have to spend a lot of time / braincycles looking at the screen and aiming your finger instead of feeling for the buttons.
Nope, shoplifting is definitely theft. "Theft of services" is often (not always) a form of fraud, not theft, and indeed it says so in the article you linked. Making copies of a creative work is copyright infringement, as opposed to stealing an existing copy, which IS theft.
I make these points about other things too - "doing something where people get irrationally scared" is not terrorism, and I'm just as ready to point it out if people start painting it with the T word. I'm not just nitpicking terminology. My goal is to get people to think deeper about the different forms of crime, and WHY they ARE different instead of lumping them all together... just like you're throwing me in the "just another self-justifying pirate" archetypical bin just because I said something about "it's not stealing".
You can't steal services, ever. Theft is something you only do with physical things.
Obtaining services without proper payment is simply fraud. In person you're committing a fraud by promising payment without intent to pay. In this case it's deceiving the server that your cable modem is on a paid account.
Not say, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland or France, all of which have respectable militaries* and enough economic power to scale them up if needed, and all of which are considerably less warmongering and insane than the US?
* I know they have deficits in some areas, but that's just because they're not trying to play World Police; they could fill in the gaps if they wanted. And lay the fuck off France. Don't forget that: France was a major superpower before Napoleon got arrogant and did something dumb, and it's a credit to their strength that they got as far as they did; rolling over and playing dead in WWII, under the circumstances, was not a move of cowardice but one of not being stupid. They're still a major player, and they still have the will to kick ass when given a good reason.
There's a qualitative difference between roller bearings and the wheel: Wheels are permanently fixed to the load or vehicle and can run indefinitely (limited only by wear) , whereas roller bearings have to be continuously brought to the front.
Roller bearings were nice for occasional times when you had to haul some heavy-ass thing that just wasn't liftable and very unpleasant to drag, but the wheel-with-bearing is what made every-day carts practical. It was an enormous advancement.
If you DO consider roller bearings to be wheels, then let's rephrase the question a little: why did it take so long for us to invent the axle and its sleeve bearing?
So what? It's essentially same end result with orders of magnitude less computation from wasted photons.
Where do you get that raytracing is "some of the least realistic"? It's one of the most realistic techniques that's actually in use, far better looking than anything that's currently done in realtime.
That depends on the meaning of innocent. If there was no law against murder, murder would be "wholly innocent conduct" in the eyes of the law.
If you take innocent in a less legal sense (as clearly intended), there are still a great many laws where "innocent conduct" - not intending any harm or perceiving the possible commission of a crime - is nonetheless illegal.
There's definitely no violation of the Fourteenth. You can have due process and equal protection even with an unjust law. You do something unintentionally, they haul you in, the facts are evaluated by a jury, and the judge sentences you. Due process is given.
I think the Ninth is greatly underappreciated, but at present it's pretty well established that unfair laws and laws with collateral damage are still valid laws. What right do you think applies in this case? Is there any case history for it?
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Japan is a strange place. For the most part the people just go along with the politicians. But if they set their mind, the politicians can not shift it. A similar situation occurred with the attempted privatization of the post office (impossible) and with changing the constitution to allow Japan to help the US in armed struggles (completely impossible). Attempting to go against the people led to the resignation of the prime minister each time (To be fair, I've lost count of the prime ministers we've had since I've been here, though...)
Strange place indeed - it appears you have an (at least partially) functioning representational democracy.
I'm skeptical of the cost. $60B 2010 dollars is the estimated cost for high speed rail from SF and Sacramento to LA and San Diego. You're telling me I can get a maglev to fucking space for that much? Please do it if it's true, but I don't believe it.
For external cards, you're looking for Thunderbolt. I have high hopes for it.
Internal cards are caught between all the factors you mentioned plus the very limited internal space. Laptop manufacturers don't have much incentive to reserve a large volume for an aftermarket upgrade that most users will never be interested in. It's a niche someone might eventually cater to, but don't hold your breath.
A proper cloaking device isn't just a flat image of the surroundings; it would need to be holographic so it would look right from any angle.
I would call this "adaptive camouflage", and it's doing a damned good job at that.
The WDTLER util doesn't work? That does suck. Guess I won't be buying WD for a while.
"more observations taken then will probably reduce the odds" ... Either: you are speculating, and future observations MAY reduce the odds; or you have some data that isn't in the current calculation, and the odds won't probably be reduced in the future, they ARE reduced NOW.
Wow, bring on the crazy conspiracy theories. LTER=0 is what you want for a single-drive desktop configuration; LTER=7 is a good value for a RAID. This isn't them "cripping" the drive. It's setting a sensible default for the drive's intended market. If you want to use the drive in a different way, JUST CHANGE THE SETTING.
I like most of this, but this part: "ensure that you actually keep said content updated" ... No. No no no NO FUCK NO.
Suggesting that to them just gets them thinking that they can start deleting parts of the content or extra features, or gradually reducing the bitrate so it looks crappier until you're ready to pay again to get the "new super HD++ extended cut" version which is really just the one you had originally.
WD was the last decent brand.
Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi (which hopefully Toshiba won't ruin) all make very decent drives - all (including WD) have some lemons, but all are good on the whole. I'm not sure what measure you're using, but I suspect it's anecdotal.
22kHZ will not be reconstructed correctly. 21.9999kHz will be, and that's still above the threshold of hearing.
21.9999kHz can be reconstructed accurately, if you assume that the source is a sine wave and there are no other signals present. Even then it requires a lot of signal processing which DACs do not do. The end result is that 44.1kHz sampled audio can reproduce things up to 5kHz pretty well, up to 10kHz passably, and up to the high teens with increasing levels of distortion. There are highs and lows of distortion (some frequencies at even divisions of the sample rate reproduce well), but the errors get bigger until going asymptotic at 22.05kHz.
However, this is balanced by two things: 1, your ears are less sensitive to the distortion as you go up in frequency, so it kind of balances out, and 2, recording studios usually record at higher sample rates and then can slightly optimize the signal by gently nudging recorded frequencies away from the highly distorted areas and into frequencies that can be stored cleanly. Your ears can't hear the minute differences in pitch - they have terrible frequency resolution up that high - so it doesn't really matter.
Ultimately higher sample rates do reduce the amount of distortion in frequency ranges that ARE within human hearing range, but as has been shown by audiophiles worldwide, it takes some very expensive gear to even try to reproduce it, and the actual perceptible difference is dubious at best.
Plan A: Do something very illegal, make some jerk with a cellphone annoyed because his technology isn't working.
Plan B: Simply ask him to talk quieter, and have him possibly learn that he's being annoying to people around him, and stop doing it even when you're not around to jam him. Costs less, more effective, not illegal.
That's just using conventional phones. Smartphones are much worse - the touchscreen has no touch-feedback so you have to spend a lot of time / braincycles looking at the screen and aiming your finger instead of feeling for the buttons.
2.5 MPH = 4 kph
10 MPH = 16 kph
12.5 MPH = 20 kph
18.5 MPH = 30 kph
It's funny how you get all round numbers when you convert to standard units.
Nope, shoplifting is definitely theft. "Theft of services" is often (not always) a form of fraud, not theft, and indeed it says so in the article you linked. Making copies of a creative work is copyright infringement, as opposed to stealing an existing copy, which IS theft.
I make these points about other things too - "doing something where people get irrationally scared" is not terrorism, and I'm just as ready to point it out if people start painting it with the T word. I'm not just nitpicking terminology. My goal is to get people to think deeper about the different forms of crime, and WHY they ARE different instead of lumping them all together... just like you're throwing me in the "just another self-justifying pirate" archetypical bin just because I said something about "it's not stealing".
You can't steal services, ever. Theft is something you only do with physical things.
Obtaining services without proper payment is simply fraud. In person you're committing a fraud by promising payment without intent to pay. In this case it's deceiving the server that your cable modem is on a paid account.
... now take off your shirt ... Yes, that looks pretty human, but I need to see more ... Now show me how you move, graceful or robotic ...
I would prefer the US to any other country.
Not say, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland or France, all of which have respectable militaries* and enough economic power to scale them up if needed, and all of which are considerably less warmongering and insane than the US?
* I know they have deficits in some areas, but that's just because they're not trying to play World Police; they could fill in the gaps if they wanted. And lay the fuck off France. Don't forget that: France was a major superpower before Napoleon got arrogant and did something dumb, and it's a credit to their strength that they got as far as they did; rolling over and playing dead in WWII, under the circumstances, was not a move of cowardice but one of not being stupid. They're still a major player, and they still have the will to kick ass when given a good reason.
I'm tired of "stealing" getting applied to every instance of "underhandedly doing something you weren't supposed to".
Oh please [sketch sketch] let there be porn like this [scribble]
There's a qualitative difference between roller bearings and the wheel: Wheels are permanently fixed to the load or vehicle and can run indefinitely (limited only by wear) , whereas roller bearings have to be continuously brought to the front.
Roller bearings were nice for occasional times when you had to haul some heavy-ass thing that just wasn't liftable and very unpleasant to drag, but the wheel-with-bearing is what made every-day carts practical. It was an enormous advancement.
If you DO consider roller bearings to be wheels, then let's rephrase the question a little: why did it take so long for us to invent the axle and its sleeve bearing?
Raytracing definitely allows depth of field (a certain focal length). They're showing it in TFA, and in many of the examples I linked.
So what? It's essentially same end result with orders of magnitude less computation from wasted photons.
Where do you get that raytracing is "some of the least realistic"? It's one of the most realistic techniques that's actually in use, far better looking than anything that's currently done in realtime.
That depends on the meaning of innocent. If there was no law against murder, murder would be "wholly innocent conduct" in the eyes of the law.
If you take innocent in a less legal sense (as clearly intended), there are still a great many laws where "innocent conduct" - not intending any harm or perceiving the possible commission of a crime - is nonetheless illegal.
You are correct. I guess I learned some of the terminology wrong back in the day. :)
There's definitely no violation of the Fourteenth. You can have due process and equal protection even with an unjust law. You do something unintentionally, they haul you in, the facts are evaluated by a jury, and the judge sentences you. Due process is given.
I think the Ninth is greatly underappreciated, but at present it's pretty well established that unfair laws and laws with collateral damage are still valid laws. What right do you think applies in this case? Is there any case history for it?