119,000 disqualified voters? And what's so unusual about that? I remember reading that there was nothingunusual about the number of spoiled ballots in 2000 as compared to previous Presidential ellections. According to this link, there were 101,452,285 ballots cast in the 2000 election. Your 119,000 is 0.1173% of that total, a small percentage.
Is it anyones' fault but their own for casting spoiled ballots? Answer: no. Ballots are published WEEKS in advance. Voter guides are myriad; pick one that matches your political beliefs if you want. Conscientious voters should have a pre-marked ballot to carry to the poll with them. Standing in the booth is the wrong time to be reading a ballot for the first time.
As far as taxes go, I dream of the day we return to constitutionally correct government, shedding the largess that has been added since the New Deal (I consider myself astrictconstructionist). Eliminating the unconstitutional programs would free up trillions of dollars-- money that would stay right in your pocket.
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Hey, AC-- not even the NRA supports lethal force for non-life-threatening situations.
It has been said, however, that an armed society is a polite society.
I don't think this you can find a better example of violating a person's right to privacy (4th Amendment)
This linkis the complete Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America. This is the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Please note that the word "privacy" is never used in the Fourth Amendment. Furthermore, are records of calling behavior one of your "persons, houses, papers and effects?" Furthermore, the calling records themselves are not your own, but are property of the phone company.
A more correct argument may be made as follows: since time is a valuable and limited resource, one may say that time is property of the experiencer. That is, our time is our own property. Below is the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
So, phone companies want to facilitate spammers by selling use habits? Fine. But they better be ready to give their phone service products away or even pay us to use them.
Now, all this is just pie in the sky; the Constitution of the United States was meant to only regulate the behavior of the Federal Government. Technically, not even the States are bound by it, although state constitutions echo the ideas the US Constitution contains.
Let me preface this by admitting that I've always been a computer contrarian. While all my friends in high school wanted Commodore 64s, I went from a VIC-20 to a C-128. While the rest of the world went PC, I had four different Amigas. Now I have Red Hat on my machine at home.
Maybe I'm just tired, but after reading the peice I came away thinking this guy must be a displaced Amiga user. It reads just like what an old Amgia fan (like me) would have been saying ten years ago about the Amiga.
I'm of the mind that most people just don't care. Their Wal-Mart-sourced HP Pavillion is good enough for them, and it came with Windows, or they believe it when some pimply-faced kid sneaking out with daddy's car explains why Dell is so much easier than facing a store salesman. It's kinda like beer: some people like German or Canadian(tm) beers, while for others Bud or even Milwaukee's Best is good enough. Some people appreciate the handling of a sports car, others are okay with a Pinto or a Matador.
I guess I'm just tired of casting my pearls before swine and getting no response. I can't even get my tech-savvy inlaws to try a dual boot. My wife, who doesn't do anything besides web and email won't try it. It doesn't matter that I can do just about anything that they can do with their Windows boxes. It doesn't matter that I have GUIs that are just as fancy and easy as theirs.
If people want what Linux, or any other contrarian OS has to offer, they'll find it.
I've said this before: Everyone on earth could live in nice single-family houses on quarter-acre lots in a subdivision-style neighborhood a little bit bigger than Texas.
People starving in Africa are doing so for political reasons, not ecologic.
Oh good grief. Wind? Solar? These things have been "up and coming" for YEARS and they have never been successful.
First, wind power generation requires massive farms of windmills. Not picturesque little ones here and there like in the Netherlands. We're talking tall stalky turbines covering hundreds of acres. Resistance to building wind farms on a proper scale has been nothing short of monumental. Furthermore, working on them is dangerous, and turbines have required frequent maintenance. Finally, the Greenies don't like them because they've been known to kill birds. This page includes a formula for generating power out of a wind turbine. If 100% efficiency is assumed, and assume a turbine that has blades 100 feet long operating in a 15 mile per hour wind, we find that this turbine will generate 519.5 kW. Plant Votgle, a nuclear power facility in Georgia, has a combined output of 2430 MW (2430 million watts). We'd need almost 4700 windmills to equal the power output of Plant Votgle.
Solar power. What happens when it is cloudy? Or Dark? I don't know anyone that would volunteer to only have electricity only on sunny days. Furthermore, it has the same scale problems as wind. According to this page, the average incident solar power density is 164 watts per square meter. At 100% efficiency, a solar plant would have a collector surface area of 14.82e6 square meters to equal Plant Votgle's power output (that's a square a little less than four kilometers on a side). A chart on this page says that efficiency for collectors used to heat water is between 60 and 80%, increasing our required collector size even more.
The energy density of solar or wind is not nearly high enough to replace fossil or nuclear fuels for electricity production on a large scale.
I didn't know that DirecTV leased hardware. I was under the impression that subscribers bought their hardware, and then subscribed to the service to make their hardware useful. I know our Sony receiver came from Best Buy (not that I'll go back there... Ick), and was bought. My in-laws' receiver was bought.
Although the aspect ratio of a HDTV image is indeed 16x9 (sixteen units wide, nine units tall), there need be no co-relation between horizontal resolution (how many vertical lines can be distinguished across the screen) and vertical resolution (how many horizontal lines can be distinguished across the screen).
Vertical resolution is, of course, limited by the number of scan lines. HD comes in a few diferent flavors. NTSC is of course, 525 (including the vertical blanking interval).
Horizontal resolution is limited by how fast the signal can change states, is measured in "lines" where a "line" is the combination of a black vertical bar next to a white vertical bar, is the normal specification for video performance and is directly related to signal bandwidth. VHS, for instance, is only good for 150 lines or less. That means that a signal recorded or played back from a VHS machine can only change states 150 times per scan line. The effective resolution of that picture would be 150x500 (25 lines for vertical blanking).
Good studio cameras can do much better than this; it's not uncommon to get more than 500 lines.
In any case, NO television format is going to look good on a 60-foot cinema screen. Not even HD. It's going to be a VERY long time before digital technologies catch up with the pixel density of film emulsions.
As long as the responsible citizens of the US have the freedom to murder doctors who believe in giving women the right to a safe abortion
Can you provide a single instance where the murderer of an abortion doctor went unprosecuted? It's been my experience that government at all levels bend over backwards for abortion doctors and clinics. Locally, Meredith Rainey and other Operation Rescue associates were banned from restaraunts that are within a certain radius of a clinic. Never mind that they were only eating breakfast. Never mind that they were paying customers. Never mind they weren't protesting. The police came and threw them out.
Second, this "right" you speak of? Is it a natural right, like those of the Declaration of Independence? If abortion is the right of the woman where is it? In another window I have a copy of the Bill of Rights open. I find nowhere the right to kill unwanted babies. What say you to her baby's Fifth Amendment right to due process:...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law... What United States law has the baby committed that it is worthy of capital punishment? Where is the grand jury indictment, also a Fifth Amendment requirement?
Give me an example of what someone does wrong, and I'll give you one where we do something else wrong.
So what? Don't you not know that there's no such thing as good people? There's not. NOBODY is good. I'm not. You're not. CmdrTaco isn't (Sorry, Taco). To think otherwise is to be blind. Have you done anything bad? Have you thought about doing things that are bad? Have you not done things that you knew were good? Go ahead and feel bad for answering yes, but understand that there's never been a person that hasn't answered yes. Pointing out bad in people is easy; it's hardly sporting. Now, keeping that in mind, please direct me to a country that does more right than the United States. You won't be able to.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Hey, Coward, this is not a speech issue. It's a property rights issue. I don't get upset about junk mail in my postal mailbox; I don't have to pay for it. The sender pays the postage to have it delivered to me. I just carry it to my trash.
Spam, on the other hand, is often times paid for by the recipient. If you want to play First Amendment with me, I'll play Fifth Amendment with you:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Since you say that Spam is the sender's First Amendment right, it appears that delivery of said spam is "public use," and can't be paid for by the recipient because there's no just compensation. Spammers can't take my money (private property) to deliver your message (public use) without paying me (just compensation) in return for paying for your message's transmittal.
By the same token, you can't use the Freedom of the Press clause-- for the same reason. I can't be forced to pay (private property) for the publication (reception) of spam (public use) without paying me (just compensation).
If they want to pay me to receive their messages, that would be constitutional. As it stands, sending people unsolicited messages that they must pay for is not only not protected speech, but unconstitutional.
The RIAA record compensation curve [reprise.com] has a high cut [tanker.se] because records display increasing noise in the upper frequency range along with their characteristic boost in level for the treble in records.
You're talking about EMPHASIS in the recording, and the corresponding DEEMPHASIS on playback. The EMPHASIS/DEEMPHASIS pair is used, as you say, for noise reduction.
Since LP playback involves dragging a stylus through a physical groove, surface roughness causes high-frequency noise. The record-time emphasis increases the signal level for high frequencies. Take a sewing needle and tape it to the bottom of a paper cup. Place a record you don't particularly care about on the turn table and use the home-made needle/cup pickup to listen to it. The reproduced sound will be very tinny, and the surface roughness hiss will be very evident.
Most turntables have an amplifier built in that not only boosts overall signal level, but deemphasises the high frequencies. By careful amplifier design, the deemphasis loss equals the emphasis gain, and the restored signal has the same frequency content (spectrum AND amplitude) as the original signal. The magic occurs with the surface roughness noise, however. High frequency noise is reduced by the same factor as the high-frequency signal, making it (almost) inaudiable.
The emphasis/deemphasis system is analog in nature and introduces no frequency limit beyond that imposed by the limitations of the components that make up the circuit.
I use Quicken Deluxe 99 every week with Wine. It works fine (except for printing; I've not got that working yet).
I use the CodeWeavers Red Carpet release on my RedHat 7.1 machine (obviously, uses the Ximian Gnome desktop). I *have* had problems in the past with it not working well, but since I got the Red Carpet build it's been excellent, not a single crash.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Doug Jones' Ultimate RISC yet. a 16-bit version can be built with about 50 chips or so (I'm working on one now), and they don't get any simpler than this one-instruction machine!
My 1995-series $10 has this as well. Of course, it's the outer line around Hamilton, not Jackson...
Using microprint started in money, but it's spread. Take a look at your checks next time. That line where you sign isn't a line... It's just very small text.
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119,000 disqualified voters? And what's so unusual about that? I remember reading that there was nothing unusual about the number of spoiled ballots in 2000 as compared to previous Presidential ellections. According to this link, there were 101,452,285 ballots cast in the 2000 election. Your 119,000 is 0.1173% of that total, a small percentage.
Is it anyones' fault but their own for casting spoiled ballots? Answer: no. Ballots are published WEEKS in advance. Voter guides are myriad; pick one that matches your political beliefs if you want. Conscientious voters should have a pre-marked ballot to carry to the poll with them. Standing in the booth is the wrong time to be reading a ballot for the first time.
As far as taxes go, I dream of the day we return to constitutionally correct government, shedding the largess that has been added since the New Deal (I consider myself a strict constructionist). Eliminating the unconstitutional programs would free up trillions of dollars-- money that would stay right in your pocket.
Hey, AC-- not even the NRA supports lethal force for non-life-threatening situations.
It has been said, however, that an armed society is a polite society.
I think that the technical verbiage is, "obvious to one skilled in the Art."
That is, the idea can't be something that would natually come to the mind of a a domain expert.
Since when do we measure altitude in degrees? Did you mean elevation?
A more correct argument may be made as follows: since time is a valuable and limited resource, one may say that time is property of the experiencer. That is, our time is our own property. Below is the Fifth Amendment: So, phone companies want to facilitate spammers by selling use habits? Fine. But they better be ready to give their phone service products away or even pay us to use them.
Now, all this is just pie in the sky; the Constitution of the United States was meant to only regulate the behavior of the Federal Government. Technically, not even the States are bound by it, although state constitutions echo the ideas the US Constitution contains.
Jay Miner died several years ago.
No, but they have to pay ASCAP and BMI. Money goes to the authors of the work, not the recording copyright holders.
Let me preface this by admitting that I've always been a computer contrarian. While all my friends in high school wanted Commodore 64s, I went from a VIC-20 to a C-128. While the rest of the world went PC, I had four different Amigas. Now I have Red Hat on my machine at home.
Maybe I'm just tired, but after reading the peice I came away thinking this guy must be a displaced Amiga user. It reads just like what an old Amgia fan (like me) would have been saying ten years ago about the Amiga.
I'm of the mind that most people just don't care. Their Wal-Mart-sourced HP Pavillion is good enough for them, and it came with Windows, or they believe it when some pimply-faced kid sneaking out with daddy's car explains why Dell is so much easier than facing a store salesman. It's kinda like beer: some people like German or Canadian(tm) beers, while for others Bud or even Milwaukee's Best is good enough. Some people appreciate the handling of a sports car, others are okay with a Pinto or a Matador.
I guess I'm just tired of casting my pearls before swine and getting no response. I can't even get my tech-savvy inlaws to try a dual boot. My wife, who doesn't do anything besides web and email won't try it. It doesn't matter that I can do just about anything that they can do with their Windows boxes. It doesn't matter that I have GUIs that are just as fancy and easy as theirs.
If people want what Linux, or any other contrarian OS has to offer, they'll find it.
I've said this before: Everyone on earth could live in nice single-family houses on quarter-acre lots in a subdivision-style neighborhood a little bit bigger than Texas.
People starving in Africa are doing so for political reasons, not ecologic.
Especially since "Microprocessor Without Interlocking Pipelines" would be "MWIP," not "MIPS."
Oh good grief. Wind? Solar? These things have been "up and coming" for YEARS and they have never been successful.
First, wind power generation requires massive farms of windmills. Not picturesque little ones here and there like in the Netherlands. We're talking tall stalky turbines covering hundreds of acres. Resistance to building wind farms on a proper scale has been nothing short of monumental. Furthermore, working on them is dangerous, and turbines have required frequent maintenance. Finally, the Greenies don't like them because they've been known to kill birds. This page includes a formula for generating power out of a wind turbine. If 100% efficiency is assumed, and assume a turbine that has blades 100 feet long operating in a 15 mile per hour wind, we find that this turbine will generate 519.5 kW. Plant Votgle, a nuclear power facility in Georgia, has a combined output of 2430 MW (2430 million watts). We'd need almost 4700 windmills to equal the power output of Plant Votgle.
Solar power. What happens when it is cloudy? Or Dark? I don't know anyone that would volunteer to only have electricity only on sunny days. Furthermore, it has the same scale problems as wind. According to this page, the average incident solar power density is 164 watts per square meter. At 100% efficiency, a solar plant would have a collector surface area of 14.82e6 square meters to equal Plant Votgle's power output (that's a square a little less than four kilometers on a side). A chart on this page says that efficiency for collectors used to heat water is between 60 and 80%, increasing our required collector size even more.
The energy density of solar or wind is not nearly high enough to replace fossil or nuclear fuels for electricity production on a large scale.
Obviously not many people like low-end Caddys, do they?
I thought somebody said before that the one making the claim must supply the proof. So it is up to you to prove you have a martian in the cellar.
I didn't know that DirecTV leased hardware. I was under the impression that subscribers bought their hardware, and then subscribed to the service to make their hardware useful. I know our Sony receiver came from Best Buy (not that I'll go back there... Ick), and was bought. My in-laws' receiver was bought.
I'm pretty sure Dish Network works the same way, since their hardware is available at Sears and Radio Shack.
Although the aspect ratio of a HDTV image is indeed 16x9 (sixteen units wide, nine units tall), there need be no co-relation between horizontal resolution (how many vertical lines can be distinguished across the screen) and vertical resolution (how many horizontal lines can be distinguished across the screen).
Vertical resolution is, of course, limited by the number of scan lines. HD comes in a few diferent flavors. NTSC is of course, 525 (including the vertical blanking interval).
Horizontal resolution is limited by how fast the signal can change states, is measured in "lines" where a "line" is the combination of a black vertical bar next to a white vertical bar, is the normal specification for video performance and is directly related to signal bandwidth. VHS, for instance, is only good for 150 lines or less. That means that a signal recorded or played back from a VHS machine can only change states 150 times per scan line. The effective resolution of that picture would be 150x500 (25 lines for vertical blanking).
Good studio cameras can do much better than this; it's not uncommon to get more than 500 lines.
In any case, NO television format is going to look good on a 60-foot cinema screen. Not even HD. It's going to be a VERY long time before digital technologies catch up with the pixel density of film emulsions.
Can you provide a single instance where the murderer of an abortion doctor went unprosecuted? It's been my experience that government at all levels bend over backwards for abortion doctors and clinics. Locally, Meredith Rainey and other Operation Rescue associates were banned from restaraunts that are within a certain radius of a clinic. Never mind that they were only eating breakfast. Never mind that they were paying customers. Never mind they weren't protesting. The police came and threw them out.
Second, this "right" you speak of? Is it a natural right, like those of the Declaration of Independence? If abortion is the right of the woman where is it? In another window I have a copy of the Bill of Rights open. I find nowhere the right to kill unwanted babies. What say you to her baby's Fifth Amendment right to due process:
So what? Don't you not know that there's no such thing as good people? There's not. NOBODY is good. I'm not. You're not. CmdrTaco isn't (Sorry, Taco). To think otherwise is to be blind. Have you done anything bad? Have you thought about doing things that are bad? Have you not done things that you knew were good? Go ahead and feel bad for answering yes, but understand that there's never been a person that hasn't answered yes. Pointing out bad in people is easy; it's hardly sporting. Now, keeping that in mind, please direct me to a country that does more right than the United States. You won't be able to.
Now, after writing all this, I think IHBT...
Tube amps are "vapor state" circuits, as the conduction path is a vapor.
Hey, Coward, this is not a speech issue. It's a property rights issue. I don't get upset about junk mail in my postal mailbox; I don't have to pay for it. The sender pays the postage to have it delivered to me. I just carry it to my trash.
Spam, on the other hand, is often times paid for by the recipient. If you want to play First Amendment with me, I'll play Fifth Amendment with you:
Since you say that Spam is the sender's First Amendment right, it appears that delivery of said spam is "public use," and can't be paid for by the recipient because there's no just compensation. Spammers can't take my money (private property) to deliver your message (public use) without paying me (just compensation) in return for paying for your message's transmittal.
By the same token, you can't use the Freedom of the Press clause-- for the same reason. I can't be forced to pay (private property) for the publication (reception) of spam (public use) without paying me (just compensation).
If they want to pay me to receive their messages, that would be constitutional. As it stands, sending people unsolicited messages that they must pay for is not only not protected speech, but unconstitutional.
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You're talking about EMPHASIS in the recording, and the corresponding DEEMPHASIS on playback. The EMPHASIS/DEEMPHASIS pair is used, as you say, for noise reduction.
Since LP playback involves dragging a stylus through a physical groove, surface roughness causes high-frequency noise. The record-time emphasis increases the signal level for high frequencies. Take a sewing needle and tape it to the bottom of a paper cup. Place a record you don't particularly care about on the turn table and use the home-made needle/cup pickup to listen to it. The reproduced sound will be very tinny, and the surface roughness hiss will be very evident.
Most turntables have an amplifier built in that not only boosts overall signal level, but deemphasises the high frequencies. By careful amplifier design, the deemphasis loss equals the emphasis gain, and the restored signal has the same frequency content (spectrum AND amplitude) as the original signal. The magic occurs with the surface roughness noise, however. High frequency noise is reduced by the same factor as the high-frequency signal, making it (almost) inaudiable.
The emphasis/deemphasis system is analog in nature and introduces no frequency limit beyond that imposed by the limitations of the components that make up the circuit.
You should have three congressmen: one in the House of Representatives for your district, and two Senators, "At-Large representatives."
Why not include references in your correspondence?
for the Lameness filter, too...
You should know that the way you defined your arguments to processSubmission() is not canonical.
Here is a discussion:(Live link doesn't seem to work).
The perfered form would beAlternatively, you could have usedI don't think it matters much; isn't Slash written in Perl? (How does *it* pass the Lameness filter?)
You should know that the way you defined your arguments to processSubmission() is not canonical.
Alternatively, you could have used
void processSubmission(char *submissionString, char **toExclude, int toExcludeLength)
I use Quicken Deluxe 99 every week with Wine. It works fine (except for printing; I've not got that working yet).
I use the CodeWeavers Red Carpet release on my RedHat 7.1 machine (obviously, uses the Ximian Gnome desktop). I *have* had problems in the past with it not working well, but since I got the Red Carpet build it's been excellent, not a single crash.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Doug Jones' Ultimate RISC yet. a 16-bit version can be built with about 50 chips or so (I'm working on one now), and they don't get any simpler than this one-instruction machine!
Jeff
My 1995-series $10 has this as well. Of course, it's the outer line around Hamilton, not Jackson...
Using microprint started in money, but it's spread. Take a look at your checks next time. That line where you sign isn't a line... It's just very small text.
Jeff