Big difference. The 20oz bottle of 7Up is a product on display for sale that has a price printed on it.
This incident is more like getting a $200 fine or jail time after exiting the rest room at the Walmart, due to having "stolen" $0.01 of water and sewage used by flushing the toilet, $0.07 of toilet paper flushed down the toilet, $0.03 of soap used to wash the hands: all because you also dumped an extra half gallon bucket of horse poop down the potty, that came from your horse parked in the outside lot.
Except Walmart is required to provide public restrooms.
>>>This does not happen with broadcast TV which delivers a gross bitrate of 30 Megabits every second and never overloads, regardless how many people are watching.
Wrong, American TV broadcast is max 19.39Mb/s, but you can't get near that, its closer to 18Mb/s. You can thank 8VSB for that.
Look up the definition of Multicast in terms of networking, you'll see its a more complex form of broadcast.. clients register interests for a service, that service is delivered over UDP and the routers handle the rest.
When talking about the super bowl, its easier to use multicast to handle high demand for a broadcast service. There is no reason to send the same packet of data addressed to each person.
High def broadcasts are generally around 12~14Mb/s MPEG-2 streams (inside the ~19Mb/s channel). Digital Cable has a higher bandwidth because of their choice in encoding (QAM vs 8VSB) and they can control the noise better than broadcast over the air. That being said, they want to fit as many services as possible, so many have made the switch to MPEG-4 (something you can't do with broadcast services because the A/65 spec specifically singled out MPEG-2 and no manufacture has incentive to put more silicon in their hardware than required).
I've argued this same point time and time again; the TSA and airlines are only worried about expensive planes and the buildings they could hit. Blowing up a security line at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport (busiest in the world) would cause unheard of levels of panic.
It would be an interesting 'art piece' to draw concentric rings around a random point in line to demonstrate "90% kill", "50% kill" zones.
Frankly, its your own fault if you don't take the time to exemplify yourself to your superiors. I've seen plenty of people sit silently on the sideline, complaining about how no one knows what they do (the occasional 'give me back my stapler'), and turning that into a negative atmosphere. I've tried sticking up for these people in the past, only to be told to mind my own business; and I took that to heart.
IANAL Amazon isn't setting precedent if they are found in the wrong. They were not the proper legal authority to demand the book back. If I had bought a book from Borders and it turned out to be illegally sold, Borders couldn't break into my house to take the book back. What is worse is that Amazon basically entered (the E in B&E) and deleted the book and in the process ransacked & damaged other items.
The copy write owner can get back "damages" from Amazon in the amount of money it made selling the book illegally.
then please be sure to write your congressman and let them know. It was narrowly defeated last time, so the more people complaining the better chance it will be defeated again.
Where do you get that BLACK is full power in an NTSC signal? Any time I look at a scope for analog signals I see black as 7.5 IRE and white as 100 IRE.
One problem I always had to try and explain to the graphics guy was "Don't use black fonts on color backgrounds". They never understood that, or why they couldn't use pure white.
You know the old saying; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Is this a personal project? Are you going to have any serious down town moving between the two kernel bases?
I know I'm going to be unpopular for this one: Linux isn't a good operating system for all embedded needs. We're swapping out some of our main product lines from Linux (macrokernel) to smaller and more efficient microkernels.
That is great that it stops you from hitting someone else, but what about a car that protects you from the other idiots on the road not willing to shell out for a volvo?
I keep a black folder in my firesafe, it lists all my accounts (social, financial, other), passwords. I like the person that said they had a work folder, I think I'll have to make one of those, "What to do if I'm hit by a buss" lol.
Also, from personal experience, if you are the administrator or executor of estate, you can get access to any site, they generally take a fax copy of the death certificate and admin papers. There is also social hacking.
Backup media and procedures are really based on what you are doing and protecting. I've had bitrot on tape drives many times so I switched to archival quality dvd's for a little more and store them in a dry / dark place. They are estimated at 100years or more. (btw, the main reason CDRs are bad is because their recording surface was the same you wrote on with markets, hence easer to scratch off).
All files get parity files to aid in recovery if there is bit error. After a certain amount of time we just shred the DVD's though - which is why we don't need anything beyond 5 years.
Btw, my mp3 CDRs have been in my car for 8 years and still work:)
I love how anyone who doesn't agree with the government's findings are "crackpots". How dare we infer those aluminium pipes were for missile delivery systems for WMDs... oh wait, wrong topic.
I forgot to mention a menu system that is tied into, or works with the logger and runs in its own thread. Its very helpful in a large codebase with multiple modules to have a system that you can interface to change run time parameters, get debug output, search running databases, dump profile information, etc.
An Engineer does something that stupid?!!! Who told them they were engineers? The HR Dork?
Yes, and unfortunately I don't have the power to fire them! I've worked with many a 'software engineer' that was a complete waste of space, time, and effort. A few of us started writing some more complicated tests to use in the interview process, and we've weeded out a number of applicants before they were hired. I try to stress that we always have a 90 day 'try out' period as well.
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Came here to say the same thing. Georgia Institute of Technology you savages.
Big difference. The 20oz bottle of 7Up is a product on display for sale that has a price printed on it.
This incident is more like getting a $200 fine or jail time after exiting the rest room at the Walmart, due to having
"stolen" $0.01 of water and sewage used by flushing the toilet, $0.07 of toilet paper flushed down the toilet, $0.03 of soap used to wash the hands:
all because you also dumped an extra half gallon bucket of horse poop down the potty, that came from your horse parked in the outside lot.
Except Walmart is required to provide public restrooms.
Don't use other people's plugs.
Its not a patent infringement, its copyright.
>>>This does not happen with broadcast TV which delivers a gross bitrate of 30 Megabits every second and never overloads, regardless how many people are watching.
Wrong, American TV broadcast is max 19.39Mb/s, but you can't get near that, its closer to 18Mb/s. You can thank 8VSB for that.
Look up the definition of Multicast in terms of networking, you'll see its a more complex form of broadcast.. clients register interests for a service, that service is delivered over UDP and the routers handle the rest.
When talking about the super bowl, its easier to use multicast to handle high demand for a broadcast service. There is no reason to send the same packet of data addressed to each person.
High def broadcasts are generally around 12~14Mb/s MPEG-2 streams (inside the ~19Mb/s channel). Digital Cable has a higher bandwidth because of their choice in encoding (QAM vs 8VSB) and they can control the noise better than broadcast over the air. That being said, they want to fit as many services as possible, so many have made the switch to MPEG-4 (something you can't do with broadcast services because the A/65 spec specifically singled out MPEG-2 and no manufacture has incentive to put more silicon in their hardware than required).
I've argued this same point time and time again; the TSA and airlines are only worried about expensive planes and the buildings they could hit. Blowing up a security line at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport (busiest in the world) would cause unheard of levels of panic.
It would be an interesting 'art piece' to draw concentric rings around a random point in line to demonstrate "90% kill", "50% kill" zones.
Frankly, its your own fault if you don't take the time to exemplify yourself to your superiors. I've seen plenty of people sit silently on the sideline, complaining about how no one knows what they do (the occasional 'give me back my stapler'), and turning that into a negative atmosphere. I've tried sticking up for these people in the past, only to be told to mind my own business; and I took that to heart.
I've always wondered why its not considered a closed glove box in a car.
IANAL
Amazon isn't setting precedent if they are found in the wrong. They were not the proper legal authority to demand the book back. If I had bought a book from Borders and it turned out to be illegally sold, Borders couldn't break into my house to take the book back. What is worse is that Amazon basically entered (the E in B&E) and deleted the book and in the process ransacked & damaged other items.
The copy write owner can get back "damages" from Amazon in the amount of money it made selling the book illegally.
and you'll have vapourware!
then please be sure to write your congressman and let them know. It was narrowly defeated last time, so the more people complaining the better chance it will be defeated again.
Great follow, thanks for the links!
Where do you get that BLACK is full power in an NTSC signal? Any time I look at a scope for analog signals I see black as 7.5 IRE and white as 100 IRE.
One problem I always had to try and explain to the graphics guy was "Don't use black fonts on color backgrounds". They never understood that, or why they couldn't use pure white.
You know the old saying; if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Is this a personal project? Are you going to have any serious down town moving between the two kernel bases?
I know I'm going to be unpopular for this one: Linux isn't a good operating system for all embedded needs. We're swapping out some of our main product lines from Linux (macrokernel) to smaller and more efficient microkernels.
That is great that it stops you from hitting someone else, but what about a car that protects you from the other idiots on the road not willing to shell out for a volvo?
Not really. Someone without political savvy won't see the games until it is too late.
We could start by shooting all the politicians that play political games....
Have you talked to your friendly RF-Guy lately? That trade is a black art.
ATSC standards had problems becuase of 8VSB for this same reason.
I keep a black folder in my firesafe, it lists all my accounts (social, financial, other), passwords. I like the person that said they had a work folder, I think I'll have to make one of those, "What to do if I'm hit by a buss" lol.
Also, from personal experience, if you are the administrator or executor of estate, you can get access to any site, they generally take a fax copy of the death certificate and admin papers. There is also social hacking.
Backup media and procedures are really based on what you are doing and protecting. I've had bitrot on tape drives many times so I switched to archival quality dvd's for a little more and store them in a dry / dark place. They are estimated at 100years or more. (btw, the main reason CDRs are bad is because their recording surface was the same you wrote on with markets, hence easer to scratch off).
All files get parity files to aid in recovery if there is bit error. After a certain amount of time we just shred the DVD's though - which is why we don't need anything beyond 5 years.
Btw, my mp3 CDRs have been in my car for 8 years and still work :)
therefore you're a witch! Burn her(him)!
I love how anyone who doesn't agree with the government's findings are "crackpots". How dare we infer those aluminium pipes were for missile delivery systems for WMDs... oh wait, wrong topic.
Confirmation Bias.
it is propaganda, not propoganda.
I forgot to mention a menu system that is tied into, or works with the logger and runs in its own thread. Its very helpful in a large codebase with multiple modules to have a system that you can interface to change run time parameters, get debug output, search running databases, dump profile information, etc.
An Engineer does something that stupid?!!!
Who told them they were engineers? The HR Dork?
Yes, and unfortunately I don't have the power to fire them! I've worked with many a 'software engineer' that was a complete waste of space, time, and effort. A few of us started writing some more complicated tests to use in the interview process, and we've weeded out a number of applicants before they were hired. I try to stress that we always have a 90 day 'try out' period as well.