Only in the loosest sense of the work is this a country !
Even "Island Nation" is a bit of stretch
Falls in the same category as Guam and American Somoa so it understandable - but it also falls in the same category as Falkland Islands which is a better comparison when pondering if this a country, nation or just an dependant island territory.
vintage cars will basically perform the same function often with more style... let's say 1/2 the performance of modern as worst case... same for vintage tractors
old phonographs will again perform the same function with 60 dB of dynamic range compared to... completely adequate for the 10-20 db for range in pop music
computers on the other hand: Apple I = 6502 @ 1MHz Apple iPhone = A9 @ 800 MHz
completely different functionality that should not be compared to cars, tractors & phonographs! or even things like vintage amplifiers
however, there is a place for nostalgia - just recognise they will never have the cult following of vintage equipement that is functionality equivalent to modern stuff
Really simplistically, recording with 9dB less headroom increases the AVERAGE volume by 9db and the PEAK by 0db.
So adjusting your listening environment back down by 9dB to compensate for the 'loudness wars' and return the music to same AVERAGE level actually reduces the PEAK volume by 9dB... either the average volume goes up or the peak volume comes down, or in reality partly both
Simply, the loudness wars caused the PEAK volume to decrease... feel free to disagree;-)
No ISP will not always compete successfully with ISP mainstays on price
An equivalent plan can be purchased for $10 less a month from iiNet, due mainly to the larger ISP’s existing scale and direct connection to the NBN.
That really defeats the purpose !!!
I get the peripheral benefits so sharing quota but most plans have shaping and I'm sure how well sharing would work... doesn't seem all that compelling
1 Melbourne Australia 2 Vienna Austria 3 Vancouver Canada 4 Toronto Canada 5 Calgary Canada 6 Sydney Australia 7 Helsinki Finland 8 Perth Australia Adelaide Australia 10 Auckland New Zealand
While not really explained by the summary, the key issue is local business shielding the international businesses.
So for example (hypothetically), I want to order to something from Nike US because the product is not available in Australia - but I continually get re-directed back to the Australian store (and just have the US store completely blocked)... annoying and they lose my business.
BUt more importantly for them, it is a way of forcing me to purchase at local prices form local distributors rather than international.
It is a way introduce artificial barriers and price selectively in certain regions - Australian being the one in this case.
Interestingly, some businesses without a local presence, or just introducing one, actively encourage international shipping with special shipping arragenements - such as Amazon, GAP and a few others.
Maybe not an Olympics, but competition with lower drug standard - almost guaranteed at some point... like WWE, bodybuilding or MMA all have a niche
But just like Boxing still has a prestige in the world of MMA/UFC, the Olympics will always have a place. I see 2 scenarios:
1. we are probably better placed in drug testing than at any time in the last 40 years so we continue to go down that path 2. the drugs out-perform the testing and some events become farcical (eg 100m sprint is getting there!) whilst other events grow in prestige (eg 400m where never strength nor endurance alone is enough and it is likely to stay cleaner)
The FSF advocates for free software ideals as outlined in the Free Software Definition, works for adoption of free software and free media formats, and organizes activist campaigns against threats to user freedom like Windows 7, Apple's iPhone and OS X, DRM on music, ebooks and movies, and software patents.
Uh huh... I suspect your mind might already be made up but yeah MS Office is a quality suite of products for that price...
Purchasing Excel once every 3 year upgrade cycle is equivalent to about 1 minute per week of productivity (at lets say $50/hr) - I can guarantee I would save 1 minute per hour (let alone per week) with any sort of serious Excel use
LIbreOffice is just fine for hacking around a few numbers at home (like doing your tax or budgeting or some random calcs) but just doesn't cut it for heavy usage
And for a lot of us who are power users or make a living using word-processors and spreadsheets, $200 every 3-5 years is a solid investment in quality 'tools'.
And, no, just because you open/save the format doesn't mean it has the same functionality...
Seems most corporates skip every alternate version and I'd suggest for the most part this is will be bypassed as well
Mainly cosmestic upgrades although a few things like better PDF handling and better BI integration are nice even if not must haves - they just ease the input not the actual operations.
Smartest thing Microsft could do is open up the file formats a little more and throw some improved compression algorithms at the file format - currently it is a fairly poor (speed oriented) ZIP implementation... Smaller, easier to distribute files would at least be a compelling reason to upgrade for me (and other I presume) and a new file format will force upgrades.
"Why sell me something, then attempt to force me do do only what you want with it?"
Are you serious?
Because that's what they advertised it to do. Because that's what they have to guarantee it do. Because that's what they have to support it to do.
Letting you do whatever you want with it undermines their ability ensure it does what it should during their legal warranty period and beyond. What do you think happens when an infrastructure update breaks on your device because you've screwed with it - and you bitch and moan all over internets !
Having said that, I am strongly of the 'open hardware' view but I do understand their business problem - definitely not a apple fanboi so don't go there
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
"My favorite part is where you pay per-device and get nothing in return"
Surely you get connection to the network and unlimited calls/text for the $30-$45 per device (even if you assume you no extra data because you could have used it all on the first device).
Seems reasonable if an unlimited call/text plan is normally $70 for a single device.
I almost missed the point on first reading there...
I'm guessing the implied problem is suggesting that compromised facebook accounts give the possibility for the step in fake voter registrations which can be then used for vote fraud?
Or is was a troll attempt and I read meaning into something that had none.
It just pre-populates the existing voter application with your facebook info (like name and date of birth)... end of story - you don't vote online and still have all the other registration steps outside of facebook
"I doubt we'll see hundreds of millions of electric cars in tightly packed Chinese cities"
Why is that?
With mass urbanisation and huge infrastructure investments Chinese cities are better able to handle traffic congestion than millennium old European cities (London, Rome, Paris, etc) or large North American cities that pre-date motorised vehicles (LA, NY, Vancouver, etc).
Beijing is pretty much a worst case and has 5 million car for 20 million people.. that is right on par for 350 million vehicles for a population around 1.3-1.4 billion
Now we have "fits in a few kilobytes of memory"...
So this seems to be a nice incremental improvement?
Any experts on embedded systems able to give insight into the importance of (lets say) 16kB in the old version versus (lets again say) 4-6kB including dynamic stack ??
I think you'll be fine... Hardly anyone has said they haven't heard of him...
although i confess I only know of him from the novelty value when he hits the press every 5 years and I always thought his glasses from 10 years or so ago were just a short-term experiment.
It's been a long time since the VR boom/rage of 90s (nearly 20 years already) so most of his work has been COMPLETELY irrelevant to most people here - at least until Google revived interest again recently
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Only in the loosest sense of the work is this a country !
Even "Island Nation" is a bit of stretch
Falls in the same category as Guam and American Somoa so it understandable - but it also falls in the same category as Falkland Islands which is a better comparison when pondering if this a country, nation or just an dependant island territory.
I recall the same trend in Australia.
From 1982 to 1984 seems to be C64 glory years and likewise for the Apple IIe.
Seemed like from late 1984/early 1985 (around the time of MS-DOS 3 and CPUs jumping from 4.77MHz to 8 MHz) the clones started to take over
Certainly by 1987-88, the C64 may as well have been an Atari 2600 as the attitude of the time went.
Now try that with an Apple I not IIe ... Or a Commodore PET not a C64
vintage vs old, perhaps? Old can be useful but vintage is just for nostalgia or true geeks :-)
easy answer to that
vintage cars will basically perform the same function often with more style ... let's say 1/2 the performance of modern as worst case ... same for vintage tractors
old phonographs will again perform the same function with 60 dB of dynamic range compared to ... completely adequate for the 10-20 db for range in pop music
computers on the other hand:
Apple I = 6502 @ 1MHz
Apple iPhone = A9 @ 800 MHz
completely different functionality that should not be compared to cars, tractors & phonographs! or even things like vintage amplifiers
however, there is a place for nostalgia - just recognise they will never have the cult following of vintage equipement that is functionality equivalent to modern stuff
Huh? 100m in a third of a second is a kilometer?
I think the calculation you were looking for is:
8 lanes * 4 feet = 32 feet or 10 meters
10/330 = 0.03 seconds
so yes 0.03 sec is not very much and certainly not 0.3 second
Really simplistically, recording with 9dB less headroom increases the AVERAGE volume by 9db and the PEAK by 0db.
So adjusting your listening environment back down by 9dB to compensate for the 'loudness wars' and return the music to same AVERAGE level actually reduces the PEAK volume by 9dB ... either the average volume goes up or the peak volume comes down, or in reality partly both
Simply, the loudness wars caused the PEAK volume to decrease ... feel free to disagree ;-)
No ISP will not always compete successfully with ISP mainstays on price
An equivalent plan can be purchased for $10 less a month from iiNet, due mainly to the larger ISP’s existing scale and direct connection to the NBN.
That really defeats the purpose !!!
I get the peripheral benefits so sharing quota but most plans have shaping and I'm sure how well sharing would work ... doesn't seem all that compelling
I dont know ... We just need to sort this issue out to bump those Canucks out so we can most of Top 5 cities instead of just Top 10 ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_most_livable_cities
1 Melbourne Australia
2 Vienna Austria
3 Vancouver Canada
4 Toronto Canada
5 Calgary Canada
6 Sydney Australia
7 Helsinki Finland
8 Perth Australia
Adelaide Australia
10 Auckland New Zealand
While not really explained by the summary, the key issue is local business shielding the international businesses.
So for example (hypothetically), I want to order to something from Nike US because the product is not available in Australia - but I continually get re-directed back to the Australian store (and just have the US store completely blocked) ... annoying and they lose my business.
BUt more importantly for them, it is a way of forcing me to purchase at local prices form local distributors rather than international.
It is a way introduce artificial barriers and price selectively in certain regions - Australian being the one in this case.
Interestingly, some businesses without a local presence, or just introducing one, actively encourage international shipping with special shipping arragenements - such as Amazon, GAP and a few others.
Maybe not an Olympics, but competition with lower drug standard - almost guaranteed at some point ... like WWE, bodybuilding or MMA all have a niche
But just like Boxing still has a prestige in the world of MMA/UFC, the Olympics will always have a place. I see 2 scenarios:
1. we are probably better placed in drug testing than at any time in the last 40 years so we continue to go down that path
2. the drugs out-perform the testing and some events become farcical (eg 100m sprint is getting there!) whilst other events grow in prestige (eg 400m where never strength nor endurance alone is enough and it is likely to stay cleaner)
your email is @member.fsf.org
The FSF advocates for free software ideals as outlined in the Free Software Definition, works for adoption of free software and free media formats, and organizes activist campaigns against threats to user freedom like Windows 7, Apple's iPhone and OS X, DRM on music, ebooks and movies, and software patents.
Uh huh ... I suspect your mind might already be made up but yeah MS Office is a quality suite of products for that price ...
Purchasing Excel once every 3 year upgrade cycle is equivalent to about 1 minute per week of productivity (at lets say $50/hr) - I can guarantee I would save 1 minute per hour (let alone per week) with any sort of serious Excel use
LIbreOffice is just fine for hacking around a few numbers at home (like doing your tax or budgeting or some random calcs) but just doesn't cut it for heavy usage
You, sir, are a visionary ... I applaud you !!
I run Office Libre on Linux.
LibreOffice !
And for a lot of us who are power users or make a living using word-processors and spreadsheets, $200 every 3-5 years is a solid investment in quality 'tools'.
And, no, just because you open/save the format doesn't mean it has the same functionality ...
Good call I reckon
The common corporate setup of Office '03/XP or Office '10/Win7 probably becomes Office '15/Win9
New home setup becomes Office '13 + Win8
Seems most corporates skip every alternate version and I'd suggest for the most part this is will be bypassed as well
Mainly cosmestic upgrades although a few things like better PDF handling and better BI integration are nice even if not must haves - they just ease the input not the actual operations.
Smartest thing Microsft could do is open up the file formats a little more and throw some improved compression algorithms at the file format - currently it is a fairly poor (speed oriented) ZIP implementation ... Smaller, easier to distribute files would at least be a compelling reason to upgrade for me (and other I presume) and a new file format will force upgrades.
My 2 cents worth ...
"Why sell me something, then attempt to force me do do only what you want with it?"
Are you serious?
Because that's what they advertised it to do.
Because that's what they have to guarantee it do.
Because that's what they have to support it to do.
Letting you do whatever you want with it undermines their ability ensure it does what it should during their legal warranty period and beyond. What do you think happens when an infrastructure update breaks on your device because you've screwed with it - and you bitch and moan all over internets !
Having said that, I am strongly of the 'open hardware' view but I do understand their business problem - definitely not a apple fanboi so don't go there
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
"My favorite part is where you pay per-device and get nothing in return"
Surely you get connection to the network and unlimited calls/text for the $30-$45 per device (even if you assume you no extra data because you could have used it all on the first device).
Seems reasonable if an unlimited call/text plan is normally $70 for a single device.
Really ... you register for a party? That seems insane ...
the USA does a lot of things right but your electoral (and healthcare) system clearly isn't one of them !!
I almost missed the point on first reading there ...
I'm guessing the implied problem is suggesting that compromised facebook accounts give the possibility for the step in fake voter registrations which can be then used for vote fraud?
Or is was a troll attempt and I read meaning into something that had none.
Giving what information scares you?
It just pre-populates the existing voter application with your facebook info (like name and date of birth) ... end of story - you don't vote online and still have all the other registration steps outside of facebook
OK, I'll bite ... how does a robotic taxis instead of a car relieve congestion?
"I doubt we'll see hundreds of millions of electric cars in tightly packed Chinese cities"
Why is that?
With mass urbanisation and huge infrastructure investments Chinese cities are better able to handle traffic congestion than millennium old European cities (London, Rome, Paris, etc) or large North American cities that pre-date motorised vehicles (LA, NY, Vancouver, etc).
Beijing is pretty much a worst case and has 5 million car for 20 million people .. that is right on par for 350 million vehicles for a population around 1.3-1.4 billion
Back in 2008, the same project was quoting "a code size of 11 kilobytes and a dynamic memory usage of less than 2 kilobytes" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/10/15/1839209/worlds-smallest-ipv6-stack-by-cisco-atmel-sics
Now we have "fits in a few kilobytes of memory" ...
So this seems to be a nice incremental improvement?
Any experts on embedded systems able to give insight into the importance of (lets say) 16kB in the old version versus (lets again say) 4-6kB including dynamic stack ??
I think you'll be fine ... Hardly anyone has said they haven't heard of him ...
although i confess I only know of him from the novelty value when he hits the press every 5 years and I always thought his glasses from 10 years or so ago were just a short-term experiment.
It's been a long time since the VR boom/rage of 90s (nearly 20 years already) so most of his work has been COMPLETELY irrelevant to most people here - at least until Google revived interest again recently
Undoubtedly brilliant but damn what a weirdo !! The whole tone of the blog is just weird ...
The strangest thing out of the whole story (to me at least) was that he is married and has kids !!!