It seems like poetic justice. But gov't services are important because they benefit whole communities, which means they protect the community from individual members private shortcomings. Like vaccinations preventing epidemics.
This is the difference between gov't and business that "Conservatives" (fascists) refuse to understand. It's an investment in other people for your own good, on a statistical aggregate basis, that acknowledges that individuals aren't rational enough often enough to do it ourselves often enough to survive in the long term. "Conservatives" scoff at it as "altruism". While they routinely collapse markets from greed.
If we leave the option for people not to pay so they don't get services, then the richest and the stupidest will opt out, and destroy the critical mass on which they will depend sometime, which will take them down before they can help the rest of us again. "What goes around, comes around" can be harnessed, or it can undo us all.
Who cares if rich people make more money, as long as they pay their share like the rest of us, measured by what measures the rest of us, buying stuff? If their incomes are ridiculous, that's a different kind of reform that increased labor organization (and its representation in government) is for.
As I said, basics would be tax free. But not just for the poor: everyone should have the basics protected, especially the middle class which today takes the whole burden of subsidizing the poor, as the rich and corporations don't pay their own share, let alone anyone else's. If the poor buy SUVs, as do hundreds of poor people in the public housing projects at the end of my block, they should pay for the system that offers them such gifts just like the rest of us. But when they cook their own food, make their own clothes, and pay rent and utilities below the median expense in their zipcode, like poor people used to do before the necessary welfare state got so huge, complex, abusable and mostly invisible to people not in it, they shouldn't pay taxes to run that inefficient machine putting a fraction of it (or a multiple of it) back in their pockets, making them dependent on a system that isn't helping them enough.
I am far from "Conservative". I am extremely progressive. I'm really mad that free-ride "Conservatives" like Steve Forbes got bait & switch Conservatives like Bush to start offering a sales tax to Americans. Because they'll just pervert it into exactly what you said. Real sales tax replacing the income tax is hated by supply siders, because it attaches the tax directly to their customers, unlike income tax which dissociates the tax from their sales.
Where do you live? And what amount do the rich people pay?
Like I said, in a $16T economy like the US, 25% should pay our $4T government budget bills. Especially if we weren't spending a $TRILLION on Iraq.
It would be interesting to see how much the intrinsic tax incentive to save rather than to consume would reduce that $16T production. And how much that savings increase in available investment capital would reduce the amount of government spending.
How does paying different amounts of tax on different incomes not "separate [people] based on how much government they use"?
And who said we'd "tax the economy *only* at the rate required for the government to provide the services needed for the economy to exist"? Although "pay as you go" sounds like fiscal discipline, so long as we can pay for occasional investments that exceed our income, in debt.
I didn't say we'd pay for only the services I itemized. I just named those to remind the story publisher some of the things we obviously have to pay for.
Oil changers, like everyone else, will get hired for the lowest possible wage. Like now, where reading and speaking English even at basic is required, but often not found in the workers. Without the government educating people without exception (at least that's the rule), it would be a lot worse.
You are lying. Everything I just mentioned is paid for at least in part (education has more local funding, not the rest) by Federal income taxes. Corporations don't pay nearly as much, per income dollar, as real people. The interest on the debt is large, but we have to pay for that, too, so we can pay for all the corporate welfare and warmongering (for the corporations), and of course it's paid by the people.
We get quite a lot, though it's not woeth the $3.5 TRILLION we're paying. Who do you think does pay for it?
How long before the same fate befalls the folks who make a living working the Massively Multiplayer secondary markets?
Why shouldn't they pay their taxes like the rest of us do, if they live in the US? They also count on the cops protecting their house and their jogging girlfriend (or sister), the firemen saving them and their cats from their careless neighbor leaving the iron on. They need the gas station attendant to read well enough that they don't damage their car while changing the oil. They want the courts to stop the chemical factory upstream from poisoning them. They want that border protected with at least the threat of reprisal in case China doesn't stop at Taiwan, and invades Alaska.
I know the rest of us do, and we pay for it. Why should we pay for them to be safe, too, just so they can work in a game in their pajamas?
What we should change is what we're paying for. We shouldn't pay the government for the money we earn, income taxes. We should pay the government for the services we consume, which benefit is just about proportional to what we consume. So we should pay zero income tax, and maybe about 25% sales tax: a $16T economy should support a $4T expense at Federal, state and local budgets. Easier to collect from fewer points, easier to shut down violators' business, and encouraging savings instead of wasteful unnecessary consumption, with a built-in "tax break" bonus. Just a few tweaks to make essentials like raw food, raw cloth, median primary rent/mortgage tax free, and equities at a nearly negligible rate.
That is reality. Just working in a virtual world doesn't mean your body isn't consuming services with a cost in the real world. Ducking the taxes is a losing game for the rest of us subsidizing them.
Benchmark Media makes the DAC1, a relatively (to before) cheap digital to analog converter (DAC) that can run from USB, XLR, coax or optical (AES or SPDIF, like most digital AV puts out now), for the kind of hifi home theater that used to require FireWire (and a lot more money). 192KHz (or 96, 44.1 or their doubles) into 24bits (or 16, or 8, I guess).
There's not a lot R&D can do to make the day longer or brighter. But the average total insolation here in NYC, including night/seasons/weather, is 400W:m^2. And the average NYC home power consumption (including AC/DC conversion and heating/cooling) is only 2.5KW. So the average home could be powered by just over 6m^2, just under 70sq', at 100% conversion efficiency. These homes probably average somewhere over 1000sq'.
My point was that we could have spent a $TRILLION making that 25% efficiency grow closer to 100% (while reducing heating/cooling energy). And that oil doesn't have as much energy as we think, when we consider how much solar energy we've got - 0.1% isn't much of our land to compare to it, and 1% isn't that much, either. Of course we'll also spend hundreds of $BILLIONS on the oil/gas and its other expenses, since the war was a boondoggle, instead of making that money on selling the fruits of our R&D.
Hopefully Iraq will demonstrate that we're actually better at R&D than at conquering countries. Hopefully without undercutting the current system we need to produce the new one with a future.
Why is there any functional difference between CentOS and RHEL? There are different HowTos for installation and operation of various SW on each of RHEL and CentOS. And how about a script that will convert either CentOS or Fedora to look exactly like RedHat for installing/running apps?
Where do I find a hacker to give my stack of LEGO Mindstorms so he can combine them with my Bluetooth Roombas for a home automation army that I can lead around town with my mobile phone?
TrollMods just love thems a bankrupting Iraq War. Who could possibly want to let others discuss how we could be on the road to clean self sufficiency, rather than to ruin?
What are you talking about? We can make ethanol from solar, water and air. And scrub out some of the CO2 from all that gasoline pollution that's becoming very expensive.
"Atomic"? haven't you heard that we've gone to "nuclear", and learned how expensive, dirty and unsafe (making it even more expensive) it all is along the way?
Coal pumps even more radioactivity into the air already, and of course much much more Greenhouse pollution than even oil. Expensive and dirty.
Hydro is fairly cheap, clean and safe, but we've already tapped most usable rivers for hydro, at least in the US. And it's got its own enviro problems - though it's pretty good. Putting a solar cracker atop some of these hydro lakes would be a great way to enhance their power.
So in fact a relatively small amount of solar research could literally replace gasoline with something cheaper (especially considering the difference between endless wars and climate change vs exporting energy tech and power).
Oh, yeah, Anonymous liar Coward, the Iranians, Sauds, Russians, Syrians, Egyptians, and practically all the rest of OPEC and every other oil exporter (except maybe Canada and Scandinavia) have never terrorized.
You know, we tried that stupid formula, back when America was really just a refugee camp for foreigners (dominated by those displaced by Europe's perpetual tribal war, especially in the name of Jesus). We had our Civil War, which killed unprecedented numbers of people, and only made America stronger, angrier and more armed - and sent us around the world to shoot the rest of you.
We already all have guns, and you probably noticed we're already going everywhere else in the world, and often killing indiscriminately. Don't shoot your mouth off too much, Anonymous target Coward, you'll just provoke us. Instead, try to help us put the guns down and share the sunshine. Your little country, wherever it is, hasn't managed to do either, so help us do it right for your own benefit.
Man, I wish we'd spent that Iraq War $TRILLION on solar research instead.
If we just got all its 212 possible oil barrels, that would have been $4.72 a barrel (enough to get 50M Americans to vote for it), but we probably won't get any of it now - unless we buy it from Iran.
That 750Pj could come from the Sun (at 1KW:m^2) into 4000K square miles (0.1% of the US total area) in 2.5 years. At 25% efficiency, that would be 10 years. We're already halfway through that alternate decade, we've only wasted huge amounts of energy (and life and limb), and are giving Iran the oil (to sell to us at $100 a barrel).
Investing $250M per square mile in American solar production would have actually secured America, especially from the oil terrorists, at home and abroad.
Is it insecurity when the Republicy government deletes over 5 million emails it's legally required to archive, to hide evidence of Republicy crimes? How about when the Republicy government lets its boss, Karl Rove, circumvent all White House security to do 95% of his emailing through Republicy laptops and servers, to hide evidence of Republicy crimes?
Because $200 is 14% of 1400 (SATA 500GB is $120 today). 14% is surely significant: I could buy almost 2 more drives for that much. But since 12*$25 for external enclosures is $300, it seems to me that one bulk enclosure, with its manufacturing economies, should cost less than 65% of individual ones. For $300 I could get 3 complete Celerons with ethernet to stuff with 4 drives each, and get the audio/VGA HW for free.
The extra expenses, including the drives' burn rate, make it even more worthwhile to save money on the enclosure, which is partly (the chassis) for convenience, and has powersupplies to replace (especially these cheapo ones).
But I am curious where you get your $200:y electricity for 12 drives. And how much you think it would be for 12 individual USB enclosures.
Those emails weren't deleted. Karl Rove (the Soviet-style "Political Director" who's been in charge of Bush's Republicy conspiracy for years) and his minions used Republicy Party laptops and even separate installed White House "phone lines" (probably DSL, T1 or other broadband) to hide their criminal conspiracies. And their Republicy partners controlling Congress just ignored it all.
This is the criminal gang that brought us Iraq, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, $80 oil barrels of $4 gasoline gallons, Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, fake Niger/Iraq uranium, fake Iraq/Osama meetings, fake WMD, fake economic recovery from real tax exemption for only the rich, NSA spying, Mark Foley the Congressional child molester, the US Attorney purge... the list is ENDLESS.
And it is indeed a list. These Republicies need that email to study from when they do get called before Congress or a judge, now that their Congressional jig is up. They will claim they're deleted, because they still have 49% of the Senate (plus Lieberman), have now obviously riddled the Justice Department with Rove's soviet cronies, and believe they're home free in their conspiracy to destroy our government that stands between their favorite corporations and what's left of our money to steal.
WE MUST IMPEACH THESE CRIMINAL TYRANTS NOW. While we still can, before it's too late.
I defy any of your remaining shameless Republicies to defend these obviously criminal actions. Come on out - the TV says there's something like 30% of the country still standing up for these gangsters. Where are you? What the hell is wrong with you? What do you need to see to start telling some truth in your life?
USB+Power enclosures for IDE and SATA drives cost about $25; USB adapters alone cost about $15. Why doesn't a single enclosure for 8 or 12 drives (with appropriate mounting screws to avoid vibration that wears drives), including a USB hub and adapters and a single sufficient powersupply, cost $50, or maybe $100? They seem to cost $300-500.
Why doesn't an 12 drive enclosure with powersupply, PIII motherboard with nothing but IDE/SATA and Gb-ethernet running Linux/RAID cost under $200?
We perceive the combination of all the signal processing along the visual tract, including its accumulated artifacts of intervening media.
In point of fact, I'd always been able to see the difference between a Mac (square pixels) and a PC (rectangular pixels) monitor at first glance, even across a large room. And we studied the grid artifact at the company making the hires scanner where I was working while on the JPEG. Often only as a texture, or even a feeling, registering as apperception. But the info is there, the brain uses it. Even at 1080p it's not so much consciously seeing detailed features, but rather just noticing a difference. Far from sticking our noses in it to see it, we cannot avoid it unless we scrub the system of it.
This is a documented conspiracy, to which I linked amply, to suppress a tech that was ready for deployment, but denied to the industry. There are better techs, but that didn't stop gasoline from being the choice for a century.
Your inadequate argument turned obnoxious for no reason. I'm no "arts student". You're an asshole, and a wrong asshole, too.
Storage is even cheaper when considering all that connected network storage. If these redundant but multipurpose chunks were also encrypted, then we could keep our chunks distributed around the Net. This P2P thing is really powerful when it's used in the right proportions.
In broadcast film you don't really care about framerate, because the original films have lots of info in actual film, even at only 24FPS, or lower resolution at higher framerates - or you just settle for crappy images, because that's Hollywood.
The point of my detailed discussion was that framerate is important, and that extra resolution that is repeatedly oversampled by the visual system also delivers more info the eye can detect, and finds important. In contrast to the argument in the article, which talked like the eye couldn't run circles around that resolution.
Even if the HDMI cable delivers only 50% its maximum rate (it doesn't, it's higher), that's still 100FPS, much higher than what we're getting, but not as much as we can handle. The point was to show that it's the datarate that is the bottleneck, and the extra grid info delivered with it to the eye, even at high bandwidth. And how much more room there is to improve the display at all stages of delivery. I'd prefer 8Kx6Kpxls at 40bits and 60FPS, but that's 115.2Gbps, maybe compressible to 40-50Gbps. Which would at least exceed the nyquist sampling of the fovea, and blink faster than the optic nerve's carrier frequency. But it will require 100 gigabit link, which will probably take longer than some of the stochastic distributions of the mirrors, if not async parallel signalling.
So while you might have been overwhelmed by the numbers, the point is that the visual system is smarter than even 1080p, which the articles says it isn't. See?
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It seems like poetic justice. But gov't services are important because they benefit whole communities, which means they protect the community from individual members private shortcomings. Like vaccinations preventing epidemics.
This is the difference between gov't and business that "Conservatives" (fascists) refuse to understand. It's an investment in other people for your own good, on a statistical aggregate basis, that acknowledges that individuals aren't rational enough often enough to do it ourselves often enough to survive in the long term. "Conservatives" scoff at it as "altruism". While they routinely collapse markets from greed.
If we leave the option for people not to pay so they don't get services, then the richest and the stupidest will opt out, and destroy the critical mass on which they will depend sometime, which will take them down before they can help the rest of us again. "What goes around, comes around" can be harnessed, or it can undo us all.
Who cares if rich people make more money, as long as they pay their share like the rest of us, measured by what measures the rest of us, buying stuff? If their incomes are ridiculous, that's a different kind of reform that increased labor organization (and its representation in government) is for.
As I said, basics would be tax free. But not just for the poor: everyone should have the basics protected, especially the middle class which today takes the whole burden of subsidizing the poor, as the rich and corporations don't pay their own share, let alone anyone else's. If the poor buy SUVs, as do hundreds of poor people in the public housing projects at the end of my block, they should pay for the system that offers them such gifts just like the rest of us. But when they cook their own food, make their own clothes, and pay rent and utilities below the median expense in their zipcode, like poor people used to do before the necessary welfare state got so huge, complex, abusable and mostly invisible to people not in it, they shouldn't pay taxes to run that inefficient machine putting a fraction of it (or a multiple of it) back in their pockets, making them dependent on a system that isn't helping them enough.
I am far from "Conservative". I am extremely progressive. I'm really mad that free-ride "Conservatives" like Steve Forbes got bait & switch Conservatives like Bush to start offering a sales tax to Americans. Because they'll just pervert it into exactly what you said. Real sales tax replacing the income tax is hated by supply siders, because it attaches the tax directly to their customers, unlike income tax which dissociates the tax from their sales.
Where do you live? And what amount do the rich people pay?
Like I said, in a $16T economy like the US, 25% should pay our $4T government budget bills. Especially if we weren't spending a $TRILLION on Iraq.
It would be interesting to see how much the intrinsic tax incentive to save rather than to consume would reduce that $16T production. And how much that savings increase in available investment capital would reduce the amount of government spending.
How does paying different amounts of tax on different incomes not "separate [people] based on how much government they use"?
And who said we'd "tax the economy *only* at the rate required for the government to provide the services needed for the economy to exist"? Although "pay as you go" sounds like fiscal discipline, so long as we can pay for occasional investments that exceed our income, in debt.
I didn't say we'd pay for only the services I itemized. I just named those to remind the story publisher some of the things we obviously have to pay for.
Oil changers, like everyone else, will get hired for the lowest possible wage. Like now, where reading and speaking English even at basic is required, but often not found in the workers. Without the government educating people without exception (at least that's the rule), it would be a lot worse.
You are lying. Everything I just mentioned is paid for at least in part (education has more local funding, not the rest) by Federal income taxes. Corporations don't pay nearly as much, per income dollar, as real people. The interest on the debt is large, but we have to pay for that, too, so we can pay for all the corporate welfare and warmongering (for the corporations), and of course it's paid by the people.
We get quite a lot, though it's not woeth the $3.5 TRILLION we're paying. Who do you think does pay for it?
Doesn't the Federal sales tax I mentioned mean everything you just said doesn't matter?
Why shouldn't they pay their taxes like the rest of us do, if they live in the US? They also count on the cops protecting their house and their jogging girlfriend (or sister), the firemen saving them and their cats from their careless neighbor leaving the iron on. They need the gas station attendant to read well enough that they don't damage their car while changing the oil. They want the courts to stop the chemical factory upstream from poisoning them. They want that border protected with at least the threat of reprisal in case China doesn't stop at Taiwan, and invades Alaska.
I know the rest of us do, and we pay for it. Why should we pay for them to be safe, too, just so they can work in a game in their pajamas?
What we should change is what we're paying for. We shouldn't pay the government for the money we earn, income taxes. We should pay the government for the services we consume, which benefit is just about proportional to what we consume. So we should pay zero income tax, and maybe about 25% sales tax: a $16T economy should support a $4T expense at Federal, state and local budgets. Easier to collect from fewer points, easier to shut down violators' business, and encouraging savings instead of wasteful unnecessary consumption, with a built-in "tax break" bonus. Just a few tweaks to make essentials like raw food, raw cloth, median primary rent/mortgage tax free, and equities at a nearly negligible rate.
That is reality. Just working in a virtual world doesn't mean your body isn't consuming services with a cost in the real world. Ducking the taxes is a losing game for the rest of us subsidizing them.
Benchmark Media makes the DAC1, a relatively (to before) cheap digital to analog converter (DAC) that can run from USB, XLR, coax or optical (AES or SPDIF, like most digital AV puts out now), for the kind of hifi home theater that used to require FireWire (and a lot more money). 192KHz (or 96, 44.1 or their doubles) into 24bits (or 16, or 8, I guess).
This thing is probably the best PC audio out now.
There's not a lot R&D can do to make the day longer or brighter. But the average total insolation here in NYC, including night/seasons/weather, is 400W:m^2. And the average NYC home power consumption (including AC/DC conversion and heating/cooling) is only 2.5KW. So the average home could be powered by just over 6m^2, just under 70sq', at 100% conversion efficiency. These homes probably average somewhere over 1000sq'.
My point was that we could have spent a $TRILLION making that 25% efficiency grow closer to 100% (while reducing heating/cooling energy). And that oil doesn't have as much energy as we think, when we consider how much solar energy we've got - 0.1% isn't much of our land to compare to it, and 1% isn't that much, either. Of course we'll also spend hundreds of $BILLIONS on the oil/gas and its other expenses, since the war was a boondoggle, instead of making that money on selling the fruits of our R&D.
Hopefully Iraq will demonstrate that we're actually better at R&D than at conquering countries. Hopefully without undercutting the current system we need to produce the new one with a future.
Why is there any functional difference between CentOS and RHEL? There are different HowTos for installation and operation of various SW on each of RHEL and CentOS. And how about a script that will convert either CentOS or Fedora to look exactly like RedHat for installing/running apps?
Where do I find a hacker to give my stack of LEGO Mindstorms so he can combine them with my Bluetooth Roombas for a home automation army that I can lead around town with my mobile phone?
I'm not kidding.
Is the DRM built into SD/SDIO ("Secure Digital") HW already cracked?
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TrollMods just love thems a bankrupting Iraq War. Who could possibly want to let others discuss how we could be on the road to clean self sufficiency, rather than to ruin?
What are you talking about? We can make ethanol from solar, water and air. And scrub out some of the CO2 from all that gasoline pollution that's becoming very expensive.
"Atomic"? haven't you heard that we've gone to "nuclear", and learned how expensive, dirty and unsafe (making it even more expensive) it all is along the way?
Coal pumps even more radioactivity into the air already, and of course much much more Greenhouse pollution than even oil. Expensive and dirty.
Hydro is fairly cheap, clean and safe, but we've already tapped most usable rivers for hydro, at least in the US. And it's got its own enviro problems - though it's pretty good. Putting a solar cracker atop some of these hydro lakes would be a great way to enhance their power.
So in fact a relatively small amount of solar research could literally replace gasoline with something cheaper (especially considering the difference between endless wars and climate change vs exporting energy tech and power).
Oh, yeah, Anonymous liar Coward, the Iranians, Sauds, Russians, Syrians, Egyptians, and practically all the rest of OPEC and every other oil exporter (except maybe Canada and Scandinavia) have never terrorized.
You know, we tried that stupid formula, back when America was really just a refugee camp for foreigners (dominated by those displaced by Europe's perpetual tribal war, especially in the name of Jesus). We had our Civil War, which killed unprecedented numbers of people, and only made America stronger, angrier and more armed - and sent us around the world to shoot the rest of you.
We already all have guns, and you probably noticed we're already going everywhere else in the world, and often killing indiscriminately. Don't shoot your mouth off too much, Anonymous target Coward, you'll just provoke us. Instead, try to help us put the guns down and share the sunshine. Your little country, wherever it is, hasn't managed to do either, so help us do it right for your own benefit.
Man, I wish we'd spent that Iraq War $TRILLION on solar research instead.
If we just got all its 212 possible oil barrels, that would have been $4.72 a barrel (enough to get 50M Americans to vote for it), but we probably won't get any of it now - unless we buy it from Iran.
That 750Pj could come from the Sun (at 1KW:m^2) into 4000K square miles (0.1% of the US total area) in 2.5 years. At 25% efficiency, that would be 10 years. We're already halfway through that alternate decade, we've only wasted huge amounts of energy (and life and limb), and are giving Iran the oil (to sell to us at $100 a barrel).
Investing $250M per square mile in American solar production would have actually secured America, especially from the oil terrorists, at home and abroad.
Is it insecurity when the Republicy government deletes over 5 million emails it's legally required to archive, to hide evidence of Republicy crimes? How about when the Republicy government lets its boss, Karl Rove, circumvent all White House security to do 95% of his emailing through Republicy laptops and servers, to hide evidence of Republicy crimes?
The answer starts with "F".
Because $200 is 14% of 1400 (SATA 500GB is $120 today). 14% is surely significant: I could buy almost 2 more drives for that much. But since 12*$25 for external enclosures is $300, it seems to me that one bulk enclosure, with its manufacturing economies, should cost less than 65% of individual ones. For $300 I could get 3 complete Celerons with ethernet to stuff with 4 drives each, and get the audio/VGA HW for free.
The extra expenses, including the drives' burn rate, make it even more worthwhile to save money on the enclosure, which is partly (the chassis) for convenience, and has powersupplies to replace (especially these cheapo ones).
But I am curious where you get your $200:y electricity for 12 drives. And how much you think it would be for 12 individual USB enclosures.
Not only do you make the insane statement that "all middle easterners are all the same at their core [unlike us]".
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You are the enemy. You are delusional, and a little dangerous.
Osama, is that you?
Those emails weren't deleted. Karl Rove (the Soviet-style "Political Director" who's been in charge of Bush's Republicy conspiracy for years) and his minions used Republicy Party laptops and even separate installed White House "phone lines" (probably DSL, T1 or other broadband) to hide their criminal conspiracies. And their Republicy partners controlling Congress just ignored it all.
This is the criminal gang that brought us Iraq, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, $80 oil barrels of $4 gasoline gallons, Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, fake Niger/Iraq uranium, fake Iraq/Osama meetings, fake WMD, fake economic recovery from real tax exemption for only the rich, NSA spying, Mark Foley the Congressional child molester, the US Attorney purge... the list is ENDLESS.
And it is indeed a list. These Republicies need that email to study from when they do get called before Congress or a judge, now that their Congressional jig is up. They will claim they're deleted, because they still have 49% of the Senate (plus Lieberman), have now obviously riddled the Justice Department with Rove's soviet cronies, and believe they're home free in their conspiracy to destroy our government that stands between their favorite corporations and what's left of our money to steal.
WE MUST IMPEACH THESE CRIMINAL TYRANTS NOW. While we still can, before it's too late.
I defy any of your remaining shameless Republicies to defend these obviously criminal actions. Come on out - the TV says there's something like 30% of the country still standing up for these gangsters. Where are you? What the hell is wrong with you? What do you need to see to start telling some truth in your life?
USB+Power enclosures for IDE and SATA drives cost about $25; USB adapters alone cost about $15. Why doesn't a single enclosure for 8 or 12 drives (with appropriate mounting screws to avoid vibration that wears drives), including a USB hub and adapters and a single sufficient powersupply, cost $50, or maybe $100? They seem to cost $300-500.
Why doesn't an 12 drive enclosure with powersupply, PIII motherboard with nothing but IDE/SATA and Gb-ethernet running Linux/RAID cost under $200?
We perceive the combination of all the signal processing along the visual tract, including its accumulated artifacts of intervening media.
In point of fact, I'd always been able to see the difference between a Mac (square pixels) and a PC (rectangular pixels) monitor at first glance, even across a large room. And we studied the grid artifact at the company making the hires scanner where I was working while on the JPEG. Often only as a texture, or even a feeling, registering as apperception. But the info is there, the brain uses it. Even at 1080p it's not so much consciously seeing detailed features, but rather just noticing a difference. Far from sticking our noses in it to see it, we cannot avoid it unless we scrub the system of it.
This is a documented conspiracy, to which I linked amply, to suppress a tech that was ready for deployment, but denied to the industry. There are better techs, but that didn't stop gasoline from being the choice for a century.
Your inadequate argument turned obnoxious for no reason. I'm no "arts student". You're an asshole, and a wrong asshole, too.
Goodbye.
Storage is even cheaper when considering all that connected network storage. If these redundant but multipurpose chunks were also encrypted, then we could keep our chunks distributed around the Net. This P2P thing is really powerful when it's used in the right proportions.
In broadcast film you don't really care about framerate, because the original films have lots of info in actual film, even at only 24FPS, or lower resolution at higher framerates - or you just settle for crappy images, because that's Hollywood.
The point of my detailed discussion was that framerate is important, and that extra resolution that is repeatedly oversampled by the visual system also delivers more info the eye can detect, and finds important. In contrast to the argument in the article, which talked like the eye couldn't run circles around that resolution.
Even if the HDMI cable delivers only 50% its maximum rate (it doesn't, it's higher), that's still 100FPS, much higher than what we're getting, but not as much as we can handle. The point was to show that it's the datarate that is the bottleneck, and the extra grid info delivered with it to the eye, even at high bandwidth. And how much more room there is to improve the display at all stages of delivery. I'd prefer 8Kx6Kpxls at 40bits and 60FPS, but that's 115.2Gbps, maybe compressible to 40-50Gbps. Which would at least exceed the nyquist sampling of the fovea, and blink faster than the optic nerve's carrier frequency. But it will require 100 gigabit link, which will probably take longer than some of the stochastic distributions of the mirrors, if not async parallel signalling.
So while you might have been overwhelmed by the numbers, the point is that the visual system is smarter than even 1080p, which the articles says it isn't. See?