We dropped the bombs on militarily unimportant cities because the US generals had no idea of the destructive power of the atom bomb. There was a big debate among the generals whether they would be used on cities at all. Some people though that they would be a good way to smash Japans very tough coastal defenses. I don't doubt that there was a large amount of saber rattling toward Russia too, but the primary idea was to defeat Japan.
Second, this is the first time that I have heard anyone say that Japan was going to surrender. This is a people that were willing to go a military mission in a plane that they know wouldn't make it back to base - with the intention of flying into a war ship. From everything that I have heard and read the civilians were arming themselves (and making guns for the military).
Yes, we did steal Hawaii from the indigenous people, but that is a completely separate point from Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. We did also do some horrible things to the American Indians, but that isn't justification for what Hitler did to the Jews. From what I understand (I wasn't around during WWII) what was happening to the Jews wasn't common knowledge. The primary reason we entered the war was the fact that Germany was attacking our allies (primarily England).
I don't pretend that anything that we did in World War II (or most any other time in our history) was done with noble intentions. Pretty much everyting that we have done (and will continue to do) is with an eye to what it gains for us. And I don't have a problem with that, as long as it is kept in check.
I agree with most of your post, with the exception of condemning the United States for killing civilians in Germany and Japan. That is the way it was done during WWII - it's not like we made the rules. Look at how Germany bombed London (and Paris and Stalingrad and... and... and...). As far as Japan - look at what they did in China and the Philippines.
I don't like the fact that we dropped atomic bombs on Japan, but I do believe it was the correct decision in a horrible situation. Our other option was to try to take Japan with a beach landing. I think that we would have won that battle (especially since Germany had surrendered - we could have moved out troops from Europe to Japan). But that would still have meant that millions of Japanese would have died along with several thousand Americans.
That is correct - if it has the numbers printed under it. In this case he is using a video rental card, so I assume it does. The thing is, you also have to know what symbologies his barcode reader decodes to create new card.
Actually, a barcode normally doesn't hold that much information. When I worked as a programmer doing manufacturing support, we had trouble scanning anything that had more than 10-12 characters. You have to get pretty creative to be able to cover all the possible things that you might scan. As an example we used the first character to identify what the bar code was for (work order number, sales order number, purchase order number, part number, etc.). Then we could look things up in the appropriate database.
The exception to this is the "two D" barcode (like on a UPS package). If I remember correctly, they can hold ~256 characters (I haven't used them).
Some cable providers are doing this on their digital tier.
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Have you ever been in a slaughterhouse? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
I used to work in a (small) slaughterhouse. I cleaned the kill floor after the daily kill. I still eat meat. In fact after working there I know how much meat (and meat handling equipment) is inspected. I hear people say "if you know what was in a hotdog you wouldn't eat them". I do know what is in hotdogs - I used to make them - and I still eat them.
You get yourself something like this (PDF file). Then you just need to know your route and you can find the break. It's not uncommon to have a fiber break that you can't see (environmental considerations, animals, boring machines, shift of bored rock formations, etc).
If it's my gold and my doorstep - I can do anything I want with them. Just because I did something stupid with something I own doesn't make it your right to take it away from me.
I live in central Indiana and I have DirecTV. We have thunderstorms almost daily in the spring (and most of the summer). If I lose service, it is normally only for a few minutes just before a storm. The difference between losing satellite and cable is, when the storm is over (usually long before) my service will com back on - with cable it can take hours (or days) for them to find the cable break and fix it.
The biggest problem (from my point of view) with DirecTV is the amount of compression. The most obvious is if you watch something that has a lot of movement of a subtle color variation (like smoke or fog) there is very notable banding and compression artifacts.
Usually, it is the expert that sets the initial direction for the project (this is pretty obvious if you watch). My guess is that a lot of effort goes into finding experts that will use different approaches and assigning them to the teams that they match best. I also understand that it is the experts that give them a list of items to be added to the junkyard.
Watch that commercial again. He says that he got a digital video camera AFTER he got his Mac. www.apple.com/switch/ads/andyskowronski.html (requires an updated install of Quicktime).
There was a pro baseball player a few weeks ago that got hit by a ~90 MPH fastball - and it broke his wrist.
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Servers are generally used for play-to-air, but production, longterm storage and linear editing are primarily done on tape (non-linear editing is mostly done on Avids). There will be some type of tape in TV stations for quite a while - fiber channel hard drives are way to expensive to replace our ~8000 Betacam tapes.
Sony recently came out with a new digital tape format (IMX) to go with Beta SX and DigiBeta.
According to the Sony rep that I talked to at NAB, IMX is to format to replace all formats. The machines will play Betacam, SP, SX, IMX and on the high end DigiBeta. They use MPEG2 compression and have 4 channel of high quality audio (or 8 of mid quality). They have SDI (serial digital) and analog ins and outs.
The problem right now is they don't make IMX camera backs (dockables).
They are used, but it is a small market. The radio station I support uses them for news field work because they are more reliable, quieter and higher quality than audio tape.
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You are mistaken. Beta SP is an analog format. Beta SX, Digibeta and IMX are the half-inch digital formats. And you can get 90 minute SP tapes.
That more or less proves the point. If your add makes it that much more convient - it worked. If Pizza Hut didn't advertise in the Sunday paper, you might have looked for the yellow pages and they would have lost a sale. If enough people are that lazy the add pays for itself (don't wory about being lazy, I order from Papa Johns because I can do it online and I don't have to talk to anyone).
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We dropped the bombs on militarily unimportant cities because the US generals had no idea of the destructive power of the atom bomb. There was a big debate among the generals whether they would be used on cities at all. Some people though that they would be a good way to smash Japans very tough coastal defenses. I don't doubt that there was a large amount of saber rattling toward Russia too, but the primary idea was to defeat Japan.
Second, this is the first time that I have heard anyone say that Japan was going to surrender. This is a people that were willing to go a military mission in a plane that they know wouldn't make it back to base - with the intention of flying into a war ship. From everything that I have heard and read the civilians were arming themselves (and making guns for the military).
Yes, we did steal Hawaii from the indigenous people, but that is a completely separate point from Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. We did also do some horrible things to the American Indians, but that isn't justification for what Hitler did to the Jews. From what I understand (I wasn't around during WWII) what was happening to the Jews wasn't common knowledge. The primary reason we entered the war was the fact that Germany was attacking our allies (primarily England).
I don't pretend that anything that we did in World War II (or most any other time in our history) was done with noble intentions. Pretty much everyting that we have done (and will continue to do) is with an eye to what it gains for us. And I don't have a problem with that, as long as it is kept in check.
I agree with most of your post, with the exception of condemning the United States for killing civilians in Germany and Japan. That is the way it was done during WWII - it's not like we made the rules. Look at how Germany bombed London (and Paris and Stalingrad and ... and ... and ...). As far as Japan - look at what they did in China and the Philippines.
I don't like the fact that we dropped atomic bombs on Japan, but I do believe it was the correct decision in a horrible situation. Our other option was to try to take Japan with a beach landing. I think that we would have won that battle (especially since Germany had surrendered - we could have moved out troops from Europe to Japan). But that would still have meant that millions of Japanese would have died along with several thousand Americans.
That is correct - if it has the numbers printed under it. In this case he is using a video rental card, so I assume it does. The thing is, you also have to know what symbologies his barcode reader decodes to create new card.
Actually, a barcode normally doesn't hold that much information. When I worked as a programmer doing manufacturing support, we had trouble scanning anything that had more than 10-12 characters. You have to get pretty creative to be able to cover all the possible things that you might scan. As an example we used the first character to identify what the bar code was for (work order number, sales order number, purchase order number, part number, etc.). Then we could look things up in the appropriate database.
The exception to this is the "two D" barcode (like on a UPS package). If I remember correctly, they can hold ~256 characters (I haven't used them).
Some cable providers are doing this on their digital tier.
Have you ever been in a slaughterhouse? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
I used to work in a (small) slaughterhouse. I cleaned the kill floor after the daily kill. I still eat meat. In fact after working there I know how much meat (and meat handling equipment) is inspected. I hear people say "if you know what was in a hotdog you wouldn't eat them". I do know what is in hotdogs - I used to make them - and I still eat them.
You get yourself something like this (PDF file). Then you just need to know your route and you can find the break. It's not uncommon to have a fiber break that you can't see (environmental considerations, animals, boring machines, shift of bored rock formations, etc).
If it's my gold and my doorstep - I can do anything I want with them. Just because I did something stupid with something I own doesn't make it your right to take it away from me.
Most of the fast food restaurants in my area take either credit of debit cards.
That depends on the controller in the drive enclosure you have.
1. There are FC controllers that use IDE drives.
2. Not all FC controllers support RAID
3. Most controlers use FC-AL connectors - not SCSI.
I live in central Indiana and I have DirecTV. We have thunderstorms almost daily in the spring (and most of the summer). If I lose service, it is normally only for a few minutes just before a storm. The difference between losing satellite and cable is, when the storm is over (usually long before) my service will com back on - with cable it can take hours (or days) for them to find the cable break and fix it.
The biggest problem (from my point of view) with DirecTV is the amount of compression. The most obvious is if you watch something that has a lot of movement of a subtle color variation (like smoke or fog) there is very notable banding and compression artifacts.
Usually, it is the expert that sets the initial direction for the project (this is pretty obvious if you watch). My guess is that a lot of effort goes into finding experts that will use different approaches and assigning them to the teams that they match best. I also understand that it is the experts that give them a list of items to be added to the junkyard.
Watch that commercial again. He says that he got a digital video camera AFTER he got his Mac. www.apple.com/switch/ads/andyskowronski.html (requires an updated install of Quicktime).
You are correct, its not there. Try www.officeupdate.com.
There was a pro baseball player a few weeks ago that got hit by a ~90 MPH fastball - and it broke his wrist.
Servers are generally used for play-to-air, but production, longterm storage and linear editing are primarily done on tape (non-linear editing is mostly done on Avids). There will be some type of tape in TV stations for quite a while - fiber channel hard drives are way to expensive to replace our ~8000 Betacam tapes.
Sony recently came out with a new digital tape format (IMX) to go with Beta SX and DigiBeta.
Those of that work in broadcasting call BetaCAM "Beta". We just pretend that BetaMAX never existed. :-)
According to the Sony rep that I talked to at NAB, IMX is to format to replace all formats. The machines will play Betacam, SP, SX, IMX and on the high end DigiBeta. They use MPEG2 compression and have 4 channel of high quality audio (or 8 of mid quality). They have SDI (serial digital) and analog ins and outs.
The problem right now is they don't make IMX camera backs (dockables).
Beta Sp isn't 3/4 - that is U-matic (or U-matic SP). Beta is 1/2 inch in two different size cartridges.
You forgot IMX. Same tape cartridges, but it uses 50MB I-frame only MPEG2.
As several other people have stated - the pro format from Sony is BetaCAM not BetaMAX.
They are used, but it is a small market. The radio station I support uses them for news field work because they are more reliable, quieter and higher quality than audio tape.
You are mistaken. Beta SP is an analog format. Beta SX, Digibeta and IMX are the half-inch digital formats. And you can get 90 minute SP tapes.
The Sony Beta SX, Digibeta and IMX formats are digital. Beta SP is an analog format.
That more or less proves the point. If your add makes it that much more convient - it worked. If Pizza Hut didn't advertise in the Sunday paper, you might have looked for the yellow pages and they would have lost a sale. If enough people are that lazy the add pays for itself (don't wory about being lazy, I order from Papa Johns because I can do it online and I don't have to talk to anyone).