Because if you use FM, you aren't broadcasting AM?
Also, because both FM and AM suffer from pretty nasty interference in built up areas, have mediocre sound quality, and can earn you visits from the FCC if you don't stay within Part 15 regs.
I understand the BS isn't mathless, but there's a difference between the standard 2 years of calc, and serious number theory, complexity research, and all the other things that go into serious CS. Similarly, any EE is going to get a semester of semiconductor physics or a semester of controls theory, but there's a huge difference between that and the ones who spend 4 or 5 years studying *just* device fabrication or *just* optimal control methods.
Of course the distinctions are less hard and fast than I made them out, but in general, as you move from non-degreed and BS to MS and PhD you'll see more and more 2s and less and less 1s.
I personally recommend carrying a 10 or 25' spool of phone line with you if you think you'll be using your modem; it rolls up pretty neatly and given the amount of pain using a modem causes most of us anyway, any theoretical signal degradation will remain firmly theoretical.
Seriously. You can even buy one of those silly retracting cords and you have a tape-measure sized package to fix this.
You know, I use one in my car, but in Chicago, 3rd channel seperation is a joke - finding a clear station to transmit on is pretty much impossible, so you have to settle for "good enough". Sound quality is compromised pretty severely.
And the price premium for this, considering all the other things it brings (wifi repeater, USB print server, etc.) over a good FM transmitter isn't that high.
Does anyone know if this will interoperate properly with non-Apple base stations? I'd jump all over this if it would work as a repeater with my cheap-ass Netgear wireless router - the added connection to my stereo would be nice, but the two together in a package small enough to hide behind my audio rack is very, very nice. But only worthwhile if it'll function as a repeater, functionality the construction of my apartment requires.
I don't know what PhDs you or Soros know, but most of the ones I've been lucky enough to work with have theirs exactly because they have presence of mind, adaptability, and the experience of taking an idea and forging something new about it.
Also, configuring a W2k proxy server is roughly equivalent to plumbing, and has nothing to do with CS.
Type 1 is the type you're thinking of. None of them generally need anything beyond a BS, and their coursework was mainly focused in 'software engineering' disciplines.
Type 2 is the type that develops new algorithms and does research. They need the postgrad work, and their coursework focuses on algorithms, math, and suchlike.
I really think that we need to split these degrees apart; the first should become 'software engineering' or something similar, to help convey the difference between the application-oriented (engineering) and the theory-oriented (science).
(disclaimer: I am a EE who does algorithms; I work with type 2 when I'm doing algorithm design and type 1 when we need implementation, and appreciate both)
Of course, many of those foreign students got their degrees at US universities.
The primary education system in the US is broken, but the secondary (university) education system in the US is still pretty sharp.
Some other notes: that chart rates the amount of schooling students receive, not the level of education they receive. Of course, its a lot easier to rate 'years attended' than 'worthwhile things learned'. Also, Germany is ranked 12, the US 14, and Japan 25. I don't hear anyone making accusations about the Japanese school systems.
I would argue that reading order is actually preserved, as I think (this is based on my memories of a "How to organize a presentation slide" class, which touched on some of the same subjects) that dialog reading proceeds from lower-right target area to the left; i.e. if we divide the box into 9 sections, organized in the same way as a touchtone phone (123 on the top row), reading of a bottom row set of options proceeds 9-8-7, not 7-8-9.
That said, consistency is *why* Apple's interface works so well, and why GNOME made a damn stupid decision, I couldn't agree with you more. I was just providing the reasoning behind Apple's use of the reversed order, to point out that it was not just "Apple did it".
Stupid one button mouse. Stupid, stupid, one button mouse. (I have to throw that in on any discussion of Apple's UI decisions).
Apple did some UI research back when, which resulted in the finding that the places people look first are upper-left and lower-right corners of a given screen/window/whatever.
Thus they decided on two things: action-based buttons (OK and Cancel are not acceptable - Save, Don't Save are) and placing the most used button at the lower right.
That's why Apple does it. Now, it's possible that their research would come out differently on a modern audience; it might behoove them to redo it (I wish they'd redo their one-button mouse research) but there is a reason behind it.
The government can't say "But there's an existing working method to put forth this speech, so you don't need that method we don't like." They have to prove that the specific method of speech they would like to control is obscene or presents a clear and present danger. There is no way you can tell me that PHP code is obscene (Perl might be a different matter...) and the way clear and present danger has been interpreted requires a near instant danger.
Your point that there are other ways to implement the speech does not mean government can regulate this particular speech.
You'd have been invaded. I can't promise you wouldn't have repulsed the invasion eventually, but the odds are slim to none GB wouldn't have seen foreign troops on its soil.
Re #1. I seem to recall a CD in my box with the developer tools. That said, it was a box shipped to my university tech support job, so it might not be in the standard OS X box.
Re #8. VLC is slow and ugly, and fails to playback video QT does fine with. Sorry, but QT wins this one for the media it can play. I have a G3-400 Powerbook. Try Cellulo if you really dislike QT's frontend.
And yes. I've personally gotten commended by my boss's boss for cutting about 2 cents off our BOM by getting rid of a resistor; why? Because we know we're going to sell 1 million plus of that particular module.
I didn't mean directly scaling SS1 for heavy lift; however, some of the techniques used can probably be adapted to a heavy lift vehicle to allow it to fly more cheaply. I'm with you that we should absolutely seperate lift and crew vehicles; the major problems with the space shuttle stem from two sources - the fact that we combined lift and crew on one vehicle, and the Air Force requirements that have become totally meaningless.
We'll see how SpaceX does. I'm hopeful, but not holding my breath, you know?
Check out Aardvark's DirectPro LX6 (4in, 6out, 24/96) - not a true external, but shielded PCI card, shielded cable, and a nice sturdy breakout box.
Alternately, look at an ADAT card and something like a Frontier Tango.
Could even look at one of the newer Firewire boxes like Digidesign's Digi002 or MOTU's (828? I can't remember...)
None of these options is cheap, but if you want good multitrack, you're gonna have to pay.
My setup is actually a Yamaha 01V digital mixer, connected to the computer via SPDIF (I have no need for multitrack right now, but if I ever did, I'd pickup an ADAT card to make it happen). All the conversion happens inside the Yamaha; it isn't 24/96, but I'm okay with 18/44 for what I'm doing.
DAT is usually (for portable use) setup as a two-track 16/44.1 medium. Uncompressed; it was used in studios as the first digital storage mechanism prior to the advent of hard-drive based recording systems.
The lossiness on MD is honestly about as bad as the crappy-ass converters in your SBLive. Toss up as to which one is going to sound worse.
That's because many patentable inventions these days aren't the kind of thing you develop on notebook paper.
Our legal department has told me they would very much like to go back to the days of signed/dated entries, but that given that 99% of patent work we do is done on a computer, they've pretty much accepted that its going to be computer files and sworn statements to verify date from here on out.
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Because if you use FM, you aren't broadcasting AM?
Also, because both FM and AM suffer from pretty nasty interference in built up areas, have mediocre sound quality, and can earn you visits from the FCC if you don't stay within Part 15 regs.
I understand the BS isn't mathless, but there's a difference between the standard 2 years of calc, and serious number theory, complexity research, and all the other things that go into serious CS. Similarly, any EE is going to get a semester of semiconductor physics or a semester of controls theory, but there's a huge difference between that and the ones who spend 4 or 5 years studying *just* device fabrication or *just* optimal control methods.
Of course the distinctions are less hard and fast than I made them out, but in general, as you move from non-degreed and BS to MS and PhD you'll see more and more 2s and less and less 1s.
Hey, I didn't say the ability was *useful*, but if the system someday allows streaming of, say, surround-encoded AAC or DVD audio, I could see a use.
I personally recommend carrying a 10 or 25' spool of phone line with you if you think you'll be using your modem; it rolls up pretty neatly and given the amount of pain using a modem causes most of us anyway, any theoretical signal degradation will remain firmly theoretical.
Seriously. You can even buy one of those silly retracting cords and you have a tape-measure sized package to fix this.
This is a neat product, but not for that purpose.
You know, I use one in my car, but in Chicago, 3rd channel seperation is a joke - finding a clear station to transmit on is pretty much impossible, so you have to settle for "good enough". Sound quality is compromised pretty severely.
And the price premium for this, considering all the other things it brings (wifi repeater, USB print server, etc.) over a good FM transmitter isn't that high.
No, there's also optical out. Probably a combo mini-TOSlink jack, haven't looked.
So the original question re: 5.1 is valid; that said, I wouldn't expect the ability to be there.
Does anyone know if this will interoperate properly with non-Apple base stations? I'd jump all over this if it would work as a repeater with my cheap-ass Netgear wireless router - the added connection to my stereo would be nice, but the two together in a package small enough to hide behind my audio rack is very, very nice. But only worthwhile if it'll function as a repeater, functionality the construction of my apartment requires.
I don't know what PhDs you or Soros know, but most of the ones I've been lucky enough to work with have theirs exactly because they have presence of mind, adaptability, and the experience of taking an idea and forging something new about it.
Also, configuring a W2k proxy server is roughly equivalent to plumbing, and has nothing to do with CS.
I've found that there are two types of CS:
Type 1 is the type you're thinking of. None of them generally need anything beyond a BS, and their coursework was mainly focused in 'software engineering' disciplines.
Type 2 is the type that develops new algorithms and does research. They need the postgrad work, and their coursework focuses on algorithms, math, and suchlike.
I really think that we need to split these degrees apart; the first should become 'software engineering' or something similar, to help convey the difference between the application-oriented (engineering) and the theory-oriented (science).
(disclaimer: I am a EE who does algorithms; I work with type 2 when I'm doing algorithm design and type 1 when we need implementation, and appreciate both)
Of course, many of those foreign students got their degrees at US universities.
The primary education system in the US is broken, but the secondary (university) education system in the US is still pretty sharp.
Some other notes: that chart rates the amount of schooling students receive, not the level of education they receive. Of course, its a lot easier to rate 'years attended' than 'worthwhile things learned'. Also, Germany is ranked 12, the US 14, and Japan 25. I don't hear anyone making accusations about the Japanese school systems.
I would argue that reading order is actually preserved, as I think (this is based on my memories of a "How to organize a presentation slide" class, which touched on some of the same subjects) that dialog reading proceeds from lower-right target area to the left; i.e. if we divide the box into 9 sections, organized in the same way as a touchtone phone (123 on the top row), reading of a bottom row set of options proceeds 9-8-7, not 7-8-9.
That said, consistency is *why* Apple's interface works so well, and why GNOME made a damn stupid decision, I couldn't agree with you more. I was just providing the reasoning behind Apple's use of the reversed order, to point out that it was not just "Apple did it".
Stupid one button mouse. Stupid, stupid, one button mouse. (I have to throw that in on any discussion of Apple's UI decisions).
Apple did some UI research back when, which resulted in the finding that the places people look first are upper-left and lower-right corners of a given screen/window/whatever.
Thus they decided on two things: action-based buttons (OK and Cancel are not acceptable - Save, Don't Save are) and placing the most used button at the lower right.
That's why Apple does it. Now, it's possible that their research would come out differently on a modern audience; it might behoove them to redo it (I wish they'd redo their one-button mouse research) but there is a reason behind it.
You don't understand the 1st amendment.
The government can't say "But there's an existing working method to put forth this speech, so you don't need that method we don't like." They have to prove that the specific method of speech they would like to control is obscene or presents a clear and present danger. There is no way you can tell me that PHP code is obscene (Perl might be a different matter...) and the way clear and present danger has been interpreted requires a near instant danger.
Your point that there are other ways to implement the speech does not mean government can regulate this particular speech.
Laid off IT workers worked in computers. That doesn't make them qualified to examine most patents coming through the office.
Not all patents are software patents.
You'd have been invaded. I can't promise you wouldn't have repulsed the invasion eventually, but the odds are slim to none GB wouldn't have seen foreign troops on its soil.
So, Mozilla is an MS app now?
He was comparing Moz on Windows and Linux.
Re #1. I seem to recall a CD in my box with the developer tools. That said, it was a box shipped to my university tech support job, so it might not be in the standard OS X box.
Re #8. VLC is slow and ugly, and fails to playback video QT does fine with. Sorry, but QT wins this one for the media it can play. I have a G3-400 Powerbook. Try Cellulo if you really dislike QT's frontend.
And, of course, without American aid you chaps would have maintained your invadedlessness in WW2?
If I hadn't spent the last couple days updating a BOM and delta file for a 2000 component system by hand, I probably wouldn't even have thought of it.
But I've looked at the words Bill of Materials across the title bar for two days straight, damn it.
This is what happens when your R&D department is *run* by your marketing department.
BOM = Bill of Materials, not Balance.
And yes. I've personally gotten commended by my boss's boss for cutting about 2 cents off our BOM by getting rid of a resistor; why? Because we know we're going to sell 1 million plus of that particular module.
I didn't mean directly scaling SS1 for heavy lift; however, some of the techniques used can probably be adapted to a heavy lift vehicle to allow it to fly more cheaply. I'm with you that we should absolutely seperate lift and crew vehicles; the major problems with the space shuttle stem from two sources - the fact that we combined lift and crew on one vehicle, and the Air Force requirements that have become totally meaningless.
We'll see how SpaceX does. I'm hopeful, but not holding my breath, you know?
Check out Aardvark's DirectPro LX6 (4in, 6out, 24/96) - not a true external, but shielded PCI card, shielded cable, and a nice sturdy breakout box.
Alternately, look at an ADAT card and something like a Frontier Tango.
Could even look at one of the newer Firewire boxes like Digidesign's Digi002 or MOTU's (828? I can't remember...)
None of these options is cheap, but if you want good multitrack, you're gonna have to pay.
My setup is actually a Yamaha 01V digital mixer, connected to the computer via SPDIF (I have no need for multitrack right now, but if I ever did, I'd pickup an ADAT card to make it happen). All the conversion happens inside the Yamaha; it isn't 24/96, but I'm okay with 18/44 for what I'm doing.
DAT is usually (for portable use) setup as a two-track 16/44.1 medium. Uncompressed; it was used in studios as the first digital storage mechanism prior to the advent of hard-drive based recording systems.
The lossiness on MD is honestly about as bad as the crappy-ass converters in your SBLive. Toss up as to which one is going to sound worse.
That's because many patentable inventions these days aren't the kind of thing you develop on notebook paper.
Our legal department has told me they would very much like to go back to the days of signed/dated entries, but that given that 99% of patent work we do is done on a computer, they've pretty much accepted that its going to be computer files and sworn statements to verify date from here on out.