WAV is not necessarily 16 bit. There are 8, 16, 24, and 32 bit WAVs (that I've seen) and I suspect the format can handle higher bitdepths. I know it can handle 192/24.
VCOs can be based on about a million different architectures; for instance, high accuracy low frequency ones are often based on integrator/reset designs (produces a unipolar sawtooth VCO, which can be summed with a constant low voltage and integrated to produce a unipolar triangle VCO, which can then be put through a comparator to produce a unipolar square VCO). VCOs can also be done as DCOs, with an A/D input stage and a small ucontroller doing the flipflop (for square wave VCO only). Saying you must have logic loops to get a VCO is a bunch of junk.
Also; if you know enough to design a working VCO using logic loops (I do, presumably you do) then do it on a PCB. The purpose of these from the description is not to allow EEs to prototype, its to allow random people to play around with electronics in ways they might not get to.
A NOR block with its output hooked back to its input time-delayed is an oscillator, which is only marginally better than a NOR block looped with no time delay (which is undefined).
Unless they can justifiably say "The release is not believable" then they can't.
Basically - if your foot released some source code as GPL, your brain could revoke it, but not if your brain released the code.
Similarly, if the janitor GPLs some code, it can be revoked, but if your chief programmer GPLs code he worked on, its much more difficult to revoke. Its based on the external perception of the release; the world as a whole is not required to know your internal issues. If its reasonable to assume that the action was taken with knowledge, then even if it was taken without central knowledge, the action can be enforced as legal.
I got a briefing from the guy who runs our law department. Note: he runs the law department for a ~$4 *billion* dollar per year revenue unit. He probably knows what he's talking about.
During this briefing, he emphasized that if we make a deal, it can be enforced if its believable. If I tell a supplier "Yes, we will use your part in this product I'm working on if you can improve factor X" and the supplier goes out and improves factor X... we can be forced to use their part on my word. However, if I went to someone and said "I'll sell you our company for $4", it wouldn't be enforceable.
Now, if an MS officer posted Windows as GPL, it would be unlikely to be upheld because Windows has *huge* economic value, such that GPLing it is a decision that could only really be made by the CEO, the COO, and the board of directors.
GPLing WASTE, on the other hand, is the sort of action a mid-level employee of a company could believably be asked to do. Thus, its possible that the code is in fact legally released.
Unfortunately, as the lawyer pointed out, none of that matters because eventually it'll get settled in court by attorneys who cost on the order of $3 million per year.
They aren't carried on local radio. And hockey is not really a radio sport anyway; frankly, the only sport I can stand listening to on the radio is baseball.
I'd watch them on TV, but I canceled my TV so I'll just hope there's a webstream to listen to them, because it'd be better than nothing.
Windows supports most 3D hardware out of the box. It may not have the newest drivers for it, but XP can pick up the card. And getting 3D acceleration running on Windows is, by all accounts I've ever heard, nearly always less painful than doing it on Linux.
I can't agree with you on the Grandma question, because I honestly feel that she'd get Windows installed 99.9% of the time, whereas Redhat would install a lot less often; she might have more on the occasions she got it installed, but there are so many more things that go wrong.
Also, if your Grandma is anything like my Grandma, why would she want games? She wants great grandchildren, not games!
Remember that permeability is frequency dependent; at low frequencies, you need something like mu metal to provide any shielding, but at high frequencies tin foil will work just as well.
Conservation of energy implies conservation of power over time.
Thus, you can store a small amount of power input over time in order to output a large pulse of power all at once, but the total power in will remain less than the total power out. This is equivalent to conservation of energy, as you stated, and is what I was trying to imply.
Amplifiers are possible in the sense that you can have an output that's a gain-increased version of the input, but not in the sense of totalenergyintotalenergyout. As long as you agree with that statement, we're fine.
I feel the same way about Six Feet Under. S2 is out in June... can't wait. Fortunately, I've only just finished S1 of Oz, so it'll be a bit before I go into withdrawal. Also just started Sopranos. Do you know if they're planning on putting The Wire onto DVD? The concept seems interesting, I'd like to see it.
Active amplifiers can push more power out their output than they pull in their signal input, but the total power coming in (on the input lines plus the power supply lines) will ALWAYS be less than the total power going out.
Conservation of energy, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. These do NOT break.
Good. But you don't say that, which makes XP seem less usable than it is (and in many respects, XP is quite usable - its installation is not what I consider painful).
I'm curious about my USB problems too; I've really played around with a bunch of settings; legacy, hub/no hub, motherboard switch (I was lucky enough to have one of the boards built with those leaky caps), etc, etc.
Right now I'm just ignoring Linux because all my drives are locked into an onboard RAID config that Linux doesn't seem to want to boot from, but when the replacement HDD comes in, I'll probably take another shot at it.
Mandrake is mainstream, and the reason I tried it is because its supposed to have excellent hardware support.
You're slow. Took me about 6 hours to go from dead system to fully loaded/drivered with XP, Firefox, OOo, the Adobe apps I use, a couple audio apps (CEP and FruityLoops), Norton, some specialized engineering software I installed over a VPN...
And Linux still won't work for me, because Mandrake won't detect my USB keyboard during install. No, I'm serious. Hub in way, hub out of way, two different motherboards have been tried, USB legacy on, USB legacy off... not a damn thing. And its an MS keyboard, hardly a rare piece of hardware. Mouse doesn't detect either. Gentoo will detect both, but who the hell really wants to set up Gentoo?
My bias is that Bush is noticeably patriotic/jingoistic/nationalistic. His space program is, arguably, being proposed simply as a measure of pride to compete with the Chinese in space. Thus, co-operating with the Russians would not serve the purpose for which he proposed the plan (national pride/show of power), and is therefore unlikely.
Come on... you don't seriously believe Bush proposed going to Mars for *scientific* reasons, do you? It's about pride.
I'm all for paper ballots, believe me. That's basically my point. Evoting/computers don't provide an adequate advantage over paper ballots to justify them being required as the means to vote.
The only real advantage to a mechanically produced paper ballot is that it could provide a ballot containing both voter-verified and machine-readable information; then, the cut-and-choose protocol would allow us to make sure that the two match. This is really the only advantage - count time (because verification requires sight for all proposed systems, there's almost no one for whom a machine would allow an advantage over the current assisted-vote method). So, it would allow us to declare a faster result... but our delay for handcount is tolerable as is, so its really a solution in search of a problem.
See, we agree, we just took some time to get to it.
If we trust the machine, the protocol will be flawed.
If we don't trust the machine, there's not really much point in changing over.
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ARCHIVAL.
You NEVER compress your archival files if you're serious about it.
WAV is not necessarily 16 bit. There are 8, 16, 24, and 32 bit WAVs (that I've seen) and I suspect the format can handle higher bitdepths. I know it can handle 192/24.
There's something sort of arrogant about publishing your acceptance speech when you didn't even win.
Not necessarily.
VCOs can be based on about a million different architectures; for instance, high accuracy low frequency ones are often based on integrator/reset designs (produces a unipolar sawtooth VCO, which can be summed with a constant low voltage and integrated to produce a unipolar triangle VCO, which can then be put through a comparator to produce a unipolar square VCO). VCOs can also be done as DCOs, with an A/D input stage and a small ucontroller doing the flipflop (for square wave VCO only). Saying you must have logic loops to get a VCO is a bunch of junk.
Also; if you know enough to design a working VCO using logic loops (I do, presumably you do) then do it on a PCB. The purpose of these from the description is not to allow EEs to prototype, its to allow random people to play around with electronics in ways they might not get to.
Flip-flops are looped internally, this is true.
But I suspect that if they're going to produce NOR blocks, they'll produce flip-flop blocks as well.
A NOR block with its output hooked back to its input time-delayed is an oscillator, which is only marginally better than a NOR block looped with no time delay (which is undefined).
Why exactly would you want a logic loop?
IANAL.
Unless they can justifiably say "The release is not believable" then they can't.
Basically - if your foot released some source code as GPL, your brain could revoke it, but not if your brain released the code.
Similarly, if the janitor GPLs some code, it can be revoked, but if your chief programmer GPLs code he worked on, its much more difficult to revoke. Its based on the external perception of the release; the world as a whole is not required to know your internal issues. If its reasonable to assume that the action was taken with knowledge, then even if it was taken without central knowledge, the action can be enforced as legal.
Legally, its different circumstances.
I got a briefing from the guy who runs our law department. Note: he runs the law department for a ~$4 *billion* dollar per year revenue unit. He probably knows what he's talking about.
During this briefing, he emphasized that if we make a deal, it can be enforced if its believable. If I tell a supplier "Yes, we will use your part in this product I'm working on if you can improve factor X" and the supplier goes out and improves factor X... we can be forced to use their part on my word. However, if I went to someone and said "I'll sell you our company for $4", it wouldn't be enforceable.
Now, if an MS officer posted Windows as GPL, it would be unlikely to be upheld because Windows has *huge* economic value, such that GPLing it is a decision that could only really be made by the CEO, the COO, and the board of directors.
GPLing WASTE, on the other hand, is the sort of action a mid-level employee of a company could believably be asked to do. Thus, its possible that the code is in fact legally released.
Unfortunately, as the lawyer pointed out, none of that matters because eventually it'll get settled in court by attorneys who cost on the order of $3 million per year.
My team is the Detroit Red Wings.
I don't live in Detroit anymore.
They aren't carried on local radio. And hockey is not really a radio sport anyway; frankly, the only sport I can stand listening to on the radio is baseball.
I'd watch them on TV, but I canceled my TV so I'll just hope there's a webstream to listen to them, because it'd be better than nothing.
That or go to a sports bar, I guess.
Windows supports most 3D hardware out of the box. It may not have the newest drivers for it, but XP can pick up the card. And getting 3D acceleration running on Windows is, by all accounts I've ever heard, nearly always less painful than doing it on Linux.
I can't agree with you on the Grandma question, because I honestly feel that she'd get Windows installed 99.9% of the time, whereas Redhat would install a lot less often; she might have more on the occasions she got it installed, but there are so many more things that go wrong.
Also, if your Grandma is anything like my Grandma, why would she want games? She wants great grandchildren, not games!
Remember that permeability is frequency dependent; at low frequencies, you need something like mu metal to provide any shielding, but at high frequencies tin foil will work just as well.
No, that's an attenuator. By definition, an amplifier applies a gain greater than unity.
G less than 1 - attenuator
G equals 1 - follower
G greater than 1 - amplifier
Conservation of energy implies conservation of power over time.
Thus, you can store a small amount of power input over time in order to output a large pulse of power all at once, but the total power in will remain less than the total power out. This is equivalent to conservation of energy, as you stated, and is what I was trying to imply.
Amplifiers are possible in the sense that you can have an output that's a gain-increased version of the input, but not in the sense of totalenergyintotalenergyout. As long as you agree with that statement, we're fine.
I feel the same way about Six Feet Under. S2 is out in June... can't wait. Fortunately, I've only just finished S1 of Oz, so it'll be a bit before I go into withdrawal. Also just started Sopranos. Do you know if they're planning on putting The Wire onto DVD? The concept seems interesting, I'd like to see it.
A lot of shows worth watching come out on DVD. If you don't mind waiting a bit, you can watch them through Netflix.
Currently working my way through Oz and the Sopranos via Netflix, I'm sure I'll find something after them.
WRONG.
There is NO SUCH THING as a passive amplifier.
Active amplifiers can push more power out their output than they pull in their signal input, but the total power coming in (on the input lines plus the power supply lines) will ALWAYS be less than the total power going out.
Conservation of energy, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics. These do NOT break.
Good. But you don't say that, which makes XP seem less usable than it is (and in many respects, XP is quite usable - its installation is not what I consider painful).
I'm curious about my USB problems too; I've really played around with a bunch of settings; legacy, hub/no hub, motherboard switch (I was lucky enough to have one of the boards built with those leaky caps), etc, etc.
Right now I'm just ignoring Linux because all my drives are locked into an onboard RAID config that Linux doesn't seem to want to boot from, but when the replacement HDD comes in, I'll probably take another shot at it.
Mandrake is mainstream, and the reason I tried it is because its supposed to have excellent hardware support.
You're slow. Took me about 6 hours to go from dead system to fully loaded/drivered with XP, Firefox, OOo, the Adobe apps I use, a couple audio apps (CEP and FruityLoops), Norton, some specialized engineering software I installed over a VPN...
And Linux still won't work for me, because Mandrake won't detect my USB keyboard during install. No, I'm serious. Hub in way, hub out of way, two different motherboards have been tried, USB legacy on, USB legacy off... not a damn thing. And its an MS keyboard, hardly a rare piece of hardware. Mouse doesn't detect either. Gentoo will detect both, but who the hell really wants to set up Gentoo?
The Michigan law is, to my knowledge, very typical for many US states.
Actually, the reason nothing is 100% efficient is entropy and thermodynamics.
But that doesn't change the fact that we should strive for the highest efficiency reasonably attainable.
Russia is in the midst of closing an agreement with the French to allow them to use Kourou, an equatorial launch site.
The true obstacles to including the Russians are political, not technical.
My bias is that Bush is noticeably patriotic/jingoistic/nationalistic. His space program is, arguably, being proposed simply as a measure of pride to compete with the Chinese in space. Thus, co-operating with the Russians would not serve the purpose for which he proposed the plan (national pride/show of power), and is therefore unlikely.
Come on... you don't seriously believe Bush proposed going to Mars for *scientific* reasons, do you? It's about pride.
Everyone's heard his music.
;)
I mean, 4'33"... who hasn't heard that?
I'm all for paper ballots, believe me. That's basically my point. Evoting/computers don't provide an adequate advantage over paper ballots to justify them being required as the means to vote.
The only real advantage to a mechanically produced paper ballot is that it could provide a ballot containing both voter-verified and machine-readable information; then, the cut-and-choose protocol would allow us to make sure that the two match. This is really the only advantage - count time (because verification requires sight for all proposed systems, there's almost no one for whom a machine would allow an advantage over the current assisted-vote method). So, it would allow us to declare a faster result... but our delay for handcount is tolerable as is, so its really a solution in search of a problem.
See, we agree, we just took some time to get to it.
If we trust the machine, the protocol will be flawed.
If we don't trust the machine, there's not really much point in changing over.
If he can sell it back to the grid, then 20% waste is 20% less return on investment.
Efficiency is not something to be ignored. Ever.