(I'll give Steel Battalion and its cohort a pass here, as part of the fun there is the ridiculous intricacy of the controls... if you think that's fun.)
And at my count, the GC puts up 1 digital pad, 2 analog pads, one control button, 5 game buttons, and 2 analog shoulder triggers.
PS2 has... 1 digital pad. 2 analog pads. 2 control buttons. 8 game buttons. 10 if you count clicking the analog pads down.
I don't have an XBox, but web info says it has... 1 digital pad. 2 analog pads. 2 control buttons. 6 game buttons, all of which have a 'light' and 'heavy' push setting, and 2 analog shoulder triggers.
1. Tunneling - because to escape a black hole requires exceeding the speed of light. The reason Hawking radiation can get away with it is because one particle in the pair is created just outside the event horizon and gets a kick outward from the annihilation of its partner.
2. Gravity. An explosion cannot push matter at or faster than lightspeed. I guess, in theory, the center of a blackhole could explode continuously, but we'd never know because nothing would ever exit the event horizon.
3. I have no idea. Hell of an interesting question, though, and one that I bet there's some debate about amongst physicists - basically, you're asking is it possible to transmit information faster than light (being that FTL is the necessary condition for energy/mass escape of a black hole). This one is way beyond my handwavy quantumness.
You are neither required nor encouraged to carry your SSN card, however. I found this out when I got stopped after a job; due to the nature of the job (IATSE stringer) I had to carry my SSN card to any new venue I worked.
The cop asked me to empty my pockets (presumably because at the time I looked like a stoner) and looked surprised when an SSN card turned up. He asked me why I was carrying it, and explained that it was not encouraged to carry them due to the fact that if you lose it, its a pain to replace and very easy for someone else to use illegally.
Finally, it isn't photo ID, so its not that useful as ID.
Yeah... thing is, capsules make a lot of sense for many things, spaceplanes often don't. Spacedaily ran a series of articles outlining the technical reasons why you might want to use a capsule over a spaceplane.
Sorry, didn't the Norwegian Special Crimes Unit prosecute Johansen because the MPAA asked them to?
Government everywhere is stupid, you just hear more about the US. I'd be willing to bet there are some real entertaining laws hidden in Scandinavia too, its just that no one cares enough about laws that only effect 12 people.
Wattage DOES have a direct bearing on the loudness of the system!
Double your wattage, you get a 3 dB increase in output, or roughly a 1.4x increase in intensity. However, since hearing is logarithmic, to get the same increase in apparent loudness, you need to double your wattage again.
Now, it is true that amplifier wattage is not the only important thing; acoustic conversion efficiency of the speaker (the percentage of electrical input that becomes acoustical energy, usually a very poor ratio) and acoustics of the space are important too.
Still, wattage does indeed have a direct bearing on the loudness of a system.
I make no claims for its bearing on quality, because there is NO direct correlation there at all.
I'm an engineer. I do algorithm and control system engineering. I write a lot of code. I mostly write in an environment called MATLAB. It's a very high level language for mathematical computation.
If I need to implement a real-time system, I usually wind up using C. You all know C.
However, one of the newer developments in control system engineering is the idea of autocoding. I know I need a summing block, a control law block, and a difference block. The control law block is composed, in turn, of various components that implement some mathematical function.
Once I've drawn all this into Simulink, MATLAB's graphical layer, I hit "Code", it generates code implementing my functional design automatically, downloads it to the real-time control system, and I go sit in the lab and see if the transmission blows up with the new controller, or if it works.
Would my job be more or less effective with autocode? It would certainly be quicker.
This guy is full of shit, basically. The future is a higher level of abstraction, not less. Why the hell should I care if the underlying computer language beneath my "add A to B" is implemented with this opcode or that opcode? I don't, as long as the end result is "A+B" in the appropriate variable.
The future isn't going to be a return to bare-iron programming, it's going to be the continuation of the trend we've seen to date - increasing abstraction for everyone except a shrinking number of people who write to the bare iron.
c) before you get all misty-eyed (too late, i know), the "heart of the NET" was the u.s. military. i'm much happier with the heart of the net being porn sites than some kind of post-apocalyptic military communications network. that seems like progress to me. if some gung-ho motherfuckers get our world blown-up, the last thing i want them to be able to do is get together and talk about it afterwords.
Yeah. Now, if the gung-ho motherfuckers blow up the world, they won't be able to talk to each other, because they'll be too busy searching for porn.
More broadly, Western diplomats said they believed Washington and Beijing would weather the dispute. "This kind of thing is to be expected," said a Chinese security expert, who noted that relations between Washington and Moscow were not seriously disrupted by disclosures in the 1980s that the Soviets had bugged the new U.S. Embassy. The expert added, "Even if our relations were excellent, we would still spy on each other."
Well, the other side will own up to it... now for the CIA....
[BLOCKQUOTE]The biggest recognized Linux brand name known to the public-at-large is Red Hat. If AOL was able to convince Red Hat to incorporate a binary-only security system into their distribution, then Linux-loving people could not easily cry that their favorite operating system could not support digital rights management.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
If this were to happen, then Linus could quite easily withdraw AOL's right to use the name Linux (see Phillips vs. copy-protection)
Sure, AOL'd still have an OS, but after they'd spent ump-teen million dollars to promote it (which they would!).... a hacker could force them to spend it all over again.
Besides, do you really think that AOL can control what the rest of the Linux distros do? Get a clue.
First, Energiya made two flights. The first was the Energiya, used to launch the Skif-DM battle station - the payload had a guidance failure, but the Energiya flew perfectly.
The second flight is probably what you're thinking of, a mock unmanned launch of the combined Energiya-Buran system. It also went perfectly.
Lack of funding then killed the program (1988-1989 and the Soviet Union? Hmmm....)
Most Russian hardware is built to last. I rather suspect that a lot of the mothballed gear could be recommissioned, if the lift capacity were needed. It'd probably be cheaper than building a new heavy-lift design, at any rate.
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Israel is a bit different.
True. The only completely true thing you said, in fact.
1) Israel is the occupying force. Palestenians are trying to gain a country they lost and are living under israeli rule.
Of course, you're choosing to ignore the Bedouin and Druzi populations that live, quite peacefully, within Israel. Both of these Arabic populations haven't lost a thing, and live under a government in which they have full representation. Furthermore, there are people who are ethnically Arab (distinct from Druzi/Bedouin in some ways) who also live, with full rights, in Israel. The only so-called right the Arabic population of Israel lack is the "right" to mandatory military service. Even there, they are allowed to serve if they so choose. 90% of the Druzi do. About 65% of the Bedouin do. Those figures are courtesy of the heads of tribes of Bedouin and Druzi, when I visited them a few years ago. Yes, Charlie Brown, there is Arab rights, Arab representation, and Arabic political parties in the Israeli legal-political system.
2) The ratio of palestenians killed to israelis killed is HUGE (close to 10 to 1). Of course you'd never know this listening to US media.
True. Forgive me for saying it this way, but... when one side is armed as well as the US military, and the other side is armed... well, about as well as the Taliban, which side do you expect more deaths on?
Both the israelis and the palestenians know the following.
Palestenians would rather die then to live under israeli occupoation. Israelis would rather kill palestenians then to move out.
I would agree with this, so long as you recognize the difference between an Arab and a Palestinian. Very simply, the Palestinians you refer to are in a similar situation to the Cuban exiles in Miami - when the new government took over, they ran because they thought it would be over, in their favor, quickly. When it didn't end in their favor, they decided to use terrorist tactics to retrieve what they had abandoned.
As long as the ratio of dead arabs to dead jews stays high the US is just fine with it as is israel and the rest of europe.
Ever listen to BBC World Service coverage of Arab-Israeli news? It's almost entirely anti-Semitic. The US does support Israel. We're pretty much the only ones.
Maybe you should learn something about a situation before you comment - globalization is not necessarily bad, the Israelis are not necessarily wrong, and there are shades between black and white that you would be encouraged to look for. The Arab-Israeli conflict will not end until Palestinians stop terrorist acts and make *reasonable* demands of Israel. Demanding half of the capital of Israel (Jerusalem) is not acceptable. Period.
Of course, being that SPDIF is a protocol standard, not a physical standard...
Repeat after me. Digital audio on consumer copper (I.E. your precious coax RCA cable) is SPDIF format. Digital audio on consumer plastic (TOSLink) is ALSO SPDIF format. There is 0 (read: ZERO) difference between the protocol used on fiber and coax - the only difference is in what represents a 1 and what represents a 0.
As to jitter causing distortion/degradation - yes, it can. But if you're MP3ing it anyway, you don't care. Besides which, as was already pointed out, jitter only comes into play during A/D and D/A conversions, unless the digital-to-digital clock jitter is greater than (1/2 pulsewidth - sampling time (which is NOT the same as sampling rate)).
So, no jitter losses over your SPDIF transfer, although the output from your soundcard could quite easily suffer, depending on how it sounds.
I'm glad you were being sarcastic about the rest of it, though.
I wouldn't know. I refuse to use it. It's not at all a good interface, as far as I can tell, because it says NOTHING about how to use it. Help? There's no help command. There's no indication of how to get to help. There's no indication of how to EXIT.
Before I get flamed for not RTFM or anything like that.... a basic usability concern is that if, by some strange chance, a user accidentally fires up something they didn't mean to/want to, they should at least be able to cleanly leave it. I always end up killing or suspend/killing vi when it gets called.
People tell me that vi is incredibly powerful for programming. That's funny. I code in pico and Matlab's program editor. All I really want out of a file editor is find/replace and line numbering, or at least cursor finding. Both of these do that, quite well. I'm perfectly happy to use them.
People who think things that are hard to use are innately powerful are stupid. You can have a simple, powerful program. Vi is not. Therefore, I will not use vi.
It's just that you don't hear the crap that was released then anymore. In 15 years, do you think you're going to hear a whole lot of any of these no-name boy bands who sprung up to cash in on the success?
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SoulCaliburII seems to look better on my GC than on the Xbox I tried it on, and definitely better than the PS2 version...
The fact that I get to play it progressive-scan and neither the Xbox or PS2 I saw it on were hooked up to an HDTV might help, though.
A good game doesn't need all that many buttons.
(I'll give Steel Battalion and its cohort a pass here, as part of the fun there is the ridiculous intricacy of the controls... if you think that's fun.)
And at my count, the GC puts up 1 digital pad, 2 analog pads, one control button, 5 game buttons, and 2 analog shoulder triggers.
PS2 has... 1 digital pad. 2 analog pads. 2 control buttons. 8 game buttons. 10 if you count clicking the analog pads down.
I don't have an XBox, but web info says it has... 1 digital pad. 2 analog pads. 2 control buttons. 6 game buttons, all of which have a 'light' and 'heavy' push setting, and 2 analog shoulder triggers.
I don't see the difficulty.
1. Tunneling - because to escape a black hole requires exceeding the speed of light. The reason Hawking radiation can get away with it is because one particle in the pair is created just outside the event horizon and gets a kick outward from the annihilation of its partner.
2. Gravity. An explosion cannot push matter at or faster than lightspeed. I guess, in theory, the center of a blackhole could explode continuously, but we'd never know because nothing would ever exit the event horizon.
3. I have no idea. Hell of an interesting question, though, and one that I bet there's some debate about amongst physicists - basically, you're asking is it possible to transmit information faster than light (being that FTL is the necessary condition for energy/mass escape of a black hole). This one is way beyond my handwavy quantumness.
You are neither required nor encouraged to carry your SSN card, however. I found this out when I got stopped after a job; due to the nature of the job (IATSE stringer) I had to carry my SSN card to any new venue I worked.
The cop asked me to empty my pockets (presumably because at the time I looked like a stoner) and looked surprised when an SSN card turned up. He asked me why I was carrying it, and explained that it was not encouraged to carry them due to the fact that if you lose it, its a pain to replace and very easy for someone else to use illegally.
Finally, it isn't photo ID, so its not that useful as ID.
Oh, come on now....
Many politicians know the word "SSH".
It's what people say to them immediately prior to handing them a large bag of money.
Because Apple isn't selling Ogg-encoded music on iTMS?
Yeah... thing is, capsules make a lot of sense for many things, spaceplanes often don't. Spacedaily ran a series of articles outlining the technical reasons why you might want to use a capsule over a spaceplane.
Sorry, didn't the Norwegian Special Crimes Unit prosecute Johansen because the MPAA asked them to?
Government everywhere is stupid, you just hear more about the US. I'd be willing to bet there are some real entertaining laws hidden in Scandinavia too, its just that no one cares enough about laws that only effect 12 people.
Polyphony was not really the proper word. Polyphony in musical instruments has come to mean the ability to produce multiple voices simultaneously.
The explanation probably has a lot more to do with acoustic excitation of the space, diffusion of sound, and interference/intermodulation effects.
Hey, guess what?
Wattage DOES have a direct bearing on the loudness of the system!
Double your wattage, you get a 3 dB increase in output, or roughly a 1.4x increase in intensity. However, since hearing is logarithmic, to get the same increase in apparent loudness, you need to double your wattage again.
Now, it is true that amplifier wattage is not the only important thing; acoustic conversion efficiency of the speaker (the percentage of electrical input that becomes acoustical energy, usually a very poor ratio) and acoustics of the space are important too.
Still, wattage does indeed have a direct bearing on the loudness of a system.
I make no claims for its bearing on quality, because there is NO direct correlation there at all.
I'm an engineer. I do algorithm and control system engineering. I write a lot of code. I mostly write in an environment called MATLAB. It's a very high level language for mathematical computation.
If I need to implement a real-time system, I usually wind up using C. You all know C.
However, one of the newer developments in control system engineering is the idea of autocoding. I know I need a summing block, a control law block, and a difference block. The control law block is composed, in turn, of various components that implement some mathematical function.
Once I've drawn all this into Simulink, MATLAB's graphical layer, I hit "Code", it generates code implementing my functional design automatically, downloads it to the real-time control system, and I go sit in the lab and see if the transmission blows up with the new controller, or if it works.
Would my job be more or less effective with autocode? It would certainly be quicker.
This guy is full of shit, basically. The future is a higher level of abstraction, not less. Why the hell should I care if the underlying computer language beneath my "add A to B" is implemented with this opcode or that opcode? I don't, as long as the end result is "A+B" in the appropriate variable.
The future isn't going to be a return to bare-iron programming, it's going to be the continuation of the trend we've seen to date - increasing abstraction for everyone except a shrinking number of people who write to the bare iron.
It was my box last year, and this year's did not get stolen. Be cutting up the MP3s soon.
Noise is a type of signal, at least if you talk to any signal processing geek.
Noise generally refers to "Any signal other than the desired signal."
Use of the pain sender is optional because it is assumed the content of said CDs and DVDs is already causing you enough pain.
They included all 4 of those. You didn't read the second part of the article, did you?
Mod parent down for being flat out WRONG.
Yeah. Now, if the gung-ho motherfuckers blow up the world, they won't be able to talk to each other, because they'll be too busy searching for porn.
Well, the other side will own up to it... now for the CIA....
[BLOCKQUOTE]The biggest recognized Linux brand name known to the public-at-large is Red Hat. If AOL was able to convince Red Hat to incorporate a binary-only security system into their distribution, then Linux-loving people could not easily cry that their favorite operating system could not support digital rights management.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
If this were to happen, then Linus could quite easily withdraw AOL's right to use the name Linux (see Phillips vs. copy-protection)
Sure, AOL'd still have an OS, but after they'd spent ump-teen million dollars to promote it (which they would!).... a hacker could force them to spend it all over again.
Besides, do you really think that AOL can control what the rest of the Linux distros do? Get a clue.
First, Energiya made two flights. The first was the Energiya, used to launch the Skif-DM battle station - the payload had a guidance failure, but the Energiya flew perfectly.
The second flight is probably what you're thinking of, a mock unmanned launch of the combined Energiya-Buran system. It also went perfectly.
Lack of funding then killed the program (1988-1989 and the Soviet Union? Hmmm....)
Most Russian hardware is built to last. I rather suspect that a lot of the mothballed gear could be recommissioned, if the lift capacity were needed. It'd probably be cheaper than building a new heavy-lift design, at any rate.
True. The only completely true thing you said, in fact.
Of course, you're choosing to ignore the Bedouin and Druzi populations that live, quite peacefully, within Israel. Both of these Arabic populations haven't lost a thing, and live under a government in which they have full representation. Furthermore, there are people who are ethnically Arab (distinct from Druzi/Bedouin in some ways) who also live, with full rights, in Israel. The only so-called right the Arabic population of Israel lack is the "right" to mandatory military service. Even there, they are allowed to serve if they so choose. 90% of the Druzi do. About 65% of the Bedouin do. Those figures are courtesy of the heads of tribes of Bedouin and Druzi, when I visited them a few years ago. Yes, Charlie Brown, there is Arab rights, Arab representation, and Arabic political parties in the Israeli legal-political system.
True. Forgive me for saying it this way, but... when one side is armed as well as the US military, and the other side is armed... well, about as well as the Taliban, which side do you expect more deaths on?
I would agree with this, so long as you recognize the difference between an Arab and a Palestinian. Very simply, the Palestinians you refer to are in a similar situation to the Cuban exiles in Miami - when the new government took over, they ran because they thought it would be over, in their favor, quickly. When it didn't end in their favor, they decided to use terrorist tactics to retrieve what they had abandoned.
Ever listen to BBC World Service coverage of Arab-Israeli news? It's almost entirely anti-Semitic. The US does support Israel. We're pretty much the only ones.
Maybe you should learn something about a situation before you comment - globalization is not necessarily bad, the Israelis are not necessarily wrong, and there are shades between black and white that you would be encouraged to look for. The Arab-Israeli conflict will not end until Palestinians stop terrorist acts and make *reasonable* demands of Israel. Demanding half of the capital of Israel (Jerusalem) is not acceptable. Period.
Or, if we want to go with One Big Noisy International booster...
How about the Russian Energiya rockets, which puts pretty much every other rocket made to shame.
There's more than one....
MeV = megavolt??? No, no, no.... accelerator energies are usually measured in "Mega-electron-volts", or MeV. A megavolt is MV.
Of course, being that SPDIF is a protocol standard, not a physical standard...
Repeat after me. Digital audio on consumer copper (I.E. your precious coax RCA cable) is SPDIF format. Digital audio on consumer plastic (TOSLink) is ALSO SPDIF format. There is 0 (read: ZERO) difference between the protocol used on fiber and coax - the only difference is in what represents a 1 and what represents a 0.
As to jitter causing distortion/degradation - yes, it can. But if you're MP3ing it anyway, you don't care. Besides which, as was already pointed out, jitter only comes into play during A/D and D/A conversions, unless the digital-to-digital clock jitter is greater than (1/2 pulsewidth - sampling time (which is NOT the same as sampling rate)).
So, no jitter losses over your SPDIF transfer, although the output from your soundcard could quite easily suffer, depending on how it sounds.
I'm glad you were being sarcastic about the rest of it, though.
Vi may or may not be powerful.
I wouldn't know. I refuse to use it. It's not at all a good interface, as far as I can tell, because it says NOTHING about how to use it. Help? There's no help command. There's no indication of how to get to help. There's no indication of how to EXIT.
Before I get flamed for not RTFM or anything like that.... a basic usability concern is that if, by some strange chance, a user accidentally fires up something they didn't mean to/want to, they should at least be able to cleanly leave it. I always end up killing or suspend/killing vi when it gets called.
People tell me that vi is incredibly powerful for programming. That's funny. I code in pico and Matlab's program editor. All I really want out of a file editor is find/replace and line numbering, or at least cursor finding. Both of these do that, quite well. I'm perfectly happy to use them.
People who think things that are hard to use are innately powerful are stupid. You can have a simple, powerful program. Vi is not. Therefore, I will not use vi.
Actually, music in the past wasn't better.
It's just that you don't hear the crap that was released then anymore. In 15 years, do you think you're going to hear a whole lot of any of these no-name boy bands who sprung up to cash in on the success?