It's 20+ years out... C'mon... When we get within a year or two and it still has a 97.8% chance, I'll worry. But we've got to prove we can't blow the world up ourself first!
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The NORAD tracker for a bittorrent one and had it shut down.
"In fact, recent tests have shown that plasmas even increase in brightness and contrast over the first 10,000 hours while LCDs immediately begin to lose light."
LCD's also have lousy contrast ratios and poor refresh rates compared to Plasma. However, in the market, one technology doesn't automatically trump another. You gotta shop SMART. Currently there are some good LCD screens that outperform some poor Plasma screens. So just buying Plasma doesn't guarantee you a better picture over LCD. It really depends on how much money you're willing to spend.
Eventually LCD's are going to catch up and surpass Plasmas but that's not the case now or in the near future (next year or so).
I myself have a demo Panasonic 42PX20 that has about 6000+ hours on it and I've not noticed any brightness changes at all. My only complaint is that the picture isn't as good as a CRT. But that's true of all flat panels I've observed.
Important shopping tip kids: Contrast is the key, watch dark scenes. Most of the flat panel screens (LCD, Plasma and RPTV LCD screens) will crunch black. So as soon as you get to a dark scene, you don't see shades of gray, everything just goes to black. (Some TVs will auto-adjust their contrast/brightness to counter this but then you end up with brightntess shifts between bright and dark scenes).
Now hundreds of thousands of NYT readers are going to go to the website and see a comic strip of a guy having a fiery car accident and looking all bloody and mangled afterwards...
And they're not going to look at the previous installments because that's too hard.
So this will become their opinion of all video game webcomics. "Ah... yes... extreme non-sensical violence... Ahh, much too banal for me, I must return to the comforting prose of Cathy."
It was too broadly programmed and decided to become a conscientious objector...
(Now there's a sci-fi story waiting to be written... an AI that refuses to do non-efficient work that it was designed to do..."This job is stupid, I'm not doing it...")
And why do you think Microsoft wants to write their "secure" Bios? To make things "safer" for Linux and Windows users?
Nope, to move the flash chip security from the software level to the hardware level and to stop all those evil Linux hacker people from using dd to copy their precious!
You don't NEED a license to get a knife or gun. You do need one to manufacture DVD players and if you violate the terms of that license, you can get sued in a civil court.
It's ironic that because the company played within the rules of the consortium that they're being strung up by those very rules. There was another company that made unlicensed Nintendo games and won the right to do so in court (though I'm not sure how the DMCA would affect that) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_Tree
The *main* problem is that if the consortium allowed this product out in the market, that would be a de-facto demonstration that it's OK for licensed DVD manufacturers to rip DVDs to hard drives (no matter the cost).
I'm not FOR the consortium. I'm merely pointing out that it's in violation of the consortium agreement.
I was also wondering (after my flippant post) if they were putting "free" games onto the harddrive.
Even if they were paying for the games (which I doubt), it still violates at least Microsoft's terms of agreement for software licensing. Unless they were giving out a set of original CD's along with each modded XBox But I don't see the point to that (unless, of course, you're "buying" protection against your XBox CD drive going bad... heh...)
I've been in your situation before with a stomach problem. You're breaking the system!
Doctor's diagnose by a flow chart the same way programmers debug a program. Given a symptom x and y, localize where the problem could be and its causes and try a solution. But unlike programmers, they don't try various solutions, rebuild and retest... Solutions in medical practice take time or can't happen at all at which point the problem has to be mediated to get on with the quality of life(ie hacked).
The problem is that everytime you switch to a new doctor two things are happening. First, the new doctor is going to start from the top of the flowchart and work his way down to the first matching diagnosis and treat that. Even if you say that was checked and the problem is different, you're the pleeb, he's the doctor and unless he gets scientific proof otherwise, his opinion is the right one. Basically, unless you have every medical test result you have, on official paper, your opinion means squat. Secondly, you're retaining all this knowledge and experience so when you present your case to the new doctor you're coming off as: "I went to this doctor with chest pains, but he didn't see anything wrong and I have this other ache which I think is related, so I went to this other doctor who says the other ache is this unrelated problem, but meanwhile I've gained a third symptom of popping in my chest so I went to the emergency room but they didn't think anything of it, so I went to the internet and printed out these charts and I think I have a rare and exotic problem, what do you think?" Well the new Doctor is now going to think "hypochondriac" and not take your opinion very seriously becaue you've disregarded other medical opinions.
Basically you've got to find ONE doctor that you trust, present your symptoms and then work with that doctor through the multitude of tests to come to a conclusion. A good doctor is a> smart, b> will listen to your case history and c> (and most importantly) will interact with you and answer your questions to alleviate your fears.
Two anecdotes here: Both Michael Eisner and David Letterman had family histories of father's dying early from heart attacks. Both men's doctors ran the usual EKG's and stress tests and found no heart troubles. Both men continued to push for better testing and finally their doctors relented and did an dye test on the heart and found major clogging in the arteries with NO other symptoms present.
On the flip side, a relative of mine had chest pains, stomach pains and pains on his upper left abdomen. After several heart tests, his doctor diagnosed acid-reflux and proscribed one of the common pills for it. After about a month, the pain was less but he still had it. So he went back to the same doctor who tested his heart again, no problem. But my uncle was sure that something else was up, so he went through a chest x-ray, clear. So then they ran some blood tests, clear. So then they ran a lower GI test by ramming a camera up his butt, clear. Gall bladder, clear. Finally, they dropped a camera down his stomach...and found something. Acid Reflux damage. My relative had stopped taking the medication because he thought it wasn't doing anything. So the doctor put him back on it and made him stay on it. Two months later, the pain had cleared.
What you're feeling is real to you. I sympathize with what you're going through and urge you to keep up the fight. But you've got to work WITH the system.
So the article says "The counter hit 3,016 before the warning message came up. It went on and off, as Sanderson worked the control panel to accept more votes"
Okay, so you had stupid user error:
"But county elections workers said the message was hard to see. Sanderson said a precinct worker could easily miss it while setting the machines.
L.E. Pond, chairman of the local elections board, was ready with pages copied from the UniLect instruction manual. The warning appears mixed in with other commands, he said, with no explanation of what to do if it pops up."
Oh man... so it came up with an "Out of memory error" but the manual didn't say what to do. So it's "not their fault.
It sounds like you could set the software to more votes (say like 5000) and it would accept them, but keep putting up an error box saying that it couldn't save them and did this for EVERY vote and was ignored...
"With the rise of modern critical history, Troy and the Trojan War were consigned to the realms of legend." IE, Like Atlantis is now... it wasn't until the excavations of the 1870's by Schliemann that led historians to believe that there may be some fact to those legends.
See also this quote from earlier in the article: "The Greeks and Romans took for a fact the historicity of the Trojan War, and in the identity of Homeric Troy with the site in Anatolia."
Implying they believed it but "we" (modern day) don't.
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"It's coming right for us!" >crash
It's 20+ years out... C'mon... When we get within a year or two and it still has a 97.8% chance, I'll worry. But we've got to prove we can't blow the world up ourself first!
The NORAD tracker for a bittorrent one and had it shut down.
Plasma Myths
LCD's also have lousy contrast ratios and poor refresh rates compared to Plasma. However, in the market, one technology doesn't automatically trump another. You gotta shop SMART. Currently there are some good LCD screens that outperform some poor Plasma screens. So just buying Plasma doesn't guarantee you a better picture over LCD. It really depends on how much money you're willing to spend.
Eventually LCD's are going to catch up and surpass Plasmas but that's not the case now or in the near future (next year or so).
I myself have a demo Panasonic 42PX20 that has about 6000+ hours on it and I've not noticed any brightness changes at all. My only complaint is that the picture isn't as good as a CRT. But that's true of all flat panels I've observed.
Important shopping tip kids: Contrast is the key, watch dark scenes. Most of the flat panel screens (LCD, Plasma and RPTV LCD screens) will crunch black. So as soon as you get to a dark scene, you don't see shades of gray, everything just goes to black. (Some TVs will auto-adjust their contrast/brightness to counter this but then you end up with brightntess shifts between bright and dark scenes).
Caveat Emptor!
By the time I RTFA my post will be so down at the bottom of the page that nobody will read my witty banter.
(But yah, I stand corrected otherwise)
It's only revolutionary if the space I purchase rotates counter to the other rings.
It'll be about a circus clown who decides to infiltrate the "evil corporation" that uses animals for experimental testing purposes.
But rest assured, it'll maintain the spirit and flavor of the Splinter Cell franchise we know and love!
Now hundreds of thousands of NYT readers are going to go to the website and see a comic strip of a guy having a fiery car accident and looking all bloody and mangled afterwards...
And they're not going to look at the previous installments because that's too hard.
So this will become their opinion of all video game webcomics. "Ah... yes... extreme non-sensical violence... Ahh, much too banal for me, I must return to the comforting prose of Cathy."
It was too broadly programmed and decided to become a conscientious objector...
(Now there's a sci-fi story waiting to be written... an AI that refuses to do non-efficient work that it was designed to do..."This job is stupid, I'm not doing it...")
I can foresee a day in the near future where CVS logs are used as court records to go after infringers...
And why do you think Microsoft wants to write their "secure" Bios? To make things "safer" for Linux and Windows users?
Nope, to move the flash chip security from the software level to the hardware level and to stop all those evil Linux hacker people from using dd to copy their precious!
You don't NEED a license to get a knife or gun. You do need one to manufacture DVD players and if you violate the terms of that license, you can get sued in a civil court.
It's ironic that because the company played within the rules of the consortium that they're being strung up by those very rules. There was another company that made unlicensed Nintendo games and won the right to do so in court (though I'm not sure how the DMCA would affect that) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_Tree
The *main* problem is that if the consortium allowed this product out in the market, that would be a de-facto demonstration that it's OK for licensed DVD manufacturers to rip DVDs to hard drives (no matter the cost).
I'm not FOR the consortium. I'm merely pointing out that it's in violation of the consortium agreement.
The only "legitimate" software that allowed that was shut down by the DVD consortium. For just that reason.
What's to stop people from going to Blockbuster Video, renting a few hundred DVDs and copying them to this device?
That *is* violation of the DVD consortium license. Isn't it?
I was also wondering (after my flippant post) if they were putting "free" games onto the harddrive.
Even if they were paying for the games (which I doubt), it still violates at least Microsoft's terms of agreement for software licensing. Unless they were giving out a set of original CD's along with each modded XBox But I don't see the point to that (unless, of course, you're "buying" protection against your XBox CD drive going bad... heh...)
"The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores."
Yeah, that sounds like an open and shut case of stupidity to me.
Personally, I think his doctor did all the other probe tests FIRST (lower GI and stuff) to teach him a lesson...
I've been in your situation before with a stomach problem. You're breaking the system!
Doctor's diagnose by a flow chart the same way programmers debug a program. Given a symptom x and y, localize where the problem could be and its causes and try a solution. But unlike programmers, they don't try various solutions, rebuild and retest... Solutions in medical practice take time or can't happen at all at which point the problem has to be mediated to get on with the quality of life(ie hacked).
The problem is that everytime you switch to a new doctor two things are happening. First, the new doctor is going to start from the top of the flowchart and work his way down to the first matching diagnosis and treat that. Even if you say that was checked and the problem is different, you're the pleeb, he's the doctor and unless he gets scientific proof otherwise, his opinion is the right one. Basically, unless you have every medical test result you have, on official paper, your opinion means squat. Secondly, you're retaining all this knowledge and experience so when you present your case to the new doctor you're coming off as: "I went to this doctor with chest pains, but he didn't see anything wrong and I have this other ache which I think is related, so I went to this other doctor who says the other ache is this unrelated problem, but meanwhile I've gained a third symptom of popping in my chest so I went to the emergency room but they didn't think anything of it, so I went to the internet and printed out these charts and I think I have a rare and exotic problem, what do you think?"
Well the new Doctor is now going to think "hypochondriac" and not take your opinion very seriously becaue you've disregarded other medical opinions.
Basically you've got to find ONE doctor that you trust, present your symptoms and then work with that doctor through the multitude of tests to come to a conclusion. A good doctor is a> smart, b> will listen to your case history and c> (and most importantly) will interact with you and answer your questions to alleviate your fears.
Two anecdotes here: Both Michael Eisner and David Letterman had family histories of father's dying early from heart attacks. Both men's doctors ran the usual EKG's and stress tests and found no heart troubles. Both men continued to push for better testing and finally their doctors relented and did an dye test on the heart and found major clogging in the arteries with NO other symptoms present.
On the flip side, a relative of mine had chest pains, stomach pains and pains on his upper left abdomen. After several heart tests, his doctor diagnosed acid-reflux and proscribed one of the common pills for it. After about a month, the pain was less but he still had it. So he went back to the same doctor who tested his heart again, no problem. But my uncle was sure that something else was up, so he went through a chest x-ray, clear. So then they ran some blood tests, clear. So then they ran a lower GI test by ramming a camera up his butt, clear. Gall bladder, clear. Finally, they dropped a camera down his stomach...and found something. Acid Reflux damage. My relative had stopped taking the medication because he thought it wasn't doing anything. So the doctor put him back on it and made him stay on it. Two months later, the pain had cleared.
What you're feeling is real to you. I sympathize with what you're going through and urge you to keep up the fight. But you've got to work WITH the system.
>sigh I'm probably the only other person that's going to get that quote...
Designs a machine to continue to receive and process votes even when such votes can't be stored!?!?
Does that REALLY have to be spelled out in the design document? (And was it?)
And it was called the "Java Ring"?
There are no stupid questions. If nobody called BS everybody could say what they want and it would be taken as gospel!
"With the rise of modern critical history, Troy and the Trojan War were consigned to the realms of legend." IE, Like Atlantis is now... it wasn't until the excavations of the 1870's by Schliemann that led historians to believe that there may be some fact to those legends.
See also this quote from earlier in the article:
"The Greeks and Romans took for a fact the historicity of the Trojan War, and in the identity of Homeric Troy with the site in Anatolia."
Implying they believed it but "we" (modern day) don't.
The city of Troy and its eventual sacking is only a myth and doesn't really exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
If the US Government asked Google to take it down and they did, then yeah...
But if Google did it of their own editorial conviction then your analogy doesn't apply.