Why that comment on the end? It was a joke man, it was supposed to be pointing out how perhaps 8 hrs a day of TV is not a safe assumption to make. I'm not saying that you couldn't get in 8 hrs of TV a day, but if you do that you are basically spending all of your free time watching TV. I don't think that it is a reasonable average. But seriously, I wasn't trying to insult you; I apologize if I offended you. But man, 6 hours? Try reading a book!:)
Instead of sinking to your level, I'll be the one that is respectful since you can't handle it. Thank you, I appreciate you refraining from making negative personal comments about me.
That aside, a projector is *not* the same as a CRT or even a plasma. So price a 50" plasma(http://froogle.google.com/froogle?num=20&hl =en&lr=&safe=off&tab=wf&q=plasma+50&btnG=Search+Fr oogle), then pretend that instead of paying it all up front, you bought a new bulb every 300 days (that's at 5 hrs a day of use) So let's say you bought the second projector that I linked to: $1000 on the projector with a 1500 hr bulb life and bulbs cost $400.
Day 0: 1000
Day 300: 1400
Day 600: 1800
Day 900: 1400 Day 1200: 1700 Day 1500: 2000 Day 3000: 4000
Now that you have spent about what a 50" plasma would cost you have had the TV for over eight years (not applying past value to all that money you didn't spend). Perhaps if you keep the thing for over ten to fiteen years you will see a discount, but plasma screens won't last that long. So use LCD, or DLP or whatever you say instead of a plasma; my screen is 10' corner to corner. Now pick a plasma, or a CRT:) or *anything* that matches that. Touting CRT's or whatever as less expensive than projectors is (a little) like stating that a prius gets better milage than a porsche.
Evolutionary subjectives (long, many, short...) are very similar to Geologic subjectives, in that they must be qualified. Given that he was most probably talking about 'not many generations' in an evolutionary sense. So, I'd say you are probably off by a factor of 10. Your question should have read: What is many generations in your sense? 100? 1000?
I can tink of two reasons other than hype why flat-panel tvs are selling like hotcakes
Yes, those flat-panels sell like hotacakes alright; there is a guy that bakes them up and brings them around on a tray, they cost more, but damn they are good. This would have never been possble with CRT's because they simply weigh too much for that guy to walk around all day with them on his tray.
It would be one thing if the bulbs were resonably priced but paying $500 every six months for new bulbs when the machine only cost $800 is silly.
Respectfully; what the hell are you talking about? Here is the spec sheet for a projector that I just picked up on ebay ($600).
The life of the bulb on this projector is 2000 hours.
So: 2000Hrs/6Mo = 333.3333... 333.3333Hrs/30 Days = 11.111...
But if you use them a lot, as your normal TV You watch TV an average of more than 11 Hours a day?
I know, the projectors that you are probably talking about (seeing as how you quoted a price of $800) have shorter bulb lives, but even at 1500 Hr bulb life, that's still over 8 hrs a day of TV. If you watch more than 8 hours of TV a day, then you probably have as much trouble dealing with real life (not developing bed sores) as you do with bulb life.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem states that a powerful enough system cannot prove its own consistency. This implies that you can make any number of proofs that are valid within your system, but you can never know if the system itself is valid. Or, as I like to say, the only thing you know for sure is that you never know anything for sure.
If you want to get all nitpickie, then I don't think that "traces" of anything would be in the running to be titled with "mass". Beyond that, degraded sarin that was no longer harmful would be perhaps not best classified as a "weapon".
If I put.000005 grams of cyanide in your potatoes, is it posion? Perhaps it's just garnish.
I'm sorry, I know this is about things that you believe that you cannot prove, and I enjoy that. But really, I don't want to hear about things that you believe in that are inherently un-provable.
The unfortunate aspect of an Ask Slashdot like this is we don't know the other developer's story. Well, then I would say (to the questioner), tell him (the forker) about this thread and have him chime in. Then, not only will he be able to see what this community thinks (if 'thinks' is the word, maybe 'vomits inarticuality onto the internet' would be better) about the whole matter while giving him a chance to defend his side.
Perhaps the forkers eyes will be opened, or perhaps he will tells us a different story, or perhaps he has already read it and replied "screw you guys".
'inarticuality' is not a word... yet. that is not my sig
That was the point, I'm pretty sure that he also knew which one drove more disk media purchases and which drove more subscriptions. Thus the last line of his post, that apparently overlooked 'point'. That there are inherent differences in the two industries that make a direct comparison more complicated than it seems initially.
Yes, I am bragging that I know someone who uses linux that is blind. In other news; my grandfather is deaf and I have a neighbor that walks with a limp. How cool am I?
If PHP could actually solve their problems with running in a threaded Apache-2... i would jump right on it:)
To quote TFA that I R "So, to quote the PHP docs: threading is, potentially, a problem with PHP, this is not, technically, PHP's fault, and so PHP cant fix it. All very correct, really."
So It's not PHP's problem and thusly they cannot solve it. So feel free to jump with abandon.
The sysadmin in my CS dept is blind, he uses linux exclusively, exept for telnetting into the solaris machines that he administers.
I have no idea what he uses, but he is completely blind. He has an audio output that reads what I assume is the output from the terminal at an incredible speed. I have never been able to understand what it is saying, but he is quick about the whole thing. Probably the fastest typist I know.
Wget on the other side is continuing my downloads since well back in something like 1998, probally even before that, why havn't the browsers still catched up after six years?
Downloads are rarly ever cached. To cache, or caching doesn't really have anything to do with continuing a download. Although I have to agree, a six year cache is pretty impressive.
I would guess that you tried it in the past and were dissapointed with it. I have two (used to have three) screens xineramaed together into one desktop. It works out much nicer now. It also gives you a lot of room for cusomized toolbars, since you only have one app switcher and one applications menu.
There's no technical reason that a browser can't send a user's zipcode as part of the HTTP header, informing any website of where the user currently is. It would allow weather and news sites to provide more useful information without the user having to do anything.
Really, can't this guy think big? What's the use of a zip code? How about send your SSN witch will allow a lookup in a centralized database that has all your credit card info in it.
Way back during the IE4 betas there was a feature called Microsoft Wallet, that offered websites a payment API: sites could ask the browser for payment, and the user would be prompted to select a credit card from their "wallet". For a bunch of reasons this feature was pulled from IE5
The fact that this guy talks about IE4 like it was some sort of perfectly halcyon browser makes me shiver. In fact, there were very good reasons to remove this feature, and saying that it should exist is akin (but not the same) to saying "Boy, I wish someone would get on that whole anti-gravity thing", in that the security ultimately does need to derive from the user, and users are... (I've worked in tech support so perhaps I may be a little biased) users are... a way to put it nicely... prone to fits of insanity perhaps.
"MuPAD is a mathematical expert system for doing symbolic and exact algebraic computations with almost arbitrary accuracy" Homepage. RPM German software that will run on windows and linux. It will run graphically and also in a terminal. Good Stuff.
If I remember correctly, you need to get a key to be able to use more than 6MB but the key is free for non-commercial use.
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'This space for sale'
If I judge it correctly, and I think that I do, Justin seems to have designed OpenGL as well: http://www.livejournal.com/users/garote/57955.html
Why that comment on the end? :)
l =en&lr=&safe=off&tab=wf&q=plasma+50&btnG=Search+Fr oogle), then pretend that instead of paying it all up front, you bought a new bulb every 300 days (that's at 5 hrs a day of use)
It was a joke man, it was supposed to be pointing out how perhaps 8 hrs a day of TV is not a safe assumption to make. I'm not saying that you couldn't get in 8 hrs of TV a day, but if you do that you are basically spending all of your free time watching TV. I don't think that it is a reasonable average. But seriously, I wasn't trying to insult you; I apologize if I offended you. But man, 6 hours? Try reading a book!
Instead of sinking to your level, I'll be the one that is respectful since you can't handle it.
Thank you, I appreciate you refraining from making negative personal comments about me.
That aside, a projector is *not* the same as a CRT or even a plasma. So price a 50" plasma(http://froogle.google.com/froogle?num=20&h
So let's say you bought the second projector that I linked to: $1000 on the projector with a 1500 hr bulb life and bulbs cost $400.
Day 0: 1000
Day 300: 1400
Day 600: 1800
Day 900: 1400
Day 1200: 1700
Day 1500: 2000
Day 3000: 4000
Now that you have spent about what a 50" plasma would cost you have had the TV for over eight years (not applying past value to all that money you didn't spend). Perhaps if you keep the thing for over ten to fiteen years you will see a discount, but plasma screens won't last that long.
So use LCD, or DLP or whatever you say instead of a plasma; my screen is 10' corner to corner. Now pick a plasma, or a CRT:) or *anything* that matches that. Touting CRT's or whatever as less expensive than projectors is (a little) like stating that a prius gets better milage than a porsche.
What is many generations in your sense? 10? 100?
Evolutionary subjectives (long, many, short...) are very similar to Geologic subjectives, in that they must be qualified. Given that he was most probably talking about 'not many generations' in an evolutionary sense. So, I'd say you are probably off by a factor of 10. Your question should have read: What is many generations in your sense? 100? 1000?
LCDs have so many advantages over CRTs it's not even funny.
Please, please, please: mod parent up as 'Funny'.
I can tink of two reasons other than hype why flat-panel tvs are selling like hotcakes
Yes, those flat-panels sell like hotacakes alright; there is a guy that bakes them up and brings them around on a tray, they cost more, but damn they are good. This would have never been possble with CRT's because they simply weigh too much for that guy to walk around all day with them on his tray.
It would be one thing if the bulbs were resonably priced but paying $500 every six months for new bulbs when the machine only cost $800 is silly.
Respectfully; what the hell are you talking about?
Here is the spec sheet for a projector that I just picked up on ebay ($600).
The life of the bulb on this projector is 2000 hours.
So:
2000Hrs/6Mo = 333.3333...
333.3333Hrs/30 Days = 11.111...
But if you use them a lot, as your normal TV
You watch TV an average of more than 11 Hours a day?
I know, the projectors that you are probably talking about (seeing as how you quoted a price of $800) have shorter bulb lives, but even at 1500 Hr bulb life, that's still over 8 hrs a day of TV.
If you watch more than 8 hours of TV a day, then you probably have as much trouble dealing with real life (not developing bed sores) as you do with bulb life.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem states that a powerful enough system cannot prove its own consistency. This implies that you can make any number of proofs that are valid within your system, but you can never know if the system itself is valid. Or, as I like to say, the only thing you know for sure is that you never know anything for sure.
Can you prove that?
If you want to get all nitpickie, then I don't think that "traces" of anything would be in the running to be titled with "mass". Beyond that, degraded sarin that was no longer harmful would be perhaps not best classified as a "weapon".
.000005 grams of cyanide in your potatoes, is it posion? Perhaps it's just garnish.
If I put
> What's simpler:
> "The electron lies in a potential well"
> Or:
> "God did it."
The idea is simplest answer, not shortest answer.
I cannot tell you how happy I would be it the 'fundies' would "realize that the Bible is a book of THEOLOGY and not a book of SCIENCE"
You can't spell belief without lie.
I'm sorry, I know this is about things that you believe that you cannot prove, and I enjoy that. But really, I don't want to hear about things that you believe in that are inherently un-provable.
You can't spell belief with out lie.
> Whatever he is working on, I'm sure it really whips the Lamma's ass...
I was just going to say mod parent up, but since I'm in here: Llamma.
The unfortunate aspect of an Ask Slashdot like this is we don't know the other developer's story.
Well, then I would say (to the questioner), tell him (the forker) about this thread and have him chime in. Then, not only will he be able to see what this community thinks (if 'thinks' is the word, maybe 'vomits inarticuality onto the internet' would be better) about the whole matter while giving him a chance to defend his side.
Perhaps the forkers eyes will be opened, or perhaps he will tells us a different story, or perhaps he has already read it and replied "screw you guys".
'inarticuality' is not a word... yet.
that is not my sig
> Which sells more theater tickets?
>Well, this one I think I can answer for you.
That was the point, I'm pretty sure that he also knew which one drove more disk media purchases and which drove more subscriptions. Thus the last line of his post, that apparently overlooked 'point'. That there are inherent differences in the two industries that make a direct comparison more complicated than it seems initially.
Yes, I am bragging that I know someone who uses linux that is blind. In other news; my grandfather is deaf and I have a neighbor that walks with a limp. How cool am I?
If PHP could actually solve their problems with running in a threaded Apache-2 ... i would jump right on it :)
To quote TFA that I R
"So, to quote the PHP docs: threading is, potentially, a problem with PHP, this is not, technically, PHP's fault, and so PHP cant fix it. All very correct, really."
So It's not PHP's problem and thusly they cannot solve it. So feel free to jump with abandon.
The sysadmin in my CS dept is blind, he uses linux exclusively, exept for telnetting into the solaris machines that he administers.
I have no idea what he uses, but he is completely blind. He has an audio output that reads what I assume is the output from the terminal at an incredible speed. I have never been able to understand what it is saying, but he is quick about the whole thing. Probably the fastest typist I know.
(cur) (last) 11:27, 15 Dec 2004 Raunch (wich -> which)
Wget on the other side is continuing my downloads since well back in something like 1998, probally even before that, why havn't the browsers still catched up after six years?
Downloads are rarly ever cached. To cache, or caching doesn't really have anything to do with continuing a download.
Although I have to agree, a six year cache is pretty impressive.
Run xinerama my friend.
I would guess that you tried it in the past and were dissapointed with it. I have two (used to have three) screens xineramaed together into one desktop. It works out much nicer now. It also gives you a lot of room for cusomized toolbars, since you only have one app switcher and one applications menu.
Galeon
There's no technical reason that a browser can't send a user's zipcode as part of the HTTP header, informing any website of where the user currently is. It would allow weather and news sites to provide more useful information without the user having to do anything.
Really, can't this guy think big? What's the use of a zip code?
How about send your SSN witch will allow a lookup in a centralized database that has all your credit card info in it.
Way back during the IE4 betas there was a feature called Microsoft Wallet, that offered websites a payment API: sites could ask the browser for payment, and the user would be prompted to select a credit card from their "wallet". For a bunch of reasons this feature was pulled from IE5
The fact that this guy talks about IE4 like it was some sort of perfectly halcyon browser makes me shiver. In fact, there were very good reasons to remove this feature, and saying that it should exist is akin (but not the same) to saying "Boy, I wish someone would get on that whole anti-gravity thing", in that the security ultimately does need to derive from the user, and users are... (I've worked in tech support so perhaps I may be a little biased) users are... a way to put it nicely... prone to fits of insanity perhaps.
"MuPAD is a mathematical expert system for doing symbolic and exact algebraic computations with almost arbitrary accuracy"
Homepage. RPM
German software that will run on windows and linux. It will run graphically and also in a terminal.
Good Stuff.
If I remember correctly, you need to get a key to be able to use more than 6MB but the key is free for non-commercial use.