Yep. And I'm sure that's so obvious that they NEVER thought of it.
Heck.. why not just manufacture individual subpixels and then glue them toegether? you could ship someone's monitor to them in a bucket as a 'do it yourself' kit.
IN all seriuosness, it comes down to how do you join those elements together cleanly enough? The reason tehy are built as a single piece is because it's the only way to get the pixels small enough and close enough together.
By the same token, a society built on respect, if Abdul needs an extra grand to do something, and I have it to give, that is a gift. Out of respect, Abdul will repay that gift at an appropriate time.
If you look into where 'money' really comes from, you will probably find that interest is the devil itself.
Many countries work like this..
a national 'reserve' (the Federal Reserve, Bank of Canada, etc...) 'lends' money to the banks at prime. This is money 'created from ntohing'. This is the source. The bank, in turn, lends that money to people.Where is the 'interest' payment supposed to come from, if all money is loaned in the first place?
Sorry.. call me a closet socialist.. (or did someone just do that earlier?)
Groups of people don't often make good decisions. People in general don't know what's good for them, and don't see the whole picture.
Nothing is black & white, you can't sum up all political ideologies as 'us' -vs- 'them'.
Banning foreign news is also banning foreign 'propaganda'.
Banning public hair color changes is a way of enforcing some kind of order. THey have a system that works well for everyone, and don't want it to crumble because people want to be 'different'. THey are all free to leave the country.
I find it strange for the US to knock singapore when singapore has
1) the most wired country on earth, even if it is state run
2) completely electronic commerce
3) the best health care in the world
4) the highest standard of living in the world
5) the nicest looking, most well run country in the world.
6) HAPPY CITIZENS!
It's not some rogue boss who has a sniffer that people dislike... it's when the company itself officially tracks things. THat means the IT dept. is involved, and that means they CAN do it.
LAN admins can snoop? Isnt' that missing the point? It's the IT departments job to manage all aspects of information technology, including hte lan. If the company has a mandate to analyze that traffic, then it is the IT department who would do it.
The thing is.. most of Singapore's laws make *sense*.
$1000 fine for not flushing a public toilet? Sure, that might seem 'draconian'.. but what the fuck is wrong with you? why not just flush the fucking toilet? It's a health risk.
fine for spitting on the sidewalk in public? Sure. It *IS* the primary way TB is spread. And is unsanitary.
Mandatory death sentence for importing illegal drugs? Well.. what's wrong with that? It's clearly made known before you enter the country, and you are given the opportunity to dump whatever you were going to import without fear of reprisal. Bring it in and get caught, they whack you. And so they should.
That kid that was caned? Why the hell should we put him in juvie and spend all kinds of money rehabilitating him? A good public caning was a swift and cheap punishment. Cruel and unusual? Well.. what purpose did his vandalizing that car or whatever serve? Any useful purpose to society at all? Nope. So he gets caned, and learns a swift lesson.
Chewing gum? I believe the ban is on chewing gum in public; and it was done because the people were spending millions every year (the government was) cleaning up black sticky gum residue off of rail terminals, temples, monuments, etc... and some poeple were sticking it on the doors of the trains and such and delaying train runs. Draconian? perhaps... but it's 'if people can't be responsible, we will do something about it'. At least it's not some insidious corrupt government doing it to enforce their own brand of gum... it was fair and unilateral.
Gambling is only a 'sport' for people who can't do math!
That's right folks. If money represents our hard work and ability to trade.. what purpose does gambling serve? It's not like you are buying a service or a good.. you are simply risking money.
Muslims also don't believe in interest charges on loans, iirc. ANd this again makes sense; although it's so ingrained in our western society, think about it. Why should someone get interest simply because they lent you some money they didn't need anyway? Was more 'money' actually created in society through that lending? Why should more exist then? (Before ripping me apart, consider where money actually comes from)
not 'uncurve space', but exert a force opposite to gravity, hence cancelling it's effects (partially, of course). Uncurving space would be analogous to nullifying gravity itself, which I believe the math says cannot be done.
Essentially, I think it requires setting up some kind of heavy ions to a very high rate of spin (rotation, I mean, not that quantum 'spin' property). To the order of quadrillions of rotations a second. Some wierd branch of physics says that this should create some kind of wierd gravitational effects.
That gravity reduction thing may or may not be true. It is considered a flawed experiment by most. It is certainly not accepted scientific fact.
As for magnetic forces being bad for the body... without trying to state that absolutely it's not.... if they DID have some kind of harmful effect, we would notice it. Given that most tissue cannot respond to a magnetic field.... who knows?
THe only reason that it would boil down to one generic distribution is becuase it was good, stable, and what everyone wanted. And if that is what everyone wants at some point in the future.. great.
and indeed, may go too far, it appears that what the bill is intended to do is prevent someone from transcribing a lecture and selling it.
And this makes sense. See, what if someone was selling access to a web site, or a periodical that had all the U of C lectures for the year? Even the evening after the lecture? Wouldn't quite seem right, eh?
They simply want their lectures to remain their property, as works of art. (consider l¼
ring a performance, perhaps)
What gets me is this: why the mad upgrade cycle? I mean, I understand why redhat has to release a new 'version' of RH now and then... to keep sales up, but...
That is SOO microsoft. We don't NEED an upgrade every year.
My problem, though, isn't with redhat releasing them.. it's with people who decide to 'upgrade' their systems. Feh!
Why do you upgrade something if it's not broke?
Rule #1 of systems management: if it's not broke, don't fix it!
Sure. That makes great sense. That's what @home tries to do.
EXCEPT: they tell you NO SERVERS, it may use too much bandwidth.
NO UNATTENDED USE. This is for casual web surfing only.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT to terminate your connection if you exceed 5GB/month.
So yes, I'd much rather pay for my bandwidth per byte and have them fuck off and quit telling me what to do.
Actually.. it isn't directly related to range.
Directional antennas will let you go quite some distance with standard 2.4Ghz stuff, still within regulations. We've set up some 18 and 19 km links using yagi and sectoral antennas. Of course, caluclations were done to make sure we didn't exceed the acceptable limits.
They are simply using the dishes as 2.4Ghz directional antennas.
Sounds cool, right? Might want to check local regulations for the 2.4Ghz ISM band. You can only have so much gain for so much power... if you try this in the US you might be violating FCC.
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Good ones can be had for around $5000 USD now. (Paid $9000 CAD for ours, and it's wicked)
Bulbs are the killer. $500 a piece for ultra high pressure sodium bulbs.
Yep. And I'm sure that's so obvious that they NEVER thought of it.
Heck.. why not just manufacture individual subpixels and then glue them toegether? you could ship someone's monitor to them in a bucket as a 'do it yourself' kit.
IN all seriuosness, it comes down to how do you join those elements together cleanly enough? The reason tehy are built as a single piece is because it's the only way to get the pixels small enough and close enough together.
High-end CRT's don't have flicker problems.
Color reproduction is still more accurate on a monitor..
And.. although it's fact that digital input to an LCD is accurate.. it is also less versatile until the digital connector is standard.
Creates problems with anything that does video passthru (like DVD decoders and such).
Good for them. Loans at that level do not mean the same thing as they do when you borrow money from Uncle Bob.
Remember, money is illusory..
Perhaps it's regional, but it is there.
And that's 5GB/month outgoing, not incomingl.
Yes, they do.
It's just the way we think about it though.
.Where is the 'interest' payment supposed to come from, if all money is loaned in the first place?
By the same token, a society built on respect, if Abdul needs an extra grand to do something, and I have it to give, that is a gift. Out of respect, Abdul will repay that gift at an appropriate time.
If you look into where 'money' really comes from, you will probably find that interest is the devil itself.
Many countries work like this..
a national 'reserve' (the Federal Reserve, Bank of Canada, etc...) 'lends' money to the banks at prime. This is money 'created from ntohing'. This is the source. The bank, in turn, lends that money to people
I did not know that. Thanks.... I'll go look that up.
Sorry.. call me a closet socialist.. (or did someone just do that earlier?)
Groups of people don't often make good decisions. People in general don't know what's good for them, and don't see the whole picture.
Nothing is black & white, you can't sum up all political ideologies as 'us' -vs- 'them'.
Banning foreign news is also banning foreign 'propaganda'.
Banning public hair color changes is a way of enforcing some kind of order. THey have a system that works well for everyone, and don't want it to crumble because people want to be 'different'. THey are all free to leave the country.
I find it strange for the US to knock singapore when singapore has
1) the most wired country on earth, even if it is state run
2) completely electronic commerce
3) the best health care in the world
4) the highest standard of living in the world
5) the nicest looking, most well run country in the world.
6) HAPPY CITIZENS!
Good thing I don't live in your country. Wouldn't want anyone thinking we were the same kin...
and I *AM* thinking of moving to singapore for a while.
And I do like socialism.
See, the one thing that makes singapore really work? A benevolent dictator.
The INternet at-large is a public network, for all intents and purposes. So treat it as such.
Treat any traffic generated as a public radio broadcast. You have no control over who sees it.
Pine rules!
Mutt is kind of gross.
? But that's not the point at all.
It's not some rogue boss who has a sniffer that people dislike... it's when the company itself officially tracks things. THat means the IT dept. is involved, and that means they CAN do it.
LAN admins can snoop? Isnt' that missing the point? It's the IT departments job to manage all aspects of information technology, including hte lan. If the company has a mandate to analyze that traffic, then it is the IT department who would do it.
The thing is.. most of Singapore's laws make *sense*.
$1000 fine for not flushing a public toilet? Sure, that might seem 'draconian'.. but what the fuck is wrong with you? why not just flush the fucking toilet? It's a health risk.
fine for spitting on the sidewalk in public? Sure. It *IS* the primary way TB is spread. And is unsanitary.
Mandatory death sentence for importing illegal drugs? Well.. what's wrong with that? It's clearly made known before you enter the country, and you are given the opportunity to dump whatever you were going to import without fear of reprisal. Bring it in and get caught, they whack you. And so they should.
That kid that was caned? Why the hell should we put him in juvie and spend all kinds of money rehabilitating him? A good public caning was a swift and cheap punishment. Cruel and unusual? Well.. what purpose did his vandalizing that car or whatever serve? Any useful purpose to society at all? Nope. So he gets caned, and learns a swift lesson.
Chewing gum? I believe the ban is on chewing gum in public; and it was done because the people were spending millions every year (the government was) cleaning up black sticky gum residue off of rail terminals, temples, monuments, etc... and some poeple were sticking it on the doors of the trains and such and delaying train runs. Draconian? perhaps... but it's 'if people can't be responsible, we will do something about it'. At least it's not some insidious corrupt government doing it to enforce their own brand of gum... it was fair and unilateral.
Gambling is only a 'sport' for people who can't do math!
That's right folks. If money represents our hard work and ability to trade.. what purpose does gambling serve? It's not like you are buying a service or a good.. you are simply risking money.
Muslims also don't believe in interest charges on loans, iirc. ANd this again makes sense; although it's so ingrained in our western society, think about it. Why should someone get interest simply because they lent you some money they didn't need anyway? Was more 'money' actually created in society through that lending? Why should more exist then? (Before ripping me apart, consider where money actually comes from)
not 'uncurve space', but exert a force opposite to gravity, hence cancelling it's effects (partially, of course). Uncurving space would be analogous to nullifying gravity itself, which I believe the math says cannot be done.
Essentially, I think it requires setting up some kind of heavy ions to a very high rate of spin (rotation, I mean, not that quantum 'spin' property). To the order of quadrillions of rotations a second. Some wierd branch of physics says that this should create some kind of wierd gravitational effects.
That gravity reduction thing may or may not be true. It is considered a flawed experiment by most. It is certainly not accepted scientific fact.
As for magnetic forces being bad for the body... without trying to state that absolutely it's not.... if they DID have some kind of harmful effect, we would notice it. Given that most tissue cannot respond to a magnetic field.... who knows?
It's very legit.
Water is diamagnetic, (so are lots of other molecules).
This means that, very weakly, they respond do the presence of a magnetic field with the same field.
This means if you put them in a strong enough field, they can levitate.
The coil used to levitate that TINY frog, was about 6 megawatt if I remember....
Also.. stable magnetic levitation with ferromagnetic materials is theoretically impossible.
Whatever the 'future' sees.. bah.
THe only reason that it would boil down to one generic distribution is becuase it was good, stable, and what everyone wanted. And if that is what everyone wants at some point in the future.. great.
Until that's the case.. why even muse about it?
and indeed, may go too far, it appears that what the bill is intended to do is prevent someone from transcribing a lecture and selling it.
And this makes sense. See, what if someone was selling access to a web site, or a periodical that had all the U of C lectures for the year? Even the evening after the lecture? Wouldn't quite seem right, eh?
They simply want their lectures to remain their property, as works of art. (consider l¼ ring a performance, perhaps)
What gets me is this: why the mad upgrade cycle? I mean, I understand why redhat has to release a new 'version' of RH now and then... to keep sales up, but...
That is SOO microsoft. We don't NEED an upgrade every year.
My problem, though, isn't with redhat releasing them.. it's with people who decide to 'upgrade' their systems. Feh!
Why do you upgrade something if it's not broke?
Rule #1 of systems management: if it's not broke, don't fix it!
You can do what I did: not pay the bill, and inform whatever consumer rights agency you know of.
Simply put, if I signed up with Company A, and for some reason company B is doing my LD, how is it my problem?
Sure. That makes great sense. That's what @home tries to do.
EXCEPT: they tell you NO SERVERS, it may use too much bandwidth.
NO UNATTENDED USE. This is for casual web surfing only.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT to terminate your connection if you exceed 5GB/month.
So yes, I'd much rather pay for my bandwidth per byte and have them fuck off and quit telling me what to do.
Actually.. it isn't directly related to range.
Directional antennas will let you go quite some distance with standard 2.4Ghz stuff, still within regulations. We've set up some 18 and 19 km links using yagi and sectoral antennas. Of course, caluclations were done to make sure we didn't exceed the acceptable limits.
They are simply using the dishes as 2.4Ghz directional antennas.
Sounds cool, right? Might want to check local regulations for the 2.4Ghz ISM band. You can only have so much gain for so much power... if you try this in the US you might be violating FCC.