Re:A few things most people don't know about DVI
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DVI Flat Panels?
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DVI isn't smoke & mirrors....
Digital IS better when it comes to LCD. If you run at the proper resolution, you have exact subpixel control of the display... which is the entire reason for using DVI. If you don't want that, high quality VGA conversion is fine.
I assure you that an LCD with DVI is not scaling anything when run at the proper resolution.
It does seem puzzling that something as natural as DVI doesn't exist on flat panels... however.. having just bought someone a 17" Viewsonic LCD, with VGA only... I was extremely amazed at how well the picture looked. Absolutely no phasing.. it LOOKS like a digital connection. It really does. Even cleartype has the desired effect... which might suggest the vga conversion circuitry is doing some really fancy stuff.
It really does look razor sharp though... not like the older lcds I've used.
Nowadays though.. you can route your PBX through a VOIP provider and get really cool phone service, and rates, from anywhere you can get bandwidth. We trade entire movies online like it ain't no big thing. Same for music.
Videoconferencing. You may not have seen high quality video conferencing via the internet.. but I sure have.. and it is indeed impressive.
Education. It's easier than ever to look up any kind of information now than ever before.. increased advertising yes.. but also increased information. Howstuffworks.com and it's type are awesome learning tools, for all ages.
Open forums, debates, person info like blogs, are huge now. Don't care? Maybe not.. but it's fairly easy to see what othe rpeople really think. Go back to reading magazines if you want... think some guy who failed highschool, has an iq of 40.. you don't want his opinion on something? Don't want to know what he thinks? You should, because he votes.
Diplomacy: The art of letting other people do what you want.
Claims from sun?
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Kevin Free
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Sun didn't claim he did millions in damages. The feds did. The feds asked Sun, Novell, etc.. how much the software Kevin copied cost to develop, and then used that as a figure to charge him with theft.
Kevins lawyer accurately pointed out that, as these companies never reported these supposed "thefts" to their shareholders in their annual reports, as required by law, either there was no theft, or all of these companies were in serious breach of securities laws.
We CAN make more reliable systems.. it's all a matter of need.
What does computer failure have to do with challenger blowing up? Yes, car computers break.. but the article that I am responding to was referencing home computers, which are notoriously unreliable.
- Diamonds, as used in jewelry, are artificially rare. That's right.. the rock on your engagement ring is only rare because DeBeers & friends keep millions and millions of diamonds locked up in vaults. This is not conspiracy theory... it's a verifiable fact.
- The average cost of diamond, if all diamonds available were in circulation, instead of in vaults, would be about $1.50 per ct.
- Small diamonds, the kind used in diamond saws, industry, etcetera, are NOT expensive, like your engagement ring. Small diamonds are common and cheap, because they have no real jewelry market. Diamond impregnated stones and blades cost more because it costs more to manufacture them.. not because of the diamond.
- Good luck convincing your girl of ANY of this. You still have to buy that rock. Get over it..
SSH is easier to use. Not sure what you mean about man in the middle... once the initial exchange has happened, it WILL warn you of changes.
The other reason we use it is because it's so damn easy. Port forwarding, commercial tools.. it just WORKS.
So to flip your argument around.. why should I switch all my servers to ssl instead? What benefits do I get for my work, other than having to switch to crappier terminal programs and/or run tunneling software on my administration stations.
WHat? Another more complicated yet somehow "better" solution? No thanks.
that the same should apply to everything. Cars. Hammers. Cellular phones. Toothbrushes. Tools should be locked to one person.
And saying that "computers crash, so technology is unreliable" is absurd. Ever seen a space shuttle? Onboard controller on a car? Aircraft computers? Lots of computer systems are extremely robust.. your PC just isn't one of them.
First, I'm not talking about shorting a stock in order to profit from a drop in value. I'm talking about shorting a stock and then covering the short immediately by exercising options. This locks in the market value you will be taxed on at the time YOU want to do the trade, and you don't ahve to wait for your options to clear.
If you are claiming to have some kind of special knowledge about options due to your job, you should know this.
Your other alternative is to start to exercise, perhaps wait several days for the company to get it's shit together, then sell. Furthermore, the time between your receiving the shares and the time you sell them is a risk if the value drops, as you will still be taxed on the market value when you exercised.
Secondly, exercising options has nothign to do with insider trading.. but SELLING the resulting shares absolutely does...
Thirdly, even if regulations don't allow you to short stock, you can probably do so to exercise options, as long as the public sees this. There are methods for doing so. This way, panic is avoided, as everyone can see you are really exercising options.
Thirdly, I'm speaking for Canadian tax law, which varies slightly. You are saying there are many types of stock options, some which have exemptions. Obviously anyone who has stock options should get professional advice from brokers AND tax people. Anyone who doesn't is asking for it.
Before you insinuate I should read up on short selling, perhaps you should read posts a little harder before you start slamming.
That's exactly what I meant. I'm not talking about playing the market at all.
Furthermore, exercising an option is not, of course, insider trading.. it's not trading. You are free to exercise whenever you want (as permitted by your grant)
But when 99% of people talk about exercising options, they mean exercising them and selling the resulting stock.. and selling stock based on insider information is insider trading.
You are absolutley right. And I think educating people on what to demand from their bank would go a long way towards solving things.
If you walk into a bank knowing the rules of the game, and how things work, you can usually get things done quickly.. even if you have to be a bit forthright to cut through their scripted crap.
I found my bank account empty one day.. I asked at the bank, they told me it was a cheque that had been cashed. Sure enough, account activity shoed a check of some strange amount (not a roun dfigure) being withdrawn.. coincidentally, the time on the transaction was the same as the time on the previos trnasaction, which was me depositing a cheque for the exact same amount. Now, I made that deposit. but I certainly didn't cash a cheque for the same amount at the same time.
So.. I asked the lady "Okay... two points. Firstly, you must agree it looks a bit strange. Secondly, I didn't write a cheque; every single cheque I have is in my briefcase, right here (I showed her). She continued to insist. I asked "Okay, can I see the cheque then, please? Where was it cashed, who's signature is on it? A faxed copy will be sufficient.. just show me this cheque that I know doesn't exist." "No sir, we don't have those, those are in another city, where things are processed." Eventually she got the branch manager. I explained simply "I *know* I didn't write this cheque, I have all my cheques. I am now broke because your bank made an error. You can't show me the cheque, and you aren't helping me. I want you to either show me a copy of the cheque that supposedly was written, or put the money back in my account & reverse all the overdraft charges by the end of the day" "Of course sir, that's completely reasonable. I'll call you at your office before we close"
Just when I thought the bank had forgotten, it was a half hour since they closed, my phone rang, it was the branch manager. He apologized, said everything had been reversed and credited, and that their clerk had made an entry error when depositing my cheque a few days ago.
Now.. it struck me as odd. This isn't a lot of money.. they weren't overly evil.. but the clerk definately wanted me to go away because it was *obviously* my fault, and the bank couldn't have made an error. There's no reason for this hostility.. or wanting me to leave.. just give me straight, polite answers.
I think if the average person understood a bit more about what a bank is, how it operates, and what services it should be providing, banks would quickly get better.
The thing about cashing cheques really amazes me.. I had the same thing happen at HKBC... payroll cheques, issued from that branch. They would actually ask me rudely if I hda an account, glare at me, etcetera... they really acted like they did not want to honor the cheque.
You have to understand how bank employees work... they ask you if you want ot open an account because they have to. If they don't do enough sales, they get reprimanded.. they have quotas. Those tellers have all kinds of things they have to do other than service the customer.. and all of them are subversive.
Uhh You can deposit any amount into a bank account, though you may have to file a small amoutn of paperwork declaring where it came from if it's over $10,000
You are free to keep $10,000 in a cookie jar all you want.
You can carry any amount of negotiable item into most countries, though you have to decolare it if it's over a certain amount. In the US, it's $10,000
I doubt it. Plants are set up due to many factors... the local market really isn't one of them. Why do you think Intel has plants in Ireland and Costa Rica? Because it's cheaper.
If the CDS were manufactured to go out of country, no levy would apply.... it's a moot point. Sorry.
There are reasons why there isn't more manufacturing in Canada... I doubt the cpcc is one of them.
Cashing in options on insider info is totally illegal. That's insider trading, bud.
Secondly, optoions are worth a lot, if the strike price is lower than market.. Thirdly, if you have some issue with exercising them right away, GET A BETTER BROKER.
If your broker has proof you have the options, he should have NO PROBLEM shorteslling the stock the second you call him to do it, and then you replace the short with your options. THAT is how you get current market price on options, without risk.
Exercising options on the open market and then holding the stock is a BAD idea.... there is a taxable benefit on the difference between what you paid and fair market value of the stock. It's not considered capital gains.. which means if the stock goes down, you get a capital loss, but you can't offset your tax obligation.
Ahh. So this uses multiple lasers, eh? Got a spec sheet?
Multiple lasers might let you read data at twice the rate, but not data you can use, unless you are copying. If I have a stream of data on the CD, and I want all of it, now, I can't very well simply get that stream twice as fast by using two lasers.
Rotating ring, you live on the inside surface, like a ringworld.. but it doesn't go around a star. it orbits the star like any other planet. The ring is tilted at an angle, though, so that part of it eclipses the rest, providing a day/night cycle.
Yes And in Canada, the rate for CDR is much, much lower than that for audio CDR. IT's still silly, but it's not a big deal.
Furthermore, it's a levy on items imported for resale, or manufactured. It's NOT import duty; you can still import CDR from Korea or wherever you want without paying the tax, as long as it's not for resale.
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DVI isn't smoke & mirrors....
Digital IS better when it comes to LCD. If you run at the proper resolution, you have exact subpixel control of the display... which is the entire reason for using DVI. If you don't want that, high quality VGA conversion is fine.
I assure you that an LCD with DVI is not scaling anything when run at the proper resolution.
It does seem puzzling that something as natural as DVI doesn't exist on flat panels... however..
having just bought someone a 17" Viewsonic LCD, with VGA only... I was extremely amazed at how well the picture looked. Absolutely no phasing.. it LOOKS like a digital connection. It really does. Even cleartype has the desired effect... which might suggest the vga conversion circuitry is doing some really fancy stuff.
It really does look razor sharp though... not like the older lcds I've used.
If you mean the web.. fine.
Nowadays though..
you can route your PBX through a VOIP provider and get really cool phone service, and rates, from anywhere you can get bandwidth.
We trade entire movies online like it ain't no big thing.
Same for music.
Videoconferencing. You may not have seen high quality video conferencing via the internet.. but I sure have.. and it is indeed impressive.
Education. It's easier than ever to look up any kind of information now than ever before.. increased advertising yes.. but also increased information. Howstuffworks.com and it's type are awesome learning tools, for all ages.
Open forums, debates, person info like blogs, are huge now. Don't care? Maybe not.. but it's fairly easy to see what othe rpeople really think. Go back to reading magazines if you want... think some guy who failed highschool, has an iq of 40.. you don't want his opinion on something? Don't want to know what he thinks? You should, because he votes.
Etc.
I think the point is about the thing's ability to balance itself in a natural manner.
If it can handle easily being progrmamed to do tai'chi, something even many humans can't do easily, it has great usefulness.
Diplomacy: The art of letting other people do what you want.
Sun didn't claim he did millions in damages. The feds did. The feds asked Sun, Novell, etc.. how much the software Kevin copied cost to develop, and then used that as a figure to charge him with theft.
Kevins lawyer accurately pointed out that, as these companies never reported these supposed "thefts" to their shareholders in their annual reports, as required by law, either there was no theft, or all of these companies were in serious breach of securities laws.
Right. Acceptable reasons.
And as much as I hate to say it.. you don't have a problem if your money is obtained legally, and you pay your taxes.
If you are, say, hiding money offshore, and bringing it in.. what do you expect?
Yeah.. that's the point.
We CAN make more reliable systems.. it's all a matter of need.
What does computer failure have to do with challenger blowing up?
Yes, car computers break.. but the article that I am responding to was referencing home computers, which are notoriously unreliable.
Oh, and maybe you've never heard of sarcasm?
- Diamonds, as used in jewelry, are artificially rare. That's right.. the rock on your engagement ring is only rare because DeBeers & friends keep millions and millions of diamonds locked up in vaults. This is not conspiracy theory... it's a verifiable fact.
- The average cost of diamond, if all diamonds available were in circulation, instead of in vaults, would be about $1.50 per ct.
- Small diamonds, the kind used in diamond saws, industry, etcetera, are NOT expensive, like your engagement ring. Small diamonds are common and cheap, because they have no real jewelry market. Diamond impregnated stones and blades cost more because it costs more to manufacture them.. not because of the diamond.
- Good luck convincing your girl of ANY of this. You still have to buy that rock. Get over it..
SSH is easier to use.
Not sure what you mean about man in the middle... once the initial exchange has happened, it WILL warn you of changes.
The other reason we use it is because it's so damn easy. Port forwarding, commercial tools.. it just WORKS.
So to flip your argument around.. why should I switch all my servers to ssl instead? What benefits do I get for my work, other than having to switch to crappier terminal programs and/or run tunneling software on my administration stations.
WHat? Another more complicated yet somehow "better" solution? No thanks.
Yeah, I mean, because a couple people got screwed over by overzealous morons, that means it's illegal to carry money.
that the same should apply to everything. Cars. Hammers. Cellular phones. Toothbrushes. Tools should be locked to one person.
And saying that "computers crash, so technology is unreliable" is absurd.
Ever seen a space shuttle? Onboard controller on a car? Aircraft computers? Lots of computer systems are extremely robust.. your PC just isn't one of them.
First, I'm not talking about shorting a stock in order to profit from a drop in value. I'm talking about shorting a stock and then covering the short immediately by exercising options.
This locks in the market value you will be taxed on at the time YOU want to do the trade, and you don't ahve to wait for your options to clear.
If you are claiming to have some kind of special knowledge about options due to your job, you should know this.
Your other alternative is to start to exercise, perhaps wait several days for the company to get it's shit together, then sell. Furthermore, the time between your receiving the shares and the time you sell them is a risk if the value drops, as you will still be taxed on the market value when you exercised.
Secondly, exercising options has nothign to do with insider trading.. but SELLING the resulting shares absolutely does...
Thirdly, even if regulations don't allow you to short stock, you can probably do so to exercise options, as long as the public sees this. There are methods for doing so. This way, panic is avoided, as everyone can see you are really exercising options.
Thirdly, I'm speaking for Canadian tax law, which varies slightly. You are saying there are many types of stock options, some which have exemptions.
Obviously anyone who has stock options should get professional advice from brokers AND tax people. Anyone who doesn't is asking for it.
Before you insinuate I should read up on short selling, perhaps you should read posts a little harder before you start slamming.
That's exactly what I meant. I'm not talking about playing the market at all.
Furthermore, exercising an option is not, of course, insider trading.. it's not trading. You are free to exercise whenever you want (as permitted by your grant)
But when 99% of people talk about exercising options, they mean exercising them and selling the resulting stock.. and selling stock based on insider information is insider trading.
You are absolutley right.
And I think educating people on what to demand from their bank would go a long way towards solving things.
If you walk into a bank knowing the rules of the game, and how things work, you can usually get things done quickly.. even if you have to be a bit forthright to cut through their scripted crap.
I found my bank account empty one day.. I asked at the bank, they told me it was a cheque that had been cashed. Sure enough, account activity shoed a check of some strange amount (not a roun dfigure) being withdrawn.. coincidentally, the time on the transaction was the same as the time on the previos trnasaction, which was me depositing a cheque for the exact same amount.
Now, I made that deposit. but I certainly didn't cash a cheque for the same amount at the same time.
So.. I asked the lady "Okay... two points. Firstly, you must agree it looks a bit strange. Secondly, I didn't write a cheque; every single cheque I have is in my briefcase, right here (I showed her). She continued to insist.
I asked "Okay, can I see the cheque then, please? Where was it cashed, who's signature is on it? A faxed copy will be sufficient.. just show me this cheque that I know doesn't exist."
"No sir, we don't have those, those are in another city, where things are processed."
Eventually she got the branch manager. I explained simply "I *know* I didn't write this cheque, I have all my cheques. I am now broke because your bank made an error. You can't show me the cheque, and you aren't helping me. I want you to either show me a copy of the cheque that supposedly was written, or put the money back in my account & reverse all the overdraft charges by the end of the day"
"Of course sir, that's completely reasonable. I'll call you at your office before we close"
Just when I thought the bank had forgotten, it was a half hour since they closed, my phone rang, it was the branch manager. He apologized, said everything had been reversed and credited, and that their clerk had made an entry error when depositing my cheque a few days ago.
Now.. it struck me as odd. This isn't a lot of money.. they weren't overly evil.. but the clerk definately wanted me to go away because it was *obviously* my fault, and the bank couldn't have made an error. There's no reason for this hostility.. or wanting me to leave.. just give me straight, polite answers.
I think if the average person understood a bit more about what a bank is, how it operates, and what services it should be providing, banks would quickly get better.
The thing about cashing cheques really amazes me.. I had the same thing happen at HKBC... payroll cheques, issued from that branch. They would actually ask me rudely if I hda an account, glare at me, etcetera... they really acted like they did not want to honor the cheque.
You have to understand how bank employees work... they ask you if you want ot open an account because they have to. If they don't do enough sales, they get reprimanded.. they have quotas. Those tellers have all kinds of things they have to do other than service the customer.. and all of them are subversive.
Uhh
You can deposit any amount into a bank account, though you may have to file a small amoutn of paperwork declaring where it came from if it's over $10,000
You are free to keep $10,000 in a cookie jar all you want.
You can carry any amount of negotiable item into most countries, though you have to decolare it if it's over a certain amount. In the US, it's $10,000
Please don't spread bullshit.
is to just leave DNS alone. IT's fine, it's heirarchial.. it serves it's purpose. Let's quite inventing new purposes for it.
I doubt it. Plants are set up due to many factors... the local market really isn't one of them. Why do you think Intel has plants in Ireland and Costa Rica? Because it's cheaper.
If the CDS were manufactured to go out of country, no levy would apply.... it's a moot point. Sorry.
There are reasons why there isn't more manufacturing in Canada... I doubt the cpcc is one of them.
Cashing in options on insider info is totally illegal. That's insider trading, bud.
Secondly, optoions are worth a lot, if the strike price is lower than market..
Thirdly, if you have some issue with exercising them right away, GET A BETTER BROKER.
If your broker has proof you have the options, he should have NO PROBLEM shorteslling the stock the second you call him to do it, and then you replace the short with your options. THAT is how you get current market price on options, without risk.
Exercising options on the open market and then holding the stock is a BAD idea.... there is a taxable benefit on the difference between what you paid and fair market value of the stock. It's not considered capital gains.. which means if the stock goes down, you get a capital loss, but you can't offset your tax obligation.
Go with the short.
Yeah.. some heavy users will, for sure. The bulk of sales a probably from compusmart and whatnot.
The CPCC is relatively recent in canada... were there more before it was implemented 3 years ago? I don't think so.
Not everyone sees porn as "Evil".. that's largely a puritanical American ideal.
Ahh. So this uses multiple lasers, eh? Got a spec sheet?
Multiple lasers might let you read data at twice the rate, but not data you can use, unless you are copying. If I have a stream of data on the CD, and I want all of it, now, I can't very well simply get that stream twice as fast by using two lasers.
as most poeple don't go to all the trouble to figure out how to properly order cdrs from korea.
Any store that wants to sell them has to pay duty.
And, uhh, what Canadian CD-R manufacturers are you talking about, exactly? Do we even have any?
You mean like an Orbital, a-la Iain Banks?
Rotating ring, you live on the inside surface, like a ringworld.. but it doesn't go around a star. it orbits the star like any other planet. The ring is tilted at an angle, though, so that part of it eclipses the rest, providing a day/night cycle.
Yes
And in Canada, the rate for CDR is much, much lower than that for audio CDR. IT's still silly, but it's not a big deal.
Furthermore, it's a levy on items imported for resale, or manufactured. It's NOT import duty; you can still import CDR from Korea or wherever you want without paying the tax, as long as it's not for resale.