"legal murder" is a mistatement of terms. Murder is premeditated illegal killing. Self-defense is usually not premeditated, and it's not illegal. I think the technical term for killing is homicide, and that doesn't assign guilt or assume planning. There are adjectives to describe the cause of the homicide.
I would imagine that it does vary by type. I was thinking of the standard small dish I've seen around, one or two LNBs, nothing special, never felt that heavy when I picked one up. I could only find one dish which specified the weight in the listing:
While I agree with the concept, changes in social media dominance might not come so quickly.
Before Google came along, a new search engine became dominant every few years. With Google, the situation seems to have stabilized, Bing took a bite, but they don't seem to be going further with the momentum.
MySpace (2003) is only 1 year older than Facebook (2004). Friendster was founded in 2002, the early "baby" years were tumultuous, but the landscape seems to have matured such that significant changes are slower to come by. New features of upcoming sites can be co-opted before they threaten the big players, as you might have seen with Facebook taking on some Twitter-like notions, such as the feed.
I think this might allow more placement options, but there are likely major trade-offs. If you want your phased array antenna to allow you to place the antenna flat on the side or top of a house (or RV), then you reduce reception sensitivity to the intended satellite vs. a parabolic dish of the same area pointing at the satellite. Parabolic dishes themselves don't consume power, whereas this chip does. Having a lot of small antennas also means wiring and complexity, so I would expect to pay more vs. a very easy to make fiberglass dish and LNB arrangement. An upside though, is that if it works, this would let you instantly "point" to any arbitrary satellite without switching LNBs or moving the dish. The old BUD style dishes had a system that pivots the dish to tune to preferred satellites.
Ha! Good point. Though I don't know if Microsoft software is well-architected. Most software isn't, and sometimes Apple's software has poor underpinnings despite a nice facade. For example, I couldn't get the first generation of Aperture (version 1.5) to print a photo properly to save my life, it's far easier to export a photo to iPhoto and print from there, with no risk of wasting photo paper or ink. They fixed that in 3.0.
Design is more than just the look and feel of objects or software. Architecture and engineering are different kinds of design than what people typically understand as design.
I can imagine that the last thing Swedish government wants is for their citizens to know that it's because of pressure from the US. I'm surprised they didn't invent some other reason as a cover for that, maybe they couldn't make one that was less suspicious.
What often tends to happen is when some resources are in true dire depletion, people move on to other ways to make do with other resources. Sometimes previously uneconomic mines become viable when the value of a resource rises due to scarcity. With regards to tungsten, I would expect that LED lights would largely replace the use of tungsten filaments long before then.
Don't abuse the racism charge, lest it gets watered down and becomes worthless.
Hulu blocking other countries is a business decision. They don't have the distribution rights to transmit overseas, and they don't have an infrastructure to sell ads appropriate for overseas customers. There's no reason to show most US ads to non-US people.
To call this tantamount to racism is really twisted in my opinion. There's no reason to ask them to deliberately lose money to fulfill your sense of justice, especially over an entertainment medium.
Regarding the summary though, don't most 3D TVs include two glasses? You can buy extras separately. There's no reason to buy a 3D TV unless you're going to actually use the feature, so saying that people aren't buying glasses sounds spurious, it sounds like they're not buying extras.
I don't know if it's going to go anywhere anyway. It seems more often then not, if I hear some random unsolicited comment in real life about OpenOffice, it's a negative one. Not from some form of software partisanship, but frustrations over problems with the software. The new name won't help.
The argument by itself is interesting, though I don't think it's valid, it's along the lines of violence in music/movies/TVs/games cause people to become violent criminals, and those arguments have not been validated, the evidence seems to indicate the opposite might be happening.
Also, I don't think one should completely separate the argument from the agenda that prompted him to forward the argument. Sometimes the argument is a slight of hand to get people distracted from the problems the Pope has been actively avoiding.
I don't know if wireless really competes against wires, cables or fiber optic, it probably is true for this project too. Going from wired to wireless for the "last mile" is a trade in different solutions that also trades very different sets of problems.
With some 100% home grown OS, then we can be pretty sure that some large military contractor wins, at 250% of the quoted cost. Whether that results in something that's usable in war is an open question.
Sorry, I read both articles, I'm not seeing where they force you to buy the PS3s that had the Geek Squad updated firmware. They might trick people that don't know anything about it, but not seeing the forcing part.
It's getting harder to find the 1920x1200 screens. 1920x1080 are now a lot more popular, at the expense of the 1920x1200 screens, short of paying for expensive IPS screens. The problem is that people want (or maybe companies push) 16:9 screens when 3:2 and 16:10 did the job. I use computers to watch a lot of widescreen videos and still I have no qualm about the "letterbox bars", I'd rather keep those than lose the vertical resolution for non-video uses.
I think it is one thing to accomplish an interesting, even astonishing deed, it's a very thing to misrepresent the accomplishment as something greater than what it is. We have definitions of where space begins, and they didn't reach that. Balloons are also useless vehicles in space, so that should be another indication.
You're right that computer replacement is slow, but XP got about 38% of the installed base in only three years. Vista was released on Jan 2006, more than 4 1/2 years ago, and still Vista + 7 combined don't best XP's installed base.
This might be an indication of a changing user base, and it may be it's because a lot of businesses and households aren't doing as well these days.
People that make decisions like this are rarely exposed to or are aware of the full costs of their choices. If their computer breaks, someone else fixes it for them, and the cost of the fix isn't made known to them. IT or whatever division that maintains the computer infrastructure has to work to minimize user exposure to problems. Basically, it's someone else's problem, when the problem is out of sight, it is out of mind.
It's not like that. They're replacing the signs as regular maintenance, street signs only last so long and they need replacing anyway, when they're replaced, they're updated to the new style. That's why it's a 10 year program. Though I wonder how much bribery and graft is figured into that price tag.
One of the reasons why big business loves Windows and isn't that interested in Linux other than maybe Red Hat is because if things go horribly wrong, there's somebody with deep pockets to sue.
This has to be a reason why business is horrible, because they're run by boneheads. I'm not saying Linux is necessarily the best choice, but people using that reasoning to justify making a certain choice must have forgotten that those deep pockets can also pay for defense too. Also, software licenses usually disclaim any liability for anything, so unless you can somehow invalidate that disclaimer, the lawsuit would be pointless.
There were gas turbine locomotives, but they weren't so efficient. The Union Pacific gas turbines in the linked wiki page consumed a lot more fuel than equivalent amount of diesel power (such that they pulled their own fuel tenders), but they lived for a while when the fuel was a lot less expensive than diesel, but they still only served one route for most of their operation. They were extremely loud too, even more so than diesel. The TGV prototype was turbo electric, but fuel costs were prohibitive, so they switched to electric for commercial operation. I was given a tour on a gas turbine powered cruiser (navy ship) and those suckers were loud, so you stay away from it as much as you can, and kept those doors shut.
I think this makes sense. While it might seem like you're just favoring the big studios, there's no point in making a bunch of "pre production" entries for indie projects because indie projects are probably a lot more likely to dead-end or get cancelled. Big studios have problems too, but I don't expect it to be nearly as big of a problem.
There's also a question of what software it is running. A specialized task might only need a small processor. There's a lot of household, commercial, medical and industrial devices that only need a few megahertz to tend to a certain number of inputs, a few conditionals and computations and a few outputs. The basic concept is old and could have been achieved decades ago, but the same tasks still need to be done.
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"legal murder" is a mistatement of terms. Murder is premeditated illegal killing. Self-defense is usually not premeditated, and it's not illegal. I think the technical term for killing is homicide, and that doesn't assign guilt or assume planning. There are adjectives to describe the cause of the homicide.
Without cocaine and weed so many american kids would know absolutely nothing about the metric system.
We still have guns (9mm), liquor (commonly 750 milliliters) and soda bottles (two liters). Probably other things too.
I would imagine that it does vary by type. I was thinking of the standard small dish I've seen around, one or two LNBs, nothing special, never felt that heavy when I picked one up. I could only find one dish which specified the weight in the listing:
http://sadoun.com/Sat/Products/Winegard/DS4047-18-Inch+Antenna.htm
Single LNB, 5lb.
While I agree with the concept, changes in social media dominance might not come so quickly.
Before Google came along, a new search engine became dominant every few years. With Google, the situation seems to have stabilized, Bing took a bite, but they don't seem to be going further with the momentum.
MySpace (2003) is only 1 year older than Facebook (2004). Friendster was founded in 2002, the early "baby" years were tumultuous, but the landscape seems to have matured such that significant changes are slower to come by. New features of upcoming sites can be co-opted before they threaten the big players, as you might have seen with Facebook taking on some Twitter-like notions, such as the feed.
I don't think DSS dishes are even 5lb.
I think this might allow more placement options, but there are likely major trade-offs. If you want your phased array antenna to allow you to place the antenna flat on the side or top of a house (or RV), then you reduce reception sensitivity to the intended satellite vs. a parabolic dish of the same area pointing at the satellite. Parabolic dishes themselves don't consume power, whereas this chip does. Having a lot of small antennas also means wiring and complexity, so I would expect to pay more vs. a very easy to make fiberglass dish and LNB arrangement. An upside though, is that if it works, this would let you instantly "point" to any arbitrary satellite without switching LNBs or moving the dish. The old BUD style dishes had a system that pivots the dish to tune to preferred satellites.
Ha! Good point. Though I don't know if Microsoft software is well-architected. Most software isn't, and sometimes Apple's software has poor underpinnings despite a nice facade. For example, I couldn't get the first generation of Aperture (version 1.5) to print a photo properly to save my life, it's far easier to export a photo to iPhoto and print from there, with no risk of wasting photo paper or ink. They fixed that in 3.0.
Design is more than just the look and feel of objects or software. Architecture and engineering are different kinds of design than what people typically understand as design.
I can imagine that the last thing Swedish government wants is for their citizens to know that it's because of pressure from the US. I'm surprised they didn't invent some other reason as a cover for that, maybe they couldn't make one that was less suspicious.
What often tends to happen is when some resources are in true dire depletion, people move on to other ways to make do with other resources. Sometimes previously uneconomic mines become viable when the value of a resource rises due to scarcity. With regards to tungsten, I would expect that LED lights would largely replace the use of tungsten filaments long before then.
It should not take a server all of a microsecond to compare an IP against a very slowly changing list of IP blocks.
However, it's a really silly stunt, I would hope that Hulu had contractual requirements to justify doing this, which there might be.
Don't abuse the racism charge, lest it gets watered down and becomes worthless.
Hulu blocking other countries is a business decision. They don't have the distribution rights to transmit overseas, and they don't have an infrastructure to sell ads appropriate for overseas customers. There's no reason to show most US ads to non-US people.
To call this tantamount to racism is really twisted in my opinion. There's no reason to ask them to deliberately lose money to fulfill your sense of justice, especially over an entertainment medium.
The prices are still a little high too.
Regarding the summary though, don't most 3D TVs include two glasses? You can buy extras separately. There's no reason to buy a 3D TV unless you're going to actually use the feature, so saying that people aren't buying glasses sounds spurious, it sounds like they're not buying extras.
I don't know if it's going to go anywhere anyway. It seems more often then not, if I hear some random unsolicited comment in real life about OpenOffice, it's a negative one. Not from some form of software partisanship, but frustrations over problems with the software. The new name won't help.
The argument by itself is interesting, though I don't think it's valid, it's along the lines of violence in music/movies/TVs/games cause people to become violent criminals, and those arguments have not been validated, the evidence seems to indicate the opposite might be happening.
Also, I don't think one should completely separate the argument from the agenda that prompted him to forward the argument. Sometimes the argument is a slight of hand to get people distracted from the problems the Pope has been actively avoiding.
I don't know if wireless really competes against wires, cables or fiber optic, it probably is true for this project too. Going from wired to wireless for the "last mile" is a trade in different solutions that also trades very different sets of problems.
With some 100% home grown OS, then we can be pretty sure that some large military contractor wins, at 250% of the quoted cost. Whether that results in something that's usable in war is an open question.
Sorry, I read both articles, I'm not seeing where they force you to buy the PS3s that had the Geek Squad updated firmware. They might trick people that don't know anything about it, but not seeing the forcing part.
It's getting harder to find the 1920x1200 screens. 1920x1080 are now a lot more popular, at the expense of the 1920x1200 screens, short of paying for expensive IPS screens. The problem is that people want (or maybe companies push) 16:9 screens when 3:2 and 16:10 did the job. I use computers to watch a lot of widescreen videos and still I have no qualm about the "letterbox bars", I'd rather keep those than lose the vertical resolution for non-video uses.
I think it is one thing to accomplish an interesting, even astonishing deed, it's a very thing to misrepresent the accomplishment as something greater than what it is. We have definitions of where space begins, and they didn't reach that. Balloons are also useless vehicles in space, so that should be another indication.
You're right that computer replacement is slow, but XP got about 38% of the installed base in only three years. Vista was released on Jan 2006, more than 4 1/2 years ago, and still Vista + 7 combined don't best XP's installed base.
This might be an indication of a changing user base, and it may be it's because a lot of businesses and households aren't doing as well these days.
People that make decisions like this are rarely exposed to or are aware of the full costs of their choices. If their computer breaks, someone else fixes it for them, and the cost of the fix isn't made known to them. IT or whatever division that maintains the computer infrastructure has to work to minimize user exposure to problems. Basically, it's someone else's problem, when the problem is out of sight, it is out of mind.
It's not like that. They're replacing the signs as regular maintenance, street signs only last so long and they need replacing anyway, when they're replaced, they're updated to the new style. That's why it's a 10 year program. Though I wonder how much bribery and graft is figured into that price tag.
One of the reasons why big business loves Windows and isn't that interested in Linux other than maybe Red Hat is because if things go horribly wrong, there's somebody with deep pockets to sue.
This has to be a reason why business is horrible, because they're run by boneheads. I'm not saying Linux is necessarily the best choice, but people using that reasoning to justify making a certain choice must have forgotten that those deep pockets can also pay for defense too. Also, software licenses usually disclaim any liability for anything, so unless you can somehow invalidate that disclaimer, the lawsuit would be pointless.
There were gas turbine locomotives, but they weren't so efficient. The Union Pacific gas turbines in the linked wiki page consumed a lot more fuel than equivalent amount of diesel power (such that they pulled their own fuel tenders), but they lived for a while when the fuel was a lot less expensive than diesel, but they still only served one route for most of their operation. They were extremely loud too, even more so than diesel. The TGV prototype was turbo electric, but fuel costs were prohibitive, so they switched to electric for commercial operation. I was given a tour on a gas turbine powered cruiser (navy ship) and those suckers were loud, so you stay away from it as much as you can, and kept those doors shut.
I think this makes sense. While it might seem like you're just favoring the big studios, there's no point in making a bunch of "pre production" entries for indie projects because indie projects are probably a lot more likely to dead-end or get cancelled. Big studios have problems too, but I don't expect it to be nearly as big of a problem.
There's also a question of what software it is running. A specialized task might only need a small processor. There's a lot of household, commercial, medical and industrial devices that only need a few megahertz to tend to a certain number of inputs, a few conditionals and computations and a few outputs. The basic concept is old and could have been achieved decades ago, but the same tasks still need to be done.