Enough of the whining of the $20 CDs. Don't buy at mall stores. That would be the end of paying $20 a CD and still getting a pressed, oncompressed CD. Seriously. I was wondering where people were finding these allegedly plentiful $20 CDs when I was never paying more than maybe $13 a CD until I made the mistake of walking into a mall store.
One thing to keep in mind though is that there are countries spending less per student on education, yet getting better results than the US. I am talking the likes of Germany and Japan, not some developing country with a low cost of living.
I don't believe for a minute that US schools are underfunded, I think they are misusing the funds. I;ve read that some schools have one administrative staffer per two teachers. What a waste.
Also, I've read a local piece that showed spending on education has historically doubled that of inflation.
A related problem are parents. Parents are increasingly treating schools as babysitters. Some parents see passing grades as an entitlement, even if the student is refusing to put in the little work it takes to earn the grade. Punishment for wrongdoing is held back because parents threaten to sue, and schools can't afford lawsuits.
There are also the wasteful educational fads that come and go but no one tests to see if they really are effective in a broad sense before trying to apply them broadly.
There is also the race and culture issues. Families and communities in some minority groups don't seem to care as much whether their children excel. Those groups seem to reinforce a cycle of despair and underachievement. Attitude is extremely important, as evidenced by immigrants and other minorities that start with not much but apply themselves despite the longer odds and come out on top.
The definitions are done for scientific accuracy as the ability to measure improves.
Celcius is trickier than just temperatures of boiling and melting, because I think it must also declare the pressure too. The temperatures that water boils and freezes depends on air pressure. Kelvins are defined as divisions such that the range from absolute zero to the triple point of water is 273.16 kelvin. At least that doesn't depend on a the standard for pressure.
The problem with a meter standard depending on a physical object is that the length of that object changes with temperature. A temperature independent standard is needed. Standards that can be measured independently without having to refer to a specific single object are necessary for maximum accuracy.
A lot of units in the US measuring system differ from the Imperial system.
I don't know if it is true, but my understanding about the reason that the US didn't fully adopt SI is that people thought the gas stations were trying to rip them off. So not only does the US start (and finish) wars about oil, misunderstanding and confusion over it had a hand in preventing a metric changeover.
If it is any help, big industry is Metric. US furniture, automakers and any kind of industrial design is largely metric now. US cars have been mostly metric since the mid 80's. Road planning and surveying are mostly done in metric internally, and converted for public information. I've heard about one law that says no speed limit sign may be posted in metric, which is understandable, 60 MPH is about 100kph. Some jerk could just see the 100 and speed on his merry way as if it were MPH.
If you are paying engineers and designers $60k or more a year, it makes sense to provide them a product that maximizes their productivity.
Workstation cards are optimized, validated and supported for specific products. Companies that make software these things use heavily test their products using specific driver revisions. Compared to the annual wage of the people that use this, that's peanuts. Think Avid, SolidWorks, Renderman and such. Don't think Blender or other consumer or hacker software.
From my understanding, you aren't getting all possible answers simultaneously. You are evaluating all possible answers simultaneously and statistically getting the "right" answer.
"Two entangled qubits, meanwhile, can simultaneously evaluate four inputs. Put another way, a traditional memory register with eight bits can store only one of a possible 28, or 256, digital "words," but a quantum register with eight qubits can represent and compute with all 256 words at once."
The seller has to pay a fee to get an item listed, the seller has to pay another fee when money is sent via PayPal. That is the real price gouging.
The fee is about what merchants would pay if they had a merchant account. I kid you not. The fee for most small items is smaller than the cost of a stamp and postal money order anyway, and it is pretty convenient.
A firewire chip isn't that expensive, I doubt the main chip is $5 in volume. I think the only reason firewire isn't built into all PC chipsets is politics. If Apple was really backing away from Firewire, I doubt the mini would have a port.
This is only a means of eliminating extra components in the iPod box so the iPod itself can be cheaper without cutting margins much. Also, Apple eliminated the AC charger block with several models, and it's not as if Apple is trying to make it harder to charge an iPod - many PCs sufficiently power their USB ports to charge an iPod.
Firewire definitely has a place and generally performs better than USB2 for external hard drives, but the iPod hard drive isn't a speed demon. Besides, even if there was a speed difference for iPod transfers, once the files are transferred the speed difference wouldn't be more than a few seconds to transfer a new album.
Now I just need to copyright an empty space of a specific shape. Maybe I should DRM a PDF that is just a single blank page of paper.
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One thing some have noticed is that there is an annoying flickering black stripe near the bottom of the screen with TV-out. I've seen it in my mini, and it was posted on BYODKM.net. I guess not everyone gets this. For DVI-out, I guess it's not a problem but I don't have anything with DVI in.
Hey, feel free to stick with nickel cadmium technology instead... the wonder technology that may only last for hours or even minutes depening on the application, and once it's discharged once, you can't re-use it!
You are thinking alkalines or maybe the older dry cells. Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) batteries are rechargeable. The same goes for Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH). NiCd is the oldest of the small rechargeables, I think. Lead-Acid is older but I don't remember them in sizes smaller than motorcycle batteries.
The lowest price old-standard sized iPod was always missing accessories found in the higher priced ones. It was true for every generation update too, the mid-range size dropped in price and accessories.
Dropping firewire on all the newly revised parts is kind of annoying though. I use the AC adapter but rarely.
Generally, cables need to be large to carry lots of current. Power isn't directly involved. You could double the voltage, keep the current the same and significantly increase the power involved without being less safe. A cable's capacity ratings are in current and the breakdown voltage of insulation.
What I've found in my HP printers is that the colors are used to make smoother grayscales. Yes, it sucks. It sucks badly, if one of the color starts going dry. I always wondered why the greys never quite looked right, they looked a touch too blue.
Short of buying a laser printer, I don't know what to do either. I really didn't like the ozone that I smelled around laser printers in the past, I don't know if they changed it. Inkjets seem to be maintainance nightmares, if you print too much, money is being wasted, print too little and ink might dry up, or now, the cartridge might expire.
What fraction of TV watchers own a PVR? I mean real estimates based on a broad poll, not an informal anecdote of how many people you know has one vs. don't. Another issue is that maybe PVRs are showing advertisers that they don't need to spend top dollar on a prime time slot if what people are watching is from some other time.
There are plenty of great TV shows that don't cost much to make. The problem is that people see fancy FX or well-known actors and they think ths show is good. It's like the blockbuster movies. $200M spent to make the movie, but only $100 spent to write it.
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Enough of the whining of the $20 CDs. Don't buy at mall stores. That would be the end of paying $20 a CD and still getting a pressed, oncompressed CD. Seriously. I was wondering where people were finding these allegedly plentiful $20 CDs when I was never paying more than maybe $13 a CD until I made the mistake of walking into a mall store.
Actually the grandparent statement makes sense if the word oligopoly is used.
One thing to keep in mind though is that there are countries spending less per student on education, yet getting better results than the US. I am talking the likes of Germany and Japan, not some developing country with a low cost of living.
I don't believe for a minute that US schools are underfunded, I think they are misusing the funds. I;ve read that some schools have one administrative staffer per two teachers. What a waste.
Also, I've read a local piece that showed spending on education has historically doubled that of inflation.
A related problem are parents. Parents are increasingly treating schools as babysitters. Some parents see passing grades as an entitlement, even if the student is refusing to put in the little work it takes to earn the grade. Punishment for wrongdoing is held back because parents threaten to sue, and schools can't afford lawsuits.
There are also the wasteful educational fads that come and go but no one tests to see if they really are effective in a broad sense before trying to apply them broadly.
There is also the race and culture issues. Families and communities in some minority groups don't seem to care as much whether their children excel. Those groups seem to reinforce a cycle of despair and underachievement. Attitude is extremely important, as evidenced by immigrants and other minorities that start with not much but apply themselves despite the longer odds and come out on top.
The definitions are done for scientific accuracy as the ability to measure improves.
Celcius is trickier than just temperatures of boiling and melting, because I think it must also declare the pressure too. The temperatures that water boils and freezes depends on air pressure. Kelvins are defined as divisions such that the range from absolute zero to the triple point of water is 273.16 kelvin. At least that doesn't depend on a the standard for pressure.
The problem with a meter standard depending on a physical object is that the length of that object changes with temperature. A temperature independent standard is needed. Standards that can be measured independently without having to refer to a specific single object are necessary for maximum accuracy.
A lot of units in the US measuring system differ from the Imperial system.
I don't know if it is true, but my understanding about the reason that the US didn't fully adopt SI is that people thought the gas stations were trying to rip them off. So not only does the US start (and finish) wars about oil, misunderstanding and confusion over it had a hand in preventing a metric changeover.
If it is any help, big industry is Metric. US furniture, automakers and any kind of industrial design is largely metric now. US cars have been mostly metric since the mid 80's. Road planning and surveying are mostly done in metric internally, and converted for public information. I've heard about one law that says no speed limit sign may be posted in metric, which is understandable, 60 MPH is about 100kph. Some jerk could just see the 100 and speed on his merry way as if it were MPH.
If you are paying engineers and designers $60k or more a year, it makes sense to provide them a product that maximizes their productivity.
Workstation cards are optimized, validated and supported for specific products. Companies that make software these things use heavily test their products using specific driver revisions. Compared to the annual wage of the people that use this, that's peanuts. Think Avid, SolidWorks, Renderman and such. Don't think Blender or other consumer or hacker software.
From my understanding, you aren't getting all possible answers simultaneously. You are evaluating all possible answers simultaneously and statistically getting the "right" answer.
I don't think it works that way.
"Two entangled qubits, meanwhile, can simultaneously evaluate four inputs. Put another way, a traditional memory register with eight bits can store only one of a possible 28, or 256, digital "words," but a quantum register with eight qubits can represent and compute with all 256 words at once."
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If you could have 32 entangled qubits, you could simultaneously evaluate 2^32 inputs, which is more than 4 billion possibilities.
Regarding the original story:
Unless you think they can find some crazy reason to sue the Nasdaq for billions over it..."
Well, they really didn't have a good reason to sue IBM, but they did.
I think blogs will be treated similarly to diaries by history. 20 years from now, we may see collections of important bloggings as eBooks,
Given that eBooks are pretty much history already, I can see this happening.
The seller has to pay a fee to get an item listed, the seller has to pay another fee when money is sent via PayPal. That is the real price gouging.
The fee is about what merchants would pay if they had a merchant account. I kid you not. The fee for most small items is smaller than the cost of a stamp and postal money order anyway, and it is pretty convenient.
A firewire chip isn't that expensive, I doubt the main chip is $5 in volume. I think the only reason firewire isn't built into all PC chipsets is politics. If Apple was really backing away from Firewire, I doubt the mini would have a port.
This is only a means of eliminating extra components in the iPod box so the iPod itself can be cheaper without cutting margins much. Also, Apple eliminated the AC charger block with several models, and it's not as if Apple is trying to make it harder to charge an iPod - many PCs sufficiently power their USB ports to charge an iPod.
Firewire definitely has a place and generally performs better than USB2 for external hard drives, but the iPod hard drive isn't a speed demon. Besides, even if there was a speed difference for iPod transfers, once the files are transferred the speed difference wouldn't be more than a few seconds to transfer a new album.
Now I just need to copyright an empty space of a specific shape. Maybe I should DRM a PDF that is just a single blank page of paper.
One thing some have noticed is that there is an annoying flickering black stripe near the bottom of the screen with TV-out. I've seen it in my mini, and it was posted on BYODKM.net. I guess not everyone gets this. For DVI-out, I guess it's not a problem but I don't have anything with DVI in.
I hope that is sarcastic. Shared memory was among the dumber ideas I've ever seen. Forget gaming, it even seems to slow down standard desktop apps.
Hey, feel free to stick with nickel cadmium technology instead... the wonder technology that may only last for hours or even minutes depening on the application, and once it's discharged once, you can't re-use it!
You are thinking alkalines or maybe the older dry cells. Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) batteries are rechargeable. The same goes for Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH). NiCd is the oldest of the small rechargeables, I think. Lead-Acid is older but I don't remember them in sizes smaller than motorcycle batteries.
Wha, 640p? What the hell is that? The number represents the number of scan lines, the vertical axis.
The only resolutions that are "HD" in the ATSC standard are 720p and 1080i.
The lowest price old-standard sized iPod was always missing accessories found in the higher priced ones. It was true for every generation update too, the mid-range size dropped in price and accessories.
Dropping firewire on all the newly revised parts is kind of annoying though. I use the AC adapter but rarely.
What is really new for the iPods with dock connector or touch or scroll wheels?
I had shuffle songs in the Main Menu, there's an option to put it there from the settings menu.
I had a music menu item in the Main Menu, there's an option to put it there from the settings menu.
I had support for iTunes 4.7 (later is unknown).
Generally, cables need to be large to carry lots of current. Power isn't directly involved. You could double the voltage, keep the current the same and significantly increase the power involved without being less safe. A cable's capacity ratings are in current and the breakdown voltage of insulation.
What I've found in my HP printers is that the colors are used to make smoother grayscales. Yes, it sucks. It sucks badly, if one of the color starts going dry. I always wondered why the greys never quite looked right, they looked a touch too blue.
Short of buying a laser printer, I don't know what to do either. I really didn't like the ozone that I smelled around laser printers in the past, I don't know if they changed it. Inkjets seem to be maintainance nightmares, if you print too much, money is being wasted, print too little and ink might dry up, or now, the cartridge might expire.
What fraction of TV watchers own a PVR? I mean real estimates based on a broad poll, not an informal anecdote of how many people you know has one vs. don't. Another issue is that maybe PVRs are showing advertisers that they don't need to spend top dollar on a prime time slot if what people are watching is from some other time.
There are plenty of great TV shows that don't cost much to make. The problem is that people see fancy FX or well-known actors and they think ths show is good. It's like the blockbuster movies. $200M spent to make the movie, but only $100 spent to write it.
What logic! What stupidity! What a maroon!
Yeah, you'd have to be stupid to be a maroon. Either that or mix red and purple and splash it on him.
Drat, I used the UBB markup tags. Edit:
I thought it was Community Area TV. It was some odd name. Here's one definition I found:
ATV (originally "community antenna television," now often "community access television") is more commonly known as "cable TV."
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I thought it was Community Area TV. It was some odd name. Here's one definition I found:
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[i]CATV (originally "community antenna television," now often "community access television") is more commonly known as "cable TV."[/i]
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