I just wish they would pay me for doing my own bagging and scanning!!!!!
I wish they would too. I think it is an insult to do it this way and not have it affect the price. It wasn't like the self-serve / full-serve gas where you choose based on cost and service recieved. The grociery stores axe a job or two per lane (cashier and bagger), make the customer do all the work. In my experience, the equipment works slower than the version cashiers use, and doesn't work as well either. If it isn't going to cost me any extra, I might as well go with the one that retains a couple local jobs. Even the "hidden" jobs like systems maintainance don't seem to be any different between the two, self-scan is just a dumbed-down version of a cashier lane, I can't say much about the cost of the systems, I imagine they'll be pretty close.
Actually, I think that point gives a clue about why this is likely to fail. Well, I hate to say fail because it will likely find a strong niche somewhere, but it won't be widely adopted anytime soon.
This is very complex and fragile technology that they want stores to implement, generally the very same stores that won't bother to give their equipment a little maintainance, such as replacing a caster, straightening out bent tubes or squirting a bit of oil in the bearings. Grocery stores are often riding on very thin profit margins of about one percent last I read. And you want to add a wireless computer with LCD panel and barcode scanner, ready for customers to abuse? Even if you charge a deposite for the feature, I bet few would want to do this.
No hard information is available, not even expected resolution. There have been headsets available for a long time, I don't remember them ever hitting VGA in better than monochrome. It hasn't caught on yet, and Mitsubishi is not saying why this one will beat the odds.
The power savings doesn't seem to be that significant except for maybe battery life.
A 17" panel takes around 30-40W, which is in line with the fact that backlights are basically special flourescent bulbs with some sort of light distribution material, sometimes fresnel type.
I agree. Aging parents and a command line interface? If they knew how to handle a command line interface, would they ask their kid to set it up for them?
How about this, why not just set up a 100 to 400 CD changer and leave it at that? My CD changer reads CD-Text on the songs and the CD title. The slowest part is copying all the pressed CDs so that the CD-Text data can be encoded into them, and that's an easy job in Nero.
It does take a little bit of time to go from start of producing the discs, packaging and to go through the distribution channels such that all the stores have all the copies they need for release week. One month isn't that long of a time.
Look up the tech specs. The drives are still thicker than the current thickest laptop hard drive. You'd also need a laptop that has built-in SCSI. I'm not certain if they are still made.
I'm sure power consumption is an issue. Unless you don't mind the short 1 hour battery life of P4 laptops. If you want a four hour battery life, forget this drive.
You can get a 7200 RPM ATA drive for laptops though.
If you think $10 or $100 a month is too much for a server, you'll be shocked at the cost of doing this. And you'll have to have a powerful transmitter and reciever on the ground in order to use the dish. Then there's the maintainaince, energy as well as launch costs.
The authorities can just raid the base station and be done with it.
The real reason? No, that looks to be more like an intermediate reason. The previous slashdot threads had the reason who wanted action. FBI only passed on an outsider's demand/request, your post doesn't say why those outsiders wanted those servers.
There is at least one deal in the works to build a major plant in or near Highland, Michigan. The factories that had closed were highly inefficient, some of them were built around the time the Ford Model 'A' was made so you can imagine that the plant design might not be condusive to making the latest cars.
A lot of the "import" brands, even the luxury ones, are making cars in other parts of the US, just not so much in Detroit.
Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us. I don't feel bad for you.
The problem with that is that you aren't counting the cost of doing retail. They don't net that 4+ dollars, for all we know, they might still only net fifty cents a disc. It is too easy to look at the wholesale price and the retail price and assume a gouge, that it is all profit.
The costs are employees, taxes, insurance, rent, electricity, maintainance, equipment heat, water, advertising, shoplifting and so on. These costs are not cheap.
Walmart is going for economies of scale for a lot of these things, where it is expensive to start up, but for each additional unit, the costs go down.
I believe you might be aware that a problem with that is that you could not legally use any form of encryption over that signal, be it in the hardware layer like WEP & WPA or in the application layer like SSH or HTTPS. Once you do email, either you are either sending your password in plain text or you are technically breaking the terms of the ham licence.
Once you start limiting, there is no stopping how much you limit it.
That is known as a slippery slope fallacy. There are, as another post puts it (in different words), reasonable and unreasonable limits. There are also different levels of protections based on what kind of speech.
While your argument has a point, free speech doesn't protect you from a libel or slander suit if you said something that was libelous or slanderous. The incitement claim is pretty valid too. You can't expect to use your freedom to deliberately hurt others without merit and expect there be no legal consequences. The constitution apparently can't be used to protect a right to lie, there really doesn't seem to be one.
Another example, if you take your first Amendment claim and apply it to the second, wouldn't you argue that the Federal government has no claim to prevent you from owning fully automatic machine guns? Or SAMs or fighter airplanes for that matter?
Those are very good points, but how do you make phone calls if the internet is down or the power is out? The second part is helped with UPSs. My issue is if you put too many eggs in one basket, that sounds like wishing problems of greater impact. Sure, it sucks to either go without phone or internet, it is worse of BOTH are out. Yes, I had this problem. The only way to communicate to the outside world was personal cell phones. I needed to handle some business over the internet, I was about ready to drive to the next town to do it because my town's substation was out.
What is the etymology of this phrase? For games, it seems like it means that something is final, before shipping. For music, it seems that it has sold a certain number of copies.
PAL has slightly more resolution to make up for slightly less refresh rate, IMHO.
It is more than just your opinion - it is pretty much a fact. PAL is ~50Hz but has about 100 more scan lines, where as NTSC is ~60Hz.
What hurts PAL sometimes is that NTSC video is often poorly converted to PAL using pretty sloppy methods. But if you use a 100% PAL signal chain (direct from camera or direct from film telecine), it will generally have a better picture than NTSC, all things being equal.
One thing that bugs some people is that 24fps film gets speeded up to 25fps so it displays well on PAL, but it also causes a 4% frequency shift in the audio to synch the audio to the video.
Blindly buying on brand name is silly. That quote didn't mention the cable brand but my guess, given the other brands mentioned, is that it is probably a brand that sells more on marketing than actual quality improvement. Monster is one such company. Bose is definitely one, they sound nice, but While I like some Sony products, they sometimes do have more problems, and very often have a stupid-short warranty, all at a premium price, although it is model-dependent. It pays to do some research.
The "problem" with HD displays is that they show many flaws in the signal that SD displays hide. So, an HD display will look worse on some signals. Turning off Scan Velocity Modulation and turning the sharpness to neutral (no increased sharpness, no added blurring) helps greatly, as it seems to makes things look worse on an HD display.
Also, the screen size plays a role in the perception of how bad a picture looks. Think of it like playing a small, poorly compressed video file. It looks acceptable when the image is small, but blow it to full screen and it looks nasty.
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I just wish they would pay me for doing my own bagging and scanning!!!!!
I wish they would too. I think it is an insult to do it this way and not have it affect the price. It wasn't like the self-serve / full-serve gas where you choose based on cost and service recieved. The grociery stores axe a job or two per lane (cashier and bagger), make the customer do all the work. In my experience, the equipment works slower than the version cashiers use, and doesn't work as well either. If it isn't going to cost me any extra, I might as well go with the one that retains a couple local jobs. Even the "hidden" jobs like systems maintainance don't seem to be any different between the two, self-scan is just a dumbed-down version of a cashier lane, I can't say much about the cost of the systems, I imagine they'll be pretty close.
Actually, I think that point gives a clue about why this is likely to fail. Well, I hate to say fail because it will likely find a strong niche somewhere, but it won't be widely adopted anytime soon.
This is very complex and fragile technology that they want stores to implement, generally the very same stores that won't bother to give their equipment a little maintainance, such as replacing a caster, straightening out bent tubes or squirting a bit of oil in the bearings. Grocery stores are often riding on very thin profit margins of about one percent last I read. And you want to add a wireless computer with LCD panel and barcode scanner, ready for customers to abuse? Even if you charge a deposite for the feature, I bet few would want to do this.
No hard information is available, not even expected resolution. There have been headsets available for a long time, I don't remember them ever hitting VGA in better than monochrome. It hasn't caught on yet, and Mitsubishi is not saying why this one will beat the odds.
The power savings doesn't seem to be that significant except for maybe battery life.
A 17" panel takes around 30-40W, which is in line with the fact that backlights are basically special flourescent bulbs with some sort of light distribution material, sometimes fresnel type.
I agree. Aging parents and a command line interface? If they knew how to handle a command line interface, would they ask their kid to set it up for them?
How about this, why not just set up a 100 to 400 CD changer and leave it at that? My CD changer reads CD-Text on the songs and the CD title. The slowest part is copying all the pressed CDs so that the CD-Text data can be encoded into them, and that's an easy job in Nero.
The system looks like ass. I think they try to hide that fact by giving you as tiny of a picture as they can.
The "squad" referral system looks a bit pyramid-ish.
Their accessory names look like they just hired a bunch of lame valley girls.
I know that if I asked for an iMac, and got one of these ugly pieces of shit, I'd do one of those "divorce" from my parents kind of thing.
It does take a little bit of time to go from start of producing the discs, packaging and to go through the distribution channels such that all the stores have all the copies they need for release week. One month isn't that long of a time.
Look up the tech specs. The drives are still thicker than the current thickest laptop hard drive. You'd also need a laptop that has built-in SCSI. I'm not certain if they are still made.
I'm sure power consumption is an issue. Unless you don't mind the short 1 hour battery life of P4 laptops. If you want a four hour battery life, forget this drive.
You can get a 7200 RPM ATA drive for laptops though.
If you think $10 or $100 a month is too much for a server, you'll be shocked at the cost of doing this. And you'll have to have a powerful transmitter and reciever on the ground in order to use the dish. Then there's the maintainaince, energy as well as launch costs.
The authorities can just raid the base station and be done with it.
The real reason? No, that looks to be more like an intermediate reason. The previous slashdot threads had the reason who wanted action. FBI only passed on an outsider's demand/request, your post doesn't say why those outsiders wanted those servers.
There is at least one deal in the works to build a major plant in or near Highland, Michigan. The factories that had closed were highly inefficient, some of them were built around the time the Ford Model 'A' was made so you can imagine that the plant design might not be condusive to making the latest cars.
A lot of the "import" brands, even the luxury ones, are making cars in other parts of the US, just not so much in Detroit.
I think getting a teaching cert is inappropriate. IIRC, it is the most likely profession to have an oversupply of canidates.
Diversification is important though. If something falls out of demand then it is good to have other skill sets ready.
It would be pretty stupid to have such a high-profile wireless hotspot that breaks the law. someone that is quiet about it maybe.
What is the point in having a HAM licence if you are going to violate its terms?
Most independent stores I have gone to shop for music in are charing $16+ for a CD. If you're buying it for $12 and making $4+ a CD I seriously believe that you are gouging us. I don't feel bad for you.
The problem with that is that you aren't counting the cost of doing retail. They don't net that 4+ dollars, for all we know, they might still only net fifty cents a disc. It is too easy to look at the wholesale price and the retail price and assume a gouge, that it is all profit.
The costs are employees, taxes, insurance, rent, electricity, maintainance, equipment heat, water, advertising, shoplifting and so on. These costs are not cheap.
Walmart is going for economies of scale for a lot of these things, where it is expensive to start up, but for each additional unit, the costs go down.
I believe you might be aware that a problem with that is that you could not legally use any form of encryption over that signal, be it in the hardware layer like WEP & WPA or in the application layer like SSH or HTTPS. Once you do email, either you are either sending your password in plain text or you are technically breaking the terms of the ham licence.
you see that they do not plan to allow any comments at all, from the very beginning.
Of course, you can't allow people to try to discredit someone's "fair and balanced" view of themselves.
The SEC takes a dim view about companies making false statements about their business.
I'm sure they do, but they still haven't acted yet on what Daryl has been saying so far, why will it change when they put up a propaganda site?
Once you start limiting, there is no stopping how much you limit it.
That is known as a slippery slope fallacy. There are, as another post puts it (in different words), reasonable and unreasonable limits. There are also different levels of protections based on what kind of speech.
While your argument has a point, free speech doesn't protect you from a libel or slander suit if you said something that was libelous or slanderous. The incitement claim is pretty valid too. You can't expect to use your freedom to deliberately hurt others without merit and expect there be no legal consequences. The constitution apparently can't be used to protect a right to lie, there really doesn't seem to be one.
Another example, if you take your first Amendment claim and apply it to the second, wouldn't you argue that the Federal government has no claim to prevent you from owning fully automatic machine guns? Or SAMs or fighter airplanes for that matter?
Apple OS X is based on a BSD licenced product, and I've never heard of that excuse used against it.
"Some adolescant university pet project to run my core systems???"
Isn't this the same opinion PHB's had of Linux?
And will there be headaches from people that "report" the lack of source to Linus, FSF, et. al?
Now, if they could just make it bigger, add some room for passengers, maybe some seats and a steering wheel, I could see people use them.
If this were true, a lot more people would be using golf carts.
Those are very good points, but how do you make phone calls if the internet is down or the power is out? The second part is helped with UPSs. My issue is if you put too many eggs in one basket, that sounds like wishing problems of greater impact. Sure, it sucks to either go without phone or internet, it is worse of BOTH are out. Yes, I had this problem. The only way to communicate to the outside world was personal cell phones. I needed to handle some business over the internet, I was about ready to drive to the next town to do it because my town's substation was out.
So, careers involving handling sewage, manure or garbage are actually BETTER than being an IT manager?
I didn't finish the article, actually, the second paragraph discusses it.
What is the etymology of this phrase? For games, it seems like it means that something is final, before shipping. For music, it seems that it has sold a certain number of copies.
PAL has slightly more resolution to make up for slightly less refresh rate, IMHO.
It is more than just your opinion - it is pretty much a fact. PAL is ~50Hz but has about 100 more scan lines, where as NTSC is ~60Hz.
What hurts PAL sometimes is that NTSC video is often poorly converted to PAL using pretty sloppy methods. But if you use a 100% PAL signal chain (direct from camera or direct from film telecine), it will generally have a better picture than NTSC, all things being equal.
One thing that bugs some people is that 24fps film gets speeded up to 25fps so it displays well on PAL, but it also causes a 4% frequency shift in the audio to synch the audio to the video.
Blindly buying on brand name is silly. That quote didn't mention the cable brand but my guess, given the other brands mentioned, is that it is probably a brand that sells more on marketing than actual quality improvement. Monster is one such company. Bose is definitely one, they sound nice, but While I like some Sony products, they sometimes do have more problems, and very often have a stupid-short warranty, all at a premium price, although it is model-dependent. It pays to do some research.
The "problem" with HD displays is that they show many flaws in the signal that SD displays hide. So, an HD display will look worse on some signals. Turning off Scan Velocity Modulation and turning the sharpness to neutral (no increased sharpness, no added blurring) helps greatly, as it seems to makes things look worse on an HD display.
Also, the screen size plays a role in the perception of how bad a picture looks. Think of it like playing a small, poorly compressed video file. It looks acceptable when the image is small, but blow it to full screen and it looks nasty.