Unless something is different than the way it was in the past, the urban migration will still happen.
Eventually, with the introduction of new farming methods, fewer people are needed to do the same amount of work. The displaced people will have to go somewhere, do something.
I was on a Yahoo or Google group for promoting an annual event that didn't require a log-in to post a question. The problem is that it was spammed with nasty political crap and the admins didn't care, they would rather see spam than turn away a person too impatient to log in. OK, that's my slant but I think the point remains.
The admins thought that registering is too much of a pain so it stays open. The problem that didn't register with their little minds was that if a user weren't going to spend the time to register, will they even remember to return to get the answer to their question.
Exactly. Automobiles are rolling weapons, but not just that, with the safeties off. Just as one shouldn't be on a cell phone while reloading a.45, one shouldn't be on a cell phone while driving.
Meanwhile the kids are sitting around at home from 3pm when schools let out, thanks to shorter school days brought about by reduced budgets.
Even in the early 80's schools let out at 3pm. And I think the tradition goes much farther back than that. Also, some schools that start earlier than traditional also release as much earlier than traditional.
So how is this a cost-cutting move brought about by presumably recently reduced budgets?
I suppose the white coats have telescope pointing mechanisms that are accurate enough to to point to a such a high repeatably. How such a mechanism is designed is beyond me right now.
This is slashdot, where the right editor knows not what the left editor is doing, and like many organizations, the very top admin knows not what his team is doing!
The problem is that such statements is that they seem to ignore the then-Japanese tenacity of never surrendering and fighting to the death. ONe can state atrocities, but then it seems to ignore the alternatives. Every island in the Pacific was taken only by extremely bloody wins and running that kind of war on the main Japan islands would have been nothing short of upper level of hell as if it weren't that already, and could have easily involved ten times the deaths. IIRC, the emperor simply ignored the first bomb as a fluke, so by his inaction made the next one necessary.
I suppose only one bomb might have been necessary, on Tokyo, but that would have been even worse yet.
I know the codec guys were trying to be cute when they picked that name, but the fact that people still need to clarify which Divx it is shows that they were really stupid in picking it.
The reason monitors and speakers don't depreciate so much is because the technology can't improve very much.
While silicon processes and transistor design might allow for a performance doubling every year or two, that simply doesn't apply to most other industries because it is much easier to max out any particular technology and improvements can only be incremental at best in comparison.
Again, we get another batch of quack slashdotters.
The new format will be backward compatible, actually both competing formats are backward compatible to DVD. No one has to replace their DVDs. They will still play on new machines. So they don't have the same resolution as the new format, big deal. Not every movie is worth replacing to HD, and there is a lot of material out there, particularly TV shows and direct-to-video that won't be better than NTSC or PAL anyway.
No one had to replace all their tapes either. It is the very mentality that people have to have the "latest" that gets people weird I guess, they'd rather halt progress than keep up or be left behind.
DTS was considered but rejected. For one, the bandwidth requirement is massive, and I read the licencing and authoring costs are higher. When the DVD Forum turned down DTS, DTS sued. So DTS was allowed as an option.
IIRC, first generation DVD players would have had DTS compatibility if DTS had bothered to read the spec when making their test DVD. I think they tried to flag it as a PCM track assuming it would be played like with a DTS CD.
Given identical sources and the same quality of encoders, DTS will do better than DD.
Source?
IIRC, I've read it both ways and about dead even. I thought there was a consensus was that the codecs themselves actually turn out the same quality audio but I don't know where to look. DTS provides their own audio engineering services, so that could provide better input into the codec, whereas any chimp is allowed to do DD encoding.
Because of this engineering, there is little point in making every movie DTS, as they don't have that kind of manpower.
The compatibility mostly works into the pressing plant's advantage. Players can have an extra reader laser, which I suppose would cost a bit more.
I really don't buy the compatibility argument. VCD isn't necessarily compatible with DVD, but most players have it. CD-R/RW isn't compatible with DVD lasers, but most DVD players can read them now because the makers put in an extra laser of the right wavelength. I highly doubt any next-generation hardware player would drop DVD.
Some people have managed to meaasure the EM radiation from an open computer and measured practically nothing on the scale. The thing is that the computer is also succeptible to accepting interference from other sources.
I doubt that an open computer would irradiate anything any more than cell phones, radio waves, TV broadcasts, TVs, etc.
That part I didn't understand either, they didn't say much about the servers they are maintaining. They did say it wasn't for just one server, but I think a server plus spare parts and parts to update the ones they currently have.
If it is going to be community supported, I think some amount of up-front-ness about the details is in order. Heck, if they needed specific hardware, then just say so, maybe someone has connections.
Most of the other sites begging for donations may not be worth it, but I find Wikipedia to be a great web site. Whenever I need information, Google often points me to Wikipedia with succinct information and without too much garbage mixed in.
I think a small donation is fine, particularly for a good, informative non-profit site that doesn't have ads, pop-ups, etc.
Also, because a technology has been supersceeded doesn't mean that it will be replaced.
With PDAs, computers and electronic documents, you'd think people would be asking why the use of the several millennia old idea of pen and paper hasn't been eliminated.
For so long as there is a practical use for a technology, it won't completely go away.
The article was flawed in some of its claims but there are many billions of dollars in licensing and exporting Japan's cultural icons. Most of the exports is to a bunch of sizable niche markets here and there, it doesn't have the same influence as the article claims.
A lot of US entertainment has some level of Japanese influence, but that doesn't mean money goes to Japan because of that.
I don't listen to Japanese music so I can't even try to recommend anything.
If anything, Japan has lost a lot of cultural influence too, where a lot of Kurasawa movies had a strong art house film circuit showings, it seems to be impossible to get 100 screens in the US of Japanese theatrical movies.
I think Linux has a way to go. A lot of things I am used to doing in Windows aren't so easy even in KDE.
For one, the ability to easily rearrange the "K" menu by dragging items around doesn't exist nearly the way it is in the Windows Start menu. I often rearrange the shortcuts Start menu little by little to follow the way I work, and KDE simply requires a more tedious way of doing it.
I've gotten used to right clicking the task bar for task manager but now the closest equivalent is just deeply buried in the K menu somewhere. That equivalent does look a lot more flexible and useful but it didn't work right and then it promptly broke.
I'll probably play with Gnome next.
SUSE 9's YAST2 utility doesn't bother to remember administrative passwords despite my asking it to numerous times.
Meanwhile, I still use Windows 2000 as my primary OS, although I have at least replaced IE and OE with MozFirebird and MozThunderbird.
I keep pecking away little by little with Linux just to keep an exit strategy, but the software needs more work before it can really pretend to be adequate competition for even Microsoft.
I imageine it is great for corporate desktops though, as it can be tweaked and tuned to the corporation's and user's needs and more easily lock out the fiddlers that cause problems.
Uh, yeah. I suppose if you count USB too, then you would have five, but there is only one RS-232 port on that board. It isn't often that I see USB referred to as a serial port, while technically true, most people just call it USB.
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Unless something is different than the way it was in the past, the urban migration will still happen.
Eventually, with the introduction of new farming methods, fewer people are needed to do the same amount of work. The displaced people will have to go somewhere, do something.
I was on a Yahoo or Google group for promoting an annual event that didn't require a log-in to post a question. The problem is that it was spammed with nasty political crap and the admins didn't care, they would rather see spam than turn away a person too impatient to log in. OK, that's my slant but I think the point remains.
The admins thought that registering is too much of a pain so it stays open. The problem that didn't register with their little minds was that if a user weren't going to spend the time to register, will they even remember to return to get the answer to their question.
You had me up to thin clients in the corporate environment. While they are on the market, they never really had much more than a niche.
Exactly. Automobiles are rolling weapons, but not just that, with the safeties off. Just as one shouldn't be on a cell phone while reloading a .45, one shouldn't be on a cell phone while driving.
Meanwhile the kids are sitting around at home from 3pm when schools let out, thanks to shorter school days brought about by reduced budgets.
Even in the early 80's schools let out at 3pm. And I think the tradition goes much farther back than that. Also, some schools that start earlier than traditional also release as much earlier than traditional.
So how is this a cost-cutting move brought about by presumably recently reduced budgets?
I suppose the white coats have telescope pointing mechanisms that are accurate enough to to point to a such a high repeatably. How such a mechanism is designed is beyond me right now.
What, when the radius of the earth increases by a few meters, mostly just because water expands? The rock isn't going to expand much in comparison.
This is slashdot, where the right editor knows not what the left editor is doing, and like many organizations, the very top admin knows not what his team is doing!
yup, as early warning reports from one site can't be called in faster than sound methods of radio, electricity or fiberoptics.
The problem is that such statements is that they seem to ignore the then-Japanese tenacity of never surrendering and fighting to the death. ONe can state atrocities, but then it seems to ignore the alternatives. Every island in the Pacific was taken only by extremely bloody wins and running that kind of war on the main Japan islands would have been nothing short of upper level of hell as if it weren't that already, and could have easily involved ten times the deaths. IIRC, the emperor simply ignored the first bomb as a fluke, so by his inaction made the next one necessary.
I suppose only one bomb might have been necessary, on Tokyo, but that would have been even worse yet.
I know the codec guys were trying to be cute when they picked that name, but the fact that people still need to clarify which Divx it is shows that they were really stupid in picking it.
I would expect more than this from Wired, as there are several glaring inaccuracies.
Optimist. I expect Wired to have glaring inaccuracies as a matter of routine. I should expect better but such isn't life.
I agree.
The reason monitors and speakers don't depreciate so much is because the technology can't improve very much.
While silicon processes and transistor design might allow for a performance doubling every year or two, that simply doesn't apply to most other industries because it is much easier to max out any particular technology and improvements can only be incremental at best in comparison.
Again, we get another batch of quack slashdotters.
The new format will be backward compatible, actually both competing formats are backward compatible to DVD. No one has to replace their DVDs. They will still play on new machines. So they don't have the same resolution as the new format, big deal. Not every movie is worth replacing to HD, and there is a lot of material out there, particularly TV shows and direct-to-video that won't be better than NTSC or PAL anyway.
No one had to replace all their tapes either. It is the very mentality that people have to have the "latest" that gets people weird I guess, they'd rather halt progress than keep up or be left behind.
DTS was considered but rejected. For one, the bandwidth requirement is massive, and I read the licencing and authoring costs are higher. When the DVD Forum turned down DTS, DTS sued. So DTS was allowed as an option.
IIRC, first generation DVD players would have had DTS compatibility if DTS had bothered to read the spec when making their test DVD. I think they tried to flag it as a PCM track assuming it would be played like with a DTS CD.
Given identical sources and the same quality of encoders, DTS will do better than DD.
Source?
IIRC, I've read it both ways and about dead even. I thought there was a consensus was that the codecs themselves actually turn out the same quality audio but I don't know where to look. DTS provides their own audio engineering services, so that could provide better input into the codec, whereas any chimp is allowed to do DD encoding.
Because of this engineering, there is little point in making every movie DTS, as they don't have that kind of manpower.
The compatibility mostly works into the pressing plant's advantage. Players can have an extra reader laser, which I suppose would cost a bit more.
I really don't buy the compatibility argument. VCD isn't necessarily compatible with DVD, but most players have it. CD-R/RW isn't compatible with DVD lasers, but most DVD players can read them now because the makers put in an extra laser of the right wavelength. I highly doubt any next-generation hardware player would drop DVD.
Some people have managed to meaasure the EM radiation from an open computer and measured practically nothing on the scale. The thing is that the computer is also succeptible to accepting interference from other sources.
I doubt that an open computer would irradiate anything any more than cell phones, radio waves, TV broadcasts, TVs, etc.
That part I didn't understand either, they didn't say much about the servers they are maintaining. They did say it wasn't for just one server, but I think a server plus spare parts and parts to update the ones they currently have.
If it is going to be community supported, I think some amount of up-front-ness about the details is in order. Heck, if they needed specific hardware, then just say so, maybe someone has connections.
Most of the other sites begging for donations may not be worth it, but I find Wikipedia to be a great web site. Whenever I need information, Google often points me to Wikipedia with succinct information and without too much garbage mixed in.
I think a small donation is fine, particularly for a good, informative non-profit site that doesn't have ads, pop-ups, etc.
Also, because a technology has been supersceeded doesn't mean that it will be replaced.
With PDAs, computers and electronic documents, you'd think people would be asking why the use of the several millennia old idea of pen and paper hasn't been eliminated.
For so long as there is a practical use for a technology, it won't completely go away.
The article was flawed in some of its claims but there are many billions of dollars in licensing and exporting Japan's cultural icons. Most of the exports is to a bunch of sizable niche markets here and there, it doesn't have the same influence as the article claims.
A lot of US entertainment has some level of Japanese influence, but that doesn't mean money goes to Japan because of that.
I don't listen to Japanese music so I can't even try to recommend anything.
If anything, Japan has lost a lot of cultural influence too, where a lot of Kurasawa movies had a strong art house film circuit showings, it seems to be impossible to get 100 screens in the US of Japanese theatrical movies.
I think Linux has a way to go. A lot of things I am used to doing in Windows aren't so easy even in KDE.
For one, the ability to easily rearrange the "K" menu by dragging items around doesn't exist nearly the way it is in the Windows Start menu. I often rearrange the shortcuts Start menu little by little to follow the way I work, and KDE simply requires a more tedious way of doing it.
I've gotten used to right clicking the task bar for task manager but now the closest equivalent is just deeply buried in the K menu somewhere. That equivalent does look a lot more flexible and useful but it didn't work right and then it promptly broke.
I'll probably play with Gnome next.
SUSE 9's YAST2 utility doesn't bother to remember administrative passwords despite my asking it to numerous times.
Meanwhile, I still use Windows 2000 as my primary OS, although I have at least replaced IE and OE with MozFirebird and MozThunderbird.
I keep pecking away little by little with Linux just to keep an exit strategy, but the software needs more work before it can really pretend to be adequate competition for even Microsoft.
I imageine it is great for corporate desktops though, as it can be tweaked and tuned to the corporation's and user's needs and more easily lock out the fiddlers that cause problems.
and four (count 'em) serial ports.
Uh, yeah. I suppose if you count USB too, then you would have five, but there is only one RS-232 port on that board. It isn't often that I see USB referred to as a serial port, while technically true, most people just call it USB.