_Every_ CPU design made by anyone has errata documents. AMD, SUN, DEC, HP, Intel and all other CPU and hardware products end up having a flaw that gets out that causes it to behave outside of specs. Even microcontroller chips, those that execute less than a tenth of the opcodes and have less than 1k RAM and 8k ROM have had erratum posted which must be worked around, fixed or replaced.
Also, true exhaustive testing is not just about testing all opcodes by running all of them, it is about testing all opcodes reading from all possible registers with all possible data permutations and all possible pipeline orderings.
I think circuitry on a new CPU has long passed the complexity of a city the size of Alaska. Complete exhaustive testing of hardware has long been impossible to do on new computer chips.
If you want speakers that actually sound good, then try an electrostatic or planar speaker.
Make that good looking speakers that actually sound good, but even base models are still a bit expensive. The one thing that electrostatics do is keep everything pretty well in phase, but the magnitude is actually often all over the place often at least +- 5dB. They also still need a bass module (i.e. a "box") because planars don't have enough excursion.
B&O are known for stuff that looks artsy, sound good and don't interact well with other's products, at greatly inflated prices.
Bose is known for stuff that looks good, sound OK at best, at greatly inflated prices. Bose's QC also allows a 10dB variation to "pass" as a qualified product when most quality manufacturers use 3dB or less.
For half the price of that Lifestyle 35 you can get an Anthony Gallo set that looks better, sounds better and the speakers are little 3" to 4" spheres. IIRC, they don't rely on a midrange to do a tweeter's job or a woofer's job like Bose does.
I don't think the auto adjust is included but I wouldn't pay much for something I can do by hand and an audio meter for free, $40 if you don't have an audio meter. It's much easier to do than installing or using any computer.
Another reason you don't find older people is that what I see often is young coders getting burned out too quickly because they get worked hard or choose to work too hard. People that know how to pace themselves seem to be rare, and people from all walks of life change careers.
For one, the cost of living in Russia is much lower, for a long time a scientist with a doctorate education didn't get much more pay than any field of work that required no degree, a more accurate comparison may be by man-hours.
It is true that the Shuttle is too unsafe but I think it does a lot more in a mission than a Soyuz could.
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Personally, I consider $748 (the suggested price of the Toshiba device plus $299 for service upgrade) WAY too much money to spend on a progressive scan DVD player and a Tivo, one box or not.
I don't really see why. No matter what, Tivo subscriptions will run $300. $450 doesn't seem too bad for progressive scan TiVo _hardware_ as it is. The fact that it also has a DVD player for a little extra isn't too bad. I just checked the Best Buy site, a Replay with progressive scan and an 80GB hard drive runs $400. The most basic of the decent progressive scan DVD players run at least $100, good progressive scan DVD players start out at $200.
Just about every new TV set larger than 27" sold in the US has a 16x9 squeeze mode. A scarce few of them autodetect the anamorphic flag and autoswitch, but not all DVD players send that flag either.
Most projectors can adjust aspect ratios to fit the available panel.
Even so, I think my next projector will be a 1366 x 768 widescreen so it will take 720p HDTV without down scaling. I haven't decided if it will be DLP or LCD, LCDs are cheaper, still get a decent contrast ratio (some at 900:1) and don't have DLP rainbows.
DLPs do have better contrast ratio, sometimes up to 2000:1 but I think I might be bothered by rainbowing.
I would think that a good S-VHS deck with clean-up capabilties on playback, fed into a set-top DVD recording deck. I don't understand why DVD recording was ruled out by the submitter just because it wouldn't record more than two hours. I am sure the bandwidth can easily be adjusted on most decks, only the oldest ones weren't very flexible.
I know it would be time consuming, but not too labor intensive, lots of set top recorders (MD, CD, etc) are fairly easy to use and don't require a computer. The equipment isn't too expensive, I bet equipment cost would be about $650 - a dollar per hour of use. Blanks aren't too pricey anymore, I think good blanks can be had a dollar a piece.
I don't see what the point is in wanting them separately, the entire box looks pretty well priced to me. Is there a movie in this set that is significantly below standard? I figure if the movies were released separetely, you'd find them for $20 each, so even if one movie is only worth half that of the other two, you'd still get a pretty decently priced set.
The problem with this comparison is that it completely ignores bandwidth and quality comparisons.
You do have a point though. I have several video files which I have no idea what the codec is so I can't play them. It may be worse down the road if the codecs become "lost" like some of the DivX variants seem to be.
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I completely agree that the DDoS shouldn't be happening. The problem is, what can be done? We can hope that the perpetrators read Slashdot and be convinced to stop, but the damage is already done, and unless the law tracks them down, the perpetrators can't be controlled.
I don't think newness is that relevant. Isn't the industry still using a lot of 30 year old airplanes? Aircraft can last a long time with proper maintainance and upgrades to key systems. Any ban on device usage would have to last until all the aircraft with lesser shielding have either been refitted with better shielding or are retired.
Does anyone take him up on his claims? Apparently from what you say, he doesn't believe what he preaches. Unless technology is bad for _other_ people to have, he thinks he's better than everyone else?
For the record, I don't see what's so great about this movie myself. I also don't see "groundbreaking special effects" as something that adds a whole lot to a good movie.
How antitechnology was this prof? Against what sort of technology? Does this person ride a horse & buggy, crank up their Model T, do s/he accept self-adjusting carburation? What about electronic fuel injection? I suppose a modern diesel bus doesn't need to have that much technology yet.
Type up books on a mechanical typewriter? How far can one be anti technology and still live in modern society? Just curious.
Outlook Express crashes like this consistently with some forms of HTML mail (I think mostly spam), I think it uses the same renderer as IE. I don't have much control over what idiots send me via email. I think this exploit could be used to annoy a *LOT* of people, waste a lot of hours and still probably not cause much data loss.
The problem is, it only crashes when retrieving mail, and it doesn't finish retrieving mail when it crashes. So starting it up again starts the cycle all over again, retrieve some email and crash again. It doesn't get anywhere.
I have to pull up some other email program to complete the retrieve cycle so the emails are deleted from the server.
On watching the first couple seasons of DS9, it seems that at least it got a much better start than TNG did. IMO, TNG didn't start getting good until three to four years in. How they dropped the ball in the transition to Voyager though, is something we may never know.
I never understood why they had to have two series running simulteneously though, other than to maybe head off Babylon 5 with DS9, but they didn't need to do it again with Voyager.
Thanks to your post, I just cleaned the filter on my projector. It was getting pretty dusty, and I've only used it for 400 to 500 hours. I think I might take it down and clean it some time too.
Your impression is odd, I've never seen burn-in on any LCD type of display.
DLP usually has as good or better fill ratio than LCD, where the average DLP is about 85% fill ratio, LCD is typically around 60%. Go ask AVS Forum. If you see bigger "screen door" on a DLP, check to make sure that you are comparing the same resolution on the same projected area. When people complain about screen door, it is usually from the LCD crowd.
Now, DLPs do have a "rainbow" effect because all units below $10,000 new are single-chip and operate under the principle of flashing an entire screen full of one color before flashing the next screen full of the next color. In short, it is a very, very fast RGB strobe sequence that has no equivalent that I know of in any other display technology. DLPs also have some sort of flutter noise because the micromirrors flash on and off sequences to imitate brightnesses in between. But the thing is, not very many people really notice or complain about either problem.
Provided that the life form in question is carefully organised into petri-dishes, hematically sealed in a selection of jars, and stored in a locker.
I don't think it would take _too_ many survivors to carry on. If a few asteroids had millions of teeny worms then some of them might survive. But I'm probably talking out of my ass, partly because you'd have to ask where _those_ worms came from and how did they survive their trip from whereever to here.
This is as unreasonable as saying "Windows is a stable OS".
I agree with most of the rest of your post, but you think that's unreasonable? I haven't had any OS stability issues with W2K, period. I haven't had any stability issues with NT4 either. The closest it comes for me is installing the wrong video driver, that's a user error on my part, installing the right driver fixed it.
I think the problem is that it is easy to make hard (objective) measurements to engineer to.
How does one design to "pleasing" distortions? Who decides what are pleasing distortions? It sounds too subjective, but then, what the heck, people rank movies, restaurants and so on with stars, so maybe the idea isn't too far off, but you'd have to put work into finding out which reviewers you agree with, etc. There lies a problem of pseudo-science in the audio hobby, and lots of stuff looks like they rely on the placebo effect, as such, reviewers don't bother to do double blind tests to prove their assertions.
Some game did something like that with CDs. You could put a CD in the game system and from it some odd monster would be generated from that data. I think Monster Rancher did that.
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_Every_ CPU design made by anyone has errata documents. AMD, SUN, DEC, HP, Intel and all other CPU and hardware products end up having a flaw that gets out that causes it to behave outside of specs. Even microcontroller chips, those that execute less than a tenth of the opcodes and have less than 1k RAM and 8k ROM have had erratum posted which must be worked around, fixed or replaced.
Also, true exhaustive testing is not just about testing all opcodes by running all of them, it is about testing all opcodes reading from all possible registers with all possible data permutations and all possible pipeline orderings.
I think circuitry on a new CPU has long passed the complexity of a city the size of Alaska. Complete exhaustive testing of hardware has long been impossible to do on new computer chips.
If you want speakers that actually sound good, then try an electrostatic or planar speaker.
Make that good looking speakers that actually sound good, but even base models are still a bit expensive. The one thing that electrostatics do is keep everything pretty well in phase, but the magnitude is actually often all over the place often at least +- 5dB. They also still need a bass module (i.e. a "box") because planars don't have enough excursion.
B&O are known for stuff that looks artsy, sound good and don't interact well with other's products, at greatly inflated prices.
Bose is known for stuff that looks good, sound OK at best, at greatly inflated prices. Bose's QC also allows a 10dB variation to "pass" as a qualified product when most quality manufacturers use 3dB or less.
For half the price of that Lifestyle 35 you can get an Anthony Gallo set that looks better, sounds better and the speakers are little 3" to 4" spheres. IIRC, they don't rely on a midrange to do a tweeter's job or a woofer's job like Bose does.
I don't think the auto adjust is included but I wouldn't pay much for something I can do by hand and an audio meter for free, $40 if you don't have an audio meter. It's much easier to do than installing or using any computer.
Another reason you don't find older people is that what I see often is young coders getting burned out too quickly because they get worked hard or choose to work too hard. People that know how to pace themselves seem to be rare, and people from all walks of life change careers.
For one, the cost of living in Russia is much lower, for a long time a scientist with a doctorate education didn't get much more pay than any field of work that required no degree, a more accurate comparison may be by man-hours.
It is true that the Shuttle is too unsafe but I think it does a lot more in a mission than a Soyuz could.
Personally, I consider $748 (the suggested price of the Toshiba device plus $299 for service upgrade) WAY too much money to spend on a progressive scan DVD player and a Tivo, one box or not.
I don't really see why. No matter what, Tivo subscriptions will run $300. $450 doesn't seem too bad for progressive scan TiVo _hardware_ as it is. The fact that it also has a DVD player for a little extra isn't too bad. I just checked the Best Buy site, a Replay with progressive scan and an 80GB hard drive runs $400. The most basic of the decent progressive scan DVD players run at least $100, good progressive scan DVD players start out at $200.
Just about every new TV set larger than 27" sold in the US has a 16x9 squeeze mode. A scarce few of them autodetect the anamorphic flag and autoswitch, but not all DVD players send that flag either.
Most projectors can adjust aspect ratios to fit the available panel.
Even so, I think my next projector will be a 1366 x 768 widescreen so it will take 720p HDTV without down scaling. I haven't decided if it will be DLP or LCD, LCDs are cheaper, still get a decent contrast ratio (some at 900:1) and don't have DLP rainbows.
DLPs do have better contrast ratio, sometimes up to 2000:1 but I think I might be bothered by rainbowing.
I would think that a good S-VHS deck with clean-up capabilties on playback, fed into a set-top DVD recording deck. I don't understand why DVD recording was ruled out by the submitter just because it wouldn't record more than two hours. I am sure the bandwidth can easily be adjusted on most decks, only the oldest ones weren't very flexible.
I know it would be time consuming, but not too labor intensive, lots of set top recorders (MD, CD, etc) are fairly easy to use and don't require a computer. The equipment isn't too expensive, I bet equipment cost would be about $650 - a dollar per hour of use. Blanks aren't too pricey anymore, I think good blanks can be had a dollar a piece.
I made those comparisons the first time I heard about the Zen.
One thing to add is that the new iPod has a nice dock, wired remote, three games and an alarm clock app.
Really, I think the difference in cost is mostly using a drive that is larger in physical size, so it is cheaper per gigabyte.
I think both units can serve as a removable storage system, but if you only listen to music, 30 gigabytes is a lot.
I don't see what the point is in wanting them separately, the entire box looks pretty well priced to me. Is there a movie in this set that is significantly below standard? I figure if the movies were released separetely, you'd find them for $20 each, so even if one movie is only worth half that of the other two, you'd still get a pretty decently priced set.
The problem with this comparison is that it completely ignores bandwidth and quality comparisons.
You do have a point though. I have several video files which I have no idea what the codec is so I can't play them. It may be worse down the road if the codecs become "lost" like some of the DivX variants seem to be.
I completely agree that the DDoS shouldn't be happening. The problem is, what can be done? We can hope that the perpetrators read Slashdot and be convinced to stop, but the damage is already done, and unless the law tracks them down, the perpetrators can't be controlled.
I don't think newness is that relevant. Isn't the industry still using a lot of 30 year old airplanes? Aircraft can last a long time with proper maintainance and upgrades to key systems. Any ban on device usage would have to last until all the aircraft with lesser shielding have either been refitted with better shielding or are retired.
Does anyone take him up on his claims? Apparently from what you say, he doesn't believe what he preaches. Unless technology is bad for _other_ people to have, he thinks he's better than everyone else?
That's true. I don't use IIS and I only operate Windows as workstations, not webservers or the like.
One thing I'll point out is that IIS really isn't IMO part of the operating system, and one can install Apache on to a Windows system.
Interesting.
For the record, I don't see what's so great about this movie myself. I also don't see "groundbreaking special effects" as something that adds a whole lot to a good movie.
How antitechnology was this prof? Against what sort of technology? Does this person ride a horse & buggy, crank up their Model T, do s/he accept self-adjusting carburation? What about electronic fuel injection? I suppose a modern diesel bus doesn't need to have that much technology yet.
Type up books on a mechanical typewriter? How far can one be anti technology and still live in modern society? Just curious.
Outlook Express crashes like this consistently with some forms of HTML mail (I think mostly spam), I think it uses the same renderer as IE. I don't have much control over what idiots send me via email. I think this exploit could be used to annoy a *LOT* of people, waste a lot of hours and still probably not cause much data loss.
The problem is, it only crashes when retrieving mail, and it doesn't finish retrieving mail when it crashes. So starting it up again starts the cycle all over again, retrieve some email and crash again. It doesn't get anywhere.
I have to pull up some other email program to complete the retrieve cycle so the emails are deleted from the server.
On watching the first couple seasons of DS9, it seems that at least it got a much better start than TNG did. IMO, TNG didn't start getting good until three to four years in. How they dropped the ball in the transition to Voyager though, is something we may never know.
I never understood why they had to have two series running simulteneously though, other than to maybe head off Babylon 5 with DS9, but they didn't need to do it again with Voyager.
Thanks to your post, I just cleaned the filter on my projector. It was getting pretty dusty, and I've only used it for 400 to 500 hours. I think I might take it down and clean it some time too.
I don't understand your post?
What do you need to switch? What happens at 8000 hours that you need to switch more than just the bulb? What is damaged?
Your impression is odd, I've never seen burn-in on any LCD type of display.
DLP usually has as good or better fill ratio than LCD, where the average DLP is about 85% fill ratio, LCD is typically around 60%. Go ask AVS Forum. If you see bigger "screen door" on a DLP, check to make sure that you are comparing the same resolution on the same projected area. When people complain about screen door, it is usually from the LCD crowd.
Now, DLPs do have a "rainbow" effect because all units below $10,000 new are single-chip and operate under the principle of flashing an entire screen full of one color before flashing the next screen full of the next color. In short, it is a very, very fast RGB strobe sequence that has no equivalent that I know of in any other display technology. DLPs also have some sort of flutter noise because the micromirrors flash on and off sequences to imitate brightnesses in between. But the thing is, not very many people really notice or complain about either problem.
Provided that the life form in question is carefully organised into petri-dishes, hematically sealed in a selection of jars, and stored in a locker.
I don't think it would take _too_ many survivors to carry on. If a few asteroids had millions of teeny worms then some of them might survive. But I'm probably talking out of my ass, partly because you'd have to ask where _those_ worms came from and how did they survive their trip from whereever to here.
I know this is offtopic, but...
This is as unreasonable as saying "Windows is a stable OS".
I agree with most of the rest of your post, but you think that's unreasonable? I haven't had any OS stability issues with W2K, period. I haven't had any stability issues with NT4 either. The closest it comes for me is installing the wrong video driver, that's a user error on my part, installing the right driver fixed it.
I think the problem is that it is easy to make hard (objective) measurements to engineer to.
How does one design to "pleasing" distortions? Who decides what are pleasing distortions? It sounds too subjective, but then, what the heck, people rank movies, restaurants and so on with stars, so maybe the idea isn't too far off, but you'd have to put work into finding out which reviewers you agree with, etc. There lies a problem of pseudo-science in the audio hobby, and lots of stuff looks like they rely on the placebo effect, as such, reviewers don't bother to do double blind tests to prove their assertions.
Some game did something like that with CDs. You could put a CD in the game system and from it some odd monster would be generated from that data. I think Monster Rancher did that.