I expect financial calculations to be accurate to the penny, or even calculated to the third or fourth decimal place, then rounded to the nearest 2nd decimal place.
But I agree, audio & video playback and other things are different. An occasional error on the 15th or 16th bit isn't going to be audible in real-world portable circumstances.
Schools can vary a lot from place to place. My rural district seems to be doing OK for construction money, but the urban schools nearby look to be in pretty poor shape.
I think the bridges and roads need to be the #1 priority, so many bridges aren't up to any kind of standard, I don't want to see a repeat of the Minneapolis bridge incident.
While the internet infrastructure in the US is pretty poor, I doubt Federal money alone would fix that, I recall they've been giving money to the cableco and telcos for this purpose but haven't seen any return from that. They need an accountability system for the money they give for internet. They also need to tidy up the red tape that it takes to do a job. They also need to help promote competition, the regulations are built such that the incumbents have all the advantages. Cutting the fees and red tape for wireless licenses to small ISPs would help.
24 watts? That might power a tiny computer. Maybe a better computer if you ignore any desire for a display. I would feel lucky if it powered a netbook while trickle charging it.
[quote]throw out completely superior performance in favor of smaller form factor (it's not like they're moved often).[/quote]
True, CRTs aren't moved often, their size and weight tend to discourage that. But if it weren't so heavy, you might be surprised by how often you might want to move it. Even adjusting the positioning is easier, some even have height adjustment, which wasn't so easy for CRT.
The thing that I like about LCDs is that they take less desk space. Late last year, I wanted more screen space, so that meant either using a second 21" CRT or going LCD. I did try the 21" CRT, I had a spare one, but it didn't work, it meant that I had almost no desk space left because it's a corner station, now I can put a single 24" LCD, get more screen area and recover a lot of desk space. If I decide to put in a second LCD in, I don't need to sacrifice much space to do it.
I don't miss the geometry and beam focus adjustment issues either.
He's human though. Society is filled with people that should know better and do better, but don't, often repeat mistakes. For one, I would be surprised if there was a prominent politician that didn't either break serious laws or got in trouble for breaking them, and these are the people that should know the laws. We should have known from the late 70's how much of a possible time bomb that adjustable rate mortgages can be, but people still sign those papers for them. It's known at least anecdotally that the time a religious minister's convention comes to a city is when the prostitutes have the most clients.
Puffing on a bong isn't something that hurts other people, at least it's not common. As far as I can tell, it's equally or less damaging to his own health than drinking alcohol, and less damaging to others because of how alcohol is so easily intertwined with violent crime, including domestic abuse.
I thought columnist Kathleen Parker's take on this issue was pretty insightful, that the laws and public social attitudes regarding pot smoking don't line up with reality, a survey showed that probably 42% of Americans have smoked pot at least once. When this form of contraband is so pervasive and ingrained into the culture, then maybe it's time to really examine whether the laws are just and truly reflect the society in question.
I've never lit one up, have no interest in it, but I think it's time we as a society took another inch away from the dark ages, have a frank, open discussion that reflects reality rather than deal with the one-sided propaganda from both sides of the issue.
Violent crimes are rare enough that I don't think it's anywhere near worth living your entire life such an atmosphere in exchange for cutting it in half. I certainly don't think it's worth legislating religious views into the society.
Then there's the possibility that they're just keeping things quiet, raised by a poster above, something that can happen in tight-knit communities. It's already known that there are minor sects in remote parts of Utah where polygamy is secretly practiced, nobody talks about it and nobody reports that. I can easily imagine that violent crime in those parts may well go unreported just because they don't want the state discovering how they live.
I think the difference is that DNA is a recording of all the code used to make a person, it's not just a means of identification. I'm not saying that the state is going to use it to make clones, but I wonder what else they're going to try to use the information for.
But I suppose I should be against just fingerprinting all arrestees unless convicted or it needs to be campared against evidence that exists, rather than taking it "just in case". The intent of many of our laws is to try to minimize the number of innocent people being treated as criminals.
As it is, without better visibility and viability, it's pulling teeth to get hardware makers to either provide drivers, or provide specs good enough to make good drivers. I think that's why some people want better market share for Linux. It's not so bad with server hardware as Linux has a good profile there, but for consumer equipment, it has been a lot more difficult.
While some of the people still watching broadcast TV don't have broadband, most of those fall into the "old people -- gonna die soon" demographic.
ABC USES SOME FUCKING PROPRIETARY PLAYER THAT DOESN'T WORK ON LINUX!
I think the group of people that miss out on ABC because they use Linux may be smaller than the number that would miss out on ABC because they didn't get a tuner box yet.
Linux users are in such a small demographic, I doubt any major media company would miss them, it's still too small of a niche.
Something to add is that the old glossy screens were less glossy than the new ones. They had a stronger optical multicoating that allowed a smooth surface not reflect as much as it would have without the coating.
Another service to stop using. I'd rather pay/subscribe than listen to ads (not that the same promise didn't stop ads on cable tv).
Did this "promise" ever exist? I don't remember any cable company making such a promise, nor have I found evidence that they did. I think it's one of those urban legends that belongs on Snopes.
That's the thing, over the decades, Congress has given the Executive branch so much power, either through legislation or the lack of actually standing up for themselves to assert their own authority that President of the United States is creeping on becoming a Caesar-like position. For example, signing statements shouldn't have been enshrined in precedence, and we had a president that decided to invalidate or water down any law or provision that he doesn't like but can't veto.
They will simply say that NASA and the Indian space agency are in cahoots and they will dismiss it.
That's the way it works.
The basic thought pattern also suggests that they believe the Soviets and the US were in cahoots too, either that or they haven't thought the objections through. Maybe they don't say it outright, but that's the logical conclusion of their arguments because if the Soviets had any reason to believe it was all faked, they could have said so very loudly, and I don't recall stumbling across anything like that.
If I'm not mistaken, most people accept that the meaning and use of words change over the centuries, so no, it doesn't matter if they're working for another employer or not.
So far that I've seen, the -ibi- is not very irrelevant for most cards 1GB and above, because I've not seen any that actually hits the power of two mark in unformatted capacity. The actual number of bytes fall somewhere about halfway between the power of ten and the nearest power of two equivalent.
But I too am annoyed by this "working on 2TB cards" bit in the stories, because it gives the impression that they're near making the actual product anywhere close to that capacity.
The worse thing about R programming is its name. Googling for "R" turns up way to much noise and way too little signal.
I see your addendum that it works better now, but searching using just a single letter or word usually doesn't work well, you need to give it context. You can enter "tank" into Google and it's going to give you a lot of mixed results because the results could be for fuel, water, waste, military armor or some other use, so you need to give Google something to narrow down the results. So "R programming language" would probably be a base to start from.
Businesses other than the big 4 are capable of loaning money to a startup small business, which is effectively what a self-producing artist is. There are also smaller truly indie labels that perform the same function.
I don't think it's even necessary to get loans to get the equipment to become a self-producing band. Quality equipment can be had for cheap and slowly accumulated over many months or a year or so. The skills and knowledge required to operate them aren't that hard to learn. Basically, it's just work, either you pay someone else a lot of money to do the work, or you spend a lot of time learning how to do it yourself.
That's the thing though, I'm surprised more companies don't fight the trolls just to get a reputation among trolls that you're willing to go Thunderdome on them on occasion. Then they'll get the message to find someone else to mess with. The way I see it, the only reason patent trolling is profitable is because companies take a short term view of it and just settle, encouraging the prospect of a death by a thousand paper cuts.
I don't see fixing the current patent system as requiring getting a different party in power, though that might be a way to fix that.
If tens of thousands of Opraholics call, write and descend on Capitol Hill, that might scare the legislature sh!tless to fix the patent trolling system.
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"Miracle cures" for spam are overdone too, but that's no excuse to overdo the reactionary spam list meme too.
I expect financial calculations to be accurate to the penny, or even calculated to the third or fourth decimal place, then rounded to the nearest 2nd decimal place.
But I agree, audio & video playback and other things are different. An occasional error on the 15th or 16th bit isn't going to be audible in real-world portable circumstances.
Schools can vary a lot from place to place. My rural district seems to be doing OK for construction money, but the urban schools nearby look to be in pretty poor shape.
I think the bridges and roads need to be the #1 priority, so many bridges aren't up to any kind of standard, I don't want to see a repeat of the Minneapolis bridge incident.
While the internet infrastructure in the US is pretty poor, I doubt Federal money alone would fix that, I recall they've been giving money to the cableco and telcos for this purpose but haven't seen any return from that. They need an accountability system for the money they give for internet. They also need to tidy up the red tape that it takes to do a job. They also need to help promote competition, the regulations are built such that the incumbents have all the advantages. Cutting the fees and red tape for wireless licenses to small ISPs would help.
This spam checklist meme has been overdone. Why don't you go and help beat the skeleton of the LOL Cats meme instead? Then it might be funny.
24 watts? That might power a tiny computer. Maybe a better computer if you ignore any desire for a display. I would feel lucky if it powered a netbook while trickle charging it.
[quote]throw out completely superior performance in favor of smaller form factor (it's not like they're moved often).[/quote]
True, CRTs aren't moved often, their size and weight tend to discourage that. But if it weren't so heavy, you might be surprised by how often you might want to move it. Even adjusting the positioning is easier, some even have height adjustment, which wasn't so easy for CRT.
The thing that I like about LCDs is that they take less desk space. Late last year, I wanted more screen space, so that meant either using a second 21" CRT or going LCD. I did try the 21" CRT, I had a spare one, but it didn't work, it meant that I had almost no desk space left because it's a corner station, now I can put a single 24" LCD, get more screen area and recover a lot of desk space. If I decide to put in a second LCD in, I don't need to sacrifice much space to do it.
I don't miss the geometry and beam focus adjustment issues either.
He's human though. Society is filled with people that should know better and do better, but don't, often repeat mistakes. For one, I would be surprised if there was a prominent politician that didn't either break serious laws or got in trouble for breaking them, and these are the people that should know the laws. We should have known from the late 70's how much of a possible time bomb that adjustable rate mortgages can be, but people still sign those papers for them. It's known at least anecdotally that the time a religious minister's convention comes to a city is when the prostitutes have the most clients.
Puffing on a bong isn't something that hurts other people, at least it's not common. As far as I can tell, it's equally or less damaging to his own health than drinking alcohol, and less damaging to others because of how alcohol is so easily intertwined with violent crime, including domestic abuse.
I thought columnist Kathleen Parker's take on this issue was pretty insightful, that the laws and public social attitudes regarding pot smoking don't line up with reality, a survey showed that probably 42% of Americans have smoked pot at least once. When this form of contraband is so pervasive and ingrained into the culture, then maybe it's time to really examine whether the laws are just and truly reflect the society in question.
I've never lit one up, have no interest in it, but I think it's time we as a society took another inch away from the dark ages, have a frank, open discussion that reflects reality rather than deal with the one-sided propaganda from both sides of the issue.
Violent crimes are rare enough that I don't think it's anywhere near worth living your entire life such an atmosphere in exchange for cutting it in half. I certainly don't think it's worth legislating religious views into the society.
Then there's the possibility that they're just keeping things quiet, raised by a poster above, something that can happen in tight-knit communities. It's already known that there are minor sects in remote parts of Utah where polygamy is secretly practiced, nobody talks about it and nobody reports that. I can easily imagine that violent crime in those parts may well go unreported just because they don't want the state discovering how they live.
I think the difference is that DNA is a recording of all the code used to make a person, it's not just a means of identification. I'm not saying that the state is going to use it to make clones, but I wonder what else they're going to try to use the information for.
But I suppose I should be against just fingerprinting all arrestees unless convicted or it needs to be campared against evidence that exists, rather than taking it "just in case". The intent of many of our laws is to try to minimize the number of innocent people being treated as criminals.
As it is, without better visibility and viability, it's pulling teeth to get hardware makers to either provide drivers, or provide specs good enough to make good drivers. I think that's why some people want better market share for Linux. It's not so bad with server hardware as Linux has a good profile there, but for consumer equipment, it has been a lot more difficult.
While some of the people still watching broadcast TV don't have broadband, most of those fall into the "old people -- gonna die soon" demographic.
ABC USES SOME FUCKING PROPRIETARY PLAYER THAT DOESN'T WORK ON LINUX!
I think the group of people that miss out on ABC because they use Linux may be smaller than the number that would miss out on ABC because they didn't get a tuner box yet.
Linux users are in such a small demographic, I doubt any major media company would miss them, it's still too small of a niche.
Something to add is that the old glossy screens were less glossy than the new ones. They had a stronger optical multicoating that allowed a smooth surface not reflect as much as it would have without the coating.
Thus proving beyond the shadow of a doubt the weakness of arguments from authority.
Did Linus actually use an argument from authority? Did he say to use what he uses just because of the fact that he uses it?
Another service to stop using. I'd rather pay/subscribe than listen to ads (not that the same promise didn't stop ads on cable tv).
Did this "promise" ever exist? I don't remember any cable company making such a promise, nor have I found evidence that they did. I think it's one of those urban legends that belongs on Snopes.
That's the thing, over the decades, Congress has given the Executive branch so much power, either through legislation or the lack of actually standing up for themselves to assert their own authority that President of the United States is creeping on becoming a Caesar-like position. For example, signing statements shouldn't have been enshrined in precedence, and we had a president that decided to invalidate or water down any law or provision that he doesn't like but can't veto.
They will simply say that NASA and the Indian space agency are in cahoots and they will dismiss it.
That's the way it works.
The basic thought pattern also suggests that they believe the Soviets and the US were in cahoots too, either that or they haven't thought the objections through. Maybe they don't say it outright, but that's the logical conclusion of their arguments because if the Soviets had any reason to believe it was all faked, they could have said so very loudly, and I don't recall stumbling across anything like that.
I agree. I also don't think Obama is going to offend his union constituency by flying on a non-US-made aircraft.
If I'm not mistaken, most people accept that the meaning and use of words change over the centuries, so no, it doesn't matter if they're working for another employer or not.
It's more proof that the Pastafarians are right!
So far that I've seen, the -ibi- is not very irrelevant for most cards 1GB and above, because I've not seen any that actually hits the power of two mark in unformatted capacity. The actual number of bytes fall somewhere about halfway between the power of ten and the nearest power of two equivalent.
But I too am annoyed by this "working on 2TB cards" bit in the stories, because it gives the impression that they're near making the actual product anywhere close to that capacity.
The Beatles aren't on iTunes because Apple is pissed at Apple.
But Apple gave Apple money and settled all that animosity.
The worse thing about R programming is its name. Googling for "R" turns up way to much noise and way too little signal.
I see your addendum that it works better now, but searching using just a single letter or word usually doesn't work well, you need to give it context. You can enter "tank" into Google and it's going to give you a lot of mixed results because the results could be for fuel, water, waste, military armor or some other use, so you need to give Google something to narrow down the results. So "R programming language" would probably be a base to start from.
Businesses other than the big 4 are capable of loaning money to a startup small business, which is effectively what a self-producing artist is. There are also smaller truly indie labels that perform the same function.
I don't think it's even necessary to get loans to get the equipment to become a self-producing band. Quality equipment can be had for cheap and slowly accumulated over many months or a year or so. The skills and knowledge required to operate them aren't that hard to learn. Basically, it's just work, either you pay someone else a lot of money to do the work, or you spend a lot of time learning how to do it yourself.
That's the thing though, I'm surprised more companies don't fight the trolls just to get a reputation among trolls that you're willing to go Thunderdome on them on occasion. Then they'll get the message to find someone else to mess with. The way I see it, the only reason patent trolling is profitable is because companies take a short term view of it and just settle, encouraging the prospect of a death by a thousand paper cuts.
I don't see fixing the current patent system as requiring getting a different party in power, though that might be a way to fix that.
If tens of thousands of Opraholics call, write and descend on Capitol Hill, that might scare the legislature sh!tless to fix the patent trolling system.