There is a cottage industry built around long-range WiFi. You can buy a 200mW WiFi "b" or "g" base station/bridge, a couple of 24dB parabolic dishes made for 2.4GHz and get a link that's good for a couple miles, assuming good line of sight. The connection should be plenty good enough to get high speed internet.
Regarding the shadow stats site, I'm wary of the type of conspiracy proponent that tries to push a product, book or service. Especially for this, non-subscribers wouldn't be able to pick apart the results. In the same way, this is why I don't like the articles based on what financial analysts say, because you have to buy the original report in order to make sure they aren't pulling any shenanigans.
I think he's trying to suggest that maybe it was parts of the US government that organized the 9/11 incident, and fabricate it in such a way as to blame a bunch of Saudis. I don't trust the US government much, but frankly, I don't buy those conspiracy hypotheses.
Can people that like child porn or abuse children really be helped? It sounds like the claim that gays can be helped, not that I think pedophilia and heterosexuality are at all similar except in how it's viewed by some people as a treatable mental condition.
Besides, do you really think any of them want to be on a list somewhere?
I think part of it is to make prosecution easier, because the chance of alteration means that the prosecution has to prove the image wasn't just a photoshop.
No, it's not. There is a program that tests out the order and it gets the order right. And getting the wrong order really does look very obviously bad.
It's impossible to not get the rainbow effect using the ClearType, it's a matter of how noticeable it is, it's just inherent to how it works. This is because the edges have to be different colors in order to to be able to use the effect. Getting the subpixel order right only minimizes rainbowing.
I can't help but think that there isn't enough information. Most of the responses appear to be making significant assumptions about the relationship and who owns what. There apparently is even ambiguity of whether that database contains information belonging to yet another company.
I know you're trying to think ahead, but your examples leave much to be desired.
Algae can be grown anywhere and it doesn't take soil to do so, so non-tillable land can be used if it's over land. If you can harvest natural algae blooms in the oceans, then that's a double-plus as algae blooms can happen so fast that when they die, they can kill off anything else in the area.
The food vs. fuel problem won't be much of a problem, because future ethanol production should be running from cellulose, which is not a food but actually a waste product from harvesting.
I thought 5D was getting close to $2000 very early last year, not this year or late last year. I've found a thread in August 2006 about a then-price drop on that model. It's a model that I certainly wouldn't mind getting, though other priorities beckon.
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There are different forms of antialiasing. The ClearType used by Windows really gets me. Yes, it does make the shapes smother, but what it does is turn the edges into rainbows. Instead of the right edge of a shape being a consistent color, and the left edge of a shape being a consistent color, it could be any of three colors anywhere. But it is the sharpest form of antialiasing for text.
A lot of stuff that means something is more function than anything else. Big machines of potential dangerous consequence have big red emergency stop buttons that shut off the machine's motors and often apply brakes.
Personally, if I'm going to get another point and shoot, I'm going to buy a G9 or similar model. It has a fairly large sensor for the type of camera, has a good lens and it supports RAW. The larger sensor size usually helps allow high ISO shooting anyway.
It's questionable whether you can get more than 8 bits effective dynamic range on a small sensor, especially if it's really high in megapixels.
It isn't necessarily so evil. You interpret the value to only be in the circuitry, but the cost of the drivers to be able to use that circuitry is a different matter.
Game users is a very broad base, develop game-optimized drivers and you can develop very cheaply, per person.
The users of engineering software is a very tiny user base, and the cost of maintaining drivers for software that may have several thousand users instead of several million needs to by paid for by those that need to use the engineering software. The rendering for engineering software is optimized for accuracy, game drivers are optimized for speed. There is quite a disparity between the different user bases in size and what they need, so I don't have a problem with charging different prices.
I'm not sure. This sort of hack is "unsupported", meaning, if you run into any trouble at all, the CAD software maker, the computer maker and the video card maker do not have to help you. I think it's a nifty little hack, but if you depend on the CAD machine, getting the right card in the first place is less expensive than a day's worth of down time for a user + the tech trying to get it to work again.
The extra cost goes towards developing and maintaining a specific driver set for the very small number of people using a low volume piece of software. The driver will load different pieces, different versions of itself based on what software is running. That's because the software is aggressively tested with specific versions of the driver to work right. That sort of support isn't cheap, and that's what you get when you pay for a Quadro.
The cost of fuel and the cost of developing a new transport is still a concern. Air travel is very price sensitive. Would you pay an extra $1000 for a transatantic flight, to save a few hours? Concorde flyers spent $10,000 a trip and I think the airline still lost money on occasion. These are the same airliners that bought half their Concordes for $1 a piece because no one else wanted them, so even with the cost of the plane cut in half, they still had a hard time making money. The 9/11 tragedy is what killed Concorde, because enough of the Concorde's customer base died that day, or the business collapsed.
As far as I can tell, most the Republican Party is a "certain way". The Republicans that are economic conservatives (capitalist to hyper capitalist, etc.) are most likely social conservatives. There aren't a lot that fall outside of that quadrant.
>FOX represents the extreme right while NBC, CBS, and CNN represent the right.
I'm not aware of a lot of right wing Democrats. Most of the people that work in the news media vote Democrat by a very solid majority, something like 85%. Fox is the only one that consistently demands a certain kind of report, namely one that represents a certain set of Republican ideals set down by the one that runs Fox News.
Right now, there are almost no veto overrides. The Republican senators and representatives usually go along with the president enough that an override usually isn't going to happen. The majority is too slim.
The current US President has a habit of signing legislation that he doesn't like and then attaching a "signing statement" that basically makes the legislation worthless because he won't follow a law that he disagrees with. As far as I know, signing statements aren't constitutional.
He even disregards the US Supreme Court mandate to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. I don't even understand why he fights the case so hard when he's not going to abide by the outcome if he doesn't like it.
My reasons are that I can't re-sell any individual book and the ebook costs the same as the book, despite not having to deal with the same costs of printing & distribution. Then there's the expensive device itself, which is best for reading and not that much else. There are some nifty conveniences, but the system takes a lot and gives not so much in return. The cost-shifting part is a big part, but my inability to loan or resell an ebook despite costing the same is quite irksome. If I like it, it's mine, but if I don't like it, too bad, it's mine. With a used book, I can at least get something out of it and it will find someone that will appreciate it. Or donate it.
No one person really can judge that, it's an overall market thing rather than looking at the slice of the world that one person sees.
I think Apple's iPod has 25% of the worldwide market share. It's maybe 75% or so in most of the developed countries, i.e. US, Canada, Western Europe. A little less, like 60%, in Japan.
Unless you want to buy from many online stores. There are some stores that do offer DRM free audio, there aren't any legit stores that offer DRM free video from the "big" studios that I'm aware.
Given that it's astronomy, I don't think they're really being consistent with the term "dwarf". A dwarf star is still a star, but a dwarf planet is not a planet.
I actually accept the arguments that Pluto isn't a planet. The problem is that defining a planet is a tough thing, and the oddity I noted above seems to be part of an odd compromise that shouldn't have been made.
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I don't think a cantenna is good enough.
There is a cottage industry built around long-range WiFi. You can buy a 200mW WiFi "b" or "g" base station/bridge, a couple of 24dB parabolic dishes made for 2.4GHz and get a link that's good for a couple miles, assuming good line of sight. The connection should be plenty good enough to get high speed internet.
Regarding the shadow stats site, I'm wary of the type of conspiracy proponent that tries to push a product, book or service. Especially for this, non-subscribers wouldn't be able to pick apart the results. In the same way, this is why I don't like the articles based on what financial analysts say, because you have to buy the original report in order to make sure they aren't pulling any shenanigans.
I think he's trying to suggest that maybe it was parts of the US government that organized the 9/11 incident, and fabricate it in such a way as to blame a bunch of Saudis. I don't trust the US government much, but frankly, I don't buy those conspiracy hypotheses.
Can people that like child porn or abuse children really be helped? It sounds like the claim that gays can be helped, not that I think pedophilia and heterosexuality are at all similar except in how it's viewed by some people as a treatable mental condition.
Besides, do you really think any of them want to be on a list somewhere?
Where's China in that mix? I thought China had a bigger prison population, even if the per capita might be lower. It's nowhere on that chart.
I think part of it is to make prosecution easier, because the chance of alteration means that the prosecution has to prove the image wasn't just a photoshop.
No, it's not. There is a program that tests out the order and it gets the order right. And getting the wrong order really does look very obviously bad.
It's impossible to not get the rainbow effect using the ClearType, it's a matter of how noticeable it is, it's just inherent to how it works. This is because the edges have to be different colors in order to to be able to use the effect. Getting the subpixel order right only minimizes rainbowing.
I can't help but think that there isn't enough information. Most of the responses appear to be making significant assumptions about the relationship and who owns what. There apparently is even ambiguity of whether that database contains information belonging to yet another company.
I know you're trying to think ahead, but your examples leave much to be desired.
Algae can be grown anywhere and it doesn't take soil to do so, so non-tillable land can be used if it's over land. If you can harvest natural algae blooms in the oceans, then that's a double-plus as algae blooms can happen so fast that when they die, they can kill off anything else in the area.
The food vs. fuel problem won't be much of a problem, because future ethanol production should be running from cellulose, which is not a food but actually a waste product from harvesting.
I thought 5D was getting close to $2000 very early last year, not this year or late last year. I've found a thread in August 2006 about a then-price drop on that model. It's a model that I certainly wouldn't mind getting, though other priorities beckon.
There are different forms of antialiasing. The ClearType used by Windows really gets me. Yes, it does make the shapes smother, but what it does is turn the edges into rainbows. Instead of the right edge of a shape being a consistent color, and the left edge of a shape being a consistent color, it could be any of three colors anywhere. But it is the sharpest form of antialiasing for text.
A lot of stuff that means something is more function than anything else. Big machines of potential dangerous consequence have big red emergency stop buttons that shut off the machine's motors and often apply brakes.
Personally, if I'm going to get another point and shoot, I'm going to buy a G9 or similar model. It has a fairly large sensor for the type of camera, has a good lens and it supports RAW. The larger sensor size usually helps allow high ISO shooting anyway.
It's questionable whether you can get more than 8 bits effective dynamic range on a small sensor, especially if it's really high in megapixels.
It isn't necessarily so evil. You interpret the value to only be in the circuitry, but the cost of the drivers to be able to use that circuitry is a different matter.
Game users is a very broad base, develop game-optimized drivers and you can develop very cheaply, per person.
The users of engineering software is a very tiny user base, and the cost of maintaining drivers for software that may have several thousand users instead of several million needs to by paid for by those that need to use the engineering software. The rendering for engineering software is optimized for accuracy, game drivers are optimized for speed. There is quite a disparity between the different user bases in size and what they need, so I don't have a problem with charging different prices.
I'm not sure. This sort of hack is "unsupported", meaning, if you run into any trouble at all, the CAD software maker, the computer maker and the video card maker do not have to help you. I think it's a nifty little hack, but if you depend on the CAD machine, getting the right card in the first place is less expensive than a day's worth of down time for a user + the tech trying to get it to work again.
The extra cost goes towards developing and maintaining a specific driver set for the very small number of people using a low volume piece of software. The driver will load different pieces, different versions of itself based on what software is running. That's because the software is aggressively tested with specific versions of the driver to work right. That sort of support isn't cheap, and that's what you get when you pay for a Quadro.
There are mobile Quadros, so you just need to make sure your notebook is using the same die.
The cost of fuel and the cost of developing a new transport is still a concern. Air travel is very price sensitive. Would you pay an extra $1000 for a transatantic flight, to save a few hours? Concorde flyers spent $10,000 a trip and I think the airline still lost money on occasion. These are the same airliners that bought half their Concordes for $1 a piece because no one else wanted them, so even with the cost of the plane cut in half, they still had a hard time making money. The 9/11 tragedy is what killed Concorde, because enough of the Concorde's customer base died that day, or the business collapsed.
As far as I can tell, most the Republican Party is a "certain way". The Republicans that are economic conservatives (capitalist to hyper capitalist, etc.) are most likely social conservatives. There aren't a lot that fall outside of that quadrant.
>FOX represents the extreme right while NBC, CBS, and CNN represent the right.
I'm not aware of a lot of right wing Democrats. Most of the people that work in the news media vote Democrat by a very solid majority, something like 85%. Fox is the only one that consistently demands a certain kind of report, namely one that represents a certain set of Republican ideals set down by the one that runs Fox News.
That's the way it should work.
Right now, there are almost no veto overrides. The Republican senators and representatives usually go along with the president enough that an override usually isn't going to happen. The majority is too slim.
The current US President has a habit of signing legislation that he doesn't like and then attaching a "signing statement" that basically makes the legislation worthless because he won't follow a law that he disagrees with. As far as I know, signing statements aren't constitutional.
He even disregards the US Supreme Court mandate to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. I don't even understand why he fights the case so hard when he's not going to abide by the outcome if he doesn't like it.
My reasons are that I can't re-sell any individual book and the ebook costs the same as the book, despite not having to deal with the same costs of printing & distribution. Then there's the expensive device itself, which is best for reading and not that much else. There are some nifty conveniences, but the system takes a lot and gives not so much in return. The cost-shifting part is a big part, but my inability to loan or resell an ebook despite costing the same is quite irksome. If I like it, it's mine, but if I don't like it, too bad, it's mine. With a used book, I can at least get something out of it and it will find someone that will appreciate it. Or donate it.
No one person really can judge that, it's an overall market thing rather than looking at the slice of the world that one person sees.
I think Apple's iPod has 25% of the worldwide market share. It's maybe 75% or so in most of the developed countries, i.e. US, Canada, Western Europe. A little less, like 60%, in Japan.
Do you listen to the radio regularly on the Zune, if at all?
If the market demanded radio, I'm sure Apple would build it in. Their reps even said they would.
Radio isn't an issue for me. I really can't say I want to listen to it if I have all the music I want on the device with the radio.
So far, DRM is a paper tiger.
Unless you want to buy from many online stores. There are some stores that do offer DRM free audio, there aren't any legit stores that offer DRM free video from the "big" studios that I'm aware.
Given that it's astronomy, I don't think they're really being consistent with the term "dwarf". A dwarf star is still a star, but a dwarf planet is not a planet.
I actually accept the arguments that Pluto isn't a planet. The problem is that defining a planet is a tough thing, and the oddity I noted above seems to be part of an odd compromise that shouldn't have been made.