It is optimized to slow typing on mechanical typewriters to avoid collisions of the bars that strike the paper.
I think that's an urban legend worthy of Snopes. From what I can tell, QWERTY sped up typing by reducing the likelihood that adjacent letters will the typed in sequence, that's what usually jammed typewriters because of the arc of hammers, adjacent hammers are more likely to jam than far apart hammers. Less likely to jam meant that one could type faster.
I don't think it's right either, and no, I really don't agree with Chris Rock, I think that's just sad apologetics.
I hadn't even heard of Imus before this incident, but apparently he has millions of listeners. Something tells me that once this whole thing settles down, he might be able to strike out on his own in terms of an internet radio show of some sort.
I never did understand how anyone would think that directional cables was a legit product. What, as if there is a diode effect in copper? The fact that an audio signal in electrical form is basically AC makes me wonder if anyone that buys this stuff even had a high school physics class.
There's potential, but there's no guarantee. It'll probably do better than the original iPod did, but after the early adopter phase, it's up in the air.
The biggest problem with this deal is that Apple PR denied this delay only two weeks ago!
oh and wake up and smell the codecs - h264 can do dvd quality at 200megs per hour, you can't tell me peopel with adsl wouldn't be able to download that.
I think you missed the memo, Apple is using H.264. Their encoding takes about 600 megs per hour of footage, and I think it could stand to be higher.
That's changing. Over 15% of US households now have at least one HDTV. The cost of sets are still going down too. The money I paid for a small SD set five years ago will buy a bigger HD set now.
That's not the whole story. I've seen reports that said that cities reduced the "yellow time" in order to get more red-light tickets. I think I read that some cities had gone down to as little two seconds yellow as a result. I think that changes the game from just speeding and unsafe driving to unsafe light timings.
To add to that, there are no studies that show that this system works, and there are no statistics that show whether red-light running. It's a lot of expense for something that we don't know is really needed and we don't know if it's really working.
It was a good idea then, but the evidence was slim and there was a lot more speculation. I really don't remember the specifics, but since then, there were more pieces of evidence that validated the idea.
I'll basically echo the other sentiments. Most separate enclosures that I've seen are worse than the complete drives that I've seen. The one WD enclosure is generally more reliable and more compatible than most of the separate enclosures I've bought. The only external enclosure I liked was a $140 dual drive FW800 enclosure that I bought last year. On one enclosure, the metal edges inside the case were razor sharp such that I accidentally cut myself.
I don't care about the button or the software either. Color and style isn't as important as reliability.
But since we're talking about weapons of mass destruction that could kill millions I think the level of action the US is taking is wholly appropriate.
The problem is that justification used to push the war turned out to be based on falsified intelligence and selective use of intelligence. If there was a real threat, then fine, but it wasn't. The White House has been involved in a very major campaign to convince congress and the American people of something that was not true. They all said that they knew where it was, but none of it could be found during the occupation despite the supposed fantastic intelligence gathering agencies they tapped. To date, the White House has not produced evidence of any programs in Iraq to develop WMDs between the Gulf Wars. At the same time, the White House missed the programs in Iraq and North Korea. Right now, we are down over 3,000 troops, a half a trillion dollars, lost credibility and we made Iraq another breeding ground of hate.
That makes assumptions that there is a god, and that that is righteous, omnipotent and metes out rewards and punishment based on behavior. The problem is that no one has demonstrated that any of these is true, never mind all of them.
There is already a civil war in Iraq by pretty much all objective definitions that I've seen. Ostensibly, the White House doesn't want to call it a civil war because it evokes the US civil war, but the dissimilarities of circumstances don't prevent it from being called a civil war, and that we are policing it by putting our troops and our resources on the line. Stability cannot justly be achieved through military might alone, and I don't see any credible non-military effort to stabilize the country. It's really a war of ideas and ideologies, and that are not properly fought with guns.
I think the blood is currently on "W"'s hands because it's almost the most mismanaged US conflict I am aware of, and the primary reasons for invading turned out to be lies, distortions and FUD. Vietnam might be worse because it was over a decade of mismanagement by several administrations, W has managed to compress that into four years and one administration.
Basically, the current plan is to keep troops there forever. No one will admit it, but it's basically true. For example, we still keep active bases in Germany, and the reasons to stay has mostly evaporated. The animosities in Iraq existed before the US was founded and will probably go on until after the US is long gone from the earth.
I'm still using Windows 9000. It's been more stable than anything else I've used. I would never use Windows 98SE except if a game didn't work, even then, I don't have a copy of 98SE. I have two XP machines, one of them isn't working quite right, sometimes it doesn't allow me to log in.
I'm skeptical. The last time I saw this much hype about Intel graphics was when they tried to make their own card in conjunction with the introduction of AGP. Regarding that first chip, I seem to recall them saying that huge on-board memory for textures was a waste of memory chips. They quickly lost that round because that was a mistaken assumption. Even their integrated chips are sub-par compared to the integrated chips of other makers.
You know, that's what I thought too. "Oh, goody, yet another corporation/agency/whatever thinks that Open Source is just a way to get unpaid labour."
The way free software was promoted by some people, do you think that this is really a surprise? Add to that the fact that people hear what they want to hear and there you go.
There have been cases that I've heard about when the customer has a legitimate break out of their contract, the provider still tries to make life hard for the customer anyways.
Exactly. I wonder how many people claiming they can see a difference between 1080i and 1080p happily listen to compressed audio with earbud headphones.
I'm not sure how that is necessarily insightful.
Video is compressed too. Compression by itself isn't bad, it's when it is poorly compressed where it becomes a problem.
Your comparison involves different systems of the body. There are people with better ears than others, but worse eyes than others, and there are people with better eyes than others but worse ears than others.
Sometimes earbuds are a convenience thing. Once you're outside, the amount of exterior noise would likely wash out most of the sonic differences. Isolation systems are inappropriate for outdoor use because that kills situational awareness and reduces safety.
Personally, I'll be buying a 1080p projector shortly after Epson releases their new model. Even if not a lot of 1080p video exists, the denser pixels will help reduce the "screen door effect" caused by the gaps between pixels.
I think there's a difference between just copying someone else's list and compiling your own from numerous sources that aren't identifiable.
One secret I've heard about the textbook industry is that an author might use dozens of sources, and reinterpret the information in their own words. Much of that information in a a textbook is often public knowledge or from public domain sources, but there's the work needed to compile that information into that particular order. I think using many different sources and refactoring it is far better than using just a single source so completely that all the errors are mimicked too.
When playing high def content (that you rip yourself from DVD
Ripping a DVD and coding it to 720p doesn't make it high definition, because DVD isn't high definition, upscaled DVD doesn't make it HD. Just leave it at 480p and you'll save file space and likely far better video for the storage space.
If you must have an iPod, then yes, then the current flash based models will do music, but they won't play video, nor do they have a large enough screen for decent photos or videos. There are flash models that compete with the nano that can play video, I had a Sansa e2xx something, but it was clunky and the screen is tiny.
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What's worse is that when we played DK, we just accepted the idea that DK threw fire. I don't remember anyone that questioned it.
I think what really happen was that he was supposed to throw feces but the focus group refused to play the game.
It is optimized to slow typing on mechanical typewriters to avoid collisions of the bars that strike the paper.
I think that's an urban legend worthy of Snopes. From what I can tell, QWERTY sped up typing by reducing the likelihood that adjacent letters will the typed in sequence, that's what usually jammed typewriters because of the arc of hammers, adjacent hammers are more likely to jam than far apart hammers. Less likely to jam meant that one could type faster.
I don't think it's right either, and no, I really don't agree with Chris Rock, I think that's just sad apologetics.
I hadn't even heard of Imus before this incident, but apparently he has millions of listeners. Something tells me that once this whole thing settles down, he might be able to strike out on his own in terms of an internet radio show of some sort.
I never did understand how anyone would think that directional cables was a legit product. What, as if there is a diode effect in copper? The fact that an audio signal in electrical form is basically AC makes me wonder if anyone that buys this stuff even had a high school physics class.
iPhone = real growth.
There's potential, but there's no guarantee. It'll probably do better than the original iPod did, but after the early adopter phase, it's up in the air.
The biggest problem with this deal is that Apple PR denied this delay only two weeks ago!
oh and wake up and smell the codecs - h264 can do dvd quality at 200megs per hour, you can't tell me peopel with adsl wouldn't be able to download that.
I think you missed the memo, Apple is using H.264. Their encoding takes about 600 megs per hour of footage, and I think it could stand to be higher.
That's changing. Over 15% of US households now have at least one HDTV. The cost of sets are still going down too. The money I paid for a small SD set five years ago will buy a bigger HD set now.
That's not the whole story. I've seen reports that said that cities reduced the "yellow time" in order to get more red-light tickets. I think I read that some cities had gone down to as little two seconds yellow as a result. I think that changes the game from just speeding and unsafe driving to unsafe light timings.
To add to that, there are no studies that show that this system works, and there are no statistics that show whether red-light running. It's a lot of expense for something that we don't know is really needed and we don't know if it's really working.
It was a good idea then, but the evidence was slim and there was a lot more speculation. I really don't remember the specifics, but since then, there were more pieces of evidence that validated the idea.
I'll basically echo the other sentiments. Most separate enclosures that I've seen are worse than the complete drives that I've seen. The one WD enclosure is generally more reliable and more compatible than most of the separate enclosures I've bought. The only external enclosure I liked was a $140 dual drive FW800 enclosure that I bought last year. On one enclosure, the metal edges inside the case were razor sharp such that I accidentally cut myself.
I don't care about the button or the software either. Color and style isn't as important as reliability.
How much power is lost due to the interconnects right now? What fraction of power can be saved by almost eliminating the long wires?
But since we're talking about weapons of mass destruction that could kill millions I think the level of action the US is taking is wholly appropriate.
The problem is that justification used to push the war turned out to be based on falsified intelligence and selective use of intelligence. If there was a real threat, then fine, but it wasn't. The White House has been involved in a very major campaign to convince congress and the American people of something that was not true. They all said that they knew where it was, but none of it could be found during the occupation despite the supposed fantastic intelligence gathering agencies they tapped. To date, the White House has not produced evidence of any programs in Iraq to develop WMDs between the Gulf Wars. At the same time, the White House missed the programs in Iraq and North Korea. Right now, we are down over 3,000 troops, a half a trillion dollars, lost credibility and we made Iraq another breeding ground of hate.
That makes assumptions that there is a god, and that that is righteous, omnipotent and metes out rewards and punishment based on behavior. The problem is that no one has demonstrated that any of these is true, never mind all of them.
There is already a civil war in Iraq by pretty much all objective definitions that I've seen. Ostensibly, the White House doesn't want to call it a civil war because it evokes the US civil war, but the dissimilarities of circumstances don't prevent it from being called a civil war, and that we are policing it by putting our troops and our resources on the line. Stability cannot justly be achieved through military might alone, and I don't see any credible non-military effort to stabilize the country. It's really a war of ideas and ideologies, and that are not properly fought with guns.
I think the blood is currently on "W"'s hands because it's almost the most mismanaged US conflict I am aware of, and the primary reasons for invading turned out to be lies, distortions and FUD. Vietnam might be worse because it was over a decade of mismanagement by several administrations, W has managed to compress that into four years and one administration.
Basically, the current plan is to keep troops there forever. No one will admit it, but it's basically true. For example, we still keep active bases in Germany, and the reasons to stay has mostly evaporated. The animosities in Iraq existed before the US was founded and will probably go on until after the US is long gone from the earth.
I'm still using Windows 9000. It's been more stable than anything else I've used. I would never use Windows 98SE except if a game didn't work, even then, I don't have a copy of 98SE. I have two XP machines, one of them isn't working quite right, sometimes it doesn't allow me to log in.
I'm skeptical. The last time I saw this much hype about Intel graphics was when they tried to make their own card in conjunction with the introduction of AGP. Regarding that first chip, I seem to recall them saying that huge on-board memory for textures was a waste of memory chips. They quickly lost that round because that was a mistaken assumption. Even their integrated chips are sub-par compared to the integrated chips of other makers.
You know, that's what I thought too. "Oh, goody, yet another corporation/agency/whatever thinks that Open Source is just a way to get unpaid labour."
The way free software was promoted by some people, do you think that this is really a surprise? Add to that the fact that people hear what they want to hear and there you go.
You can buy XP-based computers from the small business arm of some computer sellers.
There have been cases that I've heard about when the customer has a legitimate break out of their contract, the provider still tries to make life hard for the customer anyways.
"Iffy", of course, is a technical term.
Exactly. I wonder how many people claiming they can see a difference between 1080i and 1080p happily listen to compressed audio with earbud headphones.
I'm not sure how that is necessarily insightful.
Video is compressed too. Compression by itself isn't bad, it's when it is poorly compressed where it becomes a problem.
Your comparison involves different systems of the body. There are people with better ears than others, but worse eyes than others, and there are people with better eyes than others but worse ears than others.
Sometimes earbuds are a convenience thing. Once you're outside, the amount of exterior noise would likely wash out most of the sonic differences. Isolation systems are inappropriate for outdoor use because that kills situational awareness and reduces safety.
Personally, I'll be buying a 1080p projector shortly after Epson releases their new model. Even if not a lot of 1080p video exists, the denser pixels will help reduce the "screen door effect" caused by the gaps between pixels.
I think there's a difference between just copying someone else's list and compiling your own from numerous sources that aren't identifiable.
One secret I've heard about the textbook industry is that an author might use dozens of sources, and reinterpret the information in their own words. Much of that information in a a textbook is often public knowledge or from public domain sources, but there's the work needed to compile that information into that particular order. I think using many different sources and refactoring it is far better than using just a single source so completely that all the errors are mimicked too.
I suppose a book shouldn't be copyrighted, because it uses letters and words that already exist?
When playing high def content (that you rip yourself from DVD
Ripping a DVD and coding it to 720p doesn't make it high definition, because DVD isn't high definition, upscaled DVD doesn't make it HD. Just leave it at 480p and you'll save file space and likely far better video for the storage space.
If you must have an iPod, then yes, then the current flash based models will do music, but they won't play video, nor do they have a large enough screen for decent photos or videos. There are flash models that compete with the nano that can play video, I had a Sansa e2xx something, but it was clunky and the screen is tiny.