Bologna. The Rev will run just as well on HD as SD. Your FUD is like telling people their BetaMax machine won't work on newer TVs, with all these VHS machines getting so popular.
Ever see an SD signal blown up on a 60" HDTV? It looks like crap, The fact is that SD signals look crummy on a HDTV.
In all the years of renting movies on VHS, I almost never had a playback quality problem.
I'd like to know where you are renting from. I have had far more playback problems with tapes than DVDs including worn coatings on the tapes shedding and fouling my player.
I did have one DVD that I purchased (out of 300) that I had to bring back because it didn't play.
How many television owners have purchased a TV in the past year? Or in the past 5 years?
Quite a few I would imagine since there are currently about 13-15 million US homes with HDTVs of one sort or another. The vast majority of these were sold in the past 4 years. These are a great market segment too, with people with disposable income and an interest in technology.
Everybody is still replacing their VHS collection with NTSC DVDs.
That conversion happened a long time ago.
The only thing I see slowing down DVDs in HD is the possibility of a format war.
The fact is that consumers are very hungry for HDTV content since there is not that much available. HD game consoles will be very popular for that reason.
Is there any reason to believe you represent the majority of the gaming market, though?
Not this year, but it is quite clear that people are buying HDTVs in large numbers, and are looking for HDTV content. A console that doesn't provide that capability is cutting itself off from a good percentage of the top end of the US market right now, and that percentage is rising rapidly.
Man, this is really bad news. Without the North Pole in Canada it is going to warm up and all the snow and permafrost will melt, and uh Canada will be like a real country that has things like summer and liquid water and stuff like that and people might even want to live there even if they are not Inuits. They might even start thinking uppity like they are a real country and not just the Maple Leaf state.
The only good thing that I can see coming from this is that the NHL has got to be cancelled permanently now because their will obviously be no more hockey players. They are all going to have to take up warm weather sports like beach volleyball and surfing in Canada now.
AFAIK, there exists no anlog for making multi-threaded applications easier to write. They're damn hard, and tracking down race-conditions where one thread's actions screw up another thread mid-step is a royal pain.
If you look in Java SDK 1.5 for example there is a whole new level of support for concurrency over Java 1.4 - rentrant locks, thread pools, atomic variables etc. - a lot of this is aimed at improving the tools programmers have for this sort of work. It is only the first step, but there is progress being made.
With multi-core becoming normal it will propel a whole new renaissance of tool development to support this area, plus research into new ways to support concurrent programming. I expect it to affect the instruction sets of CPUs all the way up to how IDEs work. Eventually I think concurrency management will be just a much a part of the system as memory management is today.
What is Luddism and lunacy is the use of the term nanotechnoology in a perjorative manner. Nanotech is such a broad brush that it is impossible to assign a value to the technologies grouped under the term as a whole.
But no, we have protests against 'nanotechnology' as a whole. Utter nonsense.
allow DoS attacks and even more behind-closed-doors bargains.
DOS attacks on Congress would be a good thing - the less Congress does the better.
As far as closed door deals, that too would be a lot better than what we have with one party just being able to go off and do whatever they damn well please. They would have to bring in the other party to their closed door sessions.
Example: Do you think we would be in Iraq right now if Congress were run using this design?
Great, so a 1/3 minority of representatives can control the legislature
Right now the situation is that any party that has more than 50% can basically run the country as it sees fit regardless of the objections of the oppositon even if is 49.9%. Requiring a 2/3 majority would force a far greater non-partisan approach.
And let's face it - if a law is such that a full 1/3 of the representives are not willing to vote for it, it is probably a bad law.
That is going to be an issue from the get-go. It can't be just you, there has to be a backup for when you are sick, need to travel on business, get oissed from working 24x7 for a month, etc.
Personally if my boss ever said something as idiotic as 'it will only take 1% of your time' in a case like this I would start looking for a new job. The guy is obviously a know-nothing jerk and you aren't going to get anywhere working for him.
Letting a Congress full of lawyers make the laws is like putting the drug companies in charge of creating diseases.
IMHO a bicameral legislature is ok, except they did it wrong. One branch should be in charge of making laws, and the other repealing laws. AND it should take a 2/3s majority to create a law, but only a 1/3 vote to repeal a law.
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6. It works well on a shared server so hosting services can offer PHP/MySQL for $5 a month.
Personally I like Python or Ruby way better. Variant types are just not acceptable.
There are quite a few differences between holding debt and holding a share of stock. For example:
1. Debt implies a contractual obligation for repayment. There is no such contract with a share of stock. The company cannot change debt repayment terms unilaterally without getting into trouble. It can change dividends unilaterally.
2. Debt does not convey ownership of the company. Ownng a share conveys ownership of some fraction of the company, debt only incurs a repayment obligation. Primary debt does not include a component that increases in value if the issuer of the debt does well.
Now when you are investing you certainly do compare debt instruments to stocks. Debt is usually less risky, however stock purchases include the potential for much more significant gains. If you are a prudent investor those gains are usually worth the additional risk. Of course if you are on crack and buy Google futures you may well lose every cent and wish you had kept your money in a matress instead.
Sounds like a good idea to me since I have already ruled out current Intel dual core designs because of their outrageous power consumption. AMD Athlon 64's are much better in this department except they are awfully expensive right now. A more economical dual core Dothan design would definitely be something I would be interested in.
Or does it seem like too many companies are losing data these days.
I think the reason that you are reading about this and similar events is that there are new disclosure laws, especially in California.
Generally when you see an uptick like this it is because people have increased the reporting of whatever is happening, rather than an actual increase in the number of incidents.
First we have to assume the drive the same car (or similar model) for your argument to make sense.
Sheesh. Read my article. There was no income test proposed, just that the gas tax be tied to the engine size, and it be zero for a certain small size. If fat ass Jim wants to drive a small car to avoid the tax, fine. But I bet he won't. For Joe the working stiff, most of the time he is going to have a small engine anyway.
And for that V8 8L engine in the Ford Expedition - whooo wheee you should see what the tax is going to be.
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Depending on what you are doing a finite state machine could be a good answer. Take a look at the state machine compiler (SMC) on sourceforge.
Bologna. The Rev will run just as well on HD as SD. Your FUD is like telling people their BetaMax machine won't work on newer TVs, with all these VHS machines getting so popular.
Ever see an SD signal blown up on a 60" HDTV? It looks like crap, The fact is that SD signals look crummy on a HDTV.
In all the years of renting movies on VHS, I almost never had a playback quality problem.
I'd like to know where you are renting from. I have had far more playback problems with tapes than DVDs including worn coatings on the tapes shedding and fouling my player.
I did have one DVD that I purchased (out of 300) that I had to bring back because it didn't play.
That would explain why we're increasing our military spending and developing nuclear and bio weapons. :)
I would say that this is also going to lead to a world-wide shortage of Maple Syrup. Definitely stock up before the rush.
How many television owners have purchased a TV in the past year? Or in the past 5 years?
Quite a few I would imagine since there are currently about 13-15 million US homes with HDTVs of one sort or another. The vast majority of these were sold in the past 4 years. These are a great market segment too, with people with disposable income and an interest in technology.
Everybody is still replacing their VHS collection with NTSC DVDs.
That conversion happened a long time ago.
The only thing I see slowing down DVDs in HD is the possibility of a format war.
The fact is that consumers are very hungry for HDTV content since there is not that much available. HD game consoles will be very popular for that reason.
Is there any reason to believe you represent the majority of the gaming market, though?
Not this year, but it is quite clear that people are buying HDTVs in large numbers, and are looking for HDTV content. A console that doesn't provide that capability is cutting itself off from a good percentage of the top end of the US market right now, and that percentage is rising rapidly.
Man, this is really bad news. Without the North Pole in Canada it is going to warm up and all the snow and permafrost will melt, and uh Canada will be like a real country that has things like summer and liquid water and stuff like that and people might even want to live there even if they are not Inuits. They might even start thinking uppity like they are a real country and not just the Maple Leaf state.
The only good thing that I can see coming from this is that the NHL has got to be cancelled permanently now because their will obviously be no more hockey players. They are all going to have to take up warm weather sports like beach volleyball and surfing in Canada now.
AFAIK, there exists no anlog for making multi-threaded applications easier to write. They're damn hard, and tracking down race-conditions where one thread's actions screw up another thread mid-step is a royal pain.
If you look in Java SDK 1.5 for example there is a whole new level of support for concurrency over Java 1.4 - rentrant locks, thread pools, atomic variables etc. - a lot of this is aimed at improving the tools programmers have for this sort of work. It is only the first step, but there is progress being made.
With multi-core becoming normal it will propel a whole new renaissance of tool development to support this area, plus research into new ways to support concurrent programming. I expect it to affect the instruction sets of CPUs all the way up to how IDEs work. Eventually I think concurrency management will be just a much a part of the system as memory management is today.
Many people already own monitors capable of at least 720p, and current sales of HDTVs are at 25% of all new TV's sold.
In addition over the next year we are going to start seeing DVD players with HD resolution outputs.
I sure am not going to buy into an SD console and games at this point in time.
c'mon, credit where credit is due
Credit for buying out somebody else's hard work? I don't think so.
What is Luddism and lunacy is the use of the term nanotechnoology in a perjorative manner. Nanotech is such a broad brush that it is impossible to assign a value to the technologies grouped under the term as a whole.
But no, we have protests against 'nanotechnology' as a whole. Utter nonsense.
Yes, I think that all attractive women should either go naked or wear nanopants, according to their stance on this issue.
allow DoS attacks and even more behind-closed-doors bargains.
DOS attacks on Congress would be a good thing - the less Congress does the better.
As far as closed door deals, that too would be a lot better than what we have with one party just being able to go off and do whatever they damn well please. They would have to bring in the other party to their closed door sessions.
Example: Do you think we would be in Iraq right now if Congress were run using this design?
Great, so a 1/3 minority of representatives can control the legislature
Right now the situation is that any party that has more than 50% can basically run the country as it sees fit regardless of the objections of the oppositon even if is 49.9%. Requiring a 2/3 majority would force a far greater non-partisan approach.
And let's face it - if a law is such that a full 1/3 of the representives are not willing to vote for it, it is probably a bad law.
Ok, but what does Inpple sound like?
That is going to be an issue from the get-go. It can't be just you, there has to be a backup for when you are sick, need to travel on business, get oissed from working 24x7 for a month, etc.
Personally if my boss ever said something as idiotic as 'it will only take 1% of your time' in a case like this I would start looking for a new job. The guy is obviously a know-nothing jerk and you aren't going to get anywhere working for him.
What do expect?
Letting a Congress full of lawyers make the laws is like putting the drug companies in charge of creating diseases.
IMHO a bicameral legislature is ok, except they did it wrong. One branch should be in charge of making laws, and the other repealing laws. AND it should take a 2/3s majority to create a law, but only a 1/3 vote to repeal a law.
6. It works well on a shared server so hosting services can offer PHP/MySQL for $5 a month.
Personally I like Python or Ruby way better. Variant types are just not acceptable.
There are quite a few differences between holding debt and holding a share of stock. For example:
1. Debt implies a contractual obligation for repayment. There is no such contract with a share of stock. The company cannot change debt repayment terms unilaterally without getting into trouble. It can change dividends unilaterally.
2. Debt does not convey ownership of the company. Ownng a share conveys ownership of some fraction of the company, debt only incurs a repayment obligation. Primary debt does not include a component that increases in value if the issuer of the debt does well.
Now when you are investing you certainly do compare debt instruments to stocks. Debt is usually less risky, however stock purchases include the potential for much more significant gains. If you are a prudent investor those gains are usually worth the additional risk. Of course if you are on crack and buy Google futures you may well lose every cent and wish you had kept your money in a matress instead.
Let me guess - the same pointy haired bosses are running this project too.
Hmmm.. that would be silicon on silica. Or SiOSiO2.
Sounds like a good idea to me since I have already ruled out current Intel dual core designs because of their outrageous power consumption. AMD Athlon 64's are much better in this department except they are awfully expensive right now. A more economical dual core Dothan design would definitely be something I would be interested in.
Or does it seem like too many companies are losing data these days.
I think the reason that you are reading about this and similar events is that there are new disclosure laws, especially in California.
Generally when you see an uptick like this it is because people have increased the reporting of whatever is happening, rather than an actual increase in the number of incidents.
Why tax engine size?
It is a matter of efficiency. The land yacht is inefficient and thus should be penalized.
First we have to assume the drive the same car (or similar model) for your argument to make sense.
Sheesh. Read my article. There was no income test proposed, just that the gas tax be tied to the engine size, and it be zero for a certain small size. If fat ass Jim wants to drive a small car to avoid the tax, fine. But I bet he won't. For Joe the working stiff, most of the time he is going to have a small engine anyway.
And for that V8 8L engine in the Ford Expedition - whooo wheee you should see what the tax is going to be.
So far as I know, manufacturers have made no commitment to recycling the batteries.
Toyota certainly has. And they are NiMH, not Li Ion.