well, you may disagree, but that would make you wrong.
Pixel color and intensity on an LCD doesn't change until it is told to. If every single frame tells the pixel to be teal, then it will never stop being teal, at all. It will not go teal/black/teal/black, like a CRT.
Congratulations on not only ignoring the facts, but also making up sales figures. Very creative!
The figures you gave are not only incorrect and deceiving (giving 4 week snapshots for sales figures of two games, ignoring the first few weeks of sales figures, which would have shown that Metroid Prime outsold Spliter Cell by severla hundred thousand units, for example), but they're also not international.
The United States is the only place in the world where the x-box sells worth a damn, and even in the United States, it sells very poorly compared to the PlayStation 2. Internationally, the PlayStation 2 is king, followed by the gamecube, then the x-box.
The X-Box is not the success you're trying to make it out to be. I am claiming that you are actively trying to deceive the fine readers of this message board, as I don't believe that you could've manipulated the figures, and manufactured the figures that you presented accidentally. You clearly set out, intentionally, to deceive the audiance, and you owe them an apology.
I take it that you had an incredibly shitty testing department. The only way to have 5 bugs in 1.5 million lines of code is to redefine the term bug such that it no longer means what it usually means.
I tried to find any evidence that there was ever a $5,000 toilet seat and failed. I did however find references to the $100 toilet seats, $640 toilet seats, $700 toilet seats, $500 toilet seats, $1,100 toilet seats, $50,000 toilet seats, $10,000 toilet seats and $600 toilet seats.
In short, in absence of evidence to the contrary, it seems that the $5,000 toilet seat is just something that fucking idiots bring up when they want to accuse the government of being poorly run, but they're too lazy or stupid to find out where the actual problems lie.
Don't forget, the AA battery should be a li-ion rechargeable, it should run on Linux using open source software, it should use standard PC hardware, it should not implement drm, it should support ogg and it should fellate you.
You can still enjoy it, just get a couple bags of h, a set of works and a copy of the heroin times, and you'll be able to enjoy smooth jazz in no time.
NPR gets about 2% of it's funding from tax payers. It's nearly completely listener funded.
As for the bias, it's there, but they do a relatively good job of presenting differing opinions, and finding people who can offer differing insights into various issues. Their "left-wing bias" managed to feel relatively neutral about president shrub's proposed tax cut, whereas before I listened to them, I was completely against it.
Perhaps you only think it's left-wing bias because you normally get your news from extreme right-wing organizations, such as Fox News?
Actually, shifting into reverse in an automatic, at speed, will just make the engine stall out, your wheels won't suddenly be spinning backwards.
Shifting into park on the other hand can be exciting, as it tries to physically lock the drivetrain, which is clearly fairly terrible for all parts involved.
I don't honestly know what the per unit cost is, but you're correct in assuming that it's not 20m @ 160kph. It's my understanding that the nominal range is about 10m at that speed, which is still pretty impressive, IMHO.
I doubt that you'll find any RFID tags with a memory size of 65,536 bits!
Then you shouldn't have told me to read aimglobal.org. this page specifically mentions "Low to reasonably high (64Kbits) data storage capability".
Allow me to summarize the rest of your argument, so you can tell me what I've missed:
RFID tags will not contain any identification beyond manufacturer/model
Currently deployed automotive tire RFID tags contain extremely specific information, connecting the particular tire to a particular automobile.
I may not be a genius, but the evidence indicates that you're mistaken, especially considering that even the cheapest passive RFID tags advertise that each tag has a unique value, usually out of a 64 to 128 bit range, which indicates that RFID tag manufacturers expect every individual item to be tagged uniquely.
And most importantly, RFID tags are like UPC barcodes: they're coded to a single frequency and product, not to each instance of the product!
Sorry, you lose. RFID tags are not like UPC barcodes. The RFID tags that are in your new car's tires return your car's VIN, not 'michelin energy mxv4'. RFID tags can currently hold up to 64kbit of data, and can be read from tens of meters away, non-line-of-sight.
They could be used like UPC barcodes, but there's nothing that says they can't be used in far more intrusive fashions, as well.
as a libertarian, can you please explain how the libertarian position on taxes compares with your view? Perhaps I'm just a little confused, but it would seem to me that you're a complete and total retard.
If you have to pay shipping and taxes, you're better off buying something locally.
if you assume that your car is worth nothing, doesn't need tuneups, doesn't run on gas, doesn't pollute, that there are no tolls, that parking is free and your time is worth nothing, then yes, it is usually better to shop locally.
this has gotta be the best troll i've seen in weeks. it's beautiful in so many ways. it's a good length; long enough to seem like there was thought involved, but short enough that slashbots will actually read it. it makes such a wonderfully ludicrous suggestion, that sales tax is trivial, and it does it in a manner which makes everybody who realizes that this is wrong break out their 'i'm slightly smarter than you' hats, and reply.
congratulations Mitreya, I nominate you for troll of the month!
Now it's finally here and we can go ahead and stick a fork in what used to be a pretty good company.
Right now all that exists is an unverified story in a minor publication. I'd hold off on making such assessments until it's been determined that the story is true.
metropolis's original prints go pd in 2022, but the transfers they made and broadcast to your hdtv carry new copyrights, to protect that work that went into the transfer, and won't go public domain for 95 years after they're made.
Seriously, what's $2k on a TV that'll last 5 or 10 years compared to all the other expenses in life? In cost/hour of entertainment, TV is one of the least expensive things that a person can do.
On top of that, as the copyright on works expire, these technical limitations will continue to restrict my access to public domain works.
Corporate copyrights last 95 years now, and personal copyrights last for a lifetime plus 75 years. I don't think any of us will be alive to access public domain hdtv no matter what.
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Pixel color and intensity on an LCD doesn't change until it is told to. If every single frame tells the pixel to be teal, then it will never stop being teal, at all. It will not go teal/black/teal/black, like a CRT.
The figures you gave are not only incorrect and deceiving (giving 4 week snapshots for sales figures of two games, ignoring the first few weeks of sales figures, which would have shown that Metroid Prime outsold Spliter Cell by severla hundred thousand units, for example), but they're also not international.
The United States is the only place in the world where the x-box sells worth a damn, and even in the United States, it sells very poorly compared to the PlayStation 2. Internationally, the PlayStation 2 is king, followed by the gamecube, then the x-box.
The X-Box is not the success you're trying to make it out to be. I am claiming that you are actively trying to deceive the fine readers of this message board, as I don't believe that you could've manipulated the figures, and manufactured the figures that you presented accidentally. You clearly set out, intentionally, to deceive the audiance, and you owe them an apology.
I take it that you had an incredibly shitty testing department. The only way to have 5 bugs in 1.5 million lines of code is to redefine the term bug such that it no longer means what it usually means.
In short, in absence of evidence to the contrary, it seems that the $5,000 toilet seat is just something that fucking idiots bring up when they want to accuse the government of being poorly run, but they're too lazy or stupid to find out where the actual problems lie.
Don't forget, the AA battery should be a li-ion rechargeable, it should run on Linux using open source software, it should use standard PC hardware, it should not implement drm, it should support ogg and it should fellate you.
As for the bias, it's there, but they do a relatively good job of presenting differing opinions, and finding people who can offer differing insights into various issues. Their "left-wing bias" managed to feel relatively neutral about president shrub's proposed tax cut, whereas before I listened to them, I was completely against it.
Perhaps you only think it's left-wing bias because you normally get your news from extreme right-wing organizations, such as Fox News?
you can save graphics from illustrator into svg format, no knowledge of xml required.
Shifting into park on the other hand can be exciting, as it tries to physically lock the drivetrain, which is clearly fairly terrible for all parts involved.
128 bit RFID tags already are cheap. the parent is a fucking retard.
I don't honestly know what the per unit cost is, but you're correct in assuming that it's not 20m @ 160kph. It's my understanding that the nominal range is about 10m at that speed, which is still pretty impressive, IMHO.
Allow me to summarize the rest of your argument, so you can tell me what I've missed:
- RFID tags will not contain any identification beyond manufacturer/model
- Currently deployed automotive tire RFID tags contain extremely specific information, connecting the particular tire to a particular automobile.
I may not be a genius, but the evidence indicates that you're mistaken, especially considering that even the cheapest passive RFID tags advertise that each tag has a unique value, usually out of a 64 to 128 bit range, which indicates that RFID tag manufacturers expect every individual item to be tagged uniquely.The iPico Identification RFID tag is a passive UHF tag that can be read at 20m, and at speeds of up to 160km/h.
They could be used like UPC barcodes, but there's nothing that says they can't be used in far more intrusive fashions, as well.
Thanks! I look forward to your reply!
congratulations Mitreya, I nominate you for troll of the month!
After all, most business applications work beautifully over citrix.
isn't copyright law fun?
no, that new card you got is a P4 card, the kind that he stole info about.
Seriously, what's $2k on a TV that'll last 5 or 10 years compared to all the other expenses in life? In cost/hour of entertainment, TV is one of the least expensive things that a person can do.
it's extremely non-trivial to pirate digital cable. basically, if you're on a two-way cable system, it can't be done.