Physics processors? GPUs? What if your application isn't centered around physics, or graphics?
Yes, yes, one can program a GPU/VPU to perform general purpose calculations. And one might be able to pervert the Physics processor to do more than calculate trajectories of bullets. But the further one ventures beyond the conceptions of the designers, the slower the end result.
Sony tried to recommend against using the VHS mechanism, but it turns out that the required bandwidth (1.4 MHz) is well within the capabilities of the otherwise deficient VHS (3 MHz).
The earliest digital recordings were often inferior in quality to the "backup" analog tapes, and some reissues of recordings from this period are mastered from these backups,
Hmm. Perhaps DC is an unusual market. One station even broadcasts local news in HD. Most of prime time is HD. I think there's even a daytime soap in HD. Quite a few stations transmit Dolby Digital 5.1, as well. What's not in HD is usually upsampled to 1080i or 720p. And generally that upsampling is pretty decent.
Most of the smaller HDTV sets are LCD. I've seen a 15 inch HDTV but it looks not to be widescreen-- yes, it may have a letterbox mode, but that reduces effective resolution.
An EDTV will display a 1080i or 720p picture , if the tuner is set to "480p".
Oh, sorry. I don't have cable, and was working from the oft-held stereotype that cable companies are greedy monstrosities with a penchant for nickle-and-diming consumers.
HDTV tuners are like DVD players-- you can connect them using composite, Y/C, component, but definitely not RF. Sometimes other connections, such as DVI, HDMI, RGB, or 1394a are used, but if you have a really old TV, you'll need a RF converter.
HDTV has nothing to do with the transition from analog to digital broadcasts. Of course it does. HD is what most digital broadcasters use. Of the digital stations I receive, all but two (daytime pbs, and telefutura) broadcast some form of HDTV.
ATSC tuners are pretty expensive right now, and only the largest and most expensive televisions incorporate them. Those televisions are often so large that the differences between SDTV and HDTV are readily apparent. Persons who buy such televisions will often complain if High Definition programming is not available-- and the television stations have responded by producing more and more High Definition programming.
There is still analog cable. I'd be very surprised if all the cable companies shut off their analog cable systems when that's a chance to pick up customers who don't want to go digital yet.
Why? Analog cable wastes bandwidth. The cable company can switch to digital service, and rent the converter boxes.
They're popularly called "bass shakers", but also also known as "tactile transducers". It may be more worthwhile to get a real subwoofer (one that bottoms out at 20 Hz) beforehand.
A CD player can reproduce frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
The bose acoustimass satellites can reproduce sounds from 280Hz to 13.3 kHz. The bass module can reproduce sounds from 46 Hz t 202 Hz. There's an 80 Hz hole in the midrange. It's also missing treble. This is not typical of a well designed speaker system.
Indeed, the THX crossover is designed so that the satellites and subwoofers frequency response curves mesh perfectly. Or so they say.
Still, there is a small matter of stereo bass. Below a certain frequency, sound can't be localized. Above, one can detect that's it's coming from that squat box in the corner. I'm not so sure that 80 Hz is the ideal point.
A little defensive, aren't you? Of course it's a problem in contract law. Of course, it is the letter of the contract that will have the most effect of Jackson's legal maneuvers. But that does not mean that the contract is just, or moral in and of itself-- although some moral philosophers, notably Rand, have conflated the two.
Since I don't have access to the contracts, and am unlikely to secure such access in the future, I thought myself free to speculate on the "moral question," rather than the "legal question." And so I did, reasoning that the dispute is not between a more deserving hospital or charity and Jackson, but between New Line and Jackson.
No children's hospitals are involved, although if one really wanted to, they could cheer on whoever faced the largest tax liability...
$200m is a lot of capital that could be reinvested in WETA digital and the like. I suppose the "moral" question comes down to:
Who will make better use of the funds: Peter Jackson, or New Line? I'm biased towards the former, although in at least one case, a brilliant filmmaker got rich off merchandizing rights, and then proceeded to make a series of flawed movies. Pixar, ILM, THX, and Skywalker Sound partially make up for this...
On the one extreme, we have wooden knobs controlling a potentiometer (for a preamplifier colors the sound), and on the other extreme we might have input devices even more complex than the Pronto Pro NG.
I don't have a Pronto, but I do own a somewhat expensive Harmony remote. It makes quite a bit of difference. But I'm not so sure that this keyboard would be so useful for audio applications.
No, trespass is a property crime-- perhaps the most basic. It's an expression of territory. Even dogs understand trespass.
Most dogs are unfamiliar with "trespass to chattels". The law is full of subtleties.
Perhaps your chief objection to the conflation of copyright with simple theft is that it invites the use of criminal, rather than civil sanctions. By defining copyright as theft, the copyright holders invite the public to view it as a crime, rather than as a tort. The holders of copyright have long engaged in this practice-- the 1841 case of Folsom v Marsh contains numerous references to piracy.
The average person does not appreciate monopolies, having been conditioned by decades of progressivist thought. It may be useful, in a rhetorical sense to simultaneously admit that while copyright infringement might be considered a kind of "theft," it is a "theft" of a monopoly, albeit a legal one. Should ones opponent be amenable to monopolies, one might then proceed to deconstruct the nature of theft (although this is somewhat dangerous, as Blackstone's commentaries can result in some unwanted side effects.
You're showing the typical simpleton reasoning of "there are too many complicated distinctions-- let's just call it all theft" that illustrates how poorly you actually understand the issue. Not at all. One can devise a whole system of laws based on various kinds of theft. Murder is theft of life, larceny is theft of goods. Trespass is theft of privacy. Rape is theft of services...
After a while, it starts to get a bit silly. Still, the value of a grant of copyright is wholly contained in the "exclusive" bit. If others parties do make copies, then a copyright holder no longer holds exclusive rights-- which in turn diminishes the value of the grant. Perhaps analogous to trespass?
PS. Perhaps it would be good of you not to refer to your fellow/.ers as morons, simpletons, or idiots. It's rather impolite and may decrease your Karma.
But it is theft. It is theft not of a book, nor of a song, but of a monopoly. If piracy did not exist, those who wanted a copy of a particular book would have to buy it from a legally authorized agent of the author--and such purchase would theoretically compensate the author for his genius. Piracy adds competition to this mix-- a purchase from the pirate press results in no compensation for the author, and puts pressure on the legitimate publisher to lower prices, further reducing the author's profits.
Copyright is a right to be insulated from price competition. The introduction of price competition through piracy nullifies that advantage. When one pirates a book, one steals that right away from the author.
The US enforces a minimum wage of IIRC $5.15 per hour. However, the law also allows restaurants to pay their waiters as little as $2.13 per hour, with the expectation that tips will make up the difference.
Similarly, in some societies, certain functionaries are paid a small salary, with the expectation that bribes will make up the difference, In some economies (perhaps dominated by hyper-inflation) , the honest worker may not receive enough money to pay his living expenses.
Certainly, Enron executives were well paid, so one could not seriously argue that corruption was neccesary for survival. However, in many cases, financial remuneration was based around a semi-reasonable base salary, and rather larger performance bonuses. Winning those bonuses required either financial acumen or a willingness to commit fraud. In many cases, the latter path was easier.
This is an OTA HDTV set top box. It's basically my TV.
HDTV without cable or satellite? Wow, who would have thought of that?
There's a RS-232 port in back. If one needs to update the firmware, one connects a serial cable to a computer, and runs a firmware download program.
A good many high end audio manufacturers are also incorporating software upgradeability into their offerings. One manufacturer (Onkyo), even has a hardware upgradable receiver-- the NR-1000. Want to add a couple of HDMI ports? Just pop in an expansion card.
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Physics processors? GPUs? What if your application isn't centered around physics, or graphics?
Yes, yes, one can program a GPU/VPU to perform general purpose calculations. And one might be able to pervert the Physics processor to do more than calculate trajectories of bullets. But the further one ventures beyond the conceptions of the designers, the slower the end result.
No, 44.1 was an existing standard sample rate. It was chosen to fit VHS videotape from a time when that was used instead of DAT.
Not exactly. The first commercially available PCM recorders were based on the U-matic mechanism.
Sony tried to recommend against using the VHS mechanism, but it turns out that the required bandwidth (1.4 MHz) is well within the capabilities of the otherwise deficient VHS (3 MHz).
The earliest digital recordings were often inferior in quality to the "backup" analog tapes, and some reissues of recordings from this period are mastered from these backups,
Hmm. Perhaps DC is an unusual market. One station even broadcasts local news in HD. Most of prime time is HD. I think there's even a daytime soap in HD. Quite a few stations transmit Dolby Digital 5.1, as well. What's not in HD is usually upsampled to 1080i or 720p. And generally that upsampling is pretty decent.
Most of the smaller HDTV sets are LCD. I've seen a 15 inch HDTV but it looks not to be widescreen-- yes, it may have a letterbox mode, but that reduces effective resolution.
An EDTV will display a 1080i or 720p picture , if the tuner is set to "480p".
Oh, sorry. I don't have cable, and was working from the oft-held stereotype that cable companies are greedy monstrosities with a penchant for nickle-and-diming consumers.
coax? Hah.
HDTV tuners are like DVD players-- you can connect them using composite, Y/C, component, but definitely not RF.
Sometimes other connections, such as DVI, HDMI, RGB, or 1394a are used, but if you have a really old TV, you'll need a RF converter.
HDTV has nothing to do with the transition from analog to digital broadcasts.
Of course it does. HD is what most digital broadcasters use. Of the digital stations I receive, all but two (daytime pbs, and telefutura) broadcast some form of HDTV.
ATSC tuners are pretty expensive right now, and only the largest and most expensive televisions incorporate them. Those televisions are often so large that the differences between SDTV and HDTV are readily apparent. Persons who buy such televisions will often complain if High Definition programming is not available-- and the television stations have responded by producing more and more High Definition programming.
There is still analog cable. I'd be very surprised if all the cable companies shut off their analog cable systems when that's a chance to pick up customers who don't want to go digital yet.
Why? Analog cable wastes bandwidth. The cable company can switch to digital service, and rent the converter boxes.
They're popularly called "bass shakers", but also also known as "tactile transducers". It may be more worthwhile to get a real subwoofer (one that bottoms out at 20 Hz) beforehand.
The Lord of the Rings are 3/3.1 discs (with dts discrete). Star Wars is 3/2:3.1 (encoded with THX Surround EX).
Actually, Dolby Digital's lfe channel uses only about a tenth as much bandwith as the other full bandwidth channels. Thus, it's the .1 channel.
A CD player can reproduce frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
The bose acoustimass satellites can reproduce sounds from 280Hz to 13.3 kHz. The bass module can reproduce sounds from 46 Hz t 202 Hz. There's an 80 Hz hole in the midrange. It's also missing treble. This is not typical of a well designed speaker system.
Indeed, the THX crossover is designed so that the satellites and subwoofers frequency response curves mesh perfectly. Or so they say.
Still, there is a small matter of stereo bass. Below a certain frequency, sound can't be localized. Above, one can detect that's it's coming from that squat box in the corner. I'm not so sure that 80 Hz is the ideal point.
A little defensive, aren't you? Of course it's a problem in contract law. Of course, it is the letter of the contract that will have the most effect of Jackson's legal maneuvers. But that does not mean that the contract is just, or moral in and of itself-- although some moral philosophers, notably Rand, have conflated the two.
Since I don't have access to the contracts, and am unlikely to secure such access in the future, I thought myself free to speculate on the "moral question," rather than the "legal question." And so I did, reasoning that the dispute is not between a more deserving hospital or charity and Jackson, but between New Line and Jackson.
No children's hospitals are involved, although if one really wanted to, they could cheer on whoever faced the largest tax liability...
You must be a Randite.
$200m is a lot of capital that could be reinvested in WETA digital and the like. I suppose the "moral" question comes down to:
Who will make better use of the funds: Peter Jackson, or New Line? I'm biased towards the former, although in at least one case, a brilliant filmmaker got rich off merchandizing rights, and then proceeded to make a series of flawed movies. Pixar, ILM, THX, and Skywalker Sound partially make up for this...
On the one extreme, we have wooden knobs controlling a potentiometer (for a preamplifier colors the sound), and on the other extreme we might have input devices even more complex than the Pronto Pro NG.
I don't have a Pronto, but I do own a somewhat expensive Harmony remote. It makes quite a bit of difference. But I'm not so sure that this keyboard would be so useful for audio applications.
The Christian Coalition thinks Grokster is about kiddie porn.
Seriously
They spend extravagant amounts of money on silly things that don't make much difference
I can't afford this keyboard at the moment--I'm buying wooden knobs for my preamplifier
No, trespass is a property crime-- perhaps the most basic. It's an expression of territory. Even dogs understand trespass.
Most dogs are unfamiliar with "trespass to chattels". The law is full of subtleties.
Perhaps your chief objection to the conflation of copyright with simple theft is that it invites the use of criminal, rather than civil sanctions. By defining copyright as theft, the copyright holders invite the public to view it as a crime, rather than as a tort. The holders of copyright have long engaged in this practice-- the 1841 case of Folsom v Marsh contains numerous references to piracy.
The average person does not appreciate monopolies, having been conditioned by decades of progressivist thought. It may be useful, in a rhetorical sense to simultaneously admit that while copyright infringement might be considered a kind of "theft," it is a "theft" of a monopoly, albeit a legal one. Should ones opponent be amenable to monopolies, one might then proceed to deconstruct the nature of theft (although this is somewhat dangerous, as Blackstone's commentaries can result in some unwanted side effects.
You're showing the typical simpleton reasoning of "there are too many complicated distinctions-- let's just call it all theft" that illustrates how poorly you actually understand the issue.
/.ers as morons, simpletons, or idiots. It's rather impolite and may decrease your Karma.
Not at all. One can devise a whole system of laws based on various kinds of theft. Murder is theft of life, larceny is theft of goods. Trespass is theft of privacy. Rape is theft of services...
After a while, it starts to get a bit silly.
Still, the value of a grant of copyright is wholly contained in the "exclusive" bit. If others parties do make copies, then a copyright holder no longer holds exclusive rights-- which in turn diminishes the value of the grant. Perhaps analogous to trespass?
PS. Perhaps it would be good of you not to refer to your fellow
But it is theft. It is theft not of a book, nor of a song, but of a monopoly. If piracy did not exist, those who wanted a copy of a particular book would have to buy it from a legally authorized agent of the author--and such purchase would theoretically compensate the author for his genius. Piracy adds competition to this mix-- a purchase from the pirate press results in no compensation for the author, and puts pressure on the legitimate publisher to lower prices, further reducing the author's profits.
Copyright is a right to be insulated from price competition. The introduction of price competition through piracy nullifies that advantage. When one pirates a book, one steals that right away from the author.
The US enforces a minimum wage of IIRC $5.15 per hour. However, the law also allows restaurants to pay their waiters as little as $2.13 per hour, with the expectation that tips will make up the difference.
Similarly, in some societies, certain functionaries are paid a small salary, with the expectation that bribes will make up the difference, In some economies (perhaps dominated by hyper-inflation) , the honest worker may not receive enough money to pay his living expenses.
Certainly, Enron executives were well paid, so one could not seriously argue that corruption was neccesary for survival. However, in many cases, financial remuneration was based around a semi-reasonable base salary, and rather larger performance bonuses. Winning those bonuses required either financial acumen or a willingness to commit fraud. In many cases, the latter path was easier.
This is an OTA HDTV set top box. It's basically my TV.
HDTV without cable or satellite? Wow, who would have thought of that?
There's a RS-232 port in back. If one needs to update the firmware, one connects a serial cable to a computer, and runs a firmware download program.
A good many high end audio manufacturers are also incorporating software upgradeability into their offerings. One manufacturer (Onkyo), even has a hardware upgradable receiver-- the NR-1000. Want to add a couple of HDMI ports? Just pop in an expansion card.
Have you had to flash your TV's firmware?
Yes
imagine a future PC with 32656 CPUs, all running at a measly 40MHz,
Ah, a PC where latency is king. Rather difficult to optimize, I should imagine.