Scattered throughout the book are sections that speculate on Platonism, and half-dead cats, and astronauts orbiting black holes and anthropic principles.
The rest of the book is math. And some of it is hard. Maybe iI was supposed to learn about "Clifford Algebra" from juvenile stories about a Big Red Dog. And maybe, I somehow missed the high school geometry lessons about fiber bundles. Perhaps I've simply forgotten my nursery school lullabies on algebraic topology, but I've found that if you actually read the book for the content, and not for the "mindblowin' shit", it's a tough read. Not impossible, mind you. It's just less literary than Goedel Escher Bach.
Ask yourself what you mean by "pure evolution theory." The phrase is a remarkable syntactical construction that subtly implies a distillation of all the myriad loose ends of evolution into one or two simple concepts. Yet you present no evidence that you have a good working knowledge of those concepts.
...which is widely regarded as the most reliable translation available, assembled from the oldest available texts and translated directly to modern English from their original languages under the scrutiny of a massive world-wide council of Churches.
Fascinating. Simply fascinating. I never realized that something as simple as a bible can be marketed.
Ther are infinte arguments of this right christian and religious affection in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the vehement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and publishing of this work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when Your Highness had once out of deep judgement apprehended how convenient it was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our own, and other foreign Languages, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never desist to urge and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter of such importance might justly require.
Apparently, such blurbs have been standard practice in the industry since 1611, or so.
MacOSX programs make frequent use of NSDictionary, a Objective C collection class. There's also a C version, known as CFDictionary. It's worth noting that most of the relevant C interfaces, known collectively as "CoreFoundation" are open source
The CoreFoundation interface to MacOSX's built in XML parser is described here.
Let me give you an example. The Fox affiliate in Baltimore is an UHF station broadcasting on channel 45-- plain old NTSC. It also offers a digital ATSC service on channel 46. This ATSC program stream is divided into two subchannels. One (45-1) is a 720p HD stream, which is quite watch-able. The other, (45-2) is a 480i SD stream, which is quite poor in comparison. The same programs are shown on both channels, though 45-1 is widescreen.
But if you don't have a ATSC tuner you can't watch 45-2. If you do have a ATSC tuner, both subchannels will be accessible, upconverted or downconverted as needed. Thus, 45-2 appears to be superfluous.
The baseline 7E7 has a 14500 km range. They've added a 6500 km model, but the original conception was this:
Traditionally, the longer hauls were between large cities-- for example, if you wanted to fly from (e.g) Cleveland, OH to Glasgow, Scotland, one might fly from Cleveland into New York, transfer to a connecting flight (on a long range airplane, such as a 747) to London-Heathrow, and then connect to a third flight from London to Glasgow.
The 7E7 would allow airliners to ditch the hub system and offer flights between Cleveland and Glasgow.
Perhaps the expectation of higher earnings was already built into the old, inflated stock price. When the earnings report comes out, demonstrating that this expectation was misplaced, the stock price drifts back to a more reasonable level,
NTSC still has nasty color artifacts. In theory, a SD ATSC stream, given a high enough bitrate, looks as good as a DVD. But most broadcasters starve their SD streams, either because they multicast several SD channels, or because they insist on simulcasting in both High and Standard definition. Hmm, shall I watch the fuzzy, washed out version, or the sharp, high resolution version? Decisions, decisions....
When the Apple IIgs came out, many of the early reviews had sidebars explaining why a "analog RGB monitor" was better than a "digital RGB monitor"-- an analog CRT could display 4096 colors, while a digital monitor was limited to, IIRC, 64. Some Apple IIe users already had RGB monitors, but those were typically digital (EGA), and thus incompatible with the GS.
IIRC, the EGA connection was a parallel interface. Increasing the number of colors would mean increasing the number of signaling lines, which would all need to be kept in sync, and free from interference. Serial interfaces would be too slow, and so analog rgb monitors were popularized.
Since that time, serial technology has improved to the point where a switch back to digital is now possible.
Damn. In my foolishness, I forgot about cable and satellite, both of which tend to disallow access to the digital bitstream. ANd perhaps I'm generalizing my lucky situation when it comes to OTA HDTV: most of my local stations (fox, abc, nbc, cbs, wb, pbs) broadcast 1080i or 720p, with Dolby Digital 5.1.
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If you have widely spaced speakers, the center speaker helps improve the illusion that the actors on screen are speaking.
On a PC setup, the fronts are closer together, and so the center speaker becomes less important. But for a standard size living room, a center speaker is almost a given.
Rear surround speakers (as opposed to the standard left and right surround speakers) are not so important, but DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX DVDs do make use of them. Even if you shy away from such mindless thrills as "Lord of the Rings" or "Star Wars", the two advanced surround formats--Dolby Prologic IIx and DTS Neo:6 can use the rear speaker(s) to good effect. Both of those surround formats, incidentally work reasonably well with stereo music.
Consider that if you decide to upgrade to a 6.1 or 7.1 surround system later, installing the extra two rear speakers will either involve snaking unsightly speaker wires under rugs, along walls, and so on, (ruining whatever aesthetic advantage the original installation may have had) or hacking through drywall and playing around with fish tape.
I plan to celebrate April (and May, and possibly June) by reading Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality an entertaining tome of but 1100 pages that purports to teach the reader all the math he needs to understand modern physics. Penrose is the ultimate optimist, but I must confess, I'm having difficulty after only chapter 8 (Riemann surfaces and complex mappings) of 34. Maybe, if I don't pay too much attention to the math, I'll breeze right through it. But then, that would defeat the whole purpose of Math Awareness Month.
This is serious," says Brad Kawalkowizc, an astrogeologist from the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre in Belgium, who has analysed the pictures. "There really is less Moon up there than there used to be." If the process continues, he adds, the Moon could eventually crumble away to nothing.
I am afraid that Nature has gotten it wrong. Sprodj is located in Syldavia, not Belgium.
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Come on. Be honest.
Scattered throughout the book are sections that speculate on Platonism, and half-dead cats, and astronauts orbiting black holes and anthropic principles.
The rest of the book is math. And some of it is hard. Maybe iI was supposed to learn about "Clifford Algebra" from juvenile stories about a Big Red Dog. And maybe, I somehow missed the high school geometry lessons about fiber bundles. Perhaps I've simply forgotten my nursery school lullabies on algebraic topology, but I've found that if you actually read the book for the content, and not for the "mindblowin' shit", it's a tough read. Not impossible, mind you. It's just less literary than Goedel Escher Bach.
A narrowscreen TV has a 4:3 ratio, thus the diagonal forms the hypotenuse of a 3:4:5 right triangle.
A widescreen TV has a 16:9 ratio, and the diagonal forms the hypotenuse of a 9:16:18 right triangle.
Thus, a 25 inch archaic style TV will have the same height as a 30 inch widescreen TV.
I stay away from the woman pages...
Not an emacs fan, are you?
Depends on how you program-- the extra space can be filled quite easily with a man page.
16 inches long.
10 inches high.
Ask yourself what you mean by "pure evolution theory." The phrase is a remarkable syntactical construction that subtly implies a distillation of all the myriad loose ends of evolution into one or two simple concepts. Yet you present no evidence that you have a good working knowledge of those concepts.
We all know that the 100W at 0.08THD in an 8-ohm load at 100-10,000Khz is the far superior amp.
You don't care much for bass, do you? And most people find it difficult to listen to ultrasound all day.
...which is widely regarded as the most reliable translation available, assembled from the oldest available texts and translated directly to modern English from their original languages under the scrutiny of a massive world-wide council of Churches.
Fascinating. Simply fascinating. I never realized that something as simple as a bible can be marketed.
Ther are infinte arguments of this right christian and religious affection in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the vehement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and publishing of this work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when Your Highness had once out of deep judgement apprehended how convenient it was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our own, and other foreign Languages, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never desist to urge and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter of such importance might justly require.
Apparently, such blurbs have been standard practice in the industry since 1611, or so.
MacOSX programs make frequent use of NSDictionary, a Objective C collection class. There's also a C version, known as CFDictionary. It's worth noting that most of the relevant C interfaces, known collectively as "CoreFoundation" are open source
The CoreFoundation interface to MacOSX's built in XML parser is described here.
Er, no.
Let me give you an example. The Fox affiliate in Baltimore is an UHF station broadcasting on channel 45-- plain old NTSC. It also offers a digital ATSC service on channel 46. This ATSC program stream is divided into two subchannels. One (45-1) is a 720p HD stream, which is quite watch-able. The other, (45-2) is a 480i SD stream, which is quite poor in comparison. The same programs are shown on both channels, though 45-1 is widescreen.
But if you don't have a ATSC tuner you can't watch 45-2. If you do have a ATSC tuner, both subchannels will be accessible, upconverted or downconverted as needed. Thus, 45-2 appears to be superfluous.
The baseline 7E7 has a 14500 km range. They've added a 6500 km model, but the original conception was this:
Traditionally, the longer hauls were between large cities-- for example, if you wanted to fly from (e.g) Cleveland, OH to Glasgow, Scotland, one might fly from Cleveland into New York, transfer to a connecting flight (on a long range airplane, such as a 747) to London-Heathrow, and then connect to a third flight from London to Glasgow.
The 7E7 would allow airliners to ditch the hub system and offer flights between Cleveland and Glasgow.
Perhaps the expectation of higher earnings was already built into the old, inflated stock price. When the earnings report comes out, demonstrating that this expectation was misplaced, the stock price drifts back to a more reasonable level,
150 A380s can carry more passengers (~ 75000) than 230 787s (~66000)...
NTSC still has nasty color artifacts. In theory, a SD ATSC stream, given a high enough bitrate, looks as good as a DVD. But most broadcasters starve their SD streams, either because they multicast several SD channels, or because they insist on simulcasting in both High and Standard definition. Hmm, shall I watch the fuzzy, washed out version, or the sharp, high resolution version? Decisions, decisions....
Thanks for stripping out the formatting. I despise paragraph breaks, and now, I don't have to read them!
Previous communications in this journal have indicated that "O.B. ultra-absorbency" type tampons are the most effective.
EGA monitors supported 64 colors: four different intensities for each of red, green and blue.
When the Apple IIgs came out, many of the early reviews had sidebars explaining why a "analog RGB monitor" was better than a "digital RGB monitor"-- an analog CRT could display 4096 colors, while a digital monitor was limited to, IIRC, 64. Some Apple IIe users already had RGB monitors, but those were typically digital (EGA), and thus incompatible with the GS.
IIRC, the EGA connection was a parallel interface. Increasing the number of colors would mean increasing the number of signaling lines, which would all need to be kept in sync, and free from interference. Serial interfaces would be too slow, and so analog rgb monitors were popularized.
Since that time, serial technology has improved to the point where a switch back to digital is now possible.
Damn. In my foolishness, I forgot about cable and satellite, both of which tend to disallow access to the digital bitstream. ANd perhaps I'm generalizing my lucky situation when it comes to OTA HDTV: most of my local stations (fox, abc, nbc, cbs, wb, pbs) broadcast 1080i or 720p, with Dolby Digital 5.1.
If you have widely spaced speakers, the center speaker helps improve the illusion that the actors on screen are speaking.
On a PC setup, the fronts are closer together, and so the center speaker becomes less important. But for a standard size living room, a center speaker is almost a given.
Rear surround speakers (as opposed to the standard left and right surround speakers) are not so important, but DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX DVDs do make use of them. Even if you shy away from such mindless thrills as "Lord of the Rings" or "Star Wars", the two advanced surround formats--Dolby Prologic IIx and DTS Neo:6 can use the rear speaker(s) to good effect. Both of those surround formats, incidentally work reasonably well with stereo music.
Consider that if you decide to upgrade to a 6.1 or 7.1 surround system later, installing the extra two rear speakers will either involve snaking unsightly speaker wires under rugs, along walls, and so on, (ruining whatever aesthetic advantage the original installation may have had) or hacking through drywall and playing around with fish tape.
Best to at least wire for a 7.1 setup.
NTSC? Why waste your time? Better to get a ATSC tuner, preferably one that ignores the broadcast flag.
Grad school helps.
I plan to celebrate April (and May, and possibly June) by reading Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality an entertaining tome of but 1100 pages that purports to teach the reader all the math he needs to understand modern physics. Penrose is the ultimate optimist, but I must confess, I'm having difficulty after only chapter 8 (Riemann surfaces and complex mappings) of 34. Maybe, if I don't pay too much attention to the math, I'll breeze right through it. But then, that would defeat the whole purpose of Math Awareness Month.
I am afraid that Nature has gotten it wrong. Sprodj is located in Syldavia, not Belgium.
Hey, maybe Mark Cuban just likes litigation. Fund both sides, sit back, watch the sparks fly...