Stop treating science and film like a religion and a cosmic quest for "truth" and start treating it as science. Show me the universe for what it is and how it works, not what theories are trendy today about its origins. Because simple observation isn't science. It's just the collection of random bits of data. It generally helps to have a tentative theoretical framework in place so one can determine if a particular piece of data is strange, novel and unexpected and therefore deserving of more investigation, or simply another boring piece of data confirming existing theory
However, I do remember the Galapagos film presenting evolution as a fact not a theory. Perhaps this recent Washington Post article will be of some interest.
But these stickers [on science textbooks] use the words "theory" and "fact" in a very misleading way. The biggest problem is that "theory" has two separate meanings. In common usage, "theory" means an idea or a hunch: "I have a theory about why she left him." No one really knows what the reasons were, but we can guess. That's not what "theory" means within science. When scientists speak of the theory of gravitation, cell theory or evolutionary theory, they are talking about scientific concepts that have been so thoroughly tested that they are very unlikely to change...
A good many works of SF contain unflattering depictions of theocrats. Consider Nehemiah Scudder... I can only guess at how the fundies will react to the "Forge of God" script that's reportedly being shopped about.
It depends on the content-- most stations don't use their SD subchannels with any degree of creativity. Most of the commercial stations are either showing weather channels or mirroring their HD channels. The latter use is a puzzle to me-- though perhaps some people hate widescreen with a passion. My PBS channel, though, will show kids programs on one, reruns on another, public affairs on a third, and so on.
ABC supposedly had a 24 hour news sub-channel, though they canceled it some months back. Still, most people buy HDTV tuners to go with their HDTV monitors and don't care for SDTV. That may change after set manufacturers, following FCC mandate, start including ATSC tuners in low priced televisions.
An SDTV tuner (as defined by the CEA) takes the 18 ATSC formats (including the six 1080p, 1080i and 720p formats) downscales them, and outputs a 480i picture.
BTW, many broadcast stations multicast with only one HD subchannel. During the day, my local PBS station will broadcast 4 independent streams.
Most of the decoder boxes on the market decode HDTV. SDTV decoder boxes don't yet exist. BTW, Walmart sells a stripped down HDTV box for $189, and slightly better models can be had (elsewhere) for $200.
Salon was originally conceived as a website for discussing books. Gradually, they became more overtly political. Muckrakers and political columnists may been cheaper to hire than well known authors, and in any case, attracted a more loyal subscription base.
Salon used to feature some conservative writers-- but gradually, their subscription base started to get annoyed. "Why am I paying good money to be insulted by David Horowitz?" And so, Horowitz was replaced by a series of columns that did the dirty work of sifting through slimy, filthy conservative "intelligencia" to present links to representative rightist authors.
Let's see here: log(64 gb)= log(1Gb)+log(64)=36 bits, so you're probably thinking of Intel's "Physical Address Extension" scheme, which allows programmers to mess around with 16 memory segments, each of 4 gb. 64 bit chips (such as the Athlon64, POWER, Sparc, and Alpha) can address large amounts of unsegmented memory-- the PowerPC 970, for instance, can address up to 4096 gigs of memory, as it has a 42 bit address bus.
On a PAE system, processes still can only address a certain amount of memory (3 GB, default), though you can configure your system to push the kernel out of the way and onto a different memory segment. This slows down syscalls, though.
China has a patent system. It's just that it's a patent system with Chinese characteristics For one thing, prior art isn't considered. If a Chinese company has the cash and the connections, they can copy a foreign invention and get a patent on it.
Seems that those Monty Python folks are really quite interested in film preservation and restoration. There's another documentary on the "Meaning of Life" that explains all the nitty gritty. Is it worth it? I say yes. Going from unrestored faded film to a pristine new master is just as dramatic as the shift from black and white to color film.
On three occasions, in different court cases, legal teams and police officials have obtained search warrants to go through the archived secrets of Benjie's house. Generally, he says, with a high laugh, it has been 'the sheds that have broken them'. The litigation department of the city lawyers Herbert Smith spent three days in his bedroom looking for documents related to Elton John. And the came the the inevitable question: 'Is there anything else we should see, Mr Pell?' 'Well', Benjie replied, 'you might want to look in the sheds.' The same sheds, he believed, also nearly destroyed at least one police officer. 'PC Clements was a extremely good detective from Marylebone police station. He opened the door and everything fell out on top of him. He was only five foot six-- we later discovered that he was the shortest police officer in all of the Metropolitan Area. He collapsed under the weight of knowledge, literally!'
Tim Adams. "The World Against Benjamin Pell". Granta 87:25-26 (Fall 2004)
Yes, very early HD adoptors with analog-only inputs will have to get new sets- but all sets prior to about 2 years ago didnt support 720P as n input or display format, so they're likely going to do this anyhow.
So who's hurt here and what are we whining about?
People with a limited supply of cash?
Do note the fact that most LCDs on the market do not support HDCP. Nor do they support HDMI..
NTSC television looks quite coarse when blown up to 60 inches. HDTV doesn't. However, the switch over to ATSC is not an attempt to subsidize manufacturers of large screen television-- it's rather that the spectrum allocation is rather inefficient. Switching to ATSC and 8VSB will enable the FCC to sell off spectrum.
BTW, Over the Air ATSC is as clear, or clearer than cable. The channel selection isn't as great, however. Most channels don't know how to use multicasts:
"I know, we'll put an animation of a weather radar on our secondary subchannel!"
The bigger selling point is HDTV-- the picture quality is superior to DVDs.
No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?
Sure. You could plug a Voodoo 2 card or a SCSI card into it. It was sweet-- at least until big bad Apple removed the slot from the Rev C's.
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Listen to the second segment from this This American Life show for a good illustration of what can go wrong.
It had an undocumented feature that allowed programmers to easily port programs from the old mainframe standard to the more modern UNIX.
Is this the same David Horowitz who published his enemies list online?
Is not the new MAC OS basicly Linux?
No. It's basically BSD, which is, of course, dying .
Ok. You've persuaded me. I'm sorry. I've judged Cristians unfairly.
However, Christians remain fair game.
More reasons for the fundies to hate the Catholic Church?
Stop treating science and film like a religion and a cosmic quest for "truth" and start treating it as science. Show me the universe for what it is and how it works, not what theories are trendy today about its origins.
Because simple observation isn't science. It's just the collection of random bits of data. It generally helps to have a tentative theoretical framework in place so one can determine if a particular piece of data is strange, novel and unexpected and therefore deserving of more investigation, or simply another boring piece of data confirming existing theory
Perhaps this recent Washington Post article will be of some interest.
A good many works of SF contain unflattering depictions of theocrats. Consider Nehemiah Scudder...
I can only guess at how the fundies will react to the "Forge of God" script that's reportedly being shopped about.
Which is the one that most people want to watch.
It depends on the content-- most stations don't use their SD subchannels with any degree of creativity. Most of the commercial stations are either showing weather channels or mirroring their HD channels. The latter use is a puzzle to me-- though perhaps some people hate widescreen with a passion. My PBS channel, though, will show kids programs on one, reruns on another, public affairs on a third, and so on.
ABC supposedly had a 24 hour news sub-channel, though they canceled it some months back. Still, most people buy HDTV tuners to go with their HDTV monitors and don't care for SDTV. That may change after set manufacturers, following FCC mandate, start including ATSC tuners in low priced televisions.
An SDTV tuner (as defined by the CEA) takes the 18 ATSC formats (including the six 1080p, 1080i and 720p formats) downscales them, and outputs a 480i picture.
BTW, many broadcast stations multicast with only one HD subchannel. During the day, my local PBS station will broadcast 4 independent streams.
You need to configure your tuner to use QAM, not 8VSB.
Most of the decoder boxes on the market decode HDTV. SDTV decoder boxes don't yet exist. BTW, Walmart sells a stripped down HDTV box for $189, and slightly better models can be had (elsewhere) for $200.
Well, the scanner could check for body heat, although a microwave oven could be used to bypass that.
I'd imagine Railroad Tycoon III is also rather difficult to play without a multi-button mouse.
You really do need to get a new supplier They'll even sell the optical cable.
Salon was originally conceived as a website for discussing books. Gradually, they became more overtly political. Muckrakers and political columnists may been cheaper to hire than well known authors, and in any case, attracted a more loyal subscription base.
Salon used to feature some conservative writers-- but gradually, their subscription base started to get annoyed. "Why am I paying good money to be insulted by David Horowitz?" And so, Horowitz was replaced by a series of columns that did the dirty work of sifting through slimy, filthy conservative "intelligencia" to present links to representative rightist authors.
Let's see here:
log(64 gb)= log(1Gb)+log(64)=36 bits, so you're probably thinking of Intel's "Physical Address Extension" scheme, which allows programmers to mess around with 16 memory segments, each of 4 gb. 64 bit chips (such as the Athlon64, POWER, Sparc, and Alpha) can address large amounts of unsegmented memory-- the PowerPC 970, for instance, can address up to 4096 gigs of memory, as it has a 42 bit address bus.
On a PAE system, processes still can only address a certain amount of memory (3 GB, default), though you can configure your system to push the kernel out of the way and onto a different memory segment. This slows down syscalls, though.
China has a patent system. It's just that it's a patent system with Chinese characteristics For one thing, prior art isn't considered. If a Chinese company has the cash and the connections, they can copy a foreign invention and get a patent on it.
Seems that those Monty Python folks are really quite interested in film preservation and restoration. There's another documentary on the "Meaning of Life" that explains all the nitty gritty. Is it worth it? I say yes. Going from unrestored faded film to a pristine new master is just as dramatic as the shift from black and white to color film.
Yes, very early HD adoptors with analog-only inputs will have to get new sets- but all sets prior to about 2 years ago didnt support 720P as n input or display format, so they're likely going to do this anyhow.
So who's hurt here and what are we whining about?
People with a limited supply of cash?
Do note the fact that most LCDs on the market do not support HDCP. Nor do they support HDMI..
NTSC television looks quite coarse when blown up to 60 inches. HDTV doesn't. However, the switch over to ATSC is not an attempt to subsidize manufacturers of large screen television-- it's rather that the spectrum allocation is rather inefficient. Switching to ATSC and 8VSB will enable the FCC to sell off spectrum.
BTW, Over the Air ATSC is as clear, or clearer than cable. The channel selection isn't as great, however. Most channels don't know how to use multicasts:
"I know, we'll put an animation of a weather radar on our secondary subchannel!"
The bigger selling point is HDTV-- the picture quality is superior to DVDs.
No. The empty slot just a redundant part on a re-purposed motherboard. Does nobody remember the notorious "mezzanine" mystery header on the original iMac?
Sure. You could plug a Voodoo 2 card or a SCSI card into it. It was sweet-- at least until big bad Apple removed the slot from the Rev C's.