And yes, I'm well aware that a typical dogma won't allow any but it's own system to have any validity.
You are correct in that that same dogma exists among atheist/agnostics also. My main problem is with the church and not with religion in general. The church (in various incarnations) has really sold a lot of people on a line of total BS, that isn't even consistant with the supposed underlying religions, and only supports political or monetary ends that the church supports.
If the Bible is valid on some off chance, then I can only think that many of the heads of organized religion will be the probably first judged, they seem to follow it the least, using it only as a tool for their own worldly ends.
BTW- You can just type without hitting enter and let your lines wrap, it marks you as a newbie when you hit enter after each line like that.
So to you, no classification of beliefs are wholly invalid? To argue that, you argue for a very personalized version of reality where no one is wrong, because reality doesn't exist, or rather, it's whatever you believe it to be. This goes against most of the basic parts of most western religions.
What part of my joke was telling you what to believe? I was just communicating my beliefs in a biting and hopefully clever way. Feel free to ignore them. Add me to your foes list and assign a -6 modifier for all I care.
It appears that it is you who have jumped to conclusions about me. I read the Bible, now and then. Some of it is interesting, insightful, but no more credible than any other collection of fairy tales.
People have been scrutinizing stories of alien landings at Roswell for quite a long time. Just because the "faithful" refuse to see logical counter arguments, doesn't make the fantasy more true.
but frankly i don't know how people are so stupid that they fall for internet scams or buy products through "special deals" *exclusively* for them and 20,000,000 other people.
Next Sunday, sit across the street from a church parking lot for your answer. Some people will believe anything.
Funny because I heard on NPR a couple days ago that "e-commerce was having a great year". I guess it all depends on who you ask, and if the person you ask had a bullshit business model to start with.
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That is a good question, since the huge discharge would cause a pretty powerful EMP. Military equipment is already hardened to such things though, so it likely wouldn't hurt it too much. Also remember that most of the equipment is inside the tank, which is a big faraday cage.
You are arguing this as if it is a commodity software product. You seem to forget that this is more like a device driver than commodity software. Without the Gilat modem and whatever runs on the server side, this is useless. They stand to lose nothing by providing a driver for hardware and a service that they control.
Yeah, and even if you think the BBC is stupid and would never watch it, you don't have a choice. This is socialism, plain and simple. Americans are so quick to give up freedom for a couple channels of fags running around thinking they are funny.
You are correct, but that does historically translate to price/performance, so the original poster had a somewhat valid point, even though he was incorrect otherwise.
Well I figured as much, but it still comes down to Starband irrationally protecting specs that could be released. I don't see that they would lose as much as they would gain from linux support.
vertical and horizontal resolution in the thousands, however this is unreasonable. Analog images are more detailed than that.
There is a limit, analong isn't infinite as you assert. If it were, you could take a picture and zoom in forever and keep seeing new detail.
I'm sure there are scientific ways to get a good measure of the resolution on the film, applying something like Nyquist principles to minimize data loss.
I don't think it would be too complicated either. Just take a picture that contains dots that get progressively smaller and are exectly measured. Other test partterns could be used like lines that get closer and closer together.
If you are using enough oversample, then it is possible to say, I have 99.999 percent of the data in that image, and be able to back it up scientifically.
The hundred pixels per mm or so is often cited for 35mm film. Analog imaging on a different media with different equipment might need more or less pixels per mm. There isn't one analog-digital magic number.
In the printing industry where I work, most stuff is printed with a 150 dpi line screen. Our digital images are at 300X300dpi. On our printing presses, due to ink spreading and things like that, much higher res isn't possible. The printed material still looks pretty good at that low res.
Anyway, my point is, you can't say analog is infinite... You almost seem like a luddite that is afraid of digital imaging.
I have discounted [... the] possibility of using mulitple cameras, high-end hardware I don't know about.
Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it won't eventually make you obselete.
You can't fault them for that, their value add is the recording facility
They wouldn't lose too much by releasing the recording facility, it seems the way it works is just capturing the encrypted data stream verbatim from the satellite signal.
I could understand them not wanting to open up the part that actually reads the smart card and decrypts the stream though, that could give the people that think satellite service should be free (cost) a big leg up.
Echostar/Starband still will not release client specs to allow Linux computers to directly connect to starband satellite modems with normal speeds.
You can connect the Linux box to the satellite modem, but it operates at around 64kbits up/down, with the windows client installed, it gets more like 768 down 64 up. Many people have requested the specs to write a driver for Linux, but they were told that the specs would not be given out to support the development of any sort of open source driver.
Don't get the idea that Echostar is Linux friendly. Starband proves that.
If it's anything like the DishPVR501, it copies the satellite data stream as-is, for completely lossless recording. This means that you would have the same trouble decrypting it as you would stealing satellite service normally.
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And yes, I'm well aware that a typical dogma won't allow any but it's own system to have any validity.
You are correct in that that same dogma exists among atheist/agnostics also. My main problem is with the church and not with religion in general. The church (in various incarnations) has really sold a lot of people on a line of total BS, that isn't even consistant with the supposed underlying religions, and only supports political or monetary ends that the church supports.
If the Bible is valid on some off chance, then I can only think that many of the heads of organized religion will be the probably first judged, they seem to follow it the least, using it only as a tool for their own worldly ends.
BTW- You can just type without hitting enter and let your lines wrap, it marks you as a newbie when you hit enter after each line like that.
So to you, no classification of beliefs are wholly invalid? To argue that, you argue for a very personalized version of reality where no one is wrong, because reality doesn't exist, or rather, it's whatever you believe it to be. This goes against most of the basic parts of most western religions.
What part of my joke was telling you what to believe? I was just communicating my beliefs in a biting and hopefully clever way. Feel free to ignore them. Add me to your foes list and assign a -6 modifier for all I care.
It appears that it is you who have jumped to conclusions about me. I read the Bible, now and then. Some of it is interesting, insightful, but no more credible than any other collection of fairy tales.
And people should listen to a guy named stinky wizzleteats instead? :)
Moore's law says nothing about frequency, only density of transistors.
Well, DOS is cleaner and faster. It's just much less capable. :)
People have been scrutinizing stories of alien landings at Roswell for quite a long time. Just because the "faithful" refuse to see logical counter arguments, doesn't make the fantasy more true.
it means that I don't need to change.
How does Slashdot look in Netscape 1.0? I always wondered that.
but frankly i don't know how people are so stupid that they fall for internet scams or buy products through "special deals" *exclusively* for them and 20,000,000 other people.
Next Sunday, sit across the street from a church parking lot for your answer. Some people will believe anything.
I've always looked at online spam as an opportunity
Welcome to my foes list.
Funny because I heard on NPR a couple days ago that "e-commerce was having a great year". I guess it all depends on who you ask, and if the person you ask had a bullshit business model to start with.
That is a good question, since the huge discharge would cause a pretty powerful EMP. Military equipment is already hardened to such things though, so it likely wouldn't hurt it too much. Also remember that most of the equipment is inside the tank, which is a big faraday cage.
You are arguing this as if it is a commodity software product. You seem to forget that this is more like a device driver than commodity software. Without the Gilat modem and whatever runs on the server side, this is useless. They stand to lose nothing by providing a driver for hardware and a service that they control.
Yeah, and even if you think the BBC is stupid and would never watch it, you don't have a choice. This is socialism, plain and simple. Americans are so quick to give up freedom for a couple channels of fags running around thinking they are funny.
Too bad you just described MP3.com. Doubly too bad the court ruled that was illegal.
You are correct, but that does historically translate to price/performance, so the original poster had a somewhat valid point, even though he was incorrect otherwise.
How do you get from "downward price pressure" to "higher cost to consumers"?
Well I figured as much, but it still comes down to Starband irrationally protecting specs that could be released. I don't see that they would lose as much as they would gain from linux support.
Wow you are in ironto... Do you know Michael Krawitz?
Echostar still sends me the bills for Starband, I don't think you can say they are competitors.
vertical and horizontal resolution in the thousands, however this is unreasonable. Analog images are more detailed than that.
There is a limit, analong isn't infinite as you assert. If it were, you could take a picture and zoom in forever and keep seeing new detail.
I'm sure there are scientific ways to get a good measure of the resolution on the film, applying something like Nyquist principles to minimize data loss.
I don't think it would be too complicated either. Just take a picture that contains dots that get progressively smaller and are exectly measured. Other test partterns could be used like lines that get closer and closer together.
If you are using enough oversample, then it is possible to say, I have 99.999 percent of the data in that image, and be able to back it up scientifically.
The hundred pixels per mm or so is often cited for 35mm film. Analog imaging on a different media with different equipment might need more or less pixels per mm. There isn't one analog-digital magic number.
In the printing industry where I work, most stuff is printed with a 150 dpi line screen. Our digital images are at 300X300dpi. On our printing presses, due to ink spreading and things like that, much higher res isn't possible. The printed material still looks pretty good at that low res.
Anyway, my point is, you can't say analog is infinite... You almost seem like a luddite that is afraid of digital imaging.
I have discounted [... the] possibility of using mulitple cameras, high-end hardware I don't know about.
Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it won't eventually make you obselete.
You can't fault them for that, their value add is the recording facility
They wouldn't lose too much by releasing the recording facility, it seems the way it works is just capturing the encrypted data stream verbatim from the satellite signal.
I could understand them not wanting to open up the part that actually reads the smart card and decrypts the stream though, that could give the people that think satellite service should be free (cost) a big leg up.
Echostar/Starband still will not release client specs to allow Linux computers to directly connect to starband satellite modems with normal speeds.
You can connect the Linux box to the satellite modem, but it operates at around 64kbits up/down, with the windows client installed, it gets more like 768 down 64 up. Many people have requested the specs to write a driver for Linux, but they were told that the specs would not be given out to support the development of any sort of open source driver.
Don't get the idea that Echostar is Linux friendly. Starband proves that.
If it's anything like the DishPVR501, it copies the satellite data stream as-is, for completely lossless recording. This means that you would have the same trouble decrypting it as you would stealing satellite service normally.