I could be wrong, but by my understanding is that there's no such thing as a "true 40gb usb drive(s)" - the actual drives being made today either have (S/P)ATA, SCSI or FC as their interface/communication spec, and even the "true" usb drives are just simply IDE drives in a usb enclosure.
Of course, the units sold as USB drives are engineered for a specific drive to work with a specific enclosure so hopefully they'll avoid the issues you discuss through some other means (such as a proprietary driver that fixes it or something), but I am relatively certain that if you pop open any of the USB drives being sold (hence voiding your warranty) you'll find a regular old IDE drive inside, probably not even with a separate part number from the IDE drives sold bare.
Moderators, look at a map. I think the parent was trying to show how fscked up amtrak's network is - one has to go through LA to get from flagstaff to phoenix!?!?!
Actually, I have a more ridiculous case: according to Amtrak, if I want to go from Saint Louis to Minneapolis I have a nice eight-hour train ride through Chicago; but since the train travels in a loop and not a line, the return trip from Minneapolis to Saint Louis goes through... SEATTLE and takes seven days, and costs three thousand dollars. No wonder nobody outisde the northeast rail corridor rides trains...
You'll probably want to use a 66 block. Just attach the top set to the junction box, and punch as many lines as you have space for (often 24, so up to 23 lines). You can also use various jack schemes to produce a "patch panel", or you can use an actual patch panel, but it's simplest and cleanest to use a 66 block (or a 110 block, depending on your needs, but probably a 66 block), especially if you plan on making the connections semi-permanent and don't expect to change them frequently.
I think this is a great idea - a company with a deep and developed support network finally pushing an alternative desktop at the consumer market. As it is also cheaper than a windows license, it is likely to be at least somewhat popular.
Now of course the problem is that Sun's massive support network is currently aimed entirely at business, so it will take them some retooling to make it consumer-friendly. Let's hope they succeed - there hasn't been a big-company supported alternative to Windows on low-end computers since IBM's OS/2.
It has been surmised by some historians that James' aides, and not Guy Fawkes, planted the explosives only to have them found. The English people were pretty sceptical of a mostly-Catholic Scot ruling their country (remember that because of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France, the Scottish nobility was about 90% French as every Scottish king married a French princess for many generations, and the French princesses were all Catholic), and James I of England needed to prove that he was (1) not Catholic but rather C of E; and (2) primarily James I of England and only secondarily James VI of Scotland.
So anyway, some surmise that his advisers knew nothing would prove his non-Catholicism better than some Catholic zealot trying to kill him. Of course that was the result, that the C of E English largely accepted James I until his death as loyal both in terms of religion and nationality. Of course things went a little differently for his son (and grandson too)...
As a European historian, I've always found Stuart England and its brief reprieve during the Commonwealth to be the most fascinating part of English history. Perhaps it's because they were just so untrustworthy and untrusted...
Actually, I believe 555 numbers are not universally unused (though I'm reasonably sure 555-1234 is). If I remember correctly, only some specific 555 numbers are explicitly disallowed from being real phone numbers; I remember a story about some person getting dozens of calls because a small town somewhere in the USA was using a 555 prefix; a hollywood writer incorrectly assumed all 555 numbers were good and assigned a real person's number (albeit without area code so the damage was small).
I don't know for sure since IANATE (I am not a telco engineer), but I'm pretty sure that the 555 thing shouldn't kill your buzz.
Yes, this more refined statement I think rings true. Most significantly, you are touching on the fact that China is a traditional sending country and the US is a traditional receiving country. I have discovered in research that in fact the percentage of long-term immigrants who come to America and then leave again is actually much higher than commonly thought - in some decades this number can account for well over half of all immigration - but the fact still remains that our net migration is significantly positive, and China's net migration is significantly negative. And yes, that says something very significant about the two countries. Government-sanctioned murder ("execution") is also orders of magnitude higher in China than the US and this also skews numbers.
Finally, if you're talking about intra-continental migration when you refer to the "porous" border, then I agree with you. This is *not* true however if you're talking about migration on the whole - it is actually surprisingly hard for Asian or African asylees, refugees, or migrants to get into the US, either legally or illegally, and those who do come are statistically much less likely to have any legal run-ins (excepting minor visa issues) than the native population. Illegals from Mexico and Central America of course have a significantly higher likelihood of legal trouble, but even there it's not enormously higher than among the native-born population.
But yeah, at this point I think we've essentially found a middle ground on the issue - I basically agree with your final post.
Wow, we are so OT now it's painful. Karma to burn anyway, so let's proceed.
You are certainly correct that American citizens as a whole have a much better go of it than citizens of most other countries. I have no statistics on what percentage of our prison population are US citizens; if you have such information I would be interested.
However, I have three hangups at this point:
Regardless of the citizenship of the inmates, prison percentages have always been used as a strong indicator of the degree to which national laws are in tune with the beliefs and practices of that country's population. The large prison population indicates (though does not necessarily prove) that American laws are less in-touch with the belief structures of Americans than those of countries with lower prison populations by percentage. Of course large, heterogeneous countries like China, the old Soviet Union, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia all should be expected to have more trouble with this than (relatively) small and homogeneous countries such as France or Japan - there are less commonly-held beliefs, and hence keeping laws in touch with the population is very difficult.
The citizenship question is of little or no relevance here because (a) the Constitution says "We the People" not "We the Citizens"; (b) national discourse is defined not merely by those who hold citizenship but by all people who populate said nation; and (c) civil rights have been interpreted in the past 50 years to be closely tied with a concept of universal "human" rights. As such, it has been interpreted by court after court that civil rights must apply to all people within the US, not just those who can prove citizenship. This is also a fundamental part of the (quickly-passing) privilege that Americans do not have to carry papers on them to prove their citizenship. Ten years ago it was considered an absolute that we did not need documentation on our person; now this is changing, but in theory we are not supposed to have to prove citizenship for equal treatment.
Finally, I am always bothered by the "If you hate America then leave" mentality. This counters the very point of a Constitution that allows open discourse and debate. First, you will find that almost all Americans (citizen or not) who say they hate America mean by said statement that they hate the way laws are currently being interpreted, or they hate prevailing American cultural ideals, or they hate currently-elected officials. You will rarely find somebody who means by this that she hates the fundamental underpinnings of American Constitutional Democracy. Even if you do find such a person, she has the right to hold that view, as guaranteed by said Constitution. As soon as you limit the American discourse in any way then you've subverted the very point of why most Americans love America.
I suspect that if you look at those convicted of violent crimes (felony-1 and felony-2 convictions) you will find that asylees and refugees are extremely under-represented. However, you will probably also find that sentences to such people are longer than for natural-born (white) citizens. I do not have numbers to prove this but based on my own statistical research on other cultural trends when I was completing my PhD coursework, I am inclined to believe this.
By the way, I do appreciate the respectful debate.
Finally, and most importantly, you think I'm making some sort of grand statement when all I did was point out the fact that the US prison population is larger by percentage of total population than any other nation in the world
How do you know I'm not a lesbian immigrant asylee from Ethiopia who worked her way up thanks to hard work and scholarships, to graduate from college with massive amounts of debt but also with honors, to attend a graduate program at a Big Ten University? You know nothing of me, and my original post says nothing other than a fact, and yet you think you can tell condescend upon me with superior knowledge.
Don't take your cultural stereotypes and assume everybody fits into them.
Are you aware that the US now has a larger percentage of its population in jail than any other nation including China? China was the largest percentage for decades, but just in the last couple years the US pulled ahead. We're currently neck-and-neck with the Chinese in the race to jail the largest percentage of our populations. I guess that's one race we're winning with the Chinese...
More to the point, do you remember the Korean War? It had little to do with China until the United States refused to respect China's desire not to have a repeat of 1940.
Remember that in 1940 Japan, under the guise of being neutral to China, fought their way up the Korean peninsula all the while constantly telling the Chinese to relax because all they wanted was Korea. The Chinese told them to stop at the end of the peninsula, to leave a Korean buffer between peninsular Japan and mainland China, and the Japanese said they would honor this. When they had taken the whole peninsula, they kept coming, disavowing the Chinese desire for a buffer. Still the Chinese waited and did not defend themselves. Once all of Korea was taken, the Japanese rolled over the Chinese border, and for five long years China was held by the fascist military regime of Japan.
So you'll have to excuse China for defending themselves when, scarcely ten years later, the United States announced that they were going to "help" the South Koreans recapture Korea. The US said that they would stop at the 38th parallel, and China said it would not get involved as long as the 38th parallel was respected. But when the 38th parallel was reached, the American troops kept rolling in a fashion reminiscent to 1940. They kept moving, and they were quickly approaching the top of the peninsula. Again, China said that they would not intervene so long as the US did not enter the mainland, and the US agreed.
So when American troops reached the top of the peninsula and kept on rolling, pardon the Chinese for thinking this looked a bit too much like the last time it had been invaded. America broke its word twice, at the same points at which the Japanese had broken their word. McArthur was known for hating the communist Chinese, at one point seriously suggesting that the US should rain 60-80 atom bombs down on China to make sure we get them before they could hit us. The American military was much too greedy and found the North Koreans too easy a target. The generals were (in typical American fashion) completely ignorant (that's different from being unaware) of Chinese perceptions of American action. While I feel sorry for the poor American soldiers who died, I also think the US got what it had coming when China struck back. The Chinese see their involvement in the Korean War as purely defensive, and I think that's a fair interpretation.
So yes, I remember the Korean War, and I would love to see the Chinese reach the moon second and build a moon base first.
What really amuses me is the ads that look like system tools and report "Checking OS: Windows" etc. with the fake windows User interface against my Solaris CDE desktop. Needless to say, even my (l)users are amused instead of tricked.
I guess there's just too few of us running an alternate OS, but I would probably congratulate the first company who actually checks the user's OS and puts up an appropriate fake UI.
Of course that too can be spoofed - my Opera session reports itself as MSIE 5 in Windows, and my old Solaris version of IE reported itself as Mozilla 4 on Windows.
I was totally bummed- I had finished flowering before I saw it, and was all wilted and dead-looking.
If you had just finished flowering and were all wilted and dead-looking, no wonder you were bummed. What sort of one-night stand leads to a child who flowers?
Seriously though, that would be cool to see. Good luck with that computational ecology stuff.
Amorpho = amorphous = Lacking definite form or shapeless
phallus = phallus = male penis or female clitoris, or a representation of the penis illustrating generative power
Titanum = titan = of prodigious size, strength or achievement
So this flower is "scientifically" defined as an unusually huge and shapeless representation of the male penis. This is why men shouldn't name flowers...
Of course to be fair, that gigantic flower is after all the plant's sex organ, so perhaps the description is apt...
Yes, I expect I'll be buying an EDTV plasma screen soon as well - they're perfect for DVD viewing, and as long as they can downconvert 720p and 1080i signals to 480p, they'll be perfectly fine for HDTV (nearly perfect for 720p, a bit goofy for 1080i/540p).
I would disagree that same-size resolutions are inherently bad - at first it sounds kind of silly, but any good digital processor (which all the expensive screens have) can map the image such that having extra pixels won't hurt anything. Of course a 16:9 shaped screen that is 1280x1280 will look very strange for computer graphics if you actually utilize all those pixels, but 1280x640 would be beautiful on one of those screens (simple 2:1 mapping for the vertical lines) and 1280x768 should be very good (vertical 5:3 mapping).
Since TV resolutions are generally multiples of 160 (480i, 480p/960i, 720p) and computer resolutions are generally multiples of 128 (1280, 1024, 768, 640) the magic resolution numbers are those that are multiples of both: 640 and 1280. Since unlike CRTs plasma screens cannot resize their pixels, screens that can use simple multipliers to produce the correct resolution will always be superior to those that cannot. Hence 1280x1280, despite being a very odd resolution in itself, is the ideal native resolution because it is a direct multiple of all main computer resolutions and most TV resolutions.
Of course 1080i is the oddball, and I really wish HD broadcasters would have either chosen 480p/960i or 720p as their default instead of 1080i. Oh well...
Remember that the bargain $3.3K screens are just EDTV (852x480) whereas last year's (and this year's too for that matter) $5K screens are HDTV (1280x1280, 1280x1024, 1280x768, or 1080x853).
I am staring at one even as we speak. Yes, it's a nice screen, especially for the price. However, I have had extremely mixed results with its analog signal processing (both VGA and DVI-A). With some video cards it's excellent, but with others I have had vast amounts of ghosting. Its automatic adjustment is not very good, and it doesn't seem to keep manual adjustments very well if you're using a KVM.
Bottom line: since it's my boss's money, I love the 2000FP. If it were my money, I would only buy one if I had a DVI-D (or DVI-I) video card. In linux and windows it's a great screen, but in Solaris (no affordable DVI for the USII machines yet) it's got some suckage.
Hey, no problem. If you were to read my French, you'd probably come across drastically worse typos than that. Besides, perhaps for the French the idea that one could blow himself with his rocket is not as strange and hard to believe as for Americans...
God I wish I were in Bourdeaux or Marseilles or Paris right now...
I'm not sure why this AC was rated funny - I think her point is quite insightful. Why would somebody be willing to give Bill Gates money to explore space, if they're not willing to give him money right now when he's using his money for these very important projects?
Remember, Bill Gates has single-handedly donated more money to the UN AIDS research fund than the entire US government. And he's done so willingly, whereas the US government has done so grudgingly.
Of course, I give my money to a man in a penguin suit who probably does not donate his profits, so perhaps I shouldn't criticize others...
You seem to overestimate the length of Bill Gates' "rocket". Or perhaps the flexibility of Bill Gates' neck?
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Look for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in the Constitution. You won't find it. That's from the Declaration of Independence, which was an actual revolutionary document. In fact, look for human rights or civil rights in the original body of the Constitution, and you won't find it. That's all in the Bill of Rights and later amendments. The Constitution is simply a detailed and mundane plan for how to form a practical government.
Interestingly, our first attempt at forming a government, the Articles of Confederation, *was* a revolutionary document like the Declaration of Independence - it tried to overtly express ideas about human rights and philosophical notions of government. But it was a disaster, and so the Constitution was written more as a nuts-and-bolts approach of how to actually formulate a government.
But you're right, this discussion has no place in the context of poker. I teach US history to college freshmen; I'd rather talk about poker. What about "Card Counting for Meatheads?" A classic book on card counting.
I for one enjoyed Rounders, though I hate Ben Affleck, as it emphasises the huge difference between casual poker players, who think the game's about luck, and professionals, who know how to read other players' hands, calculate odds, keep track of cards, and bet such that they gain more than they lose, at least when they can bring social engineering into play.
It also points out however that even the greatest player can occasionally be beaten by dumb luck. Smart movie.
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I could be wrong, but by my understanding is that there's no such thing as a "true 40gb usb drive(s)" - the actual drives being made today either have (S/P)ATA, SCSI or FC as their interface/communication spec, and even the "true" usb drives are just simply IDE drives in a usb enclosure.
Of course, the units sold as USB drives are engineered for a specific drive to work with a specific enclosure so hopefully they'll avoid the issues you discuss through some other means (such as a proprietary driver that fixes it or something), but I am relatively certain that if you pop open any of the USB drives being sold (hence voiding your warranty) you'll find a regular old IDE drive inside, probably not even with a separate part number from the IDE drives sold bare.
Moderators, look at a map. I think the parent was trying to show how fscked up amtrak's network is - one has to go through LA to get from flagstaff to phoenix!?!?!
Actually, I have a more ridiculous case: according to Amtrak, if I want to go from Saint Louis to Minneapolis I have a nice eight-hour train ride through Chicago; but since the train travels in a loop and not a line, the return trip from Minneapolis to Saint Louis goes through... SEATTLE and takes seven days, and costs three thousand dollars. No wonder nobody outisde the northeast rail corridor rides trains...
You'll probably want to use a 66 block. Just attach the top set to the junction box, and punch as many lines as you have space for (often 24, so up to 23 lines). You can also use various jack schemes to produce a "patch panel", or you can use an actual patch panel, but it's simplest and cleanest to use a 66 block (or a 110 block, depending on your needs, but probably a 66 block), especially if you plan on making the connections semi-permanent and don't expect to change them frequently.
I think this is a great idea - a company with a deep and developed support network finally pushing an alternative desktop at the consumer market. As it is also cheaper than a windows license, it is likely to be at least somewhat popular.
Now of course the problem is that Sun's massive support network is currently aimed entirely at business, so it will take them some retooling to make it consumer-friendly. Let's hope they succeed - there hasn't been a big-company supported alternative to Windows on low-end computers since IBM's OS/2.
Too bad you couldn't have posted this in a more noticable spot - I almost pissed myself. Well played - I wish I had karma to give!
Yes, but *what* do you bet his fun?
Oh sorry, you meant "I bet you're fun at thanksgiving dinner."
I hate myself for being a grammar nazi...
It has been surmised by some historians that James' aides, and not Guy Fawkes, planted the explosives only to have them found. The English people were pretty sceptical of a mostly-Catholic Scot ruling their country (remember that because of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France, the Scottish nobility was about 90% French as every Scottish king married a French princess for many generations, and the French princesses were all Catholic), and James I of England needed to prove that he was (1) not Catholic but rather C of E; and (2) primarily James I of England and only secondarily James VI of Scotland.
So anyway, some surmise that his advisers knew nothing would prove his non-Catholicism better than some Catholic zealot trying to kill him. Of course that was the result, that the C of E English largely accepted James I until his death as loyal both in terms of religion and nationality. Of course things went a little differently for his son (and grandson too)...
As a European historian, I've always found Stuart England and its brief reprieve during the Commonwealth to be the most fascinating part of English history. Perhaps it's because they were just so untrustworthy and untrusted...
Actually, I believe 555 numbers are not universally unused (though I'm reasonably sure 555-1234 is). If I remember correctly, only some specific 555 numbers are explicitly disallowed from being real phone numbers; I remember a story about some person getting dozens of calls because a small town somewhere in the USA was using a 555 prefix; a hollywood writer incorrectly assumed all 555 numbers were good and assigned a real person's number (albeit without area code so the damage was small).
I don't know for sure since IANATE (I am not a telco engineer), but I'm pretty sure that the 555 thing shouldn't kill your buzz.
Yes, this more refined statement I think rings true. Most significantly, you are touching on the fact that China is a traditional sending country and the US is a traditional receiving country. I have discovered in research that in fact the percentage of long-term immigrants who come to America and then leave again is actually much higher than commonly thought - in some decades this number can account for well over half of all immigration - but the fact still remains that our net migration is significantly positive, and China's net migration is significantly negative. And yes, that says something very significant about the two countries. Government-sanctioned murder ("execution") is also orders of magnitude higher in China than the US and this also skews numbers.
Finally, if you're talking about intra-continental migration when you refer to the "porous" border, then I agree with you. This is *not* true however if you're talking about migration on the whole - it is actually surprisingly hard for Asian or African asylees, refugees, or migrants to get into the US, either legally or illegally, and those who do come are statistically much less likely to have any legal run-ins (excepting minor visa issues) than the native population. Illegals from Mexico and Central America of course have a significantly higher likelihood of legal trouble, but even there it's not enormously higher than among the native-born population.
But yeah, at this point I think we've essentially found a middle ground on the issue - I basically agree with your final post.
You are certainly correct that American citizens as a whole have a much better go of it than citizens of most other countries. I have no statistics on what percentage of our prison population are US citizens; if you have such information I would be interested.
However, I have three hangups at this point:
I suspect that if you look at those convicted of violent crimes (felony-1 and felony-2 convictions) you will find that asylees and refugees are extremely under-represented. However, you will probably also find that sentences to such people are longer than for natural-born (white) citizens. I do not have numbers to prove this but based on my own statistical research on other cultural trends when I was completing my PhD coursework, I am inclined to believe this.
By the way, I do appreciate the respectful debate.
Ummm...
Did you notice the date of that article? It's the APRIL FOOLS edition last year of Hello Magazine. I think you've been had.
How do you know I'm not a lesbian immigrant asylee from Ethiopia who worked her way up thanks to hard work and scholarships, to graduate from college with massive amounts of debt but also with honors, to attend a graduate program at a Big Ten University? You know nothing of me, and my original post says nothing other than a fact, and yet you think you can tell condescend upon me with superior knowledge.
Don't take your cultural stereotypes and assume everybody fits into them.
Are you aware that the US now has a larger percentage of its population in jail than any other nation including China? China was the largest percentage for decades, but just in the last couple years the US pulled ahead. We're currently neck-and-neck with the Chinese in the race to jail the largest percentage of our populations. I guess that's one race we're winning with the Chinese...
China has never attacked a Western nation
Do you remember the Korean War?
More to the point, do you remember the Korean War? It had little to do with China until the United States refused to respect China's desire not to have a repeat of 1940.
Remember that in 1940 Japan, under the guise of being neutral to China, fought their way up the Korean peninsula all the while constantly telling the Chinese to relax because all they wanted was Korea. The Chinese told them to stop at the end of the peninsula, to leave a Korean buffer between peninsular Japan and mainland China, and the Japanese said they would honor this. When they had taken the whole peninsula, they kept coming, disavowing the Chinese desire for a buffer. Still the Chinese waited and did not defend themselves. Once all of Korea was taken, the Japanese rolled over the Chinese border, and for five long years China was held by the fascist military regime of Japan.
So you'll have to excuse China for defending themselves when, scarcely ten years later, the United States announced that they were going to "help" the South Koreans recapture Korea. The US said that they would stop at the 38th parallel, and China said it would not get involved as long as the 38th parallel was respected. But when the 38th parallel was reached, the American troops kept rolling in a fashion reminiscent to 1940. They kept moving, and they were quickly approaching the top of the peninsula. Again, China said that they would not intervene so long as the US did not enter the mainland, and the US agreed.
So when American troops reached the top of the peninsula and kept on rolling, pardon the Chinese for thinking this looked a bit too much like the last time it had been invaded. America broke its word twice, at the same points at which the Japanese had broken their word. McArthur was known for hating the communist Chinese, at one point seriously suggesting that the US should rain 60-80 atom bombs down on China to make sure we get them before they could hit us. The American military was much too greedy and found the North Koreans too easy a target. The generals were (in typical American fashion) completely ignorant (that's different from being unaware) of Chinese perceptions of American action. While I feel sorry for the poor American soldiers who died, I also think the US got what it had coming when China struck back. The Chinese see their involvement in the Korean War as purely defensive, and I think that's a fair interpretation.
So yes, I remember the Korean War, and I would love to see the Chinese reach the moon second and build a moon base first.
What really amuses me is the ads that look like system tools and report "Checking OS: Windows" etc. with the fake windows User interface against my Solaris CDE desktop. Needless to say, even my (l)users are amused instead of tricked.
I guess there's just too few of us running an alternate OS, but I would probably congratulate the first company who actually checks the user's OS and puts up an appropriate fake UI.
Of course that too can be spoofed - my Opera session reports itself as MSIE 5 in Windows, and my old Solaris version of IE reported itself as Mozilla 4 on Windows.
I was totally bummed- I had finished flowering before I saw it, and was all wilted and dead-looking.
If you had just finished flowering and were all wilted and dead-looking, no wonder you were bummed. What sort of one-night stand leads to a child who flowers?
Seriously though, that would be cool to see. Good luck with that computational ecology stuff.
Going back to our Latin roots:
So this flower is "scientifically" defined as an unusually huge and shapeless representation of the male penis. This is why men shouldn't name flowers...
Of course to be fair, that gigantic flower is after all the plant's sex organ, so perhaps the description is apt...
Definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com
Yes, I expect I'll be buying an EDTV plasma screen soon as well - they're perfect for DVD viewing, and as long as they can downconvert 720p and 1080i signals to 480p, they'll be perfectly fine for HDTV (nearly perfect for 720p, a bit goofy for 1080i/540p).
I would disagree that same-size resolutions are inherently bad - at first it sounds kind of silly, but any good digital processor (which all the expensive screens have) can map the image such that having extra pixels won't hurt anything. Of course a 16:9 shaped screen that is 1280x1280 will look very strange for computer graphics if you actually utilize all those pixels, but 1280x640 would be beautiful on one of those screens (simple 2:1 mapping for the vertical lines) and 1280x768 should be very good (vertical 5:3 mapping).
Since TV resolutions are generally multiples of 160 (480i, 480p/960i, 720p) and computer resolutions are generally multiples of 128 (1280, 1024, 768, 640) the magic resolution numbers are those that are multiples of both: 640 and 1280. Since unlike CRTs plasma screens cannot resize their pixels, screens that can use simple multipliers to produce the correct resolution will always be superior to those that cannot. Hence 1280x1280, despite being a very odd resolution in itself, is the ideal native resolution because it is a direct multiple of all main computer resolutions and most TV resolutions.
Of course 1080i is the oddball, and I really wish HD broadcasters would have either chosen 480p/960i or 720p as their default instead of 1080i. Oh well...
However,
Remember that the bargain $3.3K screens are just EDTV (852x480) whereas last year's (and this year's too for that matter) $5K screens are HDTV (1280x1280, 1280x1024, 1280x768, or 1080x853).
I am staring at one even as we speak. Yes, it's a nice screen, especially for the price. However, I have had extremely mixed results with its analog signal processing (both VGA and DVI-A). With some video cards it's excellent, but with others I have had vast amounts of ghosting. Its automatic adjustment is not very good, and it doesn't seem to keep manual adjustments very well if you're using a KVM.
Bottom line: since it's my boss's money, I love the 2000FP. If it were my money, I would only buy one if I had a DVI-D (or DVI-I) video card. In linux and windows it's a great screen, but in Solaris (no affordable DVI for the USII machines yet) it's got some suckage.
1600x1200 is kickass on a flat screen.
Right on. They're so similar that I get them confused. Matt Damon does at least have a grain of talent though, whereas Ben Affleck does not.
Hey, no problem. If you were to read my French, you'd probably come across drastically worse typos than that. Besides, perhaps for the French the idea that one could blow himself with his rocket is not as strange and hard to believe as for Americans...
God I wish I were in Bourdeaux or Marseilles or Paris right now...
I'm not sure why this AC was rated funny - I think her point is quite insightful. Why would somebody be willing to give Bill Gates money to explore space, if they're not willing to give him money right now when he's using his money for these very important projects?
Remember, Bill Gates has single-handedly donated more money to the UN AIDS research fund than the entire US government. And he's done so willingly, whereas the US government has done so grudgingly.
Of course, I give my money to a man in a penguin suit who probably does not donate his profits, so perhaps I shouldn't criticize others...
So he could blow himself with his rocket
You seem to overestimate the length of Bill Gates' "rocket". Or perhaps the flexibility of Bill Gates' neck?
Look for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in the Constitution. You won't find it. That's from the Declaration of Independence, which was an actual revolutionary document. In fact, look for human rights or civil rights in the original body of the Constitution, and you won't find it. That's all in the Bill of Rights and later amendments. The Constitution is simply a detailed and mundane plan for how to form a practical government.
Interestingly, our first attempt at forming a government, the Articles of Confederation, *was* a revolutionary document like the Declaration of Independence - it tried to overtly express ideas about human rights and philosophical notions of government. But it was a disaster, and so the Constitution was written more as a nuts-and-bolts approach of how to actually formulate a government.
But you're right, this discussion has no place in the context of poker. I teach US history to college freshmen; I'd rather talk about poker. What about "Card Counting for Meatheads?" A classic book on card counting.
I for one enjoyed Rounders, though I hate Ben Affleck, as it emphasises the huge difference between casual poker players, who think the game's about luck, and professionals, who know how to read other players' hands, calculate odds, keep track of cards, and bet such that they gain more than they lose, at least when they can bring social engineering into play.
It also points out however that even the greatest player can occasionally be beaten by dumb luck. Smart movie.