Oddly enough, that is how I start after I've been away for a while (often due to unusual work pressures or injury - @@#^%%$ P90X) - I swim, and alternate 50s of freestyle (usu to 80-90%) and breaststroke (about 70-75%) on the minute, taking breaks every 5 minutes until I drop below 60%, then another set.
Still, even when I'm in my best shape, I'm rarely doing more than 35-40 minutes total workout (prob ~30 minutes actual swimming, ~ 1 mile) 3X a week.
If a data company throttles any data plan, they may only advertise what the lowest capped rate is. Actual rates may be included in the contract between the subscriber and the utility.
If a data company limits total download capacity, even if it is a "soft" limit (TOS limit), the plan must be advertised with the cap noted at the same relevance as the speed of the connection.
If the connection has a minimum acceptable (or guaranteed minimum) speed for a given price point, only the minimum speed may be advertised. No advertising of temporary, limited, or "burst" speeds is allowable. Maximum or burst speed may be included in the in the contract between the subscriber and the utility, provided the minimum allowable speed is also provided.
Utilities may not advertise speeds in markets where such speeds are not available in at least 1/2 the landmass area. National advertising may only note the minimum speeds or availability available to all subscribers in the US.
Because what we need is not less invasive and less humiliating scanners, but additional people on the payroll so that all this useless technology can continue to have nearly zero impact on actual flight safety.
At 60 frames per second? I doubt it. My vision is (or was) corrected to my pre-glasses 20:15 and 20:10 level and I can tell you that it matters a huge amount on static images, such as PDFs (as mentioned above "books", though in my case it would be music), but is nearly indistinguishable in full motion video. Watching on an old iPhone 3gs and a newer iPhone4, a properly encoded video has very little additional detail, and a 15-20" ipad viewing length would be difficult to distinguish without a side by side comparison.
Licensed TV input and ATV2-type boxes that plug in with a single cable and make the TV a dumb-box. It's similar to the boomboxes/head units of today, but the ATV remote controls volume and power for both TV and ATV box, plus the menu/play/pause/directionals (for times when SiriTV isn't working).
Your cable, satellite, and OTA become mostly obsolete because Apple will contract with those companies to stream their content over IP, or more likely negotiate directly with content providers for a la carte (monthly or hourly) directly from the networks. Streaming through your iCloud subscription to "channels" on the ATV, plus rental and purchased content from iTunes. That way you can just "watch whats on" as a pre-determined stream, or pick and choose, even queuing up stuff from your other iDevices so the stream never ends. You might even get iTunes credits by watching and interacting appropriately with infomercial programs.
Access to content might even be through apps, though they could look like "channels" - I'm just hoping for apps so I can stream my existing colllection without a JB, though that's probably a pipe dream.
This would be a $50 option on your TV - you pay for the blessed iConnect protocol and take-over circuitry, Apple gets full control of the day-to-day operations and effectively locks you out of the other TV inputs unless you grab the old remote, and they rake in the cable fees plus their iTMS business.
If the content access were seamless, 720/60p would be sufficient for nearly everything. I say this because I have a stupidly large monitor (2560x1600), and 30, 50, and 125" TVs that are all 720p. Aside from the "wow" factor of the monitor, I'm not only pleased with 720 on the TVs, I find the picture quality is mostly limited by the source material. The best stuff is pure digital, and except for a very small percentage of content (very small things in quantity - like the birds in the Planet Earth series, or seeing individual people in stadium shots in sports) I have a hard time finding fault*.
I have switched all of our TVs (and the iPad and Touch) to a Plex server which serves up TV episodes and movies from our collection over (jailbroken) Apple TVs. While it could be better, it's pretty damned slick. If the ATV remote had volume and power, and I could get OTA over the Plex (possible, but I haven't tried it), it would be as close to nirvana as possible for the price/effort.
*I'm picky, and aside from the audiophile moments when I'm using material to "watch my gear," the experience is transparent. I do, however, have good sound, which makes more of a difference than the extra res.
But powder isn't prohibited. I'm not sure if aluminum would set off any of the alarms, but a pound baggie of aluminum and a pound baggie of potassium perchlorate (or, hell, chlorate - you're gonna die anyway, why be careful) would make a mess of part of a plane, likely more than enough to take it down since such a large quantity of flash powder has a reasonable chance of flame propagation that would reach detonation speed. A common lighter, or even flint and steel, or a small filament of nichrome and a 9v battery is more than enough to set it off.
Useless. For a screen size so small, HD doesn't really mean much. For static images, like reading higher definition documents, like manuals in PDF form, it IS a bonus. It's also nicer for map applications, as the screen will be sharper and be able to carry more detail.
For video, upping the resolution is just whipping it out to measure, because when it comes to motion video, sometimes more resolution is just more resolution.
I, for one, am thrilled that they're keeping the form factor, and practically elated that it's going to be closer in thickness to the iPad1.
I say maybe, because I stood ready to drop a grand on the iPad2 on launch day (including accessories), and decided not to pull the trigger and got the original, at about a $300 discount, a few days later. (okay, technically I got a 16GB Wifi for $300, realized that I needed mobile data to make it useful for work, and sold it on eBay for $350 so I could pick up a 64GB GSM version for $530, all of the course of about 3 weeks - but you get the point.)
The original is sluggish at times and using map applications is a bit underwhelming at 1024x768. And it turns out a camera would be useful in my line of work, too.
I guess it depends on what my old one is worth. For net $300, I'm all over the new one. For $500, it's going to have to have something special. Either way, I won't have to re-invest in any cases/holders/gear...unless they f-up the video out again. That will piss me off, mainly because it means I have to re-run the cable behind the dashboard. Maybe I'll pass again...
Actually - that may not matter what iTunes does. It appears that they are licensing the masters for redistribution by Apple. Apple is then selling permanent digital downloads (that, btw, has a specific meaning) - which makes them more akin to a CD sale. How Apple distributes the songs may be irrelevant to the case as the contract in dispute is about how the masters were licensed, or so it seems.
Oh, they're not providing the recording studio for free. All of the costs of recording and production - at full retail value - come out of the artists share of their contract proceeds before they start receiving any money. It's just that the studio is lending them the money so they aren't out of pocket for those costs up front.
This could go badly for the record companies on both fronts.
They are apparently licensing their content to iTunes - providing a master for duplication by a distributor - which could lead to them paying higher fees to the artists. At the same time, however, iTunes may be selling individual copies to their users, which may fall under first dale doctrine and allow resale of the "permanent digital downloads" - as is the case under consideration with reDigi.
The most interesting thing is that it's not marriage or middle class living that necessarily promotes caring about your kid's education. I see a great deal of apathy in affluent neighborhoods full of married families. Hell, I see a lot in middle class, married families with only one working parent. Sure, working at the poverty line, or being a single parent makes raising kids a bigger challenge - but they are still your kids, and you chose to bring them into this world. Learn some responsibility. That goes for all the stay-at-home parents who still can't find time to help their kids with homework every night. If you can't handle the commitment, don't have kids - you're fucking it up for those of us who actually care.
You want to know the best predictor of elem school success? You have to promise not to tell anyone, but it's parental involvement. Find a school where most of the parents are engaged with their kids, and regularly volunteer at the school, and you'll find a great learning environment. Everything else - money, test score changes over time, administration, etc. are really secondary. They get your kids for 5 hours a day 180 days a year, and you have them for 19 hours on those days and 24 on the other 185.
The biggest problem with elementary schools isn't money or bad teachers or inefficient administration - it's parents that don't give a shit.
Parts of copyright law already have this - mechanical licensing, for example. It's relatively straight forward and accessible. Oddly, syncronization rights are not compulsory, nor are master rights. They're not always easy, but it's a hell of a lot better than if they didn't exist.
Actually, you need a bit of training to use the on screen keyboards. I, too, was wedded to my HTC phones for their kbd, and had troubles at first with the iPhone because I didn't understand how they work. The capacitive screens see a potential rise which is centered around the contact point - like a big bump or hill - not a single x,y location. The OS (well, drivers) then reduce that potential field to the most likely point. I believe that for the keyboard, additional processing is done to predict what key you are more likely to hit based on the typing in order to increase your chance of a correct keystrike in a borderline case.
The key (ha!) is to press the key you want like you mean it. Don't try to finesse it or you'll probably end up with the potential field skewed one way or the other. Once you realize that you don't have to touch just the key you want, it gets much easier. It's basically the opposite of how you deal with a chicklet keyboard.
It works, mostly. M and backspace suck mightily, and there is occasionally confusion in the U-I-O recognition, but for the most part it's as good as a physical keyboard. The biggest beef I have is that there are no arrow keys.
It will never happen. I'm part of the illuminati, and we keep track of these things and orchestrate all of humanity to ensure that they fail.
Oh, and we're working on that global registry, though we've decided that we won't have the UN maintain it. I mean, we could, but we have much better organizations for that kind of thing.
Yeah, but so is getting a driver's license (giving up essentially all of you personal information to an organization who's data security is really, really bad) and talking on a phone or texting (every communication can be kept).
Is it dangerous? Yes, just like walking down the street, taking a shower, or eating food you haven't personally raised and prepared. At least someone is getting worked up over it for me so that I can go back to not giving a shit.
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Oddly enough, that is how I start after I've been away for a while (often due to unusual work pressures or injury - @@#^%%$ P90X) - I swim, and alternate 50s of freestyle (usu to 80-90%) and breaststroke (about 70-75%) on the minute, taking breaks every 5 minutes until I drop below 60%, then another set.
Still, even when I'm in my best shape, I'm rarely doing more than 35-40 minutes total workout (prob ~30 minutes actual swimming, ~ 1 mile) 3X a week.
If a data company throttles any data plan, they may only advertise what the lowest capped rate is. Actual rates may be included in the contract between the subscriber and the utility.
If a data company limits total download capacity, even if it is a "soft" limit (TOS limit), the plan must be advertised with the cap noted at the same relevance as the speed of the connection.
If the connection has a minimum acceptable (or guaranteed minimum) speed for a given price point, only the minimum speed may be advertised. No advertising of temporary, limited, or "burst" speeds is allowable. Maximum or burst speed may be included in the in the contract between the subscriber and the utility, provided the minimum allowable speed is also provided.
Utilities may not advertise speeds in markets where such speeds are not available in at least 1/2 the landmass area. National advertising may only note the minimum speeds or availability available to all subscribers in the US.
Quit giving shit to people who really don't deserve it.
What other cost and time efficient way would you suggest to get from Washington DC to Los Angeles, or from Montreal to Miami?
Because what we need is not less invasive and less humiliating scanners, but additional people on the payroll so that all this useless technology can continue to have nearly zero impact on actual flight safety.
At 60 frames per second? I doubt it. My vision is (or was) corrected to my pre-glasses 20:15 and 20:10 level and I can tell you that it matters a huge amount on static images, such as PDFs (as mentioned above "books", though in my case it would be music), but is nearly indistinguishable in full motion video. Watching on an old iPhone 3gs and a newer iPhone4, a properly encoded video has very little additional detail, and a 15-20" ipad viewing length would be difficult to distinguish without a side by side comparison.
(note: this won't happen, but I like to dream)
Licensed TV input and ATV2-type boxes that plug in with a single cable and make the TV a dumb-box. It's similar to the boomboxes/head units of today, but the ATV remote controls volume and power for both TV and ATV box, plus the menu/play/pause/directionals (for times when SiriTV isn't working).
Your cable, satellite, and OTA become mostly obsolete because Apple will contract with those companies to stream their content over IP, or more likely negotiate directly with content providers for a la carte (monthly or hourly) directly from the networks. Streaming through your iCloud subscription to "channels" on the ATV, plus rental and purchased content from iTunes. That way you can just "watch whats on" as a pre-determined stream, or pick and choose, even queuing up stuff from your other iDevices so the stream never ends. You might even get iTunes credits by watching and interacting appropriately with infomercial programs.
Access to content might even be through apps, though they could look like "channels" - I'm just hoping for apps so I can stream my existing colllection without a JB, though that's probably a pipe dream.
This would be a $50 option on your TV - you pay for the blessed iConnect protocol and take-over circuitry, Apple gets full control of the day-to-day operations and effectively locks you out of the other TV inputs unless you grab the old remote, and they rake in the cable fees plus their iTMS business.
If the content access were seamless, 720/60p would be sufficient for nearly everything. I say this because I have a stupidly large monitor (2560x1600), and 30, 50, and 125" TVs that are all 720p. Aside from the "wow" factor of the monitor, I'm not only pleased with 720 on the TVs, I find the picture quality is mostly limited by the source material. The best stuff is pure digital, and except for a very small percentage of content (very small things in quantity - like the birds in the Planet Earth series, or seeing individual people in stadium shots in sports) I have a hard time finding fault*.
I have switched all of our TVs (and the iPad and Touch) to a Plex server which serves up TV episodes and movies from our collection over (jailbroken) Apple TVs. While it could be better, it's pretty damned slick. If the ATV remote had volume and power, and I could get OTA over the Plex (possible, but I haven't tried it), it would be as close to nirvana as possible for the price/effort.
*I'm picky, and aside from the audiophile moments when I'm using material to "watch my gear," the experience is transparent. I do, however, have good sound, which makes more of a difference than the extra res.
But powder isn't prohibited. I'm not sure if aluminum would set off any of the alarms, but a pound baggie of aluminum and a pound baggie of potassium perchlorate (or, hell, chlorate - you're gonna die anyway, why be careful) would make a mess of part of a plane, likely more than enough to take it down since such a large quantity of flash powder has a reasonable chance of flame propagation that would reach detonation speed. A common lighter, or even flint and steel, or a small filament of nichrome and a 9v battery is more than enough to set it off.
Useless. For a screen size so small, HD doesn't really mean much. For static images, like reading higher definition documents, like manuals in PDF form, it IS a bonus. It's also nicer for map applications, as the screen will be sharper and be able to carry more detail.
For video, upping the resolution is just whipping it out to measure, because when it comes to motion video, sometimes more resolution is just more resolution.
I, for one, am thrilled that they're keeping the form factor, and practically elated that it's going to be closer in thickness to the iPad1.
I say maybe, because I stood ready to drop a grand on the iPad2 on launch day (including accessories), and decided not to pull the trigger and got the original, at about a $300 discount, a few days later. (okay, technically I got a 16GB Wifi for $300, realized that I needed mobile data to make it useful for work, and sold it on eBay for $350 so I could pick up a 64GB GSM version for $530, all of the course of about 3 weeks - but you get the point.)
The original is sluggish at times and using map applications is a bit underwhelming at 1024x768. And it turns out a camera would be useful in my line of work, too.
I guess it depends on what my old one is worth. For net $300, I'm all over the new one. For $500, it's going to have to have something special. Either way, I won't have to re-invest in any cases/holders/gear...unless they f-up the video out again. That will piss me off, mainly because it means I have to re-run the cable behind the dashboard. Maybe I'll pass again...
You need a bigger desktop.
(I'm typing on my 4960x1600 desktop, so I'm safe for at least one more iTeration)
Actually - that may not matter what iTunes does. It appears that they are licensing the masters for redistribution by Apple. Apple is then selling permanent digital downloads (that, btw, has a specific meaning) - which makes them more akin to a CD sale. How Apple distributes the songs may be irrelevant to the case as the contract in dispute is about how the masters were licensed, or so it seems.
Oh, they're not providing the recording studio for free. All of the costs of recording and production - at full retail value - come out of the artists share of their contract proceeds before they start receiving any money. It's just that the studio is lending them the money so they aren't out of pocket for those costs up front.
This could go badly for the record companies on both fronts.
They are apparently licensing their content to iTunes - providing a master for duplication by a distributor - which could lead to them paying higher fees to the artists. At the same time, however, iTunes may be selling individual copies to their users, which may fall under first dale doctrine and allow resale of the "permanent digital downloads" - as is the case under consideration with reDigi.
I was going to suggest replacing their oxidizer with a barium based compound. It's how the amateurs do it.
The most interesting thing is that it's not marriage or middle class living that necessarily promotes caring about your kid's education. I see a great deal of apathy in affluent neighborhoods full of married families. Hell, I see a lot in middle class, married families with only one working parent. Sure, working at the poverty line, or being a single parent makes raising kids a bigger challenge - but they are still your kids, and you chose to bring them into this world. Learn some responsibility. That goes for all the stay-at-home parents who still can't find time to help their kids with homework every night. If you can't handle the commitment, don't have kids - you're fucking it up for those of us who actually care.
The rare case for a +6 insightful comment.
You want to know the best predictor of elem school success? You have to promise not to tell anyone, but it's parental involvement. Find a school where most of the parents are engaged with their kids, and regularly volunteer at the school, and you'll find a great learning environment. Everything else - money, test score changes over time, administration, etc. are really secondary. They get your kids for 5 hours a day 180 days a year, and you have them for 19 hours on those days and 24 on the other 185.
The biggest problem with elementary schools isn't money or bad teachers or inefficient administration - it's parents that don't give a shit.
Or you're not flying that many people. Only about 520 people have gone into space, worldwide.
Parts of copyright law already have this - mechanical licensing, for example. It's relatively straight forward and accessible. Oddly, syncronization rights are not compulsory, nor are master rights. They're not always easy, but it's a hell of a lot better than if they didn't exist.
Actually, you need a bit of training to use the on screen keyboards. I, too, was wedded to my HTC phones for their kbd, and had troubles at first with the iPhone because I didn't understand how they work. The capacitive screens see a potential rise which is centered around the contact point - like a big bump or hill - not a single x,y location. The OS (well, drivers) then reduce that potential field to the most likely point. I believe that for the keyboard, additional processing is done to predict what key you are more likely to hit based on the typing in order to increase your chance of a correct keystrike in a borderline case.
The key (ha!) is to press the key you want like you mean it. Don't try to finesse it or you'll probably end up with the potential field skewed one way or the other. Once you realize that you don't have to touch just the key you want, it gets much easier. It's basically the opposite of how you deal with a chicklet keyboard.
It works, mostly. M and backspace suck mightily, and there is occasionally confusion in the U-I-O recognition, but for the most part it's as good as a physical keyboard. The biggest beef I have is that there are no arrow keys.
It will never happen. I'm part of the illuminati, and we keep track of these things and orchestrate all of humanity to ensure that they fail.
Oh, and we're working on that global registry, though we've decided that we won't have the UN maintain it. I mean, we could, but we have much better organizations for that kind of thing.
Yeah, but so is getting a driver's license (giving up essentially all of you personal information to an organization who's data security is really, really bad) and talking on a phone or texting (every communication can be kept).
Is it dangerous? Yes, just like walking down the street, taking a shower, or eating food you haven't personally raised and prepared. At least someone is getting worked up over it for me so that I can go back to not giving a shit.
Google might very well join them soon
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