Nope - you will see 4k monitors when 4k TVs become commonplace. If there's anything the last decade has taught us, TVs are where the economies of scale are. Otherwise we would have fabulous 4:3 4096x3072 monitors instead of the shit-for-work 1920x1080 monitors we've been seeing in just about every size range.
I hope it's not the same engine that is used in iOS, because the decoding in the iDevices makes windows software decoding look like greased lightning. The only thing I fear more than opening a complex 200 sheet PDF on my desktop is having to open just one of those sheets on my iPad. At least on the desktop the machine can hold a sheet in memory. The iDevices have to redraw the entire page every time I pan. I even have two versions of all my bitmap/scanned sheet music - one for quality, and one that looks like it was faxed so that the page-turn time on my iPad is under 3 seconds and I don't end up missing 1-2 measures at every page turn.
Data is never unsuitable for hardware acceleration, merely non-optimized. If you can do it in software (which is currently is), you can do it in dedicated hardware. The software doesn't take advantage of the hardware because the calls are all poorly suited to the format. It's not as if PDF is some orphan container, or EPS is some long lost and rarely-used language.
If there is demand for an efficient call mechanism, there will be a better hardware system. Apple gets around decoding audio and video in software by simply forbidding anything that doesn't conform to the narrow codec range that they have chosen to hardware decode. And that's just fine for a limited-purpose toy, but not for a fully functioning general purpose machine.
Every government in the world spies on everyone else. You don't think Obama's Blackberry hasn't been the subject of at least a concerted wiretapping effort? Everyone seems so surprised that we have [scary music]spies working in our intelligence bureaus.
That and, lets face it, most nations don't have the cash to pick a winnable fight with the US and the one that does depends on us to buy all of the shit they make.
No, seriously. I have yet to find a graphics card that will accelerate 2D line or bitmapped drawings, such as are found in PDF containers. It isn't memory-bound, as you can easily throw enough RAM to hold the base file, and it shouldn't be buffer-bound. And yet it still takes seconds per page to render an architectural print on screen. That may seem trivial, but to render real-time thumbnails of a 200 page 30x42" set of drawings becomes non-trivial.
If you can render an entire screen in 30ms, why does it take 6000ms to render a simple bitmap at the same resolution?
(the answer is, of course, because almost nobody buys a card for 2D rendering speed - but that makes it no less frustrating)
List all the companies who can, in under a year, put together a $50-400M (take you pick at the number) software system to service, conservatively, 30 million people in a day and interface with legacy systems from multiple governmental agencies.
Cross off everyone on the list who isn't set up to do government contracting Cross off everyone on the list who can't meet HIPAA standards Cross off everyone who hasn't rolled out at least three systems of similar size and complexity in the past 5 years Cross off everyone who is headed by a foreign national
You're list is going to be very, very short. I'd have had you cross out those with past roll-out failures or problems, but that would have given you a blank piece of paper to start with.
This definitely rates the I word for Verizon's implementation of the feature - especially since, when I went over my quota of data with AT&T one night at 2am while I slept, both CS and TS said they couldn't give me even header data so I knew who/what was sucking my B/W dry. Too much or too little information, never the right amount.
You threw in this line:
the majority of innocent people get hassled
I think the word you're looking for is a very small minority, not majority. Verizon has nearly 100 million users of their network. Your sentence implies that more than 50 million people will be harassed or, at the least, inconvenienced in some non-trivial way by this. I would be rather surprised if the number actually made it passed 10,000, or 1 in 10,000 users. That's equivalent to changing phone carriers and having them assign you the SAME last four digits of your old phone number in the new exchange/area code. A pretty amazingly rare occurrence.
This isn't meant to defend Verizon's absolutely slipshod implementation of their system, just to point out that, for all the moaning and handwaving, the chance of this actually affecting you is diminishingly small.
You're about to strap yourself on top of a home-built rocket filled with 12T of LOX and Alcohol, and initiate it with homemade black powder. In the world of probabilities, I say go for it and screw the lawyer talk. Your chances of surviving to face the authorities are so small as to be laughable. And, in the unbelievable chance you actually fly high enough to violate an international treaty, there's a good chance you'll be so God-damned famous you won't care - and you'll end up a hero with a 7 figure movie deal. Or at least a 6 figure RedBull attempt at a full orbit.
You clearly haven't had to support non-technical users who accidentally switched to iOS7. Talk about fucked up and backwards (not to mention the Crayola enema it got).
Yes, but as soon as you cut down your source it no longer is converting, so if you are going to use the plant's CO2 in your favor, you must also include the loss of CO2 opportunity capture - all of the CO2 the plant DIDN'T capture if you'd let it run it's normal life course.
I thought the same thing. Unless you're pulling carbon out of the air and sequestering it, it's not negative. The amount of carbon burned or lost is probably negligible enough to call it "neutral" but it certainly isn't negative.
FWIW - this is similar to how amateur pyrotechnicians make certain types of charcoal for special firework effects. Most commercial charcoal isn't really speciated, so if you want willow charcoal, you have to make it yourself.
Every sale is a receipt transaction. Every receipt transaction pays a 3% tax.
Your capital gains in your retirement/savings account and your regular income get taxed at 3% instead of 10-15-20% or a marginal income rate. If you work for a living and invest as a long term play you pay very little taxes. You game the system and try and make money on the margins and through high volume and you face huge taxes.
Forget "income" - change toa gross receipts tax. It only requires a couple percent (well, maybe up to 4) to have a sustainable tax base. You pay your real estate agent 6% to sell your house, you pay most brokers 2-4%, you should probably kick in a couple percent for the government defending that investment with nuclear weapons.
No deductions, no exclusions. Whatever you receive, you pay 3% to the feds. My town happens to have a GRT for business and it's quite difficult to dodge. It makes HFT and short term, high volume trades a losing proposition. It effectively punishes any entity - person or corporation - which does not add value to a transaction. And that, imho, would be a good thing.
True, but it is the ONLY production vehicle with a range over 120miles. Actually, not only the only one now, but there aren't even any on the design boards which top 200 - at any price.
Yes, they have. It's also illegal, and if they get caught the evidence must be excluded from the court. Usually those cases are more about intimidation for political purposes, not day-to-day stuff. It happens in exceedingly rare cases. Here's an analogy: Do you have you had a child which had it's spinal cord formed outside of the vertibrae? It's rare like that. IT scares the living shit out of paranoid people, but 99.99999% of us will never run into it.
Indeed they are, which is why you probably shouldn't be discussing items of a sensitive nature - something you absolutely don't want anyone to know about - using regular digital communication. The idea that you should never put in writing what you wouldn't say out loud is as valid today as it was 300 years ago. If you quit believing the fallacy that electronic communication is perfectly private, you can go forward properly.
The OP asked how to avoid having items be the subject of subpoena. The answer is "what the fuck are you doing sending things you reasonably expect could be salient to a court case?" If you're doing something surrounding a court case, or you're doing something you know is illegal (even if you don't think it should be) - don't email/facebook/snapchat about it. Do it in person. It's worth noting that even a sealed letter is subject to subpoena, so - quit putting that shit in writing.
We used this. Offered cash, on the spot. Dealer said "sure, but I for the same price you can have 0% for 4 years." They were firm on the price. We took the 0%.
1) don't put yourself in a situation where someone wants a court order for something you have 2) ignoring 1, don't send incriminating evidence electronically 3) Ever 4) If you're stupid enough to ignore 1-3, pass one time, strong passwords in person, then encrypt your files locally and send them by any means you aren't supposed to be using based on 1-3, above. Then destroy your copy of the password and the entire computer you used to create, encrypt, or send the message.
Though, really, sticking with 1 and 2 is your best bet.
" Keep plugging away behind the scenes. Use the intelligence agencies to infiltrate terror groups and arrest them before they can strike. Keep it discreet, keep it quiet, and don't announce anything publicly until there's been an arrest."
Oh, and you were doing so well right up to this point. Despite all the saber rattling the US does, the underpinning of the entire country's response is, infact, intelligence. Up until Snowden, we did keep it all quiet and discreet. Thing is, nobody actually seems to be in favor of that anymore either.
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Nope - you will see 4k monitors when 4k TVs become commonplace. If there's anything the last decade has taught us, TVs are where the economies of scale are. Otherwise we would have fabulous 4:3 4096x3072 monitors instead of the shit-for-work 1920x1080 monitors we've been seeing in just about every size range.
150" sounds perfect for downstairs in the basement tv room.
Nuke it for orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I hope it's not the same engine that is used in iOS, because the decoding in the iDevices makes windows software decoding look like greased lightning. The only thing I fear more than opening a complex 200 sheet PDF on my desktop is having to open just one of those sheets on my iPad. At least on the desktop the machine can hold a sheet in memory. The iDevices have to redraw the entire page every time I pan. I even have two versions of all my bitmap/scanned sheet music - one for quality, and one that looks like it was faxed so that the page-turn time on my iPad is under 3 seconds and I don't end up missing 1-2 measures at every page turn.
Data is never unsuitable for hardware acceleration, merely non-optimized. If you can do it in software (which is currently is), you can do it in dedicated hardware. The software doesn't take advantage of the hardware because the calls are all poorly suited to the format. It's not as if PDF is some orphan container, or EPS is some long lost and rarely-used language.
If there is demand for an efficient call mechanism, there will be a better hardware system. Apple gets around decoding audio and video in software by simply forbidding anything that doesn't conform to the narrow codec range that they have chosen to hardware decode. And that's just fine for a limited-purpose toy, but not for a fully functioning general purpose machine.
Every government in the world spies on everyone else. You don't think Obama's Blackberry hasn't been the subject of at least a concerted wiretapping effort? Everyone seems so surprised that we have [scary music] spies working in our intelligence bureaus.
That and, lets face it, most nations don't have the cash to pick a winnable fight with the US and the one that does depends on us to buy all of the shit they make.
No, seriously. I have yet to find a graphics card that will accelerate 2D line or bitmapped drawings, such as are found in PDF containers. It isn't memory-bound, as you can easily throw enough RAM to hold the base file, and it shouldn't be buffer-bound. And yet it still takes seconds per page to render an architectural print on screen. That may seem trivial, but to render real-time thumbnails of a 200 page 30x42" set of drawings becomes non-trivial.
If you can render an entire screen in 30ms, why does it take 6000ms to render a simple bitmap at the same resolution?
(the answer is, of course, because almost nobody buys a card for 2D rendering speed - but that makes it no less frustrating)
List all the companies who can, in under a year, put together a $50-400M (take you pick at the number) software system to service, conservatively, 30 million people in a day and interface with legacy systems from multiple governmental agencies.
Cross off everyone on the list who isn't set up to do government contracting
Cross off everyone on the list who can't meet HIPAA standards
Cross off everyone who hasn't rolled out at least three systems of similar size and complexity in the past 5 years
Cross off everyone who is headed by a foreign national
You're list is going to be very, very short. I'd have had you cross out those with past roll-out failures or problems, but that would have given you a blank piece of paper to start with.
This definitely rates the I word for Verizon's implementation of the feature - especially since, when I went over my quota of data with AT&T one night at 2am while I slept, both CS and TS said they couldn't give me even header data so I knew who/what was sucking my B/W dry. Too much or too little information, never the right amount.
You threw in this line:
the majority of innocent people get hassled
I think the word you're looking for is a very small minority, not majority. Verizon has nearly 100 million users of their network. Your sentence implies that more than 50 million people will be harassed or, at the least, inconvenienced in some non-trivial way by this. I would be rather surprised if the number actually made it passed 10,000, or 1 in 10,000 users. That's equivalent to changing phone carriers and having them assign you the SAME last four digits of your old phone number in the new exchange/area code. A pretty amazingly rare occurrence.
This isn't meant to defend Verizon's absolutely slipshod implementation of their system, just to point out that, for all the moaning and handwaving, the chance of this actually affecting you is diminishingly small.
Are you kidding? The chances of this guy living through his attempt makes pink unicorns seem commonplace.
Lawyers? Fuck that.
You're about to strap yourself on top of a home-built rocket filled with 12T of LOX and Alcohol, and initiate it with homemade black powder. In the world of probabilities, I say go for it and screw the lawyer talk. Your chances of surviving to face the authorities are so small as to be laughable. And, in the unbelievable chance you actually fly high enough to violate an international treaty, there's a good chance you'll be so God-damned famous you won't care - and you'll end up a hero with a 7 figure movie deal. Or at least a 6 figure RedBull attempt at a full orbit.
If everyone in a car gets off at one stop...you probably should not enter unless you suffer from (or, in this case, are blessed by) anosmia.
You clearly haven't had to support non-technical users who accidentally switched to iOS7. Talk about fucked up and backwards (not to mention the Crayola enema it got).
Yes, but as soon as you cut down your source it no longer is converting, so if you are going to use the plant's CO2 in your favor, you must also include the loss of CO2 opportunity capture - all of the CO2 the plant DIDN'T capture if you'd let it run it's normal life course.
I thought the same thing. Unless you're pulling carbon out of the air and sequestering it, it's not negative. The amount of carbon burned or lost is probably negligible enough to call it "neutral" but it certainly isn't negative.
FWIW - this is similar to how amateur pyrotechnicians make certain types of charcoal for special firework effects. Most commercial charcoal isn't really speciated, so if you want willow charcoal, you have to make it yourself.
Every sale is a receipt transaction. Every receipt transaction pays a 3% tax.
Your capital gains in your retirement/savings account and your regular income get taxed at 3% instead of 10-15-20% or a marginal income rate. If you work for a living and invest as a long term play you pay very little taxes. You game the system and try and make money on the margins and through high volume and you face huge taxes.
Forget "income" - change toa gross receipts tax. It only requires a couple percent (well, maybe up to 4) to have a sustainable tax base. You pay your real estate agent 6% to sell your house, you pay most brokers 2-4%, you should probably kick in a couple percent for the government defending that investment with nuclear weapons.
No deductions, no exclusions. Whatever you receive, you pay 3% to the feds. My town happens to have a GRT for business and it's quite difficult to dodge. It makes HFT and short term, high volume trades a losing proposition. It effectively punishes any entity - person or corporation - which does not add value to a transaction. And that, imho, would be a good thing.
Now she's in a self driving car with drunk boys, and nobody has to keep there hands on the wheel?
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I say.
True, but it is the ONLY production vehicle with a range over 120miles. Actually, not only the only one now, but there aren't even any on the design boards which top 200 - at any price.
Yes, they have. It's also illegal, and if they get caught the evidence must be excluded from the court. Usually those cases are more about intimidation for political purposes, not day-to-day stuff. It happens in exceedingly rare cases. Here's an analogy: Do you have you had a child which had it's spinal cord formed outside of the vertibrae? It's rare like that. IT scares the living shit out of paranoid people, but 99.99999% of us will never run into it.
Indeed they are, which is why you probably shouldn't be discussing items of a sensitive nature - something you absolutely don't want anyone to know about - using regular digital communication. The idea that you should never put in writing what you wouldn't say out loud is as valid today as it was 300 years ago. If you quit believing the fallacy that electronic communication is perfectly private, you can go forward properly.
The OP asked how to avoid having items be the subject of subpoena. The answer is "what the fuck are you doing sending things you reasonably expect could be salient to a court case?" If you're doing something surrounding a court case, or you're doing something you know is illegal (even if you don't think it should be) - don't email/facebook/snapchat about it. Do it in person. It's worth noting that even a sealed letter is subject to subpoena, so - quit putting that shit in writing.
We used this. Offered cash, on the spot. Dealer said "sure, but I for the same price you can have 0% for 4 years." They were firm on the price. We took the 0%.
1) don't put yourself in a situation where someone wants a court order for something you have
2) ignoring 1, don't send incriminating evidence electronically
3) Ever
4) If you're stupid enough to ignore 1-3, pass one time, strong passwords in person, then encrypt your files locally and send them by any means you aren't supposed to be using based on 1-3, above. Then destroy your copy of the password and the entire computer you used to create, encrypt, or send the message.
Though, really, sticking with 1 and 2 is your best bet.
" Keep plugging away behind the scenes. Use the intelligence agencies to infiltrate terror groups and arrest them before they can strike. Keep it discreet, keep it quiet, and don't announce anything publicly until there's been an arrest."
Oh, and you were doing so well right up to this point. Despite all the saber rattling the US does, the underpinning of the entire country's response is, infact, intelligence. Up until Snowden, we did keep it all quiet and discreet. Thing is, nobody actually seems to be in favor of that anymore either.
Brains aren't illegal in the US. We simply find them unnecessary for day to day life, and often find they they are unnecessary for anything else.