Canon's printers are fantastic - the ink is cheaper, and the printers are more reliable than the crap from HP. True story: I bought one of HP's top of the line multifunction printers. It was nice, but I could not send a fax. Receiving a fax is trickier, but sending a fax should be straightforward. Besides, the old fax I had was able to send a fax with no problem. So I exchanged the HP, and the replacement didn't work either. I bought a refurbished canon for less than half the cost, and it was a workhorse. I can buy a 4 pack of Canon ink cartridges at Costco for $42. You probably will spend that much on one HP cartridge.
And you also neatly avoided responding to the statemenet that numerous dictators that the US supported have killed a large number of innocents. But collateral damage is collateral damage, huh?
Face it, land mines are not civilized - they are not weapons that Americans should be using, much less proud of using them.
I don't want to come off as mean, because you have some interesting interpretations here, but if you formated the post into the more common paragraph/sentence structure it would be much easier to parse. And your shift key obviously works, but you missed capitalizing every sentance. Also, the extra spaces break the flow more than you may have realized. And finally, a few citations would strengthen your position.
ARG!!! - I can't believe I'm getting into this stupid thread...
I just have one point: You can't rely on those kind of reports as an acceptable version of english - words are often used to obscure rather then inform. So, you will see words shackled into tortured arrangements that strongly imply one thing while actually meaning another.
That is why words such as 'tasked' and 'realignment' become so popular.
Then again, the way normal people use the language - double negatives, 'got' instead of 'had'...
There are a few ways the Scooba could be improved. First, when it is cleaning a large area, it may run out of cleaning solution or its dirty water tank is full. When that happens, it stops and beeps for attention. It should be able to go to a programmed location, so that you don't have to walk across a wet floor to service it. Also, it is a bit loud. And expensive. But, I am definitely happy I bought it. So far, it seems pretty happy mopping the floor, and has shown no tendancy to find Sarah Conner.
You know, I saw this written somewhere, and it struck me as appropriate: Facism is when the efficiency of the government is more imporant than the rights of citizens.
You hinted at this, but didn't explicitly state: as you increase the number of samples, you lower the SNR of the output, due to increasing numbers of rounding errors in the calculation. So, while you may be ok with 16bit fracints for a small sample set, as you increase the number of samples, you will eventually find that your noise floor obscures your results.
their software, why the hell can't the decide what they release it for?
Well, this may surprise you, but the majority of new PC games can play on XP, and 2K; even 98 is commonly supported. Heck, even ME (for the 7 gamers that play on ME).
So, while it may be only slightly easier to develop Vista only, the difference to support all of the other Win OSs is not that much more significant (I'm not a game developer, so I could be off base on this...).
Of course, with Battlefield 2 and CS, who really needs Halo on their PC anyway?
Well, let's see if Intel really delivers. Intel has a long history of great promise and failure to deliver. Remember how they were going to dominate graphics? Or how about how wonderful Itanium was going to be? Remember the 1.12GHz P3? I am going to wait and see - if the Conroe really is the next champ, it will be. Intel has to prove itself - the days of Intel simply decreeing each CPU change is over. AMD has delivered what it has promised for the past 5 years. If this makes me a fanboy, well, it's because AMD has earned it in my mind. Intel has to do more than simply announce the next flavor of the month to get my attention.
That's my view - I think they should use this only in conjunction with one of the few other effective antibiotics. When you use two, then it is much harder for bacteria to develop an immunity to it.
You know, I think that a significantly more secure machine could have been made using an XBox! It's absolutely a frightening indication of our priorities when the security of games is more important than the security of elections.
If Google did offer home broadband service, I would be on it in a heartbeat. Screw neo-AT&T and Comcast. Yeah - it would be neat if Google expanded that way. But I think that Google is too busy already. Having MS as an enemy tends to require a lot of focus, you know.
Why do spammers send email? To make money, pure and simple. The fact that they are trying to retaliate indicates that this is hurting their bottom line. I'm pretty sure that the spammers would rather be spamming, since that is the only way they make money. Any activity that is not spamming is a a money-losing process for them. Economics is the only way to hurt them, and Bluefrog is increasing their cost of business.
Let's go through the definition of the acronym WMD: Weapons of Mass Destruction. With the possible exception of the word 'of', what was found in Iraq did not fit any of the words in the acronym: Weapon: What was found were usable as weapons. They could not kill a person when they were used- this is a verified fact. Therefore, they were not weapons. Mass: in this usage, as an adjective, meaning to increase Destuction: The amount found could not cause any destruction, particularly not on any massive scale.
So, a useless amount of nerve gas was found. Useless. An ineffective amount. Insufficent quantities to serve ANY purpose. Not enough to incapacitate a single person.
You must be a lawyer, since your threshold is absurd. Let's use your approach for other situations: Someone alleges that the local gas station has poisoned the groundwater with MTBE. After investigation, the levels are found to be 0.001ppb. The person then asserts that his claims were justified, since MTBE was found, even though those hippies at the EPA say that levels below 20ppb are unlikely to cause any health risks.
Your explaination that all the WMDs went to Syria is about as credible as the pre-war assertions that Saddam was planning to attack us with WMDs, and is probably based on the same disproven sources.
But hey, it's all about bringing freedom to Iraq, anyway, right?
And there were ties between Rumsfeld and Saddam. For every link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda you find, I can find another that links Bush to a terrorist too. As for WMD, please show at least 0.01% of the quantities alleged prior to invasion. You can find nerve gas at my house too (in the can of Raid that I use on the ants), but that doesn't mean that I am planning a terrorist attack on the subway.
No, the digital circuitry does not run at the PLL frequency in a cell phone. The stable reference frequency from the crystal is upconverted to what is called the LO - this LO is mixed in with received signal from the antennea to downconvert the signal to a lower frequency. No digital processing occurs at 1.8GHz/1.9GHz on a cell phone - it is all much lower in frequency. That also goes for Bluetooth and WiFi.
The article is really short on details. The real power hog in a cell phone is the transmitter - it will draw 3Amps of current - while the rest of the receiver and up-conversion components are maybe 10% of that. And transmitters are already quite efficient - generally, ~50% of the input DC power winds up going out as RF power.
The lower power version of the PLL will be useful, since it needs to run constantly, even while not actively in a call.
This gets a bit messy because they certainly weren't always a monoply, so basically thier (and many other companies) standard procedures were just fine one day, but illegal the next day because someone decided they were offically a monopoly as of that date. The problem isn't just the behavior that they always exhibited, it's the behavior MS exhibited when it realized that it had the power to dominate the market. And as each domination begat (it's cool to be able to use that word!) more power, MS continued to use its power to dominate even more.
As for how should MS have known when it was abusing a monopoly? That is why they have corporate counsel - one critical responsibility is to ensure that the company is not breaking any laws. While there is always a fuzzy area to the law, and things may or may not be legal, MS knew it was a monopoly. It knew because of what it was able to do.
MS is simply not being very nice to competitors sometimes... There are limits to what companies can do - for example, dumping is illegal. And MS has been proven to use illegal methods to compete.
I completely disagree with the statement that every change we make is consistant with Nature. Any other species is intrinsically held in check by other natural forces. We are now the most significant evolutionary force on the planet. It is an absolute fact we are pretty much bad for 90+% of the species on this planet. No other species comes even close to to what we can do. That, combined with our past history of large scale mistakes, means that maybe we should perform at least a bit of analysis on the effects of our actions.
Maybe you don't think it matters if we wipe ourselves out - but I do. Your lack of understanding of the value of life pretty much marks you as a dumbass.
What a load of BS. I fail to see anything natural about a major city, or a car, or an oil spill, or a computer....
There is no effective check on our actions. Everything natural has an intrinsic balance to it - too many foxes eat too many rabbits, which cause many foxes to starve to death, which results in a lot of rabbits surviving, which means more foxes are born... that is nature.
The only constraint that nature provides is that there is a finite amount of resources available on this planet.
As for global warming, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that global warming is due to our activities.
My solution? It's crazy, but about 10000tons of mylar could block 1% of the sunlight reaching the earth's surface, allowing it to cool a bit.
I don't think you are correct when you talk about different grades of silicon. For the most part, the magic is in the processing to the silicon wafer. They all start off pretty damn pure. Things that matter are the orientation of the crystal, and the actual size of the wafer. But I don't work in a Fab, so I could be off base.
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Canon's printers are fantastic - the ink is cheaper, and the printers are more reliable than the crap from HP. True story: I bought one of HP's top of the line multifunction printers. It was nice, but I could not send a fax. Receiving a fax is trickier, but sending a fax should be straightforward. Besides, the old fax I had was able to send a fax with no problem. So I exchanged the HP, and the replacement didn't work either. I bought a refurbished canon for less than half the cost, and it was a workhorse. I can buy a 4 pack of Canon ink cartridges at Costco for $42. You probably will spend that much on one HP cartridge.
And land mines stopped them, huh?
And you also neatly avoided responding to the statemenet that numerous dictators that the US supported have killed a large number of innocents. But collateral damage is collateral damage, huh?
Face it, land mines are not civilized - they are not weapons that Americans should be using, much less proud of using them.
I don't want to come off as mean, because you have some interesting interpretations here, but if you formated the post into the more common paragraph/sentence structure it would be much easier to parse. And your shift key obviously works, but you missed capitalizing every sentance. Also, the extra spaces break the flow more than you may have realized. And finally, a few citations would strengthen your position.
But hey, it's easy to be a critic...
ARG!!! - I can't believe I'm getting into this stupid thread...
I just have one point: You can't rely on those kind of reports as an
acceptable version of english - words are often used to obscure rather
then inform. So, you will see words shackled into tortured arrangements
that strongly imply one thing while actually meaning another.
That is why words such as 'tasked' and 'realignment' become so popular.
Then again, the way normal people use the language - double negatives, 'got'
instead of 'had'...
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There are a few ways the Scooba could be improved. First, when it is cleaning a large area, it may run out of cleaning solution or its dirty water tank is full. When that happens, it stops and beeps for attention. It should be able to go to a programmed location, so that you don't have to walk across a wet floor to service it. Also, it is a bit loud. And expensive. But, I am definitely happy I bought it. So far, it seems pretty happy mopping the floor, and has shown no tendancy to find Sarah Conner.
You know, I saw this written somewhere, and it struck me as appropriate:
Facism is when the efficiency of the government is more imporant than the rights of citizens.
You hinted at this, but didn't explicitly state: as you increase the number of samples, you lower the SNR of the output, due to increasing numbers of rounding errors in the calculation. So, while you may be ok with 16bit fracints for a small sample set, as you increase the number of samples, you will eventually find that your noise floor obscures your results.
I'm afraid we have to revoke your Geek membership... knowing how to hook up a composite video input for a TV isn't quite enough.
their software, why the hell can't the decide what they release it for?
Well, this may surprise you, but the majority of new PC games can play on XP, and 2K; even 98 is commonly supported. Heck, even ME (for the 7 gamers that play on ME).
So, while it may be only slightly easier to develop Vista only, the difference to support all of the other Win OSs is not that much more significant (I'm not a game developer, so I could be off base on this...).
Of course, with Battlefield 2 and CS, who really needs Halo on their PC anyway?
Well, let's see if Intel really delivers. Intel has a long history of great promise and failure to deliver. Remember how they were going to dominate graphics? Or how about how wonderful Itanium was going to be? Remember the 1.12GHz P3? I am going to wait and see - if the Conroe really is the next champ, it will be. Intel has to prove itself - the days of Intel simply decreeing each CPU change is over. AMD has delivered what it has promised for the past 5 years. If this makes me a fanboy, well, it's because AMD has earned it in my mind. Intel has to do more than simply announce the next flavor of the month to get my attention.
That's my view - I think they should use this only in conjunction with one of the few other effective antibiotics. When you use two, then it is much harder for bacteria to develop an immunity to it.
Your comment is true. However, what's next? Every governement expansion in authority is followed by a subsequent one.
You know, I think that a significantly more secure machine could have been made using an XBox! It's absolutely a frightening indication of our priorities when the security of games is more important than the security of elections.
If Google did offer home broadband service, I would be on it in a heartbeat. Screw neo-AT&T and Comcast. Yeah - it would be neat if Google expanded that way. But I think that Google is too busy already. Having MS as an enemy tends to require a lot of focus, you know.
Why do spammers send email? To make money, pure and simple. The fact that they are trying to retaliate indicates that this is hurting their bottom line. I'm pretty sure that the spammers would rather be spamming, since that is the only way they make money. Any activity that is not spamming is a a money-losing process for them. Economics is the only way to hurt them, and Bluefrog is increasing their cost of business.
I think you should be able to deducte the cost of the computer and the internet connection too.
Let's go through the definition of the acronym WMD: Weapons of Mass Destruction. With the possible exception of the word 'of', what was found in Iraq did not fit any of the words in the acronym:
Weapon: What was found were usable as weapons. They could not kill a person when they were used- this is a verified fact. Therefore, they were not weapons.
Mass: in this usage, as an adjective, meaning to increase
Destuction: The amount found could not cause any destruction, particularly not on any massive scale.
Therefore, NO WMDs were found.
So, a useless amount of nerve gas was found. Useless. An ineffective amount. Insufficent quantities to serve ANY purpose. Not enough to incapacitate a single person.
You must be a lawyer, since your threshold is absurd. Let's use your approach for other situations: Someone alleges that the local gas station has poisoned the groundwater with MTBE. After investigation, the levels are found to be 0.001ppb. The person then asserts that his claims were justified, since MTBE was found, even though those hippies at the EPA say that levels below 20ppb are unlikely to cause any health risks.
Your explaination that all the WMDs went to Syria is about as credible as the pre-war assertions that Saddam was planning to attack us with WMDs, and is probably based on the same disproven sources.
But hey, it's all about bringing freedom to Iraq, anyway, right?
And there were ties between Rumsfeld and Saddam. For every link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda you find, I can find another that links Bush to a terrorist too.
As for WMD, please show at least 0.01% of the quantities alleged prior to invasion. You can find nerve gas at my house too (in the can of Raid that I use on the ants), but that doesn't mean that I am planning a terrorist attack on the subway.
No, the digital circuitry does not run at the PLL frequency in a cell phone. The stable reference frequency from the crystal is upconverted to what is called the LO - this LO is mixed in with received signal from the antennea to downconvert the signal to a lower frequency. No digital processing occurs at 1.8GHz/1.9GHz on a cell phone - it is all much lower in frequency. That also goes for Bluetooth and WiFi.
The article is really short on details. The real power hog in a cell phone is the transmitter - it will draw 3Amps of current - while the rest of the receiver and up-conversion components are maybe 10% of that. And transmitters are already quite efficient - generally, ~50% of the input DC power winds up going out as RF power.
The lower power version of the PLL will be useful, since it needs to run constantly, even while not actively in a call.
This gets a bit messy because they certainly weren't always a monoply, so basically thier (and many other companies) standard procedures were just fine one day, but illegal the next day because someone decided they were offically a monopoly as of that date.
The problem isn't just the behavior that they always exhibited, it's the behavior MS exhibited when it realized that it had the power to dominate the market. And as each domination begat (it's cool to be able to use that word!) more power, MS continued to use its power to dominate even more.
As for how should MS have known when it was abusing a monopoly? That is why they have corporate counsel - one critical responsibility is to ensure that the company is not breaking any laws. While there is always a fuzzy area to the law, and things may or may not be legal, MS knew it was a monopoly. It knew because of what it was able to do.
MS is simply not being very nice to competitors sometimes...
There are limits to what companies can do - for example, dumping is illegal. And MS has been proven to use illegal methods to compete.
I completely disagree with the statement that every change we make is consistant with Nature. Any other species is intrinsically held in check by other natural forces. We are now the most significant evolutionary force on the planet. It is an absolute fact we are pretty much bad for 90+% of the species on this planet. No other species comes even close to to what we can do. That, combined with our past history of large scale mistakes, means that maybe we should perform at least a bit of analysis on the effects of our actions.
Maybe you don't think it matters if we wipe ourselves out - but I do. Your lack of understanding of the value of life pretty much marks you as a dumbass.
Mankind is part of nature
What a load of BS. I fail to see anything natural about a major city, or a car, or an oil spill, or a computer....
There is no effective check on our actions. Everything natural has an intrinsic balance to it - too many foxes eat too many rabbits, which cause many foxes to starve to death, which results in a lot of rabbits surviving, which means more foxes are born... that is nature.
The only constraint that nature provides is that there is a finite amount of resources available on this planet.
As for global warming, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree that global warming is due to our activities.
My solution? It's crazy, but about 10000tons of mylar could block 1% of the sunlight reaching the earth's surface, allowing it to cool a bit.
I don't think you are correct when you talk about different grades of silicon. For the most part, the magic is in the processing to the silicon wafer. They all start off pretty damn pure. Things that matter are the orientation of the crystal, and the actual size of the wafer. But I don't work in a Fab, so I could be off base.