Claim 1: A process of developing and verifing rules for the manipulation of symbols; Claim 2: certain operations can be used to model real world effects, saving the effort of real-world implementation.
Hmmmm - I still think the crustless peanut-butter and jelly sandwich was a more profound.
The switching power supplies DO create lots of crap up to a MHz or two, inside the DVD player. The electrolytics he suggests won't help too much in cleaning the higher frequency noise, but it will help with droop. He just gets over the top - the special capacitors he recommends could be replaced by some common higher grade components. I would expect that you would get a big improvment the bypassing on the DAC (replace the crappy capacitors with some NP0 grades).
All in all, you could probably get 95% of his improvements for 10% of the cost, but you won't have as much BS in your sound.
I would like everyone who believes that the war in Iraq was justified and worthwhile to enlist in the military, or send a loved one to that war. Please. Put something you value on the line, because it must be worth it.
If you are not willing to do that, then don't state the war is justified. Any war that I support I would be willing to fight in (or let my child fight in). Anything else is chickenshit.
Soooo what you're saying is that we don't have to do anything in Sudan? Because that's the UN's problem? And the UN is bad, so we don't have to do anything in Sudan?
You say we have to fix the Middle East. Why not Saudia Arabia? It's in the Middle East, and it is a corrupt kingdom. North Korea also can't be ignored. Oh, and Putin in Russia sure isn't an upstanding member of the democratic club. Hell, China isn't either (look at what they are doing to Tibet). Ok, how about Cuba? Taking out those countries is a bit too complicated, huh?
Stop with the BS arguments about how Sadaam was so evil. You are simply a TOOL. Go and join the Army if you are so sure it is the right thing. Oh, and the actual number of US soldiers dead is more like 5000, not 1700 (if you are on a plane out of Iraq to a hospital in Germany and you die, then you didn't die in Iraq).
The WMDs was war story 1.0, and now war story 2.0 is democracy for Iraq. The Iraq war is completely, and totally, an unjustified war for some of America's interests.
I'd always heard that Gilligan's Island was a story about rage. Gilligan hates how he is treated by everyone else so much that he subconsciously sabotages every possible way to get off the island.
But you're saying that the professor was the real root of the failed rescues. The Professor knew that he could get everyone else on the island to treat Gilligan poorly, thus making Gilligan the fall guy. That's just evil. Brilliant, but evil. That TV show is so much more complicated than it seems.
Yeah, an anonymous coward like you is definitely a better spokesperson.
I for one, find Stallman to be consistent and generally right. He has done a lot more of value than you, I would bet. Would you rather Stallman sit quiet while patents are approved in Europe?
So, it says "He was placed in a grave with evil men". Errr - where does that happen? Please, since he was buried by himself in all 4 gospels...
And the part "And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life". So, then, who was Jesus' wife? And what where their children's names?
And after all that he does, all he gets is "And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among great and powerful men". Huh??? Is that all that the son of god gets to do?
Of course, you probably have some way to weasel out of that. But those phrases are not a prophecy of the son of god.
You know, pure capitalism sucks too. Slave traders were perfectly comfortable under capitalism. Drug dealers too.
The 'best' system for humanity is a melding - 80% capitalism and 20% communism. Why the capitalism? Because you need a way to pay for everything. Why communism? Because if you keep screwing over the poor people (why do the poor get screwed over? simple - they have nothing to lubricate the process).
With such a combination, people (usually poor people) don't get screwed over, and there are incentives to make their life better.
Too much communism, like modern France, and you don't quite have enough to pay for everything necessary.
Too much capitalism, and you get things like the Great Depression.
I would say that Canada probably has the closest to ideal balance.
But they didn't reverse engineer it. They simply threw some crap together and called it italian food. I agree with you about the food being a crime, just that it is a different crime (attack on good taste, perhaps?).
No - XP is way slower. And even after turning off mickymouseOS interface, it still is inferior to 2K.
One example - when I want to delete something, I select it with the mouse, press delete, then enter (for the confirmation). On 2K, you can do it around.5sec, no problem. But on XP, the comes too soon, and suddenly I'm opening the document I just wanted to delete, and then here comes the delete confirmation. What a pain. The solution on XP - wait 2 seconds after hitting delete to hit enter. A great example of the interface getting in the way.
Another XP complaint - plug in a usb HD - it scans the whole drive and want to know what to do with it. What a pain.
Wait, there's more - I have a directory with ~1000 mp3s (it's something like my personal radio station). Opening it in XP takes 5secs! In NT it opens as fast as any other folder.
First off, MP3s are vastly more compatible than WMA files. I would rather have MP3s than WMAs. Just crank the bit rate up a bit - storage is cheap anyway.
On a second note - I doubt that you would be able to detect any limitations of a $30 toy with a 128kbit mp3. Of course, Mattel is known for it's fine audio products...
People seem to forget that Palpatine had been screwing with Anakin's mind for a decade or so. He was always twisting things, and so that Anakin was never really sure of anything.
I spend a lot of time dealing with jitter in my job. For example, if you want to capture a TV signal, then jitter is quite important (even more if it is HDTV). But for generating audio signals over a serial link, then jitter should not be a problem, provided the digital data is properly latched, and the clocking method is not absolute crap (jitter of 1ns on the clock would not be an issue, and that is a crappy level of jitter - it gives a SNR of ~93dB at 20KHz - jitter requirements for WLAN is more like 50ps, and you see how cheap the cards are).
What is amazing is the "high quality" TOSLINK and SPDIF cables! It is digital data folks - as long as it is not a crappy cable, then you will be fine!
Maybe I am expecting too much, but if a technology was developed in my country, subsidised by my taxes (both directly and as tax credits), and developed by my fellow citizens, then the technology should be tied to my country. If the development corporation wants to export that technology, it should pay an export fee, based on the benefits it received in the development process.
If nobody in India helped develop the technology that they are getting, but they get the benefit, then they are being something like a parasite.
A union essentially exists to obtain for its members pay and priviledges in excess of those warrented by the work they do.
Surprisingly, CEOs and other high-level execs don't seem to need a union to do that - they can get on average 419x as much as the average worker. And when they leave, they get a great deal (Carly F. got $21million to leave, after doing a crappy job at HP).
So don't lecture about how unions are unfair without acknowleging the whole system is unfair, and so a union is an approach by labor to gain leverage. Remember, the lowest guys on the rung are the easiest to push around.
I remember reading an HR trade journal once, and it was completely different world. There was a quiz in it, with the question was "If HR disappeared from your company, would anyone care?".
Both HR and IT share a similar viewpoint distortion - they both think that they are center of the company. I see the role of HR and IT as more like a car's oil. Oil is important, but you need gas more. No matter how good your IT and HR departments are, if your manufacturing and sales departments aren't effective, the whole company is doomed.
And just one statement about the original article: if you treat people like crap and cut their pay by 50%, are you surprised that nobody wants that job?!?!?? I think that OBVIOUS should be attached to that article.
I would assert that morality is not a concept that ant use as guidance in their lives. Some ants routinely 'kidnap' the eggs of other species, and use those young as 'slaves' that provide for them. In addition, ants most certainly 'steal'. Ants are notorious for theft from picnics, for example.
There are plenty of other examples which display that ants do not operate according to any moral code that humans would view as acceptable (unless genocide is something that you have no problem with).
As for the intellegence of ants, well, I link their ability to solve problems (e.g. their food searching methods) to their ability to engage in abstract thought. I also am weighting their very limited size brains. Based on all of those factors, I do not give ants any sort of deep though capability.
You seem to imply that Powerpoint is some sort of advancement. I find it to be an impediment to information transfer, actually. I can always arrange the information using some other method which produces superior results (unless you like the car zooming audio effects and screen wipes...)
Take a look at this and then let me know if you think that powerpoint is really all that....
I always find it fascinating how much is known about 'god', when there is so little proof that he exists (maybe like Santa Claus?). How do you know that a being with the order of intellegence of human^2/ant wouldn't be able to do things that you think only a being 'outside' of physics can do? What we are able to do certainly is not in any way something that an ant can conceptualize.
They need to change the curiculum so that Kansas can lead in the development of Perpetual Motion Devices! They'll have the last laugh when they sell their free energy at horrific markups.
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Claim 1: A process of developing and verifing rules for the manipulation of symbols;
Claim 2: certain operations can be used to model real world effects, saving the effort of real-world implementation.
Hmmmm - I still think the crustless peanut-butter and jelly sandwich was a more profound.
Two words: Solar Power. OK, seven words.
No, that doesn't work.
The switching power supplies DO create lots of crap up to a MHz or two, inside the DVD player. The electrolytics he suggests won't help too much in cleaning the higher frequency noise, but it will help with droop. He just gets over the top - the special capacitors he recommends could be replaced by some common higher grade components. I would expect that you would get a big improvment the bypassing on the DAC (replace the crappy capacitors with some NP0 grades).
All in all, you could probably get 95% of his improvements for 10% of the cost, but you won't have as much BS in your sound.
I would like everyone who believes that the war in Iraq was justified and worthwhile to enlist in the military, or send a loved one to that war. Please. Put something you value on the line, because it must be worth it.
If you are not willing to do that, then don't state the war is justified. Any war that I support I would be willing to fight in (or let my child fight in). Anything else is chickenshit.
Soooo what you're saying is that we don't have to do anything in Sudan? Because that's the UN's problem? And the UN is bad, so we don't have to do anything in Sudan?
You say we have to fix the Middle East. Why not Saudia Arabia? It's in the Middle East, and it is a corrupt kingdom. North Korea also can't be ignored. Oh, and Putin in Russia sure isn't an upstanding member of the democratic club. Hell, China isn't either (look at what they are doing to Tibet). Ok, how about Cuba?
Taking out those countries is a bit too complicated, huh?
Stop with the BS arguments about how Sadaam was so evil. You are simply a TOOL. Go and join the Army if you are so sure it is the right thing. Oh, and the actual number of US soldiers dead is more like 5000, not 1700 (if you are on a plane out of Iraq to a hospital in Germany and you die, then you didn't die in Iraq).
The WMDs was war story 1.0, and now war story 2.0 is democracy for Iraq. The Iraq war is completely, and totally, an unjustified war for some of America's interests.
I'd always heard that Gilligan's Island was a story about rage. Gilligan hates how he is treated by everyone else so much that he subconsciously sabotages every possible way to get off the island.
But you're saying that the professor was the real root of the failed rescues. The Professor knew that he could get everyone else on the island to treat Gilligan poorly, thus making Gilligan the fall guy. That's just evil. Brilliant, but evil. That TV show is so much more complicated than it seems.
No wonder I don't trust acadamians...
Yeah, an anonymous coward like you is definitely a better spokesperson.
I for one, find Stallman to be consistent and generally right. He has done a lot more of value than you, I would bet. Would you rather Stallman sit quiet while patents are approved in Europe?
So, it says "He was placed in a grave with evil men". Errr - where does that happen? Please, since he was buried by himself in all 4 gospels...
And the part "And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life". So, then, who was Jesus' wife? And what where their children's names?
And after all that he does, all he gets is "And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among great and powerful men". Huh??? Is that all that the son of god gets to do?
Of course, you probably have some way to weasel out of that. But those phrases are not a prophecy of the son of god.
Yes, I know this is offtopic.
Good point.
You know, pure capitalism sucks too. Slave traders were perfectly comfortable under capitalism. Drug dealers too.
The 'best' system for humanity is a melding - 80% capitalism and 20% communism. Why the capitalism? Because you need a way to pay for everything. Why communism? Because if you keep screwing over the poor people (why do the poor get screwed over? simple - they have nothing to lubricate the process).
With such a combination, people (usually poor people) don't get screwed over, and there are incentives to make their life better.
Too much communism, like modern France, and you don't quite have enough to pay for everything necessary.
Too much capitalism, and you get things like the Great Depression.
I would say that Canada probably has the closest to ideal balance.
But they didn't reverse engineer it. They simply threw some crap together and called it italian food. I agree with you about the food being a crime, just that it is a different crime (attack on good taste, perhaps?).
No - XP is way slower. And even after turning off mickymouseOS interface, it still is inferior to 2K.
.5sec, no problem. But on XP, the comes too soon, and suddenly I'm opening the document I just wanted to delete, and then here comes the delete confirmation. What a pain. The solution on XP - wait 2 seconds after hitting delete to hit enter. A great example of the interface getting in the way.
One example - when I want to delete something, I select it with the mouse, press delete, then enter (for the confirmation). On 2K, you can do it around
Another XP complaint - plug in a usb HD - it scans the whole drive and want to know what to do with it. What a pain.
Wait, there's more - I have a directory with ~1000 mp3s (it's something like my personal radio station). Opening it in XP takes 5secs! In NT it opens as fast as any other folder.
XP is simply 2K with more annoying stuff added.
All those juries will let child pornographers off now - "But your honor, the pictures weren't in 'My Pictures'".
Once again, MS is undermining justice in this country...
First off, MP3s are vastly more compatible than WMA files. I would rather have MP3s than WMAs. Just crank the bit rate up a bit - storage is cheap anyway.
On a second note - I doubt that you would be able to detect any limitations of a $30 toy with a 128kbit mp3. Of course, Mattel is known for it's fine audio products...
People seem to forget that Palpatine had been screwing with Anakin's mind for a decade or so. He was always twisting things, and so that Anakin was never really sure of anything.
I spend a lot of time dealing with jitter in my job. For example, if you want to capture a TV signal, then jitter is quite important (even more if it is HDTV). But for generating audio signals over a serial link, then jitter should not be a problem, provided the digital data is properly latched, and the clocking method is not absolute crap (jitter of 1ns on the clock would not be an issue, and that is a crappy level of jitter - it gives a SNR of ~93dB at 20KHz - jitter requirements for WLAN is more like 50ps, and you see how cheap the cards are).
What is amazing is the "high quality" TOSLINK and SPDIF cables! It is digital data folks - as long as it is not a crappy cable, then you will be fine!
Maybe I am expecting too much, but if a technology was developed in my country, subsidised by my taxes (both directly and as tax credits), and developed by my fellow citizens, then the technology should be tied to my country. If the development corporation wants to export that technology, it should pay an export fee, based on the benefits it received in the development process.
If nobody in India helped develop the technology that they are getting, but they get the benefit, then they are being something like a parasite.
A union essentially exists to obtain for its members pay and priviledges in excess of those warrented by the work they do.
Surprisingly, CEOs and other high-level execs don't seem to need a union to do that - they can get on average 419x as much as the average worker. And when they leave, they get a great deal (Carly F. got $21million to leave, after doing a crappy job at HP).
So don't lecture about how unions are unfair without acknowleging the whole system is unfair, and so a union is an approach by labor to gain leverage. Remember, the lowest guys on the rung are the easiest to push around.
I remember reading an HR trade journal once, and it was completely different world. There was a quiz in it, with the question was "If HR disappeared from your company, would anyone care?".
Both HR and IT share a similar viewpoint distortion - they both think that they are center of the company. I see the role of HR and IT as more like a car's oil. Oil is important, but you need gas more. No matter how good your IT and HR departments are, if your manufacturing and sales departments aren't effective, the whole company is doomed.
And just one statement about the original article: if you treat people like crap and cut their pay by 50%, are you surprised that nobody wants that job?!?!?? I think that OBVIOUS should be attached to that article.
I would assert that morality is not a concept that ant use as guidance in their lives. Some ants routinely 'kidnap' the eggs of other species, and use those young as 'slaves' that provide for them. In addition, ants most certainly 'steal'. Ants are notorious for theft from picnics, for example.
There are plenty of other examples which display that ants do not operate according to any moral code that humans would view as acceptable (unless genocide is something that you have no problem with).
As for the intellegence of ants, well, I link their ability to solve problems (e.g. their food searching methods) to their ability to engage in abstract thought. I also am weighting their very limited size brains. Based on all of those factors, I do not give ants any sort of deep though capability.
You seem to imply that Powerpoint is some sort of advancement. I find it to be an impediment to information transfer, actually. I can always arrange the information using some other method which produces superior results (unless you like the car zooming audio effects and screen wipes...)
Take a look at this and then let me know if you think that powerpoint is really all that....
I always find it fascinating how much is known about 'god', when there is so little proof that he exists (maybe like Santa Claus?). How do you know that a being with the order of intellegence of human^2/ant wouldn't be able to do things that you think only a being 'outside' of physics can do? What we are able to do certainly is not in any way something that an ant can conceptualize.
They need to change the curiculum so that Kansas can lead in the development of Perpetual Motion Devices! They'll have the last laugh when they sell their free energy at horrific markups.
In the context of this article, the correct term is slashdos'ed
Thank you
It is really cool to see apple fanatics go up against linux fanatics. Maybe I should throw a 'this is all M$' fault' into the discussion...