My 3 year old budget laptop has a 1280*800 screen
current laptops in the same price range are 1366*768
Those are the 'wide screen' adaptations of older standard sizes that are being pushed now.
You might not mind, or even think it's great if you watch movies all the time on your laptop, but that's not what I do with one.
Shannon's Law contains nothing about current limits in technology.
Basically, for a given Signal to Noise ratio at the receiver (specifically at the detector), when the noise power approaches the power of the smallest bit division, you cannot reliably recover those bits and further subdivision is pointless.
Even in a lab, Signal to Noise is never infinite, and put a finite limit on the number of bits you can send in a channel. In the real world, the Signal to Noise at the receiver only gets worse the greater the distance between the transmitter and the receiver (inverse square), and this excludes other sources of 'noise' such as interference from other signals, multipath, propagation or other degradation effects such as holding your iPhone incorrectly.
Not to mention that catapults are all but medieval.
I'd say that launching rotten tomatoes in a catapult would be mid-evil. Launching pillows would be low-evil, and launching nails and rocks hi-evil. But that's just me.
I guess then if you launch bad music it would be midi-evil?
Comcast claims that a good network maintains a 1:1 with them, but that's simply not possible unless you had Comcast and another broadband access network talking to each other. In the attached graphs you can see the ratio is more along the lines of 5:1, which Comcast was complaining about with Level (3). The reality is that the ratio argument is bogus. Broadband access networks are naturally pull-heavy and it's being used as an excuse to call foul of Level (3) and other content heavy networks. But this shoulnd't surprise anyone, the ratio argument has been used for over a decade by many of the large telephone companies as an excuse to deny peering requests.
I'm suprised the ratio is that good considering most broadband service providers force their customers into highly asymetric connections (8:1?, 10:1?, higher?) and not allow them to run servers. It's disingenious to expect the Level 3 to be a 'good network' and maintain a 1:1 ratio with them while they force their customers into a highly asymmetric traffic pattern. It appears to me that it's in the ISP's financial interest to force high assymetry.
If Comcast want's Level 3 to pay up for traffic ratios higher than 5:1, and Comcast forces their customers into still higher ratios, shouldn't Comcast be paying (refunding) their customers for the 'excess' traffic?
Nobody is breaking into the systems, they are simply utilized beyond their capacity to serve, and that happens because enough people band together to cause the disruption... Witch is in turn caused by company's actions.
Sounds just like a slashdotting.:-)
1) Website posts online article. (Company action)
2) Article gets posted to Slashdot. (Organization of people)
3) Disruption of service!
I can see it now, this being marketed as a speed voting 'feature':
Announcer: Tired of voting taking so much of your time? All that tedious 'select a candidate for a race and hit Next'? With new the new Vote-0-Matic 'Speed Voting (tm)' feature just press and hold and the 'best' candidate for your language will automatically be selected and proceed to the next screen. Voting for the whole ballot is fast, easy, and just one-click!
Actually, if you define 0.999... as having an infinite number of decimal points, then it is true. And that's how that ellipsis is defined! It means exactly infinite repeating decimals.
So the difference between 1 and 0.999... is an infinite number of zeros followed by a 1
I agree with probably not needing 2560x2048 (I like 1600x1200 and find 1280x1024 adequate), but my complaint is that many monitors are are now replaced by 'widescreen' versions where they've essentially chopped off the lower 30% of the display instead of adding more pixels in the Horizontal direction. This means a former 1280x1024 display is now 1280x720, giving less vertical resolution than 1024x768 displays. This may be great for movies, but I don't like it for computing work.
Thanks. The ~1 cord/acre-year is the kind of number I was looking for.
The site I'm considering for wood heat is in SE Oklahoma in an area with lots of mixed forest.
Similar in latitude to North Georgia.
Heh...
I was an early Tivo adopter with what's now referred to as a Series 1 machine, it only came with 20Gb of storage.
This was back when you could get lifetime subscriptions for a flat $250 fee.
I bought it around 2000-2001, so it's close to 10 years old.
When I signed up for the lifetime guide option, ISTR subscriptions were $8/mo.
I figured I'd get my money's worth on the subscription if it lasted 3 years.
The Tivo is still running, on it's 3rd set of hard disks, and I still get guide updates without the monthly fee.
I only get basic cable, and it's still available in analog format.
I don't know which will last longer. Analog cable, or the Tivo.
Whichever one goes first will effectively make my Tivo useless, but I won't be too disappointed.
I believe I got my money's worth.
I also have an extensive MythTV setup with 2 analog and 3 digital tuners, with one dedicated for OTA.
It's not like I won't have anything to watch when the Tivo becomes useless.
Your guest may want to riffle through your papers and make a mess, but what he really wants to do is break into that maintenance room to tap your phone, read your mail, insert advertisements and porn in your Cable TV, clog up your drains, crank up the heating and A/C, open all the windows and doors, then kick back and wait for instructions from his boss about sending out spam or whom to DOS. If you try to evict him and do it improperly, you end up burning down the whole house.
This is the purpose of variable substitution in automounter maps. It allows a client machine to follow the right automount path based on ARCH, CPU, OSNAME, OSREL, and OSVER so that it gets the specific binary it needs with what appears to be a common $PATH to the user. See the manpage for autofs(5).
If you shoot a projectile that contains embedded GPL'd code do you have to provide the victim with a copy of the code since there was a "distribution"?
Maybe.:-)
Distribution will only be successful if the projectile fails to detonate.
The flicker is not in his head, it's in the taillights. I've seen the flicker, it's caused by a pulse width modulation circuit to make the taillight mode of a combination taillight/stoplight appear dimmer. A quick google search pulls up this article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Nov_8/ai_n27039046 about an automotive product specifically designed to address this issue and stop the flicker by eliminating the pwm circuit. It works by reducing the DC drive to the LEDs in taillight mode instead of using pulse width modulation to reduce the average current and effective brightness.
The referenced Wikipedia article indicates the use at cell sites needs a reference. Many sites on the internet quote the exact same phrase without any justification and to me, that raises a red flag.
I was curious to know why Golomb spacing would be used for antennas and found this article: http://kevingong.com/Math/GracefulGraphs.html. Scroll down to the bottom to the 'Significance' section. In short, a receiver with Golomb spacing of the antenna elements maximizes the phase angle information in the output of the array allowing the angle of the sender to be extracted with an FFT.
I should be possible to use this capability to transmit along a particular angle, but I would expect a more practical antenna for transmitting would have elements with equidistant spacing at a fraction of the wavelength. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array.
Cell antennas I'm familiar with are sector antennas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_antenna optimized for coverage in a particular pattern (i.e. 90, 120 degrees) and not for transmitting or receiving along a particular angle.
Slashdot Mirror
Well... maybe until the EPA classifies CO2 as a regulatable pollutant.
Those are the 'wide screen' adaptations of older standard sizes that are being pushed now.
You might not mind, or even think it's great if you watch movies all the time on your laptop, but that's not what I do with one.
I'll second that.
This.
See Shannon's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem
Shannon's Law contains nothing about current limits in technology.
Basically, for a given Signal to Noise ratio at the receiver (specifically at the detector), when the noise power approaches the power of the smallest bit division, you cannot reliably recover those bits and further subdivision is pointless.
Even in a lab, Signal to Noise is never infinite, and put a finite limit on the number of bits you can send in a channel. In the real world, the Signal to Noise at the receiver only gets worse the greater the distance between the transmitter and the receiver (inverse square), and this excludes other sources of 'noise' such as interference from other signals, multipath, propagation or other degradation effects such as holding your iPhone incorrectly.
IAARE (I Am A Radio Engineer)
fdformat /dev/hda1
and sterility.
I guess then if you launch bad music it would be midi-evil?
I know the parent was moderated funny, but it may not be too far off the mark.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
I'm suprised the ratio is that good considering most broadband service providers force their customers into highly asymetric connections (8:1?, 10:1?, higher?) and not allow them to run servers. It's disingenious to expect the Level 3 to be a 'good network' and maintain a 1:1 ratio with them while they force their customers into a highly asymmetric traffic pattern. It appears to me that it's in the ISP's financial interest to force high assymetry.
If Comcast want's Level 3 to pay up for traffic ratios higher than 5:1, and Comcast forces their customers into still higher ratios, shouldn't Comcast be paying (refunding) their customers for the 'excess' traffic?
Sounds just like a slashdotting. :-)
1) Website posts online article. (Company action)
2) Article gets posted to Slashdot. (Organization of people)
3) Disruption of service!
Announcer: Tired of voting taking so much of your time? All that tedious 'select a candidate for a race and hit Next'? With new the new Vote-0-Matic 'Speed Voting (tm)' feature just press and hold and the 'best' candidate for your language will automatically be selected and proceed to the next screen. Voting for the whole ballot is fast, easy, and just one-click!
I logged out and logged back in and the changes took effect immediately.
So the difference between 1 and 0.999... is an infinite number of zeros followed by a 1
1.0 - 0.999... = 0.000...1
Well, yeah, as long as you use the larger sizes. :-)
When you get down to the 0402, 0201, or 01005 sizes a microscope comes in handy.
http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/components/pdf/AOA0000CE1.pdf
Chip dimensions are shown on page 2.
I agree with probably not needing 2560x2048 (I like 1600x1200 and find 1280x1024 adequate), but my complaint is that many monitors are are now replaced by 'widescreen' versions where they've essentially chopped off the lower 30% of the display instead of adding more pixels in the Horizontal direction. This means a former 1280x1024 display is now 1280x720, giving less vertical resolution than 1024x768 displays. This may be great for movies, but I don't like it for computing work.
Thanks. The ~1 cord/acre-year is the kind of number I was looking for.
The site I'm considering for wood heat is in SE Oklahoma in an area with lots of mixed forest.
Similar in latitude to North Georgia.
I've considered wood heat.
How much wood do you use annually for heating?
What kind of acreage does it take to sustain that rate of usage?
Heh... I was an early Tivo adopter with what's now referred to as a Series 1 machine, it only came with 20Gb of storage.
This was back when you could get lifetime subscriptions for a flat $250 fee.
I bought it around 2000-2001, so it's close to 10 years old.
When I signed up for the lifetime guide option, ISTR subscriptions were $8/mo.
I figured I'd get my money's worth on the subscription if it lasted 3 years.
The Tivo is still running, on it's 3rd set of hard disks, and I still get guide updates without the monthly fee.
I only get basic cable, and it's still available in analog format.
I don't know which will last longer. Analog cable, or the Tivo.
Whichever one goes first will effectively make my Tivo useless, but I won't be too disappointed.
I believe I got my money's worth.
I also have an extensive MythTV setup with 2 analog and 3 digital tuners, with one dedicated for OTA.
It's not like I won't have anything to watch when the Tivo becomes useless.
Your guest may want to riffle through your papers and make a mess, but what he really wants to do is break into that maintenance room to tap your phone, read your mail, insert advertisements and porn in your Cable TV, clog up your drains, crank up the heating and A/C, open all the windows and doors, then kick back and wait for instructions from his boss about sending out spam or whom to DOS. If you try to evict him and do it improperly, you end up burning down the whole house.
This is the purpose of variable substitution in automounter maps. It allows a client machine to follow the right automount path based on ARCH, CPU, OSNAME, OSREL, and OSVER so that it gets the specific binary it needs with what appears to be a common $PATH to the user. See the manpage for autofs(5).
Hmm. ...a MFFY Killer
I read that title as
If you shoot a projectile that contains embedded GPL'd code do you have to provide the victim with a copy of the code since there was a "distribution"?
Maybe. :-)
Distribution will only be successful if the projectile fails to detonate.
You're saying the accounting was creative?
The flicker is not in his head, it's in the taillights. I've seen the flicker, it's caused by a pulse width modulation circuit to make the taillight mode of a combination taillight/stoplight appear dimmer. A quick google search pulls up this article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Nov_8/ai_n27039046 about an automotive product specifically designed to address this issue and stop the flicker by eliminating the pwm circuit. It works by reducing the DC drive to the LEDs in taillight mode instead of using pulse width modulation to reduce the average current and effective brightness.
The referenced Wikipedia article indicates the use at cell sites needs a reference. Many sites on the internet quote the exact same phrase without any justification and to me, that raises a red flag.
I was curious to know why Golomb spacing would be used for antennas and found this article: http://kevingong.com/Math/GracefulGraphs.html. Scroll down to the bottom to the 'Significance' section. In short, a receiver with Golomb spacing of the antenna elements maximizes the phase angle information in the output of the array allowing the angle of the sender to be extracted with an FFT.
I should be possible to use this capability to transmit along a particular angle, but I would expect a more practical antenna for transmitting would have elements with equidistant spacing at a fraction of the wavelength. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array.
Cell antennas I'm familiar with are sector antennas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_antenna optimized for coverage in a particular pattern (i.e. 90, 120 degrees) and not for transmitting or receiving along a particular angle.