While funding for standing armies was supposed to be temporary, the Navy and government support of the militia was not. I think the VA would be easily justified under those grounds.
Getting more into grey areas, the constitution also grants the federal government power to collect taxes for the general welfare of the United States, and you could argue that most social programs, including civil government hospitals are just that.
Even if the perp isn't involved in a single big-crime, there's also the question of whether the perp is involved in a *lot* of small crime.
Yeah, I think this happens a lot. A friend of mine had a bike stolen (a common problem near the University), and found another one on craigslist to buy. When they went to go pick it up the seller's entire apartment was an obvious chop-shop. It was wall to wall with bikes, with parts obviously swapped between them. The cops weren't interested even then.
Either you have to accept that you'll be transcoding video in the "browser standard" before putting it online, which is a wast of time and resources and results in reduced video quality, or browsers will need to standardize on the same formats/codecs that other devices are using.
All streaming video is currently recoded or transcoded before being put online. Most of the standard definition content is originally encoded in MPEG2 which is less efficient than modern codecs, and most of the high definition content, while encoded in H.264, has too high of a bitrate for direct streaming. Add on top of that the fact that most streaming services offer different resolutions of all videos to accommodate people with different bandwidth. While landline connections will improve enough to make this a non-issue over the next decade, mobile will always have to deal with limited spectrum.
So what video codecs are supported in set-top boxes? What hardware support is there in smartphones and tablets, where battery life matters?
Right now, H.264 clearly has more support since it has been around for longer. However, all the major hardware companies have pledged support for WebM, including Qualcom, Broadcom, Imagination Technologies, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Marvell, ARM, AMD, and Freescale. Actual hardware is also starting to ship. The latest PowerVR video decoder VXD392 has hardware support for VP8. TI's OMAP4 has hardware acceleration for VP8 decoding. NVIDIA's Tegra 3 has hardware acceleration for both encoding and decoding of VP8. And there are several other smaller companies with shipping products like Rockchip, Chips&Media, & ZiiLABS.
Okay, I just did some rough calculations on the support for HTML5 video codecs by browsers (source), weighted by browser market share (sourcevia), including both desktop and mobile browsers. What I got was: Theora: 41% WebM: 37% H.264: 41% None: 40% These numbers add up to more than 100% because some browsers support more than one codec. Looking at single codec support I get: WebM and not H.264: 17% H.264 and not WebM: 21% What it amounts to is that FF + Opera(Desktop) have close to the same market share as IE9 + Safari (OSX & iOS), so they just about cancel each other out. IE9 market share is growing slowly (thanks to not supporting win XP), so there's still a couple of years for WebM to gain traction before declaring H.264 a sure winner for HTML5 video.
The problem with the accused DoSing the justice system, is that they are the very ones who need access to the system. The government doesn't need to push back, they will just allow the dockets to be backed up further and further, and the majority of the accused will sit in jail for years awaiting a trial. The supreme court has already ruled on cases where people were held for over 5 years before getting a trial, and it was deemed that it didn't violate their right to a speedy trial since the delay wasn't due to maliciousness on behalf of the prosecutor.
While it may be a bit extreme, I think the ideal solution is to start the workday a couple hours past sunrise in the winter and a couple hours before sunrise in the summer. You'll be active during the warmest hours of winter and cooler hours in summer, you'll have free time during daylight hours year round,
No you would be cooped up in an office during the warmest hours of winter and the cooler hours in summer. All your free time would be during the hottest hours of summer and the coldest hours of winter. That sounds like a good way for office buildings to save heating/cooling expenses, but would increase residential expenses, and make it less enjoyable to spend your free time outside.
For someone in the warmer latitudes, what I would like to see is the opposite. Leave winter hours as they are, and then shift the clock an hour later in the summer. That way you spend the hottest hours in the office, it will have cooled off by the time you are getting ready for bed, and you have time in the morning when it is cooler to spend outside before going to work.
We have languages that force you to define the allowed range of an integer every time you define it (like ADA), and static analysis tools that find many of these problem. Entering this information into a dialog box wouldn't be any faster than typing it into the source code. The problem is that programmers consider these languages to be too cumbersome, and using such tools on other languages has too many false positive. They would rather have freeform languages like python, which are faster to program and easier to read, but don't catch these types of errors for you, and instead require more discipline in unit testing (which is good to have anyway).
at worst we still get porn everywhere on the internet
No, at worst you have people spending millions of dollars to pay for domains that they don't need or want, but have to get for defensive purposes. The XXX domain is bad porn sites (since it leads the way to further censorship), it is bad for the fundies (since it does not involve sticking their head in the sand), and it is bad for all other corporations (because they have to buy domians for defensive purposes). The only people who benefit from having more generic TLDs are the registrars who will rake in tons of cash selling them.
T-Mobile has always had plans where you save money by not subsidizing the phone. It used to be called the Even More Plus plan (yeah horrible name), and is now Monthy4G no annual contract plan (which does have price tiers without data plans despite the name). If they want to push this transition, they ought to start listing phone subsidy as a separate line item on their with-contract bills, and then later eliminate the distinction between the two plans and just have a (contract requirement) phone payment plan as a line item on any of their no-contract plans.
Here are Ren's papers (he's the guy who founded Lytro). Fourier Slice Photography, the fundamental theory behind his work. Plenoptic Camera, the results with his first prototype camera.
The Lytro camera has special optics that basically separates the light entering the lens from different angles. Knowing the rough angle of the light rays allows you to combine them in different ways to change the focal length of the image, as opposed to a traditional camera, in which they are permanently combined as the CCD captures the light at a set focal length. This comes with a trade-offs as light from each set of angles is essentially captured as a separate image, giving you say 12x12 sub images on the CCD, so the resolution of each sub-image is much lower than you would get using the full CCD for an image.
Since Ren Ng published his seminal paper making the connection between refocusing a light-feild and Fourier Slice theory, there has been additional work which shows that you can achieve the same thing using a simple filter, rather than a whole new set of optics. The benefit of this is that it is cheaper to manufacture, and you can easily switch out the filter to adjust the trade-off between image resolution and depth of field, but come with an additional cost of a slight loss of total light (due to the filter). Here is one of those papers.
There are two basic approaches. The first heterodynes the light (a filter acts as multiplication) such that light that enters at different angles is shifted to different frequencies. So with this approach you get "subimages" in the frequency domain rather than the spacial domain, which can be seperated and recombined in software. The result and trade-offs are essentially the same but with simpler hardware.
The other is based on refocusing as a deconvolution operation, but the filter modifies the point-spread-function of the camera, such that it's frequency response doesn't have any zeros, so you don't loose data at those frequencies like you would with a simple rectangular aperture.
Slashdot uses HTML syntax to format posts, not bbcode like some other sites. So instead of [url=https://mysite.com]description[/url] You can use <a href="https://mysite.com">description</a>
They used to have a list of the allowed tags below the comment box. Don't know why they got rid of it.
[1] Except for Intel GMA, which is also open for too underpowered for serious development work.
Actually, despite being open source the Intel drivers have given me more headaches than any Linux drivers I have used. From what I understand this is actually because they were the only fully functional open source driver available, and because Intel hired Keith Packard, they have been used as the guinea pig for all the new X11 architectures changes being made. Which makes some sense; it has to be done somewhere. But ifyou thought you were getting a simple but stable standby (like the S3 was in it's day), Intel GMA was not a good choice.
Yes, that particular image (whipped up by a rag paper) has been shown to be a fake. But there is absolutely no reason to believe that the images released by the TSA or the manufacturers of the devices are fake. These pictures also have a black background in both the millimeter wave and the x-ray backscatter machines.
Whole foods has the most narrow isles and crowded stores of any grocery I have been to. At first I thought it was just the particular store I was at, but then visited one across the country and it had the exact same layout and spacing. I hate being in that place, even with just a basket. I can't imagine having to use a cart in there, but I only ever go to pick up a couple things that aren't in other groceries.
FF10 is an extended support release. It will have security updates for the next year, which is a very reasonable upgrade cycle for a browser.
confounded by minimalist design trend.
The UI is trivial to customize, and the old features have all been preserved they just aren't default. You can make FF4+ have the same look and feel as FF3.6 if that is what you want.
The FF4 release and the move to rapid releases was a mess at first, but all the problems that people are complaining about have been fixed by now.
The top leadership of the BSA is now dominated by members of the LDS church. All the controversial national polices are in place because of this. The non-LDS local units are stuck with the no-win decision of either going along with this or having an unstated rule that scouts and leaders should lie about their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. This goes against the fundamental principles that scouting was founded on.
As an Eagle Scout I refuse to do either of those things, and thus can no longer associate with the BSA.
Oh and I should add; the reason we don't solve the current spectrum congestion problem by just boosting signal power is because one channel's signal is another channel's noise unless filters can be designed to separate them. So without improvements in filters having everyone boost their signal power will just mean that everyone's noise floor increases as well and the whole thing is a wash as far as channel capacity goes (except now we are wasting more power).
I would imagine that transmitting 10 channel with different orbital angular momentums within a specific bandwidth would have the same effect on adjacent channels as a single channel with 10 times the power in that same bandwidth.
This might help, but it doesn't expel Shannon-Hartley. They don't get "inifinite channels" in finite bandwith. Not unless each channel has infinitely low capacity, anyway.
The other limiting factor in Shannon-Hartley is signal power. Transmitting with infinite power does allow you to have infinite channel capacity, and transmitting over an infinite number of channels each with finite power over does just that. That said, I am sure that practical limitations in hardware design will place a limit on how close the orbital angular momentum spacing can be and still be able to discriminate the channels.
You prove that this works through clinical trials. But Celltex Therapeutics isn't conducting any such trials. They have made vague comments about starting some trials sometime in the future, but that's it. They don't have any control subjects. They don't have any animal test results on which they are basing their human predictions on. They haven't even identified what ailments they are going to be testing their treatment for!
In the meanwhile they are happy to inject anyone willing to pay the $7k+ per injection, for whatever ailment they complain about, regardless of whether there is any reason to think the treatment would help, or whether the patient would otherwise suffer and die.
Screaming at someone while they are trying to talk is not a conversation.
But that is exactly what this device does. It literally interrupts and screams down someone who is trying to speak by repeating their own words back at them. It is just a technical implementation of what the conversation abusers were already doing.
The debate as to whether these people should be labelled snake-oil salesmen or experimentalists would seem to rest on this. Is this government intrusion into people's right to choose, or a regulatory agency stepping in to keep people safe?
It's much simpler than that. These people aren't experimentalists because they aren't running any sort of scientifically valid experiment. They don't have a control group. They don't have animal testing to base their theories on. They haven't even identified what conditions they are treating. They are just injecting whoever is willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars, for whatever ailment they happen to have.
That isn't a experimental science; that's a scam. If you want to make millions of dollars selling medical treatments, then put your money where your mouth is and prove that the treatment works with a valid clinical trial.
The article states that many of the positions which are being cut are hardware related (and they are being moved to new positions within HP not being fired). HP still has quite a few folks who are paid to develop WebOS. Put it this way. How many successful OSS projects have over 300 full-time developers? That many people is massive overkill even if you split WebOS into 4 major projects, and a handful of smaller projects.
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While funding for standing armies was supposed to be temporary, the Navy and government support of the militia was not. I think the VA would be easily justified under those grounds.
Getting more into grey areas, the constitution also grants the federal government power to collect taxes for the general welfare of the United States, and you could argue that most social programs, including civil government hospitals are just that.
Even if the perp isn't involved in a single big-crime, there's also the question of whether the perp is involved in a *lot* of small crime.
Yeah, I think this happens a lot. A friend of mine had a bike stolen (a common problem near the University), and found another one on craigslist to buy. When they went to go pick it up the seller's entire apartment was an obvious chop-shop. It was wall to wall with bikes, with parts obviously swapped between them. The cops weren't interested even then.
Either you have to accept that you'll be transcoding video in the "browser standard" before putting it online, which is a wast of time and resources and results in reduced video quality, or browsers will need to standardize on the same formats/codecs that other devices are using.
All streaming video is currently recoded or transcoded before being put online. Most of the standard definition content is originally encoded in MPEG2 which is less efficient than modern codecs, and most of the high definition content, while encoded in H.264, has too high of a bitrate for direct streaming. Add on top of that the fact that most streaming services offer different resolutions of all videos to accommodate people with different bandwidth. While landline connections will improve enough to make this a non-issue over the next decade, mobile will always have to deal with limited spectrum.
So what video codecs are supported in set-top boxes? What hardware support is there in smartphones and tablets, where battery life matters?
Right now, H.264 clearly has more support since it has been around for longer. However, all the major hardware companies have pledged support for WebM, including Qualcom, Broadcom, Imagination Technologies, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Marvell, ARM, AMD, and Freescale. Actual hardware is also starting to ship. The latest PowerVR video decoder VXD392 has hardware support for VP8. TI's OMAP4 has hardware acceleration for VP8 decoding. NVIDIA's Tegra 3 has hardware acceleration for both encoding and decoding of VP8. And there are several other smaller companies with shipping products like Rockchip, Chips&Media, & ZiiLABS.
Okay, I just did some rough calculations on the support for HTML5 video codecs by browsers (source), weighted by browser market share (source via), including both desktop and mobile browsers. What I got was:
Theora: 41%
WebM: 37%
H.264: 41%
None: 40%
These numbers add up to more than 100% because some browsers support more than one codec. Looking at single codec support I get:
WebM and not H.264: 17%
H.264 and not WebM: 21%
What it amounts to is that FF + Opera(Desktop) have close to the same market share as IE9 + Safari (OSX & iOS), so they just about cancel each other out. IE9 market share is growing slowly (thanks to not supporting win XP), so there's still a couple of years for WebM to gain traction before declaring H.264 a sure winner for HTML5 video.
No, the average of independent measurements has a lower variance than the individual measurements.
The problem with the accused DoSing the justice system, is that they are the very ones who need access to the system. The government doesn't need to push back, they will just allow the dockets to be backed up further and further, and the majority of the accused will sit in jail for years awaiting a trial. The supreme court has already ruled on cases where people were held for over 5 years before getting a trial, and it was deemed that it didn't violate their right to a speedy trial since the delay wasn't due to maliciousness on behalf of the prosecutor.
While it may be a bit extreme, I think the ideal solution is to start the workday a couple hours past sunrise in the winter and a couple hours before sunrise in the summer. You'll be active during the warmest hours of winter and cooler hours in summer, you'll have free time during daylight hours year round,
No you would be cooped up in an office during the warmest hours of winter and the cooler hours in summer. All your free time would be during the hottest hours of summer and the coldest hours of winter. That sounds like a good way for office buildings to save heating/cooling expenses, but would increase residential expenses, and make it less enjoyable to spend your free time outside.
For someone in the warmer latitudes, what I would like to see is the opposite. Leave winter hours as they are, and then shift the clock an hour later in the summer. That way you spend the hottest hours in the office, it will have cooled off by the time you are getting ready for bed, and you have time in the morning when it is cooler to spend outside before going to work.
We have languages that force you to define the allowed range of an integer every time you define it (like ADA), and static analysis tools that find many of these problem. Entering this information into a dialog box wouldn't be any faster than typing it into the source code. The problem is that programmers consider these languages to be too cumbersome, and using such tools on other languages has too many false positive. They would rather have freeform languages like python, which are faster to program and easier to read, but don't catch these types of errors for you, and instead require more discipline in unit testing (which is good to have anyway).
at worst we still get porn everywhere on the internet
No, at worst you have people spending millions of dollars to pay for domains that they don't need or want, but have to get for defensive purposes. The XXX domain is bad porn sites (since it leads the way to further censorship), it is bad for the fundies (since it does not involve sticking their head in the sand), and it is bad for all other corporations (because they have to buy domians for defensive purposes). The only people who benefit from having more generic TLDs are the registrars who will rake in tons of cash selling them.
T-Mobile has always had plans where you save money by not subsidizing the phone. It used to be called the Even More Plus plan (yeah horrible name), and is now Monthy4G no annual contract plan (which does have price tiers without data plans despite the name). If they want to push this transition, they ought to start listing phone subsidy as a separate line item on their with-contract bills, and then later eliminate the distinction between the two plans and just have a (contract requirement) phone payment plan as a line item on any of their no-contract plans.
Here are Ren's papers (he's the guy who founded Lytro).
Fourier Slice Photography, the fundamental theory behind his work.
Plenoptic Camera, the results with his first prototype camera.
The Lytro camera has special optics that basically separates the light entering the lens from different angles. Knowing the rough angle of the light rays allows you to combine them in different ways to change the focal length of the image, as opposed to a traditional camera, in which they are permanently combined as the CCD captures the light at a set focal length. This comes with a trade-offs as light from each set of angles is essentially captured as a separate image, giving you say 12x12 sub images on the CCD, so the resolution of each sub-image is much lower than you would get using the full CCD for an image.
Since Ren Ng published his seminal paper making the connection between refocusing a light-feild and Fourier Slice theory, there has been additional work which shows that you can achieve the same thing using a simple filter, rather than a whole new set of optics. The benefit of this is that it is cheaper to manufacture, and you can easily switch out the filter to adjust the trade-off between image resolution and depth of field, but come with an additional cost of a slight loss of total light (due to the filter). Here is one of those papers.
There are two basic approaches. The first heterodynes the light (a filter acts as multiplication) such that light that enters at different angles is shifted to different frequencies. So with this approach you get "subimages" in the frequency domain rather than the spacial domain, which can be seperated and recombined in software. The result and trade-offs are essentially the same but with simpler hardware.
The other is based on refocusing as a deconvolution operation, but the filter modifies the point-spread-function of the camera, such that it's frequency response doesn't have any zeros, so you don't loose data at those frequencies like you would with a simple rectangular aperture.
Slashdot uses HTML syntax to format posts, not bbcode like some other sites.
So instead of [url=https://mysite.com]description[/url]
You can use <a href="https://mysite.com">description</a>
They used to have a list of the allowed tags below the comment box. Don't know why they got rid of it.
[1] Except for Intel GMA, which is also open for too underpowered for serious development work.
Actually, despite being open source the Intel drivers have given me more headaches than any Linux drivers I have used. From what I understand this is actually because they were the only fully functional open source driver available, and because Intel hired Keith Packard, they have been used as the guinea pig for all the new X11 architectures changes being made. Which makes some sense; it has to be done somewhere. But ifyou thought you were getting a simple but stable standby (like the S3 was in it's day), Intel GMA was not a good choice.
Yes, that particular image (whipped up by a rag paper) has been shown to be a fake. But there is absolutely no reason to believe that the images released by the TSA or the manufacturers of the devices are fake. These pictures also have a black background in both the millimeter wave and the x-ray backscatter machines.
Whole foods has the most narrow isles and crowded stores of any grocery I have been to. At first I thought it was just the particular store I was at, but then visited one across the country and it had the exact same layout and spacing. I hate being in that place, even with just a basket. I can't imagine having to use a cart in there, but I only ever go to pick up a couple things that aren't in other groceries.
It's retarded upgrade schedule ...
FF10 is an extended support release. It will have security updates for the next year, which is a very reasonable upgrade cycle for a browser.
confounded by minimalist design trend.
The UI is trivial to customize, and the old features have all been preserved they just aren't default. You can make FF4+ have the same look and feel as FF3.6 if that is what you want.
The FF4 release and the move to rapid releases was a mess at first, but all the problems that people are complaining about have been fixed by now.
The top leadership of the BSA is now dominated by members of the LDS church. All the controversial national polices are in place because of this. The non-LDS local units are stuck with the no-win decision of either going along with this or having an unstated rule that scouts and leaders should lie about their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. This goes against the fundamental principles that scouting was founded on.
As an Eagle Scout I refuse to do either of those things, and thus can no longer associate with the BSA.
Oh and I should add; the reason we don't solve the current spectrum congestion problem by just boosting signal power is because one channel's signal is another channel's noise unless filters can be designed to separate them. So without improvements in filters having everyone boost their signal power will just mean that everyone's noise floor increases as well and the whole thing is a wash as far as channel capacity goes (except now we are wasting more power).
I would imagine that transmitting 10 channel with different orbital angular momentums within a specific bandwidth would have the same effect on adjacent channels as a single channel with 10 times the power in that same bandwidth.
This might help, but it doesn't expel Shannon-Hartley. They don't get "inifinite channels" in finite bandwith. Not unless each channel has infinitely low capacity, anyway.
The other limiting factor in Shannon-Hartley is signal power. Transmitting with infinite power does allow you to have infinite channel capacity, and transmitting over an infinite number of channels each with finite power over does just that. That said, I am sure that practical limitations in hardware design will place a limit on how close the orbital angular momentum spacing can be and still be able to discriminate the channels.
You prove that this works through clinical trials. But Celltex Therapeutics isn't conducting any such trials. They have made vague comments about starting some trials sometime in the future, but that's it. They don't have any control subjects. They don't have any animal test results on which they are basing their human predictions on. They haven't even identified what ailments they are going to be testing their treatment for!
In the meanwhile they are happy to inject anyone willing to pay the $7k+ per injection, for whatever ailment they complain about, regardless of whether there is any reason to think the treatment would help, or whether the patient would otherwise suffer and die.
Screaming at someone while they are trying to talk is not a conversation.
But that is exactly what this device does. It literally interrupts and screams down someone who is trying to speak by repeating their own words back at them. It is just a technical implementation of what the conversation abusers were already doing.
The debate as to whether these people should be labelled snake-oil salesmen or experimentalists would seem to rest on this. Is this government intrusion into people's right to choose, or a regulatory agency stepping in to keep people safe?
It's much simpler than that. These people aren't experimentalists because they aren't running any sort of scientifically valid experiment. They don't have a control group. They don't have animal testing to base their theories on. They haven't even identified what conditions they are treating. They are just injecting whoever is willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars, for whatever ailment they happen to have.
That isn't a experimental science; that's a scam. If you want to make millions of dollars selling medical treatments, then put your money where your mouth is and prove that the treatment works with a valid clinical trial.
The article states that many of the positions which are being cut are hardware related (and they are being moved to new positions within HP not being fired). HP still has quite a few folks who are paid to develop WebOS. Put it this way. How many successful OSS projects have over 300 full-time developers? That many people is massive overkill even if you split WebOS into 4 major projects, and a handful of smaller projects.
Crap, I should have RTFA first. Another article I read a couple months ago didn't have any new CG in it, but they apparently did add in new stuff.