Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever....unless you outfit a large number of satellites with solar shades in order to reduce the amount of light reaching the earth.
Never use the word 'cannot' in the body of a story submission. Or was it 'never' that we're not supposed to use? Oh well. SOMEONE will prove me wrong!
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Yes, we know that this problem doesn't just affect lips. Or that there is some special circuitry which performs lip compensation only at the receiver.
Here's an example chip. The MAD 4868A is designed to address the video delay in some of the mainstream flat panel televisions. I'm sure there are other chips for this. I just happened to come across this one with a quick search.
I was recently going through a list of I2C chips to mess around with on my BASIC Stamp. (One of the areas where the I2C protocol had some measure of success was in television.) I came across a chip, I want to say from Philips themselves, that could be used to introduce a sound delay to allow the video to be better sync'd to the video.
Did some say ATARI?
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So which Atari hacking are we talking about? Arcade PCBs, 2600s, home computers, Atari Calculators, Atari UNIX boxes [!]. what?
Regarding hardware hacking in general, I think one of the best ways to get started is with a BASIC Stamp, like from parallax. It really lets you expore the interface between software and hardware.
I kind of wish the review gave me a better feel for the book. I'm getting better in my hardware, but I'm not beyond a good textbook to lean on for some things.
You beat me to the punch! LOL. Imagine the poor ACTORS who are paid to portray a vulcan or a betazoid or what not. Gawd. "I sense great happyness and joy!"
Hey, Mr. Vulcan! I've got a logic puzzle for you! But first, what is the 20th digit of Pi?
You've got a point in that I'm using a wireless optical mouse. The only problem I've seen is that it will occasionally get a little confused by wood grains. But a mouse pad is by no means a necessity.
The master walks by and observes the student playing with a blue glowing device. "May I?", asks the master. He takes the device into his hand.
"This mousepad is interesting. The manufacturer offers seven different selections of colors. Yet there is another color which is inherent in all devices, which is directly available as a color selection."
"Any what, pray tell, is this mysterious color, Master?"
The master drops the mouse pad to the floor and smashes it under foot. The student is enlightened.
Should I try to one-up you and mention how my HDTV style [wide screen] monitor is poorly supported in Linux, but well supported in Windows? I can do 1920x1200x24 in Windows without any hassle. (Simple Radeon VE card.) It was a configuration nightmare/pain to get it under Linux (the concept of a resolution like that was quite foreign and I had to figure out the clock dot rates and such). And then support for the TV out was totally gone.
I have to tell you, Windows never asked me for anything as arcade as the dot clock numbers for my monitor. Talk about obscure! (And although Linux finally works with the configuration, I do go snow on the screen during updates, which I have learned to live with.)
The author's point seems to be more "there are some serious basic hardware support issues that makes Linux a tough sell for a non-techie". I agree a great deal.
However, I'm not going to be switching back to Windows now that it works. I'm sick of web pages trying to take over my computer and infect it with every piece of spyware at every turn. The less commercial nature of Linux is what makes it so appealing to me.
I had a hell of a time with the CM8738 drivers (ALSA and non-ALSA) working with the sound card built into my IWill KA-266 Plus motherboard. Interrupt problems, no sound, choppy sound, computer locking.
I modified just about every setting known to man (BIOS and OS). I finally decided that my time was better spend buying a Creative Labs PCI card, sticking that in and using it, than to mess around any more with the horrible sound drivers.
Almost plug and play. It was a shame that (even after seeking so much help and reading so much documentation) that I had to go buy even more common sound hardware to get my sound working right.
But yes, I'm just an unfortunate example of something similar.
Yeah. I heard that this guy doesn't even know how to spell loser!
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I hope it is that planet where they measure the amount of other people's time you carelessly/needlessly wasted and extract that amount from your own lifespan. That one's my favorite.
Exposing the source code for e-voting (and electronic voting systems) is good. But just as important are the methods and procedures that a company uses around the software. Without knowing how they handle data, what protections and precautions they take, what operational or administrative technical policies are in place, I don't think we can judge much about a system from the source code. But we can, of course, find flaws in the code itself.
Its more like this: You go to a nursery or a home improvement store. They sell plants in "5 gallon pots" but that is way smaller than my container. The 15 gallon pots come close. Are the gallons used to measure the planter/root/soil different than other types of gallons?
I think you have your units skewed. 2(pi)r would be the area of a circle. Because this is a pot, and not a sphere, you would multiple 2(pi)r by the height of the pot.
The thing is, in nurseries and home improvement stores, they sell plants in "five gallon pots". That is far smaller than this container. In fact, the fifteen gallon pot size seems to be close.
Are plant gallons with soil and roots different than US gallons?
I thought that a gallon was a measure of area. But I'm really confused. Are there REALLY 231 cubic inches in one US gallon?! I've got a flower pot that is 17 inches high, with a 17.5" (average) diameter. 2(pi)rh should give the area, which would be 2(3.14)8.75*17. Have I done my math wrong? By google's information, that should only be 4 gallons. That flower pot is pretty big.
This stuff is safe with no side effects. Won't cause cancer in humans. Safe if it gets into the groundwater, sewer, and streams? Tested for a long enough period of time in a wide enough number of uses to prove it is as safe and effective as normal paint base?
Just like when they used steel pipes in houses (which corrode from the inside out) rather than lead?
No thanks. I'll wait for proof before I paint even a bench with that stuff.
From what I've seen so far, the advantage that India has over the US is that it is cheaper. Not that it is better. Not that it is equal. Just that it is cheaper. A small portion of my company has been outsourced to India. Like the Internet, we treat it as 'damage' and try our best to route around it.
Why not just hire a flock of interns in the US? It'd be just as good, and the accent wouldn't be there.
FROM YOUR OWN WEB PAGE: "Although I trace my roots to the town of Rajkot in Gujarat, India, I was born in the city of Calcutta, India..."
I was going to say it as a joke, but apparently, it is quite real for you. You're from India! So it makes sense that someone you know went from a city cop to a chip designer, doesn't it?
This isn't the advice our American friend should follow. Unless he enjoys $15k/year.
FWIW, I'm currently running 1920x1200 @73Hz on a 6' VGA cable. If there is any image degredation, it is below a threshold of where it can be noticed. Really nice image.
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Unfortunately for us, if satellites can more precisely measure this rise of the Earth's temperature, they cannot cure this fever. ...unless you outfit a large number of satellites with solar shades in order to reduce the amount of light reaching the earth.
Never use the word 'cannot' in the body of a story submission. Or was it 'never' that we're not supposed to use? Oh well. SOMEONE will prove me wrong!
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Yes, we know that this problem doesn't just affect lips. Or that there is some special circuitry which performs lip compensation only at the receiver.
;)
PS: What are these 'pelvic trusts', anyhow?
Here's an example chip. The MAD 4868A is designed to address the video delay in some of the mainstream flat panel televisions. I'm sure there are other chips for this. I just happened to come across this one with a quick search.
MAD4868A press release
I was recently going through a list of I2C chips to mess around with on my BASIC Stamp. (One of the areas where the I2C protocol had some measure of success was in television.) I came across a chip, I want to say from Philips themselves, that could be used to introduce a sound delay to allow the video to be better sync'd to the video.
So which Atari hacking are we talking about? Arcade PCBs, 2600s, home computers, Atari Calculators, Atari UNIX boxes [!]. what?
Regarding hardware hacking in general, I think one of the best ways to get started is with a BASIC Stamp, like from parallax. It really lets you expore the interface between software and hardware.
I kind of wish the review gave me a better feel for the book. I'm getting better in my hardware, but I'm not beyond a good textbook to lean on for some things.
You beat me to the punch! LOL. Imagine the poor ACTORS who are paid to portray a vulcan or a betazoid or what not. Gawd. "I sense great happyness and joy!"
Hey, Mr. Vulcan! I've got a logic puzzle for you! But first, what is the 20th digit of Pi?
You've got a point in that I'm using a wireless optical mouse. The only problem I've seen is that it will occasionally get a little confused by wood grains. But a mouse pad is by no means a necessity.
The master walks by and observes the student playing with a blue glowing device. "May I?", asks the master. He takes the device into his hand.
"This mousepad is interesting. The manufacturer offers seven different selections of colors. Yet there is another color which is inherent in all devices, which is directly available as a color selection."
"Any what, pray tell, is this mysterious color, Master?"
The master drops the mouse pad to the floor and smashes it under foot. The student is enlightened.
Should I try to one-up you and mention how my HDTV style [wide screen] monitor is poorly supported in Linux, but well supported in Windows? I can do 1920x1200x24 in Windows without any hassle. (Simple Radeon VE card.) It was a configuration nightmare/pain to get it under Linux (the concept of a resolution like that was quite foreign and I had to figure out the clock dot rates and such). And then support for the TV out was totally gone.
I have to tell you, Windows never asked me for anything as arcade as the dot clock numbers for my monitor. Talk about obscure! (And although Linux finally works with the configuration, I do go snow on the screen during updates, which I have learned to live with.)
The author's point seems to be more "there are some serious basic hardware support issues that makes Linux a tough sell for a non-techie". I agree a great deal.
However, I'm not going to be switching back to Windows now that it works. I'm sick of web pages trying to take over my computer and infect it with every piece of spyware at every turn. The less commercial nature of Linux is what makes it so appealing to me.
Yet another personal example.
I had a hell of a time with the CM8738 drivers (ALSA and non-ALSA) working with the sound card built into my IWill KA-266 Plus motherboard. Interrupt problems, no sound, choppy sound, computer locking.
I modified just about every setting known to man (BIOS and OS). I finally decided that my time was better spend buying a Creative Labs PCI card, sticking that in and using it, than to mess around any more with the horrible sound drivers.
Almost plug and play. It was a shame that (even after seeking so much help and reading so much documentation) that I had to go buy even more common sound hardware to get my sound working right.
But yes, I'm just an unfortunate example of something similar.
Yeah. I heard that this guy doesn't even know how to spell loser!
I hope it is that planet where they measure the amount of other people's time you carelessly/needlessly wasted and extract that amount from your own lifespan. That one's my favorite.
Exposing the source code for e-voting (and electronic voting systems) is good. But just as important are the methods and procedures that a company uses around the software. Without knowing how they handle data, what protections and precautions they take, what operational or administrative technical policies are in place, I don't think we can judge much about a system from the source code. But we can, of course, find flaws in the code itself.
Holy CRAP! I learned something.
Thank you THANK YOU!
Man, I'm stupid.
Its more like this: You go to a nursery or a home improvement store. They sell plants in "5 gallon pots" but that is way smaller than my container. The 15 gallon pots come close. Are the gallons used to measure the planter/root/soil different than other types of gallons?
I think you have your units skewed. 2(pi)r would be the area of a circle. Because this is a pot, and not a sphere, you would multiple 2(pi)r by the height of the pot.
The thing is, in nurseries and home improvement stores, they sell plants in "five gallon pots". That is far smaller than this container. In fact, the fifteen gallon pot size seems to be close.
Are plant gallons with soil and roots different than US gallons?
I thought that a gallon was a measure of area. But I'm really confused. Are there REALLY 231 cubic inches in one US gallon?! I've got a flower pot that is 17 inches high, with a 17.5" (average) diameter. 2(pi)rh should give the area, which would be 2(3.14)8.75*17. Have I done my math wrong? By google's information, that should only be 4 gallons. That flower pot is pretty big.
Now that's what I call an answer! But another side of it... I wonder how it compares to other paint bases in terms of paint quality.
"...so it has been reasonably well researched, and is moderately safe to the human body..."
When used as sunscreen, then. That does not necessarily apply to other forms and other uses. Nor other creatures.
This stuff is safe with no side effects. Won't cause cancer in humans. Safe if it gets into the groundwater, sewer, and streams? Tested for a long enough period of time in a wide enough number of uses to prove it is as safe and effective as normal paint base?
Just like when they used steel pipes in houses (which corrode from the inside out) rather than lead?
No thanks. I'll wait for proof before I paint even a bench with that stuff.
From what I've seen so far, the advantage that India has over the US is that it is cheaper. Not that it is better. Not that it is equal. Just that it is cheaper. A small portion of my company has been outsourced to India. Like the Internet, we treat it as 'damage' and try our best to route around it.
Why not just hire a flock of interns in the US? It'd be just as good, and the accent wouldn't be there.
FROM YOUR OWN WEB PAGE: "Although I trace my roots to the town of Rajkot in Gujarat, India, I was born in the city of Calcutta, India..."
I was going to say it as a joke, but apparently, it is quite real for you. You're from India! So it makes sense that someone you know went from a city cop to a chip designer, doesn't it?
This isn't the advice our American friend should follow. Unless he enjoys $15k/year.
FWIW, I'm currently running 1920x1200 @73Hz on a 6' VGA cable. If there is any image degredation, it is below a threshold of where it can be noticed. Really nice image.
LOL. Made by some foreign Dentrassi slave-wage laborer, no doubt.
Stinks? My company is looking at replacing American IT workers with those from Mexico, Canada, and Brazil!