Maybe it's different in the US, but here in Canada, Best Buy has evolved into a chrome plated appliance store with phones, video gaming, cameras, computers, audio (in that order) with any technology at least a year old and marked down.
They do know *their* market, but I don't see any indication that they're working to a trend, instead they're looking at floor space and where they can make the most money.
For our friends in the US, this is a very important issue (I would argue that it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters") but is there any surprise that there are hyper-partisan comments (and moderations)?
I don't think putting this article up is going to a) inform anybody (this is probably the easiest thing on the net right now to download/see) or b) change anybody's mind - I can't see a supporter of Mr. Trump converting the other side that the FBI was working at removing him from office.
So... Why put it up here, other than to generate clicks and traffic?
Be interesting to see which came first, "SAFE" or Season 3 (I believe) of "Silicon Valley" where Richard Hendricks gets the idea for the distributed interwebs?
If it was Silicon Valley, can they sue? I imagine they would want to, just to get publicity about what's being described in the show.
I really feel like Apple needs a Jobs infusion, stat.
The PC lineup has stagnated. They don't see the value of continuing the iPod (something Mr. Jobs was passionate about). The phones are continuing on a modest growth path in terms of performance/Flash size but nothing disruptive (ie iPhone X falling flat). They're dropping the server line. Their stores are nice and, to be fair, getting better.
Mr. Cook has always been a competent CEO but they need somebody who looks at things differently and sees where things can be amazing, not just better.
So, they reach maturity at 6 months and stay at the same point for the rest of their lives. I would like to know what kills them at 30.
Is it the telemores in their cells being used up and shutting down the animal or is there something else at play? Did they pass through a different evolutionary process which makes the established Gompertz-Makeham law invalid for them?
Peter, I don't think you're explaining it correctly.
The NTSC colour burst MUST, MUST, MUST be 3.579545MHz and be located on the back porch of the horizontal synch for a set number of cycles (sorry, I can't remember the number). Once the hsynch/colour burst interval has past and you are into the active video period, you could set the luminance of the signal to a medium grey and then insert the 3.58MHz signal with a sub-carrier as you describe to get different colours. The problem with this method is that it wasn't very helpful to fix problems with TV sets.
A more typical method of testing TV colour output performance was to use a color-bar generator which would send a phase shifted color burst clock output in the active video period - This would allow a technician to check the position of the bars (make sure the horizontal sweep generator was working properly) and see specific colour outputs. When I was a kid, I built one of these with the colour bars generated using a 74S151 8 to 1 multiplexor with the inputs being the colour burst clock signal incrementally delayed using multiple TTL buffers.
Interesting seeing people's incorrect perceptions on 1970s/1980s TV technology.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there were very strong standards for signal timing precision - a bit of Googling found: https://antiqueradio.org/art/N...
Colour Burst frequency tolerance is +/-0.0003% which works out to roughly 10hz (I guess I mis-remembered or was thinking in terms of practical values).
It wasn't all capacitors back then - lots of silicon, although they were fairly discrete functions at the time. You can get an idea of what a Sony Trinitron TV had inside it here: https://www.manualslib.com/pro...
Interesting thought - I just took a quick look at the schematics of the CX2600 & CX2600A gaming systems at: http://www.atariage.com/2600/a...
and saw that there is only one main system clock which is roughly 3.58MHz - that means that this clock is not only used for the processor but for the video signal's NTSC colour burst (3.579545MHz).. I can't find a reference to the exact colour burst frequency tolerance (I thought it was around 20ppm or around 70hz) that is required for a proper TV signal output.
Having a colour burst outside of the tolerance would mean, at a minimum, messed up colours and maybe the inability for a TV set to be able to display an output at all. No way could a variation of 5% (1/20 of a second) be tolerated by a TV Set.
I guess all my NTSC knowledge/Skills/Experience are now worthless - except for trivia in cases like this.
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
I keep hearing/reading about people who think the book Starship Troopers is about a fascistic society and I don't get it, especially when I compare the society expressed in the book to definitions of fascism.
Juan Rico, who is revealed to be Filipino at the end of the book and we don't know where he grew up, joins up to win the ability to vote and is trained in a melting pot camp in Western Canada (I'm presuming that because of the name of the camp, Arthur Currie). There is no discussion, let alone glorification of a central "leader", nor is there any apparent racism.
There is what we would consider brutal corporal punishment rather than incarceration, but this is a result of the society's "superior" (from the perspective of the book's characters) understanding of psychology. When the book was written, hanging was still a common form of capital punishment and public hangings had only ended about 25 years before.
I've always read in the book as being set in a society that resulted after a terrible war and is presented by people who had that experience and perspective.
I'm trying to think of why that's the case - maybe more Hotmail accounts are used as source addresses for spam and more effort is required to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I tried to search on this but couldn't find any current articles/references commenting on this.
Could there be a lot of Hotmail users, who have been thrown through the windshield from an accident, that have been found still clutching their phones with a half finished email?
If that's the case, then I don't have any issues with them getting higher insurance rates.
As I'm writing this, I can't read the whole article unless I give my contact information so I'm going to wait for somebody to post another link.
I'd love to see the analysis behind the rate increase for HotMail users - I'm guessing there are other factors that come into play that causes them to use HotMail (maybe an extra/missing chromosome?). Personally, I don't know of anybody I currently correspond with who use HotMail (checked my contact lists) but maybe this is something that is different between North America and Europe.
Could it say something about people who use Microsoft products? If I show them how much I hate Windows 10, would I get more money off my car insurance?
Let's see who we wouldn't want to be able to visualize (in any way) having sex: - Ernest Borgnine - Marty Feldman - Either of the Olson twins - Steve Buscemi - Vincent Schiavelli - Whoopi Goldberg - Christopher Walken - Clint Howard - Jack Elam - Madonna
You're right - Street View was the first to display street views.
But only if you discount Street Atlas, which showed 3D representations of buildings along routes in cities going back to the early/mid 1980s (I saw a demonstration of their *"terrestrial virtual presence" technology when I was in university). And you should also discount Veredi that sued Google in 2012 for patent infringement regarding their technology showing street images at specific locations.
Street View is a great product, but it wasn't first.
I originally started this post by asking when did Google ever innovate as I would argue that from a product/solution perspective Google has never produced anything before anybody else or entered an under-serviced market with a truly game changing product.
It seems to me that Google's success was in its ability to listen to customers, hear their complaints and produce (or improve existing) products to address their concerns. Google's innovation comes in the form of better/simple UIs and the underlying algorithms.
I think the ability to understand what the customer is saying/complaining about existing solutions is what has driven the innovation and growth at Google. The question is if this is still true.
I suspect, the answer is a qualified no - like any huge company, Google reach has increased and the people with the passion/perspective/skills that made the company a success in the first place can't be a part of/don't have the expertise of the various business groups of the company, which is the cause of the innovation dilution that Mr. Yegge has experienced.
But, "honesty"? I guess in the Trump White House it doesn't matter, which is unfortunate because the information is going to be used to place Americans in harm's way and would be critical in negotiating with other countries (trade, arms reduction, etc.).
Update it - don't kill it! Good form factor, reasonable IO. Update the screen, the processor and maybe memory (although the current memory is sized nicely for my needs) and let it go another 10 years.
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Maybe it's different in the US, but here in Canada, Best Buy has evolved into a chrome plated appliance store with phones, video gaming, cameras, computers, audio (in that order) with any technology at least a year old and marked down.
They do know *their* market, but I don't see any indication that they're working to a trend, instead they're looking at floor space and where they can make the most money.
For our friends in the US, this is a very important issue (I would argue that it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters") but is there any surprise that there are hyper-partisan comments (and moderations)?
I don't think putting this article up is going to a) inform anybody (this is probably the easiest thing on the net right now to download/see) or b) change anybody's mind - I can't see a supporter of Mr. Trump converting the other side that the FBI was working at removing him from office.
So... Why put it up here, other than to generate clicks and traffic?
Makes sense - if you're doing a study, you should pick a group of people you can ask questions of at any time.
As in "Alan", "Allan" or "Allen".
I guess we should call him "Mr. Al" as really is a powerful guy.
Be interesting to see which came first, "SAFE" or Season 3 (I believe) of "Silicon Valley" where Richard Hendricks gets the idea for the distributed interwebs?
If it was Silicon Valley, can they sue? I imagine they would want to, just to get publicity about what's being described in the show.
I really feel like Apple needs a Jobs infusion, stat.
The PC lineup has stagnated.
They don't see the value of continuing the iPod (something Mr. Jobs was passionate about).
The phones are continuing on a modest growth path in terms of performance/Flash size but nothing disruptive (ie iPhone X falling flat).
They're dropping the server line.
Their stores are nice and, to be fair, getting better.
Mr. Cook has always been a competent CEO but they need somebody who looks at things differently and sees where things can be amazing, not just better.
Even asking that means you're new here.
They surely are.
A couple of interesting (and funny) replies.
It wasn't a drill - it was a mistake.
So, they reach maturity at 6 months and stay at the same point for the rest of their lives. I would like to know what kills them at 30.
Is it the telemores in their cells being used up and shutting down the animal or is there something else at play? Did they pass through a different evolutionary process which makes the established Gompertz-Makeham law invalid for them?
Can anybody comment?
Peter, I don't think you're explaining it correctly.
The NTSC colour burst MUST, MUST, MUST be 3.579545MHz and be located on the back porch of the horizontal synch for a set number of cycles (sorry, I can't remember the number). Once the hsynch/colour burst interval has past and you are into the active video period, you could set the luminance of the signal to a medium grey and then insert the 3.58MHz signal with a sub-carrier as you describe to get different colours. The problem with this method is that it wasn't very helpful to fix problems with TV sets.
A more typical method of testing TV colour output performance was to use a color-bar generator which would send a phase shifted color burst clock output in the active video period - This would allow a technician to check the position of the bars (make sure the horizontal sweep generator was working properly) and see specific colour outputs. When I was a kid, I built one of these with the colour bars generated using a 74S151 8 to 1 multiplexor with the inputs being the colour burst clock signal incrementally delayed using multiple TTL buffers.
Interesting seeing people's incorrect perceptions on 1970s/1980s TV technology.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there were very strong standards for signal timing precision - a bit of Googling found: https://antiqueradio.org/art/N...
Colour Burst frequency tolerance is +/-0.0003% which works out to roughly 10hz (I guess I mis-remembered or was thinking in terms of practical values).
It wasn't all capacitors back then - lots of silicon, although they were fairly discrete functions at the time. You can get an idea of what a Sony Trinitron TV had inside it here: https://www.manualslib.com/pro...
Interesting thought - I just took a quick look at the schematics of the CX2600 & CX2600A gaming systems at: http://www.atariage.com/2600/a...
and saw that there is only one main system clock which is roughly 3.58MHz - that means that this clock is not only used for the processor but for the video signal's NTSC colour burst (3.579545MHz).. I can't find a reference to the exact colour burst frequency tolerance (I thought it was around 20ppm or around 70hz) that is required for a proper TV signal output.
Having a colour burst outside of the tolerance would mean, at a minimum, messed up colours and maybe the inability for a TV set to be able to display an output at all. No way could a variation of 5% (1/20 of a second) be tolerated by a TV Set.
I guess all my NTSC knowledge/Skills/Experience are now worthless - except for trivia in cases like this.
For having the longest standing video game record being declared impossible.
From Merriam-Webster:
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
- https://www.merriam-webster.co...
I keep hearing/reading about people who think the book Starship Troopers is about a fascistic society and I don't get it, especially when I compare the society expressed in the book to definitions of fascism.
Juan Rico, who is revealed to be Filipino at the end of the book and we don't know where he grew up, joins up to win the ability to vote and is trained in a melting pot camp in Western Canada (I'm presuming that because of the name of the camp, Arthur Currie). There is no discussion, let alone glorification of a central "leader", nor is there any apparent racism.
There is what we would consider brutal corporal punishment rather than incarceration, but this is a result of the society's "superior" (from the perspective of the book's characters) understanding of psychology. When the book was written, hanging was still a common form of capital punishment and public hangings had only ended about 25 years before.
I've always read in the book as being set in a society that resulted after a terrible war and is presented by people who had that experience and perspective.
I'm trying to think of why that's the case - maybe more Hotmail accounts are used as source addresses for spam and more effort is required to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I tried to search on this but couldn't find any current articles/references commenting on this.
Could there be a lot of Hotmail users, who have been thrown through the windshield from an accident, that have been found still clutching their phones with a half finished email?
If that's the case, then I don't have any issues with them getting higher insurance rates.
As I'm writing this, I can't read the whole article unless I give my contact information so I'm going to wait for somebody to post another link.
I'd love to see the analysis behind the rate increase for HotMail users - I'm guessing there are other factors that come into play that causes them to use HotMail (maybe an extra/missing chromosome?). Personally, I don't know of anybody I currently correspond with who use HotMail (checked my contact lists) but maybe this is something that is different between North America and Europe.
Could it say something about people who use Microsoft products? If I show them how much I hate Windows 10, would I get more money off my car insurance?
Let's see who we wouldn't want to be able to visualize (in any way) having sex:
- Ernest Borgnine
- Marty Feldman
- Either of the Olson twins
- Steve Buscemi
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Christopher Walken
- Clint Howard
- Jack Elam
- Madonna
I'll skiip the obvious political ones.
You're right - Street View was the first to display street views.
But only if you discount Street Atlas, which showed 3D representations of buildings along routes in cities going back to the early/mid 1980s (I saw a demonstration of their *"terrestrial virtual presence" technology when I was in university). And you should also discount Veredi that sued Google in 2012 for patent infringement regarding their technology showing street images at specific locations.
Street View is a great product, but it wasn't first.
No, MapQuest was in existence *long* before Google and had their first web product in 1996 (two years before Google was founded).
What Google did was make quality maps available for free, easy to use and then, listening to customers (see my post below), added Street View.
I originally started this post by asking when did Google ever innovate as I would argue that from a product/solution perspective Google has never produced anything before anybody else or entered an under-serviced market with a truly game changing product.
It seems to me that Google's success was in its ability to listen to customers, hear their complaints and produce (or improve existing) products to address their concerns. Google's innovation comes in the form of better/simple UIs and the underlying algorithms.
I think the ability to understand what the customer is saying/complaining about existing solutions is what has driven the innovation and growth at Google. The question is if this is still true.
I suspect, the answer is a qualified no - like any huge company, Google reach has increased and the people with the passion/perspective/skills that made the company a success in the first place can't be a part of/don't have the expertise of the various business groups of the company, which is the cause of the innovation dilution that Mr. Yegge has experienced.
Deception to outsiders - any government needs honesty in its intelligence organizations.
Who else to give responsibility for the changes to?
They're a spy organization for god's sake.
But, "honesty"? I guess in the Trump White House it doesn't matter, which is unfortunate because the information is going to be used to place Americans in harm's way and would be critical in negotiating with other countries (trade, arms reduction, etc.).
Getting rid of a great product - my thoughts on it: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Update it - don't kill it! Good form factor, reasonable IO. Update the screen, the processor and maybe memory (although the current memory is sized nicely for my needs) and let it go another 10 years.