What you hear is the flyback transformer rattling at a very high frequency and a solid color means it will have a more consistent A/C load so it vibrates with less noise so its louder. When the colors change, the color guns introduce a small amount of noise into the power supply.
Even though the old folks might not be able to hear it consciously, it still affects them. People become moody, short tempered, and in general, quite bitchy. I think this is because the brain is not exempt from Nyquist's Theorem and the ear does detect sounds above 20,000 kHz but the brain doesn't hear them. Some studies have show there are parts of the ear that may be sensitive to nearly 60,000 kHz and the size of things inside the cochlea would be tuned for frequencies much higher than what people can hear.
...do just steal Nessus So are you saying the people who use it without paying are stealing it or are you talking about the compaines that are making other products and taking the ideas out of Nessus and using it in their own products?
If everyone published in the web and not in high brow journals, then the journals would have little or no value. The problem with that is modern world of the PhD program is "publish or perish." If there is no place to publish that is peer reviewed and has the perks of being a closed publication environment, then there is no value in publishing at all for some of these researchers.
I personally think that the current academic and scientific journals will virtually disappear only when someone gets a Noble prize who only published on the web but I don't see that happening for a very long time.
Your statement of them losing 10% is a fact from their annual report... but I think the details in the article seem overpriced. Lets take "Other items packaged with the console -- including the power supply, cables, and controllers -- add another $55"... Power supply should be about $6 if they get a nice switching type that only takes 120V. Cables are $3 at most from any reputable cable maker in China. That leaves the controllers. The controllers are about as complex as a TV remote control. I can get generic remotes for about $2 each if I want to buy 100. So that extra $55 is more like an extra $20 and it could be much less. If they can't get the dollar figures right for the simple stuff, how did they get it right for the rest?
Its a 4GL with XML inplace of SQL? Most of the old 4GL databases are something on the order of 10,000 times faster than any SQL I've ever seen. This could give them a massive speed increase.
But what do I know, I've been running major databases in flat files for decades because I figure a modern OS/VM system can cope with 1 gig of real data faster any combination of data+database over head in the problems I deal with.
Its even more than that. I have an early document involving some of the excel code after they started merging it with word and calling it office. You can tell it started out being a simple structure that stuff just got put in and then expanded as well as improperly documents. So the field that held the text with when imported from word ended up being HN liTextWidth yet part of the time that ended up as value to make sure there weren't loops in the recalculation engine or something equally obscure if your looking at a field called "liTextWidth".
And I wonder why I've hated word ever since I had to use it on an AT&T 3b2 running Unix[tm].
The Aussie gov't introduced a concept of "Chain of Responsibility" to deal with workplace accidents. The result is that the jury gets to decide if they company knew there was a problem with the normal "reasonable doubt" issues and if they find the company was in error, then everyone along the the "Chain of Responsibility" is up for jail time or fines. From what I can tell, this concept is based on very old British common law and a very US style corporations law so I expect that a good lawyer in the US could pull off the same effect.
They do know that shipping containers have a bad habit of just going missing don't they?
If google is known to run a bunch of hot boxes spread all over the world, how long will it take for someone to slap "google" on a container and run a hydroponic operation inside it?
Is it a slap on the writs? I've banned Sony/BMG CDs from work. Its a security threat and that can get you removed from the job so don't even dare to bring in a Sony or BMG cd until the rules get changed. If an artist is stupid enough to sign with these idiots or stay signed, they get what they deserve.
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The point is any large billion dollar company no longer can be considered a US company (or any other country). The research in each division of most major companies work in a way that keeps the local governments happy. All of these companies get tax benefits for doing research and some even get given money by governments to find cures for specific problems. While Daimler Chrysler is in a different business line, their research for Mercedes is different than how they do research for Chrysler. The German government still gives the Mercedes road safety research money that doesn't go to Chrysler. The same is true for US grants to study some types of corn pests and how the Aussie gov't gives money to drug companies to study diseases that mostly effect Aboriginal populations.
You claimed Chrion was a US company. I claim it has no real specific country claims its some is based on 100 year old mergers of European companies. I expect with some digging I could come up with proof most if not all of the companies I've mention are actually based in some Caribbean country best known for being a tax haven for large companies.
What we do see from reading the stock holder reports is that 1) they are making lots of money and dumping some of that back into research and 2) they have to warn stock holders that their profit margin on many drugs could disappear based on other companies research or other discoveries.
Since I've been involved with software that does some of the deep mathematical magic in getting drugs approved in the US and have seen how research works in the US and other places, I contend that if a large US pharmaceutical company is given the choice of getting $10 million once off profit for discovering a cure or 5 million a year for a treatment for symptoms they will take the $5 mil per year. I'm also not sure they have any legal choice on the matter either based on corporate law and their obligations to their stockholders.
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You mention Pfizer and Chiron but where are these companies like Glaxo Smith Klin or even Daimler Chrysler "from" in this day and age. Chiron has merged with how many companies over the years? Why is a 25 year old company celebrating advances in vaccines it did 100 years ago? Things get odd when you start looking at different research units inside multi-nationals and how they are funded.
H pylori used to account for a higher percentage of problem but the point I'm trying to make is a bit of novel research and a few million doses of antibiotics made a huge dent in the very lucrative anti-acid business. I expect that government research grants in countries with socialized medicine may have quite a few strings attached to encourage research in a different direction than cooperate research for the US market. I spoke to an Aussie GP the other day and he claimed that the Galxo rep only shows up about once a year compared to the US market where they are always available for a round of golf.
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How about the budget for Viagra marketing budget being more than the entire R&D budget of the company that makes nearly all of the existing flu vaccines. Then there is the stomach ulcer research in the US that brought out billions of dollars every year in anti-acids while a few guys doing real research fond the culprit and that wiped billions off the ulcer business. Check the drugs that are given in the 3rd world where the doctors may have one chance to immunize a kid for everything for their entire life. Most of those drugs aren't made by the US drug industry even though it spends many times more than every one else. If you want to find your own examples, look at the annual report of the different companies.
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Right now the US pharmaceutical industry makes most of its money with drugs the reduce symptoms and doesn't cure anything. Right now the flu symptom fixing drugs is about a 10 billion dollar a year industry. The common cold industry has a number of of drugs that make you feel much better but you end up being more contagious for longer so you can spread your cold to even more coworkers.
This is in sharp contrast to the pharmaceutical research done in other countries that are more interested in finding real cures.
The addresses may be strictly hierarchical but peer routing isn't. That means there upstream routers that don't just feed everything upstream are going to need massive amounts of memory.
And what are the memory requirements for the upstream routers? From what I can tell, its much worse than IPv4. The only reason we are running out of IPv4 address is because the memory requirements for core routers required consolidating routes.
There is plenty of room inside the new photo ipod to put a phone if you replace the drive with a few gig of flash. There is enough room inside an 2 gig ipod nano to put a phone it in as well.
They aren't unique for active ones either. I think the rule is "They are unique combined with a name". If I remember right there are a few documented cases in Risk's digest and Telecom digest over the decades.
I think the SS admin should start printing two extra digits on the next million or so cards just to encourage people to stop using it as a id number.
I wonder if this idiot knows just how many of his customers google can get a message to in very short order.
Can google step up to the plate and expand their motto to help keep others from doing evil too?
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Try starting up your own cable provider/ISP company, for example. Chances are you won't find a city willing to let you in. The cable companies haven't done their end of the deal with the educational TV requirements of most of those exclusive contracts. There are ways to get a new cable company into most small towns you are willing to push.
Right now I'm in a house that has a small "All Electric" label on the front that was put there sometime in the 1960's. The house now has a gas heater because gas was cheaper to heat with in the 1980's. With enough new nuke plants then many existing house could be converted to electric heat. In 20 years the use of petrol based fuels could be drastically reduced but that would require some long term planning which doesn't seem to be in fashion any more.
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What you hear is the flyback transformer rattling at a very high frequency and a solid color means it will have a more consistent A/C load so it vibrates with less noise so its louder. When the colors change, the color guns introduce a small amount of noise into the power supply.
Even though the old folks might not be able to hear it consciously, it still affects them. People become moody, short tempered, and in general, quite bitchy.
I think this is because the brain is not exempt from Nyquist's Theorem and the ear does detect sounds above 20,000 kHz but the brain doesn't hear them. Some studies have show there are parts of the ear that may be sensitive to nearly 60,000 kHz and the size of things inside the cochlea would be tuned for frequencies much higher than what people can hear.
I just love that open NBX system so much. Heres a rant
...do just steal Nessus
So are you saying the people who use it without paying are stealing it or are you talking about the compaines that are making other products and taking the ideas out of Nessus and using it in their own products?
If everyone published in the web and not in high brow journals, then the journals would have little or no value. The problem with that is modern world of the PhD program is "publish or perish." If there is no place to publish that is peer reviewed and has the perks of being a closed publication environment, then there is no value in publishing at all for some of these researchers.
I personally think that the current academic and scientific journals will virtually disappear only when someone gets a Noble prize who only published on the web but I don't see that happening for a very long time.
Your statement of them losing 10% is a fact from their annual report... but I think the details in the article seem overpriced.
Lets take "Other items packaged with the console -- including the power supply, cables, and controllers -- add another $55"...
Power supply should be about $6 if they get a nice switching type that only takes 120V. Cables are $3 at most from any reputable cable maker in China. That leaves the controllers. The controllers are about as complex as a TV remote control. I can get generic remotes for about $2 each if I want to buy 100. So that extra $55 is more like an extra $20 and it could be much less. If they can't get the dollar figures right for the simple stuff, how did they get it right for the rest?
Its a 4GL with XML inplace of SQL?
Most of the old 4GL databases are something on the order of 10,000 times faster than any SQL I've ever seen.
This could give them a massive speed increase.
But what do I know, I've been running major databases in flat files for decades because I figure a modern OS/VM system can cope with 1 gig of real data faster any combination of data+database over head in the problems I deal with.
Its even more than that. I have an early document involving some of the excel code after they started merging it with word and calling it office. You can tell it started out being a simple structure that stuff just got put in and then expanded as well as improperly documents. So the field that held the text with when imported from word ended up being HN liTextWidth yet part of the time that ended up as value to make sure there weren't loops in the recalculation engine or something equally obscure if your looking at a field called "liTextWidth".
And I wonder why I've hated word ever since I had to use it on an AT&T 3b2 running Unix[tm].
The Aussie gov't introduced a concept of "Chain of Responsibility" to deal with workplace accidents. The result is that the jury gets to decide if they company knew there was a problem with the normal "reasonable doubt" issues and if they find the company was in error, then everyone along the the "Chain of Responsibility" is up for jail time or fines. From what I can tell, this concept is based on very old British common law and a very US style corporations law so I expect that a good lawyer in the US could pull off the same effect.
They do know that shipping containers have a bad habit of just going missing don't they?
If google is known to run a bunch of hot boxes spread all over the world, how long will it take for someone to slap "google" on a container and run a hydroponic operation inside it?
Autorun is off but you can't count it it staying that way so banning Sony/BMG audio CD's is just an extra precaution.
Is it a slap on the writs? I've banned Sony/BMG CDs from work. Its a security threat and that can get you removed from the job so don't even dare to bring in a Sony or BMG cd until the rules get changed.
If an artist is stupid enough to sign with these idiots or stay signed, they get what they deserve.
The point is any large billion dollar company no longer can be considered a US company (or any other country). The research in each division of most major companies work in a way that keeps the local governments happy. All of these companies get tax benefits for doing research and some even get given money by governments to find cures for specific problems. While Daimler Chrysler is in a different business line, their research for Mercedes is different than how they do research for Chrysler. The German government still gives the Mercedes road safety research money that doesn't go to Chrysler. The same is true for US grants to study some types of corn pests and how the Aussie gov't gives money to drug companies to study diseases that mostly effect Aboriginal populations.
You claimed Chrion was a US company. I claim it has no real specific country claims its some is based on 100 year old mergers of European companies. I expect with some digging I could come up with proof most if not all of the companies I've mention are actually based in some Caribbean country best known for being a tax haven for large companies.
What we do see from reading the stock holder reports is that 1) they are making lots of money and dumping some of that back into research and 2) they have to warn stock holders that their profit margin on many drugs could disappear based on other companies research or other discoveries.
Since I've been involved with software that does some of the deep mathematical magic in getting drugs approved in the US and have seen how research works in the US and other places, I contend that if a large US pharmaceutical company is given the choice of getting $10 million once off profit for discovering a cure or 5 million a year for a treatment for symptoms they will take the $5 mil per year. I'm also not sure they have any legal choice on the matter either based on corporate law and their obligations to their stockholders.
You mention Pfizer and Chiron but where are these companies like Glaxo Smith Klin or even Daimler Chrysler "from" in this day and age. Chiron has merged with how many companies over the years? Why is a 25 year old company celebrating advances in vaccines it did 100 years ago? Things get odd when you start looking at different research units inside multi-nationals and how they are funded.
H pylori used to account for a higher percentage of problem but the point I'm trying to make is a bit of novel research and a few million doses of antibiotics made a huge dent in the very lucrative anti-acid business. I expect that government research grants in countries with socialized medicine may have quite a few strings attached to encourage research in a different direction than cooperate research for the US market. I spoke to an Aussie GP the other day and he claimed that the Galxo rep only shows up about once a year compared to the US market where they are always available for a round of golf.
How about the budget for Viagra marketing budget being more than the entire R&D budget of the company that makes nearly all of the existing flu vaccines. Then there is the stomach ulcer research in the US that brought out billions of dollars every year in anti-acids while a few guys doing real research fond the culprit and that wiped billions off the ulcer business. Check the drugs that are given in the 3rd world where the doctors may have one chance to immunize a kid for everything for their entire life. Most of those drugs aren't made by the US drug industry even though it spends many times more than every one else. If you want to find your own examples, look at the annual report of the different companies.
Right now the US pharmaceutical industry makes most of its money with drugs the reduce symptoms and doesn't cure anything. Right now the flu symptom fixing drugs is about a 10 billion dollar a year industry. The common cold industry has a number of of drugs that make you feel much better but you end up being more contagious for longer so you can spread your cold to even more coworkers.
This is in sharp contrast to the pharmaceutical research done in other countries that are more interested in finding real cures.
The addresses may be strictly hierarchical but peer routing isn't. That means there upstream routers that don't just feed everything upstream are going to need massive amounts of memory.
And what are the memory requirements for the upstream routers? From what I can tell, its much worse than IPv4. The only reason we are running out of IPv4 address is because the memory requirements for core routers required consolidating routes.
There is plenty of room inside the new photo ipod to put a phone if you replace the drive with a few gig of flash. There is enough room inside an 2 gig ipod nano to put a phone it in as well.
They aren't unique for active ones either. I think the rule is "They are unique combined with a name". If I remember right there are a few documented cases in Risk's digest and Telecom digest over the decades.
I think the SS admin should start printing two extra digits on the next million or so cards just to encourage people to stop using it as a id number.
I wonder if this idiot knows just how many of his customers google can get a message to in very short order.
Can google step up to the plate and expand their motto to help keep others from doing evil too?
Try starting up your own cable provider/ISP company, for example. Chances are you won't find a city willing to let you in.
The cable companies haven't done their end of the deal with the educational TV requirements of most of those exclusive contracts. There are ways to get a new cable company into most small towns you are willing to push.
Right now I'm in a house that has a small "All Electric" label on the front that was put there sometime in the 1960's. The house now has a gas heater because gas was cheaper to heat with in the 1980's. With enough new nuke plants then many existing house could be converted to electric heat. In 20 years the use of petrol based fuels could be drastically reduced but that would require some long term planning which doesn't seem to be in fashion any more.
As the guy from the government says:
This is not the inflation you are looking for. You can go about your business.
From what I've seen your use of the word "Novel" is exactly the same as the way the USPO uses it.