If we're successful in sending packets, we'll increase packet size, and we'll download multiple blocks at a time, even if the ack/nak for the previous ones hasn't been fully processed then.
Any scheme using AD DA conversion introduces loss. At all times. Always. You can get it to a point where your input data and output data are virtually identical, but it's still virtually identical. It's never the same signal.
So your 'perfect reproduction' argument is not only flawed, it shows you don't quite understand what's happening.
On the other hand a lot of the studio recordings nowadays are made in a digital format as well, although almost without exception at a much higher sample rate than that used on CDs. Otherwise mixing and redubbing music (introducing back chords, etc) will degrade the quality even further.
Uhm... A climber for the space elevator doesn't actually carry its own energy source, which cuts down enormously on weight (this in contrast to a rocket, which is pretty much ONLY energy source, and very little effective cargo)
And a space elevator will make it all free... A space elevator is anything but cheap.
You my friend, are totally missing the point. The actual building of a space elevator might be insanely expensive, but once it's there, getting things into space will be insanely cheap (in comparison to current day prices), and actually building a spacecraft that doesn't need to get out of the earth's gravity well would be feasible. This opens up a whole new way of doing things, and a whole new avenue for exploration (we might actually *get* to mine all those asteroids, after all, we can also cheaply send down all those minerals)
Getting rid of the expensive, unreliable bigass fireworks we're using today would be worth it.
Demand for oil stays same, or even rises a bit. Supply of oil reduces (a lot) due to loss of some key refineries. Building new refinery costs up to 10 years.
Now engage brain and find obvious answer to your question why the oil companies are making so much money. And even if they would want to build refineries with that profit, they don't just 'appear' by pumping a few billion dollars into it. It's not an RTS game.
What he's saying is that it having started with that, a phenomenon that is *actually* harmful, people will get panicked by any 'radiation' related bullshit.
They don't just 'work as good', they're actually the same keyboard.
IBM keyboards were later made by Lexmark and later yet again by Unicomp. They're the same design, same functionality, same noisy bastard you can kill a co-worker with as the old IBM bricks.
(And yes, it's the keyboard I type the fastest on, because of the force feedback feel)
Actually, I think what i have as a tell interceptor now works quite well. I can just ignore anything from everyone under level 6, which takes care of (for now) all the gold spammers.
I wish Blizz would implement something along those lines, since the interceptor works through the who command, which isn't able to provide constant information.
But the spelling 'Columbia' has absolutely bugger all to do with the district or the state. It's spelled 'Columbia' in quite a lot of languages (as in the country that in english is called 'Colombia'), so it really isn't a point of mixing up 2 names, rather than not knowing/using the actual english name for the same country.
There are some (IMO, really poorly thought-out) proposals that would change the U.S. system to a "first to file" one, which is more common throughout the rest of the world, but it hasn't happened yet.
Then again.. In most of the rest of the world, software patents are either not accepted, not condoned, illegal, or considered plain stupid. (Which is one reason why Microsoft has quite some problems with the European Comission)
I live in The Netherlands, and mobile service here has been pretty much perfect for the last couple of years. Not actually having service is extremely rare (generally only happens in closed metal buildings or elevators).
My experience in the US however in that regard is quite horrible. Even if you manage to get connectivity, the quality is so far below useful that you can just as well use a carrier pigeon.
Most European countries have excellent coverage, and pricing is quite good as well. I'd guess that the penetration of mobile services over here is much better than in the US. (In Finland for example, the average mobile phones per user is larger than one:)
And I haven't had a landline for the last 6 years or so, and never missed it. Although for that matter I don't have a TV either, so I might just be weird.
Has science always been this inexorable in it's progress?
It really depends on what you consider progress, and in what timeframes you're looking.
During the 1650-1700 period a LOT of 'new science' was thought out, by such people as Newton, Leibniz, Spinoza, Huygens. Not all of it well grounded, not all of it useful, but that was a time where a lot of new thoughts were 'floating around' and being proven and disproven on an almost daily basis. These were people that set out to 'know everything' and in the process ended up creating a base that a lot of modern science still uses. Back then you only needed a rich patron to spend the rest of your life doing research. Nowadays, you're going to need corporate or governmental backing (either in academics or not) to get most things done.
In comparison the 8 centuries before that, pretty much nothing of note happened for a long long time. It also very much depends (as someone else mentioned as well) on the social and political environment of the time.
But if you're thinking that science nowadays is progressing, I can't totally agree. In certain fields it is, but other fields for example are totally stagnant, once again mostly due to politosocial environment issues.
NASA is hardly doing to amount of discoveries they're capable of, due to simple lack of funding. The same goes for a lot of 'fusion' projects, for example. Mainly it's a limitation of technology vs cost. To expand on things now, the costs are so high as to sometimes be completely prohibitive.
I thought the key was a component of the encryption tool. Which sort of makes it a component of the decryption tool. Being used by numerous appliances that can actually play this sort of content...
I use the letter "A" as encryption key for my specially made barf-cough-hack CD, so now I'm sueing pretty much everyone because they're using the letter "A" in publications about my CD.
And to add to that: LZ in for example ARJ archives (if you select the Huffman coding that is), is only used to build the initial statistical tables that are then used by the Huffman algorithm. Although you can get ARJ to just 'store' files and inflate/deflate them without using Huffman purely in LZ. (and that gives horrible compression rates)
Juggernaught is not a word.. I can imagine it being something along the lines of naught but juggs (Titties!), but it's not an actual word.
The word you're looking for is 'Juggernaut', from an old Hindi word used as an alias for Vishnu, Lord of life and death, present and future, creation and destruction..
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If we're successful in sending packets, we'll increase packet size, and we'll download multiple blocks at a time, even if the ack/nak for the previous ones hasn't been fully processed then.
:)
Hmm.. Sounds like I want my Zmodem back
Any scheme using AD DA conversion introduces loss. At all times. Always. You can get it to a point where your input data and output data are virtually identical, but it's still virtually identical. It's never the same signal.
So your 'perfect reproduction' argument is not only flawed, it shows you don't quite understand what's happening.
On the other hand a lot of the studio recordings nowadays are made in a digital format as well, although almost without exception at a much higher sample rate than that used on CDs. Otherwise mixing and redubbing music (introducing back chords, etc) will degrade the quality even further.
Uhm... A climber for the space elevator doesn't actually carry its own energy source, which cuts down enormously on weight (this in contrast to a rocket, which is pretty much ONLY energy source, and very little effective cargo)
You my friend, are totally missing the point. The actual building of a space elevator might be insanely expensive, but once it's there, getting things into space will be insanely cheap (in comparison to current day prices), and actually building a spacecraft that doesn't need to get out of the earth's gravity well would be feasible. This opens up a whole new way of doing things, and a whole new avenue for exploration (we might actually *get* to mine all those asteroids, after all, we can also cheaply send down all those minerals)
Getting rid of the expensive, unreliable bigass fireworks we're using today would be worth it.
Is another valid option :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. for the Wiki entry.
As we all know, the definition of Politicks is quite straight forward. It's a mangling of different languages and words.
Poly from the Greek 'multiple'
Tick from the little bloodsucking insect.
So Politicks are Multiple Bloodsucking Insects. See! There. Inrefutable proof.
Demand for oil stays same, or even rises a bit.
Supply of oil reduces (a lot) due to loss of some key refineries.
Building new refinery costs up to 10 years.
Now engage brain and find obvious answer to your question why the oil companies are making so much money. And even if they would want to build refineries with that profit, they don't just 'appear' by pumping a few billion dollars into it. It's not an RTS game.
http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20070521
:)
Everyone writes only about Starcraft 2
What he's saying is that it having started with that, a phenomenon that is *actually* harmful, people will get panicked by any 'radiation' related bullshit.
So why did you use 'Windows Tedium Fenter' as your subject? I don't get it...
They don't just 'work as good', they're actually the same keyboard.
IBM keyboards were later made by Lexmark and later yet again by Unicomp. They're the same design, same functionality, same noisy bastard you can kill a co-worker with as the old IBM bricks.
(And yes, it's the keyboard I type the fastest on, because of the force feedback feel)
Actually, I think what i have as a tell interceptor now works quite well. I can just ignore anything from everyone under level 6, which takes care of (for now) all the gold spammers.
I wish Blizz would implement something along those lines, since the interceptor works through the who command, which isn't able to provide constant information.
I'm sorry..
But the spelling 'Columbia' has absolutely bugger all to do with the district or the state. It's spelled 'Columbia' in quite a lot of languages (as in the country that in english is called 'Colombia'), so it really isn't a point of mixing up 2 names, rather than not knowing/using the actual english name for the same country.
Then again.. In most of the rest of the world, software patents are either not accepted, not condoned, illegal, or considered plain stupid. (Which is one reason why Microsoft has quite some problems with the European Comission)
You might even say that the Free Software Movement is in its "Last Chair Throes"
There. Fixed that for you.
I live in The Netherlands, and mobile service here has been pretty much perfect for the last couple of years. Not actually having service is extremely rare (generally only happens in closed metal buildings or elevators).
:)
My experience in the US however in that regard is quite horrible. Even if you manage to get connectivity, the quality is so far below useful that you can just as well use a carrier pigeon.
Most European countries have excellent coverage, and pricing is quite good as well. I'd guess that the penetration of mobile services over here is much better than in the US. (In Finland for example, the average mobile phones per user is larger than one
And I haven't had a landline for the last 6 years or so, and never missed it. Although for that matter I don't have a TV either, so I might just be weird.
Or a lot worse: Zack ;)
Sushi in fishbowl.
It really depends on what you consider progress, and in what timeframes you're looking.
During the 1650-1700 period a LOT of 'new science' was thought out, by such people as Newton, Leibniz, Spinoza, Huygens. Not all of it well grounded, not all of it useful, but that was a time where a lot of new thoughts were 'floating around' and being proven and disproven on an almost daily basis. These were people that set out to 'know everything' and in the process ended up creating a base that a lot of modern science still uses. Back then you only needed a rich patron to spend the rest of your life doing research. Nowadays, you're going to need corporate or governmental backing (either in academics or not) to get most things done.
In comparison the 8 centuries before that, pretty much nothing of note happened for a long long time. It also very much depends (as someone else mentioned as well) on the social and political environment of the time.
But if you're thinking that science nowadays is progressing, I can't totally agree. In certain fields it is, but other fields for example are totally stagnant, once again mostly due to politosocial environment issues.
NASA is hardly doing to amount of discoveries they're capable of, due to simple lack of funding. The same goes for a lot of 'fusion' projects, for example. Mainly it's a limitation of technology vs cost. To expand on things now, the costs are so high as to sometimes be completely prohibitive.
A shame really..
Well..
:) Good to see something 'new'....
It's nice to see that the cable companies are doing exactly the same thing as the Trailblazer modems did 20 years ago..
It amazes me it took them so long, considering the fact that all cable systems are already multiplexing frequencies like crazy to begin with.
Ah well
It's bloody ancient, but I actually *still* play that game. So that'd be a definite pick for me :)
I thought the key was a component of the encryption tool. Which sort of makes it a component of the decryption tool. Being used by numerous appliances that can actually play this sort of content...
I use the letter "A" as encryption key for my specially made barf-cough-hack CD, so now I'm sueing pretty much everyone because they're using the letter "A" in publications about my CD.
Hmm. Yups! Profit!
Windows in a firewall kind of negate the whole advantage of having a firewall to begin with..
Uhm....
To quote a movie I found surprisingly funny, in response to someone needing advice because they'd been arrested again:
"Stop breaking the fucking law!"
And to add to that: LZ in for example ARJ archives (if you select the Huffman coding that is), is only used to build the initial statistical tables that are then used by the Huffman algorithm. Although you can get ARJ to just 'store' files and inflate/deflate them without using Huffman purely in LZ. (and that gives horrible compression rates)
Uhm...
Juggernaught is not a word.. I can imagine it being something along the lines of naught but juggs (Titties!), but it's not an actual word.
The word you're looking for is 'Juggernaut', from an old Hindi word used as an alias for Vishnu, Lord of life and death, present and future, creation and destruction..