They hand you instruments used 200 years ago and say "Code!"
BYOS (Bring Your Own Server). Linux runs fine on laptops. You'll have all the tools you need, the way YOU like them. It's also a handy "working reference implementation." And to really mess with their head, bring your own WAP as well.
However, even with "explaining the role-playing model", yelling at a woman during a job interview is dicey. Be smart - don't do it, even during an interview. Interviews are more stressful than "real life" to begin with. And doing it later on, on the job, could end up with you either in the hospital (when co-workers intervene or you get maced) or in court.
So, what are you going to do? Just shout at the guys during interviews? That's sexual discrimination.
Here's a thought - conduct the interview in a fashion that communicates that you want the opportunity for both of you to get to know each other better professionally, to decide whether it's a good fit.
Hazing recruits was supposed to have gone out years ago.
and check the interface duplex. Obviously, the last set of answers is the right one.
First step is to run top, not to check the network. Just like the first step, when a car will crank over but won't start, isn't to pop the hood and start fiddling with the wires, but to check the gas gauge.
They had plenty of time to test it BEFORE release. I guess Apple is becoming more like Microsoft every day.
Jobs then said that according to their data, the iPhone 4 drops an average of less than one additional call per hundred than the 3GS.
If my phone was dropping one call in 100, I'd be royally p*ssed! 99% is crap. Imagine if your toilet only worked 99% of the time, or your fridge, or your car. Or that 99% of the time, nobody put their boogers in your fast food.
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Mine also displays 24p with no problems - however, the refresh rate is 600hz., not 24hz. It divides evenly - displaying each frame 25 times. Someone with a 120hz display can also display 24p correctly, displaying each frame 5 times (or they can choose to use the motion interpolation feature). However, anyone with a 60hz refresh rate is screwed - 24p requires a pulldown interlacing, because it's either that, or display one frame 2x, the next 3x, the next 2x, the next 3x - and that looks awful so nobody does it.
So unless your tv is 120, 240, 480, or 600 hz, you cannot display non-interlaced 24p.
Additionally, the picture - in ALL cases, has artifacts. It's always stored with lossy compression - and you get a lot more loss when there's more motion - look at the motion block encoding algorithms.
Nowhere in the "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question does it specify what type of egg. You are making an invalid assumption when you say "chicken egg".
The same as this:
Q: "Constantinople is a hard word to spell. Spell it."
A: "I", "T"
or:
Q: A doctor comes out of the emergency room and says "I can't operate on that patient. He's my son!" - but the doctor isn't the patient's father.
A: The doctor is the patient's mother.
In making assumptions, you make mistakes. For example, I've had to travel 1,400 km to "fix" some corporate software I wrote that would print from the mainframe, but one day stopped printing from the local pc.
They swore they had their techs check everything, multiple times, and this was software that was needed for government compliance.
Only took me a moment to find the problem, because *I* don't assume the obvious. The printer cable was unplugged from the back of the pc.
Or remember when the Athlons first came out? I watched as one store fried 6 cpus, one after another, by running them for a minute while the fan wasn't in place. "Oh, but it's only for a minute... it won't get that hot that quickly."
Don't assume the obvious - because you could be wrong. For yet another example, just look at my profile.
All chickens come from eggs, but not all eggs come from chickens.
There is no need whatsoever to take it further than that. Words have meanings - we're no in Alice in Wonderland, where you can say that "egg" refers only to a chicken egg.
The chicken/egg question is a metaphor for resolving a circular dependency.
No, it's not. It's a very straight-forward question. Which came first - and it's obvious that eggs were around before any warm-blooded animals existed, and that includes chickens. There is no circular dependency, just people who lack the ability to step out of the box, or make bad initial assumptions.
Additionally, even if we take your view, then the egg STILL came first - because any egg that gives rise to a chicken is by definition a "chicken egg", even if it was laid by something that was one generation prior to crossing some arbitrary boundary into "chickenhood" - since the chicken is only fully developed at some point after the egg is created, same as a human is not really a human when it's just a clump of cells (or your arm isn't a separate human being if we cut it off).
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If you're talking about movies on Bluray, they are typically recorded at 1080p24, which is progressive scan, not interlaced.
Don't be an idiot! Your TV doesn't show movies at 24 frames. 3:2 pulldown IS interlacing, and if you're watching a bluray at 1080 (even 1080p), it's been interlaced.
CNet estimates that a A recall would cost them $1.5B
It would cost them a LOT more than that. If the letter A were recalled, they'd be Pple Corportion.
And they'd sell iPds instead of iPads. Their stock symbol would have to change from AAPL to PL - but that's taken, and so is PPL. PPLE is available, but pple.com is owned by a squatter.
And it's not just Apple. If the letter A were recalled:
Canada becomes Cnd.
The planet Mrs? I though women were from Venus!
Caucasian sounds kind of dirty when you're a kid - but nowhere near as bad as Cucsin.
Barack Obama becoms Brck Obm
Barbara becomes Brbr (sounds more like an abbreviation for bathroom break).
The United States of America becomes United Sttes of Meric.
email becoms emil - sounds french
spam is no longer spam
who wants to ride in an uto, a trin, or a plne - but a bot sounds fun
when you die, you're ded, and they hold a wke to celebrte.
neither utumn nor fll sound like a season
Does Pril sound like a month? How about My? Ugust sounds windy instead of hot.
About the only good thing about recalling the letter a is that vaginas stay vgins - no matter how many times they're poked! Hmmm, on second thought, maybe it's worth 1.5 billion.
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, refresh rates below 120Hz are painfully noticeable
Only if you have other sources of intermittent lighting, such as fluorescent lights, or other monitors, that give a "beat frequency".
I clocked my eyes refreshing somewhere between 500 and 1000Hz by taking a known 60Hz LED source, moving my eye a certain arc length in a certain amount of time, and counting the number of discrete afterimage dots on my retina.
The eye doesn't work that way. Ask a biologist to explain.
That's neither here nor there, though. The reason 1080i sucks is due to deinterlacing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing), which was and is and always will be a hack.
And movies are shot at 24fps. so your argument fails, unless you think that they can "magically" restore the missing frames - they use interlacing, but they call it 3:2 pulldown. And this ignores that even bluray video is lossy to begin with.
"High-definition video may be stored on BD-ROMs with up to 1920×1080 pixel resolution at up to 59.94 fields per second, if interlaced. Alternatively, progressive scan can go up to 1920×1080 pixel resolution at 24 frames per second, or up to 1280x720 at up to 59.94 frames per second
So, your bluray video is interlaced at 1080x60fps. At 24fps it's also interlaced to show at 60hz or greater using a 3:2 pulldown. So no, I'm not "losing" anything at 1080i.
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Your eye can't see faster than 30 frames a second, or were all those decades watching TV an illusion? I think not.
On the way out of the store, I handed every customer a flyer explaining that they were refusing to refund the money even though they couldn't deliver as promised.
If it's an apple customer forum, and these are apple customers with a beef, isn't that the the place to address it, rather than censor it and invoke Barbara Streisand?
I mean, it sounds reasonable to prevent my angry customers from displaying all their filth on the front of my shop doesn't it?
Try it some time. I picketed a computer store that took a $300 deposit on a $3,000 computer, with a promised delivery date, missed the date, then admitted they couldn't deliver it and wanted to make substitutions, and wouldn't refund the money. I handed out flyers to every customer who walked in the door. They called the cops. I told the cops I was exercising my constitutional right to free speech and wasn't impeding people from entering or exiting. They called their supervisor - who turned out to have had a similar bad experience with that store. Got the refund within the hour.
Moral of the story - don't treat your customers like filth and they won't have cause to display YOUR filth in front of your store.
bitcoin will never go anywhere. It's a stupid idea. It's a flawed idea. It has no real-world analogue. It has no real-world utility. In the event of an attack, you have nobody to complain to, unlike if your bank accidentally screws up your account. It offers no advantages over current ways and means.
Executive summary: It's mental masturbation.
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1080i is 1920x1080/2 = 1920x540 resolution.
Want to try again? It's a full 1080 lines of vertical resolution, just that it's sent interleaved (that's what the "i" stands for) - odd lines first, then even lines (or vice versa), same as, for example, an interleaved jpeg. It's to save channel bandwidth. You get the full 1080 lines of vertical resolution, just 30 times a second instead of 60.
"In an environment where there is not an enforced indentation style, people don't all use the same ones (which, as you described things, was your case), so someone will use spaces.
So if you merge your code into that codebase, it should use spaces as well, so as not to mix tabs and spaces.
The fact that you think that your code is self-contained and a bit apart from the rest is irrelevant, because someone is eventually going to edit your code.
On the contrary - since others are going to use it (and everyone who doesn't use a hard tab to indent has their own display preferences), it's preferable to use only hard tabs in code that others are going to edit. Most editors can be configured to display hard tabs as "n" spaces, without losing the hard tab in the actual file, so people who want 4-space indents get it, ditto those who want 2, or 5, or whatever - onscreen.
The worst are the people who insist on listing all their parameters, one on a line, and they all have to line up under the first - this is totally retarded when I see code with 15 lines for parameters, all indented around column 90. Fix your damn code. First, there's no excuse to be that deeply indented. Second, there's no excuse to need that many parameters. Never. Again, fix your damn code.
Second-worst are those who insist that everything has to line up nicely in a certain column and that's why it has to be exactly "n" spaces for a tab, so they force 4 spaces on people who want 2, or 8, or vice versa. Use hard tabs, let the individual coder set his screen preferences, but don't worry if your #defines don't all line up nicely - the compiler doesn't care, and if it's that important to you, make each #define into 2 lines - one for the #define foo \ with the backslash line continuation character, the second with the actual define, and as many tabs as you want to satisfy your inner child.
Third-worse are the K&R gang - even 20 years ago it was stupid, ugly, and a waste of keystrokes.
And then there's the java weiners - because their code usually has methodNamesThatAreTooLongForAnyoneToFitEverythingOnOneLineIfWeUseHardTabs, instead of fixing the language, they use 2 or 4 tabs to fit it on the available screen real estate.
Hard tabs also make it easy to write code that generates code, or manipulates generated code.
It's not a case of "get off my lawn", but overall simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency. Hard tabs win on all 3 counts.
No - you just have to have lower latency. If you have 10 peers with low latency, (especially among each other, so they can quickly demonstrate 2, 3, 4 new coins), the other peers abandon their results. If your peers can serve up a poisoned 4-chain coin while the others are still working on a 3-chain coin, they drop their results and use yours, since yours, being longer, is authoritative.
Fuck-tarded design. But then again, so is the whole concept.
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Read my post. I never said 1080p.
1080i on a 50" 600hz plasma is gorgeous.
And pulling the signals off the airwaves with an old antenna instead of paying a cable or satellite provider - priceless!
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BYOS (Bring Your Own Server). Linux runs fine on laptops. You'll have all the tools you need, the way YOU like them. It's also a handy "working reference implementation." And to really mess with their head, bring your own WAP as well.
Sure, in real life, people do yell at each other.
However, even with "explaining the role-playing model", yelling at a woman during a job interview is dicey. Be smart - don't do it, even during an interview. Interviews are more stressful than "real life" to begin with. And doing it later on, on the job, could end up with you either in the hospital (when co-workers intervene or you get maced) or in court.
So, what are you going to do? Just shout at the guys during interviews? That's sexual discrimination.
Here's a thought - conduct the interview in a fashion that communicates that you want the opportunity for both of you to get to know each other better professionally, to decide whether it's a good fit.
Hazing recruits was supposed to have gone out years ago.
Come on, admit it - it DOES look a bit like a stylized Sonic the Hedgehog logo ...
First step is to run top, not to check the network. Just like the first step, when a car will crank over but won't start, isn't to pop the hood and start fiddling with the wires, but to check the gas gauge.
Always eliminate the easy things first.
They had plenty of time to test it BEFORE release. I guess Apple is becoming more like Microsoft every day.
If my phone was dropping one call in 100, I'd be royally p*ssed! 99% is crap. Imagine if your toilet only worked 99% of the time, or your fridge, or your car. Or that 99% of the time, nobody put their boogers in your fast food.
Mine also displays 24p with no problems - however, the refresh rate is 600hz., not 24hz. It divides evenly - displaying each frame 25 times. Someone with a 120hz display can also display 24p correctly, displaying each frame 5 times (or they can choose to use the motion interpolation feature). However, anyone with a 60hz refresh rate is screwed - 24p requires a pulldown interlacing, because it's either that, or display one frame 2x, the next 3x, the next 2x, the next 3x - and that looks awful so nobody does it.
So unless your tv is 120, 240, 480, or 600 hz, you cannot display non-interlaced 24p.
Additionally, the picture - in ALL cases, has artifacts. It's always stored with lossy compression - and you get a lot more loss when there's more motion - look at the motion block encoding algorithms.
Third, if you're getting your signal through satellite or cable, it's going to look crappier than an OTA signal, because the already-compressed stream has been recompressed to conserve bandwidth - so a free 1080i signal can look better than the 1080p that you pay for.
Nowhere in the "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question does it specify what type of egg. You are making an invalid assumption when you say "chicken egg".
The same as this:
Q: "Constantinople is a hard word to spell. Spell it."
A: "I", "T"
or:
Q: A doctor comes out of the emergency room and says "I can't operate on that patient. He's my son!" - but the doctor isn't the patient's father.
A: The doctor is the patient's mother.
In making assumptions, you make mistakes. For example, I've had to travel 1,400 km to "fix" some corporate software I wrote that would print from the mainframe, but one day stopped printing from the local pc.
They swore they had their techs check everything, multiple times, and this was software that was needed for government compliance.
Only took me a moment to find the problem, because *I* don't assume the obvious. The printer cable was unplugged from the back of the pc.
Or remember when the Athlons first came out? I watched as one store fried 6 cpus, one after another, by running them for a minute while the fan wasn't in place. "Oh, but it's only for a minute ... it won't get that hot that quickly."
Don't assume the obvious - because you could be wrong. For yet another example, just look at my profile.
All chickens come from eggs, but not all eggs come from chickens.
There is no need whatsoever to take it further than that. Words have meanings - we're no in Alice in Wonderland, where you can say that "egg" refers only to a chicken egg.
That's your first wrong assumption. The ancient greeks had ideas about evolution: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks
No, it's not. It's a very straight-forward question. Which came first - and it's obvious that eggs were around before any warm-blooded animals existed, and that includes chickens. There is no circular dependency, just people who lack the ability to step out of the box, or make bad initial assumptions.
Additionally, even if we take your view, then the egg STILL came first - because any egg that gives rise to a chicken is by definition a "chicken egg", even if it was laid by something that was one generation prior to crossing some arbitrary boundary into "chickenhood" - since the chicken is only fully developed at some point after the egg is created, same as a human is not really a human when it's just a clump of cells (or your arm isn't a separate human being if we cut it off).
No we're not. The article is entitled "The chicken may have come before the egg". Not "The chicken may have come before the chicken egg".
Next you'll try to argue that "Woman and child" is the same as "Woman with child."
That still means that eggs came first, duh!
Don't be an idiot! Your TV doesn't show movies at 24 frames. 3:2 pulldown IS interlacing, and if you're watching a bluray at 1080 (even 1080p), it's been interlaced.
Additionally, other animals laid eggs well before chickens ever appeared. Dinosaurs, for example.
And there were certainly dinosaur eggs before there were ever chickens.
And fish eggs. And insect eggs. So unless the chickens crossed the time barrier to get away from Colonel Sanders, eggs came before chickens.
It would cost them a LOT more than that. If the letter A were recalled, they'd be Pple Corportion.
And they'd sell iPds instead of iPads. Their stock symbol would have to change from AAPL to PL - but that's taken, and so is PPL. PPLE is available, but pple.com is owned by a squatter.
And it's not just Apple. If the letter A were recalled:
About the only good thing about recalling the letter a is that vaginas stay vgins - no matter how many times they're poked! Hmmm, on second thought, maybe it's worth 1.5 billion.
Only if you have other sources of intermittent lighting, such as fluorescent lights, or other monitors, that give a "beat frequency".
The eye doesn't work that way. Ask a biologist to explain.
And movies are shot at 24fps. so your argument fails, unless you think that they can "magically" restore the missing frames - they use interlacing, but they call it 3:2 pulldown. And this ignores that even bluray video is lossy to begin with.
Technical specifications of bluray video
"High-definition video may be stored on BD-ROMs with up to 1920×1080 pixel resolution at up to 59.94 fields per second, if interlaced. Alternatively, progressive scan can go up to 1920×1080 pixel resolution at 24 frames per second, or up to 1280x720 at up to 59.94 frames per second
So, your bluray video is interlaced at 1080x60fps. At 24fps it's also interlaced to show at 60hz or greater using a 3:2 pulldown. So no, I'm not "losing" anything at 1080i.
Your eye can't see faster than 30 frames a second, or were all those decades watching TV an illusion? I think not.
Try it some time. I picketed a computer store that took a $300 deposit on a $3,000 computer, with a promised delivery date, missed the date, then admitted they couldn't deliver it and wanted to make substitutions, and wouldn't refund the money. I handed out flyers to every customer who walked in the door. They called the cops. I told the cops I was exercising my constitutional right to free speech and wasn't impeding people from entering or exiting. They called their supervisor - who turned out to have had a similar bad experience with that store. Got the refund within the hour.
Moral of the story - don't treat your customers like filth and they won't have cause to display YOUR filth in front of your store.
Some fiat currencies are more stable than others.
bitcoin will never go anywhere. It's a stupid idea. It's a flawed idea. It has no real-world analogue. It has no real-world utility. In the event of an attack, you have nobody to complain to, unlike if your bank accidentally screws up your account. It offers no advantages over current ways and means.
Executive summary: It's mental masturbation.
Want to try again? It's a full 1080 lines of vertical resolution, just that it's sent interleaved (that's what the "i" stands for) - odd lines first, then even lines (or vice versa), same as, for example, an interleaved jpeg. It's to save channel bandwidth. You get the full 1080 lines of vertical resolution, just 30 times a second instead of 60.
On the contrary - since others are going to use it (and everyone who doesn't use a hard tab to indent has their own display preferences), it's preferable to use only hard tabs in code that others are going to edit. Most editors can be configured to display hard tabs as "n" spaces, without losing the hard tab in the actual file, so people who want 4-space indents get it, ditto those who want 2, or 5, or whatever - onscreen.
The worst are the people who insist on listing all their parameters, one on a line, and they all have to line up under the first - this is totally retarded when I see code with 15 lines for parameters, all indented around column 90. Fix your damn code. First, there's no excuse to be that deeply indented. Second, there's no excuse to need that many parameters. Never. Again, fix your damn code.
Second-worst are those who insist that everything has to line up nicely in a certain column and that's why it has to be exactly "n" spaces for a tab, so they force 4 spaces on people who want 2, or 8, or vice versa. Use hard tabs, let the individual coder set his screen preferences, but don't worry if your #defines don't all line up nicely - the compiler doesn't care, and if it's that important to you, make each #define into 2 lines - one for the #define foo \ with the backslash line continuation character, the second with the actual define, and as many tabs as you want to satisfy your inner child.
Third-worse are the K&R gang - even 20 years ago it was stupid, ugly, and a waste of keystrokes.
And then there's the java weiners - because their code usually has methodNamesThatAreTooLongForAnyoneToFitEverythingOnOneLineIfWeUseHardTabs, instead of fixing the language, they use 2 or 4 tabs to fit it on the available screen real estate.
Hard tabs also make it easy to write code that generates code, or manipulates generated code.
It's not a case of "get off my lawn", but overall simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency. Hard tabs win on all 3 counts.
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Fuck-tarded design. But then again, so is the whole concept.
1080i on a 50" 600hz plasma is gorgeous.
And pulling the signals off the airwaves with an old antenna instead of paying a cable or satellite provider - priceless!