Can you blame them given current (well, the past 5-10 years:-) traffic conditions in downtown Boston?
Traffic, schmaffic. Even with the Big Dig, I'm not sure I'd say the traffic is much worse than downtown Manhattan. And, while admittedly I haven't driven in NYC since 9/11, I can't imagine that it helped matters any. Oh, and the major airports in NYC aren't connected almost directly to downtown by a nice convenient new tunnel, now, are they?
Besides, Boston's just as nice a place to have a convention. It's a very walkable city (attendees can follow the Freedom Trail after lunch and get some exercise), good transit, and John Harvard's, too.;-)
No, you're wrong. You can reproduce any signal *exactly* provided you sample at at least twice the frequency of the signal....with hypothetically perfect equipment, that is. With real-world equipment (especially inexpensive real-world equipment), the reproduction may not be quite so exact. With the greater "headroom" afforded by a higher sample rate, signals in the 20KHz range can be more accurately reproduced, with fewer distortions and artifacts.
Not to mention which - there is some evidence that indicates that people can hear (or at least detect in some fashion) frequencies in excess of 20KHz...
What gives? I can't believe that speakers and a tuner add $800 to the retail cost. Viewsonic sell a box that let you put NTSC on a VGA display for $100, another $20 buys you a set of speakers.
People buying LCD TVs are the ones who have to have the latest crap, no matter what the cost. People with more money than brains. Meanwhile, people who buy LCD monitors also have to have the latest crap, but they're computer geeks, so they're a little more rational about it.;-)
17-inch CRTs are standard for consumers. When it comes to LCDs, 15-inch is the norm, and when OLED comes out, it will most likely compete against LCD, not CRT.
If you were stranded on an island with an MS user, what would be the one thing ever published anywhere, ever, that you would wish you had with you to shut him up? Yeah, that.
"Shut him up" about what? Most MS software users are not frothing evangelists, trying to pick MS-vs-Linux fights with everyone they see. MS software users are people, doctors, lawyers, store owners, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, who want to use computers to get stuff done. They don't care about any of this stuff that goes on at/. every day. Some of them may be vaguely aware of some Linux thing they've heard of, but they're kinda scared of it, 'cause it seems to involve a bunch of geek hotheads who look down their noses at "normal people" who use Windows. Get it? You're not helping.
The real long term solution is for people to stop being so damn energy intensive for every little thing. Walk. Bike. Relax.
No, this is at best a temporary solution. Even if we were to cut our energy usage drastically (which ain't gonna happen), the population of Earth will continue to grow, so the problem is at best forestalled. The real long-term solution is to develop a means of energy production whose waste products can be removed from this planet permanently, for example ejection of spent fuel rods into deep space.
...from either outside the solar system or another dimension. It's known either as Planet X, or a name that starts with N, which escapes me at the moment...
Planet Ten. There's a bunch of people named John living on it - John Whorfin, John Bigboute, etc. One of them looks kind of like John Lithgow.
It's hard to grouch overly that somebody else deserved the prize when the runners up aren't listed. One thing that sucks, it seems that for one to become a brilliant Nobel winning scientist, it generally takes a lifetime of research (they all look fairly old).
Actually, I don't think it takes "a lifetime of research"; rather, the Nobel people wait a while to ensure that a given invention or act truly has had a profound impact. Therefore, Nobels are often awarded for work done a long time ago. For instance, John Nash's Economics prize in 1994 was awarded for work done in the '50s.
Let the Russian government and foreign policy pundits work this one out. This is nothing like the Skylarov case. These were real criminals committing real crimes.
To which criminals are you referring - the Russian hackers, or the FBI?
Over 20 feet long. Six and a half feet wide. Over 6000 pounds. Seats 8. Don't people around here regularly slag on people who buy vehicles like this? Now we're gonna have soccer moms driving by themselves to the tennis club in even bigger vehicles than the good ol' Ford Excretion? I ask you, what the hell is the point of this thing?
Yes, I've seen the other posts about how this could be used for limos, commuter vans, etc. Do you really think that market is large enough to support a vehicle like this? As soon as Joe SUV Driver sees this behemoth, he's gonna want it. There goes the neighborhood.
Does it have a keyboard? If not, I'm not interested. I gave up graffiti back when I traded in my Visor for a Psion 5mx, and I'd never go back. (Unfortunately, though, the 5mx was just too damn big.) I was concerned at first that the Treo 180's "thumbboard" would be too cumbersome, but in practice I can type at least half as fast as I can on a full-size keyboard -- which is at least five times faster than graffiti, for me anyway.
Maybe when there's a CDMA version I'll be interested. GSM sucks, at least in North America. Not everyone lives in cities with 1,000,000+ population, you know.
I wish I had known just how bad GSM coverage is before I bought a Handspring Treo 180. It turns out I've had to keep my CDMA StarTAC (after having given away all the accessories... grrr...) to take with me whenever leaving the NYC/Long Island area. A couple of weeks ago, I went down to Ocean City, MD for a golf weekend - no GSM service, but the CDMA phone worked fine. Last weekend, I headed for upstate NY (Warwick) for dinner with the folks - no GSM service, CDMA no problem. I've used my StarTAC in all kinds of places, and only very rarely have I had a problem getting a connection.
Then again, it sure was neat to be able to use the Treo in Europe by swapping the SIM out of the company cell phone... but I don't travel to Europe often enough for that to be a reason for me to keep the Treo.
Now, there's the Treo 300 with Sprint service - but $500? Yeesh...
Do you have any idea what it would have cost to relocate people instead? Have you ever ''seen'' where I-93 runs? Imagine trying to build a ground-level freeway through the middle of Manhattan, for instance.
Umm. Isn't combat one of the very few places where you cannot predict the outcome of any engagement with any degree of reliability?
Umm, this thing is being mounter on the Joint Strike Fighter, no? Obviously this Kill-O-Zap Mega-Hurtz gun is meant to be used on strike missions, not during dogfights.
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Can you blame them given current (well, the past 5-10 years :-) traffic conditions in downtown Boston?
;-)
Traffic, schmaffic. Even with the Big Dig, I'm not sure I'd say the traffic is much worse than downtown Manhattan. And, while admittedly I haven't driven in NYC since 9/11, I can't imagine that it helped matters any. Oh, and the major airports in NYC aren't connected almost directly to downtown by a nice convenient new tunnel, now, are they?
Besides, Boston's just as nice a place to have a convention. It's a very walkable city (attendees can follow the Freedom Trail after lunch and get some exercise), good transit, and John Harvard's, too.
No, you're wrong. You can reproduce any signal *exactly* provided you sample at at least twice the frequency of the signal. ...with hypothetically perfect equipment, that is. With real-world equipment (especially inexpensive real-world equipment), the reproduction may not be quite so exact. With the greater "headroom" afforded by a higher sample rate, signals in the 20KHz range can be more accurately reproduced, with fewer distortions and artifacts.
Not to mention which - there is some evidence that indicates that people can hear (or at least detect in some fashion) frequencies in excess of 20KHz...
What gives? I can't believe that speakers and a tuner add $800 to the retail cost. Viewsonic sell a box that let you put NTSC on a VGA display for $100, another $20 buys you a set of speakers.
;-)
People buying LCD TVs are the ones who have to have the latest crap, no matter what the cost. People with more money than brains. Meanwhile, people who buy LCD monitors also have to have the latest crap, but they're computer geeks, so they're a little more rational about it.
17-inch CRTs are standard for consumers. When it comes to LCDs, 15-inch is the norm, and when OLED comes out, it will most likely compete against LCD, not CRT.
If you were stranded on an island with an MS user, what would be the one thing ever published anywhere, ever, that you would wish you had with you to shut him up? Yeah, that.
/. every day. Some of them may be vaguely aware of some Linux thing they've heard of, but they're kinda scared of it, 'cause it seems to involve a bunch of geek hotheads who look down their noses at "normal people" who use Windows. Get it? You're not helping.
"Shut him up" about what? Most MS software users are not frothing evangelists, trying to pick MS-vs-Linux fights with everyone they see. MS software users are people, doctors, lawyers, store owners, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, who want to use computers to get stuff done. They don't care about any of this stuff that goes on at
(Hell, as long as we're reliving the past, let's *really* relive the past - you're either pro-Atari or pro-Commode-dore)
;-)
Well, I guess we know which one you are...
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The real long term solution is for people to stop being so damn energy intensive for every little thing. Walk. Bike. Relax.
No, this is at best a temporary solution. Even if we were to cut our energy usage drastically (which ain't gonna happen), the population of Earth will continue to grow, so the problem is at best forestalled. The real long-term solution is to develop a means of energy production whose waste products can be removed from this planet permanently, for example ejection of spent fuel rods into deep space.
1. Borrow heavily from C++ and Pascal
2. Claim "write once, run anywhere"
3. ????
4. Profit!!!
Besides which, in addition to CO2, burning alcohol produces a lot of water vapor - and water vapor is the most significant of all greenhouse gases.
...from either outside the solar system or another dimension. It's known either as Planet X, or a name that starts with N, which escapes me at the moment...
Planet Ten. There's a bunch of people named John living on it - John Whorfin, John Bigboute, etc. One of them looks kind of like John Lithgow.
It's hard to grouch overly that somebody else deserved the prize when the runners up aren't listed. One thing that sucks, it seems that for one to become a brilliant Nobel winning scientist, it generally takes a lifetime of research (they all look fairly old).
Actually, I don't think it takes "a lifetime of research"; rather, the Nobel people wait a while to ensure that a given invention or act truly has had a profound impact. Therefore, Nobels are often awarded for work done a long time ago. For instance, John Nash's Economics prize in 1994 was awarded for work done in the '50s.
Let the Russian government and foreign policy pundits work this one out. This is nothing like the Skylarov case. These were real criminals committing real crimes.
To which criminals are you referring - the Russian hackers, or the FBI?
Over 20 feet long. Six and a half feet wide. Over 6000 pounds. Seats 8. Don't people around here regularly slag on people who buy vehicles like this? Now we're gonna have soccer moms driving by themselves to the tennis club in even bigger vehicles than the good ol' Ford Excretion? I ask you, what the hell is the point of this thing?
Yes, I've seen the other posts about how this could be used for limos, commuter vans, etc. Do you really think that market is large enough to support a vehicle like this? As soon as Joe SUV Driver sees this behemoth, he's gonna want it. There goes the neighborhood.
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Kyle: "You bastards!!"
So, someone's finally noticed that using a souped-up version of BASIC
Calling FORTRAN a "souped-up version of BASIC"? That's like slagging the Kinks for doing Van Halen covers.
I wonder what it sounded like - a two-tonne bumble-bee on crack..?
It probably sounded like that "super high tech" Mitsubishi Starion driven by Jackie Chan in Cannonball Run II.
Does it have a keyboard? If not, I'm not interested. I gave up graffiti back when I traded in my Visor for a Psion 5mx, and I'd never go back. (Unfortunately, though, the 5mx was just too damn big.) I was concerned at first that the Treo 180's "thumbboard" would be too cumbersome, but in practice I can type at least half as fast as I can on a full-size keyboard -- which is at least five times faster than graffiti, for me anyway.
Because Sprint didn't want to use GSM like all the other kids on the playground, they had to be different and go with CDMA
Verizon has one of the biggest networks in the US, and it's CDMA. Damn good service too.
Does anyone know if the T-Mobile GSM phones will roam onto CDMA networks?
No, they do not.
Right now, I need a phone that works roughly from DC to Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando, and in Australia, Germany, Paris, London and Brussels.
Your best bet is two phones - a Sprint or Verizon CDMA phone for the US, and a GSM phone for Europe.
Talk about proofreading - you repeated his misspelling of "HoTop". Sheesh.
Maybe when there's a CDMA version I'll be interested. GSM sucks, at least in North America. Not everyone lives in cities with 1,000,000+ population, you know.
I wish I had known just how bad GSM coverage is before I bought a Handspring Treo 180. It turns out I've had to keep my CDMA StarTAC (after having given away all the accessories... grrr...) to take with me whenever leaving the NYC/Long Island area. A couple of weeks ago, I went down to Ocean City, MD for a golf weekend - no GSM service, but the CDMA phone worked fine. Last weekend, I headed for upstate NY (Warwick) for dinner with the folks - no GSM service, CDMA no problem. I've used my StarTAC in all kinds of places, and only very rarely have I had a problem getting a connection.
Then again, it sure was neat to be able to use the Treo in Europe by swapping the SIM out of the company cell phone... but I don't travel to Europe often enough for that to be a reason for me to keep the Treo.
Now, there's the Treo 300 with Sprint service - but $500? Yeesh...
Do you have any idea what it would have cost to relocate people instead? Have you ever ''seen'' where I-93 runs? Imagine trying to build a ground-level freeway through the middle of Manhattan, for instance.
So "domestic" == "honest", and "foreign" == "dishonest"? What, do you work for the Bush Administration or something?
If they can scrounge together nearly a megawatt of energy on a fighter jet
1E6 watts / (746 watts/hp) = 1340.5 hp, no big deal. That's about two Ferrari Enzos' worth.
Umm. Isn't combat one of the very few places where you cannot predict the outcome of any engagement with any degree of reliability?
Umm, this thing is being mounter on the Joint Strike Fighter, no? Obviously this Kill-O-Zap Mega-Hurtz gun is meant to be used on strike missions, not during dogfights.