I live in Boston, and there is no doubt in my mind that today, tomorrow, and next week I'll be taking the train to work. It's about 10x cheaper than driving & parking in the city. And lots easier too.
I drive into work about once a month. That's plenty.
Well, that's fine for you, living in a major city. At least you have mass transit ("The 'T'" - what a cute name!). I live on Long Island. It's one giant suburb - a few hundred square miles of fairly developed suburbia, a little denser toward NYC, less dense "out East", strip malls, TGIFriday's, and Home Depots as far as the eye can see no matter where you are. Yes, we have the LIRR, but it exists for one purpose - to move commuters in and out of Manhattan. Everybody else drives. There's no other reasonable way of getting anywhere.
It's not an either-or scenario. Music is art. Art comes in two forms: "works", and "performances". Some forms, like sculpture, belong to the "works" category, while others, like dance, are pretty much exclusively in the "performance" category. Music, on the other hand, can be both. Recorded music is a "work", while live music is a "performance". (Then, of course, there's recorded live music, but that just starts to get confusing...)
>Musicians should get paid - before they start playing. Not everytime someone new hears it.
If you go to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, you have to pay to get in, don't you? And if you go back next year, you have to pay again, right? There is already ample precedent for "per-unit" pricing for art in the "works" category.
The U.S. should try to revitalize its HPC industry before processor design and production goes the way of Steel, Cars, and Motherboards (memory almost went that way, but Micron may stop it).
Why? We'll just move on to the Next Big Thing, as we always do. The US didn't get where it is by doing what everyone else is already doing, but by doing new things, then being the best at them once everyone else catches on, then moving on to more new things.
Our country [the US] may not be perfect, but at least here attempts to silence political views have to be done quietly and covertly rather than through direct and obvious government action.
...so we should be happy that our government erodes our rights and freedoms silently and stealthily, rather than out in the open where at least people will be aware of it?
...they're quiet, so quiet. I've never been able to build a box as quiet as the ones you get from Dell or the other places (but especially Dell, it seems). At home, I have to shut my computer off at night 'cause of the noise. If I had me one o' them Dells, I could leave it up 24x7.
Advice to Americans: your weight and measurement "system" doesn't make sense with modern physics. You don't know the different between a quantity and a volume, a force and a mass and whatnot. Cost you a martian probe already. When will you finally get this straight?
Aw, c'mon; don't make us Merkins start in on the whole Ariane thing...;-
Heeeeeeeeere's - CHINA!... Military capability is not static. Think 20-30 years from now.
Indeed. What will our (the US's) capabilities be 30 years from now? The Chinese fighters of 2030 could very well find themselves up against satellite-guided, remote-controlled stealth craft capable (once the pilot is out of the picture) of - what? 20G turns? Or, hell - maybe we'll just put remote-controlled Mach 3 missiles aboard the AWACS planes...
You seem to forget that this technology will be used primarily in situations where one man is trying to kill one other man. The one who loses dies. You apparently expect American pilots to make do with "good enough" since we're already the best. Being from the most technologically advanced military does you no good when an enemy pilot has managed to get behind you.
But how would that happen in the first place? The weapons systems aboard even "outdated" planes like the F-14 and F-15 are capable of tracking numerous targets (up to 24 in the case of the F-14) from a hundred miles away, and launching their missiles before the enemy even knows they're dead. The F-22 will (uh... someday) be able to do this, and be virtually invisible to radar (and to IR heatseekers, thanks to its supercruise capability and ducted exhaust). The best way to win a dogfight is to kill the enemy and head home for Miller Time before one can even take place.
The correct comparison is not a heavily modified Civic vs. a stock V8, but a heavily modified V8 vs. said Civic. And the large displacement V8 still wins. An engine with nearly 3x the displacement at the same level of modification will make more power. It's physics. Slap a turbo on a stock-motored Civic, tune it correctly, and you can run maybe a mid 12. A stock motored Camaro/Firebird can run high 12's, slap a turbo on one, and you will be in the mid-low 10's.
OK. Now throw a turn in there somewhere (or, Heaven forbid, a whole bunch of them), and let's see what happens.
It sounds to me like you define your moral views as "high moral standards", and everyone else's as "relaxed moral standards". By what right do you do so?
Several of you fucked up - this code got into the project without being checked where and who wrote it.
You have got to be kidding. What are you suggesting - every time a programmer in any shop in the world writes (or, as you might put it, "claims to write") a piece of code, his/her peers or manager should do a Google search on it?
This page [grc.com] provides a demo of a font designed to be easy to read on TFT screens. I haven't used it extensively, but the demo seems to be a pretty clear improvement over arial 12-point.
It's not a font, per se, that Gibson is demonstrating, but an alternate means of performing font antialiasing that takes advantage of the subpixel geometry of LCD displays. It's similar in concept to the "ClearType" rendering available in MS Windows XP (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know).
The WTC was a public building only "sold" a few months prior to the attack. It was built and owned by the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
Indeed, had it not been for the political influence and pull enjoyed by the Port Authority in the wake of Robert Moses's career (the man responsible for much of NYC and Long Island's highway/bridge/tunnel infrastructure), the Towers would never have been built. At the time, the City of New York did not want the Towers to be built, due in fact to concerns over the ability to fight fires high up in the structure, or to evacuate people in the case of a disaster.
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I would suggest a boycott, but somehow I get the impression that not too many /.ers buy their gear from Best Buy, huh?
I drive into work about once a month. That's plenty.
Well, that's fine for you, living in a major city. At least you have mass transit ("The 'T'" - what a cute name!). I live on Long Island. It's one giant suburb - a few hundred square miles of fairly developed suburbia, a little denser toward NYC, less dense "out East", strip malls, TGIFriday's, and Home Depots as far as the eye can see no matter where you are. Yes, we have the LIRR, but it exists for one purpose - to move commuters in and out of Manhattan. Everybody else drives. There's no other reasonable way of getting anywhere.
It's not an either-or scenario. Music is art. Art comes in two forms: "works", and "performances". Some forms, like sculpture, belong to the "works" category, while others, like dance, are pretty much exclusively in the "performance" category. Music, on the other hand, can be both. Recorded music is a "work", while live music is a "performance". (Then, of course, there's recorded live music, but that just starts to get confusing...)
>Musicians should get paid - before they start playing. Not everytime someone new hears it.
If you go to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, you have to pay to get in, don't you? And if you go back next year, you have to pay again, right? There is already ample precedent for "per-unit" pricing for art in the "works" category.
Why? We'll just move on to the Next Big Thing, as we always do. The US didn't get where it is by doing what everyone else is already doing, but by doing new things, then being the best at them once everyone else catches on, then moving on to more new things.
...so we should be happy that our government erodes our rights and freedoms silently and stealthily, rather than out in the open where at least people will be aware of it?
...they're quiet, so quiet. I've never been able to build a box as quiet as the ones you get from Dell or the other places (but especially Dell, it seems). At home, I have to shut my computer off at night 'cause of the noise. If I had me one o' them Dells, I could leave it up 24x7.
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Aw, c'mon; don't make us Merkins start in on the whole Ariane thing... ;-
We've seen recent stories about software radio already; why not software WiFi?
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Indeed. What will our (the US's) capabilities be 30 years from now? The Chinese fighters of 2030 could very well find themselves up against satellite-guided, remote-controlled stealth craft capable (once the pilot is out of the picture) of - what? 20G turns? Or, hell - maybe we'll just put remote-controlled Mach 3 missiles aboard the AWACS planes...
But how would that happen in the first place? The weapons systems aboard even "outdated" planes like the F-14 and F-15 are capable of tracking numerous targets (up to 24 in the case of the F-14) from a hundred miles away, and launching their missiles before the enemy even knows they're dead. The F-22 will (uh... someday) be able to do this, and be virtually invisible to radar (and to IR heatseekers, thanks to its supercruise capability and ducted exhaust). The best way to win a dogfight is to kill the enemy and head home for Miller Time before one can even take place.
OK. Now throw a turn in there somewhere (or, Heaven forbid, a whole bunch of them), and let's see what happens.
It sounds to me like you define your moral views as "high moral standards", and everyone else's as "relaxed moral standards". By what right do you do so?
You have got to be kidding. What are you suggesting - every time a programmer in any shop in the world writes (or, as you might put it, "claims to write") a piece of code, his/her peers or manager should do a Google search on it?
I believe the plural form is "goatsen", actually.
It's not a font, per se, that Gibson is demonstrating, but an alternate means of performing font antialiasing that takes advantage of the subpixel geometry of LCD displays. It's similar in concept to the "ClearType" rendering available in MS Windows XP (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know).
Indeed, had it not been for the political influence and pull enjoyed by the Port Authority in the wake of Robert Moses's career (the man responsible for much of NYC and Long Island's highway/bridge/tunnel infrastructure), the Towers would never have been built. At the time, the City of New York did not want the Towers to be built, due in fact to concerns over the ability to fight fires high up in the structure, or to evacuate people in the case of a disaster.