One of the states had a problem determining, which group of representatives to send, but the problem was settled according to the laws of the land, and I'm much more inclined to trust handling of it to 9 wise people with decades of legal experience than an enraged geek, whose side happened to lose.
Do you get paid per comma? Half of those commas make no grammatical sense.
Your link says There is a single track consisting of a continuous spiral of pits and "lands" (non-pits).
While it portends to explain how a track containing nothing but 0's and 1's is not digital, it fails. A record's grooves are analog. They vary in depth and width. They are not readily quantifiable. Anything represented by digits, i.e. whole integers, usually 0 and 1, is digital, regardless of what anyone says.
You can find a kook with a webpage saying anything these days.../shakes head
They argue that many water shortages could simply be solved by better conservation of existing supplies.
Yes, and nobody would starve if we all gave food to the hungry, and nobody would be poor if we all gave someone else some of our money. But it's not going to happen, is it?
These people are fucking morons. I'm sorry. I'm all for conservation, but I'm all for a reality check, too. You can't get everybody to conserve. As long as we're capitalists and we can just pay instead of working, we will continue to do so. That is irrefutable reality, no matter how rosy you WANT the world to be.
I was 17 in 1995 when I got my first dialup shell. It was also my first introduction to unix, FTP, chmod, and hosting a website. I had been on BBS's since I was 14, which was in 1992. I had first used a modem when I was about 10. My parents got me my first computer, an IBM PCjr, when I was 8.
Wouldn't that only make it a problem for those people who actually use the Winamp minibrowser? (I.E., very few people?)
I agree. I hate the fact that every program has to have a browser, and every cardgame has to have some internet link. It's stupid. I use winamp, but not that shitty version 3. And not the gay-ass 'mini-browser'. An mp3-player with a browser? Yeah, right after I get a toaster with GPS.
Anyhow... [There] is no suggestion that this is a device aimed at the consumer market.
That will only make it all the more amazing if they get it down to consumer price.
They are selling this as a way to make the master disks used to press consumer disks.
They certainly won't be using electron beams to master CDs or consumer DVDs. The beam is way too small. So what kind of discs do you envision them mastering with this?
"Electron beams are what make your TV work. This is pretty amazing if they get this down to consumer price"
Yeah, because TVs aren't in the consumer price-range
Even though your post seems to imply it is I who doesn't understand, I'll forgo the urge to simply say "you're stupid," and try to explain. There is a great deal of difference between scattering a beam across a foot or two of phosphor dots, relatively regardless of where it lands, and actually having to be INCREDIBLY precise at where you hit, AND calculate data from the reflection of the beam. It's the difference between simply shining a flashlight at the night sky, and trying to tell what's in a pitch-black indoor arena using only a pen-laser.
Found these the other day on the PC Magazine website:
"The introduction of OS/2 1.0 marks the start of an exciting time for the PC and PC applications. The 'OS/2 decade' has begun."
Charles Petzold, contributing editor, in "OS/2: A New Beginning for PC Applications," PC Magazine April 12, 1988.
"A funny thing's happening on the road to OS/2. Microsoft Windows has turned into the dazzling multitasking operating system that OS/2 is still struggling to become."
Gus Venditto, executive editor, reviewing the brand-spanking-new Microsoft Windows 3.0, First Looks, PC Magazine July 1990.
/not trying to start a flamewar, just fascinating quotes...
Well, as dumb as we Americans, each for letting his gov't get away with 'preventative taxation', although we USAians managed to avoid it on standard CDr's, I think. AFAIK, we involuntarily concede an 'I might be a criminal' tax for DATs, Music-CDs, videocasettes, and audio casettes.
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Ahh, well that explains it :) Nevermind then. You're doing well.
One of the states had a problem determining, which group of representatives to send, but the problem was settled according to the laws of the land, and I'm much more inclined to trust handling of it to 9 wise people with decades of legal experience than an enraged geek, whose side happened to lose.
Do you get paid per comma? Half of those commas make no grammatical sense.
In other news, the CEOs of Britta have resigned because they heard terrorists use their filters to drink water.
Laserdisc is analog
/shakes head
Your link says There is a single track consisting of a continuous spiral of pits and "lands" (non-pits).
While it portends to explain how a track containing nothing but 0's and 1's is not digital, it fails. A record's grooves are analog. They vary in depth and width. They are not readily quantifiable. Anything represented by digits, i.e. whole integers, usually 0 and 1, is digital, regardless of what anyone says.
You can find a kook with a webpage saying anything these days...
you should be excited to see the new Darth Vader costume on the upcoming Trilogy DVD set.
Yeah, I really fucking would. But your link just goes to some pictureless article. Nice.
will the experiment be wrong (in other words there's no point to it), or will we get faster-than-light ships for Christmas?
It just irritates me that someone that doesn't understand got to submit this first.
double-meh.
This post for rent. Contact submitter.
Flamebait? I suppose reality checks do incite some people to wrath, even if it's the impotent mod-me-down kind.
They argue that many water shortages could simply be solved by better conservation of existing supplies.
Yes, and nobody would starve if we all gave food to the hungry, and nobody would be poor if we all gave someone else some of our money. But it's not going to happen, is it?
These people are fucking morons. I'm sorry. I'm all for conservation, but I'm all for a reality check, too. You can't get everybody to conserve. As long as we're capitalists and we can just pay instead of working, we will continue to do so. That is irrefutable reality, no matter how rosy you WANT the world to be.
... price of $79, and what with the recent Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction' this product will likely ...
Okay. It's the year 2004. Nobody has used the phrase 'what with' since 1926. Suddenly it appears here? Better call Jean-Claude Van Damme...
I was 17 in 1995 when I got my first dialup shell. It was also my first introduction to unix, FTP, chmod, and hosting a website. I had been on BBS's since I was 14, which was in 1992. I had first used a modem when I was about 10. My parents got me my first computer, an IBM PCjr, when I was 8.
Goodbye, time. It flees.
Wouldn't that only make it a problem for those people who actually use the Winamp minibrowser? (I.E., very few people?)
I agree. I hate the fact that every program has to have a browser, and every cardgame has to have some internet link. It's stupid. I use winamp, but not that shitty version 3. And not the gay-ass 'mini-browser'. An mp3-player with a browser? Yeah, right after I get a toaster with GPS.
Their is no suggestion
Obligatory: Whose is no suggestion?
Anyhow... [There] is no suggestion that this is a device aimed at the consumer market.
That will only make it all the more amazing if they get it down to consumer price.
They are selling this as a way to make the master disks used to press consumer disks.
They certainly won't be using electron beams to master CDs or consumer DVDs. The beam is way too small. So what kind of discs do you envision them mastering with this?
Whatever server and pipe they have, they need to donate it to Slashdot so we can, in turn, donate it to the sites that get farked! 300k from JAPAN?
It's a preview of tomorrow, my friends.
"Electron beams are what make your TV work. This is pretty amazing if they get this down to consumer price"
Yeah, because TVs aren't in the consumer price-range
Even though your post seems to imply it is I who doesn't understand, I'll forgo the urge to simply say "you're stupid," and try to explain. There is a great deal of difference between scattering a beam across a foot or two of phosphor dots, relatively regardless of where it lands, and actually having to be INCREDIBLY precise at where you hit, AND calculate data from the reflection of the beam. It's the difference between simply shining a flashlight at the night sky, and trying to tell what's in a pitch-black indoor arena using only a pen-laser.
That's microwaves. Electron beams are what make your TV work. This is pretty amazing if they get this down to consumer price.
But I did.
Google has begun accepting job applications for [it is] new Copernicus data center.
Wha?
I hate QUICKTIME!!! /should I rtfa?
In the spirit of sharing knowledge, a google for "binary to ascii" turns up this link, but you have to take the spaces out of the original string...
0 10000001110111011001010110110001100011011011110110 110101100101001000000011101000101001.
Oh, and BTW, 0101100101101111011101010110000001110010011001010
/not trying to start a flamewar, just fascinating quotes...
each movie was encoded in 500KB and 1MB bitrates.
/metric(b!=B)=true
Wow. That's 4 megabits and to 8 megabits. That's pretty extreme, don't you think?
Rhymes with pillow?
Well, as dumb as we Americans, each for letting his gov't get away with 'preventative taxation', although we USAians managed to avoid it on standard CDr's, I think. AFAIK, we involuntarily concede an 'I might be a criminal' tax for DATs, Music-CDs, videocasettes, and audio casettes.
What bullshit.
Cowards don't count :-P