Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
And
Article I
Section 10.
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No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
How many DVD players can't do seemless branching? Mine can, but it can't do a layer change without gliching the video. I suspect there are a number that can't do it correctly.
I don't have a problem with this. They dropped a one shot character who appears in that one scene in order to introduce Arwen earlier so she doesn't just come out of nowhere in the third movie.
Carmageddon didn't have sucky physics, it had goofy cartoony physics. I mean seriously, asking for realistic physics in a game about rocketing through a city at 200 mph running down pedestrians and picking up powerups is just plain silly.
Please don't believe that we'll be able to do away with space-based observing because of this innovation. Our atmosphere absorbs an awful lot of interesting wavelengths.
Short and long IR for example. But check out the Sofia project, mounting a telescope on a plane can get you above 98% of the IR absorbing water vapor for significantly less cost than a space based telescope.
-Rob
For Windows, this is an MFC thing. It's so much easier to write a modal dialog box, no app access, than to write an equivalent modeless dialog box, which gives full app access, that people use modal dialogs all the time even when it's really not apropriate.
Modal Find dialogs is a serious peeve of mine. Oh well.
2. The moment you put a mouse (or anyother low speed device) on that USB 2.0 port you loose the 480MB/sec max throughput.
Nope. 2.0 hubs do a lot of clever things and full and low speed devices (12 mb/s and 1.5 mb/s respectively) are rate matched at the hub. The hub then transfers data to the host at the full 480 mb/s.
As a specific example, it should be noted that Mozart did not benefit from anything like the copyright notions we have today. He was paid by people who wanted new Mozart music, despite the fact that there was already Mozart music in existance, often memorized by musicians able to play it back at will.
Mozart also died pennyless and was buried in a paupers grave. He may have been able to create more incredible music had he had the luxury of not having to take students and fight for every penny he did get.
On the other hand he may hove gotten rich and turned into a major slacker. It's possible, but somehow I doubt that anyone who would continue to make music in the circumstances he was in would stop doing so once the going was easy.
This is so true. My company always has one or two co-ops. We give work to do as work is finished and as we come to trust the quality of the work done.
Those co-ops that do only a little get only little to do and never looked at again.
The hard workers will get more and more projects as they finish stuff.
In fact the last real hard worker we had was good enough that we gave him real board layout to do. That board is currently in a shipping product. Needless to say he got a job offer when he graduated.
Actaully I found mostly the opposite. The SC is OK for basic stuff in a FPS game, but runs into problems for my play style.
The springs are too weak to center the thing unless you pull your hand off of it. This leads to me drifting off the edge of a ledge or something because I missed recentering properly. You have to up the dead zone range to max to have any chance here.
Once you up the dead zone it starts requiring a huge amount of motion to activate the axes. Something like Unreal's double tap a direction to lunge is unusable because of the distance required.
The axes are digital. What's the point of upgrading from your keyboard if you don't get finer control.
OK, If these are the guys I saw at Comdex '99 this is *NOT* a PC like some people seem to think.
They built what they call a split bridge PCI bus. It's a PCI bridge chipset that can have the two ends seperated by up to 25 ft of cable.
So what this particular product is, is a PCI bus on a PC card. It adds a few PCI slots, an IDE chain and a couple of other things (USB, PS2) on the end of a wire.
Personally I thought the technology was a lot cooler than than what they planned for it, but hey who am I to say.
Correct, there are no 2.0 device currently "in production" there are however plenty of devices in the pipeline, and a handful have already been demonstrated.
Short term, I think 2.0 is going to beat 1394 for most desktop devices for a couple of reasons:
Market penetration -- every new PC has USB. Consumers know what it is and how to use it.
forward compatability -- as far as I can tell this is still in. Your new 2.0 device works on your existing system. It works better on if you buy a 2.0 Host Controller, but it does work.
backwards compatability -- old devices still work on your shiny new system.
driver compatibility -- under windows the driver is identical for a 2.0 version of an older device. If the HW guys get the new HW right, it works and works now. Development time is going to be shorter than you expect. Other OS vendors will abstact away the differences. (They are seriously stupid if they don't.)
All together that means someone can produce a video camara that works OK on most machines out there right now, and works as good as on 1394 on new machines/host controllers. Or they can make a video camera that only works on 1394, a relatively small percentage of machines. Which do you think they'll choose?
Of course USB 2.0 is not the be all/end all in buses. It will never route video from my DVD player to my TV. 1394 will.
On the other hand, USB is explicitly designed as a computer peripheral bus the root node must always be a computer. Without a computer powered on and managing the Universal Serial Bus, it's useless.
You say that like it's a bad thing. As you say USB is intended as a peripheral bus. You can right now replace a most of the ports on a desktop machine with USB and be done with it.
On the other hand, you'll never put a mouse or joystick on a 1394 network. The HW would be far to expensive, the heavy shielding the cables require would makes a mouse tough to move, and you run into the same problem the wireless peripheral guys have of "which host does this keyboard belong too".
I think what happened here is manufactures want to make consumer level devices that require a little to much bandwidth for USB. Video cameras and the like. Unfortunately the cost of 1394 HW is high enough that if they were to try to do it right then they've priced their device outside consumer levels. What happened is that people made crap devices that worked over USB, but were cheap and easy enough to sell mass market.
USB 2.0 is an attempt to address that by adding enough speed to support the higher bandwidth devices on the existing bus. Yes it's still based around a host, and yes it can't do everything 1394 can. It's not supposed to. 1394 is definitely the choice for networking your AV equipment. USB is definetly the choice for keyboards and mice. 2.0 makes it reasonable to manufacture in between devices for either bus.
Does the final USB2 spec contain any such anti-consumer features? Nope.
But such "features" wouldn't be implemented at that level anyway. If people are going to implement those kind of things they'll do it at the class driver level. I do not follow the audio class working group, so I can't say what's been proposed there.
From my point of view he was an fantastic actor, his passing now makes it impossible for him to act again. There will now be no more new examples of his art.
This is probably the department that's doing the work.
These guys are just down the road from me and they do all kinds of cool work. Including a bunch of restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls(DSS). There are huge reproductions of the DSS in the hallways in the buildings.
Many events in the Bible have been varified by indepentant (and sometimes agnostic or athiest) historians.
This has got to be a troll, but in case someone actually believes this argument...
Many events in Sparticus have been verified by independant historians. Doesn't mean the whole movie is true, it just means that it got some things right.
There are also many events in the bible that haven't been, and many that can't be, proven. For example, 10,000 people wandering around in the desert for 40 years seen to have left no trace of camps or waste dumps. Because it gets some things wrong doesn't mean its all false.
The distributors who own the vast majority of popular music were collaborating to fix prices at a level higher than retailers wanted to charge and customers wanted to pay. This is the kind of situation I'd like to see libertarians explain away.
Seems easy enough to do. With any purchase you have three choices, buy the product you want at the asking price, buy a substitute, or don't buy anything.
There are substitutes. Plenty of small bands that sell their own CDs at $10 a pop. Some labels do sell their music cheaply as well. Heck, some bands release free music.
Customers today do have the option to buy cheaper music, but they aren't using it. Instead they're paying what's asked and grumbling.
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Uh yup...
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How many DVD players can't do seemless branching? Mine can, but it can't do a layer change without gliching the video. I suspect there are a number that can't do it correctly.
-Rob
no Glorfindel. Fie!
I don't have a problem with this. They dropped a one shot character who appears in that one scene in order to introduce Arwen earlier so she doesn't just come out of nowhere in the third movie.
Seems like a reasonable tradoff to me.
-Rob
Carmageddon didn't have sucky physics, it had goofy cartoony physics. I mean seriously, asking for realistic physics in a game about rocketing through a city at 200 mph running down pedestrians and picking up powerups is just plain silly.
-Rob
I don't care what it says about ie only, these things work in NS 6 too.
Man are they annoying, lets just cover the cover the content for 15 seconds shall we.
-Rob
I think this isn't an OS thing
For Windows, this is an MFC thing. It's so much easier to write a modal dialog box, no app access, than to write an equivalent modeless dialog box, which gives full app access, that people use modal dialogs all the time even when it's really not apropriate.
Modal Find dialogs is a serious peeve of mine. Oh well.
-Rob
2. The moment you put a mouse (or anyother low speed device) on that USB 2.0 port you loose the 480MB/sec max throughput.
Nope. 2.0 hubs do a lot of clever things and full and low speed devices (12 mb/s and 1.5 mb/s respectively) are rate matched at the hub. The hub then transfers data to the host at the full 480 mb/s.
-Rob
As a specific example, it should be noted that Mozart did not benefit from anything like the copyright notions we have today. He was paid by people who wanted new Mozart music, despite the fact that there was already Mozart music in existance, often memorized by musicians able to play it back at will.
Mozart also died pennyless and was buried in a paupers grave. He may have been able to create more incredible music had he had the luxury of not having to take students and fight for every penny he did get.
On the other hand he may hove gotten rich and turned into a major slacker. It's possible, but somehow I doubt that anyone who would continue to make music in the circumstances he was in would stop doing so once the going was easy.
What was your point again? I forgot...
-Rob
This is so true. My company always has one or two co-ops. We give work to do as work is finished and as we come to trust the quality of the work done.
Those co-ops that do only a little get only little to do and never looked at again.
The hard workers will get more and more projects as they finish stuff.
In fact the last real hard worker we had was good enough that we gave him real board layout to do. That board is currently in a shipping product. Needless to say he got a job offer when he graduated.
-Rob
Actaully I found mostly the opposite. The SC is OK for basic stuff in a FPS game, but runs into problems for my play style.
The springs are too weak to center the thing unless you pull your hand off of it. This leads to me drifting off the edge of a ledge or something because I missed recentering properly. You have to up the dead zone range to max to have any chance here.
Once you up the dead zone it starts requiring a huge amount of motion to activate the axes. Something like Unreal's double tap a direction to lunge is unusable because of the distance required.
The axes are digital. What's the point of upgrading from your keyboard if you don't get finer control.
YMMV
-Rob
Two Ninja Bitches... Trying to kill each other.
OK, If these are the guys I saw at Comdex '99 this is *NOT* a PC like some people seem to think.
They built what they call a split bridge PCI bus. It's a PCI bridge chipset that can have the two ends seperated by up to 25 ft of cable.
So what this particular product is, is a PCI bus on a PC card. It adds a few PCI slots, an IDE chain and a couple of other things (USB, PS2) on the end of a wire.
Personally I thought the technology was a lot cooler than than what they planned for it, but hey who am I to say.
-Rob
A company called ac propulsion is starting to produce a 200HP electric sports car, the t-zero.
Two of which (USB 1/2) are identical... There is no difference in the ports.
--Rob
Correct, there are no 2.0 device currently "in production" there are however plenty of devices in the pipeline, and a handful have already been demonstrated.
Short term, I think 2.0 is going to beat 1394 for most desktop devices for a couple of reasons:
Market penetration -- every new PC has USB. Consumers know what it is and how to use it.
forward compatability -- as far as I can tell this is still in. Your new 2.0 device works on your existing system. It works better on if you buy a 2.0 Host Controller, but it does work.
backwards compatability -- old devices still work on your shiny new system.
driver compatibility -- under windows the driver is identical for a 2.0 version of an older device. If the HW guys get the new HW right, it works and works now. Development time is going to be shorter than you expect. Other OS vendors will abstact away the differences. (They are seriously stupid if they don't.)
All together that means someone can produce a video camara that works OK on most machines out there right now, and works as good as on 1394 on new machines/host controllers. Or they can make a video camera that only works on 1394, a relatively small percentage of machines. Which do you think they'll choose?
Of course USB 2.0 is not the be all/end all in buses. It will never route video from my DVD player to my TV. 1394 will.
--Rob
On the other hand, USB is explicitly designed as a computer peripheral bus the root node must always be a computer. Without a computer powered on and managing the Universal Serial Bus, it's useless.
You say that like it's a bad thing. As you say USB is intended as a peripheral bus. You can right now replace a most of the ports on a desktop machine with USB and be done with it.
On the other hand, you'll never put a mouse or joystick on a 1394 network. The HW would be far to expensive, the heavy shielding the cables require would makes a mouse tough to move, and you run into the same problem the wireless peripheral guys have of "which host does this keyboard belong too".
I think what happened here is manufactures want to make consumer level devices that require a little to much bandwidth for USB. Video cameras and the like. Unfortunately the cost of 1394 HW is high enough that if they were to try to do it right then they've priced their device outside consumer levels. What happened is that people made crap devices that worked over USB, but were cheap and easy enough to sell mass market.
USB 2.0 is an attempt to address that by adding enough speed to support the higher bandwidth devices on the existing bus. Yes it's still based around a host, and yes it can't do everything 1394 can. It's not supposed to. 1394 is definitely the choice for networking your AV equipment. USB is definetly the choice for keyboards and mice. 2.0 makes it reasonable to manufacture in between devices for either bus.
--Rob
Does anyone know what became of this?
Yup.
Does the final USB2 spec contain any such anti-consumer features?
Nope.
But such "features" wouldn't be implemented at that level anyway. If people are going to implement those kind of things they'll do it at the class driver level. I do not follow the audio class working group, so I can't say what's been proposed there.
--Rob
I dissagree...
From my point of view he was an fantastic actor, his passing now makes it impossible for him to act again. There will now be no more new examples of his art.
That's why I'm saddened.
-Rob
These guys are just down the road from me and they do all kinds of cool work. Including a bunch of restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls(DSS). There are huge reproductions of the DSS in the hallways in the buildings.
-Rob
I mean did that stop us from seeing all the highlanders?
Uh Yeah, Actually it did.
- Rob
who wants the Jaguar hearse from Harold and Maude
Lot's of people, unfortunely it really went over that cliff in the end. Appearently, the producers couldn't figure out anything else to do with it.
sigh.
-Rob
This has got to be a troll, but in case someone actually believes this argument...
Many events in Sparticus have been verified by independant historians. Doesn't mean the whole movie is true, it just means that it got some things right.
There are also many events in the bible that haven't been, and many that can't be, proven. For example, 10,000 people wandering around in the desert for 40 years seen to have left no trace of camps or waste dumps. Because it gets some things wrong doesn't mean its all false.
You probably mean Jews not Muslims. :)
Nope... He got it right.
The distributors who own the vast majority of popular music were collaborating to fix prices at a level higher than retailers wanted to charge and customers wanted to pay. This is the kind of situation I'd like to see libertarians explain away.
Seems easy enough to do. With any purchase you have three choices, buy the product you want at the asking price, buy a substitute, or don't buy anything.
There are substitutes. Plenty of small bands that sell their own CDs at $10 a pop. Some labels do sell their music cheaply as well. Heck, some bands release free music.
Customers today do have the option to buy cheaper music, but they aren't using it. Instead they're paying what's asked and grumbling.