I can't use m.gmail.com using my Blackberry WAP browser, while Yahoo! mail (from wap.yahoo.com) works great!
How hard is it, in this day and age, to have a CSS that is WAP-friendly???? If Google would like to hire me, I can have it in a day or two, and you could have wap.gmail.com!
Weird, with my Blackberry 7520 WAP browser, when I go to http://m.gmail.com/ I get HTTP Error 406: Not Acceptable - The page you were trying to load is not supported by the browser.
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I've put together a school of Big Mouth Billy Bass, and have allowed them to describe how painful it is to be caught and placed on a wall. This work has been shown in art galleries in Washington, DC. Link: School of Fish Pain.
If millions of American jobs are lost, why is total payroll employment at an all-time high? Why is the unemployment rate going down, and still much lower than it was during much of the 1970's?
Employees are more likely to have health care through Wal-Mart than through those mom-n-pop style retail shops, and are making more as well.
Face it, the "economic degredation" of Wal-Mart is anti-capitalist hype.
I live in a city with a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a Target, a Giant Food and a Shoppers Food Warehouse (two unionized grocery chains), and every one of them is doing fine. The poor people get great deals at Wal-Mart, and the rich people blow their money at Giant Food on stuff like organic produce.
Regarding health care, it is experiencing massive inflation in part because of government regulation and interference. Doctors are regulated, drugs are regulated, and 50% of every US medical dollar comes from government driving moral hazards and distorting the market. Even basic tax policy distorts the medical market by making employer-paid health insurance untaxed while individual medical costs are paid from taxed income.
The other reason medical care is becoming more expensive is because it is becoming technologically and scientifically better, and can greatly extend the life of people. In the US, people's time is becoming more valuable as the economy expands to allow them to make more, thus the life extension is doubly more valuable, so it is no surprise it costs more.
Wal-Mart saves low-income shoppers $50 billion a year by having an efficient supply chain. I don't care Mal-Mart give to charity or not.
Infact, Bill Gates, who had a lot to do with the success of the modern PC revolution has helped hundreds of millions of people get jobs that made them trillions of dollars. And I don't care if he gives to charity either, but sure, it is nice.
Every market transaction makes both parties better off, or else they would not engage in the transaction.
The instability largely comes from political corruption, monopolies of any kind, insufficient worker protections, price gouging, accounting fraud and other such elements, where the normal feedback mechanisms cannot work or are even actively prevented from working.
The most screwed-up economies are the ones that are the most regulated. India's economy before 1980 was very regulated and very screwed up. It would take a year to get a permit to import a computer, thanks to trade protectionism. Now India's economy is only slightly screwed-up as regulation begins to be lifted.
Regulation always sounds like a great idea. "The market has failures, let's regulate it." Unfortunately, the track record globally is that more regulation tends to damage the working parts of the market more than regulation fixes the failing parts of the market.
Government regulation has proven to be an incredible tool of corruption, and unlike private corruption, you generally can't get away from government corruption.
Japan had a recession not because of any lack of educational level, technology prowess, or entrepreneurship, but instead because of non-market policies in several key areas.
Keep in mind that it would not be difficult for the US to adopt non-market policies and go down the same path as Japan or France and into a position of low economic growth. Look at all the anti-Wal-Mart fervor.
Actually there are a lot of poor countries who have made great strides in education, especially in Africa, and continue to be poor.
The problem is with an over-regulated economy, no combination of education or aid can lead to economic growth. For example, Cuba (with a very regulated economy) has a very high literacy level, compulsary education up to age 15, and almost anyone in Cuba can go to college if they pass a test, yet most people in Cuba are lucky if they make the equivalent of $10 a month.
This reference shows that despite pouring massive resources into education systems, many poor countries have seen a steady decline in economic growth.
On the other hand, advancing economic freedom is a much better way to achieve economic growth.
The absolute number of people in a profession is useless in itself because it only represents supply. There is no good way to represent demand and the balance between supply and demand without quoting either the market-clearing price or the level of professional unemployment.
I don't see how telling someone that he or she's got three times the expected competition is supposed to be an incentive or an inspiration.
I've never understood this "number counting" either. Who cares how many people of X profession we have? As long as the government doesn't over-regulate the production of a profession (as is evident with doctors), there will be enough people to do the job.
It is important for young people to know how much profession X pays, and what the unemployment rate is. For example, electrical engineering seems to have been going through a time of less employment recently (probably brought on by increasing ease of automated design of digital circuits, use of FPGAs and programmable DSP chips, killing the analog design field).
I think every high school student should have to designate a desired career, and then do some role-playing based on their likely financial outcomes. "You want to be an actor. Roll a die. Only 1% of actors can live on acting, you rolled a 23, so now you are a waiter barely making the poverty line, growing older and sadder every day..."
A number of broadcast engineers I work with did not have an engineering college education, and just learned their way up from camera operator to master control operator to station chief engineer, etc. Yet these people are internationally known experts in fields like digital television (MPEG-2 transport streams, PSIP, 8VSB modulation, and such). Some didn't even graduate from college! While the top folks might be counted as IEEE or SMPTE members, I'm sure many fall through the cracks.
People here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
You will be glad to know that:
1) broadcasters will be forced to transmit in digital only, it is up to your local broadcaster how to split up their 19 Mbps between SD and HD resolution streams and
2) bills before congress right now have the government providing you a $40 coupon for a set-top-box which will receive digital broadcast signals, and probably also downconvert HD DTV streams to SD composite analog out for you.
VC-1 and H.264 implementations for HD are just not there yet. Trust me, I have looked at a lot of them, and they can't beat MPEG-2 yet. VC-1 and H.264 are great for low-bitrate SD streams (4 Mbps, for example). I think Sony made the best call for today, MPEG-2 to provide deliverable HD quality today.
Actually the plan is to use multicast IP (using RTP) to deliver video streams using DVB-H. See this document titled "Specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in DVB services delivered directly over IP protocols".
The use of IP is also motivated by the need to have two-way communication for Digital Rights Management.
US ATSC DTV is based on MPEG-2, but the DVB-H systems use Windows Media 9 / VC-1 or H.264 codecs which are much more efficient for lower bitrate video streams. Also US DTV is limited in scale-down to 480 vertical lines at 30 fps, whereas DVB-H can go down to 320 x 240 pixels or even 176 x 144 pixels at frame rates of 15 fps or less.
With those small screen sizes and low frame rates, combined with advanced video and audio codecs, you can get a useable video stream at 384kbps.
According to this press release, Crown Castle will be using Windows Media 9 aka SMPTE VC-1 as a codec with Windows Media 10 DRM. This article suggests that with 5 MHz using DVB-H with 16 QAM 2/3 modulation, you should get 9.2 Mbps, enough for 18 channels of 500 kbps video, and would be receivable by devices moving as fast as 150 kph without doppler fading.
The track record on economic growth for dictatorships versus democracy indicates a slight advantage for democracies, but not by much.
Let's keep in mind that India had 40 years of democracy before they began to have pro-market reforms to improve their economy (although a lot of red tape still needs to be gotten rid of there). Modern China managed to starve 30 million of its people to death, while at the same time also taking about 40 years of dictatorship before enacting pro-market reforms (although a lot of failing state-owned enterprised have yet to be privatized).
So there you are, a lot of wasted lives and time on both sides.
PBS delivers its HD satellite feed as 1080i, perhaps that is what is bothering you. (Some stations may recode to 720p, but most pass through the 1080i transport stream or recode to 1080i).
If you look carefully, you'll find a lot of older TV content was shot on film, not tape at all, and when converted to HD they have more resolution than the original broadcast. Also some tape formats (such as DigiBeta) may look better off of tape than over analog NTSC broadcast because of the limitations of the NTSC channel. So they will also look better upconverted to HD, or carried by SD DTV.
M6P/IGF2R has been considered to be an "IQ" related gene for a while, for example this claims: By comparing children with an IQ of 160 or higher to those with an average IQ of 100, it was shown that the M6P/IGF2R is strongly associated with general cognitive ability ("g").
Oddly enough carbon dioxide emissions are not directly proportional to how economically developed you are.
I think the effect you are seeing is the industrial-age core of Russia (an old development from USSR days) and of China (a new development since 1970's).
Countries become more CO2 emitting as they develop from farming to industry, then they have the opportunity to become more efficient and less CO2 emitting as they become more information-age oriented.
Bangladesh has 144 million people, but is so underdeveloped that it contributes to only 0.14% of GDP and also 0.14% of global CO2 emissions.
Another good way to look at things is CO2 emissions per capita. Towards the bottom of the list are many very populous but incredibly poor African countries.
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I can't use m.gmail.com using my Blackberry WAP browser, while Yahoo! mail (from wap.yahoo.com) works great!
How hard is it, in this day and age, to have a CSS that is WAP-friendly???? If Google would like to hire me, I can have it in a day or two, and you could have wap.gmail.com!
Weird, with my Blackberry 7520 WAP browser, when I go to http://m.gmail.com/ I get HTTP Error 406: Not Acceptable - The page you were trying to load is not supported by the browser.
I've put together a school of Big Mouth Billy Bass, and have allowed them to describe how painful it is to be caught and placed on a wall. This work has been shown in art galleries in Washington, DC. Link: School of Fish Pain.
millions of American jobs are lost
If millions of American jobs are lost, why is total payroll employment at an all-time high? Why is the unemployment rate going down, and still much lower than it was during much of the 1970's?
Employees are more likely to have health care through Wal-Mart than through those mom-n-pop style retail shops, and are making more as well.
Face it, the "economic degredation" of Wal-Mart is anti-capitalist hype.
I live in a city with a Wal-Mart Supercenter, a Target, a Giant Food and a Shoppers Food Warehouse (two unionized grocery chains), and every one of them is doing fine. The poor people get great deals at Wal-Mart, and the rich people blow their money at Giant Food on stuff like organic produce.
Regarding health care, it is experiencing massive inflation in part because of government regulation and interference. Doctors are regulated, drugs are regulated, and 50% of every US medical dollar comes from government driving moral hazards and distorting the market. Even basic tax policy distorts the medical market by making employer-paid health insurance untaxed while individual medical costs are paid from taxed income.
The other reason medical care is becoming more expensive is because it is becoming technologically and scientifically better, and can greatly extend the life of people. In the US, people's time is becoming more valuable as the economy expands to allow them to make more, thus the life extension is doubly more valuable, so it is no surprise it costs more.
Wal-Mart saves low-income shoppers $50 billion a year by having an efficient supply chain. I don't care Mal-Mart give to charity or not.
Infact, Bill Gates, who had a lot to do with the success of the modern PC revolution has helped hundreds of millions of people get jobs that made them trillions of dollars. And I don't care if he gives to charity either, but sure, it is nice.
Every market transaction makes both parties better off, or else they would not engage in the transaction.
The instability largely comes from political corruption, monopolies of any kind, insufficient worker protections, price gouging, accounting fraud and other such elements, where the normal feedback mechanisms cannot work or are even actively prevented from working.
The most screwed-up economies are the ones that are the most regulated. India's economy before 1980 was very regulated and very screwed up. It would take a year to get a permit to import a computer, thanks to trade protectionism. Now India's economy is only slightly screwed-up as regulation begins to be lifted.
Regulation always sounds like a great idea. "The market has failures, let's regulate it." Unfortunately, the track record globally is that more regulation tends to damage the working parts of the market more than regulation fixes the failing parts of the market.
Government regulation has proven to be an incredible tool of corruption, and unlike private corruption, you generally can't get away from government corruption.
And you are experiencing "reformed" India. It was much worse before 1980, in the days of the "Permit Raj".
Japan had a recession not because of any lack of educational level, technology prowess, or entrepreneurship, but instead because of non-market policies in several key areas.
Keep in mind that it would not be difficult for the US to adopt non-market policies and go down the same path as Japan or France and into a position of low economic growth. Look at all the anti-Wal-Mart fervor.
Actually there are a lot of poor countries who have made great strides in education, especially in Africa, and continue to be poor.
The problem is with an over-regulated economy, no combination of education or aid can lead to economic growth. For example, Cuba (with a very regulated economy) has a very high literacy level, compulsary education up to age 15, and almost anyone in Cuba can go to college if they pass a test, yet most people in Cuba are lucky if they make the equivalent of $10 a month.
This reference shows that despite pouring massive resources into education systems, many poor countries have seen a steady decline in economic growth.
On the other hand, advancing economic freedom is a much better way to achieve economic growth.
The absolute number of people in a profession is useless in itself because it only represents supply. There is no good way to represent demand and the balance between supply and demand without quoting either the market-clearing price or the level of professional unemployment.
I don't see how telling someone that he or she's got three times the expected competition is supposed to be an incentive or an inspiration.
I've never understood this "number counting" either. Who cares how many people of X profession we have? As long as the government doesn't over-regulate the production of a profession (as is evident with doctors), there will be enough people to do the job.
It is important for young people to know how much profession X pays, and what the unemployment rate is. For example, electrical engineering seems to have been going through a time of less employment recently (probably brought on by increasing ease of automated design of digital circuits, use of FPGAs and programmable DSP chips, killing the analog design field).
I think every high school student should have to designate a desired career, and then do some role-playing based on their likely financial outcomes. "You want to be an actor. Roll a die. Only 1% of actors can live on acting, you rolled a 23, so now you are a waiter barely making the poverty line, growing older and sadder every day..."
A number of broadcast engineers I work with did not have an engineering college education, and just learned their way up from camera operator to master control operator to station chief engineer, etc. Yet these people are internationally known experts in fields like digital television (MPEG-2 transport streams, PSIP, 8VSB modulation, and such). Some didn't even graduate from college! While the top folks might be counted as IEEE or SMPTE members, I'm sure many fall through the cracks.
People here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
You will be glad to know that:
1) broadcasters will be forced to transmit in digital only, it is up to your local broadcaster how to split up their 19 Mbps between SD and HD resolution streams and
2) bills before congress right now have the government providing you a $40 coupon for a set-top-box which will receive digital broadcast signals, and probably also downconvert HD DTV streams to SD composite analog out for you.
VC-1 and H.264 implementations for HD are just not there yet. Trust me, I have looked at a lot of them, and they can't beat MPEG-2 yet. VC-1 and H.264 are great for low-bitrate SD streams (4 Mbps, for example). I think Sony made the best call for today, MPEG-2 to provide deliverable HD quality today.
I SSH on my Blackberry...
Actually the plan is to use multicast IP (using RTP) to deliver video streams using DVB-H. See this document titled "Specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in DVB services delivered directly over IP protocols".
The use of IP is also motivated by the need to have two-way communication for Digital Rights Management.
US ATSC DTV is based on MPEG-2, but the DVB-H systems use Windows Media 9 / VC-1 or H.264 codecs which are much more efficient for lower bitrate video streams. Also US DTV is limited in scale-down to 480 vertical lines at 30 fps, whereas DVB-H can go down to 320 x 240 pixels or even 176 x 144 pixels at frame rates of 15 fps or less.
With those small screen sizes and low frame rates, combined with advanced video and audio codecs, you can get a useable video stream at 384kbps.
According to this press release, Crown Castle will be using Windows Media 9 aka SMPTE VC-1 as a codec with Windows Media 10 DRM. This article suggests that with 5 MHz using DVB-H with 16 QAM 2/3 modulation, you should get 9.2 Mbps, enough for 18 channels of 500 kbps video, and would be receivable by devices moving as fast as 150 kph without doppler fading.
The track record on economic growth for dictatorships versus democracy indicates a slight advantage for democracies, but not by much.
Let's keep in mind that India had 40 years of democracy before they began to have pro-market reforms to improve their economy (although a lot of red tape still needs to be gotten rid of there). Modern China managed to starve 30 million of its people to death, while at the same time also taking about 40 years of dictatorship before enacting pro-market reforms (although a lot of failing state-owned enterprised have yet to be privatized).
So there you are, a lot of wasted lives and time on both sides.
PBS delivers its HD satellite feed as 1080i, perhaps that is what is bothering you. (Some stations may recode to 720p, but most pass through the 1080i transport stream or recode to 1080i).
HD (ATSC) also has a wider color gamut than NTSC or PAL.
The Hilton New York now has these 16:9 ratio SD LCD panel TVs in the rooms. Makes the Victoria Secret broadcast much less interesting.
If you look carefully, you'll find a lot of older TV content was shot on film, not tape at all, and when converted to HD they have more resolution than the original broadcast. Also some tape formats (such as DigiBeta) may look better off of tape than over analog NTSC broadcast because of the limitations of the NTSC channel. So they will also look better upconverted to HD, or carried by SD DTV.
M6P/IGF2R has been considered to be an "IQ" related gene for a while, for example this claims: By comparing children with an IQ of 160 or higher to those with an average IQ of 100, it was shown that the M6P/IGF2R is strongly associated with general cognitive ability ("g").
Oddly enough carbon dioxide emissions are not directly proportional to how economically developed you are.
I think the effect you are seeing is the industrial-age core of Russia (an old development from USSR days) and of China (a new development since 1970's).
Countries become more CO2 emitting as they develop from farming to industry, then they have the opportunity to become more efficient and less CO2 emitting as they become more information-age oriented.
Bangladesh has 144 million people, but is so underdeveloped that it contributes to only 0.14% of GDP and also 0.14% of global CO2 emissions.
Another good way to look at things is CO2 emissions per capita. Towards the bottom of the list are many very populous but incredibly poor African countries.