I don't think you can place a clear label on Indymedia
Just look at their website. The first story they have on it is anti-nuclear. The other stories have a similiar left-wing slant to them. It's fairly easy to recognize the views of the authors. I don't believe there is such thing as "zero" biased. Everyone has a bias.
I don't think this is a fair analysis. Remember, XBOX and Gamecube have just recently come out. They too will start showing their age after a year or two. At that point, PC's will again be ahead in technology and the games that have the best graphics will only be available on PC's until the next generation of consoles.
Also, PC's are backwards compatible. You can still play games from a decade ago or more. You can't necessarily say the same about game consoles.
But that's half of the fun of PC games! Getting to open up your computer for upgrades, running benchmarks on FPS, and hunting for those hard to find video drivers. For each new PC game I buy (about 2 a year) I usually need to spend around $150 on PC hardware to make it play decently.
They should just make a SimPCupgrade where you can simulate putting together a machine that will play computer games decently. Just image the savings!
Don't forget the refresh rate. TV's are probably only about 60, computer monitors can be 85-100. This has a direct relationship to the framerate that the game can produce. With only a 60Hz refresh rate (or less) of a TV you can only see 60fps (given that it syncs on vertical frames). Here's my question: Can you connect a PC monitor to an X-Box? That would be very cool.
Your right about the 5GHz bandwidth becoming crowded. I've already seen cordless phones coming out that use this frequency to communicate with the receiver unit. It seems like a grossly inefficient use of bandwidth just to have a cordless phone have better quality. It probably wouldn't be nearly as bad if phone manufactures sent the data in short packet bursts, but I think they might still be analog. If all devices could just use 802.11 instead of being proprietary, things might work better.
If the FCC could open up more frequencies in the U.S. for personal or public use, this would also alleviate the situation.
Are you sure that white LED's came first? I always thought that white LED's came out a little bit after the blue LED's because Blue + Green + Red is needed to make white light. Colored filters on green and red LED's don't actually change the color of the light. Most LED's use clear cases. The light color generated is dependent on the type of semiconductor used. I believe that they usually only will emit a specific waveform of light.
BTW, the same gallium nitride technology used in blue LED's may soon lead to faster networking equipment. It's just how long it will take them to make it cost effective. The wafers themselves are transparent.
Whenever I see a blue LED on something I always tell people "Did you know that was invented by Shuji Nakamura?" and they have no idea what I'm talking about.:)
The towers that are supposed to look like trees look terrible. They don't look anything like trees. I wonder how much extra expense goes into making them like that?
Instead of making them eyesores, why not make the attenas themselves sculptures? Maybe create different styles of antennas. Why do people think that technology has to be hidden like it's such a bad thing? It's like those wooden computer cabinets that are designed to hide the computer so you don't have to look at it. I would never purchase one.
Funny. I use Python for most of my scripting, but I'm specifically teaching myself Perl just so I can learn to write incoherent code like that. It just seems like writing perl that only you can understand is something that a geek has to learn:)
Another powerful solution is Java Servlet Pages. With JSP you can combine HTML and java code together in one file. It's also likely to be faster than Python because it doesn't need to interpret each line of code before executing it.
I've seen a laptop screen at 1600x1200 that someone paid a lot of money for. The thing is, the font is so small that you can't see it. Not all Windows GUI elements can be scaled either so you are left with clicking on very small icons. He actually uses a lower resolution which causes aliasing which looks just as bad. It would have been best to save the extra $$$ and get a lower resolution screen for a laptop. Nothing above 1280x960 until UI's improve or the screens get larger.
Hmm... like all the non-open source safety systems in your automobile, microwave, the space shuttle, military aircraft, etc... etc... I don't think these are very worthless things.
And why shouldn't algorithm's be patentable? If you could take any software program's code you could translate it directly into a (somewhat confusing) mathematical formula. I'm not saying they should be able to patent something like E=mc^2, but if several person-hours are used to create a very long algorithm specification, then it is probably something worth patenting.
Think about it, they only have a licencing fee of $0.75 for a peice of software. That's $0.75! Come on, are people saying they couldn't afford paying $0.75 to use a program? That would raise software prices by a very small amount. From what I understand on this Licencing agreement Apple or Microsoft only have to pay $90,000 and they can include decoding in all of their products. That's a fairly small amount for a companies that sells billions in products.
I think that the company that spent money into the research for creating the MP3 codec should deserve some sort of compensations. After all, how many of us could hack together our own MP3 decoder, create the mathematical models from scratch, and then standardize it? Yes, ogg is good and it will probably succeed in the Linux community, but for the commercial world MP3 (and it's next iterations) are what are popular now.
Actually, yes you can tune into signals from CRT displays, it's just a standard frequency. The FBI has technology to do this, although I'm not sure if they can scan into LCD screens yet.
That scares me that they can just come to your house like that without any search warrant. A Licence to watch something that isn't a scrambled signal? Why doesn't the BBC just encrypt their signal and sell access cards at retail if they want to charge people instead of scaring people into paying for their TV.
I usually wouldn't bash windows but this is not the right solution for this. Why would you rely on such complexity for a system that is supposed to be simple and easy to use? Just imagine how easy it would be to break into this system and change it.
A better solution would be to use an embedded microcontroller or other simple hardware device for each voting station and then connect that to a central database server running a much more secure operating system. I think that voting and it's integrity deserve as much mission critical attention as safety systems in an automobile. There simply shouldn't be any failure here. Relying on an OS with several millions of lines of code just to input a few votes just doesn't make any sense.
I think the story lines started to get too long. It seemed like if you missed a comic in the series you couldn't understand the context of the newer comics. My point is, the humor used isn't really that universal. It's even hard for me as a geek to relate to it:)
I agree. It's just about pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft propaganda. But if you like that kind of thing fine. My opinion is that it doesn't really have that much intelligent insight or creativity on any subject. I do find it amazing that he was able to make his comics marketable though.
I just received the issue of IEEE recently. I thought it was funny to see an article about id in a magazine like IEEE which usually discusses things like transistor band gaps and such.
They talk about id's technology in depth, but they really don't understand the gaming culture that was behind creating the games. This was the driving force for the technology and it was far more important than just the latest advances in BSP.
The original article even mentions that Super Mario Brothers 3 was for the Super Nintendo, which of course isn't true. It was for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.
I have experimented with the left hand Dvorak layout and it is tolerable, although I can only type about 10 WPM using it right now. I'm sure I could probably due about 20 - 30 wpm with a little more practice. I primarily use the regular dvorak layout to type about 70 WPM. I wanted to learn the left handed layout for applications where mouse and keyboard interaction are equally important.
It isn't censorship at all. People still have a choice to purchase the other videos that are not censored, and they will also be able to pay less for them.
I actually thing the idea of editing the videos is counter-productive not because censorship is wrong, but because they should be able to create their own films based on their own beliefs instead of relying on content that they find objectionable.
Why do you associate the word moral with "small-minded". I find that most people who have no sense of morality are small-minded because they don't see anything beyond themselves, but that's just my opinion.
I would question this paper until other people have reproduced the results of their experiment. I think it's fairly common now for these things to get published without first being verified by other sources just because it's so out of the ordinary. Even a small error in their measurements could have been misinterpreted. Recently, someone published the properties of a new semiconductor using a the same graph they published in a previous paper. Same thing with the negative gravity experiment that no one can reproduce.
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I don't think you can place a clear label on Indymedia
Just look at their website. The first story they have on it is anti-nuclear. The other stories have a similiar left-wing slant to them. It's fairly easy to recognize the views of the authors. I don't believe there is such thing as "zero" biased. Everyone has a bias.
I don't think this is a fair analysis. Remember, XBOX and Gamecube have just recently come out. They too will start showing their age after a year or two. At that point, PC's will again be ahead in technology and the games that have the best graphics will only be available on PC's until the next generation of consoles.
Also, PC's are backwards compatible. You can still play games from a decade ago or more. You can't necessarily say the same about game consoles.
But that's half of the fun of PC games! Getting to open up your computer for upgrades, running benchmarks on FPS, and hunting for those hard to find video drivers. For each new PC game I buy (about 2 a year) I usually need to spend around $150 on PC hardware to make it play decently.
They should just make a SimPCupgrade where you can simulate putting together a machine that will play computer games decently. Just image the savings!
Don't forget the refresh rate. TV's are probably only about 60, computer monitors can be 85-100. This has a direct relationship to the framerate that the game can produce. With only a 60Hz refresh rate (or less) of a TV you can only see 60fps (given that it syncs on vertical frames). Here's my question: Can you connect a PC monitor to an X-Box? That would be very cool.
Your right about the 5GHz bandwidth becoming crowded. I've already seen cordless phones coming out that use this frequency to communicate with the receiver unit. It seems like a grossly inefficient use of bandwidth just to have a cordless phone have better quality. It probably wouldn't be nearly as bad if phone manufactures sent the data in short packet bursts, but I think they might still be analog. If all devices could just use 802.11 instead of being proprietary, things might work better.
If the FCC could open up more frequencies in the U.S. for personal or public use, this would also alleviate the situation.
Are you sure that white LED's came first? I always thought that white LED's came out a little bit after the blue LED's because Blue + Green + Red is needed to make white light. Colored filters on green and red LED's don't actually change the color of the light. Most LED's use clear cases. The light color generated is dependent on the type of semiconductor used. I believe that they usually only will emit a specific waveform of light.
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BTW, the same gallium nitride technology used in blue LED's may soon lead to faster networking equipment. It's just how long it will take them to make it cost effective. The wafers themselves are transparent.
Whenever I see a blue LED on something I always tell people "Did you know that was invented by Shuji Nakamura?" and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
The towers that are supposed to look like trees look terrible. They don't look anything like trees. I wonder how much extra expense goes into making them like that?
Instead of making them eyesores, why not make the attenas themselves sculptures? Maybe create different styles of antennas. Why do people think that technology has to be hidden like it's such a bad thing? It's like those wooden computer cabinets that are designed to hide the computer so you don't have to look at it. I would never purchase one.
Funny. I use Python for most of my scripting, but I'm specifically teaching myself Perl just so I can learn to write incoherent code like that. It just seems like writing perl that only you can understand is something that a geek has to learn :)
Another powerful solution is Java Servlet Pages. With JSP you can combine HTML and java code together in one file. It's also likely to be faster than Python because it doesn't need to interpret each line of code before executing it.
They should have included Gaim. It supports almost every IM protocol out there and it has a minimal interface making it simple to use.
I've seen a laptop screen at 1600x1200 that someone paid a lot of money for. The thing is, the font is so small that you can't see it. Not all Windows GUI elements can be scaled either so you are left with clicking on very small icons. He actually uses a lower resolution which causes aliasing which looks just as bad. It would have been best to save the extra $$$ and get a lower resolution screen for a laptop. Nothing above 1280x960 until UI's improve or the screens get larger.
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Hmm... like all the non-open source safety systems in your automobile, microwave, the space shuttle, military aircraft, etc... etc... I don't think these are very worthless things.
And why shouldn't algorithm's be patentable? If you could take any software program's code you could translate it directly into a (somewhat confusing) mathematical formula. I'm not saying they should be able to patent something like E=mc^2, but if several person-hours are used to create a very long algorithm specification, then it is probably something worth patenting.
Think about it, they only have a licencing fee of $0.75 for a peice of software. That's $0.75! Come on, are people saying they couldn't afford paying $0.75 to use a program? That would raise software prices by a very small amount. From what I understand on this Licencing agreement Apple or Microsoft only have to pay $90,000 and they can include decoding in all of their products. That's a fairly small amount for a companies that sells billions in products.
I think that the company that spent money into the research for creating the MP3 codec should deserve some sort of compensations. After all, how many of us could hack together our own MP3 decoder, create the mathematical models from scratch, and then standardize it? Yes, ogg is good and it will probably succeed in the Linux community, but for the commercial world MP3 (and it's next iterations) are what are popular now.
Actually, yes you can tune into signals from CRT displays, it's just a standard frequency. The FBI has technology to do this, although I'm not sure if they can scan into LCD screens yet.
That scares me that they can just come to your house like that without any search warrant. A Licence to watch something that isn't a scrambled signal? Why doesn't the BBC just encrypt their signal and sell access cards at retail if they want to charge people instead of scaring people into paying for their TV.
I usually wouldn't bash windows but this is not the right solution for this. Why would you rely on such complexity for a system that is supposed to be simple and easy to use? Just imagine how easy it would be to break into this system and change it.
A better solution would be to use an embedded microcontroller or other simple hardware device for each voting station and then connect that to a central database server running a much more secure operating system. I think that voting and it's integrity deserve as much mission critical attention as safety systems in an automobile. There simply shouldn't be any failure here. Relying on an OS with several millions of lines of code just to input a few votes just doesn't make any sense.
I think the story lines started to get too long. It seemed like if you missed a comic in the series you couldn't understand the context of the newer comics. My point is, the humor used isn't really that universal. It's even hard for me as a geek to relate to it :)
I agree. It's just about pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft propaganda. But if you like that kind of thing fine. My opinion is that it doesn't really have that much intelligent insight or creativity on any subject. I do find it amazing that he was able to make his comics marketable though.
I just received the issue of IEEE recently. I thought it was funny to see an article about id in a magazine like IEEE which usually discusses things like transistor band gaps and such.
They talk about id's technology in depth, but they really don't understand the gaming culture that was behind creating the games. This was the driving force for the technology and it was far more important than just the latest advances in BSP.
The original article even mentions that Super Mario Brothers 3 was for the Super Nintendo, which of course isn't true. It was for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.
I have experimented with the left hand Dvorak layout and it is tolerable, although I can only type about 10 WPM using it right now. I'm sure I could probably due about 20 - 30 wpm with a little more practice. I primarily use the regular dvorak layout to type about 70 WPM. I wanted to learn the left handed layout for applications where mouse and keyboard interaction are equally important.
It isn't censorship at all. People still have a choice to purchase the other videos that are not censored, and they will also be able to pay less for them.
I actually thing the idea of editing the videos is counter-productive not because censorship is wrong, but because they should be able to create their own films based on their own beliefs instead of relying on content that they find objectionable.
Why do you associate the word moral with "small-minded". I find that most people who have no sense of morality are small-minded because they don't see anything beyond themselves, but that's just my opinion.
I would question this paper until other people have reproduced the results of their experiment. I think it's fairly common now for these things to get published without first being verified by other sources just because it's so out of the ordinary. Even a small error in their measurements could have been misinterpreted. Recently, someone published the properties of a new semiconductor using a the same graph they published in a previous paper. Same thing with the negative gravity experiment that no one can reproduce.