Ironically, the wording of the article is as far from skeumorphic as humanly possible. Thanks for doing the editors' work and telling us what the fuck we're talking about.
No alternate is necessary. The novel's concepts do not have to come to complete fruition for it to have had an impact. For better or for worse, a portion of the politically active population cites this novel for inspiration. That, in and of itself, changes the world.
What do you think of using something like a Zoom H4N or R16 instead? They are significantly less expensive, can be moved more easily if needed, and make very nice recordings. No live streaming capability in either, but the audio records to an SD card, and can be uploaded from there or read through a USB interface.
I find it particularly amusing that Amazon suggests with it, a book called The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It's like, "Here's the product, and here's how to use it."
Nah, they don't all need four wheels. A few three and six wheel cars would be fine with me, especially if I could get one with six-wheel drive! That would be cool for visiting my in-laws who live on a dirt road that becomes a mud bog every spring!
Now, round wheels . . . there's an idea for a standard!
Going to serious, I am a sound engineer, and grateful for the fact that the pro audio has largely standardized on three connectors: 1/4", XLR and Speakon. No fuss, no muss, no BS. The consumer products industry could learn a lot from the pros.
SATA hard drives have two plugs on them, which are a standard distance from each other and in a standard position on the drive, enabling cartridge-like function for the drives.
Suppose we took an iPod, put a micro-USB, a micro-HDMI and the headphone jack all on it, on the bottom, positioned in standardized places, and made that the docking standard?
Of course, that would deny Apple the licensing fees and veto power for the accessory market, which is what I think this is really about.
I first had access to a machine with USB at least a couple of years before 1999; it was a brand-new, state-of-the-art desktop machine that I'd been issued at work. It was issued to me when I started that job, and that would have been probably 1997, if I recall right.
You have confused the Director with the Producer. Burton did, in fact, direct those films, but they were still produced by Michael Uslan. Citation here.
I wasn't so much thinking of putting in a fixed delay in execution, as I was thinking to have the executions all take place at a specific time, say, the top of the minute. The smaller traders you refer to can prepare a batch of trades and send them, and at the top of the minute, they are all executed with everyone else's.
It works for electricity traders at five-minute intervals, so why not?
An hour might be a tad overkill. I'm thinking that 1-5 minutes is reasonably human-scale.
Someone mentioned not letting machines do the bidding. I disagree. I don't have a problem with that, but, I do believe that the trades should be human-scale.
Not 100% sure, but I think wide-screen films have the same frame size as narrow, the only difference being that the picture has been horizontally compressed (assuming a 35mm print). The film savings would not be there.
Regarding digital cinema, the disc space for a 48 fps film would be double that of a 24 fps film, because they use an intra-only codec. That said, though, a 48 fps flat film would use the same disc space as a 24 fps 3D film. Combining the two, of course, would double it.
I would suppose that if you were to use the same statistical methods described in the article, periodically refreshing your corpus with new input from the federal register, and ran an analysis on what you wrote, you could get a score that you could use as feedback on your attempt at neutrality. Write what you want to write, pass it through the analysis, then edit until the analysis shows it as neutral. What do you think?
I didn't measure differentials for optical disc activity (DVD burner was idle when testing) or for high levels of disc activity (disc was spinning, but not being actively used during testing) but the thing that stands out to me is that the background power usage of this machine is larger than the differential caused by CPU utilization.
I also can't help but notice that CPU clock scaling doesn't seem to contribute to energy savings on this particular machine, else the differential between idle and 1 core busy would be larger than the differential between 1 core and 2 cores busy, owing to the fact that the cores are clocked together.
The machine is an Athlon X2, 2600 MHz. The motherboard has an integrated nVidia GPU. 1.5 TB Seagate HDD (7200 RPM), cheap-ass Optiarc DVD burner (don't get one, seriously), 6 GiB of RAM. Power supply is a 450W Corsair.
This idea would be especially enticing if the price was right. If the fuel savings were to come out to more than the price of admission, I'd buy in!
Just a quick napkin calculation on that . . . morning commute is 20 miles each way, making 40 miles a day, 200 miles a week . . . My fuel economy is 29 MPG at worst case (hit every light and worst traffic) and 38 at best (all green lights and no congestion), so . . . worst case is 200/29 = 6.9 gallons; best is 200/38=5.3 gallons; difference is 1.6 gallons per week, which, at ~3.80/gallon is $6.08/week. If I could get it for, say, $20-25/month, I'd take it.
Given that/. is mostly populated by nerds, we've actually missed the part of the story that is interesting.
The guy at the centre of the story said he was more curious than annoyed. I agree. I'm curious. I'd like to know more about these radiation monitors, and, for that matter, I'd like to get one for myself.
Now, once someone has been pushed onto those electrified tracks in the path of oncoming trains, you reach for your cell phone to dial 911 and . . . nothing.
So you go find a pay phone . . . oh wait, all but a few have been removed because they're not profitable. You know where there is one, but it is up on the surface and several blocks away. You might get there in fifteen minutes if you really hustle and can get through the crowd.
Now by some miracle, the emergency crews show up. First officer on the scene looks at the situation, assesses it, as he is supposed to do, and reaches for his radio to apprise the dispatchers and other emergency service providers of what he finds, and . . . he can't reach anyone because those repeaters are shut down, too.
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Ironically, the wording of the article is as far from skeumorphic as humanly possible. Thanks for doing the editors' work and telling us what the fuck we're talking about.
I wish I had some mod points. This is one of my biggest gripes with Slashdot.
Okay, that's reasonable.
No alternate is necessary. The novel's concepts do not have to come to complete fruition for it to have had an impact. For better or for worse, a portion of the politically active population cites this novel for inspiration. That, in and of itself, changes the world.
Just remember: not all change is for the better.
What do you think of using something like a Zoom H4N or R16 instead? They are significantly less expensive, can be moved more easily if needed, and make very nice recordings. No live streaming capability in either, but the audio records to an SD card, and can be uploaded from there or read through a USB interface.
So how do you compel them to comply with your DEMANDs?
I find it particularly amusing that Amazon suggests with it, a book called The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It's like, "Here's the product, and here's how to use it."
If not, you can always claim you're being repressed. Lysdexics of the world untie!
Nah, they don't all need four wheels. A few three and six wheel cars would be fine with me, especially if I could get one with six-wheel drive! That would be cool for visiting my in-laws who live on a dirt road that becomes a mud bog every spring!
Now, round wheels . . . there's an idea for a standard!
Going to serious, I am a sound engineer, and grateful for the fact that the pro audio has largely standardized on three connectors: 1/4", XLR and Speakon. No fuss, no muss, no BS. The consumer products industry could learn a lot from the pros.
You could take a cue from SATA.
SATA hard drives have two plugs on them, which are a standard distance from each other and in a standard position on the drive, enabling cartridge-like function for the drives.
Suppose we took an iPod, put a micro-USB, a micro-HDMI and the headphone jack all on it, on the bottom, positioned in standardized places, and made that the docking standard?
Of course, that would deny Apple the licensing fees and veto power for the accessory market, which is what I think this is really about.
I wonder if the summary should have said USB 2.0?
I first had access to a machine with USB at least a couple of years before 1999; it was a brand-new, state-of-the-art desktop machine that I'd been issued at work. It was issued to me when I started that job, and that would have been probably 1997, if I recall right.
You're right, I missed your point. Sorry.
Boston has already done a good enough job of that on its own. I've driven there twice and have no desire to repeat the experience.
You have confused the Director with the Producer. Burton did, in fact, direct those films, but they were still produced by Michael Uslan. Citation here.
I wasn't so much thinking of putting in a fixed delay in execution, as I was thinking to have the executions all take place at a specific time, say, the top of the minute. The smaller traders you refer to can prepare a batch of trades and send them, and at the top of the minute, they are all executed with everyone else's.
It works for electricity traders at five-minute intervals, so why not?
An hour might be a tad overkill. I'm thinking that 1-5 minutes is reasonably human-scale.
Someone mentioned not letting machines do the bidding. I disagree. I don't have a problem with that, but, I do believe that the trades should be human-scale.
Not 100% sure, but I think wide-screen films have the same frame size as narrow, the only difference being that the picture has been horizontally compressed (assuming a 35mm print). The film savings would not be there.
Regarding digital cinema, the disc space for a 48 fps film would be double that of a 24 fps film, because they use an intra-only codec. That said, though, a 48 fps flat film would use the same disc space as a 24 fps 3D film. Combining the two, of course, would double it.
The two I snagged must have been a lemon model, then. The Sony that is in my wife's computer is rock-solid.
I am.
I would suppose that if you were to use the same statistical methods described in the article, periodically refreshing your corpus with new input from the federal register, and ran an analysis on what you wrote, you could get a score that you could use as feedback on your attempt at neutrality. Write what you want to write, pass it through the analysis, then edit until the analysis shows it as neutral. What do you think?
Actual data that I've taken from my home server:
Idle: 53W.
One core at 100%: 73W
Both cores at 100%: 93W
These are measured at the AC plug.
I didn't measure differentials for optical disc activity (DVD burner was idle when testing) or for high levels of disc activity (disc was spinning, but not being actively used during testing) but the thing that stands out to me is that the background power usage of this machine is larger than the differential caused by CPU utilization.
I also can't help but notice that CPU clock scaling doesn't seem to contribute to energy savings on this particular machine, else the differential between idle and 1 core busy would be larger than the differential between 1 core and 2 cores busy, owing to the fact that the cores are clocked together.
The machine is an Athlon X2, 2600 MHz. The motherboard has an integrated nVidia GPU. 1.5 TB Seagate HDD (7200 RPM), cheap-ass Optiarc DVD burner (don't get one, seriously), 6 GiB of RAM. Power supply is a 450W Corsair.
It's a pity there isn't a -1 Snobbery moderation option.
This idea would be especially enticing if the price was right. If the fuel savings were to come out to more than the price of admission, I'd buy in!
Just a quick napkin calculation on that . . . morning commute is 20 miles each way, making 40 miles a day, 200 miles a week . . . My fuel economy is 29 MPG at worst case (hit every light and worst traffic) and 38 at best (all green lights and no congestion), so . . . worst case is 200/29 = 6.9 gallons; best is 200/38=5.3 gallons; difference is 1.6 gallons per week, which, at ~3.80/gallon is $6.08/week. If I could get it for, say, $20-25/month, I'd take it.
Given that /. is mostly populated by nerds, we've actually missed the part of the story that is interesting.
The guy at the centre of the story said he was more curious than annoyed. I agree. I'm curious. I'd like to know more about these radiation monitors, and, for that matter, I'd like to get one for myself.
Now, once someone has been pushed onto those electrified tracks in the path of oncoming trains, you reach for your cell phone to dial 911 and . . . nothing.
So you go find a pay phone . . . oh wait, all but a few have been removed because they're not profitable. You know where there is one, but it is up on the surface and several blocks away. You might get there in fifteen minutes if you really hustle and can get through the crowd.
Now by some miracle, the emergency crews show up. First officer on the scene looks at the situation, assesses it, as he is supposed to do, and reaches for his radio to apprise the dispatchers and other emergency service providers of what he finds, and . . . he can't reach anyone because those repeaters are shut down, too.
No, yours is a very bad example.