I hardly think it appropriate voting based on a single issue, let alone an issue that pales in importance to others such as managing the economy, quashing the HRCs, etc.
Why would he attract unneeded attention? It's a hassle, even though he will not end up in court. It's like a neighbor accusing you of committing a murder that happened in the neighborhood: even when there's no evidence and you know you'll not go to jail, it's still unpleasant to have to deal with the cops.
"there is a very good chance that the DEA (or its equivalent in your home country, if you're outside the US) will break down your door"
Ridiculous anti-government fearmongering. I've bought tons of glassware on eBay, and even had a retired glass-blower here (I'm in Vancouver) make me a Gregar extractor--I said it was for hobby chemistry and that was good enough for him. I've done lots of stuff in the backyard and the neighbors don't give a shit (I'm in Vancouver, BC). I have dangerous chemicals like hydrazine and picric acid, and my landlady knows about it and doesn't give a shit, after I promised I'd be careful, and after a number of years, didn't burn down the place or create clouds of toxic fumes (not inside anyway)
From my point of view, grandparent was a troll. Browsing through his history, he's clearly one of the well-known types of people that disparage the utility of computers in scientific endeavours for anything more than basic calculation. I know a few examples in real life, such as a microbiologist who thinks that any computer-based "encroachment" into his field, from simulation to DNA microassays, is the sheerest garbage (to borrow the infamous phrase uttered by a skeptic in the early days of application of group theory to physics).
BS. Piezo systems are immensely more accurate--they're used for atomic force microscopes, for example. Of course, the range of motion is very limited, but your claim was _unqualified_ -- you wrote "the most accurate way to control movement". Make outrageous claims--get shot down! You should have known better, considering you're not new around here.
The sad thing is that, when you get Vista's sound system to work correctly, it is a significant improvement to XP, where the internal audio mixer, kmixer.sys, has such an impact on sound quality (both its inescapable sample rate conversion and its volume control) that there was tons written about how to bypass it, where you end up with non-musicians messing with using ASIO not for its intended purpose as a low-latency channel for real-time instrument playing, but merely to get bit-perfect playback--an unacceptable situation.
Windows XP's poor quality internal audio mixer is unacceptable for decent music reproduction, and bypassing with ASIO is not a user-friendly and very general solution. They did much better in Vista. If you have decent playback equipment, it's a shame to use XP as an audio source. Vista or a Mac.
If you have a 3G phone--and the data plans are cheap--you can tether it as a modem. If you do it right, the phone company will not charge you extra. Even here in Canada, where phone plans are significantly more expensive than US ones, for $30 Canadian per month I get 4 GB transfer on my Blackberry plan, which is sufficient for the few spots in urban areas where Wifi is unavailable (3G is generally too slow to be downloading very large files such as full-length movies, so I wouldn't complain that I don't have a 40 GB plan).
It seems to be slashdotted. However, the main blog page has some screenshots of the app and, as of the time of this post, still loads in my browser (albeit slowly) http://blog.blprnt.com/
Fred Doucet, a long-time friend and aide to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, likely doesn't recall three mysterious letters he wrote about Airbus plane deliveries to Air Canada because they were "mundane notes," Mr
You {cannot tell the difference} with a lower resolution if the image is anti-aliased, than if it is aliased. If it's aliased, there is no limit to how high the resolution needs to be to prevent all possible visible artifacts. You could have any extreme resolution (up to the wavelength of light) and one can always come up with some texture pattern, say, such that sampling artifacts would appear visible to the naked eye.
That is false. Anti-aliasing is the removal of aliasing--a sampling artifact that happens when you sample a non-bandlimited signal (a sharp polygon edge with infinite gradient) on a monitor with finite resolution. An anti-aliased image is more correct, mathematically (and visually) speaking, regardless of the resolution, unless that resolution is infinite.
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It's unfortunately quite appropriate that some on the right refer to them as Lieberals.
I hardly think it appropriate voting based on a single issue, let alone an issue that pales in importance to others such as managing the economy, quashing the HRCs, etc.
Right, because net neutrality should be the overriding issue in any election *rolls eyes*
Why would he attract unneeded attention? It's a hassle, even though he will not end up in court. It's like a neighbor accusing you of committing a murder that happened in the neighborhood: even when there's no evidence and you know you'll not go to jail, it's still unpleasant to have to deal with the cops.
"there is a very good chance that the DEA (or its equivalent in your home country, if you're outside the US) will break down your door"
Ridiculous anti-government fearmongering. I've bought tons of glassware on eBay, and even had a retired glass-blower here (I'm in Vancouver) make me a Gregar extractor--I said it was for hobby chemistry and that was good enough for him. I've done lots of stuff in the backyard and the neighbors don't give a shit (I'm in Vancouver, BC). I have dangerous chemicals like hydrazine and picric acid, and my landlady knows about it and doesn't give a shit, after I promised I'd be careful, and after a number of years, didn't burn down the place or create clouds of toxic fumes (not inside anyway)
Sure I do: one of the two names quoted above. This is the case even in formal terms: ( said_by(Yogi_Berra) OR said_by(Chuck_Reid) ) = TRUE
From my point of view, grandparent was a troll. Browsing through his history, he's clearly one of the well-known types of people that disparage the utility of computers in scientific endeavours for anything more than basic calculation. I know a few examples in real life, such as a microbiologist who thinks that any computer-based "encroachment" into his field, from simulation to DNA microassays, is the sheerest garbage (to borrow the infamous phrase uttered by a skeptic in the early days of application of group theory to physics).
BS. Piezo systems are immensely more accurate--they're used for atomic force microscopes, for example. Of course, the range of motion is very limited, but your claim was _unqualified_ -- you wrote "the most accurate way to control movement". Make outrageous claims--get shot down! You should have known better, considering you're not new around here.
The actual quote is: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." Source is either Yogi Berra or Chuck Reid.
To start with, it has to be installed--a third party patch to an operating system flaw.
I'd love to see you answer to this post, then: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1236175&cid=27997657
The sad thing is that, when you get Vista's sound system to work correctly, it is a significant improvement to XP, where the internal audio mixer, kmixer.sys, has such an impact on sound quality (both its inescapable sample rate conversion and its volume control) that there was tons written about how to bypass it, where you end up with non-musicians messing with using ASIO not for its intended purpose as a low-latency channel for real-time instrument playing, but merely to get bit-perfect playback--an unacceptable situation.
Looks like the moderators designated the real troll fairly quickly in this case.
Windows XP's poor quality internal audio mixer is unacceptable for decent music reproduction, and bypassing with ASIO is not a user-friendly and very general solution. They did much better in Vista. If you have decent playback equipment, it's a shame to use XP as an audio source. Vista or a Mac.
Considering how his and your posts were relatively moderated, I'd say you're the one that is on the wrong site :)
If you have a 3G phone--and the data plans are cheap--you can tether it as a modem. If you do it right, the phone company will not charge you extra. Even here in Canada, where phone plans are significantly more expensive than US ones, for $30 Canadian per month I get 4 GB transfer on my Blackberry plan, which is sufficient for the few spots in urban areas where Wifi is unavailable (3G is generally too slow to be downloading very large files such as full-length movies, so I wouldn't complain that I don't have a 40 GB plan).
Not the case with public key cryptography.
It seems to be slashdotted. However, the main blog page has some screenshots of the app and, as of the time of this post, still loads in my browser (albeit slowly) http://blog.blprnt.com/
Man-in-the-middle-intercepting-your-keys-and-certificates!
Which is perhaps better than its current intended use.
Fuck you rotten twat
Fred Doucet, a long-time friend and aide to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, likely doesn't recall three mysterious letters he wrote about Airbus plane deliveries to Air Canada because they were "mundane notes," Mr
You {cannot tell the difference} with a lower resolution if the image is anti-aliased, than if it is aliased. If it's aliased, there is no limit to how high the resolution needs to be to prevent all possible visible artifacts. You could have any extreme resolution (up to the wavelength of light) and one can always come up with some texture pattern, say, such that sampling artifacts would appear visible to the naked eye.
That is false. Anti-aliasing is the removal of aliasing--a sampling artifact that happens when you sample a non-bandlimited signal (a sharp polygon edge with infinite gradient) on a monitor with finite resolution. An anti-aliased image is more correct, mathematically (and visually) speaking, regardless of the resolution, unless that resolution is infinite.
I find it ironic how much Deese in his photo looks like the Dave Pell corporate villain character in the second season of Damages.